PCC’s Buscombe Has No Ambition to Regulate Blogs
Iain Dale alerted Guido to Ian Burrell’s Indy piece about the PCC regulating blogs
Baroness Buscombe, the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, has ambitions for her organisation that go beyond the traditional newspaper companies.
She wants to examine the possibility that the PCC’s role should be extended to cover the blogosphere, which is becoming an increasing source of breaking news and boasts some of the media’s highest-profile commentators, such as the political bloggers Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes. Do readers of such sites, and people mentioned on them, deserve the same rights of redress that the PCC offers in respect of newspapers and their sites?
“Some of the bloggers are now creating their own ecosystems which are quite sophisticated,” Baroness Buscombe told me. “Is the reader of those blogs assuming that it’s news, and is [the blogosphere] the new newspapers? It’s a very interesting area and quite challenging.”
Burrell goes on to claim she said she wants to consider extending the PCC’s remit to the blogosphere.
Cue justified horror from Dale, much mocking from many bloggers and the moonbats sent a rambling letter collective response to Baroness Buscombe, self-importantly copied to Ben Bradshaw MP, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and John Whittingdale MP, Chairman Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. They also tweeted it…
Guido thought, given he seemed to be under such dire threat that Comrade Hundal has stepped in to help with the authorities, that perhaps he should call her to find out what she was planning. You know, like a fact-checking, double sourcing thing. It turns out she has been mischeviously misquoted. Burrell has stretched her words a long way and given the impression of an intention that just isn’t there. It was suspiciously noticeable that there was no direct quote suggesting she wanted to expand the PCC into the blogosphere.
Guido suggested she should perhaps put in a complaint about the Indy to herself. Her press spokesman laughed nervously.
So stand down from the barricades comrade bloggers, our sophisticated ecosystem is safe. Baroness Buscombe won’t be taking your keyboard from your cold dead hands…
Don’t believe a word that comes out of any of those bastards mouths.
They will never be able to regulate blogs, We’d just host overseas and proxy in. The PCC has no authority then.
Some people just want to be wound up.
one of the most toothless and ineffective regulators to not regulate another area of the media shocker!
incredible stuff!
No wonder they wouldn’t bother to regulate blogs
That Sunny guy is a bit of a tit it appears
No, he’s a *twat*
I hear this ’sunny’ bloke is a paranoid twat obsessed with some obscure Labour fuckwit
completely wrong yet lacking the self-awareness and irony to see what an idiot he looks
typical blogger in other words
The “rights” that the PCC claim to give people, they can shove up where the sun don’t shine.
They are a bunch of toothless taxpayer funded wasters.
They ain’t taxpayer funded.
If any manifestation of The State speaks to say they will not do anything that is the cue to believe the exact opposite.
It is in their genes to lie.
She looks like Merkel’s sister.
Is it just me or does that cause a shamefully erotic sensation?
BQ
Surely it’s just you!
Oh dear, Bill!
She looks like Anne Widdithings better looking sister!
Lets face it, Angie is quite a stunner compared with Widdi.
Mrs H was stunned with surprise to discover that we Brits are considered ugly!
The totrture continues. She turns up the sound every time Gordoom comes on the telly; bit deaf from dancing too close to the speakers at those illegal raves that ‘Family Values made illegal!
Where the fuck is Master Baiter?
I E-mailed the tosser last night.
Just make sure you are up in time to post on this blog first thing tomorrow morning Baiter or you’ll be replaced. And make it something new. I’m not paying you to spout the same old shit everyday, you’re supposed to be pretending to be an independent mind.
And your cast iron disaffected Tory is as see through as Jordon’s knickers.
A real plant would be more believable than this failed attempt at subterfuge.
About as subtle as a giant beanstalk with a sign saying this way to LabourLand nailed to it.
Sort it out or its door knocking in Redditch for you.
Stop fucking up.
And this morning, instead of wall to wall socialist,red flag slogans and lists of dubious Nulabour claims written large as facts we have nothing.
I’m going to post some shit on Dale and if there’s no MB/Inky etc when I come back you’re fired.
How many times?
Wednesday is his signing-on day. He’ll be along presently, after cashing his giro and scoring a copy of this week’s Nuts.
MB is probably a militant feminist who thinks porn is degrading while secretly harbouring a desire to partake in Oaten-esque activities.
You can always tell a PIG by its smell…but a rat carries the disease.. My blog is my blog… I will say what I want when I want and how I want… and no half witted twat from whitehall is going to tell me that I can or cannot say what I want too.yachydda.co.uk/blog…..watch it Guido…the sneaky bastards’ll do a u turn.
Rumour has it that someone who is now a very well known (and very married) MEP had the hots for Buscombe about twenty years ago when he was a comparatively new boy at Westminster……
Ahh the PCC, the toothless trade association for Fleet street
Worse than MP’s IMHO
FSA — “Fucking Say Anything”
BMA — “Bloody Murdering Arseholes”
PCC — “Politically Correct Cretins”
CPS = Criminal Protection Service
DEFRA = Dickheads Encharged For Ruining Agriculture
OFCOM = Officials Fuck Conned Ordinary Man
DTI = Dickheads Trash Industry
MOD – Ministry of Deficiencies.
MAFF = Ministry Appeasing French Fishermen !
MOD — Ministry of Death
Ministry of Sound = Good disco
HMRC = Helping Members Retire Comfortably
HMP = Her Majesty’s Pleasuredome
RM = Right Mess
DWP = Department of Watching People
DVLA = Desperately Voting Labour Again
my farming brother-in-law assures me that DEFRA does, in fact, stand for “The Department for the Eradication of Farming and Rural Affairs”.
He also says they are making a good fist of it………
DWP = Donations To Workshy Parasites
PHD = Poxy History Degree
DOE = a female deer
Swiss Nanny
Brill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GB – Gone Bonkers.
Naughty Iain Burrell should be given a slippering and then allowed to find new employment. Journalism?
Labour & UKBA getting tough on immigration.
A Nigerian Home Office worker ‘married’ his own daughter to get her a British visa, the Daily Mail can reveal.
But despite being tipped off two years ago, the Home Office seems to have done nothing to stop the scam by one of their own workers.
Until recently, Mr Adesanya was employed as an occupational health nurse for the Home Office, working with immigration officials at Gatwick airport.
A whistleblower sent letters to the High Commission in Lagos and the UK Border Agency including specific details such as names, addresses, passport numbers and even a copy of the wedding photograph.
When there was no response, he sent emails to then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and ministers Vernon Coaker and Phil Woolas on February 1 this year. He heard nothing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228739/This-man-married-OWN-daughter-allowed-stay-Britain–Home-Office-knew-it.html
Also in depressing news today, look at the man that is likely to become EU president and the extra taxes he wants.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6582837/EU-Presidency-candidate-Herman-Van-Rompuy-calls-for-new-taxes.html
Ahh – Vernon COAKER and Phil WOOLAS.
As much intelligence,as much intellect,as much common sense,as much right to be making decisions for anyone other than themselves,
as a freshly laid pile of dog crap.
My 14 yr old son heard one of the useless political commentators on TV last night talking about a “hung Parliament” and commented;
“Will they do it alphabetically?
I bet Gordon Brown will change his name to Gordon Zorro”
Says it all.
Oh, if only….
Blair before Brown.
Not if you have the spelling ability of the cretin Brown – ah diddums,The Sun caught you in the act of bullying a grieving mother did they,you utter pile of crap,Brown.
Maybe this is why the “A” level results Have become a farce under McBust!
He sets the levels of reading and writing skills Oh and your maths also must come up to his standards !
The Sun also spelled the mother’s name wrong. And exploited her for political advantage.
Brown is awful, but siding with the Sun just because they also hate Brown (for Murdoch’s own reasons) makes you look like a tit
Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
100% O/T;
Have we now sold the hallowed crucible of cricket to the Aussies?
Being interviewed on the radio this morning is the CEO of the MCC.
If he is not Australian,then I the world is flat and Gordon Brown is not a murdering fraudster.
Keith Bradshaw, most definitely an Ozzie, born in Hobart 1962.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Bradshaw
Please tell me there’s an Englishman running a sporting institution in Australia!
Er,like their Rugby Union?
Or their Swimming Association
Or their Australian Rules Football?
Even if it’s just the Australian Association Of One Eyed Scottish Fraudster Pole Vaulters.
Perhaps not.
..some of the media’s highest-profile commentators, such as the political bloggers Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes.
More like yapping sock puppets of jews. Everything on here is cut and pasted from jew land.
Think has been well established and freely admitted that Guido is from the Vatican wing of the Jewish Conspiracy.
Everything? Even your comment? It would seem a bit odd that these conspiritorial jews would tell us about their conspiracy. Maybe it is a double bluff or something.
By stealth thou shalt do war.
Guido had better buy one of those new-fangled fax machines so that he will be able faithfully to reproduce whatever the Reichsinformationsministerium sends him.
When Mandy and Gordo turn their impressive intellects onto controlling the internet you won’t have a chance.
The great brains of NuLab fresh from saving the world, keeping factories open in the Midlands, saviours of RBS, Lloyds TSB and victors in Iraq and Afghanistan (eat you heart out, Alexander of Macedon), making Everton beat Benfica, discovering cures for poverty, AIDS, cancer and controlling immigration will be on your case next!
OT (or maybe not) Thoroughly enjoyed hearing Evan Davis shred Mandelson on Today just now! Too long surrounding himself with Brussels lickspittles as made Mandy pathetic.
Does this mean that Master Baiter won’t be able to get his hourly porn supplement from the internet?
If Brooon Went On Line
They would need the fucking enigma machine to unscramble what he’s written !
Fucking hell Guido where do you find these simpletons
It’s like Politics hour at CBeebies
You could always ask her if she wants a panic button linking your site to her office’s online complaints site!
Are those horrible “Frank” adverts coming back Guido? I was disappointed with you for running them, and surprised that the government would give you their business. If the ads aren’t coming back, what was the reason?
Money you cretin. You may notice there are also adverts for socialism on this site. Advertisements are not endorsements. Guido spends the cash on drugs anyway.
Ah, that’s what yapping sock puppets do is it?
I quite like the one with Ester Rantzen – the one where she looks like she’s been the innocent victim of a cowboy cosmetic surgeon.
How on earth can you even think of describing that husband-stealing hawkish old trollop as innocent?
Innocent in the sense that she had no idea that most cosmetic surgeons didn’t operate out of a rusty Ford Transit.
I wasn’t suggesting that she didn’t look like she’d been round the block a few times.
Mornin’!
I checked out your latest posts Guido and thought, I really can’t be arsed to give ‘the establishment’ my attention this morning – after all, isn’t that what they crave??
So I left your site and immediately read this new post on Henry Makow’s often contraversial but ever so ’spot-on’ site:
“My biggest mistake was trusting my elders –media , professors –”looking up” to them or anyone. Our society is as bankrupt culturally as it is fiscally. My writing is a memo to my 20-year-old self, containing the information I wish I had then.”
EXACTLY.
The Internet IS – AND MUST REMAIN – the platform of ‘we the people’ as when so called ‘regulators’ – codeword for ‘censors and political spinners’ – get their hands on anything we eventually arrive at the situation so aptly described by Henry.
HANDS OFF and keep them off OUR Internet, as if we hadn’t been gifted with this most amazing tool our freedom would already be a distant memory….
http://www.henrymakow.com/on_turning_60.html
Ha ha haaaa – how ironic: “your comment is awaiting moderation……”
I could say I’m speechless – but of course, I’m not, lol.
Oh, the temptation, the excruciting tempation, the primal urge to say,; to say…
excrutiating, perhaps,
U.K.’S STANDING DECLINES ON CORRUPTION INDEX
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125849718387052699.html
The revelation earlier this year that members of the U.K. parliament milked the expense-claims system made a laughing stock of British politicians. A report out Tuesday showing the U.K. slipped to an 11-year low on a corruption index indicates the scandal caused more than humiliation.
Transparency International said its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranks 180 countries according to the perceived levels of corruption among public officials and politicians, showed Britain fell one place in 2009 to number 17.
“This reflects the damage to its international standing caused by the MPs’ expenses scandal and the weakness of its efforts to prosecute foreign bribery,” Transparency International said in a statement. The Berlin-based nongovernmental organization, which has published the index since 1995, said it was concerned that the U.K.’s score had deteriorated in recent years.
“The U.K. should be aspiring to a CPI score which puts it in the top ten — not struggling to make the top 20,” said Chandrashekhar Krishnan, executive director of Transparency International U.K. “It should demonstrate that its own house is in order before exhorting developing countries to improve their governance………………………..”
Eleven years ??? Er, how long have Liebour been ‘governing’ ??
Funnily enough though, we’re still less corrupt in that index than either the Americans or the Belgians.
I dare say if the one eyed fucker gets back in though, we’ll slide down the list like shit through a goose to somewhere below Cyprus….
We may not be able to regulate the blogosphere ( and hopefully levy a Blog Tax )
but we can spy on you in your homes LIEBOUR SPYING ON YOUR CHILDREN
Holy mother of god – this is extraordinary,simply incredible.
These scum have GOT to be defeated,wiped off the face of this earth,buried deep in the ground.
if you answer yes to all these questions
then your child will be DNA swabbed, tagged asbo’ed and have a criminal record
and thats before they start school !
primary schools will be ring fenced with barbed wire and renamed “very young offenders institutions
” labour and the EU working together to enslave the population !
The Holy Roman Empire becomes official very soon!
Africa is increasingly looking to be a very tempting prospect.
Interesting article by Mark Steel in The Independent about Brown and Afghanistan.
“At least Tony Blair used to come up with a pile of nonsense and stick to it”.
Mark “I talk bollocks because I’m a twat” Steel?
Doesn’t a blog also allow a certain immediate right of reply? It is an evolutionary thing, and allows for correction
Whereas the print and MSM usually have to print an apology
…and then look how effectively a campaign can occur where certain blogs can be shut down simply by the overwhelming comments applied to it
That’s it! On online newspaper sites, as opposed to blogs, any time large numbers of comments from the public get too far out of line with newspaper owner’s or editors preferred tack you find that the particular ‘have your say’ feature has been disabled.
‘The Mirror’ was and is famous for shutting down discussion in this way (whether for fear, as well, of the kicking in of our famously draconian libel laws or not I’m not sure.)
I have noticed this censorship happening on much more respectable and worthwhile newspaper sites too… feedback from the public not being allowed on a contentious topic, but allowed on silly, shallow entertainment subjects, for instance.
Heaven forbid that the biased press ‘watchdog’ gets let loose on blogs!
Guido
Has anyone ever posted on this site some revelation that turned out to be dynamite?
Yes.
The Shower of Shit Over Westminster.
Well they were all fooled by my supposed death in prison. Ha-ha!
There was some stuff about Baroness Scotland’s cleaner’s husband who was actually a solicitor…
no, it was ‘legal manager’
or ‘legalese mangler’ perhaps ?
Britain: Youth Unemployment Reaching Crisis Level
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6727.5252.0.0
The true jobless total is over 5 million, and the young generations are hardest hit.
For youth, the lack of education, whether they hold university credentials or not, often leaves them unemployable. The newer generations yield disengaged and disillusioned young people. The true ambition that was once the normal condition not so long ago is now a rare exception. In too many cases, it has been replaced by despondency.
For the politicians, lack of education prods them to outsource tens of thousands of jobs, gradually shifting manufacturing and service sector jobs from advanced industrial nations to the lower-cost developing nations. It has led to policies designed to bring 50 percent of secondary school graduates into higher education. The result is unrealistic expectations, and a nation unwilling to fulfill many of its manual job needs. To increase the number of university graduates without increasing the number of grad-level jobs reflects a short-sighted strategy.
The paradox is that the British peoples—glutted with the false wealth that easy credit brought them before the economic downturn—remain largely ignorant of their educational destitution. That was the system that civilized the uncivilized, that brought discipline to the undisciplined within the nations that formed the once vast British Commonwealth and Empire.
That system taught basic honesty in business dealings, civility in human relations, a sense of honor and respect for the heritage of the nation—basic virtues which have since been removed from the public education systems within the Anglo-Saxon nations of today…………….
“Murdered Asian woman had been scalped and her hand chopped off”
Gordon Brown: “UK society had gained immeasurable benefits from immigration’s diversity”…….the country had been “continually refreshed by new talent.”
I’m sorry, I was out went you made your point and missed it. Can I pick it up from your depot?
no race or religion has a monopoly on vicious behaviour
‘Honour’ killings?
..are vicious, as is lots of other behaviour
When was the last time you heard of a murder in the UK where the victim has had his or hand hands cut off and he/she had been scalped?
Thought not.
Honest, I’m not making this up!
“A Nigerian Home Office worker ‘married’ his own daughter to get her a British visa”
It’s political corretness gone mad. Time was you could murder a prostitute, wrap the corpse in an old carpet and stuff it under the floorboards until the neighbours complained about the smell. Now there is some local authority Compliance Officer telling you to cut the hands off and scalp it in case you offend the muslims.
Well, I do recall that in the 90s two teenage girls in a sink estate in the north killed an OAP whilst torturing her for cash & then scalped the corpse (and boasting about it, naturally).
Almost certainly foreigners. The worst we did before immigration happened was scrumping apples and insider trading.
Excellent!
Anonymong gets the morning’s gratuitous bigotry award.
Hardly. This Johnny come lately was trumped by the jewish conspiracy mong by nearly half an hour.
I must be losing my touch: I had the Zionist Illuminati herbert pegged for a chap with a keen sense of ironic humour
That’s what they want you to believe.
Or something.
Evidence of any bigotry on my part please!
I haven’t got a problem with controlled immigration where we import the skills we need. However, I don’t understand why we have an open door immigration policy towards parking meter wardens, supermarket security guards, mini cab drivers etc etc etc. Surely these jobs could be done by Gordon Brown’s three million plus unemployed.
So, IRB, Mitch and Man on the Clapham omnibus have won the turn a blind eye to the obvious and tragic side effect of unlimited immigration in the hope that we will appear to NOT be prejudiced, award.
It is NOT bigotry to point out the obvious, or are we supposed to be so wantonly craven as to accept this sort of barbarism? It’s OK, it was only an Asian killing, it’s their culture dont’cha know. Can’t condemn that! So it is racist to condemn this sort of butchery now is it?
BULLSHIT!
Find out who did it and deport them. Preferably give them an outside seat on a 747 out of this country.
So Burrell is a bare faced liar?
Why no official complaint??
Bet they’d LOVE to regulate blogs, if they thought they could.
Be like trying to herd cats.
I tried that once with a couple of old girlfriends – a man’s fantasy,you know.
“Baroness Buscombe won’t be taking your keyboard from your cold dead hands…”
Not yet, anyway….
But you can guarantee that some authoritarian bastard(s) is(are) working on the plan right now.
Maybe not far wrong Unsworth.
Didn’t Hazel Blears get the vapours over political bloggers about a year ago; and didn’t Burnham want to regulate the internet?
Yeah, scary how adept this government is with IT projects!
Friends!!!!
Today I am able to give a cast iron guarantee that the PCC will not be able to regulate blogs.
This will be a manifesto commitment in th eunlikely event a Conservative government is elected at the next General Election
I’d like to give my Solid Gold Guarantee that I have abolished Boom and Bust but unfortunately I sold all our gold at the bottom of the market.
Oh, and I lied about abolishing Boom and Bust.
Global Warming Ate My Homework:
100 Things Blamed on Global Warming in the media.
Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to return your library book?
Blame climate change; everyone else is doing it.
From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today can be attributed to climate change.
Here’s a list of 100 storylines blaming climate change as the problem.
1. The deaths of Aspen trees in the American West
2. Incredible shrinking sheep
3. Caribbean coral deaths
4. Eskimos (Sorry! Inuit)forced to leave their village
5. Disappearing lake in Chile
6. Early heat wave in Vietnam
7. Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
8. Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
9. Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
10. Monsoons in India
11. Birds laying their eggs early
12. 160,000 deaths a year
13. 315,000 deaths a year
14. 300,000 deaths a year
15. Decline in snowpack in the American North-West
16. Deaths of walruses in Alaska
17. Hunger in Nepal
18. The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
19. Surge in fatal shark attacks
20. Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
21. Boy Scout tornado deaths
22. Rise in asthma and hayfever
23. Duller fall foliage in 2007
24. Floods in Jakarta
25. Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
26. Snowfall in Baghdad
27. Western tree deaths
28. Diminishing desert resources
29. Pine beetles
30. Swedish beetles
31. Severe acne
32. Global conflict
33. Crash of Air France 447
34. Black Hawk Down incident
35. Amphibians breeding earlier
36. Flesh-eating disease
37. Global cooling
38. Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
39. Beer tastes different
40. Cougar attacks in Alberta
41. Suicide of farmers in Australia
42. Squirrels reproduce earlier
43. Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
44. Confusion of migrating birds
45. Bigger tuna fish
46. Water shortages in Las Vegas
47. Worldwide hunger
48. Longer days
49. Earth spinning faster
50. Gender balance of crocodiles
51. Skin cancer deaths in UK
52. Increase in kidney stones in India
53. Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
54. Deaths of Minnesota moose
55. Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
56. Increase of wasps in Alaska
57. Killer stingrays off British coasts
58. All societal collapses since the beginning of time
59. Bigger spiders
60. Increase in size of giant squid
61. Increase of orchids in UK
62. Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
63. Cow infertility
64. Conflict in Darfur
65. Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
66. Worldwide wars
67. Insomnia of children worried about global warming
68. Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
69. Migration of cockroaches
70. Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
71. Drowning of four polar bears
72. UFO sightings in the UK
73. Hurricane Katrina
74. Greener mountains in Sweden
75. Decreased maple in maple trees
76. Cold wave in India
77. Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
78. Increase in heart attacks and strokes
79. Rise in insurance premiums
80. Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
81. Cold spells in Australia
82. Increase in crime
83. Boiling oceans
84. Grizzly deaths
85. Dengue fever
86. Lack of monsoons
87. Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
88. Acid rain recovery
89. Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
90. Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
91. Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
92. The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas (turtles)
93. Radical North Sea shift
94. Heroin addiction
95. Plant species climbing up mountains
96. Deadly fires in Australia
97. Droughts in Australia
98. The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
99. Tsunami in South East Asia
and……
100. Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe
And having an unelected, Scottish, half an eyed, lying murderer as Prime Minister – that’s all down to global unreasoning or is it cos of “global Jihad” as the boy Milllliband used in his non-speech yesterday (always reminds me of a 13 yr old boy at his first school assembly with his shitty John Lewis cheopo suit).
YES!
And there was I going to take the piss saying it was Brown who was clearly to blame for every one of those things.
Guidos blog, where satire is utterly superfluous and comedy never more than a far-right stereotypes deranged babblings away.
If only they knew the many joke postings easily snuck under the radar here.
Loads of fun.
Even if the ‘MMGW’ bollox was even a little bit true – the sheer ARROGANCE of mere ‘men’ to believe that they can control the climate of an entire planet is truly astounding.
I know all too well ‘they’re’ trifling with our weather and atmosphere from the number of ‘persistent contrails’ above our heads most days…
Just for a laugh, some time ago I emailed the Met Office and asked for an explanation about these persistent contrails, they said it was a natural phenomenon, bollux I thought, as any fule no, vapour trails are formed by hot air leaving a jet engine and cooling rapidly, the rapid cooling forms ice crystals, the vapour trail, the surrounding mass of air gives up some heat and the crystals melt so the vapour trail is short lived, the Met Office seem to be suggesting that the ice crystals are cooling down the mass of air surrounding them, a ludicrous suggestion, not physically possible especially in an atmosphere where no clouds are forming, I live near the coast and often see planes passing over with persistent trails following behind and they are sometimes switched off and then a normal vapour trail appears. In any case the more mature of us will remember a time these persistent trails never existed!!
An increase in kidney stones due to dehydration was picked up by a British urologist who felt a sudden research grant coming on.
and it is BEYOND doubt that if you hold your breath for 30 minutes plus,you are likely to be dead.
Yeah Moley – like ‘type 2 diabetes’; heart disease; high cholesterol and more recently the flu scam – when I was a kid in the 50/60’s, apart from a very occasional bout of the ‘flu’, these things were unheard of and we ate a diet far higher in full-fat.
Then ‘they’ invented the tests and FLU VACCINES and Bobsyeruncle – ch-chingggggggggg!
I reckon the scientific evidence clearly shows there is a problem. Vast rubbish islands in the Pacific, plastic dross in the Arctic – denying it does no good, neither does allowing Blair/Brown/Obama to use it as an excuse for raising more tax.
I actually wouldn’t put it past Labour to try and curb bloggers. This government is so bloody paranoid that it will not stop at anything to win another term in office.
ZNL/Tories/Lib Dems will do ANYTHING to retain the status-quo on behalf of their masters who Peter Oborne told us about on Dispatches the other evening – well, one ‘faction’ of ZNL’s ‘masters’ anyway.
This is very interesting and explains a lot:
Fascinating – listening as I write (sorry,”right” – I am led by our leader).
In 5 years time,the Jason Bourne movies will be all about govt control of states.
Shame Jason can’t take down our crooked Brown.
The likes of ‘Bourne’, Bond and Cruise in ‘Minority Report’ are ‘predictive programmes’ for our collective Orwellian future – if we allow it.
How exciting for a 5 year old boy to be given the chance to use biometric fingerprint or eyescan to gain access to his classroom…
One generation is all they need
“By the time my four-year-old son is swathed in the soft flesh of old age, he will likely find it unremarkable that he and almost everyone he knows will be permanently implanted with a microchip. Automatically tracking his location in real time, it will connect him with databases monitoring and recording his smallest behavioural traits.”
http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=837
‘win’ another term ?????
’steal’, you mean.
It’s like the dead tree press says; “Silly rumours can’t get started without our help, blogs will never replace us.”
Talking of silly rumours, am I the only one getting fed up with multiple psuedoscience articles along the lines of;
“shock horror we are all doomed unless we kill half the planet and go back to living in caves”
in preparation for bamboozling everybody before Copengagen.
It won’t wash, (even at 30degrees).
We know your game Mr Politician.
Prehistoric titanic-snake jungles laughed at global warming. Rainforest similar to ours flourished at 3-5° hotter
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/13/paleocene_hot_jungles_were_ok/
Posted in Environment, 13th October 2009 12:35 GMT
Fossil boffins say that dense triple-canopy rainforests, home among other things to gigantic one-tonne boa constrictors, flourished millions of years ago in temperatures 3-5°C warmer than those seen today – as hot as some of the more dire global-warming projections…………….
Are they THAT desperate to divert attention from the one eyed jock mong’s failings?
the BBC were wanking on yet again this morning about the likelihood of a hung parliament.
No chance beeboids, the Tories are coming and your days of cheap Cocaine and rent boys is over. Get your CV’s out you bastards
I heard a rumour that when the Queen stands up to read her speech she is to say;
“If you seriously think that I am going to read this crap with a straight face, you can think again.
This Parliament has done more damage to the reputation of this country than any parliament in history. The people no longer trust you and nor do I.
This Parliament is dissolved. An election will be held in three weeks.”
I wish.
She’s gonna stand up and say “fuck you one eye, piss off back to Scotland”
Wouldn’t that be wonderful!
I’d like the whole lot of them we saw on TV this morning to dissolve as easily as Aspro in a glass… Such a grotesquely risble Ruritanian fantasy it was… Tarantara!… the likes of Alan Sugar and Rowan Williams togged up in Santa costumes without the beard… or in Williams case with the beard… and dafter uniforms still, and dafter titles, and roles, and costumes, and rituals… You couldn’t, make it up… but Henry VIII apparently did…Think Gilbert and Sullivan… think pantomine… I had to laugh… or I would have wept…
Sweep it all away: the lords, the monarchy, the pomp, the ceremony… and let’s have a properly elected head of state, a cleansed and revamped House of Commons, and a decently elected second, revising, chamber.
Oh blimey. I really wouldn’t bet on it Guido.
I can see a number of ways in which detatched regualtion can be imposed without the govt appearing to be doing so. For instance – a “fast track” defamation law, which imposes a take-down prior to small-claims-style arbitration. If I was a sneaky shit like our masters, I’d work around the problem of foreign hosted blogs – like yours and mine – by making the takedown order apply to the blog owner, not host, perhaps even any blog contributor might be liable for additional costs if a takedown order wasn’t complied with.
You may also see an increase in both whitelisting and black listing. As I keep saying, we don’t know what URLs are on an IWF or Home Office list, supplied to ISPs. The remit is constantly being pushed – if there is argument inside the quangos, NGOs and govt for feckin anorexia sites to be added to blacklists – and there is – then do you really think “incendiary” blogs are forever safe?
Then there are EU issues – demanding secure, verifiable, online identification, perhaps, from anyone who pushes content to the web. No? It’s the EC proposal that keeps coming back. Y’know – like ID cards? The EU’s like an elephant…
Oh and I heard that Buscombe – she sounded both thick *and* shifty. I don’t trust any of the bastards.
True Dat
I think Guido’s success in Smeargate has put him and the other bloggers firmly on their radar. Witness the recent bout of astroturfing.
They can control the lobby through bribes, bullying, threats etc and the Beeb is firmly on message. But the bloggers are out of reach for now.
Like you say Frank I think libel is how they will do it. Thats how they stifle dissent in places like Singapore or Malaysia despite being nominal democracies with supposed freedom of speech
Time to learn a few lessons from the Eye, then.
What, become the print edition of You and Yours? I don’t see how that is going to help.
Stansted Express delayed 20 mins coming into London. Hopeless train driver stated problem with reaching signal(man)person then blamed it on global warming
Tottenham Hale escalator out of service third day in a row. Staion Manage(person)er blamed it on global warming
Victoria Line especially hot and smelly today I blame that on global warming
Therefore 1 hr late into office I blame on global warning – boss not impressed – so any future appraisal that is poor can be blamed on global warming.
Good news, kids won’t want a summer holiday abroad as global warming means we can stay at home
O/T but read an article this morning on the Queens Speech which comprised this
“The government is expected to launch a total of 15 bills, encompassing measures to provide residential care for old people, new controls on the parents of antisocial children and a fiscal responsibility plan compelling the government to halve the public deficit within four years”
“Measures to provide residential care for old people ”
– so a bear trap for the Tories as they will have to finance this not Labour. Off course if they don’t then Labour will scream CUTS! from the rooftops and all the normal propogander that normally appears from them. In the interim its a blatant grab for the grey vote but of course like everything this government does it will not happen or so underfunded it will be meaningless. That will not matter though as the grey vote like our personnel at war are just ‘voting cannon fodder’ nothing more nothing less.
“new controls on the parents of antisocial children”
– To little too late this should have been done years ago and has led to some of the lowest standards amongst young children ever known. This is probably as a result of Labour taking over all aspects of childcare, denying the parents right to choose and then when the inevitable problems occour blaming the parents (or everyone accept themselves) and imposing laws and fines apon tem. There are some parents that deserve this but Labours constant insidious interference has created further problems not reduced them.
“a fiscal responsibility plan compelling the government to halve the public deficit within four years”
–The biggest bear trap of them all and the height of hypocrisy. What do this government know about fiscal responsibility? The bill if passed will be used to batter the Tories at every turn. Having created the huge disaster they will complain and winge that the Tories are not on target to clear up the mess THEY THEMSELVES CREATED in a timescal that is not only impossible but positively unbelievable.
Watch and see The queens speech will be full of such legislation, bear traps and time bombs ready to explode throughout the next parliament but as always with theis twat it only becomes apparent when the samll print is read. Should Labour win then they also won’t achieve any of this but will always have the spin and lies to cover it up and they won’t care anyway because there would never be another GE as we presently know it anyway.
The Tory peers are quite correct to frustrate these bills throughout the Lords until the election is called. There are only 70 odd days of parliament time left so its doubtful most of this will be got to the statute books in that time anyway even with huge support.
This therefore is just yet another very cynical and wicked stunt from the fag end of a busted and discredited government who will use this as electioneering to attack the opposition and thereafter when they lose to carp from the sidelines rather than for the people is is purported to support. This governments and the Labour party’s time is now up, they have been found out and are wanting and the people are now sick and tired of the lies, spin and deceipt of this wicked and evil government. The fact there is a queens speech at all for these utter wasters is an obscenity in itself.
Sorry about the post length but needed to be said
I thank you
Zanuliebore, (like the Tories with British Gas) allowed the highly lucrative privatization of elderley residential care homes to the likes of the private equity BLACKSTONE GROUP (see 911 links) behind the front of ‘Southern Cross Healthcare’.
I know – I have first hand experience of this, did my research and my mother was ripped off by them. Details available on request – all in the public domain.
Agent 99 – vote Labour, get IMF!
Barnardo’s warning about cross trafficking of kids and this below,
Are the efforts to protect vulnerable kids (in care & run aways etc.) enough?
“Kincora goes back to the 1960s/70s. Many prominent names mentioned in relation to the perpetrators. Since this, there have been many other children’s homes etc where abuse has been rife and go on for years. The details are very similar in all of these cases.
I have read of a version that goes the poor, abandoned, children are available to be used for the pleasure of the “great and good”. That this is a slave class used for the purpose of the rich. Whether this is far fetched I cannot comment. The facts suggest that these children are abused in the most horrific circumstances and the perpetrators get away with it, time and time again.”
And in any case, even if they’d wanted to regulate blogs, they just couldn’t. End of.
Easy as that eh?
Easy as that. For ample proof, just look at the sheer number of trolls that continue uninterrupted.
Long may it continue, given that many entire political careers have been based on the principle of silencing/smearing as many people as possible.
This is a good article from the Spectator on the economy.
Britain is alone in its QE venture. Brown’s policy is to destroy the economy for the next Government so that the unpopular steps it has to take ensure only a single term.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5547383/the-gathering-storm.thtml
That has been clear from Day 1. Scorched earth.
America has signalled the need for a stronger dollar and the beginning of the pulling back of excess liquidity for this stage of the on-going crisis, to gather resource for the next wave. The pound has to do the same with an interest rate rise sooner rather than later, together with a clear statement of measures to rein in the mammoth deficit.
In a globalised world, the option of inflating away debt doesn’t wash. The markets will cease to be happy with the sneak devaluation of 20% plus which has been allowed to occur over the past 13 months.
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I’m a liberal minded sort and often not happy with some of the rants on here. The Christopher Story video (above) sets off alarm bells even with me – the soft liberal.
I heard an immigrant on the radio the other day mentioneing about how lax we are at not complaining about the creep of the loss of rights – cameras, even in local parks and so it goes on- and on.
This not the same Country I was born in 52 years ago.
Well, the PCC is pretty toothless as it is… Unless you’re powerful and have money and you can threaten to sue, it’s tough to get the papers to make corrections when they make factual mistakes. Witness the long list of nonsense in the daily mail that pretty much never gets rectified. The PCC is funded by newspapers.
btw – the FSA is funded by the entities it regulates…
i see a pattern there…
Though centuries of in-breeding has attenuated my intelligence to the point of cretinism, I wonder if the suggestion of regulating blogs actually emanated from some newspaper or the other.
Wouldn’t the newspapers be the main beneficiaries, since they’ve had to bear the burden of regulation themselves, and must hate the freedom of the blogs and their often wonderfully deranged posters?
Just a thought ( a rare occurrence for me).
Incidentally, I’ve had the younger scions of the odd publishing house down at Stroke Bottom in my time.
Nothing to write home about, in my view.
I was not in the least bothered, the PCC would have less difficulty regulating a bull in a china shop than the blogs.
Stories and ambitions like this only serve to show the ignorance and desperation that is no more than a dead tree press wet dream.
Regulation is for the likes of China, and those in power that like to stifle truthful facts that fail to serve their cause.
Just goes to show how frightened the Indy is of the blogosphere – the fact that they have a pitiful circulation makes me laugh. It’s not because they’ve lost customers to blogs, it’s because they’re crap and no one wants to read them. Typical bullying of the Liberal Fascists. These gobshite hacks give liberalism a bad name.
The Grauniad would I suspect be doing the same thing were it not for the fact that they have the safety net of the trust that owns them.
Well, a sense of the absurd is an important component of humour.
But let’s just calculate the carbon footprint of a cat if we want to be ‘climate change ethical’.
It may be tongue in cheek, but illustrates well the omnipresent ‘truth’ of anthropogenic global warming.
The new ’sin’ in the theology of ‘globalism’ is to doubt AGWs very existence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/11/time_to_eat_the_pets.html
I have my doubts.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
The PCC is *self regulation* ie newspapers patting each other on the back and dismissing each other’s indiscretions.
However, having said that, it is possible that if the PCC decided that they will become the moderator of the internet (hah!) it would deflect them from sorting out complaints about the newspapers. That would suit the newspapers, and since the PCC *is* the newspapers, it would please them too. So don’t discount it too early Guido.
“Guido suggested she should perhaps put in a complaint about the Indy to herself.”
Ha ha ha. Very good Guido.
Since the PPC is Self-Regulation it should turn over control to The Bloggers
I just want to make clear that it was all the fault of the jewes. Whatever it was.
I’m sure all the local deviants will agree with me.
Its about time they regulated micro-blogging.
Since Gordon is good at micro managing, maybe he could micro regulate it.
Watch out for more media stories on Internet Bullying, Paedophilia, China Hacking Whitehall and the MOD, Online Terrorist plots…….all so the Govt can come in and control the Net and save us.
We’re going to have a tory government and there’s no way they are going to cause problems for blogs like this one and Ian Dale’s – you don’t shit on your friends. And red and pink blogs of any note are, as well as being few and far between, no threat. They are not any good and not well read (do gooders, pacifists and saints don’t make good bloggers, they’re boring). Blogging will also become a handy ‘proof of our democratic credentials’ card to play if a government is being accused of crushing dissent.