Australian Teenagers Rebel Over Plain Cigarette Packaging

I've commented many times on but never devoted an article to the deluded nature of the anti-smoking campaign, which claims great success in curbing smoking but completely ignores unofficial estimates that for every cigarette sold legitimately in the UK, another one (or possibly two) are contraband. This news item from Breitbart London on the reaction to the latest and most irrational personal liberty curtailing anti smoking measure, plain packaging, in Australia sums up the state of the game pretty well.

from Breitbart London
Australian Teenagers Rebel Over Plain Cigarette Packaging

It has been recently reported in New South Wales (NSW), Australia that cigarette plain packaging, along with the hike in taxes has seen a resurgence in illegal tobacco. Some of the biggest buyers are teenagers.

The illegal smokes are sold without any health warnings and are half the price of those than can be bought legally, eight Australian dollars as opposed to nearly 16. They are either purchased from under the counter at legitimate stores or on street corners. Seizures of contraband according to the Australian Customs and Border Protection for 2007-2013 have risen from 107 million sticks to nearly double at 200 million.

A week ago in the suburbs of Fairfield and Bankstown $1 million in cash was appropriated along with 500,000 cigarettes and 70kg of loose tobacco.

The added worry to anti-smokering campaigners is that they are seen as "cool." Rosie aged fifteen noted: "It just makes people more excited about original packaging," she said: "It helps that they are cheaper." Ashley who is also fifteen concurred, "The only thing plain packaging does is make original packaging cooler." [ READ ALL

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UK Must Work With Assad To Combat ISIS? Laugh, I Nearly Shat

When Obama first called for military intervention in Syria, Cameron and Hollande were all for it and only public opinion in the west and Russian / Chinese Intransigence in the UN Security Council averted full scale war. I came in for a lot of flak for 'supporting the tyrant Assad when I suggested the last thing the west's troubled economies needed was another messy and unwinnable middle east war.

One person in particular, who in every comment informed me he 'worked in a university (but he never said what as - a janitor maybe)  seemed determined to convince me that the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt,  Syria and Ukraine - not to mention the African nations destabilised by actions of the FUKUS axis (France, United Kingdom and the United States) would rather live in the lawless chaos the western powers always seem to leave behind rather than the relative order maintained by the tyrants.

I warned him that on a long timeline I am always proved right (a lifetime of experience and I'm very well connected) and when I was, he would be mercilessly belittled.

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MH17 Downing: CIA Analysts Decline To Support White House Allegations Of Russian Involvement

MH17 Downing: CIA Analysts Decline To Support White House Allegations Of Russian Involvement.
As the controversy over who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 grinds on, the case made by President Obama that Russia was in some way involved is looking weaker and weaker. The latest blow to barack Obama's credibility and the reputation of The White House came when after examining evidence from the wrecked Boeig 777 airliner, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, independent American aviation experts and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA forensic technologists) agreed there is absolutely no evodence to support allegations that either the Russian Government or pro Russian separatists in east Ukraine were responsible.

Read full post: American Experts decline To Support White House On MH17 Story

Britain’s maths policy simply doesn’t add up - but neither does overstating the importance of maths

posted by Xavier Connolly
As an engineer, mathematics has been an important part of my career but I have always been aware that it is a tool. In the past there have been many attempts to develop a 'philosophy of everything' base on mathematical speculations that took maths into areas it was never designed to go, areas of human thought and enquiry that rightly belong to philosophers. This talk of mathematicians being creative jarrs with me somewhat, inventors, engineers, designers are creative. Mathematics is just part of our tool kit.

Britain’s maths policy simply doesn’t add up - but neither does overestimating the importance of maths

Shock, horror! Human Barbie Doll Has Her Own Opinions

The human Barbie girl Valeria Lukyanova has become something of an online phenomenon and is regarded as a sex symbol by many young men of the kind who have more computers than friends. Personally I find her appearance bizarre and about as sexually alluring as cold porridge. Still each to there own, where would we be without diversity of opinion.

Which is a nice segue into the other reason Valeria Barbie Doll is causing sensation. Barbie has a mind of her own and is not afraid top talk about her opinions. And her opinions on race, which are totally unremarkable for an east European, are just proving too much for American liberals.

Read full post on human Barbie's view on 'race mixing'.

Germany Axes Canada-EU Trade Agreement, This Will End TTIP Stitch Up Too

Germany Axes Canada-EU Trade Agreement, This Will End TTIP Stitch Up Too

by ianrthorpe @ 2014-07-28 – 18:35:03

We are winning. Well today we are at least. News broke over the weekend that Germany intends to junk the Canada Europe Trade Agreement (CETA), a template for the much bigger and therefore more threatening to freedom and democratic rule Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment partnership (TTIP). So it looks as though the shockwave of the European Parliament elections that saw parties such as UKIP, Italy's Five Start Movement, France's front national and Alternatif fur Deutscheland ans a host of parties in smaller nations doing well at the expense of pro - integration parties has awoken politicians to the anger of voters throughout Europe with the dictatorial attitude of the EU.
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The secret negotiations around the 'New World Order' free trade treaties, TPP and TTIP that will strip democratically elected governments of sovereign power lumber on. There are positive signs however that the world is waking up to the neo Nazi nature of these sleazy so - called trade treaties cooked up by the Obama Administration and some of the biggest and most evil corporate businesses in the world.

We have written a lot about the two extremely nasty, but virtually unreported in mainstream media) trade threaties currently being negotiated in secret by the Obama Administration, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans Altantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which are not about free trade as stated but about stripping democratically elected sovereign governments of their powers and handing it to supra national bureaucraies like the EU and Corporate interests like Pfizer, Monsanto and the global banks.

In fact we have written so much that we ought by now to have a menu paged dedicated to TPP and TTIP and would have but for Ian being very distracted by family responsibilities. Loads of links to our stuff beneath the embed window however, here's an article that is a must read for all who value democracy and rights such as free speech, freedom of the press and power to hold to account the elite being vested in bodies controlled by the public.

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The phrase New World Order is guaranteed to attract shouts of 'conspiracy theorist' from the  useful idiots who think the political elite would be their friends (if only the right political party were in power). But with all parties offering an identical package of policies, isn't it time to explore what this New World Order, Bilderberg Group, Illuminati, the elite have been talking about for over a hundred years will mean to us if we let it come into being.

So it's ironic really that while the useful idiots are pointing at those whose eyes and ears are functioning properly and sneering about 'right wing nut jobs' and 'swivel eyed loons' the very people those useful idiots are helping to achieve total control are acknowledging that the New World Order they keep talking about is not a fantasy but an authoritarian elite's globalist dream.

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The old song "Happy Days Are Here Again" comes to mind as financial news feeds report "Eurozone market wobbles, bank and sovereign jitters. Seems like deja - vu all over again as an old Hollywood tycoon is reputed to have said, or at least it seems like 2012 and 2008 all over again. Yesterday a "mild global sell-off" in the far eastern bond markets  was triggered by fear that the liquidity woes at Portugal's Banco Espírito Santo "could spark another sustained bout of eurozone debt angst,

I have been warning you at all my sites, mainly Boggartt Blog and The Daily Stirrer that the European Single Currency System, being based on political ideology (and a deepy flawed ideology at that, combining the authoritarianism of hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union with the paternalistic liberalism of Aldous Huxley's brave New World.

Read more on the latest gaping wound the European Union finance ministers are trying to cover with a cut finger sized band aid.

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Liberal Democrat Defects To UKIP At His Own Election Count

As someone who had the usual 'racist' smears hurled as be by the illiberal bigots of the 'profressive left' during the European Parliament election campaign, I loved this story. And my support for UKIP was based on my belief  as a libertarian (a belief I have a right to express under the Geneva Convention on human rights -funny how the political faction who scream most loudly about human rights forget they extend to people who disagree with them) that we need to get out of the EU because the Brussles bureaucracy is marching us towards Naziism. We also need to control immigration of course but that will come with regaining our sovereignty, it is nothing to do with racism.
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Liberal Democrat Defects To UKIP At His Own Election Count

Voter Backlash against Media UKIP Smears Is Good For Democracy
 Pontificating celebrities and media luvvies, don't you hate them. What gives these mostly has been the idea that their opinion is worth more than the opinion of everyman and woman. What makes these people who might have been talented before theiy disapeared up their own arses (yes I'm talking about you Eddie Izzard, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, J K Rowling, just about every Mocker on Mock The Week. Even if you were still funny guys, nobody gives a fuck what you think about politics.
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