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  • Mary

    Thanks Mark. Bush’s crowd could almost be thought benign in comparison to Obama’s. I did say ‘almost’. 😉

    Protests are building.

    Finally, the Backlash Against Drones Takes Flight
    by Medea Benjamin and Noor Mir / March 25th, 2013
    http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/03/finally-the-backlash-against-drones-takes-flight/

    and thanks Brian. Would William Blake find much difference if he were to return to London two centuries later? For instance, child poverty and the like. I read the interesting potted biography of him on the link you gave.

  • Exexpat

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, we’re about to save you reading 3,000. The UK is running out of gas. Very rapidly indeed. So much so, that shortly after Easter cuts and rationing may be introduced, with industrial users and hospitals getting preferential treatment.

    http://www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/0D0D463E-059D-4704-8A76-73C26A26ADB3/57056/StorageMonitorsSeptember2012.pdf

    This month is the coldest March in years, and thus the UK’s gas fuel stores have run down to 10 per cent of the nation’s capacity. A year ago it was 49 per cent. While other countries have hundreds of days of supply, the UK has tens. According to Reuters, stores of gas will run out by 8 April at this rate

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/25/uk_energy_crisis_illustrated/

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Mary; Harry is a bit of a rascal. His choice to follow his father and brother into chopper duty, is the only traditional venue I’ve seen from him. I think his mother did her best to raise the boys outside the aristocratic bubble. As you know, children are treated a little like breeding stock by the royals. I think he’s a good kid, and I understand you think the military is a poor choice for him, but like most young people these days, the emotional development is slow.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    Methuselah Now – I am aware of the ‘Channel Program’ – it touched me when I listened to a young 16 yrs old girl called ‘Indie’ who was ‘taken to task’ at her school for:

    a) Stating the invasion of Iraq war illegal.
    b) Questioning the official government report of on the London bombings in 2005 as implausible.

    She was called a conspiracy theorist, humiliated by her peers and given notice that her statements may go on record as fomenting dissonance.

    http://tna.europarchive.org/20100419081706/http:/security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/prevent/channel-guidance?view=Binary

  • guano

    Habbo Retros

    Not my idea – Google’s. Apparently our Habbo inhabits a subscriber virtual world ( ongoing in parallel time but disconnected from the real world) in which Mary is a jungle-domineering, bare-armed, planet-saving teenage-heroine . http://thehabbos.org/

    His computer has cross linked into Craig Murray’s blog archive and all comments should basically be ignored. I know because my computer cross-linked here from my own second life existence at Muxlim and I still haven’t worked out how to get back again.

    Obama and Cameron exist in a second life fantasy world where humans can be zapped collectively and individually without considering the justification or legality. Every time I get a limpet mine on the gas pipes of the Palace of Westminster alien octopus invaders click me onto the CM blog home page. I/we ‘m hoping to get into Habbo’s dreamworld and get back to Muxlim via trans-ether pathway from there.

  • Exexpat

    The Day That TV News Died
    March 25, 2013
    by Chris Hedges

    I am not sure exactly when the death of television news took place. The descent was gradual — a slide into the tawdry, the trivial and the inane, into the charade on cable news channels such as Fox and MSNBC in which hosts hold up corporate political puppets to laud or ridicule, and treat celebrity foibles as legitimate news. But if I had to pick a date when commercial television decided amassing corporate money and providing entertainment were its central mission, when it consciously chose to become a carnival act, it would probably be Feb. 25, 2003, when MSNBC took Phil Donahue off the air because of his opposition to the calls for war in Iraq.

    http://billmoyers.com/2013/03/25/the-day-that-tv-news-died/

  • Mary

    Wouldn’t it be luvverly…. if we could all get a 10% return like Buffett except we would want nothing to do with Goldman Sachs.

    Buffett to get increased share in Goldman Sachs
    Warren Buffett Warren Buffett is one of the most celebrated investors in the US

    Warren Buffett is to become a top 10 shareholder of Goldman Sachs after he agreed to amend the terms of his 2008 investment in the bank.

    In September 2008, Mr Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway fund invested $5bn (£3.3bn) in Goldman at 10% interest.

    /..
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21944267#

  • Herbie

    Habbakuk says of RT and Press TV:

    “No problem with having alternative viewpoints, Herbie – as long as you don’t always take them for gospel.”

    That’s interesting. Are you seriously suggesting that these other viewpoints are less reliable than those of Western media?

    What argument do you have for that?

  • Mary

    You must appreciate Herbie that, in the minds of our friend and others, Russia and Iran are the ‘official enemies’ and therefore the output of their TV stations is completely biased and untrustworthy, so unlike our own dearly loved state broadcaster’s output.

  • Mary

    Apologies if this has already been posted earlier today.

    Satire is dead.

    Aaronovitch, the shill for Bliar, his illegal war and the construct of Zionism, is the new editor of the Index on Censorship.

    https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/314877421188956161

    ‘The world is changing rapidly and we are, perhaps more than ever, confused about free expression and in danger of surrendering it. That’s why I am honoured to become Chair of Index on Censorship, which challenges threats to free speech, day in day out.’

    http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/03/winners-index-awards-2013/

    Thread on Medialens http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1364293195.html

  • Herbie

    Yes indeed, Mary.

    I think you may well be correct, but am happy to await Habbakuk’s rejoinder.

    There may well have been something we’ve missed, and I’m sure Hab will be only too willing to put us right.

  • Fred

    “You are resorting to nonsense logic which if applied to all farms would have you saying, everyone just has to eat less – like you do fishing by the Sea or wotnot.”

    The nonsense is calling them farms, they are not, they are industrial machines, power stations that only work when they feel like it.

  • Mary

    The list of those who have tweeted congratulations to Aa will make you feel sick.

    Jonathan Freedland, Ben Bradshaw, Gove’s wife Sarah Vine, Tim Montgomerie, Matthew d’Ancona…..

  • Mary

    The Index on Censorship is a charity. The number on their website http://www.indexoncensorship.org/about-index-on-censorship/ takes you to Ings Public Recreation Ground! The Index on Censorship (Writers and Scholars Educational Trust) has been given the same number on the Chsrity Commission website. Little job for William Shawcross the new chairman of the CC to sort out there!)

    These are the IonC trustees
    http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=325003&SubsidiaryNumber=0

    They have income and spend of over £1m. Income is derived from grants, donations and sponsorship. I could not be bothered to look at the accounts to see where the dosh comes from.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)

    @ Herbie

    You are quite right to await my reply and pay no attention to poor Mary’s attempt to tell you what I’m saying. As often, she gets things wrong and lets her unthinking prejudices runs away with her.

    Anyway, my post meant no more or no less than the words attempted to convey. I’m not comparing reliabilities, which would be a futile exercise anyway. To expand slightly :
    1/. I think that some (perhaps most) of the Eminences, because they seem to believe nothing they read or hear on the UK MSM, go to the opposite extreme and appear to believe everything they hear from RT or Press TV;
    2/. Just as many of you believe that eg the BBC has an “agenda”, so I think it is fairly obvious that RT and Press TV also have one. The former seeks to put everything the West does in the best possible light, the latter seek to do the opposite.

  • Herbie

    On the elevation of Iraq war fomenter, supporter, and apologist to the role of editor of a self appointed group calling itself, Index on Censorship, Mary writes:

    “The list of those who have tweeted congratulations to Aa will make you feel sick.

    Jonathan Freedland, Ben Bradshaw, Gove’s wife Sarah Vine, Tim Montgomerie, Matthew d’Ancona…..”

    Thanks for that, Mary.

    I’d bet there’s no one who could fix a leak or run a vegetable patch on that list.

    This is our priestly class folks, and a very shoddy, useless lot it now looks.

    They cling to the king because there’s nothing else for them.

    It’s that stupid.

    It’s that simple.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)

    It’s a little difficult to see exactly what Mary is getting at with her post on Index on Censorship, but the general tone leads me to suspect that she has something against it (whether permanently or perhaps just at the moment).

    The conclusion I’m reluctantly forced to draw from this is that

    – either Index on Censorship has just been critical of one of Mary’s preferred countries – perhaps Iran, perhaps Russia, perhaps Venezuela, perhaps….?

    – or, conversely, Index on Censorship has given a relatively clean bill of health to one of the countries Mary does not seem to like (to put it politely) – perhaps the US, perhaps the UK, perhaps Israel, perhaps…?

    I think we should be told.

    ********

    La vita è bella, life is good! (spit it out, girl!)

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)

    @ The Scourge :

    Dougie, you might remember that I’ve supplied you, as requested, the names of the threads on which certain posters (handles and times also supplied) claimed – or at least suggested- that President Chavez of Venezuela was murdered.

    I shall disregard the fact that you haven’t yet bothered to thank me for the work I put in on your behalf as I realise that such a gracious act would probably be beyond you, but I would be interested to know if you have got round to reading those posts yet.

    *****

    La vita è bella, life is good! (Habbabkuk confounds yet agin!)

  • Mary

    The Telegraph have a paywall now. Guardian next??

    • Readers who are not subscribers will continue to get access to 20 free articles a month on telegraph.co.uk. To go beyond that limit, readers will be invited to choose between two digital subscription packages; our Web Pack, which combines unlimited web access with our smartphone apps, for £1.99 a month; or our full Digital Pack, which includes our tablet editions, for £9.99 a month.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/9954534/The-Telegraph-subscribe-to-Britains-finest-journalism.html

  • Mary

    I thought it had been rather too quiet for comfort.

    What is the collective noun for a sudden flurry of troll posts?

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Exexpat @ 12:39

    IMO, the change was most noticed in the late 60’s and early 70’s, devolving in toto, with entertainment ‘news’ crossing the line between hard news and the ratings boom that took news into a new market. Here in the US it started with ABC ‘Eyewitness News’ and the trend was picked up like a virus.

    But that is by no means the beginning. In Cronkites Bio, it was revealed that even our most venerated news hardcases were diddling in things that were none of their frikkin bizness. He quietly worked behind the scenes to get Eisenhower elected, twice against Adlai Stevenson.

    Then there’s William Randolph Hearst………

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    “What is the collective noun for a sudden flurry of troll posts?”

    Habocolypse?

  • crab

    Fred: “The nonsense is calling them farms (windfarms), they are not, they are industrial machines, power stations that only work when they feel like it.”

    Fred, it is noticeable you like to make negative statements about renewable energy technology that rest on nothing but hearsay and simpleminded notions, but ultimately your own contented circumstances and detachment from everyone elses.

    It shouldn’t matter what we call wind turbine installations, the principle is the same: food farm output is variable and requires storage, just like wind farm output. So dont say “wind farms dont work because their output varies” again, unless you are happy to talk nonsense about food farms too.

  • Jives

    Ben,

    You dont know Prince Harry at all;only the media propagandised construct of him.

    A tad surprised a poster of your circumspection can suspend your sharp critical faculties like that.

    The poor lad’s career trajectory and image are wholly controlled by the shadowy Buck House PR buffoons.

  • Mary

    Ben Franklin 🙂 Thanks for your earlier reply about P Harry. Deep down I actually feel sorry for him, having lost his mother at that early age, and realize that he is the product of a strange upbringing. Let’s hope that as he matures, he might be able to change to a different world view and to see the injustices. A vain hope probably.

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