tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123430952012-01-07T11:35:09.146ZUK TOP SECRET Postman Patelzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.comBlogger50701100tag: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.com16tag: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.com1tag: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.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-52379392188118021922009-04-14T07:39:00.004+01:002009-04-14T07:51:49.367+01:00Harlan Ullman : The Voice of ReasonHarlan Ullman famous for his theories of Shock and Awe and enthusiastic customer of the louche and loose ladies of Madame Palfrey has contributed the UPI.com - Emerging Threats - Outside View: To the shores of TripoliShould al-Qaida decide that the oceans provide the means to turn ships into the equivalent of civilian airliners made into bombers on Sept. 11, 2001, one attack would be all that it zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-11026721721737759922009-04-12T14:46:00.004+01:002009-04-12T15:15:30.487+01:00O'Bomber ....all things to all menPresident O'Bomber hosts a traditional second night Seder dinner in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House on Thursday night, April 9, 2009. Some friends and White House employees and their families joined the Obama family. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)The staff of the Pesidents Office in the White House have held seders since at least the Clinton administration of the late zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-18993852047817429642009-04-11T20:29:00.003+01:002009-04-11T21:10:05.267+01:00The North West 12 11 - stray thoughts on being a terrist in ManchesterCheetham Hill is both a road and a district. At one time early in the 20th century a respectable and largely Jewish suburb in N. Manchester many of whose residents made their post war Exodus to Israel.It is now a cosmopolitan area with a high proportion of both legal and illegal immigrant communities, Asian , quat chewing Somali, Ethiopians, West Africans, East Europeans, Kurds, Iraqis ... A zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-55065736923095223902009-04-11T17:36:00.004+01:002009-04-11T18:02:40.104+01:00Italian Job - Manchester City Centre Selfridges ram raided and 1/2 Mn goods stolenHere is a remarkable story.Manchester is reading goggle eyed about the massive conspiracy by 12 Pakistanis to blow up major shopping centres in Manchester. (Correction now down to 11, an 18-year-old arrested in connection with the alleged plot has been released into the custody of the UK Border Agency.)At around 10:30pm on Monday evening, 6th April while contract workers were still inside, 4 menzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-40948877606619169532009-04-10T15:29:00.005+01:002009-04-10T16:21:59.744+01:00Ian Tomlinson Memorial March April 11thA march has been organised to protest the savage and unprovoked assault on Ian Tomlinson and his subsequent death, lying alone on the pavement in a London street, surrounded by the police, isolated from everbody who had tried to help him in his dying minutes.Assemble 11.30am, Saturday 11th April at Bethnal Green Police Station, 12 Victoria Park Square,Tower Hamlets,London,E2.The march will zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-49071658008709592882009-04-09T17:02:00.004+01:002009-04-09T17:12:28.907+01:00US continue to bomb Pakistan and kill citizens - winning hearts and mindsWhilst the mild mannered US envoy Denis Holbrooke was berating the Paistani Government An unmanned Predator strike aircraft fired a Hellfire missile at a vehicle in a bazaar in the town of Gangi Khel near Wana. It is claimed by the CIA regional mouthpieces that 4 Taliban and al Qaeda operatives are thought to have been killed in the strike and 4 civilians are said to have been wounded but no zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-28246585152583104042009-04-09T16:24:00.007+01:002009-04-09T17:36:29.478+01:00Ian Tomlinson - Did he fall or was he pushed ?There will be few readers who haven't seen the video the Guradian obtained from an American citizen of the violent assault ith a baton and shoving to the ground of Ian Tomlinson about 7.20 pm on April 1st and the subsequent catalogue for 5 days of lies, untruths, distortions and obfuscations of how minutes after a a few yards away he died.As a veteran of many marches, one sequence sticks out to zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-56805513830818525222009-04-09T15:27:00.005+01:002009-04-09T16:08:56.263+01:00Bob Quick - Did he fall or was he pushed ?Mayor of London Boris "Cop Killer" Johnson said on BBC at midday today (albeit with a straight face) that it was "with great sadness" that he had accepted Mr Quick's resignation , failing to add that he had been machinating for his removal and replacement by the pliant Assistant Commissioner John Yates (Marlborough School and Kings, London , Fitzwilliam Cantab.) as head of Counter Terrorism atzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-18044385416816907872009-04-09T14:59:00.005+01:002009-04-09T15:23:47.671+01:00Father of Brighton "Babe in the Wood" rape/murder victim arrested for attempted rape pf daughter over 23 years agoNicola Fellows 9 and Karen Hadaway, 10 were both found raped and murdered in Wild Park, Brighton in 1986. Labelled the "Babes in the Wood" murder by the press it remains unsolved - though keeps re-surfacing see post Sunday, March 16, 2008 PC Uncorrectness - and PC suicidalism.There have also been connections through the murder of Katrine Taylor when London drug dealers Trevor Smith and Fergal zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-72083304427512177472009-04-09T14:44:00.003+01:002009-04-09T14:53:58.928+01:00Take your profits and runApologies for hiatus - the drugs have been taking their toll.TRUST ANYONE WHO TOOK THE ADVICE TO PILE INTO BANKS HAS NOW SOLD OFF, taken the prot and is sitting on healthy pile ofdosh - which should have easily doubled in size.The old maket adage was ... "sell in May and go away" Well Old Patel's Almanac is "sell now and don't touch the market (whith the Footsie 100 is headed for 3,200 - 3,300) zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-52881181551271657732009-04-06T15:45:00.007+01:002009-04-06T16:34:14.281+01:00DPRK - Fireworks ......The Charade continues.There has been much organised claptrap about the DPRK firing their second multi stage unguided rocket (so called Taepodong) vaguely East of and over Japan.Lord Patel has visited North Korea, he has contacts with severalacademic,diplomatic and commercial sources with experinece and personal knowledge.It is a complete fictrion that DPRK has any nuclear weapons technology of any significance. They zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-30618241871940418072009-04-05T19:45:00.004+01:002009-04-05T19:53:31.986+01:00US Predators strike in Waziristan - 13 civilians killed including 10 women and childrenAt 3.30 am on Staurday, a US Predator drone fired two Hellfire missiles at the house of a tribesman Tariq Hussain at Dund village in Datakhel, an area very close to the Afghan borderin North Waziristan tribal region and killed 13 people including women and childrenLocals said five children and five women among the 13 victims of the attack which completely destroyed the house. Recent reports zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-72859101922899942402009-04-04T16:04:00.004+01:002009-04-04T16:10:46.589+01:00Full steam ahead at Ellenroad !Tommorow (sunday) is you first chance this year to see Ellenroad Engine House has the only fully-working cotton mill engine with its original steam-raising plant, in full steam. The awesome 3,000 horsepower Victoria and Alexandra (1892), a coal-fired Lancashire boiler and other machines, like the Whitelees beam engine, are still working perfectly after more than 160 years!The engine house is in zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-62325831094469571292009-04-04T08:49:00.004+01:002009-04-04T09:04:26.164+01:00Smash Capitalism - Cameras ready ? .......RollSome very odd scenes and charades were enacted at the G 20 marches, the above BBC photograph speaks volumes - if it bleeds it leads ... and this window basher appeared at the top of news items - but not quite in this form.Craig Murray writes on his blog ..."There was a fascinating and drawn out scene outside the Bank of England yesterday when a distinct group of some thirty were attacking the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-37238371394158697172009-04-03T16:47:00.004+01:002009-04-03T17:02:08.220+01:00Spy on your neighbours, friends,relatives .. anybodyThe thinking(?) behind the recent Met terrist posterised awareness campaign , which keeps you on the qui vive about neighbours using hydrogen peroxide (that's numerous hairdressers onthe DNA database no danger), and spooky folk who take pictures of them watching us watching us watching them defeats us.Except there is a funny smell coming from the Patel's kitchen at No 27, all that curcumn in the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-78205449229882937192009-04-03T15:58:00.009+01:002009-04-03T16:37:25.445+01:00Dutch pub/cafes evades anti-smoking ban by ingenious reading of the law. Government stumped.Reactions to smoking bans in public places have generally worked very smoothly.Not in Holland.Many cafes have allowed their customers to light up, risking fines that start at 300 euros and can run up to 2,400 euros.Cafe De Balk in Groningen has developed an ingenious and vaguely legal way around the ban imposed in the Netherlands last July. The bar and serving staff have been moved to to a zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-55711547403198923512009-04-03T10:28:00.002+01:002009-04-03T10:43:01.648+01:00Avigdor Lieberman - racist thug, Israeli Foreign Secretary and Shrillary's friendElectronic Intifada list some of the choice words of wisdom of the newly elected Foreign Secretary of Israel , Avigdor Lieberman, chair of the far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home - they hold a frightening 10% of Kneset seats) ) party and ex Moldovan night club bouncer.He a resident of the illegal Israeli settlement of Noqedim in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank.Shortly zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-57777441554530812232009-04-02T17:57:00.003+01:002009-04-02T18:15:11.331+01:00Christie's Hospital - Trustees should resignPaul Rowen (Rochdale, Liberal Democrat) Hansard PMQ'sThe Christie hospital, which is a world leader in the treatment of cancer, has recently lost £6.5 million owing to the Icelandic banking crisis—money that was earmarked for new radiography centres in Oldham and Salford. Given the Government's support for financial institutions, what is the Prime Minister doing to help the Christie to recover zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-53441188973987594432009-04-02T17:36:00.003+01:002009-04-02T17:49:34.763+01:00PC Vicki Thorne from Northumbria police pleads guilty to misconduct -We first brought you news on Monday, December 08, 2008 of an enthusiastic lady Plod Miss Misconducting herself in public office PC Vikki Thorne who worked (now quit the force) for Northumbria Police and drove an Audi TT entertained up to 20 clients a week after signing up to an agency called Notorious Girls.Due to go on trial later this year she sensible pleaded guilty yesterday to misconduct inzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-1158973798990425812009-04-02T17:19:00.002+01:002009-04-02T17:27:35.573+01:00Craig Murray to give evidence of Uk approval of use of torture 28th April - now confirmed2 April 2009Session 2008-09 No. 31PRESS NOTICE Notice of Forthcoming Public Evidence Session - UN Convention Against Torture The following oral evidence session has been arranged: Tuesday 28 April 2009 1.45pmCraig Murray (former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan) The Committee will be following up its 2006 Report on the UK'scompliance with the UN Convention Against Torture by taking zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-28300363394255911272009-04-02T16:53:00.003+01:002009-04-02T17:10:23.168+01:00Kyrgyzstan - the land that evryone wants to forget - except the drug lordsDeborah Orr: (who writes forthe Independent) A toxic legacy in a land the world would prefer to forgetIt isn't often that Kyrgyzstan (Pop 5.4 Mn) has a moment in the international spotlight, even though the country is home to the genetic parent of all the apples of the planet. But this week, one of the poorest and least visible nations on the planet had 15 seconds of fame.The Kyrgyzstan zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-85762605424459349072009-04-02T14:37:00.006+01:002009-04-02T17:19:46.379+01:00Modest 42% profit on Lloyds Bank shares in just over one weekThose readers who followed Lord Patel on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Repairing the old wallet. into Lloyds bank after a quick in and out into Barclays will be gratified that since buying at 57 pence the shares in Lloyds trade, as we write, up 6p today at 76.9 p a modest 42% rise in a week.Credit crunch ? Crisis ? What crisis ... those bankers are still reeling in the profits.Want to join in zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-79440975871133524512009-04-02T14:09:00.003+01:002009-04-02T14:34:00.295+01:00US new car sales fall 37% Year on YearUS March auto sales were again markedly lower (BBC).Industrywide sales fell 37% from a year earlier but rose from February's 27-year low. New autos sold at an annual rate of 9.9 million (ish) units, according to sales tracker Autodata Corp. of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. (Excel Spreadsheet)The results resulted in shares up for some automakers seeing an unexpected rise (in Tokyo, Nissan +13.8%, zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-84802713498561500262009-03-31T22:18:00.003+01:002009-03-31T22:31:20.588+01:00Baitullah Mehsud threatens actions against US claims responsibility for lahore Polic barracks attackDuring interwiews with Pakistani news outlets and international wire services Baitullah Mehsud, who the CIA have been trying to take out with Predator Hlfie missile strikes - without success - threatens to attack the US. He has also claimed credit for hs group behing esonsible for 3 recent Pakistan bombings;1.Yesterday's deadly military assault on a police training center in Lahore.2 Suicide zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-22447734162059661412009-03-31T21:55:00.005+01:002009-03-31T22:18:39.456+01:00Black man speak with fork tongueThis is a quote that passed us by - President O'Bomber on March 14th said when he met Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ,,,,who has said recently "This crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who thought they knew everything and now show they know nothing""I think that not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-79104034758281312292009-03-30T11:26:00.002+01:002009-03-30T11:33:30.624+01:00Home Secretary's husband is a secret wanker ...Outrageous !The only word for it. Scandalous ! That's another word for it.What better on a Friday night after being a consituency secretay to kick back, light a spliff , grab the Kleenex and watch a mucky movie (or two). Killjoys ! That's the only word for the critics of his inoccent pastime ... so we all pay for it .. well we pay fo everything else .. why not Letitia Learns a Lesson. or Debbie zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-81716473462143292062009-03-29T09:17:00.003+01:002009-03-29T09:23:22.097+01:00Afghan insurgent guideThis is handy guide to the insurgent alphabet soup in Afghanistan which is used to brief incoming senior military staff.Prepared with a great deal of input from CIA.zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-49656484087880245062009-03-29T08:53:00.000+01:002009-03-29T08:55:04.029+01:00Prime Minister due to visit Britain ....zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-20492602392776015902009-03-28T16:41:00.001Z2009-03-28T16:44:39.438ZThy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal Darkness buries All.zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-73217004249680747222009-03-28T11:26:00.003Z2009-03-28T11:40:50.291ZMission creep - US bombing consolidates in AFPAK with O'Bomber's new plan - with no end in sightPresident Obama gave a speech this morning outlining his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, (AFPAK) as a taster for a (slightly) more detailed white paper [PDF]. The plan outlined what O'Bomber cals "realistic and achievable objectives." Disrupting terrorist networks in Afghanistan and especially Pakistan to degrade any ability they have to plan and launch international terrorist attacks.zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-35644118692795027832009-03-27T18:52:00.002Z2009-03-27T18:56:12.928ZUS has 12 months stock of new homes for sale.The median sales price of new houses sold in February 2009 was US $200,900; the average sales price was US$251,000. The seasonally adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of February was 330,000. This represents a supply of 12.2 months in the market at the current sales rate.zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-83221255426191530412009-03-27T15:40:00.004Z2009-03-27T16:06:05.454ZMore Predator strikes by US in Pakistan - More rewards for Justice bonuses for Taliban / al Quaeda phantom leadersThe US conducted another 2 Predator airstrikes with Helfire misiles in Pakistan's tribal areas in the last 2 days.Five people were reported killed and four wounded hitting what is said to be a Taliban compound in North Waziristan - a compund run by Malik Gulab Khan in the Sokhel region just outside Mir Ali.Unusually the CIA did not report any senior al Qaeda or Taliban leaders killed.Mir Ali zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-16726316455848094432009-03-27T14:51:00.003Z2009-03-27T15:07:54.630ZBarclays - it's Double your money time Folks!Lord Patel invested last Monday in Barclays at 82 p and sold out on Wednesday am @ 118p.As we speak the shares are trading at 162.9 (and rising) with 107 MN shares changing hands.That means those who got in at the right time and hung on have doubled their money in 2 weeks. This rise is attributed to the news that Barclays is set to receive bids for iShares, its exchange traded funds business, zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-82525891125706642252009-03-26T20:04:00.000Z2009-03-26T20:05:38.712ZKissinger still giving ordersObama National Security Advisor says he takes marching orders from Henry KissingerMarch 26, 2009 — Stefan FobesRemarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference on Security PolicyFrom CFR.orgU.S. National Security Adviser Jones gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 8, 2009.“Thank you for that wonderful zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-53454540942040699762009-03-26T16:49:00.004Z2009-03-26T17:01:08.266ZIBM continue outsourcing and "letting" US staff go"A bird whispers in Lord Patel's transatlantic listening post that report IBM is planning to layff 6,000 U.S. employees. THis will lead to transferring jobs and functions to India. Wat is calld the global business-services unit is the core of the change , and is a major part of IBM's efforts to steadily build up their foreign based workforce. Figures supplied show that foreign based employes zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-12316121561750837682009-03-25T17:08:00.003Z2009-03-25T17:25:22.361ZUK Gilts auction fails - ther IS a limit to what the market will buy .....Storms can be presaged by the blowing of straw in the wind"of . Well the market landed a hefty bale of the stuff on Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling's desk today.Today, in the normal way of things the Treasury Debt Management Office - auctioned £1.75bn of a 40 year bond ( of interest principally to annuity issuers - insueres pensions etc.,).The market picked up 93% or only £163 Mn. of the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-22743014979731004782009-03-25T11:38:00.005Z2009-03-26T09:23:14.712ZRepairing the old wallet.Stock picking is gambling so Lord Patel to salve his financial wounds invested last Monday in Barclays at 82 p and sold out this am @ 118p. (UPDATE Wed opnend at 127 )A modest return relying on the venality of bankers / hedge funds etc., who have been ramping the share to buggary. (Ditto LLoyds)This is going into ING (now with sensible management in place and clear stated goals) which he zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-43574084654878387042009-03-25T11:17:00.006Z2009-03-26T09:25:18.460ZTo err is human ...John Kennedy was a charmer but his halting delivery "The .er...er...President ..err...err.of..er..The...United ...er....States ...err" brought out the above riposte.He lived in an age without teleprompters and the apparatus of Hollywood technology which helps bolster O'Bomber' s facile delivery and shallow thoughts. eg "It took many years and many failures to lead us here. And it will take many zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-7897614173432247672009-03-25T11:01:00.004Z2009-03-25T11:16:56.432ZUS Unemployment swells claimants as Government payrolls soar.America's heartlands are hurting, figures for Ohio show how the trend is steadily downwards for employment - but as ever, Government employment increases.Ohio and U.S. Employment Services in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Labor released numbers today for uneployment at end Februarywhich show rates at 9.4% ( a 25 yesar high - March 1984 ) up from 8.8 %ercent in January. Ohio's nonfarm zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-14708929868471063442009-03-22T22:49:00.005Z2009-03-22T23:06:42.065ZSouthwark, London SE15 3BT Google Street view etc.,Google Earth Street viewSome 60,000 people, from shopping centre security guards to hotel workers, are being trained to respond to the threat of terrorism, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said.Her comments came two days ahead of the publication of a counter-terrorism strategy which ministers are billing as the most comprehensive approach to tackling the threat issued by any government in the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-60413842160883341942009-03-22T22:27:00.002Z2009-03-22T22:46:31.891ZDead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009"Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-91262295706150607512009-03-21T21:08:00.006Z2009-03-22T07:10:11.822ZPig Sick - Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health - MRSA ST398 - the new community health problem ?'Sick as a pig' is a campaigning film produced and filmed in Holland and commissioned by the Soil Association in conjunction with Compassion in World Farming. This exposes the rise of a new strain of MRSA in pigs (called ST398), and links its with the overuse of antibiotics on intensive pig farms throughout Europe. (Press release)Amongst other claims the producers say 40% of Dutch pigs and up to zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-60876054334201011322009-03-20T20:40:00.006Z2009-03-20T21:35:22.464ZMassive wave of Anti-Semitism terrorises Northern Ireland - Zionists organiseDavid Amess (Southend West, Conservative and raised as Roman Catholic - also Parliamentary Adviser to the Caravan Club) was busy worrying Paul Goggins (Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office) yesterday and asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what reports he has received on levels of anti-Semitism in Northern Ireland since December 2008 Hansard The estimable Goggins (also raisedzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-19588866187004671112009-03-20T15:33:00.005Z2009-03-20T15:58:36.252ZAre you siting comfortably ? Well the Defence Chiefs certainly are.This entertaining exchange took place yesterday in the House of Commons- the evidently underemployed Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent, Independent) Hansard asked the Secretary of State for Defence .. " how much his Department has spent on the purchase of new chairs for its main building in the last two years; what the unit cost was of each type of chair purchased; and what best value criteria were zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-54559536341206546552009-03-19T20:49:00.004Z2009-03-19T21:10:05.181ZThe Final Solution (Endlosung) for the Palestinian peopleFrom War in Context .. Hillary Clinton met Pesident elect Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem during her recent visit to Israel. When they entered his office 20 year veteran Mossad appartchik Uzi Arad was at Bibi's" side. Arad’s involvement in the “AIPAC case” and the Franklin spy case (The Pentagon analysts pleaded guilty in 2005 to providing classified information about Iran in a conversation zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-50555665205746836682009-03-19T16:56:00.003Z2009-03-19T21:13:26.943ZDemand for illegal nannies booms in NY and Wall Street ahead of Geithner's resignationO'Bomber allowed Geithner with his dodgy tax paying amnesial record onboard - others swept in have politely found they haven't paid taxes, etc.,Anybody quaified to work in the US Treasury is running bckwards as fast as they can.The rats aren't leaving the sinking ship - they just don't want to be aboard and take the blame.zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-50686303880971630642009-03-19T16:15:00.004Z2009-03-19T16:33:56.752ZTime is running out for War Criminal Jack Straw - the torturers apprenticeThe Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has agreed to hear evidence on torture on Tuesday 28 April at 1.45pm from an expert witness . Craig Murray.On his website with this welcome news he adds .."I will testify that as British Ambassador, I was told there is a very definite policy to accept intelligence from torture abroad, that the policy was instituted and approved by Jack Straw zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-23712318898706511842009-03-19T07:16:00.004Z2009-03-19T07:30:34.935ZSkipton Building Society to take over Dunfermline mutual after £28 Mn + lossSO IT GOES ON ....Because of the problems in the US, Scotlands biggest buildng society, the Dunfermline (profit last year £2Mn) is ready to unveil losses of £28 Mn +.The mutual, now 130 years old, with some 240 staff and 34 branches and 38 agencies throughout Scotland, has bad exposure to the crumbling commercial property market and the results of a recent push into buy-to-let loans in recent zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-11992104263161960952009-03-18T21:02:00.004Z2009-03-18T21:22:30.748ZViolence in Mexico City Airport - Take careA French researcher Christopher Augur 48, an expert in bio-molecular chemistry was en route to the University of Mexico at Iztapalapa. He had arrived in Mexico on 31st January. and changed some money at at the Mexico City Airport- Benito Juarez International Airport. He had four thousand 800 Euros and 370 dollars on his person.A University car had been dispatched to pick him up, this was zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-89648200578837352302009-03-18T20:19:00.005Z2009-03-18T20:38:44.549ZThe Lennon- Yoko "Bed in" 40th AnniversaryRoom 902 of the Amsterdam Hilton is now room 702, the bed is not the original and has been replaced with one that "conforms to modern comfort demands".This is the Lennon-Yoko Honeymoon Suite - a one-night stay nrmally costs 1,750 euros. Now on the 40th anniversary of their "bed-in", Beatles fans can visit the suite - though not to stay in - from March 21st to 29th when a number of related zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-77523973017357667122009-03-18T17:41:00.006Z2009-03-19T21:15:12.196ZStafford Hospital - comparison with the activities of Harold ShipmanIn a report, Dr Foster Intelligence, a private-public partnership company which annually publishes standardised mortality ratio (SMR) league tables for English hospitals they revealed that at Stafford Hospital, about 400 more people died in 3 years between 2005 and 2008 than would be expected. (BBC) Dr Fosters website says .."Our purpose is simple. Dr Foster was founded on a belief in the need zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-64561991525862511852009-03-18T16:44:00.005Z2009-03-18T17:21:20.833ZEuropean Antibiotic Awareness Day - Redux - educating qualified doctors about antibiotic resistance18th November 2008 was the first-ever European Antibiotic Awareness Day, and was apparently celebrated throughout the 27 EU Member States. (website)The intention was for public health authorities in all Member States to raise awareness (ie spend a lot of money on a publicity campaign) to highlight the need for "rational" use of antibiotics.After all the official website claims " The zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-50810993729486001022009-03-18T14:29:00.003Z2009-03-18T14:38:34.605ZRussian offensive by Obama team of old Cold war warriors Kommersant newspaper said today that among a group of U.S. “wise men,” war criminal Henry Kissinger and James Baker, two former U.S. Secretaries of State, will fly to Moscow this weekend for talks with Russian officials after President Barack Obama pledged to “reset” relations with Russia. Kissinger, who met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in December, is scheduled to arrivezizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-50219949391153059902009-03-17T22:17:00.004Z2009-03-18T08:36:06.864ZFloating LNG - the new Power Play for the Major cash rich OilcosOffshore oil often involves flaring off gas - now the concept of Floating LNG where the gas is processed offshore for shipment is a major new technology and has lower capital cost to onshore processing.This not only allows developers to exploit stranded gas reserves, but also give an opportunity to convert the currently large amount of flared gas from different platforms.Shell is installing zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-37749228327815784822009-03-17T21:50:00.005Z2009-03-18T08:35:49.476ZT.F.R.G.Braun - RIPThomas Felix Rudolf Gerhardt Braun - Tom to his friends was born in Germany , the son of a High Court Judge. The family led to Britain. Tom - interned at one time on the Isle of man sharing a dormitory with Max Mosley ent on the Bootham Quaker Scool, York, and Balliol.He spent a short time at Leicester University where Lord Patel met him before he went on to Merton College as a Fellow and later zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-81484378583935398342009-03-17T21:29:00.004Z2009-03-17T21:50:02.098ZLNG to arrive at Milford Haven on Tembek - to World War II alarmsWe first notified readers on Friday, January 30, 2009 Qatari LNG gas to arrive in South Wales, real soon now of the expected arrival (some time) of LNG gas in Wales.... 7 weeks later.It looks as though it might arrive this week.The Korean-built LNG tanker Tembek can hold more than 200,000 cubic metres of LNG cooled to -161ºc will finally moor at South Hook LNG jetty Milford Haven(Wales zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-16374761254445390072009-03-16T10:00:00.005Z2009-03-16T15:12:13.776ZUS Predator bombs Pakistan second time in 4 days.....Overnight a US operated Predator fired a Hellfire missile at a compound in the town of Jani Khe in the Bannu district in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province.This is the 2nd Predator strike in 4 days and extends the area of operation of the drones outside the tirbal areas.Two al Qaeda operatives and two Taliban fighters have been reported killedBannu, a Frontier Region, is outside of Pakistan'szizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-9487066554492995652009-03-15T21:15:00.004Z2009-03-16T10:00:04.371ZLow cost Afghanistan home made IED's kill as do hi-tech hi cost Predator zonesMore news from Afghanistan today ...1. Four NATO troops (US ?) were killed in an IED attack in eastern Afghanistan. Two Afghans were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul. The mayor of Kandahar survived a suicide attack that killed one civilian. One British soldier was killed in an IED attack at Musa Qala , Helmand province. The MOD have named him as Lance Corporal Christopher Harkett, 22, from zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-28719017751710744182009-03-15T17:16:00.002Z2009-03-15T21:04:06.238ZHealthcare in the EU - No 1 CyprusAn ultrasound scanning machine is a basic piece of hospital diagnostic equipment - with many purposes , it has it's main clinical use in examining pregnant women - although other tests including checks for ovarian cysts or cancer, blocked bile ducts, and infertility checks are just as vital.At Limassol General Hospital (2nd largest twn in Cyprus pop. 170 ,000) it has been broken (amd unrepaired zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-22175674855106898322009-03-14T17:06:00.004Z2009-03-14T19:29:55.407ZConstable Stephen Paul Carroll - a very professional hit - Barratt Sniper rifles in use again ?The shooting of Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, took place near Lismore High School at Brownlow,on Monday 9th March . Google Earth for this location says ... "we are sorry e don't have imagery available for this location"This is a brief review of what the various media have reported since about the killing.Two incidents, one of "suspicious activity", another involving a broken window and an zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-62727172573674580292009-03-13T15:53:00.007Z2009-03-13T16:27:02.419ZIDF Chief in Washington - combined chat on bombing Iran and a little heavyweight shopping for military equipentWhatever the state of (apparent) rapprochement between Syria / US the constant interchange between the IDF and the US Armed forces and suppliers of US military equipment go on - seemingly unstoppable.This weekend IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi will make his 2nd visit (5 days scheduled) to the US along with accompanied by IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Avi Benayahu and Israel's zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-32914877344583147932009-03-13T14:16:00.005Z2009-03-13T14:46:47.767ZSchizoid Gubment buying toxic debts with one hand and trying to flog / insure toxic debt with the otherOne could be forgiven for thinking that theUK Government is not only confused but alarmingly schizoid - one bit is busily buying up toxic banks, toxic debts, with borrered money, mortages on the future tax payments of at least 2 generations and their newly minted / invented quasi money... or even going into the busiess of insuring bad debts.A Parliamnetary Question yesterday laid bare the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-31390412220845443332009-03-12T18:49:00.002Z2009-03-12T18:53:08.029ZThere is no GODLondon Buszizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-28242350727162648012009-03-12T17:05:00.006Z2009-03-13T15:30:44.752ZThe Mystery of Cyprus registered "Monchegorsk" - Iran / Syrian arms supplies / embargo / UN and Bill Rammell doesn't want to know about Israeli armsFun loving, conference hopping, Bill Rammell called to invite us to a London conference on prevention of arms smuggling to armed groups in Gaza, tommorrow 13th March run by his FCO chums (from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the USA.) at Lancaster House on Friday 13th March.This, he reminds us is a follow up to the 5th February Copenhagen conference, whenzizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-31182980067082524792009-03-12T08:20:00.003Z2009-03-12T08:38:07.431ZThe Government are doing a splendid job .....Gordon or someone at the Cabinet Office has just sent a Press Release.Cabinet Office 10/03/2009 08:45 Cabinet Office (National) (Cab Office) Working Together - Public Services On Your Side The Government will today set out its vision for the future shape of public services, building on a decade of unprecedented investment and rising standards.There follows a list of previusly announced zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-29845592539487057002009-03-11T17:30:00.004Z2009-03-11T17:40:49.084ZIraq / Afghan bombing continues - IEDS kill 10 in Khost and HelmandAir Force Link reports that yesterday In total, 76 close-air-support missions were flown in support of the ISAF and Afghan security forces, reconstruction activities and route patrols.In Iraq, coalition aircraft flew 25 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. 29 Air Force and Navy ISR aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Iraq. In addition, three coalition and Air Force zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-53549276333906095212009-03-10T20:20:00.002Z2009-03-10T20:42:56.507ZMassarene - who owns, whom, and what and why - target at random ?Click here for actual Earth link.Eton educated Stuart Wheeler made his fortune as the founder of IG Index in 1974.Whe he sold out he spent £7.3m, windfall from the sale of his third tranche of shares in IG Group, on buying the Grade I listed Jacobean Chilham Castle, in Kent fom John Whyte - Melville - Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene (Grenadier Guards) and is President of the Conservative zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-41651172558536465382009-03-10T12:54:00.008Z2009-03-11T09:55:05.847ZUK Government and SFO quietly let slip Kenyan crooks, offshore bank / tax havens with a scribbled note in the House of LordsYesterday Baroness Northover(Liberal Democrats Spokesperson on International Development in the House of Lords) received a written answer from The Attorney-General (Baroness Scotland of Asthal) to the question she raised further to the Written Answer by the Solicitor General, Vera Baird, on 11th February (Official Report, House of Commons, col. 1990W), why the investigation into Anglo Leasing zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-8490557572678545312009-03-09T15:46:00.006Z2009-03-09T16:08:07.383ZNo Nimrods in use in Afghanistan - less on Home Defence and the rest in for urgent repairs - MOD business as usualThe examining board were able to identify the most probable location of the fire, a number of probable causes of that event and factors which possibly contributed to it:a. The escape of fuel during AAR, occasioned by an overflow from No 1 tank, or a leak from the fuel system (fuel coupling or pipe), led to an accumulation of fuel within the No 7 tank dry bay. Although of a lower probability, the zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-24488842807969369092009-03-08T21:19:00.003Z2009-03-08T21:31:55.750ZReal IRA claim responsibility for drive-by executions of two British soldiers and promise wave of new attacksIRA has not gone away, Adams warns ministers Independent -August 14th 1995"Speaking at a large republican rally in Belfast city centre, Mr Adams accused the Government of intransigence and of strangling the opportunity for peace, a man called out: "Bring back the IRA." Mr Adams was applauded when he responded: "They haven't gone away, you know."Quinn murder shows IRA has not gone away Belfast zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-28867763095259107142009-03-08T16:12:00.003Z2009-03-08T17:04:40.211ZLady Dame Jane Baroness Pauline Neville Jones - 1st rate analysis of global problems in viewThe Conservative's Shadow Security Minister Dame Lady Jane Baroness Neville Jones ("Out Pauline") has been missing in the House - she was in sunny Jakarta delivering an excellent speech in the swanky Ritz Hotel , to the World Islamic Economic Forum,1,557 people, including 1,395 delegates, 85 speakers and 70 heads of state from 38 countries were present. The theme was "Food and Energy Security zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-29610649025782894232009-03-07T18:24:00.003Z2009-03-07T19:04:46.664ZPriness Anne "kidnap" - Ian Ball still inside after 35 yearsOn the 20th March 1974 Princess Anne and her freshly laundered wimpish first husband Capt. Mark Philips were rolling along Pall Mall in a RoyalRoller to Buckingham Palace after a charity filmscreening. (Note here that the "kidnapper" Ian Ball says, "In 1971 I was working at Filmatic Laboratories Ltd., Lonsdale Road, London, W1, as a van driver. I used to spend every working day travelling around zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-66408142325595554872009-03-07T16:54:00.001Z2009-03-07T17:32:59.912ZRole play - Invest Squander the Quantitative easing funds for MervynQuantitative easing (QE)provides the BoE with the ability to buy assets, securities like corporate bonds or commercial paperand Govern/ ment bonds from commercial banks / insurance companies that currently hold them.Here is your chance to play the bemused academic crossed fingers specialist .... Mervyn King British Airways (The worlds favourite airline) have bonds they have issued ..lots of 'zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-35037538422053702562009-03-07T11:45:00.003Z2009-03-07T12:21:54.213ZWhere are they Now ? No : 342 Huma Abedin , Shrillarys lover and "special advisor"On her first trip abroad as US Secretary of State, Shrillary talked to an audience of women at Ewha Women University campus in Seoul the questions were not apparently about O'Bombers about, bombing campaigns in Pakistan , tax cuts or US healthcare, or even about looming North Korea's nuclear weapons or the global economic crisis.All eyes were on Shillarys pet Huma Abedin.With her tried and zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12343095.post-9351501489365075412009-03-06T21:13:00.004Z2009-03-06T21:30:00.204ZWhen asked a difficult question , refuse to answer or lie - that's what bankers do - especially Fed ChairmenVermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who usually votes with the Democrats, tackled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and said he found it "unacceptable" that the central bank risked taxpayer money without detailing where the funds went."My question to you is, will you tell the American people to whom you lent $2.2 trillion of their dollars?" Sanders asked ..... referring to the size zizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.com0