2220 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 21 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on CRASS role playing Boris Johnson peddling a pack of lies for Big Business
[To be continued]
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional and democratic diagnosis of the hypocritical role played today by Tom Brake, 'MP' re the G20 violence and obstructions
1620 [1550] Hrs GMT London Tuesday 21 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential comment, about the G20 protest 'campaign film-maker' MP !!!! Tom Brake in the spotlight
The spot lasts only a couple of minutes or so. But it is a spotlight nevertheless. And Tom Brake may think that his itsy bitsy and the evidentially pretentious claim to be another campaigner for what in essence is civil liberties, is going to be accepted on face value.
It is not.
By a long measure.
Tom Brake has been a stooge-role-playing MP in the stooged UK House of Commons.
Brake ‘barked’ in his own way for the agenda set by Big Business pushing the CROSSRAIL scam through the UK Houses of Parliament.
Brake brayed in favour of Big Business.
Brake stayed silent and refused and failed to back campaigners who made formal objections against Crossrail.
Brake failed to support campaigners establish the evidential ground against CRASS Crossrail.
Brake’s appearance today [Tuesday 21 April 2009] on the media suggesting that he is a campaigner against Police violence and brutality at the London G20 demo earlier this month has to be seen in the context of Brake’s opportunistic role.
Brake did not risk his career. He in fact has behaved just as loosely selflessly as MPs are known to do.
How?
Because it is NOT the primary task of an MP to behave as if he has no platform to raise issues of concern relating to the very constitutional position of Police men and women.
Is Brake known for raising a single issue about Policing in the past? If so, what was the impact of any such intervention?
How often has Brake spoken in the Commons on policing matters?
ALSO and ‘incidentally’ the G20 demo, if anything, was against the global agenda of BIg Business.
Big Business that includes the Military Industrial Complex operator Bechtel Corp of the USA.
As we have been reporting, EVEN the Ian Hislop-fronted PRIVATE EYE ‘satirical magazine’ [updates on THAT one in due course, here] has had to confess to being ‘concerned’ that Bechtel Corp pushed the ‘Crossrail Bill’ through the UK Houses of Parliament, aided and abetted by a ‘former’ aide to Douglas Alexander, the Crossrail Bill-peddler Minister [that was in place after Alistair Darling and before Ruth Kelly]
What acointacts, if any, had Tom Brake witH Bechtel and their lobbyists?
What breach of parliamentary ‘sovereignty’ [what IS that ?] had Tom Brake cited in any questions he might have put to the ‘House of Commons’ ‘authorities’ ‘protesting’ against the interference by Bechtel or similar outside agencies and interests?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential comment, about the G20 protest 'campaign film-maker' MP !!!! Tom Brake in the spotlight
The spot lasts only a couple of minutes or so. But it is a spotlight nevertheless. And Tom Brake may think that his itsy bitsy and the evidentially pretentious claim to be another campaigner for what in essence is civil liberties, is going to be accepted on face value.
It is not.
By a long measure.
Tom Brake has been a stooge-role-playing MP in the stooged UK House of Commons.
Brake ‘barked’ in his own way for the agenda set by Big Business pushing the CROSSRAIL scam through the UK Houses of Parliament.
Brake brayed in favour of Big Business.
Brake stayed silent and refused and failed to back campaigners who made formal objections against Crossrail.
Brake failed to support campaigners establish the evidential ground against CRASS Crossrail.
Brake’s appearance today [Tuesday 21 April 2009] on the media suggesting that he is a campaigner against Police violence and brutality at the London G20 demo earlier this month has to be seen in the context of Brake’s opportunistic role.
Brake did not risk his career. He in fact has behaved just as loosely selflessly as MPs are known to do.
How?
Because it is NOT the primary task of an MP to behave as if he has no platform to raise issues of concern relating to the very constitutional position of Police men and women.
Is Brake known for raising a single issue about Policing in the past? If so, what was the impact of any such intervention?
How often has Brake spoken in the Commons on policing matters?
ALSO and ‘incidentally’ the G20 demo, if anything, was against the global agenda of BIg Business.
Big Business that includes the Military Industrial Complex operator Bechtel Corp of the USA.
As we have been reporting, EVEN the Ian Hislop-fronted PRIVATE EYE ‘satirical magazine’ [updates on THAT one in due course, here] has had to confess to being ‘concerned’ that Bechtel Corp pushed the ‘Crossrail Bill’ through the UK Houses of Parliament, aided and abetted by a ‘former’ aide to Douglas Alexander, the Crossrail Bill-peddler Minister [that was in place after Alistair Darling and before Ruth Kelly]
What acointacts, if any, had Tom Brake witH Bechtel and their lobbyists?
What breach of parliamentary ‘sovereignty’ [what IS that ?] had Tom Brake cited in any questions he might have put to the ‘House of Commons’ ‘authorities’ ‘protesting’ against the interference by Bechtel or similar outside agencies and interests?
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD THEM SO! Both Blair and Brown went OTT in their fakery about 'British vah-loos'. Poverty, negligence and the end of the NHS!
0740 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 21 April 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD THEM SO! Both Blair and Brown went OTT in their fakery about 'British vah-loos'. Poverty, negligence and the end of the NHS!
Poverty - material, ethical, moral, spiritual and democratic
Negligence - lack of audit, accountability by the paid c careerist and professional as is revealed daily if not more frequently even on the usually status quo-backing and in-denial BBC. So overwhelming is the evidence of institutionalised and stooged-parliament-couriered decline in the UK...
The persistent destruction of care and respect for human life or dignity by the NHS bureaucracy is exposed every day, Yesterday it was the ‘Gosport Inquest’ reports... and the brazen contempt and denial verging on the criminal [despite the packaged words to the contrary scripted for him to utter to assembled reporters] that came across on the demeanor and the face of Richard Samuel, the man who posed before cameras in the name of Hampshire NHS...
And that is before any examination starts of the behaviour of those at the very centre of the CURRENT kitchen ruling over ‘the British nation’ from No. 10 Downing Street...
Or delving into the state of Jacqui Smith’s mind when she was faced for two minutes with the dilemma of deciding quite how to deal with the very personal attacks that her husband had allowed Chris Grayling to make against her during her statement in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Monday 20 April 2009...
And that is even before reexamining the physically quite nasty look that Tony McNulty had put on during that particular session of the Blaired Party ‘Propaganda and LYING to the membership’ staged in a basement space near the York Hall in Bethnal Green in ‘the most deprived borough in the country: Tower Hamlets’ [as boasted of by a ‘recent’ ‘leader’ of the Tower Hamlets Council, courtesy of a two page spread given by R Murdoch in his Times - Murdoch is getting favourable treatment on his latest expansion planning application formality around Wapping in return for so many similar favours he has done to that cabal on the Crossrail scam-inviting ‘local’ Council]. Tony McNulty on that occasion was sitting next to Oona King and dodging the one question that mattered: why had Blair and his cabal SQUANDERED the trust and the mandate given to them by the voters and the people of the country at two successive General elections? And that was WAY before the horrors of the attacks on the people of Iraq was mounted...With Gordon Brown maintaining a very ‘British vah-loos’ silence throughout the period that Blair was fronting the ‘British’ complicity in the massacres of so many innocent people.......
Is it any wonder at all that these same people made sure that the costs and the wastefulness of Big Business scams like the Millennium Dome were not independently scrutinised by Parliament ?
Or that the costs and the wastefulness of the adventure that is the crassly conceived Crossrail are not allowed to be INDEPENDENTLY, truthfully, honesty and objectively scrutinised by democratically [q.v] placed people whose first constitutional duty is to do the scrutiny of executive action?
The way that Blair-Brown squandered the democratic mandate was also the way they violated the first principle of political representation linked with the aims and objects of the Party that they plotted to destroy.
And the ills of their abuse will not in fact materially harm them.
As for spiritual solace, Blair may upstage the Pope and he may even upstage the last remaining surviver of his crimes against ethics, morality and decency.. But he cannot upstage all the victims of his offences...
Nor can Brown avoid responsibility for colluding with Blair.
Between the two of them they have ruined some of the best things that centuries of struggle by ordinary people in this country and in the rest of the world had created...
Pillar after pillar of those particularly universally com,e,commended and approved and pro-democratic, pro-justice institutions are being uprooted and felled... and the destroyers keep on chanting ‘British vah-loos’ as they do the sacrilege...
When Brown was invited ever so politely by a tactful questioner during yesterday’s ‘British flag’ waving stunt staged at the Loughborough university platform, to answer on the G20 demonstrations and the violence from the state, Brown failed to get it..
His failure was evidently written all across his face as he battled to deny the obvious question that he alone ought to have answered...
While the season [that will end] of commercially motivated tabloid-media ‘outrage’ at the violently behaving police ,men and women ‘rages on’ for its duration, the real question about policing is the politics of policing...
Without a political agenda backing the violence, no police force would dare behave in the way that it has been seen over the relevant events in the UK..
So why is it that the alleged ‘British left’ and the alleged ‘British liberals’ are not focussing on the Political agenda that is getting the police to behave violently? And letting the police behaviour reach a level where it is being assumed by most ordinary people that the POLICE THEMSELVES have established a near Police state in Britain ALREADY?
The answer is placed somewhere between Oona King and where Tony McNulty are seating - in a rhetorically contextual historical evidential sense, so to speak, in that basement near the York Hall in Bethnal Green London...
That answer is the denial on the parts of BOTH Oona King and Tony McNulty to recognize the truth and accept the truth...
Like Brown did. He failed yesterday to even mention the name of poor Ian Tomlinson, let alone to express anything like an optimum expression of humane sympathy for his bereaved children wife and family....
Brown did not have to say anything about any ‘particular case’ but no law prevented him from expressing sympathy for the man who was merely walking to get home to watch his favourite sport programme at home...
Contrast that with Gordon Brown’s readiness to become available almost within minutes to condemn losses of innocent lives on other occasions both in the UK and abroad...
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From BBC online:
Page last updated at 23:02 GMT, Monday, 20 April 2009 00:02 UK
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UK far down youth wellbeing table
Children at a Dutch school in the UK on why children are happier in Holland
A table of young people's wellbeing in 29 European states - the EU plus Norway and Iceland - has ranked Britain 24th.
The Netherlands was top while only Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta came lower than the UK.
The table, about youngsters aged up to 19, was compiled by York University researchers for the Child Poverty Action Group using mostly 2006 data.
The government commented that its policies were lifting more than a million children out of poverty.
The researchers assessed the countries on 43 separate measures, ranging from infant mortality and obesity to material resources - like poverty and housing.
Also included were how children felt about their lives, schools and relationships.
CATEGORIES
health
subjective wellbeing
relationships
material resources
behaviour and risk
education
housing and environment
Overall ranking
Feeling pressured by schoolwork, for example, fed into the measurement of "subjective wellbeing".
The study suggests little improvement since a similar report by Unicef two years ago, BBC correspondent James Westhead said.
The Netherlands led overall and was also in the upper third of the table in each area. Scandinavian countries dominated.
The UK's rank of 24th was well below the position which might be expected given its affluence, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) report said.
Workless
Britain's best score, 15th, was in children's relationships - including how easy they say they find it to talk to their parents and get on with their classmates.
On material resources, the UK was 24th out of the 26 countries for which data was available.
"The UK position is particularly influenced by the high number of children living in families where no parent works. Only Lithuania and Poland do worse," said the report.
CPAG is not arguing against government policy focusing on income growth for the poorest families and the impact of public services.
But it says the current recession means many families are threatened with rapid income falls.
"There is nothing inevitable about the UK doing badly on child wellbeing," it says.
"The challenge should be to reverse this situation and put children front and centre of policy making."
Looking beyond 2010, the charity has a series of recommendations:
Protect jobs, remove barriers to work such as unsuitable and expensive childcare.
Mend the "safety net" which it says leaves many families struggling well below the official poverty line.
Drop means tests in favour of universal benefits such as child benefit.
Stop in-work poverty from low wages.
End the "classroom divide" in which children growing up in poverty have lower attainment.
Provide fair public services for those who need them most.
End "poverty premiums" which mean poor families pay more for basic goods, utilities and services and more of their income in taxes.
Ensure a decent home for every family.
CPAG says that as most of the data in the report is from three years ago - which is not unusual in international comparisons - many recent government policy initiatives are not fully reflected.
"The figures should therefore be read as a criticism of UK society, but not necessarily of recent social policy," it stresses.
England's children's minister, Beverley Hughes, added that the fact that a government department had been created to focus on children, schools and families showed the increased importance being given to children.
"Our Children's Plan is our long term vision and it puts children and families at the centre of everything government does," she said.
"Our policies have lifted 600,000 children out of poverty and halved absolute poverty. Policies announced in the last two years will lift around a further 500,000 children out of poverty.
"We are very proud that the majority of our children are happy and do well but in those cases where children and their families face problems, we will continue to invest in high quality services which provide the vital help and support that they need."
The CPAG report follows a BBC Newsround survey of 1,000 children around the UK.
Many were worried about money, bullying and knife crime - but most nevertheless said they were happy.
Overall ranking
1 Netherlands
2 Sweden
3 Norway
4 Iceland
5 Finland
6 Denmark
7 Slovenia
8 Germany
9 Ireland
10 Luxembourg
11 Austria
12 Cyprus
13 Spain
14 Belgium
15 France
16 Czech Republic
17 Slovakia
18 Estonia
19 Italy
20 Poland
21 Portugal
22 Hungary
23 Greece
24 United Kingdom
25 Romania
26 Bulgaria
27 Latvia
28 Lithuania
29 Malta
Source: Child Poverty Action Group
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD THEM SO! Both Blair and Brown went OTT in their fakery about 'British vah-loos'. Poverty, negligence and the end of the NHS!
Poverty - material, ethical, moral, spiritual and democratic
Negligence - lack of audit, accountability by the paid c careerist and professional as is revealed daily if not more frequently even on the usually status quo-backing and in-denial BBC. So overwhelming is the evidence of institutionalised and stooged-parliament-couriered decline in the UK...
The persistent destruction of care and respect for human life or dignity by the NHS bureaucracy is exposed every day, Yesterday it was the ‘Gosport Inquest’ reports... and the brazen contempt and denial verging on the criminal [despite the packaged words to the contrary scripted for him to utter to assembled reporters] that came across on the demeanor and the face of Richard Samuel, the man who posed before cameras in the name of Hampshire NHS...
And that is before any examination starts of the behaviour of those at the very centre of the CURRENT kitchen ruling over ‘the British nation’ from No. 10 Downing Street...
Or delving into the state of Jacqui Smith’s mind when she was faced for two minutes with the dilemma of deciding quite how to deal with the very personal attacks that her husband had allowed Chris Grayling to make against her during her statement in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Monday 20 April 2009...
And that is even before reexamining the physically quite nasty look that Tony McNulty had put on during that particular session of the Blaired Party ‘Propaganda and LYING to the membership’ staged in a basement space near the York Hall in Bethnal Green in ‘the most deprived borough in the country: Tower Hamlets’ [as boasted of by a ‘recent’ ‘leader’ of the Tower Hamlets Council, courtesy of a two page spread given by R Murdoch in his Times - Murdoch is getting favourable treatment on his latest expansion planning application formality around Wapping in return for so many similar favours he has done to that cabal on the Crossrail scam-inviting ‘local’ Council]. Tony McNulty on that occasion was sitting next to Oona King and dodging the one question that mattered: why had Blair and his cabal SQUANDERED the trust and the mandate given to them by the voters and the people of the country at two successive General elections? And that was WAY before the horrors of the attacks on the people of Iraq was mounted...With Gordon Brown maintaining a very ‘British vah-loos’ silence throughout the period that Blair was fronting the ‘British’ complicity in the massacres of so many innocent people.......
Is it any wonder at all that these same people made sure that the costs and the wastefulness of Big Business scams like the Millennium Dome were not independently scrutinised by Parliament ?
Or that the costs and the wastefulness of the adventure that is the crassly conceived Crossrail are not allowed to be INDEPENDENTLY, truthfully, honesty and objectively scrutinised by democratically [q.v] placed people whose first constitutional duty is to do the scrutiny of executive action?
The way that Blair-Brown squandered the democratic mandate was also the way they violated the first principle of political representation linked with the aims and objects of the Party that they plotted to destroy.
And the ills of their abuse will not in fact materially harm them.
As for spiritual solace, Blair may upstage the Pope and he may even upstage the last remaining surviver of his crimes against ethics, morality and decency.. But he cannot upstage all the victims of his offences...
Nor can Brown avoid responsibility for colluding with Blair.
Between the two of them they have ruined some of the best things that centuries of struggle by ordinary people in this country and in the rest of the world had created...
Pillar after pillar of those particularly universally com,e,commended and approved and pro-democratic, pro-justice institutions are being uprooted and felled... and the destroyers keep on chanting ‘British vah-loos’ as they do the sacrilege...
When Brown was invited ever so politely by a tactful questioner during yesterday’s ‘British flag’ waving stunt staged at the Loughborough university platform, to answer on the G20 demonstrations and the violence from the state, Brown failed to get it..
His failure was evidently written all across his face as he battled to deny the obvious question that he alone ought to have answered...
While the season [that will end] of commercially motivated tabloid-media ‘outrage’ at the violently behaving police ,men and women ‘rages on’ for its duration, the real question about policing is the politics of policing...
Without a political agenda backing the violence, no police force would dare behave in the way that it has been seen over the relevant events in the UK..
So why is it that the alleged ‘British left’ and the alleged ‘British liberals’ are not focussing on the Political agenda that is getting the police to behave violently? And letting the police behaviour reach a level where it is being assumed by most ordinary people that the POLICE THEMSELVES have established a near Police state in Britain ALREADY?
The answer is placed somewhere between Oona King and where Tony McNulty are seating - in a rhetorically contextual historical evidential sense, so to speak, in that basement near the York Hall in Bethnal Green London...
That answer is the denial on the parts of BOTH Oona King and Tony McNulty to recognize the truth and accept the truth...
Like Brown did. He failed yesterday to even mention the name of poor Ian Tomlinson, let alone to express anything like an optimum expression of humane sympathy for his bereaved children wife and family....
Brown did not have to say anything about any ‘particular case’ but no law prevented him from expressing sympathy for the man who was merely walking to get home to watch his favourite sport programme at home...
Contrast that with Gordon Brown’s readiness to become available almost within minutes to condemn losses of innocent lives on other occasions both in the UK and abroad...
-------
From BBC online:
Page last updated at 23:02 GMT, Monday, 20 April 2009 00:02 UK
E-mail this to a friend Printable version
UK far down youth wellbeing table
Children at a Dutch school in the UK on why children are happier in Holland
A table of young people's wellbeing in 29 European states - the EU plus Norway and Iceland - has ranked Britain 24th.
The Netherlands was top while only Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta came lower than the UK.
The table, about youngsters aged up to 19, was compiled by York University researchers for the Child Poverty Action Group using mostly 2006 data.
The government commented that its policies were lifting more than a million children out of poverty.
The researchers assessed the countries on 43 separate measures, ranging from infant mortality and obesity to material resources - like poverty and housing.
Also included were how children felt about their lives, schools and relationships.
CATEGORIES
health
subjective wellbeing
relationships
material resources
behaviour and risk
education
housing and environment
Overall ranking
Feeling pressured by schoolwork, for example, fed into the measurement of "subjective wellbeing".
The study suggests little improvement since a similar report by Unicef two years ago, BBC correspondent James Westhead said.
The Netherlands led overall and was also in the upper third of the table in each area. Scandinavian countries dominated.
The UK's rank of 24th was well below the position which might be expected given its affluence, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) report said.
Workless
Britain's best score, 15th, was in children's relationships - including how easy they say they find it to talk to their parents and get on with their classmates.
On material resources, the UK was 24th out of the 26 countries for which data was available.
"The UK position is particularly influenced by the high number of children living in families where no parent works. Only Lithuania and Poland do worse," said the report.
CPAG is not arguing against government policy focusing on income growth for the poorest families and the impact of public services.
But it says the current recession means many families are threatened with rapid income falls.
"There is nothing inevitable about the UK doing badly on child wellbeing," it says.
"The challenge should be to reverse this situation and put children front and centre of policy making."
Looking beyond 2010, the charity has a series of recommendations:
Protect jobs, remove barriers to work such as unsuitable and expensive childcare.
Mend the "safety net" which it says leaves many families struggling well below the official poverty line.
Drop means tests in favour of universal benefits such as child benefit.
Stop in-work poverty from low wages.
End the "classroom divide" in which children growing up in poverty have lower attainment.
Provide fair public services for those who need them most.
End "poverty premiums" which mean poor families pay more for basic goods, utilities and services and more of their income in taxes.
Ensure a decent home for every family.
CPAG says that as most of the data in the report is from three years ago - which is not unusual in international comparisons - many recent government policy initiatives are not fully reflected.
"The figures should therefore be read as a criticism of UK society, but not necessarily of recent social policy," it stresses.
England's children's minister, Beverley Hughes, added that the fact that a government department had been created to focus on children, schools and families showed the increased importance being given to children.
"Our Children's Plan is our long term vision and it puts children and families at the centre of everything government does," she said.
"Our policies have lifted 600,000 children out of poverty and halved absolute poverty. Policies announced in the last two years will lift around a further 500,000 children out of poverty.
"We are very proud that the majority of our children are happy and do well but in those cases where children and their families face problems, we will continue to invest in high quality services which provide the vital help and support that they need."
The CPAG report follows a BBC Newsround survey of 1,000 children around the UK.
Many were worried about money, bullying and knife crime - but most nevertheless said they were happy.
Overall ranking
1 Netherlands
2 Sweden
3 Norway
4 Iceland
5 Finland
6 Denmark
7 Slovenia
8 Germany
9 Ireland
10 Luxembourg
11 Austria
12 Cyprus
13 Spain
14 Belgium
15 France
16 Czech Republic
17 Slovakia
18 Estonia
19 Italy
20 Poland
21 Portugal
22 Hungary
23 Greece
24 United Kingdom
25 Romania
26 Bulgaria
27 Latvia
28 Lithuania
29 Malta
Source: Child Poverty Action Group