tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123430952024-03-08T02:40:40.098+00:00UK TOP SECRET Postman Patelzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.comBlogger5068125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-47900975063918729422009-06-25T18:47:00.004+01:002009-06-25T19:12:13.724+01:00Edward Teague: Blogger known as 'Postman PatelThe IndependentThursday, 25 June 2009A cotton man through and through, Edward Teague repeatedly cut his cloth to suit a variety of sometimes simultaneous careers which straddled the commercial, scientific and artistic lives of Manchester and elsewhere, including a stint as a United Nations advisor to North Korea. He became best known, however, in his sixties, as Postman Patel or Lord Patel, one Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-13635036243366834262009-06-09T17:30:00.021+01:002009-06-14T14:26:04.769+01:00Farewell Postie.As some of you already know by now Ed Teague, Lord Patel, passed away earlier today.I'll be replacing the text of this post with something more appropriate, in accordance with the wishes of Ed and his family, in due course.However, other bloggers have already written tributes to Lord Patel, so it seems only fair to mark Lord P's passing with a post here nowLord Patel's regular readers Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-63257837851127680832009-05-11T11:12:00.003+01:002009-05-11T11:19:57.778+01:00Blood guts and JerusalemSt George - Lydda - Ramle and ethnic cleansing by the ZionistsThis is a window in a small curch on the Sykes estate in Yorkshire, belonging to Sykes of the Sykes-Picot agreement. It shows St George and the flag of Jerusalem and celebrates the liberation from the Muslim Turks in WW1 by General Allenby of Armageddon.By a curious coincidence St. George the patron saint of England who was entombed atzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-64344275255548171262009-05-10T17:55:00.002+01:002009-05-10T18:31:30.267+01:00Scientists - "OK on tap but not on top"For some odd reason there is a spate of comment about the fat old fraud , wannabe novelist and colossal bore.Apparently by indentifying the intellectual Luddites in the Civil Service (as Basil F would say - statement of the bleedin' obvious)and identifying 2 Cultures he has reached the status of some 20th Century stooge sage.Apart from maching my arm ache reaching for my gun when I hear the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-17217219474250283082009-05-10T17:31:00.005+01:002009-05-10T17:54:26.875+01:006th Jackal driver killed in Helmand - Whoop de doo the MOD now have Jackal 2 which will be safer ! Of course it will, and heavier, slower, less agileE first introduced readers to the "Jackal" (then called a replacement WMIK - lihgtly armoured LOng Whelbase Land Rover) On June 30, 2007 - > WMIK - Patrolling Afghanistan in a convertible These vehicles are claimed to have, Longer range, Greater payload, Greater mobility (?) and a take your breath away top speed of "up to 80mph (130km/h)" - now how does that compare with a Toyota land Cruiserzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-82009686699663513232009-05-05T19:48:00.001+01:002009-05-05T19:49:37.042+01:00JTA keeps us in touch Dear Lord Patel: JTA's reporting staff is on the ground in Washington for the pro-Israel lobby's biggest event of the year, the AIPAC policy conference. * Watch the video report on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech via satellite Monday night to thousands of delegates and nearly half the members of Congress.* U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak later Tuesday zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-15035727126140855832009-05-05T19:36:00.002+01:002009-05-05T19:45:44.946+01:00The curious case of SwatVoice of America today Pakistan: Up to 500,000 May Flee Taliban-Held Swat Residents flee Taliban-held Mingora in anticipation of government assault on final militant stronghold in Swat VallyFrom everything May 2005 ..Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of SWAT?Is he tall or short, or dark or fair?Does he sit on a stool or a sofa or a chair, or SQUAT, The Akond ofzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-12025481156842953342009-05-05T09:15:00.003+01:002009-05-05T09:22:58.138+01:00Rice - explaining torture to 11 year olds ....Ex - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students (she spoke at the school on Sunday before giving a lecture at the ashigton Sixth & I Historic Synagogue) that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. 11 year Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital,asked Rice what she thought about the Obama zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-65761833915855899732009-05-03T15:17:00.005+01:002009-05-03T15:42:59.855+01:00Murky waters - Killer Kennedy and BoTed Kennedy, the raddld and diseased donor of the very photogenic Portuguese water dog (Bo - as in Bo Diddly which O'Bomber's dad was pleased to call himself) to the O'Bombers seems highly appropriate.These curiously web footed animals aided fisherman by driving fish into nets and are supposedly also the St . Bernard of the sea, aiding rescuers, saving lives etc. Apparently their zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-7774169473376969192009-05-02T08:07:00.002+01:002009-05-02T08:15:49.595+01:00An hiatusApologies to all readers. A "few days" B & B at the NHS expense has gaian temprarily interupted the usual flawless service.Watching the Old Boy frae the "Lang Toon" very, very , carefully negotiate some steps in a news item, his odd No 10 Video, his refusal to accept the Truth the evasions, blusters, walking out on the Commons etc.,Has the old "Demon Drink" been modestly affecting his behaviour zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-10637484515751535902009-04-25T13:12:00.002+01:002009-04-25T13:24:31.597+01:00North West Muslim extremist jihadist bombers caused by Global WarmingLord Patel was listening to BBC World Nws and an item was broadcast "Obesity elps cause Global warming" - apparently if fat bastards ate les hamburgers, there would be less beef catle, less farting cows, less Co2 etc, QEDIn a blinding Flash the obvious corollary formed in the air , became real and evident.1, When did you see a North West brownskinned, bearded exremist jihadist bomber wear zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-25605598522161747942009-04-25T13:01:00.003+01:002009-04-25T13:08:48.062+01:00Condi Rice - she needs a bit of Memory JoggingCondi Rice says she remembers meeting CIA boss George Tenet but "cannot recall" discussing sanctioning waterboading with him.A simple solution (in the interests of constitutional accuracy) suggests itself.Strip her to her pants and bra,manacle her hands, play heavy metal loud for a week, slam her against the wall.If this doesn't jog her memory then say, hourly sessions of waterboarding - which zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-51702955904116951252009-04-24T09:53:00.002+01:002009-04-24T10:11:19.382+01:00Alastair in Wonderland's Budget - the dog that didn't barkRegular readers will be aware we have followed the massive losses to the HMRC of VAT due to Missing Trader Fraud (MTIC).This was running at an "estimated" £400 Mn a month (that's £4 Billion a year) for several years.This is the last mention by Alastair of this black hole in his 2007 Pre-Budget report October 2007At Page 98 we have ....5.104 New estimates of Missing Trader Intra Community (MTIC)zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-87462904537931255482009-04-23T07:35:00.003+01:002009-04-23T07:53:41.016+01:00Cambodia - the country Henry Kissinger secretly bombedAtomic Sunrise blog with superb Flikr photostream of Cambodia .. well worth a visit.See also VOA article on Cambodian Spiders Under Threat - Black, hairy and about the size of your palm, they build their nests in the forests around the small town of Skun (Skuan) North of Pnom Penh. Every day thousands are sold in the town's big spider market.Fried in garlic and herbs, the spiders are piled high zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-44259879788186290092009-04-22T16:23:00.006+01:002009-04-22T16:35:04.376+01:00CPS kicks out Police request to keep North West 12 for lack of any evidenceAs anticipated The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have decided there was insufficient (or any evidence) evidence to press charges - or to convince magistrates to allow police to hold the North West 12 any longer.It appears the one British resident and citizen is therefore free to go his merry way the other 11 are now in UK Border Agency custody and will almost certainly be deported.However the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-50801223893983557462009-04-21T14:39:00.004+01:002009-04-21T14:48:16.659+01:00President Ahmadinejad - speaking uncomfortable Truths"Following World War II, they resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering and they sent migrants from Europe, the United States and other parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in occupied Palestine. And, in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-8748565440424779092009-04-21T13:49:00.005+01:002009-04-21T14:47:41.608+01:00Bee Colony Collapse Disorder - a wasted opportunity and the Climate change mongerers win yet more funds to squander ""Aristotle identified bees as the most hard working of insects, and with one in three mouthfuls (of food ?) coming from insect-pollinated crops, we need to support bees and other pollinators. " is how Hilary Benn announced an " investment" of up to £10 Mn in research on pollinating insects - including honey and bumble bees, butterflies and moths.Honey bees are dying across the world at a zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-75267812023589800552009-04-20T07:38:00.003+01:002009-04-20T08:05:07.510+01:00Andy ..throw shit in the fan and sometimes it comes back to slap youIn autumn 2005, just before the annual Tory Party Conference, Screws editor Andy Coulson ran a front page splash…TOP TORY, COKE AND THE HOOKERIllustrated with pictures of angel-faced Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, it claimed that eleven years before, while he was at Oxford, the then flawless Osborne was said, without any convincing corroboration, to have been watched by ‘dominatrix’ hooker, zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-80823214631282879402009-04-19T08:50:00.002+01:002009-04-19T09:08:55.762+01:00More delays before Boeing 787 enters commercial serviceAmerican Airlines revealed on Thursday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that their Boeing 787's, ordered for the US's second largest airline, will now arrive a further year late - in the second half of 2013.The Texas-based company has ordered 42 Boeing 787-9 aircraft, to be delivered between September 2012 and 2019.Under its contract with Boeing, American isn't obliged to acquire zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-46633484075479162012009-04-18T08:56:00.003+01:002009-04-18T09:10:06.375+01:00Sami Chakrabarti is like a 29 bus..Just when you mentin how few Sami Chakrbatis there are about - up pops Ken Linvingstone sasyin gthe demure doe eyed, ex Home Offic lawyre should exaine the case of Ian Tomlinson etc.,Then like the 29 bus, several Chakrabartis appear.Apparently Plod seized an obscure Tory MP's computers and set about searching for evidence of the telegenic scarf adjusting,bright eyed feminist who leads Liberty in zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-2924836417881082102009-04-17T22:14:00.004+01:002009-04-17T22:24:05.852+01:00Ian Tomlinson's death - more inconsistencies revealed, more lies exposedSo Lord Patel's namesake pathologist said Ian Tomlinson died of a heart atttack and this turns out to be wrong - or at least another patholgist (Dr Nat Cary, one of the country’s leading forensic pathologists,)says death was result of internal bleeding.Ex London Mayor Kenny the Red on Channel 4 says Mr Patel has a history ...HmmmmThen he spoils it by suggesting Shami Chakrabarti be brought in to zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-85346469926043239752009-04-17T13:04:00.004+01:002009-04-17T22:11:50.429+01:00Demand destruction leading to non OPEC oil glut on horizonRembrandt at Oil Drum Eurpe has his usual excellent roundup of world oil/liquids production demand - full report here.is shows how dmeand destruction has started in a big way - excess capcity now will swell with projects coming on line plannedwhen prices were higher."given reasonable expectations of a slow recovery we face a huge glut of oil with capacity several mbd above the 2008 peak and a zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-46155784278068804132009-04-17T07:41:00.006+01:002009-04-17T07:59:07.126+01:00Mr Brown - " I am shocked, shocked !""I am sorry about what happened.""I have said all along that when I saw this first I was horrified, I was shocked, I was very angry indeed.""I think the most important thing is to reassure people that everything is being done to clean up politics in this country.""I wrote to those people who were affected by it. I expressed very deep regret for what happened.""The person who was responsible went zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-32939116744412534312009-04-15T16:50:00.002+01:002009-04-15T17:12:24.611+01:00Those Downing Street e-mails - the complete textThe infamous Downing Street boiler room e-mails raise some puzzling points which do not seem to have been addressed.1. How were they intercepted .... if directly, it brings shades of the Charlie telcon when he discussed aricles of intimate feminine hygeine with his (current) wife **** ...and even earlier his (then) wifes intimacies with a lover (?) - requiring a technology available to only a fewzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-42432407338631142612009-04-15T07:54:00.005+01:002009-04-15T08:16:45.620+01:00George Galloway , Viva Palestina and the curious case of the Charity Commission ....The full text of a letter from Gerge Galloway to Louise Edwards, Compliance Investigation Unit (London)Charity Commission Direct is available here hich is lenghy and detaled and is best appreciated by reading the full text."You first frightened the banks into refusing our attempts to open a bank account. When we finally found a bank which would allow us to open an account you intimidated them zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5