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By Watlingfen

An occasional comment based on items of news:

Monday December 21, 2009 2:09

Well its Christmas and as usual I've lost one or two friends email addresses , worse, I've lost the 'snailmail' address of one of them so I can't even send a card!!

If Paul Bailey former WWTT member 925 reads this please email me using the link at the bottom of the page/site and have a .....

Happy Chrismas and Good New Year

that goes for all readers.

7th December 2009

HEAR THE PIGGIES SQUEAL!!

The fat-cat bankers shocked whiter than their white shirts by the very thought that their pig-at-the-trough bonuses paid out by banks recently bailed-out by the tax payer (to save these banks going under) because these bloated corporations couldn't even speculate to accumulate without cocking it all up.

BONUSES ARE FOR WINNERS NOT FAILURES

We now hear from the various pals in high places of these 'bankers' that if the UK government start taxing the obscenely well paid at a far higher rate that these 'bankers' will waddle off to Switzerland or Hong Kong - we are told these 'quality hard workers' , whose skills nearly ruined our country and caused many firms to close must be overpaid so as to 'retain their invaluable services'

smell of excrement from male uncastrated cattle !

LET THESE BUGGERS GO - AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE AND GOOD RIDDANCE

the UK doesn't need or want them!

4th Oct 2009

OCTOBER IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN UK

Why?

We have millions of human beings coloured pinky white, olive , brown and darker brown and if you're from Nigeria you might be actually black skinned but apart from the colour of your skin you have all the bits of body parts as anyone else be they pinky white , brown or olive skinned - you are no worse or better simply because your skin colour's different .

You can be a Scientist, Surgeon or build cars or drive a bus or taxi etc.

I'm not proud of being pinky white but I am proud of being English though our national history like that of other countries has periods we'd like to forget.

One day, once we learn to be one race - the human race - not 'white' not 'black' - then we'll start celebrating people for what they did for the world - not because of their skin colour.

BRITAIN'S TOOTHLESS WATCHDOGS!

Yet again the truth has been demonstrated that the United Kingdom's so-called 'Watchdogs', quangos set up in the 70's to allegedly ensure fairness to consumers of the products of the former nationalised supply industries (gas, electricity,water,railways etc.) privatised (publicly owned companies sold off often originally at a loss to fat-cat commercial interest to make those fat cats fatter) by the then Conservative government (led by Maggie Thatcher), are a waste of public money because they can't help the consumer and are useless and should either be given more power so they can operate properly or abolished.

Recently in Britain we were told by the gas suppliers though the cost of gas to them had gone down this reduction would not be passed fairly to their customers in fact so called 'British Gas' said there may well be increases in their customers bills !

What's the industry watchdog doing to fight this? - sod all.

TIME TO SCRAP THESE SO CALLED INDEPENDENT WATCHDOGS - SACK THEIR OVERPAID OFFICE STAFF AND CLOSE THEIR OFFICES

OR MAKE EM' BITE THESE PRIVATISED PROFITEERS BACK!

OUT OF 'THE JUNGLE'

BUT NOT INTO ENGLAND -PLEASE !

Well the French have 'taken into captivity' the people from various countries camped outside Calais in 'The Jungle' as these people called it . I have sympathy for anyone living in a country that is at war through politics which these ordinary folks never wanted , in that respect I thank God I live in England.

Now these folks escaped from these warring places to peaceful France but now the Europeans are talking of the UK taking so many - we are a great country but small geographically, we simply can not keep taking foreigners not because of race or colour but simple logic - we haven't the room we haven't the jobs we cant keep building houses until the country is one bloody big town.

There are vast parts of the world - the free peaceful world - which if properly supplied and serviced with the correct infrastructure would no longer be icy wastes, deserts or wilderness and could be made a good safe home for those desperate enough to live in 'The Jungle' .

With reasoned international help , all countries - not just putting the begging bowl out to the USA - we can deliver people out of hell into happiness.

7th September 2009

Studying, passing GCSEs Training --- for the dole
A week or so ago school 'students' (sounds more politically acceptable than pupil) were featured on local regional TV news congratulating themselves on their passes and when interviewed as to what they'll study at 'Uni' said things like social studies, archaeology, design studies .
Remember a bloke named Blair saying "Education, education, education"
On the principal of say it thrice it might make more impact that once!
But we also see on local TV news older teenage kids - uw sorry 'young adults' outside Job Centres where they are fed up with not getting interviews let alone real jobs. These people having worked at school now find they can't even get the work experience (in real jobs - not notional) that is essential for them to stand up for themselves and make proud citizens on a decently earned wage/salary rather than a possible state unemployment benefit.
To hell with the 'passes' on paper let's match kids to proper jobs - give them a future in the real world as workers not simply pointless exam sitters.

Leave the NHS alone - no improve it!
Bringing in 'Management Consultants' (God knows what their fee was) to suggest a seriously undermanned Health Service scraps many jobs simply reflects on the reality thinking (none it seems) of the management consultant company.
Remember (Lord) Beaching whose way of making British Railways more efficient was to close a hell of a lot of the stations - presumably had he closed ALL the stations in his mind BR would have become super efficient !
The National Health Service is something I as an Englishman born in 1947 am very proud of, that doesn't mean I don't criticise it but only in that it goes a bit wobbly at holidays - mainly because of shortages of staff, Doctors, Nurses and Ancillary staff. So if they want to cut manning have a go at the army of non-medical pen-pushers which is the result of too much government interference since Maggie Thatcher said - in those splendidly patronising tones - in the 70's " The National Health Service is safe in our hands" having done her best to promote private hospitals etc .
Of cause she was a politician - who believes them????

Mr Obama

has assured his countrymen that his Health Service will certainly not be based on the UK or Canadian models - well sincere good luck to him and I hope those middle class Americans waving placards saying 'Kill The Bill' (surely a rather bad choice of wording concerning a Health Bill) realise a system in the wealthiest nation in the world which makes people third class without private health insurance is next to a crime.
Perhaps if some of the military effort needed to 'police' such places as Iraq and Afghanistan and the concomitant vast expense , or some of it, was reduced and perhaps other countries made more contribution with tanks, weapons, personnel then the USA could use the money saved on it's own people - on the health of their children and elderly especially . Then instead of Americans having always to be at the 'sharp end' together with British troops they can return and look after the homeland and its people more.

in March 09

and...........

If someone tried to get it published as a story in a book it would be rejected as simply incredible

But the fact is the 'robber barons' and the poor peasants scraping to live - a tale of surely the middle ages not the 21st century - exists in all it's inequality and downright evil today, all over the UK, while people are cueing for a few jobs with little hope and only £60 a week lousy 'dole' whilst 'retiring' bankers are paid £millions after showing not magnificent ability to increase profit, but sickening inability to earn their 'daily bread' - let alone big bonuses - and presumably no clue of the job they were in , it's requirements or responsibilities!

The factory worker knows if he/she doesn't produce the amount of items it's 'get your coat on'

The sales assistants figures have to be above a certain level to make her/his services necessary.

But even though the person behind the bank counter has to do their job - it seems the real top executives can do nothing or worse for a nice salary, bonuses and a princely pension.

And especially in England they get no fraud charges, no orders from a government determined to see justice is done to the people whose incomes have been taken away without their fault, simply because the firm they worked for found even working costs funding was reduced by banks after the 'fat cat' banking executives had cocked it all up...

These men get knighthoods!

Mr Brown 'regrets' the unemployment but does nothing to assure those without work are not shown a picture of gross injustice where obscene amounts are paid out to a failed executive

WHY DOESN'T OUR PRIME MINISTER OUR GOVERNMENT TAKE ACTION

STOP PAYING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO PROP-UP BANKS UNCONDITIONALLY

TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THESE BANKS TO GET THE 'FAT CAT'

BONUSES AND PENSIONS RETURNED - then maybe the poor sods, the small firms closing, the larger companies closing branches, the poor folks cueing in the hope of at least a minimum rate job can get an idea that Mr Brown does more than 'regrets'.

And this is supposed to be a Labour government

My God - not even the lousiest Tory could be so uncaring.

In February 2007 I wrote:

The United Kingdom a Democracy or a 'pink' Dictatorship?

It has become obvious, now that over 80% of so called 'independent' planning appeals are allowed where its houses v. countryside, that the British Government is biasing the so called 'independent' Inspectors and forcing them to go to far too great pains to defend acceptance of the objections of both local councils and local people , regardless of politics, to the despoliation and then total destruction of countryside.

This present government is totally ignorant and chooses to stay that way, of local peoples feelings, pushing through their planning policies and dictating a vile urbanisation . Why else would they even suggest that 'developers' could put in planning applications for building in existing peoples gardens!!

Hitler tried very hard to destroy the Jews , in the same way it seems some sick idea within the 'New Labour party' (no possible relation to the former decent Labour Party ) is to replace our beautiful countryside with ludicrously priced houses. Is the present governing party of Britain funded secretly and conditionally by a group of so called 'developers' .

Is money for honours only the tip of the iceberg?

What other reason is there for such obviously corrupt politics ?

ENGLAND IS A SMALL COUNTRY

ITS TIME TO HALT IMMIGRATION COMPLETELY - FOR SIMPLE PRACTICAL REASONS

AND IF THE EU DON'T LIKE IT - LEAVE THE EU.

'LABOUR' GOVERNMENT and the widening incomes gap .............

In the UK the fat cats of big business, that is those which aren't owned now by the Germans, French, Japanese and oh I forgot - the Yanks , the really splendid pucka British chaps whose salaries monthly equal what most earn in a year or five and who stand to get a seat in the House of Lords - if it's not abolished by these damn 'Labour' (????) government chaps guys or whatever to pay for the obscene rises M.Ps are awarding themselves next year - well with at least two homes to pay for and having to attend the 'House' ( Commons, that is ) at least once a week - that's when the 'House' is in session of course (about 6 months in 12) they need it poor b...

no I mustn't insult their parents.

Personally, I wouldn't pass water on a British Member (male or otherwise) of Parliament if he or she were on fire but I would reprimand the person who set fire to the member - well it might spread to a human being.

With the prospect of the United Kingdom being faced with the replacing of a Prime Minister who toadies to George W' supporting his every whim it seems and volunteering British troops without question in some of the bloodiest theatres of war (with or without essential body armour), with yet another Scottish born leader who refuses England a parliament whilst begging Northern Ireland's factions to kiss and be friends so they can at last have their 'national' assembly, one wonders just how on one hand 'blind' and on the other devious the leader of the British Government can be.

Looking back on john Major calling members of his cabinet 'bastards'

Maggie Thatcher falling out with her Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary

Jim Callaghan paddling in the sea with Jimmy Carter

Harold Wilson's famous smoke screens (in both respects, wonder what tobacco he smoked)

Sir Edward Heath : A Tory Prime Minister whose replacement came to be deeply regretted by Trade Union members!

Ted Heath's 'action not words'

we seem to be going from bad to worse.

and in November 2006:

THE GREAT OLYMPIC FARCE

When London won the opportunity to stage the 2012 Olympics it seems the British Government straight away shelved many community projects based on regional need especially in the under represented area of the United Kingdom called England , community centres, wildlife centres , public parks badly in need of funding will now be ignored as the public pocket is raided for the Billions of £'s required to build the massive structures which in many cases will have little or no use after this prestige event. Open countryside will be swallowed up for car parks with local planning conditions swept aside and objections overturned by D.o.E (Deputy Prime Ministers Office) Inspectors giving firm briefs to 'oil the wheels'.

All this and much more, including far heavier local taxes particularly in London, will be done to achieve what ?

Will SPORT ENGLAND be given powers to tell developers in England to provide local recreation facilities , will town councils throughout the U.K. be told to require proper space, funding and facilities from 'developers' even before their applications go in so as to encourage youth and future generations to train to become champions for England, Scotland , Wales and Ulster - Will the public (of all ages) really benefit ? NO , NOTHING LIKE THAT

AS FOR THE PARTIES IN PARLIAMENT - THEY ONLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE JUNKETING!

ENGLAND DESERVES BETTER

August 2006:

AUNTIE'S BECOME QUITE A BITCH

Remember when in the U.K. we had the BBC Home Service, Light Programme and Third Programme in the 1950's, then in the 70's they became Radio 4, Radio 2, Radio 3 and a new Labour government after making the very popular off-shore pirate stations illegal under a hurriedly concocted and forced through Act of Parliament in 1967 rather coerced a Pop music channel onto the BBC when Prime Minister Harold Wilson realised the true strength of feeling a new generation of voters had against the action of his government , but Radio 1 (such titles as 1,2, 3 hardly show imagination) never captured the following the seagoing stations had .

The Home Service was 'regional' i.e. The Midland Home Service, The Scottish Home Service, The London Home Service etc., spoken word, plays ,but some music programmes , comedies etc.,. The Light Programme was devoted to light music and light entertainment, The Third Programme - later renamed Network Three- was for classical music and classic drama.It was later that the BBC introduced Radio5 (later re-born as '5Live') this station began to build a listener base for itself broadcasting such classic radio as 'The Black Museum' , 'Dragnet' and other dramas of the 40's and 50's and as Radio 5 was on AM Medium Wave one could enjoy the 'mellow bellow' of a wireless set of the 50's producing a 50's radio programme .

However, this didn't please the new boys at the BBC who in a sudden re-vamp removed all the classic drama and in it's place put phone-ins on some of the silliest subjects and football and news and more football and repeated news presumably aimed at the BBC's favourite age group the 20s and 30's .

More recently yet more government meddling in order to sell off to the highest bidder broadcast waveband spectrum has forced the British public to invest in digital television with the aim to free up for yet another 'nice little earner' the UHF bands 4 and 5 vacated by 2012 by the present television (both BBC and advertising funded ITV).

Another innovation is Digital Audio Broadcasting which is radiated on the VHF band 2 (formerly used right up to the 80's by ITV when it was an AM transmission in black and white at 405 interlaced lines) at comparatively low power from the hundreds of mobile telephone masts. Unlike the high powered ITV transmissions DAB is distributed by commercial multiplex system .

Certain pushers of DAB reckon it's the proverbial 'cats pajamas' but DAB stations and transmissions are heavily subsidised in the case of the BBC by the license payer and in the case of commercial stations which deliberately run less advertising on DAB , by FM feeds.

Some whiz-kids in broadcasting even kid emselves DAB is 'popular' and juggle the sales figures to make it seem so. The truth is very different but if your job depends on it you'll say anything .

However, it seems the more people complain about compressed sound quality (in DABs case the bit rate 'stream') the quick-fire presentation by twenty/thirty somethings which can spoil the dramas by giving away the plot, and the almost constant music background on such as the BBC's originally named station BBC7 which after BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4 you might think was perhaps a TV station (?) as well as BBC6 maybe .

BBC7 could, if it wanted to wipe the floor even with the BBC's Radio 2 (formerly Light Programme), the most popular British radio station, if the link announcers didn't try so hard to ensure not even 5 seconds of 'dead air' and musick (I mean that spelling) constantly running as a backing track between and even during some programmes wasn't obviously considered essential , however BBC7 , which has no outlet on either FM or AM so is very limited technically, could be a real winner because it broadcasts some grade A comedy and drama from the golden age (40's to early 70's) of BBC radio. So it remains a minority audience station again because the people behind it are so blinded to the obvious limitations they won't even consider even an 'out of hours' FM or AM output.

Recently I emailed BBC7 about an over keen announcer who I considered perhaps gave just a little of the story away when introducing episodes of Paul Temple , Francis Durbridge's writer cum detective of the 50's. Instead of a reasoned reply taking in my criticisms they defiantly defended their presenter accepting no word of my views as appropriate. It seems this is now the general rule with 'Aunties people' now that they must have training in telling viewers and listeners to know their place and shut-up because one only has to listen to any so called feed back programme to be treated to not 'we understand your point we'll put things right' but 'we don't ever do wrong so sod off and just pay your compulsory license'

WHAT A SHAME 'AUNTIE' HAS BECOME SUCH A BITCH

and ..... definition of a Podcast : a rather nasty secretion left by a Podperson ( see : 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' 1956 Allied Artists)

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY WE ( THE BRITISH) NEVER REFER TO 'OUR' GOVERNMENT (even accepting it's title is officially Her Majesties Government)

One only has to see the expression on our Queens face as she opens a new session of Parliament and reads out the speech prepared by the Prime Ministers office, listing all the wonderful things in store for this tight little island, to see how little pride and how much despairing acceptance she , on behalf of her people, really has in the governing parties' policies (regardless of colour).

THAT'S WHY , WE THE PEOPLE ( HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE BEFORE ) PREFER TO CALL IT 'THE GOVERNMENT' as an entity quite separate and in no terms part of ourselves our loved ones, wives and relatives.

Summer 2006:

BRING BACK GEORGE DIXON

Jack Warner as P.C. George Dixon was killed in 'The Blue Lamp' (Ealing Films 1949) but brought back to life on BBC TV from the 50's to 70's in 'Dixon of Dock Green' - he was in his 70's by the time 'Dixon' ended (by then Sgt. Dixon) - oldest Copper ever !!

Just how bloody stupid (sorry but it's the only repeatable phrase to use) can the British Government get suggesting Identification Cards will 'cut crime' - does the UK Home Secretary really believe there will be no attempt to forge ID cards ? to every way of making them 'secure' technically there will be a way of beating it and forcing anyone renewing their so called 'British' passport to pay at least £100 more for a card no realistic person believes is worth a 'hill of beans' as well as the cost of millions taken in tax is an act of pure stupid waste.

If the Home Secretary still sincerely wants to make England and the rest of the United Kingdom ,a happier, safer and better place he'd better spend those millions on bringing back the traditional 'bobby on the beat' and leaving super regional forces in the department it deserves - in the bin. What is the best thing is not a computerised out of touch police service but quite the opposite a more localised force based in the local town with officers known locally and knowing the locality and the local people - yes, Bring Back George Dixon!

It seems that after spending a considerable amount of tax payers money - funds which could have been used to really help Constabularies where resources are low , the Government has realised what a bloody silly idea larger police areas would be and quietly scrapped yet another lame-brained plan - now before wasting yet more hard earned public money they should realise ID cards are an insult to decent people and an expense thoroughly unjustified in a proper democratic and free society

LATEST: Prior to being , as they say - rolled out nationally (Ukh!!), down in the South East of England Police are trying out a new device which 'reads' finger prints of motorists - if the print reading (obtained by placing two fingertips on reader glass apertures on the recording device) matches those on record presumably the person is then either a 'crim' and has his 'collar felt' as breathing without a license or similar, but should the prints not match a data base (? what data base?) they are presumably instantly told "Very sorry to have delayed you Mr Mouse and my regards to Minnie , mind 'ow you go"

I wonder if any certain government ministers have shares in the firms that make these big boys toys.

I have always thought it should be required that any Government Minister or senior Secretary of State have pertinent specialist qualifications i.e. Defense Minister a former Army,Navy, or RAF Officer , Home Secretary a senior Barrister, Telecommunications Minister a former Telecommunications Expert - in this way they are not misinformed and mislead by 'advisers' and can answer questions from personal knowledge not simply 'reading reports' .

My point on this is that these people's personal expertise would be considered essential in business or industry yet it seems the only essential qualification to being a senior decision making cabinet minister (regardless of party) is being a friend of the Prime Minister !

Philip Harben in the days when TV chefs wore ties!

Recently it seems both BBC and ITV here in the UK have been showing again some programmes and films (both British and from other English speaking countries) from the 1960's, which makes a change from the blood everywhere and 'f' word sprinkled stuff which this way cometh from the USA these days - whilst the powers that be 'protect' the kids from 'funny people' (as my Great Niece calls 'em) the same 'powers' allow all of us to be sickened by severed limbs and detectives that say 'f*****' sometimes before every (other) verb or noun . Come on , John Wayne only said 'bo**ocks' once (then in a British film!) and Henry Fonda 'f****' only twice (very quietly and as if pronouncing a foreign language).

So please can we get back to acting and films we can all watch.

1920's 'Graphophone'advert.

Don't fancy it's chances on that table!

Radio Luxembourg at 5-30pm every Sunday in the 1930's

It seems then children were allowed some years of real innocence - however a world war was coming .....

A few months ago the government told schools what to feed to kids (vegetables and fruit)

O.K. Perfectly correct and a right diet but .....

Now the government is saying how unprepared school leavers are for the 'world of work' - one wonders what jobs will be available the rate this same government is allowing whole industries to 'off - shore' .

it seems these 'young adults' (sic) pass the exams o.k. but can't equate this with the ordinary duties in an office, shop, factory, etc., - they can talk about doing it but can't actually carry out the operation!

ANCIENT HISTORY ?

When I look back to the 1960's when I left school (at 15) no qualifications no uni' no college other than day release from my full time job as Trainee Electrician. There was little problem in getting a job then it was based more on the application letter and interview than bits of paper or certificates and the greeting was not "got a job yet?" but "whe're you working?".

Common sense was a major qualification and even in mid-teens on £3.10s a week if you messed the job up you were simply told off the first time but told to get your coat on the second time. What you have to realise is I went to an ordinary Secondary High School (formerly Secondary Modern School) and the pupils were called pupils not students then. The children leaving our school and those leaving the girls equivalent about three quarters of a mile away who only officially met on school buses taking us out of the town to the villages 3 miles out, when these kids left school to begin 'the world of work' they were expected not to go into offices (unless they were factory offices) or become sales trainees but become carpenters, mechanics, industrial workers or maybe work for the mushrooming supermarket chains.

Industry, despite government, was booming and Made in England was the norm. not a novelty.

O.K. we had no home computers in fact few businesses had one and what was a question of removing a window and craning in a computer weighing a ton then today the same facility can be slipped in ones pocket!

TV was black and white and one or two channels if you lived in the right area. The combined radio/ TV license was £4 annually in 1963 by 1969 it was £6 a year. Average adult wage was £13 to £20 a week in 1965 though in industry £30 was usual.

Pubs opened at about 5-30 to 6pm and closed at 10-30pm sharp but a pint of bitter was 2/- or perhaps 2/6d (10p or 12p) 'shorts' about 4/- (20p) for single whisky or gin.

Test Card'C' used in Britain mainly in the 50's and60's

We in England had one channel (on VHF using 405 lines) in the early 50's by the mid 50's our first commercial channel , referred to by the public as ITA and by the end of the 60's we had three channels - 2 BBC (no adverts) and 1 ITA now all three in colour using (nearly) 625 lines on UHF.

O.K. now we have hundreds - but have we sacrificed quality for quantity?

TV has reached it's lowest with 'Big Brother' - radio with pop and inane chat - yet the broadcasters vaults are full of material many would love to get a chance to hear .

Sorry, but I honestly only pay my tv license because I'm forced too* (by the law of our so called democratic country) and the money is totally wasted.

* in the U.K. it's now illegal to own a TV without a license - even if the TV doesn't work !

ITV is it the END?

After decades of real independent television where Anglia TV (emblem a silver knight on horse back with banner) , ATV's 'eye' and other regional companies proudly showed and declared the region in the UK they covered came the 90's when talks went on to take over companies and form first two groups (*excluding Ulster TV only) the in this century the almost * complete single unit ITV - but now it seems the British public deserves nothing better than SKY-ITV as Mr Murdoch(Fox TV in USA) seeks to control commercial television in the UK totally (He'll get Ulster TV later) .

Meanwhile Sir Richard Branson (of Virgin Trains etc.), major share holder of NTL who recently failed to form an alliance with ITV, cries foul - I don't blame him though I suspect his reasons are hardly as a champion of public rights of choice.

If only ITV had stayed as it was before it got big headed and lost its regional pride, the knight and the 'eye' and Yorkshire TV playing a few bars of 'on ilckley moor ba' tat' and those splendid regional programmes and individual presentations - all change is not progress.

GLOBAL WARMING, RECYCLING, SAVING THE AIR AND THE PLANET - BUNKUM!!

Oh please Mr Blair save us the pious preaching about us not producing so much rubbish - tell it to the manufacturers and marketers , bubble wrappers, foil container producers,electronics manufacturers, non-rewritable CD and DVD producers, synthetic cloth manufacturers , non-bio degradable car panel makers. We are even told the brown paper bags our fruit may be wrapped in at the market stall are not 'degradable. If you want to tax the polluters start at the importers not in our homes.

And Finally-

Podcasting, Digital Audio Broadcasting, The Internet , Means of storing hours and hours of television on one hard-drive (not tape or DVD) it all seems to be making life easier and more fun until the real cost of this implied 'freedom' is added up - each of these comparatively new technical miracles have one great restriction as well as cost in £'s $ € for the hardware and that is licensing through the various broadcast organisations, government departments, encoding systems, distribution networks or multiplexes at each stage of which material can be closely monitored and, if felt 'not acceptable' for publication, censored out. Those whiz-kids (of all ages) who support the changes and replacement of a technically perhaps less 'perfect' system by a strictly ordered and controlled system or systems should beware.

And we have the bald-faced cheek to invade other countries to 'give them democracy' !!!!!!!!!!!

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