Americans told to boycott Scotland

A website boycottscotland.com has been set up with the message: "We urge all Americans to protest this action by boycotting the United Kingdom and Scotland in full." Wait a minute there was a time when you ventured out onto the streets of any major city in America you would experience Irish Americans collecting money for the IRA. Did the collectors and donator think that money was going to a good human cause? Only if you think blowing up or shooting British soldiers in Northern Ireland or bombing major cities in main land UK is a good cause. I think America should stop preaching to the rest of the world. The Provisional IRA received significant funding for its paramilitary activities from a group of Irish American supporters.

Brown's silence over Lockerbie bomber is 'cowardly'

Gordon Brown has come under fire for remaining silent on the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.
The Tories accused Mr Brown of a 'cowardly silence' and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said he was displaying a 'complete lack of leadership'.
Gordon Brown is willing to give us his opinion on the death of Michael Jackson; he gave us his opinion on the racism row in Big Brother and to congratulate the England cricket team on their ashes wins. I haven't heard the leaders of the Tories or Liberals comment on this issue.

No Food for wives who deny Husbands Sex

Today’s buzzword from Barack Obama and Gordon Brown is "Bringing democracy to Afghanistan". Democracy enables a country to make laws, for its entire people in a fair and just manner. This seems to give a morally just cause for invading Afghanistan. Wait a minute a new law was recently passed that an Afghan husband is allowed to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex with him. A woman must have also her husband’s permission to work. An earlier bill asked Shia women to have sex with their husbands every four days at a minimum. It also removed the need for consent to sex within marriage, effectively condoning rape. This amended version has been published in the official gazette and become law. Is this why our brave soldiers are fighting and dying for, I think not. One side is no better than the other is, apparently the president’s brother has drug connections.

I’m supported by the BRC

Some weeks ago I wrote on my blog and in the various letter pages of my disappointment at the "Cash for Scrap" scheme set up by this Labour government. Stating money would be better spent on helping people making their homes more energy efficient. The British Retail Consortium has issued a report supporting my argument. Customers should be offered incentives to switch to more environmentally friendly white goods. It would support retail jobs, as well as contributing to fight against climate change.

Eisteddfod Y Bala 2009

Now we are borrowing Rusian helicopters to fight the Taliban

British frontline troop in Afghanistan are so short of helicopters and transport planes that they are being bailed out by the Russians. The Ministry of defence is using civilian russian-built Mi-8 and Mi-26 transport helicopters to ferry supplies and soldiers in Afghanistan. The pilots are freelance Russian and Ukrainians. Britain is also hiring massive commercial Russian Antonoc aircraft to fly vehicles and heavy equipment from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to Afghanistan.

Even more extraodinary is that elite British forces troops have been forced to use helicopters from a third world nation to mount covert operations because of a desperate lack of UK aircraft. The British Chinook 3As, which cost the british tax payer £259 million, are white elephants that cannot be flown, as the Ministry of defence failed to ask Boeing for the rights to the avionics software. Now the Chinooks are being downgraded, at an added cost of £60million, into normal utility helicopters. It will be at least 18 months before the work is completed. Then aircrews will have to be trained to fly them, which could take another 9 months.

The Taliban will "never be defeated"

"Colonel Imam", the Pakistani agent who trained Mullah Omar and the warlords to fight the Soviet invasion, says the US must negotiate with its enemies. The Taliban have NATO forces trapped says "Colonel Imam". Eventually the West will tire. The Pakistani intelligence agent who trained Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, to fight has warned that NATO forces will never overpoer their enemies in Afghanistan and should talk to them rather than sacrifice more lives. "You can never win the war in Afghanistan," said so-called "Colonel Imam", who ran a training programme for the Afghan resistance to Soviet Union's occupation from 1979 to 1989, then helped to form the Taliban. During the late 1970s and 1980s he controlled CIA-funded training camps for 95,00 Afghans and often accompanied his students on missions.
After the Soviet defeat and the collapse of communism, he was invited to the White House by the first President George Bush and was give a piece of the Berlin Wall with a brass plague inscribed: "To the one who dealt the first blow". Watch Rambo III and listen to the American script, to see what type of fighters are the Taliban.

Afghanistan conflict could last 40 years, says new head of British Army

General Sir David Richards, the new head of the British Army believes the West's mission to stabilise Afghanistan might take as long as 40 years.
General Sir David Richards' prediction came as three more British soldiers, part of an elite Special Forces unit, were killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan.
The three men, members of the Special Forces Support Group, died when the vehicle they were travelling in was struck by an explosion near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. A fourth member of the unit survived the attack but was last night in critical condition.
How many coffins draped in the Union Flag is acceptable to the people of Britain?

Will you work until 70?

Government proposals that could see millions of people working until they are 70 have been unveiled.
Companies are set to be banned from enforcing a retirement age below 70.
Employers would also be stopped from stipulating age limits in job advertisements.
I’m a "desk jockey" tapping on a computer keyboard, sometimes I need to do more Manuel work this can sometimes cause me pain in my lower back. Ever since I slipped a disc washing the car, good excuse not doing that again. So I have sympathy for builders, welders and other Manuel workers who are forced to work until they are seventy. OK some will be able to do it being naturally fit or have good bosses, but what about the rest who would have to give up their jobs through ill health. I bet you most Politicians wouldn't be working until they are 70.

Some Advice to Huw Lewis AM

If you seriously want to become leader of New Labour in Wales, and then you should put your vision with your mouth is. Forget the bright lights of the Tory right wing Vale of Glamorgan and start relocating back to Merthyr. Back to where your roots are, back to where the local Labour party selected you, back to the people of Merthyr who elected you. You need to start living among your people and to feel their real life pain. But what do I know, I’m just a "nashie" living among the people of Bargoed.

I'm not going to tell you whether mobile phone masts are dangerous or not

More people are going to die from cancer from smoking or passive smoking than mobile phone masts.
So, if you are right underneath a mobile phone mast in a school playground, you are probably 40ft from the mast aerial, but if you use a mobile phone anywhere at all, you've got the phone right near your head, which is very considerably nearer than 7 times.
So, if phone masts are dangerous, then using a mobile phone is reckless and lethal.
However, no-one thinks of the phone as dangerous because it's just a small neat gadget that you can carry around and besides everyone's got them and they don't suffer from it. When people disagree with a phone mast being erected on health grounds, they need to ask themselves these questions.
Do they allow themselves or their children near smokers?
Do they use a mobile phone? Because somewhere there is a mast providing a service for them.
Have they ever inquired where is that phone mast?
Would they change providers if it were near a school?
The Church of England has struck a deal to put up phone masts on thousands of church steeples. The arrangement, worth up to £10,000 a year for each church.

Who are fighting in Afghanistan

NATO - ISAF
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Germany
France
Italy
Poland
Netherlands
34 other countries
Afghanistan
Operation Enduring Freedom participants
VS
Insurgent groups:
Taliban
al-Qaeda
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
Lashkar-e-Toiba
Jaish-e-Mohammed[1]
Hizbul Mujahideen
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

When the Children Cry

little child,
dry your crying eyes,
how can I explain,
the fear you feel inside,
cause you were born,
into this evil world,
where mas is killing man,
and no one knows just why,
what we have become,
just look what we have done,
all that we destroyed,
you must build again.
little child,
you must show the way,
to a better day,
for all the young,
cause you were born,
for all the world to see,
taught we all can live,
with love and peace,
no more presidents,
and all the wars will end,
one united world.

On Joining the Labour party

When you are in early New Labour, you may feel any of the following:
Anxious
Uncertain
Relieved
Scared
Excited
Nervous
All of the above at once!
Rest assured, they are all normal and common feelings you may experience at this very special time.
It’s important that you to try to relax, play any early New Labour signs down (unless you are concerned) and maintain as much normality as possible, as this is the beginning of what will likely be a long, exhausting, intense and probably painful process.
Tips & Suggestions
1. Avoid telling family and friends!

Ex-BBC journalist to contest Murphy’s Torfaen seat

JOURNALIST Paul Starling will stand against MP and former Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy at the next general election.
Mr Starling, a former BBC and HTV journalist who was also political editor of the Welsh Mirror (Labour propaganda paper in Wales), will stand for the People’s Voice Torfaen party.