I had been spending the last few days living here in Avatime district while visiting Ghanaian friends nearby. Away from internet, TV and any other distraction, it has given me a chance to ponder what next to do with my life.
This has been a real problem. Have submitted Sikunder Burnes to the publishers, and while there is still editing and proofs, a huge amount of time is now free. My determination to dedicate myself to working for Scottish independence led to my comprehensive rejection by the SNP. This left me confused as to what I might usefully do with my life. I suppose the question I have been pondering is, what good am I?
I have come up with a potential answer, and will out it later this week.
Climate change deniers should come to Ghana. Not only have changing rainfall patterns devastated the hydro-electric system, life has become extremely hard for farmers. The last decade has seen the highly predictable wet and dry seasons become wildly unpredictable. It has been unseasonally raining heavily on me all over Ghana. The situation is extremely difficult for farmers. Mango farmers are now praying for relief from the rain for the next six weeks or the mangoes won’t flower. The continuing rains may already have adversely affected next year’s harvest. Meeting cocoa farmers today. Am now in Kumasi.
Not heard from John Mary.
The bulk collection of large volumes of communications and other personal data by MI5, GCHQ, MI6 and for their use of “equipment interference powers” – the ability to hack computers and phones around the world – for purposes of
national security, serious crime and economic wellbeingmapping areas of dissidents, activists, revolutionaries, whistle-blowers, smart-arse ex military veterans and nonconformists, is in the bag.Mr Parker sir, at this juncture it is time to warrant your commission and prevent the ‘massive ISIS attack’ at least to encourage another vote in Parliament for Britain to bomb Syria, take out her infrastructure and accuse Russia of air assaults on ‘moderate’ terrorists, bouncy castles, egg and spoon races, sanatoriums, rest homes and sick bays.
https://www.rt.com/uk/320043-isis-terror-mi5-surveillance/
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The London Labour’s branch office in Scotland are all over the place Kezia Dugdale supported the renewal of Trident but yesterday decided to vote against Tridents renewal.
The only member of the branch office of London Labour in Scotland to vote for Tridents renewal yesterday was Jackie Baillie, all the other pro-Trident MSP’s came from the LibDems and the Tories.
Baillie a staunch unionist and BBC mouthpiece, has faced calls for her resignation for opposing her party.
Baillie whose Holyrood speech defending the right to spend £167 billion pounds on renewing Trident, received loud applause from the Tory benches, whilst her own party members who opposed the renewal, could only sit and gawp at Baillie’s stance.
UK government has misled the investigatory powers tribunal, according to an NSA engineer – no, not that one
(this was related to the abandoned Wislon doctrine) , more at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/04/gchq_smart_collection_nsa_man_bill_binney/
David Cameron has been thwarted for now, on airstrikes in Syria, although at this moment British pilots have been seconded to fly missions over Syria under other military forces.
The Tories no longer believe that they can muster enough support for military action in Syria. To add to Cameron’s woes the Foreign Affairs Committie warned any military action in Syria by Britain could be illegal.
The “equipment interference powers” is literally ‘blowing one’s stack’ – That might ring a bell here when I blasted the White-house over the Iraq invasion and NSA were summoned to hack my Windows XP (dutifully protected by Kaspersky firewall rules) and delete both protected system files turning my lap-top into a brick.
Piss ‘them’ off and guaranteed you will be put off-line by (a)disabling your WAN address or (b)paralysing your operating system.
As a precaution have access to another device and in an act of togetherness, fellowship and unity with your neighbor, agree to share network security keys in emergency.
“Hey, Nursultan. it’s not as if I’m going to apologise for you too…”
http://ortcom.kz/en/news/nursultan-nazarbayev-and-tony-blair-discussed-investment-cooperation-between-kazakhstan-and-uk.7748
Note the unphotoshopped poppy. Blair, deniably, is stooging for Cameron and the City here.
Dimitrios Konstantakopoulos Provides The Most Accurate Description Of European Politicians
“Today’s European politicians . . . are ‘test-tube politicians,’ who haven’t emerged from a process of significant political battles with worthy political oppnents, but have instead risen to power through the manipulations conjured by the strong players of the financial capital system, with the objective to control the political elite of the European continent. They are more employees than they are politicians. Moreover, their programme is not for public disclosure. Should they discuss in public what they really want to achieve, or rather what the bankers who appointed them want to achieve, even the stones will cry out in Europe in protest against them!
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/11/04/quote-of-the-century/
I almost fell of my chair when I read the finalists for 2015 British Journalists Awards.
Two of the so called hacks Simon Johnson and Peter Dominiczak, both have been nominated for their Westminster Gazette aka Telegraph, story “Nicola Sturgeon wants Cameron to win GE.”
Now incase any of you have been living on Mars, you’ll all know Alistair Carmichael admitted making the whole “Frenchgate” fiasco up, and he is currently being dragged through the courts by his constituents on the grounds that he’s a big fat liar, and they want shot of him pronto.
Yet here we have two journalist from the Telegraph, with a word of mouth made up story in the running for a journalistic award, not only that, the category is (For the best story of the year).
http://wingsoverscotland.com/humbled-and-inspired/#more-77970
I really shouldn’t be surprised at the antics of the establishment press, I’ve witnessesd their open bias on many occasions, now they’re being nominated for awards for it.
Violent scenes in London at a very large protest against tuition fees and student grants. Police presence also large in Victoria St. Tense atmosphere according to reports.
Heard that well worn phrase once on twice in the snooper debate -‘If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear’ from the stooges on the Con benches.
When you bring us down the tablets from the mountain, as the good book says somewhere (oh right, Quran 7:145 and 7:150) and you show us the homes of the wicked and seize your British brother by his head and drag him, I hope your tablets proscribe NATO, the CIA regime’s soft underbelly.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/29/trident-juncture-and-the-no-to-nato-movement/
Southern European self-determination movements rightly go after the bloc and not its puppet states. Populist viewpoints will stress economic rights but those are just one component of the right to peace.
“Remember, remember the 5th of November…”
@ Glenn_UK
Hell, if you simply note the fact that our exploding population is utterly unsustainable …
More liberal lunacy. Or rather the echoing of the anti-European genocidal propaganda.
In what European country is the indigenous population exploding?
Answer: Not one.
there is no European state with a growing indigenous population. Every indigenous European population has a birthrate far below replacement. Population growth in Europe is entirely due to immigration and an ever increasing proportion of births in Europe are to immigrants.
The pro-immigration lobby is a European genocide lobby.
The goal is the mogrelization of the people of Europe the destruction of Western civilization, and the end of the sovereign, democratic nation state, since the European nation state represents the greatest barrier to imposition of global governance by the plutocratic elite, for the plutocratic elite, and of the plutocratic elite.
If you cannot understand that, you should give up making a fool of yourself with ridiculous misinformed comments.
Well actually you should give up making a ridiculous misinformed comments, period.
“The goal is the mongrelization of the people of Europe..”
There is no doubt that this is racism.
And it is also, as racist ideas generally turn out to be after examination-nonsensical.
Europe’s population is already ‘mongrelised’ and has been since time immemorial, if, by mongrelisation is meant the interbreeding of communities differing in language, average appearance, culture, pigmentation and skull length.
It would be nice to think that Canspeccy’s ‘elites’ had no worse intentions than to continue a process which is centuries old and central to our history.
This is not to argue in favour of current immigration policies which can only be understood in terms of the employment of war as a means of smashing up populations in one part of the world, with a view to driving them, as desperately biddable cheap labour, into those regions in which tradition and trade unionism have raised living standards above subsistence levels.
If genocide is the object the means is not by interrupting coupling with the girl next door but by reducing the masses, who have neither control over nor ownership of the means of production, to starvation wages, unheated slum housing and fear of the police and those who employ them.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £200,000 by the information watchdog after the theft of laptops containing videos of police interviews.
The computers were loaded with footage linked to 31 investigations, the Information Commissioner’s Office said.
They were taken as footage was being edited for use in criminal proceedings.
Many of the cases involved sexual and violent offences, and some related to historical allegations against a high-profile individual, the ICO added.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34718932
Sinai plane crash: UK flights from Sharm el-Sheikh
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sinai-plane-crash-uk-flights-from-sharm-el-sheikh
Mmmm -insight anybody?
@ Bevin:
There is no doubt that this is racism.
When they start with a slogan, you know the argument is gonna be crap! As in Europe’s population is already ‘mongrelised’ and has been since time immemorial …/i>
No doubt that bit of BS explains why there are so many colored people in Europe today, and why we now see so many women in Europe with bags over their heads. LOL. Actually, whats happening is the the displacement of European people by people and cultures from elsewhere, as in London, now majority ethnic, and Luton and Leicester, with the English in Birmingham to be a minority within a few years. Already, English primary school children in Birmingham are not even the largest minority.
So folks, is Bevin simply ignorant, or is a stooge for the money power?
Doubt if British planes over Sinai are in danger, Mark. ISIS have made the credible claim to have downed the Russian plane (satellite and other evidence suggest a bomb on board), and according to a document obtained by Judicial Watch, the head-choppers and liver-eating cannibals of ISIS appear to be US proxies. So it looks as though the crime can be traced back to the Piss-Prize winner, O’Bomber, who probably has no particular reason for murdering British tourists.
CanSpeccy: “In what European country is the indigenous population exploding? ”
Thanks for the reply, good to hear from you again – and I hope you’re doing well personally.
My comment wasn’t strictly about European countries and their indigenous populations, actually. It was about our population in a much more global sense, which as you know is doubling every generation, with no sign of slowing. The population of North America is increasing at a huge rate, and the UK population – more or less static for decades – is rising substantially.
The one-child policy is being removed in China (personally, I think a no-child policy would be best of all), so we can expect further pressure there.
The fact of the matter is the carrying capacity of this planet for humans is being exceeded, and the colour and origins of the humans concerned is inconsequential for that discussion.
Well, actually O’Bomber might very well have reason to murder a bunch of British tourists. He’s just sent fighter jets to Turkey that appear to have no purpose other than to take on Russian planes in Syria or Iraq, and which, therefore, have obvious potential to spark a general conflagration. But if it could be made to appear that the Russians were responsible for downing a plane-load of Brits, that’d work too.
@ Glenn_UK
My comment wasn’t strictly about European countries and their indigenous populations, actually. It was about our population in a much more global sense, which as you know is doubling every generation, with no sign of slowing.
So your view is that the Europeans should commit slow suicide through reproductive failure to make way for the overflow from elsewhwere? Do I have that right?
The one-child policy is being removed in China (personally, I think a no-child policy would be best of all), so we can expect further pressure there.
Not so: China’s fertility rate is 1.66, lower than Britain’s and way below the replacement rate of 2.1.
the carrying capacity of this planet for humans is being exceeded, and the colour and origins of the humans concerned is inconsequential for that discussion.
Actually, the planet is carrying the human population at a higher standard of living than has ever been experienced by humanity before. Sure, there’s great poverty in some places, but that is a distributional and political problem, not a resource problem.
And it is the general prosperity, even in the Third World, that accounts for the explosion of Third world populations.
And the colour, i.e., race, and origins, i.e., culture, of the humans concerned is of great consequence if it means replacing the people of Europe with an outflow of settlers from the Third World, i.e., a policy of European genocide.
re Glen 6.10 above. His comment – “The fact of the matter is the carrying capacity of this planet for humans is being exceeded, and the colour and origins of the humans concerned is inconsequential for that discussion.”
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I couldn’t agree more. You have introduced a very important topic. Human population has gone up twice in my lifetime, and seven times in the last 200 years. If we can’t get a grip on our numbers it will cause a series of major crises from wars, as people try to crab their share of declining resources, to major environmental problems due to overconsumption, increased poverty and famine.
I think that overpopulation could be the biggest challenge that faces the world in the future.
However, I hope that any measures we take to reduce population growth are voluntary (education on birth control, and free contraceptives, etc.) and do not take a totalitarian / coercive form as happened in China.
@ RR
I hope that any measures we take to reduce population growth are voluntary (education on birth control, and free contraceptives, etc.) and do not take a totalitarian / coercive form as happened in China.
Don’t worry, Rod, the Brits and the other Europeans are committing suicide voluntarily as we speak!
Sex ed, same-sex marriage, mass slaughter of the unborn conducted at state expense, and a mass media and entertainment media to promote the louche, anti-procreative life-style. VoilaL: the collapse in European fertility.
I’d actually prefer a bit of coercion if its the only way to preserve the European people and the Western culture from which Europe’s present degenerate civilization has emerged under the influence of the cultural Marxists, and their plutocratic enablers.
CanSpeccy: “So your view is that the Europeans should commit slow suicide through reproductive failure to make way for the overflow from elsewhwere? Do I have that right?”
No, you don’t have that right – in fact you could hardly be more wrong. I’m curious whether you just made that up wholesale, or if there’s something I wrote which could be twisted and misconstrued into that ludicrous misinterpretation. If the latter, what was it?
It’s not simply a distribution problem either. If you think that habitat is inconsequential, that humans have no effect on the viability of the planet – indeed its ability to support life at all – I’d suggest you start reading up on the impending disaster that we are currently witnessing, in its initial stages.
@ Glenn_UK
No, you don’t have that right
Glad we agree on something; namely, that replacing the, at present, reproductively dysfunctional European people with hordes of philoprogentive settlers from the Third World is a bad, indeed an evil, project of the globalist elite.
As for the viability of the planet, I think it will be OK, I think the planet will long outlive humanity.
But if by “viability of the planet” you mean the “human carrying capacity,” your are presuming what remains to be seen.
My own estimate of the global carrying capacity based on the assumption that energy (solar) is the limiting factor, suggests a maximum human population of around a trillion. That would make things a bit crowded, but most people would be living on ginormous floating structures covering the oceans, the land being reserved for traditional agriculture and recreation.
Not that I see much advantage in raising the world’s population, and indeed in an era of automation, computerization, artificial intelligence, etc. the goal of the elite must be to cut the global population massively. I mean, what is the point of all those useless consumers? All that the elite will need is a few million technicians, engineers, dancing girls, concubines, butlers, etc., to keep them in the style to which they aspire.
The present course of globalization, however, is to destroy human cultural and racial diversity, which if effected, will be an irreversible tragedy.
Mary, And Mark
John had popped up on Facebook last week.. he was continuing to say he was shut down after posting about Dr Frost taking on the MOD
I’ll give him a shout.. let him know you are asking.
Now then Glory be..Journalists Speaking out –
ournalists Grill US State Dept over claims Russia airstrike hit a hospital in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZtJ-gsegvw
Thanks Brian. Glad he’s OK.
Mark. Tanks at Heathrow again? Strange that the diminutive dictator/killer from Cairo arrives for his long awaited chat with Dave. At least he’s not being put up at the Palace for a few nights like the last visitor.
Hmm. UK Gov talks up terrorist bomb in Russian plane on same day as we get details of the new Snooper’s Charter. The old one-two there, methinks.