Nourishing Obscurity

The thing is, people rarely do things for other than two reasons – money or personal obsession about some point. This blog was begun because of an obsession with Them.

What was the reason for Herve Falciani [pictured] doing as he did?   If it was for money, who was going to pay it?  The answer might be in here:

The UK’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) office paid around £100,000 for information about its taxpayers with bank accounts in Liechtenstein, according to accountants UHY Hacker Young.

“Paying criminals for data stolen from banks is highly questionable,” said the firm’s tax partner, Roy Maugham. “If people know that there is a market for this data, they will steal it in expectation that HMRC or another tax authority will hand over a six figure sum,” he said.

A Georgina M went with him to Beirut and says it was to sell the data.  Falciani says “in no way“:

Le fisc vous a-t-il rémunéré ? La justice vous a-t-elle offert une protection ? Y a-t-il eu un échange ?  En aucun cas. J’ai dit : voilà la situation, je ne veux pas d’argent. Ils ont su trouver les preuves.

He maintains that in 2006, when he was working on the archiving of data with HSBC, he noted that French customers’ data was being “locked up” in Switzerland.  This article gives a better explanation:

Why did Herve Falciani do this? Difficult to answer. If one reads between the lines of his interview, one understands that its motivations are ideological: as from the moment when he had included/understood what occurred: the practice had to be denounced.

What practice?  The practice of money laundering, of course and tying up data in Switzerland so that French authorities could not access it and bring criminals to trial.  Of course, you’ve already tumbled to the fact that this was HSBC allegedly doing this with “special accounts” in Switzerland and if they are doing it, then which other banks also?

This blog makes no statement either way. How would I know if HSBC has been up to naughties or not?  What the Falciani action does do, of course,  is focus the world’s attention on the question of money laundering, the ability of the “English way” to cloak it all with opacity and the relationship between the need for tax authorities to beef up databases in order to catch out high level crims who go on to escape the net anyway and to use those databases to crack down on the little people in ways unrelated to the catching of high end crims.

Time for a break from European politics.  Your humble blogger had never heard of Aum Shinrikyo, Yoichi Clark Shimatsu or Archipelago before today, nor had he heard of Shoko Asahara, Harry Mason or Dan Gerber – shows what a sheltered life he’s led.

Probably any twelve year old gamer could tell him about these things and about “the major January 1995 quake which laid waste to the Japanese City of Kobe.”

When I read:

The latter resulted in the crash of the Tokyo stock exchange – itself directly leading to the collapse of England’s spook-infested Barings bank. Suggestions that the Kobe event may have been caused by a laser-powered seismic weapon continue to circulate.

… then we were clearly in Science Fiction territory and there’s nothing wrong with a good bit of SF for light relief. So, for a bit of corroboration on who this Aum Shinrikyo actually is and lo and behold, guess who’s got an article on it?

Our old friends the CFR.

At the center of the group’s belief is reverence for Shoko Asahara, Aum’s founder, who says that he is the first “enlightened one” since Buddha. Asahara preached that the end of the world was near and that Aum followers would be the only people to survive the apocalypse, which he predicted would occur in 1996 or between 1999 and 2003.

Asahara has claimed that the United States would hasten the Armageddon by starting World War III with Japan. Aum accumulated great wealth from operating electronic businesses and restaurants, in addition to requiring members to sign their estates over to the group. Aum recruited young, smart university students and graduates, often from elite families, who sought a more meaningful existence, according a New York Times profile of the group.

At the time of the 1995 subway attack, the group claimed to have an estimated forty thousand members worldwide, with offices in the United States, Russia, and Japan, according to the State Department.

Subway attack?

The group made headlines around the world in 1995 when members carried out a chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system. A nerve agent, sarin, was released onto train cars, killing twelve and causing an estimated six thousand people to seek medical attention, according to the U.S. State Department 2007 Country Report.

Chemical attack?  The original article has a different version:

Shoko Asahara, predicted the Kobe quake nine days before the event. In an 8 January 1995 radio broadcast, Asahara stated “Japan will be attacked by an earthquake in 1995. The most likely place is Kobe.” Hideo Murai, the late Science and Technology minister for Aum Shinrikyo also adhered to this view.

Now we’re getting into the old truth gap, where one version, by the infamous CFR says one thing and if they were involved in earthquake technology, they’d hardly be likely to mention it on their site and the original article, by fearless Alex Jones types, says another.

The CFR concedes:

As early as five years before the March 1995 subway attack, the group attempted to carry out at least nine biological assaults—all failed—according to a 1998 New York Times investigation. Originally, Aum planned to massacre citizens by spraying botulin, the most lethal natural poison to humans, from buildings and modified delivery vans. Aum’s team of young scientists cultured and experimented with biological toxins, including botulin, anthrax, cholera, and Q fever.

The transition to chemical weapons came after biological attacks failed. Investigations and raids after the subway attack showed that Aum was capable of producing thousands of kilograms of sarin a year, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The cult had also acquired a Russian military helicopter that could have been used to distribute the gas, the police said.

Early summary – crazed cult with intelligent scientists lays hands on chemical and biological weapons, with a view to bringing their predictions of Doomsday to fruition. Compare that to the Christian version which says He will come as a thief in the night – you’ll not know when, so stop speculating about it now and prepare yourselves inside, i.e. clean up your act, boys and girls.

Uh huh. The original article goes on:

Murai [astrophysicist Hideo Murai, Aum member] presented his allegation in an April 7, 1995 news conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club in Japan. In answer to questions about the Kobe quake, Murai said “There is a strong possibility of the activation of an earthquake using electromagnetic power, or somebody may have used a device that applied force inside the Earth.” The Aum leadership believed the Kobe quake an act of war: “The City of Kobe was hit by a surprise attack…” they claimed, adding the City was an “…appropriate guinea pig.”

It gets better:

Aum’s singular interest in weapons of mass destruction – including sophisticated earthquake, weather and plasma weapons – were considered serious enough to launch a special investigation by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Chaired by Senator Sam Nunn, the committee spent five months conducting hundreds of interviews of “both government and private individuals.” These included classified briefings from numerous US intelligence agencies. Their findings were published in an October 1995, 100 page report on the Aum cult.

The Nunn report, in addition to outlining Aum’s large international membership and massive finances of US$1 billion plus, also revealed the cult’s fascination for Tesla weapons. The Senate report describes Aum’s visits to the New York based International Tesla Society (ITS), where they sought to obtain a number of his books, patents and papers.

A representative of the ITS told Senate investigators that Aum’s interest focused on Tesla’s experiments with “resonating frequencies,” adding that “Tesla had experimented in creating earthquakes.” Significantly, the report also states that Tesla claimed “…with his technology he could ‘split the world’ in two.”

Aum personnel also travelled to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Their studies here included researching the so called “Tesla Coil” – a device used for alternating currents. Additionally, they also uncovered Tesla’s work on “high energy voltage transmission and on wave amplification, which Tesla asserted could be used to create seismological disturbances.”

But why? For what purpose?

It is important to note that the cult shared one common thread with their arch rivals, the militaristic Soka Gakkai. The latter is a truly enormous and powerful Japanese religious cult with 15 million members and massive finances. Both cults adhere to the cataclysmic teaching of the 18th century prophet monk, Nichiren.

This doctrine states that an apocalyptic “final war” (saishu senso”) is to be fought against the “Christian west and the Islamic world.” Also known as the “100 hundred year war” it pre-dates WW11 and continues to be fought in the shadows, even as we speak.

One always tries to relate these things to personal experience and there was an incident in 1995 where I took the heads of two London Chinatown youth organizations to lunch as a goodwill exercise, as I thought we might get a bit more peace and cooperation if we did. They probably embellished their tales of Hong Kong life but let’s just say that Aum would not have felt out of place in their particular world.

Unfortunately, two weeks after this, a restaurant in Chinatown was gutted and two of these chaps were arrested in connection with it.

This was where I developed an interesting theory [yes, Guthrum] that the security forces in the UK know everything of these groups, where they’ll be and how they get round. The notion of group members travelling freely and linking up without security knowing anything at all makes me smile.

Of course, I’m probably completely wrong in that assertion and in fact British security is totally hopeless, with the chiefs knowing absolutely nothing and having no info conduit whatsoever to a central place. They just sit around drinking coffee, of course.

Lifton, Robert Jay, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. New York: Macmillan (2000), wrote of Aum:

The religion’s practices remained shrouded in secrecy. Initiation rituals often involved the use of hallucinogens, such as LSD. Religious practices often involved extreme ascetic practices referred to as “yoga” These included everything from renunciants being hung upside down to being given shock therapy.

Two years before the Kobe massacre, there was an incident in Western Australia, according to Wiki:

At 11:03 on May 28,1993, a large seismic disturbance in West Victoria, Australia tripped sensors across the globe. However, truckers and campers saw a bright flash of light “like a far off explosion”. It was later discovered that Aum owned a large plot of land near the epicenter. Many scientists and authorities believe this could have been a bomb test or even possibly a nuclear bomb.

A link to the station in question was given at the foot of the Wiki page. The original article says:

In 1995, British born Geologist/Geophysicist, Harry Mason, stumbled across a strange, unaccountable earthquake which rumbled across the vast open spaces of Western Australia two years earlier. The event took place at 11.03 p.m., on 28 May 1993 with an epicentre close to Banjawarn sheep station in the Leonora-Laverton area – North-west of Perth. The event registered 3.7 on the Richter scale and was assumed to have been the first ever recorded quake in that part of Australia.

Harry Mason, was gathering information that made him pause for thought.  Intriguingly, just a few kilometres from Banjawarn, is a military facility located at Laverton.  Mason says that press photos of this facility “are identical” to the Alaskan HAARP (High-frequency Active Aural Research Project) programme.  HAARP has received intense media speculation in recent years, due to its Tesla-like research programme.

In an early, detailed essay, Mason concludes “One is certainly left with the impression that someone has been utilising the Leonora-Laverton region as their own private testing ground.” In a private telephone conversation with the US Senate Investigations Chief Council, Dan Gerber, Mason was told that Aum had “developed” nuclear bombs and were thought to be conducting a “crash” programme to build an “Earthquake Inducing Weapon.”

Ah, HAARP, which then gets onto the Russian Woodpecker.  See here and here.  Further investigation by Harry Mason led him to this:

Additional investigation by Mason centred on the South East Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. An area unknown for earthquake activity until 1970, an amazing 173 tremors measuring between 3-0 on the Richter scale occurred between 1970-3, with the majority between March and early October 1970. The epi-centres of these events are spaced exactly 10 kilometres apart, along “8 lines each 50-70 km long. Several similar events have occurred subsequently.

With the 1995 figure standing at 246 , Mason concluded they were “abnormally regular,” and believed Australia was being surreptitiously used as a testing ground for advanced “scalar E/M weapons exercises. Originally, Mason thought these tests may have been of Russian KGB – or more probably French origin.” However, recent data pointed to Scalar EM weapon tests conducted from the US Navy Exmouth Peninsula Tx facility.

The US Navy connection is intriguing. It was the US Navy who were responsible for Project “Prime Argus” – a precursor programme to HAARP.

Interestingly, I myself was at their base hospital in 1986 so they do exist although I was drugged and out of it at the time. I remember it being 52 degrees Celsius outside and beautiful inside.

The Russian connection

The Nunn report makes clear that Aum sought to selectively recruit Russian scientists into its fold.  They targeted, in particular, physicists, chemists, biologists and others engaged in advanced military weapons research. The Senate report also states that Aum were in the process of purchasing a gas laser for plasma-weapons research from their Russian contacts, one of who was Oleg Lobov, Premier Yeltsin’s close confidante.

Lobov was paid a significant sum of money for his assistance.  The figure may have been as much as US$900 million.  It is also clear that Aum received significant assistance from various Russian intelligence services, according to “Vitaly Savitsky, head of the Russian Duma’s religious affairs committee.”  Aum’s intelligence connections also extended to Toshio Yamaguchi, head of Japan’s foreign intelligence service – and allegedly a Soka Gakkai devotee.

Again I looked for corroboration and found this, from the NYT:

In an interview tonight on NTV, the independent television station, Mr. Rutskoi, who is one of the Russian President’s most vehement opponents, said he had been instructed by Mr. Yeltsin’s office to meet with the Japanese sect leader. He suggested that the Yeltsin Administration was at that time seeking favor with the leader of the cult.

And the chairman of a subcommittee on religious organizations in the the lower house of Parliament, Vitaly Savitsky, added fuel to the scandal by waving a piece of paper in a news conference today that he said was a list of former Cabinet members and a Government official still in office who have links to various cults, including Aum Shinrikyo. He declined to give their names.

Then I looked at this, including Surkov, V. V., and M. Hayakawa (2009) and a glance at that page is interesting, which leads us to Mephi Ru, a funded centre for innovative projects which I looked at.  Mephi?  Mephistoph…..  no, let’s pause for a reality check here.

So, what do we have so far?  Crazed cult moves around the world at will, funded by big money, intelligent people, Russian and American connection to Japan, group buys property in Australia near US base and soon after there is a seismic incident, connection to HAARP, thence to predicted result in Kobe.  OK, let’s press on.

Tesla

Was Tesla actually capable of triggering earthquakes?   John O’Neill’s “Prodigal Genius,” (1944) quotes Tesla:

In one experiment in 1896, Tesla accidentally triggered an earthquake across a dozen New York city blocks. This, Tesla later said, was caused “by a little piece of apparatus you could slip in your pocket.” As local police stormed his lab, the wily inventor lifted a sledge-hammer and smashed the oscillator to pieces, bringing an end to the pandemonium.

A bit too much gilding the lily there for my tastes.  This article mentions Tesla’s experiments as well and you most likely have more knowledge of Tesla than I.

Madness

Any James Bond villain worth his salt is mad, unbelievably rich and has plans for world domination.   The particular form of insanity which regards humans as ants to be washed away seems to permeate many of the upper echelons of our society – those echelons which tell us not to worry and to leave the running of the world to them.

They seem to love greenery. The driving force behind the Valdez Principles, committing corporate America to the Gorean Eco principles has this mindset:

The Shamballa force is in reality Life itself; and Life is a loving synthesis in action. We also used the Six Laws and Principles of the New Age to lead us towards creating a vision of how these principles might create patterns for the New Civilization humanity will be constructing over the next 2500 years.

The purpose of the World Service Intergroup is to generate a focused, conscious and deliberate intergroup effort to specifically assist the Externalization of the Hierarchy and the Reappearance of the Christ.

That’s a direct reference to the Evil One and I don’t mean Mandelson.  They might point to David Kelly as evidence that it might be a very good strategy not to get too far involved.

Counterclaim

Dr Christian Klose,  geohazards researcher at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory puts an alternative theory, that there is no need to utilize Tesla.  He cites five ways to induce an earthquake:

1.  Water is heavier than air, so when the valley behind a dam is filled, the crust underneath the water experiences a massive change in stress load.

2. In 1961, the Army decided that the best way to dispose of toxic waste from napalm production (among other things) was to drill a 12,000-foot-deep well in the Rocky Mountains and inject the bad stuff down into the crust of the Earth.

3.  Coal provides more than half the electricity in the United States and an even greater percentage in China. That means there are a lot of coal mines working overtime to pull the fossilized fuel out of the Earth.

4.  Three of the largest human-caused quakes occurred near a natural-gas field in Uzbekistan, the Gazli. The combination of liquid extraction and injection changed the tectonic action in the field. The biggest of the trio registered as a 7.3.

5. Back in 2005, a geologist claimed that the world’s then-tallest building, the Taipei 101, which weighs in at more than 700,000 metric tons, was triggering earthquakes in a long-dormant fault in Taiwan. Klose doubts that the building actually did so, but said that it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility for a building to create an earthquake.

So no, there is no need to go to all the trouble of the Doomsday weapon from Western Australia.  The five above here require big funding on a large scale, but naturally, would not be of as much interest to the military-industrial complex and not as exciting.  A group like Aum would not be interested because they were trying to actually make a point – to show their power.

Bottom line

That apocryphal story Liddy likes to tell about how he and a Russian counterpart were sizing each other up and Liddy let the flesh of his hand burn away over a candle to show the Russian his steely resolve and therefore that of the USA is what we’re dealing with here.  “Bomb ‘em back to the stone age”, “peaceful purposes” with its grim humour, all these Rumsfeldian mindsets, plus crazed yet seemingly sane groups like Aum, funded by big money coming from somewhere and utilizing international scientific cooperation – these, when taken together, point to one of two things.

The first is a bunch of very sick minds which appear to get sicker the higher one goes – just look at Gore for a start.  The second explanation is so bizarre that almost nobody would accept it.

What if there was another entity [just google "lucis trust united nations"] which, for the sake of argument, didn’t like either the earth or the people on it?  How many of you reading this have ever thought, ‘If I were running the world ……?”   What if someone already was?  Now, if you were to accept the existence of that person/entity and the background story, then he’d be one sick mind for the simple reason that he can’t accept a reality staring him in the face and when people are forced to do that, they lose their minds – hence the criminal masterminds in the world.

What we’re talking here is sheer madness and I’m well aware you’ll make the mental jump that this blogger is writing sheer madness but pause for a moment and let the idea sink in.  It really does explain an awful lot.

Finally

An awful lot of earthquakes and tsunamis in recent years, don’t you think?  Who needs Haitians anyway?  The world needs depopulating.

My mind’s eye is actually looking at San Francisco just now.

Something to read.

The Quiet Man is an English stalwart who is part of the large rump of this country that does NOT appreciate the way the place has gone down, especially in the past 13 years.

As QM says:

Once I was British and proud, now I’m English and proud, I wonder what’s going to go next? Probably my sanity.

Look, he’s a good lad who should be on anyone’s list of required reading.  Smiling that he managed the 100 comments, being so quiet ‘n all, like.

Only two pieces this evening:

Peter Hain addressed the Welsh Labour Conference held in Swansea from 26th to 28th February 2010 and accused his opponents of falling in with:

…the aims of the extreme right-wing “Albion Alliance”, a dubious organisation whose Chief organiser, John Higham, has posted on his own blog this highly offensive diatribe against Muslims …

I’ve been in touch with John, my half brother, today and he’s as puzzled as I am.  “Surely James,” he asked, “the aims of your organization are:

1. To address the democratic deficit in the current political system by ensuring that MPs place country before political party.

2. To ensure that MPs agree to actively sponsor, promote and support, a Bill in Parliament that allows a referendum of the British People on membership of the European Union.

Isn’t that what you head your website with?  Anyway, I was given to understand that you were a democratic organization and didn’t have a head?”

“That’s so, John. I’m afraid this is just Peter’s way of slandering someone but it’s quite OK and he’s allowed to do that in this country at this time because he’s a Government Minister. Ordinary people such as you and me get taken to court for grossly misrepresenting someone in UK-EU 2010.”

‘But that’s outrageous. Nobody is above the law.”

“John, John, when will you learn that of course MPs are above the law.    The Times has just run an article on this very matter.  If you join a group like the Albion Alliance which simply wants a voice for the people of the UK, whether, black white, purple or indifferent then even if you were once engaged to a Muslim and you chat to your Muslim friends every day, you are a dangerous fanatic, if Peter says so.”

“But why did he call you John?”

“Well, Peter doesn’t really deal in facts and figures.  He subscribes to the “slander someone in an emotive way and hope it constitutes an argument” school of politics and little matters like getting the victim’s name right don’t actually come into it.”

“And are you an extremist?”

“John, anyone to the right of Marx is an extremist in Peter’s world view.”

“So what are you going to do now about him?”

“Well actually, I don’t plan to do anything more than call him up and have a drink with him to discuss the matter.  The Albion Alliance though tell me they’ve started A NEW BLOG,  so they might write something on him.”

“Pretty boring isn’t it – give us a referendum, give us a referendum, give us a referendum?”

“That’s why they’ve opened it up to all points of view so if Peter wanted, he could come over and post his vision of the EU and world government right there.  As long as he doesn’t use bad language, he’s welcome to say what he likes.”

You’ll be aware, of course, that Crufts is well under way [11-14 March] and already, two winners have caught the eye of afficianados:

Mrs Zena Thorn-Andrews had the tough task of judging the Best of Breed winners in the Working Group. Mrs Thorn-Andrews selected Rottweiler Ch Olearia Blaze of Gold, owned by Mrs Marie Monk and Mr C Drabble of Rawmarsh in Rotherham. [See above photo]

No sooner had the Working Group winner been chosen, the task of deciding the Pastoral Group was the difficult decision facing Judge Mr Robin Searle.  The winner was a Welsh Corgi (Cardigan) named Ch Bymil Picture This, owned and handled by Miss Sarah Taylor from Littlehampton in Sussex.  [See below photo]

If you check the url of the lower photo, you’ll see my interest in all of this.

The Indonesian President gave the Australian Prime Minister an interesting gift:

”The President and his first lady gave Mr Rudd and Therese Rein some rare luwak coffee. It’s made from beans that have passed through the digestive system of a monkey-like creature called a civet cat. A new treat at the Lodge: crappuccino!”

Coffee, anyone?

The Beeb, on Rumpy Pumpy. This is how it might have been:

“Voters appreciate politicians who keep their cool – it’s a distinct advantage being a damp rag, better than being a dry wit and I’m very cool under pressure and when I was in the Belgian parliament as prime minister, if people said nasty things or insulted me I stayed very calm and that was very well received by the public and the public loved me because I was a calm politician, not a third rate bank clerk.

I never once worked at a till or any other demeaning job like that.  I can assure you that I am now at the height of my popularity in Flanders, after the incident in the European Parliament… A lot of people feel themselves confident when they are governed by people who don’t get nervous and angry at every incident and I don’t get nervous and I’m very cool and people love me.  And I’m not a damp squib either.

Actually, I act very coolly, like the British at their best, phlegmatically, as a matter of fact.  That’s my main claim to the EU Presidency – that I can be so cool under pressure and have such charisma that people love me in Flanders.

Did I mention that I usually stay cool, calm and collected?  And that man is beneath contempt.  And I always remember a name and he’ll get his, not that I was affected, of course.  Steve Bercow and I sleep together on weekends too.  And it’s very calm and loving.”

Here’s the Wiki entry on Shadowstatsdotcom and Lorimer Wilson is a financial analyst. Apart from the prattiness of putting up a “you must be logged in” to even quote from the article – it’s just an article, after all – it does quote some good things:

The intensifying economic and solvency crises, and the responses to both by the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve in the last two years, have exacerbated the government’s solvency issues and moved forward my timing estimation for the hyperinflation to the next five years….

The U.S. government and Federal Reserve already have committed the system to this course through the easy politics of a bottomless pocketbook, the servicing of big-moneyed special interests, gross mismanagement, and a deliberate and ongoing effort to debase the U.S. currency. Accordingly, risks are particularly high of the hyperinflation crisis breaking within the next year.”

For those who hope for change, we’re sorry to inform you that it isn’t coming, because it is too late: “The U.S. has no way of avoiding a financial Armageddon. Bankrupt sovereign states most commonly use the currency printing press as a solution to not having enough money to cover obligations.

The alternative would be for the U.S. to renege on its existing debt and obligations, a solution for modern sovereign states rarely seen outside of governments overthrown in revolution, and a solution with no happier ending than simply printing the needed money.

With the creation of massive amounts of new fiat dollars (not backed by gold or silver) will come the eventual destruction of the value of the U.S. dollar and related dollar-denominated paper assets,” says Williams.

The collapse of the U.S. economy shouldn’t affect us but it will, of course, because we’re locked into a global fiscal system and when they go down, we go down.  Yesterday this blog made reference to the time factor in all of this.  The EU is rushing to tighten the noose and achieve integration because they’re well aware of eurosceptic feeling here and of the high profile of some of the campaigns.  They’re also aware of the ECA and 1688.  They are moving to shift the constitutional debate onto EU home ground.

It’s just as arrogant for us to say we can simply walk out after this has been signed away as it is for them to be perpetrating this on our country in the first place.

But more than this – the global backdrop must be looked at.  We do not operate in a cocoon here in the UK – we’ve made deals, concessions, borrowed IMF money and made agreements with BIS backed financiers.  We’ve put our country in hock and what are we going to do now?  Renege?  Be downgraded to BBB, just above junk or what?

Huge egos and partisan politics

Norman Tebbit made a comment yesterday which uncannily echoes the exact words of the LPUK leadership. “An Englishmans Viewpoint” asked my view of The Albion Alliance. Well, it just has no traction. Better Off Out has done more in this field, but this approach will not go very far.

Better Off Out was the Conservative driven initiative and this highlights the fact that everyone out there wants to push his own barrow; that became exceptionally clear in the Free Nick Hogan campaign, as F2C tried to muscle in at the last minute to claim the kudos.

We couldn’t care less about who gets there first, as long as we all get there. For a major figure who should be supporting such a campaign as the Albion Alliance [on the grounds that he believes in the principles] to virtually say: “I’m not giving you any traction, therefore you have no traction, therefore my own group has achieved more than you,” is bizarre, to say the least.

If the people who are fond of saying we have no traction were to support giving the people a voice rather than throwing a wet blanket on the efforts, for their own party political reasons, then we’d get the referendum, get out of Europe and then get down to tackling the problems of this country.

Not playing the game

Let me go back to Leonard Cohen:

You cannot stand what I’ve become,
you much prefer the gentleman I was before.
I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,
I didn’t even know there was a war.

I’m sorry if my language is intemperate or I don’t pay my dues to my superior politicos or pundits who are so far out of my league that I shouldn’t even be blogging about them, in their view.  I’m sorry if giving the people a voice has “no traction”.  I’m sorry that a party leader won’t support a cause because someone else said cruel things about him.  I’m sorry if supporting a voice for the people offends my superiors so much.

Pardon me but I thought supporting a voice for the people was … er … sort of the thing we were trying to achieve here.

Clearly I was wrong.

“2009 is also the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.”

Herman van Rompuy

I apologize to Nigel Farage for saying his comments were a little OTT.

Circling on heat, she signalled her willingness to mate by lowering her head, bending her front legs and raising her rear quarters; her tail was held up and to the side of her body.  She moved her back legs rhythmically, as if walking in place.

There was no subtlety here. This position and behavior definitely got the male’s attention. He gripped the female by the nape of her neck with his teeth, giving her a “love bite” to control her movements.  And that scream from the female may have had something to do with the male’s barbed fishhook.

It lasted only moments. The male leapt away to evade the vigorous blows from the female’s paws. That’s the thanks he got for making her pregnant.  “Many females,” wrote Henry Wendt, “writhe violently and roll convulsively after the tom has released them.”

I’m terribly sorry – I seem to have the wrong manuscript here.  This was meant to be about EU directive 248B/19, Dec 19, 2009 but it seems to have become mixed up with the mating rituals of cats.  I unequivocally and without reservation, apologize with raised rump to every cat who was ever maligned by the injudicious use of that photo above.

11,825 spams caught, 5,617 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.708%.

Thought that was interesting and about 10 000 of those spams have been since early February. Hotting up.  One who called himself Z with exclamation marks got through the system and we’ve since analysed him and dealt with it in our own particular way.

Some say yes they’re both committing naughties, some say not, the laissez-fairers ask so what but it seems to your humble correspondent that it all comes down to definitions.  This blog is probably out of step with public opinion, especially that which is shocked by something like this and then supports sleeping around for themselves.

Scenario – the wife with the predatory eyes who expects to be seen as “nice” and “sweet’ [I find her disingenuous image-projection eminently resistible] is just a bit too touchy-touchy in that delightful modern way in which she demands the right to canoodle up to whomever she wants and don’t you dare accuse her of anything untoward.  He’s a serial affairist and “finds comfort” in someone else’s arms.

For ordinary mortals though, where should the line be drawn?  Just because the French seem to openly tolerate anything which goes is no more right than us pretending morality and indulging in that which we condemn behind the scenes.  Why do they bother pretending, the Sarkozies, that it’s a marriage anyway, if that’s what they’re doing [not that this has been established conclusively at all - after all, she, like Tiger Woods, denied everything].

Who cares?

What your humble blogger does care about is that dividing line.  What precisely is cheating?  I’d like to know because then I’d know if I were guilty or innocent in the past.  You’ve heard of serial monogamists – are we just as bad, except that we think we’re morally superior?

Where’s the line?

There’s an old story about this.  Man and woman in a cafe, in comes another man, she goes up to him and kisses him, he mumbles something to her and they go through to the next room.  Scenario 2 – man comes into the cafe, woman explains to her partner and asks time out, goes over to the incoming man, laughs, chats for three minutes, says goodbye and returns to her partner, completing the explanation.

Let’s get to the nitty-gritty – are you happy for your woman to have lots of male friends and if you’re broadminded enough for that, how much time may she spend with them all?  Do you give up 50% of your time together?  35%?  Do you follow a policy that as long as she distributes her time evenly among all of the other men, it’s quite OK but when a rival starts getting 20% of her time, you start to feel uneasy?

What?  How do you decide?  Do you, in fact, decide?  Maybe she does the deciding and your only decision is how much c–p you can accept.  Maybe you “trust” one another.  Good, good – trust each other not to do what?  Not to sleep with another of the opposite gender?

Where’s the line?

How about the same gender? I don’t know what she’d think about me sleeping with another man but I don’t have a psychological problem with her sleeping with a girlfriend. Younger girls are always walking about holding their best friend’s hand. I don’t particularly want to know the fine details but it’s not a major issue for me and I can say that because it happened with one gf. Sometimes the other girl would tell me about it later, if I happened to meet her. By not being furious, was I condoning and abetting that? My book addresses this in Part 3.

Maybe you take the point of view that you have no problems with your woman distributing her time to various men, spending large amounts of time in their company, as long as it doesn’t fall into your quality time.  Maybe you trust her not to have intercourse with another because that’s what men are generally concerned about.  Is it wrong for Bruni to spend a lot of time with that singer because he’s six years younger and she wants to do a bit of cougaring?  Is it wrong for Nico to seek comfort in another woman’s arms, if that’s as far as it goes?

is it a badge of distinction to have so many lovers?

With this situation in mind:

Identity Fraud is one of the UK’s fastest growing crimes, affecting individuals and businesses alike. The crime is of greater concern than other more traditional illegal activities such as burglary, mugging and pickpocketing. Around 81% of the British public are concerned about becoming a victim of identity theft according to a report published today by the fraud prevention service CIFAS.

However despite this statistic, most consumers and businesses are not taking steps to protect themselves. 22% access their bank details at work or in internet cafes, while 79% of businesses make no effort to destroy sensitive material that is thrown away or recycled.

… what does one make of the Identity Commissioner, Sir Joseph Pilling, saying:  “It is impossible to tell whether identity cards have been obtained fraudulently?”

The essential problem is that ID theft is big business.  Someone steals your identity, via credit cards or other means, he or she applies for an ID Card and that card is assigned in perpetuity.  That means that any liabilities, crimes etc. are assigned to you.

H/T Lord T

The triple glazing

Cherie asks why and I reply – I’ll tell you when they turn up at 8 a.m. to finish the job.  They left gaping holes to the outside last night and it was an interesting thing sleeping in the next room with little heating.  It looks good though and should both cut out the cold and soundproof the two rooms.  They were never subject to noise anyway as I’m far enough away from any traffic but the heat loss of the ancient NT design was  substantial.

Interesting theories

Tom Paine wrote about yesterday’s confab: “hear his theories as to what is going on in British politics.”  Hardly theories, Tom and and hardly mine.  The contention made, as has been shown in various long posts here and on many other blogs, give or take some of the MSM and in books and journals across the land and indeed, other lands, was that we urgently need this referendum on constitutional grounds, let alone as an exercise in our right to self-determination.

1.  Tom, not a constitutional lawyer but a mighty good one in his own sphere, took the usual erroneous position the educated do in Britain that it just takes one strong leader and we’re out of the EU under the Communities Act.  Not so and this is the single greatest hurdle to overcome with those generally au fait with politics but not on this particular matter.

For a start, he is presupposing that we are still the UK.  It’s incomprehensible to the comfortable Brit tat we might not be.  One tends to smile at the suggestion that we might not be.

Now, even as we write and read [linked to from previous posts] the treaty is changing yet again, according to its own self-amendment clauses which allow delegated authority to make recommendations and to implement “under certain circumstances” policy, e.g. on a European police force.

This assumption that we still have a UK is the greatest con-trick being foisted on us.

Lisbon has already broken the UK into the home countries and nine regions.  Now, though Westminster still exists and they’ll go through with this hung parliament show election to lull the people into thinking they still have power, you’ll see from looking at the charts that power in critical areas is flowing across to Brussels and what is left is technical sovereignty on paper but not in practical politics, as the head of LPUK is wont to lecture me on.

The law – yes, if there was a Churchill committed to an independent UK or England, as Tom says, then he’d take us out and to hell with the rules.  But we don’t have that – we have spineless leaders who kowtow to Brussels federalism and in Clegg’s case, there’s a nice pension attached to our staying in.

Then comes the legal battle.  Brussels is not a fool and knows perfectly well the ECA provisions and how far they can be invoked in practice.  In practical terms, the UK is tied up in loans from the IMF and other bodies, the future of the City is tied to that and if we were to withdraw without a watertight case, these would be called in.

Then we come to the days in court over this.  Which court?  Have you looked lately at the transfer of power to the European Court and which legal opinion prevails there?  Yes, a leader can technically invoke the ECA but there are many other acts hedging it about and they militate against the ECA.  The thing is, Blair/Brown have given away our powers and that’s what’s impossible to get people to see.  We’ve already conceded them of our own volition and these militate against 1688.

At the very least, it would be messy and damaging.  However, with a vote of people of the UK yea or nay, it would be a powerful weapon.  Cameron and the LPUK leader say we’d lose a referendum now. Try QM’s post today.

This is such BS they’re foisting on you.

Who would phrase the question and educate the people?  Why, the Tories of course if their nose was in front in our stupid FPtheP voting system which kills off small parties.  So there’d be no Brown legerdemain here – the question would be framed along Hannan lines and all polls to date have shown that a majority would vote against us remaining in.

There is no legitimate reason for the next semi-government NOT to put a referendum to the people and in fact, there are most cogent and urgent reasons for it to do so, namely the transmogrification of the Treaty provisions even as we speak and write to the point where the UK effectively ceases to be the UK and therefore we are constitutionally unable to invoke 1688 and the ECA.

Hardly a theory – more like a dystopic reality, like a train crash you see happening and can do nothing to prevent.  Father, forgive them for they know not …

2.  This took up about 3-5% of yesterday’s conversation.

Christianity

Xxxl says: “I have no objection to your holding certain “beliefs””, as distinct from his “facts” [:)], I presume.  He draws on sources and I draw on sources, including those of Gnosis.  The question of the artificiers by no means negates the divinity and most gnostic sources conflate a number of realities but that’s a whole field in itself.  The long and the short is whether there is efficacious redemption and many Christians who don’t go round talking about it as I do have felt that power inside – it’s a 100% return on investment but as in all things metaphysical, it is not interested in being tied to debate parameters set by deniers of the metaphysical in the first place.

Now, Xxxl, you and I are not two of those by any means – we’re already debating from the other side, as you well know.

This 100% return on investment is what leads Yewtree [and any religious scholar or philosopher would know what that name signifies] to say:

The reason people don’t like Christianity is because of its exclusivism (the view that only Christians will get to heaven), vicarious atonement theology and its judgmental attitudes. When these are removed (as they are by many liberal Christians), the antipathy is retained only by extreme fundamentalist atheists, who can’t tell the difference between different types of religion, and assume that it’s all equally irrational.

Let’s take the exclusivism [and that is not a misspelling here].  It means not that they exclude because they don’t – they actually welcome new people at any time – but their air of “I’m so pious and saved”.  Or as Douglas Adams said “the serene load of bastards” and one has to chuckle.  Well yes, there is a lot of that.

As you know, JC came to save the lower rungs, the poor and needy, those who are at risk and the vulnerable, e.g. the children forced by peer pressure today, egged on by the media and teachers to prostitute themselves and take drugs in lower teenage, for which those perpetrators will surely burn in hell.  Whoever touches one hair of one of these … etc.  He consorted with sinners/publicans et al, in order to turn them from destructive routes.

Now these people are not exactly from the scholarly field, are they, except for, say, Luke?  They’re not philosophers and thinkers by and large.  They’re ordinary people, subject to the power of the message.  When you make a commitment, a pledge to this way of life, [and everyone is asking for pledges these days, even the Albion Alliance], what in fact happens in a Christian’s case [and so many never make it to this stage but still retain the label]  is that you are possessed.

What do you think the Holy Spirit is all about?  Why do you think the euphoria happens and in rough and ready, freely emoting people, you’re going to get an awful lot of “happy clapping” and “speaking in tongues”, which is not personally to my taste, I’m afraid.  Group things never were.  I prefer the dry[ish] Eucharist at 8 a.m. and even that’s too “groupy” for me, not that I’ve been for years.  Hmmm, might start thinking about that.

It’s essentially one spirit coming in and booting out any others which may have made their camp in there.  Now, Xxxl can argue about the spirit but we do it from a different angle to the average bear – we at least accept the existence of “things out there”.  Xxxl knows full well that though we are at one with the political necessities, when we get to the underlying metaphysical causes, we are part of a very ancient debate, one he and I are probably going to need to have one day.

I’d argue that the next analogy is valid [of course I don't insist on it] but it’s not unlike a happily married couple or a young couple in love.  Naked Gun satirized this when Nielsen and Presley, holding hands, “coathangared” another couple running  the other way on the shoreline or when they squirted ketchup all over each other and the hotdog vendor and because it was love, he forgave all and joined in.

So yes, the “serene lot of bastards” can be highly annoying.  Not only that, it is so easy to stray from what is actually written and then we get into the Mad Max sort of “Christianity” which gets off on violence or that oxymoron, the “liberal Christian” or “Christian lite” who reserves for himself all the pleasures of the sinner but because he makes religious noises on Sunday, thinks he’ll be redeemed or the sparrow “Christian who picks out the bits he wants and leaves the rest.

I’d ask these people to think for one sec.

If you were JC and you’d laid down a set of guidelines to go with all the other guidelines which had come before and which people were ignoring, how would you feel, having done all that work and hung on a cross half a day, if someone wee to come along and do all the old wrong things again, as if you’d never put in that effort at all but that liberal pretends that he’s actually following your precepts and will be redeemed?

Or is he saying there’s no redemption?

Because if he is, he’s not a Christian.  You can argue against redemption – fine, no problem.  But that particular faith revolves round two precepts:  John 3:16 and “love thy neighbour as thyself”.  That’s it.  Not one or the other but both – they’re a job lot.

I don’t know about JC but I’d reserve a particular spot in hell for those who knowingly and deliberately [and in that is the whole criterion - knowingly and deliberately] claim the label Christian when they’re nothing of the sort, one layer above the traitors like Brown, Cameron and Obama. I include here the Crusaders in the higher orders, the Inquisition, the fire and brimstone preachers [who are breaking the second precept], the Illuminati Masons, the tele-evangelists like Swaggart, the paedophile priests, P2 Lodge and in fact anyone else who gives Christianity a bad name.

I mean, at least Mandelson makes no secret of the fact that he is pure, unadulterated evil – he is the Dark Lord, the Ubersith himself and loving it, poor sod.

When these are removed (as they are by many liberal Christians)

That’s a good one.  Analogy – when you remove the MacOS, Safari and Quicktime from the Mac so that it bears no resemblance to the original and use windows and IE6 instead, what do you have left?  Certainly not a Mac, excuse me for being so blunt.

Finally

Er … that probably covers it for now.

I’d like to report that I’m as jober as a sudge after that marathon in Cheshire – not a bad place, Cheshire and an amazing discovery was made – an anthracite Maserati is not designed for slow travel.  The real ale Spitting Feathers is also not designed for one glaththth only and it makes a welcome change after five months on antibiotics.  Sadly, that mallard is no longer quacking.

Tom Paine?  He’s as I imagined him, as tall as a skyscraper and a raconteur of countless tales of derring-do and proprietor of vast lands in Second Life.  He also gets about a bit in Vittoria’s Secret, with Vittoria advising him, in her dulcet tones, to take the fourth exit at the roundabout.  Fourth exit, I said, not third!  His porta-vids of Russian life provided the other entertainment but were too nostalgic for me.

Methinks there might be a bit of a snooze coming on.  Thankee kindly, Thomas Paine, for the afternoon exceeding pleasant.

When I arranged to go out today, I just knew they’d suddenly arrive to put in the triple glazing.  It will not affect much because the posts are already up.  Hopefully they’ll be done by nightfall and I’ll get back to you then.

Not an intellectual feast but a nice summary of Jehanne’s trial:

The trial was a very testing experience for Joan. Initially the trial was held in public, but, her responses were much sharper than her prosecutors expected. She held her own and produced some strong rebuttals, which gained her public sympathy. For example, the prosecution tried very hard to get her to blaspheme. She was asked:

Question at Trial: “Do you know if you are in the grace of God?”

“If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? ”

Not bad, not bad at all.  It reminds me of Someone about 1431 years before that, give or take 30 years who also gave those sorts of answers to officials trying to catch Him out.  And He ended up the same way.

It’s quite annoying when the ignorant try to reduce all religions to parity, as if they all say the same thing.   Scrutiny of the histories of true believers like Jehanne or Bede, Catherine of Siena etc, shows them to be the kindest and yet internally strongest of people.  Not a trace of, “You will believe or I’ll slit your throat.”

Jehanne even had her moment of weakness, as did her Role Model but both got over it, the former with the latter’s assistance.  What always amuses me is the way her Visions were explained away:

Analysis of her visions is problematic since the main source of information on this topic is the condemnation trial transcript in which she defied customary courtroom procedure about a witness’s oath and specifically refused to answer every question about her visions.  Some historians sidestep speculation about the visions by asserting that her belief in her calling is more relevant than questions about the visions’ ultimate origin.

Documents from her own era and historians prior to the twentieth century generally assume that she was both healthy and sane. A number of more recent scholars attempted to explain her visions in psychiatric or neurological terms. Potential diagnoses have included epilepsy, migraine, tuberculosis, and schizophrenia.

In response to another such theory alleging that she suffered from bovine tuberculosis as a result of drinking unpasteurized milk, historian Régine Pernoud wrote that if drinking unpasteurized milk could produce such potential benefits for the nation, then the French government should stop mandating the pasteurization of milk.

That’s always going to be the way with those who have a mental blockage to belief – they’re never going to be able to comprehend or accept what is; they will always have to search for alternative explanations, on the grounds that the real explanation simply cannot be.

That’s their starting point.

Me, I’m not shackled, fettered and blinkered by those constraints and would like to suggest an outrageous hypothesis – she actually did have the visions and not only that, the words were put in her mouth and her ability to lead an army and strategize as she did, with veteran commanders eventually conceding she was pretty darned good, indicates a similar sort of thing to when the Son of a carpenter also confounded officialdom with His wit and repartee.

The essential difference, of course, is that Jehanne did not heal individuals, only a nation and she didn’t walk on water.  Via Methodius, here’s the Hitchens piece and I’d love to have seen the looks on the faces of Mail readers at that.

Some excerpts:

But I can certainly recall the way the words of the Church of England’s marriage service, at St Bride’s in London, awakened thoughts in me that I had long suppressed. I was entering into my inheritance, as a Christian Englishman, as a man, and as a human being. It was the first properly grown-up thing that I had ever done.

The swearing of great oaths concentrates the mind. So did the baptisms first of my daughter and then of my wife who, raised as a Marxist atheist, trod another rather different path to the same place.

Word spread around my trade that I was somehow mixed up in church matters. It was embarrassing. I remember a distinguished foreign correspondent, with a look of mingled pity and horror on his face, asking: ‘How can you do that?’

Hitchens makes the same error as others in confusing “religion” with “Christianity” – completely different things:

It is a strange and welcome side effect of the growing attack on Christianity in British society that I have now overcome this.  Being Christian is one thing. Fighting for a cause is another, and much easier to acknowledge – for in recent times it has grown clear that the Christian religion is threatened with a dangerous defeat by secular forces which have never been so confident.

Why is there such a fury against religion now?

There isn’t, Peter – there is fury against Christianity but they try to blur it into fury against ALL religion. In their minds, global socialism is not a religion, despite the fervour but it looks very much like a religion to me.

He’s right about this though:

[Christianity] is the one reliable force that stands in the way of the power of the strong over the weak. The one reliable force that forms the foundation of the concept of the rule of law. The one reliable force that restrains the hand of the man of power.

In an age of power worship, the Christian religion has become the principal obstacle to the desire of earthly utopians for absolute power.

Yes but how to get anyone to see that?   As you say, it comes down, in the end,  to this decision:

As he has become more certain about the non-existence of God, I have become more convinced we cannot know such a thing in the way we know anything else, and so must choose whether to believe or not.

I think it better by far to believe.

I do not loathe atheists, as Christopher claims to loathe believers. I am not angered by their failure to see what appears obvious to me. I understand that they see differently. It is also my view that, as with all atheists, he is his own chief opponent.  As long as he can convince himself, nobody else will persuade him.

If you wish to see the results of godless socialism, go to Russia and observe the human cost, even two generations on. If you wish to see the results of Christianity, look at the western societies before they lost their souls to the new global federalism which now grips the world.

One is full of zombie-like people who don’t care and the other was full of tolerant people who saw something in their nation to be proud of, a nation once respected in the world.

Anyway, that was the post and most of you got through it relatively unscathed.  But let’s put a sting in the tail and mention a word I almost never use on this blog:

Now why would that immediately get people’s backs up?  After all, He seemed a pretty cool dude in His day, walking about healing people and preaching sermons on hills.  He even overturned some tables once.  I mean, why do people get apoplectic about that and even nauseated?  Let’s see if I get the same reaction when I mention this name:

No?  No reaction?  No nausea?

Wonder why.

A severe bout of self-renewal up in the Scottish paradise:

“I’m starting with the man in the mirror… I’m asking him to change his ways… No message could have been any clearer… If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change… A willow deeply scarred… and a washed out dream… A washed out dream… that man, that man, that man… I’m starting with the man in the mirror… I’m asking him to change his ways… And no message could have been any clearer… If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change…”

200 comments is one of the steps in that direction.

Andrew’s what one could term a “prize commenter”.  Almost every direction he and I come from is divergent and yet we can find common interest in some ways.  We’ve had our moments and will have some more perhaps but my esteem for the chap shows no signs of diminishing.

Try these posts:

Spring

From chemistry to life

Life

The force and the anti-force [no argument there]

No doubt you’ve read this:

The European Commission on Monday signalled its willingness to swing into action with a plan for a monetary fund equipped with sufficient resources to assist highly indebted eurozone nations such as Greece.  Commission officials said preliminary work was already in progress and a proposal for a European Monetary Fund could be prepared by June, when EU heads of state and government are due to meet for a summit.

The creation of a European Monetary Fund would mark a significant step forward in the integration of the eurozone economy, which for the past 11 years has had a single currency and a common central bank but has lacked a fiscal union and clear-cut arrangements for assisting a member-state in severe financial difficulty.

You do see where this is going, don’t you?  The Fiveyearists [heads of the Tories and LPUK] who claim they can wait five years to give the people a voice on Europe are facing integration before that ever comes about.

Wake up, David, Chris and Andrew – there ain’t gonna be no parliament capable of putting a referendum in five years.  There’ll be a parliamentary structure for verisimilitude but it will be emasculated.  This is no speculation – go back and read the EU documentation again.  Part 1 in my inner right sidebar is OK for starters. Another way is to put Xxxl in my page search and it gives you posts with his links in comments – laborious but it shows you what’s going on.

And look at the last paragraph of the FT article:

France and others take the view that the problems lie partly in the imbalances between states such as Germany, which are running large current account surpluses, and less competitive nations such as Greece and Portugal, which are burdened with deficits. However, German politicians and business people see their surpluses as a sign of Germany’s competitive strength.

Old game, new name – pure nationalism of the 1930s type, fomented by the same area of Germany which did it last time, only this time partly with British money.  And they’re amending the Treaty already [H/T IPJ]:

In a communication from the European Commission Implementation of Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (COM 673/09). In its 15 pages it states:

“The scope of Article 290 cannot be determined simply by examining in detail the terms used by the authors of the new Treaty to define delegated acts; the provision also needs to be put into context, by looking in particular at its historical connection with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny and at its links with Article 291 on implementing acts. For it is around Articles 290 and 291 that the legal framework will have to be constructed to replace the comitology system established under the Treaty establishing the European Community.”

Powers taken are almost never returned, and the Commission makes this point quite clear in its document:

The Commission believes it is preferable not to increase the institutions’ workload by introducing a binding system of short-term delegations. Delegations of power should in principle, therefore, be of indefinite duration. Such a practice would, moreover, be entirely consistent with the current situation. Experience shows that the legislator does not, as a general rule, wish to impose a time limit on the powers conferred on the Commission, even when conferring on it responsibility for taking quasi-legislative measures.

May I humbly submit it to the heads of the Tories and LPUK [who oppose giving the people their voice] one more time – powers taken and not returned – there is not going to be any parliament with powers to grant a referendum of a whole UK in five years.  Read 28th Regime and see how the outer shell is left standing, propped up by all the innards are actually EU.  Yes, there is still a Westminster but no, it can’t do anything in five years.

Practical politics, boys, practical politics.  Do we see anything on this from you?  Do we hear anything form your lips?

EU Army to enforce it, EUMC, ESRIF and so on:

“United Europe will only be secure if my generation, which has never experienced war, suffering or hunger, is strongly committed to European integration,” Westerwelle said. “And my generation has a chance to extend this cooperation model far beyond Western Europe, perhaps even to the whole of the European continent.”

Further reading on this here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.  On SWIFT, also here, here and here.

Further readings here.

EU Embassies opening around the world – still you oppose giving the people a voice?

EPP