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The eBay Hypocrites.

The Telegraph report today that eBay have said that the lack of a universal 4G service in the UK will cost the UK economy £120 million.

Another Christmas without a universal 4G service will cost the UK economy £120 million in lost sales, according to a study.

Slow connection speeds are set to pose a barrier for many consumers wanting to shop via their mobile phones, and a nationwide roll-out of 4G would have boosted sales from £373 million to £493 million, the report by online auction site eBay claims

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Is this the same eBay that avoids paying it’s fair share of tax in the UK ?

From the BBC

US auction site eBay has paid only £1.2m in tax in the UK, according to an investigation by the Sunday Times.

The newspaper said that its tax bill in 2010 comes despite eBay’s UK subsidiaries generating sales of £800m.

The auction site – which also owns PayPal – responded that it “complies fully with all applicable tax laws”.

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Am I the only one who thinks that the tax avoiding eBay are hypocrites ?

They want those that do pay their fair share of tax to foot the bill for the 4G rollout so that they can make more profit while paying as little as possible themselves.

Do We Need a New Reformation ?

On this day, the 31st October, exactly 495 years ago, in 1517, a German monk in his mid thirties left his accomodation in the early morning, wrapped against the dawn cold in his woollen cowl he briskly walked towards the castle church in Wittenberg. On arrival he withdew from the folds of his habit a hammer, some nails, and a document and he proceded to nail the document to the church door. The monk’s name was Martin Luther, the document would become known as the 95 theses, and those hammer blows would reverberate down the centuries.

Before we set about examining the question within the title, it seems appropriate that we should look first at the situation which prompted Martin Luther to write the 95 theses. The terms ‘catholic’ and ‘protestant’, today, seem to me to define religious, almost tribal, allegiance but the word ‘catholic’ comes from the Greek word καθολικός meaning ‘univeral’ and it was first used in the second century AD. The word ‘protestant’ literally means protester and only came into use after the events described in the opening paragraph.

As the church increased in power so it attracted the ambitious and corrupt. Luther was particularly enraged by the selling of indulgences. He felt that the sale of indulgences was a gross violation of the original intention of confession and penance, and that Christians were being falsely told that they could find absolution through the purchase of indulgences.

Today, almost 500 years later the central banks and financial elites are similarly corrupt. Capitalism has been undermined.

Isn’t it time that we had a new Reformation ?

As we approach the quincentenary of this momentous event, shouldn’t we be demanding wholesale reform ?

And what do you think should be in a new 95 theses ?

Ted Heath’s Home is Closed to the Public

The Mail online have revealed today that the home of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Kincora Boys Home, the Right Honourable Sir Edward Heath KG, MBE, PC, will be closed to the public.

To fully appreciate Arundells [the name of Heath’s home] you really have to have visited Cathedral Close in Salisbury, in my view one of the most beautiful, idyllic, and thus exclusive places to live in the entire UK. The aerial photograph below only gives a small indication of how breathtaking Cathedral Close, which is medieval walled and a restricted area, literally in the shadow of Salisbury Cathedral, truly is. Cathedral Close is a Mecca for tourists visiting the Cathedral itself, Stonehenge, Old Sarum, many museums, and the beautiful City of Salisbury.

But, according to a very trusted source, Ted Heath was not always a good neighbour. He often complained about the noise especially while the Salisbury Festival was on.

Now, you can believe that this decision taken by ‘The trustees of the Sir Edward Heath Charitable  Foundation’ is designed to pre-empt an impending scandal, the equivalent of Savile’s family sending his headstone to the landfill before the the incensed public had a chance to deface it, or you might, like my source, believe that this is a rehashing of old news by The Mail.

When you think about it, both scenarios are intriguing.

It seems to me that The Mail are trying to send the public a message.

Are you getting it yet ?

The Can of Worms Which is the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal

Today, emboldened by public outrage, the Savile revelations, and Tom Watson MP’s question at PMQs, The Mail on Sunday carries the allegations that former MP and aide to Margaret Thatcher, Sir Peter Morrison, was implicated in the North Wales Paedophile cover-up.

A former Tory Minister last night made  incendiary claims that one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest aides was implicated  in one of the most harrowing child abuse scandals of recent  times.

Rod Richards, a former Conservative MP and  ex-leader of the Welsh Tories, made the shocking allegation that he had seen  evidence linking Sir Peter Morrison to the North Wales children’s homes case, in  which up to 650 children in 40 homes were sexually, physically and emotionally  abused over 20 years.

Mr Richards also linked a second leading Tory  grandee – now dead – to the scandals at homes including Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn  Hall, both near Wrexham.

More at the Mail

Believe me when I tell you that this is a huge can of worms for the UK Government. So much so that  Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC imposed an injunction on the press from telling the public the truth. That is the reason why the ‘second Tory grandee’ despite being named by Rod Richards has not been named by the Mail because there is a specific injunction against the press naming him, even though he is now dead and can’t sue for libel.

PUBLIC FIGURES NAMED IN PAEDOPHILE RING

Guadian, October 15th, 1997

Policemen, social workers and prominent public figures have been accused of belonging to a paedophile ring which indulged in a relentless campaign of physical and sexual abuse in children’s homes in North Wales.

The names of the alleged members of the ring have been given by witnesses in public sessions of the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal, but they have been suppressed by the tribunal’s chairman, Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, who has threatened the media with High Court proceedings if they print them.

The Guardian today publishes for the first time detailed evidence about the alleged ring, which is said to have been based in Wrexham, and to have infiltrated local children’s homes over a 20 year period.

Witnesses claim that members of the ring used their connections with police and social services to conceal their activities. All of the accused have denied the allegations.

Those named to the tribunal include: A man who bears the same surname as a prominent Conservative supporter. Two witnesses have told the tribunal of a rich and powerful man who belonged to the alleged ring.

The son of an influential peer who admitted to police that he had been having sex with an under-age boy from one of the homes. Despite his admission, he was never prosecuted.

A powerful public official who has previously been cleared of abuse. Six witnesses have given separate accounts to the tribunal of his alleged rape of young boys. Another has reported him attending parties in Wrexham which were supplied with boys from a children’s home.

Two social workers and two police officers, one of whom was accused of abuse on four separate occasions and exonerated each time, another of whom has since been jailed in another part of the country for gross indecency with a child.

More than a dozen other local men, including an executive with a local authority, a senior probation officer and a director of a major company.

All those named as members of the alleged ring have denied the charges, either in evidence to the tribunal or through their lawyers.

When the tribunal was established last year, it had been assumed that the press could report its proceedings, using the laws of privilege which allow them to name names from court cases and public hearings without fear of libel actions.

However, Sir Ronald then ruled that the media could not report the name of any living person who was accused or likely to be accused of abusing children in the North Wales homes unless they had previously been convicted of such an offence.

Since then he has extended his ruling twice: he has granted anonymity to one man who died 16 years ago and to another who has twice been convicted of sexually assaulting boys from a North Wales home.

Sir Ronald has argued that his ruling will encourage alleged paedophiles to come froward and give honest evidence without fear of retribution. Critics say this is unnecessary, since he has the power to compel witnesses to attend, and that those who have come forward have done so to deny the allegations and not to make a clean breast of their alleged offences.

One lawyer who has been involved with the tribunal said he feared that the anonymity ruling was actively discouraging witnesses. “Newspaper readers may well have information of potential value to this tribunal. They may themselves have been the victims of abuse, or they may have worked with the alleged abusers. But if the press is not allowed to inform them of the names of those against whom allegations are made, they will not learn that their information is important. So they will not come forward.”

The tribunal was ordered by the last Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague, after Clwyd county council decided not to publish the report of an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse in its children’s homes. The tribunal, which has been hearing witnesses for eight months, is expected to continue to take evidence until January.

Source – Here

But with the Foreign Secretary implicated by his role as the former Welsh Secretary, will the full horrible truth finally come out or will, as I suspect, the potential consequences be so incendiary that the cover-up will continue, albeit with one or two worms escaping from the can ?

What I can say is that there will be a number of prominent people, including at least one sitting MP, a peer of the realm, and members of the Bar and Judiciary implicated in the scandal and subsequent cover-up who will be extremely concerned at the turn the public mood has taken and the Government’s apparent inability to keep a lid on it all by keeping it contained to TV celebrities.

Understand that the press have known the names of those implicated since the Waterhouse cover-up. They have been muzzled and they don’t like it and now , perhaps, they see there is an opportunity to finally reveal the truth.

In the year following the Waterhouse report, 140 compensation claims were settled with victims of the abuse.

Remember, that Tom Watson MP has explicitly said that he was not alluding to Sir Peter Morrison when he spoke of an aide to a former Prime Minister implicated during the Peter Righton investigation. Source [that is an altogether different can of worms. Information on that can be found here.]

All of those implicated in the North Wales scandal happen to be Tories and so you may rightly ask why the Labour Party haven’t exposed those who were implicated……………or you might ask instead what the Tories have on Labour Party politicians because the only thing that has kept the lid on all of this is mutually assured destruction.

The modus operandi of the foot soldiers of establishment cover-up always blame and discredit the victims but right now the public have more sympathy and a greater understanding of how child abuse can go on and effect an individual in later life. Yes, after being abused from a young age some of these boys from care homes went on to become rent boys, took drugs, and have criminal records. This is hardly surprising considering they were buggered, abused, and passed around from pillar to post until they left the care home system and then dumped on the street, and yet the consequences of their abuse is then used to show that these are not ‘trusted’ witnesses.

I just hope that the public remain understanding and sympathetic to the victim’s position. 

Jimmy Savile Fixes it for Ted Heath.

Derek Laud Tweets on BBC Paedophile Scandal.

Derek Laud Twitter

Who is Derek Laud ?

Laud is a long standing family friend of Samantha Cameron’s family and a personal friend of David Cameron and attended their wedding at Ginge, in Oxfordshire. He has a wide circle of friends in the celebrity, political and business communities.

During his career, Laud has contributed to speeches for several well-known Conservatives, including Margaret Thatcher………..

……………….Laud has a wide circle of friends in the Conservative Party. The list of Tory friends with whom he is known to go on holiday and socialise with is illustrious, and includes Lord McAlpine, Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo……

……. In 2001, he provided an alibi  for his friends Neil and Christine Hamilton when they were falsely accused by Nadine Milroy-Sloan of sexual assault.

Wikipedia

Update: There are a lot of people coming to this story today, and long before an interesting tweet today. This post was not put up without reason, why not go to home page for my latest thoughts.

Berlusconi Is Sentenced !

Met Police Announce Paedophile ‘Arrest Strategy’.

Is The UK Out Of Recession ?

Hmmmm, what happens next ?

Who Was Sir Peter Morrison ?

Sir Peter Morrison

Tom Watson, at today’s PMQs, alluded to a paedophile ring with links to parliament and number 10. He has catagorically denied that the person he was alluding to was Sir Peter Morrison. He has written on his blog; “I am not naming the person for obvious  reasons but for clarity it is not former MP, Peter Morrison.’This afternoon my office has been  bombarded  with calls regarding Morrison, I think because he was named by Edwina Currie at  the weekend as having inappropriate sexual relations  with teenage  boys.’I’ll say more when I can but this may not be  for some time.”

Neverthless, as his name has been raised, here is some information about him.

Morrison, who died in 1995 aged 51, was one of Thatcher’s most fervent and earliest supporters – urging her, as a young backbench MP, to stand for the
Conservative leadership in 1975. After an uneventful ministerial career Morrison became Thatcher’s parliamentary private secretary (PPS) in 1990 and, fatefully, was chosen as her campaign manager in the Tory leadership election later that year. From the outset Morrison took a relaxed view, believing Thatcher’s re-election was in the bag, on one notorious occasion being found asleep in his office on a day of high political drama. Morrison left the Commons at the 1992 election. His successor as Chester MP was Gyles Brandreth.

Telegraph

According to journalist Simon Heffer, Morrison was gay and went cruising in Sussex Gardens. Fellow Conservative MP Michael Brown, himself openly gay, has described Morrison as gay in a column published in The Independent. Investigative journalist Nick Davies reported in the Guardian that Morrison received a caution for cottaging with underage boys in public lavatories. Similar claims were made by Edwina Currie in her autobiography, as reported by the Sunday Times.

Morrison died of a heart attack early in the morning of 13 July 1995, aged 51.

Wikipedia

So, Right Prime Minister but wrong paedophile aide Mr Watson ?

Savile: Paedophile AND Necrophiliac

At last somebody has gone on the record and said what everyone understood to be true. Jimmy Savile was not only a paedophile but also a necrophiliac.

Some bloggers, including myself, have alluded to this in passing, hoping that you, the reader, would pick up on it but now Paul Gambaccini has come out and stated it publicly.

A former BBC colleague of Jimmy Savile has  claimed the predatory paedophile was a necrophiliac.

It is  one of the most extraordinary allegations to have come out in the wake of the  scandal.

The claim was made on  Radio 5 Live today by Paul Gambaccini,  who started working as a DJ on Radio 1 in 1973.

Paul Gambaccini made the astonishing claims about  Savile, right, on Radio 5 Live today

Mr Gambaccini, 63, said he was aware of the necrophilia claims in the  eighties.

He questioned why newspapers had not acted  when he said a reporter had boasted that his colleagues were aware of a story  linking Savile to ‘necrophilia’.

His comments astounded presenter Nicky  Campbell who tried to stop the  conversation by warning the allegations were not in the public  domain.

Campbell said: ‘That particularly lurid  accusation that you have just brought to people’s attention is one that has not  been in the public domain.”

Gambaccini agreed and asked ‘why not?’. And  he asked: ‘Who vetted the knighthood? Coco the clown?

Full Story Daily Mail

The subject of necrophilia, having sexual relations with dead people, is probably the last and greatest taboo in our society.

Figuratively, the term “necrophilia” describes an inordinate desire to control another person, usually in the context of a romantic or interpersonal relationship; the accusation is that the person is so interpersonally controlling as to be better-suited to relationships with nonresponsive people.

The Psychology of Necrophilia

Jimmy Savile preyed on vulnerable young people who he knew would never be believed even if they did speak out, he also used his position as a hospital porter to have sexual intercourse with corpses, because dead people can never resist or complain.

This is just about as dark as human nature can get and you will no doubt be revolted, as I am, but don’t expect anyone who can corroberate this to come forward. Some people might come forward and admit that they saw Savile acting inappropriately with children but they will not admit to colluding with Savile in this matter.

A spokesman for Stoke Mandeville Hospital said: “We are not launching an  investigation into claims that Savile was a necrophiliac.  We have never received any complaints as to that nature.”  Were the victims capable of complaining ?

My heart goes out to the families of the victims, I hope you get the answers you need.

Jimmy Savile obviously had no moral boundaries and it is only a small leap from passive necrophilia, preying on those that have already died, and murder.

Mr Tickle and the BBC.

Mr Tickle went to work.

He sneaked up behind the receptionist and, putting his hands under her jumper, he tickled her chest !

“Oh, Mr Tickle,” laughed the receptionist with difficulty, “You are naughty and very powerful in this corporation”.

Mr Tickle laughed too. The receptionist was certainly not a lesbian.

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Mr Tickle then walked to his radio studio.

On the way he saw a young girl who was doing work experience.

She had her back to him as she photocopied some documents.

Quickly, Mr Tickle approached……………..

…..and he stuck his hands up her jumper and tickled her chest too!

The work experience girl turned around very quickly, “Oh , it’s you Mr Tickle”, and she began to laugh.

Mr Tickle laughed too, she definitely was not a lesbian and Mr Tickle thought that she would go far in the BBC.

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Mr Tickle approached the radio studio and saw that Little Miss Professional was still doing her show.

Mr Tickle quietly entered the studio and crept up behind Little Miss Professional as she was talking to the public.

Very quickly, Mr Tickle stuck his hands up her jumper and tickled, and tickled, AND TICKLED !

But Little Miss Professional did NOT laugh ! 

She could not react in any way because she was talking to people on the radio !

Mr Tickle left the studio, HE was laughing.

“Little Miss Professional must be a lesbian” he joked

And everybody laughed.

The End

Buy Your Own Blow-Up Prime Minister !

Cameron Threatens EU Veto.

George Entwistle’s Dilemma.

Former Senior Jersey Police Officers Speak Out.

A prominent member of the yachting fraternity

Jersey’s former Chief Officer Graham Power and former Deputy Chief Officer Lenny Harper, both brought in to investigate Haute de la Garenne child abuse,  and who the Jersey authorities have done so much to try and discredit but who are increasingly looking like the only honest senior cops ever to have served in Jersey, have spoken out.  Lenny Harper says, in a must read article,

 “Savile chose his victims with great care; vulnerable and often troubled youngsters many in care homes. If they complained they were labelled troublemakers, or brutally put down. We know from court cases and statements made to my team [during the 2008 inquiry] that children in Jersey care homes were ‘loaned out’ to members of the yachting fraternity and other prominent citizens on the pretence of recreational trips but during which they were savagely abused and often raped.”

“When these children complained they were beaten and locked in cellars [at Haut de la Garenne], which the Jersey authorities denied existed in 2008, but which can still be seen on YouTube footage. What chance did they have? This would have been the perfect hunting ground for Savile. The great and good of Jersey fawn over anyone with even loose connections to British royalty. Saville would have been a VIP to them and children would not have stood a dog’s chance of complaining about him. It would have been so easy for him.”

Full story Daily Telegraph

The impression that the Jersey authorities give is that the entire Haute de la Garenne abuse case is a storm in a tea cup BUT despite this attempt at rewriting history the facts are clear: Seven former members of staff at the home have since been convicted of abuse, and to date compensation has been agreed for over 100 victims, with many more civil cases pending. Police had allegations against 150 individuals. “The former Jersey Chief Officer Graham Power says the fact that more than 100 victims on Jersey have now received out-of-court settlements and a significant number of civil cases are still pending illustrates the scale of the abuse.” Quite, and it possibly means that the terms of those ‘out-of-court’ settlements might hinder a criminal investigation.

Everybody with knowledge seems to be reluctant to name names. Harper continues describing a senior “no holds barred” abuser,

“I can tell you that two staff members who abused her at another home have been imprisoned, and the authorities have agreed financial compensation for her. But another man in a position of authority who regularly visited Haut de la Garenne and abused her there is still free and now employed in a responsible position by the state.”

The Telegraph article also goes on to make the link between Haute de la Garenne and other children’s homes, specifically Islington. However, I can do no better than to supply you with a link, Here, in the Daily Mail, by ‘award winning journalist’ Eileen Fairweather, who first made this connection in 2008.

Rumours are swirling around every quarter of the establishment, and, as the only person who seems to have supreme power in Jersey is the Queen, failure on her part to remove William Bailhache who is the island’s Attorney General, and also Deputy Bailiff to his own brother Bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache from office without delay could be seen to reflect badly, or worse, on the royal family.

How Did He Get Away With It ? Jimmy Savile’s Photo Album.

Tony Blair

Ted Heath

Gordon Brown

Margaret Thatcher

Harold Wilson

William Hague

Prince Charles

Prince Philip

Pope John Paul II

Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey

 If anyone has any photographs that they think should be added then please reply with a link.

Google: Are You Feeling Lucky ?

Merkel’s ‘New’ Financial Plan

If Merkel’s ‘new’ plan of setting aside money in the good times to help Europe through the bad times looks familiar, the below quote might explain it.

²⁵ Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do: ²⁶ The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years; the dreams are one. ²⁷ And the seven thin and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty heads blighted by the east wind are seven years of famine. ²⁸ This is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do. ²⁹ Indeed seven years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt; ³⁰ but after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine will deplete the land. ³¹ So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the famine following, for it will be very severe. ³² And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

³³ “Now therefore, let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years. ³⁵ And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. ³⁶ Then that food shall be as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine.” – Genesis

The only problem is, that you are supposed to implement this in the times of plenty, and not the times of want. So it’s not really a viable solution.