The details of the EU driven raping of Greece to save the European banks reveal some interesting consequences as in this from ZeroHedge : Salary cutbacks (called “unified payroll”) for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to [...]  Estonian season’s greetings from The Wasp and Mr Raccoon! After several years of saying I would get myself over to Estonia at Christmas time, I finally made it over and seem to have fallen into one or two beer bottles as wasps tend to do which may partially explain the deafening silence that has [...] Not outside Parliament love … move along now. So much for respecting freedoms and repealing un-necessary laws … A trawl through the latest Statutory Instruments reveals this little snippet coming into force on December 19th (emphasis mine) : The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2011 Provisions [...]
In a Spectator interview back in 1990, Nicholas Ridley had this to say on the subject of the EU and the Germans (emphasis mine) : I was still taken aback by the vehemence of Mr Ridley’s views on the matter of Europe, and in particular the role of Germany. It had seemed [...] Via ZeroHedge – is this how wars start? That headline being the response to a leaked document whereby German lawmakers have received confidential information on Ireland before the Irish parliament : Reuters is reporting the leak of confidential Irish budget information by German lawmakers and Irish parliamentarians are seething – viewing the leak [...] Vampire Squid – aka Goldman Sachs What used to be a debating point reserved for the tin-foil hat brigade, the theme of one world government seems to be gaining ground in (slightly) more mainstream places. Firstly, this extract from a great piece by Mike Krieger over at ZeroHedge (it is worth a [...] Aside from the catch all offence of “incitement to or of X” which seems to be a favourite of our thin skinned society, I am left wondering exactly what the hell is “charged with improper use of a social networking site”? Coming from the BBC, I suppose it is probably more to do with [...] Via ZeroHedge, a very salient point regarding our wonderful leaders and their views on democracy : If a leader in the Middle East finally gave into months of protest and decided to give the people a real say on an important issue, the Western leaders would be rejoicing. Obama would have a podium and [...] I’ll take the smoking version. I wonder if it likes salt on it’s food as well just to annoy the bansturbators? The Wasp has an Estonian visitor this week which is why it has been a little quiet around here for the last few days. Last night while visiting a few of the local pubs my friend picked up a beer mat (see first image below) and said why do you have these weird health [...] Sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief : Man charged with Blackberry water fight plan in Colchester A man has been accused of trying to start a water fight in the centre of Colchester in Essex. The 20-year-old man from Colchester allegedly sent messages via a Blackberry messenger, said a spokeswoman [...] An amusing one spotted amongst the Telegraphs London Riots Live Coverage feed : To work for the Guardian these days (and Telegraph for that matter) you have to assume that every confrontation between white and black is racism : Note the “racist thugs” identifier helpfully added by The Telegraph when the Tweet says no [...] After three weeks totally away from the news, the trivial and dumbed down nature of UK news and politics is quite apparent and possibly even more so than I thought whilst being immersed in it for so long. It really is amazing, to me at least, how a break can change your viewpoint so [...] As I suspected yesterday on the issue of the police use of bail as an illegal way of moulding the time limits on custody to suit their own inept investigation techniques, Police Minister Nick Herbert today promises emegency legislation to help out the state enforcers in their efforts to abuse the custody process to [...] Have Greater Manchester Police made a rod for their own backs in going to court to appeal a ruling which appears to have caught them employing shady practices to get around the provisions of The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE)? Reporting the case, The Telegraph goes into frothy mouthed overdrive with a sub-headline [...]  |
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