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The last wall of the old year and the first of the new.
What will 2014 bring us all? I hope and pray that it will bring some peace and comfort to all contributors and visitors to this site and that we will see the tide begin to turn in various aspects of our beleaguered society.
Predictions for 2014?
I think UKIP will do well in the EU elections but the EU will move to negate any attempt by the UK (or any other nation) to leave.
I expect riots by summer between the flood of East European dross and those already embedded here.
Sadly, by the end of summer, I expect Enoch’s “Rivers of Blood” will have arrived as the white youth finally wake up and realise they have been sold down the river and have absolutely no future unless they fight for it.
Finally, I expect the little sheet heads will do all they can to stir the pot and wind up every disparate faction within the borders of my poor, tortured homeland.
Good luck with that!
Peter from Maidstone
December 30th, 2013 – 09:13
Amen!
And on a personal note, dear Peter, be well. We need your strength and perseverance.
RobertC @ 22:42
A pleasingly jocular response, Robert, but the barbarian’s rant asked for it; the other posting at 1.02 has more than impressive amount of meat in it. Baron never heard of the guy who seems to know a thing or two about the delights of Turkey.
Baron
December 30th, 2013 – 09:49
Turkish Delight? Sticky, technicolor goo which spills powdered sugar all over your chin! 😉
I wish in 2014 that Britain will wake up and translate the storming economic performance into a decent opinion poll lead.
Baron – 09:49 ‘jocular response’
I never used to like ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’, but I am beginning to see it’s appeal.
huktra 30th, – 12:40
“the storming economic performance ”
Didn’t work too well in 1997, did it?
AWK1 30th, – 10:09
“which spills powdered sugar all over your chin!”
That’s why Fry’s covered it in choccie! 🙂
Here is an amusing ‘Global Warming’ story. You never thought it could happen, and the New Year hasn’t even started!
Here is the initial story, but don’t forget the comments are usually just as interesting:
“Turns out this “research” vessel was mostly a taxpayer funded junket for getting video stories to BBC in the UK and ABC in Australia”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/26/so-much-ice-in-antarctica-that-a-research-vessel-gets-stuck-in-summer/
And here is a ‘progress’ report:
Saving the Antarctic scientists, er media, er, activists, er tourists trapped by sea ice
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/29/saving-the-antarctic-scientists-er-media-er-activists-er-tourists-trapped-by-sea-ice/
There is a lot of wisdom in Dad’s Army, which I am watching, and watch often.
Captain Mainwaring has just said to Sergeant Wilson – We are on the front line every minute of our lives.
How true it is for those who understand.
The front line?
Yes.
This time we are the Belgians.
Peter: Dad’s Army: absolutely. They don’t write ’em like that any more. And The Likely Lads, which has been running repeats recently. Priceless.
Count Arthur Strong, anyone? From last night’s episode (R4x): “I put two cigarettes in my mouth at once. I lit them both. (Judicious pause … ) Then I gave her one.”
Set me giggling for the whole programme.
(Not the subtle philosophical insertions you were alluding to, Peter, I know, but still a lot funnier than most of the dross we are fed these days.)
Just one more – from, I think Round the Horne, sometime in the 60’s: Fenella Fielding (imagine the voice): “Tonight, I shall be wearing my yash-mac. The Forecast is: Light Yash … later on.”
But to return to a – sadly – common topic, for Wallsters with ten minutes to spare, this is worth a read. Best summation I’ve come across for a bit.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/12/the-longest-running-crime-family
Michael Roberts – 14.32
That punchline reminds of another joke where it also works beautifully:
My girlfriend wasn’t exactly sure what a double-entendre was, and asked me for an example . . . . . So I gave her one!
Boom Boom!
Peter from Maidstone December 30th, 2013 – 13:04
“There is a lot of wisdom in Dad’s Army, which I am watching, and watch often.”
Yes there is, Dad’s Army, Last of The Summer Wine both are very special and the overpaid management at the BBC cancelled LoTSW because it did not fit prevailing public taste.
Codswallop.
Michael Roberts (30 Dec 2013 – 14:32)
Thanks for the link to the Gates of Vienna. So far as I know, the only country that at present has a policy towards Islam that resembles a policy proposed by GoV is Japan.
I have been saying for a long time that the conflict with Islam is existential, and that unless the non-Muslim world co-operates to ensure that it is not subjugated by Islam, subjugation by Islam will go on increasing, until it meets an obstacle that it cannot overcome. That ultimate obstacle will be China.
The Chinese are perhaps the most realistic people in the world. Certainly, in the face of existential danger China will not be as nonchalantly and suicidally foolish as are the governments of most of Europe and North America.
China will not shrink from adopting the only policy that will work. The crime syndicate will be exterminated.
Interesting that Monty Python, while reflecting on the film Life of Brian, state that they would be too afraid to take the mickey out of Islam in any of their performances.
Below is the report from today’s Daily Mail.
The fact that a judge could try a case in camera to save the feelings of the accused (Muslims) is deplorable, that the case has been tried for almost a year without any public knowledge is reprehensible, that the son gets off because he claims not to have had any knowledge is for me beyond belief.
The cost to the taxpayer will be enormous.
I do sincerely hope that she Asha Khan gets struck-off.
Daily Mail lifts veil of secrecy judge threw over trial of two Muslim lawyers on trial for perverting the course of justice ‘for cultural reasons’
•Reporting the case of Asha Khan, 30, and Kashif Khan, 34, was banned
•The order was made to prevent them being shamed in their community
•But after a legal challenge from the Daily Mail, the restrictions were lifted
•Asha Khan was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice
•She and Kashif were said to be involved in a plot to switch speeding points
•But Kashif, Asha’s brother, was acquitted after arguing he did not know
By Eleanor Harding
PUBLISHED: 23:47, 29 December 2013 | UPDATED: 13:14, 30 December 2013
Guilty: Asha Khan has been convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice
A judge allowed two Muslim solicitors accused of trying to cheat the legal system to hide behind a cloak of secrecy for ‘cultural reasons’, the Daily Mail can disclose.
He banned reporting of the case of Asha Khan, 30, and her brother Kashif, 34, to prevent them allegedly being shamed in the eyes of their community.
In the latest farce involving secret justice, the pair were told they could enjoy the court’s protection because members of their family would pass judgment if the case was reported.
It is a privilege rarely bestowed on defendants in the justice system, which has operated on the principle of transparency for centuries. However, following a challenge by the Daily Mail, the restriction was lifted – enabling the case to be reported.
Judge Peter Hughes reversed his original ban after deciding that the principle of open justice was more important than saving the embarrassment of a defendant.
After almost a year of court appearances and legal argument, Miss Khan has been convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice, while her brother was acquitted of the charge.
They were on trial accused of helping their father, Mohammed, dodge a speeding fine by pretending he was not driving at the time of the offence.
In a saga with echoes of the Chris Huhne scandal, he allowed a man who worked for the family to take the blame instead.
At the beginning of the hearings, Miss Khan’s barrister, Glenn Gatland, argued she would not give evidence properly in the presence of the Press because she was afraid of family repercussions.
He said she did not want to criticise her father in public – though she was quite happy to have her mother sit in the public gallery.
‘Miss Khan is quite upset that if matters are reported she doesn’t feel she would be able to give her evidence as freely as she would have done otherwise,’ said Mr Gatland. ‘Culturally, it’s very difficult for them to say things in public.
The evidence would be impacted on by the cultural background of Miss Khan.’
Judge Hughes accepted the argument and banned reporting of the case but then changed his mind after a two-day legal battle with the Mail. ‘We are dealing with members of the legal profession charged with perverting the course of justice,’ he said.
‘People of all faiths or no faiths should be treated in precisely the same way. We’re not dealing with discrimination against. We’re dealing with discrimination for.’
York Crown Court heard that in August 2010 Mohammed Khan was caught by a speed camera in Newcastle while driving daughter Asha’s silver BMW.
When Miss Khan received the speeding notice, she claimed that the driver was David Moat, who worked for the family.
Some months later, the day before Moat was due before magistrates, her brother faxed the court a letter on Moat’s behalf, saying he wanted to plead guilty by post.
Moat was fined £100 with £30 costs and six penalty points for the speeding offence. Prosecutor Jacob Dyer said: ‘There is no dispute in this case that the man actually driving the car was Kashif Khan’s father.
‘It was hoped by supplying the false details that the trail would be lost and the fixed penalty unit would eventually take no further action. But the suspicions of the unit were aroused.’
Kashif Khan successfully argued he did not realise what was going on and had only been trying to help Moat by filling in the form using information provided by him.
‘It was horrible,’ he said. ‘All my life I have worked so hard and told the truth.’
The Khans work for KK Solicitors in Newcastle and live in the city. Asha Khan, a trainee at the firm, will be sentenced in the New Year, with her father and Moat, who both admitted their part in the plot.
Kashif Khan successfully argued he did not know what was going on and was cleared.
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Should auld Vince Cable be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld Vince Cable be forgot,
The miserable little swine
The miserable little swine my dear,
The miserable little swine
We’ll have his guts for garters yet
The miserable little swine
Can’t resist this…in tonight’s TV guide, the channel “more 4” offers me a programme, “The man with 10st testicles”. (don’t worry, I couldn’t be bothered to look.)
And the first thought that sprang to mind: “He must be almost completely nuts!”
Ostrich (occasionally)
December 30th, 2013 – 23:18
So why do you think the channel is called “MORE 4”? Question, More for whom? Ugh!!!!
A pincer movement on the Archbishop of Canterbury by two of the biggest guns in the culture war, Melanie Phillips and Alexander Boot:
http://alexanderboot.com/content/it-doesn%E2%80%99t-take-many-churches-st-james%E2%80%99s-destroy-church
https://www.embooks.com/blog/single/a-church-of-hate
Well, I know St James’s Church was always a favourite venue for brass rubbing. Has the worm turned, I wonder? The lady in question certainly seems to be rubbing Alexander and Melanie up the wrong way. I await with interest Archie’s response to our stalwart culture warriors and ask that his cockney neighbours ararn’ Lambiff Paliss explain my naughty allusion to him (in metaphorical terms, of course).
Even as an agnostic I feel the outrage of these two seminal essays. God alone knows what believers think … so to speak.
Noa
Last week (Dec 23rd) you kindly drew attention to a Civitas book entitled Mind-Forg’d Manacles: Murder, Macpherson and the [Metropolitan] Police by Jon Gower Davies.
I downloaded it and spend much of the Christmas period reading it. Davies has fisked the Macpherson report in a scholarly, coruscating and devastating attack on the Labour Government’s malign use of the Stephen Lawrence murder to label not only the Metropolitan Police, but the Police throughout Britain and indeed the indigenous population Great Britain in its entirety with the spurious label of ‘institutional racism’. Davies has also used the research of the late Norman Dennis who died before he could complete his research (probably from a broken heart in addition to any ailment that took him away).
I hope all Wallsters will read the book from cover to cover. It is an assiduously annotated work and exposes in detail the Orwellian nature of the related legislation bulldozed through the last Labour government; it also explains why policing has deteriorated so comprehensively and rapidly in the previous twenty years, in the face of a myriad of contradictory regulations, guidelines and dense mumbo jumbo that has had the rank and file at the sharp end tearing its hair out and running scared of the consequences of effective policing.
The work is the more powerful in the light of the fact that Davies was for twenty years a Labour Councillor on Newcastle City Council. He retired in 1997 from the University of Newcastle where he lectured in Social Studies and finally as Head of Religious Studies.
If left-leaning academics are now rebelling against the Long March, I suppose there is a glimmer of hope somewhere and Farage should exploit the work of Davies to the full.
Macphersons baleful and ludicrously contradictory findings should go down in the annals of infamy of social affairs; but of course the rot had set in much earlier than the murder of Stephen Lawrence – and having read this book I now hang my head in shame: insofar that I haven’t delineated the earlier history, back to the late 1950s when the race relations scam was first spawned and traced its ramifications through four decades of policing, prior to the Lawrence murder. It’s all of a piece.
Has this work been featured anywhere on the MSM, Noa? I must do some googling tomorrow to find out.
Jack Straw is the villain of the piece of course. This work is a must read!
Sorry – I should have repeated Noa’s link.
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/MindForgdManacles.pdf
Frank P
Something like this is what the Church of England needs to blast Parent Lucy Winkett out of St. James’s, Piccadilly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTZRtRFkvk&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
Frank P ;30 Dec at 23-26.
The link below is self-explanatory : it has a link to a youtube video showing the wall at St James.
http//blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-st-jamess-church-at-christmas/
TRY:
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-st-jamess-church-at-christmas/
Barry and Margaret Mizen have been given MBEs for their work with young people after the murder of their 16 year old son,in London in 2008,by an habitual (Turkish)criminal.The case can be found below.
http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/c_crime_magazine__the_latest_stories/a_jake_fahri/crime_vaults/
‘Contrarianism is what Conservatism does. It hasn’t got an ideology. We are people who instinctively know the right thing to do. We don’t look it up in a book. A bit of it is pure contrarianism, too — the pure pleasure and enjoyment of annoying people. Surely we all have a bit of that?’ (the other place)
Further to the above :
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/jimmy-mizens-killer-jake-fahri-1015960
Radford NG @ 01:42
The photograph of little Hadas Fogel – desperate! desperate!
Something American for England to imitate in 2014:
“The following is a list of institutions whose presidents or chancellors have publicly rejected the academic boycott of Israel in recent days….”
http://avimayer.tumblr.com/post/70821835473/universities-standing-strong-for-academic-freedom-and
I only listen to Radio 4’s Toady about 4 times a year, but after a brief listen this morning I think I can, without suffering Cold Turkey, reduce that annual rate to zero.
Justin Webb I think was interviewing some nobody about the progress of the latest N. Ireland talks whose purpose seems to be to reduce the number of days when the Union Jack can be flown from public buildings from its present triumphalist 17 days a year, and asked whether things would be going better if Nelson Mandela could have been at the table!!!!
Given the BBC’s Green agenda, I can understand why Mandela gets such hallowed treatment what with him being in the Vanguard of the Tyre Recycling Movement, but the Old Commie received advice and training from the IRA’s finest bombers and so could hardly be regarded as a neutral presence. But, hey, anything’s worth a go in the pursuit of peace, so maybe they could send an old nail clipping from the sainted one in a reliquary, or even one of his old tyres, put it on the table and see if peace ensues.
If the Ulster Loyalists had a bit more guile, they could resolve the parades issue in one easy move which would instantly cut the legs off the BBC and The Guardian – have disputed Orange Parades headed by one the many all-black Orange Orders scattered throughout the Commonwealth. (These black Orangemen of course shouldn’t be confused with the white Blackmen who belong to the Royal Black Institution.) Would Republicans allow themselves to be seen throwing stones and petrol bombs at black people? Might their hitherto invisible scruples become visible? Well, such a scenario might just cause Justin Webb’s platitudinous tongue to tie itself into a momentary knot.
Justin Webb’s a confused person…took him long enough to discover his parentage.
But the Unionists have always lacked guile. With a vocabulary of ‘Not an inch’ and ‘No surrender’ it’s not surprising, but I’ve spent forty-plus years in despair at the way the secessionists have so easily run rings around them by deploying specious arguments that appeal to the leftist media. Perhaps they feel they have to maintain this mulish front, for fear that their supporters will condemn and discard them as traitors, but they could so easiy have cut the ground from below the feet of the secessionists.
p.s. Did you note the glee with which the Biased Bollox Corporation announced that the worst performing school in the UK is now in Strabane? It assuages their confusion that, even throughout the troubles, Northern Ireland maintained a higher level of educational attainment than England. (when they deployed the false excuse that the poor kids, their social life being so circumscribed, had nothing to do but study, to give themselves a route out of what the English media persisted in portraying as the ‘hellhole’ of Northern Ireland.)
Pshaw! And a murrain on all their houses.
AWK Dec 30 9:26 – Seconded! With gusto!
Michael Roberts 14:32 Exactly.
The shape of things to come:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4112/islamization-britain
Happy New Caliphate Wallsters. 😉
May I wish all here a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year?
We can all look forward to much excitement at the dominance of UKIP at the European Elections.
Apologies to William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
NewYear’s Eve 2014
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches from Bucharest in England to be born.
I see that all the buses and coaches and planes and trains are filled up with ticket holders from Romania and Bulgaria for the foreseeable future. The present Governmental use of Romanians and Bulgarians as bogeys is obvious and deceitful, but there are a certainly a lot of people on their way right now. The real issue is that there are already too many people here, and the Government is not mentioning that at all.
PfM – 19.58
We are living in the midst of, and suffering, a great evil being done. Our laws, ethics and morality have been traduced and it isn’t safe to walk the streets in the centre of London. A walk I have done hundreds of times, along the South Bank from London Bridge to Waterloo Bridge simply isn’t possible even if one felt inclined to carry a stout stick, which I don’t, never having had need of one before.
Enoch said the first duty of a statesman was to protect his country against avoidable evil. But this evil has been done deliberately, maliciously and even with reality being shoved down the throats of good people, those who still dominate the airwaves are telling us how good this is for us and our country.
I don’t see Farage being much more than an escape valve, and although he has a terrible balancing act to perform in order to escape the kind of opprobrium which may yet be dumped upon him, he either can’t or won’t articulate the reality in the way that Paul Weston does.
The only glimmer of hope I can see is that the newest intake are so utterly unscrupulous and so blatantly aggressive and anti-social that anyone speaking out against them won’t suffer the same stigma as in previous years, and the fact that doorsteps in Mayfair are now being used as toilets gives me a certain satisfaction, but it’s no compensation.
Roma are probably already crossing Holland on the way to Britain.
The young Social Democrat Mayor of Duisburg (Soeren Link: who God preserve) has warned us of what is to come —-in the DM on Line.His city has been invaded by Hundreds of Roma which has caused great problems. (For this go to the DM and type *duisburg* into their search engine.)
Duisburg is near the Dutch border (west of Essen);on the direct road to the Channel ports:The Hook,Zeebrugge,Ostend. Also the major Dusseldorf.So we may expect the Roma are going to be setting-out for these.
Duisburg (dy`sburk) has a population of 85,000 Turks and the largest mosque in Europe which was implicated in the Black September 2001 attack on the Twin-Towers(NYC).
Above: that’s Duisburg-Dusseldorf Airport.
Meanwhile:
Classic fm ( and DAB ) celebrate
New Years Eve and
New Years Day
With the immortal Beethoven.
From 7pm (Tue) to 7am (Wed) Classic fm broadcasts a Beethoven Marathon:12 programmes with John Suchet presenting the biography and music.
http://www.classicfm.com/radio/christmas/31-december/john-suchets-beethoven-marathon/
Happy New Year to all in 2014. May we see the tide turn.
Have received the following msg.
J.Pease-molde Gruntfutuk and all at the Horse-meat shop,Balls Pond Road,wish Wallsters a Prosperous New Year (of our Lord);2014.
P.S.
Gordon-from the Marine Commando Club,Pall Mall-also sends his greetings.
Happy Noo Year y’all! 🙂
Another sighting from 2014:
“…True religion grants insight into the nature of reality though the transcendent experience of spirit and spiritual value – which are real. True religion does not confer delusion nor foster fanaticism. It is the calm assurance that men are endowed with a living spirit and that this good spirit reveals in the light of truth, what ought to be, not simply what is. Religious insight is not a matter of logical proof, but rather what is spiritually felt to be true, bypassing mind altogether. Religious insight is a different way of knowing; it is a method of perceiving higher reality – transcendent Love – which is the essence of all things.
The logical mind can sort reality by creating categories in abstraction. Philosophy may give meaning to reality by finding relation between these categories, but only spiritual insight can elevate things and meanings by conferring value – which again, is spiritually felt. It is the growth of spiritual feeling which allows the comprehension of value, and again, value is not comprehended simply by the mind, but by the soul. The value of our country is not its GDP….”
From ‘Religion and the Law’ by Rebecca Bynum, January edition, New English Review
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/142296/sec_id/142296
The value of our country is not its GDP.
Listening to Classic fm and `Wellington’s Victory`it occures to me that,while Farage is no Wellington and we can not hope for a `Vitoria`(1813), at least in May we may hope for the restoration of the Lines of Torres Vedras(1810).
and also…
“…Islam is in total agreement that right and wrong are not supported or refuted by empirical studies. Right and wrong is what Allah says it is and the Koran is the word of God. Period. No other code or ethic is its equal. All other codes are inferior. They can be tolerated only by admission of inferiority and adherents of such inferior codes must live the life of second class citizens…”.
‘The Is-Ought Gap, Post-Modernism and the French Facelift’ by Richard Butrick
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/142277/sec_id/142277
Finally, and Wallsters please bear with me for quoting this exchange among commenters on Isabel Hardman’s article about Nick Clegg’s confusing New Year warning at the other place in the final hours of last year:
“Aloysius Smithersjones2013
• 14 hours ago
“Frankly the EU is and insult to democracy and an insult to the British people”. Couldn’t be more correct! The British people have had at least a nominal form of self-governance since 1215, which is taken away by an unconstitutional, external, Eurotrash government that creates laws based on principles rather than on cases. Britain feels no need form a uniform size and shape of bananas or yogurt pots!
HookesLaw Aloysius
• 12 hours ago
There is no law on the size of bananas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11…
The point of standards in a single market of course is that everyone can compete and benefit from economies of scale. I was not aware of any regulations about yogurt pots which seem to come in all shapes and sizes to me.
But also of course, to be a part of the single market (which anti EU numpties like to call a ‘trade agreement’) we would need to comply with single market rules just like other EEA members like Norway.
Smithersjones2013 HookesLaw
• 11 hours ago
There is no law on the size of bananas.
Of course there isn’t:
(EC) No 2257/94
III. SIZING
Sizing is determined by:
– the length of the edible pulp of the fruit, expressed in centimetres and measured along the convex face from the blossom end to the base of the peduncle,
– the grade, i.e. the measurement, in millimetres, of the thickness of a transverse section of the fruit between the lateral faces and the middle, perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis.
The reference fruit for measurement of the length and grade is:
– the median finger on the outer row of the hand,
– the finger next to the cut sectioning the hand, on the outer row of the cluster.
The minimum length permitted is 14 cm and the minimum grade permitted is 27 mm.
As an exception to the last paragraph, bananas produced in Madeira, the Azores, the Algarve, Crete and Lakonia which are less than 14 cm in length may be marketed in the Community but must be classified in Class II.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUr…
And just to explain it further:
Regulation 1221/2008 took effect as of 1 July 2009. Though neither the press release cited above nor Regulation 1221/2008 made any mention of bananas or Regulation 2257/94, some reports of the changes treated them as including the banana quality standards regulation and contained explicit or apparent references this regulation, using expressions such as “the infamous ‘straight banana’ ruling”.[10][11] Some sources have claimed this to be an admission that the original regulations did indeed ban “bent bananas”,[12][13] or that it was accepted that it was “a farce”.[14] The European Commission has pointed out that as of April 2009 the specific rules for bananas have not been repealed.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C… ”
Support for the EU is bananas.
Thanks frank,
Have just looked at your link and its raised my blood level above boiling.
Read it, but expect to get very angry.
When a collection is put together like this you can really see clearly what we are up against.
I still think there must be an overriding reason for all this that goes beyond all our opinions and suspicions .
New world order, global government ,aliens controlling governments, shape shifting lizards.
God only knows.
But it’s way beyond a few leftie plotters.
Western Nations willingly committing suicide against the wishes of their people while the evidence is clearly on the table says to me there must be reasons we have not yet understood .
Franks link.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4112/islamization-britain
Ostrich (occasionally), January 1st, 2014 – 00:42
“Happy Noo Year y’all! 🙂 ”
Aye!
“A New Year’s Knighthood for Andy Choudary” – as nominated by Pat Condell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLeZWdr328
NYC – soon to be twinned with Detroit, Chicago etc….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25565892
Peter from Maidstone December 31st, 2013 – 23:30
“May we see the tide turn.”
The tide has turned the ebb, do be optimistic; this might well be our year!
David Ossitt
January 1st, 2014 – 11:42
The tide has turned the ebb, do be optimistic; this might well be our year!
Let’s hope the tide sweeps away the flotsam and jetsam polluting our waters and land. I hope David you are correct, that this will be the year of our liberation.
A New Year message for you all:
May you live for as long as you want, and may you want not for as long as you live.
Anne Wotana Kaye 1@January 1st, 2014 – 12:35
I think it will be a slow change, not a quick change
but I have hopes for a good result in the election in May
“Our country is at its best when we work together with shared interests and Common Purpose” – David Cameron’s New Year Message
Isn’t there one journalist willing to be struck off Cameron’s Xmas Card List who might ask the Prime Minister why he is promoting Common Purpose, why it receives so much tax-payer’s money, why it has its tentacles in every fibre of the public sector, why its disciples alter the whole course of our nation and why he as a democrat doesn’t denounce it and purge the public sector from its malign influence, and most pointedly ask him if it is because Sir David Nicholson is a Common Purpose graduate that he received the Prime Minister’s wholehearted support rather than being on a charge of corporate manslaughter at the very least. How can this organisation confer immunity on those responsible for thousands of deaths?
Alexsandr
January 1st, 2014 – 13:05
Whether it is slow or quick, I do hope you are right and there will be a positive change. But, I am afraid it will just be more of the same, simply under another name. Let’s hope I am wrong!
Frank P, superb stuff on Macpherson.
What I find fascinating is what happens when the Leftist author retrenches – he must do so in a dark, academic corner.
Now it has entered the mainstream, it is professional suicide to question the Macpherson rubbish.
This will happen more and more as those unprivy to the real intent of that which they have aided and abetted become apparent.
Let’s not be partisan here – many people voted Tory in the past without understanding its nucleus.
Second, when will people understand the corruption of the judiciary?
Sir William Macpherson was a High Court Judge.
This is how they think.
Lawyers have assiduously grown their power base over the last century (most MPs are now lawyers) and in the precedent-setting courts, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the EU court have been on a power grab to effect political change via the back-door of law they themselves write up when determining test cases.
The Law in the UK abandoned justice years ago.
Law and justice in the UK are two completely different things.
To change the subject, is the UK undergoing the propaganda pummeling over 12 Years A Slave?
It is bloody relentless over here in the US, because they’re pushing it like mad for the Oscars.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/11/12-years-a-slave-portrayal-or-propaganda/
http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/category/colin-flaherty/
Liberal feel-bad movies they call them here.
Sums it up.
Common Purpose Dave!
It is so beautifully corrupt a model because it is all off-the-radar.
‘Beyond authority’, as Julia Middleton named her book.
Even arts supremos, always full of Marxist intent anyway, are graduates.
Jude Kelly, who runs a massive arts complex on the South Bank is a Common Purpose graduate.
These are the thoughts of the man trying to oust Erdogan.
I think they call it taqqya:
“You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centres……Until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this.
“If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria, . . . like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt……
“The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it…..you must wait until such time as you have all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey”.
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/erdogans-banking-scandal-beneath-the-surface-a-us-backed-political-earthquake-may-well-be-about-to-take-place-in-turkiye/
I notice how the UK media continues to downplay the intent behind the bombings over Christmas.
Why?
Because it doesn’t help the Peter Oborne, Alan Rusbridger, Left, Right axis of evil that churns out this garbage day in and day out:
‘It’s the fault of US foreign policy.’
‘It’s the fault of UK foreign policy.’
‘It’s the fault of this. It’s the fault of that.’
Actually, I think you’ll find it’s the fault of Islam and that Muslims are the same the world over.
I’m fed up to the back teeth with being told it’s someone else’s fault.
The favoured introduction of all think tanks is ‘we’re independent’, ‘non-partisan’ etc.
One such is the IPPR.
Biggest funder? EU.
So, in other words, IPPR helps the LIbLabCOn agenda.
The full Common Purpose roll call is there in the funders too. Local coucils, spiteful multi-nationals hell-bent on social engineering – oh, and don’t forget the charities:
http://www.ippr.org/about-us/how-we-are-funded
Guido reporting Norman Tebbit is in hospital with heart trouble.
hope he gets well soon.
He is a good un -for looking after his wife disabled by the IRA bastards at Brighton
IPPR: donation in the range £200,001 to £250,001 (top donor) – European Commission
It’s the most incredible roll call.
G4S!
Always the chance of a government contract if you ideologically fellate LibLabCon’s inner parts.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Whether climbing the hierarchy as a fellow Common Purposer is the purpose of a donation you signed off on, or the donation is out of sheer ideological spite against the proletariat to think of more ways to keep them in ideological manacles, none of these people id funding a ‘think tank’ without some sort of quid pro quo.
Pure scum.
Alexsandr
January 1st, 2014 – 15:26
Agree! A rare and decent man, a VERY rare and decent politician. Many I could wish would have immediate heart attacks and quit this mortal coil!
Joany January 1st, 2014 – 14:38
“Actually, I think you’ll find it’s the fault of Islam and that Muslims are the same the world over.”
This fact should be repeated at every opportunity, that it is evil is without doubt, we see evidence of this on a daily basis.
Nobody here made comment about my post at David Ossitt December 30th, 2013 – 19:11, but there is a small example of our legal system colluding with the corrupt Muslim mind set.
I am perplexed; whereas a bus station has always been a bus station, when did a ‘railway station’ become a train station?
These days we would never of had the film ‘The Railway Children’, just imagine how ugly a name for a film as ‘The Train Children’?
Seems to be a relatively recent Americanism
Yes, David.
I only suspect everyone nodded their heads in agreement here (I hope).
Everybody who goes on trial has to deal with the public consequences.
That is supposed to be the bedrock of the legal system: not just that justice is done, but that it is seen to be done.
That principle has been smashed to bits over the years to the point where nearly all publically meaningful court cases now seem to have some sort of reporting restriction attached to them.
Why is a Muslim potentially at more shame than a non-Muslim?
This is the Establishment’s bare-faced lie.
The judge who allowed that case to be tried in secret epitomises the politically correct spite that runs through the ranks of the judiciary and Britain’s lawyers.
There is no justice in British courts.
They are a lie.
A politically correct lie.
They’ll kick the daylights out of freedom of speech and cover up for their precious little Muslims – who, of course, come above everyone else.
I have to say that I know many Romanians and find them all without exception to be courteous, intelligent, hard-working and respectful. I hope to visit Romania this year or next and am learning the Romanian language. I am always glad when a Romanian family makes my acquaintance. Perhaps I have been fortunate. But I must know 20 or more Romanians quite well and they are all of a high quality.
Dear Peter,
I completely messed up my posting on Romanians and Bulgarians. Can you please, possibly remove it, so I may attempt to edit it and present it once more,
All done, Anne
How is it that the three agenda-driven self-publicists who founded NetMums have received OBEs? How can we develop a parallel award system that delegitimises this corrupt one?
Peter from Maidstone@January 1st, 2014 – 18:12
um
the founders of netmums got the gongs. But it was mumsnet that received ire about not paying for content recently.
Peter from Maidstone
January 1st, 2014 – 18:09
Thanks, Peter. I must just mention that your experience and mine regarding Romanians was very different. The only one I ever met who was a fine person, was a nursing sister, from a religious order. The others I worked with abroad, were callous and lacked all sensitivity. I am probably wrong judging a whole nation by those representatives I have met, but personal experience informs our views. By contrast, I found Bulgarians kindly and highly civilised.
Alexsandr, they are both awful sites acting as if they represent all womankind and being given unlimited air space on radio and tv
Joanne Growney
Looking for Words
Our land and words are one, Romania explains.
To help me understand, friends take me
through Transylvania, land of Dracula
and ancient painted monasteries.
To help me understand, friends take me
in a van with sleeping bags, a store of food,
to visit ancient monasteries painted
with sacred stories to last forever.
We travel in a van, carry picnic food,
marvel at unfading lapis on concrete walls—
sacred stories saved to tell forever—
pastel lift to heaven, red descent to hell.
We marvel at unfading lapis on concrete walls—
spiritual instruction for those who have no books:
pastel lift to heaven, red descent to hell—
and, at the nuns’ clear windows, bright geraniums.
Instructing those who have no books—
through Transylvania, land of Dracula—
nuns brighten clear windows with red geraniums.
Our land and words are one, Romania explains.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to the Romanians. Our literature and film industry would not be the same without them
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/31/could-this-be-the-year-we-make-contact-with-aliens-seven-science-headlines-you-could-see-in-2014/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism
I’ve posted these URLs not because I anticipate meeting any aliens from outer space, but because of the mention of Lamarckism – and it is very much like the theories put forward in Stalin’s time by Trofim Lysenko and that were then much ridiculed by western scientists.
Now, it seems that the idea that characteristics acquired during an organism’s lifetime can be passed on genetically to offspring is being revived by scientists in Atlanta, Georgia. They have apparently discovered that mice that have been subjected to very high levels of fear can pass on their fears to their young, even their grandchildren.
It will no doubt enrage the politically correct to even pose such a question, but the foregoing does make me wonder – have the inability to compromise, the propensity to intolerance – and the urges to enforce the intolerance by means of terrorism and murder that we see so much of in Islamic societies, become concentrated there because they have for centuries been passed down as part of their genes?
Conversely, is the common sense and resilience of Chinese people at least partly genetic too?
If there is some foundation for the theory that terrorism is built into Islamic populations’ genes, does it follow that the only way to change the nature of Islamic populations is to introduce compulsory sterilisation of the worst elements – starting with most of their clerics and with the families and other relatives of actual terrorists?
As Fergus Pickering’s commission is to give this site the reputation of being the haunt of wacko-birds, let me make a contribution from wcko birds of a different feather.
2014: The view from the United States – and no, it’s not Alex Jones, or Michael Savage, or Glenn Beck, or Bill Whittle – they are not lone voices. So take a deep breath, screw your courage to the sticking point, and view with an unbiased mind the dark crystal ball of Dave Hodges:
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/
“When Will the Civil War Commence?
The script for civil war is actually very easy to predict. First, there will be a series of false flag attacks which will give the administration the authority to declare martial law. This will be followed by the “inviting” of Russians, Chinese and Canadians to help administer the martial law in the name of protecting America from domestic terrorists (Constitutionalists, Libertarians, Bible believing Christians, pro Second Amendment supporters, etc.).
Gun confiscations will soon commence under these conditions. Artificially contrived food and water shortages will be used to subjugate the people and lure the population into various detention centers. The price for possessing a weapon or possessing more than three days of food and water will be immediate termination. Dissident opposition, such as members of the alternative media and all others opposed to the new regime will be executed by the martial law forces based upon the threat matrix scores being compiled by the NSA surveillance spy grid. How many times have you been to this website, or websites like this? It does not take much to make you an enemy of the state.”
*****
“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.” T.S.Eliot
If one takes a group of people based on any given characteristic, the only valid division for the barbarian from the East is between bad people and good people. This applies in general whether the filtering is skin colour, religion, language, the size of one’s nose, the colour of one’s hair…. (the ration of b2g may differ in any such group, but the principle stands).
A family member of Baron’s who traveled in Romania last month says the country is a land of extremes. Driving, one can pass a BMW dealership that looks as if it were lifted from the most upmarket district of California, then turn a corner to witness an sickeningly abject poverty worse than any of the squalor one finds in some of the ghettos in Africa.
Whatever the quality of the Romanian, Bulgarians or whomever as peoples one thing more than puzzles. Do we need more immigrants when 2.4mn people already here are unemployed?
Baron, that is my view. And I tell my many immigrant friends that I love them and welcome them but do not wish every one of their country men and women to come here because we already have major problems that need to be resolved for the sake of our own social integrity.
Exactly my point baron, it’s obviously nonsense to say we need more.
But the situation stays the same, regardless of public opinion and despite all the talking there is clearly no intention of stopping it.
Importing third world people with third world attitudes will turn this country into the third world.
It’s already happening in parts of the country.
Why.
Herbert Thornton – 03:04
“Now, it seems that the idea that characteristics acquired during an organism’s lifetime can be passed on genetically to offspring …”
Many characteristics can be acquired from parents but, I think, to use the term ‘genetically’ does mislead. It is also important to acknowledge that its absence is just as important. The lack of love from either parent often causes an ‘imbalance’.
An example of non-genetic transfer is one’s Mother Tongue, though it occurs almost inevitably!
When a woman moves to a different culture, and uses a different language, her children are not learning their Mother’s Mother tongue. Her children are therefore getting a mixed message. Her words are not connecting in the same way as her own Mother Tongue would. Not a big deal, but understanding the process is important. An unborn child associates the sounds of its Mother talking with her emotions, and speaking a foreign language is an extra layer to interpret.
There are also many disciplines, usually holistic (and ignored by the pharmaceutical industry), that incorporate it into their view of how the body works. My Reflexologist was the the first to be so direct in its explanation, but I have thought along these lines since I was a child!
Here are some thoughts that I have picked out from a Google search:
http://www.treatmentmassage.com/blog-and-articles/58-stored-emotions-in-the-body.html
What is interesting is that he says:
“Eliminating the memory map of trauma might not be possible.”
I think that removing everything inherited is like removing every layer from the proverbial onion: impossible and not required.
What is important is understanding what we have, how it works and how we can encourage good behaviour (for the politicians (and Parents?)), wellness (for the health aware) and Oneness with God (for Jews and Christians). 🙂
As we pass through to a ‘New Year’ it’s worth reminding ourselves what, and why, the calender is; and just how transient the dictates of the days, the dates and the seasons have been:
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-gregorian-calendar?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140102&utm_term=FreeReport&utm_content=readmore&utm_source=Stratfor+Subscribers&utm_campaign=bf1f576f29-140102_FR_Gregorian_Calendar12_31_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1c43cbbe1e-bf1f576f29-49196889
Of particular interest, perhaps, to those of you who have a future and may, or may not, have a say in influencing it.
Btw; don’t pass this link on to the AGW freaks or they’ll immediately start something, based upon it, that will be designed to further impoverish the West and underpin their ludicrous ‘scientific’ predictions and wacky ideologies. Who footed the bill to remove the Global Warming wankers from the their icebound Antarctic jolly, I wonder?
Why didn’t they just leave them there until some of their AGW materialised?
I was told this tale, which I like because it is probably unprovable and shows how complicated human groups are:
There was this community living by the sea shore. The men would go fishing and the women would wait for them to return with their catch. When the seas were rough, the women, quite naturally, would await for their sons and husbands to return, safely.
It can to pass that the fish left those shores and the community, in order to survive, moved inland and become farmers. They prospered.
However, when storms blew in, the women still shared that fear.
What is interesting is that any visitor would be unlikely to share this fear, when the storms blew in, and would, therefore, be likely to be considered disconnected from the rest of the community.
RobertC @ 12:32
You say: “An unborn child associates the sounds of its Mother talking with her emotions, and speaking a foreign language is an extra layer to interpret”.
Nobody knows how children learn a language, our ability to make sounds (not the physical one, but the ability of our brain to initiate, process, control it) may be inane, We seem programmed to ;earn any language regardless of its structure, syntax, vocabulary.
When in Tokyo, one of Baron’s friends was and Englishman married to a Japanese girl, they had a son, who at the age of eight, when the barbarian met them, spoke perfect English and Japanese, and if the parents were to be believed, never had any difficulty learning either, or switching between them, so much so that when it came to tricky Japanese (watching a football match, the mother absent) he interpreted for his farther and Baron. It ws an unforgettable experience for he wasn’t taller than a large doll (neither parent was endowed in the height department).
Herbert and Robert C
Can’t all of that be encapsulated in one word: Evolution? A process that encompasses the minuscule knowledge of the entire human experience, plus the infinite data of that that we don’t know, cannot know – and therefore will never know.
In the meantime – carpe diem!
And as our Edification Tsar, Mr Gove, is keen for our kiddiewinkies to learn Latin again (it’s already taken off in Norfolk, I believe), perhaps we should remind ourselves of what Horace advised on that theme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_diem
Ahhh… I can smell the oak panels of my old grammar school and have memories of the amazing hair sprouting from our classics teacher’s upturned nose, elevated above us, as ‘Hairy’ Wilson rattled of the first conjugation … Amo, amas amat, amamus, amatis, amant …
Not sure what any of that did for Evolution, but at least most people apply tweezers to nasal hair these days. Does that indicate a progression or a decline in human affairs?
Excellent link, Frank, the calendar story.
For people born after the Gregorian calendar was brought in the birthdays are fine, for those born before it there’s a problem. Take Shakespeare born April 23 1564, or is it May 3rd?
Bad luck:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/02/antarctic-helicopter-mission-rescue-success
Peter, your friend, Sasha Boot is having another go at Putin, why? What does he expect from a country that hasn’t known democracy for centuries?
It’s not that Baron greatly admires the KGB colonel, it’s that given the history of Russia he is the best the Russians can have. What matters is what comes after him.
Baron – 13:14 “Nobody knows how children learn a language”
No, but we can see the result in different environments!
Within a supportive family, all challenges are smaller than they would have been and, if well managed, make the person stronger – like a broken bone that has healed. Learn two or more languages. Become a good swimmer, skier, an actor or a problem solver. Anything is possible!
Children ‘working in the fields’ will be stronger, if given enough rest, proper food, play, love and attention!
They will prosper more than children with no responsibilities, no physical exercise and no stimulation. That is what is happening to some of the children in sink estates.
What I am saying is that there will be an extra layer to manage. In a dysfunctional family, with no culture to guide the parents, only confusion, an extra problem can be the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
If all your neighbours are similarly disadvantaged, the problem becomes even greater!
This is highly prejudicial, totally unPC, but it made Baron chuckle:
A Romani Cookery Book: Steal three eggs….
No cracks in the Antarctic ice yet, but are there confusing tributaries emerging from the inexorable lava of the recent volcanic eruptions of Islam jihad?
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4114/muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-group
More internecine warfare maybe? Has always been so, I suppose. Sure as hell there is no effective resistance from Western ‘leaders’, so let’s hope so.
Baron,
First steal three eggs … 🙂
Which came first, the theft of the chicken or the theft of the eggs?
Come to think of it – depends on whether you’re looking to make an omelette or having Chicken Kiev, I s’pose. Whatever, they are unlikely to shell out for them.
Fowl f*****s!
After enjoying catching up with the latest two or three blogs of Mr. Boot I have to say that his writing and thinking is getting better and better.
Let me recommend again the purchase of his autobiographical volume….
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Future-Worked-Through-Non-person/dp/1909099538/ref=la_B001JP1ODW_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388685830&sr=1-2
I’m wondering about the possibility of developing a national award with a medal that would recognise significant contributions to the security, well-being and integrity of British or English society and culture. It would be an order, with 10 medals issued and awarded each year. It would be intended to challenge the corruption of the present Honours system in which a comedian can receive an award for writing comedy, and a group of mums can be awarded for sticking their noses into everyone’s business.
What might the name of the award be? It needs to have a touch of the traditional and imperial about it.
A special commemorative medal would be commissioned, and it would be awarded at a public ceremony.
The rubbish-strewn caravan sites that have become the blight of Sweden as temporary Romanian camps sprang up after migration restrictions were eased
There are six mobile homes and several more primitive homemade shacks in the make-shift town, located outside the city of Hogdalen, Stockholm (pictured).
Full Story:
No surprise here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532716/The-rubbish-strewn-caravan-sites-blight-Sweden-temporary-Romanian-camps-spring-country-migration-restrictions-eased.html
MailOnline
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John.birch@me.com
John birch@January 2nd, 2014 – 18:53
looks like the streets of london after the new year fireworks….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532521/Maybe-new-years-resolution-litter-bins-Huge-clean-operation-central-London-rubbish-dumped-celebrating-crowds.html
hey. you guys near the south and west coasts be careful tonight. And stay well away from rivers and the sea. we all need to stay safe.
(Sorry to be a nanny, but people always underestimate the power of water)
Is there no end to this horrid weather?
alexsandr 2nd, – 19:52
“people always underestimate the power of water”
Aye…it’s brutal stuff. 😉
alexsandr
January 2nd, 2014 – 19:10
John birch@January 2nd, 2014 – 18:53
looks like the streets of london after the new year fireworks….
Looks like the streets of London NOW as the Romanians spread into Mayfair. Just wait until some more arrive!
I am studying the materials, mostly the fruit of the research of Gene Sharp, at http://www.aeinstein.org/english/.
Though initially suspicious I am finding them an excellent and hopeful resource for the study of the possibilities of the non-violent overthrow of oppressive regimes. I have read several of these short texts already and will read the rest of them as the subject of my own reflections. Very interesting indeed. It makes me believe that much is possible with wise and strategically planned activity.
Is this global warming?
Frank P (2 January 2014 @ 13:21) –
Yes, I suppose the common characteristics of Islamic populations are a kind of evolution, though most people thing of evolution as moving forwards to become something better. A main characteristic of Islam on the other hand is that it seeks to prevent improvement and to cement humanity into a permanent state of medieval barbarity, ignorance, resentment, ill will, hatreds and fanaticism. In those respects, Islam is having considerable success too, as the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention several cities in Britain – where terrorists are often as popular as movie stars – demonstrates.
I can’t say that your description of your grammar school days reciting amo amas amat makes me feel nostalgic. It was much the same at my old grammar school. It reminds me (as did the attempts to teach me algebra) of the abysmal teaching methods used in those days. My main question about both always was – “What use is this?” and the standard answer was – “It makes you think”.
That didn’t satisfy me at all. Examples of the actual utility of simultaneous and quadratic equations would have encouraged me, but without them, algebra was dry as dust. It was the same with Latin – simply learning conjugations and declensions by rote was no help at all in mastering the language.
Yet later, when I was doing my National Service I had the good fortune to be sent for language training in Russian – and the teaching methods were so effective that, along with many others, I was able, after only one year, to speak quite passable Russian. I know of nobody who left my school able to speak Latin.
I’m intrigued that you should suggest that tweezers are commonly used these days to remove nasal hair, and that you theorise that it may be an example of Evolution. To my mind tweezers are extinct. The best device that I’ve found is a small pair of scissors that were made in Germany. I bought them years ago in Hong Kong. They have rounded ends instead of being pointed. I’d say they they indicate evolutionary progress rather than decline.
http://beforeitsnews.com/new-world-order/2013/11/bombshell-international-medical-coding-and-legal-execution-by-beheading-brought-to-usa-under-obamacareis-this-why-the-government-need-guillotines-596.html
To those who have despaired this week at the output of ‘Today’s “guest editors”,
aren’t “leftist tosh” and “socialist tosh” both tautologies?
Herbert Thornton January 3rd, 2014 – 02:05
“The best device that I’ve found is a small pair of scissors that were made in Germany. I bought them years ago in Hong Kong. They have rounded ends instead of being pointed. I’d say they they indicate evolutionary progress rather than decline.”
I had similar thoughts when I read Frank’s comments on tweezers (the pain the pain) though I did not post a comment but your mention of scissors in particular the purchasing of blunt ended scissors.
I have umpteen pair not one of them purchased, the health service hospitals, nurses in GP surgeries and visiting district nurses throw them away after a single use (once used they are no longer sterile) the last time I spent time in hospital I came home with half a dozen and each time my beloved has wound dressings changed we ask for the scissors, these are all very sharp but blunt at the tip.
Just picked this up from FrontPageMag. (splutter …)
Any British media carrying it? – probably not. I suppose to be optimistic, it might get Libertygb some much needed publicity. I have long admired Paul Weston – does anyone know whether there is any sort of relationship with UKIP?
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6218-liberty-gb-radio-host-charged-with-hate-crime
Some good comments, too, particularly on the legal niceties. Watch that space.
A very believable account:
My Antarctic diary
http://motls.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/my-antarctic-diary.html
Malfleur
0308 2/1
Wackobird?
In 2014 we will see more wackobirds polluting our media.
Bloom was the right wing wackobird of 2013 but Farage has begun the year by seemingly wanting to fill us up with Syrians.
And that is after wackobird Clegg has begun to fill us up with Romanians.
Soon wackobird Miliband will send a mission to Somalia to draft in a few disenchanted Al Qaeda.
What we need if a return to strong determined leadership from the Tories that we remember.
Cameron is now within sight of the election and he can afford to ditch the Coalition and go it alone.
The LibDems would not dare be seen to dissolve parliament as they would be annihilated.
Cameron could call forward the 2017 referendum say to May.
And when won he can immediately turn off the Romanian tap and suspend adherence to the European court of Human Rights.
You know it makes sense.
Fergus Pickering@January 3rd, 2014 – 14:56
Dream on. I cant see Dave growing a pair ever, and I don’t believe he even wants to do the necessary as you say above.
I am afraid the conservative party as a brand is broken beyond repair. Only way now is a new right of centre party. Maybe UKIP will evolve into that.
Still Euro and council elections in May to look forward to. And three gibbering idiot leaders telling us lessons have been learned.
Alexsandr January 3rd, 2014 – 16:06
“I am afraid the conservative party as a brand is broken beyond repair. Only way now is a new right of centre party. Maybe UKIP will evolve into that.”
I can see where you are coming from and you are not alone, many are saying that the Conservative party has had its day, Peter Hitchens has been saying so for many years but it is not dead yet.
The Conservative and Unionist Party was founded in 1834 colloquially referred to as the Tory Party or the Tories. Since that date it has been the most successful political party in the UK.
This success has been built on the party’s willingness to quickly get rid of bad or unpopular leaders speedily and to re-shape itself from within but mainly because it could read the runes, it was aware of which way the wind was blowing.
Unfortunately we have a weak Leader made even weaker by being in a coalition with political imbeciles, a Leader who can’t or will not read the runes or sense the wind, I strongly suspect that the men ‘In grey suits’ will be calling round when UKIP smash through the political sound barrier this spring.
David O, I don’t want to support a party that is aware of which way the wind is blowing. I want to support a party (well I don’t believe in Parties, they are part of the problem) that has conservative principles. Has this ever been true of the Conservative Party, has it been true of it in the 20th century?
RobertC – 14:09 ‘Another Antarctic diary’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=03SWGkxt72A
Alexandr and David
It is precisely because we must be very afraid of the Bloom/Farage fruitcakes that we need to encourage Cameron to grow them.
I can see no reason at all to prolong the coalition.
Alexandr – Every word a priceless prediction that I believe will happen. We are witnessing the death of the political dinosaurs …. the sleazy Tony Blairs, David Camerons, that Indian woman whose name I never catch, the self-righteous lecturers on their take on morality…. all the scum that has populated Westminster (with a few honourable exceptions) since the 1950s.
The incendiar was Enoch Powell, who was like a match to the dynamite of the then-growing toxic left.
Joany
That invitation to the party…
“Gold Down 28% In 2013 Despite “Skyrocketing Demand” – Perth Mint Sales Surge 41%”
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1388672120.php
Maybe someone, somewhere, is holding a party; but just doesn’t want you to attend.
“A ship which was used to rescue by helicopter 52 people from a trapped Antarctic ship has now found itself in need of rescue – after it got stuck in heavy ice.” _
I understand that the point not made by this article in the Daily Telegraph today is that the first ship stuck in the ice, the Akademik Shokalskiy, was a research ship commissioned to take “global warmers” to view the melting ice cap.
Now there’s an invitation to a party that I would have been glad not to have accepted.
How much gold does the Bank of England hold compared with this time last year? Is it the policy of the Bank in 2014 to buy or sell – or to lease?
Mr. Carney?
Richard on form.
After the Left-wing tosh served up by Today programme ‘guest editor’ P.J. Harvey, I started to imagine my ideal schedule if the BBC would let me run the show. . .
Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2533572/LITTLEJOHN-Clarkson-Parky-The-Kinks-thats-I-call-Today-programme.html
MailOnline
The Hill of The Moor’s last sigh.
2nd Jan 1492 (521 years ago):Sultan Muhammad surrendered Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella.
Riding South,he looked back from the top of the hill and was told by his mother:”You weep like a woman,for what you could not defend like a man”.
Peter from Maidstone January 3rd, 2014 – 20:34
“David O, I don’t want to support a party that is aware of which way the wind is blowing.”
Peter maybe I used the wrong metaphors when I wrote “a Leader who can’t or will not read the runes or sense the wind,” what I was meaning is that Cameron does not have his finger on the pulse of the nation (there another metaphor) he simply is not a conviction politician.
The blessed Margaret was a conviction politician and she understood her people.
Fergus Pickering@January 3rd, 2014 – 21:56
Rather be a fruitcake wanting to get my country back from the faceless unelected idiots in Brussels than a brown-nosing tory troll complicit in the socialism that is the current government.
now run along and play. laddie.
Frank P
The Civitas website is probably the best I’ve come across for making quality publications, writing and materials over a range of contemporary political topics and issues freely, or very cheaply available.
It’s very popular with columnists like Ed West, Delingpole and Andrew Alexander who draw heavily on it.
http://civitas.org.uk/publications.php
Wallsters- a happy new year to one and all.
Teletubby/aka ‘Fergus Pickering’, do keep on being aspirational – a 5th rate cortex striving towards 4th rate prose is… so charming.
Christmas reading consisted of Ed West’s “The Diversity Illusion” and “Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglo and Robinson. Both are excellent.
Apparantly Cameron claims the latter is his current bedside reading. If so a shame he is incapable of deriving any practical guidance or even principles from it.
The best present and activity of all over the holiday was receiving and watching “Breaking Bad”, an everyday immorality tale of crystal meth making folk; a brilliant script, acting and writing, set in Albuquerque it is the story of the Chemistry teacher and criminal genius Walter White.
“The horrifying statistics from the Chinese government’s latest ecological survey find that a land area the size of Belgium is now too polluted to grow crops in and 28,000 of the country’s rivers have disappeared since 1990. With China’s population on the rise, pollution and nutritional demand could create a perfect storm for famine.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/03/Pollution-In-China-s-Farmland-Triggers-Potential-Food-Shortage-Concerns
A slight lebensraum problem?
Michael Roberts;3rd Jan at 11-04.
Paul Weston (Liberty GB)has a lot of sensible things to say.
Previously he stood for UKIP in central London.He then joined the British Freedom Party founded by a Eddy Butler who had failed to defeat Nick Griffin by eight votes for leadership of the BNP. (There were complaints against Griffin for his politics and for financial matters.) At first there were efforts to make the BFP the political wing of the EDL which failed as the latter didn’t want to be a political movement.
In March 2013 Weston started LibertyGB. which is much more outspoken on migration and Islam then UKIP.
Good news from France! Only 1,067 cars burnt over the New Year;(along with a number of murders).
You will find a link to this below,from an American woman passing-on information from the French press for English readers.
She gives other items.
Marseille:crime figures for 2013;all up–especially for bombings,sexual violence,and drugs.
Silent Bells.This says that the secular laws of France were flexible (in regard to Catholics,Protestants and Jews).This was because the French did not feel threatened by these.They were mature enough to appreciate these were exceptions,not entitlements.The problems came with the Muslims……
France Undone.An essay by the Pretender-to-the-Throne,Henri-Count of Paris,on what it is (beyond Republican,Monarchist or Bonaparte-ist) to be French.
http://www.galliawatch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/crimes-car-burnings-accidents-this-new.html
What sort of country is this, that does this sort of thing “in our name”?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10550801/The-lunatics-take-over-the-asylum-in-caring-Britain.html
Noa 4th, – 19:46
“Wallsters- a happy new year to one and all.”
HNYtY…Had your head under the blankets for a while? With a torch, to get all that reading done!
Looking at a recent photo in the “DM” of the Archbishop Welby, and reading a “Guardian”
article, also with photo “Church of England still owns £80,000 Wonga stake, Justin Welby admits” I was amused at the facial likeness of the Archbishop and those of the Wonga puppets.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/31/church-england-wonga-justin-welby-archbishop-canterbury
Spectator columnist Toby Young is trying to launch a scheme, an idea that would have Conservatives voting for UKIP in certain areas whilst at the same time having UKIP voters voting Conservative in others, in order to keep Labour from stealing the next general election with probably less than 40% of the vote.
This has some merit and if dim-wit Dave had the sense to follow this through it could win him the next election, or at least have him in coalition with UKIP.
I’m working on a scheme whereby voters pledge not to vote for any of the Lib-Lab-Con candidates in elections. Continuing to give support to these politicians gives them a legitimacy they must be denied.
Peter from Maidstone
January 5th, 2014 – 17:08
Peter, I did not vote for any of the three main parties mentioned in your posting. They do not deserve legitimacy and are not fit to represent the British public.
David Ossitt – 16:54 ‘Toby Young’
All it shows is that the Tories are frit!
Had one or two Tory MPs, or even a bunch of the Eurosceptic ‘b*stards’, ‘crossed the floor’ and at least allied themselves publicly with UKIP policies, even as late as last year, there could easily have been some developments.
However, they have really left it too late!
UKIP has been recruiting from across the political spectrum as well as the ‘not voted before’, so cuddling up to the Tories would not only put off ex-Labour voters, I expect it wouldn’t go down well with the ex-Tory voters either!
The Times: “More than one voter in three who chose the Conservatives in the 2010 general election are not planning to do so next time, according to polling carried out by former Tory party deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft.
About half had switched allegiance to the UK Independence Party, and a fifth aligning themselves with Labour or the Liberal Democrats and a third undecided.”
Daily Mail:“I will stop child benefit being exported to Poland and the rest of the EU, Cameron vows as he sets out powers he wants to claw back from Brussels”
The Times: “An influx of low-skilled migrant workers would make life harder for Britons struggling with rising living costs, Ed Miliband said today as he pledged action to close a legal loophole used to exploit cheap foreign labour”
But not everyone has been caught up in the current wave of austerity:
Daily Mail: Another bumper year for Tony Blair: Former PM has more than £13 million in the bank after his companies’ best year since he left office
Happy New Year!
Anne Wotana Kaye 1@January 5th, 2014 – 17:43
agree 100%.
Radford NG: re Paul Weston.
Thanks for that.
Libertygb strikes me as being a sort of thinking man’s UKIP, although that’s a bit unfair on Nigel Farage; and to grab any popular appeal it’s obviously necessary to simplfy the message into (sound)bite-sized oversimplifications – which, as NF has found to his cost, immediately invites the usual screams of racism, (name your-) phobia etc.
Anyway I’d like to see them get a bit of traction, as, like UKIP, they certainly articulate a great deal of common sense – the sort of common sense we all hear on the street, in the pub, in fact everywhere except where it matters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527851/Clegg-says-hell-block-curbs-immigrants-EU.html
“Coalition at war over migrants: Cable compares PM to Enoch Powell over Tory calls for tougher controls” This headline reveals the absolute base character of that vile Lib DEm Vince Cable. Cable, and his ilk in the socialist camp and his own party have created the horrible situation we now have, where British citizens not only find it difficult to obtain housing, either purchased or rental, but they find it equally difficult to find proper employment. How dare Cable compare Cameron to the much-maligned patriot Powell? May the Lord above speed the day when evii and stupid politicians no longer rule the Land.
AWK 1
“Nigel Farage: ‘the basic principle’ of Enoch Powell’s speech is right” Daily Telegraph
I’ve just noticed this for the first time –
http://www.smh.com.au/world/zimbabwe-leader-robert-mugabe-has-collapsed-report-20140105-hv7ka.html
Malfleur
January 5th, 2014 – 21:35
Thanks!
Herbert Thornton
January 5th, 2014 – 21:48
Good, but decades overdue!
Anne Wotana Kaye 1 January 5th, 2014 – 21:54
“Good, but decades overdue!”
But nonetheless welcome news.
So y’all still going.
May I wish you a Limey New Year.
I’ve been down in your Cornwall again.
Stayed in a beautiful quirky hotel in Lynmouth after hearing of the sad death of my old antiques mucker Martin Miller.
He will be sadly missed back here as well as I guess with you.
I read of your floods but it is minus 25 where we are and ordinary “farm livers” are stuck indoors and cattle dying.
Y’all lead a charmed life by comparison.
John Jefferson Burns@January 6th, 2014 – 06:25
Lynmouth is in Devon…