There is no accident in this: Report recommends unlimited tuition fees Below is the stated agenda, from May 1st, 1776 onwards and no world social movement since then has deviated from these principles: Abolition of all ordered governments, private property, inheritance, patriotism, the family, religion and the creation of a world government Nos 2, 3, [...]
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From Zinn, Howard (1980). A People’s History of the United States. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-014803-9: “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in [...]
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Via Witterings via Iain Dale, quoting the Marr person: “Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all. A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting. They are very angry people. OK – the country [...]
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JD and the dilemma of dance: I came across this in the Telegraph blogs, Stephen Hough asks is this dancing or gymnastics or circus. See what you think. I thought the effortless artistry and athleticism was impressive whatever label you wish to put on it. So I decided to ask the expert, my friend TheDancingGirl. [...]
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Mark Wadworth‘s next instalment on the LVT goes to Kashmir: A common response to the proposal to scrap taxes on incomes or production and to tax land values instead are the cries of “It’s my land! An Englishman’s home is his castle! What right does The State have to come along and make me pay [...]
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Damn! I wish the Independent hadn’t run the lunar hoax again. Having looked through their arguments as to why it was real, the next move, obviously, was to check other sites and of course, you’re getting either totally sceptical of the landings or totally sceptical of the sceptics. Right, let’s get to it:
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The SS Normandie, owned by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and built by Penhoët, of Saint Nazaire, France, was a radical ship for the time in both design and decor but she proved less popular with passengers. The text is essentially taken from Wiki and interesting the tale is too:
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One that would have defeated Jelly [Roll Morton]: Clean face required [and a clean violin]:
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Pardon me for acting the outraged Mail reader but this business of the barrister dragged from court in handcuffs, taken to the cells and having his insulin removed for good measure, then finally, after six months, getting compensation and an apology – one commenter said that there was something here which didn’t meet the eye. [...]
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Here’s Rossa‘s adventure with her tomatoes – businesswomen have to relax somehow and I’d like to also hear how Jailhouse Lawyer‘s jam making did this year. I made some Tomato Jam on Friday. Not a chutney, but a spiced jam. It apparently tastes like strawberry jam and in some ways it does though I’ve never [...]
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This is a joint JD/JH post – the former producing the material via his Spanish friend and the latter formatting it:
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At my old blog, I attempted to debate the topic of women who cry rape but it was hopeless – the positions were too entrenched on both sides . One former female reader refused to accept, point blank, that a woman out on the town independently and drunk, had any responsibility for what happened to [...]
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Just a bit of nostalgia for me and some lively music for you to dance the night away. Close your eyes for the last video (PG) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvv5AWSB0s&feature=related
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Frankly, I’m struggling just now. As I ran the shop alone today, I couldn’t get out to get the keyboard – have to be Monday. Let me explain – that first sentence took three minutes because every second word lost the letters in the middle, which jumped into the middle of a word on another [...]
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Katherine Endacott [England] You probably won’t read of this in the English press and if this is the way England wins its medals, I want no part of it. Basically, there’s n English girl, Turner and an Australian, Pearson. Turner false starts by 0.001 seconds but is still allowed to run. Pearson wins gold and [...]
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Slept in, working today, new manager, have to run, no posts from me till this evening.
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English rose What a day! Firstly, I found a keyboard [still on the old words-all-over-the-place one this evening] but it’s only £39 and looks great – it’s for Mac. I’ll get it tomorrow. At the shop today, those girls came back from last week – the Lithuanian ones – and I thought she [the particular [...]
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You have finished eating one of Rossa’s splendid feasts and as you relax in mellow contentment, you reach for the coffee pot and a glass of…………. Well, a glass of your usual or perhaps you would like a change. In Torremolinos, of all places, after an enjoyable meal we ordered coffee and brandy. But the [...]
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Feel like losing some weight? There’s a simple way to do it, according to Geoff Jones: 1. Nip down to Dubai on an aeroplane; 2. Visit sauna. What could be easier than that?
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Mark Wadsworth expresses the same principle in terms of Car Ownership: Just as a thought experiment, let’s imagine that instead of having a political economy based on Home-Owner-Ism, we had one based on Car-Owner-Ism. Under current rules, in a non Car-Owner-Ist economy, when you buy a car, you pay the manufacturer the agreed price to [...]
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Doug Casey, of Financial Sense, puts a reasoned scenario of the coming fun. Thanks, Sackerson, of Bearwatch and Broad Oak Financial Services. Here is the opening section- please click on the first link for the rest of the article: No Way Out Submitted by Doug Casey on Wed, 6 Oct 2010 I really dislike sounding [...]
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Something to cheer us all up – she’s deaf, this lady: A bit of silliness:
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JD continues his thesis that a cheap camera is as good as any: The picture to the right is of my key ring camera. The key ring itself is more robust than the flimsy plastic box on the other end of the chain. When I saw it in the shop I thought it was just [...]
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There is no “told you so” in this and I’m but one of a number of pundits whom regular readers know have predicted, since the general election, that the crash would come after the end of September and that it would be a “subtle” crash – the one no one would really know had happened.
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Well, the computer ijumps half back and doing things again but the downside is the text jumping all over the place. I’ll be tysuddenping and ly the text will into the ceding paragrappre handfrustratingery so it goes on. It’s taking triple the time to write a post and that is very, v Wh problem before? [...]
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One might consider the following from Michael Hudson, ex-Chase: People have difficulty realizing that the new economic conflict in our society is between creditors and debtors. There’s still a tendency of many leftwingers to think in terms of the class war and the war is between employers and employees. But the real economic war, where [...]
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There are going to be people who will say: “Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person,” so this is the sorry tale of how yours truly was almost shafted today but just escaped in the nick of time.
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Angus Dei has the solution: Forget the sixty metre “Wind Farm” appendages, for which you need a pilot’s license to build, and only work if there is a breeze, forget importing gas to produce electricity forget all this “new fangled” technology; I have the answer.
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JD continues his series of musical vignettes: One of my favourite singers and probably one of yours too, Plácido Domingo is over 70 but shows no sign of slowing down. His recent performance on TV as Rigoletto was proof of that, and switching to baritone instead of tenor will probably extend his career. A couple [...]
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Lest you think this is going to be “another anti-Muslim rant”, it’s not. For a start, there’s no “racism” in calling attention to the rise of certain things in society which are untoward and threaten to consume that society. Thus this blog calls attention to the global socialist drive, to third wave feminism, to the [...]
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