With the tech issues 95% sorted, this post can convert into a first day report. We’re a bit washed out with today’s hassles but the system and site don’t look too bad now and meanwhile, the main thing, people becoming signatories, has been proceeding steadily. I flatly refuse to beat this up and if it [...]
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This post is timed for 11:03 a.m. on November 11th, 2009. The Albion Alliance is a non aligned pressure group of like minded patriots, coordinating with all other likeminded groups in the UK, thoroughly sick to death of what’s happened to our nation in the past decade and tired of having no voice to effect [...]
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In a sense, I was lucky enough to have two fathers, one after the other. My real father died from complications of war 35 years after the event. My second, my stepfather, lasted longer but he also had seen service on the Kokoda Trail and only brave men had that in their CV. There is [...]
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Instead of trotting out the Armistice Day story again, a story at the end of this link well worth reading by the way, I was sent a piece by one of the [more or less] regular readers at this site, The Underdoug and I asked if I could use it on my Remembrance Day post. [...]
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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Ludovico Einaudi: Barrington Pheloung
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James has asked me to put this post up to let you know that his Internet connection has been ripped out by his favourite workmen. From the feedback it sounds like his phone line and Internet will be unavailable until Friday although more will be known tomorrow. He has some posts scheduled to be published [...]
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Here’s the state of play: 1.The forum is now set up [took a lot of doing on the part of the host as there were many security issues] but I’ve just signed in and left a comment, so it’s working. 2. Both the forum and the website are still largely unconfigured and that is part [...]
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Over here, one blog which really must be read by any who wish to know about the misuse of money is Wat Tyler’s Burning our Money. On November 5th, he wrote: On a day when the Bank of England announced it was printing another £25bn to tide the government over the next couple of months, eminent monetary expert [...]
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No rape but a lot of drinking It’s with misgivings that this post on “schoolies” is even written. In Australia, the annual end of school binge is upon them when underage drinkers converge on resort hotspots for three weeks. This year, there’s an added factor – Facebook. A committee has organized a competition to see [...]
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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Who or what am I? I wear a mask and stop people getting home. You can ask me any question in comments, as long as it results in one of the answers: “yes”, “no” or “not applicable”.
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One small step: Let’s work together: Can’t touch this:
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[Second version tweaked] There’s been considerable discussion today and this has come out of it: Website 1. This will be launched, without fanfare, on November 11th, at 11 a.m., an appropriate point to start from. 2. We have reserved three domain names and I’m writing to some people tonight to see which is best to [...]
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One of the best aspects of Jessica’s narrative is the quality of the English. Call me prejudiced but I somehow didn’t expect her to be able to churn out such simple and “immediate” prose, making it come to life: I’ve just come back into the cabin after pulling the fishing line in for the day. [...]
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Have you noticed the increase in industrial action by unions recently? I have no stats but it seems that way. And here. Certainly, Paris has been hit by it and papers have been forced to publish lines and times, the old nightmare revisited on commuters: – RER A : 1 train sur 10 aux heures [...]
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Iceland is a wonderful place and Iceland Review is a never-ending source of the sweet and the quaint. Take today’s lead article, for example: Knitting has rarely been as hot among Icelanders as now, as co-authors of a knew knitwear recipe book Prjónaperlur – prjónad frá grasrótinni (“Knitwear Pearls – knitting from the grassroots”), Erla [...]
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Yeah, right: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well. Most thought regulation and reform of the capitalist system were [...]
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It’s time again for the quarterly survey of sartorial elegance – this time Casual Wear. You’re asked to comment on which three are “The Most Effective and Surprising Casual Outfits”. You might like to select three which take your fancy. 1. This man began with the hat and designed the rest around it. The trainers [...]
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Now we are free:
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Great stuff from Lord T and I’m glad he stepped in because it would have been tomorrow morning my post went up. Please read and if you haven’t already viewed, here ’tis: Some tough words from Ralph Peters regarding the attack at Ft Hood. If only he was a politician. This should bring many Americans [...]
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[First take, just to see how it looks] The trouble with names like conservative, independent, libertarian, freedom, free, liberal and so on is that they have connotations in most minds which would not be acceptable to various supporters of the general idea. Even the term British is fraught and as a Witanagemeot member, I wouldn’t [...]
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[absolutrockpool.co.za] We all have our own ways of coping with stress – Morse had classical music, Vinnie Jones caved in a few heads, Cherie visits gardens. There are three ways I cope – one is faith based and I shan’t dwell on that but it works a treat, the second is to keep the diet [...]
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Two squares to three please. Solution here.
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My main concern with cooking cabbage is the loss of Vitamin C and I was wondering how far cooking does break down this vitamin. The answer is – a lot. Here is a nutritionist’s take and here is the science. Below are a dietitian’s recommendations: Vitamin C is the most easily destroyed vitamin there is. [...]
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Today, in Britain, the 11th of November is being remembered three days too early and out of step with the rest of the allied world. No matter. This blog will run Remembrance on the correct day and there will be a reasonably lengthy article on it all, as usual. So if you’re looking for something [...]
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[Courtesy Alliance games] Barking Spider, via Fausty has written an excellent take on the situation in our land and let me quote some of it: David Cameron has been given an 18-month deadline by a powerful band of Eurosceptic Tory MPs to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with Brussels or face an “all-out war” for a referendum, [...]
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Shoes on the chaisse longue? Tut tut! Clicking on Mark Wadsworth‘s tag cloud, I came across Caroline Flint at this blog which thought it would try to maximize web traffic thus: Caroline Flint, whose constituency, Don Valley, lies somewhere between Scunthorpe and Barnsley West and Penistone, is the current holder of the title sexiest MP. [...]
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Remove any 9 matches to make no squares at all. Solution
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The Economic Voice whose promo vid is here, [with his daughter's voice], has offered this for this evening. Pity it’s embedding disabled. So, to this evening. Does anyone remember this series? If they’ve done a thousand reruns on TV, sorry – I don’t have a TV:
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