4/20/2009

Happy St. George's Day, 2oo9.

Happy St. George’s Day from the
proudly British blog thebiggerissue.org
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+ JERUSALEM +
.
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
.
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
.
And did the counternance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
.
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among the dark satanic mills?
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Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear!
O clouds unfold.
Bring me my chariot of fire!
.
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
.


+
The great English Hymn "Jerusalem" was
composed by Sir Charles H. Parry, 1848-1918.
Arranged by G. T Thalben-Ball. Taken from
"Hymns Ancient and Modern Revised," 1950,

pp. 778-784. Publisher: William Clowes
And Sons, London. E.C.4.

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St. George's Day takes place on April 23rd.
With Gladness, Uncle Monty.
Happy St. George’s Day, 2oo9.

I'm still here on the far reaches of the Isle Emerald!!!
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4/15/2009

On The Far Reaches of the Emerald Isle. By Uncle Monty.

On the Far Reaches of the Emerald Isle.
By Uncle Monty.

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Letterfrack is a small 19th century Quaker setttle-
ment on the far reaches of the Emerald Isle at about
110 kilometers north-west of Galway. Letterfrack
is also called Leitir-bheac -in Irish Gaelic.
.
I am here not only to make my first visit to the West
Coast of Connacht, but also to learn more about the
horrors that existed at the stern and sex-perverted
hands of the Irish Christian Brothers at the Letter-
frack Industrial (Reform) School that was finally shut
down in 1974 after so much international news media
coverage that then exposed the ongoing abuse and
sexual crimes committed against those youngsters
put in "care" of such bad men
of "The Catholic Cloth."
.

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My long standing interest and deep curiosity surrounding
the Letterfrack delinquent boys school stems from an odd
encounter with a young Irish man who I met at a Boston
prison reform conference in America a few years after
the Irish Christian Brothers had been exposed for their
wicked deeds against such hapless charges in their "care."

.

Great pity that Letterfrack didn't produce a superb
Irish writer like Brendon Behan (1923-1964) in his
1958 authorship of his book "Borstal Boy." For
Letterfrack deserves such treatment and insight
that only an Irish-born ex-British prison inmate like
Brendon Behan could master by the brilliant power
of his written and ringing literature of Britian's ogre
borstal system of juvenile reformation that came to
end in 1982. Incidentally, Behan's best-seller was
banned in Ireland on the grounds of obscenity.
.
As for the ex-Letterfrack inmate, he detailed the
horror of what the Christian Brothers had done to him
that included severe canings, whippings with leather
razorstraps , and physical beatings for the least little in-
fraction at Letterfrack that he was sent to when he was
only a mere lad of 13 or 14. He had committed no crime,
but was sent to the Christian Brothers because his par-
ents thought he needed strict and unyeilding discipline
to control his ill-temper and emotional outbursts at
home and also at church! He spent over 3 years
under the tyrannical sexual abuse, too, of certain
religious brothers that controlled the Irish reform
school like a "juvenile Alcatraz," he said.
www.paddydoyle.com/tobin.html
.

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So all these long years later, I am now standing
right at Letterfrack and wondering whatever
happened to the young Irish ex-inmate who
chiselled in my mind the horror of what he des-
cribed to those of us at the U.S. prison reform
conference regarding the wickedness that was
perpetrated against him, and hundreds of other
Irish kids, at the perverted hands of the stern
and sick Christian Brothers at Eire's Letterfrack.
.

.
My deep interests in historical penology and state
criminological methods to stem juvenile delinquency
is summed up best in my desire to come here to
Letterfrack to try to understand how such children
in care could be so abused and mistreated by their
own carers, who seem to have betrayed everything
that we should expect to be good and proper of
them in such institutions like the Letterfrack
Industrial School.
.
I earned my B.A. degree in sociology and political
science on my then indepth thesis that chronciled
and analysed the rise and development of penal
laws against children in late 17th century Colonial
Ameria. My Master's graduate school studies ex-
amined the history and penological theories of the
religious rise and form of the first adult American
penitentiary at Philadelphia in 1789, by the dour
Quakers of Pennsylvania, to their eventual
relinquishment at the rise of state control over
such brutal penitentiaries that had now spread
all across America by the middle of the 19th cen-
tury. Along with the rise of the cruel state juvenile
reformatories that first began in 1876 at Elmira, at
upstate New York, which I have also visited. Letter-
frack is, therefore, much on my mind, right now.

.


.
I am here on the far reaches of the Emerald Isle
to also spend my time visiting further south to
Galway herself and then onto Eire's third largest
city of Limerick that is said to be a huge haven
for Irish Gypies or Romany Travellors. Tipper-
ery, Cork, and Waterford also beckon me. I
have no plans to hit Ireland's capital of Dublin,
since I've been there, done that, of long ago!
Rather, I will head even further south-east to
the Stena ferry at Rosslare Harbour on my final
leg back to sad Old Blighty. See you all then ...
.
So to you all from Eire, Uncle Monty.
+Easter Wednesday, 2oo9.

CORK, Eire. Arrived now at Cork, the second largest city of Ireland after departing from Galway and Letterfrack that has resulted in learning more about that horror of the Irish Industrial School to which I will write more about under my upcoming story title: "Letterfrack: The National Shame of Erin's Isle." My visit to The Letterfrack Industrial School cemetery was a hideous eye opener for me with 77 graves of boys age 8 to 16 who died at the cruel and murderous hands of the Irish Christian Brothers from 1881 until it was closed by public outcry in 1974. In the meantime, I am here at Cork to explore more during my extraordinary trip to the Western and now Southern regions of Eire. Thank you to those of my kind friends who have emailed me while here in the Republic of Ireland. I am well and enjoying every minute here despite the shame of Letterfrack. Yours, Uncle Monty. +Eve of the 1st Sunday after Easter, 09. After second thought, I will now call my upcoming story - "LETTERFRACT: The Irish Gulag."

> the same to you, dear father alexander.
hello father: a blessed and happy easter to you, too, father alexander!! very nice to hear from you. i'm in galway, ireland, right now and off to limerick tomorrow. have just been at letterfract on the far reaches of the emerald isle. you can read my intro story online about it at http://thebiggerissue.org. i have been following the delaration of the new archbishop of westminister to replace retiring cardinal murphy-o'conner. i was hoping that our wonderful bishop bernard longley might have been chosen, even though he was long shot on the short list. if you see him, please be sure to tell him that i send my fond anglican greetings to him. all is well and i hope you're well, too. i have stopped by at st. patrick's twice, but saw no sign of you even though i asked after you. perhaps next time??? sooner or later we'll see each other, father, if the good lord so determines one way or another. +faithfully, monty. +easter friday, 2oo9.
.
> what an indictment of gordon brown!! good morning frank: WELL SAID!!! i read yourpointed comments in the standard and agree totally with your viewpoint ... the problem is, your labour party is stuck with gordon brown just like the country is. new labour might as well "call it day" for the party is now over, as dame shirley bassey sang so many years ago in her wonderful style. hope you're fine, frank. i'm off to the emerald isle later today to visit letterfrack, galway, and limerick, for about a week. take care, monty. +easter wednesday, 2oo9. ps. have you considered defecting from new labour? To: Hon. Frank Fields, M.P. April 15th, 2oo9. 4.44am.

>> REPLY FROM FRANK FIELD, M.P. << Thanks for your encouraging message. I will keep trying to make a positive contribution so that Labour has a chance at the next election. I hope the trip in Ireland is good. With best wishes, Frank Field.

RE: what an indictment of gordon brown!! Date: Fri 04/17/09 08:46 AM.
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4/13/2009

Well Done, America!!! America!!! America!!! By Uncle Monty.

Well Done, America!!! America!!! America!!!
Three Big Cheers For Rescued Captain.
By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Reuter News
Photographers, etc.
***
For the past five days, I have been intensely following,
on the internet, the rivetting high seas saga and drama
and fate of the American merchant sea Captain Richard
Phillips, 53. His cargo ship Maersk-Alabama had been
illegally and briefly seized by the blatant and dangerous
Somali pirate gangs at the busy seafareing lanes of the Gulf
of Aden. Captain Phillips offered his own self, so selflessly,
to the evil pirates in exchange for the safe release of
all his crew members and his entire cargo ship.
***
Bravo, I say to this good and brave Vermonter of America
for his righteous deed that saw him then being held captive
by his Somali captors in an open lifeboat for days. The evil
priates then defiantly demanded a ransom of $2 million,
along with their safe passage, for the release of the life of
the gallant Captain Richard Phillips as American naval
ships arrived to a standoff between them and the
vicious Somali pirates.
***
As each day passed, I was more and more enthalled
by the unfolding scene and was hoping and praying
that the captain would come home as a living hero
and not a dead one!! Now, I, like many many others,
rightly give three big cheers to the forces of the US
Navy for safely rescueing yesterday the good Captain
Phillips from the drifting lifeboat while three of his
four captors were shot dead and one captured by
the USS Bainbridge under the good and skilled
command of the respected US Comdr. Frank
Castellano. Three Big Cheers, Again!!
***
Maersk-Alabama captain Richard Phillips, (R), stands
alongside Cmdr. Frank Castellano, the commanding
officer of USS Bainbridge, after being rescued by U.S
Naval Forces off the coast of Somalia, April 12, 2009.
REUTERS/Official U.S. Navy photo/Handout.
***
I personally would have loved to be with those TV
news crews (shown below) with my own cameras
to record the later celebration and jublilation of the
wonderful and successful rescue of such a brave sea
captain as Richard Phillips as proved to be. His harrow-
ing story of the those dark days on the open Somali
pirate lifeboat as a captive will probably now fetch him
millions of dollars for the story rights of his worthy
deed and his humble life. More power to him, I say.
***
Rare are those today like him who would be willing
to offer their own life and limb for his own fellow
human beings. That's why so many people were so
enthalled and fascinated by Richard Phillips and
what he did and so they, and all of us, should be!
***
Television crews interview a crew member of the Maersk-
Alabama at the Kenyan coastal sea port of Mombasa the
day before her captain was then rescued. The Maersk-
Alabama container ship had been briefly seized by Somali
pirates earlier last week that arrived safely at the Kenyan
port of Mombasa on Saturday amid tight security. The
captain of the huge vessel, Richard Phillips, was taken
hostage and held captive on a open lifeboat by the
criminal gang of four pirates before finally being
rescued yesterday by naval forces of the US Navy.
Photo: REUTERS/Antony Njuguna.
(KENYA CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS)
***
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. and UH-1Y crew chief Bryan E.
Campbell (R), from Melbourne, Arkansas, with Marine
Medium Helicopter Squadron 163 (Reinforced) of the
13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepares an M2.50 caliber
machine gun during flight operations in support of counter-
piracy surveillance operations in the Gulf of Aden on April 6,
2009. Somali pirates holding an American hostage - Richard
Phillips - on a drifting lifeboat hauled him back when he jump-
ed overboard to escape and vowed to fight any attack by
U.S. naval forces stalking them at sea. Sgt. Anthony Petro
(L), from Des Moines, Iowa, Battalion Landing Team 1/1,
13th MEU, accompanied the crew during their operations.
REUTERS/Robert C. Medina /U.S. Navy photo/Handout
***
When Captain Phillips jumped overboard from his captives
as the Somali pirates lifeboat drifted ever closer to shore,
they knew that if they didn't re-capture him they would
be dead ducks without him. They would have no bargain-
ing chips left to get their $2 million ransom demand and a
free ticket to escape to live for another day to help seize
more ships on the lawless sealines off their little more
than a 'Banana Republic' that war-torn Somalia truly is.
***
As good fate would have it, three of pirates are now
dead and Richard Phillips is rightly freed and alive
to now tell the world his extraordinary and vivid
story and his once-in-a-lifetime sea adventure ...
***
At the end of the day all I can say is: "Well Done,
America!!! America!!! America!!!" For once, I
am proud of the good old US of A and Vermonter
Richard Phillips and the US naval members who
successfully helped to end the five-day standoff
that must now ensure that the evil and lawless
Somali pirates are finally curbed and detained in
future from seizing anymore commercial and
merchant crews and their unarmed ships and
paying cargo for once and for all ...
***
Somali pirates attack U.S.-flagged ship but fail to board.
***
How Just Three Shots Ended Pirate Standoff
***
Obama vows to fight piracy, salutes freed U.S. captain.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE53B1UB20090412
***
Happy Easter, again, to you all!!
Happily, Uncle Monty.
+Easter Monday, 2oo9.
***
:: UPDATE ::
TV show to track U.S. Navy's battles with pirates.
***
Somali pirates seize two more ships and attack third.
By Alison Bevege.
***

4/12/2009

@@ LOOK @@ At Who And What I Saw During Holy Week At Olde London Town. By Uncle Monty.

@@ LOOK @@ At Who And What I Saw
During Holy Week At Olde London Town.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
^^^
Holy Week at Olde London Town isn't just for
those who see it as a Holy-Than-Thou Week
for devout Christians, who many believe Holy
Week and Eastertide are the most important
religious symbols of their traditional beliefs
that form an integral part of the whole
spectrum of today's Christendom.
^^^
Rather, nothing stops for Holy Week no matter
what. Indeed, I have recorded this English Holy
Week, 2oo9, with the human activities of people
and the striking places I encountered that bear,
for the most part, no mention or inkling
of such an important religious week. I have
put together here, if you will, only a glimpse
or two of how I myself witnessed Holy Week
through my camera lens that speaks of the
daily condition of many of my fellow human
beings at what is one of the world's most im-
portant cities that the more than 1,500 year-
old Olde London Town most certainly is.
^^^
There is no religious message intended here
in my photographic presentation, other than
what a religious person may deduce from
such based on his or her own personal pros-
pective and viewpoint and considered belief.
^^^
The Aldwych Beggar.
^^^
Spinster Kathy Holmes, 74, is one of my fellow
sheltered housing residents. I was surprised
when she willingly wanted me to photograph
her, even though she hasn't had a photograph
taken of herself for more than 25 years.
I was so gald to oblige, Kathy!
.
^^^
I first became aware of the Buddhist Peace Garden
(shown below) when I was housed as a homeless
street person at the nearby Mother Teresa
home for homeless men. This Holy Week I was
pleased to visit it again on my way to elsewhere.
Rev'd Mother Innocentia, who ran the home
when I was there, has now be translated to
Catholic Rome under special dispensation of
her diocesan bishop, I am told. She was as
tough as nails and no push over was the tiny
and Indian-born Rev'd Sister Innocentia. I
was sorry I got to missed her ... we often
exchanged strong religious views
between us, we did.
^^^
She as a Catholic nun and I as a lay Anglican
didn't hesitate to challenge each other on such
questions as univeral faith, rite, liturgy, and
conformity of our personal creed. The Rev'd
Mother paid scant respect to my deep Anglican
belief and I did equally the same to her whenever
she did. In the end, however, we stood respectfully
of each other despite the religious differences bet-
ween us and we became quite amiable friends.
^^^
At one point, she even declared that I knew more
about The Church and its role and history than did
most bishops, priests, noviciates, and seminarians
that she knew. Later on, she went even further by
asking me if I had once trained for the priesthood!
That was quite a compliment, I thought, coming
from such a devout Catholic nun like Sister
Innocentia, who had worked closely with the
great Mother Teresa at India's most dread-
fully poor of Calcutta in the 1980's.
^^^
At Where The Dalai Lama Himself Came.
^^^
I spent some time unobstrusively and respect-
fully photographing this local funeral has it
unfolded before the public eye at south
east London on Holy Monday.
.
^^^
On the No. 11 bus was I, on Maundy Thursday,
when I passed the strong demo of the Tamil Tigers
at Parliament Square protesting the Sri Lanka
government slaughter of the almost defeated
Tamils that seek their own homeland. As the bus
was moving non-stop, I had about 30 seconds to
get perhaps four or five rapid shots of the scene
from my dirty bus window. One of those
shots is shown here below.
^^^
Tamil Tigers Outside of the British Parliament.
^^^
I know nothing about the art of millinery
at the Stephen Jones Hat Shop, but this
lovely-shaped hat there, that I saw on Holy
Tuesday, would be nice for Eastertide or per-
haps even better for Royal Ascot in June.

^^^
Freemasonry doesn't tickle my fancy.

I think we need to be free of such a weird craft that freemasonry is.

By chance, I saw this shop window display of masonic

things for sale and then simply photographed such.

^^^
Counting his handouts at The Strand with
the images of the judge, author, lawyer and a lord,
cursiously "looking on" over the poor, old, devil with
his palm cross attached to his red wheelie bag ...

^^^
"Can we dance, together?," I almost asked
the German Fräuliens -that I saw dancing
for a German TV commercial that was being
filmed at the South Bank's Waterloo Bridge.
.

^^^
Me with my Cyprus buddy Masufa, who
works with Cafe Nero at Istanbul, Turkey.
When I was there myself at Istanbul, I could
not find Masafa despite my every effort to
locate him at the then-newly opened Cafe Nero
there. It was good, however, to once again see
him at this Holy Week at Olde London Town.

^^^
It's only a pure dream right now of my soon-to-be new
home that I first learned about only on Good Friday!!

If all goes as planned with the present private real
estate deal and offer, my hope to have a new home
(shown below) will then become an exciting reality
thanks entirely to the extraordinary generosity of
my dearest Contessa Maria. I pray all goes well ...

If for some reason or another it all falls thru, along
with my dream, I won't be troubled very long about it
even if I may be abit sad and abit peeved for awhile
over it ... I've gotten so use to NOT owning my own
home now after living on the streets and in sheltered
housing for almost the past 5 years after my house fire
that then made me homeless and a non-home owner due
to having no house insurance that was my own fault!!

It's now all in the hands of the Good Lord, I do believe.

^^^
And so, Holy Week presents the glorious horizon
and the blessed rise of Christ's Resurrection at the
first sunlight of this Easter Sunday or Easter Day.
^^^
Now @@ LOOK @@ again at who and what I
saw during Holy Week at Olde London Town.
What you see is life that lives not just by bread
alone, but by how we take a hold of it and make
it for good or bad or something in between. I
believe we are nothing without Christ Jesus.
We may have everything, yet have nothing
without Him!! Praise His Everlasting Name!!
^^^
:: HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYBODY ::
Joyously, Uncle Monty.
+Easter Sunday, 2oo9.
+

4/09/2009

Eve of Good Friday. By Uncle Monty.

Eve of Good Friday.
By Uncle Monty.
+
+
We’re now at the Eve of Good Friday on this religious
day of Maundy Thursday, 2oo9. The Queen will issue
British silver-minted Maundy Money today to po
folkz
who deserve such a royal gift of rare mintage.
+
While that is all very nice, there are a number of modern
controversial issues about whether Christ rose from the

dead or not. Even his crucifixtion has been brought into
question by those of this New and Irreligious Age.
They simply refuse, for one-cockeyed reason or
another, not to believe in His name let alone
in His Divine Resurrection.
.

+

When I recently read religionist John Blanchard’s
essay “Jesus: Dead or Alive,” I thought it would be
ideal to include a snippet or two of what he wrote
on the grave and burning question of Christ’s
Resurrection at this Maundy Thursday that
always marks the Eve of Good Friday.


Writes John Blanchard:
“At the time of writing, Richard Dawkins, the one-time
Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of
Science at Oxford Univesity, is one of the best known
atheists in the world. In several of his earlier books he
included attacks against those who believe in God. But in
The God Delusion, first published in 2oo6, he launched
a nuclear assault on all religious faiths, with one goal in
mind: ‘If this book works as I intend, religious readers
who open it will be atheists when they put it down.’
+
+
John Blanchard continues to argue against the
atheist author Richard Dawkins: Early on (Dawkins)
states, ‘I am not attacking any particular version ofGod.
I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything
supernatural’, though one page later he narrows his
target; ‘Unless otherwise stated , I shall have
Christianity mostly in mind.’
+
Then Dawkins gets even more specific: there is ‘no
evidence’ in favour of God’s existence; the Bible is a
‘chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed
documents’, ‘the only difference between The Da
Vinci Code -and the gospels is that the gospels
are ancient fiction while The Da Vince Gode
is modern fiction’.

John Blanchard goes further in examining Richard Dawkins’ atheistic views. The centeral doctrine of Christianity, so Dawkins believes, is ‘barking mad, as well as viciously unpleasant ‘. As for Jesus, he ‘probably existed’, but the idea that he came back to life after being dead and buried is ‘absurd’. This leaves no doubt where Dawkins stands.

The Haart Chalice.
+
The internationally-known American religionist John Blanchard,
with some 18 million copies of his Christian apologetics publications
in print in over 50 languages, concedes that “the resurrection of
Jesus is directly related to the integrity of the New Testament,
the credibility of the Bible as a whole, and even the existence
of the God it reveals.” I agree, unflinchingly.
+
I AM THE LAMB.
YOU ARE THE LAMB.

Author John Blanchard then tackles Richard Dawkins assumptions head on:

"We would expect Dawkins to concentrate his closest arguments on his own question: 'Did he himself [Jesus] come alive again, three days after he was crucified?' Having pinpointed the critical issue, what amount of space does he give to addressing it? How much time does he spend in assessing the evidence? What proof does he produce to show it never happened? One word answers all three questions: None!"

Here we are then on Maundy Thursday, or the Thursday before Easter, and we plainly can see the Divinity of Christ -is constantly under attack by satanistic and atheistic writers like Richard Dawkins and the anti-faith mass media around the world. But while John Blanchard is a master of supporting Christian belief, neither of these authors will change the basic belief of those who are either for- or against -believing that Christ indeed rose from the dead or that he was crucified, dead, and buried and rose again on the third day according to holy scriptures.

^ A Crusader's Sleeping Quarters.

It's all to do with faith, that no amount of human science can explain away for folkz like me who have no reason to dilute or reject my own strong English Anglican and Protestant belief that Jesus Christ, God's His Only Begotten Son, is for real!! Case closed ... at the very least for me!!
+
Easter Blessings, Uncle Monty.
+Maundy Thursday, 2oo9.

:: The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life ::

Weekly Update: Christians' Views on the Return of Christ.

http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=268

+

4/05/2009

Chop His Head Off, Your Majesty! By Uncle Monty.

Chop His Head Off, Your Majesty!
By Uncle Monty.
~~~
Italy’s pigface and loud-mouth prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi has done it again! This time he seems to
have even upset the Queen herself inside her own pa-
lace and along with the decorum that comes with such.
~~~
What did Silvio do, you might ask to make Her Majesty
seemingly and rightly rather vex at such a pigface and
loud-mouth character like him? Well, it was his loud
mouth urgently shouting at Barack Obama to be with
Silvio so that a picture could be taken of the two to-
gether. So loud was the loud-mouth that the Queen
then asked “What is it?" "Why does he need to shout
so loud?," she asked. She then got up from her regal
seat with an expression of irritation on her royal face.
~~~
The problem stemmed from the fact that Obama was
stood near Her Majesty when the ungracious Berlusconi
shouted to get Obama’s attention. To his credit, Barack
spoke back to the Italian pigface in the lowest tone he
could to entice Silvio to do the same. But too late, the
loud-mouth had now upset Her Majesty and like most
people like her who are elderly and in their 80's they
detest loud shouting and bloated bellowing by such
ignoramusues like Silvio Berlusconi.
~~~
It riles most old folkz all over, whether royal or
not, to have to put up with loud-mouths of every
kind thesedays. Some of the worst loud-mouths
are cellphone addicts and drunken louts and
incorrigible youthz that invade both our
public and private space. I constantly have to
remonstrate with loud cellphone users shouting
for all to hear them on their stupid mobiles as
I am forced to sit or stand next to them on the
bus or tube as they act out as loud as they can.
Cellphone use should be completely ban
on all public transport - period.
~~~
Berlusconi with Bush and Blair on Iraq
War. I called them then, "The 3 Bloody B's"
for working hand in hand with George Bush's
murderous invasion and insane attack on Iraq.
~~~
It seems to me that Silvio Berlusconi must have
thought for a moment that he was at a Rome fish
market and not inside Buckingham Palace at where
you simply don’t shout loudly to other guests of the
Queen. At the fish market okay, but not at the
Queen's abode. No, sir, you don't!! And, above all
you don’t behave like a juvenile loud mouth or an
Italian pigface or a public lout like Silvio seems to
have done without thinking of how he should
behave properly among those who were more
powerful or more important than him. And more
so, than he'll ever be. But, I doubt he'll ever learn!
~~~
Pigface and loud-mouth Silvio Berlusconi.
~~~
For those who have heard about, but not yet seen,
the video of what happened between Her Majesty
the Queen of England and the ignorant-prone
Berlusconi, then it's time you did:
Berlusconi Rattles Queen Elizabeth II (VIDEO)
Off, Your Majesty!! That should finally teach
the pigface and loud-mouth a much needed
lesson, don't you think, Your Majesty? I do!
~~~
Loyally, Uncle Monty.
+Palm Sunday, 2oo9.
.
UPDATE on Murderous Americans.
Murderous Americans At It Again!!
.
Gays Killed In Baghdad As Clerics Urge Clampdown
Reuter News Report By Wisam
.
:: YAHOO WORLD POPUP VIDEO NEWS ::
.

4/02/2009

So Is This What We Get For Our $40 Million? G20 Comments By Uncle Monty.

So Is This What We Get For Our $40 Million?
G20 Comments By Uncle Monty.
G20 Photos By Reuter News
Pool Photographers.
.
.
Londoner Nick Alfrey asked almost plaintively the other day
why G20 Summit couldn’t have been held by video conference?
That is instead of costing the British taxpayer over $40 million
for it to be held at the British capital of London that has caused
nothing but a waste of money and disruptions for those caught
up in the legitmate protests and ensuing mayhem of the
almost, and hopefully soon to end, useless summit that
officially opened at the ExCel Center today.
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Nick Alfrey’s point is well taken! Why not a video conference
instead of a costly summit that will probably produce nothing
more than political nodding heads that nod at each other?
Along with the usual hot air and political rhetoric of the
likes of French presidential frog Nicholas Sarkozy and
the ever-pushy German madame Angela Merkel and
our own host of hosts Britian's oily Labourite
dipstick Gordon Brown.
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In the meantime, the world financial markets continue
to be very wobbly at best and while more and more good
folkz around the world are being made unemployed and
inevitably homeless for many of them thankz to the
likes of most of those "leaders" at the G20 Summit.
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Coupled, of course, with those ever greedy global bankers
that have been allowed to pollute the world today. Then
add to them, their brothers-in-arms like swindlers and
con artists like shysters Bernard Madoff and Sir Allen
Stanford who have ripped off billions at the expense
of trusting investors and institutional entities.
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The latest arrest today for alleged European banking
fraud of the "respected" Austrian family banker Julius
Meinl V, chairman of Austria's Meinl Bank, is yet an-
other nail in the coffin of the shabby world banking
empire that is now continuing to collaspe by every
thing it has deliberately done wrong to satisfy its
none ending avaricious greed at almost any cost to
the millions of its victims. It boggles the mind how
they've been allowed for years to get away with
some of the biggest "rip-offs" ever before
seen in the money world.
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Clad in their Yankee-made riot police helmets and nasty
police batons and all, the London Metropolitan Police's
policing of the G20 Summit is costing over $15 million
out of the staggering cost of over £40 million to simply
host the G20 Summit itself. So where's the video confer-
encing, instead? Good point, again, Nick! Such a video
conference would have cost not even a half-million
dollars and perhaps do us better minus the egotistical
egos of those attending the probably useless
outcome of today's G20 gathering.
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The democratic American daring Barack Obama -
The New Black Emperor of America - has already
arrived in London with his New World entourage of
500 Yankee aides that includes over 200, yes over
200, U.S. Secret Service agents to protect him from
those who might want to pop him off for whatever de-
ranged reason(s) that takes their deadly fancy. Indeed,
America’s first Black Emperor touched down at plain
old Stanstead Airport and was then met by one of Gordon
Brown’s New Labour underlings that didn’t befit Obama’s
status as 44th President of the United States. Britian’s
New Labour rarely gets anything right anyway, especially
under its known dipsticks like the dreadful Gordon Brown
and that hideous Anglican turncoat and ever-
greedy Anthony Blair.
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So my own question - "So Is This What We Get For
Our $40 Million?" - is demonstated and answered
best by some of the images I have assembled here
from those gallant and ever-brave Reuter News Pool
Photographers that graphically show the true waste
of money spent for the G20 Summit that has done
only one thing so far ... Yes, produce angry protests
against bad and thieving bankers and known finan-
cial shysters like them. Around 2,000 electronic and
print reporters are also in the British capital to cover
the summit. Along with about 40 armed conveys
swirlling around the city to ferry world leaders
and VIPs to and from the economic venue that
some commentators say is something akin to the
famous Bretton Woods Monetary Conference that
was held at the White Mountains of New Hampshire
in 1944. I went briefly to High School near there
in the late 1950's!!
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And what have the British copz done so far? But
to brutally clobber potesters on the head and done
baton charges against them to create authority
over the radicalized dissenters. The police are
there to solely uphold the corrupt political order
and the shabby banking instititions that New
Labour is ever so closely aligned with by its
past fat cat donations from such crafty finan-
ciers and those allegations (now dismissed) of
cash for Labour Party peerages, etc., etc.
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Our UK police have become more and more pol-
iticised under New Labour than ever before and
will continue to do so under the new Met Police
Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson while dubious
Labour is allowed to stay in power. Hence, their
overwhelming presence at the G20 Summit was
assured with more cops (with over 2.500 extra
ones now drafted in) to guard against disruption
and protests by those outspoken and sometimes
volatile dissenters on the city streets of London.
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The images I have picked (shown below) I think
best shows what has been going on so far outside
the useless G20 Summit. While inside, the "leaders"
are talking the talk and living high off the hog and
always ready for whatever photo opportunity is
presented to them to show their folkz back home
how great they are? What a bunch of baloney
they really are?
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Our New British Riot Copz In Action at G20.
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I Must Admit Its A Great Photo!

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A Good Police Excerise, If Nothing Else ...
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Guts-For-Garters, Ah?
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Britain's Police State or State Police?
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You're Outnumbered, Mate.
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All Fired Up, Yeeeeeeeeep?
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So is this what we get for our $40 million? You bet!! And more is coming during the final hours of the G20 Summit. So wear a hard hat if you're near to where you could be clobbered on the head without even a question or protest coming out of your head. And without trying to sound facetious, Nick Alfrey's suggestion of video conferencing instead of all this huge cost and sure trouble of hosting such a G20 Summit is perfectly valid. There would then be no need for all the government forces present and big rioting on the streets of London. Plus, we wouldn't even need to feed and wine and dine those stupid foreign political talking and nodding heads, now would we? We'd save a hell of alot of hard cash, too, and save all the bloody inconvenience that such useless summits usually bring us anyway ... I vote to ban all future summits no matter what they're all about!! Especially any hosted by dreary and stiff Gordon Brown and his mindless New Labour minions.

The only grave exception, however, I would make is to hold a very, very, urgent "Big British Summit" to get rid of all things called "New Labour" and "New Britain" once and for all ... I'd then be the first to vote a "Big Yes," once I was there at such a major summit to rightfully claim Britain back for us all who are truly British that New Labour has openly and wantonly destroyed before our very eyes to accommode all people and all things that are not remotely British ...

The ilk of Anthony Blair and Gordon Brown has brought about the utter ghettoization and overwhelming foreignization of our once very own British country that is now almost raped to death by the political criminality and anti-British agenda of New Labour!!!

As for the G2 Summit, it's all about the powerful not about the powerless who have been savagely hurt by the global economic downturn and by the wicked deeds of greedy bankers and international corporate bosses with their huge bonuses that most ordinary folkz don't, or couldn't, even earn a fraction of in their own lifetime of hard work. Ban big bankers and ban big bonuses, I say.

Your's, Uncle Monty.
First Day of the G20 Summit, 2oo9.
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^Click above for dozens more of the latest G20 pictures of protest from
the London's outstanding Evening Standard news photographers.
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You, too, could be CS gassed. By Uncle Monty.
Our UK police used CS gas for the first time inside the
House of Commons to break up a rumpus that marks a
very sad point and true stain in all the centuries history
of the existence of the British Parliament. Such gas was
used at close to the eve of the G20 Summit that saw
the world press already here and thus they reported
widely the CS gas attack by our own police that reflects
badly to the world of what Britain has become today -
a broken society that even intrudes now inside our
parliament by the appalling behaviour of those invol-
ved in the alleged rumpus and the CS gas overkill
inside the House of Commons by our own jittery
and growing lawless British copz ... Next they'll gun
down someone inside the very precincts of parliament
and then we'll be given a whole bunch of spin as to why
such happened as they drag away the dead body while
our lame MPs stand there shuddered and shattered at
the police scene. It's all coming ... mark my words!!
Now read Suzy Jagger's report from the Commons:
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:: UPDATE ::
As of this afternoon, the cost of the G20 Summit is
now put at $160 million or £80 million, that is twice or
more the cost of such earlier stated figures. I thought
we were near broke? Not so it seems at wasting such
huge amounts of money on a summit that is now pro-
claiming a $1.1 trillion package in economic help to
combat all that's bad with today's economy. But who
will benefit from such a trillion-dollar package now
coming out of the G20 Summit? Not the little guy
for sure ... That we can count on, if nothing else ...
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Latest Report: ONE G20 PROTESTER DEAD!!
Police say he was found unconscious later today, while
some protesters say he was clobbered to death by the
police. Now those also planning to protest at Friday's
60th Anniversary of NATO are angrily citing the death
of the G20 protester as a further rallying cry for more
action at France's Strasbourg and at nearby Germany's
Baden Baden to protest both NATO's existence and
now the London protestor's unresolved death. Read
more about the circumstances of the London death,
which will now be investigated by the UK Independent
Police Complaints Commission (IPCC):
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