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Wednesday, 30 November 2011

The unlawful killing of Princess Diana: Did 'Hackgate' inquiry hear one of the pieces of the jigsaw?

As the better read amongst you know, an inquest jury - on hearing months of evidence into the circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - ruled that our Princess was the victim of 'unlawful killing'.

While those unidentified culprits in and on 'pursuing vehicles' still evade a court of law due to deliberate inaction by British and French authorities, one of the most unlikely sources might well have thrown us one of the missing jigsaw puzzle pieces.

With a hat-tip to Sky's Mark White - and a public apology to him for ribbing his coverage of the lives of celebrities at the Leveson inquiry into 'Hackgate' - the new evidence is potentially explosive and throws fresh question marks over the 'thorough and relentless' investigation by both Operation Paget and the Diana inquest itself.

The Leveson media inquiry today heard from former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan who gave several mentions to Diana - notably about how she was betrayed by her gym instructor and with regard to how her death changed attitudes at British newspapers.

Yet it is what he mentioned about Diana's bodyguards which is the most explosive.

Here's what he said, quoted verbatim from the website of the Leveson inquiry:

10 I mean, some stories are worth a lot. For example,

11 Diana's whereabouts was worth much more than that

12 because that would be, you know, a front-page story. So

13 maybe if one phonecall saying -- as indeed we got from

14 one of Diana's bodyguards, that yes, they will be

15 landing at Helsinki airport at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

16 "Can I have £30,000, please? I need to pay my

17 mortgage." Yes, no problem, because that was a defining

18 story about -- as you know, Al Fayed married

19 Miss Finland, hence the Helsinki link.

The 'Miss Finland' reference is to Heini Wathén, Mohamed Al Fayed's second wife and Dodi's step-mother.

For those who've shown detailed interest into the unlawful killing of Diana, our Princess, you will know that before the final acts of her killing in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris there was another terrifying car chase that Diana endured.

Landing at Le Bourget airport, an obviously tipped-off 'media' pack was waiting for Diana and Dodi Fayed's party as they landed on the tarmac - much to the despair of Diana and Dodi. A hair-raising chase all the way into the centre of Paris then ensued.

What the Fayed hired bodyguards Trevor Rees Jones (the sole survivor of the Diana killing crash) and Kes Wingfield did not tell the Scott-Baker inquest was anything about occurrences during any trip to Helsinki that Diana may have taken.

Yet reading the McMullan evidence to Leveson, it sounds as though there are question marks over Helsinki.

Did Diana go to Helsinki and in what way was any such trip connected to her relationship with Dodi? If she did go, when did this happen and who were the bodyguards assigned to protecting Diana in Helsinki? We need answers to these questions as McMullan appears to be directly implicating them in betraying Diana's security for cash.

And were they in any way connected to later incidents at Le Bourget and the Pont de l'Alma tunnel where Diana would meet her demise in what, a jury has ruled, was the unlawful killing of a globally loved, very English Princess..?

Further, if these bodyguards - who we do not yet know the identity of - betrayed Diana to the newspapers, would they have betrayed Diana to parties who might have been 'planning an accident in [her] car' involving 'brake failure' and 'serious head injury', following her divorce from Prince Charles and her humanitarian campaign against the military industrial complex over anti-personnel landmines.

We do know that Diana's driver in Paris - Henri Paul - was in the pay of French security services.

So we really do need to hear more about these Helsinki bodyguards. Who were they? Who sold the security detail? Who were they connected to?

We can be sure that the investigative journalists who have sought answers into Diana's killing will be looking further into this one.

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

The Luhnatics are running the village

Within forty-eight hours of learning that Chris Huhne and his part-time pals of the socialist Conservative Party are giving away £1billion of our money to "help Africa fight climate change" (rebranded from 'man made global warming' after a lack of warming and some sexed up science dossiers)...

...comes a headline in the Evening Standard revealing that: "Growing costs will see MoD without an aircraft carrier for 'almost a decade'."

So, hang on a man made, same temperatured minute.

We can gift £1billion to "Africa" (which will go to the usual corruption rather than the people) and we do this in the name of 'climate change' (formerly 'man made global warming') which - when not invented by scientists hiding the decline in the name of a research grant - has been happening since the formation of the planet and there's nothing that any amount of money anyone can do about it?

...yet we can't afford to use that money to defend the homeland?

Goodness help us if Germany had any ideas of dominating Europe again if we can't even afford an aircraft carrier.

Oh.

The first purpose of Government is to defend the homeland and if they can't do it, then we surely don't need them.

Left to our own devices, most of us wouldn't choose to give £1billion to fight the potential activities of Mother Nature in Africa.

Not when we have pensioners dying of cold and people queueing up in soup kitchens here at home.

What on earth is it that happens to politicians when they get to the Houses of Parliament that makes them go stark raving mad?

Westminster, where the luhnatics really are running the village.

I want my money back until such time as we have, at Westminster, a Government worthy of the name.

Twenty-one years since the last one.

Sunday, 27 November 2011

When MSM hit-pieces backfire: Hundreds descend on Daily Mail to defend David Icke

Oh dear. The Daily Mail really has become the Daily Fail.

While we quite often like reading some of their articles, when they get things wrong and misjudge their audience... it's shit and fan time.

And so it was that, on the day the Daily Mail took it's cue from The Sun and attempted to get away with a hit piece on David Icke...

...the Daily Mail readership hit back, flocking to the newspaper's website, trashing them for their journalism, trashing the mainstream media generally and showing a huge wave of support for David Icke.

The comments have to be read to be believed. This is an establishment hit-piece that has backfired spectacularly.

It's sadly a case of the mainstream media not yet being awake to the fact that they can no longer control what we, the people think.

We've been lied to, tricked and controlled with propaganda for many, many, many years.

That hundreds of people have descended upon the Daily Mail's website expressing support for David Icke while trashing the mainstream media is...

...actually more promising for the hopes of a global awakening then we ever dared dream possible.

H/T: Infowars.com

Saturday, 26 November 2011

Thatcher and the sick minds of 'the left'

In a curious twist of fate today, the Daily Mail reveals that there are plans for a state funeral honour for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - news that comes on the same day as plainly wrong rumours of her passing have circulated.

The rumours, which achieved some traction on some social media sites, were starting to be gleefully jumped upon and celebrated by some who are clearly tribally aligned to the agenda of 'the left'.

Thankfully, the news of Lady Thatcher's demise is completely wrong.

However, in their evident desire to celebrate the death of our former Prime Minister in the most unsavoury of ways, 'the left' have - as ever - demonstrated a particularly unsightly and clearly sick state of mental health.

For this blog author, Thatcher's leadership of the country came at too early a stage in our life to form any meaningful love or hatred... and we're decidedly approaching middle age.

What we're seeing is vociferous 'leftists' who are in their early twenties - babies in nappies when Thatcher left office - acting like coiled springs; waiting and wishing death on someone of whose policies they have little first-hand knowledge.

Let's make this clear. No matter how much we hated Gordon Brown's leadership of the country, no matter how much we despise and hate the Barossos and Rumpy-Pumpy's... we wish death on no-one and have no desire or need to celebrate their death when it comes as, eventually, death will.

It happens to all of us.

Yet while in fantasy movie world, the Munchkins may well have celebrated the death of the Wicked Old Witch of Oz with a chorus of 'Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead!', what excuse for such lack of humanity in reality?

In jumping the gun and celebrating the death of a strong leader - the first and only female Prime Minister of this country - 'the left' have demonstrated yet again a particularly sick and twisted state of mind.

Whoever is responsible for having indoctrinated these young people to such a state where they have such ideological hatred? They're the sickest people of all, for in pursuit of their political aims, they are clearly robbing some of our youngsters of even their humanity.

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Watch out, that darn "racist" Christmas is about

Good grief. What kind of people do we have living in this country, when something as simple and as beautiful as this... is subjected to a debate about 'racism' on YouTube:


Seriously, I kid you not. Head over to YouTube and look through the comments yourself.

A touching Christmas advert for John Lewis... and a vocal group of people with whatever strange agenda have inflicted a race debate on it.

Stuff 'em. Buy all your Christmas presents from John Lewis and make the song by Slow Moving Millie a Christmas #1 - just to annoy these ridiculous people all the more and to send a message that, hey, this is a classic British TV Christmas ad and you can love it (like we do)... else they can get stuffed like the proverbial turkey.

Bah humbug to the race card players - and ho! ho! ho! to John Lewis we go!

UPDATE
Oh, and banks are racist too - according to the prize idiot that is Nick Clegg. He also thinks football has a "racial ceiling" holding stars back.

Has he ever watched a Premier League game, we ask ourselves?

I mean, good grief... just when you thought he couldn't stoop any lower, Clegg has to go and prove us wrong. And he's Deputy Prime Minister?

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister who makes John Prescott seem a statesman-like intellectual heavyweight.

We really don't make these things up, you know. We couldn't.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Quote of the Day: 23rd November 2011

"There can be no concept of the national interest within the EU because the whole aim of Brussels is to obliterate individual nations.

Our only hope for national survival is to leave the EU. If we stay we will become nothing more than a despised colonial province of a German-run empire. Seventy years ago British people fought to stop such an eventuality. We are desecrating their sacrifice if we allow our nation to be subsumed within the Brussels-Berlin axis."


- Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express

...Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro! is the basic tenure of the piece.

And how wonderful that Cameron, Clegg and Miliband - the grand appeasers of the Fourth Reich - managed to put on their sombre faces at the Cenotaph a fortnight ago. Not for them, the irony...


Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Abandon London, all ye Cockney Sparras... the dreaded Olympics are coming


You may have seen 'conspiracy theory' websites which claim that something called "Project Bluebeam" - a sinister shadowy Government project - is likely to stage a false flag alien invasion over London to coincide with the Olympic Games next year.

Utter b*ll*cks, you might say. Maybe. Though such a theory has not faded away, despite being mocked on the pages of The Guardian a year ago.

You might also be aware of the fuss about the London 2012 logo which, some claim - with reasonable conclusion - actually reads "Zion". One has to be very careful about the discussion of 'Zion' for fear of accusations of anti-semetism. A whole can of worms that this blog is definitely not going to open. However, the authorities of Iran have had no such qualms, according to the Evening Standard.

But it is not alien invaders from Mars or Babylonian New World Order lunatics hiding behind a "Zionist" front that has us fearful and considering abandoning London.

No, the cause of our fear is much more mundane.

London, next year, looks like being a militarised police state.

Surface to air missiles in place (what are they expecting?) will, according to the Daily Mail, be accompanied by military snipers in helicopters buzzing about our skies.

Add to that an inevitability that the people of London will be subject to widespread infringements on our civil liberties...

Our airports - especially those in Manchester - are full of cancer causing naked body scanners and, after the horror of 9/11 and 7/7 (both of which have question marks about them), hundreds of thousands of people were randomly stopped and searched in the capitol... without a terrorist ever being found.

They did, however, find and trouble a great many tourists and photographers.

While, inexplicably, Sikhs will be allowed into the Olympic village with ceremonial daggers according to Reuters, you can be sure that the rest of us are in for something approaching martial law.

However, martial law where soldiers who swear an allegiance to Queen and country is one thing.

These will be soldiers under the command of the insane political class and the police who have had more than enough problems with their image in recent years - bumping off the occasional newspaper seller and executing random Brazilian electricians, of course, being only part of the wall of distrust that has been built between police and civil liberty guardians.

In fact, the alien invasion sounds quite friendly, by comparison.

So, the Olympics take place in London next summer.

Those of us who live in London have never had a more timely reason to plan to head for the hills and get the hell out of here.

We hear rumours that other parts of the country have a majority of English people in them, too. What more incentive could you need to scarper? In doing so, you would no doubt be joining the Cockney sparras who, along with the legend of the Bow bells, seem to have scarpered long ago.

Saturday, 19 November 2011

Saturday Caption Competition: Cameron-Chamberlain Edition

We supply the image - you supply the caption...


In the traditions of the Big Breakfast, don't phone, it's just for fun.

Friday, 18 November 2011

'Big Brother' is nowt but a hypocritical, insecure bully coining it in through our fear

Two of the most oddly contrasting stories have run parallel in the headlines this week.

Along one track has run the never-ending saga of 'hackgate' in which everyone has moaned and groaned about the conduct of News International and other major players in the newspaper industry.

We're no great fans of Murdoch and nor do we have reason to be.

Yet the most notable, prominent group of people to be dragging the saga out to it's now painfully dull levels of query are the politicians in the Houses of Parliament.

What our politicians really do not like is the fact that it is they who have been monitored and watched by the newspaper business. Public servants are very big on their own privacy - though this is understandable as, without some of the dubious practises of 'Fleet Street', the even more dubious and scandalous practises of our political class may never have come to light.

The other news story, running on the opposite rail of destination 'current affairs', is the news from Oxford that all taxi cabs are to have CCTV cameras installed and our conversations are to be recorded... just in case, some day, someone might discuss something illegal in the back of a cab.

Orwell's 'Big Brother' conjures up a sinister image - the image of a powerful machine that sees all, hears all and knows all.

Yet the people controlling 'Big Brother' and feeding it instructions are nowt but hypocritical, insecure bullies who coin it in through our fear.

Yes, 'Big Brother' is controlled by politicians. These politicians eat the same way as we do, sleep the same way as we do, go to the toilet the same way as we do - and, in many cases, probably live far duller lives than we do.

Desperately insecure, they are like the playground bully who has to push others around lest his secret of being an insecure and actually pathetically weak little idiot should be exposed.

Our playground bully - the politician - 'tut, tut, tuts' loudly at all the things he thinks he should be heard to disapprove of, such as the eavesdropping and snooping practises of News International.

Yet being an insecure hypocrite, the fashionable in tweed else lavender water stinking politician relentlessly nods through more and more systems to spy on and listen in on the likes of you and me.

Both the politician and the newspaper stand to gain financially from their snooping.

For the politician in the current economic climate and all its attendant social unrest worldwide, the snooping and eavesdropping on people in the back of a taxi probably demonstrates little care or interest in the welfare of you and I... though shows a wonderfully insecure need to create systems of control and thus self-preservation.

These are the same political bullies who are too scared to do their own dirty work or even face the people.

They are slowly dispensing with democracy, they drive around in armoured cars, they snaffle up huge percentages of your wages in tax - and use the latter to get some thugs to do their dirty work for them.

It is for this reason that, yesterday afternoon, we sat transfixed while watching police violence against peaceful protesters in both Athens and New York. Cities with a vast ocean between them, both being centres of simultaneous clamp downs ordered by the same tweed wearing, lavender perfumed insecure hypocrites who get very upset about newspapers knowing about what they're up to.

Generally, they fear newspapers knowing what they are up to as they are up to no good - not because they see the role of a politician as a sanctified career for the good of society's wellness.

Nope, these politicians are insecure little hypocrites who make a fortune pretending to be something they're not.

With one or two rare exceptions, they're in it for the money and a clued up population threatens their supply of tweed and lavender water.

Their control of 'Big Brother' and the desire to listen in on what we're saying in the back of taxis has more to do with the preservation of that than the preservation of our welfare or society.

That politicians have set their 'Big Brother' sights on the newspaper industry with such an unusual degree of devotion to task should be seen in said context.

That they continue to angrily probe newspaper eavesdroppping while setting up CCTV monitoring and conversation recording for the back of taxi cabs - developments running in tandem - is, simultaneously, unbelievable yet unsurprising.

The more politicians want to listen in and monitor us, the more we should hope that newspapers listen in on and monitor the politicians.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Quote of the Day: 'Treason, treason everywhere and not one arrest to be found' edition

"Assuming that you fully comprehend what treason means, who committed that treason, and that you have a duty to do something about it once you do know. This crime has now been reported at over 80 police stations. Unsurprisingly, they have done nothing. Which makes them guilty of misprision of treason."

- Captain Ranty

...but lo! What's this coming into view? Our dear friendly neighbouring blog Witterings from Witney carries an announcement from the Albion Alliance, one which has the full endorsment of this blog. Well done to them.

Monday, 14 November 2011

And we hereby legitmately declare ourselves to be High Lord Emperor Fontleroy I of the European Empire and all it's Mediterranean Protectorates

And so it came to pass that, in the City of Westminster, I did utter forth that if one single person were to exclaim "You've got my vote," then I would have more legitimacy than the Prime Ministers of Greece, Italy and Herman von Rumpy Pumpy and his entire clapped out EU vermin.

On this declaration of seeking my legitimacy, three members of the populace did step forth voluntarily and declare that they were giving me their vote. Twitter be my witness.

With this entirely voluntary endorsement from the people, I have demonstrated that I have more democratic legitimacy and therefore right to govern than Herman von Rumpy and his EU stooges.

I therefore declare that:

Further to the posting of this blogpost, the European Union is abolished, all formerly sovereign European nation states have full and total national sovereignty restored, the single EU currency is abolished...

...and that only a elected High Lord Emperor of the European Empire and it's Mediterranean Protectorates may restore the operations of the EU further to the aforementioned abolition.

Further, I do declare that only a High Lord Emperor of the European Empire and it's Mediterranean Protectorates may name their successor.

I do hereby abolish the role of High Lord Emperor of the European Empire and it's Mediterranean Protectorates and make it abolished for all eternity.

There. Job done.

And all with more democratic legitimacy that Herman von Rumpy Pumpy and his EU stooges ever established.

Now then, we have 650 idiots in Parliament who have sat there too long for all the good they are doing.

I reckon 25,000 "you've got my votes" each should be enough for us all to turf the entire lot of them out.

We have three years or so to work on it.

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Department of PreCrime vs. EDL: Spielberg fantasy let loose on real London streets

Of all the people most unlikely to leap to the defence of the English Defence League, Peter Tatchell is certainly it.

Yet in another example of how the elites are uniting the people against the dictatorships and totalitarian control infrastructures being imposed around the world, policing in London yesterday has - indeed - stirred Peter Tatchell to speak out about the outrageous victimisation of the EDL by the Met Police.

For those who missed the story, more than 170 people - believed to be members of EDL - were arrested outside a pub in Whitehall in order to prevent a breach of the peace. The keyword here, of course, being 'prevent'.

As even the astonished sounding BBC News report makes clear - the BBC hardly a staunch defender of the EDL, of course - these people were arrested just in case they might commit an offence at some stage later in the day.

They were later released without charge.

In his series of 'tweets' in response, Tatchell hits out at: "police state methods", arguing that: "Democracies don’t arrest people who have committed no crime."

He goes on to ask: "EDL today, who next?"

This is no friend of the EDL, as Tatchell makes clear.

"EDL are thugs," he claims, "but police were wrong to arrest 170+ for crimes they “might” commit = totalitarian".

He adds: "Civil liberties are for all, even odious EDL."

We agree with Tatchell wholeheartedly - this is a serious and sinister attack on civil liberties. He was not alone in his response. A whole series of mainstream news reporters and comment writers took to Twitter with astonished condemnation.

This does fit the pattern being witnessed all over the world, does it not?

The elites are abandoning the pretence that we ever lived with freedom and democracy and have seemingly declared a silent war against the people.

Removing unwanted Prime Ministers and replacing them with their bankster puppets is just the trivial end of the wedge.

Thankfully, the case of the day the Department of Precrime ran amok in Central London and arrested almost two hundred EDL members in case of future crime seems to be serving to awaken the people all the more.

We reference the Department of Precrime though, of course, there's no firm evidence that anyone connected to EDL (or not connected to them) was intending to commit any crime... ever. Locking so many up just in case one day they might do? Utterly deplorable.

To those who think precrime detention is justifiable, as Spielberg's fantasy movie Minority Report suggests, the system may well some day set it's sights on you.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Quote of the Day: 10th November 2011

"When an Argentinian government imposes ‘financial repression’ on Argentinian people, it is unpopular enough, but tolerated. Should Germans impose such repression on thrifty Italian households, the political reaction may be incendiary.

Merkel and Sarkozy have both been fond of saying that they ‘will do everything necessary’ to save the eurozone. Neither Berlusconi or Papandreou would now doubt them. But a situation where even British officials talk about helping regime change in Italy is not one that can — or should — last long. Berlusconi’s demise marks the EU now entering its endgame. When empires collapse, they can do so very suddenly."


- Fraser Nelson in The Spectator, discussing the EU's new anti-democratic nightmare, the Frankfurt Group.

Just in case any leftists are reading, The Guardian - amazingly for that publication - has also come out and slammed the now revealed EU dictatorship. In an article exposing the Frankfurt Group, Larry Elliott writes:

"...the latest phase of Europe's sovereign debt crisis has exposed the quite flagrant contempt for voters, the people who are going to bear the full weight of the austerity programmes being cooked up by the political elites.

Here's how things work. The real decisions in Europe are now taken by the Frankfurt Group, an unelected cabal made of up eight people: Lagarde; Merkel; Sarkozy; Mario Draghi, the new president of the ECB; José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission; Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Eurogroup; Herman van Rompuy, the president of the European Council; and Olli Rehn, Europe's economic and monetary affairs commissioner."


Good job they haven't found any Austrian-born, powerful orators and tank divisions yet, huh? This is 1938 and - here at home - we have a Parliament full of appeasers, don't we?

Never fear. Like Aslan stirring, ready to deliver Narnia from permafrost-loving witches, there are rumours Nigel Farage has been spotted waiting by the phone at Chartwell...

Oh. One more thing. Told you so.


Monday, 7 November 2011

'Fourth Reich' "Conspiracy" Theorists: Were They Right?

One of the constant refrains of apologists for the European Empire and it's anti-democratic tyranny is the line about 'the project' having brought half a century of peace.

Set against this has been a long running argument by people who some would term "conspiracy theorists" who claim that the European Union derives from a Nazi plan for a 'Fourth Reich' - activated through industrialists following World War II defeat and advanced through the Bilderberg Group.

That the Bilderberg Group exists and meets amidst tight security once a year is no longer a "conspiracy theory". It's a proven fact. It is well known that it is attended by leading banking, industrial and political figures. It is also known that Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was a key architect of the 'group' and his Nazi links have even been explored by The Telegraph.

What the Bilderberg Group actually discusses is never made officially public, yet early meetings in the 1950's are now widely accepted as having been focussed on what is now known as the European Union.

Are "Fourth Reich" claims unfounded paranoia or could there be a whisper of truth to them?

Perhaps now might be a prudent time to contemplate this question, given the latest developments in the European Empire.

The week's Harry Houdini of Greek politics, Prime Minister George Papendreou, has apparently agreed in the last twenty-four hours to stand down as part of coalition talks to form a government of "national unity".

This decision, Reuters reports, has been reached: "...under EU pressure."

Got the source of that? Reuters.

The Telegraph tells a similar story. It reports: "European leaders forced George Papandreou to act under the threat of national bankruptcy."

Rewind. A week ago, Papandreou stunned the EU by announcing that he was putting the recent bailout package - and it's attendant austerity measures - to a national referendum. Several EU meetings later, the referendum plan was dropped.

Can't be having a little thing like the will of the people getting in the way of 'the project' now, can we?

Having survived a confidence vote in the Greek Parliament on Friday, it seems that within forty-eight hours and at EU insistence, Papandreou is now being forced to resign as Prime Minister.

Keeping with credible news sources, The Telegraph informs us that: "The EU was accused of carrying out a coup yesterday after the head of the European Commission threatened Greece with “paralysis of the country” unless MPs removed their prime minister to form an unelected “national unity government”."

We got that? A coup. Forcing a Prime Minister from office so that the desired unelected government may take it's place.

There were wild rumours last week that Papendreou had fired all of Greece's military leaders, fearing that they were planning a coup of their own. In the end, no, it seems that the coup has been conducted by the EU.

The Greek coalition being formed behind closed doors without the consent of the Greek people is doing all of this at the EU's say-so.

Back to Reuters who, in a seperate report reiterate: "Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and opposition leader Antonis Samaras agreed on the coalition after the European Union piled pressure on the country to resolve a political stalemate."

There have been no tanks invading Greek borders; no enemy aircraft in the skies over Athens.

Yet a new form of aggression seems to have conquered Greece. It is no longer sovereign. It has clearly been defeated and is now obviously being governed from elsewhere. Brussels and/or Berlin.

Certainly, what is going on in Greece cannot be described as "democracy". It is a nation under foreign occupation.

Perhaps this is why John Redwood MP wrote on Sunday: "...the Euro is a great device for bringing down EU member states governments."

Think about that sentence for a moment and then remember that, no matter what you think of John Redwood or the Conservative Party, this is a senior political figure in the UK's governing party writing a sentence like that and feeling strongly enough about it that he is prepared to make the comment openly and publicly.

What is happening in our own country can hardly be described as democracy, either. We've covered all the ground on this one to the point of exhaustion. Put simply, the political elite have decided that the UK will be part of 'the project' and no matter what happens, the people of this country will not be allowed opportunity to refuse our consent. Which we absolutely would do.

What then of the rather strange goings-on in The Netherlands two weeks ago? The EU Observer reported from the Dutch Parliament with their PM Mark Rutte refusing to tell their parliament of their government's position in EU talks - prompting one MP to say: "I really don’t understand why you can’t just tell us about the position of the Netherlands. It’s not a secret, is it?"

Does that not sound like a familiar scenario? What is the great common link creating these situations behind the scenes?

Could it possibly be the "Fourth Reich" now engineered strongly into place through anti-democratic industrialists, banksters and politicians - co-ordinating centrally through the Bilderberg Group?

We've seen reports of the Portugese military warning that they were on the side of the people of Portugal, the aforementioned rumours of an imminent military coup in Greece being forestalled by the now deposed Papandreou...

...and now we get Czech President Václav Klaus - a vociferous 'EU-sceptic' - turning to his nation's armed forces.

This is a genuine news story, relayed by EIN Central Europe, coming from CzechPosition.com which reports - quote:

Speaking at the annual gathering of the Czech military’s generals on Wednesday, President Václav Klaus said the military has a greater role than just conducting foreign missions. Noting it is the military’s constitutional duty is to defend the borders and unity of the Czech state, the vociferous euroskeptic called upon the army to defend the Czech Republic against globalization and unification in Europe.

The great claim about the EU is that it has brought peace to Europe for half a century. It does seem strange, therefore, that there are so many stories about the military forces of European nation states around at the moment.

If there is a "Fourth Reich", it's preferred weapon of choice appears to be not tanks, warplanes or ammunition... but fiscal and administrative - just as proponents of the "Fourth Reich" theory have always claimed it would be.

For now.

Fear not though, UK. Our Prime Minister David Cameron - the great self-proclaimed eurosceptic - has put our armed forces on a timeshare deal with the French and he clutches papers containing hard-fought for agreements from the EU guaranteeing us peace in our time...

UPDATE
One of our friendly neighbouring blogs, the excellent PJC Journal, has written a post which follows up on some of these issues. You can find it HERE.

See also:
Simon Heffer (Daily Mail) - When will the Empress of Europe and her French poodle ever learn?

Sunday, 6 November 2011

Great Catesby! The shocking state of our own knowledge of English history

We were stood in Battersea Park last night, watching an organised bonfire and firework display put on by Wandsworth Council. Praise to them for a great evening, attracting many, many thousands of people all paying £6 to £10 per head.

The reason we mention it is because of a conversation overhead.

A group of about half a dozen seemingly educated, probably middle class guys stood to our left.

Asked by one - who had a European accent - what the bonfire symbolised, an English voice replied: "The Government". Not so bad so far.

The origin of the November 5th celebrations was a celebration of the foiling of a plot by Catholic plotters to blow up the Parliament of James I.

When our European voice last night asked the English voice when these events had taken place, he was told: "Oh years ago. It was in the 1200's."

Well, close. It was actually in 1605. So, our English voice was only out by some four hundred years.

In the same context, here's a little experiment for you. Whoever you live with, turn to them now and ask: "Trivia Quiz: In English history, who was Robert Catesby?".

Catesby, for those who do not know, was actually the ringleader of the plot to blow up Parliament on November 5th, 1605. Guido Fawkes, who takes all the fame, was a member of the conspiracy group and was the man discovered in the cellars with the many barrels of gunpowder - but he was not the chief planner or ringleader.

What we are drifting towards in this light Sunday reflection is the shocking lack of knowledge of English history.

We can be slightly critical of the masses of the population for this, as it is their - our - responsibility to inform ourselves of those things which draw our interest.

However, the Government must also take responsibility.

In our schools, the information being imparted as 'history' needs serious review.

It must be free from political partisan tainting and be factual or, in the case of contentious matters, present both sides of the story.

Take, for example, what we encountered at University. Students were not taught anything good about the British Empire. Instead, they were made to feel guilt about all the bad aspects of any British Government regime.

From there, we note the often peddled lie that "we do not have a written constitution".

This is a deliberate and wilful lie intended to keep the populace ignorant and defenceless.

England does have a written constitution or, more accurately, England has a constitution that is both written AND unwritten.

We use the word 'England' quite deliberately and exclusively and, we contend, the reason that people are mislead over this matter is because our constitution contains endless clauses designed to protect our freedoms and liberties.

Take, for example, all those 'on-the-spot' fines. Are they lawful, under our constitution? If you do not know, try looking at the Bill of Rights tab at the top of this blog and spending a few minutes reading it.

Only by stirring our own interest in our history, a proud history of democracy, liberty and freedom - peppered with conflict, tyranny and misrule - will we be able to make informed views on the decisions of the political class in relation to how they propose to govern.

In too many examples, the statutes that they pass through Parliament so despised by Catesby and Fawkes are unlawful under our constitution.

Read our constitution. Much of it is written and that which is sets out how we should be governed. Anything contrary to it is unlawful.

Remember, remember the fifth of November - gunpowder, treason and plot.

Then make sure to read up on 1688, on Winchester and King Alfred and more.

In the history of England lies our freedom and our future.

It cannot be left to the state to educate you about it. It has good reason not to.

Yet in our history lies our better future.

Saturday, 5 November 2011

From the birthplace of democracy and theatre, Papandreou

Only the country that gave the world the gifts of both democracy and theatre could serve up the sideshow stopping drama queen that is George Papandreou.

The pantomime villain of the G20 this week, it has been a case of "oh yes he does!" swiftly followed by a "oh no he doesn't" as far as a referendum is concerned.

The Greek people have booed and hissed as austerity and cuts have reduced their nation to near lawless proportions.

It's been a week of "he's behind you!" as rumours of Papandreou's resignation and successor swiftly faded into the realm of fairytale and - confidence vote in the bag - as the curtain comes down on a week of swashbuckling high drama, where are we all now?

Greece still has Papandreou as Prime Minister. They are still part of the eurozone. There will not be a referendum. The people of Greece still face massive austerity. Everyone else is being swirled towards the vortex in the name of money that Greece owes to international banksters and the wicked Panto dame still pulling Pinnochio Papandreou's strings is still the Ugly Sister Merkel.

So, everything exactly as it was a week ago then.

If this was any other country than Greece, anyone's reaction - wildly differing and divergent - could be forgiven.

However, this is Greece - the birthplace of democracy and theatre.

Greek democracy may well be an object of historical interest in the same way that the Acropolis still stands proud yet tattered in it's ancient glory, but theatre?

While Papandreou is still around, Greece promises to keep us all enthralled in ways that Aristotle could never have conceived could be conjured upon the stage of international politics.

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Greece: The birthplace of democracy at the crossroads of European liberty


It's been a tumultuous few days for Greece, coming at the end of a long road of an extended period of a financial conquest by the globalists which has reduced the birthplace of democracy to a lawless state where the will of the people means little.

Whether Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is playing a sneaky card to stave off a groundswell of public anger bordering on the revolutionary or whether he is a late convert to democracy remains to be seen.

Nonetheless, his decision to put the latest bailout measures to a popular referendum has certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons.

Within Greek borders, Papandreou's decision to fire his military chiefs at the same time as his referendum announcement has had even British mainstream media questioning whether a military coup has been in the offing. The explanation for it could, however, be far more mundane.

In a twenty-four hour period where speculation about the imminent collapse of the Greek government was rife, Papandreou emerged unscathed from the first domestic hurdle having won the unanimous backing of his Cabinet.

The exact wording of Papandreou's referendum is not known - nor is the fundamental principle upon which Greek people will be asked to decide. Claim and counter-claim have circulated that the referendum question will be about membership of the Euro and the EU itself, with the Greek government stating that only the latest bailout deal will be consulted upon.

Many commentators believe that the Greek people are certain to vote 'yes' to a question centered on eurozone membership which may well be Papandreou's smart move in the face of mass uprisings which have seen the use of chemical weapons on protesters in Syntagma Square.

However, this is a country in which people believe that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the real President - a feeling that comes with it much understandable resentment. Posters have adorned Greek windows and walls, showing Merkel in mocked-up Nazi regalia.

Whilst here at home, a large number of people quietly believe that the European Union is the manifestation of a Nazi plot in the event of World War II defeat - based on documents that are genuinely of Nazi origin and seem to eerily foreshadow the European Union construct - the wartime wounds in Greece are still sore and contentious.

There is a belief in Greece that Germany still owes it many billions following the Second World War.

Against that backdrop, is it certain that Greek people would vote to support the ongoing austerity and cuts that they are facing at the hands of the international banking cartels?

Add into that the apparent evidence of a growing call from the people for Greece to return to the drachma and what we have is a right royal Meditteranean powder keg.

Whether it will blow a hole in the EU dictatorship and see a rebalancing back towards democracy - kindled in the birthplace of democracy - remains to be seen.

Papandreou faces huge challenges. He must still survive a confidence vote in his own Parliament, while Merkel and Sarkozy seem determined to bully him into accepting their will.

The decision by Papandreou to call a referendum has caught everyone off guard, it seems. His motives remain unknown.

If his motives are a late conversion to democracy, he probably holds in his hands the future direction for us all on the crossroads of democracy or totalitarian tyranny.

Cameron, Clegg and Miliband - appeasers, collaborators and surrender monkeys all - ought to be aware of that before having the brass necked, hypocritical audacity to attend the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.

For make no mistake, European freedom and democracy currently rests firmly in Greek hands.

We can only hope that Greece can give the gift of democracy to the world for a second time.

See also:
Mary Ellen Synon - The Greek rebellion against the demands of Brussels is good news for democracy
Alex Singleton - The Greek PM knows that the eurozone bailout could cause revolution
Infowars.com - Another military coup in Greece – can you blame them?

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

In (sort of) defence of... Prince Charles?

Much of a fuss over the last twenty-four hours over Prince Charles and his supposed right to veto Government legislation affecting the Duchy of Cornwall.

We don't often speak in defence of Charles. He may be heir to the throne, but he's still an utterly unforgivable pig in our eyes over what he did to Diana, Princess of Wales.

He's also an eco-loony, pro-EU dictatorship, Rottweiler riding best friend of a lettuce.

That intense dislike apart, this pro-democracy blog still supports his eventual right to veto legislation. Eventual. If he becomes King (which with luck and a fair wind, will not happen and Diana's eldest son will get the 'top job' instead).

Our monarch is the defender of our sovereignty. Her Majesty The Queen took a Coronation Oath to defend the laws and customs of the people of this country.

Our last defence against tyranny is enshrined in our Constitution and common law.

If Her Majesty had vetoed the Lisbon Treaty or any of the preceding bits of EU-nonsense, we would not be in the mess we're in now.

Granted, such an action would have caused an unfathomable crisis - much stock being placed on the idea that we have a 'Constitutional Monarch'.

Yet what is the point of a 'Constitutional Monarch' than to act to honour that Coronation Oath to defend the laws and customs of we, the people?

Under Magna Carta - and any number of our Constitutional documents - our Monarch is obliged to act to prevent Government legislation that runs counter to the laws and customs of the people of this land.

Just because no-one remembers it happening in their lifetime does not mean that such an obligation does not exist.

It is in the Constitution and is declared at the Coronation.

So, there may be controversy that the man who destroyed Diana's life by shagging an ugly old bag on the side has the right to veto legislation.

However, should he one day become King, we will wholeheartedly support any action he might take to veto legislation that a bad government tries to pass in contravention of our Constitution, laws and customs.

We've seen enough bad governments since 1945, let's face it.

We would quite happily support a Monarch acting upon their Constitutional duty and Coronation Oath to protect our laws and customs.

There has been a persistent claim that Winston Churchill - a distant relative of Diana, Princess of Wales as it happens - shared our belief and assertion in this regard. The asserted claim is that Churchill had sought to form a "King's Party" at the time of the abdication crisis.

How different British life might have been if he had.

A monarchy vetoing legislation that negatively impacts on our laws and customs?

Bring it on.

Better our monarch defend our laws and customs than someone like Herman von Rumpy-Pumpy veto legitimate national legislation.

That is the point, isn't it?

If Herman von Rumpy-Pumpy can effectively veto our legislation, why can't our own monarch?