At least the kids are happy. This evening, most of Britain is watching The Debate so I thought it was time for some American politics. There’s almost nothing. Google News, which is virtually American news, had the volcano ash, The Debate and several other UK bits of news. Hey, Uncle Sam, what gives? Around the [...]
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Perhaps it’s a case of love it or hate it, like the banjo. The accordion depresses me in a good way because it brings back memories of evenings and nights. I associate it with passion, not anything cheesy and my two favourite non Anglo-Saxon nations – Russia and France – use it in the most [...]
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Obviously the acting’s a bit naff but there’s nothing naff about the premise. A 12 year old boy prepares for the government exam and he can’t wait to show his brilliance. The parents are not so sure. The day comes, he goes to do the exam, the parents wait at home, the result comes through [...]
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From Iceland Review: Second Flood From Volcano Vastly Different From First One Markarfljót river to the west of Eyjafjallajökull glacier flooded for the second time last night. The second flood was completely unlike the first one. The floodwater in the first flood was 3.5-t degrees Celsius and contained almost no ice. In the second flood [...]
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This is a tale of paedophilia and questionable organizations. As such, it is rich in potential litigation, particularly in the litigation capital of the world, the UK. So, no allegations or even innuendo will be made beyond what appears to be substantiated. ARK is mixed up in underprivileged and excluded children. It is involved [...]
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I’ve nothing much to add to what people have already said. No one likes to see someone go down like that and so publicly too. He was always a good friend to me until the recent inanity. Now that names have been matched to pseudonyms in the public sphere, I’d just say that I hope [...]
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Witterings from Witney puts it well: FactCheck with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 do a good job ‘fisking’ the manifestos of the Lib/Lab/Con and all three have been shown to have ‘twisted’ statistics – so they have, in effect, lied to the electorate. Quelle Surprise! Check out her findings on the Conservatives here, Labour here [...]
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At 21:30, it was £919 930 928 000. At 21.32, it was £919 931 579 000. Someone asked how long until £1 trillion debt? Can you nut it out at this rate?
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New design: The plain white T-shirts are dipped into a boron solution, then heated in an oven at more than 1000C, which changes the cotton fibres into carbon fibres. The carbon fibres react with the boron solution and produce boron carbide – the same material used to make bulletproof plates in armoured vests. The resulting [...]
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Demos: [It] was founded in 1993 by former Marxism Today editor Martin Jacques, and Geoff Mulgan, who became its first director. It was formed in response to what Mulgan, Jacques and others saw as a crisis in politics in Britain, with voter engagement in decline and political institutions unable in their view to adapt to [...]
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The Englishman: Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg go into tomorrow’s historic televised debate facing a wall of public antipathy amid a tightening race. A new Populus poll for The Times reveals deep disenchantment with the campaign so far and high levels of scepticism about manifesto pledges and the parties’ honesty. More voters are [...]
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Xxxl is an interesting character. When he’s not telling me to get &*%$#@* sideways, he’s delivering high-grade weapons material to this blog on what’s happening behind the scenes in the nefarious world of the &*%$#@*ards who are still running the show. Their days are numbered but not Xxxl’s who’ll pop up in some manifestation somewhere [...]
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MP3 of the Tin Drummer‘s 2006 Radio 5 Live interview with Chris Vallance as he spoke about Blogpower and the Blogosphere: Thetindrummer-unsungblogs-hostedbythethunderdragon There was a time when blog groups were the go but perhaps we’re past that stage now. Things do move on and in listening to that interview again, it was significant how many [...]
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Spam from September onwards: 19,441 spam comments already. The 831 spam are in a day and a half now.
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1. In 1985, the seventh-largest bank in the U.S.A., Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, came to the brink of collapse and a four word expression was popularized. What was that expression? 2. Who said, “If this is justice, then I’m a banana?” 3. Who commented, “Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?” 4. [...]
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Let me quote one of our two gallant spokesmen, Ian Parker-Joseph [the other being David Phipps]: As much as the political parties would like to take the EU off the agenda, we are giving the public the opportunity to put it firmly back in front of each and every candidate. We have now produced a [...]
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OK … so last evening I ran the haka with the English and the haka with the Welsh. In the interests of balance, I threw in a youtube of Tahitian girls dancing. Now, I thought, “People aren’t going to like that I’m always showing Russian, French or Tahitian girls. How about some English girls for [...]
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There was an Albion Alliance announcement [which you might already have seen elsewhere] but that’s going to have to wait until late evening now. In the light of a youtube posted at this site last evening and one coming up at 19:00, it’s probably the right time to tackle this question of the Yemeni child [...]
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Seems to me one has to be a bit reasonable on advertising on Twitter. We all like using Google, Wiki [yes, admit you do drop in to check on info] and though I’m not yet using Twitter, so many do. As with all services, they need paying for. How are they going to do that? [...]
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The BIS report, subject of the previous post, is a perfect example of the ignorance we’re fighting here, on the part of the population. To be ignorant is held to be indefensible in law and yet how can we not be ignorant of 99.9% of the world’s knowledge, especially its hidden knowledge? No black mark [...]
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Oh my goodness – read and discuss: “We have to decide if we want to have privately owned banks or not. If we do, then one way or another, we have to have a way of paying the cost of equity with a premium. Without the premium nobody will buy our shares.” “We think it [...]
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… after that previous post:
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In the current battle for civilization, the people I call “The Y Corner” [see below] have thought up a new gambit: Crash the Tea Party. In typical Alinsky fashion, they advocate: As Cassandra says: This provides a rare insight into the mindset of the Left and their ‘aim justifies the means’ mentality. Unfair, unethical? The [...]
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Leader 1 Lech Aleksander Kaczyński – activist in the pro-democratic anti-Communist movement, interned as an anti-socialist element, founded the conservative political party Law and Justice, he was nationalistic and preferred his people. His policy was: “purging various pathologies from our life, most prominently including crime, particularly criminal corruption – that entire, great rush to obtain [...]
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Jeff Taylor, at the Economic Voice, writes about the FSA: “Firms must meet their obligation to provide accurate and timely data. Without quality data we cannot properly detect and investigate market abuse, identify market wide risks or have a comprehensive understanding of the activities of each firm.” Now, unless I’m missing something here, by not [...]
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Great to see the MSM getting behind her. With less than 4000 nautical miles remaining of her 23,000-nautical mile attempt, you can follow her adventures here. She’s actually coming into waters soon which are some of the more treacherous in the world so it’s most certainly not home and hosed yet. Meanwhile, Abby’s round the [...]
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What a honey: The eternal Dearieme:
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