Via The Daily Mail: A group of Muslims have opposed plans for a pet food factory to be built as possible pork emissions will violate their religious rights.

Butchers Pet Care could shelve plans for a factory in Coton Park, near Rugby, because angry Asian families have complained to their residents' association about pork smells drifting into their garden.

Muslim residents in the area also claim the pork will effectively "rain down" on their homes and gardens after the factory's 100ft chimney has pumped the meat extracts into the atmosphere.

The Coton Park Residential Association said they have received complaints from Muslims - who are directed to not eat pork by the Qur'an - and are taking the matter very seriously.

One family who live less than 100 yards from the proposed factory, but who did not wish to be identified, said: "A significant proportion of meats used in the pet foods processes are pig meat.

"Our religion expressly forbids us to consume pig meat in any form.

"Because of the way in which this meat material will leave the factory and give that the area can be 'rained upon' we will be consuming pork via inhalation of this 'rain'.

**Maybe they need to look at this a tad closer. They will not be eating pork, all they will be getting is maybe a whiff of bacon the same as if they walked past a barbecue or an open window when an infidel neighbour of theirs was cooking.

"Not only that but our clothes will be contaminated by pork."

Another family from the Coton Park housing estate said: "The owners of the proposed factory do not dispute the claim that meat extracts of pork will be pumped into the atmosphere via a 100ft chimney.

"They have said there will not be any chemical treatment proposed to treat the meat extracts before they leave the factory."

Association spokesperson Grant Scott said: "Several families have complained because of the smell of the pork, and also if the factory is cooking with it, pork particles and odour could rain down on them from the chimney at some point.

"It was something we hadn't taken on board before but it's definitely important and is a very delicate issue.

"If Muslims are unhappy about it, then Jews may complain for the same reason, and Hindus may complain because of their beliefs about cows being sacred animals.

"There is a significant Muslim element in our area, so there is a potential problem."

Another Muslim family added: "A Muslim is obliged to be clean spiritually, mentally and physically.

"Abstention from eating flesh of swine is one of the obligations a Muslim must observe to attain purity of the soul and of the human nature.

"Therefore, we believe that not only will we be contaminated but also our faith by the owners of this proposed pet food plant.

"In this country we are allowed the right to follow our religion and religious beliefs. By allowing this plan to go ahead our religious rights are being swept to one side for what appears to be economic greed.

"We feel sure that there are other areas where this factory could be built that would not impact on us or others like us."

The Environmental Health Agency are investigating the potential affects, with a decision about the factory's future due in September.

The pet food company said there is an 'almost 99% guarantee' the smell of pork would not reach the Coton Meadows residential area.

A statement from Butchers Pet Care said: "The majority of our natural products are beef and poultry.

"Pork ingredients account for less than 10% of our range.

"At Coton Park we plan to introduce state-of-the-art odour extraction through the chimney stack.

"An environmental impact report has already concluded that emissions at the proposed Coton Park site should not have an adverse impact on air quality and odour levels.

"We would like to reiterate that we do not burn any animal materials."

**In short do as we say else we shall scream and scream and scream until we are sick. Welcome to Blair & Brown's "Cool Brittania.

Oh and one minor bit of trivia here, one of the UK's largest factories is in Tipton, home of the Tipton Taliban(maybe that's what started them off on the long road to jihad and Club Gitmo?)

Maybe it needs to be explained that they are in this nation and as it is not a moslem nation(yet) that they can and already complain but if they are not that happy then they could consider moving.

But that would never do not in Cool Britannia, we are not supposed to complain about mega mosques or anything else that moslem's do here in the UK, but the slightest hint of a whiff of bacon and they get their collective burka's all in a bunch. Frankly if they are unhappy I care not a jot.
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For civilized people everywhere, laugh at your enemies. A musical in the spirit of Mel Brooks.

Time to sit back and awaiting the seething and rage from the usual rage boy suspects on this one.
http://www.jihad-the-musical.com/

The plot sees its hero, Sayid al-Boom, 'lured by a veiled, poppy-exporting femme fatale' into the lair of a band of jihadis. He is then manipulated by a sinister reporter and so caught, emblematically speaking, 'between the terrorists and bloodthirsty global media'. Help apparently finally turns up in the form of 'a surrender-prone Frenchman' and his sister. The posters for the show bear the tag-line 'The West shall not be won (again) so long as we have a high-kicking chorus line'.

Worthy of a post if for no more reason than this song: Turned & ran.

Quick links:

• Purchase Tickets
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For more information, please contact:

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Hat tip to Rogue Gunner for this one.

**A data entry clerk gets 8 times the payout given to a soldier who lost a leg fighting for this nation. This makes no sense what so ever that a case of repetitive strain injury is worth more than a man losing a whole limb.

An RAF typist who injured her thumb at work is to be paid almost half a million pounds by the Ministry of Defence.
The civilian's award is almost 30 times the amount a serviceman would receive for the same injury.
It is eight times more than a soldier would receive for losing a leg and almost double the amount he could expect if he lost both legs.
The £484,000 payout was condemned by former soldiers, politicians and servicemen's charities who fear it will severely damage morale.
The woman, believed to be in her 20s, developed a repetitive strain injury while typing computer data.
She claimed it left her unable to work and caused her to become depressed, and she started legal action against the MoD.
Tory defence spokesman Liam Fox said: "I think it is indicative of a very weird set of priorities that those who are injured carrying out orders are less well compensated than those who are typing up the orders."
Critics claimed it was an insult to the 2,626 British servicemen who have been injured fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Defence analyst Major Charles Heyman said: "An award like this to a civilian who is never going to be in fear of her life drags down morale.
"It shows where the MoD's priorities lie and those don't appear to be with the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The soldiers will be shocked and astounded as they all know people with severe injuries who got nothing like that."
Jerome Church, secretary of the British Limbless Ex-servicemen's Association, said: "It would be laughable if it wasn't so outrageous.
"Hearing about this would certainly upset the soldiers coming back from war zones with serious injuries."
The woman was working as a data input clerk for the RAF when she developed an injury in her right hand.
It was later diagnosed as de Quervain's tenosynovitis - a repetitive strain-type injury in which the tendons at the base of the thumb become inflamed.
The woman claimed her injury left her unable to work and also caused her to become depressed.
She sued the MoD and it was revealed that she was awarded a total of £484,000 in compensation and associated costs.
Legal sources estimated that her total costs for the action would be unlikely to amount to more than £50,000, meaning she would pocket about £434,000.
This dwarfs the sums offered to serving members of the armed forces who could expect a one-off payment of just £16,500 for the same injury.
It is almost double the £285,000 a soldier can expect if he loses two limbs while fighting for his country.
The official tariff of compensation for injuries lists £28,750 for someone blinded in one eye; £57,500 for the loss of a leg and just £8,250 for injuries associated with surviving a gunshot wound.
Serving military personnel operate under what are called Queen's Regulations.
Under these rules they give up certain rights normally available to British employees.
MoD personnel are employed under civilian working laws which make suing for compensation easier.
An RAF spokesman would say only: "The MoD takes the welfare of our personnel, particularly those serving on operations, very seriously.
"Where we have a legal liability to pay compensation for a work related injury we do so."
Sergeant Trevor Walker, who lost a leg while serving in Bosnia, would welcome any compensation.
His limb was shattered by a shell from a Serbian tank as he was building a road with the Royal Engineers in May 1995.
Despite 13 operations it had to be amputated above the knee the following year and he applied for £150,000 compensation.
But the MoD refused to pay because it had decided - without telling troops - that the compensation rules would not apply to soldiers injured while serving in the former Yugoslavia.
If Sergeant Walker, from Gillingham, Kent, had been serving in Northern Ireland, which was at peace, it would have paid out under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Overseas Scheme.
His lawyers appealed to the High Court, claiming the Government behaved unfairly by changing the rules without telling troops, but lost the case.
The married ex-soldier has described the effect on his life of losing his leg: "Just the simple things, like playing with the kids to the extent that what you used to do, you can't do it.
"Walking from A to B, where previously I would have not bothered about walking four or five miles, just for a breath of fresh air, now it's a couple of hundred metres."
˜Private Steve Baldwin, 22, was badly injured in a bomb attack in Iraq which killed three of his friends of the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment in 2005.
Most of his body was scarred, he almost lost his right arm and was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. Compensation: £10,000.

**Now it states here that she was unable to type due to this, hardly the end of the bloody world to be fair. And this somehow led to depression, woe unto me and all that. Fuck that, bloody woman needs to be told to snap out of it and get a bloody grip.

Just as well she was not an "ethnic minority" or an illegal, had that been the case the MOD may well have had to pay the bitch billions.

Its bad enough that this happened, sadly I can see other cases like this where people are paid vast amounts for no valid reason happening. The MOD may argue that each case is judged on its merits, of which there were not many in my opinion, but now this judgement has been made the floodgates are now open for all the back office chancers, con artists, spivs and people just out for a fast buck to give it a go.

Our troops have enough to deal with as it is, cases like this must make many of them wonder why they bother to put the uniform on and risk life and limb when its not worth as much as some bints typing finger.

They continually get the shit end of the stick from both the top brass, the politicians who are out to oppose whatever war they are fighting in and attempt to portray them in a bad light and anyone else who wants to do down the armed forces.

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The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."

Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." Londoners have not been "A Bit Cross" since the Blitz began in 1940 and tea supplies all but ran out.

Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued "A Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the Great Fire of London in 1666.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender." The rise in alert status was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability.

Italy has increased its alert level from "Shout Loudly" and "Wave Hands Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing." Only one more level remains i.e.: "Change Sides."

The Germans also increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have just two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbor" and "Lose."

From Theospark
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Its been a while since I covered the dubious going's on at Keith "Dont call me Wilmot" Chorltons company Yes Loans -

However I this mailed to me and so: http://www.nplonline.co.uk/story.asp?id=1457

By Joe McGrath

An online community has gathered to campaign for changes in the working practices of one South Wales brokerage. Cwmbran-based, Yes Loans UK, has come under fire by clients and consumer action groups for accepting an administration payment of £49.50 and not refunding fees for up to six months, even when applications are declined. Consumers on the blagger.com site have also written numerous accounts of being put on hold for long periods on a telephone line that charges 10p per minute, with some clocking up telephone bills of up to £52.50 for one call. **Nothing like providing an expensive line for customer complaints. Customers have also raised concerns of the involvement in the business of shareholder, Keith Chorlton – a disqualified company director. Yes Loans UK is a completely separate company to the similarly-named Yes Loans and Mortgages, based in Cardiff. Gordon Bon, director of Yes Loans UK, admitted that some customers to the call centre have had difficulties speaking to a representative. He explained: “We are very sorry for people that are unable to get through. We have many thousands of calls. My understanding from our customer care team is that we are not able to return every UK call and we return a large number of calls.” However, Bon said many accounts on the blagger.com site were simply not true. He said: “The vast majority of them are inaccurate and it is not for us to comment on people’s inaccuracies.” **Although is it his place to comment on the BBC X-Ray program, featured further down or the bit run in the Daily Mirror or maybe even why Keith "Don't call me Wilmot" Chorlton is involved with the company? The increasing volume of complaints from lobbying customers however, has triggered a response from the Association of Finance Brokers (AFB). Robert Sinclair, director of the AFB, said there are a number of customers that appear to have difficulties understanding the way in which Yes Loans UK operates its business. He added: “The recent changes to Consumer Credit Act legislation are designed to encourage consumer to complain. This then allows the OFT to take account of any Financial Ombudsman Service judgements before the renewal of a consumer credit licence. “Should individuals have a legitimate case for complaint against any company, I would encourage them to do so to the Ombudsman.”

If everyone takes 5 minutes of their time out who has been affected by these con artists and sends letter/email or call to Financial ombudsman services, they have the power to stop renewal of the credit consumer licence, thereby making the company unable to trade. see link below for complaints form:

Complain to these people: financial-ombudsman.org.uk

As ever the ever dubious disqualified director Mr Keith Wilmot Chorlton keeps on laughing at the law.
If anyone out there has problems with Yes Loans, they can speak directly to Alan Paul Spedding at alan.spedding@yesloans.tv or alternatively they can call 01633 712937. I have pop'd a pic of Mr Spedding in above. (Or maybe not if the tale be true of him doing a bunk)

Check out the links:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/05/yes-loans.html and http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/04/keith-wilmot-chorlton-tribute.html or http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/04/yes-loansdial-keith-wilmot-chorlton.html
Or read about his ban as a director:http://www.ginfo.pl/more/273171,HONEYMOON,IS,OVER,FOR,COMPUTER,DATING,AGENCY,BOSS.htmlOh here is the bit on the X-Ray site on dubious company Yes Loans: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/x-ray/allarticles/stories/6p20_yesloans.shtml
But whats better is seeing the program on YouTube: http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/03/keith-wilmot-chorlton-now-on-you-tube.html
The bit on Chorlton getting banned as a director as reported in the Guardian: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,235408,00.html
The Mirror bit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/archive/tm_method=full&objectid=18183777&siteid=89520-name_page.html

Yes Loans.http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ddir/
Now on the first page when people search for "yes loans" in Google.http://www.blagger.com/db4/company_id/574/companyname/Yes-Loans.html
Now for the old links:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/03/no-love-in-air-for-keith-wilmot.html and here:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/yes-loans-x-raybbc-wales.html and here:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/keith-wilmot-chorlton-being.html and here:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/keith-wilmot-chorlton-disqualified.html and here:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/keith-wilmot-chorlton.html and herehttp://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/yes-loans-complaint-letter.html and here http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/01/yes-loans.html and here http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-on-yes-loans-and-convicted.htmlSome previous bits on Dial/Yes Loans and Keith "Wilmot" Chorlton:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2006/12/dialyes-loanskeith-chorlton.html and here http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2006/12/yes-loansdial-run-by-disqualified.html and here http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2006/10/keith-chorlton-post-2.html and here:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2006/10/someone-i-used-to-work-for-keith.html and also here: http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2006/11/cpw-carphone-warehouse-strong-arm.html
** Like to point out that Keiths accounts are now in with companies house. http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/findCompanyInfo.shtml

Oh here is the BBC X-Ray program that shows Mr Gordon "Bon" Bon hunting for his glasses.

Well the below link will take you to the companies house website, enter 04553449, and lo there be Keiths Yes Loans details. Although no brownie points for Crossit Target Marketing, as there accounts from 2006 are still overdue. There ref is 04137383

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/findCompanyInfo.shtml

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The people of Brent East must be really proud of their MP, who is learning Gujarati.

Liberal democrat MP, Sarah Teather is using the parliamentary recess to brush up her language skills.

Sarah, who has already had basic lessons in Gujarati, is taking an intensive two week course in Hindi at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Spoken Hindi is understood by people from both India and Pakistan

She proudly announces this in the Asian Image magazine, that she is learning the language as a way of communicating with her constituents who it would appear see no reason to learn English and the MP thinks that in order to protect her index linked pension and get in next time she needs to pander to ethnic voting block.

She quotes "It's important that an MP is able to represent and communicate effectively with every single one of their constituents. Lots of people aren't confident about speaking English." - Well that is all very nice dear, but why should they as citizens of the United Kingdom not be expected to speak English?

Then she follows on with this:"If you can speak a little of their language often they will try some of yours in return, which makes it much easier to communicate." - Again that is very decent of them, one would expect that they should speak the native language as part of living in this nation. The message she gives is that you need not fit in, we as a nation will adapt to your ways, your culture and we will change to suit you.

Learning another language is in of itself like learning anything to be praised in the main, however when it comes at the expense of local culture and heritage that is a different issue altogether.

Although it does come down the question of: Are you part of the problem or the solution. Liberal democrat MP, Sarah Teather I suggest is part of the problem.

Tags: Brent East, Sarah Teather MP, Gujarati, Hindi, Dhimmi

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The OFT is taking a test case on bank charges, the site is here, this will affect the following banks:

The following are parties to the agreement with OFT for the test case:

• Abbey National plc
• Barclays Bank plc
• Clydesdale Bank plc
• HBOS plc
• HSBC Bank plc
• Lloyds TSB Bank plc
• Nationwide Building Society
• Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc

They say at the end that they hope to have come to a view on fairness by about the end of the year.

We would then take appropriate steps to enforce our view, including enforcement action if the banks do not voluntarily co-operate.

Now I can not wait for this test case to happen. The corporate thieves and yes I have no worries about calling them thieves, who pass themselves off as banks have for far to long used their position to steal the hard earned money from their very customers on the thinest of pretexts.

The banks will argue that their charges are "fair", of course to anyone who ever has had the situation of something going wrong, being mis advised or in some other way being landed with a charge that can be anything up to 38quid for the smallest infraction of the banks rules will know that the fair arguement doesn't cut much ice.

Never mind the fact that it is the banks fault that the account was in error and thus charges were incurred, as far as these corporate thieves are concerned well thats not their problem, as the advert says "It doesn't work like that."

Having won my case, to the tune of 900 notes but not as yet recieved an apology from the corporate thieves at Barclays Bank Plc I hope that this case nails the banks greedy hides to the wall and they have to pay up each and every claim made against them, plus those people who have been charged and who may feel that they will not win a case.

That is a part of the problem that the banks rely on that a lot of people will either not notice a "one off" charge or just think that they can not win and so leave the charge in place.

The main arguement is that the charge covers costs, well having a computer print out an automated letter and posting that first/second class to the customer when they go 1 penny over the limit or draw out 10 pound to much at the cashpoint sure as hell don't cost the banks 38 quid in costs.

They will argue as Mark Benton does on the Nationwide adverts that "It doesn't work like that.", they will I am sure let people know that fiscally raping their account of money does in fact help customers.

I have actually heard them argue that fact, stating that charges encourge responsible saving, in much the same way that rape encourages well planned familys, and I have seen letters where they argue that penalty charges are in the customers best iterests! You as customers can always go here to see about reclaiming the money illegally stolen by your bank. There are templates and a simple e-mail to the banks complaint section or letter off to them and the job is started.

Tags: Bank Charges, Banking, Information Commissioner, Charges, The Financial Ombudsman

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Hat to to Dizzythinks

The Downing Street website aside from being in English also has an Arabic version(useful for all those exploding NHS doctors) and also they now have a French version too.

But no Welsh? As all the road signs and almost every other public sign in Wales has been put into Welsh and English one would think that the office of the PM, would cater for people who speak native languages.

Come to think about it Galic and Cornish are not their either, best not let the Cornish liberation people find out about that one.

So I think that everyone should sign this petition calling on Gordon Brown to stand on his head and juggle ice cream

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"Freed Guantanamo inmates take up arms, again:

AT LEAST 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.

They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday.

Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan.

"We are aware of dozens of cases where they have returned to militant activities, participated in anti-US propaganda or engaged in other activities," said Commander Gordon.

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Rage Boy has been in the news, it would appear that he is not to happy at being used as a parody figure. Maybe he needs to think back on what Oscar Wilde said about how it was better to be talked about than not talked about.

Then again Oscar Wilde, an infidel and a homosexual. Maybe not a good idea.

Even the BBC have covered Rage Boy.

So naturally here are some that he is not to happy about: From Snappedshot.com, Islamic Rage Boy roundup.

Below a couple of humble efforts based on recent events...
And the cat Oscar that can predict when people are going to die...
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. Story here

and my pervious parody of Islamic Rage Boy.

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All is not well with the one eye'd warrior of holy jihad, it would appear that the great jihad warrior is well crying like a little girl over his treatment. Like all jihadists he is just a gutless sniveling coward at heart.
Source

The wife of Abu Hamza, the jailed Muslim cleric, has complained about her husband's treatment in a high-security London prison.

Hamza, 49, dubbed the "preacher of hate", is serving seven years for inciting the murder of non-Muslims.

In a letter to a London-based Islamic organisation, Nagat Mostafa, 46, said her husband claimed to be the victim of racist bullying and Islamophobia in Belmarsh jail.

**That would islamophobia, something that the bigots of radical islam and the liberal fools who support them believe in. Not a mention mind you of the people killed or maimed by radical islamic terrorists.

Her letter to al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies was sent shortly after Hamza - who is fitted with hooks on both hands - underwent surgery in May to remove an inch of bone from his left arm stump, which had become infected.

**Lets just hope old Capt Hook went through a world of pain.

She wrote: "I would like to bring to your attention the current plight of my husband…

"The reason that his arm needed further amputation was because of the removal of his prostheses, resulting in him constantly putting pressure on the remainder of his fore limbs. As there is no soft furnishing in his cell, he has been suffering considerable pain… After surgery, before he had even recovered from the anaesthetic, he was returned to Belmarsh, only to be told he had to move from his cell to another one. He was so weak and unable to stand that he refused, resulting in him being put in solitary confinement…

"My husband says the racist bullying and Islamophobia against him have intensified."

The contents of the letter were disclosed by the Maqreze Centre, which called the cleric's treatment "unjust" and said it feared he could die behind bars.

**Best place for him to die, although far better than he be deported to the Americans who will fit him with a luxury cage at Club Gitmo.

**Look at that face, who could believe that is the face of a terrorist?!?!?

Ms Mostafa married Hamza in an Islamic ceremony in 1985, a year after he divorced his first wife. The couple have seven children. Hamza, who preached at Finsbury Park mosque, north London, was jailed in 2006 after being convicted of 11 charges of inciting murder and race hate.

An estimated one in six of Belmarsh's 920 prisoners is Muslim. Prison officers gave warning last week of the threat of extremists "radicalising" inmates.

Steve Gough, the vice-chairman of the Prison Officers' Association, said: "If you go to Belmarsh you'd see 20 going to Friday prayers a few years ago. Now you'll see 150.

"Put it this way, we're a power station and you don't want us to explode. The radical Muslims make the IRA look like kittens."

Tags: Abu Hamza
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Terrorism

No mention of the fact they(Abu and family) are sponging benefits off of us kuffir

Strange how there is not any mention of Abu's homophobia

**Quick joke: The Met police found a bomb outside Finsbury park mosque.

Luckily they managed to push it inside before it went off.

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Pulling the strings of useful idiots.

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Whilst large parts of the UK lack drinking water, whilst people wonder how they are going to get their lives back to together be they insurered or not. Whilst business men and women wonder how they will manage to start trading again once the flood waters receed, the government is of course spending money on the important things...

What important things, well ID cards of course. Sod the floods and the mere plebs who have been affected by that: Computing reports:

"The government has spent £53m on consultants for the national biometric identity card scheme, and continues to use 83 external contractors at a cost of nearly £50,000 per day.

The figures are more than double the value of the original £19m pre-procurement consultancy contract signed in 2004, according to data released to Computing by the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act."

List of those self serving amoral bastards, sorry beloved MP's who voted for ID cards: List of over paid pigs with their heads deep in the tax payers pockets.

Oh and lets not forget the 10 grand that MP's voted themselves so they can set up webshites to "inform us" of what is going on in parliment. Another vaste waste of public money.

Meanwhile MP's fiddle while the UK floods, happily throwing billion after billion at the Olympics ever spiraling bill... "The cost of staging London’s Olympics is expected to soar even higher, campaigners warned yesterday. The TaxPayers’ Alliance claimed the final bill could top £12.6billion — a figure based on over-runs for the 2004 Athens Olympics and a hard-hitting report by the Government’s official spending watchdog.

The TPA’s claims the original budget may have to be quadrupled came amid growing concern the “revised” budget was under severe strain. Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has revealed Treasury panicking over costs means the main stadium will not have a roof." - Daily Express

Then we have the billions pissed away on pet projects abroad, bribes to shifty dictators, slush funds for dodgy Saudi's, private jets for African dictators. In short what is jokingly refered to as aid to undeserving, shiftless types abroad: £5.3 billion a year by 2007-08 compared to £3.8 billion in 2004-05; an average annual increase of 9.2 per cent in real terms over the three years of the Spending Review period - the highest budget increase in percentage terms of any government department.

But wait it gets better, by better I mean the level of government ineptitude that is: In 2002, the European Union set up a "solidarity fund" to come to the aid of any member state in the event of a major national disaster. The fund, paid for in part by British taxpayers, has an annual budget of one billion euros, and was used in 2002 to help flood victims in central Europe.

**Ok so where is the money?

It will intervene in cases of natural disasters with serious repercussions on living conditions and includes money to restore infrastructure, including energy, drinking water and sewerage.
**Ok so where is the money?

Some are 350,000 people are in Gloucestershire now without running water since a treatment plant was swamped, and it is estimated that they will have to wait a week before the problems are fixed.

**Ok so where is the money?

Our being the poor man of the EU, costs each one of us £873 a year. In 2002, the European Commission allocated 728 million euros to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and France following the floods which caused huge amounts of damage in those countries.

Last year, it gave 92.88 million euros to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden following storms which devastated the areas.

**Ok so where is the money?

The estimated cost of the floods in the UK is currently at £2 billion, well within the amount required by the EU for emergency funds. So why has our Government not done anything about this?

**Ok so where is the money? Well the plain answer for that is that they dont care about people here in the UK, so long as they have their index linked pensions, annual pay rises on top of inflation and what ever else the elected pigs can snaffle up then its a case of fuck you the tax payer.

Requests have been written to the FCO, who have so far done nothing were last heard laughing long and hard at the suffering of the people of the United Kingdom. Any pro europeans or New Liebour scum fancy arguing these points?

One final point here, having looked at a lot of politico's web pages there seems to be very little on most of them about the floods, lots on some about the rights of some bloody cow called Shambo but bugger all on helping our own people. Shame on them.
Tags:New Labour, Flooding, Cool Brittania, Assholes, Politics

Update, just this week these storys of waste have hit the news(hat tip Burning our money)
EU water directives blow £65bn- "Water bills have already been soaring in recent years. But by far the greater part of that money has been spent, not on repairing pipes and drains, to avoid floods and provide us with extra water, but on complying with three over-the-top EU directives on water purification. As the Government admitted to Lord Pearson of Rannoch, these directives have so far cost us no less than £65 billion, leaving the water companies with only £14 billion to spend on infrastructure." (Sunday Telegraph 29.7.07)

£24,000 bonus for flood quango chief- "SENIOR executives at the Environment Agency face new controversy after it emerged last night that they received five-figure “performance bonuses” shortly before the recent floods hit Britain. Baroness Young, the quango’s chief executive, got a bonus of about £24,000 on top of her £163,000 salary. A further eight executives, including the director of water management, shared in the bonus handout last month. The average paid to each executive was equivalent to 10% of their salaries, although Young received 15%." (Sunday Times 29.7.07)

Metal tree costs £350,000- "Plans approved for a 21 ft tall metal sculpture tree, surrounded by floodlights in cleared woodland... The creation, called Tree Stories, is part of a £12 million "Greening for Growth" initiative to improve the environment of Stoke-on-Trent. But angry locals have likened it to the Blackpool Illuminations. They say it makes a mockery of a campaign by the council to encourage residents to cut back on their own energy use by driving less and not leaving their televisions on standby. With eight 26 ft high lights and 30 floor lights, the £350,000 project does not appear to be a shining example of carbon-neutral policy... In all, 20 trees will be removed to make way for Tree Stories." (Sunday Telegraph 29.7.07)

£6m on limos for Ministers- "The government spent nearly £6m last year on cars and drivers to ferry ministers around. The cost of providing 86 ministerial cars in 2006-07 was £5,902,900 - up from £5.47m the previous year." (BBC News 26.7.07)

£484,000 for typing injury- "A CLERK in the RAF has been paid £484,000 compensation for an RSI-style wrist injury—nearly NINE TIMES what a soldier would get if his leg was blown off in action. The scandalous payout, which will astonish troops who have been mutilated in Iraq and Afghanistan, went to an unnamed typist in her twenties who developed the strain in her right hand. Yet a serving soldier who comes home from war suffering "permanent severely impaired grip in both hands" would receive only £16,500 compensation. The official tariff of payments to servicemen and women shows they can expect just £28,750 for blindness in one eye, £57,500 for loss of a leg and £8,250 for injuries sustained surviving a gunshot wound to the torso." ( News of the World 29.7.07)

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From UK Commentators

1.	TESTOSTERADO Juan	1942	SMITH KLEIN FRENCH	186h 04' 16"
2.	MANGROVE-HORMONE Hugh	39341	DOW CHEMICAL	86h 06' 06"	+ 01' 50"
3.	BLUDD-DOPING Lord	1161	UNFORTUNATE DISCOVERY TEAM	86h 07' 05"	+ 02' 49"
4.	STEROIDO Anna-Bollick	3491	TEAM MERCK	86h 10' 18"	+ 06' 02"
5.	MODAFINILA Testa	74541	QUATERMASS LABS	86h 10' 45"	+ 06' 29"
6.	EPO Umberto	1823	GARNIER LABORATORIES	86h 14' 34"	+ 10' 18"
7.	GONADOTROPHIN Alotta	44327	MOBILE TEAM	86h 15' 52"	+ 11' 36"
8.	POPAPILL Igor	11.328	BRITISH DRUG HOUSES	86h 17' 03"	+ 12' 47"
9.	SULPHATI Amphetamini	21439	ROCHE MATERIEL	86h 17' 47"	+ 13' 31"
10.	HYDROGESTRINONE Tetra	7535	BAYER AG	86h 17' 58"	+ 13' 42"

**Breaking News: Rider passes drug test shock

Tags:Tour De France
Drugs
France

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This made me laugh.
Technorati Tags: Florence Nightingale

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A little tale for those who think that ID cards will keep us safe of an evening, this chap was hired and used his position as a university lecturer in computer security to engage in fraud.

Came into the UK on a 6 month visa, and after his six months was up was never tracked down and deported.

Used a false passport to try to obtain a driving license and that was the only way his crimes came to light. Thankfully someone was awake at the DVLA and so they caught him. Story here

A university lecturer who specialised in computer security was jailed today for committing a string of identity fraud offences.

For three months Nigerian Eni Oyegoke tutored students on identity theft at the University of Glamorgan in South Wales after gaining the position using a false passport.

Oyegoke, 28, of Great Ormes House, Ferry Court, Cardiff Bay, was sentenced at Newport Crown Court today after admitting 13 fraud, deception and theft offences at an earlier hearing.

He was imprisoned for a total of two years by Judge Roderick Denyer QC.

The judge warned Oyegoke that he is likely to be deported when he is released.

Prosecutor Tracey Lloyd-Nesling said Oyegoke came to Britain five years ago on a six-month visa.

He enrolled at the university in 2005 as a PhD student but his talents soon saw him landing a part-time lecturing position at its school of computing.

His downfall came, she said, when he applied to the DVLA for a British driving licence using a false passport number.

The court heard a DVLA worker tipped off immigration officers who investigated Oyegoke and raided his home, finding a counterfeit driving licence.

The inquiry also revealed he had stolen nearly £22,000 on two credit cards he obtained from internet bank Egg in the name of his former landlords while they were in Australia.

Of the counterfeit driving license, Miss Lloyd-Nesling said: “He said it was made as part of his thesis.

“One of his roles was to set students tasks giving them a celebrity and then seeing how much they could find out using a computer. Often, it was not a very difficult task.”

Leighton Hughes, defending, said Oyegoke had turned to crime to pay his tuition fees after spiralling into debt.

“He is young man who, on the face of it, has gone off the rails,” said Mr Hughes.

Mr Hughes also said the defendant’s girlfriend is pregnant with his baby.

He added: “He made the gross mistake of taking advantage of his knowledge and knowledge of others to gain two credit cards from Egg.

“He is an intelligent man and he has a talent which he used in the wrong direction.”

Judge Denyer told Oyegoke: “One always has sympathy with somebody who desperately wants to advance their prospects in life through the education system and you clearly are a man of some considerable ability.

“I’m afraid when we come to the Egg credit cards, it seems to be good old-fashioned fraud.”

Jane Farleigh, the Border and Immigration Agency’s newly appointed director for Wales and the South West, said: “The Border and Immigration Agency will seek to deport any foreign national who commits a serious offence in the UK as early as possible in their sentence.

“They must obey the laws of this country like everyone else.

Department: School of Computing
Job Title: Research
Telephone: 01443 483408
e-mail: eoyegoke@glam.ac.uk
Room: J133
Qualifications: Msc, Cissp, Ccsp

Oh here he is in all his glory, amazing what a quick Google cache search will find. Lets just hope that his next employer does a Google search on the light fingered chap.

**Alas I can not see him being kicked out as he has(or rather will have) the baby card to play and the bleeding heart liberals will howl about his human rights - breaking up a family etc. So yet another criminal from abroad will be allowed to stay in Blair & Brown's cool Britannia.

“This case shows that we are working extremely closely with the police and other agencies to catch anyone flouting our laws.”

**Just noticed that he is a Nigerian committing fraud, strange that. I have to say that I really am shocked that a Nigerian would stoop to such things. And you know what whilst he is inside maybe he can catch up with things back in his ancestral homeland with these chaps:

Man who used false passport is jailed and this chap who stole someone s ID, yep another Nigerian

Technorati Tags: Illegal Immigration, Illegal Alien, Identity Theft, England, Cheeky
Tags:Eni Oyegoke, Nigeria

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Mashup of Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter shocks a nation
Some adult humour, not safe for work so don't click this when the boss is about.

Hurrah, found the embeddable player on You Tube, by some group called cassette boy.

Thanks to The ghost of the hitch for the link, and I vowed never to mention Harry Potter ever.
Tags:Harry Potter Wanks, Steven Fry,

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Now the mad mullahs of the middle east must rather miffed at this, they have been demonstrating and protesting about Sir Salman and think that the whole Islamic world is behind them in this.

And they are, well mostly that is...except for Blackburn, where no one turned up for an protest about Salman and which had been publicised in the local paper. Even the chap who organised it never turned up. Well maybe there was something good on tv, or maybe it was raining, yes that was it - can't be to careful you know.

I wonder if this a world record for the biggest protest failure ever?

(Story below)
A PROTEST against novelist Sir Salman Rushdie's recent knighthood proved to be a wash-out.

A march had been planned in Blackburn by Tasaddiq Rehman, spokesman for local group the Muslim Council of Europe, on Saturday afternoon.

But nobody turned up at the meeting point of Bangor Street Community Centre, nor at the town hall where a demonstration was planned.

It appears that not even the organiser himself had attended, despite telling the Lancashire Telegraph that he expected high levels of interest in the march.

The British government's decision to appoint Sir Salman a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature" last month sparked controversy and fury among Muslims worldwide.

Oh there is a petition in support of Salman Rushdie's knighthood. It is open for signatures until 25 August.

Tags:Sir Salman Rushdie, Islam, Fatwa, Assholes, Satanic Verses
Ali al-Hadithi
Bashir Mann
Dr Abdul Wahid
Dr Ahmad ar-Rawi
Dr Mamoun Mobayad
Dr Muhammad Abdul-Bari
Massoud Shadjareh
Maulana Faiz Siddiqui
Muhammad Sawalha
Saleem Qidwai
Sheikh+Abdulhossein+Moezi
Sheikh Shafiq-ur-Rahman

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Get over to Shambo_to_the_slaughter for the latest on tb reactor, tag no: 742266 200001. AKA Shambo the poison cow.

Tags: Shambo bovineTB Skandavale

This brilliant parody was found here

The decision by the Welsh Arsembly(and copied below)

Date of decision:

25 June 2007.

Statement of information:

Skanda Vale TB reactor bullock
Under section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 (as applied by Article 4 of the Tuberculosis (Wales) Order 2006), Ministers have discretionary powers to cause to be slaughtered any animal which is (or is suspected of being) infected with TB, or which has been exposed to the infection of TB. In exercising this discretion, Ministers are required to act in accordance with EC law and the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).

A bullock kept by the Community of the Many Names of God, Skanda Vale was confirmed as a TB reactor on 27 April 2007. The policy of the Welsh Assembly Government, in common with many other countries, is that cattle which have tested positive for TB should be slaughtered to protect public health and the health of other animals. The Community has made representations to Welsh Ministers requesting that they exercise their discretion not to slaughter the bullock in this case.

In making this decision, the Welsh Ministers are required to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article 9 ECHR protects the right to religious freedom, which includes the freedom for an individual or community to manifest that religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance. Article 9(2) ECHR provides that the freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

The Sustainability and Rural Development Minister is accordingly being asked to decide how the Welsh Assembly Government should deal with the TB reactor at Skanda Vale, in light of the Welsh Assembly Government’s normal policy and its obligations to comply with the ECHR.

Even Skanda Vale have admitted that the cause is lost and quite rightly so. New age tree huggers admit its a lost cause, but still squeeze some free publicity out of it.
Above we see the Hindu supporters of Shambo, praying for its life. A round of "Kum by yah" no doubt doing the rounds there.

Of course as you can see they are mostly white, middle class chattering class types, who drive a Volvo(which is offset as they follow a green lifestyle don't ya know - oh and the Volvo is scandinavian so it must be eco-friendly) and they need it for the school run of course, well little Tarquin and Angelstar cant use public transport along with the family's and children of the plebs; then bang on about the rest of us being evil for our once a year trip to the Costa Del Pissed.

One can be sure that they are all modern parents and as committed environmentalists, you can bet they all support public transport, but do not use it themselves because they have "Sensitive Persons Syndrome" or some such tin foil hat nonsense.

The same people who after banging on about being green, mention that they are also hindu, before banging on in a superior way about how small their carbon footprint is(a case of global smugness rather than global warming).

Like hippies everywhere they want to look deep and meaningful and so "get religion", alternative religion of course none of your monotheistic religions for them(after all they all start wars don't ya know and actually require some effort on the part of the people who follow them ) but something that allows them to follow the leftist world view of colletive group think, hatred of the US and the capitalist system and from the far east thus having that appeal of being non-western and so it allows them to look down at the rest of us, to protest against stuff without having to really do that old fashioned religion thing.

Now I blame John, Paul Ringo and co for starting all this nonsense back in the 1960's when they wandered off to India to do drugs and listen to some bearded chap explain the universe and its meaning to them.

Having listened to a few of these loons on the tv and radio they do tend to have a tendency to talk with their eyes closed and noses stuck in the air, as if they were preaching to the ignorant bigotted, meat eating nazi masses of unenlightened people.

**Update: Talking of bayin' madmen with beards, my loony lefty MP and proven libelist bleated on and on about the oppression of religion, the nasty police and the power of the farming lobby. Typical Nu Lab, no respect for the rule of law but never misses the chance to get some free pr. He whitters on about desecrated temples? This is hardly the middle east, or Kristallnacht! A legal warrant was served and the law enforced.
Here we see a shot of the "god" Shambo. If its smites the men from Defra then I am convinced its a god, if not then serve it up as a JD Wetherburger...

**Even people of their own faith think they are wrong on the tb reactor Shambo...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6917226.stm

A Hindu educationalist has said that monks protecting a "sacred" bullock due for slaughter after a positive TB test have interpreted the religion wrongly.

Jay Lakhani told BBC Radio Wales Shambo should be put down for the "greater good" and that farmers had considered that wider picture.

The credibility of the religion had been put on the line by the actions of the Skanda Vale monks, he said.

As John of Gwent said and this is the finest fucking quote on the whole Shambles, sorry Shambo affair: shambo the hindu god has about an hour and a half before he joins the great vat in the glue factory...Brilliant.

But will the carcass end up here: The Spoof, Shamo Mars Bars?

Last ever ever Shambo joke (we hope)

Why is Shambo greater than Jesus?
'Cos Jesus only managed to stay dead for 3 days!

okay one more

have you noticed how the weather has got better since the vets sacrificied
the holy TB ridden reactor? If we want a good rest of the summer lets go in
there and slaughter the rest of the blood-coughing holy herd!

*Well I have herd enough about Shambo, off to cover some udder subject. Need to go out so I' ll put a jersey on, it's Friesian out there! Anyway cheer up everyone now it has been confirmed as dead(some bad moo's from the BBC website), they can turn it into a game of fling the cow

Shambo's End? or maybe was this how they put Shambo down.

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