Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Fisheries - Truth and Fiction

 
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) from John Ashworth, who used to run Save Britain's Fish, made in October 2013:
“It never ceases to amaze me how cunning the EU system is in hiding their real intentions. Ever since 1982 when the first derogation from the CFP expired, the system has always portrayed the temporary management arrangement as the CFP, and the present “Regional CFP” is no exception.

By using this clever wordage, the Fisheries acquis communautaire of equal access to a common resource without discrimination, which is the real CFP, is concealed as the EU Fisheries Directorate grappled over many years, complicated by a steady continual increase of nations joining the EU, to bring about the acquis through various management means by stealth.

The fishing issue has always been an excellent example of EU manipulation. As we approach the European, followed by the General election, and in turn pressure for an in/out EU referendum, watch the number of times the word “Reform” is used. The question is what is being reformed, and how, because as in Fisheries, reforming the temporary management arrangement of 1983, which most people are being led to believe is the CFP, is no solution, because whatever is devised, and what you think you have reformed, the direction is still to accomplish the acquis.

The decimation of the British Fishing Industry has, and is, taking place solely because of the acquis communautaire. After all these years it is still not fully understood, which is why the EU system gets away with the continual advancement to full political union, and those following a "reformist agenda", without tackling the question of the acquis are furthering that advancement. 
 
 
The Community acquis[1] or acquis communautaire (/ˈækiː kəˈmjuːnətɛər/; French: [aˌki kɔmynoˈtɛːʁ]),[2] sometimes called the EU acquis and often shortened to acquis,[2] is the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law. The term is French: acquis meaning "that which has been agreed upon", and communautaire meaning "of the community". (Wikipedia)

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Christian Medical Comment

 
Peter Saunders asks the question and goes on to explain what happened to the nine year old girl in the Pulitzer prize winning photograph.

Ordinarily he posts about ethical questions in regard to medicine and euthanasia but in 2013 his most popular post was the one above.


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Saturday, 11 January 2014

Rupert Mallin

Rupert Mallin lives in Norfok in the UK and blogs about poetry, music, photography and politics, amongst other subjects.
 
 
He has written an interesting post about the latest Jimmy Hendrix biography and he has provided some colourful Christmas photographs of Norwich.


 
 
He was fourteen when he first heard the Jimmy Hendrix Experience - "Purple Haze" `Starting at Zero` was on his Christmas 2013 reading list. Containing diaries, letters and interviews, combined with Hendrix`s lyrics, the biography was compiled and edited by Paul Neal, and he found it particularly moving.

Unfortunately I do not find this blog particularly easy to navigate which is less a design problem than a technical one. I am not sure why that is.



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Saturday, 28 December 2013

Broken Heart Art

 
This was an interesting post taking us through the design process from the beginning to the finished product.
 

Saturday, 21 December 2013

Coffee Rings Everywhere


Here is what this blogger has to say for herself:

I am a Mother, a Home-maker, a Full-time Working Woman. I run, I take photographs, I garden, I read, I crochet, I drink numerous cups of tea. My day is as crammed as my handbag- with bits and pieces threatening to fall out all the time.
 
I would love to sit on a sunny porch and write, but I don't even have enough time to visit my favourite blogs. I should not be writing. I just do not have the time to. But when has that ever stopped the thoughts from coming?

And so, I compromise. I express my thoughts in a hundred words. I capture moments with my camera. I get by, till I get time for more.


 
Because her life is busy and time is short, she writes dribbles  A dribble is a story told in exactly 100 words.




 
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Monday, 9 December 2013

Maximum Verbosity

A reader of science fiction who loves Dr Who.
 
 


A woman on her own, introverted and able to talk about it, who gets flustered about the plumbing and who knows something about outer space..

So what is she going to make of the new Dr Who on Christmas Day?


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Here`s a link to Susan Cain and The Power of Introverts