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.
Justice4Assange has just issued a very detailed, multi-page rebuttal of the lies in David Allen Green’s Legal Myths of the Assange Case.
http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html#CONTENTS
I urge any of Craig’s readers who are interested in the Assange/Wikileaks extradition/s to read it. It’s very clearly written and themed around some of the most commonly cited ‘myths’ repeatedly endlessly in the MSM echo chamber and perfect for just dipping into if you haven’t the time to read the whole thing.
One page I found particularly interesting sets out very clearly how the hearings and judgments in the UK courts were highly politicised, rather than legally sound:
“The allegations would not be crimes in England”
http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html#ALLEGATIONS
An excerpt dealing with the High Court decision to review the women’s police statements de bene esse (temporary and conditional examination) and offer an opinion obiter dictum:
“The decision the High Court made did not rely on this opinion. It was unnecessary for the High Court to voice this opinion.
By engaging in this lengthy and unnecessary diversion, which had nothing to do with the decision, the High Court made it much more difficult for Assange to appeal the court’s choice to stick to the Trumped Up Allegations written on the EAW.
This is the only discernible purpose for putting these comments in the judgment: preemptively denying an avenue of appeal.
This is an intensely political thing for a court to do”
This is correct. As most of you probably realise by now, I have followed this case in great detail from the very start and I have personally attended all the higher court hearings in the UK. I therefore know how very much the judgments handed down – months after the event, mind – diverged from what was argued on the day. I am not naive about the true purpose of the ‘law’ in terms of its function to coerce social control and maintain the status quo, but when the judgments of both the High Court and Supreme Court were handed down I was left profoundly shocked by how Assange’s extradition case revealed the full extent to which our courts’ decisions are politically driven and corrupt. I remember Craig’s post about the Supreme Court judgment reached more or less the same conclusion.
Thatcrab,
Actually the NASA article was quite restrained compared to some of the statements from the Hinode team and others. The evidence for the possible entry into another Grand Minimum comes mainly from the study of the magnetic field and recent observations from the Hinode spacecraft observing the polar field. There have been several conferences and workshops for solar physicists trying to put together all the pieces of the puzzle.
The Hinode team’s current best estimate is that the Sun will have a quadrupolar magnetic field for the next cycle and possibly several following cycles. They speculate that the quadrupolar fields (as opposed to then normal bipolar field) are a signature of Grand Minima
http://hinode.nao.ac.jp/news/120419PressRelease/index_e.shtml
There are several recent papers by leading solar researchers I could link to (but you’d have to pay up to read most of them and I’d have to track them down again). But here’s a few free links below.
A fairly recent summary of Hinode observations and implications at http://mr2012.pppl.gov/Slides/tsuneta.pdf
And some other evidence pointing in the same direction.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2963
And an earlier quot from Altrock.
http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html
At a solar physics conference on the subject last year delegates were asked to try and keep their egos in check and their mouths shut (at least with feverish speculation) if possible while research continues. As the current cycle was forecast by nearly all researchers to be a particularly active cycle but has turned out to be a very weak cycle, they don’t want to get this projection wrong.
Thanks for thpse links Arbed, which I will read and study, and for your continued concern and vigilance.
My opinion of justice, as obtainable in this country, is that it is poor. For instance, as soon as that successful appeal on workfare was announced yesterday, we read that government lawyers were amending the rules as if there was was to be no debate or legislation enacted.
‘The judges’ decision could effectively prevent the government continuing with the programme in its current form.
However, ministers at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) brought in new, more precise regulations on Tuesday evening to allow it to require jobseekers to take part in these schemes, which are being trialled for young people in London and Derbyshire.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21426928
They make it up as they go along, all the while laughing in our faces.
“At least nine civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a Nato air strike in Kunar province in Afghanistan, officials say.”
“Three Taliban commanders were also said to have died in the attack.”
“The Nato-led Isaf force said it was aware of the reports of civilian deaths and was “looking into the circumstances” of the incident.”
“We take every allegation of civilian casualties very seriously,” Isaf said on its Twitter feed.”
“It is possible that those killed inside the house were family members of Taliban commanders or that Taliban commanders were taking refuge there,” an Afghan government official told the BBC.”
So that’s alright then!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21439830
Arbed at 11.31. Thank you for that detailed dismantling of David Allen Green’s personal vendetta against Julian Assange. As the link says he is more like a prosecuting counsel than a balanced observer of the case.
I shame because David Allen Green went to the same university as me (Birmingham) and is getting our alma mater a bad name with his bigotry. I might even label him a confirmed bigotrist, because he is a serial perpetrator of dishing out heavily-biased and inaccurate reports. He has clearly got through to Jemima Khan.
Everybody should read it, so I am linking it again.
http://justice4assange.com/extraditing-assange.html#CONTENTS
Agreed Mary
“Schemes like this are not only wrong (making people work for nothing or fear losing benefits) but actually remove job opportunities for the same people they’re supposed to be helping.
If shops can get free staff, why would they bother hiring someone?”
It’s really sad to see the pro carbon dioxide debate here. What is so great about allowing huge companies to dig up and burn aeons-old sludge and slag as fast as they can? Is that meant to be good? Should corporations in other sectors be encouraged to maximise their production, too? Should fossil fuel be extracted and burnt five times as fast, so that the poorer 80% of the world’s population can live like the richer 20%? How long will such fuels last on that trajectory? Apart from CO2, burning coal and natural gas releases radioactive gasses into the atmosphere; is this another thing that you wish see to maximised?
Don’t be fooled, folks. Your government is telling you, the “consumer”, to “economise” and “reduce your carbon footprint”. But at the same time, they are subsidising the fossil fuel extractors, encouraging the companies who burn it, and permitting corrupt trading in the “carbon credits” that they never made pricey enough to work properly. This is where you’ll find the real hypocrisy and propaganda, far more so than in the scientific community.
Take another look at that infamous leaked e-mail, with an emphasis that somehow always gets overlooked:
So real temperature data counteracts a decline in something-or-other, so real temperature presumably shows an increase. That, or these damn scientists are so sneaky that they have agreed in advance upon a code, whereby they all say “real” when they mean “fake” in all their private communication. Yeah, right; as if climate science wasn’t complicated enough already.
Those who want equal coverage in Wikipedia for the pro-CO2 argument would presumably also argue for equal coverage for evolution, creationism, and Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.
And the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period articles were deleted from Wikipedia, were they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
Italy’s former intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the rendition of a terror suspect.
The court in Milan also sentenced his former deputy Marco Mancini to nine years in jail over the 2003 kidnapping.
Italy’s courts have already convicted in absentia 22 CIA agents over the same case. The abducted Egyptian cleric said he was flown to Egypt and tortured.
The CIA’s Milan station chief at the time, Robert Lady, was given an eight-year term, while the other 22 Americans convicted – one of them a US air force colonel – were sentenced to five years in prison.
All of them are believed to be living in the US and are unlikely to serve their sentences.
What? No exrtadition?
For the above post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21435632
@Doug Scorgie. And how do we even know that those males accused of being Taliban are Taliban? NATO fills me with disgust. Every time I hear the acronym I want to throw up.
The Eastleigh by-election.
John O’Farrell is the Labour candidate. Little chance I would think.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/author-john-ofarrell-selected-as-labours-candidate-for-eastleigh-byelection-8492617.html
There is Dr Iain Maclennan standing on behalf of the newly formed National Health Association. Good for him and the NHS and Dr Richard Taylor retired ex Ind MP and Dr Peedell who founded the NHA.
http://www.nationalhealthaction.org.uk/national-health-action-eastleigh-candidate-comments-on-nhs-investigation-into-14-hospitals/
The UKIP woman Diane James is a Ind councillor on Waverley Borough Council. I saw her on the local news last night and she sounded pretty racist which you see in the Independent piece above. She is also a director of two companies, one a management consultancy and the other this venture capital outfit involved in healthcare!
‘Proven Health Vct Plc is an Active business incorporated in England & Wales on 20th December 2000. Their business activity is recorded as Activities Of Venture And Development Capital Companies. Proven Health Vct Plc is run by 4 current members. and 1 company secretary. It has no share capital. It is not part of a group. The latest Annual Accounts submitted to Companies House for the year up to 31/01/2012 reported ‘cash at bank’ of £1,772,000, ‘liabilities’ worth £133,000, ‘net worth’ of £8,485,000 and ‘assets’ worth £3,667,000. Proven Health Vct Plc’s risk score was amended on 10/01/2013. ‘ Company Check website
I believe the LibDem man is a local councillor. He had the ‘frightened rabbit in the headlights’ look the other night on BBC South Today and I think we already know about the Con woman Maria Hutchings from Doug Scorgie here on p 2 of this thread. She is another bigot.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/02/now-is-the-winter-of-our-disinterment/comment-page-2/#comment-392712
Not National Health Association but the National Health Action party
http://www.nationalhealthaction.org.uk/principles-values-aims-objectives/
“So that’s alright then!!”
http://www.troll.me/images/pissed-off-obama/yes-we-can-kill-your-children-with-drones.jpg
It seems the Assange saga has come alive again. I wonder if it’s connected to the impending elections in Ecuador which Correra looks like winning easily?
Doug Scorbie
Beautifully rendered into English. Thank you.
My attempt at the same art-form of flyting:
Mujahid-mujahil alliance
Wall-hole-hopper in Aleppo, friend
Of war-gaming dons sending snipers,
Electric fence pissers, of Arms-dealer,
Pig-squealer, fag-topper Cameron.
Bad bed fellows kufr and Islam
Against all the way, Alawi, Frank-backed,
Sat-navved bombs targeted at civilians.
Well we hope Correa wins AAMVN, because some of the alternatives would take Ecuador back into the last century.
Indeed. I looked for polls on the Ecuador election and Correra looks comfortably ahead – despite the best(worst) efforts of some to subvert the democratic process.
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline”
They’re a strange lot these scientists, they often work with numbers that aren’t real They go round multiplying things by the square root of minus one and still manage to put a man on the moon. A law unto themselves.
But of course the Daily Mail readers know more about it than they do.
Despite potential legal retribution from American authorities, the Icelandic MP and WikiLeaks member who released the infamous ‘Collateral Murder’ video showing US war crimes in Iraq has announced plans to visit the land of the free.
Birgitta Jonsdottir is an Icelandic Member of Parliament who nearly three years ago released a classified video of a US Apache helicopter killing civilians in Iraq. Known as ‘Collateral Murder,’ Jonsdottir made the footage public in a bid to express her support for Bradley Manning, the video’s alleged source, who now stands trial for treason. The video was also instrumental in unleashing the witchhunt on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
Jonsdottir is planning to arrive in the US on April 5, despite a strong warning from Reykjavík of possible legal repurcussions. The politician says her trip, which coincides with the third anniversary of the video’s release, is her way of saying she refuses to live in fear.
http://rt.com/news/iceland-mp-us-visit-collateral-murder-968/
“NATO fills me with disgust. Every time I hear the acronym I want to throw up.”
Careful, you will upset the delicate sensibilities of the “You hate the West, because, er, …you hate the West” trolls !!
Sorry, I lit a fuse on the climate debate then went out for the night.
I’d like to clarify my position, but first, Mike Hulme. I called him the “disgraced Mike Hulme” OK, I’m not going to defend this one, I admit it was bit of a lazy smear, it depends on whether you believe the Climategate emails were evidence of a deliberate attempt to distort the evidence in favour of man-made global warming (MGW). Personally, I do, but there are people here who disagree. Fair enough. I will merely say that I believe the language used in those emails was strange behaviour for scientists.
Most of the responses to my post are to do with how stupid I am to believe this or that. Well, I haven’t actually said what I believe on the subject. I have merely flagged up some strange behaviour by MGW supporters.
I pointed out that there are serious reasons to worry about how the BBC arrived at it’s decision to promote only one side of the debate. There are many qualified climate scientists in the field who disagree with the MGW consensus – none of them were consulted by the BBC. Most of the people who were consulted are not qualified on the subject. The BBC then spent a lot of money and effort thwarting the enquiries of license payers who quite reasonably asked how such an important decision was reached. Strange behaviour.
I then brought up the case of Wiliam Connolley who was the writer or recipient of many Climategate emails. He attained enough influence to control the subject in Wikipaedia and over several years systematically promoted MGW and erased arguments and evidence against it, in the process writing or editing over 5000 articles and changing the historical record, literally re-writing history. I challenge anyone here to research what he did on Wikipaedia and argue that it wasn’t deliberate distortion of scientific evidence. Strange behaviour.
So what do I believe? I am trying to make my mind up, but so far I find it impossible to achieve the certainty required to insult anybody else for their views on the subject. There’s huge support for MGW in the media, but most on this blog would agree that that don’t necessarily make it so. I am troubled about seemingly qualified dissenting opinion being dismissed out of hand. I am troubled by the demonising tricks being used against dissenters, such as the “denier” label with all its connotations, and the systematic conflation of those who doubt man-made GW with those who refute any GW. I am troubled by how little attention is paid to the potential for a global carbon trading scheme with an annual multi-trillion dollar budget, administered by a non-elected body to become a de facto world government. But against all that, there are people who’s opinion I respect (some of them on this blog) who are convinced by the MGW argument.
So, in short, I don’t know. I think it’s likely (although not certain) that the Earth is experiencing a period of overall warming, but I am undecided if it’s significantly due to human influence. However, I can’t just ignore these (and other) examples of strange behaviour, and it fits a pattern I’ve seen in other circumstances when the MSM wants to persuade me to a lie, so on balance, and taking into account the other pros and cons, my working theory is that the Usual Suspects are inventing, exaggerating or misinterpreting climate events to further their goals of world dominance.
But my jury’s still out.
“I pointed out that there are serious reasons to worry about how the BBC arrived at it’s decision to promote only one side of the debate.”
I suppose you prefer the Channel 4 system of interviewing a scientist who supports anthropomorphic climate change theory then editing the tape to make it look like he doesn’t.
guano
12 Feb, 2013 – 10:27 pm
You said:
“In my work and personal life I mix equally with British and Asian people. I find a tiny minority of them honest and an equal majority of them extraordinarily dishonest.”
So guano; you are not British and not Asian? Hmm.
“Asian Muslims spy on other Muslims and collaborate with the intelligence services. They nearly always lie when buying / selling cars.”
“They don’t like the term Pisstakeani or Shitrib. But the names are well deserved.”
By Pisstakani I assume you mean Pakistani.
Most Pakistanis are Sunni Muslims.
You seem to hate them.
guano
12 Feb, 2013 – 10:45 pm
“The UK Muslims who have among them many jihadis sheltering on benefits in the UK…”
Methinks you are not a Muslim at all.
Who are you guano?
A Node, I think I can answer some of your concerns.
That makes him very familiar with the literature of climate science. He went to Wikipedia and brought it into line with his understanding of climate science. By adding so much scientifically referenced material he became respected at Wikipedia, which will have helped him to become a Wikipedia administrator. That is how Wikipedia works; it has elements of meritocracy.
You may be able to convince me of distortion of the historic record, but please, Craig’s blog is not the right forum. E-mail me and we can research it together over the next few months (I say months, as the quantity of material is huge). If Wikipedia is being distorted away from integrity, I care about that. I know of some problems inherent in the system, but I still respect it because I can’t think of any fair way to improve it.
Regarding “Mike’s Nature trick…”, if I’m showing you how to magnify a page on Firefox, and I say “If you find the view menu a hassle, a useful trick is to press the ‘control’ and ‘plus’ keys together”, I am not trying to trick you, am I?
Now read this before the next bit about the BBC:
http://www.monbiot.com/2007/12/11/rigged/
The BBC are doing what they always do as state broadcaster; they’re pushing state propaganda. They will publicise climate change, but will barely mention the subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, the maximization of production from oil fields, etc., and instead will tell you to change your light-bulbs and turn your telly off at the socket. Perfectly normal BBC behaviour – say what the government wants said.
The thing about propaganda is that it isn’t necessarily false. When the BBC reports that a Palestinian rocket has been fired at Israel, it’s usually true, but utterly out of context. Real things get reported honestly if it suits the agenda. Just because it’s propaganda doesn’t mean it’s false. They want to persuade you, yes, but to what suits the agenda, whether it be true or false or simply irrelevant.
Yes. Carbon credits are being misused. Real climate change is being used as an excuse to make money instead of fixing the problem; it’s called corruption. Does this really surprise you? When were such techniques not used?
Mark Golding These two authors have chapter and verse on Dorner’s killing.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/13/the-execution-of-christopher-dorner/
“But my jury’s still out.”
Then forget everything else, forget about sources, forget about agendas.
Just look at the numbers, just read this and look at the hard indisputable data. You can ignore everything else, the numbers say it all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21437680
DS
I am hated by my fellow countrymen for being Muslim and by Asians for being British. But most of all I am hated by my fellow Sunnis for being honest.
Sunni Islam is engaged in a political collaboration with Western powers whereby they do not criticise Western foreign policy at all, in order to gain strategic power over now redundant dictators. The plan is for the Muslim Brotherhood which is a political freemasonty controlled by Israel to replace Dictatorial control, which is out of date because it is unfriendly to free commerce, with IT control in proxy to Western powers.
It’s a bum deal which I cannot prevent and it will lead to disaster. Unfortunately it’s the only item on the Sunni menu until Imam Mahdi arrives.
Cameron says that anyone who has tried to pass off horsemeat for beef will feel the full effect of the law. What about the Liberals who conned the country into getting a Tory government at the last election? Without this fraud, the Tories would never have returned to power in a 100 years.
Fred, that’s a bit cruel to A Node, who is suspicious of the BBC. Of course, the link can be followed to Geophysical Research Letters. But also, A Node accepts temperature rise, but wonders if it’s natural.
To my mind, natural or not doesn’t ultimately matter. What’s needed is a method of countering the temperature rise. If science says that reducing the atmosphere’s CO2 content is the best method at our disposal, then the obvious first step towards that is to stop extracting fossil fuels, ‘cos you can bet your life (or those of your descendants) that if it gets dug up, it’ll get converted to CO2, water vapour and heat.
All you ‘You hate the West trolls’ listen up. You hate Allah. You prefer adulterated food, adulterated marriage, adulterated belief.
The West actually believes, like the Torymoron party, that it is the highest pinnacle of civilisation ever achieved. It is proud of its skill in adulterating things, which it considers to be artistically crafted compromise. The trolls only come out to attack the weak. They’ll not need to have a go at me because ALL of the contributers including the owner of this blog except possibly Clark and Mary are all trolls against Allah.