tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135125992011-12-05T07:06:20.862ZYou are not a slave so reclaim your freedom. Politics, geopolitics, police state slavery UK, Tony Blair, Ian Blair, CCTV, Labour, New Labour, Conservatives, Lib Dems, ID cards, ID database. Count the CCTV cameras, watch the cameras. Facial recognition, data retention, biometrics, Home Office, police and political corruption. War, Iraq, Neocons, Bush, Cheney, war on terror, Murdoch, Cameron, MI5, MI6, CIA, renditition, America, EU, Europe, serfdom, globalism, diseased government, UK, USAJ.UL1R4http://www.blogger.com/profile/08822719025428899708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13512599.post-32374158837375359482010-05-20T00:19:00.005+01:002010-05-20T00:29:02.298+01:00

Alan Johnson is a nice guy in some ways, he's like your friend's dad from school, you know the dad of that kid who could play football really well, but obviously he's just way way wrong.In fact former Home Secretary Johnson's response to Nick Clegg's absolutely correct announcement today, much of which this little blog has campaigned for in the past, just goes to show how dangerously out of touch

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Things were looking pretty scary yesterday.

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I just saw on BBC News, Gordon Brown has made this statement offering a time table for his standing down, in reality to provide a more inviting proposition for the Liberal Democrats, so that Labour can enter more meaty negotiations with the Liberals.I'd just like to say this is outrageous. This is dangerous and indulgent nonsense by the Labour Party.The General Election result, this hung

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This is story from a couple of days about a 'media attack' on The Pope ago caught my eye:"The treatment of the Pope over the child sex-scandal bedevilling the Catholic Church was compared last night to the Holocaust. Father Raniero Cantalamessa, Pope Benedict's personal preacher, made the claim during a Good Friday address at St Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican. He said, as the Pope sat

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Just some news from the Guardian/Observer that caught my eye today."The Tories were embroiled in a furious row over lesbian and gay rightson Saturday after the shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, was secretly taped suggesting that people who ran bed and breakfasts in their homes should "have the right" to turn away homosexual couples.The comments, made by Grayling last week to a leading

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This was a very important story which I didn't see until today.Spectator columnist Rod Liddle has become the first blogger to be censured by the Press Complaints Commission.Spectator columnist Rod Liddle has become the first blogger to be censured by the Press Complaints Commission.On the Spectator's website, Mr Liddle wrote that the "overwhelming majority" of London's violent crime was carried

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To all!J

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Ok we are bit behind schedule here on everything. Sorry guys. Ok so last night I went to see Michael Jackson's This is It movie, which since it was announced I was very anxious to see. This film of course was assembled after Michael's death earlier this year ; made up of rehearsal footage bought by Columbia (Sony) from the series of scheduled performances in London.I haven't read any reviews of

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Daily Mail: "Labour has been accused of relying on the 'welfare vote' after the Conservatives published a provocative league table ranking Commons seats according to the number of benefit claimants.A total of 189 constituencies in the first 200 are represented by Labour MPs, which the Tories claim explains why Ministers are failing to tackle the spiralling welfare bill.Gordon Brown and 12 Cabinet

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Ok I have been a bit out of it again. Sorry for that. I haven't finished some of things I was going to do yet.I'd just like to say a few words about the BNP controversy that's taken over in the last few days since Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time. And I hope I'm not saying anything too obvious.If anyone has seen the Question Time last Thursday, it's important to remember something that

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Sorry we are a bit behind schedule at the moment with this. And one of the reasons I wanted to write about Michael Jackson in this way was because I really didn't like what I saw written out there, in the mainstream media, the specialist music press or the alternative news which in general dropped the ball a bit with this.Since last time, the coroner's report into Michael's death is pointing

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This kind of ties in to a topic we were talking about recently. A pretty serious piece of legislation has passed the House of Representatives in America which is HR 2749, which, as I understand it from what I've read, amongst a host of other thing mandates that anyone producing food has to register with the FDA and pay a fee to do so.I really don't how this sort of legislation even gets on the

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KSN: WASHINGTON (AP) — "We're going to kill your children."With those words, a CIA interrogator tried to squeeze intelligence information from accused terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.On Monday, the threat was revealed in a newly declassified report on alleged detainee abuse as President Barack Obama's Justice Department launched a criminal probe of "unauthorized ... inhumane" tactics

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From Prison Planet: (Sky News)"An internal police report has raised serious concerns about whether CCTV is being used effectively in the fight against crime.The document reveals that CCTV footage was used to solve less than one crime for every 1,000 cameras in London.Obtained from Scotland Yard using the Freedom of Information Act, the report recommends an overhaul of the way CCTV is handled

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This is a new subject for this blog here, but I was just flicking through the news and came across this headline from the Los Angeles Times, which immediately stood out as suspicious and low and behold when you read the story it is quite curious:L.A. officials warn of cheeses that could contain harmful bacteriaAnd what the story basically is, is that the authorities in L.A are really kicking up a

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We're going to touch on one of the issues that the media brought up in the immediate hours, even minutes following the death of Michael Jackson. And this is a very difficult topic to write about, difficult as it seeps into other fraught areas of the history of music. Suffice to say it's not really a topic about Michael Jackson himself, more to do with some of the media noise.And right from the

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The other story from the Guardian, is not a new story but is at least a retrospectively bizarre piece of video with the publicist Max Clifford talking about Jade Goody, it's about a month or so before she died, where he says "Jade was a sacrificial offering". I think he's supposed to be talking about something that happened on the Big Brother show, but it's just very spooky.

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A couple of stories from the Guardian I wanted to mention briefly. One of them this story I saw on Henry Porter's Blog:"The government must be quietly grateful to the distractions of August. Only Computer Weekly noticed that nine local authority workers have been sacked for accessing the personal records of celebrities, and their acquaintances held on the core database of the government's ID

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Ok we've been a bit sporadic recently, and although time has passed, and there's a lot of other issues I want to talk about, I actually wanted to write a bit more about Michael Jackson than we did before, and although it's not traditionally what this blog is about, there is a reason I would occasionally like to talk about stories that may seem not directly political, or important in that way at

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I've been flicking through the news the last few days and I wanted to write about the Gary McKinnon case. This is the guy who some time ago hacked into some computers in the US looking for UFO and free energy info, and faces massive ridiculous and utterly inappropriate prison time for this if extradited.I know some people won't like me saying it, but this is simply not a serious crime. And

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I just watched the Michael Jackson memorial service via internet broadcast. What can you say ? Where you actually there ? Extremely emotional.There was a range of musical and spoken tributes from people like Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder, including a fascinating and passionate oration by the Reverend Al Sharpton and finally his brothers and daughter give an extremely moving

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I've just about had enough of the Daily Mail.It really thinks it can write anything it likes and there's no consequences to that.Its position in the market is one of supposedely representing the interests of conservative middle England, but when it comes to some subjects it represents as much gutter garbage as the Sunday Sport or The Star.The Mail's latest cracker is a staggering article about

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Thriller - Music VideoWhen I first wrote about this it hadn't sunk in at all. It started to a bit the next day when everywhere I went was playing Michael's songs. It's just so incredibly devastating.Thriller is one of my all time favourites.

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I was completely shocked to learn in the last few hours the news that Michael Jackson died. Apparently of a heart attack.I was huge fan of Michael Jackson as a child and he's a huge influence. Of course we don't know what's happened exactly or what's led up to this, but I kept hearing stories over the last couple of weeks about this postponed tour of Michael Jackson and that he was not eating,

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From a couple of days ago, very interesting article by Paul Craig RobertsSunday, 21 June 2009Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knowsby Paul Craig Roberts"Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The CIA bribed

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Guardian: "Voters delivered a brutal verdict to Labour yesterday, as the party lost control of all its remaining ­English county councils in Thursday's voting.Staffordshire, Derbyshire and ­Nottinghamshire fell out of Labour's hands for the first time in 28 years, and Lancashire for the first time since 1989 – all to the Tories.With 32 of the 34 local authority results declared, the Conservatives

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Gordon Brown's government is just in total tatters.I remember some time ago under Blair when Labour had a particularly bad day, the BBC's Andrew Marr said you'd have to go back to the days of Michael Foot to find a time when Labour had such bad publicity. I can't even think what would be a comparison now.Labour are in massive trouble, and Gordon Brown, who I do feel sorry for, appears to be a

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The Mail (tucked right at the bottom of the page in the print version, underneath yet another massive article about Susan Boyle loosing her mind) report the gap between Diversity and Boyle was 4.7% (which I didn't know before) and that the wrong number was for a while put up with YouTube versions, and people were complaining Boyle's number was constantly engaged, which would have been a problem

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Ok I'm sorry to do this, but I want to comment again on Susan Boyle and some of the stuff going on in the press, because it's actually gone out of control now, and it's starting to look ridiculous.There's a considerable effort going on to manipulate this into something else from all quarters of the media which really concerns me. The level of rhetoric around this is actually frightening.The

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Ok, I'm sure I'll get criticised for talking about this, but I just wanted to comment on Britain's Got Talent again. I saw the front pages of the newspapers today and was almost flabbergasted to see that Susan Boyle didn't win it.I said before I was always wary of Simon Cowell. I don't like the guy. It's more than just his pantomime bad cop part he plays on that show. Cowell's role as both

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Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com 21/5/09: "The real reason behind Obama’s reversal of a decision to release the torture photos has been almost completely ignored by the corporate media - the fact that the photos show both US and Iraqi soldiers raping teenage boys in front of their mothers.The Obama administration originally intended to release photos depicting torture and abuse of detainees

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Anyone remember WING TV (site) ? A guy in a hat who called himself Victor Thorn and his girlfriend Lisa Guliani. This was for a while a not terrible grass roots alternative media program which at times had some interesting guests and interviews, and some reasonable review sections of other alternative media, and reflections and had some energy.Unfortunately at some point, it started to go badly

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Maybe I've missed something. I've read what I can about this, and frankly I'm just struggling to see any significant case against House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin at all. There's a lot of hot air that's made to look like some case, but the substance of it just seems to be missing.Part of the problem here, seems to be there's been something of a long term campaign against him anyway from

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Daily Mail: "The millions of CCTV cameras on Britain's streets have done virtually nothing to cut crime, Home Office-funded research found today. It said that cameras placed in town centres, housing estates and public transport 'did not have a significant effect on crime'.The only crime that was heavily reduced by the presence of spy cameras was stealing from cars in car parks, the study

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May 15, 2009 The American Conservative:"The United States and Israel fundamentally disagree about the need to establish a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. President Obama is committed to a two-state solution, while Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is opposed and has been for many years. To avoid a direct confrontation with Washington, Netanyahu will probably change his rhetoric

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Mail on Sunday: "Gordon Brown is heading for humiliation in the European elections as voters desert his party in droves in protest over the expenses scandal, a BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday has found.Labour's predicted share of the vote in the June 4 elections has fallen to just 17 per cent - neck and neck with the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which advocates Britain's complete withdrawal

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14/5/09 Information Clearing House:"What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups?A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he

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Another story I couldn't believe:Apparently Alex Jones has been banned from YouTube.Infowars says: "...the video networking website suspended the Infowarrior Channel, which was the replacement for the previously censored Alex Jones Channel.When attempting to visit the Infowarrior Channel this morning, one is met with the message, “This account is suspended.”Just as before, no credible reason has

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Sorry guys, I just don't buy this stuff about MPs' expenses. One can only guess what it may really be hiding, but this (aka sleaze) appears to be the way of getting rid of a weak government that's no longer able to inflict some of the most extreme policies and as well punishing a few individuals who have stepped out of line along the way.As someone said to me recently, why didn't all this happen

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I just caught a bit of Newsnight, and I couldn't believe this story that conservative US radio host and writer Michael Savage has actually been banned by the Labour government from entering the UK.Apparently, according to the BBC it's so morally uncertain a topic it actually deserved a debate on Newsnight, where one side likened to the notion of someone like Chris Moyles being banned from

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Sometimes you need a laugh: Daily Mail: Labour women have 'helmet hair' declares David Cameron's mother-in-law""David Cameron's mother-in-law would naturally be suspicious of New Labour. But it seems it is the haircuts, not the politics that bother Lady Astor most.Samantha Cameron's mother said in an interview that female ministers in New Labour had 'helmety' haircuts, although she acknowledged

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Simon Jenkins/Guardian: "We appear to have lost all ability to judge risk. The cause may lie in the national curriculum, the decline of "news" or the rise of blogs and concomitant, unmediated hysteria, but people seem helpless in navigating the gulf that separates public information from their daily round. They cannot set a statistic in context. They cannot relate bad news from Mexico to the risk

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I'm not going to talk about the Swine Fever thing right now, I see plenty of other sites are.Some light, but interesting analysis from The Guardian on the political landscape. Surely The Guardian, just as Labour, will seek to motivate their constituency, but it's nonetheless interesting.I haven't been studying political polls for some time, but the trend is clear overall as I understand it being

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Guardian: "The government has announced plans to make sex education compulsory for pupils aged five to 11, dividing faith groups and safer sex campaigners. Under the plans all secondary schools will have to teach teenagers about contraception, safer sex and relationships, but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside of marriage and condom"Ok. Sorry for the latest lull. And I

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Guardian: "Gordon Brown today signalled a shift in the UK strategy for Afghanistan, announcing that greater effort will be directed towards the border with Pakistan, which he described as "a crucible for terrorism" responsible for fostering up to three-quarters of terror threats faced by the UK.Brown was speaking on his first visit to Afghanistan since announcing troop reinforcements for the

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This isn't what we usually talk about on here. But screw it. Let's talk about something fun for a change. Our friends at RickWrites have this posted, and amazingly I did see it at the weekend, and never normally watch these shows really, occasionally I catch a glimpse of them.And occasionally, very occasionally television creates a great piece of television. It's very rare, and if anything, it's

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BBC: "US immigration agents have detained an 89-year-old man at his Ohio home ahead of deportation to Germany to face trial for alleged Nazi war crimes.John Demjanjuk is accused of being an accessory to the deaths of some 29,000 people at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in World War II. His family claim that Mr Demjanjuk, who was carried out of his home in a wheelchair, is too ill

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Drum rolll.......Do you remember 'WE ARE NOT AFRAID ?"Shhh..listen. The latest hot citizen news is in: it's called...wait for it....DAH DAH DAH!!!!......AMAZONFAIL!And it's all the buzz on uber-spakwad plebplob site Twitter apparently and a bunch of blogs.And it's all do to with the heinous crime that Amazon had apparently temporarily delisted some gay and lesbian books from their searches or

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BBC:" David Cameron is demanding a personal apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown over e-mails sent by an adviser discussing smearing the Tories. The Tory leader is "absolutely furious" and is calling on Mr Brown to give a guarantee that such messages will not be sent again, a spokeswoman said.Damian McBride quit after his unfounded claims about Mr Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne

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A very Happy Easter to everyone!And sorry for the latest lapse.J

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Isn't it funny that Home Secretary Jaqui Smith's husband apparently a Mr Richard Timney, was paying for porno films and at the expense of the tax payer to boot. A funny and small comeuppance for this ridiculous cloth-headed gorgon at the Home Office, and fittingly ironic for these anti-privacy ghouls in the tinpot regime; just a tiny hint of what the kinds of retained records they want everyone

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I meant to post this from yesterday, the title is (from the Independent):Quarter of UK's databases are illegal(And the rest of them are 'merely' degrading, dehumanising, vile and utterly inappropriate - j) "One in four of the major government databases is almost certainly illegal and should be scrapped, a report says. The national DNA database, the proposed national identity database and the

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A short video interview with scholar Norman Finkelstein (I think from Nov last year - not sure)

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I just saw a glimpse of something on one of the BBC channels that appeared to be about eating fish in Japan.And I have to say I was absolutely disgusted at this program for depicting the cruel and awful treatment of the poisonous Fugu fish by a Japanese restaurant or factory or something. It was just hideous cruelty.I do love fish as food, I think fish are a wonderful food.However I also know

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Guardian: "Reality television star Jade Goody, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer last year, has died, her publicist said this morning"Certainly our prayers are with Jade and her family.I don't really know what to make about this story. I know it's not the kind of thing we usually talk about on here. As I understand it, some arrangement between Jade and the press was made as regards some of

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Sorry for the lull here.Guardian: "For 24 hours, Google's new Street View brought a vision of British cities to the web that included such memorable sights as a man throwing up between his knees outside a London bar and youths with traffic cones on their heads in Edinburgh.But while the chance to take a 360-degree tour of every street in 25 UK cities continued to bring most offices to a

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Quite an interesting article by Melanie Philips in yesterday's Mail and well worth a read.To cut a long story short and I certainly recommend people read Melanie's article, but according to her- a wider culture of so called human rights legislation, anti-discrimination laws, political correctness etc. have helped play a role in laying the groundwork for a police state in the UK (although she

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The Times from 27/2/08:"Laws that allow officials to monitor the behaviour of millions of Britons risk “hardwiring surveillance” into the British way of life, the country's privacy watchdog has warned.Richard Thomas told The Times that “creeping surveillance” in the public and private sectors had gone “too far, too fast” and risked undermining democracy.The Information Commissioner warned that

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I guess that's that then."Privacy rights of innocent people will have to be sacrificed to give the security services access to a sweeping range of personal data, one of the architects of the government's national security strategy has warned.Sir David Omand, the former Whitehall security and intelligence co-ordinator, sets out a blueprint for the way the state will mine data - including travel

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Isn't it amazing ? I didn't follow up on this at the time and perhaps I should have, breathtaking really.You can get someone kicked out of a country because they don't believe in the Holocaust.Guardian: "A Roman Catholic bishop who questioned the truth of the Holocaust arrived in Britain today after being asked to leave Argentina.Richard Williamson, who left Buenos Aires wearing a baseball cap

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Our prayers go out to David Cameron's family today at the loss of his young son.

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"Detailed evidence has emerged of Israel's extensive use of US-made weaponry during its war in Gaza last month, including white phosphorus artillery shells, 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles.In a report released today, Amnesty International listed the weapons used and called for an immediate arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian armed groups. It called on the US president, Barack Obama, to

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Another item from the Daily Mail:So basically here, you have some internal war of Labour witches fighting for the magic cauldron that can easiest deploy misery on everyone else. It's quite a funny read, but I didn't realise this until I read the article:"Last month, she [Harman] unveiled plans for a so-called ‘class law’ in which public bodies would have a legal duty to take account of people’s

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Apologies for the lapse here. I'm just gonna pick a few things from the Mail yesterday.And we'll start with this."Big Brother CCTV cameras are to be fitted inside shops and supermarkets on the orders of the state to keep track on anybody buying alcohol. A law is being quietly pushed through Parliament giving councils the power to order licensed premises to fit the surveillance cameras. Pubs will

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I meant to get this done last night. I wanted to comment a little on this recent thing with the Bishop and the Pope and the Vatican , which I think has been conspicuous as perhaps of one of the more wanton attempts to attack the Catholic Church I've seen the media come up with.There are sensitive topics buried in this for sure, but frankly it's also the height of vulgarity for the media as a

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We still haven't looked in depth at the financial crisis/recession/depression/crunch etc really yet, but actually there's a section of what's going on somewhat connected to all of it or actually even blamed for it as well to some degree, that's such a ridiculous cruel joke I guess we may as well talk about it. It's exemplified by an article in today's Times.I should point out all the conservative

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Full title: MELANIE PHILLIPS: To place children with two gay men when an adoptive mother and father are available, just to uphold a brutal dogma, is a sickening assault on family life"When homosexuality was legalised back in 1967 did anyone dream that some four decades on a British grandmother and grandfather wanting to adopt their own grandchildren would be refused permission and the children

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Press TV: "The British government has been ordered to publish records of crucial cabinet meetings from 2003, held over the legality of invading Iraq. "This is an exceptional case," reads the Tuesday verdict of the UK's Information Tribunal -- which decides on requests for documents under freedom of information laws.According to the decision, it is in the public interest to release minutes of the

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It's struck me a number of times over the last year or so that there are a lot of basically good people out there who have acquired a kind of instinctive or reflex-like apathy, distrust or even repulsion toward religion but in particular Christianity, which, astonishingly is the main villain.In America this is much worse where there appears to be a chunk of U.S society that has learned

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A couple of days old but still important (linked to from someone's blog somewhere sorry can't recall):Israel's refusal to allow civilians any exit route from Gaza as its defence forces rained bombs down on schools and houses appears unprecedented in modern warfare, a United Nations investigator has said.Richard Falk, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian

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LA Times: "Reporting from Jerusalem -- Israel finished pulling its forces out of the Gaza Strip today, timing the withdrawal to President Obama's first full day in office.""Palestinian sisters Dunia, 10, and Dana, 5, sort out their school books after finding them among the debris of their destroyed parents' home on Tuesday in the southern part of Gaza City"BBC: (yesterday):"Fresh images from the

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Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet:"A mind-numbingly cringeworthy and deeply disturbing MySpace video release shows vacuous celebrities pledging their “service” to the incoming Obama government in the form of activities such as not flushing the toilet after taking a piss and selling their “obnoxious” cars.The video was produced by actress Demi Moore for the MySpace Presidential Pledge project, and

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BBC: "The worst-hit areas in the Gaza Strip after Israel's three-week offensive look as if they have been hit by a strong earthquake, aid agencies say.Correspondents in Gaza City say entire neighbourhoods have been flattened and bodies are still being recovered.The UN says it is still sheltering at least 35,000 Palestinians while 400,000 people are without running water."

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From a couple of days back which I should have linked to at the time. From our friends at Rick Writes who have a photo essay on this:

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London Times: "Remnants of an Israeli white phosphorus shell, identified by the marking on the outer casing — M825A1 — have been found in the village of Sheikh Ajilin in western Gaza.Witnesses in Gaza said that the shell was fired on January 9 and was taken indoors as evidence. They recalled seeing thick smoke and smelling a strong odour in keeping with the garlic-like smell associated with white

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Reuters: "Venezuela has cut ties with Israel in protest over its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.Last week President Hugo Chavez expelled Israel's ambassador from Venezuela over the attacks, which have sparked international condemnation."Venezuela ... has definitively decided to break diplomatic ties with the state of Israel given the

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Guardian: "Israel is facing growing demands from senior United Nations officials and human rights groups for an international war crimes investigation in Gaza over allegations such as the "reckless and indiscriminate" shelling of residential areas and the use of Palestinian families as human shields by soldiers.With the death toll from the 17-day Israeli assault on Gaza climbing above 900,

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Well I'm truly ashamed to admit that I've not actually written anything myself about the catastrophe in Gaza, an absolutely terrifying, horrendous and vile campaign that seems to have been well summarized and obviously has rightly caused huge outrage and protest across the world, along with fresh impetus about how Israel's policies toward the Palestinians are tackled in the long term.It goes

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via Prison Planet:Raw StoryWednesday, January 7, 2009Responding to media reports that Israel had bombed a UN school serving as a refuge for Palestinian civilians, Congressman Dennis Kucinich is calling for a Congressional report on Israel’s possibly illegal misuse of US weapons.His letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice follows.Dear Dr. Rice:I am writing concerning Israel’s military

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Guardian: "As temperatures stay stubbornly well below freezing, it may feel like the last issue on anyone's mind, but the government has been warned it may need to start thinking about introducing emergency hot weather payments to help poorer households keep cool.The Department for Work and Pensions is studying a specially commissioned report from the Met Office which concludes that the weather

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via Prison Planet: The Gaza BloodbathMike WhitneyCounterpunchTuesday, January 6, 2009In a rare moment of honesty, the New York Times divulged the real motive behind the bombardment and invasion of Gaza. In Ethan Bronner’s article, “Israel Weighs Goal: Ending Hamas Rule, Rocket fire, or Both”, Israeli Vice Premier Haim Ramon said, “We need to reach a situation in which we do not allow Hamas to

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Prison Planet: "The United Nations has called for a probe into the Israeli attacks that killed at least 45 civilians in UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip.“These tragic incidents need to be investigated, and if international humanitarian law has been contravened, those responsible must be held accountable,” Max Gaylard, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories said Tuesday.On the

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As covered by our friends at Rick Writes...

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Guardian: "Israeli tanks and thousands of troops today pushed deep into the Gaza strip in a dramatic escalation of the conflict.Soldiers reached as far as the Mediterranean coast, cutting Gaza in half and seizing control of large areas of the overcrowded territory.Israel's ground operation, which had been widely anticipated, began on Saturday night, the eighth of the conflict, and is the biggest

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Some commentary from a couple of days ago by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories via The Huffington Post:"For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normalcy of daily life. A flicker of hope emerged some six months ago when

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Happy New Year.I know we haven't exactly been guns blazing for quite some time on here and sorry about the lapses, I was away again briefly over the New Year period. I can only defer to the excellent commentary This Old Brit has given on the horrendous stuff that's been going on in Gaza.I hope this year we are going to do some pretty hard hitting essays on some different topics, and hopefully

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Daily Mail:"Labour is embroiled in a war of words with senior Church of England bishops after they criticised its ‘scandalous’ record in power.They warned that the party’s policies had left Britain in the grip of family breakdown, debt addiction and a growing wealth gap.Downing Street was said to be privately furious at the politically-outspoken comments. [...] The bishops’ scathing assessments,

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Happy Christmas to everyone!

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Sure there's a lot I'd like to talk about here. We haven't talked about the economic meltdown yet, and I saw this item on BBC news last night complete with the usual moronic indignation of the reporter that such outrageous criticism should be leveled against our benign and brilliant government, and who we should all presumably be rallying around:Daily Mail: "Britain and Germany were locked in a

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About Time. "The European Court of Human Rights has spoken with a strong and clear voice - retaining indefinitely the DNA and fingerprint records of unconvicted suspects is unlawful.The 17 judges of Strasbourg's Grand Chamber were unanimous in their ruling, and they emphasised that the government must follow it - because on this issue it does not have much "margin of appreciation" or leeway. The

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Quite a few people have reported on this Global Trends 2025 document by the US, which amongst other things has some pretty interesting stuff about the EU in there. Loved that image by the way whoever did that, very much along the lines of my own thinking."EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - By 2025, the European Union will be a "hobbled giant" crippled by internal bickering and a eurosceptic citizenry.

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Whatever one thinks of the BNP, and whoever leaked this membership list for whatever reason (seems to be some internal warfare with an ex-employee), this act is an a pretty outrageous attempt to inflict damage on a political party.Equally outrageous and utterly unacceptable is people already being sacked or threatened to be so from their jobs or close enough over this, including as I understand

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The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda has called on Muslims to harm "criminal" America. In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy accused US President-elect Barack Obama of betraying his Muslim roots.He likened him to a "house slave" - who had chosen to align himself with the "enemies" of Islam. Mr Obama has said stamping out al-Qaeda "once and for

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Daily Mail: "The more we learn about the behaviour of Haringey Council, which failed so grossly in the horrific case of Baby P, the more apparent it becomes that our so-called welfare state has turned into something truly monstrous.First, we heard from its children's department head Sharon Shoesmith that neither she nor any of her staff accepted any responsibility for what had happened. This was

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From yesterday's Daily Mail, I meant to post it yesterday:"The first time it properly dawned on me that the game was indeed up was about 20 years ago in Blackpool, where I was covering the Labour Party conference.As I made my way from the Clifton Hotel, opposite the main pier, past Yates’s Wine Lodge towards the Winter Gardens, at approximately 9.30am, I had to step into the road to avoid a

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Very interesting article by Paul Watson posted by our great friends on Blogdial. This article is about someone I hadn't heard of called Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, and he's got some rather chilling predictions about America.Celente says 'that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax

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"Tony Blair has urged Barack Obama to take the initiative on issues from climate change to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a way to heal the divisions between America and Europe.In an interview with the Guardian during a visit to Rwanda, the former prime minister said Obama's election as US president opened up "an era of real possibility". (Let's hope not -j)"I think he can say to Europe,

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Give Obama his credit, he seems on the surface pretty likable, a very charismatic speaker, he did tremendously well with his campaign. But I saw a bit of Question Time tonight, and it underlined how Obama mania is out of control, and actually quite reminiscent of when Labour and Tony Blair came to power promising their 'Third Way' back in 1997. Anyone remember ? Even satirical things like Rory

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It's been a while. How you guys doing ?John Steele in the Guardian:"While his instincts are cautious and pragmaticc, he has not repudiated the war on terror. Rather, he insists that by focusing excessively on Iraq, the Bush administration "took its eye off the ball". The real target must be Afghanistan and if Osama bin Laden is spotted in Pakistan, bombing must be used there too.This is a

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Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone

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