Opposition ordure...

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Lying hypocritical oaf rolls in the brownstuff (or is he simply forgetful?): Mount Brown has erupted. Incredibly, in stating that News International had "descended from the gutter to the sewers" Crash Gordon seems to have forgotten Whelan, McBride et al - his very own sewer-dwelling ratpack some of whom had been swilling and swimming in shit for Gordy since his Chancellor days and before.

Late update: Cranmer has more detailed info re the scapegoating of RM; as we all know, they're all at it.

Overt (opportunist?) overreaction...

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"The BBC has a monopoly and it's abusing it". I'm a few thousand miles away but can hear the harpie shrieks of hysteria from here. The NOTW debacle has led to a general all-out assault on the great evil empire News International; but consider that 70% of the UK get their news from TV and the image left shows just who dominates that...by miles. Look HERE and you see online the BBC is even more dominant (News Corporation has even less market share than The Guardian!) and no need to even mention radio. Facts and stats from Tim Montgomerie, well worth a read (click on image).

"Lots of nonsense is being said and written about how News International is undermining the diversity of British media. There's only one dominant force in the British media and that's the BBC. The BBC's dominance is overwhelming when it comes to news."

P.S. Also, it's been hard not to notice the Beeb's recent tendency for loving Alastair.

Late Update: you can tell I'm not getting online much: THIS from Sunday:

"They see a straight line from a successful BSKYb takeover to the emergence of a truly pluralistic television media environment. And that vision terrifies them.

Make no mistake about it. The Left’s agenda is about censorship and control. Nothing more, nothing less."

And this, curiouser and curiouser: BBC/GUARDIAN JOIN FORCES, POOL RESOURCES

Orban's outstanding ocracy...

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...or at least that's what Nigel Farage seems to think (LOL!) as he lists the 'achievements' of the EU during Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's six month period as the rotating President of the Council of the European Union. Victor is a centre-right conservative politician and prior to gaining the EU gig called for a 'Strong Europe'; but maybe he's really "the Eurosceptics' secret weapon" as Nigel Farage said. Hat-tip: Calling England

Orinoco obambulation...

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Wandering aimlessly: this and that in Venezuela. First yesterday's dire 0-0 draw in the Copa America: Brazil were shite and Venezuela got a valuable point. Pantallero* Neymar and Venezuela coach Cesar Farias are still at it. I've seen three Santos games this year and Neymar was shit and selfish in all of them (now I've said this it means he will go on to be the new Ronaldo/Messi combined).

Also Krusty has returned home (not to be too mean but that name is sounding more appropriate every day!); needless to say his serious illness** hasn't helped his non-existent humility as much as I hoped it would: it's only the start of the return. He has cried off tomorrow's Independence celebrations, I await some sort of 'show'. Venezuela, a land Columbus (Colon) called paradise, the 'Land of Grace' [oops] was the first Spanish American colony to declare independence although this faltered a couple of times over the following decade the original day is still celebrated (5th July 1811) Much of the country's history is dominated by political/military leaders: caudillos, usually with the help of an 'oligarchy'; some good some bad, for various reasons my 'favourite' is José Antonio Páez [Wiki]

* Venezuelan meaning.
** This will probably get the Ven mafia after me but I believe I know what troubles Krusty; I hinted at it recently when I mentioned waste disposal outlets and said "don't ask"...before all was revealed. You see, back in May he was treated for a 'carnosidad anal', a fleshy growth in the anus, and before that in February he was treated for a prostate problem; now he has been treated for cancer 'down there'. It could be he was unlucky and had "normal" prostrate or colon cancer, BUT (and I must stress I have no evidence AT ALL) but it COULD be because of overuse of drug cocktails administered via suppositories. I don't mean recreational drug use, I mean he has been trying to run the country himself for over a decade, which included 8 hour marathon live TV every Sunday...a Mars a day wouldn't help much.

That said, I wish him a speedy recovery because I want him and his Boliburguesía to lose fair and square next year; he's been sliding so fast downhill (not health-wise!) that even Noam is critical! However, the state of the opposition tends to reflect the football game 0-0 with nothing much happening.

Outstanding IV...

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Multi-culti left wing pricks...Guardianista/BBC prickocracy (LOL!) etc. Pat Condell's message today (YouTube); "An illiberal consensus" - the man gets it and he puts his point across so well! 

Opposing ostrichism...

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'bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria'; He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory (att. Publilius Syrus). Ostrichism is the refusal to face unpleasant facts, something that many politicians suffer from; one who certainly didn't suffer was the man who had the plaque - image left - on his desk; to me that saying transmits similar inspirational thoughts as the quote above. Click on image to go to the website of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library. And click HERE to read of the Reagan Centennial Celebrations and the unveiling of a bronze statue near the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London. The man inspired many but saved many more by facing head-on unpleasant facts.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

Update: tributes and photos [Conservative Home]

One 'official opinion'...

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"No British government has been in a stronger position"...David Blackburn in The Spectator quoting one official aide. Will it make the slightest bit of difference? Do you care? The European Union's budget of one trillion Euros was called 'relatively small': I'd be happier with about 9 fewer zeros; will David Cameron really secure a consensus to reject anything but a "0 per cent real terms rise for the 2013-2020 Budget round"?

Also, worth commenting on the news [deserves a post to itself really] that George Osborne objected to Britain's involvement in the eurozone bail-out and specifically asked "[Mr Darling] to be careful not to commit the UK to proposals that have a lasting effect on UK public finances"; nevertheless, later the same day Darling did the opposite and tied UK tax-payers' money into the bail-out fund. The following day Darling left office. Remember, the money being shovelled by various routes to the insatiable, greedy, gaping maw of the EU is SEVERAL TIMES the amount being "cut" by the Coalition: so, where is the outrage? Yes I know I've said it before; where are the marches? Where are the Unions? Where are the raving looney scraggly-bearded dodo Marxist Archbishops and hypocitical Polly Trots? I can't hear them. The current scene of the saga isn't a tragedy, it's a farce.

Obrogating oecists...

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Those obrogating oecists wrote a letter; the second sentence and others sections became more famous but it began thus:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." ...

And declare them they did by twelve 'yes' votes and one abstention; it was announced two days later when the text was approved.