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Since Labour was elected 12 years ago, a massive and frightening array of powers have been introduced which curtail Britain's long-fought-for commitment to the freedom of the individual.
There are 56 such freedom-destroying powers, according to the Convention on Modern Liberty.
They range from the shameful decision to ban inconvenient but peaceful protests in the vicinity of Parliament to the storage by the police of DNA samples taken from entirely innocent people.
The plethora of cameras and databases recording and holding personal information is eroding our civil liberties
Town Hall Stasi routinely deploy anti-terrorist powers to snoop on dog foulers and families suspected of cheating school catchment area rules.
Low-ranking officials have access to the chilling ContactPoint database containing the sensitive personal details of every child in England.
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Buying some wine? Spy cameras will be watching
A giant new NHS database will allow confidential patient records to be accessed by health workers across the land.
The list is terrifying. But still ministers are not satisfied they have sufficient powers to pry into every aspect of our lives.
The Home Office will shortly announce details of a new Big Brother 'Intercept Modernisation Programme' which will store details of our every phone call and internet visit.
The Coroners and Justice Bill will allow the state to order inquests involving matters of national security to be held in secret if the details could prove embarrassing to ministers.
This means it will be possible to die in modern, 'civilised' Britain without anyone - not least relatives - knowing how and why.
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And, as we reveal today, there will soon be compulsory CCTV cameras tracking people as they shop in supermarkets for a bottle of wine.
Without fanfare, ministers have slipped powers into the Policing and Crime Bill for councils to force any premises selling alcohol to install the cameras and hand over any relevant footage to the police.
But, if passed, it will mean there is virtually no aspect of public life not under surveillance.
Police already have 4.2million cameras trained on the streets, numberplate recognition systems watching our roads and are even, as we revealed earlier this week, insisting drinkers should be spied upon with CCTV in their local pub.
Save for places of worship, nowhere is sacred or private. Everyone is a potential suspect.
This Labour Government, in ways that would shock its socialist forebears, is systematically acquiring the tools of a totalitarian state in a way not even Orwell could have predicted.
The price we are paying in the loss of individual freedoms is awesome.
But so is the £34billion cost to the taxpayer of running the likes of ContactPoint and the ID cards database over the next decade, according to the Convention.
Yet are the watchers prepared to be watched themselves, to check they are not abusing the pervasive powers which they have amassed? Of course not.
In a display of dizzying hypocrisy, ministers this week introduced a law which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by ten years in prison, to take a picture of a police officer.
The Press will be hampered in reporting legitimate rallies at which police are present. Peaceful demonstrators will be stopped from taking their own record of events and tourists who dare to take a picture of the Pc guarding Big Ben could quickly find themselves behind bars.
Of course, the Government defends this, and the many other assaults on liberty since 1997, by pointing to the increased threat Britain faces from serious crime and terrorism.
But with every erosion of the values our enemies so despise, we hand these terrorists a victory to savour. Enough is enough.
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Click to rate Rating 44 - Crusader, Glos., 21/2/2009 17:17
This vile monster government that we have, has probably been using a 'think tank' on how to devise a plan, to interfere with our sex lives next. Let's face it they have just about covered everything else. Using terrorism as an excuse is ludicrous, we all know that's a lie, how come we can't be rid of the terrorists we have already got.?
Click to rate Rating 55 - John Randell, Tunbridge Wells Kent UK, 21/2/2009 16:03
What do you expect when we have a goverment of dectators ruling us.
Click to rate Rating 45 - nigel, Belfast, 21/2/2009 15:58
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
BBC peddles a very British' fabrication, part of Gordon Brown's latest floatation
BBC peddles a very British fabrication as it comes to the propaganda aid of the Home Secretary
2010 Hrs GMT London Sunday 22 February 2009:
The BBC continued to lie to ordinary viewers and listeners on Sunday 22 February 2009 by painting Jacqui Smith, 'Home secretary [UK 'cabinet minister' holding the portfolio of the Interior Ministry] as a protecter of jobs .. ‘British jobs for British workers’ [G Brown].. the British state broadcasting outfit would beat any of their rivals any time when it comes to faking it plausibly... The over-hyped soother of the Government, now being played by the Bigged up Andrew Marr fronting the spot that had previously been occupied by the 20th century’s arch booster of egos of the powerful [David Frost], predictably allowed Jacqui Smith to do a bit of ‘work’ on behalf of James Purnell, the official holder of the post at the Duped! [=DWP] allegedly the Department for Work and Pensions..Not long after the Jacqui Smith plug was played on BBC1, the ‘original’ imitator of the BNP, Gordon Brown [who had initiated the slogan a little while back as the first mainstream British Political party ‘leader’ adopting the BNP’s line, was being presented by the BBC as contradicting himself at another summit held in Berlin... Global.. global.. global.. came the word annoying all capacity left in the senses already bored beyond endurance by Brown’s appearances on the BBC platforms uttering that word...Brown is clearly not aware of what he has been up to domestically... He is contradicting himself on everything ...And then the word PRUDENCE returned. Again via the BBC! It was not at all news to KHOODEELAAR! Exactly a year ago this week, KHOODEELAAR! TOLD the CRASS role-playing Crossrail PEERS who were ‘visiting’ Hanbury Street off Brick Lane London E1 that they should pay attention to the Khoodeelaar! analysis which was that Brown had behaved imprudently in committing public funding to CRASSrail...[To be continued]
2010 Hrs GMT London Sunday 22 February 2009:
The BBC continued to lie to ordinary viewers and listeners on Sunday 22 February 2009 by painting Jacqui Smith, 'Home secretary [UK 'cabinet minister' holding the portfolio of the Interior Ministry] as a protecter of jobs .. ‘British jobs for British workers’ [G Brown].. the British state broadcasting outfit would beat any of their rivals any time when it comes to faking it plausibly... The over-hyped soother of the Government, now being played by the Bigged up Andrew Marr fronting the spot that had previously been occupied by the 20th century’s arch booster of egos of the powerful [David Frost], predictably allowed Jacqui Smith to do a bit of ‘work’ on behalf of James Purnell, the official holder of the post at the Duped! [=DWP] allegedly the Department for Work and Pensions..Not long after the Jacqui Smith plug was played on BBC1, the ‘original’ imitator of the BNP, Gordon Brown [who had initiated the slogan a little while back as the first mainstream British Political party ‘leader’ adopting the BNP’s line, was being presented by the BBC as contradicting himself at another summit held in Berlin... Global.. global.. global.. came the word annoying all capacity left in the senses already bored beyond endurance by Brown’s appearances on the BBC platforms uttering that word...Brown is clearly not aware of what he has been up to domestically... He is contradicting himself on everything ...And then the word PRUDENCE returned. Again via the BBC! It was not at all news to KHOODEELAAR! Exactly a year ago this week, KHOODEELAAR! TOLD the CRASS role-playing Crossrail PEERS who were ‘visiting’ Hanbury Street off Brick Lane London E1 that they should pay attention to the Khoodeelaar! analysis which was that Brown had behaved imprudently in committing public funding to CRASSrail...[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam CAMPAIGN telling Gordon Brown to use EXISTING resources! And rules! Apply those. Better still, practise!
1724 Hrs GMT London Sunday 22 February 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam CAMPAIGN telling Gordon Brown to use EXISTING resources! And rules! Apply those. Better still, practise!
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN SO! That he had got it wrong by being obsessed with Ken Livingstone-touted ‘Big Business’ scams.. That ‘bigness’ was bad for the economy. As even the otherwise mealy-mouthed William Keegan of the ‘Guardian-ised , that is, rendered into an immoral, corrupting organ on the whole [as opposed to a different orientation of the OBSERVER seen during its independently-owned times Observer’ has just told Maxine More-One on the BBC News Channel].
1738 Hrs GMT London Saturday 21
February 2009: KHOODEELAAR! Noting that the website www.propertyweek.com, which has been carrying an alleged disagreement by Steve Norris with Boris Johnson over the Crossrail levy that Johnson has imposed on several [small and medium sized] businesses [in comparison with really Big Businesses], is failing to publish Khoodeelaar! Comment exposing Steve Norris’ Boris stunt…KHOODEELAAR! Comment dissecting, in brief, Steve Norris’ comment and his role, was posted earlier today [To be continued]
Latest: ! Noting [1725GMTSat21February2009] that www.propertyweek.com is failing to publish Khoodeelaar! comment exposing Steve Norris’ Boris stunt less than 5 seconds ago
1. khoodeelaar ! Noting [1725GMTSat21February2009] thatwww.propertyweek.com is failing to publish Khoodeelaar! comment exposing Steve Norris’ Boris stuntless than 5 seconds ago from web
2. khoodeelaar ! Noting [1430GMTSaturday21Feb2009] the publishers of Steve Norris’ ‘disagreement’ with Boris J are not publishing KHOODEELAAR! comment [1]about 3 hours ago from web
3. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1012 gmtsat21feb2009 silence by licensed media talking heads on total sham of ‘Crossrail Bill’, rubber stamped in July 2008about 7 hours ago from web
4. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1012 gmtsat21feb2009 silence by licensed media talking heads on total sham of ‘Crossrail Bill’ that was rubber stamped July 2008…about 7 hours ago from web
5. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1010 gmtsat21feb2009 the one-sided platform given in mainstream media to the licensed liars to lie brazenly for status quo! about 7 hours ago from web
6. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1008 gmtsat21feb2009 language rights are daily tested in UK via licensed ‘writers’ who lie by twisting meanings. Every time about 7 hours ago from web
7. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1000 gmtsat21feb2009 the right to speak one’s mother language is empty phrase if their human rights are denied or questioned about 7 hours ago from web
8. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 0958 gmtsat21feb2009 that there is no language rights, let alone EQUAL rights, without prior and real existence of human rights. about 7 hours ago from web
9. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 0955 GMTSat21Feb2009 that meaning of words AND particular languages are IMPOSED by those exercising power in a given society about 8 hours ago from web
10. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 0950 GMTSat21Feb2009 that meaning of words is not guaranteed as universal without prior agreement on rights of all concerned about 8 hours ago from web
11. khoodeelaar ! noting at 0028 GMTSat21Feb2009 the fact at 8th Flagon of the Bangladeshi [south Asian] calendar, symbolizing language rights about 8 hours ago from web
12. khoodeelaar ! noting at 0022 GMTSat21Feb2009 the 5th. year of the conception of the Sleety [=Sylhet+] language word KHOODEELAAR! in London E1 .about 17 hours ago from web
13. khoodeelaar noting [4] 1945GMT20Feb2009 that Steve Norris, whatever ‘the’ ‘motive’ has just done the cause of democracy for London a service about 22 hours ago from web
14. khoodeelaar noting [3] 1942GMT20Feb2009 that if Steve Norris can voice his disagreement on Boris Johnson conduct, the silence of the GLA is a disgrace about 22 hours ago from web
15. khoodeelaar noting [2] 1940GMT20Feb2009 that the Steve Norris disagreement with Boris Johnson on ‘Crossrail levy’ is only the tip of the iceberg about 22 hours ago from web
16. khoodeelaar noting at 1910GMT20Feb2009 steve norris echoing khoodeelaar! dissection of the alarmingly irresponsible abuse of powers ‘for Crossrail’! about 22 hours ago from web
17. khoodeelaar noting at 1910 GMT 20Feb2009 steve norris echoing khoodeelaar! dissection of the alarmingly irresponsible abuse of powers ‘for Crossrail’!…about 22 hours ago from web
18. khoodeelaar at0852GMTFri20Feb2009 noting the ‘emergence’ of a man claiming to be Boris Johnson’s brain! What a timely ‘item of news’! More. 8:53 AM yesterday from web
19. khoodeelaar at 0118 HrsgMTFri20Feb2009 querying GUARDIAN [7] line that they were ethically critical of Boris J: Why are they quiet on ethics front now 1:24 AM yesterday from web
20. khoodeelaar at0112GMTFri20Feb2009 asking GUARDIAN [6] to contest any of thousands, of evidential items we’ve published PROVING crassness of Crossrail1:15 AM yesterday from web
21. khoodeelaar at0110GMTFri20Feb2009 reminding the GUARDIAN [5] of its equally irrational peddling of Crossrail scam-peddler Ken Livingstone pre-1May2008!1:11 AM yesterday from web
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/4781445/Tradition-is-the-next-big-idea-in-politics.-But-why-stop-at-banking.html
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail scam CAMPAIGN telling Gordon Brown to use EXISTING resources! And rules! Apply those. Better still, practise!
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN SO! That he had got it wrong by being obsessed with Ken Livingstone-touted ‘Big Business’ scams.. That ‘bigness’ was bad for the economy. As even the otherwise mealy-mouthed William Keegan of the ‘Guardian-ised , that is, rendered into an immoral, corrupting organ on the whole [as opposed to a different orientation of the OBSERVER seen during its independently-owned times Observer’ has just told Maxine More-One on the BBC News Channel].
1738 Hrs GMT London Saturday 21
February 2009: KHOODEELAAR! Noting that the website www.propertyweek.com, which has been carrying an alleged disagreement by Steve Norris with Boris Johnson over the Crossrail levy that Johnson has imposed on several [small and medium sized] businesses [in comparison with really Big Businesses], is failing to publish Khoodeelaar! Comment exposing Steve Norris’ Boris stunt…KHOODEELAAR! Comment dissecting, in brief, Steve Norris’ comment and his role, was posted earlier today [To be continued]
Latest: ! Noting [1725GMTSat21February2009] that www.propertyweek.com is failing to publish Khoodeelaar! comment exposing Steve Norris’ Boris stunt less than 5 seconds ago
1. khoodeelaar ! Noting [1725GMTSat21February2009] thatwww.propertyweek.com is failing to publish Khoodeelaar! comment exposing Steve Norris’ Boris stuntless than 5 seconds ago from web
2. khoodeelaar ! Noting [1430GMTSaturday21Feb2009] the publishers of Steve Norris’ ‘disagreement’ with Boris J are not publishing KHOODEELAAR! comment [1]about 3 hours ago from web
3. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1012 gmtsat21feb2009 silence by licensed media talking heads on total sham of ‘Crossrail Bill’, rubber stamped in July 2008about 7 hours ago from web
4. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1012 gmtsat21feb2009 silence by licensed media talking heads on total sham of ‘Crossrail Bill’ that was rubber stamped July 2008…about 7 hours ago from web
5. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1010 gmtsat21feb2009 the one-sided platform given in mainstream media to the licensed liars to lie brazenly for status quo! about 7 hours ago from web
6. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1008 gmtsat21feb2009 language rights are daily tested in UK via licensed ‘writers’ who lie by twisting meanings. Every time about 7 hours ago from web
7. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 1000 gmtsat21feb2009 the right to speak one’s mother language is empty phrase if their human rights are denied or questioned about 7 hours ago from web
8. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 0958 gmtsat21feb2009 that there is no language rights, let alone EQUAL rights, without prior and real existence of human rights. about 7 hours ago from web
9. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 0955 GMTSat21Feb2009 that meaning of words AND particular languages are IMPOSED by those exercising power in a given society about 8 hours ago from web
10. khoodeelaar ! Noting at 0950 GMTSat21Feb2009 that meaning of words is not guaranteed as universal without prior agreement on rights of all concerned about 8 hours ago from web
11. khoodeelaar ! noting at 0028 GMTSat21Feb2009 the fact at 8th Flagon of the Bangladeshi [south Asian] calendar, symbolizing language rights about 8 hours ago from web
12. khoodeelaar ! noting at 0022 GMTSat21Feb2009 the 5th. year of the conception of the Sleety [=Sylhet+] language word KHOODEELAAR! in London E1 .about 17 hours ago from web
13. khoodeelaar noting [4] 1945GMT20Feb2009 that Steve Norris, whatever ‘the’ ‘motive’ has just done the cause of democracy for London a service about 22 hours ago from web
14. khoodeelaar noting [3] 1942GMT20Feb2009 that if Steve Norris can voice his disagreement on Boris Johnson conduct, the silence of the GLA is a disgrace about 22 hours ago from web
15. khoodeelaar noting [2] 1940GMT20Feb2009 that the Steve Norris disagreement with Boris Johnson on ‘Crossrail levy’ is only the tip of the iceberg about 22 hours ago from web
16. khoodeelaar noting at 1910GMT20Feb2009 steve norris echoing khoodeelaar! dissection of the alarmingly irresponsible abuse of powers ‘for Crossrail’! about 22 hours ago from web
17. khoodeelaar noting at 1910 GMT 20Feb2009 steve norris echoing khoodeelaar! dissection of the alarmingly irresponsible abuse of powers ‘for Crossrail’!…about 22 hours ago from web
18. khoodeelaar at0852GMTFri20Feb2009 noting the ‘emergence’ of a man claiming to be Boris Johnson’s brain! What a timely ‘item of news’! More. 8:53 AM yesterday from web
19. khoodeelaar at 0118 HrsgMTFri20Feb2009 querying GUARDIAN [7] line that they were ethically critical of Boris J: Why are they quiet on ethics front now 1:24 AM yesterday from web
20. khoodeelaar at0112GMTFri20Feb2009 asking GUARDIAN [6] to contest any of thousands, of evidential items we’ve published PROVING crassness of Crossrail1:15 AM yesterday from web
21. khoodeelaar at0110GMTFri20Feb2009 reminding the GUARDIAN [5] of its equally irrational peddling of Crossrail scam-peddler Ken Livingstone pre-1May2008!1:11 AM yesterday from web
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/4781445/Tradition-is-the-next-big-idea-in-politics.-But-why-stop-at-banking.html
KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! that 'USA firm' Bechtel, which even 'Private Eye' identified as the 'lobby' behind the London 'Crossrail scam', is set for £
1245 GMT London Sunday 22 February 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! that 'USA firm' Bechtel, which even 'Private Eye' identified as the 'lobby' behind the London 'Crossrail scam', is set for ££Billn off UK public...
Now even the BBC - yes, even the BBC that has long aided and abetted Big Business and hidden the facts of Bechtel role in setting the agenda of parliament and the behaviour of - is headlining the item as 'US Firm'...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! Told you so! that 'USA firm' Bechtel, which even 'Private Eye' identified as the 'lobby' behind the London 'Crossrail scam', is set for ££Billn off UK public...
Now even the BBC - yes, even the BBC that has long aided and abetted Big Business and hidden the facts of Bechtel role in setting the agenda of parliament and the behaviour of - is headlining the item as 'US Firm'...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! Updater analysis [part 2] of Stupid Norris doing a not-so-subtle-plug for Crossrail Boris
0135 Hrs GMT London Sunday 22 February 2009:
By © Muhammad Haque …
KHOODEELAAR! Noting that the website www.propertyweek.com has continued to suppress the KHOODEELAAR! Comment expsi9sng the shallowness of Steve Norris’ ‘disagreement’ over ‘CrossRail levy’ with Boris Johnson. This is not a surprise! Alas! The propertyweek outfit is of course only one of literally thousands of ‘mainstream’ media titles and outlets that have been peddling the crassly conceived wasteful London Crossrail scam… And for the record, even they acknowledge the fact that Steve Norris is employed as an adviser to Boris Johnson… on ‘transport’…At a time when the entire, capitalist, free-market western world is experiencing the unravelling of the leading ‘financial institutions’, when parades and parades of bankers, financiers, investors fund managers… are being exposed as being no more than plain crooks, liars and thieves… and at a time when ALL the claimants to ‘democratic’ accountability across the ‘free, democratic world’ are being shown up as being either fakers or worse, and at a time when the allegedly most ardent critics of the likes of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe are poised to imitate him in printing money ….
The matter of Boris Johnson being wrong and Steve Norris being equally wrong in pointing out that Boris was wrong and in HEN vowing to back the very same CRASSRAIL scam, may not matter that much… But it does. It does to the campaign for a truthful parliament… the truth that the UK Houses of Parliament have evaded, avoided and suppressed on the role of Big Business in cooking up the CrossRail scam… for even the wildest and the most optimistic ‘defenders of the system’ [a la the ‘British trade union’ leader Mr Woodley, to cite only one, an ‘authentic’ sample of the type] who are at the present moment literally prostrate on the state-approved propaganda platform laid on for the benefit of Biog Business being allowed £Billions of ‘the peoples’ dosh’ , will not say that the ‘resumption of business’ can work without a significant part of the culture of thieving and criminality dominating capitalist society being eradicated or stopped for a good deal of time….
And we do not expect ‘the social institutions’ to become any different overnight… In order to get back to ‘normal’ business, when that does happen, society and its financial and political institutions have to be seen to be working. And to work, the sea of sleaze has got to be dealt with….Sleaze and corruption and lying….fraud, evasion and deceit.. looting the public and denying the public the democratic, human and fundamental rights….The two sets of values and conduct do not match.. Just as the lying done on the floors of the two Houses of Parliament by the peddlers of Crossrail who were acting under influence of Big Business lobby did not go with the avowed, officially claimed purpose, conduct, orientation and standard of the two Houses… the fabrication and lying done for Crossrail by succession of UK Transport ministers who showed in effect two fingers to the UK’s International treaty obligations did not go, cannot go with Gordon Brown’s claim of the months following 28 July 2008 [when he, Gordon Brown, led the rubber-stamping of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the ‘Crossrail Act’] that the ‘crisis now is global and that it can only be really solved by global action, by global cooperation;…
So severely has Gordon Brown committed himself to the task of propaganda of the ‘global’ phenomenon that it has become a given whenever he p[ops up on the TV screens or appears on a stage, to expect that he will go global And he may even literally go global if Angela for a role to fit Brown’s OTT global obsession….
How can Brown be taken seriously globally if he is allowed to forget that he could have stopped the public funding of CRASSrail but he did not..
That even [UK TV] ‘Channel 4 News’ reported in October 2007 that Brown had acted AGAINST the advice of Rod Eddington….
Who on earth was Rod |Eddington?! It was a name that Gordon Brown introduced into the ‘transport’ discourse in the UK… For it was Brown who had appointed Eddington to do a specialist report on the UK railways
This was published in 2006 and titled ‘The Eddington Transport Study’. In their news coverage of the publication of the Eddington Report, the US Business outlet FORBES said that Eddington had NOT endorsed CrossRail… This must have been true because hours before the formal publication of the same report, the Blair-backing, Brown-friendly London GUARDIAN news outfit condemned Eddington…
[To be continued]
By © Muhammad Haque …
KHOODEELAAR! Noting that the website www.propertyweek.com has continued to suppress the KHOODEELAAR! Comment expsi9sng the shallowness of Steve Norris’ ‘disagreement’ over ‘CrossRail levy’ with Boris Johnson. This is not a surprise! Alas! The propertyweek outfit is of course only one of literally thousands of ‘mainstream’ media titles and outlets that have been peddling the crassly conceived wasteful London Crossrail scam… And for the record, even they acknowledge the fact that Steve Norris is employed as an adviser to Boris Johnson… on ‘transport’…At a time when the entire, capitalist, free-market western world is experiencing the unravelling of the leading ‘financial institutions’, when parades and parades of bankers, financiers, investors fund managers… are being exposed as being no more than plain crooks, liars and thieves… and at a time when ALL the claimants to ‘democratic’ accountability across the ‘free, democratic world’ are being shown up as being either fakers or worse, and at a time when the allegedly most ardent critics of the likes of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe are poised to imitate him in printing money ….
The matter of Boris Johnson being wrong and Steve Norris being equally wrong in pointing out that Boris was wrong and in HEN vowing to back the very same CRASSRAIL scam, may not matter that much… But it does. It does to the campaign for a truthful parliament… the truth that the UK Houses of Parliament have evaded, avoided and suppressed on the role of Big Business in cooking up the CrossRail scam… for even the wildest and the most optimistic ‘defenders of the system’ [a la the ‘British trade union’ leader Mr Woodley, to cite only one, an ‘authentic’ sample of the type] who are at the present moment literally prostrate on the state-approved propaganda platform laid on for the benefit of Biog Business being allowed £Billions of ‘the peoples’ dosh’ , will not say that the ‘resumption of business’ can work without a significant part of the culture of thieving and criminality dominating capitalist society being eradicated or stopped for a good deal of time….
And we do not expect ‘the social institutions’ to become any different overnight… In order to get back to ‘normal’ business, when that does happen, society and its financial and political institutions have to be seen to be working. And to work, the sea of sleaze has got to be dealt with….Sleaze and corruption and lying….fraud, evasion and deceit.. looting the public and denying the public the democratic, human and fundamental rights….The two sets of values and conduct do not match.. Just as the lying done on the floors of the two Houses of Parliament by the peddlers of Crossrail who were acting under influence of Big Business lobby did not go with the avowed, officially claimed purpose, conduct, orientation and standard of the two Houses… the fabrication and lying done for Crossrail by succession of UK Transport ministers who showed in effect two fingers to the UK’s International treaty obligations did not go, cannot go with Gordon Brown’s claim of the months following 28 July 2008 [when he, Gordon Brown, led the rubber-stamping of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the ‘Crossrail Act’] that the ‘crisis now is global and that it can only be really solved by global action, by global cooperation;…
So severely has Gordon Brown committed himself to the task of propaganda of the ‘global’ phenomenon that it has become a given whenever he p[ops up on the TV screens or appears on a stage, to expect that he will go global And he may even literally go global if Angela for a role to fit Brown’s OTT global obsession….
How can Brown be taken seriously globally if he is allowed to forget that he could have stopped the public funding of CRASSrail but he did not..
That even [UK TV] ‘Channel 4 News’ reported in October 2007 that Brown had acted AGAINST the advice of Rod Eddington….
Who on earth was Rod |Eddington?! It was a name that Gordon Brown introduced into the ‘transport’ discourse in the UK… For it was Brown who had appointed Eddington to do a specialist report on the UK railways
This was published in 2006 and titled ‘The Eddington Transport Study’. In their news coverage of the publication of the Eddington Report, the US Business outlet FORBES said that Eddington had NOT endorsed CrossRail… This must have been true because hours before the formal publication of the same report, the Blair-backing, Brown-friendly London GUARDIAN news outfit condemned Eddington…
[To be continued]