September 2008

This time its everyone who does work, or has recently worked for the RAF.

How many more must be lost before the message gets home that big databases are a bad idea?

But then its not a problem, its part of the solution. The final solution.

The Ministry of Propaganda tells us that a new "internet watchdog" has been launched. It will protect children from the dangers of the internet.

Why, oh why, is that the remit of the government and every other quango it can rope in? Why is that not the responsibility of the child's parents? Why must this NuLabour Government always assume that parents are incapable, and that it must do the job for them?

Anyone willing to open a book on an increase in the remit of the Internet Watch Foundation? Yokel fears that this could be used by NuLabour control freaks to embed a bit more of the Great Firewall of Great Britain. Tell him it isn't true, please!

You really must watch this video. See London Banker. Someone has spotted that the emergency bailout stinks somewhat.

Yokel doesn't understand the US politics of the matters on which this Representative would spend the money, but the idea that the taxpayer should not write off the losses appeals greatly to Yokel. But the cynic in him fears that there will be no change, and the original package will be railroaded through.

At which point another serious fencepost will have been firmly planted.

This is not a problem, it is part of the solution. The final solution.

Serious question, folks.

We read that the EU Parliament will vote on Thursday this week about the proposal by an Estonian MEP with a journalism qualification from the Soviet Union. If passed it will require the registration of all bloggers. Thus Yokel's initial partnership with Yokelov.

But the EU cannot bide its time so it is shutting down one blog ahead of the implementation. Read about the demise of England Expects.

This is not a problem, it is part of the solution. The final solution.

With little attempt to comment, Yokel presents you with Baroness "I've just written an article called 'A Duty to Die?'" Warnock.

To counter that evil approach by Lady Warlock, there is this article written by a concerned medic in 1999.

Just goes to show that those with a leftist agenda never go away, they just regroup and bide their time. Yokel wonders where the EU learnt that tactic!

[And to those who parrot that the Nazis were right wing thugs, unlike the left wing thugs to whom the Lady Warlock owes her alliegance, let Yokel remind you that the full title was National Socialist. This was to distinguish them from the Communists who were International Socialists.]

Yokel had been worried for a little while that not all was as it seemed in the sudden "rescue of HBOS plc by Lloyds-TSB. The feeling that something was smelly started with our Dear Leader trying to take credit for the deal saying it was stitched up at a cocktail party. The manner of the announcement through a leak placed with the Ministry of Propaganda's Robert Peston added to the feeling that a few stones should be lifted.

Then earlier this weekend Yokel began to read uncomfortable things about the actions of the US government. Things like making the actions of the Federal Reserve completely above the law and Congressional accountability. Seemed like the UK Civil Contingencies Act on steroids. The Yokel stumbled across this article by London Banker.

Further comment seems superfluous. We are well stitched up. Start reading your Bible folks.

Yokel really hasn't got a clue about the politics of Glasgow. These days he really doesn't care whether the Scottish Nationalist Party wants to leave the United Kingdom; but wishes that, having decided, they would hurry up and get on with leading their country straight into the arms of the beloved Brussels dictatorship.

BUT when a SNP councillor finds it necessary to teach his (then) 14 year old daughter and her younger siblings how to fire an AK47, times must be rougher in the Southside Central part of Glasgow, rougher than even Yokel thought possible. Three years later, the SNP must be desparate for councillors because they whitewashed it, and just suspended him for a while. Given the participants in this row, it is hardly surprising that the race card is being played in Cllr Hanif's defence.

Great Kudos to his daughter, she protested to Alex Salmond. And when you remember what happens to uppity Muslim women who offend the "honour" of the male family members, you will appreciate how brave this lass has been. Regardless of whether she has taken sides in the divorce proceedings of her parents. Please keep your eyes and ears open over the next few years. If Noor Hanif should die in mysterious circumstances, please do not let the matter rest without protest.

Then enter a legal firm (Bannatyne Kirkwood France & Co) hired by her father (Jahangir Hanif) to force a blogger (Kezia Dugdale) to take down an article at 15 minutes notice. If you follow the link to the firm of lawyers, you will see that they work together with Peter Carter *uck & Partner who made their name suing Private Eye, and their fortune from convincing celebrety clients that they had been wronged and that legal action by Peter Carter *uck would correct the matter. Poor mislead souls. There was a rumour that Peter Carter Ruck had actually died, but clearly his Partner continues the business using the old name.

So, in actions reminiscent of Schillings and their attempts to suppress unpleasant the news about Alisher Usmanov, we have another blogger being threatened (in the nicest possible way) to remain silent. Why? Yokel will leave you to ponder that. Hidden agenda? Almost certainly when one considers the EU's proposals for unregulated blogs.

Now Yokel hasn't been following the case(s) referenced by this article on The Register, and he has no opinion on the rights or wrongs of it. Yokel is most definitely not a defender of child porn. But Yokel does note that the public's rightly founded revulsion at those practices is being used as the thin end of a wedge to deprive people of their rights to a fair defence in a court. To that extent, this action by the police is no different from the mass hysteria fomented by a red-top tabloid some years ago that led to an angry mob besieging the house of a paediatrician.

The phrase that leapt out of the screen was: "The arresting officers also seized large quantities of material, both hard copy and digital, from the two men. This included material that is claimed to be "privileged" within the meaning of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act." If indeed the material is privileged, then the police have no right to it at all, except it be decided in front of a judge with both parties given the opportunity to present their cases.

By now the police will have taken copies of all the disks they siezed, and we know that the police are pathologically incapable of deleting any information about anything. See how their databases on the population just keep growing. Faster than the Stasi's. Because? Just because they can, storage is cheap, and they have decided.

The article notes that the arrested pair have been working on appeals against conviction by some of those scooped up in Operation Ore. Perhaps the police don't ...

Read between the lines dear reader, it is now becoming necessary. This police action is not a problem, it is part of the solution. The final solution.