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06/01/11--15:09: Sir Robin Wales: Impressive In His Anger (chan 1023942)

I have not always had the kindest things to say regarding the London Borough of Newham and Sir Robin Wales. In a couple of instances there have been obvious corruptions on Sir Robin’s watch that I have drawn attention to. I do not know that Sir Robin was in any way responsible, however, as Executive [...]


06/01/11--15:09: Equal Treatment for All Publishers of Wikileaks Cables Demanded. (chan 1023942)

If Visa, Paypal, Mastercard and Amazon all believe that Wikileaks broke their terms of service, then so did the London Guardian – and the other major newspapers  working to publish the same documents. I demand that these corporations apply the same sanctions to the newspapers including journalists rights to use Visa and Mastercard – or [...]


06/01/11--15:09: My Local Cafe Are Good To Me. (chan 1023942)

This lot only cost four quid! Listen to this post


06/01/11--15:09: Garden Bench (chan 1023942)

Put a garden bench in the communal garden today – the second to go in. Will post a picture soon. Sorry I haven’t posted in the last six months. I’ve been rather busy. Will tell all soon … Listen to this post


06/01/11--15:09: German Government Concerned Over US Data Protecion: OOPS – They Were Right! (chan 1023942)

“Cablegate” at wikileaks is going to make a lot of people very unhappy. After all what we have now is just a start. How are the German Government feeling, I wonder? Vindicated, probably – the Cablegate releases so far include their “concerns” over US Data  Protection measures: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10BERLIN128.html .... However, in these meetings, our German [...]


06/01/11--15:09: Ethan McCord, “Collateral Damage”, Power, Politics and Perversion: The Wikileaks “Scandal”. (chan 1023942)

History will not be kind to the people trying to demonise Wikileaks.org and it’s staff. Nor will it be kind to the commercial enterprises such as Amazon.com and Paypal who have quickly caved to US Government pressure. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in his Q&A at the Guardian website today replied to a question about the [...]


06/01/11--15:09: Assange Heads Time Magazine’s “Person Of The Year” Award – And a Call To Nobel Peace Prize Nominators. (chan 1023942)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2028733,00.html Go there to vote for Julian Assange – in court today he was denied his freedom despite such luminaries as Ken Loach, John Pilger and Jemima Khan standing bail of £20,000 each. Justice must be done here. Those who are in a position to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize need to ask [...]


06/01/11--15:09: Tony Blair, Book Signing and The Hague. (chan 1023942)

It’s only a matter of time. Tony Blair is hounded in public and soon he will face the judges at The Hague. Listen to this post


06/01/11--15:09: Bloggers, Wikileaks, Assange: and Bad Journalism. (chan 1023942)

Bloggers are oft accused of bad journalism. It’s true in many cases. Bloggers do not have access to the databases, resources and sources that traditional journalists command. Nor do they have the training and professionalism. However, the wikileaks/Assange scandal is creating a very widespread picture of bad journalism in some of the most renowned journals [...]


06/01/11--15:09: FIFA and Russia: Perfect Partners in Crime. (chan 1023942)

Thanks to the Wikileaks “cablegate” releases we now see in writing what many have known for a long time: Russia is virtually a Mafia state and Putin has little distance between him and the Mafiosi. Thanks to the journalism of Panorama we now see clearly what many have known for a long time: that FIFA [...]