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Wind turbine falls over in wind! U.K.

 

The collapsed turbine at East Ash Farm in Bradworthy. Photo by Phil Ashmore

Climate scam.

A CONTROVERSIAL 80ft wind turbine has collapsed after being hit by heavy winds.

The £250,000 (€291,000) tower, which stood as tall as a six storey building, was hit by gale force gusts of 50mph.

The structure then collapsed at a farm in Bradworth, Devon, England leaving a "mangled wreck".

Margaret Coles, Chairwoman of Bradworthy District Council, said hail storms and strong winds have hit the area and the turbine, installed just three years ago, simply could not withstand the wind.

"The bolts on the base could not withstand the wind and as we are a very windy part of the country they [the energy company] have egg on their face," she said. "There are concerns about safety."

The Bradworthy Parish Council, who opposed the turbine, expressed concern that there was “nothing exceptional” in the speed of the winds.

Installed by renewable energy company Dulas it was supposed to have a life expectancy of 25 years.

They noted that “wind speeds are part of our root-cause investigation”.

It was erected in July 2010 despite fierce opposition from local residents, who said it would be a noise and visual nuisance.

Councillor Keith Tomlin said: "We are relieved that no one was injured. But had this happened in daytime there was a chance of serious injury to workers on the farm where it was located or to the public on the road nearby."

http://www.oneworldchronicle.com/?p=10620

UK Column Live 24/01/13

This UK Column video very much backs up what this Belgian MP is saying, 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5RV_QqYKE14

Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS, exposes the West's lies

Michael George Bichard, Baron Bichard, KCB, a Communitarian Fool.

 

Prat of the Week - Michael George Bichard, Baron Bichard, KCB,

This week it goes to the hugely smug Lord Bichard, who is a former benefits chief and now sits on a quango looking at demographic changes and their impact on public services.

He has said that "retired people should do community work or face losing part of their pension so as not to be a burden on the state."

Firstly, the noble Lord should know that Pensioners have paid in for their pensions in good faith, having been told that National Insurance would give them a good pension. People have contributed for their pensions and it is their pension. It is not for the government to use as a carrot or a stick. During good times, the government should have built up a pension reserve rather than used pension funds for funding vanity projects like the millennium dome so that state pensions were not the giant scheme they are now.

Lord Bichard also needs reminding that community service is a judicial sanction judges can give criminals. Is being a pensioner therefore, going to be a criminal act in his brave new world?

In addition, it appears that his lordship is setting a perfect example, as at the ripe old age of 54 he retired from the Civil Service in May 2001 with a pension of £120,000 p.a.!

Lord Bichard - well deserving Prat of the Week!

Posted on October 24, 2012 by johnny void | 33 Comments 

A cross party peer has proposed forced labour for pensioners after warning that elderly people are a burden on society.
Baron Bichard, who used to run the Benefits Agency, is a member of a committee investigating demographic changes and their impact on public services.
According to the BBC,  the former public sector boss turned toff, admitted it would be difficult for politicians to sell to the public,  but pointed out:  “So were tuition fees.”
Baron Bichard was close to David Blunkett whilst the seeds of today’s brutal welfare reforms were being planned.  As the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education and Employment the then Sir Michael Bichard even attempted to help David Blunkett cover up for his long standing affair with a civil servant.  Bichard was well rewarded for his loyalty, being made a life peer in 2010.
Whilst Bichard has little influence in the current administration, his statement, which appears to be justified by current workfare schemes, is revealing:
“We are now prepared to say to people who are not looking for work, if you don’t look for work you don’t get benefits, so if you are old and you are not contributing in some way or another maybe there is some penalty attached to that.”
Whilst these plans are unlikely to see the light of day any time soon it is telling that a policy to work the elderly to death is even considered by an influential peer.  If a man who used to have significant responsibility for the benefits system is happy to make these vile opinions known in public, then what is being discussed behind the scenes must be truly chilling.

A mother who tackled a leading historian on live television about immigration insisted recently that her family’s home town has become like a ‘foreign country’.
On BBC1’s Question Time, Professor Mary Beard dismissed stories about the number of migrant workers overwhelming Boston as ‘myths’ and said ‘public services can cope’.
But Rachel Bull, an office manager in Boston, who  was in the audience, immediately challenged the Cambridge University classics professor, claiming hospitals and schools are struggling to cope in the Lincolnshire agricultural town.

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/fury-as-swans-brutally-killed-1-367438

Well done Rachel Bull.

Oh how UK academics and politicians love to lecture us all on our selfish and bigoted attitude to immigration and preach to about us not being wicked and “racist” however – you will notice that it is not to their leafy lanes, posh neighbourhoods, ivory towers of academia and Belgravia apartments that these chancers come to live in.

No, it is to the council housing and, nowadays, the 3rd sector housing associations, originally intended for young working class Brits, that house them, along with the cheap end of the private rental sector – where these interlopers almost always seem to take priority over our own needy young people.

I might have respect for all these academics, politicians of all parties, and toffy-nosed liberals when they practice what they have preached to us for the last 50 years and are actually sharing their spacious 4, 5 and 6 bedroom homes with several immigrant families or put these people up indefinitely, in their 2nd or 3rd homes! 

Come on, you lot, we working class Brits. have done our bit – now it is your turn! 

How many refugees from Bulgaria and Romania can we fit into Buckingham Palace, for example, and Windsor Castle, Sandringham,  etc.

Chequers, lets squash a whole load of Bulgarians and Roma gypsies into there and see how the PM and his family and staff like it!  It is a country estate so there is plenty of room for numerous caravans and trailers.  Once the place is filled with weird cooking smells, drenched in water from their strange toilet and washing rituals, the silver and garden ornaments go walkies, the gazebo gets chopped up for fire wood and the pheasants, swans and geese mysteriously vanish along with all the fish in the lake!  Then we might see reality dawn on them!

Dr Andrew Wakefield on Alex Jones Show 18/01/13

Real News, UK Column Live - 18/01/13

Understanding The Third Way

by Niki Friedrich Raapana, 8/30/01

President Bush set aside the Faith-Based Initiative after it died on Capitol Hill, quickly replacing it with the Values-Based Initiative.  Bush understands modern governance requires endorsing stronger community morals.01

With all the special problems facing humans in the 21st century, Bush agrees with ex-President Clinton that we must embrace a utopian ideology called Building Liveable Communities. Designed to create a grassroots, morality based, civil society, it's also referred to as the Third Way.1

All Third Way government plans endorse international capacity building. Assessing and mobilizing community capacity is the final solution to inequality. It will create a better quality of life, for everyone. The ultimate goal of the Third Way is to eradicate world poverty by the year 2020.2

Sounds like a tall order, but the futuristic policy of liveability can be achieved if we all work together to build a more responsive community that puts the needs of the collective first. If Americans put aside selfish individualism, everyone in the world is guaranteed a job and a home on a healthy planet.3

A Third Way government must assert judicial control over natural resources.  Third Way laws that govern natural resources cannot be limited to land, water, plants, and animals, because people are resources too. Enlightened consumers who contribute to the community are vital human capital; all non-contributors are potential hidden assets in need of an intervention.4

And interventions are at the very heart of Third Way ideology.5

Government interventions performed for the good of the community began in undeveloped nations and American urban ghettos in the mid 1970's, as the Vietnam War to stop the spread of Asian communism ended.  In the 80's, after the Cold War to stop the spread of Russian communism, America expanded the role of soldiers to include international peacekeeping efforts.6

Calling the Army peacekeepers allowed the Department of Defence, DOD to share equipment and technology with the Department of Justice, DOJ.  In 1994, Congress passed the Violent Crime Act, and ex-President Clinton gave DOJ director Janet Reno 8 billion dollars to create a bureau of local police, called Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). By 1996, COPS
placed over 100,000 officers nationwide, granting a $5000 bonus to communities for each COP they enlisted having at least 2 years prior military service.7

COPS' programs come with the COPS. COPS are an integral participant in helping citizens design U.N. and State legislatively mandated Neighborhood Plans, called Habitat/Localizing Agenda 21. COPS taught locals the "Broken Window Theory," and expounded on the rationale behind Communitarian Council founder, Professor Amitai Etzioni's, "The Limits of Privacy." 8

Participating residents were further indoctrinated to believe in ex-Vice-President Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. They were convinced to use communitarian, utopian theory to define their vision of a safer, more moral community. As incentive, Gore's Safe Streets Initiative included hefty COPS funds for communities that would include COPS special pilot test programs in their neighbourhood  plans.9

Communitarians like Etzioni, Clinton, and George Bush Jr. insist individual rights are so harmful they require a balancing against the rights of the community collective. They say there's a dangerous tension between liberty and social order, and finding a peaceful solution mandates that reasoned deliberations must be replaced by moral dialogue.10

To the communitarians, argument and debate have no place in the creation of unconstitutional laws that support the new social order. Reasoned deliberations are disruptive and passionate, whereas moral dialogue is designed to reach consensus. Vigorous, open, public debate, so fundamental to America's founding fathers, is forbidden in a communitarian collective.11

Communitarians build moral bridges, not legal foundations.12

All Neighborhood Plans include a vision for building the character of the neighborhood, and encourage the local participants to identify the types of businesses, people, and behaviors that interfere with their vision. Some Neighborhood Plans include new enforcement procedures that help the community create and build a safer civil society.  These plans identify the particular problem people who spread disease, crime, and immorality.13

To rectify identified problems, FBI-COPS created Neighborhood Action Teams, NATS. NATS purpose is to find innovative solutions that will enable the community to address identified problems. Throughout the 90's, COPS combined forces with Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, using Neighborhood Plans to expand a communitarian based pilot program called Weed & Seed. Weed & Seed identifies the bad weeds and replaces them with good seeds. HUD distributes Community 2020 data software.14

In 1997, DOJ created the Crime Mapping Research Center, CMRC, giving out millions in DOD/DOJ high tech crime mapping grants to local governments  willing to use their communities to test expansion of Weed & Seed policy.  In 1999, DOJ created COMPASS, Community Mapping, Planning & Analysis for Safety Strategies, to help communities track problems using one main, combined, central, accessible database.15

By the year 2000, Building Livable Communities escalated into a military interventionist policy of controlling behaviors with armed force, represented best by Plan Columbia.  Columbia is one of the most unstable countries in the Western Hemisphere. Kidnappings are frequent, with victims
sold to and exchanged with unauthorized government soldiers. Still, the U.S./U.N. military help contribute to Columbia's quality of life. Mirroring the 1980's policies in El Salvador and Nicaragua, millions in American tax dollars are authorized by Plan Columbia for the US military to train and fully equip murderers/kidnappers with high tech weapons of death and destruction.16

Countries with a history of political instability and violence, (often a result of 20th century imperialist interventionist policies) are the preferred testing grounds for the most fascist aspects of the Building Community Capacity agenda. Even though historically people deprived of their civil liberties will often resist to the death, the majority of worldwide  rural peasants are much like the Chinese, the Cambodians, and the Vietnamese, i.e.: unarmed, peaceful, and effectively ruled by whoever holds the biggest guns.17

Now that the threat to world happiness is no longer communism, the Third Way can tackle the more humanitarian needs of the human spirit.18

International communitarian planners back the U.S. claims that drugs are the root cause of all crime and immorality. America's Drug War makes farming and harvesting of medicinal and/or recreational plants so bad that it warrants Blackhawk assault helicopter teams shooting at fields of pickers. Not in the United States of course, not against American citizens or farmers. But the
peasant growers of the world are not armed nearly the same way as Americans are, those arrogant, freedom loving descendants of the farmers who shot the pants off the British Imperialists in 1776.19

Without ever suggesting putting aside their own weapons, communitarian governments insist people defending themselves against invasions should give up their guns, to help create a nicer, safer world.  Good collective citizens also allow the Third Way government access to all their private information, so COPS can predict and prevent crime and war, before it happens. Civil citizens agree with the community agents coming to help them with career decisions and lifestyle choices, the core aspects of building capacity. Who else can be trusted to have enough information to determine exactly how people should contribute to the world collective?20

Not surprisingly, communitarians firmly believe gun ownership destabilizes a good society. Their preamble explains why the community government is the only group who should have guns. The communitarians plan to control crops and confiscate privately owned guns, worldwide. And, like Stalin and Pol Pot showed us, the government's use of guns will only be necessary in the
beginning, just until people learn their shared responsibility is: to only grow and consume products produced and approved by the collective.21

Many Americans, however, still cling to the outdated and harmful belief that protecting individual liberty is the law of their land, and their constitutional courts still support that notion.  Even with the success of the Drug War, the COPS can only swarm into U.S. neighborhoods with assault helicopters and tanks if there is an identified threat. While reports of drugs or dangerous citizens allow for Marshall Law, it's for a very limited time, usually only a few hours until the situation is resolved, (exceptions being FBI directed military actions like Waco, Ruby Ridge, and anti-WTO protest zones).22

Their Bill of Rights is plain and simply a barrier to fully implementing the agenda in the United States. It poses very special problems for the collective's plan to build international community based governments. It requires the combined efforts of thousands of academics with innovative
solutions. Unlike African nations or Columbia, America has restrictions to administering COPS' programs, especially the data gathering. The 2nd & 4th Amendments are two of COPS most difficult obstacles. Far too many law abiding Americans own guns, and it's difficult to get inside their homes.23

America is still a democracy. It has elected representatives and the right to bring issues before the public in Voter Sponsored Initiatives. But the federal courts can over-rule State Voter-Approved Legislation. This helps maintain the U.S. record for more Drug War prisoners per capita, than
anywhere else in the world. And now communitarian civil society groups, like 1000 Friends of Washington, are openly challenging rights of voters to initiate a ballot, suing those uppity, selfish, old-fashioned Americans who think they can use the initiative process to save their beloved
Constitution.23A

Regardless of the legal and constitutional barriers, the U.S. is moving ahead as if the barriers are already gone. In pilot programs across the U.S., COPS are gathering the data they require, with or without American's consent.  As the designated pilot program in Seattle shows, COMPASS doesn't need to comply with any of the federal rules that govern Human Subjects Research,
not as long as high ranking DOJ-COPS can be successfully placed.24

In 2000, Gil Kerlikowske, the D.C. Director of COPS' Grant Funding, was appointed Police Chief of Seattle, Washington. Corresponding to his arrival, Seattle was chosen as the first designated pilot site for COMPASS. Soon after, the Seattle Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning, SPO, expanded to control COMPASS, city housing inspectors, and neighborhood developers doing capacity building research.

In 2001, Seattle's SPO took control of COPS/NATS' Problem-Solving Partnerships, DOJ's preferred program of using collaborative efforts to identify, map, and mobilize local human resources for the community.25

Another pilot program that gathers socio-economic data is Asset Based Community Development, ABCD, based on "Mapping and Mobilizing a Community's Assets," by John McKnight. Promoted by the Institute for Policy Research at North-western University, ABCD is now its own institute.

ABCD was introduced to Seattle neighborhood groups in the summer of 2000, when ABCD co-author Jody Kertzman was invited to promote ABCD to interested community association members by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Seattle began offering ABCD seminars to small invited groups in June, 2001, barring ABCD-opposed citizens from attending.26

In October, 2001, CMRC in Denver, Colorado begins the first in a series of seminars designed to teach senior American law enforcement analysts to combine crime-mapping data with socio-economic data.  DOJ provides lists of the source opportunities for gathering the data into one world master file.

While participants in oppressed African nations give up their personal data willingly, American's data will be gathered secretly, independent of the rules under the Code of Federal Regulations, thus enabling the U.S. to participate fully in all aspects of Third Way development programs in the future.27

The End
References:

01: * The Washington Post, 7/29/01, "Bush Plans Values-Based Initiative to
Rev Up Agenda," by Mike Allen.

      * S. 2952: Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations in Housing
and Community Development Act of 2000 (Introduced in the Senate), 106th U.S.
Congress, 2nd Session, www.thomas.loc.gov

1:   * The Washington Post, 02/01/01, "Needed: Catchword For Bush Ideology;
Communitarianism Finds Favor,"
by Dana Milbank.

      * The Third Way: Summary of the Nexus on-line discussion,
www.netnexus.org/library/papers/3way.html.

      * Mother Jones Magazine, 1994, "I or We?" by Michael D'Antonio, based
on an interview with Communitarian Council President Amitai Etzioni,
www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MJ94/dantonio.html

      * United Nations, Training and Capacity-Building Section: Strategy and
Activities, "..international capacity- building for management and
development of human settlements." www.unchs.org/habrdd/capstrat.htm

      * "U.S. Mayors Endorse Earth Charter," July, 2001, Part III: Social
and Economic Justice, "...Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, and
environmental imperative." www.citizenreviewonline.org/july_2001/

      * The World Community Land Trust Proposal: 1974, EUTOPIA,
www.humboldt.net/`gaiajah/worldcomLnd.html

2:    * The Road to Sustainable Development, March, 1997, "A Snapshot of
Activities in the USA.. The President's Council on Sustainable Development,"
www.womensgroup.org/PCSD497.html  (this link provides 14 pages of laws,
institutions, organizations, and activities)

      * Center for Social Development, CSD, Projects,
www.gwbweb.wustl.edu/Users/csd/projects.html

      * Coalition for Low Income Community Development (CLICD),
www.clicd.org/

      * The Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan, Seattle, Washington, 1999,
www.ci.seattle.wa.us

      * The Washington State Growth Management Act, 1990,

      * World Bank Group--Living Standards Measurement Study Household
Surveys, www.worldbank.org

      * World Bank Group, Poverty in Africa,
www4.worldbank.org/afr/poverty/links_academic_research_en.htm

3:  * "Can the White House Help Catalyse Civic Renewal?"  Reinventing
Citizenship Project, A Proposal for a Civic Partnership Council," June,
1994, www.cpn.org/sections/new_citizenship/civic_part_council.html

      *The Responsive Communitarian Platform, www.gwu.edu/`ccps/catel.html

      *Communitarian Family Policy Statement, prepared by Don Browning,
University of Chicago, Director of Religion, Culture and Family Project,
www.uchicago.edu/divinity/family/communitarianpolicy.html

      *The Communitarian Preamble,
www.communitariannetwork.org/platformtext.htm

4:   *Community Toolbox, Part B Chapter 3 Section 8, "Identifying Community
Assets and Resources," ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/sub_section_main_1043.htm

      * The Critical Areas Code, Clallam County, Washington,
www.citizenreviewonline.org

      * Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), Institute for Policy
Research, North-western University, Evanston, Illinois,  "A Path Toward
Finding and Mobilizing A Communities Assets," by John P. Kertzmann and
John L. McKnight, www.northwestern.edu/IPR/abcd.html

      * Founding Endorsers of the Communitarian Platform, signed by John L.
McKnight, ABCD Program Director, www.communitariannetwork.org/founders.htm

      * National Science Foundation and Department of Housing and Urban
Development, HUD Conference, July 10-12, 1995, sponsored by the National
Center for Geographical Information and Analysis (NCGIA), "Geographic
Information Analysis and Human Capital Research,"  "In it's 'strategic plan'
for the human capital initiative, the National Science Foundation (NSF,
1994) has recognised the practical importance of basic research into the
nation's human capital resources."

      * Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Research
Networks, www.sase.org

Christopher Tappin sentenced to 33 months in US arms case – for selling batteries!

UK citizen Christopher Tappin sentenced to 33 months in US arms case – for selling batteries!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20959319

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105764/Christopher-Tappin-escorted-US-face-trial-says-victim-sting.html

65-year-old denies trying to sell batteries for missiles destined for Tehran

Case echoes the plight of 46-year-old Asperger's sufferer Gary McKinnon

http://www.friends-extradited.org/citizens/christopher_tappin

ent to jail in America for selling batteries which have many applications, allegedly for missiles?

“.If I wanted anything, it was to be tried in the UK, not in America, because the Americans have never had to produce one piece of evidence.All the evidence shown to the court so far has come from our side.

'They have not had to produce any evidence whatsoever. We believe there is no evidence ... it's just an accusation.

'By virtue of an accusation they are allowed to extradite people from one country to another."
He said this "seems ridiculous and a disgrace to our country'.

Shortly after 10.30am yesterday, Mr Tappin's lawyer Karen Todner said: 'Mr Tappin has been taken now by British extradition officers to the aeroplane, where he is going to be handed over to US marshals.

'He will be arriving in El Paso this afternoon. He will be appearing in court on Monday morning, so he will be in custody over the weekend.'

Ms Todner said Mr Tappin would be handcuffed and seated between two US marshals on the flight, which is due to land in Texas around 4pm local time..”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259742/Former-golf-club-president-Christopher-Tappin-JAILED-33-months-Pennsylvania-prison-plot-export-missile-parts-Iran.html

The US plea-bargaining system allows prosecutors to act as ‘judge, jury and executioner’.