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28
Mar
08

Crying monks disrupt China’s Tibet media tour

What I find idiotic about the Chinese is that they trot out bare faced lies and seem surprised that nobody believes them.For example a story in the Daily Telegraph reported that when the Chinese allowed Western journalists into Tibet again recently some monks protested to the press.

The monks shouted “Tibet is not free! Tibet is not free!” and another said that he wanted The Dalai Lama to return to Tibet”

The response from the Chinese was “They always tell lies to foreign reporters” and the official went on to say: “I would like to stress that, including the monks, the people of various ethnic groups in Tibet are resolutely safeguarding the national unity and oppose separatist activities.”

This truly is TALKING BOLLOCKS!

The Tibetans claim they want to be free of China and the Chinese claim that everyone on Tibet wants to be part of China. Who are we to believe, the people themselves or some pen pushing bureaucrat who is part of the oppressive establishment which the Tibetans are complaining about?

The Chinese seem flabbergasted that anyone would not believe their bullshit. I guess what this shows is the oppressive totalitarianism of the Chinese regime.If they really believed that the people in Tibet “oppose separatist activities”  then why not have an election. That way they could legitimise their rule and silence their critics.

Full story:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/27/wtibet127.xml

 

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23
Mar
08

British industry is obsessed with Business Process

23
Mar
08

Israeli wall in Palestine

Israeli wall in Palestine

Israeli wall in Palestine

I found this map on the net showing where the Israelis are building their wall.

I’d heard that it was inside the Palestinian territory but I hadn’t appreciated by how much.

I don’t understand Israel’s long term strategy. It seems to be to settle the Palestinian areas with extremist Jews and to wall in the Palestinians in ghettos.

This is a recipe for continued conflict.

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Map found at:

http://amideastchangeofcourse.org/

23
Mar
08

Secret council tax database penalises homes with a view

Government Information SecurityThe Daily Telegraph reported today on a “secret council tax database” which would hold information on whether your home has a nice view or whether you have off street car parking.

Yet Ministers’ claim that the revaluationErich PicklesErich Picklesn of homes in England for Council Tax purposes had been postponed. Postponed while they collect yet more information on citizens to be stored in yet another database to be lost by the same civil service who lost your bank details.

MPs seem to love to collect information about us but you Will recall that they consider that they should be except from the Freedom of Information act.

The Telegraph quotes Eric Pickles, the Conservative local government spokesman as saying:

“Every home is being sized up, and every home improvement or sign of a nice neighbourhood is slowly being photographed, catalogued and taxed by Gordon Brown’s inspectors.”

The Labour party seem bent on micromanaging every aspect of our lives.

 Full article

17
Mar
08

To whom it may concern

To whom it may concern, a poem by Adrian Mitchel written in 1964

I was run over by the truth one day.
Ever since the accident I’ve walked this way
  So stick my legs in plaster
  Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Heard the alarm clock screaming with pain,
Couldn’t find myself so I went back to sleep again
  So fill my ears with silver
  Stick my legs in plaster
  Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Every time I shut my eyes all I see is flames
Made a marble phone book and I carved all the names
 So coat my eyes with butter
  Fill my ears with silver
  Stick my legs in plaster
  Tell me lies about Vietnam.

I smell something burning, hope it’s just my brains.
They’re only dropping peppermints and daisy-chains
  So stuff my nose with garlic
  Coat my eyes with butter
  Fill my ears with silver
  Stick my legs in plaster
  Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Where were you at the time of the crime?
Down by the Cenotaph* drinking slime
  So chain my tongue with whisky
  Stuff my nose with garlic
  Coat my eyes with butter
  Fill my ears with silver
  Stick my legs in plaster
  Tell me lies about Vietnam.

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,
You take the human being and you twist it all about
  So scrub my skin with women,
  Chain my tongue with whisky
  Stuff my nose with garlic
  Coat my eyes with butter
  Fill my ears with silver
  Stick my legs in plaster
  Tell me lies about Vietnam.

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17
Mar
08

Easter in Iraq 2006

Easter in Iraq 2006, originally uploaded by Why Not Studios.

14
Mar
08

Zebra

A neat painting of Zebra from a local art gallery. It looks far better close up. Go and ‘ave a look.

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14
Mar
08

What does Britain live on?

Sunset for the North Sea I heard today that the biggest contributor the chancellor’s tax is the oil industry.

But hang on. Haven’t New Labour been telling us for years that we have to get used to working in new ways. Britain should not worry about losing it’s engineering and it’s motor industry. We needn’t worry that we have no capacity to build power stations. It is irrelevant that the trains that carry us to work are made by Germans or that our computers are made by China. We are the future! We are the ones who embrace new technology. The world will knock on our door for…..what?

 

Britain has become a nation of management consultants and public relations executives.

The oil is running out and we will soon find out if Britain can survive on intangibles alone.

 




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