Britain's Got Talent / Michael Collings

Obama, Cameron Agree to 'Full Spectrum of Possible Responses' on Libya

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed Tuesday to plan for the "full spectrum of possible responses" on Libya including an arms embargo and a no-fly zone.

The White House emphasis on a full spectrum of responses, in a statement on a phone call Tuesday between the two leaders, underscored the potential for a military response from the U.S. and its NATO allies as Libya slips from Moammar Gadhafi's grip and into civil war.

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The Intelligentsia Find Refuge on a Not So Far Away Island

The Moscow Times

LONDON — For some, the paraphernalia of Slavic food shops, cultural organizations promoting anything from Leo Tolstoy to Nikita Mikhalkov, and Russian-language newspapers in London are a comforting indication of a thriving ethnic community. For others it is a mere illusion.

"It is all rubbish," said Zinovy Zinik, a Russian-born author who has lived in London since 1976. "There is no such thing as a Russian community in London. … Anyone with a vestige of brains would try to dissociate himself from such an entity."

The idea of such a community, he told The Moscow Times, "presumes that people of the same ethnic origin abroad always stick together — it implies collective responsibility and conspiratorial tendencies."

Zinik, who referred to himself as a "red emigre" — someone who left the Soviet Union — has been in Britain for longer than he ever lived in Russia. He no longer owns a Russian passport. 

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British UFO files trace sightings (and hoaxes)

UK National Archives

This photograph of an "unusual atmospheric occurrence," taken by a retired Royal Air Force officer in Sri Lanka in 2004, is among the 8,500 pages' worth of previously classified documents relating to unidentified flying objects that were released by the British government on Thursday.

 

LONDON — British officials on Thursday released about 8,500 pages of previously classified reports that document sightings of unidentified flying objects by the military and members of the public dating back to the 1950s.

The 35 large files, available via the Internet, mainly cover the period from 1997 to 2005 and include photographs, drawings and descriptions of flying saucer sightings, as well as letters that the Ministry of Defense sent eyewitnesses in response to their accounts.

Policemen, a soldier, a Royal Air Force officer and members of the public report sightings of objects including a "chewy mint shaped solid craft" and aerial objects resembling a "ring," a "jellyfish" and a "silver voile spin top."

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QT: Tony Blair saved UK from Gadaffi nuclear weapons !??

Past it politician Shirley Williams claims that war criminal Saint Tony Blair saved us all from Gadaffi and a non-existent nuclear weapons programme. Please Shirley, go into retirement, and stop blocking the House of Lords with your "intelligence".

UK Company Sells Human Breast Milk Ice-Cream

What about if we take it directly?
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LONDON (AP) — Gross or tasty? A London company is offering an unusual dessert — ice-cream made with human breast milk.
The Icecreamists, a trendy ice cream parlor, says its "Baby Gaga" ice-cream sold out as soon as it launched Friday.
The company paid women who donated their breast milk after health screening. The milk is then pasteurized and churned together with vanilla pods and lemon zest. The dish comes in a martini glass, and sells for 14 pounds ($22.50) each.

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UK's Hague urges #Libya to embrace dialogue, reform

(Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged Libya to begin dialogue with anti-government protesters and implement reforms, in a phone call to a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday.
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Who takes care of rats at UK prime minister's residence?

Britain, Russia to Reach Out Via Hotline

By Howard Amos

At the start of an official two-day visit to Britain, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Tuesday that a new hotline would be installed between London and the Kremlin in an effort to improve strained relations between the two countries. 

 

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LSE to buy Toronto bourse making $4 trillion exchange

By Luke Jeffs and Paul Hoskins

LONDON | Wed Feb 9, 2011 9:06am EST

LONDON (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange is to buy Canada's TMX to claw back lost market share and create the world's fourth-largest bourse trading $4.1 trillion of stock a year.

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Meryl Streep ya es Margaret Thatcher

Foto: EMPIRE 

LONDRES, 8 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS)
   Ya está aquí la primera imagen de Meryl Streep convertida en The Iron Lady (La Dama de Hierro). La ganadora de dos Oscar será la protagonista del biopic que llevará al cine la vida de Margaret Thatcher.
   Streep, de 61 años protagonizará The Iron Lady (La Dama de Hierro), un filme que recuerda los días previos a la guerra de las Malvinas de 1982, un conflicto en el que los británicos repelieron una invasión argentina del remoto y disputado territorio en el sur del océano Atlántico.
   El éxito en la guerra ayudó a mejorar los índices de popularidad de Thatcher tras la recesión de comienzos de la década de 1980 y contribuyó a la victoria de su partido conservador en las elecciones de 1983.
   Hace tres semanas Streep acudió al Parlamento británico donde estuvo presente para observar el evento parlamentario en el que el actual primer ministro, David Cameron, es interrogado semanalmente por los miembros de la cámara sobre asuntos estatales.
   The Iron Lady estará dirigida por Phyllida Lloyd, con quien Streep ya coincidió en el exitoso musical ¡Mamma Mia! y junto a ella estarán Jim Broadbent, que interpretará a su esposo, o Anthony Head, que dará vida al entonces ministro británico de Asuntos Exteriores, Geoffrey Howe. Alexandra Roach y Harry Lloyd serán los actores que interpreten a la protagonista y su marido en sus años más jóvenes.
    La propia Streep ha calificado la figura de Thatcher como "extraordinaria" y señaló que encarnarla en la gran pantalla "es un desafío muy emocionante y de enormes proporciones". "Estoy intentando acercarme al papel con tanto celo, fervor y atención al detalle como el que tenía la auténtica Señora Thatcher", sentenció.

David Cameron: State multiculturalism has failed

David Cameron has criticised "state multiculturalism" in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.

At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism.
He also signalled a tougher stance on groups promoting Islamist extremism.



Are you listening Canada?

WikiLeaks: Obama gave Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

British stupidity: The unloveliest couple in Britain

From  DUFF & NONSENSE!

The unloveliest couple in Britain

I give you . . . Mr and Mrs Bercow:
PA photo via The Telegraph
When I'm really depressed I wonder whether, in their second-rate, tawdry and stupid awfulness they really do represent my country as it slowly but surely sinks into oblivion.  He, as Speaker of the House of Commons holds the second most important office in the nation.  The Queen is at the pinnacle and holds in her frail, elderly hands the remains of whatever dignity this country once possessed. He, as Speaker, holds an ancient and mostly honourable, and sometimes courageous, office which comes to its fortunate occupier replete with its own dignity and respect.  After his ghastly, gruntish predecessor, 'Gorbals Mick' Martin, another choice from antediluvian, so-called 'nu-Labour', one hoped for something better, never dreaming, or nightmaring, that it would be infinitely worse.  Again, the Labour party deserves the blame because Bercow, formerly a Conservative, spent the last 6 years or more lick-spittling and toadying to every Labour MP in the hope of gaining their votes for his bid to be Speaker.  They, as the majority party at the time, were happy to oblige, mostly because it was a poke in the eye to Cameron and his party none of whom can stand Bercow.  To watch this man at Prime Minister's question time is hideously embarrassing, in fact, the very worst sort of embarrassment that arises when you know that the person making a complete ass of himself is totally unaware of it. 
He is not just encouraged in his ghastliness by his wife, she positively out does him! Tomorrow in the Evening Standard magazine she offers this less than enticing photograph of herself.  One is only deeply, deeply, grateful that she is not in the nude displaying, I feel sure, her tattoos and sundry pieces of junk metal embedded in her flesh.

To cheer myself up, and you, too, by now, I suspect, I will repeat the famous Cameron dwarf joke, as told by The Telegraph:

Mr Cameron went on to regale guests with an anecdote in which junior health minister Simon Burns’s driver reversed into the Speaker’s car in a Parliament courtyard.

The Prime Minister described how the diminutive Mr Bercow appeared and told Mr Burns: “I’m not happy!” To which Mr Burns replied: “Well, which one [of the seven dwarves] are you?”

He should make that man Burns a minister, with jokes like that he would send Dave's 'Happiness Index' sky high!
ADDITIONAL:  Good grief!  I took the 'Memsahib' out to dinner tonight to celebrate her birthday and having just returned and checked my blog, I nearly fell off my chair to see over a thousand hits inside four hours.  That is approximately 999 more than I would have expected.  Was it my wise and witty review of King Lear that brought them all flocking in?  No, it was the picture of Mrs. Bercow in her sheet!  Oh God  . .

Bloody Sunday - 30th January 1972

Emp. mixta Inglaterra-Cuba p/ planta genradora con biomasa

La compania britanica pone sobre la mesa £158 millones, unos $250 million de dolares y Cuba pone la cara, es decir el bagazo.
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Wilson to head UK's first green energy deal with Cuba

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By Victoria Thomson

SEVERAL Scots are at the forefront of the UK's first major renewable energy partnership with Cuba, it has emerged.

Former energy minister Brian Wilson is chairing a company that has struck a $250 million (£158m) agreement with a venture linked to Cuba's ministry of sugar that will see biomass generation plants built next to sugar mills in the communist country.

UK-headquartered Havana Energy, part of the Esencia Group of companies, also has Scots-born Andrew Macdonald as its chief executive while scientists from the Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Strathclyde have also been involved in the project.

Havana Energy has struck a deal with Zerus, a firm backed by the Cuban state, to develop a 30-megawatt biomass plant at the Ciro Redondo sugar mill, some 400 kilometres from Havana. Four similar projects are due to follow.

The intention is for the schemes to be rolled into a joint venture company.

Commenting on the deal, Wilson said: "Having tried for more than a decade to promote closer economic links between the UK and Cuba, I am delighted to be involved in a project that demonstrates the benefits of such co-operation.

"Cuba has an excellent record both in providing electricity for its people and promoting environmental sustainability. This project will support both objectives. I have the highest regard for the abilities and objectives of our Cuban colleagues."

Cuba's sugar ministry and the country's national electricity board are seeking to increase power generation at all operating sugar mills to decentralise the grid, and provide power generation in areas which currently have weaker supply.

La saga de las espias rusas

Seguimos con la saga de las espias rusas. Ahora le toca el turno a Ekaterina Zatuliveter  de 25 anos [en la foto], quien no tiene el sex appeal de una Anna Chapman, pero tendra las suyas propias, porque trabajo durante 3 anos como asistente del diputado liberaldemócrata, Mike Hancock, miembro de la Comisión de Defensa de los Comunes y vicepresidente del grupo informal de diputados Amigos de Rusia.

Una espía rusa pone en jaque la seguridad de los Comunes

W. OPPENHEIMER  

Afghanistan: Taliban is a London cab driver

Taliban fighters in Dhani-Ghorri, Afghanistan. At least two of their fellow Taliban live in the UK outside the ‘fighting season’. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad for the Guardian

Afghanistan: Taliban is a London cab driver
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The War Game

Londres indemniza a terroristas!!!

Londres indemniza a los presos de Guantánamo

PATRICIA TUBELLA   

El Gobierno paga para que no salgan a la luz documentos sobre torturas.