Agenda 2019

  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/after-a-day-meeting-israel-s-leaders-romney-gives-speech-in-jerusalem-1.454386 After a day meeting Israel's leaders, Romney gives speech in Jerusalem  Romney's staff picked the 150 guests carefully. Religious American immigrants dominated the crowd; secular Jews and native-born Israelis were few and far between. Those present included Jewish-American millionaires, settler leaders like the former chairman of the Yesha Council of settlements Israel Harel, and former Netanyahu aides such as Dore Gold, Naftali Bennett, Ayelet Shaked and Yoaz Hendel. This was not a speech. It was a crass and blatant pitch for the Jewish American vote at the November election, in exchange for the promise of American support for Israel actions against Iran, Palestine and its people and anyone else who criticises or opposes Israeli aggression and barbarism. In other words, Romney said that Israel can do whatever it likes to anyone...

  http://news.sky.com/story/966090/tory-mp-forced-to-say-sorry-over-olympic-gaffe  A Conservative MP has been forced to apologise I did not see the ceremony and therefore cannot comment on the "multi-cultural crap" remark. However, if that is what Aidan Burley thinks then so be it. The thought police of Downing Street and elsewhere have enough influence in this country already. Like the "Senior Source" in Downing Street said,  "We do not agree with him.". Fine, but that does not give you the right to demand an apology. Message to "Senior Source" and the others,from me. You may not agree with what I say (or think) but Hell will freeze over before I apologise for it. 

  http://news.sky.com/story/965230/british-gas-posts-23-percent-rise-in-profits  British Gas Residential arm rose 23% to £345m in the six months to June 30.  The rise in profits means that British Gas Residential made some £1.9m of profit a day as consumers struggle to cope after the average dual fuel bill rose to £1,310 a year - more than £200 higher than two years ago. As predicted, this parasitic energy supplier, heralds a 5% reduction in prices to the consumer earlier this year (having raised the price by 25% over the previous year), and STILL makes £345 million pounds profit in the first 6 months of 2012. Are prices being reduced next week? I do not think so. This profiteering at the expense of the consumer is obscene.

Last night (Tuesday 24th July 2012), Conservative MP Dominic Raab said there was growing concern that public sector workers were being called out on the basis of tiny turnouts in strike votes. He said there was a clear case to require unions to secure the support of 50 per cent of balloted members to make industrial action legal. Perhaps if the same logic were applied in the wider real world, this country would be spared the undemocratic insult where a government can be elected to run the country for up to 5 years when only 3 or 4 of all people voting actually vote for them. Speak up Raab and all the rest of the hypocritical morons who utter the same nonsense, how do you reconcile the obvious inconsistency in your reasoning? Dominic Raab is the Conservative MP for Esher and Walton. He entered Parliament at the 2010 general election

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/9422096/Tony-Blair-hanging-bankers-wont-help.html The approach promoted by Baroness Thatcher’s government is not to blame for the recent financial and economic crisis. “Don’t take 30 years of liberalisation, beginning under Mrs Thatcher, and say this is what caused the financial crisis.” Tony Blair: hanging bankers won't help  Letting them have their huge £1miilion + bonuses won't help either. The War criminal Blair comes to the defence of the thieving parasites. A classic case of defending the indefensible. He praises Thatcher’s work to reduce government involvement in free markets, and seeks to re join the Labour Party. Perhaps it's Blair that should be hanging from the lamp post at the end of the street along side 20 bankers.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-2012-red-carpet-and-a-hard-sell-for-biggest-ever-gathering-of-world-leaders-7966125.html   Queen Elizabeth II Hosts A Reception For Members Of The International Olympic Committee I hope that the athletes enjoy their games (and I do not mean only the 150,000 free condoms which will be available for them during the course of the events) and that the spirit of competitiveness continues. However, I am getting very hacked off with the hangers on and their endless committees, dignitaries, business sponsors, Franchise holders, Heads of State, Civic members etc etc and their numerous receptions, dinners, functions, hospitality events and other "jollies". These "games" have turned out to be what many have always suspected, a never ending procession of social events for the media to cover showing off frocks, suits and other more colourful attire of people only interested in making huge sums of money fr...

http://news.sky.com/story/964120/mp-paying-tradesmen-in-cash-is-morally-wrong  A Treasury minister has hit out at households who pay tradesmen in cash, saying it is "morally wrong" as it helps workers avoid tax. "Getting a discount with your plumber by paying cash in hand is something that is a big cost to the Revenue and means others have to pay more in tax. Exchequer Secretary David Gauke is a complete pillock. I can negotiate a discount for paying cash with all sorts of businesses. The high street shops are more than willing to reduce prices, sometime by as much as 15% in order to secure business especially in the furniture or white goods products. Car franchises usually offer cash discounts on the purchase of cars and vehicles. When Gauke and his ConDem coalition government has inflicted this pressure on the economy and consumers, there is every reason for the consumer to secure the best deal possible whenever a purchase is made. The privatised comp...

  http://t.co/f4d76PTW In a recent Guardian Article, the former Chief Minister of Jersey, Frank Walker, was given the opportunity to show the world that Jersey is none of these things and is willing to engage with anybody who believes otherwise. The Guardian Newspaper asked the Former Chief Minister a set of questions (below) that could help shed some light on the (possibly illegal) suspension of Jersey's most Senior Police Officer during the middle of an investigation into allegations of  State Sponsored Pedophilia and related matters. Frank Walker has been avoiding issues and questions for years and getting away with it. It always seemed to me that many States Members were afraid to challenge anything he said or did. This interview from 2008 is enlightening.( Stuart Syvret wins) . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghJrJEUNxBY  

Damascus is often claimed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Ever since I first went there in the early part of 1985, I have loved the city and Syria, the people I met on numerous visits, the location, the climate, the restaurants everything in fact. Paradoxically, my first view of the country was a chilling one. Arriving at DAM the Damascus International Airport very late at night (the Airport was opened specially to receive the Company aircraft) from a refuelling stop at Larnaca, we were met on the tarmac by a deputation of high ranking army officers who accompanied us to the terminal building on special buses to collect our luggage and the trunks containing the 25 volumes of our (as yet incomplete) proposal for Phase 2 of the local manufacturing of communications equipment Contract for the Syrian Government. Almost as soon as we left the airport for the drive into the City and what was to be our home, office, meeting venue etc over the next week...

http://news.sky.com/story/961678/olympics-give-uk-jobs-market-a-boost    The manipulation of statistics on behalf of governments is nothing new. The way in which inflation figure are calculated and announced always depends upon which set of measurements is most flattering to government policies at that time. RPI or CPI ? It depends on whether there is an r in the month. The art of manipulating figures was not in fact, invented by Thatcher, but it was certainly developed during the 1980's into a very persuasive method of convincing the public into accepting the lies of government in respect of many aspects of British society. If the figures used last month for example, do not show improvement, then change the method of calculation by adding something here or omitting something there until you reach the position that you had decided that  you wanted in the first place, then call it something else, and hey presto, all is well. Previous, and subsequent governments t...

http://news.sky.com/story/960858/exclusive-banks-face-27bn-libor-hit The banks under investigation in the Libor rate-fixing scandal face combined losses of up to $42bn (£27bn).16 banks face a financial hit. These parasite criminals would probably have the audacity to come to the government for another hand out of tax payers money to bail them out of the self inflicted mess. The government should tell them to go to hell or face full nationalisation and permanent public ownership.

http://news.sky.com/story/961071/us-security-agents-at-heathrow-for-olympics US security agents are to be based at Heathrow and some other UK airports for the duration of the Olympic‬ Games. How many will be in uniform and how many in plain clothes? Why? No other nation would be allowed the same facilities.These "specialist agents", probably armed to the teeth, and probably containing a good number of CIA operatives, will do what American "security" people always do. A law unto themselves and responsible to no one. Yet another example of another British government kow-towing to  America in the very one sided "special relationship".

  http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com This item appeared in my Twitter inbox today. It will never cease to amaze me how it is, that with all the public and professional opposition that exists towards the governments proposals for NHS reforms, that Cameron, Lansley and Co persist in their lurch towards implementation. From the threats, inducements, blackmail and other dubious tactics, it is clearly obvious that reform is another word for destruction and that the Tory dogma of dismantling all aspects of the welfare state is alive and well in Downing Street.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stop-apologising-says-clegg-7944473.html Nick Clegg has "had it with apologising" and told Liberal Democrats to stop being "sensitive violets" put off by having doors slammed in their faces.   A strange comment coming from Clegg. He should be on his knees begging forgiveness from the people of Britain and his own Party members and supporters, for the treachery, hypocrisy and evil cynicism that he has been guilty of since the ConDem coalition came into existence. Clegg has condemned the Liberal democrats to political oblivion for decades to come by his own lust for "power" and personal ambition.  The reference to Rasputin is a little unfortunate.He, you may remember, was ultimately poisoned, then shot numerous times bludgeoned and then pushed under the ice of the Neva River.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/banks-inquiry-branded-total-joke-as-key-inquisitors-excluded-7941466.html   The parliamentary inquiry into the banking industry and Libor scandal was branded a “total joke” today after two of the Commons' toughest inquisitors on financial issues were excluded from it. The first step in Cameron's plan to give the bankers a soft ride in the inquiry, Kick the whole thing into the long grass to wait for the heat to die down and then whitewash the city criminals. This first pass in selecting these lightweight committee members,apart perhaps from Andrew Tyrie in the chair, proves beyond any doubt that there has to be an independent judge led inquiry into the whole rotten scandal.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-unveils-labours-new-signing-7936576.html Tony Blair last night announced he is to take on his first job in  British politics since leaving  Downing Street – advising Labour on its policy review. Mr Blair appeared alongside Mr. Miliband at the Emirates stadium, home to Arsenal Football Club in North London. During his speech, Milliband commented that,  ‘....... I want to thank Tony for what he did for our party and for our country,’ For "our" party, it should be remembered that Blair destroyed party democracy and replaced it with a dictatorship of a small cabal, abandoned principles upon which the Labour Party was created, presided over a mass decline in membership, perpetuated and expanded privatisation, and failed to advance the real aspirations of working people in Britain. For our Country, the reality is that Blair played second fiddle to Clinton and Bush in his drive to gain favour with the United S...

                          http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coalition-shaken-as-cameron-ducks-out-of-vote-on-lords-7932344.html   Stephen Crabb, Philip Dunne, Bill Wiggin and James Duddridge, just who the hell do these thugs think they are?        It is one thing to have a whipping system to ensure support for or against any particular government proposal. It is quite anot her thing to have what seems, from their reported actions, to be something more resembling a group of “enforcers” from the plot of a cheap Hollywood B movie. No matter what some MP's may subsequently say, it is outrageous and, to me at least, completely unacceptable, that an elected member of Parliament, a representative of the people, can be ejected from the parliamentary estate as a result of what is no more than a fit of pique on the part of the PM and his thu...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis- The past decade has not been kind to Marks & Spencer, and yesterday the company reported that like-for-like sales in the past quarter had fallen by 2.8 per cent. M & S have been in decline for some years. It seems to stem from the time when a television programme exposed the fact that M & S were sending labels showing "Marks and Spencer: Made in England" to third world countries to be attached to garments made in local sweat shops. There has been a significant fall in quality of the vast majority of their product range over the last few years, and control of consistency, particularly in size range is non existent. Their decline in the high street, may well be terminal, but would not come as a surprise.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/11/cameron-clashes-with-lords-reform-revolt-leader An angry prime minister confronted Jesse Norman just outside the House of Commons division lobbies. PM and Tory whips reprimand MP who masterminded rebellion over Lords reform. This is disgraceful and demonstrates the extent to which a Prime Minister considers all his parliamentary party to be no more than "lobby fodder" to troop, lemming like, through which ever lobby the government and the whips dictate. Like a spoilt brat the PM and his little gang of thug whips, jump up and down frothing at the mouth in a collective temper tantrum. The motion was not all that Cameron lost last night.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/09/lib-dem-labour-rescue-lords-reform  Charles Kennedy wants Labour MPs to join a 'progressive alliance' to defeat the Conservative rebels There seems to be no depths that the sniveling, treacherous Liberal Democrats, will not sink in their hypocritical pursuit of power. Having betrayed their party, the electorate and every shred of honour they may have held, the Lib Dem  parliamentary party now seek the support of the Labour Party to hang on to their ill gotten gains. Should the Labour Party agree to this they will be perpetuating this rag bag evil ConDem coalition and thereby supporting the government that is destroying the very fabric of British society. Tell Kennedy to go to hell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18767068 A motion to reprimand Jersey's treasury minister for his handling of a failed deal to buy a new police station has been withdrawn. Why am I not surprised that another senior Jersey politician has avoided the potential criticism from a States debate, notwithstanding his protestations that he "..........was disappointed the censure call would not go forward as he wanted a debate on it." There is an old saying that those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. How true.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-  A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/were-powerless-to-get-truth-about-bankers-says-key-mp-7923528.html Politicians have been virtually "useless"  at getting to the truth behind the banking scandal, one of the MP's responsible for investigating the affair has admitted. This is the real reason why Cameron and Co are insisting on a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Banking Scandal rather than a judge led independent  inquiry. It is a not very subtle ploy to ensure that the witness are allowed to ramble on at length, saying nothing, being asked weak, inane questions and ensuring that no one is any the wiser at the end of their "evidence". The Parliamentary "Inquiry", will ensure that the banks and their crooked practices, together with those of their employees, and the subsequent conspiracy to cover up the whole rotten system are protected from the full glare of public exposure for as long as it takes to bury the matter under heaps o...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/06/british-democracyge=last#end-of-comments     British democracy in terminal decline.   Firstly, let us dispel the myth that Britain is a democracy. It is not and never has been. In Britain, we are ruled by an elected dictatorship, which we have the "democratic right" to change every 5 years or so. The Country is in fact governed by the Prime Minister aided and abetted by "the cabinet" or as in the case of Tony Blair, a very few close "advisers". This little cabal, usually meet in secret, take decisions and create policy, and then tell the rest of their respective parliamentary party what the policy is and rely on this "lobby fodder" to march through the Government lobbies in pursuit of Party unity. Only rarely is this "unity" challenged when Government rebels find some proposal so obnoxious that they publicly object and indicate that they will at least abstain, or horror of ho...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/05/balls-osborne Balls and Osborne clash. Why does the Guardian again fail to provide readers with the opportunity to comment on specific issues? This time its the article "Balls and Osborne slug it out in dispatch box "thrilla". Ironically, this item vividly demonstrates why an inquiry into the banking scandal cannot be carried out by politicians with their point scoring politically motivated private agenda's. Collectively, the banks appear to have been involved in criminal activities at the expense of their customers and British tax payers generally. It may well be that politicians were actively involved in these alleged crimes and therefore should not be part of any investigation. The only solution that would have an iota of credibility would be an independent public inquiry.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-libor-conspiracy-were-the-bank-of-england-and-whitehall-in-on-it-7906916.html The Greta British Banking Scandal.   Why all this hysteria now. Many people have been saying for years that the banks were out of control, ripping off customers and it many cases worse, and that they were run by a cartel  of overpaid individuals who's activities verged on criminal fraud. The banks have been caught with their sticky fingers in the till, and now are being exposed for what they really are. It remains to be seen to what extent the Bank of England and politicians are  involved in this scandalous conspiracy against the public.

 Arrogance and greed of the privatised energy companies I have just had another telephone conversation with EDF, (our supplier of electricity, who who will soon be our FORMER supplier.). After the usual 20 minutes of brain-dead “music”, interrupted at various times by a monotone voice repeating a selection of options, I was eventually connected to a human. The background to this latest “frank exchange of views” revolves around the arrogance and greed of the privatised energy companies and their treatment of their victims otherwise known as customers. In early June, we received a demand for an increase in our direct debit payment from £75.00 per month to £83.00, following their “review” of our energy consumption. This arbitrary figure was arrived at not withstanding a £400.00 credit from the previous bill and a £70.00 credit on the current bill. This request prompted a phone call to EDF and after the 20minute “music break” someone at ...

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey Jersey Tourism is spending £250,000 on extra TV advertising in the UK after a drop in visitors. Having been a frequent visitor to Jersey since the days of Caledonian Princess, Earl Godwin, Corbiere etc (and we were passengers on the last sailing of the Havelet. It was very rough, but that is another story), it seems to me to be rather optimistic of Jersey Tourism to hope for some tangible return on their £250,000 TV campaign. Over the years, I have witnessed a significant decline in visitors specifically from the UK. I am unable to comment on the visitor numbers from Europe, but I would imagine that the same situation applies. In my view, there are a number of factors contributing to this decline. The provision of accommodation in the traditional tourist sector, the Guest House and small hotel range has been decimated. On each visit, there have been numerous examples of this type of accommodation disap...