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  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Jives; I don’t know your age, or if you have children, but let me ask you a question; (first let me say that I am 63 and I remember not being able to find my ass with both hands until age 30)

    How about you? Do you think kids today are less, or more emotionally retarded than I/you were?

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)
    25 Mar, 2013 – 10:41 pm

    Sure!
    1/. The “Chavez” thread : N_ on 6/3 at 12h59 ; A Node on 6/3 at 13h40 ; Mark Golding on 6/3 at 21h48 ; Bert on 7/3 at 20h17 ; OrwellianUK on 13/3 at 03h21 ; Trowbridge H. Ford on 19/3 at 18h12
    2/. The “Scotland for Chavez” thread : Crypotnym on 6/3 at 20h51 ; El Cid on 7/ at 17h13
    3/. THis thread : Crab today at 19h49.
    Happy?

    Thank you I will get back when I time to look at each post. Your first example however N_ is obviously referring to media reports but I agree N_ should have used quotation marks and linked to his/her source.

    N_
    6 Mar, 2013 – 12:59 pm
    Questions have been raised whether the technology used to murder Chavez was also used against Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner
    Acting President Nicolas Maduro accused enemies of murdering Chavez, in a way similar to how Yasser Arafat was murdered. Hours before he announced Chavez’s death, he announced the expulsion of the US air force attaché and his assistant. Let us hope more expulsions follow.
    Questions have been raised whether the technology used to murder Chavez was also used against Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner Fernandez, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo.

  • Mary

    Craig wrote before on how a reference to him was wiped from a book.
    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/01/the-disappearance-of-craig-murray/

    I found out that the puhlishers Portobello Books and Granta Books were owned by Sigrid Rausing, the Tetra Pak heiress.
    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/01/the-disappearance-of-craig-murray/#comment-387798

    Rausing is a donor to Index on Censorship (no irony) along with BBC World, other trusts and organisations including Google (again no irony):

    VOLUNTARY INCOME for 2012
    Grants totalled £477,053

    Grants:
    Eranda Foundation
    Hargrave Foundation
    Rausing Trust
    Google
    Fritt Ord
    Clifford Chance
    Grants received by Writers & Scholars International Limited

    INCOMING RESOURCES FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES for 2012 totalled f548,091
    Grants
    Youth & Censorship:
    City Bridge Trust
    Big Lottery Fund
    Big Give
    Allen and Overy
    Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
    Future Jobs Fund
    Liverpool John Moores University
    BBC World Service
    Burma Arts – SIDA
    Writers & Scholars International Ltd-
    Project grants
    Publishing fees and royalties
    Event income
    Other direct income

    pp 22 and 23
    http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends03/0000325003_ac_20120331_e_c.pdf

  • Jives

    Ben,

    Im 46,no kids.

    To answer your question: in some ways yes in some no.

    Apols if thats a bit non-committal.

    But my point was : none of us really know him,just the media construct of him.

  • English Knight

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

    Whinersdinners?

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Jives; I understand. Seriously, does one really know another person? I’m not sure if it’s that they (kids) are dealing with many more externals, and this slows down the perspective. I’m not saying they’re not smart. They are probably smarter than we were because their brains are more challenged. The World is a lot more complicated, but their strength is in their mental agility. How many of us have gone to a pre-teen to get an electronic device working according to it’s potential? They don’t have as much contemplative time to form solid selves as I had. Some say age 25 is the new 16.

    JMO—

  • guano

    Mark 26/03/2013 16.08

    Channel:
    Supporting individuals vulnerable to recruitment by violent extremists. March 2010

    ‘To reduce the risk from terrorism we need not only to stop terrorist attacks but also to prevent people becoming terrorists. This is one objective of CONTEST, the UK Government’s strategy for countering international terrorism.’

    Pity they didn’t introduce this for Blair in 2001.

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)
    26 Mar, 2013 – 7:22 pm

    “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.”

    Of course they do you silly worm. Do you think we don’t know that?

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)

    @ Doug :

    OK, read away.

    N_’s post might not be a quotation – cf the phrase “Let us hope…” about half way down. On the other hand, it might be.

    In any case, I think it’s fair to say that posters can generally be assumed to submit quotations which support in one way or another their own point of view on a particular matter. I’m sure you understand what I mean.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)

    Yes, Mary, I’m back again…..and I half suspect you’re really quite pleased.

    Don’t be. 🙂

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)

    @ English Night :

    “Whinersdinners”

    You know that’s not very original, don’t you?

    I’m surprised that a man of your wit and intelligence should stoop to reading the Sunday Times.

    You are obviously not all you seem….

  • Mary

    I have tears in my eyes having just watched Keeping Britain Alive and seen so many examples of love for their fellow humans by all grades, their professionalism and their tender concern. Tears because I fear what might happen to this amazing system of care we have had for 64 years. When the ‘reforms’ come into effect on April 1st and the privatising and dismantling begins, how can it survive? It must for all our sakes.

    Duration: 1 hour

    The first of a landmark eight-part series, filmed on a single day in the NHS. 100 camera crews filming across the country capture the extraordinary breadth of demands placed on the country’s biggest institution on just one day at a critical time in its history. On this day, 1,300 of us will die, 2,000 will be born and one and a half million of us will be treated.

    In this first episode alone, this ground breaking portrait of our national health service moves across the country revealing how the NHS copes with the growing demands of obesity, old age and cancer amongst others.

    While Matron Liz deals with 130 patients through her doors in a Clinical Decision Unit in Birmingham, patient Lynn’s weight-loss surgery in Chichester is interrupted by a devastating discovery. Further north in Leeds, stroke doctors use a revolutionary treatment to save the speech and movement of 64-year-old Graham.

    ‘Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day’ provokes profound questions about what the NHS does for us now and what we expect of it in the future.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rk2d0

  • Mary

    Miliband D steps down as MP and goes to NY to join International Rescue!

    The names of Albright and Kissinger crop up on this list. Yet another one of these right wing neocon set ups and maybe a cover. Anyone know anything about them? In any case, Miliband’s presence in a warmongering government doesn’t fit with the stated claims of the IRC.

    http://www.rescue.org/board-and-overseers
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rescue_Committee

    David Miliband to step down as MP

    Mr Miliband has said return to the front bench would not be good for Labour

    David Miliband is planning to leave Parliament to move to the US to work for a charity, a close friend has confirmed to the BBC.

    He is going to become head of the International Rescue Committee in New York, the BBC understands.

    Mr Miliband, 47, a former foreign secretary, was beaten to the Labour leadership in 2010 by his brother Ed.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21947497

    Miliband has been receiving a massive income lately anyway so they must be paying him well.
    http://www.leftfutures.org/2012/08/david-milibands-half-million-in-private-earnings-an-admission-of-retirement/

  • Herbie

    On the matter of RT and Press TV and their relative merits compared to our own Western media.

    Thanks for that reply, Habbakuk, and thanks as well to Mary for her succinct statement on the matter.

    It seems to me that there isn’t a great deal of difference between your and Mary’s positions – As she puts it here:

    “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.”

    and you put it in your own post above:

    “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.”

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Clark; the Cypriot loopholes probably allowed the Russian oligarchs to disgorge their ill-gotten gains already. I think that was the crux of things. With that horse out of the barn, I think (as in most cases) the popular will is a combo of democracy and socialism. The extremes of both experiments have proven the hybrid to be the best solution.

  • Mary

    I was being ironic there Herbie!

    ~~
    Good one on Hitchens here.

    Case Closed
    Hitchens in the Dock

    by JACK McCARTHY
    http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/26/hitchens-in-the-dock/

    [..]
    Seymour’s book, part of Verso’s “Counterblast,” series, is a thoroughly documented prosecutors brief and demonstrates why in a fair and just world Hitchens, who conspired with the likes of Ahmed Chalabi to start a most unnecessary war, would stand trial with Bush, Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz as an accused war criminal.
    [..]

  • Clark

    Mary or others, can you find out what happened regarding the following?

    On March 19 the government presented the second reading for a retroactive law, about work-for-nothing “Workfare”:

    http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/wingsland/civitas.htm

    Retroactive law is seriously scary stuff, a serious breakdown of the rule-of-law. From the linked article:

    “The precedent is a terrifying threat to civil liberty, and because the UK has no codified constitution, it’s entirely within parliament’s prerogative. If government can simply rule on actions ‘ex post facto’ (after the event) then nothing is sacred. You could be walking your dog in Doncaster, completely legally, on Monday, and on Tuesday find that your perambulation was illegal and carries a life sentence. True, criminal cases would be subject to the European Convention on Human Rights, but thanks to Parliamentary Sovereignty, the government can ignore such trifles. The entire concept of ‘Rule of Law’ is undermined as soon as the government starts to cover its back like this.

    If the government becomes accustomed to this new power, a number of injustices could follow. Theresa May might change the UK’s extradition laws to allow the Home Office to pack Abu Hamza off on a flight to Jordan, despite UK courts’ fear that he will be tortured or evidence derived from torture will be used against him. Cameron could change laws and storm Ecuador’s embassy for Julian Assange. Even Oliver Cromwell, a famed despot and regicide not best known for his love of the rule of law, baulked when his Protectorate Parliament used retroactive legislation to torture a blasphemer. The Allied forces refused to use ex post facto laws in the Nuremberg Trials, even though this meant prominent Nazis escaped lightly.”

  • Fred

    “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.”

    The output from real farms can be stored.

    The output from your pretend farms can’t.

  • Anon

    Clark,

    More at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/24/labour-mps-abstain-welfare-bill

    Labour’s frontbench team put “significant pressure” on MPs to abstain during a crucial vote on emergency retrospective welfare legislation, a recently resigned parliamentary private secretary has told the Guardian.

    …”Among 43 or 44 Labour MPs who voted [against the bill], I was the one who had the PPS position. But I know a significant amount of pressure was brought to bear on other colleagues in similar positions.

    “There were an awful lot of people who were clearly unhappy … well over half of the parliamentary Labour party were clearly uncomfortable with the position that was taken by the leadership,” Mearns said.

    The Gateshead MP said that during last Monday’s weekly meeting of the parliamentary Labour party “there wasn’t a single person in the room who spoke in agreement with the position being put forward by the leadership team”.

    His description of the meeting was confirmed by other MPs who did not want to be named.

    Mearns said the rebellion by over 40 Labour MPs included a former chief whip, Nick Brown, former housing minister John Healey and a former junior minister, Derek Twigg.

    “These people aren’t the usual suspects. I think the frontbench had their reasons [for wanting everyone to abstain from voting] but I must admit, I still don’t completely understand why we were put into that position in the first instance.”

    More at link

  • crab

    Fred: “The output from your pretend farms can’t”

    Fred electricity can be stored, it can also be transmitted and traded. More easily than most food can! You’ve been led down a grumpy path by the fossil fuelers.

    BrianFujisan
    Peter Gabriel last night was great!
    I have pet notions that your Reiki is one of the ways that activates the minds mysterious controls, and is a very valuable therapy, though i’ve never been in a position to experience it.
    When circumstance and susceptibility combine against – all is lost even our last, but at the right point everything can remembered without sadness and whatever future moment or age, made sweet and precious. Thats got to be as true as the alternatives.

    This is kinda soulful, from Ricky Gervais, hes a character, 3 min song: “Equality Street”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmTV62mE1PA

    Dont stop knowing what is good all.

  • crab

    That controversy suits the PTB’s campaign against the concept of allocating to people necessary means to survive out of economically gainful employement. It sets overworked people against those concerned about the law involved, and others believing in the concept of universal allowance or at the very least – the current unemployment benefit system, which seems like a deliberate mess in itself.

  • Jives

    Christopher Hitchens,like Aaronovitch and Nick Cohen are the disgusting unspeakable side of horrific NeoCon cocksucking media cheerleading for genocide and abject warmongering delusion.

    Their souls were sold before they were born i feel.

    Shameless cheerleaders for war criminals.

  • Anon

    Gas crisis.

    To be honest right now it is difficult to tell what will happen next. LRS continues to set new record lows every day but both main import pipelines are running in import mode at maximum capcity (or close to it) and LNG tankers are arriving. I am slightly concerned that flow is a bit below expected on both Bacton and Langeled pipelines right now (National Grid shows 20mcm/day below expected) but hopefully it is no sign of a major problem.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/24/uk-britain-lng-idUKBRE92N0G020130324

    Reuters) – Three big Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) deliveries should help replenish vital heating supplies for snow-covered Britain this week, but UK gas stocks remain uncomfortably tight with weeks of abnormally cold weather still to come.

    A late blast of winter weather has drained Britain’s already modest gas stocks to around a tenth of their capacity, sparking fears of supply restrictions with the cold weather forecast to continue into early April.

    The first of a trio of tanker loads of super-cooled gas from the world’s largest LNG exporter docked at the Isle of Grain terminal near London on Sunday, with a second due in Wales on Monday and a third on Friday, tracking data on Reuters shows.

    The Qatari tankers could supply a total of around 430 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Britain over the next week, compared with daily gas demand of around 370 mcm, while another tanker has set sail from Trinidad on Saturday after UK gas prices leapt on Friday when a key supply link from Belgium shut unexpectedly for 8 hours.

    I am not sure what the total flow capacity of the LNG terminals is now. I know it was nowhere near design capacity because of limited distribution capacity on the network and delays in planning permission for new plant. We might find out soon.

    With storage levels this low, and them clearly juggling already – the arrival of the LNG is certainly good news.

    Maximum flow rates of the various sources and maintaining pressure are the key – not just the total amount of gas in all forms of storage combined.

    Personally I just wish it would warm up and not have to rely on international pipelines for day to day gas security. It really is statistically only a matter of time before both will fail at the same time. Guess someone considers the consequences acceptable.

  • crab

    In the scheme of things though Anon, the effects and the significance of this freakishly cold Easter, are serious beyond possible electricity shortages.

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