La antena

is imdb t0454065 and well worth a see.

5/5 bananas

Niall Connolly is a hero

Behold the dirty dealings of local ‘democracies’ http://muckandbrass.blogspot.com. It is interesting to see how the msm (including the bbc) demonize him – . some local journalist was not doing there job.

The bbc should be minded that local issues matter to some who may not be reporters. and so Niall Connolly deserves some kudos and karma,

Amazon kindle rewrites books now too

Oh the joys of drm, and copyright lawyers. Moral: dont buy a kindle or from amazon

The Worsborough man

The 1983-1984 English miners strike was a bitter clash.  It devastated the coal mining industry and those who worked in it.  It also made the labour party electable with the divorce between unions and the party of the left.

Coal Miners or there union caused the defeat of both a conservative and a labour government in the 1970’s and so this beast would have had to have been tamed by somebody sooner or later.

The reaction to tame it was Margaret Thatcher, and despite what other parties might think about her and the actions that took place stopped three day weeks and made governments govern rather than being beer and sandwich vendors for union leaders and business.

Isbn 9781845296148 is a book by Francis Beckett and David Hencke called marching to the fault line which takes a 25 years plus look at the dispute and provides an interesting left wing view of the strike which the acknowledges  faults on both sides.

Worsborough (near Barnsley/Sheffield) is the village where an Arthur Scargill came to prominence and in his early days did good on being union rep.  Eventually he became leader of the mineworkers union the num.

Instead of the politicians clashing on idealogy it was him against government, Scargill was outclassed on the third attempt of regime change as the rules where rewritten and old demons returned to haunt the num.

If you go back far enough somebody will have a grudge – the mineworker grudge goes back to 1926 in britian, and they would have claimed that they where better trade unionists than others making those other trade unionists untrustworthy. The end of the second world war saw that the miners became government employees

The strike (illegal or not under law) is well documented, the book details the posible breakthroughs and downright strange dealings by the Barnsley centric Scargil and close friends to travellers of the union cause during the year that collasped the industry.

Many have suffered as a result and Billy Elliot (my blog) has ensured it has become not just an dull strike.

5/5 bananas.

Charlie Brookers Gameswipe

Was on bbc four and took a large dump on the mainstream media’s reporting of computer games.

I like Mr Brookers acerbic wit and i can be found to be recommending his bbc shows in this blog

5/5 bananas

Stanisław Lem in english – not possible.

The monkey house is not good at the polish language. But i had a feeling i wanted to read Stanisław Lem’s book Solaris. It’s been made into a film twice, once by the soviets* (imdb:tt0069293) and again by the americans (imdb:tt0307479)

The soviet film does the thing better, while the american film feels more at home and does not go on odd soviet joyrides with long meaning less bits of film bits of cars traveling on a road.

So i find that my library has the book, but its in polish, if thats supposed to be snobby then i admit it here.

It seems that reading Mr Lem is out of the question, unless i learn polish or make films.  Strange.

* which the announcer thought was the american version – thought that was funny.

‘professor’ Karol Sikora and the perils of compassion.

Karol Sikora was the doctor who said Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi (an alleged terrorist), was dying, at least that was the first of many excuses used by Gordon Brown and others.  The Libyans actions are not here up for discussion as it makes my head hurt.

Framed or not the deal to let the Libyan even stand trial meant everybody is rather complict in this tale.

Karol Sikora is supposed to be a cancer expert, it now seems that while lectures about cancer are given the ‘professor’ it appears that the professor is a fake.

Gordon Brown and Scotland’s ‘problem’ is that if a fake professor was used to produce humanitarian advice for the Libyans release then it calls into question everything.  Was his release for oil contracts?/etc

The answer it seems that when in doubt use a fake doctor to muddy the water.  I hope that Megrahi lives for a long time and humiliates the politicians for not being straight.  As for the ‘faker’ well who cares.

Mad ?

Mr Putin thinks your mad, you ok with that?

The bbc and most governments do not want you know this. Since most governments finance mental health who are they and the madness employees decide who is mad and who is not?

Ivan Pavlov designed torture methods for the soviets. Sick in this context is something that is relative.

Rupert Murdoch your Chinese spy

Somehow this does not come to me as a surprise (bbc).

Mr Murdoch seems to wish to destroy the art of the honest newspaper employee, and the business of news making it into a one man dictatorship.

Sig Heil Murdoch

id cards nearly gone.

a Nazi spending a bit too much time in China

Id cards are nearly dead (bbc) Niice to see that the even the unions oppose them now.  It is such a shame that the new labour gastapo feels that it still has to waste billions of pounds (which they don’t have) on something.

Say no to uk id cards.