Lord Mandelson's (information principles)

1. The Minister for Information must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. Information must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the information directives.
b. It must explain information directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies' activities, which have information consequences

3. The information consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Information must affect the opposition's policy and action.
a. By suppressing desirable material which can provide the opposition with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating information whose content or tone causes the opposition to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the opposition into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired opposition activity when any reference would discredit that activity

5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement an information campaign

6. To be perceived, information must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether information output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of opposition information; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current information campaigns determine whether opposition information should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether information materials should be censored.

10. Material from opposition information may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that opposition's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.

11. Black rather than white information may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Information may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Information must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing information.
b. An information campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. An information theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Information must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses, which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof

15. Information to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Information to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Information must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Information must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves

17. Information to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective

18. Information must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Information cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

Groundhog Day 15

Yesterday the European Court of Auditors published their annual report on the EU's budget -- and in what becoming a European Union tradition, they have refused to sign off on the accounts. This makes 15 years in a row the EU's own accountants have reckoned there was too many holes in the books to allow them to sign and clear the accounts.



It doesn't mater how fast you chase the European Union Commission, you never catch up with the money.

This can only be expressed as EU = mc15.

Where EU is the immovable object, mc = mass corruption and 15 is the number of years that the auditors have been unable to sign off the European Union accounts.

The Fraud Act 2006 introduces several general offences of fraud which may be committed by a person or persons who:

makes a false representation
fails to disclose information when he is under a legal duty to do so;
abuses a position of trust

The European Union and the EU Commission draws upon its LEGAL BASIS on budgetary maters from Article 268 to 280 of the EC Treaty. As the European Union has not performed or been in legal compliance for 15 years we should now withdraw from the European Union using the provision of Article 61 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Article 61 Supervening impossibility of performance

A party may invoke the impossibility of performing a treaty as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from it if the impossibility results from the permanent disappearance or destruction of an object indispensable for the execution of the treaty. If the impossibility is temporary, it may be invoked only as a ground for suspending the operation of the treaty.

15 years of non compliance feels fairly permanent to me.

surveillance state

Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies. (Telegraph)

I am a doughnut

This evening as a guest of Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown is among world leaders attending celebrations to mark the toppling of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

We will remember them

As men and women from all over the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth put masses and masses of CO2 into the atmosphere travelling to London to pay their respects to those who had lost their lives defending our freedoms. It was sadly noted that their were no eco or climate change warriors marching past the cenotaph today.



When the sun goes down, the lights go out and we freeze in our eco friendly hovels.

We will remember them........

Some corner, some field

And don't forget...it is recognised today that many of the soldiers who were shot at dawn may have suffered from "shell shock" or "battle fatigue" and were obviously under extreme stress, which resulted in them deserting or other actions. Today these conditions are better known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is recognised as an illness.

On the Eve of Rememberance Day

Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another crisis.



Addressing finance ministers and central bankers from the G20, Brown said Britain would not make such a move alone and that imposing any new tax would have to be a global.

faith

David Cameron has spoken of the importance of his faith while acknowledging that it grows "hotter and colder by moments".

Mine too

At the moment, after the Lisbon Treaty referendum climb down I have no faith in David Cameron.

In Who's God Do We Trust

Muslims all over America condemn the acts of violence at Fort Hood



The Prophet Muhammed, (Allah rest his cotton socks), related that there was a Jewish funeral procession and he stood up as it passed by. Some of the companions asked why he was standing and he said because Allah gave a life and he took it away. It matters not to the Muslim if one is a Muslim or not.

We is psychotic init

currupt regime

They think it's all over

Remember, remember

Some of the early responses to the Kelly Report fills me with a mixture of disbelief and deep foreboding.



A campaign by certain individuals of the House of Commons to dilute the Kelly proposals betrays a continued failure to appreciate the scale of public anger at the parliamentary allowances system.

Prime Minister tells 72,234 citizens to fuck off

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign.”

Number 10's response

The Prime Minister is completely focussed on restoring the economy, getting people back to work and improving standards in public services. As the Prime Minister has consistently said, he is determined to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain for all [except the 72,234 who activley participate in the political process]

So Fuck off

Baloney

David Cameron says if he gets voted into Government he will introduce a new “United kingdom Sovereignty Bill” which would make it clear that ultimate authority rests in the British parliament.

“This is about an assurance the final word on our laws is here in Britain”

Oh Humm

United Nations Convention on the Law of Treaties
Article 27 - Internal law and observance of treaties
A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty

Catch All

David Cameron is set to unveil his new policy on Europe after abandoning his "cast-iron guarantee" of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

The new Tory policy will include: A general election manifesto commitment to repatriate powers from Brussels, including control of social and employment policies.

Legislating so that if any future government agreed a treaty transferring powers from Britain to the EU, a referendum would be required by law.



Well Mr Cameron, how are you going to get around the catch all Article 48 of Lisbon treaty which makes the EU treaties self-amending. The result being that this is the last Treaty the European Union need, from now on the EU can change itself without consulting us.

Save our Sovereign Democracy

Over recent months the price of a Kalashnikov has doubled in price, the weapon is now fetching $600 each. It has become a cause of some surprise, but a surge of demand is to blame for the increase, with a steady stream of weapons said to be heading for the north.

Put al-Qaeda out of business and protect our troops in Afghanistan. Buy an AK 47, it may be the only way to save our sovereign democracy.

This message is not approved by the European Union

However, it is Terrorism Act 2006 exempt.

Your first target........ if you are true libertarian...then only you can decide.

Voting for a British Government is meaningless.

William Hague has been volunteered to answer demands for a quick statement on what happens next

“It is no longer possible to have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.” There will be a president, we will lose our vetos: a referendum “cannot unwind or prevent that”. So “that means our campaign for a referendum comes to an end today.



We are all ruled from Brussels now

Does he know his place?

This morning the Czech constitutional court has ruled in favour of the Lisbon treaty



Today, many voters will be wondering if David Cameron's cast iron guarantee is just an empty promise.

Should have gone to Specsavers

The Retreat from Brussels

Tony Blair is expected to bow out of the battle to become the EU's first permanent president by the end of next week if he fails in a last-ditch effort to win public support from the German chancellor.



Despite Gordon Brown's failure to win any substantial backing for him during informal discussions at a Brussels summit last week. Allies of the former prime minister insisted last night that his bid for the top EU job was still alive and that there remained a "decent chance" of success.