4 YEAR OLDS FINGERPRINTED - TO BORROW A LIBRARY BOOK

TELEGRAPH

Students in Manchester are having their thumbprints digitally transformed into electronic codes, which can then be recognised by a computer program.

Under the scheme, pupils swipe a bar code inside the book they want borrow then press their thumb on to a scanner to authorise the loan. Books are returned in the same way.

The scheme is being trialled on junior classes at Higher Lane Primary in Whitefield, Bury, Greater Manchester.

Officials confirmed it is due to be extended to all pupils at the school, one of the areas largest primary schools, with 453 pupils aged four to 11.

School authorities defended the scheme on Thursday, and moved to reassure parents that the voluntary system, is heavily encrypted or coded and that no images of fingerprints would be stored.

But critics said they were “appalled” at the system, developed by Microsoft which is also being trialled in other parts of the country.

Monckton: Rule under the Komissars

Lord Monckton: The Russian Federation has a democracy is twenty times more democratic than that of modern Britain under the EU.

Londoners Take Shopping Seriously

As Londoners, we take our shopping very seriously.

It looks like we need to start taking our riot gear too.

London - Capital of the "ITS THE POUND YOU SEE?" Brigade

London, where people earn the pound for "spending power" for their holidays abroad, just to escape the place for as long as they can.

Those days are long gone.

Jim Rogers says "I will never invest in the pound".

London - Centre of the Great Leap Forward in Race Relations

FROM THE GUARDIAN

How I lost my faith in London

The cold indifference of other Londoners to my racist attack shows how systematic discrimination gets ingrained

There is a gut-wrenching scene in Michael Haneke's Code Inconnu, where Juliette Binoche is verbally abused on a Parisian metro train by a Turkish youth, and no one seems to notice. Just as things look set to get out of hand, however, an older Turkish passenger intervenes. I wasn't so lucky.

Last Saturday, I took a night bus from Marble Arch. At the next stop, four young men – about 16 to 20 years of age, all white – boarded the bus, looked around, and within a few minutes sat down surrounding me. I don't know why I caught their attention, but I cursed myself for reading Walden on a late-night bus. Then the abuse began.

"Hey Paki … did you not listen to Prince Harry? Get the fuck out of this country, you brown monkey … "

"Fairer than other Pakis … maybe his mum was a slut."

"You stink, like the rest of them do … soaked in curry, did ya?"

"Mowgli, you get paid in bananas or tikka masalas?"

Several other passengers boarded the bus at the next few stops. The young men, however, continued undaunted, imitating the behaviour of monkeys, playing with my book, and continuing the verbal assault.

I didn't have the nerve to confront them, fearing further aggravation. Two black men, standing on the concertina area of the bendy bus, laughed initially and then egged the gang on. Two other men of south Asian origin sitting further along stared helplessly at what was happening. At least 20 other passengers were on the bus, most of them older than the four youths. I shifted my eyes in every possible direction to ask for support. None was forthcoming.

Near King's Cross, after 15 minutes of torment, things became physical, as the relatively sober gang began to prod, pull and pinch me. I swiftly got out of the bus and climbed into the nearest taxi. Behind me, I saw that the gang had followed me.

London - Capital City of "The People of 1800"

Heres another example of why London is the great city it is. It is the capital of a great people, who believe that Englishmen rule the waves, and are the greatest power on this God's earth, or at least should be.

The same people who believe that England should be as it was in 1800, and that the world has stood still since those days...


SAVE THE ROYAL NAVY

Aiming to educate the public about Britain's need for strong naval forces and to raise awareness of the dangers of allowing the navy to decline.

Hey guys, guess what? It's been in decline since before 1850.

It's now 2010.

Nelson is long dead.

Get over it.

Glorious London: Capital City of the 20% Youth Unemploymentland

FROM THE TELEGRAPH

The number of 16 to 24 year-olds out of work was 952,000 in the three months to October, a quarterly rise of 6,000 and the highest figure since records began in 1992.

Total unemployment increased by 21,000 to 2.49 million, the highest level since early 1995, although the quarterly rise was the smallest for 18 months.

...

The UK's unemployment rate has now reached a 13-year high of 7.9 per cent.

The number of people in work increased by 53,000 to almost 29 million, although the figure is 432,000 lower than a year ago.

There were 30 million jobs in the economy in September, down by 127,000 over the quarter and 649,000 fewer than a year ago.

The number of people classed as economically inactive, including those on long-term sickness or who have given up looking for a job, was 7.9 million, down by 1,000 over the three months but up by 96,000 compared to last year.

More than one in five working-age people are now economically inactive.

Beautiful London - Capital of the "Broken Society"

London - Capital of the "Broken Society"

FROM THE GUARDIAN

Among 21 developed market ­democracies, we found that Britain does worst on child wellbeing and badly on teenage births, imprisonment, drug abuse, trust, obesity, social mobility and mental ­illness. This week brought fresh confirmation of the pervasive and profound inequality in Britain in the form of a 460-page government-commissioned study – An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK – which described a nation in which the richest 10% are more than 100 times as wealthy as the poorest 10%.

London : Capital City of The Country With The World's Best Parents

Parents in London have a hard time. With all of the drink, drugs and football around, where is the chance to get a word in? Unless of course, your children are getting all of this - from you. Whatever happened to the good mannered Englishman portrayed to the world? We need more of those kinds of parents, and less of these:

FROM THE SUN

THE devil brothers' "scum" parents have vanished after it emerged how they let their young sons watch porn and slasher movies and smoke drugs.

The mother and father - who allowed the boys to drink cider and vodka - split four months before their sons tortured two lads aged 11 and nine.

The jobless dad, 37 - a violent drunk - moved to Edlington, South Yorks, the village where his sons carried out the attack.

The yobs stayed with their mother, 36 - who would cook cannabis-laced chocolate cake.

Max Keiser Says It: "London is a F***ing Sh*thole"

Finally, well travelled and well read financial commentator says something that many Londoners mutter every day under their breath: "London Sucks."

It's in the audio from Truth About Comments

FROM MAXKEISER.COM

London - World Famous City of the Military Style Spy Drones

Police in London are planning on using military style spy drones to keep an eye on troublemakers

FROM THE GUARDIAN


Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.

They reveal the partnership intends to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics. They also indicate that police claims that the technology will be used for maritime surveillance fall well short of their intended use – which could span a range of police activity – and that officers have talked about selling the surveillance data to private companies. A prototype drone equipped with high-powered cameras and sensors is set to take to the skies for test flights later this year.

Beautiful London - The Biggest Extremist Ghetto In the West!

FROM THE TELEGRAPH

Senior policymakers in the United States said the attempted suicide bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is thought to have become radicalised in London, was further evidence that one of the biggest threats to US security came from Britain, where the capital has been dubbed “Londonistan” by critics.

There was also criticism of the “ghettoisation” of British Muslims, compared with the “assimilation” of Muslims in America.

Muslim immigrants to the US were much better integrated in society and considered themselves Americans “within a generation” because the US embraced the “melting pot” concept, said Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W Bush and a former Pentagon aide.

“That doesn’t exist in Europe in the same way and particularly in Britain, which is a more socially stratified society than the US,” he said. “They live in Muslim ghettoes and feel alienated from the larger society and not accepted.”

200 Years After Everyone Else Gets It - London Seeks Social Equality

The PM himself says "We can break the glass ceiling"

FROM THE GUARDIAN

London - Capital City of The Worlds Greatest Stop

FROM THE GUARDIAN

Last year about 250,000 people were stopped – about 700 a day. This jumped by one third in 2008. There has been a steady increase since the first year of the Act, when just 10,200 were stopped. Even Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, who normally supports a tough government line, suggested that implications of the ruling were quite serious and added that Section 44 was being used far too much.

Come to beautiful London Towne, and ye shall be stopped

Retreiving Perfectly Good Food From The Waste In London Towne - Is A Crime

Photo: Zepsis on Flickr

Legally, raiding bins is a grey area. The rubbish still belongs either to the shop that owns it or the company that's due to collect it – taking it is "theft by finding". But the police left us alone.

FROM THE GUARDIAN

But the circumstances that made it possible for me to live this way also made me angry. Even if the businesses and homeowners couldn't reduce the amount of waste, they didn't have to dispose of their surplus as rubbish. FareShare, the food redistribution charity, say they could redistribute 15 times more surplus food than they currently do. Short-life housing schemes have waiting lists hundreds of names long.

But instead of exploring such schemes, many organisations put huge effort into stopping people who want their rubbish from taking it. Bins are locked. ...

Several skipping spots that were reliable sources of meals have been sabotaged – a large branch of EAT, for example, used to throw away sacks of sandwiches, wraps, salads, yoghurts and fruit every day. It still does, but now the shop assistants open every packet before putting it in the bag, emptying yoghurt over salads and sandwiches to make them inedible. At New Covent Garden, skippers have been handed fliers carrying the Metropolitan police's logo telling them that taking waste would be considered theft.

Liver Czar Appointed to Tackle Alcohol Culture in London Towne

London is the capital of the only developed country in the world - with an increase in liver disease from drinking.

FROM SKY NEWS'

...figures show that in 2008, 16,087 people died from the disease. That is up by 12% in three years.

But 95% of cases are preventable and it will be role of the Department of Health's new clinical director for liver disease, who will be named later, to reverse the explosion of cases.

LONDON UNDERGROUND - CATCH AN EARFUL OF THE SMARMY PONY TAILED STAFF!

I doff my big Bowler Hat to Jonathon MacDonald for blogging this:

FROM JONATHON MACDONALD.COM



We all thought the train was heading further east but actually, for reasons we shall never know, the train was terminating at Holborn and we were ushered out onto the platform by two (shouting) staff in Underground uniforms.

The elderly man was slow to get off in the mad rush, hence the entrapment.

A few people around called to staff to open the door again so he could be released.

About 30 seconds later the doors opened again and he removed his arm.

I watched as he calmly relayed his experience to the staff member (who was called Ian by the way).

Ian didn’t think it was a problem – in fact, he was furious that the guy had mentioned it at all, especially as the guy was standing close to the track.

After a while, Ian started shouting at the guy to “stand back there is a fucking train approaching“.

The elderly guy quietly questioned why Ian had to swear (as did several other passengers).

Ian literally screamed in this guys face (and I quote): “because there is a fucking train approaching and I need to make sure nobody is over the fucking yellow line“.

Welcome to London Sucks

Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson, 1777 A.D.

Was Samuel Johnson talking out of his arsehole? Surely he was not.

You've heard it all before:

"London is the centre of civilization."

"You all came from us and without us, you wouldn't exist."

"We freed the enslaved before you did, and without us, you couldn't have beaten the Nazis."

"There are two places in the UK, "London" and "Not-London""

"So there Johnny, like it or lump it, London is the best."

"Compared to London, New York is ugly"

etc etc

How about this?

"London Sucks, Actually"