The Barnsby Blog

DAY THIRTY SIX OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
It is sad to have to report again today that the only man who can save
the planet from destruction and who promised only 36 days ago that he would
destroy all nuclear weapons, namely Barack Obama, has again disappointed us
all by signing a Bill which he admits is the greatest sum ever known and
which would have covered the sum of all US military operations and pay for
US troops proper medical treatment .
He praises his ‘outstanding’ vice president, Joe Biden, his
attorney-general Eric Holden, defence secretary Bob Gates who served under 8
presidents and thus knew what defense entailed, also Admiral Mike Miller,
Mike Muller chair of the joint chiefs of staff. He then comes as near a
figure as I can find which is that the Government Accountability Office last
year reported a loss of $278 billions and his Bill exceeds that.
How sad that the most powerful man in the world should ignore the
majority of the citizens of his own land who are opposed to the illegal,
racist and unwinnable wars Obama supports and ignores the indiscriminate
deaths of hundreds which continue every day that Obama fails to change his
policy.
Once again I apologise for not quoting the exact words of Obama but
they can be found on his website www.Whitehouse.gov

WOLVERHAMPTON AND SURVEILLANCE BY MI5..
The publication of the authorised history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew
and the modern disclosure that police and MI5 surveillance is common, led me
to consider my own position as secretary of Wolverhampton Communist Party
for almost 50 years. Looking up Freedom of Information Act on Google I was
astonished to find that it concerned the US act of the same name and when I
asked Google for details of the British act of the same name it failed to
produce anything of significance, so I must surmise that it is operated by
the Head of Parliament as the US Act is acted by Congress. If this is the
case the parliamentarian concerned is the Speaker John Bercow who could, and
I’m sure would order a debate on the causes of the war in Iraq and ask for a
motion to arrest Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. I shall pursue legal
assistance from such people as my friend Warinder Juss and various lawyers
who act for working people to find if there is anything on me and if there
is to what extent it is true.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Liberty-Human Rights Organisation speaks of its successes in forcing
the House of Lords to outlaw the Modern Day Slavery Bill and protect some of
the most vulnerable people from modern slavery. This refers to an amendment
to the Policing and Crime Bill. If the Bill were passed it would mean that
if most of the conduct leading to an alleged crime occurs in the UK then a
British court would have the option to refuse extradition if they believe it
goes against the interests of justice. This amendment has not yet gone to
MPs nor will it unless the House of Lords votes for it next week. So write
to your MP and ask them to lobby their party to support next week’s vote on
extradition on email@liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Another complicated issue is Secret Inquests which again you are asked
to lobby your MPs to support. The government is seeking powers to allow the
Lord Chancellor to replace public inquests with inquiries under the
Inquiries Act 2005. Jury inquests are at present necessary into any death
where the government is implicated Libery believes that jury inquests are
vital in ensuring transparency and accountability from the government but
also protecting the rights of victims’ families. This bill goes back to the
House of Commons next week and you are asked to lobby your MP and ask them
to support the Lords amendments and reject the government proposals.

COMMUNIST AND OTHER HISTORY
Sean Creighton in his November Information Bulletin gives information of
the last few performances ending on 31 October of a play about William
Cuffey ‘Chartist Rising’ which is showing at The Space a pub on the Isle of
Dogs London. Tele 020 7515 7799.
Also 1848 Europe’s Year of Revolution when London workers threatened to
take by force what their corrupt government would not give them: The Six
Demands of the People’s Charter. The Middle Class rush to arm as Special
Constabulary. The police and army deploy to defend the banks, bridges and
government buildings. In the coffee houses and pubs small groups of the poor
plan their insurrection. A black tailor and a young Irish artist, an office
cleaner and a small-time junk dealer are the focus of this story of
idealism, loyalty and betrayal in ‘the last revolution. Sounds modern,
doesn’t it? Shades of today when Alan Johnson Home Secretary and once
Communist and Mandelsohn once in the YCL stand ready to betray the working
class
Today also comes news of A People’s History of the West Midlands by its
author Chris Harman who will be speaking about his book at a Curry Night on
Friday 13th November 6-30 to 9.30pm at Stirchley Community Centre, Pershore
Rd. Birmingham when rarely seen footage of anti-fascist demonstrations such
as the Battle of Cable Street Stepney in 1936 will be shown also Lewisham
1977 and Demonstrations of today.
There has also been progress in contacting Rosemary Logan who we last
met at spending her fragile life attending an unknown Communist’s sister.
Tonight after another fruitless attempt to ring her I had the bright idea of
asking Eddie Dare of the Socialist History Society if she came to SHS
meetings when he interrupted me, first to explain that he was following me
as a man of ninety by himself being that age before this year is out and
then almost solved my problem by mentioning that Rosemary had been busy
crossing London to meet Cicely daughter of Bill Pomerey an American who
fought in the Second World War against the Japanese in the Philippines
where his book was published. Celia was as influential a Communist as her
father and we are now at the last stage of our investigation by being able
to ask Rosemary Logan the name of the Pomeray book.

NOTES AND QUERIES.
Today our local paper the Express and Star found for us the name of
the secretary of the Wolverhampton Branch of the Burma Star Association. His
name is given as Charles Maber. This seems to be in variance with another
person who lives in Sabrina Rd. Tettenhall where we believe their monthly
meetings take place at the Ex Services Institute in Brickkiln Street at
midday on the last Friday of the month which would have ruled out my
attending. The same thing applies to today when Members of the Burma Star
Association were invited to have tea with the Mayor of Wolverhampton
Councillor Surjan Singh Dura but to which I was not invited despite the
Mayor’s Secretary who attends to invitations and knows that I am a Burma
Vet. A pity since I have the largest and most up to date list of Burma
Veterans and we are all due to have a proper reunion, but that has not
materialised yet.

HONOUR OUR WAR VETERANS WHILE THEY ARE STILL
WITH US.

DAY THIRTY FIVE OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
We have, alas, another day of double talk by the only man who can save
the planet, Barack Obama, who promised the people of the world only thirty
five days ago that he would rid the world of nuclear weapons, but who since
has succumbed to the siren call of Neo-Capitalism and disappointed millions
of people throughout the world.
Today his website www.Whitehouse.gov particularly his daily piece on
‘defense’ is full of war like actions by land, air,
sea and under the sea as he gathers a very warlike Cabinet around him and
the deaths of hundreds of innocent people occur particularly by the
pilotless bombers which Obama is now using which have been outlawed by the
United Nations.

MORE ON LOCAL COMMUNISTS.
I unearthed today the splendid biography of Chris Knowles discovered by
my good friend Frank Spittle. I touched on Chris briefly in yesterday’s
BLOG but Frank’s detailed piece shows that a son of Chris, Peter, knew that
his father had served in the Duke of Cornwall’s Regiment and his dad had
visited the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Chris came to
Wolverhampton to find work in the 1930s and working in his father’s factory
in Wolverhampton, Peter was able to show Frank a citation for bravery that
Chris had received. It was fortunate that this fell into the hands of Frank
Spittle who was a military man as well as a sportsman. The citation said
that during desperate fighting on the Western front the unit of the mortar
teams were short of officers in the battle. Cpl Chris Knowles organised
mortar teams to stem the attack on his regiment. The reason that Chris did
not receive the VC was a shortage of officers to make the recommendation
because they had all been killed. But looking at the medal Frank was
surprised to see that it was the DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal) Frank
ends by saying that Chris always wore a Hammer and Sickle badge on his
jacked. An avowed Communist, a wonderfully brave man who never mentioned his
DCM to anyone. He would have loved the opportunity of reading the George
Barnsby Blog. Well! I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that
Chris Knowles is certainly someone whose history is worth recording and we
owe the ability to do this to Frank Spittle.

GORDON BROWN THE NEO-CON
Again it is up to Brown to tell us whether he signed an enthusiastic
preface to a book by Edgar Kristol’s (originator of the Neo-Cons New
American century) wife’s (Gertrude Himmelfarb) book Roads to Modernity
wrote a glowing tribute to the book. New Labour was born it seems as it is
now manifestly dying not as a representative of the British people, but as a
lackey of US imperialism.

ANY QUESTIONS AND THE WEEK YET AGAIN
Watching the programme that invaded my home last week with Nick Griffin
the BNP candidate who Mark Thompson, the director-general of the BBC today
has the effrontery to suggest might appear once a year on Any Questions
still has not answered my charge that the questions and the audience are
‘fixed’ so that our democratic traditions are betrayed both by their actions
and their refusal to reply. How about it David Dimbleby, and the producer of
the programme and Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo of The Week who failed to
follow the examples of Diane Abbott and the American Bonnie Greer who was on
the panel of Any Questions that the BNP should never be invited to appear
on a BBC programme and so strengthened Diane’s case to be Prime Minister in
place of Brown who should be arrested NOW before he blows up the Planet.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS
I am sick and tired of watching people who refuse to reply to me such
as Andrew Marr whose new book on the History of Britain is an excellent one,
but who seems to be willing to live with the stigma of not replying to
George Barnsby. The same thing applies to all the others such as Sir Trevor
Phillips and the now defunct Learning and Skills Council nationally and
locally Richard Carr the W’ton city chief executive and AW Lee the clerk to
the governors of W’ton University. All the people named above receive a copy
of this BLOG, so I now have neither the time nor the inclination to repeat
my labours by posting them a second copy as I keep my aim on the main
question of:

PREVENTING BUSH BLAIR AND BROWN FROM BLOWING UP
THE PLANET.

DAY THIRTY FOUR OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
We have today yet another day of ‘defense’ talk from Barak Obama which
in its ‘ umbleness’ beats Dickens’ Uriah Heap. Speaking to Veterans of
Foreign Wars he said that whether you wear the uniform today or wore it
decades ago you remind me of a fundamental truth its not the powerful
weapons that make our military the strongest in the world, nor is it the
powerful weapons that make our military the strongest in the world. Its not
the sophisticated systems that make us the most advanced, the true
strength
of our military lies in the spirit and skills of our men and women in
uniform. This is boastfulness on the same scale as Dickens’s Mr.Micawber.
He honoured every generation that is part of that tradition including
the current generation which has served so nobly in Iraq and Afghanistan He
noted that they comprised only 1% of the US people who have shouldered the
massive burden of American security almost on their own and his own
commitment was to the other 99%.
Obama wants troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (Central Command) to
participate in a Town Hall for Troops which will enable troops to put their
questions direct to the President and vote for the questions they think the
most important
Nor is today’s news on the nuclear front encouraging to Obama as one of
his most important puppets, the Baghdad government seeks permission to
rebuild a nuclear reactor destroyed in 1991.
Then there is the renewed activity of the Somalian Pirates, always
likely
to hijack nuclear weapons and sell them to the highest bidder.
Or the possibility of Obama’s other stooge Ehud Olmer facing arrest for
war crimes if he visits the UK. And what about the Iraq government’s change
of terror tactics suggesting that what’s good for al-Quida in Mesopotamia is
good for the Taliban in Helmand and Kandahar. Or the revolt of the American
banks which Obama has so recently socialised almost bankrupting the US
economy and he now finds these ungrateful creatures claiming their vast
salaries and refusing to lend their money so that unemployment is now as
high as in the 1930s, and vast numbers lose their homes and become bankrupt
while protesters gate crash the American Bankers’ Association on Wall Street
and as Obama tries to befriend the Russians objecting to his new missile
systems reaching to the heart of Moscow.
‘O what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive’

MORE ON MI5 AND SURVEILLANCE OF ALL OF US.
The furore over the new history of MI5 continues.The vast tome of 1,000
plus pages entitled The Defence of the Realm, the Authorised History of MI5
by Christopher Andrew has been dissected by me because the police, under
instruction from MI5 take notes of all dissenting elements and that includes
me as secretary of Wolverhampton Communist Party for nearly fifty years. The
matter arose over accusations that Bob Edwards the Bilston ex-MP was a
long-term spy for the Soviet Union. Peter Rhodes of the Express and Star
raised the question with me and I have asked him what he thinks of the
accusation. His reply is a midge disappointing because he simply;y repeats
his opinion as to what I think. My opinion is already on my Website and BLOG
and suggests that the evidence is not at all conclusive from the evidence
presented mainly by Sergei Gordievsky and the evidence of this Russian
suggests that Edwards spied for the Russians but never made any vital
disclosures. That is only my opinion, but the works of Gordievsky would have
to be examined if further details that Edwards betrayed his country were to
be found. This I cannot do nor intend to do it is now up to anyone who might
have been under surveillance by the local police under the instructions of
MI5, to make sure that they have not been surveyed and if they have whether
information on them is correct. This is what I shall do and I suggest Peter
Rhodes does it as well since he is a well known journalist who has
interviewed most modern statesmen in Britain.

THE HISTORY OF COMMUNISTS AND PROGRESSIVES IN WOLVERHAMPTON AND BEYOND.
Much progress has been made today on biographies of Communists in
Wolverhampton and beyond. They include the speech made by Martin George of
the life of his father, Ray George, on his 80th birthday celebration. Ray
was a lifetime Communist, secretary of one of its branches and a key member
of the administrative staff of the electrical firm of Ever Ready Batteries.
I shall much look forward to reading this as it has lots of references to
events direct and indirect experienced by Ray.
The other great event was that on the Blog was the Communist Chris Knowles, discovered
by Frank Spittle who was a First World War decorated hero who came to work
in Frank Spittles’s father’s factory in the 1920s and 1930s. Again a
character on which we will want to do more research.
And then there are the Biographies of Michael M.Walker and Graham
Stevenson which include this week from Michael a Local Council Work,
Organising for Offensive Action February 1943 which states that they have a
lot to learn from the Local Labour Party and we in 2009 can say that we
could learn much from the Labour Party as long as it is the traditional
Party and not New Labour.
Then there is the astonishing output of Sean Creighton with his History
and Social Action News from which I only quote now what he says is ‘New’
such as Wandsworth and the Edwardian Roller Skating Boom; Bloody Sunday; and
Black Emancipation and the Working Class 1815 to 1838. I promise again to
give all details on Sean’s website, but in the meantime down load it for
yourselves on seancreighton.com or sean.creighton@btinternet.com
Ignoring Liberty, Searchlight International The Humanist and Campaign
against the Arms Trade I come to the Monthly Magazine of the USA with its
Latin America: Challenge of the Bolivarian Alternative which is the best
statement on the alternative Socialism of the present time emanating from
South America. This is the real politik of the modern world not the blather
of Neo-Imperialism or New Labour.

AOB.
Finally there is the local situation where instead of taking advantage
of its unique position of being able to form a coalition City Council of
Tories who oppose the war in Iraq, Labour Councillors ditto and five
Lib-Dems whose party never did support the war we have Neville Patten the
Tory leader of the Council refusing to reply to me which is his duty from
the legislation of the Council. Also there are the two scallywags of
Wolverhampton University, the two bad apples in the barrel of A..Lee the
clerk to the governors and Sir Geoffrey Hampton, Dean of the Faculty of
Education who also fail to answer correspondence. So our appeal tonight is
similar to last night:

ARREST HAMPTON AND LEE AND CLEANSE THE AEGEAN STABLES

DAY THIRTY THREE OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
Today we have Barack Obama’s daily bulletin on ‘defense’ which I ought
to be able to put on this BLOG for all to see, but my computer technique
continues too poor for me to put in on my BLOG and so you must all be
content with my paraphrasing the words of the man who only a short month ago
thrilled and lifted the hearts of countless millions by declaring that he
would remove all nuclear weapons from the planet, but unfortunately since
has not only reneged on his promise, but also found himself enmeshed with
Neo-imperialism as actions on peace disappear and war-like relations take
their place.
Today’s statements exceed any we have yet had from him for jingoism and
false patriotism. The finest military in the history of the world, he says,
as he arrives to speak to servicemen and women at the Naval Air Station,
Jacksonville in Florida to honour the fourteen Americans killed in a
helicopter accident in Afghanistan this morning. The generations that have
served in Jacksonville and our servicemen and women all over the world have
the finest military in the history of the world because we have the finest
personnel in the world. You are the best trained, the best prepared and the
best led force in history. They were willing to risk their lives to prevent
Afghanistan becoming a safe haven for Al Qaeda and its extremist allies And
today, they gave their lives that last full measure of devotion, to protect
ours.
So I say to all of you who serve. Of all the privileges I have as
President I have no greater honor than serving as your Commander-in-Chief,
you Inspire me… You join a long unbroken line of service at Jacksonville
from the naval aviators of the Second World War to Korea and to Vietnam.
To the millions throughout the world opposed to the wars mentioned it
is hardly believable that Obama has retreated so far from his original aim
to abolish war and last night’s only concession to peace was to talk of
economies forced on it by the Economic Slump so badly affecting the USA.
Read Obama’s own words on www.Whitehouse.gov

BUSH, BLAIR AND BROWN - NUCLEAR MANIACS.
These phantom people continue to roam the world oblivious to the fact
their shackles are the only real things and they are the ghosts of Dicken’s
Jacob Marley
Blair is not going to have an easy ride into the job of President of
the European Union, an organisation that Obama is depending on to fight his
racist, illegal and unwinnable wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Gaza
and elsewhere but Gordon Brown is detailing senior civil servants to lobby
for him.
Karadzig is still playing ducks and drakes with the Court of Human
Rights as he still refuses to appear in the dock. Inefficient helicopters in
Britain continue to kill solders preparing to wage war.Martin Bell former MP
and man in the white suit says Justice must triumph over revenge as Karadzig
vies with Blair for the presidency of the War Crimes Tribunal, brilliantly
caricatured by Steve Bell in today’s Guardian. Martin Bell says that there
were more than 30,000 EU troops in Bosnia and massacres were committed by EU
troops as well as Jugoslavs. More of this to follow tomorrow.

PERSONAL MATTERS.
Both my sons have taken up much of my time in the past few days. Robert
Owen, my elder son has returned from a fortnight’s holiday in Florida USA
where he and his wife Cal had a marvellous time and have brought back
presents for the family. For me he brought a more up-to-date Florida cap as
he said he would than the one I habitually wear and he has also brought me a
new book on Jazz entitled A Trumpet around the Corner the Story of New
Orleans Jazz by Samuel Carters. This will be a valuable addition to the GB
Working Class Library and to all my friends in the Jazz World, including
those at the Harp of Albrighton presided over by my friends John and Marie
Howell of Jazz Club 90 and Harry Johnson co-founder of the Furthest East
Rhythm Club in the World which operated during the Second World War at
Imphal, Burma before the Japanese offensive intended to conquer India and
join up with Hitler, but was thwarted by our staying put being supplied by
what was then the largest airlift of its time, and us enduring the three
month siege of Imphal and then recolonising South East Asia and ended with
the dropping of the first Atom Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki after which
the Japanese promptly surrendered giving the world an opportunity to destroy
the planet which Bush, Blair and Brown seem intent on utilising.
Tonight brought his usual Tuesday night visit of my second son William
Morris who missed watching his favourite football team West Ham draw with
Arsenal on Sunday. He brought with him, as I requested last week his laptop
which I am determined to have to supplement my normal computer , but that
had to be postponed yet again.
Billy is ‘minder’ who I hope one day will take me to the Arsenal
Emirates Stadium to shake hands with my hero Arsene Wenger 50 years old this
week which has led to songs and dances at the Emirates not echoed in the
Barnsby household which suffered the ignominy of Arsenal drawing two matches
in succession, a blow which was softened by the fact that both Manchester
United and Liverpool were beaten and so Arsenal are still in contention for
both Championship and Premiership titles

ARSENAL SUPPORTERS’ TRUST.
This brings me to the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust of which BLOG readers
will know I am a life member. I am most concerned with the direction A
Arsenal is headed, a 40% or so of holdings held by two oligarchs one Russian
and the other American means that Arsenal is now a team privately owned and
thus join the majority of Premiership teams in being owned by private
persons instead of being controlled locally and by British people and their
localities as Arsenal and Wolves, both of the teams I happen to support
could now meet the same fate as other team and become bankrupted and even
cease to exist as so nearly occurred to Portsmouth and West Ham only this
week.
This week I have received a notice from AST about the 2009 annual
general meeting which is on 9 November and to which I have been invited.The
letter also offers me a proxy which I am asking my cousin Glenn Collins a
fellow Arsenal fanatic if he would like to attend in my place and perhaps
put my reservations as to Arsenal to the meeting. We shall have to see.

AOB
Again much is left unheard, but two of the bad apples infesting the
Wolverhampton barrel are still failing to reply to me and thus destroying
our democratic institutions. These are A.W.Lee the long term Governors’
Clerk and Carr the chief executive who fail to reply to me. I demand that
the Wolverhampton city administration:

ARREST LEE AND CARR FOR REFUSING TO CARRY OUT THEIR
DEMOCRATIC FUNCTIONS:

DAY THIRTY TWO OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
Today Barack Obama who only a month ago promised to destroy every
nuclear weapon in the world, still talks of further mass battles with NATO
and its allies even though its allies are most reluctant to follow Obama
into the abyss of unlimited war. Nor are Amnesty or The American Civil
Liberties Union who have both spurned an invitation to tour the Guantanamo
Bay prison which is on sovereign Cuban land which Obama promised to close
but hasn’t from those halcyon days when Obama brought so much hope to a
world anxious to believe that things could be changed.
Nor indeed has the nuclear world produced hope as Britain wrestles
with problems of nuclear waste. Letters in the Guardian today show the
extent of the problem. Professor Andre Blowers of the government’s own
Consultation Group says that the government proposes eleven new power
stations. Given that these new stations have a life span of 60 years and
given that the new high burn will require cooling for 100 years and given
that sites like Dungeness and others will be inundated as a result of more
frequent and more severe storms, the assumption that the new highly active
waste stores can be protected into the indefinite future is fantasy parading
as a policy.
Nor is storage the only problem, but carriage. Another Guardian letter
from Chris Fox, chair of the Nuclear Policy Police Authority. The workings
and governance of the Civil Nuclear Police Authority and the Civil Nuclear
Constabulary (CNC) is to keep nuclear material secure by preventing anyone
who might wish to harm the people of the UK from having access to it. We
have no remit or wish to prevent any lawful protest. Policing c ivil
disorder outside these sites is the responsibility of the local
constabulary. The Civil Nuclear Police Authority is the statutory which
scrutinises the constabulary and is answerable to Parliament.and prevents
terrorist attacks on our nuclear assets. So, which ever way you look at it a
nuclear power policy is for maniacs. Not human people.

BUSH, BLAIR AND BROWN - LOCK THEM UP BEFORE THEY DESTROY THE PLANET.
The evidence quote above seems to prove the old adage that anyone who
thinks that Britain, an island floating on coal and surrounded by water,
should have nuclear power needs their head examined seem conclusive in the
case of Gordon Brown and what remains of his cabinet.
Iran is our friend says Turkey which joins other countries in warning
Obama that he must keep his hands off Iran, particularly as UN nuclear
inspectors have paid their first visit to a uranium enrichment plant carved
into the mountainside whose existence was disclosed only last month..
The visit coincides with Iran’s decision to accept a UN-brokered deal to
process its nuclear fuel abroad. The Fordo uranium enrichment site near Qom
is protected by military installations including missile silos and
anti-aircraft batteries, but Iran says the plant will not be operable for
another 18 months.Such complexities would not have been necessary had Obama
kept his promise to ban all nuclear weapons.

TOUGH TEST FOR UN COURT AS KARADZIC TRIAL BEGINS.
Radovan Karadzic the former Bosnian Serb leader seen as the mastermind
behind the worst ethnic pograms of Europe in the post-war era goes on trial
today in what may be the last big case of the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes
tribunal. Arrested last year in Serbia he has been indicted on two charges
of genocide, the gravest possible charge for allegedly overseeing the mass
murder and deportation of tens of thousands of Bosnia’s Muslims in the
north-west of the country in 1995 and at Srebenica in the north east in
1995.
He also faces a further nine charges of war crimes and crimes against
humanity for the 44 month Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo in
1992-5 and for taking more than 200 UN peace-keepers hostage in 1995 as an
insurance policy against NATO bombing raids.
Karadzic at first refused to recognise the authority of the court but
the presiding judge O-Gon Kwon of South Korea faces problems as Karadzic
insists on defending himself and demands more time for preparation and
declared last week that he would not be in court. The Court will have the
greatest difficulty in convicting Karadzic. A clear indication that they
have no intention of arresting those two latter day criminals against
humanity Blair and Brown.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS
Sean Creighton fellow citizen of Battersea in London of mine and noted
figure in ethnic minority history and now secretary of Black and Asian
studies has much material on black history that I want to deal with when I
have time. For now visit his website www.seancreighton.com
Much more but I must be abed 2am has passed. I say again:

ARREST BLAIR AND BROWN NOW - BEFORE THEY DESTROY THE
PLANET.

DAY THIRTY ONE OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
Today’s site of Barack Obama again shows a splendid animated portrait
of the President’s First Lady but the question of whether she is more
warlike than the President who promised so much to the world only a month
ago be stating that he would ban all nuclear weapons. but has only of yet
intensified the conflict by sending more troops to Afghanistan and
elsewhere. Today we have had reports of the great demonstration in London
which the Observer reported held up the traffic in Central London as the
tens of thousands of protestors marched from Hyde Party to Trafalgar Square
in a series of event organised by the Stop the War Coalition. Highlights
were the procession being led by Lance Corporal Joe Glenton who bids fair to
become a national hero at the same time as he is prosecuted by the military
for refusing to return to the fighting in Afghanistan .No less heroic are
the parents of soldiers who have perished in the conflict. Peter Brierley
whose son was killed in Iraq in 2003 who refused to shake hands with Tony
Blair and told him he had blood on his hands for which he would pay. He also
was leading the parade whose theme, of course, was the ending of wars,
bringing the troops home and allowing their peoples to solve their own
problems.

THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THE BNP ON ‘ANY QUESTION’ .
Discussion continues, as well it must on the appearance of Griffin on
the BBC programme ‘Any Question’ . Majority opinion now tends to think it
was correct to let Griffin have his say, but he was jolly well thrashed and
so it was all worth while
This is a profoundly mistaken view and my own thoughts went back to
1933 when Hitler was created the Fuhrer of Germany not by being elected for
the majority of votes were for the Socialists and Communists and other left
wing parties, but Hitler was handed power by the Chancellor and the death
camps began to fill, first with Communists, then with Socialists and then
with Jews. The best account of this dreadful state of affairs is to be found
in the book, Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany by Allan Merson. and I beg
my progressive friends particularly journalists and broadcasters who take
this ‘liberal’ line that they are profoundly mistaken.and should read this
book.

THE POLICE AND THE STATE.
What ever the rights and wrongs of the matter it is to be deplored
that the Metropolitan police have considered it necessary to put police
officers on the street with machine guns This is said to be in reply to
drugs and gangs who have increased considerably in recent months.
This coincides with the publication of the first official history of
MI5 by Christopher Andrew which I discussed fairly fully last night. I then
said that I had photocopied all references to the Ballston MP Bob Edwards
who I knew. Today I’ve gone a stage further and printed out every reference
to Bob Edwards. On page 527 it says that Soskice had signed a HOW on the
left-wing Labour MP Bob Edwards who later was revealed by Oleg Gordievsky to
have been a long-term KGB agent. Harold Wilson (our Prime Minister) however
cancelled the warrant thus probably delaying Edward’s discovery by over a
decade. Late in 1965 Edwards became chairman of the Defence, Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Estimates Committee and
in 1966 vice-chair of West European Union Defence Committee. The Security
Service later concluded, ‘that both would have been of interest to the KGB
and there is no doubt Edwards would have passed on all he could get hold of.
We know that Edwards motivation was ideological, though the occasionally
accepted money’…The next reference is on page 711 and states that Bob
Edwards was no longer considered by Gordievsky to be important ‘. Later on
the same page it states that Bob Edwards MP was little known outside
Parliament and the ranks of the hard left. He remained, however, an
enthusiastic participant in Soviet ‘active measures.’..the KGB rated him
highly and awarded him the Order of the People’s Friendship the third
highest Soviet decoration in 1980. The medal remained in his file at the
Centre. Leonid Zaitsev was his case officer. Page 712 states that the KGB
made arrangements to keep in touch with Edwards by radio and dead letter box
in the event of war. And that’s it. There are a couple of notes to follow
up, but all accusations of spying by Bob Edwards seem to have come from the
recollections of Gordievsky. A verdict at this stage would be that Bob
Edwards appears to have been a spy, but the evidence of what he did does not
appear in this book by Christopher Andrew.

SPORT FOR ALL.
On Saturday I wore my Wolves shirt to watch the Wolves v Aston Villa
match and I was disappointed that they only drew. Today I watched the West
Ham v Arsenal match and wore my Arsenal shirt and was disappointed that they
only drew. For next week’s Champion’s league game of Arsenal’s I think I’ll
wear an ordinary shirt.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS.
Again the tyranny of the computer and the fear that it would erase my
material has led me stay with the BLOG without carrying out any research
and so I’ve dealt with only MI5. But outstanding is an article in the US
magazine Monthly Review of September on the Latin America challenge of the
Bolivarian Alternative, the alternative Monetary and Banking system of
Socialism as the western world monetary and banking system collapses. The
second is important historical material also associated with the October MM,
but also Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economist and important historical
material in Race and Class on Chris Searle, the Great Includer.
We must end, as usual however with concern for those who would destroy
the planet

BUSH BLAIR AND BROWN - LOCK THEM UP BEFORE THEY
DESTROY THE PLANET

DAY THIRTY OF A WORLD NOT THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION ?
Today a lovely picture of the President’s first lady adorns Barack
Obama’s website www.Whitehouse.gov and whether she is as warlike as her
husband I’ve not enquired, but after promising a world free from nuclear
weapons he is still flogging a charred corpse,as the top Canadian general
put it yesterday of NATO. Shame!

TROUBLE WITH THE CO-OP.
When is a Comprehensive policy not Comprehensive? I’m tempted to say
when it is with the Co-op. But its not only the Co-op which is affected.
These remarks are prompted by a visit of my Co-op free adviser who came to
me
this week and we discussed the question of the drenching of my
photocopier with a glass of squash which ruined it and the ?632.50 for its
replacement . I find my lady adviser squirming all ways to tell me I’m not
covered and must foot the bill myself, even though I have a so-called fully
Comprehensive house contents policy as well as a similar Business insurance
which I operate at my own house. So she left with a demand
from me that she tell her superiors that I want at least some compensation.
This is not simply a matter for me, but for every elderly person who
find themselves in the same position. My sessions with my adviser are
gruelling and can last for several hours which my health is not able to
stand. We need here a full enquiry into the Insurance Industry, which I
shall now institute as to why Comprehensive doesn’t mean Comprehensive

STILL PLAYING SAFE
Fearing what my capricious computer will do tonight I am printing out
what I have already written, so at least we shall have it in print

HISTORY OF MI5.
The computer behaving itself I have turned to the more than 1,000 paged
The Defence of the Realm, the Authorised History of MI5 by Christopher
Andrew. My first job has been to search the index for mention of Bob
(Robert) Edwards, our Bilston MP charged with being a Communist and spying
for the Soviet Union. I have now printed out two copies each of the title
page, the Contents of the book, and the Index page which refers to Bob
Edwards. This is all very significant because not only was Bob Edwards seen
as a Soviet Spy but all those of us who were and still are Communists were
considered grist for the MI5 and Police mill. I therefore have also printed
out each and every reference to Edwards to make my first assessment of the
value of the evidence of MI5 and I will send a copy to Peter Rhodes of our
local paper who will want to make his assessment of the evidence while I
tell him of the most up-to-date case of surveillance by boycotting the
letter I wrote concerning Gordon Brown’s failure to turn himself in as a
Torturer and Nuclear Maniac which the Express and Star should have published
but haven’t.
This is a story that will run and run, the fact that even if the
Communists named in Andrew’s book does not include my name, or even the
name of Pete Carter once the CPGB trade union organiser and member of the
executive committee of the CPGB I shall want to take this matter up with the
Freedom of Information people as we did with Bilston Community College which
showed it was closed by bigots and racists as remains the case to this day.

AOB
Here’s to all the others who fail to reply to me as specified in my
BLOG yesterday and I can only repeat

ARREST GORDON BROWN BEFORE HE DESTROYS THE
PLANET

DAY TWENTY NINE OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
We have again visited Barack Obama’s website at www.Whitehouse to hear
his thoughts on ‘defense’ after offering an eagerly awaiting millions of
admirers a nuclear free world. We are still not happy with his comments and
with regard to his continuing war in Afghanistan he has yet another top
military chief to contend with. Canada’s top general, Rick Hillier, has
written a book to be published next week that the failing counter-insurgency
of NATO has reached the stage where it is, ‘a decomposing corpse’.

THE SHAME OF A FASCIST BNP APPEARING IN MY HOME.
Last night’s two BBC programmes ANY QUESTIONS and its follow-up THE
WEEK were castigated by me today as only two of them were exceptions to the
head of the BBC and David Dimbleby the chair person who all justified
Griffin appearing on the show whereas most anti-racist people will deplore
such a happening.
The two exceptions were Diane Abbott who disclosed even more clearly
her aptitude to be Prime Minister when Gordon Brown is removed and Bonny
Greer another black and female who could become PM now that our black
American president has reneged. I would prefer Diane, but if the Socialist
Campaign Group which includes Jeremy Corbyn and Lynne Jones cannot persuade
their colleague to stand there is a perfectly logical position of an
American born person’s mother becoming PM in the case of Winston Churchill
and Sonny would fit the bill perfectly.

THE DISASTER OF LAST NIGHT’S COMPUTER CRASH
Last night’s crash was a total disaster. After managing for the first
time to get Barack Obama’s actual words on my web there was a long piece on
Saturday’s Peace March and Demonstration this Saturday by Stop the War
Campaign with full details of speakers and actors and also full details of
RESPECT annual conference and participation in the march. But it did at
least leave an important part of the BLOG intact - the marvellous homilies
of Michael Moore which are to be found on maillist@michaelmoore.com

ANY OTHER BUSINESS.
The fact that it seems tonight’s BLOG will go leaves me with the
luxury of poking my Satan’s fork up the backsides of those who will not
reply to me Starting with Gordon Brown they include the rapscallion of a
chief executive at Wolverhampton , the bad apple at W’ton University their
clerk A.W.Lee, Sir Geoffrey Hampton ‘honoured’ by Tony Blair and now Dean of
the School of Education at W’ton University who support Academies in W’ton
as does my erstwhile friend Roy Lockwood who leads the flight of New Labour
people still aboard that sinking ship who want to tear down all our
secondary schools to make way for Academies. Then there is Sir Trevor
Phillips who is behaving sensibly in the case of the BNP but refuses to
answer the charge that as a supporter of the war in Iraq he is no fit person
to represent black (or indeed white) people.
Finally to all my friends in football and especially Arsenal and
Wolves supporters I send my highest regards:

LOVE SPORT - HATE
FASCISTS

DAY TWENTY EIGHT OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
For the third day running Barack Obama’s Website www.Whitehouse.gov
which once promised a nuclear free world has reported albeit in different
words, the same far from peaceful words as he continues to urge renewed
dialogue with NATO and its allies and partners and allies to wage further
war on Afghanistan which was dealt with fully in my BLOG No.492 of Tuesday
20 Oct this year.

MICHAEL MOORE’S SOLUTION TO THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.
Michael great film maker and sternest US critic of American
imperialism has a website which people should join and a fan club at
michael@michaelmoore.com which I hope you will all join if you are not
already members. His solution is:
Declare a monetarism on all home evictions.
Join the civilised world and expand Medicare for all Americans
Demand publicly funded elections and a prohibition of elected officials
resigning and becoming lobbyists.
Each of the 50 states to create a state owned public bank.
Save this fragile planet and declare that all energy resources above
and
beneath the ground are collectively owned.
FIVE THINGS WE CAN DO TO MAKE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT LISTEN TO US
Each of us must get into the daily habit of taking 5 minutes to make
4 brief calls:
To the President : to your local Congress man : Let him know that
you will have no hesitation in voting for his opponent if they don’t do our
bidding
Take over your local Democratic office
Recruit some one for office who can win in your local elections
next year.
Show up at the local branch of the Big Bank that took the bail-
out money. Make some noise. Have some fun.
START YOUR OWN MEDIA.
FIVE THINGS WE SHOULD DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND OUR LOVED ONES UNTIL
THIS MESS IS OVER
Take your money out of your bank : Get rid of all your credit
cards but one - the one that says you will lose your card if you don’t pay
up at the end of the month.
Do not invest in the stock market
Unionise you work place
Take care of yourself and your family. Sorry to go all Oprah on
you, but she’s right. Find a place of peace in your life. Chose not to be
around with negative and cynical people. Go for a thirty minute walk each
day.
Eat fruits and vegetables and cutdown on fructose foods. Get seven hours
sleep each night Listen to your granny who will have many more years
experience than you have.: Get Creative. Be subversive. Think of that action
that no one else has tried. You might just liberate yourself and your
community
and your nation. .
And when you send your news, photos and videos to me make sure
to put your views on the comments, so that they can be shared by millions of
people.

THE SHAME OF A FASCIST BNP APPEARING IN MY HOME.
The much discussed appearance of Nick Griffin the BNP fascist on the
BBC flagship programme Any Questions and the succeeding programme The Week
starring Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil who supported the right to be
heard of Griffin were despicable and it was left to Diane Abbott and Sonny
Greer, black women both to oppose the idea that Griffin had a right to
appear.
My own thoughts were drawn to a book the people mentioned above have
probably never heard of Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany by Allan
Merson. Allan relates the early history of the German CP before 1933 when it
was made illegal by the German Chancellor acting on the instructions of
Hitler and banning the CP.
It is a sign of the maturity of Diane Abbott that she was opposed to
the ‘liberal’ concept that Griffin should be given a hearing as the same
thing would happen to us as happened to the Germans in 1933.

BAN THE BNP BEFORE THE BNP BANS US

DAY TWENTY SEVEN OF A PLANET NOT FACED WITH EXTINCTION ?
I have been on to Barak Obama’s www.Whitehouse.gov but have made no
attempt to put it on my BLOG today because his piece on ‘defense’ is word
for word the same as yesterdays. Instead I have two urgent matters to report
as folllows.

THE EXPRESS AND STAR’S EDITOR’S MAGNIFICIENT LEADER ON THE BNP MESSAGE IS
ABOUT HATE NOT PATRIOTISM.
This is a matter than cannot wait because it refers to a matter that
occurs tomorrow when the BBC flagship programme ANY QUESTIONS transmits it
programme wi Nick Griffin of the BNP. Our local paper, the Express and Star
has wwritten a magnificient editoral aganist the BNP
www.Expressandstary.co.uk which I am putting on the BLOG today. The other
equally important matter is:

STOP THE WAR COALITION’S DEMONSTRATIONS ON SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER
office@stopwar.org.uk

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

FOLLOW BONNY GREER’S EXAMPLE AND OPPOSE THE
BNP