Waspsnest’s ContributorsThe Wasp Mr Raccoon | I really do wonder what the hell this country is turning into sometimes … “Inappropriate comments” left on a Facebook tribute site for dead a Norfolk teenager are being investigated by police. Maisie Baxter, 13, was found dead at her home in Trowse, near Norwich, at about 17:50 GMT on Saturday. Norfolk Police are [...] Via The Torygraph, one that I am sure Leg-iron would have a lot of fun with (emphasis mine) : The vaccine uses dummy virus cells grown in tobacco plants to immunise the body against the winter vomiting bug. Rather than being injected, it is administered up the nose in the form of a powder [...] There is a lot of prodding and poking of Iran from all sides these days and the MSM is not a very good guide, what with all the recycled government propaganda, but at least we are free to read excellent opinion from outside and make our own minds up as is the case with [...] After getting to the end of the photo strip, the only thing I could think of (whilst trying not to laugh like a drain) was the line from The Blues Brothers – Does the cigarette lighter (still) work? In amongst a very interesting article over at ZeroHedge on what may play out soon enough in the Straights of Hormuz, the following video caught my attention due to the novel launch control manoever shown around 00:15 to 00:20 – pretty neat I think. _ _ I just wish I had chosen Aeronautical engineering [...] An interesting ramping up of what governments consider extremism from ZeroHedge : Just when we thought the US could not sink any further in its usurpation of civil rights, here comes the FBI to advise all those who tend to think that the broken economic model of the past century is the cause for [...] Whilst the MSM speak constantly of cuts, the reality is that the UK has never owed more money and is now neck and neck with the Eastern basket case that is Japan. The following chart from a ZeroHedge article shows just what state we are now in, with debt continuing to climb while the [...] There are some excellent articles and videos around at the moment which, between them, provide some thought provoking visions of where the world may be headed and, more importantly, why we are in this mess in the first place. The first one is a post by the Robert Denner writing over at ZeroHedge [...] 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 [...] Given the BBC’s newly exposed lack of impartiality on green matters it doesn’t really surprise me that they would put a positive spin on a poll about nuclear and renewable power. The impartiality bit comes out in one of the newly released Climategate emails : date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004 from: Phil Jones [...] 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 [...] Amongst a large and in places very amusing image set over at ZeroHedge, William Banzai has another dig at the Euro farce with the following image which will probably get rolled out all over the place in no time at all when tshtf : [...] If you were wondering what the unseemly rush to replace an elected leader with an EU mole was all about then the following chart from ZeroHedge nicely shows the rather large amount of Italian (and other) debt needing buyers at the beginning on next year and, at 7% plus, it certainly would not be [...]  | Click in the water to feed the turtles. |