A “Lib Dem” minister just told Sky News he was approving new nuclear power stations to promote green jobs. If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.
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Jives,
you mean it well but please realize that freaks like halibabacus are beyond salvation. If you want amuse youself just tease him. You may feel better afterwards.
Apologies – my mistake. Berezovsky appears to have
been killeddied in his Ascot home, which is indeed in Berkshire, not his Weybridge one, which is in Surrey.Mary thunders ;
“Shame about that, because that’s what England – specifically England — needs urgently: a full-bore popular uprising.”
Muscular words indeed!
Uprising by whom precisely? Against whom? To what purpose? What after the uprising?
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@ Jives : what are you talking about? Is there something I’m not aware of?
Karel (Carlos), I think I like you better when you’re teasing me than when you’re
talking hot air about…..well, wind.
Seriously though, you’re not really the discussing type. Stick to jesting. Remember the the Rheinland carnival!
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La vita è bella, life is good! (Jedem das Seine)
Tom asked about Boris Berezovsky
“And what’s that crap about him being ‘Russian’?”.
Third chance for Tom to clarify what he meant by that! What nationality does Tom think Berezovsky was?
Come on, Tom, don’t be shy.
The RI is really off his/her/its trolley tonight. That comment was copied from Medialens which I linked to and which I placed within inverted commas.
Where are the men in white coats when you need them?
Do dry up!
What repetitive plonker.
Anyway.
Karel, Im not comfortably settled at the moment either, i dont write from there.
The wind may be fickle, but it blows often enough and most importantly doesn’t charge for it. Ive read and experimented with this subject, it is a real and unappreciated bounty, practical hurdles and idiosyncrasies are overblown and sat on.
There is no technological breakthrough required to convert to renewables in the UK. Even with advantages of highly calorific fossil fuels, the infrastructure to extract it, contain it, ship it, clean up after it, not to mention burn it and put it work, is MORE demanding than building and maintaining an equivalent renewable supply. It is more demanding, AND it consumes a limited ancient resource which we fight over, AND it seriously seems to most of the worlds inquiring minds to be gravely dangerous to the worlds climate, not to mention old fashion pollutions.
At the moment renewable supply capability is created by the fossil economy, –that is only because the fossil economy has been intensely developed and fought over for so long.
Know what is good. Salvation is miraculous, solutions need support.
Sorry Mary, I read a case somewhat similar to Nim.
Genie – a girl rescued from the most extreme neglect and abuse. Only to be commoditized, studied, and neglected again by a professional psychiatric care system, even today lost to the world in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_%28feral_child%29
The world is so big and varied and uncared for, it contains a great deal of sorrow and shame.
Craig,
it is admirable to initiate a discusssion but I do not understand why you bring this up without contributing anything. This unpleasant thought brought to my mind a recent recollection of an embarassing event. Many years ago, in a far away country, I wondered how to chat up a lovely Linda during a game of croquet. I went to her leaning backwards, trying to imitate the inimitable Malcolm’s smile of “o lucky man”. Cannot remember exactly but I asked something like, “how about craig, the old boy, how is he getting on?”. Her reply was something like “eh, eh, oops, I would prefer not to talk about Craig.” And that was the end of it and I have never found out how you are getting on, my old boy. Please do not feel obliged to tell me.
ESAD ! bankers, lawyers and oligarchs. I find it difficult to feel sorry for the thieves being burglarized
““Since last Saturday, we are just answering calls from angry clients,” said the lawyer, whose firm has helped Russians and Ukrainians set up 6,000 companies in Cyprus so that they can avoid taxes, benefit from a sound legal system and, they hoped, keep their money safe. Cyprus still offers those draws, he insisted, but his clients “thought we had betrayed them.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/world/europe/russian-ties-put-cyprus-banking-crisis-on-east-west-fault-line.html?pagewanted=all
Halibababcus (la vita in culo)
it is now clear to me that now that you are a concentration camp survivor, or is called it survivalist nowdays (my memory plays tricks with me again) or even better a holocaust survivalist. Funny, there seem to be more and more of them as the time passes by. If you spent you best years in Buchewald please try to get some money out of German governement. I have friends everywhere and can arrange a lot but as you know times are bad and all you can hope for is about ten percent of your compensation money (after deducting our expenses of course) but for a simple chap like you it will bring marvels into your dull life.
Clark’s post,@ 20th march 1 ; 18 am was very insightful. and did leave me wondering what they really used in Fallujah in 2004, that led the government advising women there, NOT to get Pregnant
That they would use DU, as a cover for much worse weapons would seem compatible with their evil mindset
Dr.Christopher Busby discusses the findings of: The “ International Journal of Environmental Public Health , a Swiss journal, in 2010.” “What it showed was that there was an enormous increase … in cancer in (the Fallujah) population, highly statistically significant, and also there was a big increase in infant mortality … mostly driven by congenital (birth defects) & there was a change in sex ratio … which is very indicative of a … genetic effect.” “There was … some other cause … (for the) cancer(s) (which) were higher than had been reported following Hiroshima . So we’re talking about some sort of agent which causes massive genetic damage in a population. And of course everyone said ‘Well it must be Depleted uranium’.” [DU]
NEUTRON BOMB? Dr. Fetzer’s Introduction to Dr. Busby’s Interview states: “It has become apparent from Busby’s research that a new kind of bomb– which seems to be a Neutron bomb – (was) used in Fallujah.”
or
NUCLEAR WARHEAD WASTE DUMPING? *Dr Busby states that it is “Possible … that what they are doing is just disposing of a load of old nuclear warheads. As you know, they have to have a lot of decommissioning of nuclear weapons and there are significant amounts, very large amounts of enriched uranium in those nuclear weapons, and … that that stuff would have to normally be disposed of as nuclear waste.”
http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer220313.htm
i wonder….p.s thanks for that data on DU Clark
Mary
23 Mar, 2013 – 11:09 pm
“I have been watching Project Nim, a terrible case of cruelty to a chimp brought up in the 70s from infancy in an experiment to live with humans and to communicate via sign language which he was taught. This was carried out by Cornell University in New York who abandoned him when the experiment could go no further. He ended up living a solitary life imprisoned a cage at a ranch in Texas called the Black Beauty Ranch.”
Mary, thank you for highlighting that. Yes, it does sound incredibly heartless. I shall watch it later today. I wonder what our Habitual Babbler will make of it, or whether he has picked it up at all, amongst his constant petty bickering of non-comments. He was trying to distract me the other day, during his evening (s)troll on some other monkey talk so, in theory, it should be a subject close to his heart, if he is at all aware he has one.
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Mark, thank you for your earlier kind remarks of a day or so ago. Thanks also for the Zeitgeist link which i’m now in the middle of watching. Hadn’t got around to watching it until you linked it, though was aware of the broad msg and the Krishnamurti intro. I imagine you are aware that K opened several schools with the intention of raising a new kind of human being. It may be worth your while to watch some of his talks with these young human beings.
Well said Karel. It is also worth pointing out that nuclear power is price stable. The fuel costs are such a small part of the total cost that we know exactly what the future price of nuclear provided electricity will be.
Craig
I ask you again to read the informed, balanced and clearly presented account of the dilemmas involved in a choice of energy supply described in the book ‘Sustainable Energy – without the hot air’ by David MacKay.
Philip
Ken Clarke ‘misled’ parliament over secret courts bill
Campaigners say Commons was given wrong information about impact on right to release
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/24/ken-clarke-secret-courts-bill?CMP=twt_gu
Secret courts or in NuSpeak CMPs “closed material procedures”
The other day the Supreme Court sat in secret in an appeal by an Iranian bank against a ban.
[..]
‘The UK’s most senior judge, who has always advocated open justice, said that they were “dubious” and “sceptical” about the Government legal team’s claim that they could not deal with the appeal justly without hearing its secret evidence but had agreed to a closed hearing to consider it.
“It must be emphasised that this is a decision which is reached with great reluctance by all members of the court; indeed it is a majority decision,” said Lord Neuberger’
[..]
“No judge can face with equanimity the prospect of a hearing, or any part of a hearing, which is not only in private, but involves one of the parties not being present or represented,” said Lord Neuberger today, adding: “Nonetheless, as Parliament has decided that, in certain circumstances, such a procedure is necessary and permissible in a trial before a Judge, we have concluded that, on an appeal from a decision in a case where a Judge has considered closed material and given a closed judgment, it may be necessary for this court to go into closed session in order to dispose of the appeal justly.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/supreme-court-sits-in-secret-for-first-time-in-history-8544535.html
Hillary Clinton MkII makes unannounced visit to Iraq.
John Kerry on unannounced visit to Iraq
Breaking news
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Iraq for an unannounced visit to press for greater co-operation over the conflict in Syria.
Mr Kerry will urge Iraqi leaders to stop Iranian flights over Iraq carrying arms and fighters for the Syrian government, US officials said.
The US has accused Iraq of turning a blind eye to the flights, which Iran claims transport only humanitarian aid.
Mr Kerry is also expected to discuss democratic reforms in Iraq.
Mr Kerry’s visit comes days after the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
It is his first trip to Iraq since taking office earlier this year, and the first by an American secretary of state since 2009.
One official told the Associated Press that the Iranian flights to Syria were crossing Iraq “close to daily”.
Iraq said last year it would inspect the flights, but only two planes had been checked, the official said.
During his visit, Mr Kerry will also suggest that Iraq’s government reconsider a recent decision to delay provincial elections in Anbar and Nineveh provinces, US officials said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21915710
@ Villager (on the chimp) :
“Mary, thank you for highlighting that. Yes, it does sound incredibly heartless. I shall watch it later today. I wonder what our Habitual Babbler will make of it.”
I’m flattered that you should wonder what I make of this. The answer is that I fully agree with Mary’s assessment and feel that this sort of experimentation is both unnecessary and disgusting.
“These are throw around questions as though the answer is obviously damming,”
Well it’s a factor you ignored while over estimating the efficiency of your solar sells.
“Also Fred, burning wood and old pallets domestically is not a great wrong, but to do it industrially is unsound, because we havent enough wood, we’ll end up with none besides expensively protected feilds of closely planted and industrially fertilised GM trees.
Most old pallets are chucked and burned well before their useful lifespan, and also watch out for the fumes from treated ones (particularly difficult to smash up).”
Thank you for your concern but I do know what I am doing.
Burning wood is not wrong at all, not compared to digging great big holes in the countryside and filling them with concrete to hold up wind mills.
“If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.”
You will, hopefully, soon be saying that about the SNP too.
Click here for a song that tells things how they really are, about politicians of all parties.
Those who have got sucked in – please suck yourselves out. Do yourselves and the rest of us a favour.
Michael Gove’s appearance on Question Time last Thursday has reportedly given scientists the last piece of the evidential jigsaw needed to prove beyond doubt that the Secretary of State is the worst thing to have happened since the Big Bang.
The research draws on new data produced by the Planck Telescope, which has produced data showing that the universe is 50 million years older than initially thought. Scientists last week carried out computations that showed that nothing happened in that timeframe that was worse than Gove’s current existence.
http://themorningbabel.com/
“Current wind generation in the UK as metered by National Grid 5.2 Gigawatts.”
Do you have a source for this information? It’s too windy for wind turbines where I am.
The power companies tend to use hydro for load balancing where they can, gas generators take too long to bring on line.
I have been looking up to see who’s who in the ECB. The very opposite of transparency viz
http://www.ecb.int/ecb/pdf/orga/ECB_managers.pdf?97c405c53d5b4dd867b391c5901f5d41
and a dead link to advisory board here, Just a tiny photo of the members.
http://www.ecb.int/ecb/orga/orgachart/bas/html/directorate04.en.html
I knew that Signor Draghi was the president so reverted to good old Wikipedia.
See the links – President of the ECB, ex World Bank, ex Goldman Sachs, Brookings Institute etc. Promoted by Sarko currently having his collar felt for accepting donations from the L’Oreal heiress Bettencourt.
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Contrary to previous reports about France’s position, on 25 April it was reported that President Nicolas Sarkozy saw Draghi as a full-fledged and an adequate candidate for the job.[14][15]
Concerns were also expressed during the candidacy about Draghi’s past employment at Goldman Sachs.[6][20] Pascal Canfin (MEP) asserted Draghi was involved in swaps for European governments, particularly in Greece, trying to disguise their countries’ economic status. Draghi responded that the deals were “undertaken before my joining Goldman Sachs [and] I had nothing to do with them”, in the 2011 European Parliament nomination hearings.[21][22]
In February 2012, Nobel prize laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz argued that, on the issue of the impending Greek debt restructuring, the ECB’s insistence that it has to be “voluntary” (as opposed to a default decreed by the Greek authorities) was a gift to the financial institutions that sold credit default insurance on that debt; a position that is unfair to the other parties, and constitutes a moral hazard.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Draghi
The latest report on the ‘discussions’ in Brussels.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21916102
We have ways of making you…..keep schtum.
Diplomat was banned from talking about Dr David Kelly when giving evidence at Iraq Inquiry
Carne Ross told if he discussed Dr Kelly in testimony, he would be silenced
He intended to say a few words about him as a tribute which he had submitted earlier
By Miles Goslett
PUBLISHED: 00:48, 24 March 2013 .
A former British diplomat has revealed he was ‘warned’ by the senior civil servant running the Iraq Inquiry not to mention the late biological weapons expert Dr David Kelly when giving evidence.
Carne Ross, the UK’s Iraq expert at the UN Security Council between 1998 and 2002, said he was told by the ‘very aggressive’ official that if he discussed Dr Kelly during his testimony, he would be silenced.
It is understood the official who delivered the order was Margaret Aldred, secretary of the Iraq Inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298248/Diplomat-banned-talking-Dr-David-Kelly-Iraq-Inquiry.html
@Mary
“Shawcross’s third wife is Olga Polizzi, Forte’s daughter. He counts Richard Perle amongst his friends. Enough said.”
Are there no depths to which you will not go in your depth by association game. The man is cursed because of his wife’s father’s friends. Truly pathetic.
You of course omit that he is the author of Sideshow which did an awful lot to expose the truly disgusting behaviour of Nixon and Kissinger with regard to Cambodia.
i am doubtful if these Hellions are actually human, Bush, Cheney, Blair, Cameron, oBomber, Cambell, Straw, clinton, Albright ect, ect, all the Bought Lawyers – since they have no Heart, Compassion, not a humane cell in their body. Tears for an infanticide ( Iraq )? a Handful of Genocides, They don’t know when to stop.
Heres a last letter pointing the finger at the devils –
The last letter: a message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from dying veteran Tomas Young
My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.
http://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/iraq/2337-us-soldier-paralyzed-in-iraq-tells-george-w-bush-why-he-is-ending-his-life
This is Berezovsky’s house in Titness Park Ascot. If you magnify it up there is a colonnaded building in front of the house. Are there PV panels on its roof?
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66579000/jpg/_66579155_66579154.jpg
The area is very wooded and on the edge of Windsor Great Park. Very salubrious in the style of Usmanov’s pile at Sutton Park.
http://goo.gl/maps/dh2cb
Fred wrote
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“Current wind generation in the UK as metered by National Grid 5.2 Gigawatts.”
Do you have a source for this information? It’s too windy for wind turbines where I am.
The power companies tend to use hydro for load balancing where they can, gas generators take too long to bring on line.
Realtime grid data http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm
Hydro /pumped-storage isn’t really used to balance wind power because wind power is relatively predictable. If you are generating 5GW one minute then you will be generating approximately 5GW 30 minutes later (short of complete grid failure) due to wind power’s distributed nature. Plenty of time is available to schedule gas turbine operation (and wind forecast is included in grid-scheduling so you know approximately what will be available many hours ahead).
With conventional power you can expect to lose much more generating capacity instantly if a station or two goes down rapidly, and then pumped storage can fill in the gap while additional gas generation is brought online.
There is currently about 28GW of gas capacity available to the grid right now (stations ready to come online) . Overnight generation drooped to less than 2GW from gas. At peak time yesterday 12GW of gas was online.
There are also smaller gas turbines and diesel generators which can be called on by National Grid with startup times in the 30 seconds – 2 minutes range).
http://www.ecb.int/ecb/10ann/bm/html/index.en.html
I look forward to Mary’s apology to the ECB for her slur on their transparency – took me all of 60 seconds to find.
Habbabkuk (La Vita È Bella!)
24 Mar, 2013 – 9:42 am
@ Villager (on the chimp) :
“I’m flattered that you should wonder what I make of this. The answer is that I fully agree with Mary’s assessment and feel that this sort of experimentation is both unnecessary and disgusting.”
Its good to have agreement once in awhile. You might also see the value of (at least) some of Mary’s posts. I would’ve thought if you find them off-topic and annoying, you might also find them innocuous enough to ignore them?
Life is freezing (especially with the flu)!