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Entries from July 2004

How to talk like a Situationist

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- Learn French. No self-respecting situationist would dream of not knowing it.
- Always use the most obscure language possible. Get lots of big scholarly words from a dictionary and use them often.
Poor: “Things are bad.”
Better: “The formative mechanism of culture amounts to a reification of human activities which fixates the living and models the transmission [...]

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Tags: General

Finally …

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Tags: International

Fondation Brigitte Bardot

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A quick presentation of the Foundation
For many years the Brigitte Bardot Foundation has evolved and leads a stronger battle in favour of pet and wild animal protection in the world.
Today the Brigitte Bardot Foundation has over 57 000 donators living in over 60 different countries and also 323 inspectors. The head quarters are in Paris [...]

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Tags: General

Demographic trends 2003

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The Registrar General for Scotland today released his Annual Review of Demographic Trends.
As in past years, the report highlights trends in births, deaths and marriages. This year, a chapter has been dedicated to migration - within Scotland as well as to and from Scotland - drawing on information from the 2001 Census and from surveys [...]

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Tags: Official statement

Medway Towns secret asylum scandal revealed.

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A truly shocking scandal has been revealed in the Medway Towns in Kent. It features deception, lies and hidden facts all embroiled in an atmosphere of panic and fear as a local council and its citizens are treated like mere mushrooms by a tiny clique of race relations gestapo officials - that is kept in [...]

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Tags: General

Tesco - where every little rupee helps

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The biggest supermarket chain in the UK, Tesco plans to follow the lead of financial and other service sector companies and sack British workers, preferring cheaper Indian workers instead.
The news has been tucked away in the business pages of a few broadsheets over the past 24 hrs and the leak has caused embarrassment at British [...]

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Tags: Insecurity - ethnic mixing · International

Orwell’s Britain - in 2004 not 1984

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Lee Barnes writes about plans for a universal population database.
A national database containing confidential details about every child in Britain is to be set up by the New Labour government. An identifying number will be assigned to each child so that the authorities can access their records. The prophecy of George Orwell has come true [...]

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Tags: General · Politics

Situation Serious

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The forces of the Labour Regime are continuing their attacks on the institution of the British National Party. The latest attacks involved a BBC undercover “investigation” and a national Labour-supporting newspaper group forcing Barclays Bank to freeze the bank accounts of the BNP. This comes just weeks after a CRE campaign to shut the party [...]

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Tags: General

Haircuts cost double - but TVs a fraction of 1989 price

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THE cost of a haircut has more than doubled in the past 15 years while the price of televisions and computers has fallen by 74 per cent, new research has found.
In a study of inflation since 1989, the Halifax found that the price of personal services, such as hairdressing and beauty care and dentists’ [...]

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Tags: General

Historic Scotland guides win campaign to wear the kilt

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IT IS recognised by tourists from across the world as Scotland’s traditional dress, yet for years staff at the nation’s top visitor attractions were banned from wearing the kilt.
Now, after a campaign from workers tired of greeting visitors to Scotland’s castles in tartan trews, Historic Scotland has introduced a kilt uniform.
This week staff [...]

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Tags: History - Culture · International

Future starts here for our national parks

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TWO years ago today, Scotland got its first national park. After a long haul from concept to Scottish parliamentary bill, the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park was in business.
But that was only the beginning, says Mike Cantlay, the chairman of a national park committee charged with “promoting sustainable economic and social development [...]

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Tags: Environement

Turk Jailed For Shooting British Toddler

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A Turkish man has been jailed for 36 years for shooting dead a British toddler. Two-year-old Alistair Grimason was sleeping in his pram at a Turkish cafe, where he was on holiday, when a gunfight started.A stray bullet lodged in his lung, killing him instantly.
A 32-year-old car salesman, Daimi Akyuz, admitted causing his death [...]

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Tags: Insecurity - ethnic mixing · International

Michael Howard’s links with child-sex pervert

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Stunned Tories in Folkestone have today been told the news that Party Leader Michael Howard has been harbouring a serial paedophile in his very own constituency Party.
Father of two Robert Richdale had stood as a “family man” for the Conservative Party in the elections for Folkestone Town Council last month.
Sordid case history
But since [...]

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Tags: General · Politics

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi - time he was sent packing!

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Nothing could further illustrate the continued anti-British extremism of London’s Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone than his sickening “You are truly, truly welcome” speech to the blood-thirsty Egyptian Islamic cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
And nothing could better expose the Blair/Blunkett/Howard/BBC lie about how moderate most Islamics are than the way in which this man was hailed by [...]

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Tags: Insecurity - ethnic mixing · Official statement · Politics

Food firms fight to see off the ‘fat tax’

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FOOD producers stung by criticism that they are contributing to Britain’s obesity epidemic are rushing to develop low-fat, low-calorie alternatives to popular brands in a bid to head off tough new government controls, the threat of a “fat tax” and potential US-style lawsuits.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) this week said the industry had two [...]

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Tags: Environement

Two faces of beetle eating Scotland’s natural heritage

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IN SCOTLAND it is a pest that is destroying part of our natural heritage. But on the other side of the world it has still to live up to its reputation.
Gamekeepers and land managers say 2004 has seen the most intense and widespread attack of heather beetle in Scotland, with vast tracts of land [...]

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Tags: General

The links between communism and capitalism

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Since time began, for their own well-being, groups have formed themselves into tribes and clans. They have developed their own cultures and religions, always defending their own territories up to recognised boundaries.
No group whether human or animal can relax should its territory be invaded. The British in the UK display all the symptons of [...]

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Tags: General

Right Now !

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RN is an independent, London-based magazine of politics, ideas and culture set up to articulate unfashionable and politically incorrect ideas of all kinds.
Since 1993, the magazine has been serving up a heady mixture of celebrity interviews, uncensored articles, cultural comment and opinion and news of activities.
Previous interviewees and writers include many journalists, academics, thinkers, peers [...]

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Tags: General

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“Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorship - an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.”
George Orwell

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The threat of the “free-market”

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The following letter from a US economist to a Congressman who has begun to express concerns about the consequences of free trade highlights all too clearly the seriousness of the situation in which the nations of the West now find themselves relative to the rest of the world. Middle class Britons in particular need to [...]

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Tags: General