Courtesy of Angus – remember the name Ian Shaw, folks, Bournemouth Borough Council’s housing manager. When council officers stole* a baby buggy and after the couple reported the theft to the council, said council wanted £50 for them to get it back. Said our Ian: “The health and safety of our residents is our number [...]
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What is it? Meanwhile: A ship is docked in the harbour. Over the side hangs a rope ladder with rungs a foot apart. The tide rises at a rate of 9 inches per hour. At the end of six hours, how much of the rope ladder will still remain above water, assuming that 9 feet [...]
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Dearieme: Me: I greatly fear that Dearieme has disappeared off the scene with the advent of the new site but one can only hope not.
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Here is a pdf with the names and the official organizations of people, until 2009, who are or were members of either the CFR, Trilateral Commission or Bilderberg Society. Here is a Scrb read, tracing the dominance of members of these groups in the corridors of power, from congress through to education. for example: There [...]
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Site working – check. Links holding up – check. People visiting – check. Comments working … ah … er … not completely. The nature of the comments so far has put me under the hammer, as to what’s approved and what’s not. There was a woman came in with a “nice pics’ comment. I checked [...]
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Will Ireland stymie the European Superstate or will it come down to the last ditch attempt by 27 Czech Senators: The senator who lodged the new complaint, Jiri Oberfalzer, told the BBC it centred on persisting concerns that Lisbon infringed upon Czech sovereignty. He and his colleagues want the court to decide whether the treaty [...]
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Women are not a special sacrosanct group in society, for goodness sake – they are one half of society and among them are the intelligent, stupid, long, short, fat and thin, strong and weak, just as with men. There are differences in temperament which are gender based – men tend to have a certain mindset [...]
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ACguitardotcom says, of David Russell: In the realm of classical guitar, there is a small handful of luminaries whose concerts and recordings have earned them international stature. Scottish-born guitarist David Russell is one of these rare performing artists who has garnered favor with audiences, guitar aficionados, music critics, and concert presenters around the world. Born [...]
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Alex Goodall heads his post on this “Speechless“. I am too. First we had the incident in Pittsburgh, reported by Harry Hook as “rare video footage“and now it’s turned out to be far from an aberration. Rare, Harry? Why the dressing in black and formed into ranks, like something from an apocalyptic movie? Why the [...]
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Where is the national executive? Where is Ian Parker-Joseph whom I count as a friend but who might not be too rapt at the tenor of this post.
Nevertheless, this is politics and no one is going to give us anything on a plate.
Where is LPUK?
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There were already more than enough warnings: 1. The American Academy of Dermatology says most bulbs used at salons emit UVA and small amounts of UVB rays. It is also believed that this is contributing to a variety of cancers. 2. According to Nicholas Lowe, author of Skin Secrets, using a tanning bed will not [...]
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Just the heading in Google news was enough for me: Hard-hitting stuff from Mr Brown – who seems genuinely to be enjoying it up there. He says the true test of a government is not the quality of its marketing but the quality of its judgment. Well, if it’s a matter of judgment, Gordo, you’re [...]
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This wordpress version of Nourishing Obscurity is, as you can see, in magazine format but apart from that, there’s little fanfare or bells and whistles. To the left is one of the original banners for the old site; it’s a bit sad that it has to become an archive but there is a point to [...]
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As my blog changed on September 29th, most comments on this Britblog Roundup are at the old site at this url. It seemed better to include a bit of text with each link in this week’s Britblog Roundup but of course, this lengthened the whole thing. Never mind – think of it as an afternoon’s [...]
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All photos are courtesy of The Herald Sun Online and The Age Online. Luke Ball neatly summarised the grief that washed over the St Kilda rooms after their loss of a desperately close 2009 AFL grand final to Geelong on Saturday. Tears were plentiful – not least from inconsolable captain Nick Riewoldt – as the [...]
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Detractors would call it contrived and yet Francophiles would call it designed. The Anglo-Saxon and Russian would say the Frenchwoman is not “naturally beautiful” with that dark-haired, chisel-jawed slight masculinity which they try to overcome by heavy emphasis on deportment, the tricks of the trade, grooming, dress and cosmetics. Some of those tricks can be [...]
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M1911 Angus reports on the ammunition shortages in the U.S.: The shortages are so bad that retail globocorp Wal-Mart has been forced to introduce rationing at the ammo counter in many of its stores. Depending on calibre, customers may be limited to purchases of just 50 rounds at a time. Apparently, classic .45 ACP pistol [...]
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Lots of fun in Israel: A former finance minister and Olmert associate, Avraham Hirshson, recently began a five-year prison sentence for embezzling funds. A former health minister, Shlomo Benizri, is serving a four-year term after being convicted of bribery, fraud and obstruction of justice in the spring. The former president of Israel, Moshe Katsav, is [...]
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Ikenobo Moribana [freer] arrangement People have long appreciated beautiful flowers and arranged them in vases. However, in Japan, the way of arranging flowers and plants has been carefully systematised and this is called ‘Kado’. In the Kamakura period (1192-1333), the Samurai (elite warrior class) wrested the power of government from the aristocrats and brought great [...]
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1. On January 31, 1958, Satellite 1958 Alpha was launched. What was it more commonly known as? Hint: E….. 2. To be fair, the Soviets had been first with the First intercontinental ballistic missile in 1957. What was it called? Hint: Letter and number or the Russian name S….. 3. On May 5, 1961, which [...]
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The weekend’s coming and that means it’s time to explain Reverse Osmosis to those who still don’t quite get it. Of course, this just draws on the excellent How Stuff Works article on the topic: On the left is a beaker filled with water, and a tube has been half-submerged in the water. As you [...]
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The Madalene [whose link leads to a photo of Madame Lash and therefore undercuts his position] points to this, from Bloomberg: Iran and Venezuela signed a memorandum of understanding to build a $1.5 billion oil refinery in Syria, the Regional Press Network reported in a story published on the Web site of Lebanon’s The Daily [...]
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The issue of race is consuming the U.S., if the media’s to be believed, which I don’t. It seems to me that Washington Rebel, through Irish Cicero, at Theo Spark’s [sounds like a racehorse pedigree], has it right when he quotes Booker T. Washington [how derivative we bloggers are]: “There is a class of colored [...]
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This post was first run at the old Nourishing Obscurity and had many comments which have not been brought over here. It starts off all right: In their most impressionable adolescent years, a third of high school students say they have experienced unwanted sex. The vulnerability of teenagers, especially girls, is highlighted by a survey [...]
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Click the red arrow [right] or the heading to go to the quiz …
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See which three songs drive me out of my tree …
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What strikes me most about the fake moon landing controversy is how unscholastic the debate is, just as with the Kennedy assassination. I don’t know about you but I want to see evidence [proof is impossible, of course] and what constitutes evidence ranges from events to testimony from someone we would consider reputable. What I’m [...]
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It’s flowing strongly, the Clearstream biz, churning up mud along the way: Les avocats de Dominique de Villepin ont jugé mercredi soir «scandaleux» les propos du président de la République au sujet des prévenus du procès Clearstream, propos qui selon eux violent les règles relatives à la présomption d’innocence. To put the issue in perspective, [...]
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