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Well... nothing like as further into the future as I thought possible! Merkel 'expects Cameron to back EU army' in exchange for renegotiation Un-bloomin-believable! Above all this illustrates what the EU is actually about, and what is really important to Berlin: military power - something that our ancestors wouldn't need any convincing about!

...and no, I'm not talking about comrade Corbyn! http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/604619/Long-range-weather-forecast-Britain-cold-winter-2015-arctic-snow-freeze Doubtless this will all be taken as further proof of umm.. anthropomorphic climate change (and not the usual kind), but even the "scientists" are now hedging their bets by pointing out that undeniable low solar activity is at very least a contributing factor. Time to attend to those door and window seals that you've been putting off replacing!

So... your Mafia boss' shill didn't even come close Tony! Labour shadow cabinet ministers can't get their resignations in soon enough. Cameron now thinks he has no effective opposition, though seemingly paradoxically he'll likely embrace a few more Blairite moves to sweep up all the millions of metropolitan votes that Labour has just turned its back on.

The video is a bit of a torture test but the narrative is not desperately far from the absolute truth. Other tellings would give emphasis to Israel/Jewish banking; Bilderberg; etc. However you want to spin it the world financial system lost its last anchors to reality some considerable while ago and is now historically unsustainable. Nobody knows when meltdown will occur - only that it must and will, and the longer this is delayed the bigger the catastrophe. Beware though people who seek to make political capital out of this. Especially, beware of the people who advocate that the solution to national delusion is simply to build bigger power blocks, and create a power block delusion. Bigger power blocks are created to hide bigger lies! None of us "little people" can do anything about these global machination except to say "no" at every increasingly rare opportunity. When our "no" is ignored, and things proceed regardless of public will, then at least we can be wholly certain of the conspiracy. Here's a further facet to these videos that's probably escaped Anonymous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein Spooky, eh?!

The voice over at the end of ads 2, 3 & 4 is almost certainly James Bolam, so the first ad looks like it's the odd one out. The central motorway wasn't renumbered from A1(M) to A6127 until 1977, so that sort of sets a backstop date on those last three. I notice the guy who uploaded them isn't at all sure as to the dates.

I think the problem there is one of perception. i.e. the person who you believe is being negative thinks they are being positive, and that your alternative is the negative input. How do you convince them otherwise? You could point out to them that their way hasn't been a whole lot of good in the past, but they'll have a myriad of reasons why we should keep on doing the same thing, and expecting different results. You could point out examples of people and places that do things your way, and the obvious benefits they enjoy. However they will hunt for the (easily addressed) exception, and therefore the "basic unfairness" of your way of doing things. They will ignore the fact that everyone would be better served, because unachievable "equality" matters far more to them than any real-world considerations. Such people go through life wishing for the world to be the way they believe it should be. They never achieve anything, or benefit anyone (except themselves, if they are crafty enough to land a cushy number as head of some totally pointless, though worshipable, organisation or other). At root they are con artists, but ones who are chiefly conning themselves! Fill in the names/places and you've completed the story.

Ummm.. not quite the full story there. The product (multiplication) of two minus values is always positive. The sum (addition) of two minus values is a larger minus value! Does this have any philosophical equivalence? (Hey, amazing myself there! ) Well... probably, and it might go something like... If you permit things to influence each other (free interaction) you not only get a mutually bigger outcome, but pulling in the same direction ALWAYS produces a positive outcome. But... if you simply lump things together you end up with no more than you put in/take out. Might we have analogues of both "capitalism" and "socialism" there?

In true politico fashion they need to change the name of the party to include "Democrat" - just to confirm to everyone that they don't really believe in it! On second thoughts that would confuse the dinosaurs who'd vote for a "raving alcoholic sex paedophile" with a Labour rosette. Be taken for granted; shaft your own Country; impoverish your own Town - all part of the great 21st century Labour experience. But it's OK: we're doing this all in the name of those great Labour leaders of the early 20th century - the ones who strongly opposed EEC membership, because they knew where it was intended to lead; and the ones now turning in their graves!

The Eye a Tory paper?!! Wonderful! Ronnie: The Tories are praying for Corbyn; but then you never did know what day of the week it was, did you?

There's a rule that says that no one who owns ANY part of a 43 year-old aeroplane can EVER have any excess income Maggie!

...or, it's a market mechanism to absorb the excess income of retired and semi-retired people, whist providing much needed employment to ambitious young female entrepreneurs. [Thanks God for auto-spelling checker on the last one! ]

Whilst our politicos and laws still reflect values from the last century it's a whole new world out there. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?_r=0 There are discussions going on in some places as to Angela Merkel's sanity. I think the explanation is far simpler: she's still living in the cold war era! How long before the German people wake up to this? Well... I believe many Germans already have, and that her political career is rapidly coming to an end.

Crowds snub Ted Heath exhibition Some interesting comments on the article. Precisely what the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation aims are seems obscure; if it's to rehabilitate his memory then a more futile pursuit presently escapes me. Best to revert to three-day-week opening for now, then maybe transfer all the exhibits to Brussels!

A vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minster David Cameron - Calais crisis. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105402 Is there anyone here who does have confidence in Cameron's handling of the crisis? Plenty of time for this to run, but please don't delay and do it right now! Please pass the link on to friends. ----------------------------------------- Date/Time ---> Signatures 15/08/2015 15:24 --> 13,108

Yes, this time it's for real! But.. there's no flunch (free-lunch); after the first year or so M$ is going to want annual access to your purse for ongoing "maintenance". The upside to this is that they now promise to be good, and stop selling us the same code over and over again in different wrappers. It's claimed that W10 will be the very last version of Windows, and that (as long as you subscribe of course) they'll update it for ever and a day. This might have been innovative if Google hadn't already being doing this with Chrome OS for quite some time. What it really means is that M$ have seen the writing on the wall, and decided that the only way to avoid more customers defecting to free operating systems is inertia and incremental selling. In recent years fewer and fewer people have been buying retail versions of Windows, preferring to stick with what they've got until they buy a new machine.

Now that Windows 10 is making its way onto people's machines you might want to see what Windows 1.01 looked like, and (by the wonders of virtualisation) actually use it! http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pc/machine/5160/cga/256kb/win101/ So... can you figure out how to use it? Remember this was billed as easy-peasy WYSIWYG computing! For maximum impact hit the Full Screen Display button at the top right of the display window. Clue: don't try to overlap the panes, we haven't got around to that yet. Also, don't come away with the idea that that this virtualisation is any slower than a real 8086 or 8088 machine of the day. From what I can recall this emulation has got the response times on an original IBM PC just about right!

Yup, we've all lost count of the number of mass public protests there's been in Bedlington over the years about building on greenfield sites!

Does it say "Made in China" on it? http://www.qscast.com/info.php?mid=16&u=163 Probs Virgin Media.

And.. is always contributing to the town website? Well, she reads it anyway; else she wouldn't be heard complaining when other political parties do contribute to it, or be demanding that their contributions be removed!

Maybe! ?? Substantial sums of money changed hands. "Heath never knew." being the official line, but then "Watergate prosecutor James Neal was sure Nixon had not known in advance of the break-in" either!

Self-confessed liar Edward Heath - the man who subverted our constitution and illegally signed away our ancient democratic rights - is now posthumously involved in child abuse allegations. A retired senior police officer raised concerns about cover-ups in 2014, and in response to a very recent appeal from the delayed investigation (maybe to get the GE out of the way) two males have come forward. I really don't care if these are true or not because this man's crimes are already there for anyone who wants to see, and they involve the ultimate crime of high treason, which until 1998 still demanded the death penalty. The last person to be executed for high treason was convicted on an absurd technicality worthy of Kafkaesque novel, yet Heath escaped his blatant treasonous acts thanks to the complicity of the united interests of our establishment - closing ranks as they always do! LibLabCon didn't want to rock the boat on their own European ambitions, so any move to undo Heath's criminal connivance was ridiculed or otherwise thwarted. For anyone reading this who wasn't around (or politically aware) in those deferential times here's a quick explanation of Heath's treason: http://www.vernoncoleman.com/euillegally.html The guy on the right's crimes were minor compared with the man on the left. But the man on the left got away free and clear with his - thanks to the British Establishment! It's hardly remembered now but Heath committed his very own "Watergate act" by bribing a senior Labour party official for inside information on the party. But, of course, British Justice chose to turn a blind eye to that too!

Bedlington is fully international, so the clock is relative to the time zone (and "daylight savings" setting) which you set in your own profile (click on your name up top right to adjust this). I'm currently on CET so I see Adam's post as 8.06pm. The server itself is UK based, and should always track GMT before the personal offset. Anyway... great news, and beats even local brew! Update: Thinks... the prob might have something to do with the fact that fourgee rebooted the server for the first time in yonks a day or so ago to accommodate some change about which I know not, and maybe didn't account for DST in resetting the RTC. I vaguely remember needing to do this the last time we rebooted. As he's "up a mountain" at the moment it's a little difficult to ask him. Will see what I can do, but many thanks for the heads up.