Delhi Delirium 355

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I am well aware that Osborne has been redistributing money to the rich in his budget. I am also stunned by the idea that the state should see its role not as reducing regional inequality of wealth, but as reinforcing it through regional public sector pay rates.

But my days at the moment are like this. I get up at 7.30 am and after a very frugal breakfast I take a local taxi to the disastrously neglected and underfunded National Archive of India. I spend eleven hours there hastily transcribing from an enormous wealth of documents on Alexander Burnes – really beyond my wildest hopes – and then at 8.00pm the security guards kick me out, the curators having left some time ago. I get back to my budget hotel, take a light supper of imodium and activated charcoal, chat with Nadira, and then fall asleep exhausted.

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  • nuid

    Twitter alive with the news that George Galloway has pretty much won Bradford West – big swing from Labour. Galloway is now on SkyNews and he’s hoarse …

  • nuid

    “SkyNews suggested #BradfordWest swing to RESPECT from Lab of 37%, from Tories of 57%. Didn’t mention Lib Dems, guessing 100%” — someone on Twitter

  • oddie

    craig, is this normal practice?

    Federal government to cover half of city’s NATO expenses
    Corporate donors picking up the rest
    A newly launched website, chicagonato.org, on Thursday showed the logos of
    corporations listed as donors. Of that group, 11 corporations have top
    executives who are also members of the World Business Chicago board,
    including Grosvenor Capital Management CEO Michael Sacks, who is vice
    chairman of World Business, a group appointed by Emanuel to attract business
    to Chicago. World Business Chicago is the parent of the NATO host committee.
    Other corporations with executives on the World Business Chicago board who
    donated to the NATO summit are Abbott Laboratories, Boeing, CME Group,
    Exelon, Motorola, United Holdings, Chicago Board Options Exchange, J.P.
    Morgan, Walgreen Co. and Allstate.
    All of the corporations contacted by Tribune reporters Thursday declined to
    say how much they donated.
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-nato-summit-costs-0330-20120330,0,798989.story

  • Mary

    George Galloway (Respect) 18,341 (55.89%, +52.83%)

    Imran Hussain (Lab) 8,201 (24.99%, -20.36%)

    Jackie Whiteley (C) 2,746 (8.37%, -22.78%)

    Jeanette Sunderland (LD) 1,505 (4.59%, -7.08%)

    Sonja McNally (UKIP) 1,085 (3.31%, +1.31%)

    Dawud Islam (Green) 481 (1.47%, -0.85%)

    Neil Craig (D Nats) 344 (1.05%)

    Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 111 (0.34%)
    .
    LDs downwards lost their deposits 🙂
    Little mention of this by-election in the ‘media’. Now they are all over it.
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    See Labour got a dig in at GG for going on Celebrity Big Brother, that being the reason he won the election. Usual crap from the main parties.

  • Mary

    Hague coughs up an extra £500k for the Syrian rebels.
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    He said: “President Assad and his allies may look at the rubble of Homs, the abandoned streets of Idlib and Syria’s overflowing prisons and they may entertain hopes of political survival.

    “But they cannot avoid ever greater numbers of Syrians wanting a better future, and rejecting the bloodshed, insecurity and economic disarray their leaders have brought upon them.”

    .
    Is he talking about the UK in that second sentence of his rant at the Mansion House?

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    UK doubles aid to Syria opposition groups
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    William Hague said the aid would help to provide training for activists and citizen journalists
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    The UK is to double its non-military aid to opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.
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    He said the extra £500,000 will help groups both inside and outside Syria.
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    Mr Hague used his annual Mansion House speech in the City of London to urge President Assad to accept he has no hope of political survival.
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    /..
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17558417

  • DownWithThisSortOfThing

    George Galloway’s fantastic victory is giving the MSM a heart attack, how could he win win they didn’t back him?
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    Listening to R4 is giving me great joy this morning, hearing the talking heads trying to get Moslem women to say it’s OK to kill British soldiers in Afghanistan or politicians saying that ‘there is a particular problem in Bradford…’ and not explaining what that problem is. Desperation indeed from the BBC and their criminal acomplices.

  • Komodo

    I already posted that, Mary…
    Re Syria:
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    “William Hague said the aid would help to provide training for activists and citizen journalists”
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    The power of propaganda, eh?
    Now I wonder if some benevolent journalists would care to pass on their skills to dissident UK writers?

  • Komodo

    One more point about Bradford West: the turnout was the lowest since at least 1970, just over 50%. I would like to see a box on the voting form which says “a plague on all your parties” and make voting compulsory. I think the results would be enlightening.

  • Mary

    Jay Could you please clarify your cryptic comment on the renewed bombing of Gaza. Good news for whom? And by ‘Love Boat’ do you mean the Free Gaza aid boats. If you really are a Zionist supporting the illegalities of the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ then I suggest you go elsewhere with your muck to put it politely.

  • nevermind

    Although I’m not a friend of george galloway, he has shown us here what an alliance of Independents could achieve, never mind the respect party.
    Labour has got some thinking to do and the Lib Dems have move of the radar so it seems, a great result in the face of the three parties.

    I’m not an anti iron fascists, Mary and Rose, nor do I look like a bag lady/man, Clark can confrim this :), just because I do not iron my cloth, its the way you hang it up when its wet, my granny told me.

    Bless you Amanda (thats granny) for your wisdom.

  • nuid

    Is that not the Guardian that Newssniffer is reporting on, Mary?
    I see they removed the word “fundamentalist” from this:
    “Galloway’s fundamentalist call for an immediate British troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and a fightback against the job crisis.”
    What on earth is “fundamentalist” about calling for an end to a war??

    http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/509152/diff/0/1

  • nuid

    What’s wrong with bag ladies/men anyway? Just some poor person down on their luck. Could be you or me tomorrow, given the way the world is going …
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    “Although I’m not a friend of george galloway, he has shown us here what an alliance of Independents could achieve, never mind the respect party.”
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    Yes, indeed. And I’m reading his success as an anti-war vote, which is uplifting. I hope I’m not wrong on that.

  • Mary

    You are right Nuid. Just because Newsniffer concentrates on BBC stuff, I wrongly assumed it was the BBC report. It is Wintour’s of course.
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    Nothing against bag ladies either. Can we get off the ironing theme, please.

  • nuid

    Someone tell Suhayl:
    “The pre inquest hearing has begun into the death of Mi6 gareth williams found naked in a locked bag in belgravia”

  • nuid

    FBI Taught Agents They Could ‘Bend or Suspend the Law’
    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/fbi-bend-suspend-law/
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    The FBI taught its agents that they could sometimes “bend or suspend the law” in their hunt for terrorists and criminals. Other FBI instructional material, discovered during a months-long review of FBI counterterrorism training, warned agents against shaking hands with “Asians” and said Arabs were prone to “Jekyll & Hyde temper tantrums” …
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    The FBI’s counterterrorism training review was prompted by a Danger Room series revealing the Bureau taught agents that “mainstream” Muslims were “violent“; that Islam made its followers want to commit “genocide“; and that an FBI intelligence analyst compared Islam to the Death Star from Star Wars. The review led the bureau to remove hundreds of pages of documents from its training course.
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    Sometimes what I read from the USA beggars belief!

  • nevermind

    Good point Nuid, how is Suhayl, have not heard of him for a while, maybe vronsky knows how he is faring thesde days. I promise not to mention the ‘i’ word again Mary.

    The responses to Galloways win are nasty allround, I just listened to five live for half an hour and some of the ‘filtered’ comments were toxic indeed, if the winner would be a Labour poluitician, these messagers would have been not allowed on air.
    The MSM does not like him and if Respect, or an Alliance of Independents, would ever enter the credible arena, they would try their best to blank them out, ignore them, blacken their names, anything to promote the existing mainstream establishment strokers.

  • Komodo

    Moral from Bradford: supporting the Palestinians can get you votes….though maybe not in Enfield.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    Thanks Mike – That piece refers to Omar al-Bayoumi who was interrogated by British intelligence I believe, although those with knowledge of this are keeping quiet for fear of intelligence sharing reprisals.
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    al-Bayoumi was a key handler to the so called hijackers, but sadly most reports on him have been scrubbed.

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