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The researchers had a hunch he was there. ATOS pass Richard III’s skeleton as fit to work.

Joking aside, the discovery of Richard III’s body is fascinating and wonderful. Aside from Shakespeare’s brilliant play (which is evidently not as physically inaccurate as we have been told for years), and the question of who killed the Princes in the Tower, there is a romance about lost dynasties which appeals to a deep human yearning for a golden age when things were somehow better, and for “lost futures”. What might have been, had those evil Stanleys not turned on Richard at Bosworth and put their miserable Welsh accountant on the throne?

Richard is described in today’s newspapers as the last English King. The Plantagenets were of course Angevin. The last English King – indeed the only English King of all England – was Harold Godwinson. Now there’s a lost dynasty for you.

We now know that Richard’s “Claim of Right” was almost certainly true and Edward IV a bastard, as his father was nowhere near his mother for months around the purported conception. But the so-called Royal line is, I am quite sure, sprinkled with bastards and no line at all. Not to mention that George I was 39th in line to the throne when given it 300 years ago, but the first Protestant.

Monarchy is bollocks, and something we should have outgrown a long time ago. Nice to see that today’s Prince Harry retains the tradition of remorseless homicide though.

Leicester University deserve congratulations on a genuine achievement. I hope Richard can now be reburied as soon as possible – as a Catholic, which is what he was. He was a human being. The degradation and display of his fresh corpse were horrible; but there is a danger of repeating it with a po face and feigned serious intent.

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  • John Goss

    Another whistleblower. “How would you like to go to prison for the rest of your life, Mr Drake?” Thomas Drake has spoken out about the US torture programme ‘on a vast scale’ And asks @what does it say about us? Our country? The rights, he says, were not granted to the government, but the people.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjCnsCGtBi8

    Quite right Macky. Ignore them. Or take them down a peg. I challenged Resident Dissident at 10.25 pm last night to show where my research was not well-sourced. He’s been awful quiet since.

  • Jemand

    @Mary – “Do popes ever resign? Why is Benedict resigning?”

    Not often. Last one 500 odd years ago. Officially, ill health. I imagine that he is not suffering a fatal illness but a collapse of energy and maybe failing memory. I think it’s better to call it a day than drag out debilitating old age. My hope is he retires to a nice place with an XBOX and a local supplier of the right stuff.

  • thatcrab

    Oh, sorry Guano! Ive not seen Arsalan for a long time and i lazily connected, didnt think you were sneaking. I do find your accounts intresting and sometimes soulful. Thanks for sending 🙂

    The problem of Habbabkuk.. is mostly — Habbabkuks’ Terrible job. But, it should be possible to stop someone persistently ,sarcasticaly and faux personably, criticising someone in particular for their comments. It was possible to stop people cursing nastily, and stop racist comments, it should be possible to stop selective harrasment posing flimsily as free comment.

    Fred on organics: “Blood and bone meal was considered organic, still is, gardeners can still buy it as an organic fertiliser. There was nothing new about it, farmers had been using it as a protein source for generations. ”
    I am fairly sure organic dairy have never been allowed to be fed blood or bone meal. They are organic, perfectly natural sources of nutrients for composting, but never a natural ‘protein’ source for ruminants.

  • Fred

    “Have you got blood on your hands Mr Blair?”

    David Cameron more like. It was Cameron who went to South Africa in 1989 as Thatcher’s assistant to arrange the purchase of three battlefield nuclear weapons. It was he who went back in 1990 with Dr David Kelly to arrange the transfer and it was he who managed to get them stolen from unsecure storage in Oman.

    Someone else in the know was Cameron’s friend and advisor Christopher Shale.

    Here is the official story of South African nukes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

    It is wrong, they didn’t dismantle them, they sold them. There were ten not six, one was exploded over the Indian Ocean leaving nine, America bought six which they dismantled. That left three which Thatcher bought and Cameron lost. One of those is accounted for, it was exploded in a test by North Korea, there are two still out there.

  • Jemand

    @Guano – “Jemand
    He has converted to Islam. No pension from the Vatican. Eternalifeinparadise.com”

    Or he was a muslim all along, now doing a Tony Blair coming-out-of-the-closet trick. Then again, he might be like so many priests who are secret atheists stuck in an awkward situation of having once being a believer but now devoutly not. A Catholic Atheist of sorts.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    How to Program a Riot

    This clip attempts to lend a hand to my post 8 Feb, 2013 – 7:20 pm that describes ways to gather HUMINT or predict a persons behavior by accessing social networking on the Web together with GPS/cell/Google/photograph/video coordinates on smart phones.

    Just another control tool used by Zombies to address the schism between State and the people.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/10/raytheon-software-tracks-online-video

  • Kempe

    “David Cameron more like. It was Cameron who went to South Africa in 1989 as Thatcher’s assistant to arrange the purchase of three battlefield nuclear weapons. It was he who went back in 1990 with Dr David Kelly to arrange the transfer and it was he who managed to get them stolen from unsecure storage in Oman.”

    Yes Elvis flew them there in his private jet and Lord Lucan met them at the airport in pony cart pulled by Shergar.

  • Mary

    I am touched by your kind comments but again embarrassed to be the subject.

    Changing from that very quickly, Cardinal Turkson of Ghana is being put forward as a candidate for the pope’s replacement. I think that an African Pope is an excellent suggestion or maybe one from South America. Cardinal Turkson is a mere boy in comparison to Benedict at 65.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turkson

    Mr Vivian Wineman of the British Board of Deputies of British Jews has just been commenting on Sky News on Benedict’s excellent and appreciated stance in recognising the holocaust and working for greater understanding between the Catholic and Jewish faiths. He met Benedict during the papal visit to the UK.
    http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/38517/a-new-chapter-interfaith

  • glenn_uk

    Mary: Just a tip, don’t ever allow discussions to become personally about you, especially when the opponent in your dispute reveals next to nothing about himself.

  • Kempe

    “But who was it made the £17.8 million donation to Conservative party funds?”

    They sold Shergar to Findus.

  • guano

    A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. This scandal has obviously been going for a very long time.

  • doug scorgie

    resident dissident
    10 Feb, 2013 – 7:02 pm and previous post

    “In July, a judge ordered three directors and a former columnist of the newspaper El Universo to pay President Correa US$40 million in damages and sentenced them to three years’ imprisonment for criminal defamation. President Correa brought a criminal complaint against the four men in March, a month after an article was published referring to him as a “dictator” and suggesting that he might face criminal prosecution over the September 2010 disturbances when the armed forces rescued him from a hospital in Quito…”

    But:

    “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) lifted the precautionary measures that had been arranged to set aside the [imposition] of the sentence of three years in prison and the payment of a compensation of $ 40 million imposed [on] the executive directors (Carlos, Cesar and Nicolas Perez) and former editor of Opinion (Emilio Palacio) of El Universo newspaper.

    “The defense of the Perez brothers and Emilio Palacio said that precautionary measures were no longer needed, since the demander, the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa “forgave” the sentence ratified by the National Court of Justice in the third appeal on February 16.”

    So you are a bit behind the times on that story.

    http://www.ecuadortimes.net/2012/03/10/iachr-dismissed-the-precautionary-measures-in-favor-of-el-universo/

    As for the Amnesty International report:

    “Community leaders Carlos Pérez, Federico Guzmán, and Efraín Arpi have been officially notified of an 8 days prison sentence for partially blocking a road in the context of a peaceful demonstration held on 4 May 2010 in Azuay province against a proposed Water Law. They may now be imprisoned at any moment.”

    I agree with Amnesty here. The men should never have been charged. Human rights must improve but not only in Ecuador:

    “USA: Warning on States’ plans to severely restrict workers’ rights
    Amnesty’s 2011 annual report highlighted several areas of concern for human rights in the UK:
    •An inquiry into allegations of UK involvement in torture and other human rights violations of people held overseas was announced. Key counter-terrorism powers were under review.
    •The government continued to rely on diplomatic assurances in its attempts to return individuals to countries where torture is practised.
    •Allegations of human rights abuses by UK soldiers in Iraq continued to emerge.
    •The Bloody Sunday Inquiry concluded that the deaths and injuries caused by British soldiers that day were unjustified.
    •Forced returns to Baghdad continued.
    Amnesty is concerned by the wider deployment of Tasers in the UK following several deaths at the hands of police.
    •In August 2011, a man in Barrow, Cumbria died after being struck by a Taser.
    •In July 2011, an 82-year-old man was hospitalised for days after being Tasered in west London by a Metropolitan Police officer. The man was reported to have been arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and criminal damage to a motor vehicle.
    •In 2006, a 47-year-old man died after being shocked with a Taser. Brian Loan was believed to be the first person in the UK to die after being shocked with the electro-shock weapon. A Home Office post-mortem reportedly found that he had died of ‘natural causes’.
    In the United States, more than 450 people have died in the last 10 years after being struck with a Taser. Amnesty believes that only officers who receive the highest standard of training on how and when to use the weapons should be armed and there should be full accountability.”

    http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=12235

  • guano

    My last employers, a global Muslim-owned company, would do well to look at this:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21155535

    It’s lovely to have so many brothers in Islam who relish the trappings of global managerial power, or the major sin of spying on your mobile phone and computer.

    The process is simple. First the enemies of Islam create false flag violence. Then they call for moderate Islam or Sufism. Sufism bypasses the rules of Islam in favour of venerating saints/peers.
    Getting to be a global CEO, or having a licence to be a teacher from an Islamic university without them checking what you are actually doing, is about as close as you can get to being a saint/peer, well off the scale of Islamic Shari’ah.

    Believe me, the purpose of Western oppression and torture through the centuries is solely to drive pious men crazy and therefore desperate to regain personal, deviant power.

    This is the Islam you fear, the Sunni Islam you read about that sends petro-dollars to countries like ours to ignite civil wars with UK snipers and send drones on its neighbours, or the Shi’a Islam that worships its theocratic rulers. As Mark Golding stated earlier, neither of these is Islamic rule. Islam does not possess either ultra-psychological power nor ultra-political power.

    The ruler has to treat each case as if he was in the same position as his subject. The punishment for not doing that is extremely severe.

  • Cryptonym

    http://marthamitchelleffect.org/cases-of-the-old-media/

    On Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders):

    “RSF’s principal claim to prominence is its annual Press Freedoms Index – a methodologically bankrupt study ranking the countries of the world on their relative press freedoms, based on subjective assessment surveys filled out by small pools of handchosen RSF correspondents in each country. It is approximately as objective a measure of comparitive press freedoms as Channel Four is a measure of the world’s “funniest” comedians.“

    Religions are organs of societal control and influence, wholly supplanted in that role by first the printing press – which they tried to control, flooding the market with their holy books and suppressing, denouncing other printed matter, with persecution and cries of “heretic! – and latterly our modern day press/mainstream media. Such powers religions and their eminences once wielded are now in the possession of our establishment lackey press, high wizards of disinformation, spin and hypocrisy. As religions slunk into the darkness, the still faithful largely consisting now of the feeble minded and the psychopathic, so the power they lost is slipping from the inheritor mass media too whose writ extends but an feeble inch or so and whose readers and viewers ever more resemble the die-hard true believers in the irrational and supernatural.

  • Cryptonym

    I missed a closing blockquote after comedians. The rest is my own ravings, not quoted text.

    Read on.

  • doug scorgie

    Kempe
    11 Feb, 2013 – 12:02 am

    “Assange could not be extradited from Sweden without the prior consent of the UK so he’d be as safe from extradition to the US in Sweden as he would be here.”

    The British government has refused to give assurances that it wil not consent to Sweden/US extradition.

  • doug scorgie

    Mary
    11 Feb, 2013 – 11:32 am

    “Have you got blood on your hands Mr Blair?”

    If Dr Kelly was murdered (and I believe he was) Tony Blair would most certainly have authorised the security services to ‘eliminate’ David Kelly.
    Have you read The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman Baker? An excellent piece of research.

  • doug scorgie

    John Goss
    11 Feb, 2013 – 12:00 pm

    “Lord Hutton is to my mind an absolute buffoon.”

    I think not, John, more like “a safe pair of hands” for the establishment.
    Hutton must have known exactly what was expected of him – as was, in my view, Home Office pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt.

    This case involves; a conspiracy to murder, a murder and a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

  • Villager

    Krishnamurti telling a joke…

    Looking around the table, he prefaced it by asking, “Are there any Christians here? I don’t mean to blashpheme or offend anyone.” Since nobody declared themselves to be religiously affiliated, he continued, “The Lord and St. Peter are in heaven observing the action down on the earth on a television monitor. They are amazed by what they see: people are forever rushing about, ceaselessly digging and constructing, building large cities, everywhere busy, busy, busy, from early morning throughout the night. The Lord turns to St. Peter and asks incredously, ‘ What are they all doing, busy from morning till night, never resting, forever striving, battling, competing? What’s the point of it?’ St Peter replies, ‘Well Lord, these people are your followers, they believe in you and obey you. And you told them to eat their bread in the sweat of their brows.’ And the Lord says to St. Peter, ‘But I was only kidding.’”

    We started to laugh, but Krishnamurti gestured us to calm down, calling out, “No, don’t laugh yet. There’s more to come. St. Peter switches channels and they see a magnificent banquet hall in the Vatican with huge tables filled with expensive delicacies. There are caviar and truffles and the finest wines and so on. Hundreds of big men in purple robes are seated around the tables, feasting and laughing and drinking cognac and smoking cigars. They are the cardinals and bishops, having a feast. ‘But what about these people, ‘the Lord asks St. Peter, ‘they don’t seem to be eating their bread in the sweat of their brows. If you ask me, they seem to be having a jolly good time.’ St. Peter says, ‘Well Lord, these are the ones who knew you were only kidding.’”

    [Pg 151
    The Kitchen Chronicles: 1001 Lunches with J. Krishnamurti]

    http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/jokes8.html

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