tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post6525279967737189285..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: Why freezing winters warm my heartNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-12310862901876210052010-01-08T17:35:53.685+00:002010-01-08T17:35:53.685+00:00Robin is quite right.Everybody says the British ju...Robin is quite right.Everybody says the British just can't cope with a bit of cold weather when it is as usual,the management and the ruling-class (much the same thing) who can't cope with anything.<br />You don't hear much from the blog standard leave it to the private sector brigade in this kind of situation do you?They're the first to demand more grit on the roads,organised by local authorities .How exactly would the private sector be of any use in this situation? The utter reliance on the public sector becomes more obvious when the schools shut:the private sector cannot cope with people staying off work to look after kids and cannot provide cheap child care ,let alone a form of care where the children are taught something, not at affordable price levels.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-48454182109420319572010-01-08T04:08:57.173+00:002010-01-08T04:08:57.173+00:00On Thursday January 7th it was freezing outside I ...On Thursday January 7th it was freezing outside I would say the coldest January ever. <br /><br />Can't say I am enjoying the snow apart from Christmas as I have had a sore throat and neck since New Year’s Eve. <br /><br />Still don't believe in global warming though. What about HAARP technology?<br /><br />The missile defence system incorporated it into the system as Brzezinski in his book 70’s book Between Two Ages theorises technological advances means in the future governments will be to modify and control the weather. <br /><br />Perhaps the strange halos over Moscow, Romania and China are calibration tests for this system. <br /><br />Why else would they push for a multi-billion dollar global missile defence system that they will never use for actual defence?<br /><br />@Neil Clark <br /><br />Do you know the real reason behind the 56 revolt in Hungary?<br /><br />Good Counterpunch article about the Berlin Wall and the real reason behind it.<br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/blum10022009.html<br /> <br />The more a read from un-biased source who cite things like the archives the picture of Communism although still bad is very different from what we are told by the mass media and main line historians especially the Stalin era. I did kind of wonder if Stalin ruled with a reign of terror and allegedly killed 20 million people including deliberate famines then why there was such a strong Soviet resistance where I think 60% of the forces where non-Russian. <br /><br />Professor Grover Furr has done some interesting research and basically lays out from what I understand 2 factions national Communism developing and base in one country represented by Stalin and international Communism (Trotskyism)represented by Khrushchev of using Russia as a base like the Taliban in Afghanistan to launch perpetual revolutionary wars.<br />Worth mentioning most of the Neocons and there senior supporters like Soros, Milliband and Kouchner were former Trotskyite Marxists. <br /> http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/homepage.html<br /><br />And there is questions regarding some of the documents entered into the archive possibly being forgeries during the 80’s.jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-11015608655237389642010-01-08T00:23:48.098+00:002010-01-08T00:23:48.098+00:00I am finding this to my cost at the moment: I love...I am finding this to my cost at the moment: I love winter landscapes (there's a Robyn Hitchcock song called "Winter Love" which fits perfectly, off 'I Often Dream of Trains'), I've loathed the last however many "global warming winters" (especially 06/07 which was grotesque), I like the sense of adventure and excitement fine ... *but* snow is a wonderful *idea* as long as it doesn't happen the very weekend you're supposed to be going to something very special in London and you're desperately worried about the trains.<br /><br />To answer Czarny Kot's question, I think it has something to do with the general inability of British management to plan for emergencies, coupled with the power of health & safety (which has forced several football matches to be postponed when heated pitches were perfectly adequate) - as in almost every other field, we lurch from one extreme to another: I don't want football matches played on ice rinks and the worst excesses of "mustn't grumble" and "the Blitz spirit" back, but we've jumped to this equally excessive fear of any kind of risk ... there must, surely, be a happy medium.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-45867618170325229042010-01-07T12:13:45.722+00:002010-01-07T12:13:45.722+00:00It's a shame i'm not in the UK to see it f...It's a shame i'm not in the UK to see it for myself. My mum says it's the snowiest winter since '81.<br /><br />Apparently there are people skiing and snowboarding down Dean Street in Newcastle!<br /><br />From a distance it is hard to know whether the travel chaos has been caused by the sheer severity of the conditions or by incompetence.<br /><br />It is very snowy here in Poland yet the country is still running..Czarny Kothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17163190792839598823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-9196654876248383952010-01-07T11:44:03.178+00:002010-01-07T11:44:03.178+00:00Very nice article Neil, I entirely agree. Incident...Very nice article Neil, I entirely agree. Incidentally, there is a beautiful Turkish film called Uzak set in an Istanbul winter. The photography is really stunning. <br /><br />I find it curious that the cinema of modern Britain could not make such a film (I sometimes wonder if a computer program generates the ideas for British films). All we hear about is how awful the snow is and how much it costs the British economy. It makes me think of Henry Wotton's comment on people who 'know the price of everything and the value of nothing'. Britain is far wealthier than Turkey, yet it seems that our culture is in some regards poorer.Gregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729641571904025752noreply@blogger.com