Friday 8 November 2019

FINALLY, THE ANTITHESIS (HOPE) IS IN SIGHT

How the heck do you get across the message that Jeremy Corbyn is a genuine, decent, kind and compassionate man who has devoted his life to fighting injustice and inequality.  How on earth does the mainstream media convince those who need Jeremy Corbyn's compassionate policies the most, that wealthy old Etonians are their best bet for the future.  

The tories did not suffer under austerity, the working classes did.  And it began with a systematic negative, propaganda campaign against the disabled and the unemployed waged by the right wing press who can take a bow for all their 'benefits' programmes and the highlighting of the undeserving poor.  Oh and the tories.  The word 'scrounger' came back, claimants were assumed to be pulling a fast one, unless they could prove otherwise. 'Make them work for their benefits' cried the hang 'em and flog 'em brigade, we can get them do all the menial stuff we now have to pay £10 an hour for.  And we don't have to call them people anymore, they are now units.

They took away EMA, the £30 a week students got for attending classes, a lifeline for students from poor families, and an incentive for them to get an education.  They slashed SureStart, a vital service for young families offering friendship and advice, having been a lone single mum, I know how vital such a helpline can be.  

The Nasty Party slashed benefits and put every claimant on trial, building on the negative energy they created.  They made the poorest in our society pay for the financial crash they caused, and by they there, I mean the bankers.  Yet somehow, they convinced the majority, that our economy was being drained by benefit cheats and the unemployed.  They created a climate where it became acceptable, normal even, to send desperate families to food banks, rather than give them the cash they need to feed themselves.  Less than 0.5% of benefit claimants are actually cheating the system, and the amount lost is miniscule in comparison to tax that should be paid in the UK, but isn't.  And it is sad, but true, that it is easy to persuade the average taxpayer that they would have more in their take home pay, if a certain demographic had less.  It is not a very altruistic way of looking at your payslip, but we all do it.  We have a little moan, then accept it as the price we pay to live in a civilised society.  A society where our children are educated, our rubbish is collected, our fires are put out, our illnesses are treated.  We do not fear being bankrupted by medical bills.

If I were asked to sum up what socialism is, I would say it is about raising the standards for everyone.  Whilst I get that there are those who would like a two or three tier system, they should be able to use their hard earned cash to 'get to the top' - wouldn't life be less stressful if there were no difference between the top and the bottom? Just putting that out there.  

After years of 'austerity', more accurately punishing the poor and dismantling all the public services put in place by previous Labour governments, Boris Johnson et al are now pretending (some aren't) that they care about the NHS, the Police, and the Fire Brigade who they are currently trying to blame for Grenfell.  Don't forget the tenants of Grenfell were warning the tory Council that the cladding was a tinderbox, long before the tragedy occurred.  

The tories have lied to us again and again.  Just like their predecessors they have us fighting among ourselves instead of fighting them.  They now have the working classes and the middle classes exactly where they want them.  Those in work, and further up the class scale, are now hostage to their employers.  Zero hours contracts are the norm, zero protection of workers rights, means that those who live paycheque to paycheque (most people) have no job security or means to secure a loan or a mortgage.  It's an employers' market.  Do as you are told, or you can easily be replaced.  The UK is already violating human rights with benefit sanctions, once the European Courts are gone, employers can do exactly what they want.  

In decades and centuries to come, students will look back on these times and wonder at the mentality of the first generations to be blessed with enlightenment.  Access to all the information we could ever want or need.  History repeats itself, we have seen what happens when a population blames a designated group for all that is bad.  It becomes dictatorial and cruel and it never ends well.  We are now at the thesis stage of the dialectic, finally (after 9 fffing years), the antithesis is in clear sight.  Forgive me for comparing 9 years of tory austerity to the war years, but these tories have run Great Britain into the ground.  The antithesis is long overdue, a rebellion against the the heartless policies of the Eton front bench. Cameron, May and Johnson have zero shame that other world leaders see the number of homeless people sleeping on the streets of London.  Thatcher wanted to take us back to Victorian Times - her spawn have achieved it.

By contrast, Jeremy Corbyn wants to end homelessness, food banks and the degrading ATOS assessments.  He understand economics, he and John McDonnell, have spent a lifetime studying.  The New Deal worked for Roosevelt, and JC and JM have worked out in detail how it will work here.  They will do the opposite of the conservatives.  That is, they will plough money back into the economy by investing in infrastructure (we really need a lick of paint), public services, education, the sciences, the arts, all those industries that will boost the public's spending power which will in turn create new jobs.  Britain at the end of World War II needed a boost to revive the country's morale.  Winston Churchill, the hero of WWII, was still a tory, and the UK were crying out for change.

We are crying out for change now, just as much as we were at the end of the War.  Our country is dragging behind our more progressive European counterparts.  With tories at the helm, we are on the outside, Brexit or no Brexit, old imperialists who cannot accept the world has evolved.  Of course, JC and JM are not spring chickens, but they are woke and listening to the movers and shakers of the future.  They want to bring in the kind of major changes that their predecessors brought in in the 1940s, changes that made England swing like a penudulum doo, in the 1960s.  My generation grew up with dozens of jobs to choose from and homes that were affordable.  Something the present generation have never known, or will ever know under the tories. 

The world has changed.  The kinds of jobs available to me, are not available now.  That is, 9 to 5 in an office, shop or factory.  Instead of punishing people for not working in jobs that do not exist, a government should be creating jobs.  I don't mean out of thin air - but out of the growing need for more care/health workers, we have an aging population,  investment in education, science, technology and yes, leisure.  We really need to get past the mentality that breaking rocks or scrubbing your doorstep is more morally sound that bingewatching the Walking Dead.  We all have leisure time now, even the undeserving poor.   

Jeremy Corbyn has devoted his entire life to improving the lives of others.  He is not looking to enrich himself from leading the country, he has no businesses to prop up or gold toilets to upgrade.  His lifestyle and tastes are modest, cyclying, an allottment and homemade jam.  No playing tennis with the wives of Russian Oligarchs for £250,000.  No allocating of public funds to attractive female pole dancers.  He doesn't even fiddle his parliamentary expenses, unlike most of his colleagues, nor does he appear in Parliament coked up to the gills, yet still the British public think he is untrustworthy.

For those future generations, it is our duty to show that as the first enlightened population, we choose a government that is progressive and forward planning.  A government that will genuinely represent the majority and who will genuinely act in the majority's interests.  A government that will put climate change, poverty and homelessness at the top of the agenda. And a government that ensures every citizen, employed, unemployed or disabled is treated with dignity and respect.  It doesn't have to be this way.


42 comments:

  1. An estimated one hundred and twenty thousand DWP related deaths of the sick and disabled should be headline news. But as usual when it comes to the integrity of the media they fail miserably.

    Something's going to have to give before even more damage is done, as this is most definitely a human rights atrocity whereby the Tories should be sued for their actions leading to starvation and other forms of untimely deaths.

    Shame on every inhumane last one of them.

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    1. Rosalinda dear

      “The UK is already violating human rights with benefit sanctions, once the European Courts are gone, employers can do exactly what they want.”

      Not so. This has already been pointed out a few threads back.

      “The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is a regional human rights judicial body based in Strasbourg, France, created under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The Court began operating in 1959 and has delivered more than 10,000 judgments regarding alleged violations of the European Convention on Human Rights.”

      https://ijrcenter.org/european-court-of-human-rights/

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      “They slashed SureStart, a vital service for young families offering friendship and advice, having been a lone single mum, I know how vital such a helpline can be.”

      I would agree that SureStart was very good for many. Although I didn’t need SureStart for friendship and advice, I steel have a SureStart mug.

      The cost of the British intervention under the Labour government in Iraq and Afghanistan would easily cover the cost of SureStart with plenty of cash left over. Non-intervention would have saved money and lives. Very, very many lives.

      For instance: http://www.radstats.org.uk/no084/Hartley84.pdf

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      Under Labour, The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 was published on 26 November 1997, and enacted on 16 July 1998, part of which introduced tuition fees in all the countries of the United Kingdom.

      The act introduced a means-tested method of payment for students based on the amount of money their families earned.[8] Starting with 1999–2000, maintenance grants for living expenses would also be replaced with loans and paid back at a rate of 9% of a graduate's income above £10,000

      Tuition fees in the United Kingdom
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_fees_in_the_United_Kingdom

      Just saying.

      Bless

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    2. Was food poverty actually higher under the last Labour government?

      https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government/

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  2. World Exclusive: Post Testimony Interview with Randy Credico

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/world-exclusive-post-testimony-interview-with-randy-credico/

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  3. "New Labour quickly discarded all those working classes who protested against the tory systems that oppressed them. In fact they took up those very same oppressive systems and improved on them. It wasn't the Tories who brought in ATOS, it was Tony Blair. Something Blair supporting MPs Tom Watson and Jess Phillips should be reminded of. Often. Happily those Tony Blair days are gone now, and in the past they should remain."
    http://cristobell.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-case-for-jeremy-corbyn.html

    It was Blair/Brown that introduced Sure Start.

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  4. A fine post, Ros...

    I'd love to share your optimism.Unfortunately, I can't.JC is the only hope, I agree. But I fear for him..even if the electorate are awake this time around...

    I shall get back to you on all of the above..

    Zig

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    1. Thank you Zig for understanding my post, and indeed sharing my hopes. You are less optimistic than myself, but shucks, aren't you always? I think you are more grounded in realism than I, but now and again, hope and optimism bucks the trend, and someone like Obama gets in, I would put forward Blair in this country, but am at the moment too steeped in horror and betrayal. Was I ever that naïve?

      Well, yeah, I was. I'm not going to try and put up any kind of defence, the truth is, there have been many times where I have believed, and ultimately been betrayed. I would write an advice book but I am sure I have learned anything.

      Ultimately, despite all, I remain optimistic. One of my favourite quotes is 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'. It has been leitmotif throughout my life, at my lowest points, at my weakest and most vulnerable, I have been fortunate to encounter 'the kindness of strangers'. The kindness of strangers has rescued me from my darkest times, I want so much to offer that kindness to strangers myself. Doesn't matter if they remember it always, if they pass it on to others, it was that little lift, just when they needed it, who knows what butterfly effect it may have.

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    2. Oops, that was glass 6! Suddenly I am in the realm of explain a spoon! JC, Jeremy Corbyn is a good guy, ok a phenomenon in the 21st century, but a clean slate, a CV that stands up to scrutiny, a parliamentary record with NO false expenses claims or taxpayer funding of pole dancers. Like any decent human being he hates the treatment of the Palestanians by Isreal? But to be fair, only a psychopath would say it is OK. That doesn't mean he is anti semetic, it means he is anti ethnic cleansing and the shooting of innocent Palastinian kids and emergency medical services personnel.

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  5. Nothing I disagree with there 22:50, you are right, it was Tony Blair who introduced Atos. It stings all the more, because I was behind Blair all the way, my dear old dad and I sat outside a polling booth all day when Blair won, I went along to the 'count' then returned in time to share a bottle of champagne with my dad with Michael Portillo lost his seat. They were heady times and we expected so much.

    I don't think I will ever forgive Blair and right wing Labour for the speed with which they adopted 'let's screw the workers' tory policies. I felt betrayed. Blair was as bent as a nine bob note, so too 'cool hand' Brown. They were wooing and grooming the 'we're tories now' generation who couldn't wait to abandon their working class roots. The Blairites are not so much New Labour, as New Tory. Their goal is to reassure those who have made a few bob, that the socialists won't nick it all off them and spend it on foreigners and the undeserving poor.

    The problem with Labour, and always has been, is that they create for the working classes, but once those working classes have that wealth, they then qualify as tories. It's the old song 'the working class can kiss my arse, I've got the foreman's job at last'. Labour breeds tories. It rarely works the other way round. That is, those punished and sanctioned by the tories (whipped in the old days), rarely think, 'must vote for this lot again'.

    The above is, I think, Ok I've had a glass of wine, but nevertheless, logical and reasonable yes? But strangely, no! Many of those being whipped, figurately, still think, 'ah, but Jeremy Corbyn'. This kindly, philanthropic gentleman, who doesn't have a bad word for anyone and used to wear sweaters knitted by his mum, is the greatest threat to our existence we have ever faced! He can't be trusted, he hates Jews (seriously?), he won't press the nuclear button - wtf is wrong with him?

    On the opposing side, we have the proven beyond doubt, very unstable, man/boy who still can't do his hair, tell the truth or sound like a statesman, yet there is still a possibility that he might win a General Election. How the Fffff is this even happening. In this new age of information and enlightenment, can the masses vote for fascism and chaos? I'm still hanging onto the belief that it can't happen, but the reality is, it can - am now on fourth glass!

    The reality is, the 'masses' don't know or care about history. The see the rise of the far right as something new and innovative. A 21st century approach to the nuisance of poor people and immigrants. After 9 years of Tory rule, the British have gone further right than most. It has somehow become acceptable to brush all our baggage (the aged, the disabled, the unemployed, the displaced)to one side and treat them as less than humans. Those who work hard should come first. Those born in this country to (white)British parents, should have an advantage over those weren't. We are not looking for privilege or advantage because of our talents and achievements, we want front of the line, because by accident of birth, we were born here.

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  6. Twice, can you believe it, twice I have lost my continued answer to you! Doh!

    We can all 'rise above the heap' whatever the heap might be. All we have to do is something exceptional, like maybe study the subject. It is always sad, that is 'cool' to know nothing, or pretend to know nothing, about a subject that is being is discussed. Maybe it takes courage to say, actually, yeah, I do know what I am talking about.

    Unfortunately, tis my experience, that when I say that, I am met with immediate acceptance of my stance (I am a formidable woman), or hostility for the sake of it. I love to be challenged, don't get me wrong, but I want that challenge to be strong enough to make me question my own conclusions. That's a high bar - few have reached it, lol.

    Now on glass 5 (mango and peach wine) and should probably say nite nite. Have been thrown headlong into teaching an English class, not of my choosing, I hate teaching basic English, I am more into the academic A-level stuff, but now it is
    beyond my control. I would moan and protest, but it would it would all be a bit churlish now. The trouble with teaching is the automatic bond you have with your students. It's not that you are letting yourself down, it is that you are letting your students down. They depend on you. You are, the constant in their lives. The couple of hours a week where (the same, hopefully) teachers are devoted entirely to them. I don't get paid, my reward is in the confidence I can give to these young mums, and their kids. To hear them speak English confidently is reward in itself, their beautiful smiles are a bonus.

    My greatest joy in life, and I would have to agree with the Dali Lama, JC (original and 21st century) and every iconic philosopher, including John Lennon, that the greatest rewards come from the kindness you give to others. Teaching is filled with 'aw shucks' moments, when you can pass on the wisdom you have learned to others. As you grow older, you forget how young you once were, and how naïve. You can't teach your young self anything, it is too late now, but you can teach them. You can tell them simple things like, it's OK, to have the evening to yourself and your husband, and perfectly OK to growl at your kids! It's Ok to have time to yourself (I used to hide in the bathroom, lol), OK to do what you want. I hate the current day mentality that we should sacrifice EVERTYTHING once we have had kids! WTF? Everything? Realistically, this means kids in their teens and twenties, are writing their own 18, 20 year old lives off, for their newborn offspring.

    Err, they are still kids themselves, with entire lives in front of them. Nobody should be teaching them they should, once parents, begin sacrificing their own lives forever more. It doesn't do the kids any favours, kids of eternally self sacrificing parents are brattish in their early years and grow up with a guilt complex.

    I happen to think that having a kid doesn't mean your life is over and you should slavishly devote your every moment to the fruit of your loins. And I say that as a slavishly devoted mother, every moment of my kids' childhoods was wondrous. But I lived by the philosophy of happy mummy equalled happy kids. Hell yeah, I allotted specified times for kids, family, partying and alone time. As a working single mum I would have gone insane if I hadn't!

    Aw shucks, now on glass six and looking for Kitty (someone) to sing Honky Tonk Angels, lol. On my bucket list, a night out at a country and western concert with some emboldened cowboy who might ask me to dance ;)

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  7. “The UK’s Macabre Final Election

    This is the final general election of the United Kingdom. The SNP has put Independence at the heart of its campaign, eschewing the dreadful error of the “don’t mention Independence” campaign of 2017 that led half a million potential supporters to sit on their hands on voting day. The SNP is going to win a thumping victory and eliminate the Tories from Scotland. Johnson’s hardline unionist pose, denying the sovereign right to choose of the Scottish people, would not be able to survive such a result. If the Tories were to think they would succeed in treating Scotland as Spain treats Catalonia, they would have a very rude awakening. Equally the SNP leadership will be politically unable to impose acceptance of whatever parameters Westminster attempts to impose. The divergence of politics and culture between Scotland and England is now so stark that the union is already over as a functioning political entity. It is now just a matter of arranging the obsequies.

    …”

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/the-uks-macabre-final-election/

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  8. Le Mesurier Gets Cross

    “Perhaps the only fact on James Le Mesurier about which I would agree with the MSM war cheerleaders is that he was a very busy man. It is remarkable therefore that he found the time and inclination to follow “Philip Cross” on twitter. Given that “Philip Cross” has virtually never posted an original tweet, and his timeline consists almost entirely of retweets of Nick Cohen, David Aaronovitch and openly pro-Israel propaganda accounts, why would Le Mesurier bother to follow him?

    ……

    Philip Cross” has been an operation on a massive scale to alter the balance of Wikipedia by hundreds of thousands of edits to the entries, primarily of politically engaged figures, always to the detriment of anti-war figures and to the credit of neo-con figures. An otherwise entirely obscure but real individual named Philip Cross has been identified who fronts the operation, and reputedly suffers from Aspergers. I however do not believe that any individual can truly have edited Wikpedia articles from a right wing perspective, full time every single day for five years without one day off, not even a Christmas, for 2,987 consecutive days.

    I should declare here the personal interest that “Philip Cross” has made over 120 edits to my own Wikipedia entry, including among other things calling my wife a stripper, and deleting the facts that I turned down three honours from the Crown and was eventually cleared on all disciplinary charges by the FCO.”

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/le-mesurier-gets-cross/#tc-comment-title

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  9. The Fragile Boris Johnson

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    Politicians only give speeches nowadays for them to be carried on electronic media, and the camera angles are considered more thoroughly than the content by their managers. The idea of a political meeting was that a politician would hire a public hall and invite the general public to come and listen to their attempt to win their vote, and engage in discussion with people. That idea has almost died, in favour of the outright propaganda model.

    To his great credit, yesterday in Dundee Jeremy Corbyn did hold a relatively open meeting at the Queens Hotel, and he was heckled by Bob Costello. As it happens I know both Jeremy and Bob and have a lot of time for both of them. Bob’s heckle was the perfectly reasonable “I’m interested in what you’re going to do about the will of the Scottish people in relation to Section 30”. Section 30 in this context is Westminster’s agreement to an Independence referendum.

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    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/the-fragile-boris-johnson/

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  10. OPCW Whistleblower Panel on the Douma attack of April 2018

    https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/

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  11. “The Palace… Threatened Us a Million Different Ways”.

    This leaked off-air recording of ABC News anchor Amy Robach is much more revealing than anything the BBC is going to air about Andrew Saxe Coburg Gotha.

    Buckingham Palace has been “threatening” journalists to bury the story for years – which is all very reminiscent of Jimmy Savile, who was of course, ahem, popular at the Palace. Robach also states they were scared of losing interview access to folically challenged William Saxe Coburg Gotha and his underweight wife. She does not explicitly state that was one of the “threats” Buckingham Palace employed, but it does follow directly as her next observation.

    Amy Robach very probably realised this “unguarded” moment would get out to the public, and we should be grateful to her for lifting the lid on how the protection of the crimes of the powerful operates, on a global level. Alan Dershowitz, whom Robach mentions, was not only a Lolita Express passenger, he is the celebrity lawyer who defended the CIA‘s use of torture as legally and morally justified. One might speculate on the psychological parallels of torturing the defenceless and inflicting sex on the young.

    There is overwhelming evidence that Virginia Roberts Giuffre was trafficked into the UK by Epstein for sex with Prince Andrew. There are flight logs. There is that compromising photo in Ghislaine Maxwell’s flat. Both are entirely consistent with, and strongly corroborate, Virginia’s own testimony. This instance occurred in the UK.

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    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/the-palace-threatened-us-a-million-different-ways/

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  12. Dusty, please do have a look at the comments on today's Craig's blog, will you? I've posted a link.

    You know I love you. Surprized?

    Teaz Neez

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  13. "Please can we choose a Brave New World http://cristobell.blogspot.com/2019/10/please-can-we-choose-brave-new-world.html

    HE'S A FILTHY PIECE OF TOE-RAG: http://cristobell.blogspot.com/2019/10/go-figure-said-seneca.html

    TORY GOVERNMENT DRUG ADDLED: http://cristobell.blogspot.com/2019/10/go-figure-said-seneca.html

    I'm delighted the Lib/Dems have decided on one pol... : http://cristobell.blogspot.com/2019/09/im-delighted-libdems-have-decided-on.html"
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    Yet suddenly when the election is announced, Ros goes silent?

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  14. You can always tell when blogs have failed when there are strange references to other blogs and expressions of love.

    Sort it out Ros.

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  15. "FINALLY, THE ANTITHESIS (HOPE) IS IN SIGHT"

    I know Ros that you are much more intelligent than your readers, but maybe you should take some time to explain wtf you mean by your heading?

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  16. Boris Johnson Must Waive Any Claim of Immunity for Prince Andrew

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/boris-johnson-must-waive-any-claim-of-immunity-for-prince-andrew/#respond


    Microsoft to probe work of Israeli facial recognition startup it funded

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-anyvision/microsoft-to-probe-work-of-israeli-facial-recognition-startup-it-funded-idUSKBN1XQ03M


    Refusing bail, US judge deems binary options fraudster Lee Elbaz a flight risk

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/refusing-bail-us-judge-deems-binary-options-fraudster-lee-elbaz-a-flight-risk/

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  17. Ex-cop who fled to Russia has access to #Epstein’s covertly recorded videos (now encrypted) allegedly of Prince Andrew and others.

    https://wirralinittogether.blog/2019/09/30/man-who-fled-to-russia-has-access-to-epsteins-covertly-recorded-videos-now-encrypted-allegedly-of-prince-andrew-and-others/


    #Epstein Russia exile John Mark Dougan – checks covertly recorded DVDs, finds paedophile activity, a famous face, and more…

    https://wirralinittogether.blog/2019/10/05/epstein-russian-exile-john-mark-dougan-checks-covertly-recorded-dvds-finds-paedophile-activity-a-famous-face-and-more/

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  18. This is a must!

    Shaun Attwood’s second interview with Charlie Robinson. Fascinating new information on #Epstein

    https://wirralinittogether.blog/2019/10/21/shaun-attwoods-second-interview-with-charlie-robinson-fascinating-new-information-on-epstein/

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  19. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Inquiry

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/world/europe/sweden-julian-assange.html

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    1. Hello BB 19 November 2019 at 16:15
      "Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Inquiry"

      They should've dropped this ridiculous inquiry years ago. Not even in our preposterous legislation on "sexual crimes" is there anything that could lead to a prosecution, even if Anna Ardin's or Sofia Willén's "account of the truth" would be the real truth, which of course it isn't. A complete nonsense case which has made Assange suffer so much.

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    2. I'd pay good money to see an interview with Barack 'no means no' Obama right now. Too many people called the US a police state and dictatorship the way it hounded Assange on charges everyone knew were bogus. It was an attempt to avenge all the lies he had exposed about the US and an attempt to assassinate his credibility, character and health / life.

      He is owed big time.He was forced to live in a cell for years to stay alive.He was held up as example to us all that seeking truth and questioning the tyrants can lead to you living in a hole if you're fortunate enough to actually survive.

      Zig

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  20. Latest in ''everyone hates us'' paranoia from the Zion -owned media...

    Just as the head-to-head political TV debate makes all the headlines look what happens...

    As Johnson is exposed by Corbyn for his behind-closed-doors meetings with Trump seeing if they can create some money making opportunities for the US pharma companies, Johnson and his supporters jump straight out with yet more tiresome 'but Mr Corbyn, you hate jews' bullshit.Because that really makes a difference if we want him to eradicate austerity and rescue the poor.So as the debates begin on and offline the propaganda merchants and shills get their twitter multi-accounts up and running and right on cue, a British institution, Sian Lloyd makes some public and unfortunate remarks about Swansea traffic control, referring to the roads being 'another traffic holocaust'. Boom..a snowflake orgasm. Then the mad rush to see who could sound the most sensitive and evolved and who could emote the most over the holocaust.

    Sian apologised tactfully and diplomatically to each and every snowflake.She even reminded them she was half jewish.But that didn't work.You see, that's the great thing about it. You can call Judaism a religion.You can call it an ideology.You can call it a way of life.It depends on who you want to accuse or make feel guilty.The meltdown has been incredible.

    The machine kicked into gear fast.The word searches brought smoke.They managed to dig up some 'previous'. She had made a similar remark and analogy in 2017( you have to be impressed with the efficiency of the blood hounds there. Oy vey..)

    What will happen now is anyone's guess. She should keep her job and stay out of jail.let's hope so anyway.But she has committed a sin more evil than stealing from the tax man or fiddling expenses like the Tory politicians often do( and get away with).But it would be useful to the TV and other media outlets kept this story floating for a few days.It's about anti semitism and the Tory party love that subject this week.Not that i'm suggesting the Zion owned and sponsored TV and press would have an agenda against J Corbyn of course..

    Zig..

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7702381/Ex-ITV-weather-presenter-Sian-Lloyd-sparks-outrage-calling-traffic-jam-holocaust.html

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    1. You can’t always tell, dear. All you need is love. Love is all you need.

      Sorted. No need to bother Ros.

      Strange

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    2. A trend is born...

      2 days after the debate what do we get...Anything about the Tory Party breaking the rules and regulations laid out by Twitter to 'persuade' readers ? No. Anything about how many 'undecided' voters were persuaded by the common sense and good will of Corbyn ? No. We get the media cranking up the same old nonsense. Not Sian this time. Rachel Riley/ Yes the important Rachel Riley. Pretty face and brilliant mathematician.She does the numbers on TV's Countdown when not trying to appear on as many 'celeb' programmes as she can to become famous and grab some attention..

      Multi millionaire Riley wasn't impressed by Corbyn's desire to end austerity and rescue the poor.Why would she be.She wants to tackle far more important issues- like all good Tory privileged..

      https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/21/rachel-rileys-jeremy-corbyn-tweet-offensive-11192896/

      https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/countdowns-nick-hewer-ditches-labour-over-rachel-riley-antis

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    3. It gets better..

      Eamonn Holmes, seasoned TV presenter and interviewer has used the word 'uppity' to describe (american) Duchess Of Sussex, Meghan Markle .

      Today- 2019- the modern , progressive 21st century, I'm pretty sure 99% of people know exactly what's being implied when somebody describes somebody as uppity.It can mean snobby, ignorant, self-important, stuck up, superior, rude. Cambridge Dictionary describes it as :

      'An uppity person behaves in an unpleasant way because they think that they are more important than they really are'

      I think it's fair to say most royals, be it by birth or marriage, can be described as uppity.But it's regarded as some kind of social protocol.In other words, we should know our place.Such rules can be relaxed if for instance William and Harry want to sell themselves to the public as feeling strongly about something somebody's just told them about.Then they need to develop 'the common touch' for the cameras before they get back in the Rolls and go home to thrash the servants.

      But, in our enlightened age of the snowflake and internet, poor old Eamonn has had to issue grovelling apologies through the media and his bosses because- apparently- the word 'uppity' was used as a racist term in the 19th century.Hands up if you knew that.Did anyone-really ?

      There's such a thing as context.If these eagle-eyed internet watchers are going to jump at any chance to show their brilliant knowledge of History( yeah, right) they should remember the term 'historical context' too.That is, consider the social, religious, economic, and political conditions that exist during a certain time and place. That time and place being here and now.That time and pace that is over 100 years after the original meaning of that word stopped being used as derogatory and was assigned to the bin marked 'archaic' . Until these media snipers and snowflakes learn to shut up and learn, the very things they claim to be weeping over will never be assigned to the bin marked 'archaic'. They need them to exist to have something to bleed about. Dickheads..

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    4. Hello Ziggy, and delighted to hear your passionate views! Going to your second post first, because that is the one I can see (3 glasses into a bottle of pink gin, lol), the word 'uppity' strikes a chord with me. When I stood in the dock, as witness in my own case against the Church and State, Counsel for Prosecution asked 'how' 'someone like me' could know the word 'malevolent' (a personal fav btw). As a Bachelor of Arts and lifelong academic I was deeply offended. Had he not read the files, or was he being deliberately offensive? Mattered not, even Learned Counsel such as himself was not prepared for me. He thought he was leading me, but I was leading him. It was a dramatic, iconic moment, should they ever make the movie, lol, diagnosed by two eminent psychiatrists as having multiple personalities (dissassociative personality disorder), I actually transformed, in the witness box, into another character completely. My own psychiatrist and expert witness for the prosecution, said I changed in front of their eyes (as did the eminent psychiatrist for the Defence), in that the colour of my skin changed, my posture, my entire appearance. I should be spooked by that, but I'm immensely proud, as in, ah ha, I have a super power!

      I'm a little drunk, so forgive me for picking up on your opinions/views randomly. I hate, with a vengeance, your statement 'until these media snipers and snowflakes learn to SHUT UP and LEARN. Really Zig? Since when is that a valid and logical way in which to impart a message? I teach. Have taught for years, but would never in a zillion years demand a student 'shut up and learn'. That is the opposite of teaching, unless you are teaching antagonism and hostility. It is my experience, that the best way in which to get a message across is to allow the student to discover it for themselves. Leitmotif throughout my entire blog is the message open those doors of perception for yourself.

      As you, and all my readers know, I am very airy fairy when it comes to 'beliefs', as educated as I am, and I am, lol, I still think wtf do I know. I cannot say to someone the secret of happiness lies within...….. fill in the gaps yourself. I know what makes me deliriously happy and I'm happy to shout it from the rooftops.

      I love history! In my dotage, I will write something amazing about the French Revolution - I have already written screenplays, it is my favourite time in history, and I'm sure I lived it, lol. I have a picture of Delacroix Liberty leading the people as my twitter image, My screenplay is about 'Liberty', but I have renamed her Adele and given her a complete back story!

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    5. I have to agree with the point made.If scrutinising public speech so closely in the hope of finding any tenuous reason to sound enlightened and point out that others are 'racist' or 'anti' whatever is your 'bag' then you really do need to shut up and learn.Think before you speak.The example of extracting the word 'uppity' out of Eamonn Holmes' statement is perfect.Can anyone, even of average intelligence, seriously take that word out of the whole statement and call it racist ?He was using the word the way it's been used for 200 years.That is, to describe an arrogant self important air . It fits the rest of what he was saying.To call it racist is a dire effort.Those who pounced on that are only educated in trying to sound clever but actually only sounding ridiculous to anyone who lives in the real world.It isn't an academic exercise and it doesn't take any close specialised tutelage.It takes a sense of reality and common sense.And anyone who lacks those two qualities does need educating.

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    6. ...and as Corbyn continues to sound compassionate, talk politics and make promises of rescue, Johnson continues to lie and talk complete rubbish.So the whole survival and success of this Tory campaign continues to be left to the friends of the party to fight their corner.It looks for all the world that the Tories, unable to salvage the right amount of credibility, are calling in favours from the friends.Can anyone recall a single day since that Corbyn V Johnson TV debate that hasn't had at ;least one banner headline in a newspaper or website that isn't talking about Corbyn's alleged 'racism' ? I have to check I haven't wok up in Tel Aviv these days.

      https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/a-new-poison-chief-rabbi-attacks-jeremy-corbyn-over-antisemitism/ar-BBXke7x?li=BBoPWjQ&item=personalization_enabled:false&fdhead=intl30ip

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  21. So Ros - we've had the first debate by the leaders - why haven't you jumped in with you opinion?

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    1. I know, tis remiss of me, for sure 20:54. All down to lack of confidence and low self esteem I'm ashamed to admit. I am a dedicated follower of all the great writers and commentators 20:54 that have sprung up out of social media, and I am cheering them on and shouting bravo. And I want so much to help, I really do. But here is where the lack of self esteem kicks in, I'm not good enough, I might damage their cause, I never know when to keep my trap shut, I'm a feckin grenade, shut the feck up until after the election.

      That is just a small sample of the subjects I torment myself with 20:54 - all crazy for sure, but I am still 'transitioning' tee hee. As I have said many times, and will til the day I die, we don't know nuffink! ha ha Always so much to learn. Imagine being on your deathbed and thinking 'feck me#, if only I'd knownnnnnnnnnn'. Last words. Too late.

      As I'm looking so fabulously gorgeous at the moment, platinum blonde and loving it, I'm a little tempted to dip a toe in the dating world. But I have, after much consideration, drawn up a set of rules for any brave prince prepared to take on the dragon!

      Good manners. No excuses, no exclusions, no explanation acceptable. Good Manners at all times and in all circumstances. Sadly, many men, even handsome ones, have let themselves down in my eyes with poor manners. I admire men who walk on the outside on the pavement, and who pull out a chair, or throw their jacket over your shoulders. Women fall in love on these trivial things, how do guys not know that?

      My greatest love this century, lol, was Anthony Boudain, a great chef (being able to cook for me earns mucho pointos) and replacing Rosemary with Cannabis earns a lot more. He was a God. Also rode a moped, had an earing and was willing to drink snakes blood. All good in my eyes!

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  22. I think the friends of Ros on here should be very worried about Ros's drinking than anything else.

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    1. Oh dear, I don't know if you are concerned, or merely being bitchy?

      The title of my blog just now is Cristobell Undecided. Deliberately so. I am not entirely sure in which direction I want to go. At the moment I have less time for my blog, I am doing something for others which should please you, it is certainly brightening up my life, in many ways.

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    2. It was unkind of me to pounce on you 21:29, it may well be that you wished me well, in your own way. I am 62 now and have of course, had many people pounce on me for taking the road less travelled. I don't seek them as unkind or malevolent, I see them as saying, hey come try it, you might like it. More maybe, come try it and you might see what we all see, a taste of happiness, contentment.

      But it scares the bejesus out of me. It always has. My instinct is to run, like Groucho Marx, I don't want to be part of any club that would have me. Don't put me in a box. Don't label me. Don't make me part of any political fucktology you have signed up to.

      In my early twenties, even though I dressed like Sue Ellen from Dallas, my heart was with the miners and the socialists. Harold Wilson, Arthur Scargill, were my working class Gods. I just never fitted the typical background and earning potential of a Labour base. Way too posh! lol.



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    3. Bless you for worrying about me 21:29, very few people do these days. I am (happily) giving a wee bit back to the community these days in that I am teaching English. Not as I would like, the ideas, politics and deeper understanding of classic literature, but basic vocabulary for immigrants.

      And I am loving it! I have an alternate view from most on the question of immigration. I see immigrants as brave and progressive. It takes a lot of guts to uproot your entire life and start again in a strange land where you do not know the language. I look back to my own parents. My mum from a small village in Ireland, My dad from the factory town of Dundee. Had each stayed where they were, their lives were mapped out, and they would have been exactly as the lives of their forbears. But they chose a different course, they took the 'road less travelled' by.

      Mhy writing I hope will pick up soon. I'm starting to find myself, at this grand old age, lets hope I don't pop my clogs before I impart all this knowledge to those who have stuck with me all this time.

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    4. I have to admit that I was totally bamboozled into teaching this class - I am a commitment phobe, and would have run a mile. But, lol, my friend who bamboozled me, clearly knows more than I do. All teachers I am guessing, will know that that once you bond with a class, that's it. There is no option but to see it through to the end. Your goal becomes making sure each and every one of them succeeds, even the weakest. It becomes personal, as in, you will fecking do it even if it kills ME!

      I'm kind of laughing because it takes me back to my teaching days in Greenwich College. My boss (Head of Humanities) sat me down and told me my nickname among students was 'the bitch'. my immediate superior said don't worry about it, I'm 'Mrs Trumpole'. I can't say I was upset at the being 'the bitch', at 5ft 2inch, and the most malleable person ever, I was quite astonished that my students were seeing me as formidable, say it in the French way. Formidable, what a beautiful word! Especiallby for a naricissist.

      I'm too drunk to go one, need a bit of Patsy Cline or maybe Beethoven.....

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  23. Hello Rosalinda, BB,Zig and others
    I see that the Epstein case has been discussed here.So I felt that I had to say a few words, especially about the "Palace".

    In Emily Maitlis’s BBC interview, the noble Duke of York says, that he has no recollection of ever having had anything to do with Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Here, I feel the need to paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies, who some ages ago in a court hearing regarding Lord Astor’s denial of ever having met her, told the judge: ”He would say that , wouldn’t he”.

    As for Prince Andrew in his interview, he goes on trying to convince his audience, that he “kicked himself on a daily basis” for his immoral interaction with Epstein, yet we learn in the very same interview, that he needed to go over the pond once again to spend a few more days with “Jeffrey” in order to break up a long-time friendship in a neat way.

    Was it just to tell his dear friend how inappropriate it would be if they remained in contact. I can’t believe that was the real reason. It goes without saying, that Prince Andrew needed Epstein's silence and also his assurance that all traces of his own involvement in the sexual exploitation of young girls under Epstein's direction, would be erased and deleted from all files and photos, that were in Epstein’s possession, and which may still be in his lawyer’s or friends’ possession. A cover up authorised by the Queen herself, I'd say. Nothing else makes sense to me.




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    1. Hi Bjorn

      'Randy Andy' ( as his PR team labelled him for the media back in the 80s) has plenty of 'previous' for this kind of nonsense.he has difficulty keeping the royal member in the royal underpants.

      He was ordered 'back home' about 15 years ago after rumours started to find their legs. He was told by mummy to stay in and that he couldn't play out again until he was a good boy( his legal wife at the time, Fergie, didn't get a say). Makes you wonder why such an urgent order from the highest hat in the land would be given if it was all just rumour.

      When Epstein murdered himself not long ago i mentioned somewhere on this blog that we should prepare ourselves for a huge PR charm offensive to save the face of Andy and the family.My hunch was that he'd have to continue that other great royal tradition of marrying a woman chosen for him by the head of the family.It least she'd be an adult.I was wrong. Our latest homage to America seems to have kicked in( yawn). Yes, the military angle.Do what you like to who you like but if you go to war and kill people for the cause you're OK. You're a 'hero'.Unfortunately, the stunningly naive PR people over estimated that angle and underestimated the mentality of observers in the UK and everywhere else.

      There was a well publicized photograph at the time that re-surfaced last week online.Nothing too dramatic.Just Andy running out of a night club dressed like a Dad who'd turned up at a nightclub full of people too young. The seat was on his forehead and face. During the recent PR rescue operation interview he claimed hilariously that it couldn't have been because he had a rare disorder at the time( why hadn't we heard about this before ?).According to Andy, he had spent so long 'being shot at' by those pesky Argentinians during the Falklands conflict, he used up ''so much adrenaline that it left me unable to sweat at all''. So, there you go. he pulls out a rare disorder we had no idea he had and it was caused by his heroics defending the Falkland Isles for his Queen and country.Yet we weren't told.So, don't accuse him of spending time with a known child procurer and friend of known and convicted paedophile , or of being photographed with an underage girl provided to him ( behind his wife's back). He is a hero.He won the war see.So stop picking on him.

      Makes you proud to be British. A Royal Family full of inbreds and perverts and an animated cartoon fool as PM.

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    2. Hi Zig, Thanks for comment. We obviously share the same view on the Royal Family.

      The old boy made it sound as if his chopper had crashed on the rocks of the Falkland Islands and he himself courageously in a rush of an excessive adrenaline shock,together with a few surviving crew members had successfully carried out a trench raiding operation on the island, while facing an intense fire from an invincible enemy. Makes you want to hear more about his fearless activities as a patriotic and loyal officer in the service of the Queen and the Kingdom. A real cliffhanger I’d say, till we hear what he has to tell us next time.


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