From the monthly archives:

March 2009

First they came for the lentil munchers…….

March 31, 2009
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The UK Government is using a top-secret computer system – tied into the airlines’ ticketing network – which makes judgments about travel habits and passengers’ friends and family to decide if they are a security risk.
All the information passengers give to travel agents, including home addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, passport details and the names [...]

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Jump – it’s safer!

March 31, 2009
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New firefighter uniforms, which include the option of a full-length skirt, hijab headscarf and a turban, have been launched.
As well as being designed to reflect religious and cultural sensitivities, the new range also includes maternity and sportswear as well as more formal uniforms for fire-safety visits.
Asian Fire Service Association spokesman Jagtar Singh said: “We are [...]

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My Right Dishonourable Friend………

March 31, 2009
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Police were forced to use CS Gas last night to break up a debate started behind the Speaker’s Chair in the House of Commons.
Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles was hosting a drinks party in the shadow cabinet room, during the Commons debate on Africa.
Three journalists who had attended the party had begun scuffling shortly after [...]

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Paying Tithes on the EU Harvest.

March 31, 2009
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Eight years ago, the Mayor charged with the well being of 1,500 peasants living in the windswept and barren hillside of La Muela discovered a new cash crop.
Each seedling was capable of producing £3,000 a year, for the landowner, and almost a million pounds a year for the community as a whole. The Mayor arranged [...]

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Hold the presses – investigative journalism is not dead!

March 30, 2009
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Many readers have turned away from newspapers towards the Internet, the Internet in turn has spawned a reversal of the accepted procedure whereby news filtered from those in the centre of power outwards to the oppressed masses - the news has started coming inwards to the main stream media; independent bloggers reporting [...]

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Our Puny ‘Global Messiah’ is outclassed, outgunned, outmanoeuvred.

March 30, 2009
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Tomorrow morning the behemoth arrives. A Boeing 747 touches down at Stanstead airport carrying 200 secret service men, the codes to launch world nuclear Armageddon, a full scale field hospital, a wife, to save on pay per view costs, a full kitchen staff to save the wife from cooking, a titanium ‘mobile [...]

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White-Skinned Blue-Eyed Drug-Takers To Stimulate Economy

March 29, 2009
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The Brazilian President Lula da Silva speaking at a Press conference this week has blamed the current global economic crisis on ‘the irrational behaviour of white-skinned people with blue eyes’. This would appear to count Gordon Brown out. Or does it? What of the brown-eyed long-standing friend of all bankers Gordon [...]

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