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This is an appropriate start to a new week: Sharia court next to you. You may like to google its address in case you have a case the bearded legal experts could help with.
There’re, Baron believes, Jewish religious courts, the Beth Din, to hear and resolve civil disputes between parties as diverse as business and divorce, but the decision of these courts isn’t valid unless it’s stamped by a civil court.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358625/Inside-Britain-s-Sharia-courts-EIGHTY-FIVE-Islamic-courts-dispensing-justice-UK-special-investigation-really-goes-doors-shock-core.html
Hard to know whom to believe, but for the poorly educated Slav the centuries endorsed axiom of English justice ‘one’s innocent until proven guilty’ in a court of law trumps everything else that may or may not be in the public domain. It is eminently possible this guy Shaker was a case of mistaken identity, some of those on the prosecution side in the Republic said so themselves.
What pisses is that in all the yapping about the case, not many, if anyone at all, are critical of the Americans. If it were the Russians holding someone for fourteen years, then released him, the coverage would have been the other way round, little about the man himself, almost all about the evil of the Russians.
Go figure.
Baron (11:23)
Your love of Mother Russia is touching, but it sometimes leads to excessive and inappropriate moral equivalency. Don’t worry, there will be plenty here in Blighty who will don sackcloth and ashes and pursue his search for ‘justice’. You will help pay if there was any ‘injustice’ and will pay anyway, even if there was not. And the propaganda war of the jihad was doing fine without any help from this platform. By the way – did you see the documentary on BBC Four last night featuring Russia’s worst prison?
If any here err on the side of the Septics it is because there is a war on, and despite what some may think, warts and all, they are on ‘our’ side. Our willingness to expose our and their weaknesses and mistakes (even before they are proven to be so, sometimes – and more seriously, often when they were not), does not aid justice, but certainly aids the enemy. What I regard as the enemy, anyway. just sayin’.
Here is an interesting lecture on the current energy market. It is not anti-alarmist. It doesn’t need to be, as Professor Dieter Helm describes a ‘level playing field’ which puts many things into perspective.
It’s a hour and a quarter in length, so make sure you are sitting comfortably before you begin:
The IET Mountbatten Lecture 2015: The New Energy Landscape
https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=7379
Baron 1123
Shaker Aamer’s most horrific statements include credible^^ accounts of torture including SIS involvement
^^”Condoleezza Rice approved ‘torture’ techniques
Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State, personally approved a CIA request to use “waterboarding” and other harsh interrogation techniques.
She verbally agreed to allow the methods to be used on Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaeda suspect, in July 2002, a Senate report has revealed.
Miss Rice’s role was outlined in a narrative released by the Senate Intelligence Committee as the controversy over alleged torture by the CIA continued to rage.
The information indicates that the programme was approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration.
The new timeline suggests Miss Rice played a more significant role than she acknowledged in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee submitted in the autumn.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s timeline came a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee released a detailed exhaustive report positing links between the CIA’s harsh interrogation programme and abuses of prisoners at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Daily revelations about the interrogation programme have followed Mr Obama’s decision to release four US Justice Department memos last Thursday.
The memos, running to 126 pages, were written by officials in Mr Bush’s Justice Department and contained explicit details of the CIA’s methods of extracting information from al-Qaeda suspects between 2002 and 2005.
They revealed that the highly controversial technique of “waterboarding” had been used 266 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, two senior al-Qaeda prisoners.
According to the new timeline, drawn up from legal advice given to the CIA by the Bush administration, Miss Rice personally conveyed the Bush administration’s approval for waterboarding of Zubaydah to George Tenet, then CIA Director, in July 2002.
In the autumn, Miss Rice stated to the Senate Armed Services Committee that she had attended meetings where the CIA interrogation request was discussed but could not recall details.
Days after Miss Rice spoke to Mr Tenet, the Justice Department approved the use of waterboarding in a top secret memo. Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding some 83 times in August 2002″
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Now (sad to say given my personal allegiances) Jack Straw was intimately involved with Ms Rice an all matters of US policy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5208701/Condoleezza-Rice-approved-torture-techniques.html
As for Blair:
“Aamer told ITV news: “The only thing I want to find out is the truth behind what happened.
“What’s the truth behind Guantanamo? What’s the truth right now behind all what’s happening… in the world?”
He said the truth could not be expected from the likes of Tony Blair or George W. Bush because they are scared of being jailed for their complicity.
Asked if he thought Blair would ever speak out, Aamer hinted at an amnesty for the controversial former PM.
“If [it was] guaranteed that he would not be behind bars, I think he would,” he said.
Aamer maintains he was tortured in the presence of British security services officers, both in Bagram, Afghanistan, after his initial capture and at the US detention facility in Cuba.
“The … British guy said his name was John. He told me openly he was from MI5, and that he had a file on me,” the Saudi-born British citizen claimed. Blair and other senior government figures of the day must have known he was being abused, Aamer said.
….three intelligence officials involved in his abuse travelled to Bagram on a plane with Tony Blair in January 2002.”
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https://www.rt.com/uk/325849-aamer-blair-guantanamo-torture/
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I think Blair and Straw may find Christmas uncomfortable
Baron at 11:12.
Why should this country allow any ‘religious’ courts to have any authority at all? I don’t care what the religion is: It simply is not acceptable in this country.
Baron
Careful, the tellytwat is nuzzling your crutch and licking your hand: he suspects you are a friend and ally. He hangs around in the cybersphere like a putrid miasma, waiting to cling to the clothing of anyone who gets within a mile of his message.
George Galloway had his clock cleaned by Richard Kemp today on the oleaginous Jeremy Vine’s show. Kemp has no doubt that the Shaker story is bollocks. To Galloway Shaker is a hero.
More grist to the mill:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6996#.Vm8HMWQrInW
Frank P @ 12:34
No, Frank, no see the BBC programme, it must have been dreadful, the prison conditions, Baron’s heart bleeds for the poor law breakers, suspects the BBC must have leaned backwards to be impartial.
The poorly educated Slav supporting jihad? Hmmm
The guy Saker says he’s isn’t going to sue anyone, and that includes the government here.
One day, even you will figure out they, ‘the American ruling elite’, is on our side only when it suits their interests, political, commercial, military or whatever, not ours. This is particularly true with the honorary Muslim in charge. Before he entered the Oval Office he kept saying the first task will be to close down Gitmo. When he got in, his first executive order was for the bust of Winston to be taken down, shipped back to us. That should have been the hint, it wasn’t.
The above in no way suggests that at the level of the unwashed the relations with the Republic isn’t special, it is, for a host of historical, personal reasons. The ranting of the boy and his crew about a special relationship at a level of government is delusional, it stems from our weakness, a desire to box above our ability, craving to keep alive the notion we still matter. (Btw, there’s a u-tube video of Obama talking about ‘special relationship’ with all leaders visiting Washington).
We would do much better if, as a country, we were to act as ‘the older statesman’ in international relations, a moral arbiter adjudicating between (say) the Americans and whoever the other side may be, now Russia. That would boost our standing in the international community more than our slavishly backing the Americans. More to the point, what do have to show for the ‘special relationship’? The treatment of BP?
Our ‘poodling’ to the Americans explains, in part, why even the European apparatchiks (not to mention Mutti) treat us with such contempt viz the ‘EU renegotiation’ fiasco.
The boy wasn’t invited for the jamboree on climate change in Paris (sent a video), on two other occasions when a picture was taken he was placed in the last row, during the Charlie procession in Paris he was on the extreme right, the cameras missed him. It’s embarrassing to say the least, the country doesn’t deserve it.
Chris Morriss @ 18:42
Agreed, Chris, but you tell Baron why we allow it, he knows not.
telemachus @ 17:12
Only evidence tested in the court of law, under oath, cross examined is what would convince the barbarian one way or the other (as if that mattered anyway), telemachus.
As far as Baron knows, Shaker doesn’t allege waterboarding, the most questionable interrogation technique (re your first posting at 17.12), and what he said in the interview (your second posting) doesn’t contain any specifics on his alleged ‘torture’.
More to the point, the poorly educated Slav doesn’t rule out some form of torture if the possibility exists the one under it may have information that could save lives, and the torture is under independent judicial supervision.
Blair & Straw may have an uncomfortable Christmas, but not because of the guy Shaker, he’s the sole responsibility of the Americans, they handled him from start to finish, not us.
Frank P @ 19:47
Now you’re telling the barbarian, Frank?
And, most importantly: Sorry for the errors.
Just to warn you in case you feel like joining the Turkish Armed Forces. Avoid it. The army personnel has been barred from holidaying in Russia.
On a second thought, it doesn’t apply to Frank, the land of the eastern Slavs is an unlikely destination for him. ha, ha, ha
Anne Wotana Kaye
Thank you for your thoughts on Michael Savage and Daniel Greenfield at the end of last week’s Wall. Those two do indeed have different styles, but there is room for both in liberty’s halls. Michael Savage has more than 20,000,000 listeners and usually broadcasts five days a week for two hours or more live. He must extemporise, hold the loyalty of those 20M, and can perhaps be forgiven for becoming a little angry vocally from time to time as he sees his country and western civilization destroyed by traitors, ignorance and other enemies. Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage Magazine is an online print journalist with rather fewer viewers I would guess and can afford to polish his words which provides occasion to tamp down what I am sure is his similar anger.
Thank God for the alternative media!
I see that the skulking Labour ghost at the feast is now fully on board with the Corbynista Communist Stop the War Comrades agenda of aiding and abetting murdering Islamic terrorists. Their enemy’s enemy is undoubtedly their new friend. For the slithering telemachus Corbyn is the new Balls, the new Messiah, the new wooden figurehead to bleat and bluster futilely for to people who will never stop loathing everything he and they represent.
Manipulative conniving to turn the telescope around, to focus on the mote in the West’s eye rather than the bloody great beam in the eye of their jihadi pals.
But consistent with his erstwhile urgings to give the ISIS “Caliph” a fair hearing, so to be expected. Truth will out. The mask drops. As usual with the left.
Baron treating him as a sentient being worthy of civil engagement is a meme for the self-destructive surrender of all that is good in the West. Sad.
TOMMY ROBINSON.
who has just published a book, Enemy of the State (an ironic title by the way), was introduced by InfoWars British correspondent, Paul Watson, and interviewed by Alex Jones on his show yesterday. The interview begins during the 3rd hour at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiCpqpWUbI
Two comments struck me in particular. First, his characterisation of what is happening in England as “population replacement”. Secondly, his emphasis on the economic reasons behind the feckless desertion of the English people by the political class as a reflection of the extensive financial control of the British economy by islam.
Robinson is calling for a peaceful march in Birmingham on February 6th as part of a European wide show of solidarity on the threat to the sovereignty, ethics and identity of European nations posed by the islamic incursion with which the state has colluded.
Alex Jones is trying to persuade Paul Watson to move to Texas. I hope he stays where he is. Wallsters will correct me if I’m wrong, but no tradition seems to have taken root yet in the United Kingdom of the kind that has permitted, much to the chagrin of enemies of the USA, news and commentary services such as those offered in America by, for example, the Savage Nation and the Alex Jones Show to blossom in a cold climate.
To my critics I say I should not criticise Plod in such august company, but Plod had me falsely accused at the tender age of thirteen. My doggerel poetry some might say is ripe for the TSElliot prize (which closed on 15 December).
I know every doggerel I do pen is one doggerel nearer to my last
And I know the years on me are telling that my better days are in the past
But why worry for what never can be and why pine for what has long gone
The love of life is what should matter and the will to keep on keeping on
I know life for many is not easy and many far worse off than me
But hey, sod em all, I am sure you would all agree
I feel in life I have been lucky that lady luck is on my side
Circumstances of birth not against me and to a fair go I’ve never been denied,
So all who decry my rhyming patter,
I say what better way to chatter.
But the Reaper makes everyone equal since to his scythe everyone does fall
So why not drink a toast to the Reaper and a toast to a fair go for all.
An improvement Fergus; a touch of William McGonagal in the style of Ogden Nash. But thank God that Ogden Nash is not around to castigate me for making that invidious – nay insidious – comparison. William Mc G deserves it!
People expect Ogden to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when …
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men gNash when an old man dies.
Btw Fergus, have you thought of applying for a job with Clinton Christmas Cards? Judging by this year’s output they could do with some help. Santa with banter, perhaps? Could be a lucrative sideline.
Ah, TSElliott! Up there in the pantheon along with Percy Byshe Sheley.
Oops, sorry! TSElliot.
Malfleur
December 15th, 2015 – 10:01
Thank God for the alternative media!
I heartily agree!
Many times, after trying to read the papers, or rarely these days, watch a TV political programme, I cry,”Thank G-d, for the Coffee House Wall!
Good news: two shops selling golliwogs in Sauchiehall Street.
http://dailym.ai/1Rmg4bJ
Major Tim put into orbit……thanks to the Russians,who are the only ones who can still do it.
Pat Condell trumps the petition:
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/we_want_the_truth.php
A seasonal message from an American pal, as a little light relief from the doom and gloom and to appeal to the softer-lit side of The Wall:
A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands.
Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile; my
sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?
The girl looked up at her mum for some seconds, then she suddenly took a
quick bite on one apple, and then quickly on the other.
The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her
disappointment. Then the little girl handed one of her bitten apples to her mum,
and said: mummy, here you are. This is the sweeter one.
No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you
think you are, always delay judgement.
Give others the privilege to explain themselves.
What you see may not be the reality. Never conclude for others.
Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others
without understanding them first.
Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded but
because they value friendship above money.
Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but
because they understand the concept of responsibility.
Those who apologize first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong
but because they value the people around them.
Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you any thing
but because they see you as a true friend.
Those who often text you, do so not because they have nothing better to do
but because you are in their heart.
Those who take out time to chat with you, does not mean they are jobless or
less busy, but they know the importance of keeping in touch.
One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our
conversations of everything and nothing; … the dreams that we had.
Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare…
One day our children will see our pictures and ask ‘Who are these people?’
And we will smile with invisible tears because a heart is touched with a strong
word and you will say:
‘IT WAS WITH THEM THAT I HAD THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE’.
Send this to all your friends that you will never forget.
Ten minutes of serious laughter:
Sierra Club silliness
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2015/12/15/sierra-club-silliness.html
It’s Turkey stuffing time over at Chez Boot:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/little-foretaste-turkey-eu
With all the trimmings!
Frank P – 21:38
And no mention of the firearms officer suspended on Monday, who could have murder charges brought against him?
In the US, they have had 1000 schools closed in LA (though NY is made of sterner stuff), because of a message from Germany.
But the biggest threat to mankind is Climate Change! 🙂
A debate among candidates for the US Presidency is going to begin about 3 hours from now. I’m on the N.American west coast so I expect to be able to see it all quite early in the evening.
In Britain on the other hand I think it will be the middle of the night. But if I were in Britain I believe I would stay up to watch it….
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/15/politics/republican-debate-updates/
I wonder if this has to be the most untruthful headline of the year? –
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/saudi-696185-alliance-coalition.html
Is the true purpose of this alliance to give the maximum undercover encouragement of increased Muslim infiltration into western countries and to co-ordinate the current jihad war being waged by Wahabbist and similar Sunni Muslim terrorists? Rather like Turkey’s Erdogan pretending to be an ally of Russia and then stabbing Russia in the back?
ENEMY OF THE STATE?
“…the Western public is starting to wake up to the fact that ISIS is more than the progeny of Abu-Mus’ab al-Zarqawi – it’s an entity that enjoys a great degree of state sponsorship…The question is this: which states ultimately participate in the conspiracy?
…The Mirror … reports that “a number of Islamic State supporters’ social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the UK Department of Work and Pensions.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-15/isis-twitter-handles-traced-uk-government-hackers
“Hackers have claimed that a number of Islamic State supporters’ social media accounts are being run from internet addresses linked to the Department of Work and Pensions…….’Don’t you think that’s strange?’ one of the hackers asked Mirror Online. ‘We traced these accounts back to London, the home of the British intelligence services.’ ”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/hackers-trace-isis-twitter-accounts-7010417
*****
But don’t worry, it seems the British government was simply selling unwanted internet address, some of the to Saui Arabia, to raise funds for the hard-pressed British taxpayer. So that’s alright then.
Robert Retyred (21:54)
I’d hold your fire on the suspension angle (so to speak); but I agree that in these cases where it’s an ambush of an ambush, there are always ‘issues’. The motive of the grass is a factor that will require deep scrutiny. The first question is always, did the grass set it up? It will have to be investigated very rigorously.
As I’ve said before often before – the cyclical nature of serious organised crime follows the changing of the guard in the perpetual game of leapfrog. And there is always an ethnic element to it somewhere. Nobody has ever dared to do a analysis of what proportion of crime emanates from which ethnic groupings, either first, second or third generations. The results of such an analysis would, I am certain, produce some surprising results. The same applies to most countries. It will get worse, as Alex points out, as migration increases from countries where customs, laws, mores and culture are incompatible with with the British way of life. There has always been an element of that in the business of crime, but it will increase exponentially as a concomitant to the ever swelling inundation of migration, particularly by incomers who despise Western values or just hate the Brits for historical reasons – and I’m optimistically supposing that those values still count for something, even among the majority of the indigenous folks. The vox pops these days seem to indicate otherwise, sadly.
Thanks for that clip of Cruz filleting. I hadn’t seen it. The comments were interesting too – a mixed bag.
Police in Sweden investigate ISIS threats posted through letterboxes
http://dailym.ai/1m5k7Mb
via http://dailym.ai/ios
“Can New Gun Laws Guard Muslims from Temptation, Win the True Jihad?”
Scott Ott, thoughts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvchbd_4vgk
A comprehensive satire on the gliberal “progressive” mindset.
Frank P, December 16th, 2015 – 01:57
Trump fillets Cruz @8:20, and then goes on to comprehensively demolish Mrs BJC @10:38 in this recent interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuDJ5aFDcd4
EC – 08:45
‘The art of the deal’ (near the end)
That explains much of the failure on the Right! That is, if you think Cameron is on the Right! 🙂
John birch – 05:54
Is ‘Option Two’ a pre-Christmas bonus ‘limited’ offer? 🙁
Something to give the useless clever-clogs pause:
“…Since mid-2014 the Pentagon has run all manner of war games – as many as 16 times, under different scenarios – pitting NATO against Russia. All scenarios were favorable to NATO. All simulations yielded the same victor: Russia.
And that’s why Erdogan’s erratic behavior actually terrifies quite a few real players from Washington to Brussels. …
…The Pentagon is very much aware of the tremendous heavy metal Russia may unleash if provoked to the limit by someone like Erdogan. Let’s roll out an abridged list.
Russia can use the mighty SS-18 – which NATO codenames “Satan”; each “Satan” carries 10 warheads, with a yield of 750 to 1000 kilotons each, enough to destroy an area the size of New York state.
The Topol M ICBM is the world’s fastest missile at 21 Mach (16,000 miles an hour); against it, there’s no defense. Launched from Moscow, it hits New York City in 18 minutes, and L.A. in 22.8 minutes.
Russian submarines – as well as Chinese submarines – are able to launch offshore the US, striking coastal targets within a minute. Chinese submarines have surfaced next to US aircraft carriers undetected, and Russian submarines can do the same.
The S-500 anti-missile system is capable of sealing Russia off from ICBMs and cruise missiles. (Moscow will only admit on the record that the S-500s will be rolled out in 2016; but the fact the S-400s will soon be delivered to China implies the S-500s may be already operational.)
The S-500 makes the Patriot missile look like a V-2 from WWII.
Here, a former adviser to the US Chief of Naval Operations essentially goes on the record saying the whole US missile defense apparatus is worthless.
Russia has a supersonic bomber fleet of Tupolev Tu-160s; they can take off from airbases deep in the heart of Russia, fly over the North Pole, launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles from safe distances over the Atlantic, and return home to watch the whole thing on TV.
Russia can cripple virtually every forward NATO base with tactical – or battlefield – small-yield nuclear weapons. It’s not by accident that Russia over the past few months tested NATO response times in multiple occasions.
The Iskander missile travels at seven times the speed of sound with a range of 400 km. It’s deadly to airfields, logistics points and other stationary infrastructure along a broad war theatre, for instance in southern Turkey.
NATO would need to knock out all these Iskanders. But then they would need to face the S-400s – or, worse, S-500s — which Russia can layer in defense zones in nearly every conceivable theater of war. Positioning the S-400s in Kaliningrad, for instance, would cripple all NATO air operations deep inside Europe…”.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-15/you-want-war-russia-ready-war
Some interesting comments follow also…
Meanwhile, on Tuesday Alex Jones mentions that the Pentagon has “anti-matter weapons” – these can apparently blow up whole solar systems. The Americans are somewhat reluctant to test them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Rk5hkiwIE
Nigel batting for Britain, still not out, but apparently this is not worth the attention of the main stream media commentators here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY6sV9QvLXM
Malfleur (14:03).
FFS tell you pal Alex J to stop fretting; that we all have an inbuilt automatic ‘anti-matter-weapon’. It’c called individual sudden death (or in some cases less sudden than we would like). Or, as JMK said, if I remember correctly, “In the long run, we’re all dead.”
King Sol will determine the fate of the planet and what’s left of its polluting humanoids, when he’s good and ready. And that would be a show I’d like to watch from an alternative Universe. But there’s about as much chance of that as me getting the password to trigger the lock on Pearly Gates.
Have you invested in the financial ‘opportunities’ advertised on his web site, by any chance?
Btw if the Pentagon’s ‘anti-matter weapon’ goes awry, supposedly it will melt all he gold in the ‘solar systems’. So not much point in converting to that combustible muck, is there? Perhaps we should invest in black holes. Speaking of which, Obysmal is about to celebrate his last Christmas in the White House without knowing who his successor will be. Let’s hope his next Christmas will be a very unhappy one indeed. With a bit of luck the Comeytose FBI Chief will have issued indictments against the HilBilliary Mob by then. But will Loretta Lynch her even if he does?
Well we can dream, can’t we? 😉
Lynch them – sorry. The whole feckin cabal!
British Prime Minister David Cameron called Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump “divisive, stupid and wrong” in Parliament on Wednesday.
“Cameron was reacting to calls to ban Trump from entering the country due to his proposal to ban Muslims from immigrating to or visiting the United States, which Trump defended at Tuesday night’s Republican debate in Las Vegas.
“I think his remarks are divisive, stupid and wrong and I think if he came to this country it would unite us all against him,” Cameron said during Question Time in the House of Commons.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/16/british-prime-minister-donald-trump-divisive-stupid-and-wrong
If Trump came to Britain, it would unite us, but not in the way that Camoron expects. After those leaflets, ‘invitations’, going to Swedish homes, it beggars belief that it’s ‘Nothing To Do With Islam’!
Fracking – I can think of another word beginning with ‘F’ which matches the politicians on whom we must rely to defend our land. Not enough that they are willing to throw away the civilised culture of this country, and embrace an alien way of life (or death)! Now they are eager to actually tear apart the very structure and tissue of this green and pleasant land.
“Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2dLv1GIUAAC7VA.jpg
Frank P
It’s not a question of the “anti-matter weapon going awry”. It’s a question of its working.
And what do you mean by “financial opportunities”?
Radford NG
Good! Glad to see the guys have lots of girls.
Interesting article by Jane Kelly.
http://www.salisburyreview.com/Jane_Kelly_Blogs/Feminist_rage.html
How selective they are.
A very interesting perspective: what a tangled web they weave:
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/12/moscows-five-star-treatment-of-a-three-star-army-general/
Et tu Flynn?
Boot barks at Jenni ‘Jack’ Russell and the other mutt, ‘Maastrict’ Major – and the Euro-poodle trying to pretend he’s a bulldog, our esteemed current ‘Prime Minister’ dopey Dave:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/windbags-world-unite-eu
Frank P @ 14:55
Good link, Frank, for, indeed, here the omni-all Mr. Boot is at his best, sarcastic, witty and biting to the bone, the Sainsbury analogy fits like a custom made glove. Baron hasn’t read the Times piece, can well imagine its ‘quality’.
And as for the Sir John, all one can say is a ‘a bank teller always a bank teller’. The guy fails to imagine that staying in the EU will turn us into what Northern Ireland is to mainland Britain. The Germans will take over the Old Continent fully sooner or later, it’s inevitable, they’re already half way through, the handling of the refugees should be enough to convince everyone who has a cranium filled with half functioning cells, the EU has broken all the rules on immigration, the Multi made the decision to let the crowds to reach Germany, the businesses have nodded to it, the scouts have already been, picked whom they wanted, the rest could be shipped either back or to the Slavonic vassal states of the east.
Out, out, out should be the only message.
Frank P @ 12:28
Oh dear, Frank, how could you?
This pasquil is just too painful to comment on, Frank. Give Baron anything from the pen of our Mr. Boot instead. He may be even more hard hitting, rather he certainly is that, but at least he has wit, his erudite language flows, one can often learn something like a quote from a thinker of the time of Rome.
This pastiche is just too painful to read, sorry, my blogging friend, it has very likely escaped the turd who penned it that the internet is free, available to all 24/7, one can enrich one’s bank of knowledge.
The poorly educated Slav cannot resist to point just one example of the writer’s imbecility. He’s kicking Sophie Shevardnadze and says “rather than attack Putin’s military interventions in Ukraine and Syria”. What? One can certainly make a case the KGB man is intervening in eastern Ukraine (Mr. Boot did, and not just once), but in Syria? He’s been invited by the Syrian government, Russia happens to be the only foreign power legitimately interfering in that unfortunate country, everyone else, and that includes Britain, is breaking international law, no?
Btw, don’t you find it puzzling that many high placed individuals (not only in the Republic but here, too) rediscover common sense, a new system of values, a totally different slicing of things when they retire, no longer have to worry about their pension, privileges or whatever? Funny that.
John birch @ 06:30
The piece should be a compulsory reading for anyone working in the field of community relations, John. One is hard put to decide who’s the worse, the perpetrators of such crimes, or the Quislings who do nothing to stop it.
Malfleur @ 12:24
The sooner they get together, decommission the stuff (and that includes the American anti-matter thing if it exists for real), bury it, promise never to dig it up, the better, Malfleur. We’ve got enough nuking toys to kill us many times over as it is.
Why this fascination of yours with the stuff? You reckon the neck of the woods you live in will escape undamaged?
Pat has a say, and over in Moscow, the Kremlin boss has commented on Trump, too, saying he is the true leader of America. My, my
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=iHLcrfhwPtc
Even the foxes in Putin’s Russia are smart, Frank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj6quKEn3dw&feature=youtu.be
Baron (18:56)
See Dec 15 (18:08).
And now that Vlad has underwritten him, perhaps it’s time to take a second look …. ☺ – at another candidate. Kiss of death, and Vlad knows it.
Baron(20:06)
You’re scraping the bottom of the jam-jar with that one.
Frank P
December 17th, 2015 – 22:53
Your comment is a bit too enigmatic for me. Are you saying that Vlad has fatally impaled Trump? I’d like to think he’s impaled Cameron…..
I wonder if this will replace Six White Boomers? –
https://www.youtube.com/embed/yZZlo0WZ_iU?rel=0
Moderators – My posting @ 23:01 (asking Frank whether he meant that Vlad has impaled Trump’s chances of being elected) had typos in my email address. Apologies.
My own hope is that it just may have the opposite effect. It will certainly be interesting if Trump makes any comment about it.
Moderators – another apology – my posting at 00:43 refers to “My posting at 23:01”. That too is a typo. The posting was well after midnight.
Baron (18:23)
Heh, heh, heh …
I thought might bring the pains on.
Just one point from the chagrin of your response. Does the KGB really need an invitation to attend any party in that theatre? I would guess that Vlad has a gold plated season ticket, stamped ‘or else!!!’
As for the “international law’, of which you speak? WTF is that when it is not at home? In a state of war, the only law that is worth a wank, is the Universal Act that dictates that ‘might is right’. As we’ve been in a state of war in one way and another throughout my lifetime; and because the ‘United Nations’ was the most corrupt organization the world has ever known (until the IPPC was convened – and I mean the one that just wasted a shitload of taxpayers money on their boondoggle in Gay Paree, not the one that just nicked the detective from the Wood Green ambush), any mention of ‘international law’ is risible.
At this moment in history we are in grave danger from the unholy alliance of covert communism (in all its guises) in conjunction with the new Caliphate of Islam.
Because that incongruous alliance is currently engaged in a complex multifactional internecine squabble, the comatose wimps whose wanking spanners are on the levers of power within the Western Alliance should take advantage of that weakness and apply the universal law of ‘might is right’ and set both ideologies back several centuries with a strafing they will never forget.
Unless someone occupies the White House who is willing to lead that charge, we are doomed to either Dhimmitude or the Comintern. Each equals slavery.
Cliff Kincaid may be a bit of a demogogue, but he and Trevor Loudon nailed Obysmal and his commie cabal the moment they put their heads above the parapet as they prepared for the run up to the 2008 US general election. They both adduced clear evidence of what was coming off and their prognostications have been spot on: vide Melanies old Speccie blog, if you know how to harvest stuff from the archives of Old Queen’s Street. I posted link after link of Loudon’s research back then. Why do you think Kincaid is a ‘turd’ and Vlad’s shit doesn’t stink? You surprise me; why would you support a regime that you admit imprisoned you. I understand Stockholm Syndrome, but would never have thought, from your early postings, that you were susceptible to that phenomenon. We went to war over Czechoslovakia FFS. Explain to me what you see in that short arsed despot that demands your constant advocacy. I’m always open to persuasion when good evidence is proffered. So far I remain mystified about your defence of the indefensible. Enlighten me as to why Boot is on the wrong foot and that Kincaid is Kool Aid? ☺
Herbert (00:43).
You assumed correctly, but I hope you are right. Bur either way Vlad wins … that’s spookery for you. The Russki’s always win in the Great Game. Baron will vouch for that assertion. ☺
Sorry (02:27) I meant of course the IPCC. A typo.
On ‘This Week’ tonight, Brillo asked for a vote for ‘Politician of the Year’. Angela Merkel was unanimously elected by Portillo, Flabbot, the Libdem lass (whose name I understandably always forget) and John Nicholson, the SNP panellist. Great all-round praise for Corbynski too. We really are fucked in every orifice.
Well I never:
Muslim Council ‘secretly linked’ to Brotherhood
“Britain’s biggest Islamic organisation and its largest Muslim student group have undeclared links to the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist network that has at times incited violence and terror, a government report claimed yesterday.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), an umbrella body of more than 500 Islamic organisations, claims to be non-sectarian, but Brotherhood supporters are said to have “played an important role in establishing and then running” it, according to the review.
The Brotherhood, a movement that views western society as corrupting and “inherently hostile to Muslim interests”, has exerted “significant influence” on the MCB … ”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4644129.ece
Robert Retyred (09:47)
Indeed – and in the US of A, they have quite openly infiltrated every organ of government and in some cases have written the rules of engagement for police and the military. It’s good to see that the Murdoch press in the UK are at last on the case. They’re only about 10 years behind the blogosphere, but let’s hope this is the beginning of an awakening. ☺
Nothing to do with Islam of course!!!
Frank P
December 18th, 2015 – 11:48
Robert Retyred (09:47)
Indeed – and in the US of A, they have quite openly infiltrated every organ of government and in some cases have written the rules of engagement for police and the military. It’s good to see
……AND EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Young Doug is an interesting character
Why, it was only August last year that he was belittling Tory leadership
He is simply a misarchist
“Mr Carswell said the decision to jump ship from the Conservatives had given him “sleepless nights” but he wanted to see “fundamental change in British politics” and UKIP – a party he believed belonged to its members rather than a “little clique” of political insiders – could deliver it.
“The problem is that many of those at the top of the Conservative Party are simply not on our side. They aren’t serious about the change that Britain so desperately needs.
“Of course they talk the talk before elections. They say what they feel they must say to get our support… but on so many issues – on modernising our politics, on the recall of MPs, on controlling our borders on less government, on bank reform, on cutting public debt, on an EU referendum – they never actually make it happen.”
He said only UKIP could “shake up that cosy little clique called Westminster”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28967904
Frank P @ 02:07
As an opening: The guy whose opinion you seem to value penned the narrative castigating RT for being an agitprop of Kremlin blissfully unaware his pasquil is an agitprop for the other side. As it happens, and it’s just Baron’s judgement, he’s an abysmally poor propagandist at that for as the barbarian said before, our Mr. Boot does a much better job of it.
You cannot be more right about the UN, but what that has to do with the subject we’re ranting about?
To the point: What is it we’re all lamenting most in our relation with the EU? Sovereignty, or rather the loss of it, right? That’s what pains, the nibbling at our independence as a free, self-governed nation until little remains after centuries of a full goblet of it. That goes for other countries’ sovereignty, too, in the time of Munich, it was Baron’s little sliver of mid-Europe, here the country’s Syria.
We’re an aggressor in Syria, no question about it, it matters not what words one chooses to warp in. Baron reckons no other government before the ghastly Blair got in would have considered it without a bloody good reason. Arselicking the honorary Muslim counts not as a good motive in Baron’s book of reasons.
What war are you talking about? Have we declared war on ISIS? When? We should have, Baron suggested it few weeks back. That may have given us a pretext to chase the thugs everywhere, even in Syria. Perhaps.
Gut feeling tells Baron the doctrine of regime change may backfire at some point in the future, it’s a dangerous move, the role of the bully may not remain with the West forever. History isn’t static.
The point that ‘might’s right’ suits us today, but if you look around, it may not be the smartest, and certainly not the timeliest of arguments to go for, to shield ourselves behind. And Baron means not Russia, more the country to her east. When China’s 1.5bn coolies get going under the umbrella of ‘might’s right’ your response will be what exactly?
How could anyone say this: “At this moment in history we are in grave danger from the unholy alliance of covert communism (in all its guises) in conjunction with the new Caliphate of Islam” then go on lambasting the poorly educated Slav for advocating leaving the Russian bear alone, none of our business who governs the muzhiks, live and let live.
The creeping communism in the West has FA to do with today’s Russia. It’s of our own doing. We’ve adopted more features of the communist model of economy and in the social sphere than new Russia possesses today. The cumryd, if he gets in, will ensure we’ll take up some more features of it. What that has to do with the KGB colonel?
(Notwithstanding what you’ve replied a couple of weeks before to Baron’s challenge on this issue), the Russians under Putin have done us no harm, some of the wealthy Ivans have bought few overpriced properties in London, and the man Abramovich has spent hundreds of millions on a bunch of young men who like to kick the ball (it looks he’ll spend more in the near future). That’s about it. How much wrong is that?
A matter of fact: Britain went to war over Poland, she sold out the Czechs in Munich.
What sort of a question is this: “Why would you support a regime that you admit imprisoned you?”
Frank, it was communism that imprisoned the poorly educated Slav, not the Russians, and certainly not the regime that the Russians have today.
When Baron argues there is a clear distinction between peoples and the ideology pumped into them, the creed they are either forced to or brainwashed to follow, he means it. History backs the barbarian. The Germans followed Adolf almost to a man, in the Reichstag election in 1933, 92 out of 100 burghers in Germany voted for his NSDAP. Did it mean nearly every German was a Nazi?
The same goes for the Russians, the unwashed had no choice, communism was hoisted on them in 1917, the whole country became a Gulag at a stroke, to oppose the regime landed one in prison or worse. In fact, if one were to rank the German and Russian masses in terms of blame for the sickeningly barbaric regime in either country, the Germans would come top. They bloody voted the house decorator in, the Russians were never asked to vote.
You must have missed it, Baron said it many times before, conditions in Russia are far from ideal, the ordinary Russians don’t have the full spectrum of freedoms we enjoy, the standard of living for the majority of them ranks well below ours, but compared to what they had before either under Boris and certainly under the communist thugs (this is what they compare themselves with) they’re unarguably, unquestionably, absolutely better off. They have truly never had it so good since the first sitting of the Duma way back inn 1612. Trust Baron, he knows, he’s looked it up.
Nuffsaid, don’t you think. More later, the barbarian has to feed himself.
Last thought though: If you’re mystified by Baron’s slicing of things Russians, what does Flynn’s joining the club do to your mental state? The guy sat at the top of the US security services tree, for 33 years, he knows all there’s to know, and yet he has courageously attached himself not to the political elites of the West. Explain, please.
Sorry for the errors like ‘wrap it in’ rather than ‘warp in’, others. Will do better next time.
one more for the scum list
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/14155525.RAPE_TRIAL__Jury_delivers_its_verdicts_in_Keighley_sex_case/
Ann is spot on, the Soviet Union is no more, it cannot be a real threat to us:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/12/18/coulter-gop-candidates-monkeys-only-trump-can-save-u-s-from-turning-into-uganda/
RobertRetyred @ 09:47
It cannot be otherwise, Robert, just ask yourself what is the common denominator of all these groupings? Anything springs to mind?
telemachus @ 13:22
Mr Carswell, if he truly wanted to engineer a change in British politics, should find ways other than his public castigating of Nigel, the field of criticism is wide enough, he should find a patch, make his own, cultivate it.
Frank P @ 02:42
One would be hard put to find a better example of virtue signalling than the elevation of Mutti.
Lucky us, if we had more orifices than nature endowed us with it would be more than painful.
Herbert Thornton @ 00:43
He did, Herbert, but he also said he absolutely condemns any killing of journalists in Putin’s Russia. Good on him for saying it because even if it isn’t on Putin’s direct orders, any violence, and in particular against men and women of the third estate is abhorrent.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/12/18/trump-always-felt-fine-about-putin-us-does-plenty-of-killing-also-maybe-we-should-follow-in-ukraine/
Obama in his press conference says ‘ha has never been more optimistic about next year’.
We should run for cover, Baron reckons.
Frank P @ 23:01
Good one, Frank, it made the barbarian chuckle except there are no more jam jars left in Russia what with the sanctions still in place. Ha ha ha.
The Saudis are introducing VAT, issuing bonds, cutting welfare and other stuff. The low oil prices are beginning to bite. Amazingly, when they proposed few days back that OPEC and Russia (Russia and the Saudis pump roughly the same amount of barrels of the stuff) cut output to boost prices, Kremlin refused, pumps even more.
This is purely speculative: The Russians don’t rely on oil revenues as much as do the Saudis, for them the biggest danger comes from rolling over their dollar debt, we are talking billions dollars. If they could find a country not in the sanction group e.g. China, to get it to re-finance the loans they’ll be OK.
The refusal to push prices up by them would suggest they may have done it. The rouble sinks in tandem with the oil price, i.e. the Gazprom revenues in roubles get boosted, and quite alot of the company costs are in roubles. The Saudis have no such cushion, they need the greenback, more of it to fund their purchases in dollars.
Interesting to see how this pans out.
Yesterday, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten carried the news that the Turkish army together with top businesses are demanding the resignation of Abidin Ünal, the top Air Force man, alleging that it was his decision alone to shoot down the Russian bomber.
Could it be Erdogan is looking for a scapegoat?
Weird that.
Baron@December 18th, 2015 – 21:02
maybe russia is playing with the oil price to spoil things for KSA and quatar, who fund daesh. Who downed their airliner. If thats true, nice one putin.
we should frack and underground coal gassify now so we are not dependant on foreigners for energy security
Baron – 20:35
I know that it’s nothing to do with ….
Baron (18:58)
Thanks for the comprehensive response. We’ll have to agree to differ. You’re not going to convince a old cold-warrior that the Soviet spooks have changed their ways and Vlad is still the head spook. Putin himself has said that ‘the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century’.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4480745.stm
PThat doesn’t sound like a man who has given up on restoring it, particularly when the West has President Pussy in the White House. Playing buggins turn by changing seats with his stooge Medvedev doesn’t strike me as being a good deal for the Russian ‘electorate’ but if they’re happy with it, then good for them. Vlad is playing the West like a fiddle. I don’t doubt he is ahead in the Great Game. But we’ll have to see how it plays out. Maybe Flynn has decided to play him at his own game?
Obysmal’s Christmas rhetoric did nothing to make me as optimistic as he professes to be.
Btw. On the question of perpetual war: ‘East is East and West is West – and ne’er the Twain shall meet.’
Can’t see that changing any time soon. ☺
Drug giant named ISIS changes name as profits plunge after Paris attacks
“It comes after Downton Abbey producers are thought to have axed the show’s pet labrador because of its unfortunate namesake.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/628053/Drug-company-changes-name-Islamic-State-ISIS
The show’s pet labrador has been axed! Beheaded! Surely not?
Interesting piece on Soros, and tweets about Germany as the most friendly country for the refugees from the ME.
You will be glad to know the philanthropist thinks Europe should take one million of them each for the foreseeable future, issue bonds to cover the cost. Also, that most of the tweets about Germany as the welcome country for the Muslim newcomers originate not in Germany but in the US and Britain. Anyone cares to explain the source of these tweets?
http://journal-neo.org/2015/12/18/soros-plays-both-ends-in-syria-refugee-chaos/
Frank @ 21:46
A deal, Frank.
Fancy you relying on the BBC to prove a point.
Still, and for the record, Putin has never said that ‘the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century’. This is what the Western MSM poodles alleged he had said (their translation of it). What he actually said was ‘whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain’.
The inaccurate translation that got track in the West (for reasons obvious) is close, but even you must agree it’s no cigar.
The (part) citation ‘Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
(till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgement Seat….) is often misunderstood, you seem to have fallen into the trap, too. Scan the link, those in the know will try to right you e.g. Kingsley Amis, even though they are unlikely to succeed, right?
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_eastwest1.htm
alexsandr @ 21:08
Seconded, alexandr, we shouldn’t rely on either the ghastly Saudis or Russia under Putin or anyone else, we should gassify coal, frack but carefully, we don’t want to walk on earth that may move.
Still one point on things Russians, Frank.
The paucity of any news on Russia in the MSM here in Britain, except for the very rare commentary (always negative, of course) by the BBC or some other hack there’s nothing, a total vacuum, a deep void. This must be deliberate, but why? The only reason that suggests itself is to keep the unwashed in the dark, the notion of Russia as the bogey man alive. It may suit the Americans, but it cannot be to our interest.
The Germans have moved in the opposite direction, heap of news on Russia, both positive and negative. Very recently about the sanctions (extended till Summer next year), the Chamber of Commerce unhappy, some commentaries endorsing the extension, some against it.
The Germans are also the biggest inward investor in Russia, and it’s not a small market either, over 140mn people all eager to catch up with us, to acquire the trinkets of consumerism. Bloody stupid, and one even doesn’t have to like the vodka drinkers to flog them things.
The absence of the Colonel hurts, Baron does miss the depth of knowledge he commanded (and still commands, of course), his wisdom, and the crafting of what it was he wanted to say.
Couldn’t Peter get in touch, convince him to rejoin us.
Does anyone know whether anyone ever visits this blog of ours, or is it just a semi-public affair for the dozen or so of us? It may be a luxury for Peter to run it what with the associated costs.
Baron
The Colonel will not return if the troll still has access to the platform. We already voted on that issue, but Peter has left the door open to agitprop. Remember CM’s last missive?
Btw, I’ll give you the last word on your Russophilia. Otherwise we’ll go round in ever decreasing circles until we disappear up our own Dardanelles.
Kipling? As with Shakespeare and most other bards – like most other mischief makers, I quoute (or misquote) their lines to suit the immediate need. As you point out, I’ll even link the Beeb, just to get you going. Not like you to be pedantic. 😉
Don’t miss Master Boot’s latest post. Not much to disagree about there, I would guess?
OTOH …
Insomnia, curse on you.
Absolutely nothing to disagree with, Frank. As the barbarian said before when he’s good he’s excellent.
The point about education says it all for it is at the core of our woes, and it isn’t the low attainment of our school leavers in the reading, writing, algebra departments, but their lack of capacity to think independently, as he so elegantly points out.
How did the barbarian miss the vote? More to the point, the Colonel could always skip the offending postings, no?
And you’re right, we should stop bickering, for the sake of the ‘movement’ and what with the season of goodwill almost upon us, goodwill to all men, women, trans, LBDs, RWTs …..
DONALD TRUMP ADDRESSES THE REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION
Full speech in video
Short article
Comments
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/12/trump-talks-to-the-jewish-bigwigs/
Oh, and I almost forgot
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/12/lighting-torches-for-the-forgotten-persecuted-christians/
Here is how our new Ukrainian friends are conducting governmental business.
It perhaps runs for too long for you, just over 4 minutes, the brawling between Avakov, who is the equivalent of our Home Secretary, and Saakashvili, the Georgian, who is in charge of Odessa. It starts reasonably well, Avakov challenges the Georgian saying that he accused his Ministry of corruption, furnished no proof, the latter steps in quite angrily says it’s easy to see corruption, it’s all around for everyone to witness it, then the shouting begins. After the glass hits the table, the chair calls the meeting to a halt, the two accuse each other: Saakashvili shouts ‘you thief’, Avakov calls him ‘a bastard’.
The point that should be of interest to you is that the proceedings are in pure Russian, the language of their contemporary enemy. Funny, if it were not tragic for the unwashed of Ukraine, and they have the Americans to thank for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io_PVkJMLmU
The day of the Christ Child draws near:
Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck…
How to live in a world that’s politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”,
“Vertically Challenged” they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the North Pole,
were alleged by the union, to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety,
released to the wilds, by the Humane Society.
And equal employment had made it quite clear,
that Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid,
were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!
The runners had been removed from his beautiful sleigh,
because the ruts were deemed dangerous by the EPA,
And millions of people were calling the Cops,
when they heard sled noises upon their roof tops.
Second-hand smoke from his pipe, had his workers quite frightened,
and his fur trimmed red suit was called “unenlightened”.
To show you the strangeness of today’s ebbs and flows,
Rudolf was suing over unauthorized use of his nose.
He went to Geraldo, in front of the Nation,
demanding millions in over-due workers compensation.
So…half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife
who suddenly said she’d had enough of this life,
joined a self help group, packed and left in a whiz,
demanding from now on that her title was Ms.
And as for gifts…why, he’d never had the notion
that making a choice could cause such commotion.
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur…
Which meant nothing for him or nothing for her.
Nothing to aim, Nothing to shoot,
Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise.
Nothing for just girls and nothing for just boys.
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific,
Nothing that’s warlike or non-pacifistic.
No candy or sweets…they were bad for the tooth.
Nothing that seemed to embellish upon the truth.
And fairy tales…while not yet forbidden,
were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden,
for they raised the hackles of those psychological,
who claimed the only good gift was one ecological.
No baseball, no football…someone might get hurt,
besides – playing sports exposed kids to dirt.
Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passe.
and Nintendo would rot your entire brain away.
So Santa just stood there, disheveled and perplexed,
he just couldn’t figure out what to do next?
He tried to be merry he tried to be gay,
but you must have to admit he was having a very bad day.
His sack was quite empty, it was flat on the ground,
nothing fully acceptable was anywhere to be found.
Something special was needed, a gift that he might,
give to us all, without angering the left or the right.
A gift that would satisfy – with no indecision,
each group of people in every religion.
Every race, every hue,
everyone, everywhere…even you!
So here is that gift, it’s price beyond worth…
“MAY YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, ENJOY PEACE ON EARTH”
You may have seen it before, hard to tell, there has been so many links. It’s a Trump interview, in Baron’s humble judgement, Trump at his best, relaxed, logical, convincing. Only two things he could have squeezed in.
First, when he was quizzed about the healing nature of the presidential job, the divisive state of America under Obama, he should have said that what will do the healing when he sits in the Oval Office will be his always telling the truth, no PC bullshit, no hypocrisy (well, as little as possible probably), just straight talking. Because that would work. People would be more content, would respond differently if a politician kicked them provided they felt the kicking was justified, now they feel fobbed off.
The other one on the gun issue. Just the knowledge that someone, a law abiding citizen may be there, armed, may deter the thugs from committing an atrocity, change their plans, make them more demanding and thus easier to spot at the preparation stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=481&v=EonMD5FCvDI
Baron – 11:14
Yes, four minutes is a long time when when the argument is incomprehensible 🙂 but your description helped. It is easy to forget, when looking at world politics, that every country has its own home grown variety. The woman on the man’s left was relieved what it ended!
‘Geraldo’ gives the game away, Fergus.
That’s from someone in the States, ennit?
Alex Boot eschews his Christmas sabbatical, to whimsically opine on the machinations of mammon and the curiosities of communism. Interesting stuff, with a couple of conversational triggers to tease the terriers of this platform:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/now-there’s-surprise-rich-are-getting-richer-0
Newsflash
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12058755/Adolf-Hitler-really-did-have-only-one-testicle-according-to-new-medical-report.html
Considering the inferred average age of the CHW contributors this is perhaps a little invidious, if not indeed cruel:
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/people_are_awesome_2015.php
But if you can still get a vicarious thrill at the exploits of the younger and fitter – enjoy!
Frank
December 19th, 2015 – 17:29
Do you remember the days when great band leaders led great musicians, and the sounds were so cool?
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – Geraldo & his Orchestra
Indeed I do, Anne. The example you cite fits the bill perfectly, too. ☺
But as Bob Hope once said to Jane Russell – “Thanks for the mammaries!”
IN PRAISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN –
‘The Divine Right of Kings’ – a video by Dr. Steve PIECZNIK who fought the Soviet Union
https://stevepieczenik.com/talks/#.VnXZMbZ97s0
Mark Steyn:
http://www.steynonline.com/7371/the-fabric-fading-dye
Excerpt [quoting the poet George Jonas]:
“A cricket chorus of the Left that frets
unceasingly about nuclear threats
goes on to view with exquisite aplomb
the Muslim population bomb.
The word is imprecise: there’s no explosion,
at least not literally, from the Islamic womb,
the process throughout Europe is erosion.
A puzzled population, getting older,
feebly looks on as Mesopotamia,
seeps through the soil, the air, the blood,
a trickle yesterday, today a flood,
mixes with Tunis, Algeria,
till those who go to sleep in France or Spain,
wake in Eurabia.”
Brilliant (eat your heart out Fergus).
But please read it all.
http://fredoneverything.org/ready-intercepted-letter-from-the-kkk-understanding-useful-idiocy/
JB at 08:58
An perceptive bit od satire from Fred there.
The addendum is interesting! The stenographic technique would appear to be over-complicated but may well be undetectable by anything other than quantum computational techniques.
Under Obama, the southern border between Mexico and the USA in unguarded on the US side.
Now:
“Guards from Customs and Border Protection would carry out immigration and customs checks before passengers board.
They would be given diplomatic immunity so they could not be prosecuted for any crime committed on British soil.”
ttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3367396/US-guards-guns-patrol-British-airports-time-controversial-new-plans-discussed-London-Washington.html
As a matter of urgency, constitutional committees should be organised at the grass-roots level to look at the revival of the common law posse comitatus with authority to arrest the politicians underwriting this initiative which in turn should be stopped in its tracks. Do we have any constitutional lawyers reading the Wall who can comment or advise on this?
John Birch (08:58)
The inner link in that piece answers all rational questions about ‘terrorism’ apart from his last one, which is terrifying in its simplicity, because the terrorists may one day ask it themselves. So far, thanks to the seven blind bastards of fickle fate – they haven’t. Happy Christmas:
http://www.unz.com/freed/security-theater-customary-federal-pointlessness/
The pandemic plague intensifies:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7050/isis-india-hindus
Interesting navel gazing; but not sure that it elucidates anything beyond our ken:
http://www.quadrapheme.com/the-branding-of-everything/
A delightful reprise from Gerard:
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/the_gift_of_the_walmagi.php
So far the chill breeze from the ‘opening of the Canadian door’ has not reached Norfolk England. Here’s hoping that the Jet Stream will continue to act as a buffer. Spring in December is very welcome, even if it does sink the Maldives and Al Gore. Phuckum!
Syrians thank Israel for eliminating Samir Kuntar
Israelis aren’t the only ones celebrating, as members of Sunni opposition take to social media to hail Hezbollah commander’s death.
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By Ari Soffer
First Publish: 12/20/2015, 10:41 AM
Arutz 7
.Must break the humanitarian’s hearts that an evil man has been eliminated.
Apart from the injustice of this weaselly wording to describe an implaccable and inimical evil, the stupidy of the current US administration is mind-blowing:
http://m.clarionproject.org/analysis/why-now-fbi-decides-terror-motivated-chattanooga-shooter
That Obama should believe that this type of language will assuage the jihadists, rather than confirm to them that the West is ripe for plucking is an indication of his need ot psychiatric assessment:
http://m.clarionproject.org/analysis/why-now-fbi-decides-terror-motivated-chattanooga-shooter
Or is it that he is fully aware that a sizeable proportion of the citizenry have their heads so far up his, or their own, fundaments, that he can continue to faciliate his Muslim cohorts without let or hindrance?
John birch @ 08:58
It’s not easy to shock the barbarian pleasantly, John, but Fred’s depth of know how of the cypher world takes the breath away. The amazing ‘tale of the concealed bits” is now safely stored to be revered again in the future. Thanks for the link.
Chris Morriss @ 09:23
Please, please, Chris, take this not as another lecturing tour of the barbarian, it could have been, very likely was the software, but it’s steganography what Fred’s talking about, hiding a message in an image like a picture. This is an old but fascinating subject, but one has to have not only a thorough knowledge of code writing to do it well, but alot of imagination, too.
Have a look here, it’s from Baron’s bank of things to be kept (you see how useful such enterprise can be. The link may not be the best or the latest, but when the barbarian filed it he must have liked it).
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011008/steganography.shtml
Malfleur @ 23:09
Is this chap Piesznik (a Slavonic sounding name, probably Polish) for real, Malfleur? Btw, Baron has always suspected Adolf didn’t kill himself, but lives in Барвиха, old and angry that Jews are still around, ha, ha, ha.
The thing is the place is well known in eastern Europe, certainly in Russia, but it’s not far from Moscow. It was for the ‘verchuschka’ (the top layer) of the society, good hospitals, shops where one can buy imported stuff for dollars, plenty of dachas for the bosses.
Frank P @ 11:31
This unz chap certainly knows how to cheer one up, Frank.
Frank P @ 12:36
Sorry to spoil the guy’s rejoicing over a $7 bargain, guru, but it not always works.
Baron has acquired what he thought was an excellent buy, also a quilted coat, not blue though, reversible lemon yellow, black, plenty of pockets, a hood. After just one wash, the padding used for the quilting got bunched up, whatever the barbarian did, it wouldn’t spread, it had to be discarded. Made in China though.
Malfleur @ 18:03
Wasn’t the puzzle about the house decorator’s nuts not whether he had just one, but which of the wto was missing, the left or the right one, Malfeur?
RobertRetyred @ 16:10
Pity not many of the eastern Europe, Russia originated videos are in English, or at least subtitled, Robert, the malignity and spitefulness of some is unbelievable, how come the people who made them fear no repercussions?
The greatest divide exists in Ukraine, the pro and anti Russian factions don’t spare each other at all. The videos from the Baltic states are more balanced, but where the sympathies of the creators lie isn’t hard to figure. Here is one from Lithuania, the guy speaks in Russian, not that good, and the translation into English isn’t particularly accurate either. The bit to notice is when he talks about his country before WW2.
Whilst under the yoke of the Soviet Red Menace, the Baltic states were regarded as something above the ‘village’ mentality of the mainland Soviet Gulag, many factories that turned up electronic based brown and white goods, sophisticated boxes for the military gear, more up-to-date specialised equipment were sited there, the towns were more civilised, drunkenness wasn’t widespread.
After the USSR fell apart, the factories either closed down or moved into the Russian mainland, many (by no means all) Russians moved with them, as did many of the Republics’ passport holders. The three states are now de-populated, the Russian minorities are substantial, keep to themselves but have no desire to be gobbled up by Putin’s Russia, the youngsters tend to find jobs abroad, Norway is the favoured destination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480qpJRi1oE
Baron at 16:33.
You’re quite right! I hadn’t even realised that my mail program, not having the correct word in its dictionary, changed it for the nearest match.
The idea of hiding a message as essentially random ‘noise’ in a picture was new to me. I’m still not sure how, apart from by using massively-parallel computational techniques, a picture, suspected of carrying a hidden message, may be analysed.
Baron (17:05)
‘Twasn’t a bargain jacket I was after when I read that little masterpiece; it was the wordcraft. My trips over the Pond in halcyon days of yore, involved ocean to ocean travel, not to mention Gulf to 49th Parallel also – year round – so variations in weather often prompted shopping in the mass market retail outlets. Any man who can describe the effect of climate extremes so vividly as this:
“In New England in December the cold does not come in on little cat feet. Instead some mountain god of the great north woods throws open the door to Canada late one night. When you step out the next morning your scrotum promptly goes into hibernation somewhere around your arm pit.” … is worth heeding. He knows what he’s talking about.
As one who suffers similarly, both in extreme cold and extreme heights, I can confirm that his description struck a spermatic chord. Something to do with testicular tortion, I believe. ☺
Moreover my first confrontation with a Walmart was mind blowing, having occurred before the UK followed suit with retail gigantism. He recreated that culture shock to a tee.
I am sure you can cap my experience with tales of Siberia, which is possibly another reason why my aversion to Russia is visceral. It looks so frigging bleak. I think my frog ancestors probably cast my genes somewhere in Provence. The first time I went there was the first time I ever felt climatically comfortable. The only thing that put me off settling there was the feckin’ Frenchmen. The Frenchwomen, less so. But as the old song says, You can’t have one without the other. And before you point out that I’ve quoted that out of context – there I go again!
Baron at 16-44.
At family gatherings the aunts and uncles (ex-8th Army) used to say:”We don’t know that Hitler is dead.For all we know he’s living with his old mate Stalin in the Kremlin”.
As so often happens, Frank, the poorly educated Slav, has to grab the wrong end of the stick.
Not many like the cold, agreed, one has to be of a certain predisposition to live in climes where one’s piss freezes before it hits the ground, but.
As there’s dry and humid hotness, so there also exist dry and moist cold. Here, a temperature of (say) minus 2degC in humid air makes one who’s well dressed feel cold, sweaty, and uncomfortable. In regions of dry cold e.g. Siberia (not everywhere though), temperatures of well below zero, (say) minus 20degC are quire bearable if one is warmly attired, unless one has a habit of kissing things metallic.
And a promise: no more pointing anything out, cross the heart.
Chris Morriss @ 19:02
Despair not, Chris, Baron’s in the same club, even worse, he can follow the sentences that describe how it works, the understanding of the substance wrapped in the sentences, however, totally baffles the barbarian, leaves him in the dark, often makes him wondering whether he has any brain left.
One cannot but admire the ones who not only understand it, but figured it out from scratch.
Radford NG @ 20:15
You see, Radford, your relatives & Baron (and probably many others, too) suspect there’s something wrong with the idea Adolf snuffed it, smell a rat, know better, and Malfleur thinks this Piesznik guy has discovered America.
Where is the grand conspirator today anyway? In hiding? Already?
Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates.
‘In honor of this holy season’ Saint Peter said, ‘You must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.’
The Englishman fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. ‘It’s a candle’, he said.
‘You may pass through the pearly gates’ Saint Peter said.
The Scotsman reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, ‘They’re bells.’
Saint Peter said ‘You may pass through the pearly gates’.
The Irishman started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women’s panties.
St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, ‘And just what do those symbolize?’
The paddy replied, ‘These are Carols.’
And So The Christmas Season
Begins……
What a shock this is. Who could have guessed.
Slash migration ‘to solve homes crisis’, says damning new report
http://dailym.ai/1QAaQZU
via http://dailym.ai/ios
On a lighter note, modern Britain with lashings of sarcasm: http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/12/give-thanks_20.html
Baron, December 20th, 2015 – 17:05
Confucius say, “It is a rich man, indeed, who never has to wear the same pair of socks twice.” Imagine that! Be grateful for your lemon quilted jacket.
Also…
“…whatever the barbarian did, it wouldn’t spread, it had to be discarded.”
Vlad’s modus operandi, in a tortional nutshell…
🙂
Baron – December 20th, 2015 – 16:44
“Is this chap Piesznik (a Slavonic sounding name, probably Polish) for real?”
Baron, ever heard of a “beat-nik” or a “peace-nik”?
Just askin…
(OTOH a “pies-nik” could refer to @EricPickled – although “his” favourite snack is “mini Meltons”, reportedly)
What happens when Santa gets stuck in the chimney?
he gets claustrophobia.
John Alexander @ 08:50
Moloney has surpassed himself, John, the idea of light but deep reaching mockery’s good, the way he carved it excellent, too. Gentle, witty and bitting not just the flesh, also into the bones of the moral, spiritual, economic …. wreck the political wankers have turned this country into.
Mutti seems to have organised Frohe Weihnachten for her citizenry, auch:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7088/germany-weapons
As Marlene Dietrich once remarked, “The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong….
Wise words.
Alexandr (11:12)
Bit early to be opening the crackers, ennit?
EC @ 09:15
Clever of you, EC, the poorly educated Slav cannot think laterally, too demanding for him.
Where have you been for so long? The number of the boots on the ground on this blog gets slimmer and slimmer, if it were not for the guru of the site, the occasional posting by the barbarian, few others the blog would be empty.
And they scoff when The Donald brags that he’s gonna build a wall??
https://worksthatwork.com/4/constructing-the-worlds-biggest-disassemblable-city
h/t American Digest.
They could do with Donald Trump in Christchurch! The earthquakes were nearly four years ago now, and walking around here last night hardly any signs of progress. A lot of new car parks, a couple of building sites with billboards around announcing “coming soon.” They formed a committee/quango to oversee the recovery, apparently. It shows!
36C here yesterday afternoon, btw. Cooler this morning.
Alex Boot driving a hard bargain with only one hand on the steering wheel:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/oh-be-driving-instructor-holland
As Harold Steptoe would have expostulated: “You dutty old merrn!”
If it’s not Cecil Rhodes’ fault, it has to be Lady Thatcher’s 🙂 :
South Africa is a failed state under Zuma the illiterate clansman
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/south-africa-is-a-failed-state-under-zuma-the-illiterate-clansman-a6777431.html
Seymour Hersh, another useful idiot and conspiracy theorist, has what could be some good news if he weren’t:
“Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.
The military’s resistance dates back to the summer of 2013, when…” [read on]
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military
(h/t Drudge Report)
and remember, Hillary Clinton started “the Islamic State”, so…
*****
Meanwhile, the sleeping giants stirs:
“Polls may actually underestimate Trump’s support, study finds”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-polls-20151221-story.html
(h/t Drudge Report)
Mind you, this is a bit concerning:
“[Donald] Trump is at 45% with Republicans who want to bomb Aladdin and only 22% with ones who don’t want to bomb Aladdin.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-21/not-onion-poll-shows-30-reps-19-dems-support-bombing-fictional-city-aladdin
*****
That same articke kicks off with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson:
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Now if The Coffee House Wall has lost the Spectator and has not yet found a role, there is the answer.
Winter solstice at 04-49 GMT
Longest night…about 16hrs.11min (London).
See Royal Observatory Greenwich (below).Scroll down for photo of *John Herschel*(son of the more famous William) by *Julia Margaret Cameron*.
http://bit.ly/ROGsolstice
The Naughty Niece’s Christmas message – bless her:
Enough!!!!
In German with excellent English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/embed/pCW2hxux3Ro?rel=0
Swiss member of Parliament Oskar Freysinger …truth with passion that few politicians in most countries speak. Maybe an awareness of what’s happening will dawn on both sides of parliament in all European countries, before it’s too late….
RobertRetyred @ 21:10
What matters for the progressives, Robert, and if you were smart you would be happy with it, that the guy is the right colour, dressed in a suit, white shirt, tie. Why should literacy come into it, if he could read he might fugg the country up noticeably more, just look at Mugabe next door, over half a dozen degrees (including one from the University of London), even more honorary degrees (some revoked unfortunately), and Zimbabwe cannot even feed herself.
Malfleur 00:13
The Seymour’s piece goes deep into the Syrian conflict, essentially confirms what we’ve been saying, too. Excellent link, thanks.
Malfleur @ 00:58
That the electorate doesn’t know much, Malfleur, isn’t news at all, the definition of democracy as ‘the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance’ tells it even better than some poll’s results.
The beauty of the wisdom of the masses is in big numbers. The more the better for as the statisticians cum biologists have been trying to explain for ages, the opposites cancel each other, and what one ends up with is the common sense core. It seems to have worked here until the anointed took over.
Frank P @ 12:33
Excellent link, Frank, you niece has done well, she should expect an exceptional present in few days except for one minor drawback in your comment: the video was made four years ago.
Baron mentions it because not much has changed since, if anything the ‘ones whose grievances we haven’t yet addressed in full’ have made more inroads. Only this morning, it was said on the Classic FM news that two pig’s heads were found in a school somewhere north, and the police were treating it as ‘a hate crime’. Investigating it under the ‘ealth & safety’ libel would be pushing it, but hate crime?
Baron – 13:51
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa, now it is a basket case!
It makes the Oriel statue nonsense even more nonsensical. I read the hardcopy edition of The Times today and this article blows away any accusation of racism against Rhodes. OK, he wasn’t PC, but he was ahead of his time in negotiating with the natives:
Message to students: Rhodes was no racist
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4647040.ece
Baron – 13:51
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa, now it is a basket case!
It makes the Oriel statue nonsense even more nonsensical. I read the hardcopy edition of The Times today and this article blows away any accusation of racism against Rhodes. OK, he wasn’t PC, but he was ahead of his time in negotiating with the natives:
Message to students: Rhodes was no racist
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4647040.ece
Baron (14:59)
Not my comment – but hers. I wouldn’t be so impolite as to tell her it’s out of date; particularly when it could be stated perennially and the message would still be as fresh as a daisy.
I can’t disagree, though, that it’s probably too late now and that the damage is already irreversible. Sadly most of her generation (and not just a few of ours) seem hell-bent on embracing the new order. The lust for national suicide is spreading like the plague.
Seems that Douglas Carswell, the serial turncoat with then deformed mandible, is now sinking any hope of UKIP making any headway. I sussed that he was a Trojan Horse from the outset. What with that and wall-to-wall Corbynsky from the msm, the fabric of the nation is not just faded and frayed, it is unravelling like a Woolworth’s tea-towel. And CMD, that oil-slick on Old Father Thames, continues to negotiate the Ship of State down into Barking Creek to rot with the rest of the effluent, flotsam and jetsam. Pshaw!!
RobertRetyred @ 16:42
The wankers at the Times were amongst those who seeded the PC crap amongst the young, Robert, what we’re witnessing now is the start of the harvesting.
The future ‘leaders’ of the new generation are expunging from history anything the new PC doctrine doesn’t approve of. The motive behind the Rhodes statute removal isn’t far from that of the destruction of antiquities by the religiously motivated thugs in ME – a re-writing of history at best, the obliteration of it at worst. The 21st century seems to belong to the brainless of each side.
Frank P @ 16:55
Agreed, Frank, from the first to the last word.
You may also have mentioned Michael Heseltine, the fake ‘Tarzan’ of the golden years of Thatcher warning about disunity amongst the Tories if cabinet ministers were given a free vote on the EU. Heseltine, ever the unifier? Beggars belief.
A seasonal greeting from Alexander Boot to his friend Vlad:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/happy-genocide-day-vlad
With that link I shall withdraw from the fray until the festivities are thoroughly spent.
May your Christmasses be merry and your New Years be prosperous.
Safe journey home, EC.
The Alex Jones Show (1st HOUR-VIDEO Commercial Free) Tuesday December 22 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAA7zEYzGr8
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/12/21/donald-trump-an-evaluation-paul-craig-
POPULATION CONTROL – MERGING OF WORLD INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES – BEYOND 1984
The Alex Jones Show (2nd HOUR-VIDEO Commercial Free) Tuesday December 22 2015: William Binney (ExposeFacts.org)
– former Technical Director of the National Security Agency comments on inter alia, the article in the London Review of Books by Seymour Hersh linked here yesterday, the proposed Social Credit score system for every citizen after consulting with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Binney thinks what is going on is treason against the founding principles of the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZUoX5rY60&feature=iv&src_vid=UAA7zEYzGr8&annotation_id=annotation_2042976349
Wishing those here a magical, holy Christmas and graceful New Year.
Colonel Mustard @ 09:33
You’ve been greatly missed, Colonel, you should return, the country needs you, will need you even more in the years ahead.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, too.
In his Monday proramme, Michael Savage makes a fund raising appeal for the Assyrian Christians and interviews their Commander-in-Chief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtW41HJKNQY
http://unitedassyrianappeal.org/
Malfleur @ 02:03
Good links, Malfleur, but a favour to ask.
You watch these videos in full, they last hours, not everyone has the luxury of time, Baron hasn’t for one, points may be missed. Would you consider marking the time when an important point is raised, warn us about it? In the past when you’ve done it, Baron clicked on the link, watched the segments.
And Merry Christmas a Happy New Year, young sir.
Malfleur @ 14:47
Do you know who the organisation calling itself NEC-SE is? Baron has googled it, cannot find out who they are.
There’s alot of fake charity outfits, they collect money, spend most of it on themselves. The barbarian will make a donation if he can be convinced the Assyrian Appeal is genuine.
Baron at 15-18
Try :
http://www.nec-se.com
stella creasey makes an arse of herself
http://www.fahrenheit211.net/2015/12/23/maybe-if-muslims-were-not-so-justly-associated-with-violence-then-they-may-not-get-so-much-hassle-when-travelling/
I have so enjoyed watching the repeats of Open All hours on Yesterday. Barker and Jason are great, as are the customers. good script by roy clark.
jason had to wear a wig in the last series as he was playing someone much younger.
So the us have refused to allow a muslim family from the to visit. All over the bbc and stella creasy has been shouting her gob off about.
But farenheit211 say the man was arrested in israel so he is known to the security community. Id say thats the us doing their job, keeping nasties out.
And the bloke in france who beheaded his boss has topped himself in jail. Says not an islamist but known to security. So he was talking shite then. One less islamonutter to worry about.
There doesn’t seem much on radio or TV over Xmas and New Year……except for a repeat of the radio comedy “Crisp and Clear and Even”.
This raises the questions…..: What is a peasant doing collecting firewood in the middle of Prague;with four foot of snow covering the ground and him coming from by the forest fence(?)……What is that walking wood pile with a candle on top(?)…….Who or what are the Slavniks(?)………and who is Bloody Nora?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jqsz
I rarely comment on this site, but I read it regularly. Thank you for the enlightenment you have brought me over the past year and especially for the links. May I second the Baron’s comment asking Colonel Mustard to return. While I share the views of other contributors about the Teletubby, I enjoy the Colonel’s fisking of him. I’m still praying for Verity. Have a happy and holy Christmas and all the best for 2016.
Baron,
22-1642.
Once again my old son you have hit the bulls eye. To destroy a country or civilisation you first expunge its history from the popular conscience, the rest just falls like a pack of cards. The situation is aided and abetted by a corpus of teachers who are not allowed to impart knowledge to our young unless they have undergone a course in Stalinist indoctrination euphemistically entitled teacher training. Our youth do not stand a chance.
I have not been around much of late but I hope to be back in the saddle by the end of January, ready to join the fight against the Downing Street louse and his attempt to rig the referendum,so, it only remains for me to wish all the Wallsters a very merry Christmas, and a prosperous and healthful new year.
Bless Corbyn for *not*subjecting us to a Christmas message.
Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas, and a healthy and good New Year. Special regards and best wishes to Peter for keeping the CHW running.
Daily Mail takes on Cameron and his Xmas message.
“Possible the only wise thing said ……..by Alastair Campbell was that he and Tony Blair `don’t do God`.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3372740/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Spare-pious-guff-Dave-Christmas-message-delivered.html
Best wishes to all, for Christmas and New Year. Especially good health, which is to be valued more than anything. And an extra special good wish for Baron, for keeping us entertained and informed on such a regular basis. Like others, I rarely post, but read Coffee House every day without fail.
The Anglican Arch Bishops and Bishops are no better.They speak of other religions but do not support persecuted Christians in England.
Nassar Hussain (49) of Bradford,and his family (6 children aged 23 to 7) have been persecuted for the last 19 years after converting to Christianity.Last month he was brutally beaten and put into hospital;only saved by his Polish neighbours.
His situation was revealed by Roy Kerridge (?) in the Salisbury Review about 2008.The Church and State have not helped him since.
He recently said:”…..There are two laws,one for them-one for us”.
[Google :bradford muslim christian ]
Tommy Robinson’s Xmas message;[re. Birmingham Mail:1000s take to the streets to celebrate Prophet M…..’s birthday (on 24 Dec) ].
“No one telling us we should not march in Birmingham”;re. PEGEDA 6 Feb 2016.
“Imagine if they were non-Muslims and we were Muslim rulers.”
“Jesus was…peace loving.M….was the opposite(to put it politely).”
As large full moon rises over the houses to the EENE (16.15 pm);now is the season for Melton Mowbray pork pies,Blue Stilton cheese (both protected geographical indications);Port Wine and Whisky/Whiskey………Perhaps Grants (probably the only independent Scottish owned distillery left)….or Bushmills or Jamesons.It used to be VAT 69 but this isn’t available any more–I think it all goes for export.
Also an increasing variety of English beers;along with an increasing range from Guinness : and genuine Budweiser Budvar from Ceske Budejovice,Moldavia/Bohemia.
Cheers….mud in your’e eye…..and up she goes and down she goes;and whallop Mrs. Cookson!
Correction.
“Up she goes,and down she goes;and whallop Mrs. Cox.”
A Merry Christmas to you all, and here is something hope will brighten your Christmas (after the advert):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbuBubZ1yE&index=10&list=RDHUE86_rcCo4
A merry Xmas ditty:
`Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire`.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?=n3M7IR6jkpc
CORRECTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3M7IR6jkpc
Happy Christmas to all!
I hope the Queen will give some stick to muslims in her Christmas Address in her role as Defender of the Faith…or at least urge them to convert…and urge us all to rally to her flag in defence of her role as sovereign against the knavish tricks of the EU…I will eat 20 mince pies in one minute if she does either.
A Happy Christmas from down under, and best wishes to all for the New Year. Just about to stroll out for a leisurely late lunch.
This is a bit more like it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12068614/Massacre-of-the-innocents-Isil-are-todays-King-Herods-say-Archbishops.html
So is this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11999966/Switzerland-to-vote-on-banning-banks-from-creating-money.html
I came upon a most affecting album of carols on Spotify now just before Christmas lunch:
Google: “An English Folk Christmas”
for further details.
Christmas gives us a time to consider the things that we value most
It is a time for being optimistic for the coming year and to reflect on the one gone
Looking back, 2015 has been a year when our country changed and that will mean different things for each of us
For me, it is also a time to reflect on the meaning of Christmas – the birth of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.
With peace in mind, I pray to God for a happy resolution to all world conflicts
Have a peaceful Christmas – and a very happy New Year
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/5654/archbishop-justins-ecumenical-christmas-greeting
Not perhaps the best day for something like this, but it’s short , clear and to the point.
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/readers-comment-of-the-day-we-are-strangers-in-our-own-land/
I wish everyone here a very happy Christmas and a good new year.
Radford NG @ 15:51
Merci, Radford.
Radford NG @ 15:51
Merci, Radford.
Stephen Maybery @ 11:08
Merry Christmas, Stephen, keep safe, healthy and warm.
Radford NG @ 16:36
This is a story the poodles of the MSM won’t touch, Radford, plague on the lot of them.
Radford NG @ 17:28
You must have had a few when you penned this one, Radford, and deservedly so, young sir, as you’ve been the most regular contributor, logical in the slicing of issues, consistent.
Lastly, Merry Christmas to all of you, the contributors, adversaries, everyone who has ever looked in. Let us pray and hope peace will still be with us same time next year.
This isn’t your usual one, but it’s Baron’s favourite so if you have four minutes to spare, bear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UJS_rPsHsA
Btw, the Irishman has had a set of new teeth made recently after viewers complained looking at the close-up of his face when he was talking made them unwell.
I hope everyone had a happy Christmas yesterday.
Christmas
Maybe in the South
But spare a thought for the long suffering folk of Lancahire and Cumbria with devastation now affecting the Capital of the Northern Power House due to flooding of the Irwell
A key part in this devastation must be played by the Government. Cameron may talk airily about how we must “invest in flood defences”, but there is a massive policy failure here, which lies firmly at the door of his administration
Instead of treating us to his pontifications on “climate change”, he should try to focus on the harsh consequences of a policy of neglect that his own team have done more than anyone else to create
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Now come on Mr Osborne, your constituency is as much Manchester as makes no difference
Help us
Two seminal essays; prognostications on the future of homo sapiens:
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/12/25/we-will-not-be-assimilated
https://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2015/12/22/obamas-denial-of-the-jihads-ideological-roots-gravely-endangers-the-nation/
Whoops! I’m in the oubliette ‘awaiting moderation’. WhaddidIdo? Get me outta here, there’s a strong whiff of ykw lingering here!
Tellytubby. Labour didnt fucking care when the midlands flooded in 1998 and 2007.
Bear in mind flooding is made worse by development upstream. And agricultural drainage.
But massive house building will make flooding worse thats another reason to properly control immigration. And on a global scale, control population.
Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/26/christians-beaten-in-berlin-after-xmas-day-celebrations-i-am-muslim-what-are-you-shouts-attacker/
Alexsandr at 21:45
Agreed. The current government policy is to ‘cure’ one problem by creating another one, and then to continue to do this. Taking steps to cure the original problem (over-population of this country and the R.O.W) never seems to occur to them.
I’m sure this morning I heard on R4 that the population of Africa will double by 2050. And when the countries there collapse (even more than they have now), guess where the inhabitants will all want to flee to.
just been looking at the flooding in leeds on the tv and internet
that aire is a major river. Kirkstall road is old properties, so difficult to fix. But why all the new stuff south of the river in central leeds. That was old industrial stuff when I was a kid, tetleys brewery, and other stuff. but now its covered with new build housing and offices. Er, the flood risk maps clearly say its a risk area so thats just stupid.
and leeds flooded in 1950 so why are we so stupid to think this is something new. OK 1950 isnt in most peoples lifetime but the records are there.
its will be councils looking for the council tax income giving planning permission for stuff they shouldnt.
Whalley and Ribchester are not dense housing on flood plains
Problem was that in 2010 flood prevention plans were abandoned
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Residents in Whalley and Ribchester were told to abandon their houses when flood waters poured through the streets after torrential downpours.
Forecasters said up to 4.7ins (120mm) of rain could fall in some areas already saturated by wave after wave of winter squalls.
The average rainfall for the whole of December in the North West is 5.7ins (145mm) – so not far off a month’s rain could lash the region in hours.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/12069687/Streets-in-Lancashire-flooded-as-red-weather-warning-issued.html
telemachus still talking bollocks and attempting to weaponise disasters on behalf of the Labour party. The Leeds work began in 2011.
http://www.arup.com/News/2015_02_February/12_February_Work_begins_on_Leeds_Flood_Alleviation_Scheme.aspx
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/media/335670/lancashire-and-blackpool-flood-risk-management-strategy-2014-2017.pdf
No doubt the Labour stay behind parties in the various agencies have also been busy putting party before country in order to score their political points.
The Government has set aside £695 million for dealing with flooding and erosion in 2015/16 – £116 million less than in 2014/15, according to figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and is the biggest year-on-year fall since 2011/12
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A flood defence scheme for Kendal, which was submerged in up to 5ft of water by Storm Desmond, was repeatedly postponed
The £4m project to protect 440 properties from flooding from the river Kent, which runs through the heart of Kendal, was in line for funding in 2011. But the government sharply cut flood defence spending in 2011
Subsequent plans were made to start funding the scheme in 2014 and then in 2015 but were again postponed and 2016 is now the earliest proposed start date
Remember the Desmond deluge in Kendal left 1,397 people homeless and a clear-up bill of several millions
My actual point was
Where is local MP Osborne when Manchester and environs are crumbling
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/watch-video-shows-greater-manchester-10653903
“In Keswick, new £6 million flood defences built to withstand 2009 highs of 15.2 feet were overwhelmed when the River Greta surged to 17.4 feet. The Mayor of Keswick Paul Titley said: “The flood defences were designed for a one in 100 year event and since it’s six years since we had the last one, we were sort of surprised that we got one so soon.” Locals complained that lack of dredging had made the problem worse.”
Lack of dredging is down to your Labour-supporting, lefty, Common Purpose Environment Agency and is well known.
On governance
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has the lead sponsorship responsibility for the Environment Agency as a whole and is responsible for the appointment of the chairman and the Environment Agency Board.
In addition the Secretary of State is responsible for overall policy on the environment and the setting of objectives for the Agency’s functions and the approval of its budget etcetera
The Agency’s current chairman is Sir Philip Dilley appointed by Ms Truss, a well known lefty, policy before that going back almost 6 years the province of those other two lefties Caroline Spelman and Owen Patterson, the latter also being reprehensible for his Europhile views
A picture that says it all:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=966856076683191&set=p.966856076683191&type=3&theater
Put a sock in it telemachus, Dilley was only appointed in September 2014. Before that it was the odiously pleased with itself and equally useless bullfrog Chris Smith, former Labour MP, Livingstone appointee and gay activist. And the three heir-to-Blair Tories you mention are idiots but no more cretinous than the proper Labour idiots who preceded them.
Not a true conservative anywhere. So your attempt to hi-jack this natural disaster after 18 years of naturally disastrous left of centre government in order to peddle your usual cut’n’paste party political propaganda is the usual laughably simplistic tripe.
Not so far fetched:
http://fluechtling.net/refugees/ISIS-genocide-10m-germans.html
Colonel Mustard, December 27th, 2015 – 16:42
Indeed, “Old Labour” is alive and well in Cumbria!
The ill considered Keswick flood “barrier” was “designed” to prevent the lower town flooding. Not only didn’t it not work. it also caused the Greta to back up flooding the top end of town(all the way up Penrith Rd) where no flooding had ever occurred before. The “surge” at the top end of town was a lot more than 17ft and I can provide photographic evidence of this (via a mutual friend) if required. The genius that thought up the Keswick scheme up should be put in front of a firing squad!
The flood prevention schemes at Cockermouth and other places didn’t work either. After all the £millions spent, one is drawn to conclude that the primary purpose of these er… Scams! …was to put money into the right people’s pockets.
Baron
I will try to be more selective. This piece is just under 10 minutes:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-and-isis-caught-eradicating-christianity.html
“The scenes of misery across Yorkshire and Lancashire triggered outrage last night over Britain sqaundering cash on foreign aid. Residents asked why they had been told there was no money for local flood defences when £12billion a year is spent on overseas aid – including, it emerged yesterday, £1billion to the 20 most corrupt nations.” (h/t DT)
So that they will luurv us?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-26/confessions-isis-soldier-training-took-place-turkey
How about an immediate emergency vote to exclude Turkey from membership of the European Union? But where could such a vote be held? The EU’s Politburo?
EC
December 28th, 2015 – 00:04
You are absolutely correct about the crazy Keswick scheme
(Which of course had nowt to do with the dredging debate)
However it was not an Environment Agency Scheme, even though project managed by Mike Power of the EA
As your friend will tell you, it was a crazy scheme imposed by local businesses and the tourist industry using glass and “local stone” instead of the original plans using robust state of the art techniques advised by the Environment Agency then very ably overseen by Hilary Benn
http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/swiftlg/TempMedia/52044-149481.pdf
PS
It is probably not a party political issue but at the time the plans were signed off by Cumbria County Council it is clear which party had the largest representation at the relevant meeting in Carlisle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/local-elections/5277918/Cumbria-county-council-local-election-2009.html
telemachus – 06:57 etc.
You really don’t have a clue about Cumbria, the cause of the 2009 floods, or the 2015 floods. Do fuck off, there’s a good chap.
If Baron could vote he would not back this man, he’s more of the telemachus’s breed, but on this occasion he’s spot on, the Czech lands do belong to the Bohemians, legally and historically. To say the land is everyone’s is to fall into the same trap the communist thugs fell into telling people they were the ‘owners’ of all the means of production, the woods, rivers ….
A fugging good did it do to the means of production, the woods, rivers … within a couple of generation the state of decrepitude of it all brought the country to her knees.
The same applies to Britain, if she belongs to anyone it is to those who were born, bred here, those (or their descendants) who defended her when she was under threat, those who would again take up arms if the need arose, and not to those who arrive and behave as if they had a claim on everything.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/12/zeman-we-are-facing-an-organized-invasion/#more-38288
Malfleur @ 01:45
Thank you, Malfleur.
Welcome back, Colonel, you seem to have lost none of the laser guided ammo of yours. Encouraging and pleasing that.
EC
December 28th, 2015 – 00:04
After all the £millions spent, one is drawn to conclude that the primary purpose of these er… Scams! …was to put money into the right people’s pockets.
EC, the bottom line says it all. Unfortunately, whatever their party, it applies to ALL governments.
Happy New Year 🙂
More consequences from EU bollocks:-
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/flooding-cause-government-would-keep-10580092
Conveniently ignored by the socialists responsible and their propaganda arm the BBC. And all the diversity enriched, right-on lefty ideologues in the EA went along with the nonsense. Is there a gay rights mafia running the EA? A lot of their senior people on TV seem to be of the Sandi Toksvig persuasion.
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2014/02/02/the-environment-agency-where-does-all-the-money-go/
“”I’ve kept my counsel up to now,” said Chris Smith, loftily, when he appeared on the Today programme. Perhaps by the end of the interview, in which he managed to distance himself from previous policy pronouncements while defending his staff to the hilt, he wished he’d kept his counsel too. Those opening words suggested that the Environment Agency chief was about to unleash some terrible truth against the politicians taking aim at him, when in fact all he could tell listeners was that it was the Treasury’s fault… sort of.
“”I have to say I’ve kept my counsel up to now about issues like government rules about what the Environment Agency can spend and what it can’t spend. But when I hear someone criticising the expertise and the professionalism of my staff in the Environment Agency who know more about flood risk management – 100 times more about flood management than any politician ever does, I’m afraid I’m not going to sit idly by.””
Said the former Labour politician and current member of the House of Lords who appears to have had little or no environmental experience or expertise himself but was probably very good at ensuring EU directives and various other right-on PC shibboleths were pursued regardless of cost. Smith was instrumental in the Clore Leadership business which set itself to train “leaders” in the cultural and arts spheres, no doubt in order to peddle cultural marxist bollocks. A sort of “leading beyond authority” outfit – sound familiar?
Then instead of sacking him on the spot at change of government Cameron’s favourite “conservative” nanny Spelman kept him on, just as Grieve kept on the uncloaked Labour activist Starmer. This indulgence of New Labour’s stay behind “agents of influence” won them no friends or favours but instead facilitated a fairly powerful unelected opposition to put spanners in the Coalition government’s works, such as they were, ably assisted by that elected “opposition in government” the motley, treacherous, self-serving and slippery Lib Dems. Smith was not finally winkled out of the EA until September 2014 and was replaced by Dilley, formerly chairman of the Arup Group which had been providing the “professional services” for many of the EA’s projects.
From a strategic perspective stupidity doesn’t even begin to cover it. But then when the whole of the government, public sector and third sector machinery is given over to the perpetuation of political dogma and spin by a succession of interchangeable gravy train elitists what can you expect?
Duty, integrity, truth. Never prevailing qualities in the high and mighty. Now practically non-existent.
At least some are taking things in their stride:
You’re not even in our top five worries, Londoners tell extremists
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/youre-not-even-in-our-top-five-worries-londoners-tell-extremists-20151207104505
What the thinking among us find difficult is when folks try to blame those who have no say in the allocation of resources for inability to act for want of resources
Lord Finsbury to use his actual title said this last year, before all this catastrophe
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“He warned that resources for flood protection were limited. His agency is facing 1,400 job cuts after a 10% reduction to the budget of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in the last spending round.
“Flood defences cost money,” Lord Smith wrote, “and how much should the taxpayer be prepared to spend on different places, communities and livelihoods – in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, or East Anglia?
“There’s no bottomless purse, and we need to make difficult but sensible choices about where and what we try to protect.”
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Then we had the Autumn Statement
“DEFRA’s day to day budget falls by 15% in this Spending Review”
Folks up here in Lancashire & my friends in Yorkshire and Cumbria are not using thinly disguised homophobia tonight
They do not call spades shovels and want to know where the local MP who made all these cuts is
Tonight
This week
This year
Hiding in shame
I have no irrational fear of men, telemachus, so you can take your less than thinly disguised ad hominem and shove it where you keep the rest of the garbage that you inflict on this site.
Clearly neither you nor “Lord Finsbury” (ha!) have bothered to read John Redwood’s article or the comments added thereto. It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of those staff costs by pay grade and numbers.
As long as the freeloading Common Purpose champagne socialists infesting the quango system keep scamming the taxpayer to support their elitist luxury lifestyles and to pay for the dubious privilege of listening to them nag and nanny us whilst whining about austerity and cuts this once great nation will continue to go down the toilet.
Smith is a fine example of the breed which has irrevocably damaged this country. And it is beyond hypocrisy that such incestuously self-sustaining “socialist” quangocrats end up lording it in ermine in the House of Lords.
Contriving your stupid comments into equally stupid formations of words and little asterisks conveys no special power to them. Turds can’t be polished.
Now I suggest you take EC’s sage advice.
OK then
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But first I have, in relation to John Redwood, to share one of my saved favourites
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzBq0n8dxFQ
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/28/the-eu-is-to-blame-for-britains-flood-disaster/
What’s going to happen in Turkey? The Kurds want some sort of autonomy but are being violently suppressed. Erdogan is working to destroy all vestiges of Kemal Attaturk’s secularism, has profoundly antagonised Russia, and has been co-operating with ISIS (see e.g. Malfleur’s posting Dec. 29 @ 03:32). And now there’s been another assassination –
https://www.rt.com/news/327226-syrian-journalist-assassination-turkey/
My own hope is that there are still enough anti-Erdogan men in the Turkish military to remove Erdogan and his fellow Islamists from power and that they will achieve that before it is too late.
Colonel Mustard @ 12:59
That’s bloody typical of any quango’s approach, Colonel, they spend money on themselves rather than on what they were set up to spend it on.
The link is from February last year, very likely their manpower number has by now reached 15,000, perhaps if we stacked up all those employed by this bureaucratic monstrosity, the flooding would be more manageable.
telemachus December 28th, 2015 – 16:36
Not a National Anthem I recognise (our country is the United Kingdom and has only one National Anthem) but at least he was attempting to sing it unlike the latest Stalin surrogate to excite your hagiographic passions.
How fickle your allegiances that you should so quickly forget your “genius” Mr Balls and previous occupants of that feverishly polished plinth in your collectively occupied ivory tower.
Colonel Mustard @ 13:22
There aren’t many individuals Baron cannot stand the sight of, Chris Smith sits near the top of the list. What did it for the barbarian was his gloating about the NHS spending well over quarter of a million quid curing him from Aids, he picked up the malady having a sexual encounter in a cinema, or so he said. He was proud of the health service, praised it, but showed no repentance. Soon after that interview even Labour dropped him, hence the seat in the House of the Perverted & Debauched.
Curse on him.
telemachus @ 16:36
He didn’t sing it because he didn’t know the tune, it’s not the Anthem of this country, telemachus, the cumryd didn’t sing the real Anthem because he didn’t want to. Big difference this.
telemachus @ 15:18
Have you scanned, or at least looked at the heading of the link furnished by the Colonel @ 12.59, telemachus?
It was under the leadership of Smith the agency spent 30 times – THIRTY times – as much on itself as it did ensuring the water keeps flowing freely when the big rains come. The guy ought to brought to justice, explain himself in court, and if found negligent, derelict in his duties, remiss in discharging his responsibility, sentenced, sent down.
Hopefully, we haven’t heard the end of it yet.
John birch @ 16:36
Regretfully, John, the political clowns would rather see people drowned that point the finger at the sacred EU or the green lobby, what’s needed is a full refurbishment of the political class.
Baron December 28th, 2015 – 17:49
I too find him absolutely vile. But those reptiles never seem to get their well deserved comeuppance. The odious Smith was mired front and centre in the scandal of the previous flooding and the ghastly excesses of his useless quango but still slithered seamlessly into the ermine afterwards.
Profumo had an extra-marital affair with a dodgy model, didn’t even pick up a STD as far as we know, certainly not one that cost the taxpayer £250,000, and spent the rest of his working life cleaning toilets in the East End.
Smith is not fit to lick the bog brush Profumo used.
Herbert Thornton @ 16:57
You’ve forgotten to mention one player in this posting of yours, Herbert, the Americans.
Erdogan’s misbehaving under their guidance and protection, will get away with murdering as many Kurds as he likes. They’ve known about his double dealing with ISIS, the injured thugs receiving medical cure in Turkish hospitals, the ISIS bank accounts in Turkey, the oil trading. The Russian bomber wasn’t downed without their nodding to it (only the Americans knew the time the plane would be there, the Russians told them). In fact, it may have been also on their prompting that Turkey suddenly decided to push the migrants up north to Europe proper, flood Germany.
The last thing a weakening hegemony needs is a peaceful and stable world outside with strong rivals emerging.
Colonel Mustard @ 18:31
One shouldn’t inflict pain on anyone, Colonel, but Baron cannot resist telling you that it would be with great pleasure for him to stick the brush, the spikier the better, for he reckons in the immortal words of Jones the Butcher ‘he would like it up im, he wouldn’t like it up im…
Baron 1749
Whatever you think about the man he did a very brave thing in showing those inflicted by that terrible disease that all was not lost
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“The thing that prompted me to do it (say that he was HIV positive) was Nelson Mandela. When his son died of AIDs, he made this speech, saying one of the problems we have with HIV and AIDs is that we keep it a secret. We need to be much more open about it. And I just thought, perhaps I can do a bit of good, so I decided to talk about it. I had messages after that from huge numbers of people from around the country, saying this had given them hope, because one of the things I was saying was that it is perfectly possible to be HIV positive and lead a very full, very worthwhile, very active life as a contributing citizen. You don’t need to see this as the end of the world.”
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Indeed Nelson Mandela telephoned after this to personally thank him
I see the telmacus creature is still posting its lies and misrepresentations on CHW.
When Peter bars it, or puts the loathsome creature back in its sinkhole, I will contribute to the costs of Wall, and not before.
As the Colonel previously said, even conservatives are entitled to a safe space.
Diana, just stating the obvious:
Diana West: It’s Time to Rally Around Donald Trump
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/26/its-time-to-rally-around-donald-trump/
Noa – 19:54
I concur.
“Adding fluoride to water supply may have no benefit, say experts” (You think?)
“…health experts are calling for a moratorium on water fluoridation, claiming that the benefits of such schemes, as opposed to those of topical fluoride (directly applied to the teeth), are unproved.
Furthermore, critics cite studies claiming to have identified a number of possible negative associations of fluoridation, including bone cancer in boys, bladder cancer, hyperthyroidism, hip fractures and lower IQ in children.”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/25/fluoride-water-supply-benefit-unproved-tooth-decay
(h/t The Alex Jones Show, Monday)
“I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees,” said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic released on Saturday.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/12070377/Wave-of-refugees-to-Europe-an-organised-invasion-says-Czech-PM.html
Organised by whom? This Czech is crazy, no?
Baron (December 28th @18:33)
True I didn’t mention the Americans, but my main point concerns Turkey’s internal state and condition.
Suppose the Turkish army does attempt a coup to bring about a return to secularism – would the Americans be foolish enough to intervene with military force to prevent that happening?
telemachus
December 27th, 2015 – 10:01
“Whalley and Ribchester are not dense housing on flood plains
Problem was that in 2010 flood prevention plans were abandoned” (As they have to be of course, given the present law.)
They will be, given present development plans. Currently planned building sites are under water, but they’ll soon dry off.
Still, current residents are are being encouraged by the comrade director of the Peoples Environment Agency to develop their own flood plans
“…Steve Moore, the North West Director for the Environment Agency, said: “We are pleased that the worst of the rain has now passed and that communities can begin to recover from the disruption that this weekend’s floods has caused. Our thoughts are with the people affected, as we know that the post-flood clean up can still be a difficult time…As people have seen first hand this weekend, flooding can cause huge worry and heartache, and we urge people to always be prepared for the risk. People can sign up to Floodline warnings on our website which will give them vital advance notice and time to prepare..”
Now officials at the Environment Agency are urging residents in the Ribble Valley to prepare personal flood plans should the severe wet weather strike again.
Very comforting I’m sure.
http://www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/whalley-flash-floods-drama-photos-1-4689725#ixzz3viQxCcmv
Now then, any flooding in the Polish conservatory comrade? Or are you safely on the high ground?
Herbert Thornton @ 00:52
Baron’s fault, Herbert, he should have addressed the point from your original posting. He didn’t because like you he also hopes the army will say enough’s enough, step in, take control, but he doesn’t know whether that’s possible. Erdogan has sacked, suspended, imprisoned many top ranking officers, the remaining may (or may not) be sympathetic to his islamisation efforts. Some may still be the followers of the Gülen led movement (you may google it Gülen islam) which, as the Wiki tells you, may be the moderate version of the creed, others disagree. This may give one hope the Army makes a move.
The Americans are unlikely to interfere if Turkey slips into a civil war or the Armed Forces take over, Baron reckons. They would do everything to thwart it, kill it off, take charge, but direct involvement doesn’t seem likely even though Turkey’s a NATO member (would most likely remain one if the Army stepped in).
For reasons we don’t have to go into here the barbarian has always assumed the country’s run by a handful rich families like the Koç, Sabancı, Tara, Zorlu, Şahenk, few others Baron cannot remember. (A friend of his from the continent has been selling heavy industrial gear to the country for decades, knows it reasonably well, says at some point in doing business there one’s bound to come across one or more of them joined up in venture from banking, manufacturing, distribution and anything else…).
It may well be the rich families, most of them with roots well back in the Ottoman Empire, are as decimated as the Army of the secularists amongst them, or afraid what the islamists may do to their businesses, dis-united on how to change things.
For anyone interested in developing an understanding of America’s role and strategic interest in the promotion of an eastward expanding and German led EU, and Britain’s role within it. I recommend former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “The Grand Chessboard” as compulsory reading for an understanding of US realpolitik from the ’90s to the present.
In particular Chapter 3 “the Democratic Bridgehead” offers a profound, (and profoundly challenging (and imo misguided) analysis of Europe’s future as America’s partner.
It can be read here in full:
http://www.takeoverworld.info/Grand_Chessboard.pdf
Baron –
HNY – 🙂
You are the best.
Here’s a handy website when the free visits run out.
http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
Not enough that flooding has caused havoc to countless people. Impossible to find shelter in their own homes, possessions ruined and food spoiled, life is very hard for very many people. To add to the victims misery, looters are grabbing what they can find, taking property from deserted homes. It may sound extreme, but I think the punishment should be death by shooting, once robbery is indeed ascertained. No long drawn out court cases with half-cracked magistrates and judges, but swift and well deserved punishment for those no better than traitors.
Mark Steyn, with Rudy Giuliani:
http://www.steynonline.com/7386/a-sennight-of-steyn-december-21-27
Another Mark Steyn ‘surprise’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9t6QgY8kE
(not to be played while at the dinner table! 🙂 )
Mark Steyn, about Angela Merkel and Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDxLGSpWZc