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Are web users ready to pay for content?
In another example of what Andrew Keen calls The Cult Of The Amateur, Professor of Journalism Jeff Jarvis tries to convince readers that the web's "everything's for free" free for all model is a commercially viable alternative to newspapers.

Who are the fruitcakes now Nigel Farage: Ukip's policy to reduce tax on low wages has been taken up by Oxfam – who are the fruitcakes and loonies now?

The Extreme Right Love The Crisis
Financial turmoil helps populists such as Geert Wilders; to beat them we must come clean about how we got in this mess

Happy atheist easter says Susan McCarthy: An atheist writer complains about forcing christian and pagan religious symbols on children.Don't you wish these self righteous militant atheists would shut the fuck up and give their kids an easter egg? To a child the egg is not a cristian or pagan symbol, its chocolaste

Is Google unstoppable? Asks this article atWebProNews, citing latest figures issued by google to show their dominance of the web search market. Funny but statistics from indepedent monitoring shows the gap between google and its rivals somewhat narrower. Oh well, there are lies, damned lies and statistics and then there are Google statistics.

The Washington Consensus Is Dead Another article extolling Obama that bears little relation to reality. Again it's the comment thread that is interesting.

Cool It People - Climate Change
America's Right takes a sceptical look at the latest "only Obama can save the planet" nonsense.

Hillary Speaks Out On Piracy Texas Darlin. While Obama struts around with all the pomp and swagger of an African village tyrant Hillary Clinton once more demontrates the maturity and intelligence that would have made her a much better President from America and the wider world's point of view.

Vaccine HysteriaThe Guardian
Concerns have arisen about the safety of HP?V vaccine following demands for compulsory vaccination in the wake of Jade Good'y death.As usual the science lobby dismiss logical and reasonable questions about the cervical cancer vaccine as hysteria. As usual the politicians fail to understand resistance to the treatment is linked to the element of compulsion.If the government compels parents to have their children vaccinated that alone will arouse suspicions and engender resistance.

Does God Exist? Hitchens vs Craig
Review of a debate between Christian Dr. Wm. Craig and Atheist old lag Chris Hitchens. The reviewer says the Doc won but when the man's argument began "Something must have caused the universe to exist" we must wonder were either the Doctor or the reviewer intellectually equipped to be involved in the debate.

Sarkozy: "Eurpoe Not Obama's Plaything"
It has ben amusing to watch the other world leaders walking on eggshells, each not wanting to highlight barack Obama's naivete in world affairs. He was after all elected President Of The Whole Uinverse and Everything Else Besides. A betting person would not have had much difficulty in working out that The French were likely to be first to burst Obama's bubble. You're being fleeced in the biggest, weirdest rip off yet.
George Monbiot explains how the government in spite of all its high minded talk about climate change is using PFI schemes to sell out the environmenent to the interests of private profit.

Want To be A Nude Cleaner
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman my piously wring her hands about the plight of women coerced into prostitution but al the time the government is getting itself involved in the sex - for - profit industry. The real debate about Easter
A follow up to yesterdays article from Madeline Bunting on the stridency of the New Atheists. The Obama Doctrine: Europe 1 America 0
Pajamas Media: I like reading these American right wing blogs not so much for the content as the very "robust" comment threads.


One Recession For The Rich

Madeline bunting knows who will
be hit hardest when food price
inflation and other nasties bite

This is legal blackmail
Another view on Britain's medieval
libel laws that in the internet age
offer protection for the rich and
powerful from all criticism

Don't Cut Corners On School
Meals
Jamie Oliver has a lot to answer
for. A heartfelt plea to the government
not to abandon the healthy school
dinners project. Never mind the fact
that kids hate the healthy, pappy
taste - free shite.

Painful Memory - Forget It
If you could take a pill to erase a painful or unpleasant memory would you? Of would you wonder what else it might erase. And would you them question the ethics of such a medicine which is being peddled as a refief to the traumatise but has such obvious attractions for people thinking along fascist lines. Could it not also be used to erase memories of reading Marxist or dissident philosophy, of being a member of a radical political group. It seems to point towards a very dangerous highway, one that can only be walked by people wearing Jackboots.
Click Here and read Spotless Minds to find our what Greenteeth had to say

NHS patient records and shared databases
The National Health Service patient records database that will make health recodes of everybody threated by the NHS (or almost everybody in the country) vailable to all government depsartments is an outrage. When considered in context with the above post and other infringements of civil liberties, the surveillance society created by the increasingly authoritarian Labour government, the relentless promotion of unworkable but politically correct ideologies such as multiculturalism and the meek acceptance of the fascistic actions of multinational corporations it is clear we are not just looking down the road to fascism, this wretched government has already dragged us a considerable distance along it.
Read NHS Database: How to turn failure into success at Boggart Blog

Climate change - outlook mild
Are the likely consequences of climate change being exaggerated by scientists to back up demands for bigger research grants, more jollies and fatter salaries. The fact is nobody knows how drastically the climate changes currently in progress will affect the world or how far reaching the consequences will stretch. What we do know is scientitst seldom agree on anything, are seldom anywhere near being right and are more interested in inflating their egos that doing anything practical. How many of the megahyped "breakthroughs" of the last thirty years delivered ant benifit to society as a whole. If science has achieved anything recently it is in the field of helping fascistic coprporate interests evade accountability for their irresponsibe and criminal actions.
CLICK HERE to read Boggart Blog on Technology you can't believe in

Goodbye America
Jeff Schreiber at America's right thinks the economic meltdown is not just a financial crisis but the disintegration of the America he knows. Will the new America be something like France he asks? Who knows but Greenteeth's Ian Thorpe tells him there is little to be feared about France and much that Americans are not unually aware of that is to be admired and from which the "New Europeans across the Atlantic can learn from.
CLICK HERE to read The Apocalyptic Rider And The Horse's Arse at Boggart Blog

. 17 October 2008
First Disciple proclaims The Obamessiah Even the normally pro-Obama mainstream media have picked up on this very dangerous trend. One political commentator has criticized Democrats who were comparing Obama to Jesus and Gov. Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate.

We level headed Brits have always suspected Americans are needy and gullible of course, but even by their standards this level of insanity points to a nation in terminal decline. Remember that immortal line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian? "He's not The Messiah, he's a very naughty boy." How prescient does it seem now?

When we take a close look at The Obamessiah's background and the way his campaign has been managed though, the micromanagement of information, the ruthless way those who question Obama or pose some threat to him are dealt with and the way his supporters are driven to mass hysteria and we can see more similarities with Adolf Hitler than Jesus.

16 October 2008
Media hit of the month so far isJoe the plumber It is strange, is it not, hoe though Joe (or Sam as he's really named) was selected at random by barak Obama who was gladhanding people at random while doing a walkabout on the campaign trail.

When Mr. Obama did his routine trivk of trying to get the plumber to kiss The Obama's scrawny arse in sheer gratitude at being so blessed, Sam responded by asking a difficult question. The Obamessiah's Fast Action Response Team leaped into action, throwing up, as is their wont, all sorts of smears about Joe's private life.

What a pity we are not permitted such insights into Mr. Obama's private life, for example why will he not produce a copy of his birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii and not Kenya as the overwhelming body of evidence suggests. Why will he not admit that for much of his adult life he presented himself as a Muslim, even stating his religion as Muslim on his enrollment form for Chicago law school, and why he not tell us what exactly his work as a "community organiser" for ACORN involved.

Better still, as this individual wants to be the most powerful man in the world, aren't we entitled to some answers about his association with the genocidist Kenyan politician Ralia Odinga. And what favours does he owe the genocidist government of Indonesia for destroying the evidence of his Indonesian citizenship.

More comment from Little Nicky Machiavelli

McCain Obama debate election
Differing opinions of the Presidential Candidates debate, the Obama camp rroclaiming him the overwhelming victor because he is the anointed one who can walk on water and whose farts smell of perfume while The Republicans claim Obama waffled, evades issues and took refuge in vague talk of change, dreams, visions and the credibility he thinks can be gained using big words he obviously does not really understand. If McCain is elected America is only in as much trouble as it is in now. If Obama id elected the nation he will lead are fucked up beyond all redemption

What you haven't read about Obama

Which way will Joe Go
Despite the mauling he had from the Obama campaign, Joe the Plumber has not revealed which way his vote will go, insisting he has not yet made up his mind. Strikes me that in common with millions of others we might guess are natural republicans, Joe is playing it close to his chest.
Don't make the mistake of believing the polls, the most interesting statistic to emerge is not being published. That is the unusually high number of people, all registered voters, who are refusing to take part.

14 October 08 Recession Depression
Will the recession lead to an increase in mental health problems? We think it might turn out to be Catch 22 that drives people mad.

Depression economics explained
A good explainer of how the financial markets got in such a mess but not as good as the one given by Little Nicky Machiavelli

13 October 08

White collar prosecutions are likely
Here's a financial blogger worrying about hether some bankers who were involved in bdodgy deals and covering losses to make balance sheets look good might end up in jail. Somehow we don't think there will be a lot of sympathy for them.


Build our way out of depression, Democrats say

Well it worked in the 1930s so it must be the right thing to do now. Somehow, every instinct told me we could rely on Mr Obama and his stupid sidekicks who habitually peddle platitudes and cliches (when they're not making up fairy stories about Obama's past) to come up with a plan that is unoriginal, impractial and totally irrelevant. Ah but that is no problem to Obama's supporters. They know his farts smell of perfume so that makes everything OK. They do have some good ideas in some parts of America, but Nebraska is solid republican country

Banking Crisis - will nationalisation work
After all these years of saying Thatcherism and the free markey lunacy would end in a financial collapse it's nice to be vindicated at last. Margaret Thatcher swore she would never print money to buy our way out of a financial crisis. Unfortunately letting the banks conjure itout of this air created an even less substantial economy than those based on paper money. Magic Money was a clever illusion but in the end it was all done with smoke and mirrors.

Hotdog economics
When the Nobel Prize committee awarded a prize for economics this year they might well have been having a laugh. We have to take the award at face value though and make a comment. If anybody still thinks academic theories and mathematical modelling have any relevance in the real world they are mad as a box of frogs. Like the NuLab thinkers who still talk of having made great strides towards abolishing child poverty when they have dome more than anybosdy to increase parent poverty.
More commentand another point of view at Times Online...And the Nobel Prize for econimics this year

Recycling: is it a waste of time?
its easy to see why Tim Worstall thinks so when we find that recycled products actually use more resources to remanufacture than it would take to make new. We worry that the penalties for not complying with the bureaucratic and authoritarian regulations on recycling can bring down draconian penalites on those who do not conform. The townhall pokenoses have a long track record of eforcing most enthusiastically the most pointless regulations.

The Truth About Brown's boom and bust
Did Gordon Brown engineer the meltdown as a way of relaunching his government and his career. And how did he involve Iceland?

12 Oct 08 Banking Crisis Live
A minute by minute guide to the meltdown of Black Friday or should we call it red Friday as that was the dominant colour in most account books. And what role did Iceland play in the drama?


Labour Minister says investors are entitled to their money

but being entitled to it and getting it are two very different things. As the Guardian readers who followed their paper's financial tipster are likely to find out. Guido Fawkes reports on Guardianista Frozen Cash

At least Gordon's smiling says BBC man Nick Robinson on his blog. And it's true, Gordon Brown looks like a dog with two dicks. The last time I saw him so happy was when he raided my pension fund.

Inevitably the American election intrudes into our consciousness. The story Boggart Blog and Little Nicky Machiavelli have been following is the court case aimed at proving Obama's foreign nationality makes him ineligible: Texas Darlin claim to have proof in this story - Obama born in Kenya Meanwhile Citizen Wells bloggers are pursuinig the Democrats candidate not only on the nationality issue but a number of others including his relationships with terrorists and his connections to Kenyan political goups. Read more here Citizen Wells - Philip Berg talks about his lawsuit on the berg case, and find out about the Kenya connection here
Obama's visit to Kenya violates Logan act

2 October 08
When The Quiet Man Raised his Voice

David Cameron comes under fire from one of his predecessors as Conservative leader. And iain Duncan Smith shows he has a better understanding of how society works than the boss even if he does lack charisma.

Bill Clinton flirting with Obama
Why is bill Clinton suddenly so enthusiastially supporting the campaign of barak Obama when relations between the two men have previously been decidedly cool? Well we heard rumours there may soon be a vacancy for a Vice Presidential niminee in the Democratic Party.
See Little Nicky Machiavelli's comment on this story about the Clinton Obama love in. comment link

Raising the bar for Palin and Biden
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden get ready to go head to head in the Vice Presidential debate tonight. Who cares? Well Biden's plodding intellectualism against Palin's redneck fireworks could yield some laughs. Read Bogart Blog's thoughts by following the comment link

How Tony Blair can help Sarah Palin
Republican supporters could have made a wise move in pointing out to Palin the way Tony Blair used to deal with William Hague who was a much better performer in face to face question and answer sessions. Palin is no Blair of course, but then biden is even further from being in the same league as William Hague.

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The Question That Wob't Go Away: Who Is Barack Obama?
So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president—a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been “born in Kenya” has been setting the world of ...

How The Grexit May Make Things Worse In Greece
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Is America Really A Post White Nation or Is This Writer Spouting Typical Progressive Claptrap When is a majority less than a majority? Answer: when the minority is bigger. This is what has just happened in the US: births to the white majority in America fell in the first six months of last year to just 49.6 per cent of the total, meaning that Caucasians, as they are quaintly known, may within the next 30 years become an endangered species.Given America’s boast that it is a land of ...

The New Reactionaries by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives—partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naïve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly ...

Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
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I Promise You The President Has A Big Stick says vice president
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Salt Tax Again
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Obama Message Booed ~ In Massachusetts (by Allahpundit)
Well, it stands to reason. Massachusetts is a deep red state. Wait, what?
I held off blogging this yesterday in hopes that video would emerge but after almost 24 hours I’ve given up hope. It started when Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted: ...

The second front - the new fear and panic tactic to replace AGW
Apr 22, 2012 Greens If the struggle to put climatology back on a scientific footing were not bad enough, the UN has just set up a new intergovernmental body, which will push biodiversity as the new excuse to "scare 'n' tax".

Inequality: a middle-class obsession by Daniel Ben-Ami
Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.

Executive Order 13547: “The Sleeping Power Grab” (by Erika Johnsen)
To be fair, President Obama’s executive-order output hasn’t unreasonably outpaced that of his predecessors – his especial willingness to actively circumvent Congress and snatch huge gobs of power for the federal bureaucracy only makes it feel like he has. In July of 2010, President Obama signed executive order 13547 – “Stewardship of ...

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