CHARLIE GILLETT

BBC "ON THE WIRE", 25th BIRTHDAY LIVE SHOW

BBC "ON THE WIRE",  25th BIRTHDAY LIVE SHOW
ADRIAN SHERWOOD AND STEVE BARKER PERUSE SOME VIDEO

John Peel, Legendary DJ, Musical Sage and a nice bloke.

THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY

THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY
THE MISSING JESUS AND MARY IN CLITHEROE

Thursday, March 17, 2011

KELVIN McFRENZY

I watched with some dismay as Kelvin McKensie raved and yelled on Question Time. Of course for many years he was Rupie (Dirty Digger) Murdochs henchman and worked for the well known Toilet Paper aka, the Sun. He has plenty of bluster and lots of opinions all of them stupid, out-dated and clearly dictated to him by other meddling right wing buffoons. (see Dirty Digger)
He loves Nuke power of course. so i think we should ask him when we can start disposing of dangerous nuclear waste in his garden. Its only radio-active shit and keeping all the shit in one place makes sense although Kelvin lacks sense and knows only subservience to his financial puppet masters. What can i say about such an ass-hole other than "Kelvin, shut the fuck up and give us all a rest."

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH - WARMER HOMES CAMPAIGN

Warm Homes

Millions of vulnerable people in Britain live in cold homes that make them ill and cost a fortune to heat.

Spending time in a cold, damp house can make heart disease, strokes and flu more likely. And there's an increased risk of illness and death among older people, young children and those with a disability.

Homes with shoddy insulation and inefficient boilers don't just harm people's health and leak heat.

The wasted energy means tonnes of climate-changing emissions are needlessly pumped into the atmosphere. More than a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from heating our homes and water.

Making our homes energy efficient is one of the cheapest and quickest ways to slash CO2 and help avoid dangerous climate change.

And a nationwide overhaul of our homes would:

  • Protect people's health.
  • Save families money on fuel bills.
  • Create tens of thousands of jobs.
  • Save the NHS millions of pounds.

Sounds like a good idea? It is. But it won't happen by itself.

What we're doing

Friends of the Earth's Warm Homes campaign is calling for the coldest two thirds of British homes to be improved.

We need to cut emissions from heat-leaking houses by 42 per cent this decade, to meet our legal targets for tackling climate change.

And tenants need special protection. Houses rented from a private landlord or through a letting agency are the most likely to be the worst insulated.

We're calling for the Government to:

  • Set a minimum energy-efficiency standard for private rented homes.
  • From 2016 make it illegal to let the worst homes until they're improved.
  • Ensure all houses are brought up to scratch by 2020.
  • Support landlords and homeowners to make improvements.
  • Ensure people know what it costs to heat a home before moving in.

The Government will introduce a new energy law in 2011.

Please join Friends of the Earth's campaign for the Energy Bill to warm our homes, not the planet.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

COMIC RELIEF... DONT MAKE ME LAUGH

Actually there is little chance of me laughing at anything on comic relief. Perhaps it should be re-titled Relieve me of these comics. At least that would sound more promising. Especially at a time when large areas of Japan were apparently disappearing beneath the waves and three nuclear reactor were leaking and of course not to mention thousands being injured and killed in Libya.
Meanwhile whilst your not laughing, nurses, doctors, policemen, firemen, teachers, lecturers and of course broadcasters are all being sacked to help plug the the deficit caused by ever more greedy wankers (surely bankers. Ed)
One of the cheapest shots is probably the axing of BBC Local Radio programs which is where the BBC is irreplaceable. We don't want formulaic, cheapo radio five pap or Clear Channel style pop radio with a rotating diet of the same dozen records 24/7 and inane DJs with verbal diarrhea. nor do we want shedloads of money wasted on lo-fi digital radio.
Its fine to do stunts for charity but the cost to us all and to the environment should be factored in before they decide to let a bunch of Z List numpties scramble up Kilimanjaro with a couple of film crews. heedless of carbon footprints.
And finally, most of the so called comedy is both lamentable and sad. Instead why not stop this sanitising of the news, by showing the bodies and the missing limbs and the true horror of war and natural disasters. We can take it. and in fact true suffering shown on TV is much more likely to make me reach into my pocket for somethig to give to "charadee" than are mindless pop songs and ever more teenagers shaking their bits.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Closing the BBC local radio stations and replacing it with Five Live is like replacing a bar of soap with a fresh turd.

Monday, February 28, 2011

BRITAIN AND THE USA CANNOT WAIT TO SEND THE MILITARY INTO LIBYA

No one can really deny that Gadafi is fairly obviously off his trolly. "my people love me" he told the BBC on TV. I heard him say it. I also heard him raving on about how the people in the streets were not protesting against him and any that were did so because Al Kaida (sic) had paid them to riot and had even supplied people psychedelic drugs. Somehow i dont think this is true.
Having said this i also heard people in the streets saying that not only did they want to rid themselves of Gadafi and his regime but that they wanted to do this themselves and did not want the West to intervene. A brief look at the mess the west made in Iraq and are currently making in Afghanistan, this should not surprise us. Ghandi once said "its the right of India to misrule itself as it sees fit" and this applies to most other sovereign nations.
Another good reason for not getting involved is that we really dont have the militarly hardware or manpower to get involved in yet another ill advise expedition into oblivion and shame. We have more than enough of such conflicts over the last twenty years and for all these reasons we should keep our big noses out of it. If people need aid or protection then fine but it must be genuinely requested and not made up by stupid lying dickheads like Tony Blair or the Bush Baby. and especially we should avoid the gutter press and the warmongering scum that live there like the Dirty Digger and the Red Top press who will say anything at the behest of their puppet masters to foment widespread violence as an excuse for foolish intervention with inadeuate forces.

Monday, February 14, 2011

BIG SOCIETY OR LITTLE ISLAND ?

It seems sad to me that we now have to destroy our air force by now sacking hundreds of pilots which cost more than a £1M each just to train. Of course we wont be sacking any pilots who might be required for their work in Afghanistan which for some reason must continue at all costs. Surely it must be time to get out of Afghanistan. Its just another unwinnable war which costs billions to persue yet at the same time we leave ourselves open to lots of attacks and danger elsewhere. So the future looks like a 3rd or 4th rate country on a tiny, defenceless, overcrowded island with no friends and no role in the world. Well done coilition government.
Now we have three Tory parties for the price of one do we. All of them determined it seeems to close down the country and hit out at soft targets such as the disabled and unemployed, all of them bullied and frightened into going after jobs they cannot really perform at a time when there are ever fewer jobs.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

BBC -- HOW DRUGS DONT WORK - CANNABIS

I could hardly believe my ears when i watched the above program on the I Player. I had not heard such an out of date bunch of shite about cannabis for at least 15 years. It seemed to be fixatated on THC and Skunkweed and how dangerous this stuff could be. Well Really. All drugs, and for that matter, all repettive behaviour carries with it dangers both physical and psychological but to single out THC in this infantile way does not do the BBC any credit and paints a sorry picture of drugs research into the bargain.

At the last count ther3e were supposedly 421 chemcials in cannabis, 420 of which are not THC. several of which were found to be useful or potentially useful in the treatment of a number of physical and mental ailments. Surely the BBC program could have found a little time for some of these. And before you way, what do you know about all this i must point out that i worked with my Local MP in the 90s on the issues of cannabis pharmaceuticals and decriminilisation. In the course of this i prepared evidence for the House of Lords Select Committee and even discussed it with the Police Foundation.

Another issue which i find genuinely offensive is the failure of this type of programming to differentiate between use and abuse. There is a long distance which seperates the person who smokes a joint from the person of smokes cannabis in joints, pipes, bongs, etc etc from dawn till dusk. If we apply this kind of misguided logic to much of human activity we find we are surrounded by comparatively few abusers of cannabis but these are certainly well exceeded by sugar addicts and abusers, chocaholics, alcoholics, nicotine addicts, and i havent even begun to consider all those who regularly use and abuse prescription drugs such as aspirin, paracetamol, etc etc.