Strangely Perfect

It Was 50 Years Ago, Today …when mankind left the gravitational confines of our Earth. A poor boy from the steppes, Yuri Gagarin, simultaneously became the first man in space and the first man to leave Earth and orbit it completely.  (This is something that took NASA several steps before John Glenn finally emulated the [...]

How Summer Camps Could Change Britain by Christopher M. Green (Convenor of the Summer Camps Forum and Founding Director of The ATE Trust) Download Links to Original Chris Green Articles: Letter to MPs February 2010 Suggested letter format to lobby your local MP on behalf of Chris Green’s summer camps’ initiative. How Summer Camps …inline [...]

CIA Guilty of Torture and Kidnap – Damages of 1.5 Million Euros Amazing news today.  An Italian court has bravely taken on the leader of the Western World and convicted 22 CIA agents of kidnap and torture. (see CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap). The man on the left with the wacky beard and hat, [...]

Freedom and the Law In stark contrast to the US which still insists on draconian measures against people thought to be bad (the lowest of the low Rumsfeld called them), the UK has had a landmark ruling for common sense in a democratic, freedom-loving country. Nine Law Lords have unanimously ruled it was unfair for [...]

Greater Embarrassing-Viggers Duck View Duck Island in a larger map The Greater Embarrassing-Viggers Duck, has returned from it’s summer feeding grounds of America with it’s close relatives, the Greater and Lesser Failure-Bankers Ducks to it’s spiritual home,  Duck Island. Duck Island, close to the expensive monogrammed well cover in Cloud Cuckoo Land, now has a [...]

I’ve just had a hit from someone looking for Colony Holidays…  Sooo I’d better write this down fast!  I’ve been meaning to do it for a while. Colony Holiday Etc A few years back I fished around on the web to find out what had happened to the CCHS, Council of Colony Holidays for Schoolchildren.  [...]

Chinese Censorship: As part of the BBCs “take” on the international views on the new, 44th President of the United States, their China correspondent Michael Bristow has reported that his inauguration speech was censored in China. Apparently, the English version on the Xinghua News site is okay, but the Chinese version for the locals has [...]

Despite the huge sums of money thrown at the banks and the immensely costly rescues of many by their respective national governments, the share prices of those banks and the rest of the stock markets in general, continues to be volatile, but with a general downward trend. Why so? It’s because the market makers are [...]

In another twist in the constantly churning world of the “Credit Crunch”, it was revealed on Sunday that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has NO FAITH in the banking system!  Yes.  It’s true. Apparently, as revealed in Sunday’s Le Journal du Dimanche, his bank account was hacked by cyber-criminals and “only a small amount of money” [...]

What is Something Worth? Only what someone is prepared to pay for it at one moment in time, apparently!  And I think that’s the only judgement call to be made. Judge approves $1.3bn Lehman deal Summary: In a ruling yesterday, Leyman’s, the bank with a problem of confidence, has been flogged for $1,300,000,000 to Barclay’s [...]

This Associated Press article,  Analysis: North Korea nuclear deal falling apart, points out yet another consequence of the failings of policy and purpose from the outgoing George W Bush USA administration. As I pointed out in the second part of my article, bbc-science-disguised-as-validation-for-911-bush-continues-to-lose-influence, it’s the continuing failure in all areas of American life that have [...]

Continuing along with the theme of Cutting off your nose to spite your face the UK government wishes to extend the reach of the US “intelligence” services by making a nice big database of everyone’s phone calls, text messsages, emails and web page browsing history.  The WebUser website picked up on this story. Fortunately, Seagate [...]