tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-05-22:/MokoFeed2013-05-22T09:48:21+02:00tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-05-10:/2013/05/10/news-control-15936904/thepirate2013-05-10T16:14:59+02:002013-05-10T16:14:59+02:00 <p>Being a keen 'news surfer' I tend to move around the different TV news channels to find out what's happening globally. When you do this, going from BBC News to SKY news, then on to RT and AlJazeera, you begin to notice patterns in the way different broadcasters operate. For example, it's become apparent lately that BBC news programmes seem to be fixated with sex abuse cases. Months ago they gave vast amounts of TV and radio coverage to the Jimmy Savile scandal, leading over and over with this as the 'main story'. The thing is, when this kind of saturation reporting occurs it excludes other news events from the media. Or, some important stories might only get a brief mention before the sex story (whatever it is) is being discussed at length again. Some stories, such as big protest demonstrations in the UK against austerity, never get mentioned at all. The implication is that they aren't important, although they undoubtedly are more important than the Savile issue which is once again on the go. The RT channel (85) and AlJazeera (83) cover a far broader range of stories than the BBC and SKY. Almost of equal importance, they are much better in the way they go about it. The BBC's idea of the perfect format is two banal beanos chatting on a sofa during breakfast time, but to be honest this bores the pants off me. Kevin Owen on RT, on the other hand, is an excellent news presenter and interviewer. And Abbi Martin's Breaking the Set is not to be missed. Terrific reporting. And I mustn't leave out Max Keiser (Keiser Report) for his expert and entertaining take on what's REALLY going on in the global economy. Check it out.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/05/10/news-control-15936904/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-05-07:/2013/05/07/chameleons-and-reptiles-15859792/oldjimbob2013-05-07T13:02:04+02:002013-05-07T13:02:04+02:00 <p><a title="The Chameleons" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/the_chameleons/7022301"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/301/7022301_7db25f53b7_m.jpg" alt="The Chameleons"></a><br>The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is basically Tory at heart. Many who voted for UKIP recently will have been Tories, and will have done so because they are disillusioned with the way their ideologically rightwing party is performing. The trouble as they see it is, Cameron's lot aren't being prejudiced enough. So what better way to show your displeasure than to vote for another party which champions anti-foreigner isolationism more than the Tories. These UKIP-voting Tories don't want watered down half measures. They want immigration stopped and they want nothing to do with being part of Europe. Thus we witness the mid-term haemorhaging to UKIP. This sends a stinging message to Cameron (who's behaving like a chameleon in trying to be all shades) that he needs to get his finger out. Norman Tebbit, that elderly political reptile from the Thatcher era, has said as much. He wants his old party to 'adopt' some of UKIP's ideas. I think he means pinch. Meanwhile, Tory MP Priti Patel's dad stood as a UKIP candidate in this month's local elections. That couldn't have helped his daughter's credibility: "What? You're a Tory but your dad prefers UKIP!" Nor does the fact that she left the Tories in the 90s to work as press officer for billionaire James Goldsmith's Referendum Party. Which referendum did that involve then?</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/05/07/chameleons-and-reptiles-15859792/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-29:/2013/04/29/should-we-sell-out-to-pesticide-companies-15805315/Munzly2013-04-29T13:02:24+02:002013-04-29T13:02:24+02:00 <p><br> Today the environment minister, Owen Paterson, will be casting his vote in Europe on the future of our bees; but he seems determined to do the bidding of the pesticide companies. <img src="/img/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" class="middle" border="0"><br> We need bees more than we need MPs like Paterson - remember that! <img src="/img/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" class="middle" border="0"></p> <p> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/29/should-we-sell-out-to-pesticide-companies-15805315/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-23:/2013/04/23/worshipping-the-dead-fuhrer-15781325/oldjimbob2013-04-23T13:44:50+02:002013-04-23T13:44:50+02:00 <p><a title="the Millionaires " href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/the_millionaires/6999571"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/571/6999571_3a94b17f37_m.jpg" alt="the Millionaires "></a><br>Prepare yourselves for the worst, ordinary people. The jack-booted Thatcherite legions are on the march, and it's your living standards they intend to put back many years. Think of cutbacks going on and on, swimming baths closing, libraries closing, Citizen's Advice offices gone...and jobs with only rock-bottom pay. And it's all in the name of 'being in this together'.<br>Former Tory minister Liam Fox is calling for a return to the Thatcher doctrine of the 80s, to finish the job she started then but which sensible politicians halted in the nick of time. By 'sensible' I mean those members of her own party who stabbed her in the back because she was going loopy. Now we have a fresh brood of ardent admirers poking their heads up and spreading out. I can't help thinking of that scene in Alien 2, when the horrific, inhuman creatures were coming out of the walls. And get this, some of these Maggie creatures are pushing for a new set of political awards to be brought in, in memory of their dead fuhrer.<br>These would be called 'The Maggies' (like the BAFTAS, etc). Politicians judged to have done the most to build on her 'achievements' would win one of these awards, which means the Thatcherites will all be trying to win a Maggie by outdoing each other in imposing austerity. It's class war, pure and simple. Charlie Brooker of the Guardian wrote of Thatcher recently:<br>"I found her almost too frightening to watch on TV. She seemed to display such cold disregard for those crushed by the wheels of her personal brand of progress. It was hard to believe she fully understood what human beings are, let alone cared about them."</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/23/worshipping-the-dead-fuhrer-15781325/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-18:/2013/04/18/seeing-past-all-the-crap-15766033/oldjimbob2013-04-18T11:58:13+02:002013-04-18T12:00:48+02:00 <p>I'll say what I'm on about here straight away: our so-called 'news'. Most recently, Thatcher's funeral. Just about every newsworthy topic was discarded from UK news channels yesterday to cater for a blatant, in-your-face propaganda binge pumped out hour after hour. Just who plans this kind of coverage? It took 2 terrorist bombs in Boston, USA to grab the airwaves from UK media cult worship of the Maggi. If the bombs had been in Iraq or Afghanistan, or even Syria, they'd barely have got a mention on Wednesday. Otherwise we were told time and time again how Maggie 'saved our country', mostly from the trade unions who were apparently out to wreck it during her time in power. Or so Thatcherites would have us believe. And herein lies the REAL news agenda. Cameron was allowed to eulogise on air about Thatcher's 'greatness', repeating that we must maintain Margaret's legacy and continue her 'reforms'. The whole thing is a party political broadcast on a huge scale, and it is ongoing. The BBC (tv and radio) and Sky News in particular cannot get enough coverage into their schedules it seems, while the British press almost make me want to throw up. Selected people are constantly brought forward to say things like "We should respect the dead, and honour her great achievements". Occasionally a few (usually and intentionally more minor) conflicting views get aired, but these are then undercut because 'the vast majority of the public support what she did'. Who says? Well, one was that chief Tory spokesman Francis Maude, who was given lots of opportunities to say it on the BBC. Meanwhile Osborne shed a tear in public for her (aaah...), while he and Cameron and the rest of Maggie's disciples continue to rip the country apart.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/18/seeing-past-all-the-crap-15766033/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-15:/2013/04/15/justin-bieber-and-anne-frank-15757045/thepirate2013-04-15T11:28:55+02:002013-04-15T11:28:55+02:00 <p>So Justin Bieber wrote something pretty innocuous in the Anne Frank visitors' book. So what! You'd think he'd condemned all Jews to hell and a bit more besides. For goodness sake, get a grip people and stop being so anally retentive at the slightest pretext. Anyway, Anne Frank was only one of many people who suffered under the nasty nazis during the occupation in Europe. In our present time (that's NOW) we have the Israeli army (Jewish) occupying the country of another race and behaving towards them almost as bad as the nazis. I say almost, because there are sure to be narrow-minded bumpkins out there who can't see past all this propaganda stuff in defence of the illegitimate Israeli state.  </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/15/justin-bieber-and-anne-frank-15757045/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-12:/2013/04/12/an-attempt-at-censorship-15748609/oldjimbob2013-04-12T12:44:10+02:002013-04-12T12:45:17+02:00 <p><a title="Savile & Thatch 1980" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/savile_thatch_1980/6981686"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/686/6981686_16fb67ade0_m.jpg" alt="Savile & Thatch 1980"></a><br>There were complaints from rightwingers that CNN showed this photo more than once on its<br>news the other day. Now our rightwing media, along with many Maggie supporters, are trying<br>to block the BBC from playing the spoof song 'Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead' on BBC Radio.<br>If it had been Sadaam Hussein with Savile, or Osama Bin Laden, then they would have been<br>happy for a photo or song to hit the media channels. Selectivity like this is censorship pure and simple guys. We can expect controversial arrests on the day of Maggie's funeral too, when people will be carrying anti-Thatcher placards. Will the police use pretexts to arrest them under new anti-terrorism laws? Censorship, censorship, censorship...</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/12/an-attempt-at-censorship-15748609/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-09:/2013/04/09/hey-ho-the-witch-is-dead-15736266/oldjimbob2013-04-09T13:20:07+02:002013-04-09T13:20:07+02:00 <p><a title="Hey, Ho the witch is dead" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/hey_ho_the_witch_is_dead/6976585"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/585/6976585_64b4f3f660_m.jpg" alt="Hey, Ho the witch is dead"></a><br>So she's finally gone. But I don't expect it'll be to Heaven. Not after the evils she perpetrated on thousands of ordinary souls in our UK society. That's the society, by the way, which she said didn't exist ("There is no such thing as society"). Maybe her ghost can tell that to her spawn, Dave, who I believe still pursues a Big Society while he continues to take our existing society apart.<br>Moving on, Dave and Ozzy were told at the weekend they are in danger of losing credibility (HA!) if they don't introduce greater tax transparency relating to offshore territories. In a speech in January, Cameron promised to make tax transparency his number one goal for his G8 chairmanship this year. He's not had much luck with the goal so far. Is he really trying, I wonder? Meanwhile we'll have the media smokescreening for ages now with stories of how wonderful Thatcher was. I hope to God they put a stake through the old hag's heart.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/09/hey-ho-the-witch-is-dead-15736266/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-08:/2013/04/08/benefits-claims-and-hbos-15732163/oldjimbob2013-04-08T13:22:28+02:002013-04-08T13:22:28+02:00 <p><a title="Osborne" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/osborne/6974770"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/770/6974770_28af26cbad_m.jpg" alt="Osborne"></a><br>HBOS bank failed in 2008, and had to be bailed out by the then Labour government. As a consequence, strike £20 Billion of taxpayers' money from the government treasury. Now the parliamentary commission on banking standards, led by Andrew Tyrie, has concluded that the HBOS hierarchy indulged in 'reckless lending', and that its behaviour represents a 'colossal failure' of management. The commission also reports that HBOS would have gone bust with or without the backdrop of a global financial crisis because of its bad management. Three top executives have been named as the main culprits.<br>However, although they are no longer with the bank these people still hold well-paid positions in the UK financial sector. Not so for thousands of HBOS' ordinary employees, who lost their jobs because of the mismanagement. Will these thousands of former workers now be claiming state benefits, given the unlikelihood of suitable jobs being available to them at other banks? Or perhaps they have found jobs as cleaners? If I was a Labour MP I would put these questions (and others like them) to chancellor Osborne, friend of top bankers and scourge of benefits claimants throughout the land. He's an expert on mismanagement himself.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/08/benefits-claims-and-hbos-15732163/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-05:/2013/04/05/who-exactly-is-the-taxpayer-15722579/thepirate2013-04-05T13:06:36+02:002013-04-05T13:08:17+02:00 <p>Well, we certainly know who it ISN'T. For example it isn't big corporations like Starbucks and Amazon, who were recently exposed as being mega tax-avoiders. Also, it isn't big business types like those who support the Tories and pay large sums into the party election funds. Many of these hide a lot of their money in offshore tax havens, and the unpaid tax provides the cash which goes to the Tories. The sums involved amount to many millions, if not billions. Chancellor Osborne will always steer clear of highlighting this kind of tax dodging, as will the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance, which is essentially a Tory lobby group anyway. <br>The real taxpayer, rather obviously when you think about it, is someone who pays tax on any income they earn. This includes pensioners, who pay tax on their state pension, but it also includes trade union members, who pay tax on the low wages they get from their trade or employment. These are two of the groups being hit by Cameron and Osborne's austerity, not the bankers and financiers of the City of London. It is worth bearing this in mind when the Tory tabloids (and the spokesmen they regularly slot into Sky News and the BBC) berate the unions about 'holding the country to ransom'. A lot of the general public don't really understand the agenda underpinning this, and how ordinary people can be cajoled and controlled by the media repeating Tory mantras.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/05/who-exactly-is-the-taxpayer-15722579/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-04-03:/2013/04/03/executive-double-talk-15711231/Munzly2013-04-03T12:38:14+02:002013-04-03T12:38:14+02:00 <p>When an inanely smiling senior executive stands up and announces that they'd like to say sorry and that the company's policy is now to "REBUILD TRUST" - you should ask yourself why they didn't use the words "become WORTHY OF TRUST!" </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/04/03/executive-double-talk-15711231/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-03-04:/2013/03/04/who-needs-lessons-from-her-15588886/oldjimbob2013-03-04T13:45:07+01:002013-04-02T12:58:06+02:00 <p><a title="Louise Mensch" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/louise_mensch/6914317"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/317/6914317_3750d40efa_m.jpg" alt="Louise Mensch"></a><br>After throwing in the towel last year as a Tory MP, and thus creating a by-election which the Tories then lost to Labour, Louise Mensch now pops up in The Sun as a 'loyal Conservative' (her own words).To Mensch's quirky way of thinking, 'Cameron fought a dignified campaign' in Eastleigh, as against Labour's Ed Miliband who didn't because he 'ran a comedian who made hateful remarks about Margaret Thatcher'. Mensch reckons this shows no respect for voters in southern England.<br>Never mind all the voters who can't stand the sight of Thatcher, or the fact that the said comedian's remarks were written years ago when he was young and radical. Mensch deliberately selects an acutely negative angle to build up her hatchet job on him. Labour didn't expect much change in Eastleigh anyway as it's been a traditionally hopeless seat for many years. But it's being claimed as 'a disaster' for them by the Tories. Cameron's 'dignified campaign', by the way, involved deploying the same Thatcher allegation at Labour, with some Tories even accusing the Labour candidate of being a terrorist! And a Lib Dem smear story was also introduced to the media shortly before the Eastleigh polling day. Hardly dignified, Louise. Just the usual dirty tricks tactics expected of desperate politicians. And the Tories ARE desperate. They'll be wiped out in 2015, despite all the efforts of our lying media to aid and assist them. And UKIP will help to wipe them out.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/03/04/who-needs-lessons-from-her-15588886/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-03-02:/2013/03/02/the-bbc-impartial-15582902/oldjimbob2013-03-02T13:25:55+01:002013-03-04T14:11:28+01:00 <p>Anyone tuning in to BBC Radio 4's TODAY programme around 8.30 this morning (Saturday) could be forgiven if they thought they were listening to a Party Political Broadcast. On behalf of the Conservatives, that is. TODAY had taken an extended orchestral metaphor posed by Tory strategist Tim Montgomerie the other day and put it to music. Thus we heard Montgomerie speaking of Cameron, Osborne and other Tories as musicians in a symphony while their selected instruments played behind his words. All quite emotive really, if you happened to be a Tory supporter. It was basically a five minute Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Tories by the BBC! And the broadcaster keeps saying it is impartial?! Well, it could've fooled me, especially as it regularly has Tory spokespeople on air to support what the Cameron government is cack-handedly doing.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/03/02/the-bbc-impartial-15582902/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-01-14:/2013/01/14/we-re-on-the-right-track-now-15426307/oldjimbob2013-01-14T12:52:39+01:002013-01-14T12:54:01+01:00 <p><a title="We" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/we_re_on_the_right_track_now/6830417"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/417/6830417_3a77246eb2_m.jpg" alt="We"></a><br>"We're on the right track now" David Cameron said in his New Year's speech.<br>Well, if it was the economy he meant then the above clipping, from Saturday's<br>Daily Express no less, seems to indicate otherwise. Cameron has to talk <br>positive of course because to admit he and Osborne haven't a clue would be<br>conceding defeat. He's also said recently "We have a tankfull of gas". Being<br>the gasbag he is he'll never be short of gas personally. Meanwhile the doom-<br>clouds gather for us in 2013. Expect weapons of mass distraction, especially<br>smoke, to be much in evidence to hide Coalition incompetence. The £ will<br>likely be devalued too.<br> No way will Cameron and the Tories win the 2015 election.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/01/14/we-re-on-the-right-track-now-15426307/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-01-08:/2013/01/08/living-a-life-on-benefits-15407542/oldjimbob2013-01-08T13:42:01+01:002013-01-08T13:42:01+01:00 <p><a title="Living a Life on Benefits" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/living_a_life_on_benefits/6821149"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/149/6821149_66459bc8c8_m.jpg" alt="Living a Life on Benefits"></a><br>Anmer Hall, a listed mansion with 10 bedrooms, swimming pool, tennis court, stables, and<br>various other extras is to be a 'gift from the Queen for William and Kate. It should get them<br>nicely on the property ladder, although a flat or maybe a small bungalow might have been<br>more in keeping with austerity measures hitting others. Yes, we're all in this together all right,<br>only some are more in it than the rest of us. No mention of scroungers or taxpayers' money <br>when it comes to these people, and the Queen and Co. keep getting their income topped up too!</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/01/08/living-a-life-on-benefits-15407542/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2013-01-04:/2013/01/04/in-the-shadow-of-thatcher-15394442/oldjimbob2013-01-04T13:50:08+01:002013-01-04T13:52:30+01:00 <p><a title="In the Shadow of Thatcher" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/in_the_shadow_of_thatcher/6815018"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/018/6815018_5d11b82963_m.jpg" alt="In the Shadow of Thatcher"></a><br>Rent and utility bills increasing, austerity cuts ongoing into the far future, and now whopping railfare increases to put even more financial pressure on Janet and Joe Public. The Coalition-zapped 99% will need more than the memory of the Olympics and Kate Middleton's forthcoming Royal birth to sustain them during this blitz. But we should all cheer up, because George Osborne says he's winning the deficit battle. Yet even if he is (which I seriously doubt), will it actually make any difference to us? Will utility bills and railfares go down at some point, along with taxes and bank charges? My own view on Osborne's performance is that he's flying by the seat of his pants regarding economic policy, and some day very soon those same pants are going to fall around his ankles. Trust me. It seems like an obvious thing to say but people need a decent income to pay their bills and buy things, otherwise their level of personal debt just rises and rises. Prevalent credit card use masks this, but it is nevertheless an economic fact. Pay levels in the UK are far too low, and continue to cause problems for many  working families. Instead of trumpeting that benefits are too generous (they're anything but) the government should be making genuine provision for increasing wages. Any employment generated so far consists mainly of low wage part-time jobs, which simply maintains the financial crisis level of people moving into these jobs from benefit status. And there are still not enough work opportunities anyway to cater for employment demand. Visit your local Jobcentre and see what's on offer if you doubt this. </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2013/01/04/in-the-shadow-of-thatcher-15394442/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-12-28:/2012/12/28/he-believes-in-atos-15361395/thepirate2012-12-28T13:58:05+01:002012-12-28T13:58:48+01:00 <p><a title="Leo McKinstry, propagandist" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/leo_mckinstry_propagandist/6804027"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/027/6804027_db8cc2e42d_m.jpg" alt="Leo McKinstry, propagandist"></a><br>With rightwing pundits like 'Toxic' Leo around it's really perilous to be poor. If he can find just<br>one scrounger in a million then for sure that's who he'll write about. He's very clever, but equally very sly and dangerous. And he certainly doesn't show mercy.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/12/28/he-believes-in-atos-15361395/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-12-27:/2012/12/27/humbug-scumbags-15358599/oldjimbob2012-12-27T13:56:00+01:002013-03-28T13:44:03+01:00 <p><a title="Humbug Scumbags" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/humbug_scumbags/6802491"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/491/6802491_ca6387d1e6_m.jpg" alt="Humbug Scumbags"></a><br>As George Osborne continues to go easy on the banks he simultaneously wreaks hardship on innocent people. This is done under the banner of 'fairness'. Yet it is banks and bankers worldwide who have wrecked economies with their financial plundering. And UK banks STILL hold back funding to businesses after receiving economy-boosting billions in QE money from the Bank of England. Banks are the root cause of the economic crisis. After that, in the UK's case, the problem lies with Osborne's pig-headedness not to alter his failed policy. If the chancellor genuinely wants to reduce our deficit, which is far smaller than that of America (trillions!), he could use measures such as a Financial Transaction Tax on banks in the UK. Yet he won't. Instead he tells lies about the economy and remains ideologically focused on cutting welfare to millions of innocent people. I hope he ends up on the dole sometime soon. And without anything in the bank to fall back on.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/12/27/humbug-scumbags-15358599/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-12-07:/2012/12/07/iceman-ozzy-15291475/oldjimbob2012-12-07T14:00:35+01:002012-12-07T14:01:48+01:00 <p><a title="Ozzy the snowman" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/ozzy_the_snowman/6771443"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/443/6771443_006b320650_m.jpg" alt="Ozzy the snowman"></a><br>He's conveniently pushing aside any criticism of the bankers and the City of London in general. The bankers caused the mess, which is why it's a global problem. Unless Labour have some secret CIA team operating.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/12/07/iceman-ozzy-15291475/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-12-04:/2012/12/04/the-floundering-salmon-15278098/oldjimbob2012-12-04T12:55:17+01:002012-12-04T12:57:06+01:00 <p><a title="George Osborne" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/george_osborne/6766023"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/023/6766023_64b145972b_m.jpg" alt="George Osborne"></a><br>The Chancellor's Autumn Statement will be heard tomorrow, and<br>I wonder what assortment of Xmas goodies he has in store. He<br>seriously needs to have some. This year his personal ratings have <br>continued to plunge, most especially so after his disastrous budget<br>of u-turns. A wee while after that he showed his face at the Olympics, <br>where everyone seemed to recognise it. A cacophony of boos ensued.<br>You'd think he would have taken note of this, but apparently not. On<br>Andrew Marr's Show at the start of this week Ozzy yet again insisted there<br>was no turning back. He's a bit like a spawning salmon, with an undaunted<br>urge to keep swimming on while jumping weirs and waterfalls intent on <br>reaching one goal. In his case the goal is deficit reduction. Nothing else <br>matters. People can lose their jobs and their houses, some can commit<br>suicide, but there is no turning back.<br>"It is clearly taking longer to deal with Britain's debts...but we have made <br>real progress" he said. <br>Progress eh? Well, it will be worth hearing where the progress is taking place<br>when he starts talking tomorrow.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/12/04/the-floundering-salmon-15278098/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-11-30:/2012/11/30/aiding-the-oppressor-15264411/oldjimbob2012-11-30T14:07:03+01:002012-11-30T14:08:01+01:00 <p><a title="Aiding the Oppressor" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/aiding_the_oppressor/6758215"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/215/6758215_90d8c314e8_m.jpg" alt="Aiding the Oppressor"></a><br>Looks like the Palestinians are to get restricted membership at the United Nations. But at least they'll now be recognised as a state, which gives the Israelis a problem when they try to kick them around in future. No thanks to America or the UK though for not supporting the Palestinians on this. Just shows what hypocrites they are on human rights.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/11/30/aiding-the-oppressor-15264411/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-11-20:/2012/11/20/you-can-t-say-he-s-antisemitic-15226036/oldjimbob2012-11-20T12:40:04+01:002012-11-20T12:40:04+01:00 <p><a title="You Cant Say He" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/you_cant_say_he_s_antisemitic/6739261"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/261/6739261_4015c4681e_m.jpg" alt="You Cant Say He"></a></p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/11/20/you-can-t-say-he-s-antisemitic-15226036/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-11-19:/2012/11/19/it-s-mr-mozzarella-for-me-15222091/thepirate2012-11-19T12:58:23+01:002012-11-19T13:00:45+01:00 <p>Observing what's being allowed to happen in Gaza, can anyone with reasonable intelligence now fail to see the vast imbalance of military resource and technology between the two participants? It's basically yet another turkey-shoot on behalf of Netanyahu's battalions, with fighter jets and drones spraying bombs and missiles onto the heavily-populated city, day and night, while warships just off the coast fire shells for added effect. This is all happening under the name of 'operation Defence Shield' or something equally Orwellian, while Israel's Ministry of Truth says it is 'doing all it can' to avoid civilian casualties. One Palestinian rocket has been lucky, resulting in 3 Israelis killed. Meanwhile the death toll in Gaza is 80 and rising, with IDF troops expected to invade at any time. Talk about overkill ! Meanwhile US president Obama, that so-called good guy who was recently re-elected, is mincing around in Burma talking about democracy and human rights. Our own William Hague is little better, telling the Palestinians to stop firing their ineffective rockets. We might as well have Mr Mozzarella running the show. At least he's got a harmless agenda.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/11/19/it-s-mr-mozzarella-for-me-15222091/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-11-10:/2012/11/10/honouring-the-war-dead-15187615/oldjimbob2012-11-10T12:47:22+01:002012-11-10T12:47:22+01:00 <p><a title="Honouring the War Dead" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/honouring_the_war_dead/6720070"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/070/6720070_2c6b14ec6f_m.jpg" alt="Honouring the War Dead"></a><br>Many thanks to cartoonist Steve Bell for the basics of this.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/11/10/honouring-the-war-dead-15187615/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-11-05:/2012/11/05/it-s-like-mogadishu-15168487/thepirate2012-11-05T13:28:22+01:002012-11-05T13:30:42+01:00 <p>"It's like Mogadishu at the gas stations" someone in New York said. "People are literally screaming at each other, pushing and shoving...If police aren't there, people are going to get shot." Following Frankenstorm SANDY clean water is as hard to come by as gasoline, and some are filling bottles and other containers from the street fire-hydrants. This is more than likely to be contaminated by sea water if not sewage. Food too is scarce. "We are scavenging for food like animals" said one Coney Island resident, and there are press photos of people raiding skips. Perhaps having to suffer these hardships, which have happened only one other time with such severity in recent years (Katrina), maybe Americans will realise more fully what their own government brings regularly to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan and Somalia. Bombers and drones destroy infrastructure as well as human targets, guilty or otherwise. The US has also played a major role in starting the firestorm which is now Syria. With only one day to go now before the US presidential election, maybe Americans will loudly communicate some concern about their government's foreign policy? But they also need to engage more with the climate change issue too, because something is definitely messing up the weather.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/11/05/it-s-like-mogadishu-15168487/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-10-29:/2012/10/29/kostas-vaxevanis-15140653/technomist2012-10-29T09:41:00+01:002012-10-29T09:47:04+01:00 <p>Kostas Vaxevanis. Instead of givng even more money to the EU to waste on bail-outs and going along with the German colonization of his country, we first should be demanding that all charges are dropped against this brave man. </p> <p>The Greek authorities also need to explain why they have done virtually nothing to collect the billions in taxes which remain unpaid by wealthy Greeks - wealth being hidden by the Swiss. Arresting an editor for publishing the truth is unacceptable. </p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/28/greek-editor-court-tax-evaders">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/28/greek-editor-court-tax-evaders</a> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/10/29/kostas-vaxevanis-15140653/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-10-25:/2012/10/25/israel-bombs-factory-in-sudan-15125514/oldjimbob2012-10-25T12:03:56+02:002012-10-25T12:05:10+02:00 <p>This was being discussed in the early hours on Russia Today, but I haven't noticed any mention of it at all yet on British news channels. Apparently a munitions factory in Khartoum was the target, and Sudanese sources are specific about who did it. Israeli planes they said. The frequent news updates on Radio 4's TODAY programme certainly didn't touch it but I expect that from them. You'd think with the BEEB having its trousers round its ankles for shoving the Savile issue under the carpet it might be trying to be more forthright in its news coverage. But don't expect any real changes on policy anytime soon. Selective and partisan has always been its way.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/10/25/israel-bombs-factory-in-sudan-15125514/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-10-17:/2012/10/17/imminent-trade-union-community-protest-15060641/oldjimbob2012-10-17T12:45:53+02:002012-10-19T11:33:34+02:00 <p>Give your support, in any way you can, to the nationwide protest this coming weekend (Saturday 20th)against the government's severe cutbacks programme. The focus on reducing the deficit at the expense of everything else is wrecking the lives of many thousands (if not millions)of British people. Expect the rightwing media to attack the principle of the protest, just as it did the Occupy movement. The Unions taking part will be smeared, as usual, when all they seek is a fair system for people far less well off than rich bankers and toffs.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/10/17/imminent-trade-union-community-protest-15060641/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-10-11:/2012/10/11/god-bless-you-mr-cameron-15025058/oldjimbob2012-10-11T12:43:03+02:002012-10-11T12:43:03+02:00 <p><a title="God Bless You, Mr Cameron" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/god_bless_you_mr_cameron/6660293"><img src="http://data8.blog.de/media/293/6660293_9daa847a73_m.jpg" alt="God Bless You, Mr Cameron"></a></p> <p>Two Thatcherites for the price of one.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/10/11/god-bless-you-mr-cameron-15025058/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p> tag:revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk,2012-10-09:/2012/10/09/where-are-all-the-jobs-george-15007738/oldjimbob2012-10-09T14:16:04+02:002012-10-09T14:16:59+02:00 <p><a title="Where are all the jobs, George?" href="http://www.blog.co.uk/media/photo/where_are_all_the_jobs_george/6655940"><img src="http://data6.blog.de/media/940/6655940_ed4667c13c_m.jpg" alt="Where are all the jobs, George?"></a><br>If people lose their job they still have to pay their bills until they find another source of income. That's where the safety-net of benefits comes in. If Cameron and Osborne keep chopping benefits how are those unemployed (often through no fault of their own) expected to live? The rich aren't feeling any austerity, only the non-rich.</p> <p> <small> <a href="http://revolutionnotontv.blog.co.uk/2012/10/09/where-are-all-the-jobs-george-15007738/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>