US Court vs. UK Parliament

Guardian: Reports that a US Federal Court has blocked a House Commons Select Committee from seeing documents that concern the UK’s role in rendition. One can see why Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled the way he did, the request was not an individual request it was from a branch of the UK Governmental system, a very low branch of the UK Parliamentary system. The Judge might be thinking why are they asking the US Government, why don’t they ask THEIR own Government. One cant wait to see former Labour Ministers having to answer some very tough questions from the Police, but then as stated this blog has predicted that this messy business will be thrown in the long grass, the Police have close contacts with MI5 through Special Branch, they need each other, this is a political argument. If there was another major terrorist attack in the UK the people would want answers from the terrorists, even torture, politics change, what was seen as illegal one day but comes Government policy the next day. This blog lives in the real world folks, even if our MPs don’t at the moment.

Spain and the Eurozone

Telegraph Live - Markets: Reports in its 12.55pm post that the new Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy has stated that Spain will not go to the EU, and in his words with its begging bowl. Lets see folks, Spain is in a mess, it has planned billions of cuts, its has the highest unemployment in the EU, and even the cuts planned by the new Spanish Government will not bring it down to the level just agreed by all EU Countries. It can be argued with some justification that Spain is heading the direction of Greece, can the politicians get the people to accept the tough German Austerity plan for the EU. In Greece there is going to be a General Election, from polls it seems that the pro austerity Parties are going to lose out to Parties that oppose the harsh austerity plan of the Coalition Government, also in France the French Left Candidate is promising massive Government spending and tax hikes that would make you eyes water, thus the rich French are going to come over to the UK, its 45p in the pound for the higher tax payers. If the French left are elected expect France to be the next target of the bond market. The economic cliff could not be that far away folks, France might take down the Euro and the EU.

The Last Messages from the Titanic

BBC News: Reports that the BBC’s World Service is to broadcast the messages form the Titanic, although the original messages were in Morse the programme will use a mechanical voice for the messages. This should be interesting folks, as the article notes Morse was the Twitter of its day, the latest in technology, lets recall Morse was used to catch a well known Edwardian killer who tried to escape the UK via Ship. As recent events have shown in Italy, even the latest technology cant prevent a Ship sinking. Lets never forget the main lesson of Titanic, never allow Hubris to make you think your God.