Not having a TV, I haven’t been able to watch Dr Who since Tom Baker, except once with an episode about statues you had to look at because if you took your eyes off or blinked, it would get you.  That was a pretty good one.

So it’s as an outsider that I read people’s comments.   There seems to be some suggestion that this is the end of Dr Who forever – at least that’s how it reads.  People are saying:

#  What is wrong is that it is too wrapped up in itself. Rather as if Star Trek was about Captain Kirk and his friends, rather than the situations they find themselves in.

I only await an episode where the Doctor turns round and says, “Don’t you know who I am?”.

The classic Doctor Who was about helping others, not about wondering how he feels about life.

#  I agree and I also remember the first episode and hiding behind the settee when the Daleks first appeared, but I also think that last night’s episode seemed better than perhaps it really was, (it was  OK).  By contrast with some of the utter rubbish that has preceded it, even the much anticipated Neil Gaiman episode somehow disappointed.

I sometimes get the distinct impression that most of the writers drafted in in would far rather be writing episodes of Abomination Street that science fiction.

Some of plots have as you say been inconsistent, confusing and seemed half hearted and I still remember for example Troughton adventure, The tomb of the cyber men, which was enthralling and frightening in a way that recent episodes simply are not, (at least not to me.)

Is it just me, or has Dr Who, become more than just a bit pretentious recently?

# I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with this current series, but it’s definjtely failed to keep me engaged and I suspect it’s because the plots leave too many gaps and every time the Dr gets in a tight situation some completely new made up thing is suddenly introduced which breaks any hope of logically following or trying to predict the outcome.

Poor plots, poor scriptwriting, over reliance on SFX, manic hammed up over acting and really bad SF are a few things that spring to mind.

Not having seen it for so long, there’s no way I can comment on that although judging by society in general today and the pathetic attempts in the arts, it’s not hard to believe if it’s so.

Sherlock Holmes went that way.   He had become so far removed from his roots, so much time had passed, Conan Doyle was so disengaged with his milieu that it became almost a write-by-numbers with his main character.   The best stories were those which took the plots seriously – were genuinely baffled or frightened or in urgency – come Watson, the game’s afoot.

When it loses that, it becomes wooden and when it enters that area where hacks from another age try to resurrect or sustain it, bereft of the talent and the values of those days, then parody raises its ugly head.   This may well be what has blighted James Bond of late.   Terence Young was one thing, Purvis and Wade are quite another.

I’d be interested to know people’s thoughts about Doctor Who of late.

Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May. Whit was the occasion for varied forms of celebration. In the north west of England, church and chapel parades called Whit Walks still take place at this time (sometimes on Whit Friday, the Friday after Whitsun).^[4] Typically, the parades include brass bands and choirs; girls attending are dressed in white. Traditionally, Whit Fairs (sometimes called Whitsun Ales^[5]) took place. Other customs such as morris dancing^[6] are associated with Whit, although in many cases they have been transferred to the Spring Bank Holiday.

Moved to late May – yes, anything to destroy the traditions of the society.  Anyone know where this is below or what is its significance?  Click pic:

Pentecost is based on the concept of the Holy Spirit and that is based on the idea of something capable of getting in and controlling or influencing a person.   The debatable point is whether such a thing is possible.

I’d submit that every time we give way to rage or sexuality or a craving for chocolate or alcohol – to the extent that we can’t assert control over it – then that is temporary or momentary possession and it’s enough to cause something to happen, after which the possession fades away and we are able to see the results of what we’ve done in the cold light of day.

I’d suggest that even something as innocuous as gorging on sweetmeats and then later, in the cold light of day, seeing how it has destroyed our good diet intentions – that’s a form of possession.  Possession is where it controls the thoughts and actions, not the reasoning or rational mind.  While it controls our actions, we cannot.

So far, this is not a religious but just a psychological concept.

Behold the face of evil, cried Poirot

The Christian line on this is that there is all manner of possession and in the struggle between good and evil, there are many portals to the evil.   Hercule Poirot warned Jacqueline De Bellefort, in Death on the Nile, not to do what she’d planned as that was the way for evil to come in and once having come in, there it would make its home.

I’ve often used the analogy of Anakin Skywalker giving way to [what for him was] righteous anger.  There is no anger quite like righteous anger.

Analogies abound – you’ve heard the adage that fire is a good servant but a bad master.   As long as we stay in control of ourselves, even to how much we drink and allow less self-control in the interests of bonhomie and a good evening – as long as we are in the driving seat, it’s OK.

The whole issue, of course, is how we can retain control and often the last one to admit it’s gone is the person from whom it’s passed.

And the more one allows oneself to be possessed and controlled, the less able one is to control it, to switch it on and off, even should one wish to.

The Holy Spirit is no more nor less than possession – it’s possession by what we’d generally call constructive and healthy impulses.  It is conscience – cf the sociopathy all about today, from mothers killing their children to road rage.  It’s about universal concepts of right and wrong – immutable concepts, no matter how many grey edges there are.

The obvious non-religious response to that is that it’s better not to be possessed at all – that we’re capable of resisting everything by ourselves, that there are no forces or currents stronger than we are.   The Christian text says no man has that ability, that level of power to resist threats on that scale.   The only way you can is to have a force in there like anti-virus or firewall on a computer.

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Beauty lost to evil

Speaking sociologically rather than  religiously, if you can eliminate anything embodying immutable concepts of right and wrong in order to create a grey, gooey mass of relativity in people’s heads, then there is the fertile material for control by external forces.   In sociological terms, this means the State.   In religious terms, it means Ephesians 6:12.

Therefore, any plan or agenda for world domination must eliminate “superstition” for in that “superstition” lies power – allegiance and loyalty to another power other than the State.  That, in political terms, is subversive.  It hinders totalitarianism, oppression.   If the State cannot control the individual, body and soul because the individual’s prime loyalty is 1. to a non-earthly power and 2. to his own family, then logically, you must destroy both.

So you create a movement to achieve that.   And all such movements begin with faux thinktanks on foundations built on sand, which use feelgood concepts to suck people in, their books are then seized upon and used by dogooders and the damage is underway.

Pentecost, therefore, is one of the most anathema days to the forces of wrong, of control, of oppression because it does not leave a person in a state of nothing, of no thoughts, of no protection, of a blank slate waiting to be written upon by arcane forces but it creates a protective barrier against the forces of wrong and if enough people are subject to that “superstition of good”, then the State has  a hell of a job on its hands convincing people, as it has with so many in this land, that evil is in fact good.

In other words, people do not go along with the nanny state and in fact they demand that the State be small and keep to itself and to its few legitimate tasks, including no tasks whatever in the field of social engineering.  They have their own loyalties to provide that.

Pentecost again is about possession by good.  And if you’re possessed by good, then it’s difficult for bad to keep a grip on you for very long.   A person possessed by good can’t be touched and the State knows it.   How many people in the western world – add them up – how many through the ages would be what you’d call not-very-religious – hell of a lot, yes? – and yet they adhere, on principle, to things they know to be right and refuse to countenance those which are wrong?   And where were those ideas of right and wrong written in perpetuity, to be still relevant in any age?

For the forces which are controlling our society today, Pentecost must seem an utter abomination – phrases such as “swivel-eyed loons” would most likely escape the lips of the Statists.

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For those who’d like to know about Pentecost in the church calendar.

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

It’s one thing Hollande riding roughshod over a nation and its adherence to its traditions, which by the demonstrations up and down the country shows the nation split down the middle with more against than for.

Mariage gay: Hollande promulgue sans attendre

It’s one thing arguing over the nomenclature of “marriage’ with traditionalists pointing to all bar the last few insane years of recorded history in every country, with short intervals of legend such as Sodom and Gomorrah.

It’s one thing taking the bedrock of society and globalists imposing a small minority’s unwanted, unsustainable concept of “marriage” to legitimize what is, after all, an aberration from the norm and to try to institutionalize it as something equal and opposite.  And this elite does not even care about gay rights but only about splitting society, the better to control it as the State.

But it’s quite another thing to bring children in to make the aberration survive and perpetuate itself.   It is twisted to use the heterosexual ability to have children to pretend a gay couple has had them – that is a crime against nature.

The left is all about “no child left behind” and equal opportunities for every child.   This proposal of Hollande’s he has just signed in includes gay adoption, a far more evil concept than gay “marriage” in itself.   Nothing else could be more destructive to a society than it’s adherence to a concept which is going to destroy that society.

It’s been said far and wide:

Experimenting on children by permitting adoption by same sex couples poses serious problems. Children have a right to and a need for parenting by both a father and a mother. This need should be recognized by the state and by professional groups as far more important than an adult’s supposed right to adopt.

Yes, this is all about aberrant adults asserting some “right” to assuage their own guilt and in so doing, destroying a child in the process:

The most important issue is the welfare of the child. Social science research has repeatedly demonstrated the vital importance of both a father and a mother for the healthy development of children and the serious risks that they face if they are raised without a mother or a father. Mothers and fathers bring unique gifts that are essential to the health of a child.

The issue now is how to stop this evil.  Repeated demonstrations across France, a nation based on reverence for Woman as no other nation has been, have availed nothing.  By definition, those are the seeds of doom for that nation.   The most astounding thing is that such destruction is even being debated.

This is but one of many issues

This issue is just the latest in a worldwide battle between good and evil.

The proper model of society is that there is the creative and good, e.g. a plant growing from its roots, it develops a stem, buds and finally blooms – the season of spring encapsulates this new growth and every part of the ecochain, including the sun, the rain, the wind and bee, plays its part.

Then there is blight.  Blight is not some equal and opposite thing to growth, needed for health.  Blight is blight.  It is not equal and opposite or at the least, it must never become so.  It is decay.

The analogy of the plant holds up.  You might argue that the blight is necessary to regulate unfettered growth, in the same way culling regulates unfettered populations but the answer is that in a balanced ecosystem, these things will self-regulate anyway via natural selection.  It doesn’t need the introduction of some alien element over which there is little chance of control and which always threatens to spread out of control and consume the whole system.

Normal is normal – it is about growth, about regeneration, redemption, renewal, healthiness – even the concept of blooming or blossoming is heavily loaded.

Blight is death – jaundiced, sick, providing nothing for health.   And it is preserved in the concept of dualism, one of the simplest and therefore most corrosive concept ever devised – the notion that good and evil, black and white, yin and yang are equals and opposites – that the virus is equal to the organism itself.

Every bad little satanist knows he is to commit a good act, e.g. philanthropy and “balance” it with an act of evil.   It is a lie, it is a false concept.  More than that, it raises evil to a status it in no way deserves – it’s a concept way above its station.

Most organisms have their own systems of immunity from these things.  Western society has had the natural constraints carefully removed and kept removed whilst the blight gets in and wreaks its damage.

Eydie Gormé

Helen Shapiro

Kathy Kirby

Judith Durham

This one’s not too bad:

The above diagram shows IT professionals on the left and normal people on the right.
Bear with me and I shall explain-

Before taking my computer to the shop for its ‘tune up’ I decided to set up the old machine with a WiFi connection to my router.

Oh bugger!
“Information technology”? Has to be an oxymoron; the technology is fine but the information that comes with it is absurd, silly, er….. well shite would be the best way to describe it.

Managed to get the WiFi connected and working on the other machine but…..oh dear me. The set up instructions in the guide didn’t match the boxes that came up on screen and the terminology used did not match the terminology on the back of my router
Why do people whose job title include the word Information appear to be incapable of providing essential information to customers i.e. normal people?

Anyway the new connection works, sort of; but is unbelievably slow and at times the little icon was displaying a message of no signal. Why not? The WiFi router is upstairs and the old computer is downstairs so why no signal?
I was trying to send an email but the ‘compose’ box just wouldn’t load. Weak signal it said; why?
Plus I don’t like the new improved look of BT Yahoo mail and there is no way to change it to the old style – again, why?
It must be mandatory for computer nerds and geeks to comply with Hutber’s Law which states that “improvement means deterioration”

IT professionals?
Ignorant Tosspots more like it

Back to the computer shop tomorrow morning for an inqisition and then maybe, just maybe I can get this one in for its tune-up.
“Patience plus indifference to repeated failures is essential to obtain final success”-Dr Paul Brunton

Perhaps the nicest tune of them:

Or maybe this:

They’re then foreigners along with the Romanians, Poles, Nigerians, Asians etc.

Take a Scot who’s been here all his life, he’s paid into the national coffers, he even speaks close to passable English and he sees himself as British.   What does he think of all this?

And when those north of the border in their wild animal luxury discover the EU is bankrupt and no more dole money will be forthcoming, what will they do?   March south?

And what of Kernow and Wales?   Will giant walls be built along the Tamar and through Monmouthshire?

Also, will a new wall be built from just south of Gretna to north of Berwick?

And while we’re there, will a wall instead be built around Northumbria?

Naturally, the Scots will have to cede Edinburgh and it becomes the Northumbrian Tattoo, Lothian is within the kingdom and all’s well with the world.

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 to bring it back to a two party fight but it does mean they tend to listen more to minor parties, even if those minor parties don’t have MPs in the end.  It also leads to coalitions.

FPTP virtually guarantees minority governments who do not speak, by definition, for the majority.   Like AV, it leads to coalitions and if the coalition is basically similar thinking, e.g. the Liberals and National Party downunder, then it is fine.  When it is two opposed parties, e.g. in the UK, then the result is instability.   With FPTP, UKIP have almost no hope of an MP.   This is the system which virtually guarantees Labour victory if the conservative vote is split.

With proportional, UKIP would be almost guaranteed MPs.   So in a hypothetical 20 seat house, for example, Labour might have 7 seats, Tories 5, UKIP 4 and four others, two socialist and two regional.   On most legislation, Labour would be outgunned and the split in the conservative vote doesn’t matter so much.

People say it leads to instability and kowtowing to minorities whose power is therefore out of all proportion to its numbers.  Yes but in the vote, they still only have those numbers.   Also, it is a national distribution, not a local member one can visit but how many times have you visited your local member this parliament?

The fairest system is Proportional, followed by AV and coming a long way last is FPTP.

Two weeks ago, when we reported on the news of yet another aerial assault by Israel on Syria, we said that “while speculation a US-led escalation is ripe, the lack of any US naval support (as shown by Stratfor’s naval update map from May 2) off the coast of Syria likely makes any immediate war is hardly likely, or that Israel will be on its own for at least the foreseeable future.”

Then

From the Navy’s website:

The multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), along with embarked Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (26th MEU) arrived in Eilat, Israel for a regularly scheduled port visit, May 14.

While in port, the officers, Sailors and Marines will meet with local officials, participate in community engagement projects and experience the rich history and culture of the region.

This visit is not associated with, nor a reaction to, any world events.

Kearsarge is the flagship of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), which includes the dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) and the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17). Along with the embarked Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (26th MEU), the Kearsarge ARG is deployed in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR).

Now

Russian Pacific Fleet Warships Enter Mediterranean For First Time In Decades, To Park In Cyprus. “The task force has successfully passed through the Suez Channel and entered the Mediterranean. It is the first time in decades that Pacific Fleet warships enter this region,” Capt. First Rank Roman Martov said.

The group, including the destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the amphibious warfare ships Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoi, the tanker Pechenga and the salvage/rescue tug Fotiy Krylov left the port of Vladivostok on March 19 to join Russia’s Mediterranean task force.

[H/T ZeroHedge, Ian Parker-Joseph]

El Reg and how Google accesses the PM better than ministers

Scientists refusing to debate climate science

Clinton, the inveterate liar – further evidence

Was the World Press photo winner photoshopped?

UK recording industry targets sites it wants closed without trial

The battle over salt

Try this if you have the time

Science which will not receive funding

[H/T as usual Chuckles and haiku]

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.

With the best will in the world, many of the assumptions and comments, let alone the audience’s wolf-whistles, are cringeworthy. One of the panel, Bennett Cerf, is excruciating the way he tries to compliment the ladies and the shock at finding out that a particular lady does what in those days would be seen as a “man’s job” can’t be denied.

However, other things also can’t be denied. There has been this assertion by the left and feminism in particular, that this was a terrible time for women. Judging by these shows and all the reactions, judging by my parents and their generation, their friends for example, the type of thing Linda Ronstadt, for example, tries to make out is just rubbish.

She maintained that in her early days she was resented and blocked by her male colleagues, not for being difficult and steeped in victimhood, which has also been said, but for being female. In the light of just how many performers were female, the claim is ludicrous.

If one took the struggles of, say, the Ronettes and the Crystals, much of that was certainly racial but a more important factor was the way the record companies ruled and exploited everyone, just as the movie studios had before that.

It would be disingenuous to say numbers were equal or that it was easy but various jobs were not blocked for women – it was just that they tended not to do them. This show did look for the unusual – male lingerie salesmen etc. – but these people weren’t special appointees for the show – they’d gone out and got those jobs.

Another point was that few took umbrage. At one point, the most radical female panellist asked why the host had not asked the lady if she was married or single. You could jump on that and say aha – she resents this difficulty with Mrs./Miss but in the context of the questioning at that time on that show, it was to let the panellist zero in further on who the guest was.

There was much banter about beauty and it cut both ways, none of the guests interpreted it as either misogynist or otherwise untoward, quite the opposite and many of the males on the show were not unreconstructed neanderthals – the women found them most attractive too.

And yet feminists tell us that this was not so, that women were desperately unhappy under the male yolk. They cast males as unappreciative beasts and yet one commenter wrote below one of the youtubes:

Arlene: Man she was something else, I bet her kids could never put one over on her. She would figure out what they were doing in a snap of a finger.

That was the tenor of so many comments although many others did refer to style:

That was such a great time for fashion…little black dresses à la Audrey Hepburn and sexy beehive hairdos…I miss those days.

The tenor of comments, male and female, on the youtubes was overwhelming positive, admiring the style and the grace but into that came one alien comment: “Oh, the misogynist 50s.” That said more about the commenter than it did about the 50s.

Rap was big:

… and was mixed in with dance:

1991 – the Gulf War would mark the beginning of a since-constant American military presence in the Middle East. The clash between Serbia and the other Yugoslav republics would lead into the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars.  Birmingham Six.

Certain songs stood out in 1991:

1992 – the Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union, the Clinton era begins, Black Wednesday: the pound sterling and the Italian lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, women start to occupy more positions of power.

White rap was the rage:

1993 – Bosnian War, Branch Davidian, the infamous North American Free Trade Agreement.

1994 – end of apartheid, Andrés Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Medellín, Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, invasion of Haiti, first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel,  Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One World Championship in controversial circumstances, Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya, Whitewater scandal investigation.

Boy band mania was in full swing:

1995- world control begins in earnest – World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Barings Bank, collapses, Clinton invokes emergency powers, Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on five subway trains in Tokyo, killing 13 and injuring 5,510, not to mention earthquakes on order, Goldeneye marks the return of James Bond, Oklahoma City bombing – Them working hard, Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries [yawn] – women become a global PC commodity, lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of −27.2 °C.

One off songs cropped up:

… and new singers arose:

1996 – Garry Kasparov beats “Deep Blue“, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, the government of New Zealand agrees to pay $130 million dollars worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864 – the ridiculous “sorry” movement is born, O. J. Simpson civil trial begins in Santa Monica, California.

Foreign songs cropped up in 1996:

… and film music became darker:

1997 – day of infamy as people took leave of their senses – the Labour Party of the United Kingdom return to power for the first time in 18 years, with Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister , the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Russian crash.

By 1997, mega statement concerts were the rage, last hurrah for Britain at Eurovision:

Generally, music had been a lurid, lycra-wearing thing with nothing special to recommend it:

1998 -down year in general for the world.  Women were losing all femininity and substituting indecency.   Music was just basically dross and bland talentlessness which the new citizen would somehow rave about in ignorance of what real music was:

1999 – the euro is established, China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes, Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate, first Welsh Assembly in over 600 years, Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II, first woman on the summit of Everest, Millennium concerns dominate an otherwise bland time for the world.

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I was in Russia at this stage and western decadence was actually pouring in – white goods were the new commodity to have, credit began soon after the economy got back on track, western money poured into Moscow via Club of Paris, IMF etc., Putin was about to become president.  On television, it was never the great western shows which came in but old re-runs and shows with short runs back home.

A brave new world awaited.

First published in the DT and then trailed on Guido, this classic PC rhetoric from Radstocks Labour council leader is as good as it gets, they will however be flying the gay lesbian alliance rainbow flag alongside the Union one which I’m sure will go down well with the muslim community especially as not one of the sixteen muslim inhabitants has raised an objection to the St George’s flag in the first place.

Bored Panda

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.

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 them. You can’t get through to them. They are contaminated.

They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.

In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor of and in the interests of United States society.

[The aim is] to “change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that – despite the abundance of information – no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

And:

This multi-stage process requires media complicity/mediocrity, control of educational policy, widespread corruption in politics and industry, and the unlimited money/credit of the international bankers.

I would add that when it’s not that money, then it is the largesse of the taxpayers who have very little knowledge of where a substantial portion of their money is actually going.

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 is going on at the official level in our society, especially at council level.

And here were some comments following that:

• kevinto1972 10 hours ago I have to take issue with the racial discrimination part. You say Oxford was happy to prosecute Asian sex offenders, yet as your report acknowledges, Oxford took 9 years to charge anyone from when girls came forward. This has been the case in Rochdale, Rotherham and elsewhere. The authorities have clearly been terrified of prosecuting Asian men for raping white girls in case of a racism backlash. Obviously the college business is shocking too and the whistleblower as brave as you say.
• ukcolumn 9 hours ago Yes, but once the fact of the systematic failings there became apparent, they only focussed on the Asian ring. Our point is that we believe they have singled out that ring to relieve the pressure on others operating in the area, by playing the race card. As we said in the programme, we could be wrong about that, but that’s how it seems to us.
• kevinto1972 10 hours ago This might seem like a trivial comment but I don’t think it is. Almost without fail, when you see the person in charge of a public sector disaster interviewed on TV, the spokesperson is a severe middle aged woman like this. Joyce Thacker for example for Rotherham social services. I assume these people are all Common Purpose graduates and doing their bit behind the scenes for the glorious EUSSR, so maybe there’s a reason they recruit a particular sex, age group & mentality?
• ukcolumn 9 hours ago I don’t think its a trivial comment at all. Pretty close to the mark, in fact.

Well done to UK Column and people like The Slog, Witterings, Autonomous Mind and so on for uncovering such things and let’s throw in the nursing home abuses, the failure of anyone to resign or be incarcerated and you have a corruption which, to be fair, always existed but has been systematized and exacerbated in the past few years due to the insidious influence of two bodies – the EU and Common Purpose.

Add to that the sycophantic way our government implements EU suggestions at the drop of a hat to show their compliance.   And we can sheet that home, in part, to Nick Clegg at this time who is the main stumbling block over Europe, with Osborne and Clarke.  Such a small party, the Lib Dems and yet in government and wreaking havoc.

As for Common Purpose, it’s becoming – and not fancifully now – like the Pod People in that movie.  You just don’t know who they are until you start dealing with them and find corruption allegations mysteriously shelved, things not followed through and pressure on the whistleblower mysteriously begins – see Sheffield Council [posts passim] for details.

If you think this is being obsessive about Common Purpose, please check this article:

http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/does-being-a-common-purpose-graduate-mean-never-resigning-for-incompetence/

One thing immediately noticeable in AM’s post is “the lavishly renumerated Chief Executive of Oxfordshire County Council”.  Why are these people on the types of salaries bordering on the obscene when compared to the average functionary in the council.   I’ve run organizations and departments in my time and would claim my salary should have been higher.   So, if the average staff member of a few years standing was on, say, £10 000, then I could be expected to be on about £30 000 tops.

Certainly not £300 000 – who has been driving up exec salaries in public bodies to that level?   Answer that and you’ve found the people who need to be dismissed.

Now, have a look at this diagram from the clip:

A few things to note.   Firstly, how incompetent and bland Joanna Simmons is in the clip – there’s a pattern up and down the UK of this kind of woman – for it is this kind of woman who is being appointed these days – plus the word CEO for a school.

CEO – think about that for a moment.   Head teacher?  Principal?  Rector?  Vice-Chancellor?

It is not fanciful to draw attention to that as it shows the way the public sector, infiltrated first by CP and its pretend private sector models and private sector speak have spread across the land.  Cressida Dick springs to mind.  And of course – look at the Chief Constable here.   What’s the bet there’s all this KPI stuff and rolling out this and that goes on in their meetings?

Incompetents deliberately appointed to key roles for their incompetence and compliance in taking direction, no matter how illogical, non-integrated and even shady such direction is.  Plus steeped in the nu-lexicon and anyone dealing with them, even to the oldest pensioner, has to get with it and develop the nu-speak or perish.

This is the side we don’t see until it hits the blogosphere.  We see South-West RDA, we see EU regionalism, we see iDave’s Big Society and his EU localism under CP flunky direction, resulting in the blight of PCism from wheelie bin crime to more serious matters like care homes and always, there is this rhetoric which goes with it – you see it in their glossy literature costing the council tax payers big, there are big posters in their offices declaring their commitment to this or that but when investigated – they fall short as is seen in the vid.

We can throw out the bums in Westminster – difficult but it can be done.  We can’t throw out these people, deeply entrenched in local government and far more difficult to dislodge and who would come in to replace them?   A production line of CP graduates?

Further reading:

http://raedwald.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/oxford-products-of-first-cousin.html

Can’t resist it:

A tad warm out there

March 8, 2013: Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind that has caught the attention of fusion researchers. NASA will be able to test the theory later this decade when it sends a new probe into the sun for a closer look.

The discovery was made by a group of astronomers trying to solve a decades-old mystery: What heats and accelerates the solar wind?

The solar wind is a hot and fast flow of magnetized gas that streams away from the sun’s upper atmosphere. It is made of hydrogen and helium ions with a sprinkling of heavier elements. Researchers liken it to the steam from a pot of water boiling on a stove; the sun is literally boiling itself away.

“But,” says Adam Szabo of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, “solar wind does something that steam in your kitchen never does. As steam rises from a pot, it slows and cools. As solar wind leaves the sun, it accelerates, tripling in speed as it passes through the corona. Furthermore, something inside the solar wind continues to add heat even as it blows into the cold of space.”

Finding that “something” has been a goal of researchers for decades. In the 1970s and 80s, observations by two German/US Helios spacecraft set the stage for early theories, which usually included some mixture of plasma instabilities, magnetohydrodynamic waves, and turbulent heating. Narrowing down the possibilities was a challenge. The answer, it turns out, has been hiding in a dataset from one of NASA’s oldest active spacecraft, a solar probe named Wind.

Read more at source.

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)

… 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 like it was talking about crims hacking your money, i.e. a scare piece.

I tried to find other places which would explain it.  Wiki was useless on it but Max Keiser had a something on it but he was too far the other way – a devotee.  Along eh way, I picked up that whoever devised it plans to half the amount of coins every so often until 2040.  Therefore it is a hoarding thing, like a commodity such as gold.  One doesn’t plan to use it for transactions per se but merely to shore up value, i.e. to store value in your name.

The good part is that it bypasses governments and banks, although the latter are trying to create bitcoin rivals at present.  Government is more problematic.  They demand taxation is paid on services rendered.  So if you were to buy somethng from me for a certain number of bitcoins, then that comes under HMRC and is taxable.

Bitcoin, of course, say there never is a transaction.

I’m still just as confused as when I started.   Not much clearer after this either.   What are they backed by and what of the banks flooding the market with rivals?   What of the miners stealing your dosh?