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Frank P
January 31st, 2016 – 14:45
I rarely now visit this site now** but my google alerts draw my attention to crazy attributions
I see my name attached to Peta (who posted soundly) Jefferson Burns (who seems crazy) Fergus Pickering (who is a wit) and Fabian Solutions (who is clearly a reverse misogynist)
Do I need to visit Carter Ruck
**Following 2 particular posts just after the new year
Herbert Thornton
January 3rd, 2016 – 19:24
Radford NG
January 3rd, 2016 – 05:08
I think politics is one thing but decorum another
? @12:32
“Do I need to visit Carter Ruck”
All that would prompt is an identical response to that in Arkell v Pressdram (1971)
Resoundingly so!
EC (12:55)
I wish you wouldn’t stir up the sump of my once comprehensive, now flakey memory-bank, with mention of “Two Dinners” Arnold and Richard Ingrams; it engulfs me with waves of nostalgia – almost to the point of tears!
Tears of laughter, of course.☺
Those were the days!
Btw EC, “Google alerts”? A touch of paranoia on the part of a deluded, sad, anorak, or an agitprop device for garnering data for tomorrow’s EuroStasi? Where’s Colonel M when he’s needed. I haven’t sufficient energy or patience, pro tem, to summon the necessary level invective, myself. Anyway … Back to the old mantra:
DFTFT!
The Boot on CMD’s latest twaddle about ‘institutional racism”:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/it-not-racism-keeps-blacks-out-universities
It’s an article which should be a front page feature in a broadsheet rather than on a blog.
However, given the circulation trends for most broadsheets these days, it’s probably more likely to read by more people on Alex’s blog.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/02/01/comment-isnt-free-anymore-guardian-to-close-comments-on-articles-about-race-immigration-and-islam/
Hypocrisy off the scale with #OscarsSoWhite scandal. According to Economist black actors have received higher percentage of Oscars than their proportion in the US population since 2000. Yet the lying goes unanswered. http://bit.ly/1nYPQjp
Baron Feb 1st (12:19)
‘Is it believable the killers may not have known the polonium would leave a footprint for years? Even better, is it possible to believe those who furnished the poison were unaware of the substance’s ability to cling to surfaces almost forever”
I feel much the same about Maxism’s indelible footprint on everything East of the Iron Curtain. Nothing that has so far been discovered can remove the stain from the territory that was drenched in it, nor from those who suffered the contagion.
Moreover the contagion is now fairly widespread throughout the West. Luckily, some of us are (and one hopes, will remain) immune to the continuing agitprop.
Perhaps the jihad will eventually bleach it out, or disguise it with the stain of gore, but history shows us that ideology usually trumps superstition.
… But when the two combine?
Cue Dickie Mottram!
Oliver Letwin is once again in the news. He doesn’t appear very often, since he doesn’t really do anything, but once again it’s something murky. He has been asked to explain about the enormous amounts of money Kid’s Company has received.
Conservative minister Oliver Letwin appeared before the committee in November to explain why he overruled civil service objections to pay a £3m grant to Kids Company just days before it collapsed.
“Speaking after the committee’s report was issued, he said he believed it was “the right thing to do to give this charity one last chance to restructure”.” (BBC Web)
I wonder whether he was clad in pyiamas and dressing gown, running down the dawn streets forcing millions of pounds into grasping hands!
Malfleur @ 14:07
Excellent link, Malfleur, many thanks, even though most of it was known to the barbarian.
Frank P @ 14:14
You would, Frank, of course, you would feel the same, but you would be wrong if you did.
The Russians are no more predisposed to murder, rape and plunder than the Germans are predisposed to invade countries, enslave and gas people. Try to at least consider the difference between the people and the creed (often embedded in the system they live under) pumped into them.
Just look around. For decades we’ve been fed the progressive creed of PC, multy culty, moral equivalence and stuff, and many, very many have bought into it, will say ‘yes, sir’ when asked whether they want to remain in the undemocratic monstrosity of the EU. Easy to falsify by Popper, it has to have some merit.
Bill on Donald, and to be frank with you (no pun intended, Frank), the barbarian harbours similar doubts.
What leader for the Republic then?
Empires survive not by the gun only, that’s the lesson of history. The longest surviving near contemporary empire, the Ottomans, are a case in point, they had carried on for centuries (well, since they took over the eastern Rome, for more than six centuries before folding up in the early 20s last century) through military subjugation, but also by making deals with both the powers that could have dented their survival as well the forces from within, and in the sphere of their influence, through bribes and non-military intimidation.
That’s what the Republic needs to do in order to maintain its hold on the world. Can Donald fit the bill? Hmmm
http://www.pjtv.com/series/afterburner-with-bill-whittle-56/the-donald-what-bill-whittle-loves-about-donald-trump-11291/
John Alexander @ 14:11
Clicking on your link, John, produces nothing but a message ‘this page doesn’t exists’.
Frank P @ 13:47
Good one, Frank, but the formatting of the logic is somehow too complicated for the simplistic barbarian.
What wasn’t reported by the MSM poodles is that after the boy kicked the universities for their racism he went on to say the following:
I will also do the utmost to eradicate the blatant racism that has been clearly visible in the game of football for years. Watching the ‘Match of the Day’ each Saturday, I cannot fail to notice a very high proportion of black footballers. This is particularly true of the Premiership where players command a level of remuneration that I and my government colleagues find repulsive, cannot even dream of.
In many of the teams in the top division of football black players are in the majority. This cannot continue, the imbalance must be addressed with some urgency, the ratio of white players must get boosted to reflect that of our society as a whole ….
(Sorry, Baron made it up).
Coming back to the matter of evolution – and the fact that humans are still evolving, it is interesting to compare them with dogs – which of course are also still evolving.
The main difference between human and dog evolution of course is that dog evolution has happened not so much via random natural selection, as by deliberate (i.e. human-induced) selection – which has very much accelerated how dogs have evolved.
Dogs are still a single species of course as are humans. The dog species is divided into many, very diverse races, even more so than is true of humans. For example a spaniel is one race of dog, while a Pit Bull is another race. And those two races are different in more than their appearance. Spaniels have quite different characters from those of Pit Bulls. Spaniels are generally gentle and complaisant while Pit Bulls are distinctly aggressive and savage. Some races of dogs appear to be more intelligent (or dense as the case may be) from others. And so on.
Humans have (so far) subjected themselves a good deal less to deliberate evolutionary selection than they have applied to dogs. But that cannot alter the fact that the different races of humans – like the different races of dogs – do have more differences than just their appearance. Some of those differences are beneficial, and some are undesirable. Just to name two races that have evolved to possess desirable qualities, my own experience in living among them, tells me that the Chinese and the East and South African Bantu both deserve mention.
People who have been brainwashed into the politically correct idiocy that pervades so much of western culture hysterically deny these obvious truths- usually by shouting the word “racism”. My answer to that is the same as Enoch Powell’s – i.e. “What’s wrong with racism?”
And as well as shouting “racism” the fools are doing their utmost make any discussion of it a crime. In fundamental truth, it is they who are criminals.
So THAT’S why Fox ganged up against Trump:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/01/foxs-rupert-murdoch/
Jesus! That means no TV Station, here or in the States is free from inimical influence of some sort.
Apropos my 18:07 post, some hot news –
https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/science-news/2016/02/01/hfea-decision/
More hot news – this will probably interest Baron. I think Erdogan is so terrified of the Kurds (and so resentful of being deprived of his profits from helping ISIS export oil) that he is becoming reckless. Does this also stem from his Islamist mindset?
Are we going to see accurate counter shelling from Syrian territory against the Turkish artillery positions – with the Syrian side using artillery or accurate missiles provided by Russia?
https://www.rt.com/news/330858-turkey-shells-syrian-territory/
Herbert Thornton @ 18:07
An intriguingly complex issue, evolution, Herbert, but we may have to wait until the generation of the orthodox Darwinians dies out, the new brains come in to get a more up-to-date handle on it, Baron reckons.
One smaller aspect of human evolution has puzzled the barbarian for a long time.
Physically, we aren’t that different from the ancient Egyptians, the Romans, those burghers who inhabited this island when Elizabeth I was the reigning monarch. So how come that for all that time spanning over 3-4 millennia until roughly the time of the industrial revolution nothing much had happened in science, medicine, technology, all changes in any of these branches of human endeavour were small, marginal interrupted by decades if not centuries of set-backs.
Then, as if by miracle, the brains of some – Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Volta then Tesla, Bell, Mendeleev, Nobel, Edison, Pasteur and others – got to come up with breakthrough discoveries followed by an accelerating tsunami of scientists since then, a massive brainwave that culminated in something as astoundingly inexplicable as the breaking of an atom, the supersonic aircraft, the Internet?
If someone born in the ancient Egypt two millennia BC, or at the times of St Augustine arrival here at the end of the 6th century AD were to get resurrected he could easily fit into a pair of jeans, a shirt made today, could eat the same food we consume, so why is it that only his brain, not his physical casket, has evolved so much that it’s capable to come up with the mobile phone, the motorcar, the cocktail of drugs to cure Aids?
What is it that caused the human brain, not the body, to ‘get going’ after hundreds of centuries of hibernation, to flourish so phenomenally in the last 200 years? Evolution?
Herbert Thornton @ 19:13
The Turks are getting bolder, Lavrov says ‘no more co-operation with the US, the West, the Americans building a new airbase in Syria, the Mutti re-affirms her opposition to lifting sanction on Russia (latest after Poroshenko’s visit to Berlin) …
It may get hotter and not only in the ME, Herbert.
The barbarian has just finished reading Julian Barnes’s novel on the life of Dimitrii Shostakovich. As a true Russian, the composer was superstitious, he believed any leap year to bring nothing but tragedy (as indeed 1936 turned out to be for him, his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk was seen by the Georgian thugs, disliked, Dimitrii packed his suitcase, waited in front of the lift for the KGB to come, get him).
It seems one doesn’t have to harbour any superstitious belief to be anxious this year.
Frank P @ 18:46
Our friend Soros donated $6.0mn to the Clinton woman’s election war chest, Breitbart reports. If Baron were she (or is it her?), he would pocket the money and run.
Baron 20.55
The same thing has puzzled me for many years Baron, obviously we didn’t all come out of Africa. It’s as if we were seeded in different groups in various parts of the world.
It seems to me we are not really living the life we think we are.
I sometimes think we are someone’s or somethings experiment to test different outcomes to situations presented to us.
The same ideas for lots of inventions seem to have been arrived at roughly the same time in different parts of the world.
Very odd. Never mind the question of intelligent design and the not to hot not to cold, just right situation of our world.
Baron
You ask – “What is it that caused the human brain, not the body, to ‘get going’ after hundreds of centuries of hibernation, to flourish so phenomenally in the last 200 years? Evolution?”
I incline to think that the answer to that is that the brains of the thinkers and geniuses didn’t “get going” earlier because their numbers – like the rest of the populations – were quite small, and because there was also very little communication among them. But they did exist, even in Babylonian times – as is evidenced by their system of mathematics that was not decimal but based on the number 64. Bear in mind that 64 is reached thus – 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Bear in mind too that some Ancient Greek thinkers concluded that the earth was a sphere – and calculated it to be around 30,000 miles in circumference. Lack of communication prevented such ideas from spreading. Consequently, few people in Christendom took any notice & the notion that the earth was flat persisted there for hundreds of years.
But as the world population expanded, so did the number of thinkers and geniuses. Estimates of world population in 1700 are around 600 million. That means that in 1700 there were still not that many of us, not to mention that there was still limited communication between populations.
But since 1700 world population growth has constantly accelerated to what is it now – around 6,000 million? And the numbers of thinkers and geniuses has grown with it at the same rate Moreover, communication since 1700 has become faster and faster and is now is immeasurably faster. I suppose that a kind of evolution, but not the biological sort. Certainly not a biological miracle?
First – an apology to the moderators – I typed my email address wrong, so please – if you can – delete my previous version of ths post.
Baron
You ask – “What is it that caused the human brain, not the body, to ‘get going’ after hundreds of centuries of hibernation, to flourish so phenomenally in the last 200 years? Evolution?”
I incline to think that the answer to that is that the brains of the thinkers and geniuses didn’t “get going” earlier because their numbers – like the rest of the populations – were quite small, and because there was also very little communication among them. But they did exist, even in Babylonian times – as is evidenced by their system of mathematics that was not decimal but based on the number 64. Bear in mind that 64 is reached thus – 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Bear in mind too that some Ancient Greek thinkers concluded that the earth was a sphere – and calculated it to be around 30,000 miles in circumference. Lack of communication prevented such ideas from spreading. Consequently, few people in Christendom took any notice & the notion that the earth was flat persisted there for hundreds of years.
But as the world population expanded, so did the number of thinkers and geniuses. Estimates of world population in 1700 are around 600 million. That means that in 1700 there were still not that many of us, not to mention that there was still limited communication between populations.
But since 1700 world population growth has constantly accelerated to what is it now – around 6,000 million? And the numbers of thinkers and geniuses has grown with it at the same rate Moreover, communication since 1700 has become faster and faster and is now is immeasurably faster. I suppose that a kind of evolution, but not the biological sort. Certainly not a biological miracle?
Baron @ 20:55
It looks as if the body may be about to catch up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2108209/Russian-entrepreneur-aims-transplant-human-mind-robot-body-10-years.html
John birch @ 22:07
As you well know, John, the accepted evolutionary lineage goes from single cell to fish to amphibians, reptiles then mammals, each having many branches, sub-branches, little twigs (to put it as crudely as one can), the birds as a twig on the dinosaurs’ branch being the most difficult to explain (their breathing system differs fundamentally from that of the mammal’s). So that would negate your idea of human seeding at a stroke (Baron’s idea, too, although not at the level you advocate, but at much higher level).
Darwin’s theory could be broken up into three separate chunks: common descent, natural selection and random mutation. The most suspect must be random mutation, the barbarian cannot fathom how a monkey with a typewriter could ever end up with Hamlet. But natural selection is suspect, too. Why would gazelles only perfect running through natural selection, why didn’t they evolve the capacity for climbing as means of escape from predators?
Only common descent feels OK, but from common what? And this is where your idea of seeding comes in.
Fascinating field, if only the barbarian were younger this would his field of professional obsession.
Baron @ 16:06
What Frank P appears to think is that political ideas have a life of their own. More accurately, history would suggest that power uses political ideas to advance its interests, which remain permanent, and will adapt as ideas or circumstances change suffering only minor setbacks as it does so.
A case in point is of course the alliance between socialism and islam in western Europe to bring about the wreck of its civilisation or the construction of ISIS and its previous incarnations in the Middle East to commandeer the Arab Spring and destabilise that region.
Thus at the same time, in the Ukraine for instance Nazism proves a useful tool for the same power interests.
Given his positioning as the Wall’s cynic. one would have expected this line to have recommended itself more strongly to Frank than it would appear to have done.
Even if a monkey with a typewriter could ever end up with Hamlet, he wouldn’t know he had.
“Ukraine’s authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled “Masks of Revolution” off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events, and have a list of their own suggestions for what needs to be shown.”
http://www.coffeehousewall.co.uk/the-coffee-house-wall-1st7th-february/#comment-199575
“Nothing that has so far been discovered can remove the stain from the territory that was drenched in it” (Frank P @ 14.14)
Is this a French stain, a Russian stain, or an Ukrainian stain?
Herbert Thornton @ 22:34
Excellent answer, Herbert, you’re quite right, there must have been some brainy individuals millennia ago otherwise the pyramids (and not only in Egypt) would not be here. You’re also right on the lack of communication between the brainy ones.
You reckon it is the whole answer though? It would imply our brains (like our bodies) are no different from 4 millennia ago, but a genius appears (say) once in 100mn of us so because there are 7bn mesomorphs today, their number is proportionately higher, too.
The barbarian’s answer (the one he had) was more to do with the brain. As we, humans, got going in whatever numbers from whatever origin, the mutations in our brain caused by to need to gather sustenance, avoid predators got to open up connections that lay dormant in the generations before. This eventually led to a qualitative change in the brain’s DNA, the brain got ‘cleverer’, and so it continued until the brain capability reached the level at which thinking that was impossible for the brain to carry out or even comprehend of carrying out when we were still running around, grunting instead of speaking, became doable. Newton is supposed to get the idea of gravity when an apple fell on his head. Apples must have fallen down well before his time, even when the number of people was smaller than in the middle of the 17th century, no?
Btw, your slicing of it also implies the more of us the better, a view the barbarian also holds.
Malfleur @ 22:39
That’s the Russians for you, Malfleur, give them enough bottles of vodka, and they can do anything you want.
It may help if the scientists were to first figure how our brain works vis-vis the rest of our body.
Malfleur @ 23:30
The explanation of the relationship between power and an ‘ism ‘sounds convincing, is self evident, Malfleur. In fact, it’s quite profound, and would fit very well Lenin’s embracing the Marxist idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, other parts of the theory. It also is relevant to the current breed of socialists, neo-Nazis, other power hungry groups.
It suggests the culprit is not the Russian communists (they merely adopted the ism to gain, hold power) but a German, a Prussian, if memory serves, for Marx was born in Prussia. Engels, his useful collaborator was also of the same tribe (not born in Prussia though), but if anything he kept Karl going, without his financial help Marx wouldn’t be able to sit in the British Library for hours. Frederick even cheated on his farther, used to send Marx fivers cut in half (he couldn’t send a cheque, postal order because these had to be recorded in the company’s books). Nasty characters, both of them.
Robert Perry: Nazi Roots in Western Ukraine — Funded by CIA
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/28/nazi-roots-of-ukraines-conflict/
Shum shtain here, shurely?
Baron @ 00:06
How to use an ism without being an ist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFklTLNy8c
The Sultan sums up the dilemma, accurately and ruthlessly:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-lefts-manufactured-muslim-crisis.html
It is an executive synopsis of 15 years of accrued intelligence analysis.
How should we address the Knish reality?
I doubt it can remedied without serious carnage. I also doubt that sufficient will exists to perpetrate such cleansing.
The confusion inherent in the caucuses Circus tonight in Iowa merely exacerbates my deep anxiety.
Malfleur @ 23:39
Here is what the ‘popular revolution’ in Ukraine was like before it got very bad. We now know where it led, too (The guy who asked the question at the end didn’t). The mess the country’s in today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKQc3wLLiRA
Baron @ 00:37
Thanks. As it looks lengthy, I have set it aside awaiting an appropriate time slot.
*****
This extract is from the Wikipedia entry [I know… :- ( ] for the late Professor Sutton:
“…”Sutton concluded that this was all part of the economic power elites’ “long-range program of nurturing collectivism”[2] and fostering “corporate socialism” in order to ensure “monopoly acquisition of wealth”, because it “would fade away if it were exposed to the activity of a free market”.[6] In his view, the only solution to prevent such abuse in the future was that “a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government, declares it will look after its own welfare and interests”, or specifically that “a majority finds the moral courage and the internal fortitude to reject the something-for-nothing con game and replace it by voluntary associations, voluntary communes, or local rule and decentralized societies”…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_C._Sutton
Baron
February 1st, 2016 – 23:45
Yes, I agree that what I wrote can be interpreted as also asserting “the more of us the better” but that notion is one I very much disagree with.
For one thing, although the the earth may not yet have reached it’s capacity to accommodate still more of us, simple arithmetic tells us quite plainly that a population density of one human for every square foot of land surface is extremely unlikely to ever be sustainable.
And for another, if insane and evil ideologies (and especially theologies) are allowed to persist and grow, they will inflict complete extinction on us. Better that complete extinction is inflicted on them before it is too late.
From the aesthetic point of view alone our planet is already over-populated.
What we now need is not more people, but people of improved quality.
evolution (various posters) – indeed a complex area, not clarified by the ‘red deer’ people and others, remnants fo whom have fairly recently been discovered in China.
http://theconversation.com/bone-suggests-red-deer-cave-people-a-mysterious-species-of-human-52437
Perhaps ‘we’ arise from different sources. That would explain a lot and create many more complex issues than the simple one-race narrative could handle.
Malfleur February 2nd, 2016 – 01:07
Thank you for the Sutton link. Worth exploring his books.
After a week’s barrage of JJB and other transatlantic oddities the puppeteer steps from behind the curtain to take a bow. The ego is so inflated he simply can’t resist the intrusion.
Imagine the gathering of tiny minds in distant offices who presume to monitor, ‘regulate’ and ‘moderate’ the blogs they disapprove of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulator–Moderator_War). How shocking, what outrage, that people should express views so at odds with their own. Like most officious and meddling left wing numpties past and present they really believe that by oppressing free expression they can eradicate the “problem” of dissent. Just like East Germany believed.
Two things on the Iowa caucus:
The political establishment of the Republic must feel pretty emboldened this morning, exhilarated, re-assured of its power. It Donald with all his wealth, boldness of expression and the (seductive) hair power cannot put a dent in their armoury who can? Whatever Cruz, Rubio or Sanders say they either are or will be a part of the top layer.
If Cruz gets it, the Clinton women is the next White House occupant.
The most depressing upshot of the Iowa caucuses is that half of the democratic party there voted for a old, mad hippy Marxist and the other half voted for a money-grubbing female front for an international mafia of fraudsters posing as neo-Marxists.
But then – it was Iowa that was involved.
Jacks for openers! It’s going to be a long year. Meanwhile, back in Westminster ….
Ye Gods!
If someone were to dig him up (well, the bits that didn’t get burnt), he would more than likely shoot himself again:
http://viewpure.com/Prls6Iz3B3E
Clear Memories @ 07:03
An informative link, Clear Memories, thanks, the barbarian has never heard of these people (not that it matters, of course, but he didn’t).
Could it it be true they were still around some 10,000 years ago? We do need someone with fresh ideas about our origins to come along because one can argue they had been surviving un-evolved (e.g. the equivalent of the ginkgo tree) for so long thanks to the environment they lived in, but then if we were to find fossils elsewhere (as the article hints we could, the area of Asia is under-researched) this theory falls apart (as it does with the tree0.
Herbert Thornton @ 01:55
That’s one issue we have to agree to disagree, Herbert, the barbarian is a convinced number man, the more the better, and he’s glad of the logic you furnished on the brain chat earlier.
You of course recall Malthus, and we’re now far far beyond what he thought was manageable. Not that it would be a comfortable life but one can fit all the population of the world in the State of Texas. This isn’t the point, what is is that we’ve always come up with an answer, the need’s the mother of our progress, no?
The forecast for London traffic by the end of the 19th century was that the city will be drowned in horse manure. It wasn’t because the internal combustion engine came along. And so it will be with the feeding of the world population. And if that won’t do the job, new viruses like an advanced mutation of Aids will help. Or we move out to a planet next door. We’ll come up with something when the need arises.
Colonel Mustard (08:42)
Add Antony Sutton’s work to that of Diana West on your library shelf, then reach for your revolver and a bottle of Laphroaig.
I’m thankful that the Seven Blind Bastards of Fickle Fate diverted me from researching the political crimes of the last century-and-a-half, and rather set me on the trail of common or garden criminals – from petty pickpockets to major Mafia mobsters.
That latter rocky path drove me bonkers, but at least imbued a sense of gallows humour that provided a carapace as protection against complete despair.
The former option would undoubtedly have driven me to said revolver and suggested anaesthetic.
Now it seems that all we can do is bemusedly observe the Great Game, established in perpituity, until we singly depart, as we are called; or collectively in one Great Comeuppance (which seems perilously close – in either event in my case). 😉
Noa posted this very late on last week’s Wall (after this week’s had commenced). Lest anyone missed it – it’s worth your time:
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58913
Thanks Noa.
Breitbart have created Rolling Coverage of European Migrant Crisis : of daily offences across Europe by members of the invading horde.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/migrant-crisis-live-wire/
Correction:
Breitbart have created Rolling Coverage of European Migrant Crisis : of daily offences across Europe by members of the invading horde.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/29/migrant-crisis-live-wire/
I see Cameron’s campaign to be loved by lefties is still full on despite the endless contempt they show him in return (OK he deserves it). Just as it looked as if conservatives had won a tiny victory over the U-turn of Oriel College the Conservative leader wades in to the help of the rabid socialists with his charge of institutional racism. See http://bit.ly/1Syf97f
Why can’t they love him? He’s one of them. I almost feel sorry for our much misunderstood leader.
News of Cameron’s renegotiations are coming out;they are even less then supposed.Petty changes to social security payments.The `Red Card`to mean EU Laws can be rejected if they are opposed by 15 of the member states Parliaments.
UKIP says Wilson’s negotiated terms were not worth a row of beans ; Cameron’s aren’t worth half a row.
Baron
February 2nd, 2016 – 11:34
As always, you produce some powerful arguments, but despite Malthus being proved mistaken about what population level would be unsustainable and despite your Texas argument I don’t think we’ve quite reached the stage where we have to agree to disagree.
I say this because one of the possible solutions you offer reads –
” And if that won’t do the job, new viruses like an advanced mutation of Aids will help.”
To me that sounds like an admission that there must be a point at which either evolution (or humans themselves) will ensure that surplus people will be culled?
Anybody prepared to forecast what the decision will be? I think it may be made at the end of this week. –
http://www.smh.com.au/world/united-nations-panel-could-rule-in-favour-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-20160202-gmk2k8.html
Frank P @ 11:39
Too peaty, Laphroaig, for a top cop it may do, Cardhu or Knockando, the smoother brands, that’s the choice of the blue veined barbarian from the east.
Still, isn’t it amazing that in spite of all the shenanigans of the monied powerful life hasn’t been that bad since the last killing fields? Many of us born at or around the start of WW2 are still breathing in and out as regularly as a clockwork.
Dr. Sutton is a revelation to the poorly educate Slav, too. A couple of his books has already been ordered. No cheap he, but his statement that all the plants that appeared in the 1st 5-year plan were built by foreign capital was a sufficient bait for Baron.
Herbert Thornton @ 14:29
Looking back, Herbert, has there ever been a century, or even a half of it absent of either people killing each other, or some major pandemic thinning the number of mouth to feed somewhere in the world?
We may know more about our closest universe than we know about the laws that govern life on earth, and there must be some otherwise we humans would decimate everything, then probably perish ourselves.
Herbert Thornton @ 14:38
Hard one to call, Herbert.
Not that the albino is a favourite of Baron’s, but just shipping him over to the Republic would be an unjust punishment in itself.
Baron, this is the one for me.
DALWHINNIE
SINGLE MALT WHISKY
Speysider Dalwhinnie was the highest working distillery in Scotland between 2002 and 2008, but the re-opening of Braeval in July of that year has robbed the distillery of that title. However, the villagers can take cold comfort from the fact that their Grampian location still retains the lowest average annual temperature .
DALWHINNIE
Radford NG @ 14:00
The whole of the charade of negotiating the 4-year ban on welfare payments to immigrants, calling it ‘fundamental’ only shows we are both run by the brainless, and also brainwashed by the MSM, equally deficient in the brain department.
Currently, the hot topic happens to be immigration, so the boy gets himself over to Brussels hoping to get a ‘concession’. Even if he were to get it, so what?
In two years, another hot topic may emerge, (say) an EU Armed Forces, the top NATO figurehead Stoltenberg was grilled by BBC Radio4 Mardell the other day, said little on it even when pushed most likely because the Americans haven’t made up their mind yet, but the issue is unlikely to disappear, eventually a pan-European Armed Forces are more than likely. So, what do we do then?
In four years, there may be another hot issue, that of an EU Treasury. It cannot be avoided if the synthetic currency is to survive. So, what do we do then?
In six years, (say) as the Queen quits, Charles takes over, another hot issue may arise. Our republican bunch could combine forces with the continental progressives of similar ilk, demand that no constitutional monarchy could be a member of the EU, order us to abandon our set-up, become a republic. So, what do we do then?
The point being, our staying in the monstrosity will inevitably lead to our losing any control over our destiny. We’ll be bossed around at best by a bunch of the 28, or whatever the membership of the club will be, at worst by the Germans, who are unlikely to lose their hegemonic power in the club.
Out it must be.
John birch @ 17:02
Excellent one, too, John.
When the barbarian reached half a century in age, he was given two bottles of Dalwhinnie (15 years old it says on the label if one can believe the Scots). What happened to one of them he cannot recall (he most likely drank it), the other bottle still sits untouched in a secret place, very soon to be half a century old. You reckon it’s still drinkable? (only joking).
Actually, and no joking, could whisky go sour, lose its taste, or does it improve with age, no limit to it? Do you know?
John Alexander @ 13:54
This blonde trumps it, John, not only young and gorgeous, but brainy and principled into the bargain, too. The wanker could go fake multiply himself.
Thanks for posting it, John, it did raise the barbarian’s heart pressure, stuff like this always does, but it was worth it, there still are people who call back black, and white white, and until the progressives cull us all there is still hope.
Alas, without Verity,I believe there are vey few ladies here. This piece of news, however is zo daft, I have to report it:
“England’s chief medical officer says people must take personal responsibility for their drinking and consider cancer risks with each glass.
Dame Sally Davies said when she reaches for a glass of wine she questions whether she wants the wine or to raise her risk of breast cancer.” (BBC WEb)
Ot seems that Davies belongs to the school of misery which abhors people getting any happiness in this State-controlled country. Actually, I think mass produced bread should be considered and examined carefully. Bread is the staff of life, but I think much of the rubbish sold is diabolically unhealthy. More likely to get cancer from this rubbish than a glass of wine.
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Sorry for so many typing mistakes – cannot even blame a glass of wine!
Scotch Whisky seems to be the flavour of the week, so despite my favorite one being no longer obtainable here in British Columbia, I want my loyalty to it to be known –
MORTLACH SINGLE MALT.
Looking for it on the Internet, it seems there may now be more than one version of it.
I was wrong about MORTLACH being unobtainable. There are now three of theirs –
Rare Old – the one I used to drink – now just over $90 a bottle
18 year old – never tried it (not surprising because it’s virtually $325 a bottle), and
25 year old – never tried this either and unlikely ever to do so unless I win first prize in the lottery because (hold your breath) – one bottle is just over $869……
Herbert Thornton at 01:55.
The quality of life in the UK, unless you really, really like living in cities, is very much lower than it was when I was a kid, (50 years ago), in spite of all the material benefits that we now have. The reason is simply due to the population density, which was already excessive 20 years ago, but is now unbearable in many places. If you accept the UK population estimates used by our large supermarket chains (75 million in one case) then the case for lowering the population using financial incentives to restrict children to 2 per couple over (say) 3 generations.
A target of 50 million at the end of that period is perfectly possible, especially if a proper plan to remove the illegal undesirables was put into effect.
Now, none of us here will benefit, but it is still something that future generations would thank us for.
anne wotana kaye @ 18:05
Spot on, anne, the quality of the mass produced bread stinks, in Baron’s family the bleached square white sliced loaf is out, it’s bought only when the grandsons visit, they insist on white toasted slices with everything, they’ve never tasted anything better. If any remains when they leave, it’s cut into bits, thrown to the birds in the garden together with other scraps, broken peanuts, stale rye or spelt. It’s always the last to be picked by them, often it stays on the lawn untouched, disappears overnight, eaten by who knows what animals.
Baron – 11:34
“You of course recall Malthus, and we’re now far far beyond what he thought was manageable. Not that it would be a comfortable life but one can fit all the population of the world in the State of Texas. This isn’t the point …”
But, Baron, you have hit the nail on the head: it wouldn’t be comfortable!
It would require everyone to be cooperative, in order to conserve resources, so the lazy would need to be motivated to reduce waste and the risk takers would not be rewarded to the level that they would expect.
I can’t see that working out very well at all!
If a lily in a pond doubled in size every day from the 1st to the 30th of the month, and it grew to be ten feet across on the last day, what was the date when it was five feet across? It’s not the 15th.
This is the problem with an exponentially increasing population. Governments ignore the problem until it is too late.
It may be more than a second degree Bern if the New Hampshire burghers give it to him.
The great Mark’s take on the caucus in the flat state, the birthplace of Bill Bryson:
http://www.steynonline.com/7440/second-degree-bern
RobertRetyred @ 19:48
The analogy fits only on the assumption the size of the pond remains fixed, Robert.
Japan has a population of some 125mn, a vast majority (2/3) of them live in a triangle Tokyo – Osaka – Nagoya. The argument runs that they cannot spread because nobody wants to live in a mountainous surroundings. But what we want is one thing what we must another.
Liveable landmass or the lack of it is less of a problem if technology intervenes, we are far from the point where it should, but if that time comes it will, Baron reckons.
BREAKING NEWS
First sexually transmitted case of Zika virus is confirmed by health authorities in Texas
With a mosquito?
The biggest winner in Iowa was Karl Marx?
Hmmm, surely some mistake there, shouldn’t it be the Russians?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/02/2922483/
The following may provide a clue to why Fraser Nelson has still not kept his promise to write an article on Andrew Neather and the abuse of immigration law to increase a political party’s advantage in marginal constituencies.
“A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/02/top-german-journalist-admits-live-on-air-national-news-agenda-set-by-government/
We should learn Romanian, it seems that’s the language the progressives speak and, of course, also understand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cw-8OT-EWc
Despite the headline, I wonder whether this is a gloomy forecast or a hopeful one. I’m particularly referring to Hawking’s thoughts about genetically engineered viruses. What if the microbiologists concoct one that will make one particular race sterile? I wonder whether they’re already trying to do that – and which countries they are in?
http://www.pravdareport.com/society/anomal/22-01-2016/133142-stephen_hawking-0/
BRITISH AL QAEDA TO GO ON STRIKE…
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike next Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an agreement.
The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut from 72 to only 45. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings, and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
The suicide bombers’ union, the British Organization of Occupational Martyrs (B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members, and immediately balloted for strike action. General Secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, “Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad. We don’t ask for much in return, but to be treated like this is very unfair.”
Speaking from his lean-to in the West Midlands town of Tipton, where he currently resides, an Al Qaeda chief executive explained, “We sympathize with our workers’ concerns, but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day Jihad in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It’s a straight choice between reducing expenditures or laying people off. I don’t like cutting wages, but I’d hate to have to tell 3,000 of my members that they won’t be able to blow themselves up.”
Spokespersons for the union in Newcastle, Middlesborough, Essex and Glasgow stated that they would be unaffected, as there are no virgins in these areas anyway.
Apparently, the drop in the number of suicide bombings has been largely put down to the emergence of the Scottish singing star, Susan Boyle. Now that Muslims know what a virgin looks like, they are no longer so keen on going to paradise.
“Blackberry pickers could end up in court as council tries to pass bylaw banning foraging” (D/T)
No,no, no,no, NO!
The Sun says :
…….a steaming pile of manure ;
a dismal failure worse then we ever imagined ;
nothing to halt migrants ;
nothing to win powers back ;
……IT STINKS
Does this mean no more country suppers with Rebecca Wade/Brookes for Dave. LOL
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/sun_says/6500866/Sun-Says.html
Click on either of the two links only if you have plenty of time, want to kill it.
The first link is to a short cartoon, a singing Islamist and the piano playing (but also singing) feminist.
The other one should be a cartoon, but isn’t. In some 8 minutes you’ll be lectured by a man who professes to be a doctor, but is also knowledgable on evolution. A non-Muslim corrects the mistakes he makes. You won’t find it in the video, but in other u-tube offerings the Muslim scholar draws huge crowds of mostly young Muslims who ask him questions, he answers them along lines similar to the video furnished here by the barbarian.
If you imagine that there are other Islamic scholars of his ilk teaching here Muslim children in evening and weekend schools along similar lines you would be forgiven for reaching just for the revolver, forgetting the whisky for drinking it would only prolonged your agony.
Those who govern us must be utterly loopy letting them in, as must we be for voting for those who govern us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJUqhm2g08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXYx5fNICy0
Noa @ 22:33
Excellent one, Noa, top class, the barbarian particularly savoured the line “Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad …”
Malfleur @ 23:29
And what’s wrong with the council’s new bylaw, Malfleur? Animals have rights, too, and have to snack occasionally, it’s only proper that humans should stick to Tesco’s white bread. The time isn’t ripe yet for humans to graze.
Radford NG @ 23:55
The comparison of the boy’s haggling with the con of a second hand car dealer fits like a glove. Well done the Sun.
Herbert Thornton @ 22:30
Human civilisation destroyed in the next 1,000 years, Herbert? Hmmm, the brainy one may have the time scale more than marginally adrift, no?
Baron
February 3rd, 2016 – 01:04
I’m not clear what you mean by marginally adrift.
I think that if more Islamists than just the Pakistanis get The Bomb during this century, there’s a good chance of much of civilisation being destroyed before the year 2100. Ditto if some horrible virus escapes some Genetic Engineering lab.
Mallfleur
January 31st, 2016 – 23:12
Herbert Thornton @ 17:41
I was referring to Baron
January 26th, 2016 – 17:55
*****
JJB:
1.Des Moins….?
2. Clovelly…in January…?
Mallfleur (sic)
I was delayed by North East Sea border weather to February. As you will know, my aunt is Devonshire born and bred and I visit once or twice a year. This year to spread the word from Cruz, Trump, Rubio and co.
Yall will know by now that Cruz won in Des Moins. He is a solid believer but the pinko establishment seem to like the wop better. You Limeys look like you might have got away with referring a potential next President to your Parliament.
Herbert Thornton
January 31st, 2016 – 17:41
Malfleur
January 31st, 2016 – 10:00
I”ve just read your post where you refer to Baron having made “an earlier general statement about Alex Jones some days ago”.
I’ve looked back through Baron’s postings, and I think that while he certainly referred to a “religious infected madman” I rather doubt that he wast referring to Alex Jones. Wasn’t he referring an earlier posting by J.J. Burns at 11:38 that, in turn, drew attention to a video of a man called “Blizzard Jonas” ? –
Ha ha ha!
Blizzard Jonas is just that:
‘This storm ranks up there with the great blizzards of the past 100 years in terms of amount of snowfall, size of impacted areas and population affected,’
This is what kept me holed up in NY State and delayed my visit to my aunt in Clovelly.
The video was from Pastor Paul Begley, although you can be forgiven your mistake looking at the legend under the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlvSY-CAu1k
Paul Begley is a Cruz man.
http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/02/top-german-journalist-admits-live-on-air-national-news-agenda-set-by-government/
anne wotana kaye, February 2nd, 2016 – 18:05
Depressing, these days, how many FRSs turned government scientists are “standing on the shoulders” of Trofim Lysenko.
anne wotana kaye, February 2nd, 2016 – 21:05
“BREAKING NEWS
First sexually transmitted case of Zika virus is confirmed by health authorities in Texas
With a mosquito?”
JJB will undoubtedly attest that everything is bigger and better in Texas, but with regular mosquitoes, reportedly, you don’t even feel the little prick
🙂
EC
February 3rd, 2016 – 10:30
How true! Unfortunately many of our G.Ps appear to be disciples of Trofim Lysenko.
JJB @ 7:14
I referred to “Des Moins” because your use of it suggested that you didn’t know how to spell it. I added a question mark in case it was a simple typo. Now, in your post of 7:14, it has become clear that you don’t know how to spell Des Moines any more than Hillary Clinton supporters are aware that Karl Marx is not her economics adviser recently named by her as her choice for Vice Presidential running mate. http://www.infowars.com/video-hillary-supporters-endorse-karl-marx-for-vp/
This provides further evidence bearing out suspicions first voiced by Mitt Romney that as high a figure as 47% of the American people is dumber than a groundhog in its hole.
Correction: reference in my last post should have been to JJB @ 07:05
EC
February 3rd, 2016 – 10:40
JJB will undoubtedly attest that everything is bigger and better in Texas, but with regular mosquitoes, reportedly, you don’t even feel the little prick
I’m sure there are lots of little pricks in Texas!
A timely essay from William Sullivan, given the fifty-fifty split between two Marxist options in the ‘Democratic Party’ at the Iowa caucuses:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/how_john_adams_predicted_bernie_sanders_and_his_acolytes.html
And of course the same arguments apply here, as our government moves inexorably to the left to get in sync with our EU masters.
The stupidity of almost all of the politicians and political pundits mouthing demented rhetoric from our TV screens is only matched by the vox populi carefully selected by the agitprop meeja to indicated the willingness of hoi polloi to tow the line in the Long March to Utopia (aka deluded disaster).
My auto spell checker added a ‘d’ to ‘indicate’ in transit in the above rant, thus proving that the software techies are as illiterate as the above delineated deluded are stoooopid!
Baron
Did you watch the BBC drama/documentary “Russia’s Lost Princesses”?
I saw a repeat last night; wondered what your thought of the historical accuracy/propaganda motivation of the two-part series?
EC/AWK
You better believe those things are much bigger in Texas. Which is why we want no more Mexicans to cross read them smaller.
Mal(l)fleur- I can spell my name.
After watching the ‘debate’ in Parliament today on the subject of CMD’s ongoing ‘negotiations’ in his attempt to gull hoi polloi’s support to stay in the EU, I turned to Boot’s blog to see whether he had a p.o.v. on the ‘draft document’.
He has. A deliciously sardonic take which accords entirely with my own except I would have added a few scatological barbs to underline my contempt for the oleaginous spiv who professes to be looking after Britain’s interest while continuing to cynically sell us down the river:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/dave-scores-yet-another-eu-triumph
Malfleur @ 11:00
The guy must be choosing certain types of people, Malfleur, it’s unbelievable nobody has challenged him, Marx is supposed to amongst the first 20 most famous names (see link). What’s even more shocking when he says ‘the communist Karl Marx …’ and draws blank, too.
Not that one could succeed, but perhaps the time has come for people who want to participate in elections to be both tested on general knowledge, and also furnish evidence that they’ve contributed to the wealth creation in the society, i.e. paid an income tax at some point in their life.
anne wotana kaye @ 11:10
One would be hard put to argue with the notion that everything’s bigger in the Republic, anne, but the thing is it also applies to fugging up. When the Americans mess up the pile beats any other anywhere in the world. Just look at the ME, Ukraine as a case in point.
Carter’s $7.0bn spent on beefing up anti-ASIL forces will probably result in the same success as the half a billion they invested in training ‘moderate and friendly forces’ before: 4 or 5 of them.
Btw, the latest news is our bearded friends in Birmingham have slaughtered all indigenous inhabitants of the city. The police fear it may be as many as seven or eight people. (Apologies for the deadly un-PC joke, the barbarian got it only few minutes ago, it’s one of about a dozen, most are much worse than this one, totally unsuitable even for the Wall).
Frank P @ 12:45
What has been exercising the barbarian’s mind after the Iowa’s caucus, Frank, is the probability of Bernie over there, Jeremy over here getting the top jobs with the result he (the barbarian) would very likely relocate to Crimea – dry, hot summers, plenty of champagne plants, and lovely beaches. What else could an old, life weathered conservative ask for? He’s fully aware the KGB Colonel’s still in charge, but it’s only a transient drawback, he’ll be gone soon, Crimea and what it has to offer will stay put forever.
Any chance you join him?
Sorry, Baron forgot to mention he didn’t watch the BBC documentary, Frank, cannot comment on it, what he can tell you is there has been a resurgence of the story that the old Nicholas didn’t get killed (together with the rest of the family), but under a different name lived on in Russia, died after the war. This, as many other conspiracy theories, is nonsense.
Frank P @ 14:52
Good one by Mr. Boot, but then what else could one have expected, it’s the Germans who’re running the show they have no desire whatever to rock the boat that got them where they are, on the top of the EU member states hierarchy, danke.
The rumour has it the guy Tusk was consulting with Mutti throughout the negotiations. Why her, has she been elected to run the EU, is she Queen?
How undemocratic could the whole construct get?
This is the film the Ukrainian Government is asking Canal+ not to screen ( a mistake that, it’s likely to get people’s appetite to see it up). The guy who made it is not a Putin admirer, says he doesn’t show anything that’s not true, has himself no dog in the fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwbbxrtNoaU
Baron
February 3rd, 2016 – 17:49
anne wotana kaye @ 11:10
I’ve brrn a naughty girl writing such provocative postings. 🙂
Baron
February 3rd, 2016 – 18:01
I hope you’ll invite several of us. I can already hear you saying boodyetye kak dawma.
anne wotana kaye
February 3rd, 2016 – 18:57
Don’t worry anne, we all like naughty girls.
John birch
February 3rd, 2016 – 20:48
Thanks, pal!
Baron @ 18:16
Sounds like another of those conspiracy theories to me. Pay it no note.
Exam Question:
Two headines
1.RON PAUL: DNC MAY DUMP HILLARY & ASK KERRY TO JUMP IN RACE*
2.JOHN KERRY USED PERSONAL ACCOUNT TO SEND HILLARY ‘SECRET’ EMAIL*
Compare, contrast,. discuss using the information supplied below.
* http://www.infowars.com/
And for those who grew up in the Soviet Empire or the Chinese Empire, but in England still have difficulty in distinguishing a “conspiracy theory” (a CIA propaganda construct) from a conspiracy, here is a mathematical approach to the problem written by an English journalist working for an American conspiracy theory factory –
http://www.infowars.com/now-theres-a-math-formula-for-disproving-conspiracy-theories/
A Straw in the Wind
“Question: Bill, I work as an ER physician around the Texas border and lately we have seen border patrol bring individuals from Brazil, Russia, and even China to our ER’s. While this is not a new thing, what is new is the volume and the fact that some of these individuals both men and women look from upper class strata .Most of us are in complete disbelief because this is not the usual type of people that we get crossing the border very often. You have to see some of these women!!! But honestly, joke aside, my point is that the world sure looks like is falling apart, and it’s probably a lot worse than we think. I am very worried Bill, very much so something big and bad is going to happen. Nothing makes sense. I can’t recall so many things being so chaotic around the world all at once…
Answer from Fleck: “I think we are headed for tough times, for sure.” ”
http://kingworldnews.com/bill-fleckenstein-warns-the-gold-market-may-spike-at-any-time-as-gold-is-poised-to-fly-plus-a-bonus-qa/
I did not see the programe on the four daughters of Nicholas II but have recorded it, and from Franks comments it is very much as expected. Anyone who believes in the survival of the imperial family also probably believes that Elvis is alive and running a fish and chip shop in Balham.
The fate of the family has been exhaustively researched by many reputable historians, most recently Simon Sebag-Montefiore. All details of the slaughter and subsequent disposal was kept in the KGB archives, compiled from the testimony of the participants.
The last word on this subject was spoken after the death of Anna Anderson, who for decades had masqueraded as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. DNA analysis proved that she was Franziska Schanzkowska, a polish factory worker.
A request from Baron Bodissey:
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/02/a-bleg-from-vlad/
Tricky Teddy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-03/did-cruz-steal-iowa-trump-carson-slam-dirty-disgraceful-tricks
Marco Rubio – darling boy of the Globalists cheats at polling cards?
http://www.infowars.com/trump-supporters-think-microsoft-helped-rubio-cheat-in-iowa/
A position in Bohemian Grove for him soon? Council on Foreign Relations will buy him a ticket as it has provided him with an anti-Putin foreign policy adviser who must also be booting him up for civil war.
Frank P.
You might be interested to watch Alex Jones interview the Chief of Police of Austin, Texas, Art Acevedo. The link is to the 2nd hour of Wednesday’s show and there is a bit of a false start as the Chief has to take a call on his cell phone. The interview proper starts at about 5:20 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjCU5uxlD8&feature=iv&src_vid=26NlcEVDPUY&annotation_id=annotation_4218781241
Hold on for the end of the interview at the beginning of the 3rd hour when Jones donates a cheque to the Austin Police Department charities programme…
…
(and if you then keep watching you will learn after the end of the interview that the Kika virus was the patent of the Rockefeller Foundation – an outfit not without connections to the Bilderberg Group, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and of course to that other spider web of the Globalists, Council on Foreign Relations..).
He isn’ t dim! Even if he has script writers, which most politicians do, they still need to be chosen and the lines delivered well:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/02/03/trump-on-obamas-mosque-speech-maybe-he-feels-comfortable-there
Could it be that even Kissinger believes his fellow Bilderbergers have lost the plot? Or is Kissinger delivering new instructions?
https://www.rt.com/news/331194-putin-meets-friend-kissinger/
My husband says, (and I agree) that almost all politicians are charlatans and shits!
Rod forgot to mention amongst the annoyed our blogging friend telemachus, who might finally give up extolling the virtues of Marxism, take up knitting.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/i-want-to-see-president-trump-if-only-because-of-who-hed-annoy/
Baron (11:05)
Do me a favour – please cut and past Rod’s ‘Trump’ piece here will ya?
I’m being blocked from the Speccie site by a paywall.
“paste” – Sri – it’s the feckin’ auto spell-check again!
Anne (10:27)
Give hubby a pat on the back and my best regards – tell him he could have added ‘extortionists’ to that little list of indictments. And the adjective ‘mendacious’ as a pre-qualifier.
Funding for rural bus services could be reduced by £27m
2 hours ago
Many rural bus services in England and Wales face being axed because of council budget cuts, according to new research.
The Campaign for Better Transport says funding will be reduced by £27m over the next few years. (BBCWeb)
Heard about this on the same newscast which brays about Cameron giving millions of pounds to help the ‘poor’ Syrians. I pity the country folk who depend on buses for getting to work, hospitals, shopping, and other essential travel. Also, mobile libraries will be affected, together with all the other amenities of civilised life.
Frank P
February 4th, 2016 – 11:33
He mentioned other words, but not fit to appear in print! He sends his regards.
And speaking of extortion, the ineffable Mark Malloch-Brown, close associate of ‘Gargoyle Gordon’ (our erstwhile unelected ‘Prime Minister’) and front man for the egregious George Soros, put his head above the parapet this morning, as a result of the latest gaggle of international rip-off operatives foregathering in London in an attempt to garner more £multi-billions to throw at the ‘Syrian Humanitarian Crisis’ caused by the appalling political fuck-ups perpetrated by the Obarmy administration, in cahoots with the wankers of Westminster and the bastards of Brussels. Hide your wallets!
He’s been hiding since Gordon got his arse handed to him in a paper bag, but toiling below the radar with his international financial puppeteers. He was interviewed by Sky News as an ‘ex’ something or other. Nothing “ex” about one of the world’s top con-men.
Just Google his moniker and remind yourselves of the web of intrigue in which he is a nexus.
He has his feelthy fingers in more pies that a Melton Mowbray Baker.
‘I want to see President Trump – if only because of who he’d annoy
It would be Trumpageddon for all the worst people in Britain, and the prospect is rather attractive”
Rod Liddle
Rod got the whiny, tinny sounding Neil Young banged to rights there!
🙂
“A Man Needs A Maid”
James Taylor?
Don’t get me started on ‘im!
😯
Thanks EC (and Rod, of course – pity he still persists with the Speccie, but at least he’s sucking out some of the Barclay bunce to good effect).
That was a wonderful antidote to the tsunami of crap spewing forth from the TV news channels today.
Of course, before anyone points it out, I do realise that there’s a heavy undercurrent of irony beneath Rod’s message and that he still dresses to the left in private; that polemical controversy is his format. But there’s the right stuff trying to break out, nonetheless and I do believe there’s some hope for him.
He’s been remarkably quiet on the Corbynski/Flabbott phenomenon though. Has she threatened to sue him, or summat? Or have I missed some of his articles because of my debarment from the Speccie website?
Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club and Pyjamas Media outfit, updates us on the latest on the recent fall of Aleppo and the devious politics of Syria, at his well informed and analytical best:
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/02/03/the-fall-of-aleppo-and-the-ruin-of-american-foreign-policy/
If you like cartoons you will appreciate the one appearing next to the heading of the latest Sultan’s piece on the tragic charade that the Syrian conflict is.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk
Frank P @ 14:37
A posting by OregonJon under the piece you’ve linked says: “Russia is showing us, and the world, that a financially bankrupt country is still far, far superior to a countries where the bankruptcy is merely moral”.
That’s about sums it up.
The Americans have never tried to wipe out ISIL, whilst the honorary Muslim was telling us they, the Americans, were doing their best to hit the thugs, destroys them, on the ground the reality was just the opposite. The most charitable explanation would be to assume the Americans did FA because they were hoping the mercenaries (for the groups fighting Assad were indeed that, funded mostly by the Saudis, aided by the Turks) would defeat Assad, please the Saudis in dislodging a Shia government, the Turks in helping the creation of a new Ottoman empire.
News from the east say the Turks are preparing to invade Syria, if they don’t the link between Turkey and ISIL will be severed (you may recall Baron telling you about a major road Aleppo linking Turkey with the ISIL forces). Btw, it is also the region populated by the Turkmen, whose group downed the Russian bomber few weeks ago.
If the turks do invade, it would be more than interesting to observe the reaction of the Russians. Will they face to the invader militarily (following a request from the Damascus government), or will they only push for the Security Council to have a series of useless debates?
So far the leap year seems to live to expectations.
Sorry, guru, Baron didn’t copy, post Rod’s piece not because he has fallen out of love with you, but because he wasn’t about when you’ve asked him to do so.
Malfleur @ 10:06
Not that the man ranks high on the barbarian’s list of people to admire, Malfleur, but when he was around American foreign policy was scoring well. He did understand that not even the mighty Republic could fight them all, hence he bribed, sucked up to, cajoled and whatever any country that got out of line, but kept the Western i.e. American hegemony afloat. The world’s missing him, it run by the likes of ‘Fuck the EU’ amateurs, and it shows – The ME in flames, Ukraine bankrupt, the Far East controlled more and more by the Chinese Red Menace.
Not that it’s of much interest to some of you, but the Russians are ‘heatily’ debating what to do to survive the crisis (with big dollops of criticism of the one who likes stripping to the waist). Their pessimistic projections say the country’s GDP will sink up to 5% this year, that’s roughly double of what happened to us after 2008.
To save their banking system (they have both state run and private banks), one of the ideas is to convert the biggest depositors into shareholders. Amazing they have people who have accounts with more that half a million bucks (Russians can and many do have both rouble and dollar accounts), but they have. Not many, enough though to boost the banks’ capital (this is what the move would do, increase the capital base of the banks). It’s something similar to what the Cyprus banks did few years back.
The talk is also about the State unloading some of its assets, e.g. Rosneft (the fuel distributor), Aeroflot, some land holdings and such. This cannot do much except raise less than they would have got for the assets before the crisis hit, the share prices moved south. The State would still keep a controlling share, which will do FA to regenerate the civil service run operations, Baron reckons.
Their problem is not dissimilar to ours, the State has a dominant share in the country’s economy – around 40% directly (ours is around 38%), but if one adds the State controlled companies (like the ones mentioned before), the ratio of the State controlled chunk of Russia’s GDP goes up to 70%.
Interestingly, not a single one of the economists who argue about it seems to think the West will lift the sanctions.
Of interest (to Baron anyway) is a suggestion that Medvedev (currently the PM) will go and Kudrin will take over. You may not recall it (no reason you should), but Kudrin was the Finance Minister (2003-07?), he did well to re-shape the Boris’s oligarch economy, (but then the oil prices were doing well as well).
BBC Question Time has it’s own twitter page.
On the programme tonight is Nigel Farage.
Also:
Isabel Oakeshott;
appointed as political editor at large by the Daily Mail;
co-author with Michael Ashcroft of a biography of Cameron (`Call Me Dave`);
persuader of Vicky Price to blow the whistle on Chris Huhne;
but,also,fan of Boris Johnson.
https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime
http://www.isabeloakeshott.com//
Another sperm whale beached at Hunstanton in Norfolk, the scientists puzzle why.
They could have a look at the wind monstrosities in the sea that can be seen from the beach, their noise must penetrate the sea water, disorientate the giant creatures.
This explains in more words than the barbarian would use (or even knows) what’s wrong with the Republic: morally corrupt (lies, half-truth, deceptions everywhere from Benghazi to immigration), financially close to bankruptcy (wait what happens when the cost of money goes up as it must, the debt servicing cannot but inhibit economic growth), militarily inept (pinned down by ‘uman rites’ statutes, out-of-date gear), and spiritually vacuous (who needs the American dream when a vast majority have all they need?).
It is, it has always been a relative world, and as it happens, there are emerging tribes other than the ‘exceptional one’ that are hungrier than it. Nothing else but this cuts it.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/what-happened-in-iowa/
Baron (19:38)
Exactly what I muttered to my old dutch when the local news featured the beached whale this evening. Notably not a single anchor or pundit has mentioned the possibility that the monstrous turbines could be the culprits. Waiting for Dellers to wax fluent on the subject – right up his sea-lane.
I might add the bird crunchers have also spoiled one of my favourite seascapes, looking across to the mouth of Wash from under the layer-cake cliffs of Hunstanton (or from the Sunset Room of the Ancient Mariner at ‘Le Strange Arms Hotel’). Been a favourite vista of mine since before WWII, when it became o/o/b and mined for the duration.
I resisted the temptation to join the gawpers today – taking selfies with a moribund whale. Fucking morons!
It also interrupted our weekly ritual Fish ‘n’ Chip lunch at Fishers – probably the best deal in Norfolk, if not indeed the UK:
http://www.fishersofhunstanton.com
☺☺
Got this from my Noo Joisey counterpart today:
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/02/doing_ac_the_chris_could_use_some_advice_from_the.html
It underlines what I was trying to say earlier in the week; I concur with the author. Trump came out of a Mob bailiwick, Atlantic City, unscathed. That should tell you something about his acumen. Showman he may be, idiot he is not. Whether that acumen ultimately translates into political power remains to be seen. Personally I’d chance a small wager that he’ll prevail, notwithstanding the fact that the Washington political Mafia probably Trumps (pun intended) cosa nostra (at least since JFK – and the jury is still out on that one).
Why has Farage pulled out of QT tonight? They emailed me today announcing his appearance. Dimblebollocks discriminates against Goodall – shuts him up and refuses to allow him to respond to co-panellists or audience attacks.
Shabana Mahmood – the face of tomorrow’s ‘Britain’. Voice like a circular saw; anti-Semitic hatred oozing from every pore. Taqiyya personified! And a shyster by profession – what else?
Bradford, as we all know, is already a goner.
Frank P at 23:12
Farage reports:”Now at a standstill for 90 min on the A1..bbcqt doubtful.Damn.”(at 19:35)
Frank P at 23:41
Shabana Mahmood is MP for Birmingham,Ladywood.
Silent march by Pergima UK in Birmingham on Saturday 6th Feb.
When the Russians first went to the military assistance of the Syrian government, it was said that a Chinese warship had appeare off the Syrian coast. That proved an empty rumour.
Today I receive in my email from a friend in Singapore the following:
” Thousands of military troops from China enter the war on ISIS, stunning the Pentagon
The Kremlin have announced that China are to send 5,000 of its most elite military forces into the Levant War Zone to help Russia in the fight against ISIS, which has left the Obama administration and the Pentagon “horrified”.
The “Siberian Tiger” Special Forces and “Night Tiger” Special Forces Units were given authorization to be deployed by China’s People’s Congress (NPC) on Sunday, after China passed its first anti-terrorism law allowing their army to take part in anti-terror missions abroad…”
Then follows a link with the headline:
“Obama’s “Worst Nightmare” Realized As Chinese Troops Flood Into Syria
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In what a new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today is describing as President Barack Obama’s “worst nightmare”, the Ministry of National Defense (MoND) of the People’s Republic of China has secured the permission of the Syria Arab Republic to begin…”.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1970.htm
Of course this may all be a globalist conspiracy to destabilise the United States – and Europe, already well-advanced – or it could be the globalists’ nemesis. Hard to figure at the moment – but fasten your seatbelts…and vote for Kerry as [resident?
“In a shocking reversal of policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are being told to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings, essentially a license to stay in the United States, a key agent testified Thursday…..”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/border-agent-we-might-as-well-abolish-our-immigration-laws-altogether/article/2582401
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Does anybody doubt that the the federal government of the USA, run from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is under hostile foreign control?
This is a rather more urgent question for Americans than Englishmen at the moment.. There is some fresh thinking though which might usefully be stored away here against a rainy day.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-04/what-best-method-rebellion-against-tyranny
It’s 3:45 a.m. here, but a few minutes ago I woke up, couldn’t get back to sleep – this often happens.
I’ve found the best remedy is to check the Internet news, so I did, and am now feeling considerable satisfaction –
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/julian-assange-should-be-freed-entitled-to-compensation-un-panel-1.2765925
Charles Murray with an excellent rant about Facebook conspiring with Merkel to censor free speech: chilling!
I’ve always considered Facebook to be a dangerous phenomenon and wouldn’t entertain it with bargepole. This development vindicates my aversion to Zuckerburg and his intrusive rig up. No wonder the teenage suicide rate has increased dramatically. Facebook and ‘social meeja’ generally, are clearly causal links.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7371/facebook-freedom-of-speech
Disseminate, disseminate!
Herbert (11:58)
Do I infer correctly that you have sympathy with the debauched, treacherous albino Aussi; that you approve of the pontification of United Nations ‘courts’?
That you think we in England should compensate the slimy turd for self-exile in an Ecuadorian ‘safe house’ in Belgravia and that he should evade ‘justice’ in Sweden? Surely schum mishtake?
Let him pursue his quarrel with Sweden & Uncle Sam in Stockholm and Washington. I want none of the taxes extorted from me to find its way into the deep pockets of his shyster’s pockets. Execute the warrant! We’ve shelled out enough time and treasure providing ‘security’ for his ugly corpus. Fuck himmm!
Radford NG (23:26)
Thank you. You’re sure it wasn’t the fact that someone had ‘tampered with his nuts’ … again?!
He was sorely needed last night; afraid his stand-in didn’t do him justice.
Herbert – apologies for the tautological ‘pockets’. ☺
Frank –
You infer correctly to the extent that (for once) one of the offshoots of the disgusting United Nations has done something I approve of.
But I mystified that you should seem to make no distinction between on the one hand yourself and other (genuine) English people and on the other the ghastly recent and current English governments that we English are now saddled with. (I say “we” because I am of course still English despite having obtained Canadian citizenship around 40 years ago.)
As for dispatching Assange to the jurisdictions of either the current Swedish regime and Sweden’s evidently capricious justice system or to the mercies of the now thoroughly deteriorated U.S. justice system – that, to my mind would be a very unjust act in itself. Think of Martha Stewart and of the disgraceful, Stalinesque injustice perpetrated on Conrad Black).
I’m a bit surprised that you describe Assange in the way you do. I tend to think of his character as a sort of larger-in-life version of Private Eye.
Frank – my turn to apologise. Not “I mystified” but “I am mystified”.
The UN judgement on Julian Assange is part based on his being detained in Wandsworth prison and then under house arrest (not in the Equadorian Embassy).Also upon the lack of diligence by the Swedish prosecutor.
The Spectator and the Guardian both disagree with the judgement.
The UN report can be accessed at :
http://ow.ly/XYxNG
Herbert
You mystified me. ☺
But seriously. We won’t agree over this one. I view it through a different prism. If he wants to play with the big boys in the spookery business, he can’t complain when he comes a cropper.
As for his pleas about “giving his children back their father” I’m ROTFLMAO. He should have thought about that when he was shagging around in Sweden and doing a piss-poor James Bond parody. The whole Wikileaks shtick put good people in danger.
Fuck the politicians, if hoi polloi keep voting for the wrong people into Western governments, that’s their fault, not those at the sharp end. No organisation is without it’s bad boys selling the White Hats up the river. That’s life. But the fact that Assange co-opted the help of Ecuador and Snowden took his arse to Moscau should be a clue to something. And of course if that doesn’t indicate where the land lies with this scaly-backed mob from Wikileaks, just add the Gruniad to the mix. Purleese!
Whatever the evils of Western pols, they pale into insignificance with the sino-soviet Red Menace. And the boys and girls putting their arses on the line need protection from slugs from Wikileak who pretend to be pro bono. Pro bono my arse! And I might add ‘Private Eye’ my arse, also. You do that magazine an injustice. They aim (on there whole) at the right targets. Or they did in the 70s. Not so sure now, it’s a different world.
Anybody seen anything to indicate that the report that 5000 chink squaddies have joined the Russki’s in their Syrian escapade? Nobody has mentioned it on UK MSM. I haven’t clicked into Fox or CNN yet. So much to read, so little time.
When it comes to Assange and Snowden,if they had offended against Britain I am sure there would have been greater outrage here against the Minister and Whitehall officers who allowed these documents to be so easily accessed.There doesn’t seem to have been such outrage in Congress and the US media against the permanent executive,political appointees and elected politicians in Washington DC.
“The family of PC David Rathband, who was shot and blinded by Raoul Moat, has lost a High Court negligence claim against Northumbria Police………..
Passing judgement at Newcastle’s Moot Hall, Mr Justice Males described it as an “immensely sad case”. (BBC Web)
This case filled me with disgust and distaste for the stinking judicial establishment and the rubbish who call themselves Judges. The poor man was blinded in the course of his work and committed suicide a while later. The so-called judge has made the PC’s family responsible for paying £100,000 in 20 days. This travesty of judgement can be read on BBC web now.
Frank P
February 5th, 2016 – 16:52
Well we certainly mystify each other, so we may have to agree to disagree.
You are a retired policeman and, I suspect, are still very much inclined to believe that the a provision in the law is always something to be obeyed and enforced, whether or not you agree with it.
I’m a long retired lawyer, and until recent years I thought that too. But you hit the nail on the head (from my point of view) when you wrote – “Not so sure now, it’s a different world.”
Similarly, I used to believe, as you apparently still do, that the great menace to the world was the sino-soviet Red Menace. I’ve modified my belief considerably about that too. I think that now the great menace to the world is Islam.
So far as China goes, my Chinese acquaintances during my 6 years in Hong Kong gave me the impression that the Chinese in general feel quietly embarrassed about Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” and ruthlessness. China continues to be very authoritarian – think of Ai Weiwei – but it has to be conceded that it’s not remotely like the condition that Cambodia was in when Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge were slaughtering great numbers of people simply because they wore glasses.
Similarly Russia is doubtless very authoritarian, but I believe Stalin the Terrible’s regime was a great deal worse. As for Russia being aggressive, I can’t help drawing a parallel between Crimea and Northern Ireland. Khrushchev was a mischievous fool to have incorporated Crimea – which was and is essentially Russian speaking and Russian populated – into Ukraine. It rather resembled the hypothetical situation of Great Britain handing Ulster over to the Irish Republic.
Herbert.
The Long March is still the Long March.
Don’t expect me to debouch to their tune; the fact that the Mooslims have now adopted similar tactics and are even worse threat doesn’t warrant taking your eye of the sino-soviet ball. Whatever camouflage is heaped over a septic tank* the stench will seep through. Anybody that helps their cause, either directly or indirectly is not on ‘our’ side.
*This time I’m eschewing cockney rhyming slang, the metaphor is literal rather than assonant.
Radford NG (17:22)
I concur. But I also believe that warts and all the Septics are still our most important allies, which is why I’m rooting for the one most likely to oust the current administration there and clean the Augean Stables. Is Trump
Foe what it’s worth, and leaving aside the greater world also inhabited by the Sino-Ruskie tribes, the one thing that cuts it for the barbarian is that Assange hasn’t been charged with anything for almost four years. He may have done massive damage to our and American spooks (how come we have spooks, has it ever been officially admitted?) undermining legitimate governments (and not only the ones we regard as traditional enemies, also the French and that of Mutti’s), but that’s tough titty, they should have ensured the stuff doesn’t leak.
If law were to apply as it once did, the man would have been charged by now, even despicable characters have the right for due process, or is it that ‘uman rites’ apply only to those the anointed decide they should apply to?
Assange’s pleas about his kids, family sound hollow, he did break the law, the man’s a narcissistic tosser, but hounding him the way the Americans have done (for it is the Americans who run the show) is distasteful, unjust and wrong. The great Mark’s observation about today’s delivery of justice applies here, too: it’s the process that damages one more than any eventual verdict, sentence.
Btw, why did we sign up to the UN charade if we now say their take on Assange’s treatment is ‘ridiculous’? In a sense, we’re harvesting what we’ve sown, serve the political clowns right.
Heracles? If he plays his cards right, he could be. Can’t see any of the other Kuwaiti Tankers doing it. Especially Bush the Younger. He just wheeled Mommy and Big Bro out again to call his adversaries names. FMOBB! Even the unwashed of the boondocks won’t swallow that shit, surely?
I know, I know … “Don’t call me Shirley”. ☺
Baron (20:13)
Lot of truth in what you say, my old sparring partner – but it doesn’t alter my stance. En garde!
My penultimate seem to have been delivered in two parts – sorry about that! I’m detached from base pro tempore and reliant entirely on this friggin’ Nexus 7 tablet. Very temperamental!
Bit like its operator.
The great Republic has by far the greatest number of crimes committed with the gun, no question about it. Why? Because they, the American unwashed, freely vote for guns to be available, that’s what contemporary democracy, US style does, the high gun assisted crime rate is the price they pay for it.
The Russians have in charge a man who governs in a style that’s not to the taste of many in the West, no question about it. Why? Because the Russian unwashed vote freely for such governance, that’s what contemporary democracy, Russian style does, the roughness of the governance is the price they pay for it.
Neither the gun crime in the Republic, no the Putin’s style of governance in Russia should be of any concern of ours. Neither is our business, we could comment, ponder, object, but we are citizens of neither America nor Russia, we should let those who live there to decide, no?
Herbert Thornton @ 18:58
Seconded, Herbert.
Good old Nikita, a pal of Baron in a way, could have never imagined the USSR will fall apart, ‘at a stroke’ as it happened. He should have scanned Baron’s interrogation papers from his (Baron’s) stay at the Ljubjanka’s nil star hotel, the barbarian told the KGB Colonel (not Putin obviously, he was still wearing short trousers) that the construct will implode, and it did almost overnight.
Still, this is one of the things that saddens the barbarian. No MSM scribbler would ever mention not only that Crimea was in Russian hands far longer that in anyone else’s (the Turks are next in line), but also that the peninsula has been inhabited mostly by the Russians.
The same applies for east Ukraine, some 60 out of 100 burghers living there are Russians. Every Russian leader worth the title would do what Vlad’s doing. If he didn’t, he would be toast in Russia proper, the people would say ‘what TF, it’s our kin, why doesn’t he help them’.
When Falklands got temporarily taken over by the Argentinian junta the barbarian was more than 100% behind Margaret, her decision to go hit the bastards was right, the Falklanders wanted to be British, that cut it for Baron. With Crimea, east Ukraine the same applies. The people living there want to be with or close to Mother Russia, they have as much right to get it as did the Falkland’s folk.
anne wotana kaye @ 17:50
The news hit the barbarian over a car radio, anne, and his feelings were like yours. Surely, it was the duty of the Constabulary to let every officer know the guy’s dangerous, looking for them, wants to kill as many as he can.
Would PC David Rathband approach the thug the way he did if he knew what the killer intended to do?
Frank P @ 16:52
You often amaze the barbarian, Frank.
On the one hand, you rightly view the powers governing over us as rotten, untrustworthy, devious and stuff.
On the other, you blame the two fugitive from justice for escaping the same powers?
Btw, Baron has no time for Assange (but it doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be given the protection of the law until found guilty), agrees with what Snowden did except for his fleeing from the Republic. He should have stayed put, hid the stuff in banks or wherever, get good ‘uman rites’ lawyers, face the music. He would be a hero today for if the authorities wanted to take revenge, half of America, the enlightened half, would be on the streets, Baron reckons.
Malfleur @ 02:26
Would you mind explaining the link, Malfelur? It’s over a month old, no Chinese boots on the ground reported anywhere in the ME.
Baron
February 5th, 2016 – 20:50
That poor P.C. was a rare example of a brave man doing the job he was selected to do. Unfortunately, today it seems P.Cs and community support officers (or whatever the damned things are called) are busily engaged in beating up and sometimes killing those suspected of usually minor crimes. Where once the British Bobby walked tall, both physically and morally, we now see too many fatso types, slumping over their takeaways, with grubby shoes and ill fitting uniforms. True representatives of what law and order have become.
Baron @ 21:05
I had looked at the link from my Singaporean friend and noted that the January piece said that “… China are to send” military units that “were given authorization to be deployed by China’s People’s Congress…abroad” but I agree that the headline sounds as if Chinese soldiers are already on the way for coffee in Tartus.
Prompted by your critical post, I googled ‘chinese decision to send troops to syria’ and discovered that the stories go back to last September. Believe me, I do try to ensure everything I post here is accurate as to the facts and therefore admit that the post of mine you mention was misleading.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Baron (21:02)
Two words, Baron … two words:
The Guardian!
Heh, heh, heh!
First, apologies for the multiple errors down to punctuations, the barbarian had little time to do the postings, (which isn’t an excuse, merely an explanation).
On a different subject: a volcano eruption (Sakurajima) on an island in southern Japan, close to a Kansai nuclear plant (50km). Often, the Japanese get a fuming volcano followed by a quake. Baron hopes and prays nothing bad happens next this time, the burghers of the Land of the Rising Sun (the barbarian has friends living near-by) have suffered enough recently.
Malfleur @ 22:45
Your initial link frightened the barbarian to death, Malfleur. The last thing we need is the Mandarin speakers joining the fray. The situation is pretty explosive as it is what with the Turks massing up at the Syrian border, the Saudis telling the Americans they would furnish troops for the invasion of the Assad’s hellhole.
Btw, Frank has noticed it, too.
Another Silent March
“BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have slipped into Europe disguised as refugees, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said on Friday, a day after security forces thwarted a potential IS attack in Berlin.
Hans-Georg Maassen said the terrorist attacks in Paris last November had shown that Islamic State was deliberately planting terrorists among the refugees flowing into Europe.”
(H/T Infowars)
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Stefan Molyneux interviews Paul Joseph Watson about how the migrant crisis could lead to civil unrest and war. – Feb. 5 – video
(H/T Infowars)
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Anne (21:30)
Can you imagine how I feel when I witness the travesty that is now described as policing? Yet I still love the concept of The Job, the paradigm that Peel and Mayne conceived and put into motion. For a century and a half it worked. Not without set-backs, not without flaws. But it evolved into a respected function discharged, by and large, by a dedicated band of brothers and sisters who could be relied upon to turn up speedily when they were needed; provide help and protection and bring bad bastards to book.
It’s gone! Forty years of misbegotten management and internal rot has destroyed it. It could be retrieved with the right leadership, apolitical and commonsensical. There are people carrying the warrant cards who want to perform again as Peel and Mayne intended. But the political class – and the shyster’s who comprise the CPS – have usurped the function for political ends. And there are fat arses sitting on the red benches, ex-coppers who could have – and should have prevented the destruction of HM Constabulary, from Lands End to John o’ Groats. But instead they took political favours and the bunce that goes with that treachery. Shameful!
Now Agitprop, aka The BBC, is about to do a puff programme about the CPS. The final justification for the usurpation of a once great institution.
Bastards – all. Unfortunately, as I believe the reward or punishment for our lives lived is equal Oblivion, I will be sharing the Big Sleep with those traitors. If through some serendipity in the Great Scheme of Things, that Oblivion turns out be something else and we get a chance to confront them, you and I will work on the indictments, I promise.
Frank P @ 23:24
The barbarian has read the Guardian’s take on the Assange’s saga, Frank, they’re rather non-commital, merely describing what has happened today. Is there something else, or are you hinting that the poorly educated Slav is in the same boat as the anointed paper?
The Guardian says a secret grand jury in the US is looking for ways to indict him, and also that the Swedish prosecutors should have interviewed him, but didn’t. One can only guess, but the failure to grill him at the Embassy may have been because they knew they would have to drop the rape claim (only one remaining now). As for the legality of a US grand jury pontificating an indictment, Baron has nothing to say, he isn’t a lawyer, perhaps Herbert could tell us.
Again, Frank, the barbarian hasn’t got a dog in the fight, isn’t siding with Assange, but reckons the case has BA to do with rape, it’s a highly politicised affair, the Americans will never stop hunting the guy, ever, (and will get him in the end). If he thinks he can get a fair trail he’s a fool.
… and gal – have I got the evidence!
Frank P @ 23:56
What a lament, guru, top marks for it, you should give up on your cushy retirement, re-join the Force, even if in an advisory capacity, the departure time of your Big Sleep can wait.
Baron (23:58)
Tomorrow Baron [glances at clock] …
Sorry … Later today, after some shut eye; I was with the quack at 08:30 today, sorry again, yesterday; he has provided some more junk to add to my already exotic cocktail to get me through the night and I am about to try it on for size. Wish me luck. Sleep well y’sen.
This may calm the nerves, (or not).
Have a good night sleep, young sir.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0
Herbert Thornton @ 14:29
You have to realize that Frank P’s starting point is that “the security services” should be authorized to spy on everybody.
Herbert Thornton @ 18:58
“… I used to believe… that the great menace to the world was the sino-soviet Red Menace. I’ve modified my belief considerably about that too. I think that now the great menace to the world is Islam.
Only one more step, taken by me recently: it’s the globalists – who manipulate behind the masks of red menace, militant islam, global warmists, etc.
Btw, I once met the great Chinese xiangsheng performer Hou Baolin who graciously wrote me two characters, chiou le – seek happiness (still looking) – and who, I was told, evaded the brutalities of the Red Guard during the “Cultural Revolution” by making them laugh when they came for him by caricaturing the role of victim. Certainly, I met people of that generation who in the second half of the 1980s and thereafter would criticise the regime (in private – except for the early part of 1989). though I met a Chinese in Xi’An in 2011 who taught English as a foreign language and who told me (in public I must admit) that the period when he was sent to the countryside during the C.R. was the happiest of his life.
Herbert Thorntin @ ????
Was it you who wrote this week or the last (I couldn’t find it) that he suffers from sleeplessness and treats it by getting out of bed and checking the news online? I am the same and so thought you and others might like:
“… Known as “segmented sleep,” this seemingly irregular sleeping pattern may not be a disorder at all, but a natural biological response that we, in modern times, have forgotten.
An English scholar named Roger Ekirch has recently cemented the idea that our ancestors used to naturally “practice” segmented sleep, using their middle-of-the-night waking hours to pray, meditate, or finish chores around the home. [1] Roger Ekirch found references to “first sleep” and “second sleep” in literature, legal documents, and even letters dating before the Industrial period….”
http://www.infowars.com/your-ancestors-didnt-sleep-the-way-you-do/
Chiu Le!
He may be old, but his brain is still in perfect working order. His take on the squabbling between the Republic and Russia makes more sense than anything Obama and all his lieutenants have ever come up with:
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/kissingers-vision-us-russia-relations-15111
Malfleur @ 00:41
Helpful, that sleep link of yours. Malfleur, truly helpful, thanks.
The barbarian also suffers, if that’s the right word, from segmented sleep, seldom can he sleep 6-8 uninterrupted hours, he goes to bed after midnight, it’s almost a given he wakes up around 3.00 hours, then again after 6.00. No tiredness, no red eyes, fresh as a button, but come late afternoon, he can hardly keep awake. Old age must be a factor, too, old people apparently need fewer sleep hours.
Malfleur
February 6th, 2016 – 00:41
Yes it was me. The link’s interesting, but my cause of waking up is probably different – I wake up because I need to piss. It’s largely the result of several prostate operations.
Your reference to the two Chinese characters for “seek happiness” intrigued me because I like the Japanese style of gardening and they put me in mind of the Chinese characters on an attractive kind of Japanese garden water basin called a Zenigata. Apparently they mean something like “I’m happy with whatever I have” –
http://www.zen-garden.org/html/page_obj_tsukubai.htm
On the Assange affair, I would add something (setting aside the merits of the case one way or the other) that we all here might all agree on. We don’t want the United Nations acting as an arbiter of any of our national legal question – butt out! We don’t recognize judgments of any “panel” of an organization which, for example, has recently appointed the Ambassador of the slave state of Saudi Arabia to chair its “Human Rights Council”.
While at it, I hope we would reject furtherance of the rumoured ambitions of the United Nations, originally established as an anti-fascist alliance not a club for the spread of fascism, to promote itself to “World Government” with a criminal of the ilk of Barack Obama or Billy Clinton as its figurehead.
For any francophiles and lovers of life among us, I came across a clip on YouTube of a solo concert given by Charles Aznavour in Paris in 2004 when he was 91.
His next concert is in Prague on 6 April 2016
Malfleur
February 6th, 2016 – 03:31
I have to acknowledge that it’s unseemly (to say the least) that we should be required to submit to any ruling or direction handed down by a panel of the barbarous organised crime syndicate called the U.N.
But at the same time I am very much troubled at the way in which the English and U.S. justice systems seem to have cast aside their Common Law concept of natural justice, and have instead embraced the infiltration of their justice systems by political correctness.
If I had my way, I’d offer Assange a guaranteed safe passage to Australia and then wash my hands of the matter.
I think there’s a fair chance, should any other country demand his extradition, that the Aussies would, and especially so because he’s one of their own, shield him in the same way as – to their credit – they shielded Peter Wright. You may remember him – he was the former MI5 man who wrote Spycatcher. He took refuge in Australia and when the British government tried to get him extradited back to Britain they were firmly rebuffed.
Frank P
February 5th, 2016 – 23:56
Frank, I just got up from my bed, and taking a peep on the CHW I saw your posting. Frank, I wept. You described so eloquently what was and now what is, and if I had a heart left it would break. You wrote of the Big Sleep, and now in the cynicism which has corroded my ‘soul’ I wonder whether if even that has been corrupted by fat arses, and controlled as an extension of this mortal life. Will it be just more of the same? As the Great Bard said,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered Country, from whose bourn
No Traveller returns, Puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus Conscience does make Cowards of us all,
And thus the Native hue of Resolution
Is sicklied o’er, with the pale cast of Thought,
And so like Hamlet we must plod on! Goodnight, old friend.
Malfleur @ 03:39
When he takes to the stage in Prague, Malfleur, he’ll be 103.
The French Armenian seems indestructible, Frank & co take note. If he can sing at that age, we should at least breathe.
Malfleur/Baron/Frank P : Re.China and Syria.
The wise old monkey sat on the hill watching the tigers fight on the plain below.
Claims about the PLO putting boots on the ground in Syria were made in the Daily Express (19 Nov ’15).
The Washington Times claimed China `may`sent troops to Syria (15 Jan ’16).
`Russia Beyond The Headlines`writes that China (like the wise old monkey from their folk-tail will watch the big cats fighting and after the Islamic State is defeated will move in to take economic advantage. (15 Jan ’16)
http://www.rbth.com/international/2016/01/15/china-will-not-fight-in syria_559607
It might be of interest to click on the `twitter`link at the top of their page to see their take on the world.
CORRECTION to above;
http://www.rbth.com/international/2016/01/15/china-will-not-fight-in-syria_559607
Baron – 05:34
Depends what you actually mean by “sing,” but I’ll take the plucky “Aznovoice”(© Eric & Ernie) at any age over the irritating castrato of Neil Young.
(Ref: February 4th, 2016 – 12:45)
http://www.charlesaznavour.com/en/content?id=6
Malfleur, February 5th, 2016 – 23:37
I, too, thought that Stefan Molyneux & Paul Joseph Watson was well worth watching, as was the Alex Jones & David Icke Infowars video on the same subject.
There was much mention on a previous wall(s) about the e-motive-ness of Alex Jones. He is emotional at times, sure, but I don’t see anything wrong with that. Since he moved into his new studios the content and presentation on his YouTube channel has changed dramatically – for the better.
David Icke’s narrative on the “migrant” crisis and the one-world agenda is quite believable.
And the big question. What will happen in the by-election in sheffield. Can the kippers make inroads. Will labour put in a corbynite candidate, and will that go down well in Sheffield? Will there be any liberal resurgence?
EC @ 10:17
Yes, I was surprised to feel myself warming to what David Ickehad to say when previously I had thought him a crank. The times they are a-changin’.
Frank P, February 5th, 2016 – 23:56
We are now a nation living under CCTV, living under increasingly Draconian laws that are selectively policed – against the indigenous population! Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights? DEAD, finished off by Blair, Brown, Irving, Falconer & Harridan.
“Das Leben Der Anderen” revisited. Today everybody is entitled to snoop on us, from the NSA, GCHQ, our local Kremlin. Everybody including the Twitter Squad and Facebook’s Fuckerberg!
One of the refreshing things about my recent trip down under was, in the main, the reduction of CCTV, outside the city centres, and it was negligible in NZ. Also the people I met were more prepared to speak their minds. It’s only a matter of time though…
Herbert Thornton @ 04:23
What you propose would indeed be the best solution to the Assange’s saga, Herbert, but it would require our political class to be both smart, and also not totally subservient to the Americans. That they aren’t the former shows on our signing up to the UN Geneva based panel, and that they are the latter will cost us, the ‘uman rites’ brigade armed with the ruling will force us to pay up.
Assange has never committed any offence within our jurisdiction, we only got involved to please the Americans, the egg on our face is the reward for it.
Has anyone listen to Dominic Grieve? He gave a detailed dissection of the ruling, which is as negative as they come. The thing is, so what? Was he present to listen to the submissions, arguments, cross examination of evidence, deliberation of the panel? He wasn’t and didn’t, hence he should keep quiet. Often when Baron (or anyone else) disagrees with a jury or judge’s verdict he (others) is/are told ‘you haven’t been there, you cannot judge the case, take it, that’s it’.
The above may suggest Baron’s siding with Assange, which he isn’t, he’s trying to side with the law, even more with justice.
Bill Whittle on Migrants and Limousine Liberal Zuckerberg:
Bill Whittle hammers home three devastating points regarding the dangerous legal precedents, the morally gray areas, and the hypocritical pose of unearned moral superiority on the part of those proposing amnesty and open borders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkN4XiqRnrE
Frank P February 5th, 2016 – 23:56
I agree with every word and also with Anne’s observation about the scruffy and slovenly appearance of current “officers”.
It comes to something when the comedy police constables in the Carry On films and Benny Hill’s sketches look better in their uniforms than the specimens policing now in their casual polo shirts, tee shirts, cargo trousers and fleeces with bare, shaven heads.
The CPS programme will be agitprop, the “agency” having come in for so much criticism lately. The prosecutors will ham it up for the cameras and their five minutes of fame with all the usual BBC reality TV artifices to turn them into the requisite “national treasures”.
Who gave Wiki-leaks the information in the first place? Regardless of Assange’s culpability(or not) in publishing it, does anyone else think that there’s “something not quite right” about him?
The Swedish police refuse to prosecute thousands of cases of sexual assault by migrant “rapefugees”, but need to interview Assange about a historic encounter he had in a hotel with a pair of slags? Beggars belief !
EC @ 11:07
Excellent slicing of the immigration problem by the great Bill, EC, thanks.
The Adolf’s takeover and the Zucker’s stand are in particular well argued, pity that on the former Bill didn’t continue saying that following the transfer of power in the Reichstag, the Austrian house painter then called an election to the legislature in the Autumn 1939, and shocking as it may seem, 92 our of 100 German unwashed backed Hitler’s NSDAP.
The reason the barbarian suggests the extension to Bill’s narrative is that a similar outcome may take place in the Republic when the next counts for the US legislature are held.
When the Red Menace of the Chinese cum Soviet communism with their equally obnoxious satellite satrapies ruled over (mostly) the east part of the globe, the West had a calibrating point, both the politicians as well as the free burghers here saw what a mess socialism/communism leads to – the absence of basic freedoms and nothing much to eat, to put it crudely.
The demise of the communist nightmare removed the West’s ability to do the checking, there no longer is a fully fledged communist hellhole one can look at, learn what not to do to avoid a similar result.
This rejuvenated the ‘progressive’ forces that have always existed in the West (but didn’t get much of a look in) into a renewed attempt to replicate what has been proven to be unworkable, whilst the East has moved noticeably in the opposite direction at least on things economic. Not so much Russian capitalism, but China’s definitely is today what the West’s economic set-up was when the free World ruled. Ironic this.
UK Parents Claim ‘Cover Up’ After Violent Migrant Schoolkids Demanded British Children ‘Bow Down To Them’
““The Slovakian boys threatened to rape the girls. Threats were put on the girls toilet wall saying ‘English will die’.
“Apparently the Slovakian children stood on tables telling the English children to bow down to them. It was chaos, my son said, they didn’t know what to do.”
She added: “My son said this has been building up for weeks. They get away with everything like playing music loud on their phones in lessons. My son said there were five separate fights yesterday all at the same time (planned I think); they had nowhere to run and the teachers didn’t help.””
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/05/crewe-residents-accuse-cheshire-police-of-covering-up-abuse-rape-threats-by-migrants-at-local-school
And CMD wants us to ‘Remain’ in this cesspit of EU-ropeanism, with corrupt police and other agents of the state!
Douglas Murray on the battle for free speech…
“The sinister reality of a society in which the expression of majority opinion is being turned into a crime has already been seen across Europe. Just last week came reports of Dutch citizens being visited by the police and warned about posting anti-mass-immigration sentiments on social media.”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7371/facebook-freedom-of-speech
EC
Facebook’s initiative is to reduce hate posts on line
What is so very wrong with that?
“Facebook has launched a million Euro plan to help get rid of racist and threatening posts from the site.
The “Initiative for Civil Courage Online” aims to remove hate speech from the site.
Facebook has a range of rules for what exactly can be posted on the site, which includes bullying, harassment and hate speech. But users have complained that the site doesn’t work hard enough to get rid of hateful comments.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-launches-initiative-for-civil-courage-online-to-delete-racist-and-threatening-posts-a6821581.html
RobertRetyred
February 6th, 2016 – 15:43
Very sad. BUT, when I was a kid, evacuated from a tough London area, we were subjected to attacks in the playground and outside school. The teachers didn’t want to know about what happened to the pesky ‘foreigners’ from London, and many treated us like dirt. We didn’t tell our mums, but gave as good as we got, and better, earning a reputation that stopped the ‘Bumkins’ from fighting us. Has the British fighting spirit been completely destroyed by ‘Ealth and Safety and Diversity?
new blog
http://going-postal-beta.blogspot.co.uk/
EC
February 6th, 2016 – 15:55
Your disclosure of “… Dutch citizens being visited by the police and warned about posting anti-mass-immigration sentiments on social media.” is most opportune. It is encouraging to see that it is not being ignored..
All decorous and decent-thinking people will be quite shocked that the Dutch police are being so cowardly and ineffectual.
Hate is the the worst vice afflicting humanity as far-seeing and courageous activists are pointing out which makes it clear that it is not enough to merely declare that in future, hate of any sort must be banned. It must also be declared and demonstrated to have been a disgrace in the past, and it’s surviving perpetrators must be punished.
There are still great numbers of people in their eighties and nineties who were so shameless during World War 2 that they hated both German and Japanese people – and even killed many young German and Japanese men – and civilians too for that matter – using a wide range inhumane weapons from bayonets to flamethrowers and finally the ultimate, genocidal mass murdering atomic bombs.
It is not too late to identify and punish every single one of these surviving, old, wicked barbarians. Facebook is clearly a pioneer in the matter, and it merits being hailed as such, and encouraged to pursue this highly principled, civilised policy to the utmost. I feel sure there will be near unanimous agreement about this, eh?
A girl, known to my uncle posted this on a BBC site
I was just five years old when I was evacuated and was told nothing about my impending fate. I knew something was wrong, however, when a large luggage label was tied to my coat buttonhole and I was taken by my two older sisters, Sylvia and Betty, to the Green Line bus stop near to where I lived in South East London.
My sisters took me to the back seat of the bus and I started to cry for my mummy. In an effort to console me, my sisters told me that my mummy was on the next bus. I knelt on the seat and looked out of the window for a bus that never came. I couldn’t understand why my mummy wasn’t on the bus with us. I cried all the way to my destination in Banbury and now fully appreciate the saying ‘No hope is better than false hope.’ I still feel the pain of that lie.
On arriving in Banbury, we children were lined up in a row like some uncollected suitcases and our luggage label details were matched to names and addresses. I was even more distraught when, still crying for my mummy,I was taken from my sisters and deposited at a local address.
The woman who took me in said “Would you like a cup of cocoa?” I replied “No, I want my mummy,” and started crying again. She seemed quite irritated and made no attempt to comfort me.
It was obvious from the start that this woman did not want me there. I was not treated kindly and was very miserable. Everyday, I hoped my mummy would come to take me home but, that was another false hope as she didn’t ever come to see me.
The woman who took me in had a daughter of the same age as me, who tormented me mercilessly.
When there was a lull in the London bombing, we evacuees were sent home. I do not remember anything of this, I just remember the painful times.
When the London bombing again intensified, my sister Betty and myself were evacuated to Nottingham. The treatment of evacuees was equally as bad as the first time but, at least I was a little older and already primed for the experience.
My second host also had a daughter of similar age to me and she was a bully. Her mother gave us lots of jobs to do; mine being the most difficult. The girl bullied me into doing her jobs as well because if I didn’t she would tell lies about me to her mother, who would duly punish me.
My mother never came to see me so, one day I wrote a letter to my mother asking her to come for me. I walked to the post box and was then too afraid to post it in case someone read it and I was punished further.
Apparently the hosts would go to any lengths to rid themselves of the evacuees, that by law, they were obliged to take in. Mine was no exception and lied about me having eye problems, saying that she didn’t have time to take me to hospitals. My eyes gave me no problem and were never checked but, she won her case and I was duly ‘parcelled’ to another home.
This time, I went to a large family and although nobody showed any physical cruelty toward me, the same animosity existed. I shared a room with a daughter of similar age and despite having to share her bed with me, she was not unkind.
During this stay, my head itched constantly but, I couldn’t understand why as the’nit nurse’ who visited the school, passed my head as ‘clean’. One day, I looked in a hand-mirror and was shocked to see a multitude of huge white lice, crawling around my head.
Apart from the shame and discomfort of the lice, I was luckier than some evacuees who through emotional upset, wet the bed. This was punished by a beating which caused these terrified children to wet their bed again and again. I can only imagine how upsetting this must have been.
One thing that sticks in my mind regarding Nottingham town is the walls of the castle. A school friend and myself were standing outside the walls of Nottingham Castle when two American soldiers approached us and asked “Do you girls like candy?” They then gave us a mouth watering bar of chocolate. As sweets were not available at this time of the war, we were sorely tempted to eat it but, where I lived in London, I was warned that the Germans dropped poisonous sweets from their planes, so I persuaded my friend not to eat any. When we were out of sight of the American soldiers, we threw the chocolate away. I was quite young and my vivid imagination told me that the Americans might be Germans in disguise, sent to Nottingham to poison all the children.
When I eventually came home for good my own mother seemed a stranger to me and I felt quite confused. Also, despite being sent away to be safe, I had a near miss when I came home as a German plane had slipped through the radar and so the air raid siren ( a terrifying sound ) had not been operated. Fortunately by now, I knew the sound of German planes and so I ducked behind a hedge. Still hiding, I looked up as the plane passed over and saw that it was a two-seater. The pilot in the front was looking round to the man behind him, with a big smile of satisfaction on his face. I can remember that he was blond and very young and that his smile sickened me. The next day I heard that this same pilot had gunned down a playground full of innocent children in a nearby Junior school at Catford. I shall never forget that smile!
EC (15:55)
See (Feb 5 – 12:25)
Worth a reprise though. ☺
Murray grows in stature as the years pass.
As for Icke – he has always laced his work with good facts and observations. It’s when he allows his imagination to wander into the realms of extra terrestrial speculation that I quickly leave the room.
As Bert Wickstead (the Old Grey Fox) used to remonstrate, when I sought to ‘extend enquiries’ beyond the Met’s boundaries, or even the UK’s shores -“Dere’s enough to cope wiv on dis feckin’ petch, wivart trying to solve the ‘ole Wirl’s probs. Focus my son, focus!”
And even I didn’t suggest stop ‘n’ frisk of lizards from Mars. Of course it may come to that one day … But meantime I try to keep the OGF’s mantra in mind.
Btw, I usually allow Malfleur’s little strawmen to pass unaddressed, as like Icke he tends to greatly exaggerate, but never have I said that the Security Services and the police should have untrammelled right to invade the privacy of all British citizens as he implied earlier.
What I have always maintained is that, with suitable checks and balances in place, the police should be allowed to access the communications of known or suspected crooks or subversives to expose conspiracy or general crime in progress. And that Secret Services should be given scope to pursue the enemies of the State whenever and wherever it is necessary to do so. But my prerequisite proviso, is that the calibre of recruits to all arms of enforcement should be assured by high standards of entry and that patriotism be a major element in recruiting criteria; that any failure in that department in subsequent service should be ruthlessly pursued and punished. And there’s the rub.
Was it Doc. Johson who said, ,”Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” ?
Maybe. But it should be the first proven characteristic of a potential cop or spook. Sadly that seems no longer the golden rule. And even the past it was never rigorously applied, as history shows. But during my stint things were better than now, despite the wholesale changes in legislation, many of which have been deliberately designed to enforce multiculturalism and facilitate inimical takeover. Do cops even take the oath of allegiance anymore? I doubt it, given the make-up of the Force – and I’m not just referring to the lipstick and mascara of PC Trannie) as even a poofta can be a patriot – vide the discussion at the beginning of this post (which admittedly has strayed widely since it commenced – but not quite as far as David Icke tends to do, sometimes). ☺
Anne (04:59)
Sorry Anne – didn’t mean to add to your sorrow by my injection of nostalgia. But we both lived through happier days ‘Up the Smoke’ and neither of us can forgive those who flushed the good old days down Barking Creek with their modernism an multicultist crap, can we? Btw Anne, I was up at 05:00 too, despite the knock-out junk from the quack. So it must’ve been a touch of telepathy? Or maybe just a urological imperative – musn’t get too Ickeist!! It’s catching, apparently.
Thanks Colonel – I knew you’d see it through the same prism.
Baron, to continue where we left off last night, forgive me, but I must resort to your old bugbear, in an attempt to provide some balance on this plaform before it collapses to the left and becomes an adjunct to RT. Incidentally in my MI8 stint, I spent a lot of time listening to
“dah/dit-dah/di-di-dit/di-di-dit”
Which in it’s plain language moniker was also titled RT: Radio Tass. One of the most active propaganda arms of the KGB. Coincidence?
Anyway, here’s the link:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/russia-plays-attacking-sweden-and-annexing-baltics
Sweden first?? ☺☺
Perhaps that’s why the Albino was shagging around in Stockholm?
All we can hope is that, he’s a double agent and when he’s finally extradited to the States, he’ll be carrying a plethora of information with him – about Ecuador!
Now if that observation doesn’t get him ejected from Hans Crescent, what will?
Frank P 17-54
The urological imperative comes as second nature to me, but my grammar has never been that good.
🙂
Herbert Thornton – 17:32
🙂
You point out the absurdity of it all! These days just disagreeing with somebody online can be construed as “hate speech” by the sjw cyber grievance mongers! (eg. there has recently been a court case in Canada?)
Had you posted that comment under and alias I would have suspected Andy Carpark!
EC @ 15:55
What Douglas says can hardly be denied by anyone with only a smidgen of common sense, EC, others are saying the same, Brendan O’Neil on Spike went further the other day in defence of hate speech(you can still google him), but will it change anything?
The one problem we have – Baron has said it so often his lips are painfully chipped – is that the progressives have turned our legal system, and in particular the effectiveness of one of its sub-components, that of punishment, into a toothless, not-fit-for-purpose, almost redundant tool. Our ‘punishment’ delivers not what the label says, but the opposite – a useless, costly, resource devouring, but almost always ineffective, often even counterproductive charade. Just look at he level of re-offending for the confirmation of it.
In the past people were free to say and do what they pleased, they could shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, but if any of it resulted in a criminal damage e.g. property damage, injury or death, they got taken to court, the harm was measured, and an adequate punishment meted out at the miscreant, punishment that caused pain to the wrongdoer (or even death if warranted), serving also as a powerful deterrent to others.
Since our society no longer truly punishes miscreants, (the ‘uman rites’ umbrella effectively put an even tighter lid), punishes in a way the wrongdoer feels genuinely hurt, we have to resort to trying to prevent any activity that may eventually lead to an act that may harm someone. The prevention of hate speech is one of such ‘preventive’ measures.
As Douglas says it won’t do the job, it has never done it, but that’s not the point in a society where virtue signalling rules.
The risk we are running is that not unalike that in the pre-war Weimar Germany, a point will be reached where the suppressed anger, animosity, hatred engendered by this approach will boil over. One would be well advised not to be around in such times.
Herbert Thornton @ 17:32
As a lawyer, Herbert, how would you decide what ‘hate’ actually is?
Is Frank’s prejudice against the largest Slavonic tribe the first stage of hate? (Sorry, Frank, it’s a merely hypothetical question).
Would it surprise you to discover that some of the postings (if not the majority) here could be classed as hate? Virtually any posting highly critical of anything or anyone, particularly one wrapped in colourful language could be labelled as such?
Hate and its polar opposite love are a part and parcel of the human character, have always been, are unlikely to disappear as long as the humans are around.
By all means let’s eradicate anything that promotes, encourages, backs violence, that goes without saying, but how do you eradicate hate? You can banish it from the pages of newspapers, from the internet. Buy how do you wipe it our from the human souls?
Mistakes due again to haste like .. put a lid ‘on it’, and others. Apologies.
Frank P @ 17:36
Talking about the ‘high caliber of recruits … patriotism and stuff’, Frank, did you know MI5 has just been awarded top marks by Stonewall. You can sleep safely tonight, the spooks are doing a good job in embracing all manner of people with diverse sexual preferences to protect us all. Long may it continue.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/19/mi5-comes-out-top-stonewall-list-gay-friendly-employers
Frank P @ 18:24
Hmmm, that’s the first reaction to the omni-all Mr. Boot piece, Frank, not combative enough, something missing, well, Putin’s name for a start.
Still, on your “dah/dit-dah/di-di-dit/di-di-dit”
Pointo uno: You sure it wasn’t the dah dah dah of the East German Armed Forces? They were at it together with their Russian overseers.
Pointo due: You are right, the RT TV channel is an agitprop for Kremlin as much as the BBC is one for the progressives, kind of 50-50, no?
Pointo tre: When the USSR collapsed, the Russian Air Force gave up conducting flights around the borders with the West, NATO carried on (did you know that?). Two years ago the Russians have resumed the flights.
Pinto quattro: The alleged simulated attack on the Swedish capital took place in international airspace, but Stckholm was in front of the planes, it couldn’t have been any other way. Please, click google maps, have a look, the squadrons are coming from the St Petersburg area over the Baltics, avoiding the three Republics Mr. Boot fears may be next on Putin’s shopping list (he said the same two years ago, bloody Russians take their time, ha). What was in front of them?
Pointo cinque: If Baron had the time, he would tell you something about what’s in the three baltic Republics (he has close friends in two). In two digits: BA.
Pinto sei: When the Russians cross the border into Sweden or any of the three Baltic Republic Baron will be amongst the first to volunteer, go defend the newly emerging Muslim country of the north. You game?
PS, sorry about the dose of Italian, not that the barbarian speaks the language, it’s just to enliven the posting with something more interesting than his ranting.
Would it surprise you to discover that some of the postings (if not the majority) here could be classed as hate? Virtually any posting highly critical of anything or anyone, particularly one wrapped in colourful language could be labelled as such?
And the few that are not will be of interest to Carter Ruck, particularly martial communications
Will someone be kind and post the link to the Icke’s piece everyone’s talking boat. Thanks, and the usual: sorry about the error s.
telemachus @ 17:35
Interesting, telemachus, but the point of it was what?
On your posting at 20.41: you often talk in a language the poorly educated Slav cannot decode, what ‘martial communications’?
I guess martial is often used for military
There are such that libel telemachus
Re 1735
A well respected poster (1701) had similar experiences
Baron (20:12)
“Is Frank’s prejudice against the largest Slavonic tribe the first stage of hate? (Sorry, Frank, it’s a merely hypothetical question).”
The premise of that loaded question is wrong, another strawman. This blog should be renamed The Haystack, what with you and the bad flower. Have I stopped beating my wife? Never started, you cheeky old Slav.
But call my aversion to the East in general what you like. The fact that I don’t trust anyone that has been under the contagion of communism unless they inveigh against the evil is something I shall carry to the hereafter. My expressions of contempt for the KGB/FSB – likewise.
Conversely those who despise untrammeled capitalism for its excesses are entitled to their opinion too and I don’t always disagree with them.
I admire the way you stick up for your tribe but am puzzled as to why you express a sneaking admiration of the cut-throat Colonel of the Russki oligarchy, given your experience under the Soviet heel. That has a whiff of the Stockholm Syndrome. No?
Hate? Usually only an emotion that follows spurned or thwarted love. WTF has that to do with the police?
The term ‘hate crime’ is both ludicrous and insidious. No legislator worthy of that office would consider allowing it to be included in any statutory law. But as most of current legislature comprises a gang of charlatans and shysters, such incompetence is accepted as normal. Proscription should only be against action or threatened action, not thought. Any rational being could drive a coach and horses through all statutes enacted over the past 50 years or so. It has been a major factor in the dilution of our culture.
Now – please drop that race card tucked up your sleeve. I clocked it.☺
Baron (20:38)
There ya go again!
Heh, heh, heh…..
(20:53)
Anecdotes from ‘well respected posters’ are both anticipated and welcome here. From others – perhaps not so much.
EC (19:04)
Very good ☺☺
I suppose, “Don’t take the piss!” would be another urological imperative?
“A 10-year-old boy was so brutally raped by an Iraqi migrant in a swimming pool cubicle that he had to be hospitalised for his injuries.
A lifeguard immediately called an ambulance after the boy went to him in floods of tears, while the Iraqi was entertaining himself by repeatedly jumping off the three-metre diving board.
Police arrested him on the spot at the pool in Vienna, and during an interrogation, he told police that it was a ‘sexual emergency’ as he had not had sex in four months…..”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/iraqi-migrant-rapes-a-10-year-old-boy-in-vienna.html
Plain as the nose on your face, the silent invasion of Europe and the United States by muslim males is a wheeze of the globalists. It is time to focus on exposing and quarantining THEM before this and other disasters manufactured by them can be reversed.
At the same time, the anger of good people in each of the nation states infected by this cultural depravity and political menace should be expressed at the local level through pressure on local government where it supports the depravity and menace, and through support for local government where it is trying to resist it.
The Brexit movement should focus on the implications of the imminent entry of Turkey into the globalists’ European Union. George Osborne, and other British attendees disclosed and undisclosed*,should be forced to disclose the agenda, particularly with regard to immigration and with special attention to illegal immigration, at the Bilderberg Group conference of globalists in Telfs-Buchen, Austria last year.
*BBC (British Bilderberg Conspirators -motto: non est enim bonum nostrum) – Disclosed Attendees:
Agius, Marcus Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group
Balls, Edward M. Former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Fairhead, Rona Chairman, BBC Trust
Flint, Douglas J. Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
Hassabis, Demis Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind
Kerr, John Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power
Minton Beddoes, Zanny Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Osborne, George First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sawers, John Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
Wolf, Martin H. Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
Baron @ 20:41
Interview starts at 11 minutes. ends at 1 hour 30 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-8tF1kSbBQ
Baron @ 20:45
At first I thought, given the ‘hate speech’ context that it must have been fat finger syndrome for ‘marital communications’; but anyway, I don’t think he cuts the mustard.
What is “hate speech” anyway?
“In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group.”(Google “hate speech”)
Btw, Goebbels was against hate speech, wasn’t he? Oberst Bogey Lied? Streng verboten!
Pontius Pilate: What is truth?
George Orwell: The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.
Here’s a quick tale, apropos of nothing in particular:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fastest-speed-of-any-object-on-the-earth/answer/Talon-Torres?srid=hAm9&share=66667ee7
h/t Gerard VdL
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
Which is not necessarily the truth.
Quirky – not quick; ‘king auto spell correct!
The Heinz gigolo making a prat of himself, yet again:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/imam_john_kerry_pronounces_isis_members_apostates_of_islam.html
And to see think that if Comey gets his finger out and indicts Clinton, the twat could easily be parachuted in as the Democratic nominee – and even become POTUS. Obarmy Mark II. Thick as shit and twice as nasty.
Frank P @ 21:54
A big delay in responding, Frank, duty intervened.
It wasn’t meant to be a pejorative shot at you in any way, from now on, if need arises, the barbarian will call it aversion, a deal?
There is nothing wrong with being prejudiced though, a preconceived feeling or a view on someone or something, it’s as common as blinking. Arguable, each of us displays signs of prejudice sometime if only because we often express opinions that aren’t arrived at with full knowledge of what we’re talking about, the barbarian is as guilty of it as anyone.
The poorly educated Slav favours not the tribe he hails from, his formative years were spent in the East, but more than two thirds of his life he’s mingled with people of tribes other than the one he started with.
His seemingly favourable take on things involving the Slavonic tribe comes from his deeply entrenched desire to prevent another painful conflict. You look at recent history, say the last 100 years, and what whom do you see as an expansionist tribe? The Russians? The Soviet mode of operation was to undermine, subvert, infiltrate, but not conquer with boots on the ground. It’s no guarantee it may be the same in the future, but Baron very much doubts it.
The mistreatment the barbarian received when the Red Menace ruled had as much to do with the Russians as had any injustice meted out by the Germans to many in the concentration camps. Baron does make a distinction between people, and the creed pumped into them, the ideology of the system they live under. The same applies, as you are well aware to his slicing of Islam and Muslims. The man who grilled the barbarian at Ljubjanka was no more free than Baron. Curiously, as a per cent of total staff, more officers of the KGB got executed than people they interrogated (as a per cent of population).
And as for Putin, he’s far from ideal, but then as you may also know he fits Baron’s simplistic theory of societal evolution. At every stage of human progress, there never is an ideal meal, a wife, a leader or whatever, only meals, wives, leaders that are better than others. This goes for tribes, dietary habits, personal relationships in our age, too, and Putin, in Baron’s humble view, is better than anything else the Russians could have in the transitional phase from 400 years of darkness to a more enlightened, democratic regime of the future. Baron ha said it before, you’ve forgotten it? Boris tried to do it the Western way, it was an unmitigated disaster for the Russians, the society is still reeling from it e.g. the oligarchs’ power in the country.
And you right about hate, the police and the rest.
Frank P @ 23:19
Interesting, but hard to digest what with terms Baron’s unfamiliar with.
Btw, didn’t the Americans lost a couple of nuclear bombs carried by bombers at some point during the Cold War? And didn’t one go through four of the five stages needed for it to blow up?
Baron (
Good riposte
Malfleur @ 23:20
Good quotes, Malfleur. Such a pity George didn’t look better after himself. There’s also a quote by him about the English race, something along the lines that ‘the English (as opposed to the continentals) don’t kill each other.
This does not sound good – “national emergencies” may be early this years:
“Two years after being fined for falsifying safety records, nine months after a transformer exploded at the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor just 37 miles from midtown Manhattan, and two months after Entergy – the plant’s operator – shut down the Unit 2 reactor after a major power outage cut power to several control rods (when the company assured that no radioactivity was released into the environment), this afternoon NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said he learned that “radioactive tritium-contaminated water” had leaked into the groundwater at the nuclear facility in Westchester County.
Cuomo, in a letter Saturday to the state Health Department and the Department of Environmental Conservation, called for the probe into the Indian Point NPP after he said Entergy, the plant’s owner, reported “alarming levels of radioactivity” at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent.
It is unclear if the facility was taking a page out of the Fukushima “crisis response” book, or was being honest when it said that the contamination has not migrated off site “and as such does not pose an immediate threat to public health.” For the sake of millions of downriver New Yorkers, we hope it was the latter…..”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-06/65000-spike-reported-radioactivity-after-tritium-leaks-indian-point-nuclear-power-pl
The only upside I can see in this situation at the moment is that Alex Jones’ infowars store sells the purest Nascent Iodine “…Derived from 200 million year old salt solutions found more than 7,000 feet below the Earth’s surface, the next level of Survival Shield is now here and much stronger than our original formula with a powerful 650 micrograms per single drop…”. JJB take note.
Baron (00:03)
Greatj riposte! All points taken.
Now for the midnight knock-out drop.
Sleep well, here’s one to help you into the land of nod, chuckling:
http://fredoneverything.org/impossibility-theory-an-advance-over-mere-indeterminacy-by-werner-fredsenberg/
Don’t remember John Birch posting it already; if so – apologies.
Baron @ 00:12
Now we have the cultural diversity to change that…
Off to get my Weekend FT of globalist-angled news and view, and breakfast out. Hope you sleep tonight!
Frank P @ 23:4
Where do you go to mine the invectives, they are brilliant, Frank. “Thick as shit and twice as nasty’, priceless, something akin to someone describing Alan Clark as ‘priceless shit’, even better.
Don’t take it as Baron’s prejudice for the Russians again, but if you look at the three Foreign Secretaries – Kerry, Hammond and Lavrov, the Russian man cannot but strike you as the most normal of the three – good posture, common sense, quite likeable.
Malfleur @ 00:17
And you want Baron to sleep well? Arghhh
Frank P @ 00:19
There are clever people around, ha.
The Behe book he mentions is one of Baron’s favourite, he must have read it at least three times already, it’s one of ten books the barbarian has decided his grandsons must read (when they are up to it).
Only one point: there are over 100 proteins, our body’s made up of around 20. Scientists could make some of the same proteins in the lab (they say the proteins are the same as those making up our bodies), but what these synthetic proteins cannot do is to replicate. Why not?
Baron
February 6th, 2016 – 20:12
Apropos my posting @ 17:32., I prefer to paraphrase your question like this – What do I as a lawyer, advise to be the actual meaning of ‘hate’?
Short answer – I’ve never needed to advise that, but until recent years my advice would have been that the law generally treated words as having the meaning that they normally have when normal people use them.
But things are different now. Lewis Carroll was frighteningly prophetic –
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
So, a slightly longer answer – my opinion now is that “Hate” has been made to mean whatever our depraved, Politically Correct, Gramsci- inspired, masters choose it to mean.
The “progressive” left have been busy enshrining “Heads we win, tails you lose” in the rule of law since about 1997. Now the socialist behemoth in Brussels is at work on the same project. The utterly false precept of Political Correctness was the wedge in that particular door. Prior to their boldness in legislating for their dogma the collective left have always exercised the same approach in political engagement, from their very first insurgencies. It is born from the same moral absolutism that has been the imperative for every vile and oppressive left wing regime in history, including the Nazis.
As the left’s house of cards begins to topple they can be expected to resort to ever more extreme measures to shut down and control non-compliant narratives. And there are plenty of Fabian wolves in sheep’s clothing positioned and empowered to bring them about.
A prime example of the cant is Owen Jones’ recent tweet that “the worst Labour government is better than the ‘best’ Tory government”. Really? I guess it depends on your political viewpoint, but no doubt the direction of travel is not just towards libelling, bullying, intimidating and ultimately litigating against those who choose not to share opinions like Owen Jones’ but to making the very articulation of opposition to them actually illegal. Thus any robust criticism and fisking of the left’s treasured clichés suddenly becomes ‘hate speech’, not yet in law entirely, but in the left’s contrived and manipulative narrative to insidiously make it so. And now even here we have examples of the artifice.
Sadly, a great many people who call themselves conservatives have at worst been aiding and abetting this travesty and at best failing to deconstruct it. The cynic in me even ponders whether the recently much publicised spat between the various ‘Out’ groups for the EU referendum is the result of Fabian fifth column antics.
Inciting hatred – urging others to hate – might be dodgy ground when it comes to the parameters of culpability within current bad (mainly New Labour) law but hatred of anything or anyone per se as a personal emotion can’t ever be eradicated by law but only suppressed.
How contrived and empty is this latest artifice was shown when the left’s brownshirts egged and spat at Tory delegates at their conference last year. In law those were actual common assaults but curiously seemed to fail to result in the sort of much publicised enthusiastic police vigilance and enforcement that is addressed towards mere statements on Facebook or Twitter. Labour’s new chancellor enthuses about spitting in the bosses tea and in any protest by the left’s magenta-haired rent-a-mobs the placards describing a legitimately elected political party as “Tory scum” are in plain view. Not much outrage, faux or otherwise, arise from those examples of hate speech.
The right to hate Marmite or for the left to express their hatred of Michael Gove, say, stand in sharp contrast to the impoverished efforts to legislated hatred out of existence in the brave new Utopian Never Never Land of the internationalist leftist collective. The discrimination that makes some hate speech more equal than others is entirely politically motivated. Let’s hope Michael, taking inspiration from the enemy, seeks out Carter Ruck in the matter of certain hate speech directed towards him at the Spectator. But of course this brings us back to that left wing precept of “Heads I win, tails you lose”, eh?
I found Livingslime’s assertion that “tomorrow belongs to John McDonnell” almost as hugely amusing as Stephen Bush’s article about it in the New Statesman:-
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/02/ken-livingstone-says-publicly-what-many-are-saying-privately-tomorrow
It is a measure of the left’s present derangement that they could write seriously about McDonnell’s prospects as though if realised England would somehow benefit from them. But then I suppose there were those who once asserted and wrote that tomorrow belonged to Castro, or to Mao, or to Pol Pot, or to Ceaușescu, or even to Honicker. For the left the current “Dear Leader” is always blameless of crimes past or crimes yet to be. The portrait of “hope’s architect” on the giant red banners and the posters has ever been their meme, even when it happens to be the POTUS. They are so childishly naive when it comes to the father figure who will rescue them from their own father issues. Even Ed Balls was once held to be one such!
Another case of CPS dysfunctionality:
Commuter who walked past actress at Waterloo station cleared of ‘bizarre’ sex assault claim
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12144963/Commuter-who-walked-past-actress-at-Waterloo-station-cleared-of-bizarre-sex-assault-claim.html
RobertRetyred February 7th, 2016 – 12:41
“A CPS spokesman said: “There was sufficient evidence for this case to proceed to court and progress to trial.””
Well, yes, if you believe that a one against one allegation without any physical evidence, corroboration or any other other witnesses is “sufficient evidence”.
RobertRetyred @ 12:41
Dysfunctionality, Robert?
This reaches beyond the bizarre, a penetrative sexual assault through walking past the woman in a busy railway station, both fully dressed, in broad daylight, tens of commuters around. It sounds more like a sick (but expensive) joke.
It’s in times like this Baron wonders whether the creeping islamisation may actually be a dose of medicine we need to get real (only half joking).
Colonel Mustard @ 10:14
Deranged the Left certainly is, Colonel, but one would be foolish to dismiss the possibility for the fruitcakes making it.
The key thing that decides election, this is what the barbarian thinks, is the economy. You recall the government of the ghastly Blair, the millions marching against the Iraqi war, the unhappiness with the fox hunting bill, the open border policy and whatever, and yet the man won three consecutive counts. Why? The money was rolling in, the electorate traded conscience, the inner sense of what’s right or wrong, for the shilling in their pocket.
Similarly, but in reverse, the same may be at play today. The Chinese behemoth seems to be slowing down, employment in the Republic’s up, but real wages continue stagnating, Europe hasn’t yet shaken off the effects of the slowdown, not many encouraging signs it will.
The end result may be the propelling of Bernie to the White House because his policies may appeal to more and more: redistribution of wealth, taxing more (the rich first, others will follow), boosting Government spending on infrastructure and stuff like that. This would furnish a fillip to our home grown cumryds, and who knows what that may do.
This is how the communists of the East did it, initially wooing the unwashed with policies not dissimilar to those of Bernie&Jeremy telling them – vote for us, nirvana beckons. Most of them did, regretted it for generations.
This is playing the devil’s advocate, Colonel, but only in part, the poorly educated Slav gets often overpowered by the fear of the far Left taking over, and despairs.
Colonel Mustard @ 09:33
Hard hitting and excellently worded, Colonel.
Herbert Thornton @ 01:19
How perceptively forward looking of Humpty Dumpty, Herbert, somebody should hire him to keep an eye on the boy’s government.
The irony is that in the past when the masses were by far less well informed about everything (no internet for starters, more expensive books), not as well educated as today (by far fewer A-levels, university graduates), hence easier to be lied to, the masters were not as distant from the stratum of hoi polloi as they’re today.
This may an arguable presumption, the gap between the governed and those in governance, but accepting it to be true, what has happened to our society for the gap to widen? Have the masses got seduced by the promises of things material so much they lost the capacity to judge what’s right and wrong? Is it down to the accumulation of wealth, thus power, in the hands of a few who can manipulate the tools of democracy to their advantage? Have we (the West) reached a state of material wealth so high it matters little whether we’re ruled from Westminster, Brussels or Washington (the idea of the World Government)?
The EU membership is a big-small case in point. Everyone can see easily Britain has been an unhappy member of the club, rebelling unceasingly on many an issue, and yet, a large part of the electorate want to carry couple on the undemocratic monstrosity even though the future looks even more unpromising than the past what with a common EU Treasury, an Armed Force, and God only knows what else.
A small piece of news from the East:
The Czechs have arrested a couple of ME jihadi suspects some time ago. The two were very much wanted by the Americans (no idea what for), but the other day, the Czechs swapped the two for five of their own held prisoner in Lebanon. This is just the gist of it, the whole affair stinks, jihadism comes into it, money’s involved.
Does the barbarian have to tell you how unhappy the Americans are? The disobeying Czechs will get more than smacked, and soon.
The barbarian tells you about it because it links with the Assange saga here. As Herbert said, we should let the obnoxious individual go, tell him to eff-off from the country within a week or so, and be done with it. It has already costs us alot of money, an egg on the face. If the Czechs can say no the honorary Muslim, why cannot we?
Those posters with an anarchist streak sometimes surprise telemachus
Why attack a respected political commentator who more often than not writes tracts entirely consistent with the thrust of this blog
“One of the key roles of the press is to scrutinise political parties. But when much of the press runs glowing front pages on government budgets while routinely savaging the opposition, the implications for our democracy are worrying. And that’s what enrages so many Corbyn supporters, even if some express their frustration in an unhelpful – or outright abusive – way.
A sense of disenfranchisement, of holding legitimate views that are officially treated as anything but, ends up with bitter outbursts expressed on social media. A balanced, rational discussion about Corbyn’s leadership seems utopian – but it shouldn’t be.”
The ST owned by the old Australian displayed in high lettering on the front page a heading: “Thatcher would vote Yes to the EU’.
This comes as a surprise to the barbarian, he remembers that at some point in the 90s it was a common knowledge she would leave the EU then if she were still in no10.
Whether she said so publicly or not Baron doesn’t know (he was in Japan), but that she got fed up with the Brussels monstrosity he’s quite sure, he got it from someone who should know.
telemachus @ 16:08
Come on, telemachus, ‘balanced’, ‘rational’ and ‘Corbyn’ in the same sentence? More than a touch of the oxymoronic, no?
Most of the ideas that the one you currently admire proposes had been tried, and failed spectacularly, and not only in the lands of the Slavs, but when applied in the tribes of the Germans, the Chinese, the Cubans (they’re still at it). Why the re-dusting of them?
Wasn’t the suffering and pain of hundreds of millions in the past enough?
Baron February 7th, 2016 – 15:05
“Deranged the Left certainly is, Colonel, but one would be foolish to dismiss the possibility for the fruitcakes making it.”
Oh, please don’t think my amusement is in dismissal of the fruitcakes making it! I am not whistling in the dark on that score.
Their propaganda, ability to manipulate the narrative and to distort, even invert, essential truths is second to none. The term”useful idiots” is seldom applied to the right. The left have always relied upon them – still do – indeed have been busily manufacturing them in our schools and universities – and now reinforce their prospects with lots of new imported voters too. England is no longer a bastion of conservative shires. The Fabians looked and disliked what they saw, then, thinking to know better and inflated of ego, took it upon themselves to rot it all from within. And very successful they have been too. Not least in re-naming their vile cancer as “progress”.
We are now well on our way to being East Germany and with one final push, Corbyn in No.10 perhaps, the light will go out on Old England.
The commuter who walked past the actress at Waterloo station
When I joined my little circle of drinking pals at the local pub this morning, they were all so fascinated by this affair that they were all trying to talk at once, so they asked me to act as chairman of their discussion.
The commandant of the local section of the Canadian Lesbian Commandos Brigade seemed a suitable one to begin so I asked her what she made of it.
“Well I can only give you my own reaction to it. Can anybody please supply me with the phone numbers of the victim and of the Chief of the Crown Prosecution Service? They both sound like interesting people.”
“In what way?”
“Well, you know.”
“No, Amazonia, I’m afraid I don’t. Can you explain?”
“Well I think you do know. Anyway I’m not going to waste my breath explaining it. You’d better ask the others.”
There were understanding nods all round, so I asked David (our Jewish member).
David looked rather glum & said –
“It reminds me of last year when I was in Tel Aviv. It wouldn’t have bothered me or anybody else one bit. We’d just have been thankful that if the man’s backpack or case or whatever had a bomb in it, the bomb wasn’t detonated by the collision.”
Everybody laughed, but David just shook his head.
Wondering what our politically correct member might think, I asked him.
“O.K., Arsolanus, what say you.?
“I think this is all a very serious matter of decorum. I propose a whip round. Here’s $30 to start it off. If we ask everybody else we know we should be able to raise enough to consult Carter-Ruck.”
I took the $30 gratefully and ordered another round.
Arsolanus looked a bit aggrieved, but took a sip.
“You’ve misappropriated that $30.”
“But you can’t complain – you’ve accepted what I’ve done by drinking your share.”
“That’s nothing to do with it. Don’t be surprised if you hear from Carter-Ruck.”
More hearty laughter all round.
“Well now, Osama, what’s your take on it all?”
Osama picked up his glass and savoured the Single Malt. His eyes twinkled.
“Well fellers, I know you all accuse me of not being a good Mohammedan, drinking this stuff and even associating with you lot. But I’m going to keep on trying to convert you. Doesn’t this Waterloo Station business demonstrate something to you, loud and clear?”
“Eh? What do you mean?”
“Obvious, obvious. The superiority of Sharia Law!”
“I still don’t understand.”
“Really Herb, you are thick. The complainant and the head of the CPS are both women.”
“So?”
“Sharia Law is quite clear on the point. It requires evidence from two devout women to counter the evidence of one man.”
“Now, now, Osama none of us buy that one. You can’t just say the case should have been thrown out for that reason. Have you any other explanation? The poor woman says she was penetrated. How do you account for that? Did she make it up out of some sort of malice?”
“O.K. fellers, just think about it a bit more. He brushed past her, so there was a brief bodily contact, right?”
“What of it?”
“Do I have to spell it out?” It gave her an orgasm. That convinced her that she’s been penetrated.”
“How can you possibly think that?”
“There’s evidence of it all over Europe. There are thousands of attractive, fit, young men from the Middle East, all oozing with – what do you call it – animal magnetism, virility, sexiness – you know what I mean. In the crowded conditions like railway and bus stations and football match spectator stadiums men and women brush up against each other constantly. The men don’t intend it to happen but it does naturally make the women orgasm, so they imagine that they’ve been raped. Just read all the newspapers about these so called rapes in Sweden and Germany.”
“Really, Osama, that’s preposterpous. In crowded condidtions I often brush past women and not one of them has ever hinted that I’ve made her orgasm.”
Roars of laughter.
“Come on, Herb. At your age you’re no more capable of making a woman orgasm than is a lamp-post.”
More roars of laughter.
Osama produced a $50 bill and called the waiter. “Another round, please, this time make it the best Single Malt you have. Keep the change.”
Colonel Mustard @ 17:25
However much it may pain, Colonel, it may indeed happen.
Herbert Thornton @ 17:57
And you’ve kept it from us, Herbert, how could you. Superb.
Could you possibly be writing a column somewhere?
Does anyone know who Cameron Dallas is?
If you don’t, worry not, neither does, or rather did Baron, and apparently millions of parents, but the Californian internet sensation is well known to teenagers having 6mn followers on Twitter, 10mn on Instagram, and his u-tube videos regularly get 14mn views.
And we puzzle why our children are bottom in the literacy table, second from the bottom in numeracy.
Sad as it is, Peter Hitchens may have a point:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3435536/PETER-HITCHENS-ahead-vote-ll-NEVER-leave-EU.html
Herbert Thornton, Colonel Mustard,
Some great posts from both of you today.
Many thanks.
EC February 7th, 2016 – 19:17
Why, thank you!
An astonishing bit of blunt instrument scaremongering today from Vichy Dave. The treacherous quisling whines that if the UK leaves the EU there might be Calais-type ‘jungle’ camps of migrants in South-East England because UK border officials might not have the agreement of the France to set up controls on the French side. I suggest that the Uber-Pundit in No.10 read the review of ‘This is London: Life and Death in the World City’ (by Ben Judah) in last week’s Spectator to see what being ‘In’ the EU has already wrought for the cockney. He should do so and feel ashamed to have presided over it, heir to Blair in rubbing our noses in diversity.
Vichy Dave is already campaigning to stay ‘In’, before his pathetic ‘renegotiation’ has even been completed and whilst refusing to allow his own party dissidents to express their preferences. He is a wrong ‘un alright. A bien pensant socialist who appears to be continuing in coalition with the Lib Dems but without them.
Other depressing articles about the ‘new, improved’ England in last week’s Spectator:-
‘A Lesson in Self-Censorship’ – a Tory leaning teacher in a state school is persecuted and sacked by lefties when he dares to question their busy indoctrination of children with lies about our Empire.
‘Death on the NHS’ – Corporate box ticking and bureaucracy replaces compassion and caring. Florence Nightingale’s simple tenets of nursing care and cleanliness abandoned for top heavy management and the BS it produces.
‘Fear of the Baby-Snatchers’ – The SS and the State persecute a new mother suffering from post-natal depression. The ‘forced adoption’ racket exposed.
Then, to add to the misery, Matthew Parris endorses ‘positive discrimination’ in positive response to Vichy Dave’s incredible and offensive exclamation that we should all be ashamed because there are not enough BMEs in Oxbridge and too many in prison. Not me, Dave, you nincompoop, I have no responsibility for either situation, the one imagined and the other only too real.
Vichy Dave’s ridiculous assertion and its less than convincing cheerleader, a jazz musician with a very large chip on his shoulder, were effectively unmasked on This Week and Toby Young has waded in with more statistics to demonstrate the supreme idiocy of his latest hand wringing.
Not sure one can equate the dictatorial powers of Petain with the demonstrable consensus politics of our Prime Minister:
The French Constitutional Acts of 11 and 12 July 1940 granted to Pétain all powers (legislative, judicial, administrative, executive — and diplomatic) and the title of “head of the French state” (chef de l’Etat français), as well as the right to nominate his successor.The French national motto, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood), was replaced by Travail, Famille, Patrie (Work, Family, Fatherland)
Democratic liberties and guarantees were immediately suspended (administrative interments, censorship, re-establishment of the felony of opinion (délit d’opinion, i.e. repeal of freedom of thought and of expression), etc.) Elective bodies were replaced by nominated ones. The “municipalities” and the departmental commissions were thus placed under the authority of the administration and of the prefects (nominated by and dependent on the executive power). In January 1941, the National Council (Conseil National), composed of notables from the countryside and the provinces, was instituted under the same conditions.
Some folks should think before resorting to keyboard abuse
Retired General of the Foreign Legion arrested Saturday for taking part in a banned march in Calais.
The English have a long, hard won and traditional freedom to lampoon those who presume to rule over them, continued to this day in press polemics and cartoons. Those who are so easily lampooned only have themselves to blame for their idiotic posturing and policies.
Attempting to re-invent that as ‘keyboard abuse’ in a crudely manipulative attempt to intimidate it, delegitimise it and exert control over it should not be tolerated here, of all places.
Somebody thought it a good idea to allow a film company to blow up a red London bus on Lambeth Bridge.
https://vine.co/v/i1Jx7PVi1WK
Still on the matter of what she would do today in regard the Brussels monstrosity:
It’s listening to her again makes one realise what we’ve lost since then. Love or loath her, she did have the qualities not of a politician, but a statesman (or whatever the wimmin’s equivalent currently in vogue is), and a great one at that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tetk_ayO1x4&app=desktop
Radford NG @ 09:56
Impressive stuff, Radford, and cleverly done, too, most of the bus remains, the red colour still there, which is what London buses are known for, but the top blows off.
To hazard a guess here: Had this happened in the 10th year of the Queen’s rule, the good burghers of London would have cheered, asking ‘is it for a new Bond movie?’. Today, they are horrified, and rightly so. What a difference, ha?
No need to watch this one even though it would kill less than five minutes of your life. But if you do, it will boost the 12mn viewing figure the video has already clocked up.
Of course, one’s age has alot to do with it, and Baron’s very much pre-diluvial, but really? As an artistic creation, it’s fine, virtually anything passes as such today, but would one hum it doing abit of housework, walking the dog, relaxing? Could one hum it?
You may like to know the thick thighed singer will go on tour with it. You better shut your windows tight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=LrCHz1gwzTo
Baron February 8th, 2016 – 11:47
Curious how the Feminists and Censurians of the Language Legions have a blind spot when it comes to the objectifications depicted and words used in videos like that. It couldn’t have anything to do with the inequalities of cultural relativism could it?
Soft targets always preferred to avoid a clash of Correctnesses.
Anne Wotana Kaye,
Anne, I don’t think that this is going to improve your opinion of the judiciary one iota!
http://alexanderboot.com/content/transsexual-high-court-judges-and-lesbian-catholic-bishops
Radford NG
February 8th, 2016 – 09:28
Retired General of the Foreign Legion arrested Saturday for taking part in a banned march in Calais.
If Dopey Dave continues much longer, all us native-born Britishers, in the minority, will have to form a Foreign Legion to protect our rights. The British Foreign Legion!
EC
February 8th, 2016 – 12:52
Of, dear. EC, I just had a nice light lunch. and I am afraid that reading that link you sent has made me feel quite sick. It only reinforces my opinion of the depraved beasts.
anne wotana kaye – 14:17
Sorry about that, Anne. Mr Boot is right, the civilisational slide continues apace!
Meanwhile…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/08/davos-leftists-demand-a-global-regulatory-collective/
Not content with gay marriages (always the dream of the ‘conservatives), the brainless boy is going to make (possibly has already delivered) a key speech on prison reform calling ‘for prisoners to be treated not as “liabilities to be managed” but “assets to be harnessed”.’
If this is one of the assets ripe for harnessing, the boy scores once more a memorable winner.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3437252/Twelve-men-repeatedly-gang-raped-abused-vulnerable-teenage-schoolgirl-saw-utterly-worthless-jailed-total-140-YEARS.html
Baron – 16:16
To lighten the atmosphere, play gang rape bingo. Just see if any of the perpetrators have a name beginning with ‘M’, then see if he second letter is an ‘O’.
It is rare not to win.
RobertRetyred @ 16:31
Good one, Robert.
EC @ 15:36
The Breibart guys are missing something, EC, the world, the Western world that it, already is governed by a de facto ‘global government’, it sits in Washington, what they’re aiming for now is to make it de jure, too.
EC @ 12:52
Impossible to say anything about Mr Jason Williams here, who chopped off his bits, thinks it makes him a woman, but the good thing about the progressive one in Sweden is that when our friends, the ones whose grievances we haven’t yet addressed in full, take over in Sweden, as they must, they will take care of her.
Baron
February 8th, 2016 – 16:16
oss boy is going to make (possibly has already delivered) a key speech on prison reform calling ‘for prisoners to be treated not as “liabilities to be managed” but “assets to be harnessed”.’
What a pity that so many “ripe” harvests have perished on the vine. Savile, Lord Janner, and a whole field of paedophile and thieving M.Ps, judiciary and other notables have missed being harnessed.
Cameron and Vichy eh? –
“Democratic liberties and guarantees were immediately suspended (administrative interments, censorship, re-establishment of the felony of opinion (délit d’opinion, i.e. repeal of freedom of thought and of expression), etc.) Elective bodies were replaced by nominated ones. The “municipalities” and the departmental commissions were thus placed under the authority of the administration and of the prefects (nominated by and dependent on the executive power). In January 1941, the National Council (Conseil National), composed of notables from the countryside and the provinces, was instituted under the same conditions.”
Yes indeed. That was then. And is not this now? –
1. In Britain the felony of opinion (i.e. repeal of freedom of thought and of expression, etc.) is being increasingly instituted and bloody-mindedly enforced.
2. The British elective body of Parliament has in effect been replaced by a combination of –
a. A nominated body – i.e. the European Commission and
b. the unholy combination of the European Council and the Council of the E.U.–where Britain is represented by only an ineffective minority.
Altogether a very chilling similarity to fascist Vichy.
As for the contemptible effort to whitewash Cameron by claiming that his is an example of “ demonstrable consensus politics“ – that was exactly what a Vichy Prefect did – he demonstrably followed the consensus among his fellow Vichy appointees. Prefect Cameron performs his functions brazenly and with loyalty. But the loyalty is to his fellow Vichyites and not to Britain.
Be careful with parallels from history
In AD 410, the civitates of Britain sent a letter to the emperor Honorius, asking him to come to their aid. In AD 259 under the Gallic Empire and AD 284 under Carausius, they had before asked for help and both times she had been brought back into the fold. Britain had been retreived to satisfy the need of an individual Roman emperor. Once taken, the imperial image required that it should be held onto tenaciously.
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In AD 410 Britain was let go
And entered the Dark Ages
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Only to be rescued by successive waves of immigrants
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Huguenots, Hanoverians
Now we’re being offered still more topsy turvey absurdities – that Britain is in danger of being “let go”! That the “Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Huguenots, Hanoverians” are a valid parallel to hordes of militant Islamists. And that Prefect Cameron, the EU and Islam are going to “rescue” us.
Well Britain certainly needs to be rescued, but not by that lot. More like from that lot.
It needs to be rescued from the situation that is staring everybody in the face, and that is that the EU, Prefect Cameron, and the Islamists are well on the way to imposing on Britain a new, worse, even more barbaric and more likely permanent Dark Age than the earlier one.
Colonel Mustard
I’ve scrolled back twice in an attempt to find your post about CMD’s threat that the Calais crap heaps will immediately be relocated! to Dover in the event of Brexit.
Help me out will you, please?
In case you missed it – Nigel & Co doing their best to get the millstone from around our necks:
http://www.saynotoeu.com/live?utm_campaign=stream_bolton&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ukip
Frank P February 8th, 2016 – 22:28
Colonel Mustard February 8th, 2016 – 08:08
Col. Mustard (07:15)
Thanks for your help; my Nexus tablet is a bit tricky as far as the scroll function is concerned.
Thanks also for your update today on the knavery of his scaremongering.
I infer that, as he is not standing in the next election, CMD feels able to pull strokes like that. But it also shows that he has little regard for the continuity of the Conservative Party in government. Not that the current administration is still worthy of the name, anyway. He’s pussy-whipped by his lefty spouse, of course.
I also concur with your contempt for the current Commissioner for the Met.
Moreover, the devastating comparison you linked was a portrait: one of the few occasion Sir Robert Mark appeared in uniform. He didn’t need to bolster his authority by donning his ceremonial rig willy nilly; he spent most of his time in mufti.
His self assurance and authority was evident to all who worked for him – and to the general public that was well served by his talent throughout his career.
Similarly with Sir Joe Simpson:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sir+jospeh+simpson+image&rlz=1Y3NDUG_enGB553GB553&oq=sir+jospeh+simpson+image&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.20404j1j4&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=yY03ERS4YcuK7M%3A
although, sadly, his self-effacing 10 year stint was tainted in the final stages by corrupt subordinates in the CID heirarchy who jumped on the bandwagon of the Zeitgeist of the “Swinging Sixties” and got into bed with organised crime (Commercial Sex Division), then sold The Job down the river, enabling the politicisation that has now evolved into a police farce.