Every year, year on year of this NuLab government our education standards have fallen, ask any businessman who is reluctant to employ the growing army of illiterate candidates, who now are invading the halls of power, but their lack of knowledge and history shows as they try to implement policies that failed in East Germany.

To listen to Ed Balls, our education secretary (or one of them), tractor production is up, but unfortunately the tractors are of a poorer quality than last year, and its getting poorer every year.

History, one of the keystone subjects is being turned into a government propaganda course, out are all the lessons that children should be being taught, such as the inhumanity in old Soviet Russia and East Germany and in comes guilt teaching on how Britain was responsible for the Slave trade (with no mention on how we put an end to it).

The result is that our children are not learning the real lessons of the past, and are without doubt likely to repeat the very mistakes that our forefathers fought and died to correct.

East Germany is a prime example. Our esteemed Home Secretary is but one in Government who is hell bent on introducing East German style laws, creating an atmosphere of shopping your neighbour, ratting on your friends, consider everything a crime, but the creation of a Stasi in the UK is only part of the problem.

So far gone are these new generations who aspire to run our lives, that they have no knowledge of what went before, that they believe all the propaganda that is thrown at them, believing that the Socialistic ideas put forward by this government can actually work this time to create a utopia for the masses.

adrianb1 is a blogger, but he blogs for a government department. This is the blog of the IDeA Strategy and Development Unit. he tells us:

The ‘happiness agenda’ could have far reaching implications for policy
in local as well as central government, but it is far from
straightforward. .

The link between equality and happiness is much less secure than I’d
appreciated.  Happiness has tended not to be included in declarations
of human rights, at least in this century, but you could argue that
happiness is the underlying purpose for which you would want rights.

Adrian probably has his heart in the right place, but is sadly mistaken if he believes that anyone can legislate for happiness. As I commented on his site, Happiness is a spontaneous emotion, a feeling of wellbeing, not a tangible thing that laws or rules can govern.

Adrian of course disagrees, he links to and tells us the he is certainly looking forward to the Well-Being Conference on 9 September.

Holy Moly!! I am thinking just how much public money is going into this kind of shite.

This is what they are telling each other:

Research shows that happiness – or wellbeing – is affected by factors that occur at a local level, in relationships within the family, with people in the neighbourhood, at schools and at work, and in people's feelings about their immediate environment. This means that the interventions that could increase happiness can be delivered at the same very local level and are under the direct or strategic control of local government and other local agencies.

So essentially its another way to interfere in the relationships within the family and people in your neighbourhood.

and just to add to the amount of public money being wasted here, there is even a series of Wellbeing services on offer throughout the course of the day including chair yoga, tai chi, meditation and on-site massage. (all at your expense I may add).

And who exactly do they say should attend all this, well…, garbage at my expense.

This conference is a must-attend event for everyone
concerned with public wellbeing and involved in key service delivery
areas and/or policy areas that can contribute to greater citizen
happiness, such as:

  • Local Authority Assistant/Chief Executives
  • Elected
    members including council leaders and executive members with
    responsibility for children and adult services and health communities
  • Lead officers with responsibility for children and adult services and health communities
  • Directors of services with responsibility for health, children, adults
  • Directors of Public Health and senior public health officers from PCTs, public health observatories
  • Corporate policy leads including those with responsibility for LAAs
  • Chair of LSPs
  • Regional improvement and efficiency partnerships
  • Regional Development Agencies
  • Central government policy-makers with responsibility for children and adult social care and the wellbeing agenda
  • National
    agencies working in the fields of older people, local communities,
    young people, families, parenting, environmental sustainability
  • Academics,
    think tank researchers, journalists and other opinion formers with
    interest in wellbeing, healthy communities and local government
The conference will be a ground-breaking and enjoyable event aiming also to improve the wellbeing of all who attend.

It seems like all those people doing the public funded non jobs, and this brings me back to the East Germany theme.

The East Germans tried all this under Eric Hoenicker, and they failed miserably. Miserable is a word you should remember, because that is what their citizens were, all of them.

I get so sick of do-gooders who believe that they can do it all better this time. Just go and read your history and understand why it didnt work then, and why it wont work now.

“Everything for Human Happiness” – a GDR poster issued on the 30th anniversary of that former communist state

This isnt a happiness agenda, its a deluded madness agenda. If I wanted this kind of happiness I would go and buy a hamlet.

Every year, year on year of this NuLab government our education standards have fallen, ask any businessman who is reluctant to employ the growing army of illiterate candidates, who now are invading the halls of power, but their lack of knowledge and history shows as they try to implement policies that failed in East Germany.

To listen to Ed Balls, our education secretary (or one of them), tractor production is up, but unfortunately the tractors are of a poorer quality than last year, and its getting poorer every year.

History, one of the keystone subjects is being turned into a government propaganda course, out are all the lessons that children should be being taught, such as the inhumanity in old Soviet Russia and East Germany and in comes guilt teaching on how Britain was responsible for the Slave trade (with no mention on how we put an end to it).

The result is that our children are not learning the real lessons of the past, and are without doubt likely to repeat the very mistakes that our forefathers fought and died to correct.

East Germany is a prime example. Our esteemed Home Secretary is but one in Government who is hell bent on introducing East German style laws, creating an atmosphere of shopping your neighbour, ratting on your friends, consider everything a crime, but the creation of a Stasi in the UK is only part of the problem.

So far gone are these new generations who aspire to run our lives, that they have no knowledge of what went before, that they believe all the propaganda that is thrown at them, believing that the Socialistic ideas put forward by this government can actually work this time to create a utopia for the masses.

adrianb1 is a blogger, but he blogs for a government department. This is the blog of the IDeA Strategy and Development Unit. he tells us:

The ‘happiness agenda’ could have far reaching implications for policy
in local as well as central government, but it is far from
straightforward. .

The link between equality and happiness is much less secure than I’d
appreciated.  Happiness has tended not to be included in declarations
of human rights, at least in this century, but you could argue that
happiness is the underlying purpose for which you would want rights.

Adrian probably has his heart in the right place, but is sadly mistaken if he believes that anyone can legislate for happiness. As I commented on his site, Happiness is a spontaneous emotion, a feeling of wellbeing, not a tangible thing that laws or rules can govern.

Adrian of course disagrees, he links to and tells us the he is certainly looking forward to the Well-Being Conference on 9 September.

Holy Moly!! I am thinking just how much public money is going into this kind of shite.

This is what they are telling each other:

Research shows that happiness – or wellbeing – is affected by factors that occur at a local level, in relationships within the family, with people in the neighbourhood, at schools and at work, and in people's feelings about their immediate environment. This means that the interventions that could increase happiness can be delivered at the same very local level and are under the direct or strategic control of local government and other local agencies.

So essentially its another way to interfere in the relationships within the family and people in your neighbourhood.

and just to add to the amount of public money being wasted here, there is even a series of Wellbeing services on offer throughout the course of the day including chair yoga, tai chi, meditation and on-site massage. (all at your expense I may add).

And who exactly do they say should attend all this, well…, garbage at my expense.

This conference is a must-attend event for everyone
concerned with public wellbeing and involved in key service delivery
areas and/or policy areas that can contribute to greater citizen
happiness, such as:

  • Local Authority Assistant/Chief Executives
  • Elected
    members including council leaders and executive members with
    responsibility for children and adult services and health communities
  • Lead officers with responsibility for children and adult services and health communities
  • Directors of services with responsibility for health, children, adults
  • Directors of Public Health and senior public health officers from PCTs, public health observatories
  • Corporate policy leads including those with responsibility for LAAs
  • Chair of LSPs
  • Regional improvement and efficiency partnerships
  • Regional Development Agencies
  • Central government policy-makers with responsibility for children and adult social care and the wellbeing agenda
  • National
    agencies working in the fields of older people, local communities,
    young people, families, parenting, environmental sustainability
  • Academics,
    think tank researchers, journalists and other opinion formers with
    interest in wellbeing, healthy communities and local government
The conference will be a ground-breaking and enjoyable event aiming also to improve the wellbeing of all who attend.

It seems like all those people doing the public funded non jobs, and this brings me back to the East Germany theme.

The East Germans tried all this under Eric Hoenicker, and they failed miserably. Miserable is a word you should remember, because that is what their citizens were, all of them.

I get so sick of do-gooders who believe that they can do it all better this time. Just go and read your history and understand why it didnt work then, and why it wont work now.

“Everything for Human Happiness” – a GDR poster issued on the 30th anniversary of that former communist state

This isnt a happiness agenda, its a deluded madness agenda. If I wanted this kind of happiness I would go and buy a hamlet.

A SELF-help guide that tells women to stay thin and follow their man's orders if they want to keep him has become a bestseller.

The book, The Re-education Of The Female, also says women should wear sexy clothes while doing the cooking and cleaning.

Copies of first-time author Dante Moore's book have been flying off the shelves in the US.

One piece of advice reads: “Men never really ask for anything. They
command. And believe me, what you won't do, 10 broads around the corner
will.”

Advising women to stay slim to attract men, Moore also
writes: “When you go to the grocery store to shop, do you pick out the
nastiest-looking, most rotten, smelliest fruit or meat you can find?

“Oh you don't? Why not? It's the same with men when they see  … baby elephant-sized, out-of-shape women.”

Moore,
a 33-year-old computer engineer, says he wants to help women and wrote
the book to show where they go wrong in relationships.

Bet the ZanuNuLab book Nazis and Harriet Harman cant wait for this to hit the bookshelves in the UK.

A SELF-help guide that tells women to stay thin and follow their man's orders if they want to keep him has become a bestseller.

The book, The Re-education Of The Female, also says women should wear sexy clothes while doing the cooking and cleaning.

Copies of first-time author Dante Moore's book have been flying off the shelves in the US.

One piece of advice reads: “Men never really ask for anything. They
command. And believe me, what you won't do, 10 broads around the corner
will.”

Advising women to stay slim to attract men, Moore also
writes: “When you go to the grocery store to shop, do you pick out the
nastiest-looking, most rotten, smelliest fruit or meat you can find?

“Oh you don't? Why not? It's the same with men when they see  … baby elephant-sized, out-of-shape women.”

Moore,
a 33-year-old computer engineer, says he wants to help women and wrote
the book to show where they go wrong in relationships.

Bet the ZanuNuLab book Nazis and Harriet Harman cant wait for this to hit the bookshelves in the UK.

Interfax August 26, 2008

NATO naval grouping in Black Sea to be brought to 18 warships – Gen.Staff

MOSCOW – The Russian military is concerned about the
build-up of the NATO warship grouping in the Black Sea and does not
believe their mission is to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia.

“The flurry of activity of the NATO naval forces,
which continue building up their grouping in the Black Sea, arouses
suspicion,” Russian General Staff Deputy Head Col. Gen. Anatoly
Nogovitsyn told the press in Moscow on Tuesday.

Whereas there were nine NATO warships in the Black
Sea at noon August 25, by the evening one more U.S frigate passed
through the Bosporus Strait, he said.

“Moreover, we have learned that eight more NATO warships are to arrive shortly,” Nogovitsyn said.

“What is the purpose of all this? References are
being made to scheduled exercises. And indeed, one can see some
legitimacy in this.

“But these eight [warships, expected to arrive in
the Black Sea] will carry cargoes of a different kind, not humanitarian
aid,” Nogovitsyn said, “It's very hard to believe that all other arrivals
[of NATO warships at Georgian ports] were for humanitarian aid purposes
only, as declared,” the general said

NATO warships stationed in Black Sea offshore waters
are equipped with strategic weapons, Colonel-General Anatoly
Nogovitsyn, said, Particularly, the ships are armed with cruise missiles with a range of 2,500 kilometers or more, the official said.

The cargo allegedly transported by them could be
bought in the nearest flea market, without wasting such naval
resources, he pointed out.

Some of the warships arrived from Poland, which is a
long way, the general said, concluding that this could hardly be merely
humanitarian aid.

Could the timing of this be anything to do with the Armada of ships heading towards the Gulf region.

UPDATE: 30th Aug

Russia said U.S. ships could only stay in the Black Sea for 21 days
according to the Montreux Convention, and warned if they do not leave
by then Turkey would be responsible.

Russia's deputy military chief Anatoly Nogovitsyn said the NATO warships' entrance to the Black Sea is a “serious threat to our security,” Hurriyet daily reported on Thursday.

 

He said under the Montreux Convention, signed in 1936 on the status of the Turkish Straits, the warships can only stay in the Black Sea for 21 days.

 

“If
the NATO ships continue to stay in the Black Sea after the expiration
of 21 day-period, then I would like to remind you that Turkey would be responsible,” he added.

 

The U.S. warships are spearheading a humanitarian aid mission to Georgia, a U.S. ally that wants to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

 

Clashes erupted in the Caucasus after Russia responded to Georgia's military operation to regain the control in the breakaway region South Osstia.

 

The U.S. ships are carrying nuclear missiles that can hit Russian targets as far away as St. Petersburg, Nogovitsyn said, according to Hurriyet. Russia has dispatched its own ships to track the U.S. vessels, the newspaper said.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's naval strike
group currently deployed in the sea within 20 minutes, a former fleet
commander said on Friday, according to RIA Novosti.

Russia's General Staff said on Tuesday there were 10 NATO ships in the
Black Sea – three U.S. warships, the Polish frigate General Pulaski,
the German frigate FGS Lubeck, and the Spanish guided missile frigate
Admiral Juan de Borbon, as well as four Turkish vessels. Eight more
warships are expected to join the group.

“Despite the apparent strength, the NATO naval group in the Black Sea
is not battle-worthy,” Admiral Eduard Baltin said. “If necessary, a
single missile salvo from the Moskva missile cruiser and two or three
missile boats would be enough to annihilate the entire group.”

However, Baltin said the chances of a military confrontation between NATO and Russia in the Black Sea are negligible.

“We will not strike first, and they do not look like people with suicidal tendencies,” he said.

Russia's General Staff later said the alliance's naval deployment in
the Black Sea “cannot fail to provoke concern”, with unidentified
sources in the Russian military saying a surface strike group was being
gathered there.

According to Russian military intelligence sources, the NATO warships
that have entered the Black Sea are between them carrying over 100
Tomahawk cruise missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles.

UPDATE 2: 30th Aug

NATO ships in Black Sea on routine visit, unrelated to Georgia crisis, says NATO

The Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1), a group of NATO warships, conducts routine port visits and exercises with NATO member nations bordering the Black Sea since 21 August.

This deployment is routine in nature and has been planned for over a year, notification of the requirement to transit the Turkish Straits was given in June well before the current Georgia crisis and is completely unrelated. In accordance with the terms of the Montreux Convention, the ships will stay no longer than 21 days in the Black Sea.  

This NATO press release only refers to 5 ships being part of the Group One exercise, which contrasts between the 8 ships expected to arrive shortly, and the 10 already there, making 18 ships in total.