Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by James Higham
Another via Ian: A French farmer who can no longer perform his routine farming duties because of permanent pesticide injuries has had his day in court, literally, and the perpetrator of his injuries found guilty of chemical poisoning. The French court in Lyon ruled that Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller formula, which contains the active ingredient alachlor, [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by James Higham
… keep one eye on Prima Parachuta Christine Lagarde: Au FMI, on n’envisage pas la démission de Christine Lagarde Demission eh? This is the woman who heads the IMF following the DSK debacle aided by DSK’s lovers’ daughter. This is the person who heads the body sucking millions from this country, only to lend it [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by James Higham
The atrocity yesterday was appalling. The outcry is understandable and I’m part of that. I knew lads down in Woolwich years back, I lived nearby for years. This blog has gone apoplectic over things like the Muslim protests in the very town dead soldiers were being driven through in state or the woman at the [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2013 by James Higham
The gay thing no sooner finished than onto the next atrocity. These sporadic deeds are popping up as if on cue. Now since when does anyone decapitate someone in a London street and then hang about ready to be photographed for the media as a very obvious black man and the decapitated white man wears [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2013 by James Higham
AFL head honcho There’s a good analogy for what is happening in the UK, the US, in the contempt of those “above” for those “below”, in the very assumption that there are the “leaders” and the “led”. Football downunder is the same as Blatter football over here, same as any field of organized public activity [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2013 by James Higham
Posted on May 22nd, 2013 by James Higham
As Nigel Farage says in the clip above, regarding Heseltine, he was one of those 40 years ago who lied to the British public. The lie at that time was that we were only joining the EEC as a trade organization. As the other major European nations were going to be doing this, The UK [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2013 by James Higham
Wasn’t a twinkle in anyone’s eye for some years:
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Posted on May 21st, 2013 by James Higham
This is a day late but the substance of the post at Conservative Home stands: No political party should alter a bedrock institution without the following conditions applying – especially if it is the Conservative Party: – A sizeable campaign to change that institution should be in place: in other words, there should be real [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2013 by James Higham
UK governments ‘hold back Scotland’ Fine, then leave, Jimmy. That’s really rich, given West Lothian and the Barnett formula but let’s not dwell on such things now. If Scotland goes, then that’s that many less Lib Dem and Labour MPs in parliament, which gives a new Sanity party, maybe called UKP, a sporting chance to [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2013 by James Higham
Over at OoL: If you want an anti-smoking ban site, here’s one. My blogroll has dozens more. Also in the sidebar is the link to the anti-Smoking Ban site. The smoking ban is iniquitous, along with minimum price liquor and various other things. The sight of those poor sods having to go outside in all [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2013 by Amfortas
From Guestposter Amfortas on the smoking situation downunder, showing this PC phenomenon is not just over here: BAN on smoking could be the death knell for Tasmania’s agricultural shows, the chief of the Hobart Show says. Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania chief executive Scott Gadd says his staff will not police the new rule at [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2013 by James Higham
Over at OoL: It’s a bit soon perhaps, while Cameron is still in the process of wrecking the Conservative Party this evening, to look at the next year. If these figures can be believed: Survation Poll out now – General Elections 2015 Voting Intention: LAB 35% CON 24% UKIP 22% LDEM 11% Read on at [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2013 by James Higham
Note the red and green arrows: Cameron has been on a mission to destroy the Conservative Party since 2007. So he joins with Miliband tonight to push through this abomination, despite the wishes of a huge number of people, despite the wishes of his grassroots. On the other hand, Autonomous Mind asks and quite rightly, [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2013 by James Higham
One topic this site has kept largely away from, except in passing, is the Freemasons and their antecedents, the Templars [their claim]. However, this one needs comment. The moment I saw the headline about women freemasons, that had to be looked into. I mean, there was always the Eastern Star but women actually in Freemasonry [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2013 by James Higham
Over at OoL.
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Posted on May 17th, 2013 by James Higham
Autonomous Mind looks at the split of votes. There are three ways of course and the referendum killed off one of those choices. In two-party preferred AV, if UKIP were second, then they’d fight the incumbent and would have a show on redistributed preferences from other parties. The tendency of AV has always been [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2013 by James Higham
The three clips in this post from the What’s My Line series are fascinating for students of history specializing in the post war era.
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Posted on May 16th, 2013 by haiku
Slashdot: At least one government agency, the country’s financial regulator, has quietly started issuing legal notices to ISPs requesting them to block certain types of websites deemed illegal. There’s no oversight or appeals process, and already a false positive event has resulted in some 1,200 innocent websites being blocked from Australians viewing them.
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Posted on May 16th, 2013 by James Higham
Yuri one more time, referring to the States but it applies here as well: The result? The result you can see … the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2013 by James Higham
There was Bullfinch. You’ve also no doubt been following the Oxford Abuse coverup and these things are nowadays so common across the country that one can almost become blaise about it – there are too many things to worry about. Nevertheless, this 45 minutes out of your life does show the deeper picture of what [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2013 by James Higham
Via Ian Parker-Joseph: This April 26, 2013, photo shows a billboard in Greeley, Colo. in which images of Native Americans are used to make a gun rights argument. The two billboards are causing a stir with some residents who say the image is offensive and insensitive. (AP Photo/The Greeley Tribune, Jim Rydbom)
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Posted on May 15th, 2013 by James Higham
In the flow diagram below, purporting to explain bitcoin: … when you get to the end and Alice still hasn’t received her goods and Bob still hasn’t been paid, then it’s clear the post was a trash-bitcoin piece and one is no nearer understanding it. When the diagram started talking about “bitcoin miners”, it looked [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2013 by James Higham
Remembering that much of what appears in Scientific American is narrative, still this is presented for your consideration: In its zeal to identify bin Laden or his family, the CIA used a sham hepatitis B vaccination project to collect DNA in the neighborhood where he was hiding. The effort apparently failed, but the violation of [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2013 by Chuckles
You might recall James’s post on Syria, asking: “Is water the reason?” In sending that link, I was not referring to the ME setting but rather to a current global narrative. It is essential that water be perceived to be scarce, and shortages manufactured. Think back to last year this time, how much effort was [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2013 by James Higham
You probably saw it at ZeroHedge: We, and the TBAC, previously made clear there is a massive shortage of high-quality collateral – the stuff that forms the backbone of modern monetary practice- some $11 trillion to be exact , as the insolvent world encumbers every possible asset that is not nailed down with more and [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2013 by James Higham
How many times does it take? OK, let’s go back to the Tory Conference of 2009 and Roger Helmer MEP: The EU works on the principle of occupied ground, promising to return powers under the principle of subsidiarity but in effect, never returning them once subsumed. So it’s not as if it is not known. [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2013 by James Higham
BBC 5Live was on and the magnitude of the David and Goliath story was being played out. Hell, I’m not a Wigan supporter but to hear all those people virtually in tears, this was massive. Even City supporters were conceding that Wigan deserved it. And sorry but I’m going to draw the parallel of Geelong [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2013 by James Higham
Is water the reason? Some look at the upheaval in Syria through a religious lens. The Sunni and Shia factions, battling for supremacy in the Middle East, have locked horns in the heart of the Levant, where the Shia-affiliated Alawite sect has ruled a majority Sunni nation for decades. Some see it through a social [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2013 by James Higham
Ian’s dropped a few on us so let’s list them below: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-09/eu%E2%80%99s-out-control-intelligence-services-don%E2%80%99t-exist-officially “Brussels is one of the largest spy capitals in the world,” said Alain Winants, head of the Belgian State Security Service VSSE. He guesstimated that there’d be “several hundred” [spies] plying their trade at any one time, chasing after a broad array of [...]
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