Italian student tells of arrest while filming for fun | UK news | The Guardian

And it is still going on!!!!

Italian student tells of arrest while filming for fun
Tuesday 15 December 2009 20.39 GMT
Police community support officers (PCSOs) stopped Italian student Simona Bonomo under anti-terrorism legislation for filming buildings in London. Moments later, she was arrested by other officers, held in a police cell and fined. She talks Paul Lewis through the footage she recorded of her conversation with the PSCOs. Source: guardian.co.uk

An Italian student has described how she was stopped by police under anti-terrorist legislation while filming buildings, and later arrested, held in a police cell for five hours and given a fixed penalty notice.

Simona Bonomo, 32, an art student at London Metropolitan University at London Metropolitan University, filmed the moment on 19 November when she was approached by two police community support officers (PCSOs) in Paddington, west London.

When Bonomo was challenged by one PCSO, she said she was filming "just for fun". He replied: "You like looking at those buildings do you? You're basically filming for fun? I don't believe you."

Bonomo then declined his request to see what she had filmed. "I can have a look if I want to, if I think it may be linked to terrorism. This is an iconic site," he replied.

Bonomo then said she was an artist. "You're an artist? Have you got any proof or any identification?" he said. After accusing Bonomo of being cocky, the PCSO said she had been cycling the wrong way down a one-way street and threatened to fine her. After she apologised, the PCSOs departed, but returned moments later with about six police officers, she said.

I thought that the police had been told to back off doing this after the last fiasco!! OH! I see..PCSO!!



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When Green's turn Nasty!

Checking through my usual sources this morning and this Copenhagen story seems to have been missed by the mainstream (lame stream) media.

Lord Monckton barred from Copenhagen Conference- Pushed to the ground by security.

From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen at the SPPI blog:

Extracts

However, without warning the UN had capriciously decided that all but 300 of them were to be excluded from the conference today, and all but 90 would be excluded on the final day.

Of course, this being the inept UN, no one had bothered to notify those of the NGOs that were not true-believers in the UN’s camp. So Senator Steve Fielding of Australia and I turned up with a few dozen other delegates, to be left standing in the cold for a couple of hours while the UN laboriously worked out what to do with us.

In the end, they decided to turn us away, which they did with an ill grace and in a bad-tempered manner. As soon as the decision was final, the Danish police moved in. One of them began the now familiar technique of manhandling me, in the same fashion as one of his colleagues had done the previous day.

Once again, conscious that a police helicopter with a high-resolution camera was hovering overhead, I thrust my hands into my pockets in accordance with the St. John Ambulance crowd-control training, looked my assailant in the eye and told him, quietly but firmly, to take his hands off me.

He complied, but then decided to have another go. I told him a second time, and he let go a second time. I turned to go and, after I had turned my back, he gave me a mighty shove that flung me to the ground and knocked me out.

I came to some time later (not sure exactly how long), to find my head being cradled by my friends, some of whom were doing their best to keep the police thugs at bay while the volunteer ambulance-men attended to me.

I was picked up and dusted me off. I could not remember where I had left my telephone, which had been in my hand at the time when I was assaulted. I rather fuzzily asked where it was, and one of the police goons shouted, “He alleges he had a mobile phone.”

In fact, the phone was in my coat pocket, where my hand had been at the time of the assault. The ambulance crew led me away and laid me down under a blanket for 20 minutes to get warm, plying me with water and keeping me amused with some colourfully colloquial English that they had learned.

I thanked them for their kindness, left them a donation for their splendid service, and rejoined my friends. A very senior police officer then came up and asked if I was all right. Yes, I said, but no thanks to one of his officers, who had pushed me hard from behind when my back was turned and had sent me flying.

The police chief said that none of his officers would have done such a thing. I said that several witnesses had seen the incident, which I intended to report. I said I had hoped to receive an apology but had not received one, and would include that in my report. The policeman went off looking glum, and with good reason.

To assault an accredited representative of a conference your nation is hosting, and to do it while your own police cameramen are filming from above, and to do it without any provocation except my polite, non-threatening request that I should not be manhandled, is not a career-enhancing move, as that police chief is about to discover to his cost.

This incident, being pushed from behind by a uniformed police officer, could have resulted in a similar outcome for Lord Monckton as it did for Mr Ian Tomlinson, at the G20 Conference earlier in 2009 and clearly demonstrates the distance there is between law enforcement officers and the people they are suppose to protect.

Most of the comments were supportive of Lord Monckton apart from this little treasure from a prime example of the type of mindset behind the AGW agenda....

 Jackson (19:51:43) :

Good. The “Lord” deserves the boot. The obviously mentally challenged “Lord” has no place at the discourse of serious people.

By the end of COP-15, the Brit Lord, this site — along with its spew of science and math illiteracy spiced with meanderings of intellectual terrorism– will be on the path to the dust bin of history. What a weatherman’s sideshow. Congrats, you have had your 15 minutes of fame.

There is now a global consensus in both science and politics that will only grow stronger as the world is set right. If the U.S. Senate tries to stand in the way, it will be swept away by a supermajority in 2012 or 2014.

So, deniers and wacko Brit “Lords:” Go buy your gold and guns and take your religion based agenda into hiding. When the time comes, those will be stripped away too. The gold must go to those who need and deserve it for the sins of the past and to secure climate justice for our future generations.

The IPCC and real scientists triumph because they produce valid analysis of real data. The skeptics and deniers (yes, AGW deniers ARE intellectually very similar to Holocaust deniers) will be shown scorn and eventually eliminated from meaningful discourse and society.

Despite the attempted smokescreen of “Climategate,” — which is (pr “was” because it is dead issue) nothing more than specious out-of-context use of stolen data and quotes by people without scientific insight or talent (and who have an impure political agenda) — it is time for the winners (the world) to laugh and gloat!

Naturally, people do respond to this type of troll

 Kevin Cave (20:01:54) :

Jackson : your lack of civility and downright hostility are the perfect example of what all freedom-loving and tyranny-hating people need to fear. I’m glad the mods let your rant through.

If you think for one millisecond that “you” have somehow “won” , then I urge you to reconsider – if you are capable of this. There was no battle. There was no battle because you can’t fight a foregone conclusion – this being that there was going to be an agreement of some kind made regardless of the facts.

I can tell you now – this fight has not even begun yet.

barbara (20:06:37) :

jackson, thank you for a glimpse of where the world has been before.

There is nothing new under the sun except that which has been forgotten.

Thanks to what passes for school today.

Lord Monckton, persevere! And God bless you for your courage.

It is time for the United Nations to get out of my country, and be hosted by the despots it serves.

New york City should sell the prime real estate, and recoup some of the losses of 9/11 in terms of economic development.

Not to mention the fact that they would no longer have to put up with the arrogance of world “diplomats” in their city, a savings in itself.

This is the Grosse-Wannsee of our generation, and sorry kids, but it isn’t at ALL like the 60s some feel so cheated for missing.

It is more like the 30s, and many of you will die for nothing but a slogan.


 evanmjones (20:15:56) :

Jackson (19:51:43)

Appalling.

Anti-intellectual, anti-freedom, pro-oppression, and profoundly unliberal, all in one.


 Harry (20:24:58) :

@Jackon:

So…you really dont have any objections to police states as long as their brutality enforces your ideology. Is that pretty fair to assume?

“enlightened” “progressive” “socially moral”

Yep, that’s you guys alright.

 wayne (20:48:11) :

Is this “Jackson” posting THE Lisa Perez Jackson heading of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States?

If so, citizens, it’s high time to purge D.C.


Reed Coray (20:58:59) :

Jackson (19:51:43)

As I see it, Jackson has one of three objectives. (1) He/She meant his/her comment to be sarcasm. (2) He/She wants to stir up anti-AGW emotion so he/she submits a comment so outrageous it can’t help but anger skeptics–possibly to action. (3) He/She expressed his/her true feelings. If (1), he/she did a poor job. To be effective, sarcasm must be recognizable as sarcasm by the audience. If (2), I don’t believe his/her “means” justify the “end”. If (3), he/she is not very bright because his/her rant did way more harm than good to his/her cause. If I were handicapping his/her intent, I’d give it 10%-30%-60%.


J.Hansford (20:59:22) :

Jackson (19:51:43) : …. Thank you Jackson, for briefly lifting the AGW rock so that we may observe the foul little creatures that reside beneath…

You certainly are an unappealing, vicious little being aren’t you.


 jackson (21:07:23) :

LOL!

1. I have Ph.D. in physics — but that would be arguing from authority (a logical fallacy) so I did not cite.

2. There is no means to an end — just wanting to celebrate a bit! Some fine organic wine is open.

3. And, btw… “handicapping” uses odds not percentages. A fine example of skeptics maths.

I do not doubt the sincerity of real scientists who test and refine CC data, but I resent the intrusion of lay people who castigate the life, work, honesty, and motives of hundreds and thousands of dedicated scientists..

It is you all who bring on the hate. I feel very sorry for you all, but the world needs serious people.

[REPLY - You are the erstwhile RW trolling under a fake name and email address. Therefore you self-accreditation is not credible. ~ Evan]

And so on.

What a self satisfied, condescending piece of Socialist Fascist drivel!

Wake Up People!

Don't allow these sorts of attitude take root or we might as well not bothered fighting WW2 and just invited the Fascists in by ferry.



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Is Global Warming really so complex that you have to leave it up to the experts? Oral Deckard (Bests comment I have read!)

This is a great comment taken from USAToday

Oral Deckard wrote: 8h 9m ago
As much fraud as the published Freedom of Information Act files reveals, many people are still left saying “One side says one thing. The other says another. How can I know what to think?”

The answer is to quit waiting for someone else to tell you what to think, and actually use that hat rack. It’s really not hard once you break out of the conditioning to leave it up to the experts.

After a brief look at the situation the average person grasps it quickly, and the dreadful scope of the scam starts to sink in.

First I want to very briefly restate their contention: Man made increases in CO2 is causing the Earth to become warmer by trapping solar heat.

HOW this so-called “trapping” occurs is treated like a clumsily guarded secret, but it’s done by CO2 not being quite as transparent to heat like it is to visible light. Instead of heat passing through to the ground, a very small part of it heats the CO2. Unfortunately for the Chicken Little’s out there, this microscopic effect can be calculated and measured. It is quantifiable. It doesn’t have to be treated like magic and accepted “Because We Say So.”

First, let’s look at the quantity: There isn’t nearly enough CO2 on Earth to even begin to warn the Earth.
Here’s how you know:
CO2 is a trace gas, measured in parts per million, 329 ppm according to Wikipedia.
That makes it 0.329% of the atmosphere at sea level.
If it were evenly distributed all the way to the top of the atmosphere it would be only 3/4 of an ounce for each square inch of the Earth’s surface. That’s not much.
(.00329×14.7 PSI x16 =.7738 ounces)

The amount of heat energy that 3/4 ounce of any gas can hold is minute. But CO2 is heavier than the two major gases, Nitrogen and Oxygen, which make up 99 percent of the atmosphere, and exists in only the lower two miles, making is much less than 3/4 of an ounce.

Now we get to the good part. From a conclusion you can tell what facts and assumptions produced it.
Here are the facts:
1. Oxygen and Nitrogen are transparent to heat, which passes through them without heating them.
2. Co2 is slightly opaque to heat, and is slightly heated by it. (This is described with complex crap about molecules vibrating, like CO2 is the only thing that vibrates when heated. Everything does.)

Now here are the assumptions that MUST be made to conclude that CO2 is causing a global temperature rise:
1. CO2 is the dominant Greenhouse gas.
2. There is enough CO2 to carry over heat from one day to the next, producing a build-up.
3. Only atmospheric gases are heated by the sun.

Yes, that’s right. Assumption #3 has to be made. You see, generally speaking, sunlight does not heat the air. It passes through the air and heats the ground. The ground then heats the air. And ground heat IS carried over to the next day, even doing some build-up. But it doesn’t get credit, because it isn’t man made.

When the ground is covered by snow, CO2 has its chance to prove its ability to trap heat from the sun. Instead, the air remains cold, with the snow melting slowly where it is clean and warmed only by the air. But where there is DIRT in the snow it melts much faster, because most heat passed through the CO2 and heated the dirt. When some ground is exposed the melting really speeds up, because the warmed ground warms the air. You can see it clearly in the melt patterns after this most recent blizzard not stopped by Global Warming.

Now consider the weight of 1 square inch of dirt extending down into the ground, and compare that with 3/4 ounce of CO2 extending upward, and how much heat energy can be retained by each. It’s no contest!

It is readily obvious that the ground has so much greater participation in the process that the CO2 doesn’t even deserve an honorable mention. Therefore, because CO2 gets all the credit, it has to be assumed that only atmospheric gases are heated by the sun.

Oh, for #1, do a search on Greenhouse Gases and click on Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas)
You will find the IPCC admitting that atmospheric water vapor has about four times the greenhouse effect of CO2.

Water vapor comes and goes. Sometimes more, sometimes less, and easily able to overwhelm the effect of CO2.

Now let’s go for an easy visual example:
In the fall when you are fearing your tomatoes will get frostbitten, you know if it will frost by checking the sky. If there is a little overcast, there cannot be a frost, because the slight cloud cover will block the heat trying to radiate out into space, and reflect it back. You never check the CO2 level, because you don’t even think of this super greenhouse gas having any effect..

But if there is a starry sky, the heat in your tomatoes can radiate out into space unimpeded, with CO2 just standing there with a dumb look on its face, not lifting a finger to help. Instead of blocking and retaining heat until dawn it lets it pass right on through, and lets the temperature drop like a rock.

Want another visual example? The same thing goes for frost on your car. If you depend only on CO2, you will be scraping in the morning. But if there is any cloud cover at all, you won’t.

These are things you already knew. So why did you let someone get away with blowing smoke up your backside? Assumption that they were the experts, and you weren’t qualified to think!

And when the ground heats up, more water evaporates, creating a cooling effect, carrying heat up with it for release into space, spreading out in a cloud that reflects heat from the sun back into space, and mops the floor with CO2’s but.

And when the temperature drops, the clouds fall as rain, once again letting sunlight in to warm the Earth. This is a natural regulating effect, so that no matter what CO2 might do, the clouds will adjust to make it not matter.

Want another example of CO2’s ability to absorb heat from sunlight vs. water vapor? Remember a hot summer day when the sun was hot on your skin, blocked by the trace gas CO2. Then remember when a cloud came over, showing what it could do. Case closed.

And for #2, the CO2 so-called theory does have to assume that there is enough CO2 to actually block and retain enough heat from day to day to heat the Earth. But by now it is clear that this is ridiculous.

What CO2 DOES do is become the physical body of our crops that feed the world’s hungry. The more CO2, the better the crops do, and the better people eat.

CO2 also helps trigger your next breath when you are not thinking about it, like when you sleep. Do a search on sleep apnea in relation to elevation (remember, it thins out at higher elevation.) Check out Boulder Colorado for instance.

And this trace gas is now listed as a pollutant? To be reduced?

But what about the thinning polar ice caps?

Well gee. Have you seen any photos of melt water standing on the surface of the ice?
If the ice were melting from warmer air, wouldn’t it melt from the top down?
Since it is not, it must be melting from the bottom up.
Can that be due to warmer air?
What about geothermal heat, like is melting the glaciers in Iceland.

Ah, but they don’t want to talk about that.

The real question should be how we ever allowed so much money to be spent researching CO2 for so many years, when we already knew everything I just told you.

And the answer is, drum roll please ….

Gullibility. Gullibility conditioned into us, and taken advantage of, by those who assume themselves to superior that we are “a sucker born every minute.” And why?

Money! And Power!

By pretending they are too ignorant to wipe our own buts they can con the public into putting them on perpetual welfare, at a gravy train rate, taking many years and hundreds of billions of dollars to research and discover … even when the truth is obvious at a glance. Sure beats working for a living. Right!

And maybe a nice fat juicy treaty, you know, the thing the US Constitution says supercedes all law, including the Constitution itself. A treaty that would severely limit how much energy we could use, thereby preventing an economic recovery, and taxing us to ruin, to be used to finance the UN’s new permanent authority over us.

As Benjamin Franklin said “Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was, and never will be.”

Is Global Warming really so complex that you have to leave it up to the experts?

Oral Deckard
Terre Haute, IN

 

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Climategate: Who pays?

Given the amount of money that the various Cap and Trade policies, speculated to generate, $45 trillion, and the amount of funding that the researchers have been allocated, $20 million in “research” grants, we need to be sure, before giving a 'artificial value' to one of the most abundant substances in the universe, CO2, and an essential building block of life, that the policies that are being based on true and accurate data, and that the scientists finding go through an honest, impartial peer review process, and that no materials related to the data and research are delete nor attempt to evade Freedom of Information requests.
It doesn't seem much to ask since we have paid and will continue to pay for all of it.



and on Twitter, the whole world has an opinion.....




Gordon Brown would have anyone who questions the 'evidence' as "flat-earthers" or "anti-science"..and Ed Miliband's considered response to doubts by the voters as "dangerous and deceitful."

Would that include any scientists who disagree too?

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Decorating? Better not tell the police!

Pregnant woman reported to social services over half-decorated home - Telegraph

A pregnant woman has condemned police after they reported her to social services for being a potentially unfit mother because her home was half-decorated.


By Murray Wardrop
Published: 8:26AM GMT 10 Nov 2009


Mary Cooke: Pregnant woman reported to social services over half-decorated home
Mary Cooke Photo: EUGENE HENDERSON

Mary Cooke invited a policewoman into her house after she had dialled 999 to report a speeding car which nearly hit her outside her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.

However, the 27-year-old was left furious after she claims the officer raised concerns with the council’s children’s services department over the state of her property.

Mrs Cooke said she and her husband Peter are redoing the wallpaper at their semi-detached house and that she was “sickened” police had judged her on its appearance.

The first she knew of the officer’s concerns was several days later when she received a letter from Staffordshire County Council expressing fears for the wellbeing of her unborn child.

Mrs Cooke, who is 10 weeks' pregnant with her first baby, said: "The letter made me feel sick.

And the moral of this story is ...never let the police into your house even when you are doing them a favour.

There is a lot to be said for joined up government..it usually has a common purpose thread running through it...

I know that there are very vulnerable people in this land which need the protection of the law and help from Social Services, but reports like this do not build trust with the public and these institutions.

Instead of send letters, (funny, I seem to recall someone else having problems with writing letters today, who was that then?), from the children's department, why don't they offer some help in getting the house decorated!

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Tinker, tailor, solider, spy.....

How the Kremlin hijacked Labour: Diary of a Kremlin insider reveals the hold Soviets had over Labour politicians | Mail Online

Ah! the Cold War Era!...

Protect and Survive and all that..

Oh! What a tangled web we weave when we do practice to deceive.

From the article

By Sue Reid
Last updated at 1:40 AM on 06th November 2009

The Lancashire blacksmith's son and leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain stood in front of the group of high-flying young Left-wingers at Cambridge University.

Harry Pollitt told them: 'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.'

It was a few years after World War II and they took Pollitt at his word. Within a decade, the Communist Party foundered (its membership peaked at 60,000 in 1945) as Pollitt's bright young devotees infiltrated the Establishment.

They were soon exercising considerable influence in universities, the state education system, publishing houses, the legal hierarchy and the civil service.

But it was in politics that these high-flying members of the Left established their greatest power-base, both in the Labour Party and the trades' union movement.

Just how deep the tentacles of communism reached into the heart of British government has now been revealed with the emergence of an extraordinary diary by Anatoly Chernyaev, the Soviet Union's contact man with the West at the icy height of the Cold War.

Meticulously detailed and written by hand on lined notepaper, the diary has come to light in the U.S. National Security Archive.

It tells the story of a 'special relationship' not between Britain and America - but between the British Labour Party and Soviet communists.

It was a relationship that lasted more than 30 years, right up to Margaret Thatcher's arrival as Prime Minister in 1979 and beyond.

Indeed, one of the most shocking of the diary's many revelations is how Labour leaders Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock colluded with the Soviet communists to try to beat their 'common enemy', Margaret Thatcher.

But more worrying, perhaps, is the fact that the document shows in stark detail how the political ideology of so many of those who govern us today was shaped by the unspeakable communist creed of the Soviet Union.

The unpalatable truth is that many ministers in Government today rose through the ranks of a British socialist movement that was heavily influenced - and even controlled - by the Kremlin in Moscow.

Svetlana Savranskaya, Director of Russia Programmes at the U.S. archive, describes Chernyaev's diary as 'the single most authoritative source on Soviet policy-making in the last 20 years'.

So there you have it..and with Britain, as our Dear Leader puts it, placed at the heart of Europe, makes it well placed in EUSSR to continue with its socialist agenda.

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Young Gordon's guide to paying off your Student Loan

Prudent student's guide to living off the state and being a 'parasite' - Telegraph

He may be known for his economic austerity, but Gordon Brown once backed the description of social security benefits as "free money" in a guide to how students could live for next to nothing.

Mr Brown was also involved in advising students how to "con" free food and pointing out that there was nothing wrong with being a "parasite".

The freeloader's charter comes in the form of a pamphlet he edited while he was student rector at Edinburgh University in the 1970s.

Mr Brown's handbook for scroungers, published when he was 22, tells students: "If you're British and can give an address, free money is available from social security, basic £5.80 per week.

"Social and medical benefits are your right, not charity hand-outs, so never be reticent about claiming them. For whatever reason the so-called welfare state was brought into being, it can and must be used to its full extent."

Called Alternative Edinburgh, the 200-page document gives advice on how to find free food and how to get a bath at a posh hotel.

It states: "Sit in the lobby until reception is busy, then walk quickly upstairs or into the lift. Even the plushest hotels have at least one public bathroom to a floor."

For a free meal: "Con your way to asking for a glass of water or sit beside drinkers and they will feed you for nothing."

Hungry scroungers are told to "say you've forgotten your student card" in college canteens. Another "infallible" trick is to attend a party with "a carrier bag of empty cans with two half-bricks at the bottom".

For "experienced parasites" the Edinburgh Festival is a gift, it adds.

But my personal favourite is...

When caught by police attempting to con someone, the booklet advises, "You may think you are guilty but legal advice can show otherwise."
( I'm Gordon, you know where to find me...)



Ah! the memories of those heady days of Uni!

 

Those foppish hair styles and memories of Rugger!

Drinking all those cans and finding those bricks demonstrated ingenuity and blue sky thinking, still didn't get the bow..had to make do with this old tie stolen from tramp.

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£6 million campaign, aimed at Climate Change critics during Coronation Street ad break.

Ministers target climate change doubters in prime-time TV advert - Times Online

£6,000,000 !! For a 1 minute ad! Flipping heck! More tax-payers money than sense!

Got to keep the gravy-train rolling..spend a little to gain alot... and all that.

In the interests of balance, here is a counter-view......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSzItt6h-s

Cannot get it to embed so you will just have to follow the link....

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Watching the Conservative Party broadcast..not impressed....following on Twitter..ditto....

Another round of bollocks from another bunch of troffers.

Still no vote on EU...

Still peddling the War(s)......

Still won't get my vote......

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Former Pc is jailed for blackmail

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BBC NEWS | Wales | Former Pc is jailed for blackmail


Former Pc is jailed for blackmail
Newport Crown Court
The court heard how the gang targeted two businessmen

A former police officer who admitted his part in bungled blackmail plots has been jailed for more than two years.

South Wales Police firearms expert Pc Ray Clark, 41, used a replica handgun to help a gang scare their victims out of more than £40,000.

But the scams backfired and Pc Clark was arrested by fellow officers before the gang collected any money.

A judge at Newport Crown Court also jailed two other men for seven years for their part in the blackmail plots.

Allan Coe, 45, and Anthony Holwell, 48, both of Newport, were jailed after their trial in which the former police officer gave evidence against them.

Mark Brogan, 37, of Newport, admitted conspiracy to blackmail. He was given a suspended 12-month sentence and ordered to do 250 hours community work.

Strange how these types of cases don't seem to attract the MSM TV News. If this had been a civilian, this would have been a major news story.

The most telling bit though was this...

The court heard he has recently participated in a video made by South Wales Police to warn new recruits about the dangers of becoming involved with criminals.

You couldn't make this up!!!!

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Comment upon comment upon comment.

I have been following the comments on the BBC Have Your Say site regarding the so called ‘Lockerbie bomber’ Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi story and it has served as a reminded on just how effective education has been in robbing us of our critical thinking skills.

Many, though not all, of the comments reveal how little interest or ability of the average person demonstrates in actually reading the news, researching the evidence and drawing ones own conclusions. They appear to be very comfortable in allowing others to do their thinking for them and to slavishly follow the opinions of the State-Endorsed Lame Stream Media, unable to accept that we are being manipulated.

Of course this was a terrible attack on a civilian aircraft, the loss of life and grief of relatives cannot be compensated by any conviction, but if an innocent man is being punished and vilified, does this not just add to the monstrosity of the crime?

There are many links to further background information, but here are just two.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/290805evidencefaked.htm

(Link to original article no longer works)

http://news.scotsman.com/lockerbie/Lockerbie-evidence-was-tampered-with.3298596.jp

Having just heard that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has given up his appeal so I thought I would place another link for background information.

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/08/lockerbie-disaster.html

Very interesting comments from South of Scotland SNP MSP Christine Grahame in this article.

 

Here is further background info from the BBC from back in 2000..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/777974.stm

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UK ID Card Database breached by insiders!

Nine sacked for breaching core ID card database | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Oh Dear! Didn't see that coming did we?

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ACPO President believes Elected Chief's is a bad idea...

Elected police chiefs 'bad idea'

Hugh Orde announced his departure from Northern Ireland in April

Electing police chiefs could lead to public confusion without improving accountability, said the head of the Association of Chiefs Police Officers.

Sir Hugh Orde, speaking in his new role as president of Acpo, said such a system could be targeted by protest voters from special interest groups.

"Every professional bone in my body tells me this is not a great idea."

BBC NEWS | UK | Elected police chiefs 'bad idea'

Nothing to do with ACPO being a private organisation of course.......

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A 17.5% voter turn out returns Labour Councillor to Salford...we're fucked if this continues.

Labour has held on to a council seat in the Salford
constituency of Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, despite her
involvement in the expenses row.

Matt Mold won the Irwell Riverside by-election with a reduced majority. The Lib Dems came second and the BNP third.

......

Ms Blears attended the count on Thursday night and said she was "absolutely delighted" with the outcome.

Speaking afterwards, she said: "The result shows the values of Salford people are the values of the Labour Party."

Labour officials in Salford had braced themselves for a backlash from voters and a possible surge in BNP support.

In the end, with voter turnout just 17.5%, Mr Mold received 606 votes followed by the Liberal Democrats with 293.

A 17.5% turn out demonstrates that not voting as a means of protest against the current system will only play into the hands of the ZNL, and, as someone who has been so disillusioned by politics for the past 30 years that I haven't voted for anyone.

Not anymore.

This is not Democracy.

Technorati Tags: Labour,Hazel Blears,Matt Mold,Salford,councillor,by-election

BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | Labour holds poll in Blears ward

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Back to Blogging!!!!

Well, apologies for not updating the Tao for nearly a month but I have been following the activities of the G20 protests, the political machinations of the government both on Guido Fawkes and on Craig Murray, and not leaving much time to actually do any blogging myself.

Happy in your work?

Not bad indeed for one man, his laptop and a drop of the dark stuff!

and, perhaps,  a living example of the lesson of  "Bless those who would dispise you." 

 

 

Technorati Tags: Craig Murray,Guido Fawkes,G20,Politics,UK

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MP's vote on Draconian Blog Regulation!

LOL What a wind up!!!!

So very now..so very near the truth.....




The case for blog regulation
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

AFTER much thought and consideration, I spoke in favour of the Regulation of New Media Bill in the Commons last night.

The essential purpose of the legislation, as Andy Burnham, the Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, told the House, is to make sure that new media, like blogs and social networking sites, can’t be used by terrorists (and I accept this is where there will be some disagreement in the blogscape: “terrorists” are defined under Schedule 1 to the Bill as “anyone who pursues a persistent pattern of anti-social or irritating behaviour, such behaviour to be defined as double parking, parking in parent-and-toddler spaces at supermarkets, talking loudly in cinemas or any other activity as defined by the Secretary of State”).


The case for blog regulation | And another thing...

 

Technorati Tags: Labour,Andy Burnham,Tom Harris,MP's,April Fool

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Blue movies on expenses: How Jacqui Smith's husband watched pornographic movies... paid for by the taxpayer

Blue movies on expenses: How Jacqui Smith's husband watched pornographic movies... paid for by the taxpayer
Mail Online
By Christopher Leake And Brendan Carlin
Last updated at 2:41 AM on 29th March 2009

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s political future was in jeopardy tonight after it was revealed that her husband used her Commons expenses allowance to pay to watch pornographic films.

Richard Timney, who works as Ms Smith’s Commons adviser, used part of the Minister’s second-homes allowance to pay for the blue movies he watched on a subscription television channel.

The relationship between Ms Smith and her husband was said by Government insiders to be ‘very difficult,’ but stressed that the couple were still together.

It is understood that Mr Timney had been watching explicit adult movies on channels broadcast on the Virgin Media cable TV service.

The scandal revolves around an invoice on which Mr Timney is believed to have made the expenses claims. Subscribers to the service can access X-rated films on the Playboy Channel, the Adult Channel and Television X for around £11 a month. It is also possible to order adult channels on a pay-per-night basis for £5.

Tory MP Philip Davies said last night that if the porn-movie claims were true, the Home Secretary would have to resign.

‘Claiming that her sister’s back bedroom is her main home is one thing but this could push her over the cliff. It is surely not legitimate to use Commons’ second-home allowances to buy blue movies. If this is true, I cannot see how she can survive.’ 

The revelation comes as The Mail on Sunday launches a petition to demand a full enquiry into MPs' expenses.

Perhaps he was working-in-hand?

I picked this story up from Guido Fawkes post on Nigel Griffiths failed attempt to gag The News of the World. 



Blue movies on expenses: How Jacqui Smith's husband watched pornographic movies... paid for by the taxpayer | Mail Online

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The question is: If the Bankers are the Fat Cats, are MP's their Kittens?

The question is: If the Bankers are the Fat Cats, are MP's their Kittens?

From The Times
March 23, 2009
Bankers head for No 10 to fix financial world
Suzy Jagger and Francis Elliott

Some of the world’s most powerful banking executives will meet Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling tomorrow to discuss how the global financial system can be repaired.

Among those at the meeting at No 10 will be Bill Winters, the co-head of investment banking at JP Morgan Chase, and either Josef Ackermann, the chairman of Deutsche Bank,or his chief operating officer, Hermann-Josef Lamberti.

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor will show the bankers detailed drafts of proposals that the Government will present at the G20 meeting in London on April 2. Mr Brown’s priorities for banking reform are to stabilise the financial sector, help lenders to purge their books of toxic debt, repair their balance sheets with new capital and build a regulatory structure that would prevent a rerun of the current financial crisis.

His plans include forcing hedge funds to disclose investments and trading positions so that the risks can be assessed.

Bankers head for No 10 to fix financial world - Times Online


Or is it just all of that cream...

From Times Online
March 23, 2009
Tony McNulty 'may have to repay' some of £60,000 home claim, amid talk of inquiry


The Times

or are they just into fat pussies?

From the News of The World

A SENIOR Labour MP cheated on his wife in a midnight sex romp INSIDE the House of Commons.

Former minister Nigel Griffiths, a close friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, cavorted with a naked brunette in his Parliamentary office on Remembrance Day.

Then the shamed MP, 53, LIED about the shock breach of Commons Rules of Conduct, branding our story “outrageous.” Now he stands accused of bringing the House into disrepute.

News of the World

Technorati Tags: Bankers,Tony McNulty,Fat Cats,Nigel Griffiths,Gordon Brown,Downing Street,Number 10,Prime Minister,Gordon Brown,Alistair Darling,Chancellor

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Circuses 'short of UK performers'

Circuses 'short of UK performers'

Clowns protest outside Parliament




On the day when our Clown-in-Residence is off learning a few new slight of hand tricks and jumping through a few more hoops whilst paying homage to his masters,





a massive clown deficit in the UK has emerged.



A few pegs short of a Big Top!

But on the positive side Tractor production is up year-on-year and now our shops have as many as 20 steaks, each.

From the BBC

British circus clowns are in short supply, MPs were told

Britain is suffering a shortage of home grown clowns and acrobats, MPs on the home affairs committee have been told.

Malcolm Clay, of the Association of Circus Proprietors of Great Britain, said they needed to recruit performers from China and Eastern Europe.

But they feared the new points-based migration system, which starts next month, is not ready and Embassy staff have not been properly trained.

Mr Clay was giving evidence to the home affairs committee.


BBC NEWS | Politics | Circuses 'short of UK performers'

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Humyo Free Online File Storage

Humyo Free Online File Storage

 

Finally got round to sorting out my online file storage via Humyo, who offer a free 10 gig account which is not bad. I already have such an account with Box net storage via Netvibes, but that's only one gig, handy, but not enough.



Signing up is very easy and once you have confirmed your account via email, you are able to up and download files.
If you want to use Drag and Drop, you will need to download Java, which can be done via Humyo and restart your browser.





You can either use you browser to interact with Humyo or download their client software, which I have, but not installed yet, so stay tuned for a review of that side of Humyo.

You can create folders, upload files and then drag files to folders just like you can on the desktop.



You can also share files by creating links and incorporating those links in your website, emails or blogs.

Here is a sample of some of the files I have uploaded and made public.

Craig Murray - The Catholic Orangemen of Togo

Craig Murray - The Catholic Orangemen of Togo Zip File

Bloggers Handbook 2

BlogBash

The Zen of Blogging

Mastering Twitter

The AllTweet Journal

Viral Marketing


Share and enjoy!

Technorati Tags: Humyo,Free,Online File Storage,access,file sharing,backup,collabloration

humyo.com - Free Online File Storage & Backup Space, Access Documents Anywhere, Share and Collaborate on Files

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Police order journalist to destroy photos - HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk - Comment

Regional press news - this story published 23 February 2009
Police order journalist to destroy photos
by holdthefrontpage staff

A south-east reporter was told to destroy pictures of people sledging in a public park as they could constitute an act of voyeurism.

Alex Lewis, from the St Albans Review, was snapping some locals enjoying the recent snow when a man allegedly threatened him after he thought the reporter was taking images of his children.

Alex called the police but when an officer arrived, he told him that his camera phone would have to be confiscated as evidence for a charge of voyeurism unless he agreed to delete the images.

Alex told HTFP: "With the benefit of hindsight, I feel I was a bit unfair on the police officer as I never explained I was a reporter – mainly out of curiosity to see what would happen.

"As far as I and my paper are concerned, the incident is closed."

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 defines voyeurism as observing someone doing a private act without their consent for sexual gratification.

It adds: "A person is doing a private act if the person is in a place which, in the circumstances, would reasonably be expected to provide privacy, and the person's genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only with underwear, the person is using a lavatory or the person is doing a sexual act that is not of a kind ordinarily done in public."

The Review has asked Hertfordshire Constabulary how the pictures of fully-clothed people sledging in a public park could be classed as voyeurism but says it is yet to receive a response.

No-one from Hertfordshire Constabulary was available for comment.


Journalism jobs and news from Holdthefrontpage.co.uk

My immediate thoughts on reading this article were, who was the man threatening the reporter? and why are they treating it as closed?
Surely there is a case of a reporter going about his business reporting on what was a very news worthy event for most of the mainstream media, being threatened, then calling for assistance from the police only to end up as the perpetrator rather than the victim.

No..it doesn't seem right.

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Meet the New Desktop, same as the Old Desktop..

Meet the New Desktop, same as the Old Desktop..

 

The Obama Deception

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Cash for Questions, Cash for Honours, Cash for Peers, now Cash For Cops!

Police chiefs' association accused of profiteering

By Brian Brady, Whitehall Editor

Sunday, 15 February 2009




The private organisation representing Britain's top police officers faced demands last night for reform – or even disbanding – over allegations that it was being run as a business with a multi-million-pound budget relying heavily on public funds.

Civil liberties campaigners and opposition politicians called for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to be "stopped in its tracks" amid growing concerns over its burgeoning powers.

ACPO, a private company, is paid millions of pounds a year by the taxpayer to, in effect, run the nation's police forces. It has been viewed as providing a vital public service in writing the rules on police operations, advising ministers, and campaigning on issues such as the proposed 90-day detention of terror suspects and the DNA database.

But a newspaper investigation has raised concerns over "profit-making" activities, including selling information from the police national computer for up to £70 a time – when ACPO pays just 60p for the details.

The organisation also markets "police approval" logos to firms selling anti-theft devices and runs a separate private firm offering training to speed-camera operators.

Police chiefs' association accused of profiteering - Home News, UK - The Independent


I just assumed that ACPO was a public association, and I am quite shocked that that this isn't the case.

My gut reaction is one of a conflict of interest situation could possibly arise between what is just and what is profitable.

(ACPO is a Registered Trademark of the 'Filth-U-Like' Propaganda Division of Murkybackwaters/Shady Umbrella Corp;-)

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Is the Crown Prosecution Service fit for purpose?

Is the Crown Prosecution Service fit for purpose?

From the BBC

No police officers will be prosecuted over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

It follows a review of new evidence which came to light at his inquest.

Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station in south London after he was mistaken for one of the failed 21 July 2005 bombers.

A spokeswoman for the Justice 4 Jean campaign said she was "absolutely furious" with the decision.

In December, an inquest jury returned an open verdict - rejecting the police view that he was killed lawfully.

Stephen O'Doherty, the lawyer who led the CPS review, said: "I have now concluded that there is insufficient evidence that any offence was committed by any individual officers in relation to the tragic death of Mr de Menezes."

'Inconsistencies'

The officers, known as Charlie 2 and Charlie 12, told the inquest they had shouted a warning at Mr de Menezes and he had continued moving towards them.

But passengers at the inquest had said this was not the case, and the jury did not accept the officers' accounts.

Mr O'Doherty said: "Although there were some inconsistencies in what the officers said at the inquest, there were also inconsistencies in what passengers had said.

"I concluded that in the confusion of what occurred on the day, a jury could not be sure that any officer had deliberately given a false account of events."


It's unbelievable that the CPS had taken this decision without talking to the family or their representatives
Yasmin Khan
Justice 4 Jean

Mr O'Doherty said there was no fresh evidence presented to the inquest to make him reconsider an earlier decision not to prosecute senior officers for negligence.

He has written to Mr de Menezes' family to explain the decision, he added.

Yasmin Khan of the Justice 4 Jean campaign described the CPS decision as "morally reprehensible and legally wrong".

This case is, as I have said before, a whitewash and fairly typical behaviour from what is supposed to be an independent body

My partner received one of those letters from the CPS and it was riddled with inconsistencies supplied by the police. Based on these erroneous errors, ( or lies, depending on how one looks at it), they did not proceed with her case either.

Again wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!

BBC NEWS | UK | Family anger over Menezes review

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"Those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history" - B Obama.

"Those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history". B Obama.






Let me make myself clear, I do not support this Dutch MP, nor have I watched his film and probably never will.

What I am about is the stiffing of dissent in all it's forms.

I have had to deal with a lot of unpleasant people in my life, with a lot of unpleasant ideas and opinions. No doubt a lot of these people felt the same about me.

I was raised to believe in the principle that, though I may disagree with what you say or believe and I may even challenge you on those issues, I will defend your right to say it or believe it.

This action by the Home Secretary does nothing for debate, freedom of speech or democracy and revels more about NuLabour attitude towards these principles, the disdain they have for the critical thinking abilities of the people of the UK and gives the impression that they are cowards but are still willing and able to use 'gunboat' politics to achieve their aims.

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Cash for Amendments is going the same way as Cash for Honours - No where.

Police will not investigate 'cash for amendments' allegations





Scotland Yard will not investigate allegations that peers attempted to change the law in favour of companies employing them

* Jenny Percival
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 February 2009 16.38 GMT

Labour peers accused of attempting to change the law in favour of companies employing them will not be investigated by the police, Scotland Yard said today.

John Yates, assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, took the final decision not to launch a criminal investigation after reviewing the allegations and discussing them with Lady Royall, the leader of the Lords, the force said in a statement.

The Sunday Times alleged last month that four Labour peers – Lord Moonie, Lord Truscott, Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Snape – had discussed amending legislation in return for a fee, which would be in breach of parliamentary standards. The four deny breaking any rules.

The Met said that it had reviewed the original Sunday Times article and other material provided by the newspaper. "In particular, we have carefully examined the position of Lord Taylor and Lord Truscott in the context of a possible investigation for the common law offence of bribery. We have also considered possible offences of misconduct in public office," said a spokesman.

The spokesman said the Met had also obtained written legal advice from the Crown Prosecution Service and spoken to Royall, who had ordered an internal investigation.

The Lords subcommittee on peers' interests had already begun a preliminary examination and had announced its intention to deal robustly with any members who had broken the rules, the police statement said.

The Met concluded: "The application of criminal law to members of the House of Lords in the circumstances that have arisen here is far from clear. In addition, there are very clear difficulties in gathering and adducing evidence in these circumstances in the context of parliamentary privilege.

"These factors, when set alongside the preliminary examination, lead us to the decision that the Metropolitan police will not undertake a criminal inquiry into any of the allegations raised."

The statement added that the Met would reconsider its decision if further evidence or information come to light.

How come that I am not surprised by this?

Well for several reasons.

Given what I have observed about the standards of detective work in the UK, they are lazy, corrupt and incompetent in their role.

If the evidence is clear cut, doesn't need them to actually do anything and the person confesses there maybe a remote chance that the police might take the case to the CPS.

More likely is that they will lose/despoil evidence, then lie to the CPS to cover up their mistakes and then make out that it is all the victims fault.

However, in a case like this, neither the police nor the CPS are going to go against their political masters, provoke a constitutional crisis and undermine the standing of the establishment because that's just not cricket is it?

If these people had been employee's of a small business who had sold out to it's rivals, they would have been charged, but they are not.

They are examples of the bare-face contempt that the 'ruling classes' have for the people of the UK. Untouchable, elitist and privileged.


Police will not investigate 'cash for amendments' allegations | Politics | guardian.co.uk

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