For years there has been much talk of human rights at least since the end of world war 2 and the atrocities of Hitlers camps. and following on from this, the UK has tended to be one of the leaders in the field on fighting for fairness and human rights world wide.  This campaign has been taken and spread world wide with the help of the UN and and embraced in varying degrees by most nations.        

 

 ONCE AGAIN WINDOWS 7 REPLACES WHAT IS RELIABLE WITH WHAT IS CHILDISH.

No wonder so many people complain about microsoft, they cannot bear to leave anything alone, they have to turn something like XP into a toy for children to play with. XP pro had its issues for instance it was slow to load, open or close but it did the job,  If you are a serious user and use a computer for work or creative processes there is no way that Windows 7 can be described as an improvement over XP what the fuck have they done with Windows Explorer? it now seems to be Windows Loser which it does very well.  I have to move lots of files around frequently and do lots of searches.  I dont want or need lots of windows and clutter.   Microsoft should be thoroughly ashamed of itself for forcing people to infantalize, maybe this is just a symptom of Bill Gates personality if he actually has one.

Not just content with the farce that was Vista it now buggers up even windows 7 and thoroughly ruins my experience of my new super fast computer and turns it into a waste of time. This only started a cataract of problems,  Skype, google talks pal talk etc all refused to recognise my passwords and refused to let me enter and even my cell phone failed due to faulty sim cards.  And finally of course when i did get a new sim card, it managed to lose all my names and addresses. What a crock of shite. Careful of what you place online it can so easily fall into the wrong hands and finally change your passwords regularly.

C A MORON

The week started badly, my fluoride blog on blogger was hacked and spam was sent out in my name via the Friends of the Earth server asking people for money so i could get back from Spain where, according to the spam emails people were getting, i was marooned without cash., as a result of all this, not only was my name slightly tarnished but all my phone numbers and email addresses were stolen. Fortunatley with the help of BT it only took a couple of days to get most of the emails back. i could have don without the problems this caused but as we should all know, the net is about as secure as an unsupported coal seam roof.

The attack was clearly a professional job, I had the latest and most highly rated virus protection and firewall, but whoever this scumbag was, he was able to walk straight through all my defences without any apparent trouble. As my IT friends suggested, it looked like a professional job, so professional in fact that it was probably H M Gov. Perhaps someone does not like me referring to our Primi Munster as Mr, C A Moron.  Its clear that online no one is safe and a ask everyone to be careful of what you entrust to your computer if it spends anytime online.

 FRRIENDS OF THE EARTH


DRINKING WATER POLLUTION AND FLUORIDE CAMPAIGN



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UNITED KINGDOM

pharmaceutical grade fluoride
Fluoridation Free Ottawa

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USA AND CANADA

Fluoride - Naturally Down To Earth

Fluoride is found in fish, soups, wine, beer, cereal, soft drinks, juice, fluoridated salt and all other products made with fluoridated.

naturallydowntoearth.com/category/fluoride-knew-part-2 Is Using Fluoride Toothpaste Enough?
I Like My Teeth

Hundreds of studies have been conducted on fluoride, fluoridation, and tooth decay. Few topics have been examined more closely. The overwhelming weight of ...

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Pediatric Dental Care: Good teeth start with good habits, dental visits

Hudson Star Observer

And baby-teeth are all calcified in-uteral so there's no real benefit to topical exposure to fluoride products until permanent teeth begin to develop. They're also already receiving a certain amount of fluoride through well-water and municipal supplements.

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Sweet tooth trouble

Joliet Herald News

Many don't contain enough fluoride, and some don't have any at all. Reverse osmosis filtration systems that some parents have in their homes also remove fluoride from water, she said. Research in the medical journal Pediatric Dentistry cited that 70 ...

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Fluoride off the table

The Barrie Advance

ORILLIA - A proposal to fluoridate Orillia's water is down the drain.

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Pt 1 – Fluoride, Fluoridation – Dr. John Yianouyiannes : Vaccine ...

Doctors Speak Out, Fluoride Poison, Food & Water, You are being poisoned. Pt 1 – Fluoride ...

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Health Tip: Don't Neglect Oral Hygiene During Pregnancy

U.S. News & World Report

Brush your teeth twice daily using a fluoride toothpaste. Carefully floss between teeth at least once daily. Limit snacks and eat a healthy, balanced diet. Consider using an antimicrobial mouth rinse if your dentist recommends one. If you have morning ...

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U.S. News & World Report

Brush your teeth twice daily using a fluoride toothpaste. Carefully floss between teeth at least once daily. Limit snacks and eat a healthy, balanced diet. Consider using an antimicrobial mouth rinse if your dentist recommends one. If you have morning ...

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ABQJournal Online » Council Votes To Not Add Fluoride

Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico News, Breaking News, Sports, Weather and Jobs, Cars, Real Estate and Classified Advertising.

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Wichita is the 4th largest city that does not fluoridate its water.

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KOB.com

Santa Fe is the latest city to stop putting fluoride in the town's drinking water. ... Many dentists came out to support fluoride because they said it's a good health ...

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Petition to have vote on water fluoridation fails

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

A petition to force a vote on whether Bozeman should continue adding fluoride to its water supply has failed.

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Illinois EPA says Sauk Village drinking water contaminated, orders officials ...

Chicago Tribune

SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says public drinking water in the Cook County community of Sauk Village is polluted.

See all stories on this topic » Confused reaction to study on Marcellus Shale water quality

Philadelphia Daily News

Many Pennsylvanians concerned about the state's new industry of gas drilling will be interested in the findings of this study. Here's a sampling of headlines from the media coverage: Marcellus Shale study claims gas drilling did not contaminate ...

See all stories on this topic » Ill. EPA: Sauk Village drinking water contaminated

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SAUK VILLAGE
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says public drinking water in Sauk Village is polluted. The EPA said Monday levels of vinyl chloride in drinking water distributed by the village pose a threat to public health. The EPA gave ...

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Fluoride vote needs a redo

Santa Fe New Mexican.com

The Santa Fe City Council, that hotbed of science, decided last week to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking water supply. The reasoning, according to its backers, is that Santa Fe's water contains enough natural fluoride. They said ...

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Fluoridation – Absurd Medical Treatment
Fluoridation Free Ottawa

Fluoridation is the absurd, contemptuous and deliberate adding of an industrial toxic waste to our water supply as a public health measure for the spurious claim ...

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The city of Santa Fe, NM, will no longer fluoridate its drinking water, ending a practice that has been going on since 1955, according to a news story in the New ...

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One vote to keep fluoride; Notice questioned

Harrison Daily

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A City Council member in Santa Fe who cast the sole vote against a proposal to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking water is examining whether the correct procedures were followed in making the change.

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Santa Fe official questions vote on fluoridation

NECN

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A City Council member in Santa Fe who cast the sole vote against a proposal to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking water is examining whether the correct procedures were followed in making the change. The Albuquerque ...

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Official questions vote on fluoridation

A City Council member in Santa Fe who cast the sole vote against a proposal to stop adding fluoride to the city's drinking water is examining whether the ...

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Fluoride debate not an immediate priority for City Council

Kansas.com

Don't expect the Wichita City Council to jump into the fluoride debate soon.

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The debate over fluoridation for Wichita's drinking water

KSN-TV

A familiar debate surrounding the fluoridation of Wichita water is back. Those for and against are raising awareness of the issue and want you to know more about your drinking water.

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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said this week the drinking water in Sauk Village is contaminated with vinyl chloride, and it gave the town five days to alert residents. ... Asked if he drank the water, Towers replied, "No, I don't," but ...

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Chicago Tribune

A drop in China's dirty water bucket

MarketWatch

Caixin Online report asks if a 410 billion yuan government project be enough to finally rid China's cities of unsafe drinking water. ... In 2006, the latest revisions to the Standards for Drinking Water Quality stipulated that tap water quality across ...

See all stories on this topic » EPA's Lisa Jackson On Water Quality Challenges

EarthFix

So if you start with drinking, 92 percent is great, and that means that 8 percent still drink water that doesn't meet standards. Now a lot of time that isn't surface water but we still have work to do understanding new contaminants whether its drugs ...

See all stories on this topic » Report: Inland Empire water contains high concentrations of pollutants

Southwest Riverside News Network

Officials noted that groundwater undergoes treatment and filtering to control contaminants and meet state and local drinking water standards before it is distributed for public consumption. The complete report is available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir ...

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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Curry: Fluoride or not?

The North West Star

CLONCURRY Shire Council's water and waste water environment officer, Shane Noon told the Shire Council at yesterday's council meeting that he had received an email from the Deputy Premier's office asking whether or not Cloncurry wanted fluoridation.

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INDIA AND CHINA

CPCB fails to file report on water pollution at Bhopal site

TwoCircles.net

New Delhi : The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has failed to file a report in the Supreme Court on the status of groundwater contamination at the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal, an environmental group said Sunday. The pollution control ...

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The Town that never retired (Preston) pensioners worked to death, ?

When i was a schoolkid i used to come home from school and expected my mother who was nursing my sick father as well as bringing me up, to have meals on the table to order.  I could be forgiven as a child for not understtanding how difficult raising a family can be.  My long suffering mum used to be fairly philosophical about this and the only complaint i hever heard was her occasional outburst of " Talk about wear the old ones out first.  My Dads wartimg working life was curtailed by the damage to his health caused by  standing in a water filled trench every night at Salford Docks with a couple of Anti Aircraft Guns, taking pot shots at the Luftwaffe who flew over each night to carry out a varying range of redevelopment work in the Manchester and Salford Area.   H:is main reward for this was chronic and occasionally acute bouts of bronchil asthmam abd arthritis and an fairly early death.   My mother shared this in the form of a dickensian Pention  which was not enough for them to afford even a council house rent.  Now the bad times are coming again and as seen on BBC 1 and the I Player the government are trialling extend working lives into what was formally retirement in their seventies or eighties.  Niether employers or customers are likely to be satisfied with this. Many though willing to give it a try are unlikely to fare very well with this. As age increases concentration falters and many young people let alone the aged are not even computer literate and this is a skill which is now taken as a requirement in most modern jobs and industries suck it and see what .....

is now being trialed and eventually required by this government of the Apes. Look out for the spread of Hells Pensioners and the disorder they are likely to spreada accidentally or otherwise.

I have no problem with this idea providing that it is a voluntary scheme, but it is morally and ethically indefensible  to have any form of compulsion,  its always going to be embarassing for older people to be reminded of what they can no longer do and this scheme impels this towards.  Will fat cat bankers continue to work into their seventi3es and eighties i wonder,???   I think not, many of the professionaly classes have quite probably ever had to do full working days over a prolonged period and come pension time these people will take their (or maybe even other peoples money and leg it.

Perhaps this fine and stupid idea could be tried on members of both houses to see just what is being expected of the  elderley and what this will do to the views and action of the electorate when they get the choice to vote about it at a later date of course.

For a start we could set the likes of mr C A Moron, our far from d ear leader to shovelling up shit, he produces enough of it so he should be held responsible for cleaning up his own mess and not reward idle his time away giving other people problems and complication they really do not need. via is cohorts and his friends rather than rewarding his fellow crooks for their misdeeds.  My parents generation fought in a couple of world wars to put a halt to tyranny and oppression and i for one, owe it to my parents to caontinue this fight.  We spent a lot of time preparing to fight off nazis from the shores of the UK, not realising that we had already been invaded. by a bunch of crooks, liars and swindlers we really do deserve a good slapping and may yet receive one id rhwy continue with these policies (sic)

Tories are still hell bent on a Slash and Burn policy over welfare and benefits.

Only a few years back there was public uproar about the number of homeless people living in doorways and in cardboard boxes under City bridges. Many of these seemed to be the product of the Thatcher Reagan policy of closing down much of britains national and regional industry resulting in many young people becoming destitute and workless. This was a deliberate and cynical policy of controlling spending by simply ensuring that people had no income other than minimal benefits and no where to go for a living wage. Industry was to be closed whilst the financial and banking sector were given cart blanch to make as much dosh as they wished with minimal if any control and this they did with considerable haste though now it seems hardly any foresight or skill.

 Clearly it was now unfashionable to get your hands dirty and actually make anything to sell or export. Its even more so now and if the newest policies are persued, it will get worse. Mr Moron gets upset about welfare allegedly creating an atmosphere of entitlement when in fact soon no one will be entitled to anything at all unless of course you are a smug and conceited Tory Boy with a public school education and the Morals of Mamon. Close down all the industry that they rely on then take away from them anything thats left. Who gives a fuck about the young and unemployed and why should we worry about young people who dont vote anyway. Its true that the pensioners do the voting whilst the young are mostly apathetic about such things. Hardly surprising when they are told to get their A Levels and a degree from the university which they have to pay for themselves when the MPs who all got nice grants, often when they didn!t need them now they have the pleasure of blaming and punishing young people for everything. Bankers and other exploiters of course get off scott free and dont even have to pay back anything they have drained from peoples savings or pensions. And then people still ask me why i call these people scum. If the Government and its cronies in the Lib

Dems and Labour really want to know why young folks think they have a right to a living, where do they think they learned this from. Step forward Mr Moron and his cronies in the other main parties from similar backgrounds, the ones i call the Scumdog Millionaires. 0 Yes even labour under Mr B Liar who pushed the moneterarist boat out even further than Thatchers Mob ever dared. No wonder that the Scots just wish to get out of the Union i certainly cannot blame them. They just want to be rid of the Westminster Government. It may be hard to carry on alone but at least when there are mistakes and problems, the repairs will then fall to the Scots themselves.

 Yesterday the campaign to keep the union together got into full swing and if proof was ever really needed, there were the Keep the Union campaign, Not just Tories, Not just Lib Dems and not even just Old Labour wearing Thatchers Knickers but all of them stood together just like they did when they voted for no change in the voting system. Which of course, resulted in the ConDem imitation alliance farce, or is it, "One Nation Stuck in a Groove?" Suffice it to say that there is not a single Party which can be trusted in any way. None of them really believe in democracy but alone or together, they all believe passionately in Power. They used to say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But now we have a system that has members who are corrupt from the start as the MP expenses proved, I would suggest that it could only get worse, and will. Now, having taken a lead from the governments policies we are all ensnared in greed and debt and according to todays You and Yours many of us will never own a house and wont even be able to afford to live in the Major cities even if we rent. Well done and congrats to all our politicians or at least the vast majority of them for helping to bring this about. They have nothing to be proud about and must bear shame and people like you and I should do our damnest to ensure that they do so.

RAINDROPS AND CROCODILE TEARS FOR THE DISABLED ON ITV BREAKFAST TV THIS MORNING

IT WAS SAD TO HEAR OF THE ABUSE SUFFERED BY DISABLED CHILDREN AND PARENTS ON ITV THIS MORNING ONE HAS TO ASK HOW THIS ATTITUDE OF INTOLLERANCE AND ABUSE HAS COME ABOUT IN A SOCIETY THAT NOT SO LONG AGO LIKED TO THINKS OF ITSELF AS ENLIGHTENED AND COMPASSIONATE.  BECAUSE A PERSON HAS MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY IS NO EXCUSE FOR THE ABLE BODIED TO ABUSE AND TORTURE THOSE LESS FORTUNATE. 

SKYPE WILL NOT LOAD WHATEVER THE NAME OR PASSWORD I GIVE IT,  I BLAME THE LINK WITH FACEBOOK  AND MICROSOFT WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE SCREWED THE ENTIRE APPLICATION   FROM NOW ON I WILL REFER TO IT AS SHYTE AND TELL PEOPLE TO AVOID THEM COMPLETELY UNLESS THEY REALLY LIKE WASTING TIME. SUPPLIES FREE OF COURSE    MY ADVICE TO ALL IS LEAVE IT ALONE ITS JUST FOR TIMEWASTER.

WikiLeaks founder takes refuge in London embassy in bid to avoid extradition to Sweden

The South American country says it is "studying and analysing the request".  I for one cannot blame him.  This is not to say that i think that people should get off scott free from charges of sexual assault but this is assuming that he is guilty before any charges or evidence are produced and as we all know its common for other governments to suck up to the American government and I have little doubt that once in the  custody of the US military, he is unlikely to get a fair deal and may find himself under threat of a death sentence via  a minor assault allegation.  

The USA dont like being questioned and in the famous words of the Gestapo in Hitlers Germany their attitude can be described as "we ask the questions!"  I like many other people, saw the leaked video of from the American helicopter gun ship which used heavy calibre machine guns to kill several people " apparently civilians, in a Baghdad back street a mile away who did not appear to be much of a threat to anyone. 

So which is worsethen,  to kill civilians in the street of a foreign sovereign nation or to merely witness and publicise such an event.  Surely we cannot allow double standards like this to hold sway either domestically or in International events. Might, must not be assumed to be right whether at home or away.  I support Mr Assange,s actions in releasing this kind of information via his wikileaks website 100% and its all the more ironic that he is being threatened by the very forces which he set up Wikileaks to counter.  Long may he continue to fight such oppression.

7 million working people  unable to make ends meet.

7 Million working people according to  todays Guardian are literally only one bill away from disaster.  I better than most people know just how difficult life can be when your income is so low and things are even worse if we are drawing sickness benefits.  We are not talking here about people who are on benefits but people in work. And this after being told by the Con Dems just how much better we will be if we get off benefits and get back to work. 

Clearly this is another load of bollocks from the likes of IDS, or Mr CA Moran Its about time for a few of the MPs to try once again to live on the minimum wage or on benefits and see just how long they last before disaster strikes.  Of course we would have to watch them like hawks, the are good at fiddling even when things are fine and they are on a good wage with more than adquate expenses heaven knows how bad it would be at times of recession like this. How dare these elected and unelected scumbags have the audacity to treat the people of the uk in such a disgusting way.

UK Child Poverty: Percentage of children living in poverty drops as IDS changes definition

The news from Westminster continues to be depressing at best and if viewed more critically, its actually alarming. My friend Judy, remarked only yesterday at how cynical our government has become, this time in connection with the apparent massaging of child poverty figures released yesterday by our dear leaders. aka  Ian Duncan Smith.

 

In opposition, IDS as he is usually known was portrayed as the antidote to his peers in the Conservative Party,s reputation for being THE NASTY PARTY now in government however IDS is now revealed in his true glory as a born again member of the Nasty Party. Of course this accusation could be levelled at most politicians in most parties but of course,  during the previous regime of New Labour, it was they who wanted us all issued with ID Cards, and all our schoolkids fingerprinted and micro chipped. TheTories however were playing nice and rubbishing all the Labour plans along with biometric passports, and even greater numbers of CCTV cameras, not to mention increasing compulsory fluoridation.   Once again  as soon as governance was achieved authoratarian measures were installed once again and all previous promises were fogotten and the Conservative Ministry of Truth began re-writing history.   This also helped absolve all blame and accusations from the hands of Mr. C A Moron .

Well now, guess what?  CaMorons bunch of hipocrits seem to think they are the Labour Party and are setting about snooping on us all on the Internet and are even trying to bribe the ISPs into keeping a years record of all our posts. Well maybe this is not such a bad thing, I may not be a terrorist or publisher of kiddie porn and not be involved in any other criminal activity but i will be glad if Camorons bunch of cronies, hipocrits and fellow travellers whether they be journalists and bent coppers and others of that ilk,  but i am pleased to think that they can at leaste put it on record that I and many others online believe that they are all an untrustworthy bunch of TWATS. Not fit to run a toffee shop, let alone a country.  Its especially disappointing when like me, you only voted like i did to get the the incoming government elected so we could at leaste say good bye to snoopers, control freaks and war mongering perverts others with big noses. Who try to treat us all as though they assume we are as corrupt and dishonest as they are. ?  

Do these idiot really think that if i was a crook or a crim, i would broadcast my plans on the Net?? This might even give these creeps ideas (which they clearly dont have to judge by their policies)  Well there is one plan i do have and am very pleased to shout about.   I certainly wont be voting for any of the major parties who now seem quite cheerfully determined  to misuse their power if we are foolish enough to give them any and will recommend to all my friends and readers that they give, Labour, the Lib Dems and of course, lets not forget the Tories, a miss.

Just look at the way they manipulated the vote on electoral reform resulting in a worse mess than we had before.  Why cannot we decide for ourselves who should be elected. Its just another issue that we clearly cannot trust them with.  Instead we should vote for a wide variety of parties and independents in the hope we get a widely based coilition rather than narrow based, and narrow minded bunch of crooks, liars and cheats.  I dont to be accused of encouraging them to form a gang of that ilk.  I want to see an elected house which truly tries to represent the people.  I dont care if such a coilition should slow down policy making when the policies are so feeble and disreputable.  Better a slow government which we can trust and who truly represent a wide variety of forthright views and opinions and not just a bunch of vested interests, posh boy drunks, snoopers and nozy parkers, they wont be getting my vote. Vote for the man or woman and not the party.

The party system has been tried and tested and found badly wanting. I for one will not be voting for this bunch of scoundrels and sincerely recommend that you follow your heart and vote for freedom and independence and give this bunch a shove out of the way. And then the idiots wonder why people dont want to vote for them. If they insist on treating us all like Turkeys, should they be surprised if we wont vote for Christmas or Thanksgiving???  

 

WATER METERING




I can see some of the arguments about water metering helping to save water but water is rather expensive when metered. It may be ok for those on a decent income but for people on benefits and pensions their income is generally inflexibly low and they may need to skimp on usage which can result in health risks. If you really want to save some water why not use a bucket of grey water from your bath to flush the toilet. Another issus is the growing threat from so called "smart meters" ~These use a system of constantly updated pulse generated radio signals similar to mobile phones but although you can turn off your cell and radio phones, you wont be able to do this with smart meters and the health issues associated with them are not fully understood. If they can do it for water meters, they are bound to want to use this system on electric and gas meters as well resulted in a constant bombardment from your meters and those of your neighbours. We must be give the right to opt in to thses systems and not be compelled. My message is simple no compulsion with smart meters and use less water. more info here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/9099149/Are-smart-meters-worth-it.html



MURDOCH THE SHIT SMEARER

So now we know that Dirty Digger Murdoch and number one son James are not fit persons to run a major news publishing company. This is what very many people have thought for a long time. Interesting to see that a few influential tories are still licking arses and describing the committees report as "partisan" fortunately for once on this issue,  Labour are not in a licking mood,  if only they were like this more often.  At leaste they are not totally arselicking tories which is an improvement. Fortunately in what is laughingly called a democracy, a certain amount of dissent is allowed, at leaste at the time of writing.  Of course if we were all snivveling and survile psychophants like Murdochs cocksuckers, i would not be allowed to write this so at least for the time the time being lets say Hallelujah Freedom. I would not even wrap my fish and chips in one of the Diggers publications, its as though someone has already wiped their arse on it thus making it evil smelling and unhealthy. I particularly liked Steve Bells cartoon calling Murdoch the Shit smearer, and i certainly cannot argue with that.  I think i would rather eat my fish and chips off the floor than contaminate them  with his shit.

2012 is a critical year for the UIK

My Leeds correspondent came to stay for a few days this week and aside from the normal , for us , discourse on waste and drinking water quality we fell to talking about the renewed paranoia from the main parties about the new so called threats to our so called democrasy. Despite this desire from Westminster for monitoring of the vast majority of our phone calls and emails to keep us secure, hah bloody hah,  there has been no terrorist outrage in the UK since the 7/7 attacks on the transport system in London.  Now of course there are always some random nutters and extremists threatening any democratic system, but by any system its been very quiet on the Mad Bomber front for the last five years.

Bearing in mind that even 7/7 is viewed with suspicion from some cynical but not necessarily insane quarters, because similarities of timing and modus operandi with the attacks in Spain and special operations conducted by the police and security forces appeared suspicious and were never satisfacorily answered in the minds of many.

The UK Olympics will undoubtedly focus the media of the world here and this presents a golden opportunity for would be    terrorists to exploit the publicity opportunities and then in turn the opportunities of our own dark forces to demonstrate our expertise and of course justify our increased paranoia  and precautions. m  Personally speaking i would rather undergo a total lobotomy than visit London this summer and i know of many others who have similar feelings.

Pressure from the USA to tighten up our security will undoubtedly continue and this will increase following the embarassing publicity about our complicity with the USA over forced rendition which will soon reach the courts. Of course this might happen  in America but certainly never here    in good old, democratic UK. nor will we be party to false flag type attacks over here no matter how synchronous and expertly timed. At leaste there is a little  sanity in the USA dfor a change, the good old American electoral system have just giveen arch republican contender Rick Santorum.  who in a recent and fortunately rare visit to blighty explained to psycophantic hacks that the UK could never be either       solvent or great so long as there was a NHS over here the Bums Rush.

What SAY NO2 ID  Stand For

NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" were the most visible part. We are entirely independent. We do not endorse any party, nor campaign on any other topic.

We aim to publicise the case against state control of personal identity among the general public, in the media, and at every level in government. NO2ID's members are from all sorts of backgrounds and hold all sorts of opinions on other questions. They almost certainly include people much like you. Please support us.

National ID cards are gone. But the infrastructure survives as the biometric permits for foreign residents. Mass-surveillance has not disappeared. The coalition's promises to "roll back the database state" are ineffectual. Indeed official demands for personal information are multiplying:

Travel by car or motorbike and your number plate is read by a network of cameras and that record of movements passed to a central store.

Leave or enter the country and all travel details you give will be put on a database that is available to dozens of UK and foreign agencies. The UK is lobbying for this to be written into EU law.

Visit the doctor and the details may be captured. A new agency is planned to continue centralising and sharing of medical records, expanding the role of the existing Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Monitoring of telephone and internet use continues to increase; all 'traffic data' is now kept for inspection, by law.

Ever more public bodies are getting powers to share the information they have about you, on fine-sounding pretexts.

And …

To tie it all together, perhaps, a more subtle government scheme for "identity assurance" is on the agenda. Depending on how that is implemented it could be harmless; or it could be very bad news indeed for privacy and personal liberty.

Please help us now

NO2ID identified the dangers of "the database state" back in 2004. It is still the only organisation specifically dedicated to tackling it. Some people think it is all over. But privacy needs defending more than ever. We will continue to oppose dangerous new schemes, but also press for positive changes:

protections in law for privacy that are available to everyone

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entitlement to compensation if your privacy is abused

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What you need to know about the Database State

The 'database state' is what we call the tendency to try to use computers to manage society by watching people. There are many interlocking government plans that do this. Together they mean officials poking into your private life more than ever before.

The list of database state initiatives on which NO2ID is campaigning, along with a wide range of other organisations, is here.

There was a lot of confusion about the government's proposed National Identity Scheme, and it didn't help that the Home Office often gave misleading information. Our summary of the scheme is here.

IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UK?

IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UK

 coalition government now cruising for a bruising over surveillance

Well first of all we start with bent MPs on the make screwing the system to pay for everything from Duck ponds to Kit Kat bars including a bunch of second homes' Clearly they believed that they could have everything they wanted because the Taxpayers always waiting in the wings to pick up the bill. Then we find out that its not surprising that MPs will not be grassed up by the police because many of them are also on the take. Sometimes they were quite obviously in it together particularly if it was anything to do with News International proprietor where there were always rich pickings. Sooner or later this was all going to come out into the light of day and the light never shone brighter than when some of the less bent journos uncovered the way to exploit the grief of parents and dead children by hacking into private phone calls and cellphone messages. Now our so called government is preparing to hand all our private online info into the hands of hackers, IE their own hackers.

We are heading for a system of on-line control similar to that of China or Iran where the state will always know who you are, where you are, and who you associate with and will eventually be able to control much of your Internet activity. Only today, China has clamped down on bloggers and an unknown number of websites. No doubt this info will then find its way into the hands of the marketing man and political manipulators who will know exactly what to do with it. This is a total disgrace in China or Iran and an even greater disgrace when we are talking about the UK especially, coming as it does from those who in opposition always objected to the surveillance society ID cards, etc. It just goes to show how little we can trust politicians of virtually all persuasions. The lib dens now have a virtually unblemished record of blatant hypocrisy over the last couple of years. If the Tories believe that this level of paranoia will avert terrorism they are even crazier and more out of touch than we already knew them to be. I would predict more terrorism rather than less. certainly its sending messages which can only help the Taliban in a recruiting drive much more than for the coalition. How can it be that at a time when we are all allegedly "in the same boat" ie. badly strapped for cash at all levels from the disibility claimant right the way up to the government departments, we can suddenly embark on even an intention to spend billions on the surveillance and database state. Thje government is still whinging about the trouble of freedom of information yet seemingly ready to gather even greater amounts of information out all of us, yet at the same time be prepared to clamp down on any info which we might rightly and understandably wish to see. If They do want their bread buttered on both sides, it will only ensure that whichever side it falls on if dropped, the bread will still be completly in

In short collecting this data for no good reason, simply wont work, its a major task with vast costs we cannot afford or have the government been lying all along as usual and actually have loads of money and there is no recession, Its an exercise in the creation of paranoia and will antagonise Islamic extremists and the taliban to send yet more or our troops home in boxes. It is we the taxpayers who will be expected to cough up all the dosh and then they really do expect the ISPs to do all this work. Camoron and his cronies, as this last week proves, really dont live in the real world of ordinary people and actually want to live in China or Iran or at leaste recreate their system here in the UK, but of course, they have consistenly demonstrated a lack of competence proving their lack of competence. Keep your nose out of our life Camoron and the same goes for the snooping hackers in the papers and their collaborators in the police and security services.

Of Course as someon said at the time of writing, the Vast majority of people have nothing to do with all this. Most people are not terrorists or serius criminals and strongly resent this as a slur on the morality of innocent users of the internet. The implication is that we are all guilty of something and no matter what Nick Clegg says about the dreaded word "Consultation" and safeguards, some of this slurring is going to stick, further removing trust in hipocritical government and all the involved departments. As the olympics draws ever closer the actual costs become ever larger, The original Costs were estimated at £2.9 BN but now they have esculated out of all controll to £9.3BN on top of this there are now at least another £2BN in costs expected to arise from this latest nonesense and as this is an early estimate, there is no reason to expect this is the end of this escalation in costs. which now looks set to exceed £12 BN New Labour were given a big kick up the arse over their Database ID and Passports legislation which the majority of people just didnt want, and now we have much more wide ranging intentions to monitor practically anything that most people regard as private and this time by the very people who opposed the original crap. Clegg will undoubtedly be held responsible for all this and will not be forgiven. If the Lib Dems are ever going to be forgiven for being the turncoats they clearly are they are unlikely ever to be taken seriously if they continue backing this kind of legislation. they are not just the party of broken promises, they are now a completely spent force in Liberal politics and are unlikely ever to be trusted again in any matter.

As if all this was not enough there are now   problems with the Ken Clarke proposal to have secret courts behind closed doors, Radio four let it slip  yesterday morning that the Americans are disturbed by the horrible habit we Brits have of disclosing information on security etc on security. And that the repressive security and surveillance measures now in the pipeline are at the behests of the men in dark suits in Washington who feel that we should be as repressive and undemocratic as they are and they think we should be tightening up our own security to bring us up to speed with them.  This to  some extent explains why both the Tories and LibDems have suddenly started calling for new measures which they vocifierously opposed when in oppositin. The coilition may yet have to abandon this regime if they are to have any hope of re-election.  Of course if Labour were to get back in, this would convenient they could      then relaunch their ID and          Database/  I wonder if the Yanks will send any dosh to New Labour to help them with their election battle in a couple of years. It would seem that on both sides of the big pond no matter who is elected the fascists will get in yet again.  More body bags are sure to be needed. 

Well first of all we start with bent MPs on the make screwing the system to pay for everything from Duck ponds to Kit Kat bars including a bunch of second homes' Clearly they believed that they could have everything they wanted because the Taxpayers always waiting in the wings to pick up the bill. Then we find out that its not surprising that MPs will not be grassed up by the police because many of them are also on the take. Sometimes they were quite obviously in it together particularly if it was anything to do with News International proprietor where there were always rich pickings. Sooner or later this was all going to come out into the light of day and the light never shone brighter than when some of the less bent journos uncovered the way to exploit the grief of parents and dead children by hacking into private phone calls and cellphone messages. Now our so called government is preparing to hand all our private online info into the hands of hackers, IE their own hackers.






We are heading for a system of on-line control similar to that of China or Iran where the state will always know who you are, where you are, and who you associate with and will eventually be able to control much of your Internet activity. Only today, China has clamped down on bloggers and an unknown number of websites. No doubt this info will then find its way into the hands of the marketing man and political manipulators who will know exactly what to do with it. This is a total disgrace in China or Iran and an even greater disgrace when we are talking about the UK especially, coming as it does from those who in opposition always objected to the surveillance society ID cards, etc. It just goes to show how little we can trust politicians of virtually all persuasions. The lib dens now have a virtually unblemished record of blatant hypocrisy over the last couple of years. If the Tories believe that this level of paranoia will avert terrorism they are even crazier and more out of touch than we already knew them to be. I would predict more terrorism rather than less. certainly its sending messages which can only help the Taliban in a recruiting drive much more than for the coalition. How can it be that at a time when we are all allegedly "in the same boat" ie. badly strapped for cash at all levels from the disibility claimant right the way up to the government departments, we can suddenly embark on even an intention to spend billions on the surveillance and database state. Thje government is still whinging about the trouble of freedom of information yet seemingly ready to gather even greater amounts of information out all of us, yet at the same time be prepared to clamp down on any info which we might rightly and understandably wish to see. If They do want their bread buttered on both sides, it will only ensure that whichever side it falls on if dropped, the bread will still be completly inedible.






In short collecting this data for no good reason, simply wont work, its a major task with vast costs we cannot afford or have the government been lying all along as usual and actually have loads of money and there is no recession, Its an exercise in the creation of paranoia and will antagonise Islamic extremists and the taliban to send yet more or our troops home in boxes. It is we the taxpayers who will be expected to cough up all the dosh and then they really do expect the ISPs to do all this work. Camoron and his cronies, as this last week proves, really dont live in the real world of ordinary people and actually want to live in China or Iran or at leaste recreate their system here in the UK, but of course, they have consistenly demonstrated a lack of competence proving their lack of competence. Keep your nose out of our life Camoron and the same goes for the snooping hackers in the papers and their collaborators in the police and security services.






Of Course as someon said at the time of writing, the Vast majority of people have nothing to do with all this. Most people are not terrorists or serius criminals and strongly resent this as a slur on the morality of innocent users of the internet. The implication is that we are all guilty of something and no matter what Nick Clegg says about the dreaded word "Consultation" and safeguards, some of this slurring is going to stick, further removing trust in hipocritical government and all the involved departments. As the olympics draws ever closer the actual costs become ever larger, The original Costs were estimated at £2.9 BN but now they have esculated out of all controll to £9.3BN on top of this there are now at least another £2BN in costs expected to arise from this latest nonesense and as this is an early estimate, there is no reason to expect this is the end of this escalation in costs. which now looks set to exceed £12 BN New Labour were given a big kick up the arse over their Database ID and Passports legislation which the majority of people just didnt want, and now we have much more wide ranging intentions to monitor practically anything that most people regard as private and this time by the very people who opposed the original crap. Clegg will undoubtedly be held responsible for all this and will not be forgiven. If the Lib Dems are ever going to be forgiven for being the turncoats they clearly are they are unlikely ever to be taken seriously if they continue backing this kind of legislation. they are not just the party of broken promises, they are now a completely spent force in Liberal politics and are unlikely ever to be trusted again in any matter.

IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF DEMOCRACY IN THE UK?

coilition government now cruising for a bruising


Well first of all we start with bent MPs on the make screwing the system to pay for everything from Duck ponds to Kit Kat bars including a bunch of second homes' Clearly they believed that they could have everything they wanted because the Taxpayerwas always waiting in the wings to pick up the bill. Then we find out that its not surprising that MPs will not be grassed up by the police because many of them are also on the take. Sometimes they were quite obviously in it together particularly if it was anything to do with News International proprietor where there were always rich pickings. Sooner or later this was all going to come out into the light of day and the light never shone brighter than when some of the less bent journos uncovered the way to exploit the grief of parents and dead children by hacking into private phone calls and cellphone messages. Now our so called government is preparing to hand all our private online info into the hands of hackers, ie their own hackers.

We are heading for a system of online control similar to that of China or Iran where the state will always know who you are, where you are, and who you associate with and will eventually be able to control much of your internet activity. Only today, China has clamped down on bloggers and an unknown number of websites. No doubt this info will then find its way into the hands of the marketing man and political manipulators who will know exactly what to do with it. This is a total disgrace in China or Iran and an even greater disgrace when we are talking about the UK especially, coming as it does from those who in opposition always objected to the surveilance society ID cards, etc. It just goes to show how little we can trust politicians of virtually all persuasions. The lib dems now have a virtually unblemished record of blatant hipocrisy over the last couple of years. If the tories believe that this level of paranoia will avert terrorism they are even crazier and more out of touch than we already knew them to be. I would predict more terrorism rather than less. certainly its sending messages which can only help the taliban in a recruiting drive much more than for the coilition. How can it be that at a time when we are all allegedly "in the same boat" ie. badly scrapped for cash at all levels from the disibility claimant right the way up to the government departments, we can suddenly embark on even an intention to spend billions on the surveillance and database state. Thje government is still whinging about the trouble of freedom of information yet seemingly ready to gather even greater amounts of information out all of us, yet at the same time be prepared to clamp down on any info which we might rightly and understandably wish to see. If They do want their bread buttered on both sides, it will only ensure that whichever side it falls on if dropped, the bread will still be completly inedible.

The Fukushima nuke plant in Japan is a fine example of what Camoron thinks is safe .

If the Fukushima semiwrecked nuke plant in Japan, is, according to Camoron and the other nuclear psychophants an example of safe and sustainable energy.  How safe can these nut cases  really be.  and these same nutters now seriously want us to believe that the NHS is safe with them.  Look at the nutters on the other side of the big pond such  as Rick Insanitorium, they wanted during the Reagan Regime, for the end of the NHS so that they could trouser the money this would save for the already stinking rich. 

THE COATING OF RUST GROWS EVER THICKER

I always feel a slight coating of shame when i realise just how much i really hated thatcher.  It wasnt just milk she snatched, just about anything was likely to disappear in her metallic grasp.  starting with the kids milk which was easy but there seemed no end.Virtually the whole of Northern industry had the life squeezed out of it by the time the Iron Lady finally had to quit. and by that time there was virtually no one except the die hard psychophants to lament here passing. I always tried to remain rational about Thatcher but i really did come to hate and despise the way she treated and disrespected everyone in the Tory party. Some of the old tories were not all that bad, sure they lived in the past but many of them were certainly well to the left of B Liar when he had been in power for a few years and swiped Thatcher worshippers. 

SEVERAL REVERSALS FOR THE COALITION PILE UP

First of all this year things dont look good for the Lib Dems, OK, they got into government al be it by the back door but todays figures look like those who did vote for the lib dems are pretty pissed off about their record since they did so.Apparently only a quarter of those who voted Lib Dem would vote for them again.   A coalition with a third or more of the elected members, not even in government does not look like a proper coalition at all and the reversal on government student grants was certainly a flop and gave little confidence in their loyal membership that it was going to get a. ny better

Odn top of this the last three or four governments have been talking up reform of the house of lords making imostly elected and limited to thrr hundred members.  This would have the effect of limiting the numbher of members toaround 300making the lords too small to dail with their work load