Why don't you invest in a laptop like normal people?
That way you can write your stuff on the move and past it whenever you stop at a connection or a wireless.

Am I just foolish posting at weekends Craig? I suppose someone has to keep company with those who refuse to watch endless TV repeats.

Enjoy your visit on Monday. It's gey chilly up here. Think Dundee refuses to recognise global warming.

Anything posted at the weekend... Really? I can well imagine that there are peaks and troughs in the times people read but don't most people at least look at most new items when they come by?

Many bloggers blog around their life rather than the other way around...not that I will claim I haven't entertained the same thoughts as you.
Pop your bookmarks into Del.ico.us or Diigo for online access whatever computer you are working from.

Craig.

I suggest that you compose your posts at the weekend but hold them until a more appropriate time for getting them noticed.

You say important things that need to be said so I suggest that getting them noticed and reposted is not a minor consideration.

I will notice them whenever you post as yours is one of the blogs that I visit daily.

I must be part of that minority which has more time to read blogs at weekends.

Low week-end readership suggests a widespread abuse of paid time for personal surfing in the offices of commerce and government from Lizard Point to Dunnet Head. Verbal warnings for the lot of 'em then.
Unless it's just that the spooks and Schillings are off-duty.

Dodoze

This had occured to me too.

I had presumably assumed that most respondents were retired like me, "working from home" or authors reading blogs as displacement activity for writer's block.

Or else New Labour trolls...

I meant "previously" not "presumably"...

Delirious times can be had without a blod, one does not have to blog with the jones's or be worried of having missed a vital story whilst scartchings on'es own.
I recommend blogging holidays, of two, dare I say three days in a row, or even a whole week.
seasonal blogging is another different approach, like following the seasons in one's approach to the subjects blogged.

Far from haveing laptop hanging round your neck, usually to be used at times when one should rest, inflight/train or other, it is advise to have strict times, something I have yet to master.
Instead of blogging in an individual way, I rather take to the attack approach, using existing newspaper fora to spread diversity of information, although some can be rather tedious in their online work.

Lest for example take 'der Spiegel,a german political magazine with an international inconsequential online forum that works on moderation, but the moderator, in the singular, seems to either have many holidays, another job, or is more interested in the paper version of this now mediocre political rag. It has lost its edge through the internet and cannot be bothered to foster its international ops.

I very much hope that you find the right black Norfolk turkey and that you will all get to sit around the table together to have it.
If that means having a break, I for one could survive without a daily blog and evertyopne deserves a yule break, enjoy.

Another point,our hands need a rest, we must not underestimate carpel tunnel syndrome.

Good thing about weekends I've experienced is the likely immediate reaction to a comment by those waiting for an immediate reaction (if that makes sense - doh! the brain relaxes on the weekend)

Mark

how about some stirring stuff from Chris Hedges in the meantime?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/liberals_are_useless_20091206/

Good man Mr Murray

Family's the most important part of anyone's life and a credit they are to you.

if at some point when you get a minute - could you just pop up a picture of Blair with a nice little four letter word as the heading and let your readers go absolutely fucking crazy?

All the best for the festive season & a merry Chrimbo & happy new year to you and yours.

Chars

DtP

It seems that our powers to be are prepared to spend lots of taxpayers money on lawyers trying to stop US evidence on collaborate torture being heard here in Britain.
They are so guilty they could not care less how much they spend on their pathetic cover up, pestilence be upon them, may they get the birdflue for the whole of their yule break.

Craig. With all due respect, carbon footprint is rather humungous. Dundee granted, but isn't there any Africans that can so whatever it is you do in Accra?

Craig - am wondering about your take on Blair giving his evidence to Chilcot in camera. From most reports on this, the phrase that leaps out is the latter part of this: "...in private for reasons of national security and to protect Britain's relations with the US."

Cripes. So Blah has something to say about Britain's relationship with the USA which could jeopardise said relationship, eh? Boy, we could go to town!

"That Secret Blair Evidence In Full - The former prime minister candidly revealed how former President Bush used to put a saddle on him and ride him round the Oval Office, shouting 'Giddyap, Poodlechops!'"

Heh. Let the party begin.

This is pretty interesting, opens up a new world view, maybe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/14/tzipi-livni-israel-gaza-arrest

Apparently 22 million emails from the Bush-Cheney admin have just turned up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34419592/from/ET

Hold on to your hats. This might be interesting ...

Looks like China got the pipeline, and I have to agree with Juan Cole, that the pipeline thing was probably not top of the US agenda.

So the US is bogged down in an Afghanistan quagmire, and China is running off with the big regional prize.

I'm not sure the politicians in Washington were ever really so interested in the gas pipeline. Some were. In recent years a Turkmenistan pipeline was seen as a way of forestalling India from breaking the embargo on Iran. And I remember that in fall 2001, when congressmen asked Colin Powell how the Afghanistan war would be paid for, he replied that the region is rich in resources. Since Afghanistan is not, he must have been speaking of places like Turkmenistan.

In any case the Chinese just demonstrated that you don't need war to get resources. Avoid costly adventurism and grow your economy like hell, and it all falls into your lap.

By the way that should be:

"So the US is bogged down...

...in your lap."

I forgot I can't make italics the way I'm used to.

Much is said of China's growth yet little is said that it is simply the initial fruiting of debt based economics that the west has been through, with a couple of variations of course.

Ome difference is that China's limiting its international debt exposure thanks mainly to its US foreign ($) reserves.

China's economy will collapse it's that is inevitable, but the country is so huge and next door to reasonably friendly resource Rich Russia as well as close to huge market India, not too far from huge market Indonesia, not too far from Huge market Pakistan, Next door ro tech Ruch S.Korea and Japan, that really China's venture into debt based economics has a hell of a long long way to go yet before the burdeon of debt gets too high.

In fact, I'd say given the fascist nature of it's Govt (the UK must be soooo envyous) China, as long as that fascism can continue - which it will as long as it can sustain a middle class, is the most economically stable country in the world.

If any country accused of war crimes regardless of who it is, can get to or influence our senior politicians to change our time honoured legal process to protect their own accused politicians or generals, we are in a very, very corrupt political society. If those in accused countries have nothing to hide they certainly should have nothing to fear.

Bring back the free press! We need more education of the masses.

Bring back the free press! We need more education of the masses.

Nice idea and all that but who is going to "bring back the free press"? It wouldn't really be independent if the government did it so you'd be relying on someone with lots of capital, who, fingers crossed doesn't have their own capitalist interests at heart.

On the other hand, there's always the Internet, which is practically free.

"On the other hand, there's always the Internet, which is practically free."

But won't be, if others follow Australia. Worth following #nocleanfeed hashtag on Twitter.

Or go here:

http://nocleanfeed.com/

Dear oh dear, I'm not awake today at all. Knackered.
Free from interference, I meant. Free from censorship.

Christmas stocking present for Gorvid Browmeron - a calculator!

Every pound borrowed by business or individuals from the banks earns them two extra quid in interest over the period of the loan and reduces the wealth of the UK by two quid.

Every UK asset sold to those bankers who've got all our interest in their pockets has to be rented back from them out of current taxation.

OK Keanes says it works because money is being re-cycled through the system. But you can only wash old clothes so many times before you have to go out and buy new ones. So where does the money come from? COLONIALISM. Kill wogs - Get dosh. Oil, food, water, minerals kind of dosh.

What is the difference between Western and Chinese capitalism? Get out calculator. Government is banker. No compound interest to be paid to bankers who rent you back your assets out of current taxation. So you go out and trade with third world countries without having to resort to killing them and stealing from them.

The 'Christian' West no longer has any moral authority now that the 'Pagan' East has taught us the ethics of trade.
Who's telling you this? A Muslim.

Further to your own excellent dissection of the membership of the Chilcot Inquiry panel in terms of their unsuitability:

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/11/iraq_inquiry_th.html#comments

Media lens have provided their own comments in a similar vein:

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/11/iraq_inquiry_th.html#comments

It's strange that such obvious conflicts of interest are not addressed by mainstream media.

'tis also strange the Viva Palestina Convoy doesn't seem to be getting corporate MSM coverage either.

I was also without my Laptop

We had 3 - all much the same but all from different sources...

But all the same 12" screen size...

And so between the 3 of them - well I thought my kids always came first..

Mine had never failed -but I only used it when I was away from home...

So my lad made 2 fully working laptops out of the 3 - for his sister and him..

Guess what Dad wants for Christmas?

Letter To America

"In the Shadow of Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Is Far from Recovery

By Denver Nicks, AlterNet. Posted December 17, 2009."

I Do Realise This is a Rather Strange Thing To Say But...
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Though its absolutely Fucking Freezing Here in The UK - Its MUCH Colder in The South Than The North of ENGLAND...

From what I can see (not from statistics - but personal observation)...

The UK had a mild recession last year, much less severe than I was fearing, and much less severe, than previous recessions since Margaret Thatcher closed down the North of England - and Norman Tebbit told me to get on my bike to get a job (which I did)...

Since then in the late 70's and early 80's we've had several more recessions...

But all of them have been far worse than the one we had last year...

Now everything seems back to normal...

We are of course pissing ourselves laughing at the ultra-rich idiots in Siberia - or was it Copenhagen farting about saving the World from CO2 causing Global Fucking Freezing...

But there is absolutely no sign of panic or even people being skint

Trying to get a table in Lady Mucholland's local pub in Upholland and asking absolutely Everyone - do you know who she is? Are you related to her...

Some say - well yes - we not only know the Ashton's of Upholland (they are Directly related) - they say - Nah...She's nothing to do with us...

I say - well someone should know her in Upholland or Skelmersdale in Lancashire..She's now the most powerful politician in the EU..

Incidentally, I thought the Royal Blackpool Variety Performance Show was Really Good - especially the Music of the Shadow Players

I thought I was going to hate it...

But actually The People in The North of England are Still Really Nice.

Are You Yanks Depressed?

Looks like It's Your Banks on Wall Street That Fucked Up Rather Than Ours in The City of London.

Maybe you will be better at Football (Soccer) in The World Cup?

Tony

I had already bought the Audioslave albums as a result of my Daughter's 15 year old friend lending hers...

And I thought what the fuck is this - so put in on my Zen...

So I bought the next one

And then I saw this band down in Wimbledon Grove Tavern

Fuck Knows What They Were Called..

But They Did Rage Against The Machine...

And I Thought

You Can't Do THAT

But They Did...

And then my mate did it down a REALLY ROUGH PUB

And I Did The Fucking Video

And No One Noticed

And Then Rage Against The Machine Reformed and Sold Out Reading Festival

We Couldn't Get Tickets...

So I reckon this lovely lad - 18 years old - I can't remember his name - but I thought - yeh..er

Fuck Me

It much of a competion is it?>

I by the way have not paid 39p to Buy Rage Against The Machine

Its 29p Ain't It?

I have already bought all of Rage Against The Machine's Albums

And I would rather contribute my 39p to a Real Charity

http://procedo.org.uk/

Tony

What You Must First Realise, And It Took Me Over Half Of My Life To Realise This That EVIL REALLY Does Exist

I have never Personally Experienced it and Neither Have My Wife, Family or Friends...

But EVIL Does Exist

And I Want

ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR

To Be Arrested

And Charged With

WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Americans Can Do What They Want With Their War Criminals

But I want ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR to spend the rest of his Life in Jail

And I want him to Be Kept Alive For as Long as Possible

And For Him To See Every Human Being He Is Personally Responsible For - The Death and Mutilation of Them (Over 4,000,000 Totally Innocent People) And The SURVIVORS Of Those That Loved Them..

I WANT ALL THEIR HORROR CONCENTRATED AND REFINED AND FED INTO

ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR's Brain

Till His Dying Day

Yes I Want Him To SUFFER EVEN MORE THAN THE PAIN HE HAS INFLICTED

ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR

Is a TOTAL DISGRACE TO HUMANITY

Love & Peace,

Tony

Of Course If You Are An English Working Class Cunt You Can Stand Up To ANY POLITICIAN In The World FACE To FACE And Tell HIM HE IS A CUNT

In ITALY They Go a Bit FURTHER

But that is Only Because They Have Been Reading David Icke's Books and Expected The Blood To Be GREEN

Tony

Tony Blair is a blood-sucking tick hiding under the swollen underbelly of Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Her stated aim was to re-distribute wealth from the UK plc to the private hands of corporate Capitalism. Blair and Brown re-distributed a load of dosh back into families etc. but they never challenged the all-consuming pernicious transfer of UK plc's assets into the hands of bloated bastard banker swagger capitalists.

So when you hear the flea on the back of the tick of New Labour, Nick Clegg, squeaking about re-distributing wealth by raising the income tax threshold, please don't forget that NOTHING will get sorted in Britain until the wealth that was transferred by Maggie into the hands of private corporate Capitalism, is taken back into the control of UK plc. All you gullible worms ( they found your price ) who worshipped Maggie's golden calf god of The Market, Know that the market has failed and UK plc has been bailed out by Muslim Oil money from the Gulf. Future social historians can speculate why this country produced a generation of fawning weeds who listened to a barmy woman. Rome declined and fell, and we find ourselves now in the same position.

Maggie's yet unborn brood, sired by US Zionism, is a Masonic New World Order in which sovereign states have absolutely no control over anything. Westminster and Europe will just be farting in the wind.
All the people who thought that the likes of Tony Benn were crazy fear-mongers,those get-rich-quick-while-the-goings-good and sod-moral-principles, can eke out their days on their worthless quantitively-eased pensions and listen to us told-you-so's who won't even get a state pension.

The Guardian have an exceptional analysis of the heretofore hidden Blair finances.

Since Blair's finances are so complex and arcane and no one would answer any questions, they set up a competition for the best solution to what they called the Blair Rich Project.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/17/mystery-tony-blairs-money-solved

Additionally, he's using a loophole which Mandelson could close at any time.

Can't see Mandelson wanting a war criminal to benefit from his crimes. Isn't that already illegal?

Found this on another blog.

It's all true of course, but you'd never hear it on the BBC.

In reality we live as serfs in an hereditary, plutocratic, kleptocracy that is approaching its apotheosis as a fully fledged neo-feudal dispensation. It is a ‘kakistocracy’ , that is, the rule by the worst in society. It is a police state in that any attempt to change the social arrangements, even in order to avert mass murder, as in the Israeli ordained War of Terror against Islam, or to avert species extinction, as in the efforts to address anthropogenic climate change, will be tolerated only as long as they are impotent. Any direct action is ruthlessly crushed by a surveillance state that follows the citizen-serf’s every move. And it is an Orwellian state where War is Peace, Hate is Love, and vicious racism and xenophobia wear the false raiments of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, courtesy of a totalitarian propaganda syystem run by the likes of Rupert Moloch and staffed by ignoble liars, hypocrites and hate-mongers.
Such a system is evil in its every manifestation. Creatures like Madeleine Albright, who opined that the murder of 500,ooo Iraqi children under the ruthless sanctions regime that she was complicit in enforcing, was a price that was ‘worth it’, are free to wander the earth, promoting hatred and the threat of inflicting similar evil on Iranian children, while lecturing the world on good and evil. Other war criminals with blood up to their arm-pits, like Blair, cash in on their savagery, richly rewarded for their service to the Judeo-Christian World Empire. Simply stated the West, in its decay and led by the terrorist Zionist state and its all powerful lobbies in the West, is the greatest force for evil, for murder, violence, destruction and hatred the planet has ever seen. The combination of race hatred, xenophobia, class hatred and the other character traits of the psychopath, the capitalist type par excellence, has created a ruling caste that differs from the Nazis only in their hereditary hypocrisy and oleaginous self-regard.

My Lad Agrees That Over 95% of it Cannot be Broadcast

It shows everything of our home and where we live and really personal stuff about each other clearly demonstrating our love for each other Son and Dad...

But some of the shots with me staggerring through the snow not realising the camera was still running - and him ski-ing on the virgin snow and it is not yet fast enough - but hopefully will be in a few hours...

He knows I am pretty useless in snow but can take a completely Brilliant Long Shot..

Just as it Is With Me Holding My Breath and Listening Like My Camera Microphone To The Songbirds Waking Up In The Snow...

I need to go to Bed Now

The Snow Ain't Finished Yet...

And Neither Am I

Whilst writing This Our Milkman

Has Silently Got His Electric Milk Float

Through The Snow

And Delivered Us a Massive Sack of Potatoes and Two Fresh Pints Of Full Cream Milk

Now That Is What I Call Quality

Tony

I Probably Shouldn't Say This To The Americans - But Fuck I Have Already Said It

I Don't Care If I Die in The Next 5 Minutes If Someone Just Hears My MESSAGE
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US HUMAN BEINGS ARE REALLY NICE

And So WE Need To TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

We NEED To Get in The UK

ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR

Arrested...

That is Just The FIRST STAGE

We NEED To ARREST HIM

Tony

Hey Tony... maybe you could put the cable modem in a time-delay safe before you pick up the bottle? A decent locksmith can provide one.

http://www.bradleys-blyth.co.uk/index.php?id=111

Mugla: am bored, tho i do it myself, of people equating 'the west' with its oppressive governments. anyways what are we meant to do? shed blood to save blood?

anno: what are you on about, the 'good' behaviour of the chinese? have you talked to any tibetans recently?

mmm. have just fallen into my own trap. are we as people responsible for the behaviour of our governments, or not? do we have the power to influence them, or not? i wouldn't feel badly towards a chinese person because of that country's actions in tibet, for example. but what does that suggest? am thinking about this - thanks.

technicolour

The trap you mention, like all the devil's traps, is weak. In a multi-cultural society we don't like our clan being judged by its past or its present rulers but we, or at least I, am always ready to carry cumulus, lightning-threatening clouds of racist resentment when an individual from another clan rubs me up the wrong way. Strong medicine - the 'judge not lest ye be judged'.

In practical terms the Macciavellian mind of our rulers calculates that humans mostly resent the bods that that they see committing crimes against them, rather than the rulers themselves.

Going back to interest-based Capitalism, it appears to me that the powers that be created financial seizure in the days of Old Labour in order to get a Tory victory, and that they have done the same now with New Labour.

What I don't understand is why the majority of people have ever thought that Capitalism is benign to them and why they always blame the wealth re-distributors like Gordon Brown when the City stuffs the financial system.
Nor do I understand why Gordon Brown didn't shunt the City into oblivion when he had the chance as Chancellor.
Why does he still hang his hopes on interest as a cure-all when interest is the biggest drain on society.
Clearly New Labour was the pretty shop window for a Tory system that is unjust to its own people and vicious to other nations that challenge its injustices.

When you privatise the Housing industry, Security industry, War industry, Media etc etc, you get an enourmous lobby industry spreading disinformation which is of benefit to those privatised industries. They announce that Terrorists are being foiled who are threatening our daily lives etc etc.

Back to the original point, about why we humans listen to the crap, and swallow the bait every time. I believe it is because human beings incline to the whisperings of the devil, to blame the other, where there is an absence of spiritual input into our lives to help us to see clearly that we are being conned by greedy criminals for their own ends.

I am certain that we have a War on Islam, not a War on Terror, because Islam is the only force in the world that has the spiritual foundation that is able to decode the shiny gift-wrap of murderous, impoverishing interest-grabbing, Zionist, Capitalism

anno: christianity, buddhism, anarchy, judaism, common sense - all have the moral and spiritual backbone necessary to resist capitalism. whether people have the power in the system to chose to opt out or not is another issue. i have known many rather wealthy and capitalist muslims, by the way, so not sure how islam comes into it. nor zionism, except as another way of saying 'the jews are at the root of all this'. i do hope that's not what you meant.

technicolour: if I thought even remotely that the religions you mention were relevant to our time, when Allah has sent a messenger, peace be upon him, to replace and confirm all his previous true prophets and confirm their teachings and strengthen our commonsense, I would agree with you.

But what happens is, like old medicines, messages lose their clarity and potency.
Judaism was fine at the time of Moses, but the Jews described in the Gospels were much too busy being capitalists to acknowledge their prophet Jesus, peace be upon him. Please, we are doing business with the disbelievers in Rome, please don't call us back to our religion right now.

Such are the Muslim capitalists of today. They should take note that Allah took back the custodianship of His religion of Islam from the Jews when they rejected Jesus pbuh, because He has also stated that if the Muslims of today, following the prophet of our time, Muhammad peace be upon him, neglect to set a good example of Islam and follow worldly gain, He will replace them too. And that is easy for Him.

Anyway I have always had an allergy to Christmas. So many people coming together communally to confirm their allegiance to capitalism and theological rubbish - I wait for them to return to their normal moral and spiritual slumber. I mentioned Zionism partly to annoy you. Last year they chose this time of spiritual bancruptcy to shower violence on Gaza and the money which this country promised to Gaza has been blocked by them.

The Zionists are not responsible for everything, but Lloyds TSB Bank plc and the BBC, which are two organisations that I end up dealing with on a daily basis, have both demonstrated their support for Zionism and their total disregard for international law, or commonsense, common people or common humanity.