The Time Margaret Thatcher Met One of India's 'God Men' - The Daily Beast

A truly odd story...

'Kapil Komireddi sends the amazing story of the day Margaret Thatcher, not yet prime minister, met one of India's leading "God men," as the Indians amusingly call them. The story comes from the memoirs of K. Natwar Singh, a high-ranking Indian diplomat.

Chandraswamy did not disappoint Mrs Thatcher. He prophesied that she would be Prime Minister for nine, eleven or thirteen years. Mrs Thatcher, no doubt believed that she would be Prime Minister one day. Nine, eleven, thirteen years was a bit much. Mrs Thatcher put one final question. When would she become a Prime Minister? Chandraswamy announced — in three or four years. He was proved right. She was PM for eleven years.'

More here http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/09/the-time-margaret-thatcher-met-one-of-india-s-god-men.html

Italian Bank Holdings Of Italian Debt Rise To All Time High | Zero Hedge

Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-09/italian-bank-holdings-italian-debt-rise-all-time-high explains a particularly ridiculous result of ECB rules.

'...  courtesy of ECB generosity, Italian debt continues to be "cash good collateral" with the ECB, and as a result Italian banks can't wait to pledge and repo it with Mario Draghi in exchange for virtually full cash allottment. In other words, the more debt the Italian Tesoro issues, the more fungiblecash the Italian banks have to spend on such things as padding up their cap ratios and making their balance sheets appear like medieval (any refernce to Feudal Europe is purely accidental) fortresses.'

Some more Thatcherisms

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” 

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” 

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ” 

“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

“Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.” 

“Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.” 

“No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.” 

“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” 

“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.”

"Thatcher in Poland"

Would any other British political leader have been as resolute?

Coal mine closures

If I hear one more ex-miner celebrating the death of Lady Thatcher I might just scream. The BBC have given airtime to numerous such people, people who just realise one key fact.

There were more pit closures under Harold Wilson's Labour government than under Lady Thatcher's Conservative government: 406 pits closed in the 1960s (with 315,000 job losses), only 146 closed in the 1980s (with 173,000 jobs losses).

I wonder why the BBC never point that out? Would it spoil their carefully constructed narrative?

How the West was lost (part x)

'TORONTO – When a single dad signed his nine-year-old daughter up for female-only swim lessons, he didn't realize he — as a man — was going to be banned from watching her practice.

Chris (who didn't want his last name published) was shocked when he had the blinds to the viewing area of the Dennis R. Timbrell Recreation Centre pool in Flemingdon Park shut on him and then was told by staffers it was for "religious reasons."

"I spoke to a staff member and she told me that it's because of Muslim women, that we're not allowed to look at them or whatever," Chris, 38, told the Toronto Sun Friday. "I don't think religion has a role to play in a public pool."'

More here http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/toronto-sharia-swim-times-prevent-dad-from-watching-own-daughters-swim-class

What is hapening to Western civilisation?

Thatcher was evil, she said that 'there was no such thing as society'

Thatcher was evil, she said that 'there was no such thing as society' I am sick of hearing lefty fools spouting that line.

Because no she didn't, what she actually said was this:

“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!'; 'I am homeless, the government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society?

"There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families, and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

"It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations.”

As true today as it was then.

Actually Lady Thatcher did also word the same sentiments thus:

“I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.” 

Thanks Gordon Brown

'The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s a cataclysm with the dollar, the euro, the pound or any other reserve currency,'

I read that somewhere this week and it reminded me of the great sulk himself, Gordon Brown, who rather than hold gold, sold gold. 

Wise words indeed from Mrs Thatcher

"The state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves..."

"There is no such thong as public money, there is just tax-payers money"

"Prosperity won't come by inventing more and nmore lavish public expenditure programs"

"You don't grow richer by ordering another chequebook from the bank"


Watching this short video should be compulsory for all politicians, once or twice a day...

I didn't agree with everything Lady Thatcher did BUT bearing in mind the state of the nation in 1979 there really was no alternative, she was a necessary, sometimes unpleasant, medicine for the Country. At the end of her tenure as Prime Minister the country was no longer the sick man of Europe and was considerable better off. Without her governance I wonder how the UK would have looked in 1990.

War crimes are being committed in Israel / Palestinian conflict

'As stone-throwing Palestinian children have been in the news lately it is relevant to observe that enlistment of children to carry out these violent acts is in effect no different than enlisting child soldiers, which is a war crime in terms of Article 8(2)(b)(xxvi) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The time has come to recognize that encouraging children to hurl stones and firebombs, as well as using them as human shields, as practiced by Hamas, cannot be described as anything but enlisting them to participate actively in hostilities and therefore a war crime…

Rock-throwers caused the crash which killed Asher Hillel Palmer and his one-year-old son. Last December a rock struck a 12-year-old girl, breaking her skull and on March 14, 2013, a three-year-old girl was in critical condition and her mother and two sisters seriously wounded after a car accident caused by rocks thrown by Palestinians. The three-year-old was not breathing when medics arrived at the scene. Before the accident, a number of drivers reported rock attacks. A bus was hit with rocks and a man and a 10-year-old boy also were injured by rocks in the same area.'

More here http://www.thetower.org/analysts-palestinians-committing-war-crime-by-pushing-stone-hurling-children-at-israelis/

But not on the institutionally anti-Israel BBC.

Baroness Thatcher has died

Baroness Thatcher one of the great British Prime Ministers has died and I am waiting for the British left to rise to the occasion. Before long the nasty face of the British left will be much in evidence. In the meantime I am going to monitor the BBC. At the moment their lead article runs thus:

'Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said. Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning." Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later. Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992. Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975. She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987. Baroness Thatcher's government privatised several state-owned industries. She was also in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982.'

Such small accomplishments: privatised several state-owned industries and was in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. How about rescued the UK economy from the despair of the Wilson/Callaghan Labour governments? How about turned the UK from 'the sick man of Europe' into one of the world's leading powers? How about went to the defence of the Falklands despite the opposition of the Labour party?

I suppose that a news organisation that the BBC's Jane Garvey recalled celebrated the 1997 Labour victory:

“I do remember… the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I’ll always remember that”

is unlikely to stay neutral on the death of the hated 'Thatch'


UPDATE:I see that the BBC's Political Editor, Nick Robinson, has stooped this low:

tweets: The dominant figure of post-war British politics is dead. Love her or loathe her, Margaret Thatcher shaped this country as few others did.

Evan Davis has tweeted this pearler:

I see Ken Livingstone has been unable to show any grace today, I suppose breaking the habits of a lifetime would be hard. Sky News quote him thus:

'Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone tells Sky News Baroness Thatcher's policies were "fundamentally wrong". "She created today's housing crisis, she produced the banking crisis, she created the benefits crisis. It was her government that started putting people on incapacity benefits rather than register them as unemployed because the Britain she inherited was broadly at full employment," he says.

Full employment? Unemployment began to rise from the 4% level in early 1975 and by the time of the 1979 general election was at nearly 6%. The inefficiencies hidden by this employment level took some time to iron out.

Here's another of the BBC's favourites, 'comedian' Mark Steel

What a terrible shame – that it wasn’t 87 years earlier
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) April 8, 2013

Boris Johnson basketball trick-shot star!

From The Commentator.


Is there no end to the abilities of Boris Johnson? Truly a man for all occasions!

Meanwhile the Obamamessiah failed to score with 22 shots from face on...

Imagine the BBC coverage if George W. Bush had missed 22 times... but as it's Barack Obama, don't expect any coverage any time soon. Thanks to Guido Fawkes for the spots.

When children don't understand economics

There is a pretty well understood distinction between earmings and net worth but apparently not one that the BBC's favorite lefty Owen Jones understands.

When you can't trust the banks... use your matress

Russia Today carries the story that:

'As Europe goes deeper into recession a Spanish company has found a way to cash in on the crisis. A mattress with a built-in safe is claimed to spare one from insomnia and financial fears.
Spanish company My Mattress Safe advertises its invention with the slogan “Your money is close to you.”

The whole advertising campaign capitalizes upon public distrust of the banking system and the financial anxieties of Spaniards.

"You see, we've got big economic problems in Spain, and people have really lost confidence in the banks," the creator of the peculiar mattress, Paco Santos, told NPR’s blog.

So the campaign emphasizes all the conveniences of having a built-in safe in your mattress.

“Your money is always available anytime that you are at home,” the company website reads, adding that “you can enjoy your money for as long as you want and without risks.”'

Safer than a bank but still fairly easy to steal a whole matress!

If I go...

They're out to get all pro-Israeli bloggers, if I go then think well of me...

Inside Britain's Sharia courts - Telegraph

The BBC actually investigating Britain's Sharia courts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9975937/Inside-Britains-Sharia-courts.html
I'm shocked

GIYUS: On anti Israel rhetoric, Muslim propaganda and anti Semitism - Interview with Professor Porat

'In the last few years, anti Semitism has been hiding behind anti Zionism. The calls and actions to de legitimize Israel's right to exist and to frame Israel as the devil which tortures the poor innocent Palestinians hide in many cases anti-Semitic feelings and expressions.'

More here http://www.giyus.org/2011/01/anti-israel-rhetoric-muslim-propaganda-and-anti-semitism-interview-with-professor-porat.html

Gov report: Actually, evil City traders DIDN'T cause the banking crash • The Register

Re HBOS collapse:

' This was a traditional bank failure pure and simple. It was a case of a bank pursuing traditional banking activities and pursuing them badly.'

More here at the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/05/hbos_collapse/

The link between Nazism and Islamists

'Haj Amin Al-Husseini (1895-1974), Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, is a man of the past, at the same time he is a man of the present. Not only was he one of the best Arab friends the Nazis ever had, he also worked for them and was handsomely paid by them in the crucial war years between 1941 and 1945 when he lived in a villa in Berlin. Today, he is a model for many radical Muslims who share his views on the Jews, Sharia law and the West. He was the father of Palestinian nationalism. Why did he feel so deeply attracted to Nazi ideology? Why did the Nazis see the Grand Mufti as their close friend and ally?'

 More here - http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3381

Dutch Holocaust Survivor - "I Saw How The Mufti Of Jerusalem

' March 5, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - "It was a very hot day in June or July 1944 when I was at work in Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III. And then I suddenly noticed a group of people who looked like actors. They were wearing long robes and strange headgear.

Occasionally, internees did perform a play in the camp. I wanted to find out myself and as I walked towards that group I was stopped by a high ranking SS-officer whom I didn't know. He was from the main camp (Auschwitz I) or Birkenau (Auschwitz II). The officer asked me, 'What do you want?' 'I just wanted to know whether these people are actors or not. Is there going to be a stage performance tonight?' 'These people aren't actors,' the SS-officer told me. 'They are the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his retinue.' I then asked him, 'What is he doing here?' 'He is paying a visit to the camp,' the SS-officer said. 'He lives in Berlin where he enjoys Hitler's personal protection. He is now paying a visit to Monowitz to see how the Jews are working themselves to death in factories. He is also in Auschwitz to see the gas chambers. When we have won the war he will return to Palestine to build gas chambers and kill the Jews who are living over there.'"'

More here about the Mufti and the anti Semitic heritage of today's Islamists
http://www.pipelinenews.org/2012/mar/06/Dutch-Holocaust-Survivor-I-Saw-How-The-Mufti-Of-Jerusalem.html