'Rants & Raves'
I tried to phone a guy at a certain Scottish City Council (no names, no places …). Obviously he was not there, so I got through to the council’s voice mail system: “Welcome to (name withheld) City Council’s voice mail system. If you want to retrieve your messages, please put in your ID. If you want to leave a message, please put in the extension number…”
It is obviously essential that council staff can do their work efficiently. Whether I can reach the person I need to speak to seems far less important.
Today I tried to translate “Rücknahmeverpflichtung” into English. Essentially R. means that producers of harmful goods (e.g. computers) are required to dispose of their products once the consumers don’t use them any more. Babelfish at altavista came up with “cancelling obligation” and dict.leo.org suggested “obligation to take back”. Luckily I remembered (with some support of eu.int) that there is an EU Directive, number 2002/96/EG, that deals with the subject.
Googling for 2002/96/EG should be easy enough to bring up a plethora of hits in English — I thought. But Google taught me otherwise. You can get 2002/96/EG in German, in Dutch, in Swedish, even in Polish, but to find a first hit in English took a lot of scrolling …
This, so it seems, is another element of Britain 2005ff. Let the others sort their rubbish — we British are rubbish anyway, so it does not matter, does it, whether we sort or recycle or just dump. It’s more important to remove these people from our shores who would not want to live in and as rubbish.
Oh, by the way, I still don’t know what “Rücknahmeverpflichtung” means in English…
Men are more intelligent than women, particularly if they are called Richard Lynn and emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University. And if they are white, since Richard Lynn chose to “prove” that white people are more intelligent than black people already a while ago. And his ridiculous claims are seconded by so far innocent Paul Irwing, senior lecturer in psychology at Manchester University.
This is certainly good news for Tony Blair and his totalitarian supporters. Or don’t you remember “scientists” in the 1930ies proving that the race of “Homo sapiens” emerged from natural selection and that it would quite be O.K. to support that selection actively (see also New Scientist, 20 Aug 05, pp. 34ff).
So there comes another building block for Britain 2005ff. freely delivered to your doorstep. Wait and see to what higher purpose they could put academia … just think of the animal testing laboratories, e.g.
Britain ‘needs stronger identity’: “Britain needs a stronger sense of national identity, Conservative leader Michael Howard tells the BBC.”
And indeed the Metropolitan Police is already working hard on building that new national identity: the kill-to-shoot-to-get-rid-of-innocent-people-policy. Leaked documents prove once more that Jean Charles de Menezes had turned from innocent to suicide-bomber in the blood-thirsty, gun-hungry minds of the “Metropolitan Police SO19 tactical firearms unit”.
The new national identity is therefore “code red” — shoot anybody you’d like to shoot, particularly if they are innocent. If shooting is not appropriate, deport them to countries where they are likely to be tortured.
If somebody sadly cannot be shot or deported because they are not sufficiently innocent, lock them up in detention centres (and of course give these centres a nice name) or in 24/7-surveilled gated communities. Tag everybody with an RFID-chip and track their movements wherever they go and whatever they do. Ideally develop and implement into every UK resident brain-tracker chips that monitor brain activity and report anything that is abnormal (i.e. not watching pay TV) to the respective SO19 unit to trigger code red, i.e. immediate terminal shooting.
It all has been described earlier and much more eloquently … by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. All that needs to be done is combining the best of both worlds into a strong, new, national, totalitarian identity: Britain 2005ff.
(Via BBC News.)
Muslims ‘right about decadent UK’: “Muslims who criticise ‘decadent Britain’ are right, say a group of newly-elected Tory MPs.”
However, they go on blaming ‘”woolly-minded” liberal thinking for society’s sliding values.
I would argue that decadence is an integral if not fundamental concept of Tory politics. cf. the statue of Mrs. Thatcher, for example. And the liberals, certainly, are not any better, nor is NewLabour… Where is space for intelligent debate? In the casino. Where is space for alternative concepts of society? In CCTV-mind-controlling UK.
Just – bombing it out is not a solution either.
(Via BBC News.)
According to BBC NEWS: A certain Mr Davis (believed to be a Tory hawk or something) said ministers should review the Human rights Act ‘advocating its repeal if necessary’. And anybody who does not have “respect for the British way of life” (namely: there is no such thing as human rights, we love 24 hour surveillance, random shooting of innocent strengthens society) should leave the country (ideally as long as borders are still “porous”).
OK, bye now and count me out … that’s me gone!
“SCOTLAND’S senior police officers are looking to increase the number of armed officers north of the Border in direct response to the threat posed by al-Qaeda terrorists, The Scotsman has learned.”
(The Scotsman.)
On BBC NEWS police admits to ‘target ethnic men’.
Hazel Blears says: ‘decent people’ will accept the move. So if we don’t accept the move we are in fact indecent people. Happy to be indecent if the likes of Ian killer-copper Blair and Hazel Apologetic Blears are decent.
These are the faces of the new ruling race:
pictures newsimg.bbc.co.uk
These are the facts reported:
- de Menezes may not have jumped over a ticket barrier to escape his police pursuers, the guy jumping over the barrier was one of the killer-cops
- Relatives living in London insist he was not wearing a bulky winter coat but a denim jacket (so they were told by the police)
- police are *now* operating under orders not to challenge suicide bombers or identify themselves before firing a critical headshot, so most probably de Menezes was NOT aware that he was being pursued by police. Ian killer-copper Blair claims his officers had challenged de Menezes, which would have been against the *then* British police guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. According to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) they state officers should “not attempt to approach, challenge and/or negotiate” with suspected bombers as this could be “likely to trigger denotation”.
- the use of a Taser stun gun by West Midlands police on Wednesday during the arrest of Yasin Hassan Omar begs the question, could de Menezes have been brought down alive?
Conclusion: the real terrorists are not the ones following imagined orders of Osama bin Laden (who does not issue orders anyway), but the guys under the command of Ian killer-copper Blair.
Source: The Scotsman
According to BBC NEWS Killer-Copper Ian Blair said: “Despite everything that’s been said here, there is only one way to stop someone who is a suicide bomber which is to kill that person. Everything else allows the shot to go home but the bomb to go off. A Taser sends electric currents into the body of somebody, if there is a bomb on that body, then the bomb is going to go off. It may have been that they [officers in Birmingham] were clear there wasn’t a bomb. I don’t know what the situation was.”
This is “Sir” Ian stopping short of saying: “I would have shot him in the head, seven times; since revenge is mine, mine, mine; and I want to see blood, blood, blood… kill’em, kill’em, kill!”
In earlier days we used to say, only a dead copper is a good copper. These days this particular copper’s very mission seems to be: “Only a dead ethnic is a good ethnic”.
(Via BBC NEWS)
The only advice I can give at this time is: Avoid this country if possible. Or you risk to receive police bullets into your head. Don’t be coloured, don’t wear a back-pack, don’t wear a bulky jacket. Because that’s what terrorists do. And these days every terrorist is a suicide-attacker. That’s why the police shoot you in the head. They will find, afterwards, that you’re perfectly innocent. Another chance for them to be “desperately sorry”. Once again: Keep out of here if you can. Legal murder comes as plainclothes police rambos these days in the UK.
By the way, can anybody tell me: which other country prides itself of ordinary policemen not carrying firearms and at the same time having the worst rate of shooting innocent people?
Yahoo and indymedia report that even the driver of the tube train where the shooting took place was almost gunned down by the Met.
UK ministers reject Iraq terror link: “Senior cabinet minister reject claims that Britain’s support of the invasion of Iraq put the UK more at risk from terrorist attack.” (Via BBC News.)
They most probably also deny all the other conclusions from the latest Chatham report on terrorism and the UK:
- the UK government’s position as ‘pillion passenger’ to the United States’ war on terror
- Islamic terrorist activity was not given appropriate priority until the late 1990s
- the UK is at particular risk because it is the closest ally of the US, deploying troops in the campaigns against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq
That leaves us to wonder whether said UK “senior” ministers are senior enough to embrace the report’s recommendations to “move away from the rigid forensic approach to professional post-terror attack responses”, i.e. to place more emphasis “on
building and using community resources in responding to terrorism, rather than
focusing on technical and professional approaches that leave communities excluded” and not to allow that “terrorism and the shadow of fear it casts can be used all too easily to obscure repressive government measures”, particularly during elections.
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