Ok, imagine that you are involved with a highly powerful and influential organisation, you do not get paid apart from a daily allowance of £300 and you are approach by representatives of an outside body want to influence the decision makers in that organisation into changing the rules in their favour.
During the course of the conversation you say ' well, though it is against the rules for me to show any favouritism, I am able to bend, stretch and distort the rules until it fits what these bodies require and every time I do this, they pay me around £100,000.'
However, this conversation has been recorded and this statement becomes public knowledge and comes to the attention of your peers.
In a normal working environment, your peers would judge you as working against the interests of that organisation, report you to the chief decision maker and you would be removed from your post and everyone would feel that such action would be appropriate.
So why is there one rule for the majority of people living and working in the UK, who would would be sacked immediately from their post and escorted off the premises, and another for the Lords, who cannot?
They make an apology to their peers, and all is forgiven.
Maybe when some single parent who gets caught taking £3.00 per hour for some crummy little cleaning job to help feed her kids, or buy presents for Christmas can use the same defence as these unaccountable Lords.
Do you think it would wash? No, it wouldn't and the full weight of the law would fall upon their shoulders.
It is a clear case of one rule for our Feudal Overlords, and another for the peasantry.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!!
Taken from BBC News
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Sky And The BBC Decline To Show Advert For Humanitarian Aid Appeal In Gaza | UK News | Sky News
So glad I don't have Sky TV, in fact every time they have rung to try and persuade me to take their crappy services I have told them so, and this final position has confirmed every suspicion I have held about this organisation.
The BBC? Well, as a STATE broadcaster, backed by legislation to secure their position and funding, I didn't expect anything else, regardless of the public condemnation of their stance by some of this governments MP's.
Sky And The BBC Decline To Show Advert For Humanitarian Aid Appeal In Gaza | UK News | Sky News
At it again in Belgium I see..hope he was very badly injured..would have been if I had got to him first!!!
CTV.ca | 3 dead, including 2 babies, in Belgian day-care attack
Here we go!
The Last Great Gravy Train Robbery of The Desperate Despots!
The ZaNuLabour government continues it's fleecing of the poor with this latest idea.
Nod to Queen
"They want it all! They want it all! and they want it now!"
BBC NEWS | UK | Court fees plan 'tax on debtors'
Court fees plan 'tax on debtors'
Dominic Grieve
Dominic Grieve has labelled the proposals as a "stealth tax"
The Conservatives have criticised a proposal to increase court fees for debt proceedings by up to 233%.
They say the new fees will be added to the person's existing liabilities, and have labelled the proposals as a "stealth tax".
The plans were set out in a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation document.
So it would seem that, not only is the current administration guilty of taking this country into unpopular wars and conflicts via such devices as the September Dossier; the seedy and dodgy machinations such as Cash for Honours and pursuing policies which contributed to the wrecking of the economy.
And don't give me that bullshit that no one foreseen these events, because I was reading blogs in 2005 that were trying to make people aware that we were heading for a financial melt down. And, if you look closely at how the banks, governments and fiscal policy works, it would have been obvious that you cannot sustain a stable economy by borrowing, in the trillions, particularly whilst hampering our manufacturing base and being reliant on foreign imports for our basic needs, now they want to tax us even further if we end up redundant and unable to make good our debts caused for their and their financial and elites masters, greed and hunger for power.
Does this bunch really think they are going to win the next election?
The meek will only inherit the earth when they have dispensed with such parasites.
If this tax on debtors goes through, expect to see more of this, Man dies during visit by bailiff.
BBC NEWS | UK | Court fees plan 'tax on debtors'
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Three men have been jailed for raping a 16-year-old girl in an attack in which caustic soda was thrown on her.
The girl, who has learning difficulties, was lured into a north London flat and repeatedly raped.
Rogel McMorris, 18, from Tottenham, north London, was jailed for nine years for rape and grievous bodily harm.
Jason Brew, 19, from Tottenham, was jailed for six years and Hector Muaimba, 20, from Walthamstow, was given eight years for rape and robbery.
More scum from the shallow-end of the gene pool find themselves with slapped wrists.
Not long enough for this type of crime, not nearly long enough.
Sphere: Related ContentMan dies during visit by bailiff
Just three weeks after the announcement that bailiffs will be given the legal authority to restrain debtors, who stand their ground against them, is the tragic news of the death of a 78-year-old man.
I offer my sympathies.
(From BBC News England)
Andy Miller
Mr Miller had suffered a stroke following his heart attack in October
A 78-year-old man from Accrington collapsed and died from a heart attack after being taken to a cash machine by a bailiff to pay a £60 speeding fine.
Retired pub landlord Andy Miller had only been released from hospital a fortnight before following an earlier heart attack in October.
Mr Miller's family said they had told the Lancashire magistrates who ordered the bailiffs about his health problems.
Justice Minister Jack Straw has ordered an inquiry into Mr Miller's death.
The bailiff called at his house in India Street on 7 January and persuaded him to get into his car and go to Accrington town centre.
The father-of-five collapsed on his way to a cash machine while the bailiff parked and waited for the money.
'Under duress'
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
His son, Mick, 48, from Lower Darwen, Blackburn, said: "We made countless phone calls and sent numerous letters to the court to tell them about dad's stay in hospital.
"The bailiff called at his house and said he had to make a payment, otherwise they would bring a delivery van and locksmith. He said they would get into the property and take goods and there was nothing he could do about it.
Why didn't the court service take into account that Mr Miller was in poor health?
Greg Pope, Hyndburn MP
"My father then agreed to be driven to get some cash. I believe he was put under duress. We just want some answers as to why the bailiffs were called in."
The pensioner spent 10 days in a coma when he suffered a stroke following his heart attack at the Blackburn Rovers football ground, Ewood Park, on 25 October.
He left hospital just before Christmas to spend time with his family.
Magistrates in Blackpool gave permission for the bailiffs to collect the debt, which included £300 costs which arose from the speeding offence committed on the M55 motorway.
Hyndburn MP Greg Pope referred the case to Mr Straw who has ordered an investigation.
'Our condolences'
Mr Pope said: "There are many things about this case which require an answer. Why didn't the court service take into account that Mr Miller was in poor health?
"There needs to be some sort of answer to that question and I hope the court service will come forward and do that."
A spokesman for Her Majesty's Courts Service said: "We offer our condolences to Mr Miller's family.
"At the request of the local MP, Greg Pope, we will conduct an investigation into the circumstances around this and will report back to the family and MP."
With the impending changes coming which will allow bailiffs to actually man-handle debtors, would it seem more or less likely that people will die as a result?
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Just a quick post regarding the release of Craig Murray's new book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and Other Conflcits I Have Known.
This is available in both PFD and in hard back form.
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'Are email records a step too far?
BBC Have Your Say: Are email records a step too far
Internet Service Providers will have to keep details about every email sent or received in the UK for a year. Is this a fair price to help combat crime and terror?
The firms will have to store the information under the government's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) and make it available to any public body which makes a lawful request. That could include police, local councils and health authorities.
The Earl of Northesk, a Conservative peer on the House of Lords science and technology committee, said it meant anyone's movements could be traced 24 hours a day.
But the Home Office said the data was a vital tool for investigation and intelligence gathering.
Do you feel that your privacy is threatened by this move? Are you reassured by the idea that it might help fight crime and terror? Is there another way for this to be managed?
Published: Friday, 9 January, 2009, 10:29 GMT 10:29 UK'
Following on from yesterdays post regarding police hacking our PC's, this, from the BBC, demonstrates how little the UK public actually understands such things as computers, the Internet and cyber-security, how governments and the law enforcement agencies operate, or this country's and Europe's history.
Biggest worry though is they are generally happy with this situation.
Knowledge might make you feel uncomfortable, but Ignorance is not bliss.
What I did note, both in the HYS introduction and in the story linked to the page, that there was no mention of Key logging software being placed on our PC's, merely concentrating on email security.
If you have a keylogger on your PC it doesn’t matter if you encrypt, scramble or boil you email, every key press you have made has already been logged, saved and sent out to the hacker.
'They' don't need to go to your ISP for anything.
But this subject was not even touch.
The ability and, even more frightening, the legal authority to place these devices onto our computers are a bigger threat than the proposals regarding email.
Would you like this sort of software on your GP's NHS computer system?
Or would you like your religious/political or social views being recorded, without your consent, to be scrutinised, judged and action towards sanctioned?
Would you like you’re industrial, artistic or business future assets broadcast to potential rivals or enemies?
These are just a few of the dangers that we face from these draconian measures implemented to defeat problems that our political servants have manufactured.
Sphere: Related ContentPolice set to step up hacking of home PCs
The Times
David Leppard
THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
This is really old news as 'they' have been doing this for a few years now, in fact, they did it to me. Not the UK police, their Hi Tech Squad in Wales are a right useless bunch, but that is another story, but the National Security Agency in the USA.
The thought of such powers being handed to an ever-more unaccountable police has certainly got the folks on Twitter twittering away.
Hello folks! Where have you been?
This is just one manifestation of how the state is gaining further and further control of our individual personal freedoms and has been though various forms of, what might seem like, unrelated legislation.
The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging. Under the Brussels edict, police across the EU have been given the green light to expand the implementation of a rarely used power involving warrantless, intrusive surveillance of private property. The strategy will allow French,German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned.
Ah! so our EU masters have allowed this to come to pass! Of course it has.
I remember all the media political hype surrounding the UK joining, what was then described as an Economic not a political union, what a con-job eh?
Then once the UK police have done their masters bidding, they will hand over all that info to foreign interests, just like the government did with our nuclear deterrent then?
A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years.
Didn't do any of that on a rape case I am familiar with though, not really that serious is it love? Where you a bit drunk? and other assorted cliches.
However, opposition MPs and civil liberties groups say that the broadening of such intrusive surveillance powers should be regulated by a new act of parliament and court warrants. They point out that in contrast to the legal safeguards for searching a suspect’s home, police undertaking a remote search do not need to apply to a magistrates’ court for a warrant. Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the human rights group, said she would challenge the legal basis of the move. “These are very intrusive powers – intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home,” she said. Any jobs going Shami? I really need to get myself into something essential !!!!
“The public will want this to be controlled by new legislation and judicial authorisation. Without those safeguards it’s a devastating blow to any notion of personal privacy.”
Err? I think the public don't want this at all Shami!!!
She said the move had parallels with the warrantless police search of the House of Commons office of Damian Green, the Tory MP: “It’s like giving police the power to do a Damian Green every day but to do it without anyone even knowing you were doing it.”
Richard Clayton, a researcher at Cambridge University’s computer laboratory, said that remote searches had been possible since 1994, although they were very rare. An amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 made hacking legal if it was authorised and carried out by the state.
Picture this...
The State:
'Listen ugly low-life plebby oik! Do as I say not as I do! You cannot hack but I can! Get over it before something nasty happens to you!'
Citizen: (sorry Subject of the Crown otherwise know as slave)
'But I thought you worked for us, in a kind of democratic way?'
The State:
'Who the fuck have you been listening too? You mean you actually fell for all that democracy tripe we have been feeding you for around 200 years? Telling you that your vote counts and all that? Ha! This is going to be easier than we thought!'
He said the authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. “It’s just like putting a secret camera in someone’s living room,” he said.
Police might also send an e-mail to a suspect’s computer. The message would include an attachment that contained a virus or “malware”. If the attachment was opened, the remote search facility would be covertly activated. Alternatively, police could park outside a suspect’s home and hack into his or her hard drive using the wireless network.
See here, here and here, to deal with security measures and how to deal with unwanted emails.
Police say that such methods are necessary to investigate suspects who use cyberspace to carry out crimes. These include paedophiles, internet fraudsters, identity thieves and terrorists.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said such intrusive surveillance was closely regulated under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. A spokesman said police were already carrying out a small number of these operations which were among 194 clandestine searches last year of people’s homes, offices and hotel bedrooms.
“To be a valid authorisation, the officer giving it must believe that when it is given it is necessary to prevent or detect serious crime and [the] action is proportionate to what it seeks to achieve,” Acpo said.
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, agreed that the development may benefit law enforcement. But he added: “The exercise of such intrusive powers raises serious privacy issues. The government must explain how they would work in practice and what safeguards will be in place to prevent abuse.”
The Home Office said it was working with other EU states to develop details of the proposals.
I tell you, why don't you just work yourselves out of the office, down the road and onto the first ferry over to the EU and remain there with your other Federalist buddies and leave us the heck alone!
The Times article has drawn a lot of comments and only one or two some of the usual stock, shrill-like 'But if you have nothing to hide surly you have nothing to fear?' variety such as ....
If Mr Plod can read files on a hard drive he can also put info into the files. This government is
completely untrustworthy and would certainly consider loading a hard drive if it helped them stay in power.
perc, london, uk
Remote access to a hard drive is a concern. By implication it is possible to infect a drive with spurious information. The temptation is similar to that involving the misuse of DNA, the ability to create false evidence that appears incontrovertible. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Douglas Miller, Fulham,This country is as bent as a nine bob note.
Robert, Hull, UK
and this one..From the Telegraph
The drawings of the Palace of Holyroodhouse show details of the royal mews in front of the palace.
A spokeswoman for the palace said the discovery was a security breach which was being taken "very seriously".
But sources stressed the areas in the plans, which include a cafe, were open to the public and were not secure parts of the building where the Royal Family would stay.
The architect's drawings were discovered under a bush on a path leading to the Water of Leith, in Roseburn, Edinburgh.
The drawings, with an accompanying letter, were found by the Daily Record newspaper's agony aunt, Joan Burnie, as she took her Jack Russell terrier Polly for a walk.
She said: "Polly saw them underneath a bush on the path and came out with the plans in her mouth.
"I took them from her to see what they were and that's when I saw the letter. I was shocked to see the plans were for Holyroodhouse."In conducting my own research I contacted an Independant Industry Security Specialist, identified only as K9, who commented that "this sort of incident is becoming more and more common."
He further stated that "I am looking forward to the prospects of the forthcoming economic downturn, and the government policies of data harvesting providing so many opportunities, that I may have to take on more staff to deal with the amount of data loss, but I am always looking out for a case I can really sink my teeth into."
Plans to Queen's residence found by Jack Russell - Telegraph
I was reading the yearly round up of posts from the Guido Fawkes blog when I came across this visitors comment which I just thought needed a post of it's own.
ADULT CONTENT! CONTAINS SWEARING AND PHRASES OF A SEXUAL NATURE.
You have been warned.
'woman on a raft said...
Dear Jane 8:40. What explains the erudite comments is the need for speed commenting. Here is a glossary:
We are fucked
The banks have been nationalized using your and your childrens' money, or China persuaded to sub them in return for more of what ever we were offering. Like the idiots we are, instead of accepting that the plasma telly and the chipboard furniture will have to go, we have again
borrowed enough to buy yet another take-out pizza and spray-tan in the hopes of snagging a rich boyfriend. There are no rich boyfriends, so this isn't going to work. In short, the fucking fucker's fucking fucked, innit. The loan shark will be round later. You'll be lucky if he accepts a blow-job instead; he's after a kidney for transplant to a Russian oligarch on dialysis.
The people who have done it are a mixture of cunts, wankers, and twats. (Present company excepted, obviously.)
Cunts
are malicious people who wanted this to happen. Some people believe there are a lot of cunts, but I hold they are relatively rare. None the less, there is definitely a stink of thrushy-cunt about Alistair Darling and the non-elected Nick Robinson, and anyone who is rolling around gleefully saying 'the days of cosying up to the city are over' as if the debasement of money was a religious success they have brought about to prove that God exists. Denis Healey is an undead cunt whose Wiki has been sealed to stop people repeatedly pointing out he is a Bilderburger - a fact which he put in to the public domain himself in the fucking Guardian.
There are few cunts but there are many more wankers;
people whose political energy is directed towards their own glory.
I hold the PM is too fucking stupid to make it even to 'thicko cunt', but is definitely a wanker, mistaking the massage of his own ego for doing anybody the slightest bit of good, on account of it feels good to him so we must all be enjoying it and even if we aren't 'then it has al been worthwhile'. There's some arrested development theory or other about this (Freud, Jung, Piaget - psychowonks please advise) but it is observably true that children don't distinguish themselves from their parents/carers until quite late on. Hence, they think if they are happy, then you are happy. GB is an arrested development wanker, and we even know where he got stuck because he keeps telling us.
The lowest category is 'twat'
and there's a lot of them about. The twats in the conference hall are a sample of twats who may have some residual power, so they are 'big twats' (aka 'useful idiots') where as the 20% of the population who would still tick the box for another shit sandwich are showing minor twat traits. However, it is unwise to call them twats because they are feeling unsure about their previous votes and I want to make it possible for them to see how they've been betrayed, sold out and generally fucked to buggery by the big twats taking advantage of the little twats' tendency to take people at face value and think that just because someone has good intentions, that is enough. It isn't. You have to be competent and face reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.
Twattery is believing things about the world that you wish were true, but manifestly are not.
What takes too long to type at speed is 'smartarse' or even 'fucking smartarse'. Guilty as charged, also taking in to account 'not as fucking clever as she thinks she is'. I do not come
from one of the better universities, but I'm not bitter.'
