Good to see the Iranian people rising up.
Some commentators are calling for other countries to assist the Iranian people in their battle to regain control of their country. This is wrong, the Iranian people need to do this themselves. It is up to the people to determine their own future. A western-style puppet government would not be legitimate and would not gain the long-term support of the Iranian people.
Good luck to them.
This gets better all the time. I do enjoy watching this story unfold.
Delingpole brings us the good news.
Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.
Feast your eyes on this news release from Rionovosta, via the Ria Novosti agency, posted on Icecap. (Hat Tip: Richard North)
Russian Climate Center Accuses CRU of Cherry-Picking to Concoct Warming in Russia
A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as “Climategate,” continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.
The incident involved an e-mail server used by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, East England. Unknown persons stole and anonymously disseminated thousands of e-mails and other documents dealing with the global-warming issue made over the course of 13 years.
Controversy arose after various allegations were made including that climate scientists colluded to withhold scientific evidence and manipulated data to make the case for global warming appear stronger than it is.
Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.
The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.
The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.
The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations.
On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations.
IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.
The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world’s land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
Global-temperature data will have to be modified if similar climate-date procedures have been used from other national data because the calculations used by COP15 analysts, including financial calculations, are based on HadCRUT research.
What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.
As Richard North says: This is serial.
Did I just hear lefty heads exploding from over yonder sea?
You and your family return home and find yourself confronted by three men wearing balaclavas and brandishing knives. They tie up your wife and your children who are shaking with fear before telling you that you are all going to die. You sense an opportunity to fight back, to protect yourself and your loved ones – do you simply chase the intruders off and place your trust in the law to apprehend and punish those involved knowing that these people will likely get away with it and could possibly come back at any time, or do you go berserker on their arse because they threatened the lives of you and your family?
Homeowner Munir Hussain jailed for 30 months for fighting off burglars
A businessman who fought off knife-wielding thugs who were threatening to kill his family has been jailed for 30 months, while his attackers escaped a jail sentence.
The case, compared to that of Tony Martin, jailed after he shot dead a teenage burglar at his farmhouse in 2000, has prompted debate over the level of force that householders can legitimately use to defend themselves.
Munir Hussain and his wife and three children returned from their local mosque during Ramadan to find three intruders, wearing balaclavas, in their home.
The family members’ hands were tied behind their backs and they were forced to crawl from room to room. Hussain, chairman of the Asian Business Council, was told that he would be killed, but made his escape after throwing a coffee table and enlisted his brother Tokeer in chasing the offenders down the street in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, bringing one of them to the ground.
What followed was described in Reading Crown Court as self-defence that went too far, leaving intruder Walid Salem with a permanent brain injury after he was struck with a cricket bat so hard that it broke into three pieces. Neighbours saw several men beating Salem with weapons including a metal pole.
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So would I.
Despite fifty previous convictions and an upcoming trial for fraud; Walid Salem was still on the streets. What kind of justice system allows someone with such a degree of recent criminal history to retain his freedom, and puts another behind bars for protecting the lives of himself and his family from that very same criminal.
Justice has no meaning anymore.
Poor bastard.
"Please Help the World", film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
Desertification of council estates, polar-bear killing earthquakes, EF10 tornadoes and super tsunamis.
Because when the science turns out to be fraudulent, your only option left is to scare the shit out of kids.
Every pound of OUR money that this government gives away to third world countries is helping to sustain this ....
This is what Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats advocate. Using our money to fill up the world with mouths that the planet cannot sustain. The next liberal idiot who tells me that climate change is causing hunger and a lack of drinking water will get a .....hmmmm.
Glacier threat to Bolivia capital (BBC - naturally)
Fears are growing for the future of water supplies in one of Latin America's fastest-growing urban areas - Bolivia's sprawling city of La Paz and its neighbour El Alto.
Scientists monitoring the glaciers high in the Andes mountains - a key source of water - say the ice is showing signs of shrinking faster than previously forecast.
Faced with a booming population and a combination of glacial retreat and reduced rainfall, the governor of the La Paz region is even contemplating moving people to other parts of Bolivia.
Water is already in short supply among the poorest communities and has become a cause of tension.
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ARRRRRGGHHHH!!!!
Millions of people are going to die, but not because of climate change. They will die because liberal idiots are fixated with the religion of Global Warming instead of concentrating on the real issue. Let’s just say for a moment that CO2 is causing the planet to warm, what is the root cause of increasing CO2 emissions from humans?
Let me put that question another way....
If the population of the planet stabilised, what would be the effect on human CO2 emissions?
Awwwwhh,
Mandelson: I would have liked to have been EU foreign minister
" In other circumstances I would, of course, have liked to have done that job. ... It combines my
interests with Europe and foreign affairs. But the point is that I am a member of this government
and I am committed to its success and its re-election, and that is why I am remaining a member of it. "
And I’d like to see Mandelson with a noose around his neck, hanging from the nearest tree, his legs kicking furiously before his face turns a delightful shade of blue and the life drains from his traitorous body.
....but as I said, we don’t always get what we want.
We British are, by our nature, a generous folk. But there comes a time when you just have to say ....
FCUK OFF! YOU SCROUNGING FCUKING PARASITES!!!
According to a press release this morning by the Department for International Development ....
“ The UK is to provide £120 million over the next four years to help the Pakistan
government reduce poverty, improve education and provide better healthcare,
Secretary of State Douglas Alexander announced today. ”
According to Douglas Alexander, the International Development Secretary ....
“ The economic crisis has hit Pakistan hard, pushing 14 million more people
into poverty. Over the next four years, UK aid will make a real difference in
this country, giving a chance to those born into abject poverty and ensuring
that children can get the education and nutrition they need.”
No it won’t. Pakistan is the world’s sixth most populous country (180.8 million people) and the population is growing so fast that in just ten years time they will have another 28 million mouths to feed, educate and provide clean water for. You could bankrupt our country and still be unable to solve Pakistan’s own internal problems.
Didn’t help in Ethiopia did it. No, all the assistance we gave them came to nothing because all they did was continue to breed, the population boomed and now because of that they are suffering the consequences yet again ....famine. Yet these ignorant socialist spenders of other people’s money just can’t seem to get their brainless little skulls around the issue of ‘overpopulation’.
They bang on and on about sustainability and we respond ....Yes sustainability is important, we shouldn’t live beyond our means, our local environment supports us and if we outgrow it then it will no longer be able to support us. It’s common sense thinking, it’s right thinking.
Yet when it comes to other countries, that common sense no longer applies.
And get this ....
“ The funds, to be provided through the Government of Pakistan’s central budget,
will form part of a broader package of public financial management reforms. ”
That’s right, the money is going straight into Pakistani government coffers, in other words .... no audit trail. Will the money find it’s way to the people? I think not, the money will find it’s way into the pockets of Pakistan’s leaders, international arms dealers and British government officials with corporate links to Pakistan.
Won’t someone please rid us of this corrupt and worthless pile of shite we call a government.
Over on The Blue Blog, Dippy Dave writes ....
“ In nine days time, representatives from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen
for the UN Conference on climate change. This summit is of historic importance.
It is an opportunity for the world to take bold action to deal with the real danger
of climate change. ”
Does Dopey Dave receive rapturous applause from his party for his bold stance against nature?
Nah, they do the decent thing and rip him a new arsehole ....three arseholes in one body ....remarkable.
“ You WILL NOT get my vote for this climate nonsense, you will NOT get my
vote for your pathetically weak stance on Europe, and you will NOT get my
vote for politically correct idiocy like attending ‘pride’ events.”“ I would be more interested if Mr. Cameron would address issues that are of
relevance in the real world, namely Afghanistan, The EU, immigration, the
NHS, crime and pensioner poverty. ”“ Mr Cameron, you have lost the plot, if indeed you ever had it in the first
place. The amount of ammunition, presented to you, with which to destroy
the credibility of this deplorable government, has been overwhelming. Sadly,
on a personal level, you have not so much as made a dent. The situation is so
dire in this country, that if the leader was Mr Blobby, the party would still be
ahead in the polls. ”“ .... Oh David I forgot to tell you that you have lost my vote if you keep quiet
about immigration. and if you keep us in the EU the Germans did not defeat
us… the French did not defeat us…and the Spanish did not defeat us at WAR
but they have done it NOW. ”
And on and on and on ... Comment 231 ...
“ Mr.Cameron I would prefer to see you dealing really important issues ie. The
EU, the crooked MP`s (we have not forgotten them), Browns Labour that at
this rate will get back into power and then God help us. Please, please show
some positive leadership and keep you word and do something!! ”
Laughed my arse off ....no really I did. There’s something quite refreshing about seeing somebody you knew to be a fraud, expose himself as a fraud and be recognised as a fraud by those who formerly believed that he just might be “The One”. Perhaps I just have a warped sense of humour ....I don’t know.
Yet another failed Tory leader.
November 28th 2009
“ That the world is warming is based on a range of sources: not only temperature records
but other indicators such as sea level rise, glacier retreat and less Arctic sea ice. ”
Rising sea levels eh?
Someone disagrees with you Phil. You don’t like it when people disagree with you ....do ya boy?
March 28th 2009
Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'
The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker.
But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about.
The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".
When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown.
Similarly in Tuvalu, where local leaders have been calling for the inhabitants to be evacuated for 20 years, the sea has if anything dropped in recent decades. The only evidence the scaremongers can cite is based on the fact that extracting groundwater for pineapple growing has allowed seawater to seep in to replace it. Meanwhile, Venice has been sinking rather than the Adriatic rising, says Dr Mörner.
One of his most shocking discoveries was why the IPCC has been able to show sea levels rising by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC's favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a "corrective factor" of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they "needed to show a trend".
When I spoke to Dr Mörner last week, he expressed his continuing dismay at how the IPCC has fed the scare on this crucial issue. When asked to act as an "expert reviewer" on the IPCC's last two reports, he was "astonished to find that not one of their 22 contributing authors on sea levels was a sea level specialist: not one". Yet the results of all this "deliberate ignorance" and reliance on rigged computer models have become the most powerful single driver of the entire warmist hysteria.
So that just leaves “Glacier Retreat” and “less Arctic Sea Ice”.
Himalayan glaciers not melting
Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor
What’s that you say Professor Phil?
“Not peer-reviewed”
Well since you and your friends at the IPCC have controlled the peer review process for years, that’s hardly surprising is it.
You’re a fraud.
Keep in mind that these so-called “scientists” have received millions of pounds of taxpayer’s money from the government in order to come up with the “correct” results in relation to Climate Change theory. They have been lying through their taxpayer funded teeth for years.
From WUWT
McIntyre: The deleted data from the “Hide the Decline” trick
For the very first time, the Climategate Letters “archived” the deleted portion of the Briffa MXD reconstruction of “Hide the Decline” fame – see here. Gavin Schmidt claimed that the decline had been “hidden in plain sight” (see here. ). This isn’t true.
The post-1960 data was deleted from the archived version of this reconstruction at NOAA here and not shown in the corresponding figure in Briffa et al 2001. Nor was the decline shown in the IPCC 2001 graph, one that Mann, Jones, Briffa, Folland and Karl were working in the two weeks prior to the “trick” email (or for that matter in the IPCC 2007 graph, an issue that I’ll return to.)
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Why is it that the people who committed this fraud, who obtained money by deception, have not been sacked or resigned? Where are the police? Aren’t they supposed to investigate fraud?
Is it that these people are being protected by government officials who have a political interest in the redistribution of wealth to third world countries and doubtless a huge personal financial interest in the Climate Change industry itself?
A 60MB compressed file (~180MB uncompressed) has been released on the internet.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=003LKN94
The files are split into two directories; documents and mail.
The emails make particularly interesting reading.
Here’s a couple of samples.
From: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
To: ray bradley <rbradley@geo.umass.edu>,mann@virginia.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.ukDear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers
Phil
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
From: Sonja A Boehmer-Christiansen <[7]Sonja.B-C@hull.ac.uk>
Date: 2 October 2009 18:09:39 GMT+01:00
To: Stephanie Ferguson <[8]stephanie.ferguson@ukcip.org.uk>
cc: "Peiser, Benny" <[9]B.J.Peiser@ljmu.ac.uk>, Patrick David Henderson ...
Subject: RE: Please take note of potetially serious allegations of scientific 'fraud' by CRU and Met OfficeDear Stephanie
I expect that a great deal of UKCIP work is based on the data provided by CRU (as does the work of the IPCC and of course UK climate policy). Some of this, very fundamentally, would now seem to be open to scientific challenge, and may even face future legal enquiries. It may be in the interest of UKCIP to inform itself in good time and become a little more 'uncertain' about its policy advice.
Perhaps you can comment on the following and pass the allegations made on to the relevant people.
It is beyond my expertise to assess the claims made, but they would fit into my perception of the whole 'man-made global warming' cum energy policy debate. I know several of the people involved personally and have no reason to doubt their sincerity and honour as scientists, though I am also aware of their highly critical (of IPCC science) policy positions.
I could also let you have statements by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. Ross McKitrick currently teaches at Westminister Business School and who is fully informed about the relevant issues. He recently addressed a meeting of about 50 people in London.
Best wishes
Sonja B-C
Dr.Sonja A.Boehmer-Christiansen
Reader Emeritus, Department of Geography
Hull University
And what about all that lovely funding ....?
Currently digesting the data.
In January 2009, a memorandum on the subject of securing food supplies was submitted to the Environment, Transport and Rural Affairs committee by the Warwick HRI, the UK’s leading facility in the areas of crop science, horticulture and food security.
The memorandum stated that a key research priority should be to optimise the efficiency and sustainability of UK food production and that significant losses occur not only because of aesthetic quality standards, but also because of pests and diseases ....and that production will be reduced by European Union legislation that reduces the number of available pesticides.
The Warwick HRI memorandum also let it be known that ....
Farming operations and food distribution would be directly impacted by increasing energy prices.
That there was “significant” scope for large scale automation but was hindered by a lack of investment.
There is an insufficient supply of knowledgeable and skilled labour, particularly in agronomy, plant pathology and weed science, with expertise often being “one-deep” – provided by a single person or organisation.
That this has been caused by a reduction in government funding for agricultural research and has resulted in a serious loss of capacity, knowledge and expertise - compounded by the privatisation of the Agricultural Advisory Service in 1997.
Succession planning - the process by which knowledge and expertise is passed onto others, including our next generation - was “universally weak“ or “non-existent” and that the resultant “skills gap” was being filled by migrant workers.
That the UK has the “the largest trade deficit for fruit and vegetables” and there is scope for “import substitution” ....in other words - growing our own.
There is a lack of contingency in system to deal with potential crop failures and fuel shortages.
There are major weaknesses in the UK food supply chain associated with human resources ....
“ It is our view that there is likely to be a shortage of knowledge and expertise in
the medium term in relation to skills associated with crop production and land
management .... and also in crop research and development (particularly in more
applied areas such as soil science and agronomy)”That there is a need to improve yields because most land that is suitable for farming is in use, there is pressure to release farming land on the outskirts of urban areas to satisfy the increasing need for housing, and the production of bio-energy crops “may also be a threat in terms of demand for land”.
That research was being impacted by government short-termism.
That if the government really wants a sustainable food policy, then food production needs to generate sufficient reward for the producer and a sufficient level of income to allow for reinvestment in its future.
“Under those circumstances there would not be a central role for Defra. However
if Governments continue to pursue a cheap food policy then the industry
(and consumers) will be fully reliant on Defra for a range of R&D support driven
by strong leadership and focus.”“ A transparent system should be in place for decisions led by evidence rather than
by pressure from special interest groups.”That there are conflicting drivers for change in different government departments and that there needs to be a clearer understanding of what the priorities are and who should be delivering them.
So what happened next ....?
The UK’s top university department for crop science, horticulture and food security - the 474-acre Wellesbourne site of Warwick HRI - is being closed down.
Yep ....they are now destroying any chance of us being even remotely self-sufficient in food production.
Evil socialist bastards.
So what is Margaret Hodge’s take on all this?
Well apparently she’s ....
“....more than ready to expose and expel the BNP from the borough."
“I always knew I would have a BNP candidate and it has turned out to be him.”
Ooooh scary.
Are you really ready Hodge?
The thing is that you will not simply be facing up to a BNP candidate, you will be facing up to a representative of the very people you have attempted to push aside and push out of the borough, out of their homes and their communities. The same people you attempted to ethnically cleanse.
You lied to them about mass-immigration, you told them it was good for the economy while in truth it was only good for you and your party. You told them that they should be united in diversity when their jobs were being taken by those you imported to support you and your party. You told them that multiculturalism had brought huge benefits while their children were forced into the lowest levels of academic achievement, bullied and emotionally abused by Marxist teachers. You drove an entire generation into the benefit trap and their children further into poverty.
And if that’s wasn’t enough, you really took the piss and personally stole thousands of pounds of their money, channelling into companies run by former party organisers.
Remember them? It’s all in your expenses.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg isn’t it?
It is not the British National Party that will be expelled from borough. I believe the people are going to give you a collective boot up the arse and out of the constituency. That will be a wonderful sight to behold.
Roots Video by Bertie Bert. Music by Richard Greenfield.
Excellent.
Doff of the cap to Bertie Bert at the Home Of The Green Arrow ....and friends.
Last week UKIP MEP Tom Wise was jailed for embezzlement, this week it’s Michael Nattrass MEP in the firing line.
When will the British People realise that UKIP are merely an extension of the Lib-Lab-Con? And when will the falling number of UKIP members who hold honour and decency in high regard choose to join the only party that truly has the interests of the British People at heart?
I do wonder.
UKIP MEP Michael Nattrass in expenses fraud inquiry
An MEP for the United Kingdom Independence party is being investigated by the European Union’s anti-fraud watchdog over his use of expenses.
Michael Nattrass, who has represented the West Midlands in the European parliament since 2004, is the subject of an inquiry into whether Denis Brookes, one of his former aides, was paid through public funds while he was working as a regional organiser for UKIP. The EU does not allow taxpayers’ money to be used to pay party officials.
The inquiry into Nattrass, which is part of a wider investigation into UKIP’s finances, comes as one of its former MEPs, Tom Wise, was jailed last week for two years for embezzling funds out of his assistant’s allowance.
It has also emerged that Nattrass was using a company of which he was a shareholding partner as the “paying agent” for all his assistants’ salaries provided by the EU.
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When the Chairman of the British National Party attended the Wootton Bassett repatriation parade last week, he did so simply to pay his personal respects and to mourn alongside those for whom it has sadly become a tradition. Nick attended the parade, not in his capacity as the Chairman of the British National Party, not even in his capacity as an elected member of the European Parliament, but simply as a man wishing to pay his respects to our brave men and women who lost their lives on foreign soil.
The local party organisers were asked if it was possible for Nick to pay his respects. They decided that it was indeed possible and the necessary security arrangements were made. There was absolutely no desire or attempt made to highlight Nick’s participation and this was most certainly not, as the Corporate Media have reported, a publicity stunt. It was a personal choice, by a man, and an honourable one at that.
But according to the Sunday Express....
BNP leader Nick Griffin caused fury last night by trying to hijack the repatriation ceremony for the six soldiers.
The far-right MEP paraded with cronies along the funeral route, claiming he was in Wootton Bassett to “pay his respects”.
Flanked by a group of burly minders, the controversial 50-year-old Cambridge law graduate was simply courting publicity, according to critics.
But his appearance opposite the grieving families yesterday caused anger locally and nationally.
Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley, Yorkshire, said: “It is unacceptable for any politician or any party leader to try to make political capital out of something as tragic as our soldiers coming back to Wootton Bassett.”
He added: “Most people will see it is as a publicity stunt, and a pretty tasteless one at that.” Fellow Tory MP and former Army officer Patrick Mercer said: “The repatriation of our dead should stand well above mere party politics or political grandstanding.”
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And when the leader of the Conservative Party took part in a photo shoot with his personal photographer at the Garden of Remembrance? Was that a publicity stunt too Mr Davis (Conservative MP for Shipley) and Mr Mercer (Conservative MP for Newark and Retford), coming as it did just one day after the British National Party chairman was caught on camera paying his personal respects to our fallen dead?
Or did the Trinity Mirror Group create that story for it’s own financial and political gain?
I don’t know the answer to that question.
But I do know this, the only reason that the presence of Nick Griffin became a big issue is because the Corporate Media made it a big issue. It was the Corporate Media’s negative coverage of Nick’s participation at the repatriation parade and attempts at political point scoring by these two Conservative MPs (amongst others) that detracted from the events of that day.
The truth is that the British National Party is helping to keep the media in profit (or a least reduced loss). Every visit to an online news site generates revenue from advertising and it is only this advertising revenue that is keeping them afloat. Whenever they publish garbage like this, it attracts more traffic primarily because people wish to express a contrary opinion in the comments section, or simply to recommend existing comments. If the article is impartial it will attract less comments and with it reduced advertising revenue. There is a way to combat this particular approach and deny the media the advertising revenue that comes from your visit, but that will be the subject of a future post.
The London Evening Standard does however report the day’s events more impartially ....
BNP leader gets 'friendly' reception as he joins soldiers' mourners
BNP leader Nick Griffin was present in Wootton Bassett today to see the bodies of six soldiers pass through the town after their repatriation from Afghanistan to British soil.
Mr Griffin stood on the high street where hearses carrying the soldiers' Union Flag-draped coffins were due to arrive.
Wearing a black coat, adorned with a poppy, the controversial MEP stood with a minder opposite family and friends of the fallen soldiers.
Mr Griffin said: "I wanted to come here today because this is the second worst toll to be coming through and because tomorrow is Remembrance Day. So it's fitting that as many people as possible come here today."
He added: "It's an absolutely tremendous and very moving display."
Mr Griffin said he had a "friendly" reaction from the public to his presence.
"It's been very low key, I've been talking to many people and it's been very friendly," he said.
When asked for his view on the conflict in Afghanistan after the loss of the five soldiers killed by a rogue Afghan police officer, Mr Griffin said: "This is not the time or the place for political statements - it's for remembrance. I have strong views on Afghanistan but I'm not prepared to discuss them here."
Hundreds of people lined the streets as the coffins passed through the Wiltshire town.
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As the Chairman stated, it was neither the time or place for political statements.
But now that time has passed, there is a great need for political statements on the subject of Afghanistan as well as a need for many questions to be answered by those in power.
Our servicemen and women are involved in a war - one that is illegal, morally wrong and unwinnable. Why must these brave men and women put their lives on the line for a cause that is not their own, a cause of the political and corporate elite who are driven not by honour, virtue or a need to defend our shores but are instead driven by a lust for power and profit? Why must our warriors leave their families and friends because of a desire to install and maintain a western style puppet government as corrupt as our own, if not more so? Why should they be sacrificing themselves on foreign soil when the dismantling of their homeland and culture continues apace? Why must they come home in boxes enveloped in the flag instead of coming home to be enveloped in the love of their family, their friends and their people?
Why?
Where is the rationale?
Too many questions and not enough answers.
Bring our troops home now.
Not content with trying to force their laws on the British, a Muslim “charity” based in London is evicting people from their homes in Gujarat for failing to adhere to strict Sharia Law.
No TV, no music, beards a must: new rules in a Gujarat riot relief camp
A London-based charity that set up a rehabilitation colony for Muslim victims who lost their homes in Gujarat’s 2002 riots is laying down a hard “Sharia law” for those living there — forcing many to pack up and leave.
The Muslim Relief Organisation, run by NRI* businessmen in London, built 46 houses in Detral, a village in Bharuch, for families of riot victims.
Now it has imposed a blanket ban on what it calls “shaitani” (devilish) things such as TV, music systems and all forms of electronic entertainment. It has threatened to evict the riot victims if they don’t adhere to these.
Residents have been ordered to stay away from fellow villagers, asked to pray only in the special “Sharia-specified” place of worship built for them and not in any local mosque. Among other diktats, they are also required to wear skull caps and keep long beards.
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When contacted at their London office, a functionary of the Muslim Relief Organisation, who declined to be named, admitted that the outfit’s members themselves used TVs in London, but “only when required”.
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* Non-resident Indians
Cults come in all shapes and sizes.
The thing is, there is no official record of an organisation called Muslim Relief Organisation at either the Charity Commission or Companies House. How can a “London-based charity”, run by non-resident Indian muslim directors, not be registered with either the Charity Commission or Companies House?
They do apparently exist, they are listed as an affiliate of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Who are they and what do they believe gives them the right to launch such an attack from British soil, forcing people out of their homes for failing to adhere to their cult practices? Are these actions not illegal under both British and European Union law? Why is this organisation being allowed to continue operating illegally in London?
Curious.
How many more Mr Brown?
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
DOCTUS IN SE SEMPER DIVITIAS HABET
“The wise man always has riches within himself”
Birkenhead Institute Grammar School Motto
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