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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

What is the big deal with Christmas? I mean really, nobody goes to church anymore until midnight on Christmas eve when magically many people are reminded what the last 2 months shopping is meant to be about albeit through rose tinted and alcohol hazed glasses. Anyway the Christians stole the festivities from Pagans who decorated trees during winters darkest period and Santa's image was ingrained into the christmas psyche by Coca Cola. Jesus was apparently born in the summer time. Hmm!

The big day arrives after months of brainwashing into spending a fortune and we have to suffer the little children in hospital as we are surrounded by the torn wrapping paper that cost the lives of 1000's of trees only to return to earth once again. Then racked with guilt for spending too much money, we are then told by the bent UK media we should feel guilty for not spending too much and that sales are down on last year and doom and gloom and we are all going to die!!!!!  Followed by adverts for summer holidays and Cadbury Creme Eggs at every opportunity. Mum, who has been brow beating us since August to write a list the length of the Bayeux Tapestry agrees that its all a waste and almost looks like she may make a move to stop this wasteful event through a sense of relief that it is all over at 2pm. Yes months and months of worry and nagging and endless shopping and planning for what?

Mum and dad try to recreate an episode of the Walton's  without the frugality or the dungerees, yet clearly remember christmas past. Dad announces they don't know how many they have left which in turns generates a notion of guilt for daring to not wish to be a sheep and follow the crowd as though I was the spawn of the devil, conveniently forgetting the first two born.  I collect my nan who is really frail these days. Mum, executive producer, director writer and coordinator tells everybody they shouldn't have as she acknowledges her gifts, that they should save their money and proceeds to runs around checking everyone has enough sprouts, more mash more roasts a la Peter Kaye.  Dad, chief boy and fund raiser, embraces the moment and clearly remembers his christmas past rebuking any comments he does not approve of with a reminder he will die one day.  My sister smiles and jollies it through the event with a controlled demeanor that has always amazed me.  Then the big pack up commences. Mum, armed with 37 tupperware tubs begins the big left over packing ensuring nan has enough food to see her through to February.  A simple meal would suffice but mum inisits on 4 courses thus creating her own headache through a notion of wanton expectation that does not exist. 

For me however, I see it for what it really is. It's a commercial exercise. Even the very few people who engage with religion are caught out by it.  Thankfully, when it is over, my best bud OB parks himself on the couch, we wang a DVD on and have copious amounts of the alcohol. Now that is what Christmas means to me, relief it is all over and the world can get back to some kind of normailty. Meanwhile sheep are bleating humbug! 

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Global Governance

I'm so pleased Obama is to be the next US president. Not, however, because I am under the illusion that the puppeteers who pull the global strings have disappeared. No! Mr Obama is indeed a puppet like all Presidents and Prime Ministers before him. He WILL tow the line you can guarantee it. There will be the pursuance of the Anglo US goal for global domination. Brown even used the term "Global Governance" many times recently. You see you keep dropping a line into a conversation and sheep people will eventually bleat the same and accept it. You can just hear the conversations down the pub. "Well its all about global governance Kyle!"  "That's right Colin, it is, bloody foreigners, need us to control em!"  Oh aye Kyle. Another pint? You off to t'match Saturday?"

The controlling people have created the illusion of change by bringing in a new man with no ties (or has he?) to continue the pursuance of their goals.  To bring a mixed race (aren't all Americans?) man in guarantees that people will get off their butts and vote. Why? Because he says the word 'change' a lot. A very lot. You just had to see how the voters in the US said 'change' when they were interviewed by the Beeb. This has planted the notion firmly in their minds that America will be different, will change. Erm I doubt it very much indeed. America, or should that be Britain or should that be the controllers are on a mission. They are protecting themselves and their future existence. They are creating a new illusion in order to win around the masses. But you can guarantee that US/UK troops and there hangers on will still go a plundering round the planet. Yes people, the pursuance of whoever still intends to gain whatever in their mission. 

Are you stupid? No Really a serious question. I mean you don't really believe that George W Bush was in control do you? Do you? Really? Wow! I mean he is as thick as pig shit. You don't need me to tell you that. George W Bush, one of the two faces of global terrorism? Wow! You're pretty gullable but then you can just say oh I don't know, conspiracist!  Oh someone else said conspiracist then and another and the lady in the red hat and the gentleman with the Man UTD top. So it must be right then. Why? Because you said so because they said so. You just repeat what the consensus feels or says. Most people don't think outside the box at all. Perfectly happy to plod on and tow the line.  Perfectly happy to dismiss a notion if it doesn't belong in generally held belief section of your brain taking comfort from the other bleats and baas that sound similar to yours. Perfectly happy to be a sheep. And its understandable really. I mean humans are generally tribalistic and need to feel they belong. In belonging, they will do what they need to do to remain part of the group or the outsider be. Ok. What about Reagan or Clinton? Come off it now.  Gordon Brown then! Come on Gordon Brown, he hasn't even stood for an election but he has just walked into the job. Does he think he is the British stepping into India declaring that he will take over from here on?  Global governance. Or has something else enabled him to walk right in? I mean how democratic was that? From the Labour party? Oh that's New Labour isn't it? The Labour party principles had to be dropped in order to win and election and win over the masses. Proof in itself that their policies were outdated, unrealistic and no longer the need of the proletariat. Because people were told we needed to spend billions on nuclear defence and we needed to fund the poor countries of Europe by joining the EEC I mean EU or was that it was our only way to survive as, at that stage, we were not an official state of the US. Maybe we should?

A new world order had been created. The ability to create any illusion and act upon it in order to create the illusion of security. Global governance. I mean look at the state of the world now. Surely you can see it is all manufactured in order to bring about change, line the pockets of the few even more than already and create for you, the notion that everything is OK. What about disarming the nuclear weapons or pulling out of the EU. Two major issues that Labour allegedly would do the moment they won an election.  But then at the time we were told the Russians were going to nuke us at any moment as though the unbelievable devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not ingrained in the minds of anyone with an open mind. What kind of world would it be if only a few people survived and the planet was in total devastation?  But we were still carrying out nuclear bomb alert tests at school. All sat safely cross legged under our desks safe in the knowledge the the school desk would protect us from the monster bomb. We had to have the capability to respond by wiping out the major cities of the world, hence our fleet of nuclear subs that still tour the seas of the world today and are about to be upgraded again at the cost of billions and billions of our money. 

Are you blind? No really are you blind? I mean Universities have researched the histories of the peoples who pull the strings and have proven their lines go way back to Britain mainly and other European states but predominantly Britain. From there, their blood links go way back to the Romans and they in turn go way back even further back in time.  There is evidence that the people of ancient Mesopotamia moved out and formed the people that rule us today. Now where is Mesopotamia? Global governance. Iraq that's it. Just a new name same land. Which country is next door?  Turkey that's it. Turkey, two thirds of which is not on the European plate, yet Tony Blair was at the fore of its future membership of the European Union.  So I presume that any country politically useful could join the club. Did someone shout get off my land then?

So whilst the jubilation goes on, and people across three continents try to take ownership of him as theirs remember HE doesn't define himself as anything other than American. So he has a trace of Irish on his white side (surely American), there is already a single celebrating the fact he is "Irish." How desperate and how sad!  Thankfully, the Brits have never ever sung and danced at this little fact. For it would almost fill the top 40 if each song was in the charts for each President, but then we have the Queen!  Think about it!  I suggest people wait one term of office to see if America is really changing or if its just another illusion. I'm not holding my breath. 

By the way, did somebody say global governance?

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Rossgate

OK Calm down!  CALM DOWN PEOPLE!

Yes Ross acted like a fool and yes Brand is just a totally talentless self promoting scruffy tart of a bandwagon for people to jump . But anyone would think that they had committed murder. And when was it ok to presume 72 year old men were no longer capable of a joke? After all  Sachs' is pretty much famous for being the recipient of workplace bullying and violence, surely he could see that Ross and Twat were joking. Or does being in your 70's render you totally at the mercy of the media's minds eye? 

Of course this has enabled people to bring up the question of salaries particularly Ross on 6 million squillion pounds a year which is the takings from the old lady muggings on a Nottingham council estate and Brand who was on about half a squillion quid extorted from the hairdressers of Leicester, Accrington Stanley and the Wirral.  Seemingly the proletariat feels that their tenner a month enables them to take control of the BBC. As they feel they could do it for half the price. Wrong!  Do people really want a BBC that pays office worker salaries to its presenters or do they want to compete in a market where its uniqueness does more to raise its own profile than anything else?

Listen people, the BBC is the oldest largest and richest broadcasting organisation in the whole world. It is the envy of other broadcasters and provides a wealth of informative and entertaining programming on its various platforms thanks to its unique funding method. It does this as a proud representation of the UK. The Brits voted the BBC the best British brand in the country. It must be doing something right to be this envied and admired. Like any massive organisation, it is made up of humans and they are not infallible rather like the many who protested. Surely a rational mind would realise that this was a huge mistake and politely cringe it out. There are far more serious issues affecting the broadcasting world, not exclusively the exploitation of young actors who are seemingly required to drop their pants and expose themselves in almost every TV drama as a passage of rights and for the pleasure of the writers. it's just a shame that sheep people can only bleet after hearing of two sheep who happened to bleet first.  I, for one, want my Friday nights back!

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AILING ITV

Ailing TV broadcaster ITV  looks set to sell part of itself to RTL owner of "Five". It's such a shame that the former powerhouse is now just a pathetic shadow of it's former self. So strange that it was bigger and richer long before any stupid notions of corporate branding and multi channel platforms existed. Maybe, just maybe it has to do with the quality of its programmes and the alienation of its audience. Today I rarely watch ITV except the X Factor and that is it.  The broadcaster was established as a set of 16 independent TV stations whose remit was to reflect and serve the regions they are contracted to.  Increasingly it has tried to re-brand itself as ITV (and failed on both occasions) assuming the British public are a bit thick.  But in doing so, they are giving the finger to the very act that brought abut its existence.  The only remnant of its former and pre-designed self, was regional news. (I'm more Look North myself) and that is the very area where ITV in its pathetic wisdom looks to make a saving of 40 million squillion big ones. By axing many of its regional news facilities. Hmmm! Makes sense that.  Whilst I don't feel the need for ITV to exist thanks mainly to the wonderful BBC, it does. It should hang on to the thread of its purpose by being the best at regional news. Let's face it, it is pretty crap at everything else but sleaze and deception.   If it is to be saved, loose the mong at the top who has thus far done nothing but increase it's negative imagery not enhance it.

Oh! And try Martin Lambie-Nairn for a decent branding job. Then you may not need to change the 'look' every so often. Still, it detracts from cheap and tacky programming. 

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I'm waving the flag!

I was watching Ian MacMillan on a sunday morning show on BBC 1 last weekend  ( I forget the name and where the hell is the Radio Times when you need it) he makes his fortune selling naff poems in his cliche ridden accent, and he actually said something that has miffed me for some time. 

It seems that there is a whole plethora of people out there who feel so ashamed of being British that they chose to deny most people the right to have an ancestral line that goes back further than the 1950's.  It's all well and good when you are trying to engage with people who may have settled in England during the past 50 years or so. Almost like wiping the slate clean and giving everybody an equal starting post.  

Now I know that England particularly but the whole of the UK has welcomed peoples from far and wide during the last century  and I am well in favour of it. It enriches our country and for that reason alone I love it here.  I would hate to live in the England of the 1940's for example. For a variety of reasons including the state slaughter of men and the fact that there were no people from the Asian sub continent and other parts of the commonwealth.  It seems people just wish to shed any notion of an ancestral line longer than 50 years. And it's not the newer communities who do this.  No! It's the people who like to think for other people and somehow harbour a notion of guilt particularly linked to the British Empire. 

There is a widely held belief that whilst the British were building their empire, everybody in England was living in a mansion and eating cucumber sandwiches in the garden out of china pots whilst villagers danced and hit sticks in the air. The Scots were dancing around crossed swords and the Welsh were singing whilst they yanked leaks out of the ground. The harsh reality is that the majority of Brits were working in unbelievable conditions  and living in squalor to pay the taxes that built a rich Britian. This in turn enabled the 300 or so people who were the British Empire to step out and start trading with the world whilst 'treading' on a few feet to say the least. 

I digress. It would seem that many people need to feel like everybody is at the same starting post and I have even heard (heaven forbid) some Asian people use it in an arguement on one of the BBC forums. This surprised me greatly but then it is very easy to use this tool in an arguement as the influential peers empower you to do so. At any opportunity some idiot or other will wind up the proletariat by announcing that they have only just begun to exist. And yet, there is hardly a place on the planet where the movement of a regions peoples have not gone un-noticed. 

Indeed, look at the wonder of India and look at it's peoples whose history and background is as diverse as the UK or anywhere else. Look to the lighter skinned more oriental eyed people in the North East and the differences in people from the north west and the south. Look to Africa to see evidence of people movement.  Look at newer countries like NZ with its 78% British population and the Maoris.  People consider the Maoris indigenous but they settled having sailed south from Polynesia centuries before the Brits got there.  Is that the starting point then?  The northern French are viking in decent (Norman!) The white North Africans are Euro - Arabic in decent as well as the mix of the African and Arab. The 'native' Americans moved north from south American tribes. The Russians are of viking decent but move across the country and wallow in the wonder of it's blood lines fusing from its European blood to that of China and Mongolia.  India was once attached to south America, the Aboriginies were aboriginal somewhere else once upon a time.  In fact all peoples are fused by blood and not dictated by geographical lines that are man made.   Yet 5000 years of history and the Brits who are European ethnically speaking are only allowed to call themselves white. (Which the PC brigade felt the most appropriate name to apportion to the 650 million Europeans.) In doing so, you water down any notion of nationhood. Where did this come from?

So, now we have cleared that up, allow British people to be British. Have a Britain day and make it something that empowers all with the ability to embrace it without any PC notion of it having to be anything BUT British.  Get the flags out, get the beer out but make it accessible to all.  After all, Britain is ( I found this hard to believe too) the 6th greatest holiday destination in the world. (source wikipedia) as well as probably one of the top destinations for people to choose to come and work. Did you know Trafalga Square get's more tourists than Dysney Land USA and London is the worlds most visited city?  Do people outside see something more than we do? Why would that be? Think about it!

There is something Great about Britain and its just a shame that its a feeling that cannot be manifested by those who  feel duty bound to continually brow beat  the aboriginal populous, irrespective of their tribal origins, into a notion of subservient anonymity whilst celebrating the diversity and, in my opinion, the magnificence of newer Britons. For me, this pang of political correctness is a veil to a latent racism or snobbery,  outwardly portrayed to appease a none existent notion and create an appealing aura to its originator.

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BRITISH TELECOM BAG OF PANTS

Do you know I despise companies like BT and all the utility companies that were privatised. All this enabled a few people to get unbelievably rich on the back of a former state owned business, (surely tax payers already owned it?) and some investors have the illusion that they are rich.

BT proved its worth on two grounds. When I first got the internet I took out their 'unlimited' service knowing I would be hammering the intenet. Unfortunately in BT land 'unlimited' means 16 hours of a 24 hour period! Whilst I do not deny that I later became aware that there it was in the small print, I was totally miffed by the way the BT CSR's were speaking to me like I had just sent their son's to their deaths in an illegal war. Which is contrary to the initial sale where a) the finite detail of the small print was not included in the sales pitch and b) it would have been quite difficult as the sales rep had her tongue firmly up my arse!

When there was the scandal associated with PC viruses stealing from it's customers who were then left with massive bills, BT didn't go after the thieves, probably too close to home!!! No, they went for the victims as it was a softer target. Unlike other countries who saw this for what it was, which was pure and simple theft. And BT, the Big Trusted company did nothing but come up with some kind of plan for people to repay. So they win win win. I wonder if anybody ever considered the notion that it could have been an inside job? 

I was lucky when BT stole from me. My bill was £300 big ones.  Lucky? Well some people had been charged £1000's.   So like most people after they have been burgled, they tend to change the locks on the doors and windows and I changed service provider. If I were French then the state telephone company would have indeed assured me and I would not have been left with a big bill. So I changed the locks metaphorically speaking. I switched to SKY Talk on the premise that they would inded be completely taking over the telephone service within the next 12 months. This never happened and eventually I switched to Talk Talk. This has proven to be the best choice I ever made. It just works. Pure and simple. No hassle, no unwanted sales calls no postie with a broken back as the bills comes through, no just perfect. Not a hitch in 12 months. But! BT thinks otherwise, and in it's monthly mailing to me telling me that buy now I will realise I have made a big mistake and that my new provider is crap! WRONG!  In fact I have never been happier with a phone company since Ionica first hit the streets before dropping at the first fence.  No BT, you're still shite and wild horses would never get me back to you you set of thieving bastards!   Now please stop the monthly mail shot, as, in your current issue that landed on my mat, you are determined to reduce paperwaste and therefore want my email address so you can drop your drivel in there too as well as sell it on to make more money for the set of thieving robbing bastards at the top! THINK AGAIN!

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Gone but never forgotten!

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BARCLAYCARD

I was hoodwinked into a Barclaycard 0% balance transfer for 12 months lie by UK bank BARCLAYS earlier this year.  Pleased by the prospect following the credit crunch devouring its way through my life, I happily called them to activate my card and transfer my balance when the card arrived. The gentleman in India advised me that a zero % balance transfer was not applicable to this card.  I still had the leaflet I had picked up in a branch but he would have none of it. Now, I receive weekly junk mail from them.  Naturally I am well miffed by them and would advise you ensure you are actually going to get what you think you are.  Better still, get a better bank!

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AMIR KHAN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

I gather there was some people who demonstrated jubilation when our very own English hero, Amir Khan was knocked out in the fight last weekend.  How I despise such childish behavior so typical of some people in this country. Everybody cheering as somebody climbs their way to the top and behaving likewise when they have a tumble. 

This man is an absolute gentleman. He is kind and compassionate and he is a superb ambassador for England (indeed the UK). He is charitable and patient and above that, he is a superb boxer.  How people in this country shoulder people to the top and belittle them when they get there. So he lost a fight! Get over yourself. 

A few years ago, I was at my local Asda and our Amir was there signing copies of his book for the crowds. There was an amazing buzz in the supermarket that evening and an unbelievably long queue to get a copy of his book. He patiently and kindly met with everybody and did not demonstrate any kind of attitude that seems to be at the fore of people in western society.  But then he doesn't need to get lashed up in order to 'enjoy' himself.

When I have been abroad, I have always kept well away from the many Brits whose childish behavior is a national embarrassment as I like to consider myself an ambassador for my country. I don't subscribe to tribalistic behavior nor do I feel the need to consume vast quantities of alcohol to empower me to be the fountain of all knowledge with regard to the ills of this country. I do not need to crawl in the gutter and totally show myself up.  I will, however, scream and rant at my TV when I am watching our national treasure represent our country when he is fighting and he takes a punch. I am immensly proud of Amir and his acievements and I always will support him through good and bad times. After all, it is people like him that raises the profile of the English and we should be bloody well proud of him.

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9/11

Can it really be 7 years since the WTC was brought down in such tragic circumstances? It has just flown by. I think anyone who has never been to NYC can possibly begin to understand the scale of the disaster and how unbelievable huge the towers were not just height but the width of them too.

The truth will out one day. There is so much speculation surrounding this with so much evidence pointing to an inside job it is very easy to overlook the sheer horror of what happened. The innocent people who lost their lives and those whose lives will never be the same again. Today, that is the most important thing to remember.

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Envy

I feel quite envious at the moment. Not a particularly nice feeling, but at about this time every four years it happens. There is nothing I can do about it really. You see the US presidential elections seems to take a hold of all our news bulletins. Whilst there are those that disbelieve Mr Icke, it is a known fact that the majority of US Presidents since the founding Brits set up the place have links back to the Royal family. This is not an Icke revelations but a finding of a senior University in the US. So I guess we can expect to see this rammed down our throats up until the time he is safely in the Whitehouse. 

What a shame that we cannot muster the same level of interest as our American cousins but there again,  to delve into backgrounds and roots of the next American president is on a parrallel to delving into the roots and origins of the royal family. Whilst they are not going to surrender their position,  you know what those findings have been!

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RAMADAM 2008

Peace and Blessings to all this Ramadam.

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Cadbury Creme Eggs, Christmas Cadbury Creme Eggs!

Flipping heck! That's it! All down hill from here folks! The final Bank Holiday before Christmas. Can you believe it? I mean time really does fly by. Don't take my word for it. Even teenagers & early 20 somethings are noticing it. Now I am not implying for one moment that time has actually increased. Maybe our fuller lives are creating the illusion of time accelerating away. But boy, it really does seem that way. One minute it's christmas, the next Cadbury creme eggs are wheeled out, then ya on the beach soaking the rays, dressing the kids up as skeletons and violating the neighbors peace and then it's christmas again.

I always feel right fed up at this time of year. I love spring when things come alive and the trees begin to blossom. The nights get lighter and warmer (well in any other country on earth but the UK) and everything is well. I like the dry cold winter nights but these days it just always so dam wet and dark. Maybe that's why people feel the time is going by. There is just no correlation between the seasons as they seem to have all merged into one huge wet miserable cycle. Not that I totally dislike the rain. In fact I love rain. I am the first to smile when I see rain. But that is normal rain, not the constant rain we have had for a few years. Still, we always have global warming to look forward to.........

(whispers) we do still have global warming don't we?

(voice off!) Scientists are working on something more feasable!)

That's it from me, goodnight!

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SPAM

Well there I was, thinking my opinion counts so I followed the link and registered my email address to partake in frequent surveys. Great! 

I will change the world!! (Looks to camera!)

*TUMBLEWEED*

Ok! I will get my opinion out there?

*tumbleweeds' tumblweed*

Erm No! Basically my email address has been passed on to every filthy vile website out there. Including emails with virus attached!  

(Joanna Lumley voice.)  'You have 52 new emails!' 

Sadly not that popular!  Ok there's 2 from 'One heck of a Woman' and one from me mate in Manchester but the other 49 are just all   V14gra cli1oris p3n1le 1mpl4nts 3rea5t enl4rgem3nt and high street banks begging me to disclose my personal details! Now I don't wish to presume, but you do know your bank will never ever ever ask you to send personal details over the internet. No I don't think you are thick but then people are fooled. Usually those nice people with the rose tinted spectacles!

So think on dear reader, be wary of where you send your email details to or, set up an email address for anything other than personal emails. 

Now, have you seem my tin opener?

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The Credit Crunch Ate My Hamster - Shock.

Look into my eyes not around the eyes into the eyes, click you're brainwashed!  

As I awake from my slumber I had thought that most people were still asleep, but I was wrong.  Whilst the majority of sheep are asleep and live their lives by the box in the corner or the newspaper they read (aren't UK newspapers the pits?) many people are no longer fooled by the tosh and drivel that pours into their lives.

Speaking to colleagues about the Credit Crunch. We discuss its origins and if it actually exists. What is clear that the CC only exists in our minds and its there that this little device is sat waiting to create a reaction to other matters. It's comparable to the global warming myth, and how people react to questioning its validity despite the plethora of 'scientists' who argue the opposite. The government funded scientists will continue to argue its existence and award themselves with a god like status. The BBC and gutter TV like ITV & C4 (vomits) and presumably global TV companies will fly out a reporter to the poles and lecture us about greenhouse gases and warns us not to waste energy due to its impact on the environment and cuts to a shot of a melting iceberg. Meanwhile, the gagged scientists left locked in the cupboard are not given any airtime. 

The CC is a piece of fiction. It is created to get you to think in a different way. The BBC Breakfast news last week flashed up the word RECESSION in red yes red no really it was RED! to add kudos to its story. (Ah the power of three!) The ' be afraid, be very afraid, tone of voice really sets you up for the day. Worrying about your job and repaying the mortgage, the cost of that collapsable bidet from Asda.   But they have announced job cuts at Ventura. Not the first time!  A loaf of bread has gone up by ten pence. Don't buy that second ipod then.  People can't sell their houses. The quick buck scenario had to burst its bubble. The only people who benefitted was the estate agent (latin for thieving bastards) and the greedy selfish people who saw a property as a quick buck opportunuty. Stuff the fact that it keeps others in poverty. As long as 'I'm' OK then that's fine. As long as I can cream some of the profit to get that brand new car, then I will feel ok about myself!!  But truthfully, it would seem this manufactured state of mind is designed to make you scared and then the govt will step in, make it all OK and you will feel confident, comfortable and all sheep like again.  Good on you, but I fear you are so insecure in this whilst asleep, that you becoming either angry or defiant in your slumber. It's like you enjoy being controlled in this way. Like your day is not complete without your daily dose of brainwashing. I'm not saying stop watching Corrie or Eastenders, but just open your mind. I know that human sheep get very annoyed and anger when their slumber is disturbed, but you are being awoken for a reason. Stop the rot!

Freddy Starr, what are you doing here?

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SHILPA SHETTY

It's old news now, but hey! I never said I was the news. Just that I happened upon a picture of Shilpa Shetty and it reminded me of the shameful spectacle by the three vile women on celebrity BB a few years ago. I mean celebrity? I had heard of Shilpa and motor mouth kebab cockney sparrow jade, but didn't even recognise the other vile creatures involved in the embarrasing fiasco the Channel 4 alleges to be entertainment. But I remember the air of dignity and the class that just simply oozes out of Shilpas pores. The most magnificent stature and the breath taking beauty that she has and her dignified demeanor. In contrast, the British women were rough, un-educated, common foul mouthed boozed up creatures that seems to be the increasing norm in UK society. Oddly enough, what I believe was apparent was that Shilpas' standards may, just may have some connection to the Britain of the past. What a shame. We have so much to thanks India for and maybe could do with a few lessens on dignity and composure.

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LEEDS IS SAD

Ahhhhh! Poor Leeds. Its feeling so sad because it isn't going to have a tall skyscraper!  I know we have the vile poorly built cheap looking pile of dog mess called Bridgewater Place, but that's it. (Take a close look if you don't believe me!) 

Leeds proudly displayed all the plans for future skyscrapers in the Yorkshire Post etc. It looked like an exciting opportunity to me. But then, the amount of empty office space in leeds surely did not warrant this level of development.  Then there are the uninspiring 'apartments' (they used to call them flats until somebody got a few bob and went all pretentious!)  They are overpriced tosh.  The council flats in Leeds are better built and, whilst not as pretty, will probably outlive a lot of the recently added drivel that is a blot on the Leedscape! 

For those who have the misfortune of having to work in Leeds, you will know that the city comes to a standstill when it rains, snows or somebody coughs. This tiny little town may think like London but that's where the similarity ends. Yes I want a modern vibrant city, but I don't want every tiny bit of land or car park turned into another white elephant that the CT payers will have to subsidise or even fund the demolition of in the future. I want a Leeds where I can escape the rat race at lunch time and actually find somewhere to sit ffs! Somewhere that doesn't have a crane on it or over it. The area at the back of the train station was a car park before. Not pretty I admit, but was one of the areas of Leeds to create the illusion of space. You could even go and sit by the canal side in the warm weather.  The area that was meant to be Lumiere would make a superb recreational area. Plant trees and replace the foundations with park benches. The demise of the scheme may be a blow to the reputation of Leeds and its public servants, but I think there are many ways in which we, the citizens can benefit, and that is by the fact that the already overcrowded roads buses and trains will be minus the plethora of hard hatted yellow vested construction men, for the time being anyway. 

Leeds should consider removing some if its warts, the biggest of which is the Merrion Centre. This gilded prison has made Arnold Ziff extortionately wealthy. If the CT payers in Leeds new how much this man made from each floor per wing of Merrion House them you would know why he isn't popular with me.  Every dog has its day, the Merrion Centre along with its younger sibling the St John's Centre should be raised to the ground. The offices currently in use could easily be moved to vacant office space throughout the city.  

Maybe the councils public servants could use some of our money to commission the artist whose work adorned the ends of buildings around Kitson College and the Public Servants offices for decades to create the illusion of wealth, the illusion that all is well in Leeds. because, seemingly, a few tall towers would make all the difference. 

MR©

CREDIT CRUNCH? WHAT BLITHERING CREDIT CRUNCH?

Credit crunch. What the *&%$ is the credit crunch? This thing is so dangerous its eating our skyscrapers. It's more dangerous than a pandemic flu, HIV and Rabies combined. It appears on the BBC and SKY News, it's in your newspapers and on the radio. It's usually red in colour, large font. If you see it run for your life! If it is capable of halting concrete and steel, think what it can do to your mind?

Wake up! You are falling asleep at the wheel of life! The government indeed the whole bunch that run the world, (that'll be the illuminati then,) want you to feel so insecure. They want you to panic and not sell your house, buy that fridge or that new TV because they have you by the genitals!!! When they decide they want you to feel comfortable, they will tell you all is well with the world. They will tell you it's OK to move house or buy that TV. They will convince you that they have controlled this nasty Credit Crunching monster and it's safe to come out from the back of the setee. Well, it may as well be an episode of Dr Who because it's all fiction. This nasty monster is created for you to maintain the illusion of life. That those in power can create monsters and then tell you they have made it safe for you. That all is well thanks to them. You, feeling all warm and cosy and safe can then go and buy your new goods and be content with the world. They rub their hands together and slap each other on the backs and plans their next global disaster or evil war. I have to get a new flaming logo for me blog now. Because that is how it has affected me and people I speak to, people with open eyes, people who don't baaaa, they just say, 'what credit crunch?' Are we waking up at last? Meanwhile, on channel 4 .............

©SKC

Bit of an unusual subject to have isn 't it? I mean Islam?  Am I a muslim? Am I Asian? Erm, no actually. But I have a very open mind. So expect to see a few postings about Islam and it's wonderful people.

My Hero the Prophet

Permit me to mention the last Prophet of God, Prophet Muhammad. (PBUH)

OK, PBUH means Peace Be Upon Him. Peace in heaven that is. After all, the Prophet Muhammad gave the last 20 or so years of his life to receiving the word of Allah (God) via the arch Angel Gabriel. The Prophet was an illiterate simple man. And yet the words of the Holy Qu'ran passed through him by some higher devine spirit and were scribed by people selected for their ability to do this following each revelation. For example , comparable to the person taking shorthand to give a word for word account of a meeting.  These words became the Holy Qu'ran, and it is generally believed that these words are the most beautiful in the Arabic language. Pretty good for a humble illiterate merchant!! The prophet was extremely compassionate person and it is widely accepted that anyone who met him was completely in awe of him. 

During the last few years, I have broken with the British mould and actually opened my eyes to Islam. I am not a Muslim and cannot say if I ever will become a Muslim. But I have to say, that I have never been so moved by this amazing brilliant man. I have always loved Asian people and am completely jealous by their sense of community that eluded the Brits decades ago. I will always admire the way that Muslim people sit back, day after day, and watch their national newspapers, their national TV broadcasters and their countrymen, totally insult their very soul, and yet remain totally the epitome of what Islam teaches. Their belief system is to be envied for the way it unites and liberates peoples. Yet the western media are transfixed on those that abuse Islam and those nations who have made their own version of Islam.  They are obsessed with a few lads from the north as though these lads actually represented Islam.

Our governments tell us of all these 'threats', but cannot prove their existence. The American government commit mass murder and blame Islam to justify their greed for oil. And yet, I believe that Muslims are equally capable of trading oil as opposed to having it raped from the ground by the west.  Maybe we lost the community spirit as a result of our 'leaders' who hardly demonstrate it.  Or is this their agenda? To create 'their global community?' 

Whatever happens. no lying puppet like George Bush or Tony Blair will ever change the hearts and minds of muslims. Yet another victory for the last Prophet whose wisdom and compassion shines through every muslim 1400 years since his death. Now there is something to be proud of. 

©SKC