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New Coins 2008-04-02 14:44:32 Cranmer has a post about the new British coins
I quite like them but it seems I have not taken on board the relevance.
It is a creation of postmodernity, which evidences a willingness to combine symbols from disparate codes or frameworks of meaning, even at the cost of disjunctions and eclecticism. It [...]
EU news Links 2008-04-02 12:32:34 “It’s too early to tell because the data is incomplete, but it looks like there’s been maybe a 1% rise in emissions in 2007 compared to 2006,”
Oh well what do you expect!
European Commission authorises Polish State Aid for coal industry
Perhasps given the last item?
Belgium issues early veto against Blair bid [...]
Another load of our money goes on EU propaganda 2008-04-02 11:31:52 The EU propaganda minister has just announced the Commissions new propaganda initiative is to be launched with a budget of €7.2.
Debate Europe is part of the commission Plan D a propaganda programme started to boost the EU public image after the Constitution was voted down in 2005.
The propaganda minister said the idea was [...]
An Independent Jury 2008-04-01 12:59:01 Now let me see :
A new award announced - The University Association of Contemporary European Studies - is delighted to announce the short-listed nominations for the
‘Reporting Europe’ awards, honouring excellence in reporting on the European Union in the English-speaking media. The 2008 UACES-Reuters ‘Reporting Europe’ award acknowledges high quality, informed journalism on any [...]
EU Soldiers Accused of Torturing Civilians in Congo 2008-04-01 03:19:38 The Swedish military has accused French soldiers of torturing civilians during the EU-led Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, one of the bloc’s first joint missions.
Five years ago, the European Union sent some 1,500 soldiers to DR Congo as part of a UN mission to take action against the bandits [...] Read more:Soldiers
, Civilians
Vote Labour for safer streets 2008-04-01 03:03:59 Harriet Harmon deputy leader of the Labour
Party, it seems feels it is necessary to wear a flack jacket when walking the streets
of her own constituency in broad daylight.
She has apparently insisted she does not need to wear protective armour and only did to as a courtesy to the several police officers who [...] Read more:safer
EU Funding of NGOs 2008-04-01 02:27:18 NGO Monitor has released a draft report this week examining European Union (EU) funding of political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The fifty page report, ‘Europe’s Hidden Hand’ reveals for the first time that between 2005 and 2007, the EU provided tens of millions of Euros from public money to NGOs whose activities directly contradict [...] Read more:Funding
Exposed! Labours Immigratin Policy 2008-03-31 19:25:49 In the last couple of days the Telegraph has printed two articles about the economic affairs committee of the House of Lords report into the impact of mass immigration.
Put together the reports total 1500 words, it is quite amazing that in all those words they could not find room for just two more “European [...] Read more:Policy
Its all England’s fault who would have guessed it? 2008-03-31 14:51:33 Apparently according to some the The English are to blame for Scottish nationalism it our fault that they want independence.
Whilst the Freedom and Whisky Blog argues the avoidance of the word England
in Scotland has been one of the main contributors to the growing desire for independence in Scotland, there [...]
The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation Part2 2008-03-30 10:13:36 Why do I say the EU is anti-democratic, it is worrying that so many do not know or do not care about basic democratic principals that the question could even be posed - Abraham Lincoln defined the fundamental characteristic of democratic government in his Gettysburg address;
it must be - of [...] Read more:democracy
The EU an Anti-democracy Organisation Part1 2008-03-30 09:57:39 The EU an Anti-democracy
Organisation
My standpoint of opposing the European Project is based on one single fundamental issue and that is the whole project is constructed on and supported by its being anti- democratic. Anti- democratic, because it is designed to remove the power of the people from any influence. Other than [...]
And in 1973, the UK joined the European Economic Community 2008-03-28 18:33:50 And in 1973, the UK joined the EuropeanEconomic
Community
This week Gordon Brown launched a nation wide public debate on the British Constitution.
I say launched perhaps I should say re-launched because he was referring to the Governance of Briton a green paper published in July last year.
Having read [...]
A Meaningless Opt-out 2008-03-27 09:20:51 What is the point of our government acquiring an opt-out from EU legalisation and then transforming our national laws to fall into exact alignment with the original EU legalisation?
It would be reasonable to assume that the opt-out was negotiated in the first place because the EU laws were not acceptable to our government, it [...]
Challenge to Eurosceptics 2008-03-26 12:38:25 Possibly foolhardy but you cannot dispute the chupaz of one Europhile, a certain J D Bovington, Horsforth has issued a challenge to EUsceptics.
He wrote in the Yorkshire Evening Standard apparently for the umpteenth time I challenge eurosceptics to state which new sovereign power is being transferred exclusively to the EU. There is no [...] Read more:Challenge
Local community strongly Eurosceptic? 2008-03-26 07:03:23 The letters page of my local newspaper the Shropshire Star has developed into a reasonable significant online community
platform for debate on matters related to our government global warming and the EU.
The original letters slowly drop down the list over a period of a week or two as new letters are added, so [...] Read more:Local
What is Jack Straw doing tomorrow? 2008-03-25 09:18:19 Today Jack Straw
, Secretary for Justice, is consulting throughout the country on a statement of values that define British citizenship and on the case for a full British bill of rights and duties setting out rights and obligations for all citizens.
Is he going to be using the telephone ; internet or has Santa loaned him [...] Read more:doing
, tomorrow
After Horse has Bolted 2008-03-25 04:15:51 The British Prime Minister waxing lyrical about a United Kingdom, in the Telegraph perhaps he and his party should have thought about that before they constructed this asymmetrical mess of the British constitution.
But when secessionist forces are loudly at work it is not the time for silence and [...] Read more:Horse
Reading the Blogs 2008-03-24 10:55:50 There has been a lot of angst in the press about the refusal of the government to allow retired Ghurkhas the right to live in this country if they retired before 1997.
EU Referendum is compelled once again to point out the lack of understanding exhibited by the British media and even the leader [...] Read more:Reading
, Blogs
Why we do not need an English Parliament 2008-03-23 12:38:20 The short answer is because the Labour party would loose influence over England because they would never gain a majority in an EnglishParliament
. And it would make Westminster even more redundant that it already is, if that were possible.
But Helen Goodman decided to opt for the longer answer in her reply to a [...]
An ever expanding EUniverse 2008-04-05 05:11:03 Elmar Brok MEP, EP Rapporteur on the Enlargement Strategy, sees a high degree of agreement with regard to its future implications.
The EEA model also offers a visible political and economic added value for ENP states but also for example with respect to their internal security. In addition, the EEA model provides an enormous flexibility as [...] Read more:expanding
The EU Splashing our money about all over the place 2008-04-05 04:24:42 The EU is to invest in operations of spas in the Asia-Pacific region by training up to 1,000 spa therapists over the next two years.
The programme has two key objectives. The first is to improve the business potential of 50 spa operators from each of the four participating countries by providing spa services that conform [...]
QUOTES 2008-04-05 02:13:14 “If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
“Tony Blair, In 1997
The unification of Europe is near”
Laeken Declaration, 15 December 2001,
“The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (ECR) will be no more binding than the Beano or the Sun”.
Keith Vaz, Labour Minister [...]
The Conservatives are navel gazing again 2008-04-04 16:03:33 On my desk I have a letter form my own MP who tells me the Conservative party believes that elected representatives should not give up the powers they were elected to wield without asking the people who first elected them. In the modern world, where people want power and control over their lives to deny [...] Read more:Conservatives
Climate changes 2008-04-04 09:28:15 From Global warming Politics
Tags: BlogDesk
Of course, those who have deep, vested interests in promoting the ‘global warming’ scare are going to have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, away from their precious toy. As one of my excellent correspondents observes, with so much taxation, control, and carbon trading involved, the fight could become rather nasty. [...] Read more:Climate
, changes
Is this science? 2008-04-03 14:54:19 Thanks for the chuckle!
So, using this new scientific method, I have made some predictions of my own:
Based on the last 5 years worth of data, the number of people killed in Iraq will increase to 10 billion over the next century and the number of [...]
Just another term for Not democracy 2008-04-03 11:21:41 The EU Propaganda Minister has now updated her Blog to cover yesterday’s announcement of a further Plan D initiative.
From the measures undertaken so far with Plan D and the measures intended with this new proposal one can safely conclude that all them are propaganda initiatives.
But according the spin Plan D was regarded it as a [...] Read more:democracy
The opponents of party democracy 2008-04-03 10:11:55 The opponents of party democracy
The story of how the party’s EU enthusiasts fixed the MEP selection process
The subversion of democracy
I am against an EU Referendum 2008-04-03 04:27:53 A comment on this blog has prompted me to argue against
an EU wide referendum on the EU treaty, or anything else for that matter.
The EU treaty is called a treaty because it is an international agreement made between the member states, who are exercising their sovereign power.
The fact that EU treaties create a constitution [...] Read more:Referendum
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