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So “Sorry, poor suffering Muslim woman with baby at your breast. You have my sympathy and pity, but bringing you to my country would only help you and your children at the cost of my children’s future. If thinking of them makes me a heartless bastard in the eyes of my deluded sentimental compatriots, so be it.”
That’s from a piece called Heartles Bastard. Wortha look at: http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/09/heartless-bastard.html
Baron
“This is where you’re wrong again, telemachus, the Lady’s convictions were not ideology driven, she never followed a prescription worked out by a theoretician”
Thatcherism was pure Keith Joseph theology
I commend to you Eric J Evans “Thatcher and Thatcherism” in which Evans identifies Joseph as the intellectual driving force that led Thatcher first to the conviction that she must replace Heath and then replace the Heath/Keynes consensus ideology
Subsequently Joseph’s absolute belief that bold changes grounded in the principles of his ideology and consistent with her Christian Methodism must be forced through whatever the opposition led to the famous not one of us and not for turning dictums
Joseph has quoted her statement synthesising Alderman Roberts and his (Keith Joseph) philosophy
“I believe that by taking together these key elements from the Old and New Testaments, we gain a view of the universe, a proper attitude to work and principles to shape economic and social life. We are told we must work and use our talents to create wealth.”
(Commanding Heights by Keith Joseph)
telemachus you seem to be mightily confused by the difference between ideology and policy, economic theory and religion, and philosophers and politicians.
And I thought you had promised to shut up for a while? That would be appreciated, thanks.
Baron – 00:00
There is a trick to check whether a number is divisible by 3 or 9:
Take a number, add up the digits, if the result is divisible by 3, so is the original number, if divisible by nine, so is the original. A nine can be changed to a zero to ease the task!
1066 => 13 => 4 not divisible by either.
12,345 => 15 => 6 divisible by 3, but not 9
273,645 as each pair of digits add up to 9, the sum of the digits is divisible by 9, therefore so is the original number No need to do any ‘advanced’ mental arithmetic! 🙂
201 => 3 so divisible by 3, but not 9
3 days = a little while
And not just Thatcher
“Sir Keith Joseph was the most articulate and powerful of the postwar exponents of the market economy at a time when it was distinctly unfashionable. He it was who provided the ideological dynamic for what came to be called Thatcherism. Indeed, Margaret Thatcher dedicated a volume of her autobiography to him, and declared that her reforms could never have been achieved without him. But he has also been an important influence on Tony Blair’s New Labour. We still inhabit a world largely created by Keith Joseph, and we will probably continue to do so for a long time to come.
“the ideological dynamic for what came to be called Thatcherism”
Worth hearing the whole lecture
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sir-keith-joseph-and-the-market-economy
John Alexander – 08:15
Any understanding of ’cause and effect’ appear to be beyond most, whether indigenous or immigrant. The fact that different cultures produce different social, economic and environmental results cannot be beyond the wit of man, or woman!
But with an absence of any chance of thinking by the masses, due to being in their comfort zone, aided by the BBC and the growth in the Social Sciences and Political Climate over the last fifty years, it is currently beyond them.
Hungary appears to have woken up to the situation.
And when you have finished that Gresham lecture
Listen to the man who secured the right of the people to vote on membership of the Common Market in the referendum of 1975
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/tony-benn-and-the-idea-of-participation
Radford NG – 03:01
No wonder CMD doesn’t have the balls to do anything: they were bitten off!
Indeed both Thatcher and Joseph followed the ideology of Freidrich Hayek
“Thatcher once wrote that “the most powerful critique of socialist planning and the socialist state which I read at this time [the late 1940s], and to which I have returned so often since [is] F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom.” When, in 1984, Hayek himself sent Lady Thatcher a leather-bound edition, Thatcher’s reply showed her high opinion of him. A hand-written ‘It means so much to me!’ appeared under the sort of pleasantries one would usually expect following such a gift.
Hayek’s critique of socialism, in particular the way in which the ideology undermines individual liberty, was always a cornerstone of the intellectual underpinning of the Thatcher governments’ outlook. Whilst it would be easy to overstate how important his influence was on purely economic matters, what’s striking about the primary sources provided by the Thatcher Foundation is the respect that Lady Thatcher and Keith Joseph had for Hayek’s opinions on policy, and how ready Hayek was to interject on British public policy matters through letters to The Times newspaper.
In fact, when Keith Joseph was drafting ideas for names for the institution I work for – eventually settling for the bland CPS, one of its proposed names was the Hayek Foundation. This is all the more surprising given that it was only five months later that Keith Joseph actually read Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. The effect on Joseph of Hayek’s work was clearly profound enough, however, for Joseph to write to James Callaghan in 1976 to suggest Hayek be considered for a life peerage, and for Joseph to actively help Hayek in attempts to obtain BBC television coverage.”
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“a cornerstone of the intellectual underpinning of the Thatcher governments’ outlook”
Not ideology??
*
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/lady_thatchers_relationship_with_friedrich_hayek_and_milton_friedman
The pressure is building:
Conservative ministers threaten REVOLT over fears David Cameron will rush EU referendum
“Eurosceptics threaten revolt amid fears a vote next year would leave time neither to secure proper reform nor for the anti-EU side to convince people to back the radical option of leaving.
Mr Cameron promises an in-out referendum by the end of 2017 on new terms he aims to negotiate with the EU but speculation has grown that he favours June or September next year.
One Cabinet source vowed to speak out if the vote came forward, claiming: “We have a chance to do something really significant but Cameron, George Osborne and (Foreign Secretary Philip) Hammond don’t want a big change.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/606678/Conservative-ministers-threaten-revolt-David-Cameron-rush-EU-referendum
If we ‘stay in’ we will experience dramatic change with ‘ever closer union’ until we have coalesced with the borderless fortress of the Continental Blob, which will also include joining the Euro.
telemachus September 21st, 2015 – 09:28
Throughout the Gresham lecture Joseph is referred to as a politician rather than a philosopher. The lecture begins by recounting Labour party mockery of him.
Joseph WAS a politician, elected to Parliament with his view subject to electoral endorsement.
Marx on the other hand is described as a “philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist”. Marx was never elected as a politician and his views were never subjected to electoral endorsement.
There, fixed that for you.
telemachus September 21st, 2015 – 09:42
No, no, no. You are still confused between ideology and theory. What happens here is that Marxists like you, who cannot conceive of a life beyond the confines of a religious faith in a singular ideology regardless of a consistent failure to prove its theories by any scientific means or real outcomes, presume that those whose ideas you oppose are driven by a similarly inflexible fervour.
Thatcher might have been influenced, even convinced, by an economic theory or two but that does not make her an ideologue in the Marxist sense. Her derivation of policy might have drawn on economic theories but it cannot be compared to the ideology driving communist-socialists like you. Apart from anything else the outcome of a free market is that it cannot be controlled by ideological formulae, hence the emergence of paradoxical and cynical forms of government like single party state China which pretends to a communist idealism, imposes a totalitarian solution but does not seek to regulate a near anarchic and often corrupt market.
To define Thatcher as an ideologue you would have to define the ideology of the present government of China (for example), as distinct from simply a cynical/pragmatic/deliberate adoption of so-called free market forces. By all means try to dress those economic theories up as ‘ideology’ but that is not credible given the unpredictability of outcomes. Thatcher simply released pigeons from a basket where the ideologue would have sought to confine and therefore control them.
Colonel Mustard – 08:45
On my occasional visits to the other place if I see an ‘uptick’ logged against telemachus, for my amusement, I display the list in order to see who the nutter(s) and/or potential sock puppet(s) is/are. This morning I notice that he has taken to ‘upticking’ himself! I would normally do a “LOL”, “ROFLAMO” etc. at this point, but it’s sad, really so sad…
cue Frankie Howerd, “No, don;t….” etc.
Ho, ho, ho!
Europe must now come clean on diesel
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11878435/Europe-must-now-come-clean-on-diesel.html
To finish
“Margaret Thatcher was the most important ideological warrior in the western world in the last half-century. The policies she pioneered were copied closely across the west, and eventually came to dominate the global consensus being rolled out through the developing world through bodies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank”
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/thatcher-an-ideologue-who-altered-history-20130411-2hnhn.html#ixzz3mMlphsi1
telemachus September 21st, 2015 – 11:07
You still don’t get it. An Australian newspaper, especially that one, does not your assertion prove.
As to the author of the piece:-
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2014/04/23/rape-and-pillage-the-facts/
John Alexander
September 21st, 2015 – 08:15
So “Sorry, poor suffering Muslim woman with baby at your breast.
You don’t have my sympathy! Pity your men just chop your bits off, if you women had any guts you would cut all their bloody ‘equipment’ off. 🙂
Forget Thatcher
Try her illustrious successor
This from Mumsnet
” SomeDizzyWhore18O4 Sun 20-Sep-15 23:29:39
He’s been fucking the country for over five years, we all have sympathy for that poor pig sad”
Boot on point:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/congratulations-americans-their-farsighted-foreign-policy
I don’t think Cameron can be accused of bestiality, since he is a swine of the first order.
Sally Cahill, QC Dhimmi
Let’s ditch this cultural cringe about Asians
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4562820.ece
EC September 21st, 2015 – 10:38
! 😉
The Clique of Cretinous Troll(s) (Fried Ch’i et al) do that too. But then they are complete imbecilic juveniles.
No sense of propriety or shame some people, but it probably goes with the age of selfies.
telemachus September 21st, 2015 – 14:00
Fishing detritus from the more ghastly mind-dumps of the ‘net, like Mumsnet, is not a worthy endeavour, even for you.
What makes it worse is the way you do it with such apparent triumph. Like one’s Labrador, tail wagging, proudly bringing one a half-eaten, decomposing dead rat and depositing it on the hall floor with an air of incontrovertible achievement.
CM (15:21)
SAOTW! (Splendid analogy of the week). 🙂
“In an office-turned classroom in Bradford, Syrian refugees are locked in concentration.
Today’s lecture is about the basics. They are learning English, a language most have never studied before”.
Do they need it to translate Sharia Law on already moslem Bradford?
Hinkley Point C proposal
UK guarantees £2bn China nuclear deal
ANY COMMENTS ON THIS NIGHTMARE NEWS?
Anne (18:17)
It is becoming increasingly difficult to drum up intelligent comment upon anything that emerges from the msm news outlets, such is the level of insanity in the content, presentation and communist-socialist bias in every element of it.
Utter chaos ensues and the obvious Islamic invasion, under the guise of ‘refuge-seeking’, is now reaching crisis stage.
On the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, we are ceding to the unholy alliance of the jihad and Comintern without even a semblance of resistance.
I fear that the story of our pusillanimous descent into Dhimmitude will never be written by future historians. Any evidence will be either erased or corrupted by a mass media pliant to the Frankfort School and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Conservative Party has already self-destructed; UKIP was a five minute wonder and the rest of the rag-tag-and-bobtails of the ‘political class’ have their heads screwed so far up their left-threaded a-holes it would need semtex to remove them.
The Iran ‘deal’ and this latest ludicrous sell-out to China, are just two more examples of rampant insanity by our elected representatives.
And what are the headlines? Our Prime Minister volunteered for a blow-jobbie from a dead pig when at college – probably spaced out on ganja!
Satire has become irrelevant. Sensible comment impossible.
Frank P
September 21st, 2015 – 19:09
Frank, what an eloquent response to a sordid and truly vile situation this country is in. It may sound trite, but I cannot find words to express how I feel, and it seems to me just like “The Fall of Rome”. What on earth have people like us, who care and try to live decent lives done to deserve such a horrible life? It doesn’t bear thinking about, the gross obscenity of the politicians, the corruption and sheer evil, I am envying the “bubble brains” who can find solace in the foolishness of modern life, and follow modern trends like cattle, unknowingly to the slaughter.
Anne.
The sad fact is that we have no capability of building nuclear power stations in this country any more on our own .
The expertise , the knowledge ,the people have retired, all gone and people are dying who used to know how to do things .
The left had no interest in power stations , they had no interest in nuclear power stations particularly.
There was no training there were no apprenticeships there were no follow-on instructions All was lost and there is no way that that knowledge can be returned easily
This is my area of knowledge and it is criminal that we effectively gave away our expertise.
The euphemism “foreign investment” is very apparent in the media, meaning selling out to foreign companies.
I felt disgusted when the UK meekly handed over the Jewel of the East, that great city state, to a totalitarian communist regime that had been busy murdering its own students, but the current smooching with and selling out to China is ghastly.
Hollowed out and sold off.
John birch
September 21st, 2015 – 19:30
John, we are basically on the same side, save for one great difference. I am absolutely against nuclear power in any form. The very thought of such facilities being built in the green land of Somerset gives me shudders. Somerset is dairy and meat, fruits and grain, all the best things that have sustained us for generations. I pray to G-d that this devilish plan never comes to fruition.
anne wotana kaye – 20:35
Nuclear power has been one of the safest means of supplying cheapish power to the nation. When you hear about how many have died down coal mines and on oil rigs, it is surprising how effective the Green propaganda has been putting down the nuclear industry.
Now they think Nuclear is OK because it doesn’t emit CO2, but it has always been OK. The early versions have been improved so that much less radioactive material is produced. What needs to be addressed is what John birch mentioned @ 19:30.
A Thorium based industry could be developed for much less than HS2, but our politicians are absolutely clueless and STEM subjects are beyond them. They still think windmills will stop the poor from dying of cold.
As for Hinkley Point C, it is dangerous because it involves France, using a known imperfect safety container, and we have outsourced to such an extent that we don’t really understand what is going on.
RobertRetyred
September 21st, 2015 – 21:06
Robert, your final paragraph sums it up perfectly. This country is run by corrupt ignoramuses who haven’t a clue as to what is going on, and franky they couldn’t care less, beyond lining their pockets.
anne wotana kaye – 21:26
Here is another amusing (if only because the alternative is crying) story of Government Green fascism:
Volkswagen emissions scandal: millions of Britons could be driving illegal cars
Millions of diesel cars could be recalled if manufacturers are found to have rigged emissions tests like Volkswagen
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11880790/volkswagen-emissions-scandal-illegal-cars.html
It is only because the Green Agenda viewed carbon dioxide as such an evil gas that the oxides of nitrogen from diesel engines were ignored. Petrol engines are better for the environment. Yet do you remember the pious diesel engine drivers from years ago?
Yet another failure of government advice.
RobertRetyred
September 21st, 2015 – 22:38
Anybody who takes government advice is seriously ill. Just read the garbage the Health Ministry vomits out – Asprin helps one from contracting cancer, etc etc. Too much rubbish to waste space on the CHW to write it all down!
For those patiently building the jigsaw puzzle of information to flesh out the reality of the New World Order, another small piece falls into place worth the knowledge that Australia’s new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, was the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Australia from 1997 – 2001.
Mr. Abbott had been a bad boy – and had to go…
***
For the worthy who last week asked if guns were legal in the country of my temporary residence, the asnwer is “yes”. On one floor of a local shopping mall there is a Chapel, whose Christian congregation flow into the walway, standing or sitting, when services are held. Adjacent is an internet cafe, then an outlet of a famous seller of hamburgers, and adjacent to that two gun shops: some of the prime necessities for life in a moderately free society in the 21st century in other words. Guests at some hotels here are politely requested to check their firearms at the door.
The worthy by the way is thanked for his list last week of legislation in England dealing with arms and running from medieval times to the present day. I was not sure what point he was making; but I am planning to make some fairly complicated French recipes for friends and family in November, and he may rest assured that I will try to remember to call on him here for a list of fruit and vegetables.
Baron
Thanks for your link last week to the piece by Gerald Celente on Infowars. I cling to his reservation that
Those who like Gerald Celente, who has his own site at http://trendsresearch.com/ , might also like this filmed interview with Leo Zagami, at http://www.infowars.com/demonic-possession-of-the-vatican-exposed-leo-zagami-interview/
It seems by the way that just as there are black hat and white hat CIA agents, so there are ‘black’ and ‘white’ illuminati. Zagami , very articulate, knowledgeable and personable despite rather unnerving eyebrows by which you should not be put off, is a member of the latter. I would like to have a couple of glasses of grappa with him.
*****
The worthies who think that I am a wild man, unable to collate “relevance” and “origin” even as they avoid a discussion of the actual question of whether a meaningful right to bear arms should be restored to the English constitution as a matter of urgency; those worthies who deflect examination of that question by conjuring up the picture of a wild man, ignorant of Englamd, returning to the country waving a German pistol; these friends of the constitution might just like to summon up heir residual sense of reality and focus it on this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-army-could-stage-mutiny-under-corbyn-says-senior-serving-general-10509742.html
(h/t0 Zero Hedge)
Now although that General is, we hope, a WHITE hat in the Cromwellian mode. we had better be aware that BLACK hat generals are not necessarily out of the question – particularly if they started their career as “Syrian immigrants”.
Similarly, if the thousands of muslim “migrants” should contain a percentage who were to access pre-positioned arms and start attacking our defenceless population, would the gentlemen in England now abed consider themselves in any way responsible because they had let slip the chance for a proper debate on the Englishman’s right and need to bear arms?
‘King Edward 1…did ban all sports but archery on Sundays, to make sure Englishmen practised with the longbow.” http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Longbow/
Incidentally, as Molotov left Moscow for his conference with Hitler in Berlin, he stuffed a revolver in his pocket. (vid. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Montefiore)…One law for the comrades, another for everyone else, huh?
“The worthy by the way is thanked for his list last week of legislation in England dealing with arms and running from medieval times to the present day. I was not sure what point he was making; but I am planning to make some fairly complicated French recipes for friends and family in November, and he may rest assured that I will try to remember to call on him here for a list of fruit and vegetables.”
You see there, just that. So unnecessarily snide.
Wrong Mustard – and you are decommissioned until you start to give vigorous support to the debate over the Bill of Rights, but perhaps you disapprove of the whole concept – for how else does a chap respond to a prosaic list of legislation, presented by another chap as some excuse for an argument as to whether the English people have a right to bear arms, other than with a little gentle English humour?
Not wrong about you at all.
“A little gentle English humour”?
You don’t know the meaning of the words.
Malfleur
Have you read
“The Dog and his Reflection”
Patch the dog lives on a farm. He is cute as a puppy, but grows up into a fierce and badly behaved dog. He intimidates the other dogs and steals their food. One day he steals the joint of meat from the farmer’s table and runs away with it
Coming to a bridge across a river, he stops to eat the meat. He spots his own reflection in the water. Thinking that this is another dog, with another piece of meat, he decides that he wants both pieces of meat
However, in opening his mouth to growl at his reflection, he drops the meat in the river and it is swept away. He loses the meat but realises that he would be better off being kind in future
16:36
I’m sure I read that parable in Pseud’s Corner, the ideal location for it. Twat!
Frank I am a great fan of Aesop
I have fellow feeling with Malfleur
The Wolf and the Lamb
ONCE upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to seize it.” Then he called out to the Lamb, “How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?” 1
“Nay, master, nay,” said Lambikin; “if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.” 2
“Well, then,” said the Wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?” 3
“That cannot be,” said the Lamb; “I am only six months old.” 4
“I don’t care,” snarled the Wolf; “if it was not you it was your father;” and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and—
WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA—
ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out—
“ANY EXCUSE WILL SERVE A TYRANT.”
I would council Malfleur you will get no list but afterwards your French recipes will be denigrated more than Charlotte Russe in The Bake Off
The Embassy of Hungary in London has been receiving 300 messages a day;70% in favour of it’s government’s policy on immigration.
Hungarian Embassy :35,Eaton Place , London. SW1X 8BY
Telephone……………:0207 201 3430
e.mail…………………:mission.lon@mfa.gov.hu
Correction
Phone No for Hungarian Embassy:…….0207 201 34 40
My favorite post about the VW diesel scandal:
VW will survive this. After all, it survived the Second World War.
Mustard
I must keep in mind that you don’t do humour.
Or the Bill of Rights, apparently.
And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Another Frank P expresses thoughts that I too have thunk. Wonder what he will think if he reaches my age, which would have been my centenary – had I made it:
http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/sitting-back-is-not-giving-up.html
Thanks Gerard VdL for reminding me that Porretto is still around. That cheers me up, though his message is less of a fillip, albeit deadly serious – and accurate.
Fleur September 23rd, 2015 – 00:32
You’d be wrong – again. Your “humour” is, let’s say, an acquired taste. telemachus seems to appreciate it though, so there you go. You have almost reached his level of provocative posting so should be very pleased with yourself. As you know I “thrive” on it . . .
As for the Bill of Rights, clearly you have not paid attention. Probably the result of your innate malevolence taking precedence.
Spending so much time as we are worrying about domestic European issues like a software glitch at VW and exactly which European countries will share the tide of human catastrophe consequent on Bush’s war,
We have forgotten the potential initiation of Armageddon in the Levant
We are now in the third day of Netanyahu’s police beating innocent Palestinians on Temple Mount
And what does the Church do
It sends the Pope to the U.S. to divert the Americans from inputting into this travesty
And what is the result
Palestinians formerly in favour of a 2 State solution are now in majority favour of armed action
Cameron and Obama need urgently to get a grip before Trump takes over and aggravates the situation
See Partners for peace leader in The Times
Stupid of the WV bosses to admit to cheating, they should have argued tests call for certain conditions, all cars must come under them, the software simulated these conditions that conform to what the current regulations require. They didn’t, the US business hyenas will devour every bit of the company, as they did with the BP.
A tosser of a professor somewhere in the London network of world renown universities, formerly a Neasden Poly, has already called for diesel cars to be banned, they kill 5,800 people each year. Tosser.
Baron – 10:13
The “Greens” (aka Reds) will seek exploit this latest development in order to advance their agenda to ban ALL fossil fuelled cars. They want us all on bicycles, and in electric cars which are practically as useless and reliable as the wind turdbines that they imagine are charging the batteries!
“The refugees who arrived in the UK as part of the vulnerable persons resettlement (VPR) scheme will join others who have been given legal protection and access to housing, employment, education and, where they need it, expert medical care”.
Needy UK-bon citizens wrap a rag around your head and you may find there is a housing association or council house for you. Don’t worry about weeks waiting to see the local quack, “expert medical care” awaits you!
I found this in a backwater of the internet last week. It looks like the shape shifters of the old(new) world order are starting to reveal their
handfeet at long last. I think I’m going to have to run this one past David Icke…http://snag.gy/DBMyU.jpg
From gates of veinna
Cultural enrichment shock and awe
by The Observer
In the real-time tear-jerking mockumentary which we are being bombarded with these days on Cry-TV and in the Bash-Whitey Media, hundreds of thousands of uninvited illiterate, ungrateful and very hostile illegal immigrants are gate-crashing their way onto the European mainland. It has been described as “a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions” by the MSM and the emissaries of impeccable morals, who have bestowed upon themselves the privilege to redefine what is acceptable and what is unacceptable, what words we are allowed to utter, what posts we’re allowed to like on Facebook, which tweets we are allowed to retweet on Twitter, how to express our emotions and when to just shut up and keep quiet.
True, it is a human catastrophe of epic proportions, but not in the way that the humanitarian mini-Goebbels of the West would like to portray it. It’s a humanitarian catastrophe for the indigenous peoples of Europe who have been told repeatedly that they have a moral responsibility to feed, house and accommodate a sea of illegal immigrants, many of whom are directly hostile to them, who most definitely will be unable to look after themselves financially, and who will alter the cultural makeup of the continent until it’s completely unrecognizable.
But this is fine, because this is exactly what the elites in the West want. They see it as a good thing. After all, Multiculturalism is the religion of choice among the morally superior these days. And they get to dictate and pontificate over the whining and racists plebs who are significantly less thrilled about the Third-World tsunami rushing towards them than they are. These members of the elite share the same visions as their co-religionists in the Mohammedan world; the only difference is that while in Islam the practitioners prostrate five times a day, the practitioners of Multiculturalism bend over backwards all day long.
And after a while all this backwards-bending seriously affects their thinking, and they stop seeing the outrageousness of their actions. After wandering around in a multicultural la-la haze for an extended period of time, throwing the doors open wide and inviting people from all corners of the globe to come and take part in the wrecking derby which is the slow and thorough deconstruction of modern day Europe seem like the proper and sensible thing to do. They also believe that slamming and bullying anyone who does not share their views is the apex of human morality.
Rest assured: they do not care that time is running out fast. They do not care that if things do not change dramatically very quickly, the escalating humanitarian catastrophe will most likely morph into civil unrest and full-blown wars with all the nastiness that this entails. Nothing could be further from their minds. All they care about is “our moral obligation”, international conventions, dialogue, harmony, social cohesion and exposing racism and bigotry “for what it is”. Feel-good words are more important than facing reality head-on and exhibiting true leadership. Unfortunately, the silent majority don’t hold them to account, but seem to be quite comfortable with the destruction and misery that the elites are wreaking upon them. It’s a real-life Greek tragedy played out on the political stage on a continent run by madmen.
Illegal Afghan immigrants under arrest on the Greek island of Lesbos
But what we are seeing today is not a random unavoidable event. It’s a product of a very clever military strategy employed by an emboldened enemy who is high on Western weakness and obsequiousness and hell-bent on conquering our lands and ridding them of anything that they perceive as having corrupt classical liberal ideals. And sadly this is no longer a farfetched pipe dream that will never see the light of day. It is within their reach, and if they succeed they will introduce their religion and philosophy, which is as far removed from liberal ideals as women’s rights are removed from the judicial system in Saudi Arabia. If they succeed, there will not be any opt-out clauses for those who are uncomfortable with a political system that makes the rulers of the Stone Age look like modern-day progressives. It’s all in or out with a bang — or a noose around the neck.
EC September 23rd, 2015 – 10:58
There was a wave of “saucer” sightings after the nuclear weapons programmes began, immediately post war and through the 1950s. These have been debunked by the ‘authorities’ in recent years but intercepting military aircrew reports of the time (all over the world) are difficult to discredit. The world has changed so rapidly in the last 50 years and the globalisation/NWO scam has become so powerful in its drive that maybe Icke has a point.
If selected “leaders” were appraised of the unpalatable fact that they should tow a progressive line or face the planet’s annihilation it might explain the sudden and co-ordinated programme of change, much of which seems alien to what stood before. Maybe there was a Day when the World really Stood Still and an androgynous reptilian Michael Rennie (the product of a Fabian Solutions’ (russell) brand of extreme feminism) delivered his “progressive” ultimatum.
Peter Sutherland’s (his Wiki ‘Early and personal life’ section is suspiciously empty – and I mean empty) pronouncements seem so outrageous and offensive that they surely originate from another planet.
Check out the Common Dreams website, responsible for outing multiple account trolls (it takes one to catch one), one of many such groups professing a “progressive” agenda via a common purpose. The presumption level is towering, the humility level several fathoms below sea level, the activities suspect and the origins shadowy – again.
The interesting aspects about these many similar “progressive” groups is their proliferation and funding. They clearly haven’t cracked mass appeal or Edward Miliband would be in No.10 but to read their websites one might think that they represent an absolute majority of settled left-wing opinion. And they are clearly very busy manipulating the ‘net, especially forum discussions, with some very dodgy practices.
We have one such here, who has been caught out in his multi-persona manipulations of this and other sites many times. It is difficult to believe that someone with such a busy agenda of monitoring and harassing right wing or conservative websites (some Conservative Woman threads have ever comment tagged by his feminist alter ego ‘Fabian Solutions’ and we have seen the multiple pseudonyms in action at the other place) is acting purely from personal motives. No, this is an agenda in orchestrated operation.
http://conservative-headlines.com/2014/08/why-it-is-pointless-to-argue-with-anonymous-online-trollscranks/
http://viewsandpreviews.com/internet-anonymity-and-the-attack-of-fake-ids/
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rob-slane-hold-your-tongue-or-we-will-set-the-law-on-you/
John birch
September 23rd, 2015 – 12:20
Excellent and tragic analysis. Unfortunately I do not think there will be a revolution to stop the swarm of primitive garbage that is filling up Europe and the civilised world. The ‘decent, hard working’ citizens will just whimper in private and accept the destruction of Western culture. Only bright spot I can see, is when the garbage have finished destroying civilisation as we know it, they will set about beheading those who patronised them!
Colonel Mustard – 12:29
My @10:58 was a bit lazy, I’m afraid. I have absolutely no anti David Icke agenda here. It was more to do with absurd newspaper billboards. I have commented many times that when one finds such disparate souls as David, Ann Barnhardt, and many others basically saying the same thing, then then it does make one wonder what is actually going on.
One thing for sure is that barring an asteroid strike pressing the “reset button” there appears to be diddly squat that anyone can do about it. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t try.
telemachus Sept 23 08.27:
How typical to try to divert attention from the coming Armageddon in Europe to the so-called coming ‘Armageddon’ in the Levant. Clashes on the Temple Mount occur almost every other year. They’re started when the ‘innocent Palestinians’ take exception to Jewish visitors. Weapons are stockpiled on the TM for just such an eventuality.
ColM Sept 23 12.36:
Thanks for that link – very interesting!
Here’s another take on the Syrian crisis, not that it mentions the US neocons meddling in the region, but it suggests Muslims are currently a low percentage of the EU population, the millions of Syrians will only add a single per cent, they’re all hard working, eager to contribute to wealth creation (funny, those already here are mostly on welfare), the EU economy is the world’s largest, plenty of business blah, blah, it can absorb them easily.
The clip was financed by the UN, may be shown in schools. Madness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=374&v=RvOnXh3NN9w
ColM: Sorry, meant especially 12.34 link.
Colonel Mustard @ 12:34
Who knows, Colonel, our sparring partner may also be on the list. But how does he find so much spare time, doesn’t he have a job? W e should be told.
Colonel Mustard – 12:29
Whatever the NWO agenda is, and who/whatever is behind it, the Argy Pope is in it right up to his scrawny Marxist neck! By the company that he keeps etc…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34337942
Colonel Mustard @ 12:36
The piece only talks about the role of western NGOs in China and Russia, Colonel, we’ve known about that, undoubtedly both the Russians and the Chinese are at it as well in a different form. The real identity policy would help, but it would expose genuine political dissent everywhere, as it must have done in China, put a stop to agitprop by the major powers, hence the failure to agree to it.
If the authorities everywhere want to know the identity of anyone surfing the Net, they can do so, and very likely are doing so. It wouldn’t surprise at all if we all had a file somewhere at the GCHQ.
EC @ 17:05
The pontiff has pissed off the barbarian, who happens to be a Roman Catholic, with his stance on the global warming issue. He’s terms of reference is the human soul, not the bloody environment.
Sound familiar? This has already happened in England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and so many other places it almost ceases to be news!
Paul Joseph Watson [@PrisonPlanet 8 minutes ago]
“German Police Covering Up Rapes so as ‘Not to Legitimize Critics of Mass Migration’”
http://www.infowars.com/german-police-covering-up-rapes-so-as-not-to-legitimize-critics-of-mass-migration/
Let’s hear it for the Clinton Global Initiative!
“This year’s CGI Annual Meeting is being supported by 33 new and returning sponsors, including some world’s largest corporations and most effective foundations — Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Cisco, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Gap Inc., NRG Energy, Swiss Reinsurance Company, the Rockefeller Foundation and Western Union. In addition, Apple, GlaxoSmith Kline, Xerox and Cardinal Health will participate in CGI as members for the first time. ”
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2015/09/22/corporations-stay-committed-to-clinton-global-initiative/
The Clinton Foundation – where charity begins at home!
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about
Bare naked diversity…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3243481/Knocked-club-blowtorched-ALIVE-hundreds-thousands-dogs-cats-cruelly-slaughtered-meat-Indonesian-markets.html
The migration crisis has exposed the EU’s fundamental flaws, argues Daniel Hannan MEP
http://www.conservativehome.com/video/2015/09/watch-ici-londres-the-migration-crisis-has-exposed-the-eus-fundamental-flaws-argues-daniel-hannan-mep.html#comments
Are Cameron’s EU renegotiations more doomed that the Volkswagen diesel?
Germany warns Cameron EU reform pleas will be ignored unless Britain takes more refugees
A KEY ally of German chancellor Angela Merkel has signalled British pleas for reform of the European Union will be ignored unless the UK takes in more refugees.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/607405/Europe-refugee-crisis-Britain-EU-reform-Stephan-Mayer-David-Cameron
Even if we complied with this German diktat, there is no agreed reward. There is no concept of what we could expect. The abuse will continue. I am talking about the Germans 🙂
Vaclav Klaus (former Czech President) tells it like it is on immigration.
He says it’s purpose is disintegration of Europe and the creation of a new society.That,befuddled by multiculturalism,proponents believe European states can replenish the work force without problems.
He says it is precisely the purpose to destroy social cohesion;to build a new Europe on the ruins of the old—–excluding those satisfied with the existing Europe.
He says migrants can more easily be manipulated to identify with a new multiculturalist Europe.
(From Breitbart)
http://bit.ly/1G0JWRt
Baron at 16-52
Just what I was thinking.
As we’re all in apocalyptic mode, I suggest you watch this, on full screen (as large a one as possible) with the audio at full blast:
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/driveby/something_wonderful_nano.php
Feel better? 🙂
Or worse?
We really don’t belong here you know.
Tocqueville – the antidote to Telemachus:
http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tocqueville-s-critique-of-socialism-1848
Now watch the latter try to select bits to corrupt and misrepresent the message – as is his wont.
Indeed Frank
Not difficult
All tracts on socialism contain the inner truth as in Tocqueville
“There you will find a society where social conditions are even more equal than among us; where the social order, the customs, the laws are all democratic; where all varieties of people have entered, and where each individual still has complete independence, more freedom than has been known in any other time or place; a country essentially democratic, the only completely democratic republics the world has ever known”
I also commend to you Robert Owen
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Owen
The man was a true hero
After watching the 8 MP LibDem rally today Deep Bore-Socialism of every variety and its bogus, lying champions are getting sooooooo tedious.
“We need more immigrants. Let them all come”
“We don’t have enough housing”
“The NHS is in crisis”
Well, duh!
Thick as mince all of them.
Go away telemachus. I detest what you and the other socialist idiots have done to this country.
Begone! No more of your endless smug tripe! Get out of our faces and leave us the Hell alone!
HAD ENOUGH OF IT
Mine 18-24 (Wed 23rd)
A multicultural imperium built on childish fantasy.
Here is are quotes from Vaclav Klaus’s article on immigration.
“…..my colleague…..believes that the intention of this`Willkommenspolitik`,the culture of welcome,is to eventually destroy the nexus of existing societies in Europe.The resulting wreckage is the only way for the leading politicians to build their `new Europe`——.And from these migrants shall come`the first members of this imagined new European nation`.”
Here is the full text in English.
http://www.gatesofvienna.net/2015/09/a-multicultural-imperium-built-on-childish-fantasy/
“They hold that the State must not only act as the director of society, but must further be master of each man, and not only master, but keeper and trainer. [“Excellent.”] For fear of allowing him to err, the State must place itself forever by his side, above him, around him, better to guide him, to maintain him, in a word, to confine him. They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, [Further signs of assent.] to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom. ”
He got it – one hundred and sixty seven years ago, even before the evil and carnage of the Twentieth Century. Imagine the dull stupidity of the retards who still pursue the delusions of a communist utopia. I would pity them, but their self-destructive idiocy will do for us all if their ideology is allowed to prevail. Their ugliness and their self-pity is their justified punishment. They are therefore NOT to be pitied, but rather loathed and despised. Anger is what the seek to provoke – cold and measured hatred directed at their baleful, pointless existence is a better response.
Perhaps the time has come when the use of this platform should be denied to he who seeks to propagate the malign mischief of Marxism, Peter. Free speech is one thing; but having to plough through the distraction of reams of leftist propaganda, in order to communicate with like minds, is like picking one’s way through dog turds left by inconsiderate morons in a public park on a sunny day – or watching/listening to the BBC even – and it’s becoming tiresome.
As CM rightly asserts – genug ist genug! It’s time to drop the black ball. The Colonel can vent his spleen and wax fluent on the dolts who feature in the external meeja. We don’t have to put up with it here, do we? Let Trolltopia be the receptacle for excreta of the Shavian trolls. It deserves to be.
Frank
You actually invited my post
But
I will absent myself
Cameron places his parts in a pig’s snout, the scum of the world use Cameron as the snout literally!
A few years ago this article would have been seen as a conspiracy theory, now it looks like the truth.
CONSERVATISM CAN NO LONGER COHABIT WITH NIHILISTIC NEOLIBERALISM
Former US President Ronald Reagan (L) shakes handsPOO/AFP/Getty Images
by GERALD WARNER
23 Sep 2015
305
It was the iconic love-match marriage of the 1980s. Ronald Reagan was best man and Margaret Thatcher matron of honour when conservatism embraced neo-liberalism at the start of a relationship that seemed destined to conquer the hearts of the developed world.
Then the Berlin Wall came down and rust-bucket Marxism fell into the dustbin of history, removing a once-feared rival to the newlyweds.
The honeymoon was lengthy and passionate; the marriage prospered and produced many offspring. But when some of the progeny grew into their teens, as not uncommonly happens, they became a liability. The most delinquent were Globalisation, Free Movement of Labour, Over-Mighty Corporations and Crony Capitalism. Conservatism found it had made a largely incompatible marriage, so now the unhappy couple are heading for the divorce court.
That is the plain truth of the matter: we have reached a point where everything that conservatives value is threatened less by Corbynista neo-Marxism than by rampant neo-liberalism. Is anyone certain, any more, what “neo-liberalism” means? In the 1980s it was shorthand for a worldview that looked to the freeing up of enterprise and the rolling back of the state to make people prosperous. Conservatives could go along with that: the enlargement of the role of the state had been the consequence of post-War Marxist hard totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and social democratic soft totalitarianism in the West.
Liberation from those straitjackets was a universal conservative aspiration, so it was natural for conservatism to find economic neo-liberalism congenial and adopt it as an instrument of wealth creation. The fact that this alliance was first implemented, with spectacular success, in Chile under Augusto Pinochet testifies to the initial compatibility of neo-liberalism with conservative objectives.
The inbuilt incompatibility, however, resided in the fact that neo-liberalism spilled over from the economic arena into the political, social and cultural zones. At the same time, so far from shrinking, the state expanded its role into more and more areas of life. Yes, it privatised utilities, but it quickly compensated for this by intruding into every other sphere of its citizens’ existence. Where was the gain in privatising railways, water or electricity, when children have been nationalised, subjected to state-sponsored sexualisation and brainwashing, with their parents sidelined?
Governments embarked on neo-Marxist projects of social engineering, enforcing political correctness and abolishing free speech. They coercively reconfigured their countries’ demography by imposing mass immigration, against the known wishes of the majority of the population. They even presumed to redefine marriage.
Neo-liberalism comfortably accommodated itself to this encroachment of tyranny, encouraging mass immigration as a source of cheap labour, to enhance profits. But it was not a joined-up response. No thought was given to the strain on hospitals, schools, housing, or to the fact that immigrants, seen as the solution to an ageing population, themselves grow old and consume welfare resources. The quarterly bottom line was the limited horizon of neo-liberal free-marketeers.
Above all, neo-liberals have shown no regard for cultural priorities. National identity and the broader culture of Christian Europe are to be discarded, true community identity replaced by a rootless individualism whose only enduring relationship is with technology. The family is despised, fiscally oppressed and treated with contempt. Conservatism can no longer cohabit with this nihilist, deracinated force that is already inflicting more damage on Western civilisation than communism ever achieved.
Neo-liberalism is not even true to its own tenets. It has long departed from the principles of Hayek, with his respect for tradition, and degenerated into crony capitalism and complicity with the intruder state. Conservatives urgently need to cut loose. The immediate battleground is the immigration crisis swamping – yes, that is the word, the only one that adequately describes the character of the threat – Europe and Britain.
There are now 6,000 incomers per day landing in Europe and the rate is accelerating. Neo-liberals gaze approvingly on this influx, seeing only a cheap labour source, disregarding the fact that the overwhelming majority is unskilled, unfit or unwilling to work. Not a problem: the welfare state (i.e. taxpayers) will take care of them while business cherry-picks a labour force from their ranks. Quarterly results will improve and shareholders’ dividends increase.
While nations shunt immigrants around the continent, at endless EU summits politicians try to reallocate the burden, exchanging recriminations and trying to dictate to countries the numbers they must accept. The one solution that is never canvassed is the only one that will work: expulsion from Europe of these unwanted economic migrants. Where are the Syrian Christians? Afraid to enter refugee camps for fear of being murdered by jihadists, thrown overboard from migrant boats by their religious enemies, or already dead: anywhere except among this invading force that is overrunning Europe while our effete governments wring their hands and urge ever more help for those who are annihilating our culture.
Sometimes even economic growth must take second place to cultural, social and religious priorities. That is the case now. What has conservatism actually conserved in recent decades? If it is to improve on that abysmal record it must break with multinational, multicultural, blindly materialist neo-liberalism and return to the defence of the fundamental identity of nation states, and pre-eminently Britain.
” . . . and rust-bucket Marxism fell into the dustbin of history”
It didn’t though, really. In the West it simply changed its form, re-invented itself and without the overt threats of the Cold War to discredit it insinuated itself into the hierarchies of Western countries. Whether this was a necessary survival shift or part of a deliberate conspiracy is debatable.
The latter probably as the Comintern had been exploiting “agents of influence” and useful idiots (plenty of those) in the West since the 1930s.
In its latest manifestation it has harnessed big business to its bandwagon, cynically exploiting corporatism as in China. The drive for globalisation can conveniently carry a great deal of socialist baggage with it, good for keeping people in their place, and the multi-millionaire gobs who seem to be at the heart of the agenda can thoroughly enjoy the bogus game of pretending to oppose that which their agenda carries along like a virus.
“new system of serfdom” is spot on as the little conservative people of England are squeezed between offshore corporate giants and the increasing regulation of the European big state socialists, both playing unconvincing games of disagreeing with each other. A new aristocratic elite has been created and its arrogance in Europe is plain to see. Politicians, once the supposed guardians of democracy, are destroying it and taking the form of wicked barons (or baronesses), Controllers, who conceive it as their role to “nudge” us, to control us, to shape our present behaviour and our future according to their conceits, to tell us what we may and may not do, what we may or may not say, to presume to define our values for us and to sequester our birthright and heritage to their own control freak and virtue signalling ends.
I pretty much gave up on politicians around the time John Major started transforming into a Nanny and now view them simply as my enemy. They occupy my country and do things I don’t much care for, reducing my liberties and rights and wanting to stop me saying anything about that. They have collectively destroyed the country I grew up in and now lightly dismiss that destruction as the inevitability of change or sneer at any expression of dissent using that “return to the 1950’s” cliché or references to “yesterday’s people”. Or, as is beginning to happen now, by shunting dissenters into the categories of “bigot” and “extremist”.
They say the sooner people like me are dead the better. I agree, because then I won’t have to endure their rotten crap any more.
One of the best current scams of the Controllers is to talk of “devolution” in England, trying to head off any resurgent English nationalism at the pass by creating yet another top heavy layer of control freak, party-whipped politicians in every “region”, with the pretence, as with Crime Commissioners, that they somehow represent the democratic will of the people they are imposed upon.
Local government, regional government, national government, European government, World government. Politicians, everywhere.
“HS2: George Osborne urges China to pitch for £11.8bn contracts”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34341352
Colonel Mustard, September 23rd, 2015 – 12:29
The 1951 version of The Day The Earth Stood Still is, for a number of reasons, one of my favourite SciFi films.
A couple of afterthoughts…
Your proposition, albeit playful, the Klaatu’s dire warning of impending annihilation had actually been delivered, prompting a coordinated/NWO response from the world’s leaders, doesn’t fit with their actions. Instead of stepping back from the brink, they seem o be hell bent on propagating nuclear weapons!
So far that I am aware, David Icke is just an ordinary bloke living in Ryde, IOW and is not, never has been, a dope/drug fiend. So I find it bizarre that he can fill stadia like the millennium dome (O2?) (with paying audiences!) talking about his theories, alien lizard overlords & Rothchilds amongst them, whereas the various Canterburys of his era have struggled to fill their churches and would probably struggle to sell enough tickets to fill a small cinema if they could be bothered to address the great unwashed in person.
Of course, professional presenters like David Icke, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Graham etc. are capable of selling anything that you care to mention to anybody – including sand to the arabs, and refrigerators to the eskimos.
The Mad Mullahs of Tehran courtesy of Sheikh Obama, and not Gort, are going to be the ones who light the blue touchpaper…
Frank P, September 23rd, 2015 – 19:04
Ants!
I thought that the video could have done with a slightly more upbeat, bigger finish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzJGckMYO4
Baron, September 23rd, 2015 – 17:09
I once heard that Roman Catholics are prone to genuflecting with a rubber pricks. Is that right? I’m a bit hard of herring these days, so I might not have heard that right.
@10:36
It could’ve been “a rubric” I suppose.
Anyway, Baron, if you get fed up with the Argy Marxist you could always become a Protestant! The Church of England would welcome you with open arms… Well, they would’ve done in 1689.
Did any of you see the loathsome Giles Fraser on Daily Politics?
Those who are concerned about the impact and consequences of immigration are Little Englanders who are just WRONG. The Rev Fraser is sure about this and that he is RIGHT. England, he complains, is uniquely unwelcoming, which seems to contradict the line about “nation of immigrants”.
It does not occur to the big head that he might be wrong. He appears to be one of Orwell’s socialist own nation haters who cannot adjust his thinking to consider the welcoming nature of other countries – Saudi Arabia towards Christians for example.
He also seems incapable of comprehending that by no means all migrants are fleeing from war or starvation.
Iran deal?
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/general-irans-army-we-are-going-destroy-israel
Colonel Mustard – 12:39
“Did any of you see the loathsome Giles Fraser on Daily Politics?”
Yes, he refused to any any of Raheem Kassam’s very valid points about problems with infrastructure and lack of integration. Giles Fraser makes me want to puke.
Andrew Neil’s chimp isn’t much better either!
Colonel Mustard (12:39)
Yes I watched the fat arrogant bastard ‘leading beyond authority’. Obnoxious!
“The English particularly need to change their ways.” Public opinion should be irrelevant – our ‘leaders’ need to ignore it and do what’s right!”
Yerrrsss! Grrrrr!!
Frank P September 24th, 2015 – 12:51
Yes, I noticed that he kept braying on about “leadership” and “leaders” instead of representation. He knows just what is good for us, sat there shaven skulled and big of head in his open necked shirtsleeves like a communist Syriza thug.
A sadly far cry from the benign engine-driving Rev in ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’, the likes of whom I can well remember from the days before the Long Marchers infested the Church.
I thought Kassam was a bit too appeasing and polite.
Here you go Giles. Put this in your fat gob and tell us again that we are WRONG to have concerns and misgivings about the EU’s programme of forced population transfer (contrary to Article 8.2 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples):-
http://dailynewshungary.com/ahmed-h-had-seven-different-passports-when-he-got-caught/
Perhaps our geopolitical sages would like to grade this executive summary by A Boot Esq on 12 years of ‘Nation Building’ by the West. Seems like a perspicacious analysis to me, even after factoring in his obvious and oft-expressed antipathy towards Vlad.
http://alexanderboot.com/content/our-glorious-achievements-middle-east
Of course, hindsight is a great aid to synthesis. And none of us can ever know where Saddam would have progressed had he not been crushed. Or what would have emerged from Libya if Gadaffi had not lost his bottle and continued to play with nukes.
One thing that puzzles me is why an evidently communist politician is masquerading as a priest?
Would the BBC have “adopted” a Rev with outspoken right wing views as a Rent-a-Gob? Just what is it about Giles Fraser that makes his opinion such essential viewing for the BBC to impose on their coerced fee payers?
No-one elected him. He seldom says anything that represents the Church except in a thinly disguised attempt to conflate his communism with his Christianity. When he speaks of “Little Englanders” does he even understand the meaning of Church of England?
Frank P September 24th, 2015 – 15:11
The Americans fucked up South Vietnam in exactly the same way by trying to impose their idea of democracy. They connived in the overthrow and assassination of the one man who had the communist aggressors on the ropes and their venture, with much Presidential and political stupidity, ended with the whole country coming under the heel of a totalitarian communist regime. All those young American and South Vietnamese lives, ultimately wasted.
They wanted democracy in Vietnam, they got totalitarian communism. They wanted democracy in the Middle East, they got ISIS and a refugee crisis. They haven’t learned a thing.
Allah must be busy welcoming in all the new arrivals.
EC @ 10:36
How dare you, EC, the religious tribe to which the barbarian formerly belongs would never ever be capable of anything but enlightened, compassionate and spirit uplifting acts, wouldn’t they?
Apologies t o everyone responding to Baron’s earlier postings, he isn’t in a position to reply, he’s pushed on time, a number of his friends, more than usual, are in need of his help.
Hopefully, you wouldn’t have missed today’s warning of the Polish EU bigwig Tusk saying the current waves of immigrants is just a start, more are to arrive to seek sanctuary in the Old Continent governed by the anointed. This echoes much earlier warning of the Hungarian PM, Orban, who asked his ME & African diplomatic corps to look into it, concluded over 10mn refugees are on their way in the next 2-3 years.
The time may have come to learn Arabic.
Inshallah to you all.
Even Brussels has caught up with reality:
We’re doomed: EU chief fears union will COLLAPSE over migrant crisis
THE European Union has lost control of its borders and risks total collapse if they are not sealed, a senior Brussels diplomat has warned.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/607595/Migrant-crisis-EU-lost-control-borders-danger-collapse
John birch
September 24th, 2015 – 16:12
Allah must be busy welcoming in all the new arrivals.
Exactly. In their tradition of death and destruction surely it is much to be desired to perish on such an auspicious date and in such (for you) holy site. All those virgins will be eagerly awaiting your entrance into paradise. 72 holy virgins for each martyred man- wow that’s a lot of virgins!
Has anyone upgraded to Windows 10?
Anne 18-18
Anne , I would expect under this level of pressure Allah would have to insert the word , allegedly.
Steyn produces the best “I-toljaso!” ever written (imho):
http://www.steynonline.com/7193/the-emperor-moral-narcissism
Funny, arse-ripping and blood-curdling! Pity that none of the West’s ‘world leaders’ can read; particularly with their numbskulls buried up their fundaments.
Well … at least we can all perish with a smile on our faces as long as Mark’s dancing pen survives!
Frank P – 18:56
No. I believe that upgrading a PC more than one or two years old with a lot of peripherals, such as a printer or scanner, may leave you with software driver problems, so I haven’t changed. Better the devil you know!
I was finding that my downloads for the day would sometimes jump by 4Gb but didn’t get detected by Cucusoft Net Guard. I have found that it was because I was not clearing the invitation to upgrade to Windows 10 cleanly. The Microsoft ‘fix’ that leaves an icon, and every day keeps inviting you to upgrade, wasn’t displaying the contents of the popup window properly, I think, because my laptop isn’t that fast. I would just close it and sometimes it would download the update, 4Gb of it, but not start the install!
The way to fix this is to change the automatic Window Updates to Never and then remove the fix: KB3035583. It will then be displayed as requiring to be updated, but it can be ‘hidden’. After doing that, I think the Automatic Window Update status can be returned to what it was, as hidden fixes don’t get applied, but I haven’t done that yet! 🙂
testing
Thanks Robert. I have downloaded W10 and it seems fine but my HP Printer is ‘not responding’ so I’ll contact Carly Fiorina tomorrow. If she can change the world, I’m sure she can fix my printer. 🙂
Amazing!
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/09/images-from-offworld/406963/
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, reconstruction proceeds at a fast clip:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/gop-congressman-demands-reinstatement-of-green-beret-who-blew-whistle-on-afghans-raping-boys/
A seminal prognostication:
http://atimes.com/2015/09/vladimir-putin-spoiler-or-statesman/
Baron?
…and it seems as though we could see a bit of reconstruction in Syria too – but who is pulling the strings?:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-24/chinese-military-personnel-aerial-assets-allegedly-en-route-syria
Occasionally I pop over to Trolltopia just to check that it has continued its descent into the abyss of tacky journalism; did so just now – and discovered that one of my favourite scribblers, Jonathan Meades, has graced their pages with a transcript of a talk, ‘Composing the Past’, he had given at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh on 26 August 2015, about writing ‘An Encyclopaedia of Myself’, which won the Spears Memoir Prize and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley award:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/jonathan-meades/2015/09/jonathan-meades-on-why-his-memoir-was-17-years-late/
Having some time ago bought and read the book in question (I try never to miss any of his prodigious output) I settled back for another treat. The world that is the mind of this gifted eccentric and wordsmith is breathtaking.
The experience was somewhat spoiled by the fact that it was the New Spectatesman that published it and that its lisping editor couldn’t be arsed to read it – or employ a
proof-reader to field a handful of typos that Jonathan himself had missed. Typical!
The auto-review is almost as good as the book (and almost as long). Two cups of coffee will be required and be careful not to spit any of it over the keyboard – which will be difficult.
Migrant Crisis? Europe Hasn’t Seen Anything Yet
DOUGLAS MURRAY
October 2015
What is now being called Europe’s “migrant crisis” is far more than that. It is in fact a crisis of European thought and of political leadership. At the heart of this crisis are the irreconcilable feelings of the European publics, the problems of a European political class trying to found policies based on those contradictions and a continent-wide unwillingness to think this crisis through beyond short-term emotionalism to any of its logical endpoints.
The turning point of the migrant crisis? Front-page coverage of the tragedy of Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler washed up on the Turkish coast (Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images)
The first of those problems — the contradictions of the public — has been most evident in recent weeks. In late August, in the eastern German town of Heidenau, there were protests outside a refugee centre and an arson attack on a facility to be used by migrants. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced that Germany would accept around 800,000 refugees (about 1 per cent of the current German population) this year. When she subsequently appeared in Heidenau, Merkel was roundly booed and heckled by the crowds. This was, understandably, not the image that many other Germans wished to give to the world. Only days later, as refugees flowed across the borders of Germany, there were almost euphoric scenes as people lined the way, clapping, doling out toys and in some places throwing what appeared to be a carnival for their new arrivals. Yet these two groups of people are not wholly separate entities but rather represent a confusion which goes through the heart of many Europeans.
Because of course when we in Europe see people fleeing across borders we think of those who fled from country to country as refugees from Nazi Germany and scoured the globe for anyone to take them in. Our immediate instinct is compassion and, in some cases, guilt. Yet emotion is not enough and little enough, and while journalists compete to find the worst horror stories from those escaping from Syria few people if any are asking the questions behind the emotions.
Here are just a few of the questions we still cannot answer. Is Syria really like Nazi Germany? To date Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan — among other countries — have grudgingly taken in many refugees, but is the choice for Syria’s exiled populations really Europe or death? Even if it was, would Europe be able to take in millions of Syrian refugees? What will we do once they are here? Do we have any jobs for them or places for them to live? If they come here will they ever return to their country, once the war is over? Could “temporary asylum” even exist, given that most people will enter the welfare system and their children access schooling and other undoable provisions? In truth, these questions are the simplest of all. Because that is not the problem in full, but only a portion of it. We are failing to deal with even a portion of the problem.
Of the migrants who now form the largest inflow of migrants into Europe in recent history, only around 40 per cent are Syrians. We have lasered-in on the Syria portion of this problem. But it is only part of the problem. Most of those currently coming into Europe — as I saw on a recent trip to the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa — are from elsewhere in the world, including sub-Saharan Africa and in particular Eritrea. Even if it were in Britain or Europe’s gift to bring peace to Syria, what is the plan to bring stability and prosperity to Eritrea? Has anybody, anywhere got any idea? The British Home Secretary, Theresa May, recently said that Britain and other countries must try to improve living standards in such countries to prevent people coming here. But the truth is — as many studies have shown — it is only when living standards rise (though hardly to luxurious levels) that the migration truly begins. Truly poor people do not have the money to bribe the smugglers.
Even here we are far beyond the current acceptable political discussion, yet barely scratching the surface of the problem. But the questions have to be asked. What system does Europe have in place to discern who is a legitimate refugee and who is an economic migrant? Is it fit for purpose? In Italy I asked every aid worker I could find if they knew of anybody being sent back home after arriving in European waters. Nobody could think of such a case. The truth is that once someone is here they stay because Europe cannot work out who is who (most people having deliberately come without papers) and even if they are clearly economic migrants they are never sent home. Europe had no workable system to do this when the movement was at a low-point. Now that it is at a historic high Europe has less than no system.
And then there is the question of the composition of the migrants. If this movement is indeed a movement of the genuinely dispossessed then why are almost all of them young men? In recent weeks the media has zoomed its cameras in on the occasional woman or child. But they are the rarities. On Lampedusa I saw only young men from sub-Saharan Africa. I saw no women. One of the first things that many of the arrivals did on getting to the island was to buy a SIM card and call home to tell their families that they had made it: families they will end up sending money to if they make any (largely in the underground economy) and whom they will often aim to bring over to join them.
And of course there is the question of integration. Does anybody, anywhere in Europe still think integration has happened to date? Almost every government, currently opening its borders to further migrants, has in fact accepted that it has not. Chancellor Merkel said as much in a speech five years ago, as David Cameron did four years ago. So why would integration happen when immigration is at the current historic highs, if it didn’t happen when immigration was at — remarkably — a comparative low? Some politicians want to blame the public for a lack of enthusiasm about importing millions more people into Europe. If they are looking for someone to blame for that attitude they could do worse than looking to the citizens of Dewsbury, Gennevilliers, Malmö and many other places in Europe anyone can name.
All of this, again, barely touches the beginning of the debate which our continent is so far away from having. But perhaps it brings me to the most crucial question of all. Assuming that the majority of the arrivals are economic migrants and that we are going to do little or nothing to prevent them coming, ought not Europeans to try to start thinking their way through the first-principles questions? Such as: “Is it the job of Europeans to give a better standard of living in our continent to anybody in the world who wants it?’
If public opinion polls are anything to go by it would seem that the publics of Europe already have an answer to a question their political representatives still dare not ask. In Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and other countries, politicians are trying to respond to public sentiment. But everywhere else the strain of sustaining the current disconnect is beginning to show. The Swedish government recently announced that it is going to take a further 80,000 refugees this year (around 1 per cent of its current population). It is a continuation of a more-than generous asylum policy which has seen Sweden boast of becoming a “humanitarian superpower”. But these things have consequences. One recent poll showed the only anti-immigration party in the country — the Sweden Democrats — for the first time leading the opinion polls. This party, often described as far-right, was until recently never polling above low single digits.
In late August the official immigration statistics for the UK were released and showed that Cameron’s 2011 boast that his government would bring net immigration into the UK down from the “hundreds of thousands” a year to the “tens of thousands” has been missed by more than ever. The figures showed that net migration into the UK had actually reached an historic peak — rising to 330,000 up to the start of this year. We know how few people welcomed this because poll after poll tells us so. One poll carried out last year found that a mere 11 per cent of the UK population want the population to increase. Another recent poll showed that just 7 per cent of the British public want more immigration to our country. Now that 13 per cent of the UK population were not born in the UK, one interesting thing this shows is that even most immigrants to Britain do not want more immigrants. In the initial part of the current crisis Cameron tried to reflect British public opinion. He stood against the demands of Merkel and the European Commission that European countries take quotas even as they conceded that the quotas were insufficient to address the problem.
But then the internal contradictions of Europe were demonstrated again by what most seem to agree was a turning-point: the photograph of a dead Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the shores of Turkey. A social media campaign grew — like the “Bring back our girls” hashtag of a couple of years ago about Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. This time the hashtag was “Refugees welcome” and celebrities, politicians and others photographed themselves with the sign and sent the photograph around on social media. Public and media opinion grew militant, simultaneously demanding slashes in net migration and vast increases in the number of refugees. The political class understandably struggled to keep pace with these contradictory demands. Soon the Hungarian government was being sat upon from above and every voice of caution seemed to be on the defensive.
To be opposed to letting in refugees was suddenly to be indifferent to the fate of dead children. Unsurprisingly the British Prime Minister buckled and agreed to start by allowing in a further 20,000 Syrian refugees. Dams broke elsewhere in Europe too, with media cameramen running alongside migrants as they poured through the fields and across the borders. Over the next 48 hours the New York Times reported a surge of migrant movement from Nigeria and elsewhere as people saw that a window of opportunity had opened for citizenship in Europe.
The Sun, meanwhile, responded to the photo of the drowned Syrian boy by drum-beating for RAF airstrikes inside Syria, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, used the opportunity to lambast the Labour party for voting against intervention in Syria two years ago, describing it as “one of the worst decisions the House of Commons has ever made”. Few knee-jerks could more adequately sum up our confusion. For the 2013 Commons vote proposed a set of punitive airstrikes against the Assad regime for its use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. As some of us who opposed those airstrikes said at the time, there was no strategic thinking about this, and no thinking whatsoever about what Britain would do if those strikes helped topple Assad and left Britain (which had previously had no involvement in Syria’s descent into chaos) with at least some responsibility for putting the country back together again. Those purported strikes had nothing to do with Isis, would have done nothing to stem the flow of refugees from Syria and might easily have made the refugee flow even larger.
Like all the other responses — public, media and political — this one was shot through with mistakes, zig-zags and incorrect assumptions. If Europe is going to find its way through the current crisis we will first have to find our way through these misperceptions. But, like peeling an onion, it is going to require care and undoubtedly cause tears.
First, we need to address the idea of our alleged “responsibility” for this crisis. Much though many British people are willing to berate the former Labour government for its 2003 intervention in Iraq, our country has notably had extremely limited military involvement in Syria. Qatar and the UAE — two countries which have set up quotas to accept precisely no Syrian refugees — certainly have done. And Iran — whose Hezbollah and other militia have been fighting for Iranian interests in Syria for at least four years now — has now even berated Europe for not doing more. In early September Iran’s President Rouhani had the gall to lecture Hungary’s ambassador to Iran over Hungary’s “shortcomings” in the refugee crisis. Saudi Arabia — which has made no Syrians into Saudi citizens — has been backing its preferred sides inside the country. It has also refused to allow the use of 100,000 air-conditioned tents used only for only five days a year by pilgrims on the Hajj. But the Saudis have offered to build 200 new mosques in Germany. Explaining the failure of Gulf countries to take in Syrian refugees, one Kuwaiti official said: “In the end it is not right for us to accept a people that are different from us. We don’t want people that suffer from internal stress and trauma in our country.”
Throughout most of human history it has been easier for people to refuse rather than accept responsibility for things that they have done. Only in the modern West have we landed in the unnatural position of finding it easier to accept responsibility for things we have not done than to profess the truth of our innocence.
But there are even worse truths underneath all this, not least the fact that even our best policies are unattainable. If this has been clear for some time, it is only making itself felt now. The problem might be summed up in the economic migrant/asylum-seeker debate. For the consensus that a lot of mainstream centre-ground politicians in Europe have come to is that the jury is out or unpersuaded by the cause of economic migrants, but that all asylum-seekers must come in. Pretending that we could invent tomorrow an instrument to perfectly differentiate between the two, even that policy is impossible. Consider one example. European law dictates that people fleeing a country because of persecution for their faith, race or sexual orientation (to give just three examples) will be given asylum if they can find their way to Europe. If the number of gay men and women in Africa and the Middle East is — as there is no reason to think it is not — around the same percentage it is in other societies, then that means just for starters that around 5 per cent of the populations of those countries should (providing they can find their way here) be given asylum in Europe. We do know that this is not possible, don’t we? But we pretend it is — pretence based on the quiet hope that they will not find their way here. But what if they do? What if all those people our policy assumed wouldn’t come here now do? The problem of not facing up to any of these failures of thought is that they stop our politicians being able to think their way through to any political leadership.
One question I ask politicians whenever I get a chance is: why do they not do now the things which they will end up having to do at some point down the line? If you speak with Australian officials who dealt with a similar refugee boat-crisis in their country last decade, they will tell you that you have to keep the migrants out of your country and dissuade others from coming. The Australian example is not a perfect match with the current European one, but it is close. The Australians set up holding centres outside Australian territory, so that people could not land in the country and claim asylum once there. If European politicians were responsible they would now be doing what they will end up having to do anyway, and pay North African countries and others to have holding centres where the claims of the various migrants can at least aim to be assessed. Stop them from setting foot in Europe and you can prevent them all claiming every right which will most likely allow them to remain in Europe in perpetuity.
We must also consider what is best for the migrants in question. Even if we agree that life inside Syria is unlivable for much of the population, a sensible policy would be based on the fact — discussed by David Goodhart and Paul Collier in their recent seminal works — that it is almost always better to keep somebody in proximity to the country from which they are fleeing. If somebody is fleeing Syria it is far better that they stay in Jordan than that they are plonked down in Scandinavia. For sure there are few job prospects for such refugees in Jordan (there may be fewer still in Scandinavia) but as Collier has argued, one solution is for European countries to do more to provide employment opportunities for Syrians inside neighbouring countries rather than a continent away. It is also vital for Europeans to consider what this crisis is not. The father of the Syrian boy who drowned on the shores of Turkey had a job in Turkey, and the family had been living there for three years at the time. He now blames Canada for the death of his son because Canada did not immediately take his family in. Like many European countries, Canada (where I am sitting at the time of writing) is uncertain how much to beat itself up over this. A Holocaust survivor I sat beside at a dinner in Toronto expressed her horror at the repetition of history. But the situations are not analogous. The Syrian father’s job may not have been the best job in the world, but his family’s situation was not remotely analogous to the situation of a German Jew in the 1930s. A German Jew of that time who had managed to move to Sweden and get a job did not have transport provided to deliver him to Britain. But in the spreading-around of the German reaction to all this you can see something else working itself out. For the motivation in whole swathes of the West is a misreading of current and historical events. But this is not even the worst misunderstanding. That must be saved for the “economic” justification which has once again emerged.
It is an argument which has been heard among Germans at the train-station receptions and elsewhere. And it was expressed just last month by the EU head of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in the pages of the Wall Street Journal Europe. A more reckless argument is impossible to find. Eugenio Ambrosi argued that it was “troubling” that the continent was having “difficulty” accepting the unprecedented wave of migrants and claimed Europe “is experiencing the most widespread and intense anti-immigrant sentiment seen in decades”. But he went on to argue that migrants bring “new ideas and high motivation” and “pitch in and contribute to our economies and societies when given a fair chance. Sometimes they have a better work ethic than native Europeans.”
Here is the crux: “Europe is getting older and will soon be dealing with a serious shortage of working-age people . . . Germany alone could experience a labour shortage of up to 2.4 million workers by 2020, according to the Boston Consulting Group. Our existing social-security systems are not threatened by migration. Quite to the contrary: The contribution of migrants will ensure that the support Europeans receive now will continue into the future.”
Lest anybody missed it, this is an argument for cultural suicide, dressed-up in the language of palliative care.
Even if Europe’s demographic fall-off were as severe as Mr Ambrosi claims, who but a madman would think the answer is to import people from a wholly different culture to make up the next generation? Do Ambrosi and other free-marketeers in America and Europe really foresee no problems at all in this? Perhaps they should explain their theory to the 25-50 per cent of young people in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece who do not have a job. Tell them that they have just been leap-frogged by people willing to work harder for less, with the approval of American free-marketeers and assorted libertarians.
Many of us who live in Europe, love Europe as it is. We do not want our politicians, through weakness, cowardice or prevarication, to change our home into an utterly different place. Europeans may be almost endlessly compassionate but not to the point of being suicidal. The public may want many contradictory things, but they will not forgive politicians if — whether by accident or design — they change our continent completely. If they do so then many of us will regret this quietly. Others will regret this less quietly. In either case, if our politicians do not start to lead their publics through this morass then our continent’s crisis may be just beginnin
Stampedes: I will never convert to Islam. These days, I’m just not fit enough to Mecca run for it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34354651
Frank P – 02:32
Thank you!
This is indeed marvellous …
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/jonathan-meades/2015/09/jonathan-meades-on-why-his-memoir-was-17-years-late/
Frank P – 02:32 last night – the Jonathan Meades thing.
Thanks, absolutely wonderful.
@Frank P 24th – 21:22
“my HP Printer is ‘not responding’ so I’ll contact Carly Fiorina tomorrow.”
There ARE reasons why CF is no longer at HP. 🙂
The same reasons seem to apply to campaign (so far.)
This is an interesting development in the Long March:
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/meat-eaters-should-be-treated-like-smokers-says-the-vegan-shadow-environment-secretary-kerry-mccarthy/ar-AAeIEJs?ocid=spartandhp
Frankly all she had to do was publish that picture: an aversion to ‘eating meat’ would have followed automatically. 🙂
Ostrich (occasionally)
September 25th, 2015 – 10:16
Heh, heh, heh … as I’ve oft repeated of late; the only sensible course of action during the suicidal death throes of Europe and America is to sit back with the popcorn and cackle one’s way into eternity. At least until the popcorn runs out.
The WWII gun emplacement opposite my adobe hacienda is still intact on the NW Nuffuck ‘coost’, equipped and ready for the last stand as the fuzzy-wuzzies swarm across from The Wash.
“They don’t like it up ’em, Mr Mainwairing!”
EC
September 25th, 2015 – 09:26
Michael Roberts
September 25th, 2015 – 09:31
Guessed you would enjoy it.
A priceless gleaning from the Comments following an item on Guido’s. (A Tweet, I presume): Tesco Sunday at 14:00 To the person who keeps placing pork in the halal meat section, it’s not funny. The whole shelf has to get cleared once this has been done and halal meat eaters won’t go near it. Show some respect. Kind Regards Ben – Customer Care Not funny?! It also included a photo of the meat counter, which might have been captioned, though probably not by ‘Ben’ – Allahu Snackbar!
h/t Paul Joseph Watson [@PrisonPlanet 5 minutes ago]
“German journalist critical of migrant invasion in hiding after receiving death threats from Muslims.”
RT Interview with Udo Ulfkotte here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Sk9U-viOE
Michael Roberts – 11:35
It’s the start of backlash, much heralded by the gLiberal MSM.
The back bacon lash, anyways… 🙂
EC@September 25th, 2015 – 12:05
Anyone caught doing it will be for the chop. Ham-ed wont like it. But he will get boar-ed soon.
Richard Fernandez with brilliant reportage and analysis of the Putin strategy over Syria including inside track stuff about the forthcoming meeting between Putin and Obama:
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/09/24/whens-the-noonday-train/#undefined
All going on behind the hoo-hah of the Pope’s visit. Unmissable skinny.
The gathering storm:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6550/sweden-islam-multiculturalism
Good article on Conservative Woman: ‘The Law Must be Blind to the Origins of the Guilty’ by Jane Kelly.
I’ve just discovered The Conservative Woman site – thanks to whoever recommended it here.
If there are any historians remaining in the future who wish to understand how ‘we’ lost the counter-culture war; all they would need to do is read this piece by Rod Liddle, in particular the comments thereafter. As for the ‘we’ in that assertion: an ever decreasing swill of residue disappearing down the plughole as the vortex accelerates:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9642852/why-does-the-right-listen-to-such-bad-music-and-other-questions-of-taste/
…and Papa Frankie drones on and on …
Damaris Tighe (15:43)
It was Colonel Mustard: this is the link
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/jane-kelly-the-law-must-be-blind-to-the-origins-of-the-guilty/
Frank P – 15:56; Damaris Tighe – 15:43
Here’s another good site to bookmark…
http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/
If insomnia or boredom strikes then there’s hours of diversion here.
Britain laid bare, if you think you can bear it.
Reporting just the facts! If only the BBC would stick to that!
NB. There’s a separate “Surreal” section – as if the main sections aren’t surreal enough!
On BBC 1 News I saw a demonstration by Iranians demanding that the Saudi Arabian dynasty should be exterminated. Seems they blame the Saudis for the deaths at Mecca. Forgive me for being ‘paranoid, but is it possible that the devious Iranian clergy instigated this event in order to obtain control of an important (to moslems) religious event and greater political control over millions of moslems?
Does this remind you of anyone?
“This Balfourian manner, as I understand it, has its roots in an attitude of mind—an attitude of convinced superiority which insists in the first place on complete detachment from the enthusiasms of the human race, and in the second place on keeping the vulgar world at arm’s length.
It is an attitude of mind which a critic or a cynic might be justified in assuming, for it is the attitude of one who desires rather to observe the world than to shoulder any of its burdens; but it is a posture of exceeding danger to anyone who lacks tenderness or sympathy, whatever his purpose or office may be, for it tends to breed the most dangerous of all intellectual vices, that spirit of self-satisfaction which Dostoievsky declares to be the infallible mark of an inferior mind.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Balfour
Here is a bit more of a hint:
“To Mr. Arthur Balfour this studied attitude of aloofness has been fatal, both to his character and to his career. He has said nothing, written nothing, done nothing, which lives in the heart of his countrymen. To look back upon his record is to see a desert, and a desert with no altar and with no monument, without even one tomb at which a friend might weep. One does not say of him, “He nearly succeeded there”, or “What a tragedy that he turned from this to take up that”; one does not feel for him at any point in his career as one feels for Mr. George Wyndham or even for Lord Randolph Churchill; from its outset until now that career stretches before our eyes in a flat and uneventful plain of successful but inglorious and ineffective self-seeking.”
Mark Steyn examines the predicament of Rich Lowry, who was ultimately the man who shit-canned him from NR. Lowry’s coarse metaphor on Megan Kelly’s slot has brought out the smelling salts in Meejaland.
http://www.steynonline.com/7195/after-the-balls
Revenge is a dish best served cold!
I recommend that everyone watch the first 15 minutes of Friday’s Alex Jones Show which begins with Jones’s reaction to the news of the successful campaign to oust the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, as the Republic fights back and then by natural segue touches on the government attack on “social media” and in particular on the team of 20 FBI agents directly reporting to Obama on their mission to bring down Alex Jones and Infowars by fair means or foul, and ending with Jones’s peroration of defiance in full Onward Christian Soldiers mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxTm5hql2AQ
…and of course I would say “watch on!”
…and keep watching if you want to judge whether the visit of the Black Pope to the USA and his impending agreement with Obama and the Chinese president is merely “hoo-hah”.
EDL demonstration in Colchester today.Assemble at Colchester police station;11-45 for Noon start.
RobertRetyred at 23:41.
Balfour: the person most responsible for the mess that the Middle East has become, with his disastrous ‘Declaration’. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
Also the man who stated that in his life (as a very important politician), that “few things have mattered very much, and most things haven’t mattered at all”.
A nasty cynic, following in the steps of Benjamin D’Israeli, and the precursor of the likes of Blair and Cameron.
The Spectator supplement,`LIFE`,can be seen at
http://life.spectator.co.uk
Douglas Murray on Krusty Mc Squawk et al
http://life.spectator.co.uk/2015/09/why-tories-get-a-hard-time-on-the-beeb/
BBC Delenda Est!
A hospital has apologised after an RAF officer was moved away from other patients because staff said his uniform might cause offence.
I suppose this Kent hospital would prefer that he wore a rag on his head and a moslem robe.
Frank P Sept 25th 13.44:
In these dark days letting off steam with a bit of banter can help us lighten up. There’s no cause to lighten up, of course, but it’s good for the soul. And I’ve known one of the most illustrious commenters here to enjoy a bit of light chat at the other place.
Constant growling isn’t good for you.
EC Sept 26th 10,12:
Thanks for the link to Douglas’s piece in the new Spectator Life. But I note it’s not open to comments. I’m wondering whether articles where they would rather not have comment will now be shunted into this new supplement.
anne wotana kaye September 26th, 2015 – 10:14
We should know more about this. An apology and the hope that it will just go away is really not good enough. Who made this decision?
If this had been one of the left’s many shibboleths being traduced we should never hear the last of it.
“Former chief of the air staff Sir Michael Graydon described the incident as disappointing.”
‘Disappointing’ is not the word I would use. I’d probably use two, the second being ‘outrageous’ and the first a well known expletive related to procreation.
Apparently the suggestion was made because of a previous “altercation” between a ‘member of the public’ and a uniformed serviceman. That ‘member of the public’, probably one of Corbyn’s faithful, should have been arrested for assault. The concept of assault (as opposed to battery) and that one should never be allowed to insult the Queen’s uniform seem lost on the clowns and idiots who rule over us, who pretend to police us and who sit in judgement in our courts.
What is disappointing is that condemnation of this very real outrage appears to be limited to ‘former’ brass and ‘veterans’. Senior members of the government should have searched long and hard for their missing spines and then gone on record condemning the Hospital’s staff. Hunt should have announced an investigation and had those who were responsible sacked.
If “cultures” here are offended by the Queen’s uniform which defends our realm then the question should be asked as to whether those “cultures” should be here at all. And the answer to that is obvious.
Anne Wotana Kaye Sept 25th 18.20:
I don’t think thousands of pilgrims charging forward to stone a wall needed any instigation for this to turn into a disaster. Over-excited crowds often end up in body bags. Clearly Satan as embodied by the wall is having the last laugh.
ColM Sept 26th 10.14:
For me the most disappointing aspect of the incident was that all one of the top brass interviewed could say was that the airman should have been treated sooner! So, it’s a problem of A&E queues …
Colonel Mustard
September 26th, 2015 – 10:47
To use vulgar parlance, bugger all will be done about this disgusting behaviour. Imagine if the patient had been one of the scum we are so eagerly importing?
Damaris Tighe
September 26th, 2015 – 10:49
Anne Wotana Kaye Sept 25th 18.20:
Clearly Satan as embodied by the wall is having the last laugh.
Or the angels! 😉
Damaris Tighe
September 26th, 2015 – 10:49
Anne Wotana Kaye Sept 25th 18.20:
As stated, “Clearly Satan as embodied by the wall is having the last laugh”.
Or the angels! 😉
Damaris Tighe – 10:49
EC, September 25th, 2015 – 09:21
Stampedes: I will never convert to Islam. These days, I’m just not fit enough to Mecca run for it!
The Saudis should look to London marathon to see how to organise these events properly. Meanwhile, paradise is out of virgins…
anne wotana kaye – 10:14
“These are the depths to which some sections of our society have sunk.”
RICHARD KEMP (@COLRICHARDKEMP)
Commenting on the Kent hospital incident
EC
September 26th, 2015 – 11:51
And I thought nothing could shock me anymore.
EC 26th Sept 11.48:
Seriously though, there are very large crowds of pilgrims at Lourdes & they manage to survive, get healed even. The words ‘decorum’ & ‘hysteria’ come to mind.
Damaris Tighe
September 26th, 2015 – 10:18
Soul? If ever I had one, it has now been reduced to what could only be depicted as ‘The Scream’ of Edvard Munch, or this:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Vincent+Van+Gogh+Last+Painting&view=detailv2&&id=0829BA3B703292986D87C86310879E2C4AE743B0&selectedIndex=1&ccid=v%2b0uhW%2fb&simid=608015551324950247&thid=OIP.Mbfed2e856fdbb08ff7f403fdfb8c36b6H0&ajaxhist=0
At this stage of my decadence, growling is the best I can do, via this medium and my increasingly gnarled fingertips.
Anyway, I was not really complaining about the levity or ‘banter’ of either the article or the comments; heaven forfend – given my previous. It was the taste in ‘music’ admitted by the commenters that appalled me. Whether that phenomenon occurred spontaneously within your generation, or was cunningly contrived by the vandals of our culture, matters not – and as a determinist I can accept either ’cause”. The result has been one of the most devastating elements of ‘our’* decline, imnsho. The contingent violence, and sheer cacophony has been both baneful and baleful. Not surprising the accompanying chemicals were necessary for both the perpetrators and their disciples. 🙂
* A word, that like “we”, is becoming an increasingly difficult one to use as a collective. But I allow that may well be my fault.
Grrrr! 🙂
EC
September 26th, 2015 – 11:51
Ahhh. Richard Kemp! He’s still my nominee to head the coup d’etat. Surely the Corbynski fiasco has hastened the day? Or has the travesty of ‘politics’ now become so risible that it cripples any resolve to proaction 🙂
Reminds me of the halcyon days on intrigue in the 60s – 70s, when Mountbatten lost his bottle (and eventually paid dearly for it):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theories
” . . . two Czechoslovakian defectors, Josef Frolík and František August, who had fled to the West, alleging the Labour Party had “almost certainly” been penetrated by the Soviets. The two named a list of Labour MPs and trade unionists as Soviet agents.”
As a “conspiracy” theory that is right up there with the theory that bears crap in the woods.
But ‘agent’ and ‘spy’ have sometimes been conflated with ‘agent of influence’ which was/is an entirely different thing. The so-called establishment, unions and especially the Labour party was riddled with agents of influence who believed in the comintern and in pursuing activities to aid and abet it (without actually spying or divulging secrets).
As to Wilson, yes, but earlier than 1974. IIRC the plot was triggered or intensified after Rhodesian UDI.
What the end of the Cold War has done is let the agents of influence move seamlessly into furthering their ends within other areas without appearing to be traitors. With the threat of the Soviet Empire apparently removed those people are no longer viewed as enemies of the state but instead now influence it. I remember being shocked at the Viet Cong flags on the walls in my old school’s halls of study during a visit and realising then that something was going terribly wrong in Britain.
Huge fire at mosque in Morden – said to be largest mosque in Europe. About half the building said to be destroyed.
So the RAF chap waiting in uniform at a Kent hospital has to move elsewhere in the building because his uniform might upset ‘patients of other cultures’?
Presumably, that would be the culture that has difficulty forming an orderly queue for the Halal Hokey-Cokey at the Mecca dance hall.
We should, I suppose, expect more and more of the same submission to the sensitivities of savages.
Colonel Mustard (13:14)
Indeed so!
I suppose history tells us that all empires/cultures/governments,or indeed any established power blocks, tend moreso to collapse as a result of treachery from within (which prospers in peace and complacency); rather than from direct alien threat – which usually coalesces native will and fervour. But the time-frame involved in our current decline, involving both – and the brainwashing of hoi polloi within our ‘civilisation’ has been remarkably rapid, historically speaking. Obviously immediacy and accessibility of modern communication and its anarchical element is a double-edged sword.
“As a “conspiracy” theory that is right up there with the theory that bears crap in the woods.”
Heh heh, heh. Wish I’d said that!
Austin Barry (14:34)
You should pop in more often to illuminate our little dark corner of the cyberworld with your illuminating wit. It gets buried in the voluminous crap of the comments section of Breitbart’s worthy flagship and the less worthy Barclay’s Bugle. I assume that like most of us here you were blackballed by the Frasier fellowship? Don’t be a stranger! Particularly now that our troll has voluntarily (ha!) ‘absented’ himself. 🙂
Damaris Tighe (14:30)
One can only hope that it’s insured under the auspices of Sharia law financial arrangements. But knowing our government, it will be a criminal compensation pay-out.
Austin Barry – sorry, tautology alertl That second ‘illuminating’ was meant to be ‘coruscating’. A senior moment. 🙂
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Futuh
No comment!
… except, perhaps, that one name popped up in that Wiki entry:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lubbock,_4th_Baron_Avebury
WTF??
Frank P (5.30)
Thanks Frank. I trust you are in good nick, certainly your posts have been rollicking along in good order.
Yes, Fraser ejected me from the other place last Christmas after one haram post, but I suspect earlier comments were T.I.C.’d.
I’ll be popping into this parish every now and then: it’s like a friendly local pub where the welcome mat is always out, the pints poured, and where the log fire and unacceptable thoughts flicker as closing time approaches….. only the immature, prancing, incontinent pub dog “Troll” disrupts the mellow outrage.
Frank P 15.37:
As the top Saudi religious leader has said that no one is to blame for the 700 plus haj deaths (they were down to ‘fate & destiny’), it’s only logical that the Morden mosque won’t accept insurance or any other payout.
Well, as the Baitul Futuh Mosque is Ahmadi, and the generally peaceful Ahmadis are denounced as non-Muslim heretics by pretty well all the other more loony denominations, a question might spring to mind.
Of course it could just be an Act of Allah.
The BBC 1 News at five was led and dominated by the goings on of Führer Corbyn. This was briefly followed by other items, but absolutely nothing was mentioned about the disgusting treatment of the RAF sergeant at the Queen Mother Elizabeth Hospital in Kent. Will the Minister, Jeremy Hunt act to investigate this matter, or is he like all the others in this government another Pierre Laval?
Chris Morriss – 08:37
I was thinking of CMD, because of his persona, but it had slipped my mind that Balfour and Blair had such similar ‘Middle East experiences’, though in Balfour’s day it was a far away place and they were trying to tidy up the ends of the 600 year old Ottoman empire.
I wouldn’t blame Balfour as much as you post as I don’t think that there is a logical solution: well, not one that all sides will agree to.
I think Blair attracts the most criticism because he did more than he needed to, and always ‘got it wrong’, mainly because his motives were always wrong.
The 20th century was notable for the perpetration of numerous mass massacres including those perpetrated under Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao.
However one that is largely ignored is the massacre of mostly Chinese people in Indonesia perpetrated under President Suharto – after he had replaced Sukarno –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366
One of the most significant aspects of the massacres in Indonesia is referred to in two sentences in the Wikipedia report. They read –
“Sukarno’s balancing act of “Nasakom” (nationalism, religion and communism) had been unravelled. His most significant pillar of support, the PKI, had been effectively eliminated by the other two pillars—the army and political Islam;”
Does not this reference to “political Islam” demonstrate, chillingly clearly, the potential that the infusion of Islam into western countries has? What does infusion signify for the future of western people themselves?
Austin Barry
Wish you had been around when we owned our folly in Sussex. You would have enjoyed the craic – an eclectic mix of judges, magistrates, lawyers, stockbrokers, local farmers, other publicans, ex-cops, ex-spooks (and a fair smattering of those still in harness); selected meeja tipplers who could be trusted to keep their counsel (doubt they exist any more). But the local yokels were the wisest of them all. Arrh – ee – arrh – ee -argh. We put the world to rights every night. And I shovelled out the bullshit every morning, ready for the next layer of an evening. ☺
Where did you live in Sussex, Frank?
Damaris Tighe
September 26th, 2015 – 16:36
It seems (to me) that “fate and destiny” is merely an Islamic euphemism for “the will of Allah” – actually a kind of exculpatory double think. In this case a Muslim – and especially Arab – device to avoid facing up to a different “fact” that is ingrained in their thought system.
Actually, double think has become not uncommon among in the west too. It makes me wonder if the only members of our species who have the potential to survive are the Chinese.
Some common sense at last:
BELINDA BROWN: There’s nothing pro-women about telling girls who can’t remember the night before to cry rape
“In a controversial statement this week, Ms Saunders [our Director of Public Prosecutions] urged that a woman who wakes up in a man’s bed with no memory of the previous evening should seek support from a rape counsellor and contact the police if there is any suspicion that an offence could have been committed.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3247006/There-s-pro-women-telling-girls-t-remember-night-cry-rape.html
Creepy beyond belief:-
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/named-persons-spies-in-the-family-home#.VgeOCihOT8s
Probably a common purpose behind this and the DPP’s statement. These people are alien reptiles alright.
Michael Roberts & Herbert Thornton:
I discovered that the mosque is Ahmadi after I posted. It reminds me of the fanfare with which the BBC promoted the AQ held in a mosque. It wasn’t mentioned that the mosque was Ahmadi, so hardly mainstream & representative.
If every event is down to the direct intervention of Allah (fate & destiny) there can be no investigation into the chain of cause & effect, therefore no scientific inquiry.
Colonel M, at 07:37.
Utterly frightening. I had heard nothing of this before. How are our ‘lords and masters’ able to let things like this get proposed as if in some God-given “FIAT”.
As Miranda didn’t quite say. “O brave new world, that has such creatures in it”.
Colonel M. 7:37
This is horrifying. And as Chris Morriss says, who knew? And it’s been going on for a year or more. And it can be guaranteed that something similar is afoot in England etc.
Interesting article by Frank Furedi linked on the same page about Ofsted inspectors quizzing children about homosexuality; the parents kicked up a fuss, so they backed off. The families were, of course, Muslim. Now if these had been white indigenous, i.e. normal, people, would the same ‘respect’ for their views have been forthcoming?
Damaris T. 8:14
Yup :o)
h/t RICHARD KEMP [@COLRICHARDKEMP]
http://conservativepapers.com/news/2015/09/26/german-mood-sours-as-migrant-gangs-stalk-local-women/
Had a nice lay-in this morning. Should have stayed in bed as when I got up I saw my husband was watching TV. Guess why was on the “Marr Programme”? Yes, once again the BBC is promoting the Fuhrer.
Frank P, September 26th, 2015 – 15:08
>>Colonel Mustard (13:14)
>>“As a “conspiracy” theory that is right up there with the theory that bears crap in the woods.”
>Heh heh, heh. Wish I’d said that!
“You will Oscar, you will”
This is a classic sketch.
Enjoy, before the world encroaches on another day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0
EC
“Enjoy, before the world encroaches on another day”
You mean before Islam encockroaches on Europe? Grrrr!
Chris Morriss September 27th, 2015 – 08:39
Probably because they have managed to seed the relationship of us as “children” to their “adults”. The irony is that our “lords and masters” have never been so immature. We are increasingly “pupils” in their “school” and “employees” in their “company”. In my youth the government would not have dared propose an encroachment on family life like this, but the public would also have been more outraged and rejecting of it. Those who promote it will no doubt use that old political sleight of hand “if only one child is saved . . . etc.” to impose yet more controls on the majority in order to deter a minority – who will not cease to exist or cease to offend anyway.
Now, on the basis of infantilising a good proportion of society to expect control and direction rather than representation and by invoking worst case scenario hysteria to treat everyone as suspect they have turned on its head that old English contract (so ably described by Charles Lindbergh) of presuming everyone to be innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Extreme risk aversion now extends in so many areas, not least in the relationships between men and women, to a suspicion of guilt – or at least guilty intent – until innocence can be proven. That is an exponential shift, largely unremarked in our Parliament, which continues to permit unelected civil servants like Saunders to pontificate publicly on how our law should be reconfigured in application to serve an explicit political end. Her latest ‘edict’ is in effect trawling for alleged rape cases, an extension of the police “You will be believed”, which is a travesty of both traditional police procedure (to investigate not to judge) and natural justice.
The Scottish intervention just takes it to a new extreme by declaring, in effect, that no parents are to be trusted to bring up their children without third party, government sponsored surveillance. Therefore all parents are suspect. The presumption is outrageous and should have been quashed at first utterance by any self-respecting law maker. Parliaments should act to protect liberties and rights in their totality, not erode them in the pretence of protecting a specific and presumed category of ‘the vulnerable’. I am ‘vulnerable’ every time I take my car out but I don’t need a state appointed ‘nominated driver’ to watch over me. The breaking down of the rule of law into politically motivated partialities to serve fabricated identity groups will in the end serve no-one and merely contribute to factional, sectarian society at war with itself.
It boggles the mind to consider that 129 apparently sentient and responsible human beings have signed up to this corrosive nonsense.
Anne (09:39)
He’s a ringer for the garden gnome in my neighbour’s garden. Think I’ll point it out to her and accuse her of campaigning for him.
Don’t worry, gal. The effective flak of ridicule downed both Brown and the Milibrat. This one’s ripe for it, too. Taking him seriously will merely prolong the agony.
The ad hominin arsenal behind the CHW is well stocked and you’re one of our sharpshooters. 🙂
Frank P
September 27th, 2015 – 10:57
Frank, I cannot imagine a garden gnome as horrible as the Jerry-Pot !
Colonel Mustard (10:47)
Bravissimo!
The sad fact that no current politician is capable of writing your tour de force, and even less capable of getting to his feet in the Westminster Gasworks and orating it, is gut-wrenchingly depressing.
I haven’t scoured the msm this morning – has any rag or TV channel picked this up?
Named Person means “a Stasi spy in every home……That would make the DDR look positively begnign.” David Coburn MEP (UKIP-Scotland) :5 Sept.2014.
ALSO:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/11684732/SNP-ministers-ridiculed-over-attempts-to-explain-named-person-policy.html
The cover of Der Spiegal (19-9-15) :Mutter Angela…….presumably not in a spirit of irony.
https://deepresource.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/theresa-merkel.jpg
Radford NG
September 27th, 2015 – 11:19
Thanks. Two things stand out in that report: the socio–communist proclivity for stupid acronyms – such as “GERFEC” (getting it right for every child), to which the response should be “Gerfec yoursel’ ”
and
SHANARRI ( Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible, Included). Only a slight adjustment needed to that, to comply with “SHARIA” – very convenient, given the current deluge of crap moving in from the East.
HTF did we miss this when it was enacted? So much to read … so little time …
and now the fucking conference season!! Not to mention the return of Question Time and This Week: first showings indicating that both have descended even deeper into pure and unashamed agitprop mode. I noted that the little rat Alan Johnson has quickly adjusted his tune to harmonise with the Garden Gnome. And the absence of the switch-hitter Portillo (is that permanent, I wonder?) enabled Brillo to fill his chair with an uber-toff that the selected lefties could deride. In fact his refusal to join in the levity, by playing a straight bat (rather skilfully, I thought), backfired.
At least the gurning “Shnozzle” McGuire was missing; his double act with Andrew Pierce on the Sky News Review is nauseating – it should be hackneyed to death! Get a room, you two twats – FFS!
Anne (11:03)
Like it… Jerry “Piss-Pot” Corbyn. The Red (no longer) Under the Bed! 🙂
Worserer aand worserer!
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6583/germany-migrants-housing
Know thine enemy – cc. Obama, Kerry and Hammond:
http://irantruth.org/exclusive-first-translation-of-khameinis-new-book-on-the-destruction-of-america-israel/
telemachus is in full Corbynite flow at the other place. He describes me (I think) as the most hated poster there.
Not sure whether to feel offended or honoured. But it does appear to confirm that he has flooded that place with his “associates”. The thread manipulation going on is a wonder to behold. Nothing like some good honest debate. And it is nothing like it.
CM @ 14:11
Sorry to disappoint. I think he was referring to me.
an epithet I shall carry with pride.
Frank P
September 27th, 2015 – 13:20
As long as he isn’t, heaven forbid, in my bed!
Colonel Mustard
September 27th, 2015 – 14:11
alexsandr
September 27th, 2015 – 14:44
CM @ 14:11
Dear Gentlemen, forgive me writing to you both on one blog. I hate to say this, but you have brought this upon yourselves. Never, ever, have I responded to that diseased turd, no matter how he has tried to draw me into his web. Just ignore him. If he has nobody to annoy he cannot troll. Forget about him, don’t even read the garbage he spews out. Regards. I love both your brilliant blogs. 🙂
AWK. you are too kind. but i enjoy tying him in knots.
alexsandr September 27th, 2015 – 14:44
Ah, ok. I still cannot imagine what his basis for that slur is. But then he assured us that Miliband would be in No.10 by now!
anne wotana kaye September 27th, 2015 – 15:15
Good advice but rather than having to ignore him I’d prefer it that he was just permanently banned so that his garbage and devious little games can never intrude on these pages again. The Speccie is welcome to him.
cider with rosie on bbc 1 tonight. bit of nostalgia.
Monday 28 September: Full Luna Eclipse.
Begins:…01-11 BST
Total:…..03-47 BST
Ends:…..05-22 BST
http://40.media.tumblr.com/2ab71131b653178a2f7a3596ba736db0/tumblr_nv8zscXzMB1r54qfqo1_1280.jpg
Seems a red moon only comes around once in a blue moon 🙂
Radford NG
September 27th, 2015 – 11:19
The “Named Person” campaign is another example of a New World Order démarche. In the United States it was given an early try-out in 2013:
“In a 30-second promo for MSNBC’s Lean Forward campaign, Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry advocates that society end the “private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families,” and instead institute a “collective notion” that kids “are our children,” they belong to the community….”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/msnbc-we-have-break-through-idea-kids-belong-their-parents
The new aristocracy advances, masked in sugared communist and faux-religious ideology while deploying its fasces.
Malfleur (05:20)
So the nationalisation of children is not confined to Scotland? See earlier posts from Colonel Mustard. Interesting!
Lean Forward Campaign? Bend Over directive!