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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“There is not but our worldly life; we die and live and nothing destroys us except time.”
(Quran, 45:24-26)
viz: What the rich and worldly replied through time to the many prophets (peace be on them all) who were sent to call their people to Islam, worshipping the One God.
Villager
Aid to Pakistan. I suppose we send aid in order to influence, i.e. export the Philpott factor to Muslim countries. Same as the US is sending drones to kill the wisest members of society. I’m sure Obama sees that as aid as well.
After all the horrible things I have previously said about some treatment I have had from some responsible and well-off Asian Muslims who should have had more manners, my comments do appear to have shocked them into a mind -change. There is nothing more welcoming than the salutation ‘Uncle’ when you go and buy your halal takeaway. heart cockles duly warmed. Apologies for previous offence caused. Rough with smooth taken.
@ Villager (17h32 yesterday):
“As for Eton, i think they should be forced to take girls — begin to create some kind of balance. And then some underprivileged so they begin to live in a real world.”
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I don’t see how the above remedies – and especially the taking in of “some underprivileged” – would solve the problem (if there is a problem).
If Eton really does, automatically, produce a privileged, out-of-touch class, then surely taking in some underprivileged would just be an exercise in co-opting and absorbtion; those underprivileged would simply be turned into part of the future class of the privileged (and draw up the ladder from under themselves)?
Villager, all we need is a group. I’ll write the lyrics (or steal them) and Dan Rodger can write the tune.
“George and Ringo, John and Paul, Greatest boy-band of them all – It’s the Beatles its the Beatles”
https://soundcloud.com/rodgerdp/its-the-beatles
Villager says, à propos of Pakistan ;
“Now here’s another nuclear-armed country that seems to get very little international attention, despite its nuclear risks, broken polity, failing economy and adventurous mullahs. No need to mention corruption.”
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This is probably a fair enough description of Pakistan.
But if one of the implications of your post is that aid to Pakistan should be made contingent on improved governance, does not the following problem arise : what would be the difference – on the political and moral levels – between that approach and the international community’s approach to North Korea (condemned by many, including, I would guess, some on this blog) consisting in imposing sanctions pending improvements in that country’s governance and behaviour?
I am becoming increasingly anxious about Craig. Does anyone know how to find out if all is well?
Meanwhile, who said this about his role?
“It genuinely is about making a difference in the world and not about making money. The motivation is not the accumulation of personal wealth. If I’d wanted to do that, I could do it a lot simpler with a lot less time.”
Why B.Liar of course. Does anyone know how to shut him up?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22039361#
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http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280093822/British-Library-plans-for-a-digital-future
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240180886/British-Library-archives-the-web
What is the likely cost of this exercise and are blogs to be included?
Amer Nasser, 17, His Last Poem
by Felicity Arbuthnot / April 5th, 2013
We have an appointment with death,
We have become familiar with our shores of despair …
— Samih al-Qasim, 1939 – present
On Wednesday late evening (April 3rd) and overnight, two unarmed teenagers, cousins Amer Nassar (17) and Naji Abdul-Karim Balbeisi (18) were shot dead by Israeli Defence Force troops.
The two were from the village of Anabta, near the town of Tulkarm, in Palestine’s West Bank. Tulkarm was founded in the 13th century, its name derived from the Aramaic “Toor Karma” meaning “mount of vineyards”.
Amer died from a bullet in his chest at 22.30 on Wednesday night, according to eye witnesses. Hearing shots, three boys from the village went out and found Amer lying on the ground, with soldiers standing over him. When they tried to reach him, the soldiers opened fire, injuring one, Fadi Abu-A’sr, in the arm, and he was subsequently hospitalized.
The three say that ambulance crews were prevented from reaching Amer for thirty vital minutes, with threats to shoot anyone attempting to intervene. Deiyaa’ Nasser, who did attempt to reach Amer “was arrested by the Israeli Army and taken to an unknown location”.
Naji Abdul-Karim Balbisi was found as dawn broke on the following morning, lying in a field. He was reported to have been shot from behind.
Tensions have been high in Gaza and the West Bank since the death of Maysara Abu Hamidya in Israel’s Soroko prison on April 2nd. Sixty-five year old Abu Hamidya was a former high ranking officer in the Palestinian Authority (PA) prior to his arrest, which took place when the IDA invaded the West Bank, destroying PA Headquarter buildings, in May 2002.
Palestinian authorities have claimed that the prison was withholding treatment for his cancer. On Monday released prisoner Ayman Sharawna alleged that Hamdiya was in a life threatening condition in the prison infirmary – with his hands and feet shackled.
The Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society has held the Israeli regime fully responsible for his death.
So, as Palestinians mark another onslaught, the massacre in the Jenin refugee camp (April 1st-11th 2002) the mourning, heartbreak, lost lives and lost youth grind on. But so does the spirit, the historic roots, in young and old.
Seventeen year old Amer Nasser left a poem. When others of his age write on Facebook of their dreams, aspirations, exams, plans, dates, travels, on March 15th, his last entry, he wrote (translated):
Point your bullet where ever you like in my body
I will die today, but my homeland will live tomorrow
Be careful, Palestine is a red line.
He did not die on March 15th, but just two weeks and three days later, at the hands of “the most moral army” and the “only democracy in the Middle East”.
• The writer is indebted to the resident of Palestine who drew attention to, and translated, Amer’s poem, and to the International Solidarity Movement, for their careful details, on the ground in the village of Anabta, on further tragedy.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/amer-nasserm-17-his-last-poem/
Dying prisoner treated cruelly by Israeli doctors over many years
The Electronic Intifada
Ramallah 1 April 2013
http://electronicintifada.net/content/dying-prisoner-treated-cruelly-israeli-doctors-over-many-years/12329
Mary, I share your concern over Craig and, like others, have been mentioning his lack of communication with the hub without wanting to appear too repetitive. Getting him to respond to an email is nigh impossible so I no longer try. However, I believe Clark has his ear and wonder whether he would be good enough to enquire if only to put our minds at rest.
The Blair quote is a bit like the one where, before his war, he says if it was Saddam’s oil we were after we could negotiate for it. The hypocrite. Recently when he was talking about what a mess Iraq was in, and how that was never his intention, he did add that the oilfields were secure.
Arbed, Birgitta Jonsdittir has just been on ‘Breaking the Set’ on RT. I just saw the last 3 minutes. You may want to check it out.
Now Ethan Mccord an ex-soldier who was blocks away in the ‘Collateral Murder’ situation and part of the ‘rescue’ of the injured children, is speaking on RT News, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the release of the video. He has been severely psychologically affected by the incident. Kudos to him to be speaking out openly in Freedom. And may he free himself of the conditioning of War.
Thanks John. Good to hear from you.
Nevermind. The sooner you get over to County Hall in Norwich to sort this crowd out the better. I looked up Murphy’s expenses. As follows for 2011/2012 in order of basic allowance, special responsibility allowance and travel/subsistence.
Murphy, D 8928 26111 4326 0
http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/Council_and_democracy/Councillors/Councillor_expenses/index.htm
£39k + Wow!
No wonder he’s narked about his gravy train coming to a grinding halt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22046485
Good luck with your campaign.
Re Craig’s health and wellbeing
I think it is advisable that Craig does not provide a running commentary on the state of his health. There are people who do not want him around and it might only take a slight nudge to get what they want without any appearance of foul play. Far better that Craig should keep his plans secret and inform us after the fact when he is ready. And while we are concerned about his wellbeing, the matter is effectively out of our hands. A post card from him in Havana would be nice, tho’.
Now that this thread is an off-topic free-for-all, and sometimes music forum, I thought I’d share this little gem from the 70s that I just recently rediscovered. I don’t think the UK was aware of Canadian-Aust Kirk Lorange but he made a splash at the time on the East coast of Oz. The below music video was a hit and I enjoyed it as a very young wannabe guitarist. For lovers of upbeat blues.
Kirk Lorange – ‘Come A Long Way’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNK8kfB8_CQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Ben franklin
I have heard somewhere that you can get some “free energy” from sucking your left thumb. Can you please try it at home and let us know whether it works.
Good sound there Jemand — i’d definitely go see him if he were performing.
Funny the music business, some truly talented musicians can get left at the sidelines — very hit and miss (pun intended). All i perceive is that overall the scene appears to have degenerated over the years. I question whether technology has truly helped the music industry thus far or has it in some strange way worked against it?
Re: Craig’s well being
I share everyone’s concerns over Craig’s silence at the moment. The last time I was with him, at the back end of last year he wasn’t himself and his work load was very high so I’m hoping he is just taking a well deserved rest.
This 6 month long winter seems to have drained the energy from us all, where’s global warming when we need it. ( just joking)
John Goss
6 Apr, 2013 – 8:03 am
Villager, all we need is a group. I’ll write the lyrics (or steal them) and Dan Rodger can write the tune.
Hi John heard your song — are the full lyrics available somewhere? Also what is the way to contact you? Perhaps we could meet and put our heads together if you’re up in London sometime?
Windy, yes the winter is definitely not good for heart patients. Hopefully Spring is finally around the corner and the smiles will soon return to our faces! Thanks for sharing.
Thoughts also go out to Assange. I was completely housebound for a week recently with the flu. Just for one blessed week, imagine what he’s going through. People don’t realise what courage it takes for him to do what he’s doing.
Stay well all, and enjoy the weekend!
I was with a large utility company last week discussing the post referendum outcomes on Energy Supplies. I was surprised when the topic of the Orkney Islands came up. It seems that there are idea’s floating around that the Orkney Islanders may want to leave an Independent Scotland.
Their thinking is that of the 70% of the Oil and Gas fields that Scotland would gain from the UK, 40% of that would be in Orkney waters.
So the Orkney Isles could become a cross between Monaco and Guernsey but a lot colder.
All sounds like rumor fodder to me but it has merit as an idea.
Thanks for your support, Mary, I’m full on into website design, leaflets, it will be one uphill task and needs the support of the voters who have been betrayed something rotten.
Incineration planned in Kings Lynn,. sending 180.000tons of pollution into the eastern fringes for 284 days/year has attracted some 65.000 objectors, and that’s just the ones who were asked. I’m proposing this process, far more modern, by APP, it deals with landfill waste and household waste and would bring down landfill charges and fines by reinstating them into woodland.
http://www.advancedplasmapower.com/solutions/process-overview/
These are the benefits of this new process developed
http://www.advancedplasmapower.com/solutions/benefits/
I’m also worried about Craig, I texted him and rang his number, somebody nearby should visit him for a cup of tea and see whether he’s OK, does anybody live near Ramsgate?
Still think that the February explosion in North Korea was the result of a National Reconnaissance Office-made earthquake – just like the one near Hosseinabad in Iran which got the US Senate to agree a new START treaty with Russia. That one collapsed the nuclear test tunnel that the Iranians would have to use if they wanted to have a reliable weapon.This one was intended to get everyone, especially China, involved in disarming the North’s nuclear weapons capability.
The explosion occurred only a kilometer from the earth’s surface, but so well contained that there was no leaking of any radio activity. Still the Pentagon got everyone to believe that it was a powerful uranium, miniature bomb which the rogue state could use to wreck havoc on any Western city, far worse than what happened on 9/11, and what Stillman and Reed exactly predicted in The Nuclear Express.
I am not making this up – it is there for everyone to read, and certainly the Chinese know it backwards and forwards. Still the Western public pays no attention toi what its most important spies on the subject wrote,
Just how brain dead can you get!
The nation at the heart of tax dodging is refusing to reign in those who are growing fat on QE and tax evasion.
Re-taking the Cook and British virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos, as well as jersey and the isle of Man, militarily, if the judiciary can not retrieve the taxes owed, and pronto.
One would have thought the idea of catching thousands of tax evaders and prosecuting them would keep some lawyers salivating 24/7.
32 TRILLION….
Yes Nevermind. Quite right.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ exploration of the secretive world of offshore companies and trusts began after a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail.
Gerard Ryle, ICIJ’s director, obtained the data trove as a result of his three-year investigation of Australia’s Firepower scandal, a case involving offshore havens and corporate fraud.
The offshore information totalled more than 260 gigabytes of useful data. ICIJ’s analysis of the hard drive showed that it held about 2.5 million files, including more than 2 million e-mails that help chart the offshore industry over a long period of explosive growth. It is one of the biggest collections of leaked data ever gathered and analysed by a team of investigative journalists.
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http://www.icij.org/offshore/how-icijs-project-team-analyzed-offshore-files
Only one US citizen and no UK citizens were named above.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1365253545.html
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Perhaps the paedophile perverts could also be driven out of Jersey when the purge takes place! The only abusers charged and imprisoned, so far, are the Brewers from Chetham’s School of Music who abused Frances Andrade who committed suicide in January after she gave evidence.
Btw What happened about Lord Rennard and the Lib Dems? What action has Cleggover taken? Too busy skiing.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nick-clegg-holidays-super-rich-ski-1814397
Poor old David Ward is still being ‘retrained’ no doubt.
http://www.deliberation.info/israel-flag-wavers-plan-to-re-educate-mp-david-ward/
Thanks Jermand – one for you buddy-John Mayall & guests with John McVie on bass and the awesome Mick Taylor on lead -live at the Capitol Theater New Jersey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxE8m-S_b40
Whilst Worried about Craig, i agree with Jemand @ 11 ; 45
Seriously Amazed by the discussion that’s been going on right here between Dave Lawton, and Trowbridge.H.Ford – Misty Satellites, And Gamma ray Lasers…Mega wow. So fascinating, and a wee bit scary
AND, Regards North Korea
i see the evil shits at NYT’s are at it full on ( again )
Over at the “liberal” New York Times, they’re warmongering again. Not uncharted ground for the storied publication to be sure. They’ve been here before, many times. But today they’re offering up one lie after another about the recent history of North Korea surely with malice in their hearts and regime change on their minds. The only way to succeed in a corrupt and demonstrative world is to pluck out one’s own eyes and forge heroically ahead in the self-imposed darkness side by side with your Vichy colleagues .
And honestly, it seems almost like the Times is putting forward what would amount to a not-so-veiled threat of future violence and the promise that it will be unquestioningly blamed on North Korea .. again.
The article is called “Pynongyang Blusters and U.S. Worries About Quieter Risk” and from start to finish it’s loaded with deliberate lies… lies that are proven deceit, if you only know the history of the world we live in.
LIE 1 from the New York Times:
“This week, North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jung-un, ordered his underlings to prepare for a missile attack on the United States. He appeared at a command center in front of a wall map with the bold, unlikely title, “Plans to Attack the Mainland U.S.” Earlier in the month, his generals boasted of developing a “Korean-style” nuclear warhead that could be fitted atop a long-range missile” CHOE SANG-HUN and DAVID E. SANGER
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/amid-tangle-of-lies-cheonan-cyber-attacks-photoshopped-war-plans-the-new-york-times-warmongering-again/
WORKFARE AKA EXPLOITATION OF THE UNEMPLOYED
Read this biographies of the board of Home Retail Group (Argos and Homebase)
http://www.homeretailgroup.com/about-us/our-management
their remuneration (from £1.1m pa down to £96k pa)
http://www.homeretailgroup.com/ar/2012/governance/remuneration/p6.shtml
and then these links from John Hilley.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1365240205.html
Shame on those directors.
Toffs (DC, GO and IDS) are paying spivs to exploit the unemployed.
The sport of kings aka the annual slaughter of horses continues at Aintree. Two have already died this week. Last year, six died. How many this afternoon?
http://www.horsedeathwatch.com/table.php
A cynical and horrible ‘sport’.
‘Safer’ Grand National course kills a second hors
Posted 5 April 2013
The Grand National course, on which Battlefront died yesterday, saw another fatality today when 11-year-old Little Josh broke a shoulder in the 3.40 Topham chase.
Five other horses fell in the two-and-three quarter mile race and just 19 of the 29 runners finished. Little Josh came to grief at the 15th of 18 fences.
The Channel 4 commentary team was notably upbeat in the early stages of the race, while most of the horses appeared to be coping with the enormously challenging fences. But as the race became competitive and many of the horses began to tire, there was a high rate of attrition.
Little Josh was being ridden by Sam Twiston-Davies, who was back in the saddle minutes later on Master Of The Sea for a 4.15 hurdle race.
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http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_horse//2861//
Thanks, Brian, for the link and the interesting comments.
Sure is scary, particularly with DAVID E. SANGER leading the charge.
Instead of the North Korean leadership admitting what had happened – the USA had hit its nuclear test and development complex with a devastating earthquake, like what hit China’s Sichuan province in May 2008, for which it had no adequate response – it agreed with the Pentagon, showing that it had enough uranium to test yet a more powerful weapon, and the capability for using it that Stillman and Reed had hysterically warned about.
Never thought that the new North Korean leader would be so clever, and it looks to me that China’s MInistry to State Security is orchestrating the whole process, leaving the Americans just dreaming that Beijing is really opposed to what is going on.
And remember that even Reed and Stillman said that Beijing has the best intelligence service in the world, even better than Israel.
What’s all this crap about the recent North Koran nuke test actually being an artificial earthquake caused by the USA?
Do people actually believe that or are you just playing some warped mind-game?
“This poster, leaked yesterday from Haringey Homebase, shows exactly how employers view workfare: an easy way to cut the wages bill. Homebase claim “We ensure they work alongside, not replace, paid colleagues”, but a staff member has told us that since tens of workfare placements were brought in, overtime has been cut for everyone. Some people’s hours have been cut from 48 down to 8 – far below the threshold for Working Tax Credits – because that is all they are contracted for.”
http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=2404