If you cannot pay the rent, you will be evicted and social services will take your children away?

Is this really happening? A family in the United Kingdom was told that since they could not pay the rent they were going to be evicted and their children were going to be taken away by Social Services. The letter written on behalf of KHT in Merseyside says that the family has been given notice of eviction and that since the family will be homeless the children are going to taken away by Social Services. Is this actually the United Kingdom?

Alexander Lebedev and the plight of The Independent newspaper

I do have little sympathy for Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch who lives in Russia and owns 75% of the Evening Standard newspaper and also The Independent newspaper.

Following the guidelines of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists that I designated the National Union of Jerks), those he employs have from time to time launch deplorable attacks against the British National Party.

The news is that Mr Alexander Lebedev has stated that he will not have enough money to absorb the losses made by his newspapers that together last year generated a loss amounting to £17.4 million Pound.

The reason for this is that his business operations in Russia are not making enough money. His potato business - according to Mr Alexander Lebedev - will generate a profit amounting to £1.25 million Pound which is visibly not  enough to plug the hole generated by his newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Lebedev has reportedly lost his banking operation and lost his license for his airline business. This is not the first time a Russian oligarch with business interests in London has end up in tears. A few months ago, Boris Berezovsky who had reportedly lost most of his assets, was found dead.

Some time ago during an television interview, Mr. Lebedev boasted that the losses made by his newspapers in the UK were not something to worry about given his financial muscle. Times have changed. Ah, by the way, the latest interview during which the former KGB agent talked about his financial troubles was done The Guardian newspaper, another loss making operation that also follows the guidelines of the NUJ that, incidentally, faces financial difficulties.

This is starting to look like a question for Have I got News for You: what do Alexander Lebedev, The Guardian Newspaper and the NUJ have in common?

British Empire, British Commonwealth, Commonwealth and now... what?

There has been a progression, from the heights of Queen Victoria's Empire to the British Empire followed by the British Commonwealth and later on by the Commonwealth. An article published by the Daily Telegraph blames successive British governments - both Labour and Conservative - for blatantly ignoring the Commonwealth. One must ask if the process does not work both ways and for very good reasons.

Since the days of the pro-independence movements, there was an organized rejection of anything British to the point that even the word British was thrown out and the loose organization became known as Commonwealth incorporating countries that had never been under British rule.

Since the formation of the Common Market, followed by the European Community and now the European Union, British politicians were more interested in promoting greater and stronger links with European countries, rather than trying to maintain links with countries with which - apart from long gone colonial links - Britain has little in common.

It must be said that there are three kinds of Commonwealth countries: some have strong cultural and ethnic links with Britain, others were part of a colonial past and others never had practically anything in common since they were not even British colonies.

We, collectively, should forget about any kind of Romanticism and look at the practicalities to decide what needs to be done about what we usually call Commonwealth. The past is long gone and now we need to focus on present realities on a case by case basis.

There have been fundamental economic, political and ideological changes. Strong cooperation based on good bilateral relations could be a much better way of moving forward, instead of being permanently anchored in the past.

We went from the British Empire to the British Commonwealth, from the British Commonwealth to the Commonwealth. Perhaps now is the time to forget about the Commonwealth. We must look at each individual country and decide what kind of links we would like to have if any at all. 

Taxes are taxes even when they might be called something else

You might call them tax, Income Tax, VAT, NI, TV License, Stamp Duty, Green Taxes, Airport Duties, Inheritance Tax (that I called Corpse Tax) or whatever else that you want to call them. In essence, it is about money taken away from your pockets for whatever reason. In some cases, paying the said taxes is justified and in some other cases you know that you are dealing with an ideological tax to fill up the pockets of elites that serve no public purpose.

Corpse Tax is one of the most unfair, if not the most unfair tax ever. You work and you pay every conceivable tax after taxes have already been deducted from your salary. You buy yourself a home or a car with monies that have already been taxes and you are taxed even more. At the end of the road, whatever is left as inheritance is taxed all over, once again, with a 40% tax.

You work, you pay your taxes, and one day you decide to fly and.... you are taxed again and the excuse is that government needs to tax you to save the Planet. Such rubbish explanation is given as an excuse to take more and more money to maintain a bureaucratic system that is destroying the Planet and ruining the economy in the process by making people feel a lot more miserable that they would otherwise feel. Green Taxes are the greatest lie ever told.

An ideological tax called TV License is the number one reason to end up in Court and thousands of cases are being dragged through the Legal System for weeks or even months on end. The TV License costs about £150 which is the equivalent to a one-hour fee charged by a barrister. So, you can imagine the amount of money and time been wasted prosecuting people who don't pay or cannot pay the TV License. If you still wanted to finance a bias and corrupt organization with public monies, you could do with an item on the National Budget taken directly from the National Purse.

If we abolish TV License, the costs of running such services would be shared by the Nation as a whole instead of having a system that penalizes individuals who end up paying for themselves and for everybody else.

When you build a house, the mortar, the bricks, the steel bars, et cetera, et cetera, have already been taxed. So why should you pay an additional tax called Stamp Duty? Yeap.... you guess right.... Stamp Duty is yet another invention to make homes more expensive. Tax, tax and more taxes depress the economy and create unemployment. So we should keep taxes for things that are absolutely essential and reduce or eliminate all together bureaucratic and ideological taxes.


 

Tommy Robinson: Fifth Columnist?

Tommy Robinson: Fifth Columnist?

Whenever there has been an interest to defuse what the ruling classes call 'a political time bomb', new organizations and 'leaders' have appeared out of nowhere when infiltration of political organizations was not giving the expected results.

When the British National Party was becoming 'too successful', the mass media decided to 'fuel up alternative operators' as a way to divert attention and cook reports about 'Divided Nationalists'.

Since 2001, the British National Party had been denouncing the actions of Asian gangs (most Muslims of Pakistani ancestry) and being attacked by the BBC that accused the leader of the British National Party of racism because he was trying to raise the alarm against pedophiles and murderers.

So the mass media raised the profile of the so-called English Democrats many of whom had left the British National Party and had a past in the National Front. This was short-lived and proved extremely unsuccessful.

Later on, the mass media suggested that the English Defense League was going to become the alternative to the British National Party, even though it was merely a campaign organization with no political ambitions and no political infra-structure. I spoke laterally about the subject in several articles (Die Frage ist: Wollen sie eine Politische Partei, eine Politische Bewegung oder eine Soziale Bewegung?) and indicated that the statements made by the mass media were absolutely nonsensical.

Tommy Robinson's defection proved that EDL had been simply another effort to divide Nationalists that had gone terribly wrong when the elites realized that they could not control it and Tommy Robinson said it himself in front of television cameras calling his former supporters 'dangerous extremists'.

Combat 18 (or C-18), infiltration by both the Police and parapolitical operators, the creation of ghost political parties and phantom political organizations, the use of so called moles like the wife of a celebrated anti-Fascist campaigner and member of the Communist Party that went to bed with practically every member of the National Front in a effort to destroy the National Front have been tools to fight against the genuine defenders of British National Interests.

We have accumulated evidence of people that pretended to be genuine Nationalists and were actually informers passing distorted information to organizations like Hope Not Hate, Searchlight, Stop the Nazi BNP and others including the BBC. The said informs strived to be sensationalist and when there was no genuine information to be provided they fabricated information to please their paymasters.

As a test and in order to prove wrongdoing, we gave them hooks and they swallowed them without even noticing that we were giving them something that would definitely prove that they were not genuine Nationalists.

Tommy Robinson has been the Establishment best creation. They created the perfect image (non-Anti-Semite, Non-Racist and genuinely concerned about the British people or so they said). But somewhere along the way, things went wrong. Emboldened by what was then a seal of approval, more and more people started to operate under the umbrella of EDL and this included gangs, former National Front members, and all kinds of individuals that flocked into the EDL and people that Tommy Robinson could not possibly control.

The mood about the EDL changed and suddenly the mass media portrayed EDL as a bunch of violent thugs with Extreme Right credentials that needed to be stopped and Tommy Robinson ended up in jail. Jail was a bit what a cocoon is for the caterpillar before it turns into a butterfly.

Like in a real life version of Clockwork Orange, Tommy Robinson comes out of prison as the reformed guy, the prodigal son that saw the errors of his ways. Suddenly, he becomes the darling of the BBC and Jeremy Paxman conducts a Newsnight programme with Tommy Robinson talking as a reformed man that has seen the light and documentaries are made showing Tommy Robinson standing together with pseudo representatives of Muslim Communities.

The King left the battlefield leaving behind the corpses of those who believed in him and a bunch of disoriented survivors desperately trying to pick up the pieces and running for their lives. Soonafter, the jokers of the mass media wrote articles stating 'The Leader of EDL left EDL. Is this the end of Nationalism in Britain?'

Unfortunately, for the corrupt and unprincipled mass media, the EDL was nothing more than yet another trick to divide Nationalism that is very much very alive and kicking. The Leader of the British National Party launched an appeal inviting all genuine EDL members that were stabbed in the back by Tommy Robinson to join the British National Party because the British National Party is very much the true force in British Nationalism.

The books that I haven't read and the discovery of a whole new Universe hidden behind things we see as chores

Continuing with the thread of 'you cannot be bored', I would like to tell you about what I felt - or what I usually feel - after visiting one of my favourite big bookstores in Central London. As always I prepare myself for the experience that is without fail mind-boggling.

I enter the building and start wondering around going through different sections and spending some time dipping my eyes into a whole array of worlds - new and old - and getting in touch with the things that I would like to know.

Such visits last about 3 hours and at the end, I leave with mixed emotions - the frustration of not being able to grasp all the knowledge that is readily available and the satisfaction of having spent a glorious and exciting time opening my mind and allowing myself to taste the pleasures of an intellectual voyage.

More than once I have found myself talking to my children and telling them that being an adult means that you are aware of all the things that you don't know and of the fact that you wouldn't have enough time to investigate, to enjoy, to get involved, to taste, to research and get a real feel of what the world is really about.

I reckon those of the younger generations that get into trouble are basically intellectually deprived, unable to experience and get involved in more constructive endeavours. I feel that the so-called Pop Culture has castrated them from an intellectual point of view. At my age, my sense of curiosity is stronger than ever before. I feel more intellectually thirsty than ever before. I cannot possibly be bored.

My sense of experimentation also includes the use of new machines, new gadgets, new tools and this includes ordinary chores like repairing, cleaning, installing, painting, et cetera. If what you need is instant gratification, I do recommend cleaning the grout and the tiles of your bathroom or to spend the day vacuum cleaning. If you focus on the tasks in hand there are some intellectual lessons that you could learn learning to do things in a different way. Thus, washing the dishes or cleaning up the kitchen is no longer a set of chores. It is a learning process, a cleansing experience, a way of becoming more disciplined and more grounded.

To sum up, there are many lessons to be learned, many activities that you could enjoy and you will find intellectuality where you least expect to find it. A change of attitude opens the gates that lead into a completely new universe.

I was fascinated watching a scene of a movie called Karate Kid. The old master is training a boy that wants to become a Karate fighter. The master asks him to polish some cars using his hands that move around clockwise and then anti-clockwise. The boy does not see the link between the humble act of polishing a car and basic Karate moves. Life works in mysterious ways and things that are apparently unrelated can be part of a chain.

BBC could lose the Licence Fee. Mmmm.... yes. Maybe...

In 2016, the BBC's Royal Charter will be up for renewal and a senior Conservative MP has indicated that 'unless the corporation undertake dramatic changes after a series of scandals and accusations of bias' the BBC could be stripped of its exclusive right to £3.6 billion.

Grant Shapps, Conservative Party Chairman, made a statement as concerns grow about BBC bias and mismanagement, while criticizing what is very much at the core of BBC's problems directly linked to its culture of secrecy and cover-ups.

To pretend that the BBC is going to stop being biased when it is actually ruled by left-wing biased operators linked to the Labour Party and its associated media including The Guardian is frankly naïve.

It has been reported that a BBC spokesman said that 'Mr Shapps is right that transparency is key to the future of the BBC. So is its freedom from political pressure'. What the BBC spokesman did not mention is that the BBC is no longer, and has not been for a very long time, an impartial public broadcasting organization.