“It is very difficult to build an intelligence picture, but we cannot rule out pre-emptive action,” said the spokesman’-

This translates as:
“We don’t know who they are, where they live, or what their plans are, but we want to sound all big and menacing in the press, so the Tories don’t cut our workforce to shreads.”
Pathetic

Five words: European Court Of Human Rights


Three words: nice little earner

Stopping being left wing is usually a great liberation for those who experience the conversion. You suddenly realize that you no longer have to go on believing all this rubbish ,phew what a relief !. Utopia, the perfection of mankind never going to happen.Revolution ,always ends up with a dictatorship of the thugs and psychopaths. As I say ,a great feeling of liberation really.

"Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP is desperate to get in there and anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity."

They have "no doubt that the organisational cooperation between the Metropolitan Police and the TUC was a significant factor in ensuring that the vast majority of people who attended had a good day." Their "impression
was that the police reacted proportionately and gave appropriate consideration to the rights of the peaceful protestors on the TUC march."

Those who broke away are "violent individuals" who "affected" the peaceful marchers. They class as "the greatest policing challenge" on the day, and so their take on events can be readily dismissed. Far more important is that the police need better toys, because "communications technology between the SOR and officers on the ground could be improved." They do acknowledge "no evidence of a need for additional police powers," but that is perhaps the most positive thing you can say about the report.

This report only underlines what I said both before and after the TUC march. Whilst Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti speaks of "the right to peaceful dissent in the oldest unbroken democracy," her organisation is now safely assimilated within the establishment which views genuine dissent as little more than a "policing challenge."

The eradication of Christianity from laws, customs, ceremonies, education and culture in general will make this process much easier than it would have been when these countries were actively Christian. I only hope Professor Dawkins is pleased as amplified calls of 'Allahu Akhbar' waver and echo from the Islamicised towers of redundant Victorian churches in the damp and misty air of North Oxford.

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?

No one has yet offered a definition of ‘tax haven’ on which we can all agree. The IMF, the OECD and the other main agencies tend to adopt the language they think acceptable to their own constituency. The term ‘tax haven’ is too obviously value laden, as the French equivalent, paradis fiscal, makes clear. ‘Offshore’, too, conjures images of island paradises, when some of the locations involved – Liechtenstein, for example – are landlocked. ‘International financial centre’, a creation of the financial services industry, seems designed solely to give an air of respectability.

When an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble emerged in the US the economic profession and members of the Federal Reserve said its not necessary to pay attention because of 'efficient markets', I mean is that very different from 'there's not going to be an environmental catastrophe because God promised Noah there wouldn't be another flood'?

Chomsky

Thou shalt wear sneakers made for a man
It’s fine to own crosstrainers and running shoes and hightops. But save them for the gym. When you’re on the street, keep your sneakers simple and classic. Go for ones like Stan Smiths, Jack Purcells, and Sambas. They work with everything, including suits.

We live in an age of commodification which transforms objects into subjects, and subjects into objects; in which to break a pane of glass is tantamount to inflicting personal injury on a corporate person, but to put families on the street, to take away the small concessions the poor and the sick have won from power is merely a matter of accountancy.

Catharsis is not enough: simply to expend our energy redressing the balance of power momentarily on the street, inflicting some small damage, some mark that can’t be turned around, is a start. It is in the interest of power to make you believe that we’re in it for kicks. But things have to become visible in order to catalyse, or else we achieve nothing. When we take off our masks, we’re your children, your cousin, your co-worker; we might be in the soup kitchen, or in the dole queue, or in the classroom next to you. If the glass is broken and the slogans fill the wall it is because it is a sign that something is already broken.

'All marches are demonstrations of impotence, if you need to show your support by shambling through central London for hours in the cold, then you plainly don't have any real power. You never see demonstrations by the British Road Federation do you? And when I do see such a demonstration, then I'll look out for a major expansion of the railways'

Saviour (Sample) by Alpines

What followed was not, as has been described in the media “a riot”. What occured, as the Black Bloc made its way through the epi-centre of Britain’s consumer culture, in a calm, determined and, under the circumstances, rational manner, bordered on pure theatre. It might resemble a riot on the surface. But it was, in truth, the collective creative act of the people striving to redefine the status quo through shared emotional experience.

There may be such a thing as conservative satire after all.

People growing up in the 1990s experienced capitalism moving away from the production of goods towards finance capitalism and the movement of debt," - Social mobility was everything but was quite difficult to attain. We achieved that through consumption and financed it through debt. Those who weren't able to do that, especially as children, found themselves becoming the collateral damage of the consumer war.

We are sending a clear message to capitalism that we can't be bargained with. There is no reform. We only seek your abolition.

... murmured Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 as he drifted off into a post masturbatory sleep and dreamed of revolution.