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.
Mary, “Stupid Videos” escorted from the premises.
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Eva Smagacz, “Re-roof Ocoee” was spam. You must be replying to some other comment.
Alan Duncan/Libya/Oil
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/cash-m28.shtml
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What`s is going on there then!,(as if I didn`t know).
Komodo your kidding
http://Www.stormfront.org
Zionism?
The far right are about whiteys and their demize.
Mary,
For certain there will not be any hurry to send the NATO bombers over Sark to democratize the place anytime soon. In fact everyone is at pains to point out Sark has nothing to do with UK other than the usual commonwealth ties!!!!!!!!
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Komodo,
French Jews for years have been voting for the Far right as a matter of principle, take a look at Le Monde articles and you will find enough reading material to corroborate this contention. Although your linked article touches on the subject of “my enemies enemy”, however it soon moves on to another cliché without exploring the symbiotic existence of the racists and supremacists, on the Jewish as well as the “far right” in Europe.
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The White Supremacist aka “far right” conveniently absorb the Jewish supremacists, along with their accepted, tolerated, and promoted hatred of Muslims, that in fact masks white supremacists racism and segregationist policies making these current and desirable. Jewish Supremacists on the other hand get to project a far bigger foot print and project their racist hatred of Muslims wider and stronger.
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Furthermore the article referring to Yaxley Lennon (the Irish immigrant come the defender of all things English) as Tommy Robinson fails to mention the much publicized Rabbi outfited (a very English apparel) Yaxley Lennon going under cover to avoid arrests all the while being guarded by none other than the “Community Trust” affiliated bodyguards (thugs).
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In general the article in Guardian is a rear guard action that is trying to set some kind of a firewall between the far right and zionists current policies of racism and isolationism. Albeit in a very poorly and convoluted fashion.
finally channel 4 news yesterday half-heartedly reports on the fake reporting from syria by rebels and fsa activists.
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better than no report i suppose.
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edl (soon to become british freedom party) is funded by monied islamophobic pro zionists as a front militant organisation . it uses them to attack innocent muslim community in the UK and to further neo con / zionist goals.
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worryingly the are parts of the media (richard desmonds express for one – though he has now distanced himself from his own publication) which have sought to campaign and promote that message of hate by the edl.. and lets face it Camerons Berlin speech was supposed to coincide with one of the largest edl gatherings .. which as it turned out was a complete failure.
The far right is not a unified church, Jay. But in general (not always – unashamed Nazis still exist, and their views are pretty well Hitler’s) the European far right has had to tone down its public face due to the rise of social democracy and the incessant promotion of holocaust guilt by you know who. While the US far right can be a lot further right with the Republicans as a reference point than our lot can be with the Tories. Hence Stormfront. Who do not like Muslims either, of course.
28 March 2012
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Leveson Inquiry: IPCC ‘error’ over Mark Duggan shooting
Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in Tottenham Hale, 4 August 2011
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The head of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said it made a “serious error” in its handling of the Mark Duggan shooting.
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Jane Furniss said it had been a mistake for journalists to be told there had been an exchange of fire.
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She told the Leveson Inquiry that the press had been quick to criticise the affair.
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The IPCC is the body that oversees the police complaints system.
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The inquiry is currently examining the press and its relationship with the police.
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Anger over the shooting of Mr Duggan at Tottenham, north London, sparked riots locally last August – they spread across the capital and to other parts of England.
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+ Sir High Orde who had a dinner with Coulson when Coulson was editor of the NoTW. It was to tell him the story of policing in N Ireland. etc etc
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17537293
Ref yesterday’s hike in postal charges, this affects not only domestic users of the service but also small businesses who send their goods by mail. Think too of the cost to the NHS who send out thousands of appointment letters per day or perhaps they have already outsourced to a private operator.
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I see we now have as CEO of the Royal Mail Group, a Canadian, Moya Greene, who replaced the twerp Adam Crozier whose salary and perks were over £1m. She is getting half that. She does however come with a good record for privatisation.
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Wikipedia
Born in Newfoundland, Greene graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974, and then attended Osgoode Hall Law School.
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On graduation in 1979 she joined the Public Service of Canada in Ottawa as an immigration adjudicator, later taking positions in the Department of Labour and the Privy Council Office. In the later position as Assistant Deputy Minister for Transport Canada, she was responsible for transport, overseeing the privatisation of Canadian National Railway and the deregulation of the Canadian airline industry.
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In 1996 she joined TD Securities as managing director of infrastructure finance and public private partnership. In 2000 she joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as senior vice president and chief administrative officer, retail products. In 2003 she joined Bombardier as senior vice president, operational effectiveness, under CEO Paul Tellier. That same year she was named among the 100 most influential women in Canada by the National Post, and in 2004 as one of the Top 40 female corporate executives in Canada by the Ivey School of Business.
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After resigning from Bombardier at the end of 2004 following Tellier’s departure, she was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Post on May 12, 2005. During her period of tenure, she placed emphasis on cost cutting through cutting absenteeism, increasing automation and improved labour relations. The result was a trebling of Canada Post’s profits to C$281 million (£183 million), despite a 5.1 per cent drop in revenues, resulting in a two year extension to her original five year contract. However, in her last year of tenure, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers marked her fourth anniversary with a report card, with the CUPW’s President Denis Lemelin commenting: “If you compare the four years before Greene with the four years under Greene’s management, the numbers show that injuries have gone up 15.4% and grievances have gone up 59.3%.”
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On May 27, 2010, Greene was appointed Chief Executive designate of the United Kingdom’s Royal Mail. Replacing the departed Adam Crozier from early July, the first non-Britisher and first woman to hold the post, her duties are expected to include the part privatization of the UK’s postal service. Greene, who has a daughter and will become the highest paid UK Civil Servant on a basic salary of £500,000, will be based in London.
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Greene is also a member of the board of directors for coffee shop chain Tim Hortons.
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The rise in postal charges will result in lower revenues according to the law of diminishing returns. Thus OUR Royal Mail will eventually be flogged off for a song to the chosen purchasers.
More on Crozier. I see he doubled his £1million salary when he went to ITV.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246760/Adam-Crozier-gets-ITV-job-Royal-Mail-debacle.html
“Yes, Vronsky, we’re all totally pointless. Except you, of course.”
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What taxes the imagination is your view that pointlessness has some point to it (maybe on reflection I shouldn’t have quoted Beckett). I was astonished by your early warnings that we should not organize, because that would invite infiltration, when infiltration (as you suggest re boniface) is already with us. In other posts you have advocated organisation (although of a disorganised and presumably uninfiltratable kind) which I’m afraid rather passed over my head.
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Mary’s point is apposite: just because you don’t expose your strategies here doesn’t mean you don’t have them. I understand. However the continuous multiplication of instances of the awfulness of our ruling clique is tiresome to the point of being insulting – how often must a visitor here be reminded that 2+2=4? We’ve all reached the stage where we can see that there is a dangerous failure in our politics. Maybe a few constructive ideas on what might be done could be useful, rather than posting yet more links to yet more authoritative references for your opinion. Unsupported asssertion scores badly in essays, but recall that your tutor was just as unforgiving of laboriously over-supported assertions of the obvious.
Vronsky,
Harking back at least three years ago, you are on record with the same whining; “so what are you going to do about it?”.
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The question arising is; never mind what about us, more to the point what have you done about?
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Furthermore, given the last paragraph on your latest comment, is this some sort of; “resistance is futile” line? Also puzzling fact remains you have recognised/understood about the organisations being debated, yet fail to know their nature and remit, despite keeping such a good company as the equal opportunity racist, indeed odd, very odd.
Vronsky,
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I can feel your frustration in the constructs of your text. Be that as it may a great many of visitors are empowered by these posts, these messages, information, reporting and debate.
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For instance a number of Milton Keynes college students were wide-eyed at the treachery of our government, the militaristic methodology, the complete lack of objectivity of the MSM and the way politicians and peerage can be ‘bought’ to advance their own selfish deeds or conspiracies.
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Some of us including myself have been intimidated by the ‘establishment’ or ‘crown’ or both for disclosure or a determination to propagate truth, injustice and beget shame on those who cause suffering, oppression and misery.
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“The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium [and that of others].”
Vronsky:
I can at any rate understand your criticism, and yes, certainly I shared (and share) your obvious irritation with the inactivity associated with the endless debate. My feeling is, though, that the more the iniquities are exposed, the more people will object, and the more they will insist on controls on the leadership rather than on themselves. This is, if you like, an interim solution. If an acceptable solution develops further, history suggests that it will be by evolution rather than revolution – no revolution I can think of having been more than partially successful in its aims, from the Peasants’ Revolt to the Bolsheviks, and none having been permanently effective. Greed usually triumphs in any event, and it is a waste of everyone’s time to pretend that this will go away in the bright (insert revolutionary colour) future.
Re non-organisation, I am only advocating the equivalent of guerilla tactics: proven to work against big armies, people of good will working in parallel rather than together, without direction and without power structures. Preferably without knowing each other too well. There is definitely a group will on the left (studiously ignored by Left politicians), and it spreads by osmosis, here and elsewhere.
That degree of organisation is as you say, not immediately recogniseable as such. Good. It’s a nebulous target. And it is no more nebulous than your own “let’s devolve and disperse government and stuff” position. Which you advocate, but, like me, are careful not to specify how it is to come about, and how you personally are doing it.
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So I think it’s pot and kettle time.
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Yes, I think Beckett was a mistake. Too clever by half. You will no doubt be appalled to know I am more of a Kipling fan. The Gods of the Copybook Headings, e.g…something in that to make everyone wince.
True Komodo, greed will not go away and a Venus Project resource based world will not happen any time soon. Maintaining equilibrium is key in my reasoning while evolution in consciousness accelerates enlightenment.
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Taking advantage of the ‘cracks’ or weaknesses that are appearing in society (enlightenment does mean wisdom, refinement and sophistication); intimidation is, after all, a weakness, can only move the process of awareness forward.
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Even today we learn that that the dreaded BRICS countries are putting together some more bricks to make them a stronger economic power – a joint development bank and united stock index to counter the World Bank. Opposing systems confuse greed, nuclear power complicates militarism. This to me is maintaining equilibrium and that is where my own energies are concentrated.
I hope Mary will forgive me for addressing this, too:
Mary’s point is apposite: just because you don’t expose your strategies here doesn’t mean you don’t have them. I understand. However the continuous multiplication of instances of the awfulness of our ruling clique is tiresome to the point of being insulting – how often must a visitor here be reminded that 2+2=4? We’ve all reached the stage where we can see that there is a dangerous failure in our politics. Maybe a few constructive ideas on what might be done could be useful, rather than posting yet more links to yet more authoritative references for your opinion. Unsupported asssertion scores badly in essays, but recall that your tutor was just as unforgiving of laboriously over-supported assertions of the obvious.
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What I think you fail to understand, Vronsky, is the nature of the conflict. It is one in which propaganda is deployed hourly, repetitively, monotonously, to promote the agendas of vested interests. They have the principle right. It is Goebbels’ truism; tell the big lie often and authoritatively enough and people will believe it. There MUST be audible, equally insistent contradiction of the lies, which change from day to day. Each must be jumped on and equally authoritatively contradicted. As we cannot claim vested authority by virtue of being public personae – and god forfend that we ever should, as that instantly invites corruption – we can only appeal to undeniable truths which They would rather remain suppressed. Hence the repetition, hence the citation. The fact that you got the message years ago does not imply that Joe Soap did. He may never get it, but at least he will get the opportunity.
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Disclaimer: The terms “we” and “They”, above, should not be overinterpreted. Shorthand.
Mark; thank you for demonstrating osmosis for me!
Your ‘osmosis’ Komodo, or my ‘assimilation’ through the power of intention?
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May I suggest the power of intention works in such a manner that is for the greatest good of all. Plant a seed and it will grow as a natural consequence of your planting and tending to it.
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Intentions created out of fear such as war (destroying life) will rebound yielding a bitter aftertaste at best. I propose fear and war work together. In a Cause-Effect model, generating fear causes war and war causes fear.
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The synchronicities that would appear naturally, such as the germination of a seed from that care (and love?), do not occur when spirit or life is destroyed, they are manifested from the conscious mind, again out of fear.
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Without rambling further I suggest fear is our greatest enemy. To bring back equilibrium and the *power* of intention, I believe we must fight fear and those who use the power of fear or nightmares to trash life.
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Quid pro quo?
There is no way you are going to Kabul without me…stop walking into situations that u cannot handle…bieng Craig Murray has to stop sometime…
Cuz..please..think…I worry..
so many oddities:
Independent on 29 March: Was Toulouse killer a police informant?
Last Friday, the day after Merah, 23, was shot while resisting arrest, Mr Squarcini told Le Monde that the killer had asked, during his 32-hour siege, to speak to a Toulouse-based officer in his agency, the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI). It was this agent – understood to be a young woman of North African origin – who had interrogated Merah when he returned from a two-month visit to Pakistan in November last year.
The DCRI chief told Le Monde newspaper that Merah shocked the agent by saying: “Actually, I was meaning [before the siege] to call to say I had some tip-offs for you. But, actually, I was going to bump you off.” In French, he used the word fumer, which means “to smoke” but in slang translates to “murder” or “waste”. He also used tu, the familiar word for “you”…
In an interview this week with the Toulouse paper La Dépêche du Midi, a former security chief, Yves Bonnet, said it was “striking” that Merah seemed to have a DCRI “handler”. “Having a handler, that is not an innocent thing,” he said. “I don’t know how far his relationship, or collaboration, with the service went but it is a question worth raising.”..
This week, an Italian paper, Il Foglio, citing “intelligence sources”, said Merah travelled to Israel in September 2010 using cover provided by the French external espionage service, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure(DGSE)…
Le Canard Enchaîné newspaper reported yesterday that Merah and his family were bugged by the DCRI from March to November last year…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-toulouse-killer-a-police-informant-7594921.html
on 22 march, daily mail had this! same woman perhaps?
Daily Mail: French Al Qaeda fanatic was on terror watch list, caught planting Taliban bombs and a suspect in first murder two weeks ago: So WHY was he ever allowed to roam free and kill seven?
The seige came as police in Paris said the convicted Jihadist may have been
in touch with a woman in Paris while he was carrying out his crimes.
The mystery woman is said to have been spotted talking to Merah from a train
at the Gare de l’Est on Monday – just before he carried out an attack on a
Jewish school.
Intrigued by the conversation – which was about the killing of three
soldiers – another passenger is said to have asked the mystery woman ‘Were
you talking to the Toulouse killer?’
Investigators are taking the lead ‘very seriously’, according to police
sources, because it fits in with Merah’s telephone records, which have since
been compiled by the police.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118872/Mohammed-Merah-dead-Toulouse-Al-Qaeda-fanatic-sick-video-executing-victims.html
Much derision of Cameron in the media today. It was Horsegate. Then Pasty Gate. Now playing around with a badminton racket and telling everyone to go and stock up with petrol.
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Even his friend Murdoch in the soaraway Sun….
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4226266/David-Cameron-branded-a-pie-plonker-and-a-fuel-fool-over-his-handling-of-Pasty-Tax-storm-and-the-theatened-fuel-tanker-drivers-strike.html
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In the last photo it looks as if he is training up to join the Chipping Norton Morris dancing troupe.
Troughers are away for their Easter break. Some late skiing in Verbier, some sunbathing in Corfu or perhaps a quick dash to the Caribbean?
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Easter 27 March 2012 16 April 2012 which is three weeks. Then another three weeks at Whitsun, followed by seven weeks in the Summer. Nice work if you can get it.
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http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/business-faq-page/recess-dates/
Following the travels to Russia and China of Kofi Annan, the UN stooge brought back from retirement, the powers-that-be are meeting up in Istanbul on April 1st to plan regime change. What will be their next move? Assad will not and should not go unless the Syrian people wish it.
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/syri-m29.shtml
The vindictivness of the Israel lobby in the US extends into the White House Correspondents’ Association. They are blanking Helen Thomas the veteran reporter who spoke out. Very petty.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/helen-thomas-white-house-correspondents-association_n_1381021.html?ref=email_share
Scameron the Morris dancer? Wahetever next, Matthew Gould the footballer?
Sadly, yes:
http://www.thejc.com/galleries/photojournalism/purim-british-ambassador-israel
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I wonder if the “less-than-500-days-until-X” party will become a traditional celebration? I’m thinking of throwing a “less-than-500-days-until-the-basic-tax threshold-is-raised” party, if so.
And I wonder why Gould fancies himself in the persona of an Israeli footballer? Isn’t he there to promote the UK?
So many unknowns.
Global March to Jerusalem tomorrow:
http://gm2j.com/main/how-will-the-march-take-place/
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You probably saw it here first. Surprise! The MSM don’t seem to have noticed it. There seems to have been quite a lot of pre-emptive propaganda on this one. One Republican editor implicates Hamas, Hezbullah, Iran, and…Obama…as the axis of evil coordinating the march. It is not known if Matthew Gould will be blessing the event with his presence, dressed as a haredi rabbi.
vronsky nearly stood in local election, I do it all the time, not that it makes any difference to the genetic masochismn that reigns large over the psyche of Britains little Englanders. If they can’t vote for the same shite’s, again and again, ehem and again, they think that they are mssing out on something, its inbred so it seems, one must not let any of those furrinners in god beware, mingling with ’em is totally out of order, innit.
fact is that the two party system in this country, I do not count these cureent shower of speed daters as a coalition, have perpetuated the rising casm between rich and poor. They are not in charge and they talk tough for vested interests.
To salivate and bray over their mistakes in a copy of good ol’ MSM practises does not get anyone anywhere.
Action speaks louder than words and this summer might get hot, but it will not change the bipartisan and ancient behaviour of the have’s, nor will the great unwashed wake up and get political all in a sudden.
yesterdays advice of ‘filling up jerry cans’, when half of the population don’t know what a jerry can is, was poignant. I hope that everyone did it and that there are now thousands of gallons of valuable petrol stored in garages, ready to be used by anyone who does not want to purchase petrol under the fullglare of a filling stations CCTV, what a bon….
If we cannot support young people in their desperation to save some of their future, when it happens, we are as bad as those we moan about. And when it happens, there will be no time to chat about it, mull over the finer details, fart about, as I call it, when it happens, these young generations have to be supported.
If this country goes to war, then theses war planners should be fully aware that they will face an internal front as much as an external one.
As for the European right, they are better organised than the EU and its constitutent members, they meet regularly and are active all over the continent and here.
Now take a good look at my spelling mistakes, berate me for it, make it an issue, please.
tea anyone?
Leave Gould alone Komodo! He is only doing his duty for the Israeli ‘state’ by increasing the Jewish population. That is what they are most scared of – of being outnumbered by the Palestinians.
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Q Is he pregnant too? http://www.thejc.com/files/imagecache/simchach_galleria/images/MilsteinMati-8962.JPG
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What a twerp.
Useless and rather embarrassing to see a Prime Minister doing this. Does he see himself as Blair playing tennis with Levy? He urgently needs new advisors. I think a few like Hilton have left the sinking ship.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0HQqD8u0LQ
Consider yourself berated, Nevermind. The spelling police are on your case.
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You think riots (which is what you seem to be advocating) will achieve anything tangible – other than a draconian clampdown on civil assembly, increased surveillance and the involvement of the military? Maybe you believe NATO will offer its assistance to the freedom movement?
Forgive me if I differ. What’s your economic plan? Who is going to fund it? Christ, if I want to start up a small business, I have to submit a business plan to the bank. Don’t the people have a right to a plan for what they will ultimately be paying for?
Ok, you might overthrow the government. What then? The aftermath will have to look democratic…which lets those same two parties back in, with their well-greased PR and their well-heeled backers.
Plan for the future you are so keen on invoking, please. And remember, if you burn London, you’re burning Londoners who didn’t ask for any of this. You’ll probably call it collateral damage…