Fracking. The Pros and Cons. There Really is no Pros.

Fracking. The extraction of shale gas from dense geological strata. This has at last reared it's ugly head in the UK. A company called Cuadrilla are at present trying to open numerous wells to get to potentially valuable pockets of shale gas. Previously, they drilled two test wells on the Fylde peninsula near Blackpool in the north west of England. Both test drills caused minor earthquakes. The first was only about 1.5 on the Richter scale, the other was about 2.4 and it caused minor structural damage. Needless to say, the public started to take notice of this practise and uncovered some rather negative points about the whole business of farcking. The first was that the procedure uses millions of tons of fresh water and once the water has been used, it is contaminated to such an extent that it cannot be used for human consumption. Also, it was discovered that the process releases methane gas into the atmosphere. The fact that it is colourless and odourless means that the general public cannot tell when they are breathing it in. It causes serious neurological problems for anyone exposed to it. The soil around the drill sites is also contaminated to the point of being useless for growing anything. People in Queensland Australia have found out to their cost what fracking brings to their communities. The loss of all fresh water and severe illness being just two of the negatives. Plummeting property prices being another. Would you want to live near a fracking site? The only benefit I can see are the huge profits for the various companies involved. They come, drill and then leave a virtually uninhabitable wasteland.
The company involved in the UK, Cuadrilla has a managing director called Lord John Browne. Tony Blair made him a lord when he worked for BP. He is now an adviser on business ethics for David Cameron and he has a seat in the cabinet. He is completely unelected and yet he sits at the highest table of government. It's the ethics part of his remit that bothers me. First of all, when was there ever any ethics in business? The other thing about him is that when he took charge of BP, he had a mantra that he spouted at every opportunity, it was "profit above ALL else." As soon as he took over the reins of BP, standards started to slip. Maintenance budgets were drastically cut and accidents started happening. Accidents like spillages and machinery breakdowns, however, profits rocketed and that made it all right. I highlighted his past to emphasise the point that surely his sitting in the Tory cabinet is a conflict of interest with his main job with Cuadrilla? This corruption at the highest level.
There is a little town in Sussex England called Balcome that is the first battle being fought to rid the country of this disgusting practise. There are hundreds of demonstrators, many of them camping out at the entrance to the proposed fracking site. The local police have arrested numerous demonstrators for so called minor offences and they are using strong arm tactics to do it. I think that the government and Cuadrilla realise that if they lose this battle, they will lose the war, and it is a war. Public opinion is 80% plus against fracking and growing. This story will run for a good while yet and I will post any updates.
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The UK's so called royal baby.

The news yesterday that the duchess of Cambridge had given birth to a baby boy left me indifferent at best and openly hostile at worst. There has been almost total coverage on BBC, Sky and ITV to the exclusion of every other news story on the planet. To say that the coverage has been over the top is, in my opinion, an understatement. The celebrity worshipping UK public have become hysterical in it's admiration for what is actually just another woman who has given birth. I am full of admiration for every woman, including my ex-wife who gave birth to our daughter in 1982, that gives birth. It's a little miracle. However, this birth is being celebrated as if it is the second coming of Christ. It isn't. It's a little boy who will be privileged beyond belief. He will want for nothing, get the best medical treatment our money can buy and be educated at the best schools and universities in the country. It's not his fault that he was born into such disgusting wealth, just an accident of birth.
My point is that while he will be fed the best food, 350,000 families in this country will have to rely on food banks. He will be kept warm throughout the coming winter while hundreds of  pensioners will die because they are scared to turn their central heating up from fear they will be unable to pay the bill. The royal family received a £5,000,000 pay rise while public sector workers had to make do with a 1% pay rise. I have nothing against this little baby whatsoever but, this country's government needs to get it's priorities right.
They won't. I already know that, because Cameron is an elitist and he doesn't even bother to deny it now. The crunch is coming, and it will not be pretty. The housing bubble is being inflated again and it will be far worse when the bubble bursts this time. No bailouts, which will lead to hyperinflation and extreme poverty. Civil unrest on a grand scale is a certainty. It's a nightmare scenario and I see no way out.
This is my opinion and believe me, If I am proved completely wrong I will be delighted. I sincerely hope I am.
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The Victorian Era is Called "The Good Old Days" I Don't think so. Not Much Better Today.

I have heard in the past from people, mainly elderly relatives that they were born in "The Good Old Days" and I seriously wonder if they truly believe it. The good old days lacked for instance, indoor sanitation, a national health service, union representation, holiday pay, sick pay. I could go on but those examples will do for starters. If we go right back to Victorian Britain, we would have experienced cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria, polio, to name a few killer illnesses. Housing was primitive to say the least, with large families living in two roomed and three roomed tenements with little or no sanitation or washing facilities. My great grandmother said that when she was a child, her and her brothers and sisters were bathed once a week in a galvanised metal bath with the eldest child first and the rest in order of age, in the same water because he mother and father could not afford to heat more water. Health care had to be paid for. You couldn't just turn up at a doctor's surgery and consult him for free. I think I have made the point that it wasn't a bed of roses living in the past. My point for bringing this up is the fact that our society is rapidly heading back into that bygone era. The austerity measures being used by our government are pushing our standard and cost of living back into the dark ages. Our health care system is being undermined by corrupt managers and MP's. There have been numerous cases of patient mistreatment and at Mid Stafford health trust, around 1,000 patients were found to have died unnecessary deaths due to poor levels of care. More and more health care services are being put out to private tender. Privatisation by the back door. There is virtually no chance of our children, once they grow up, of having access to affordable housing. The cost of food nowadays is forcing at the last count, at least 300,000 families to rely on food banks. I could go on and on but I think I have made my point. There will undoubtedly be more to follow on this subject.
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Mass graves from 1948 found in Jaffa. Israel

Mass graves from 1948 found in Jaffa
When is Israel going to be held to account for the crimes against humanity they have committed since the very founding of the country? It is disgraceful that the UN have been continually silent about Israeli violations of UN directives. Could it be a fear of the Jewish run Anti Defamation League who brand anyone critical of Israel, anti Semitic? Well, they can brand me anything they want because I will continue to criticise the Israeli government until they end the disgusting treatment of the Palestinian people.
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CIA Rendition Flights. Ex Head of MI5 U Turn. Draconian Child Care.

If people in the UK thought that the adverse publicity concerning CIA rendition (torture) flights landing at UK airports had persuaded the CIA to stop them, they were wrong. It turns out that they still occur at RAF Leuchars in Fife and also at Dundee airport. My question to Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond is, why is he tolerating it? People are being tortured on Scottish soil and Salmond is turning a blind eye. How much are they paying you?
Next on the agenda is the dramatic U turn of the ex head of Britain's MI5, Dame Stella Rimington. On the 16th February 2009 she was quoted in the Daily Telegraph saying that the UK's progress to becoming a police state was wrong and had to be fought. The Daily Mail have now quoted her on 28th May 2013 saying that the only way to combat terrorism in this country is to actually become a police state. She has obviously been got at and told to toe the official line. What will she say next?
Back to Scotland now. Paul Joseph Watson has written an article I read on the propagandamatrix website stating that it is the plan of the Scottish government to assign every newborn child born in Scotland, a "state minder" I will provide a link to the article. If anyone thinks that this is just a Scottish initiative they are wrong. This is just a pilot scheme to see if it works, and if so, it will be wheeled out everywhere.
www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/may2013270513_state_guardian.htm
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The link I provided is dead but it can be read at Prison Planet website. Sorry about that.

The EU. In or Out for the UK.

The war between the "in the EU" and the "out the EU" factions continues apace here in the UK. First of all, I am in the "out" camp, but, and this is a big but. The Conservative Party in this country have been seen as the party of the upper class and the well off sections of society. They have continuously denied it but it is definitely and undeniably true. Taking that into consideration, it is not surprising that when the "minimum wage" was introduced, the Conservatives were against it using the "business will suffer" argument. Didn't really make a difference because the Conservative government amended the tax laws to compensate. They were also against most of the rules and regulations to do with the European Court of Human Rights and workers rights because it made it difficult to get rid of so called "troublesome workers." My point is that if and when we vote to leave the EU, a Conservative government will ride roughshod over all the laws imposed by the ECHR. Minimum wage will go, workers rights will be drastically reduced and Trade Union law will make it virtually impossible to go on strike.
Being in the "out" camp, I have probably made a very good case for staying in the EU, but, my belief is that the EU, and Barrosso stated this last week, is headed for federalisation and this is far worse that anything the UK Conservatives could come up with. All of Europe governed from Brussels and no sovereignty for individual countries. Foreign troops on the streets of cities all over Europe to control the population. One more step to a one world fascist government, which brings with it, UN Agenda 21, Codex Alimentarius and drastic population reduction, 80% at least. A nightmare scenario.
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The State Opening of Parliament. The Queens Speech. Farce.

Today saw the state opening of Parliament in the UK. The usual array of grown men in fancy dress fawning all over the queen. She was sat in a throne whose value would have matched the GDP of a small country. As for her, she was swathed in ermine and silk topped off with gold and jewels, the value of which I cannot begin to calculate. To cap it all she spouted off about the deficit coming down, in actual fact it's at an all time high. Welfare reforms was next, "reforms" really mean cuts and the driving of the most vulnerable in this country into abject poverty. We are facing austerity on a grand scale while the queen is being given a £5 million pay rise. The elite are no longer trying to hide their theft of taxpayers money, it is right out in the open. For someone who has wanted for nothing during her 80 odd years to sit their and say we have to tighten our belts is the ultimate insult to the decent people of this country. She never once mentioned the innocent victims of a growing number of prominent paedophiles. Not a mention of her involvement with Jimmy Saville. Her silence on the subject could be taken that she has something to hide. I believe she and her moron of a husband do have something to hide. I am sick to death of seeing this woman strolling about flaunting her considerable wealth in front of people who are being forced to rely on food banks to survive. It's time the people of this country woke up and took back what is rightfully theirs. Freedom to work and earn a fair days wage for a fair days work. It won't happen while we vote for these public school idiots and the so called lefties on the other side. Three parties, Labour, Lib Dem and Tory, stand them together and you couldn't tell the difference. Look at their policies and yet again you couldn't tell the difference. I can't tell you my solution, if I did, I would be arrested. I might just hint about my solution in further posts.
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