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Whatever else may be said or written, as an Englishman, I am just so ‘stoked’ that for once, a British Prime Minister has returned from an EU Meeeting having made a positive decision and without excuses about why they were mugged by the ‘other big boys’, that is something even the ‘sainted Maggie’ never did. Well done David Cameron, I say.

Well we have the overnight fallout from the EU Conference on Treaty Changes to accommodate the Euro Crisis although these “changes” obviously don’t require a Treaty Change, they are just a further strengthening of the so called stability pact rules that everyone has already disregarded, led by Germany and France in the first place. What a load of bullshit this all was !

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Although it was the “Comments” section of the Daily Telegraph that first got me started in writing my own blog, since the advent of comments being handled by Disqus, I don’t bother with the Telegraph that often these days. They do get an amazing number of people commenting on most articles but apart from one or two, they mainly seem to be a few shillings short of a full £ if not outright bonkers.

However, there was an interesting article by Benedict Brogan on Scottish Independence which is worth a read but has also led me to the Land of Loony Tunes… http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100116330/the-union-is-too-far-gone-to-be-saved-by-cameron-or-miliband

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So the Cannes G20 Summit has ended and as could be predicted, with very little achieved except a very clear message from the rest of the World to the EU and specifically, the Eurozone; “Get your house in order”. Sarkozy along with Merkel, will no doubt blame the Greeks and yet, Greece is but a symptom of an underlying disease called the “Euro”, a currency never destined to work for the benefit of all.

For France, the “Common Market” and the infamous CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), were designed so that inefficient French farmers could get a ‘subsidy’ that didn’t come from the French taxpayers, it came from all the other ‘Members’. As this has wound down, Germany has achieved a similar unfair bonus via the Euro, the point being that these two, for all their apparent “high moral ground” with regard to the Greeks, fail to see the mote in their own eyes.

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Right now I’m having to master PHP programming and am working from several different books. I was amused by one author who having ended an introductory chapter and about to launch into the real world coding examples, wrote “…and bring a shovel with you…”

The implication being that it will get harder and you will need to dig deep to get through this… It struck me just how true that is of the World Economy right now too with a G20 about to start, one wonders whether they will be smart enough to avoid the pending economic disaster. If the unrealistic fudge we saw in the Eurozone last week is anything to go by and the uproar caused by the Greeks holding a Referendum, one suspects not.

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I must be feeling particularly “vinegary” the other day because I picked up on two pieces of total nonsense in The Independent and posted replies to both. The first was an ‘Editorial’ and I know, I have often complained about just how ‘amateur night’ the average Editorial in the ‘Indy’ is, they all seem to be written by children on work experience rather than grown up people but crap is crap and demands a response. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-cynical-response-to-the-rebellion-2376276.html

The second was by a half-wit called Andreas Wittam Smith, a total tosser if ever one breathed. His opus was to blame ‘Bankers’ for everything but without ever getting to grips with what is really wrong with our current society. Sure, Bankers are ‘tossers’ but his approach is little better than lambasting Undertakers for ‘dealing in death’. Another brainless old fool.

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I cannot claim to be any kind of fan of the journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown who writes in The Independent, she is one of those people like the equally awful Janet Daley in The Telegraph, that I read from time to time instead of wearing a hair shirt or sackcloth and ashes or, as a means of not just “reading the stuff I like”.

However, in reading her (AliBaba) today I was shocked by just how irrational and bigoted a journalist in a broadsheet can be, the woman is a total loon or else, personally envious of Theresa May for some personal reason or other as the start of the article demonstrates only too well, check it out, really sad : http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-we-must-defend-these-laws-which-protect-us-all-2368147.html

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Following the targeted assassination in the Yemen of Anwar al-Awlaki and three al-Qaeda associates by a drone on September 30^th various questions have been raised within the United States concerning the “extra-judicial” nature of this killing because two of them were US citizens.

To be fair to Americans, this is not an argument based upon whether a “US life is more valuable than any other” but in the ever litigious United States whether his “Rights under the American Constitution” were violated. Therefore the question becomes one of “Were the people who ordered and actually carried out the attack from within the borders of the USA, therefore guilty of a criminal offence ?” The drone actually being operated from a base in Nevada.

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There is no way that I consider myself some kind of great intellectual with either superior insight or just plain wisdom, I therefore suspect that what I think is the reality of the current Global Crisis goes way beyond “Greedy Bankers” and that daft political construct the Euro, a hunchback currency in search of its Bosworth Field.

To my mind I suspect that the truth is known and the real problem lies in the political will to spell it out publicly. Forget the size of the Euro Bailout Fund or specifically Greece, there is only one thing that can solve the current problems and it is happening already via inflation, it is called PRICE RISES and surprising as that may seem, it is probably THE ANSWER at several levels !

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My previous entry touched on my views of the “A” Level results and how inappropriate is our current Higher/Further Education setup which needs to be refocussed on high quality and challenging advanced training rather than dodgy and over priced degrees.

I now want to focus in on two very interconnected groups of people: Consumers and the Businesses that serve them because clearly, the expectations and behaviour of both need a radical overhaul in the light of a totally changed economic landscape. However and before that, a story I have told before about a very wise Chinese Gentleman I once met back in the 1960s.

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It has been said that there often has to be an End before there can be a New Beginning and with regard to the Space Shuttle Atlantis un-docking from the International Space Station and on her last journey home, we are witnessing the closing of a 30 year period of all the Space Shuttles and no less than the last flight of Concorde, a touching moment for an iconic machine.

Does this mean the end of the US investment in manned space flight ? Despite the current budget restrictions, I suspect not, American pride won’t stand for that and in an odd way, the end of the Shuttle programme is more likely to focus both mind and energy into building the next generation, we shall see, safe journey home Atlantis. Read the rest of this entry »