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Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Cartoon Round Up....






News...............

This Robot Military Supply Helicopter Could Soon Be Fighting Wildfires

Obama’s Immigration Flip Flop Explained: He Ordered up a Study!

Egypt to see verdict in first trial for female genital mutilation

US, Japan, Australia Boost Maritime Cooperation

Oxford students shut down abortion debate. Free speech is under assault on campus

Eight reasons why North Korea should be charged with crimes against humanity

The 'Caliphate's' Colonies: Islamic State's Gradual Expansion into North Africa

UK Salafist Group Linked to British ISIS Fighters

Obama to Ferguson Rioters: "Stay on Course."

All 50 States Hit Freezing Temperatures or Below

Isis Hunting Video; Improvised Explosive GOAT decoy (IEG)................

In this episode of The ISIS Hunting Show we demonstrate the penetration sensitive, high explosive, anti-personnel goat AKA the IEG decoy.



via Doug



Russell Brand is Wrong... AGAIN!! - Steven Crowder

The 'worse than French' pResident.................from Rico

No one may ever see Barry's college transcripts, but here is a 'report card' on life under Comrade Barry that tells us a lot more than the transcripts of a "layabout, dope-smoking, experimenting with the gay lifestyle, class-skipping, 'foreign' student" ever could.

Barry has the distinction of being the pResident that made Americans less free than the Fwench.
- You know...personal freedom, freedom of choice, and civil liberties have slid in world ranking from 9th to 21st...just after Fwance thanks to our boy Marxist-in-chief.

And he shows no signs of letting up.
- Costa Rica and Uruguay are looking better and better all the time these days.

Nice job, choom boy!



The Non-comprehensive Approach to Immigration Reform


As the President prepares to make good on his threat to grant executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, various media outlets have begun asking Republicans what their alternative would be. While that would seem to be a fair question, it ignores a couple of very important facts. First, the President has yet to explain exactly what he plans to do and how his actions will solve anything, and it assumes that granting amnesty will magically make the illegal immigration problem go away. That being said, there is absolutely no reason for a Republican to dodge the question, but for the sake of any Republican that needs a little help, I will spell out what needs to be done.       (continue reading)

Pirelli Presents: The 2015 Pirelli Calendar.................





Back To The Top Of The Slide

Tim Hawkins - Losing Our Minds Together



Wednesday Wenches...............



H/T Doverthere

A trail of fecal matter..................from Rico

Barry leaves footprints wherever he walks. Sh*t footprints.
- His latest trail of huMAN natURE is Ferguson, which he and accomplice Eric dickHolder have instigated, aided, and abetted...with the willing assistance of fellow race-grievance industrialists like Je$$e and Tawana-Al.

Makes one wonder where the "loot and scoot" crowd got the crazy idea they are somehow 'protected' huh?


Obama vs Obama...............

A mashup of some Obama clips that show a lack of consistency, to say the least.



H/T Shelly

Overnight News..................

Israel's Arabs Need Better Leaders

Organizers Train Newly Minted Protesters in St. Louis

Obama may not have to worry about Keystone veto

Jonathan Gruber Convinced Obama To Create The Individual and Employer Mandates

Mob violence protesting grand jury will be about as spontaneou​s as Benghazi

Obama and Emanuel Told Staffers to Brush Up on Gruber's Fake Numbers

Beauty queen vanishes before Miss World pageant

Former Obama WH Official: Gruber was 'the Guru' on Obamacare

UH OH: Obama: 'Like Your Plan, Keep Your Plan.' Gruber, 2009: 'Five Million People Will Lose Their Plan'

Suppose They Gave a ‘Ferguson’ and Nobody Came?

Guy Racks Up $1.2K In-Flight WiFi Bill

Apps Are Killing the Web

A Moral Primer by VDH

Senate defeats Keystone XL pipeline

NSA spying bill stalls in Senate vote

Democrats lash out at Nancy Pelosi

Free Fire Zone- No Moral Equivalence for Jerusalem Terror.................

President Obama needs to stop equating the slaughter of innocents by Palestinian terrorists with the legitimate self defense of Israel



Pick a logo...............from Rico

One of these is Obama's 'real' official logo. Is it (a) giving America the raspberries, (b) liar, liar, pants on fire, or (c) all of the above.

No need to thank me. In a spirit of bipartisanship I made it simple and multiple choice so Obamunists could participate as well as the rest of us.


No Exit?..................by Dan Friedman

The Jews have dug themselves into a hole that is exceedingly difficult for them to dig out of. We're looking at the sum of all Israel's errors starting years before independence and continuing today. To put it bluntly, Jews and Israelis are now suffering the pain from the "painful concessions" we've heard all about for decades. We're now witnessing the upshot of trying to placate Israel's implacable Arab/Muslim enemies. The question now is will Israel change course before it's too late and convince the Arabs that in the Jewish state the Jews are in control in perpetuity. Frankly, the present Israeli leadership is not up to the task and continuing down the worn path – even with clenched fist - would be opting for suicide.



H/T Paul B

Zo Changed His Mind: Now Supports a Libertarian 3rd Party!

Zo’s been adamant that libertarians should adopt a more conservative attitude, but he’s changed his mind. He’s coming around on a Libertarian 3rd party.



Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Bedtime Totty.................

The Two Ukraine's


By Alan Caruba

“Obama is just not up to the task—a geopolitical lightweight who was easily outmaneuvered in Syria and Iran.”

That’s Marin Katusa, writing in his new book, “The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America’s Grasp” ($29.95, John Wiley and Sons, and Casey Research). Katusa is no fan of President Obama, but one might wonder who is these days other than the 48% of Americans who think he’s doing a great job. Calling them stupid as the now famed Jonathan Gruber of ObamaCare fame has done is not far from the mark.

Katusa is a successful fund manager with a specialty of investing in the energy sector and helping to create energy companies. Along the way he has been to many nations around the world to see firsthand how their governments impact the energy companies working domestically and beyond. This is particularly true of Russia’s Vladimir Putin who took the collapsed Soviet Union and brought Russia back to life as the Russian Federation. At the core of the revival were and are his energy strategies.

That is what is at work these days in the Ukraine, divided between those who want it to join the European Union and NATO, and those who want to ally with Russia. Katusa reminds us that “At one time, Ukraine was Russia. Kievan Rus, the first East Slavic state, was established by the Varangians in the ninth century.”

“At the end of the eighteenth century, Ukraine was partitioned, with a small slice going to Austria/Hungary and the rest to the Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century was as chaotic for Ukraine as it was for the rest of Europe. Civil War raged from 1917 to 1921, with a host of factions vying for control of the government of the newly proclaimed Ukrainian Republic. Their sovereign state proved to be short-lived.”

“By 1922, the Ukrainian army was overpowered and the nation became the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.” World War Two was a horror for Ukraine. One out of every six Ukrainians died during the war, many of whom sided with Nazi Germany against Russia. It was recaptured in 1944 by the USSR. 

Why is it important to Putin and Russia in 2014?

He wants to ensure that Ukraine, via pipelines, accommodates Russia’s natural gas production to buyers in Europe. “Half of Russia’s gas exports to the European Union (which cover 25 percent of the EU’s consumption) pass through Ukraine.”

Putin also needs to ensure that the Russian Navy has a secure port at Sebastopol on the Crimean Peninsula for to access to the Black Sea. Moreover, having Ukraine in its sphere of influence provides what the former USSR satellite nations did, a buffer that keeps NATO at a distance. Russia annexed Crimea shortly after Ukraine had political problems in March 2014.

Finally, Putin wants Moscow to be seen as the protector of all Russian people, including the eight million, 18% of Ukraine’s population, who live in the eastern part of the nation.

“For 15 million Ukrainians, about one-third of the population, Russian is the first language,” notes Katusa, “They are concentrated in the eastern parts of the country, and in some areas, including Crimea, they are a majority.”

In a very real sense, the Ukraine is actually two nations, a western leaning one and an eastern leaning one. When “an independent Ukraine emerged in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union” it was, as Katusa notes, a country that was plagued by corruption and political intrigue from day one. For Russia, pre-and-post collapse, it has always been a real pain, often stealing gas from the pipelines passing through it or defaulting on payment for its use.

I will pass on the politics of Ukraine that got us all to this point, but suffice to say that Putin’s efforts to bring at least the eastern portion under Russian influence or control has not gone down well with European nations, virtually all of whom are highly dependent on the gas and oil they purchase from Russia. The U.S. has put sanctions on Russia and Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, bluntly told Putin to get out of the Ukraine at the recent G-20 conference in Australia.

The fear is that, if Putin is successful in breaking away the eastern half of Ukraine, he would not only want the other half but set his eyes on former Soviet Union satellite nations in Eastern Europe.

Speaking in Australia after the G-20 conference, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Putin was practicing a foreign policy reminiscent of the Cold War. “This isn’t just about Ukraine” she said in a question-and-answer session. “This is about Moldova, this is about Georgia, and if this continues then one will have to ask about Serbia and one will have to ask about the countries of the Western Balkans.”

“What happens next in Ukraine,” writes Katusa, “is anyone’s guess. But it’s not likely to be pretty.” Putin has said he will not intervene militarily, but adds that he would act to protect the Russian population in its eastern half if he thought they were being threatened.

I personally believe Putin is far too canny to engage in an active overt military takeover of Ukraine. He is more likely to fund and arm the eastern half to a point where they can declare themselves a separate nation. It is doubtful that either the EU or NATO would intervene. Russia has already demonstrated that it would turn off the gas if they did. That would essentially shut down Europe.

A new, Colder War is developing says Katusa. “Its weapons would be oil wells, gas fields, uranium mines, energy processing plants, pipelines, and ports. Again, Europe would be the primary zone of engagement even though the United States would be the primary opponent.”

Now consider this. Prior to and during the past six years of the Obama administration, the environmental movement in the U.S. has thrown up all manner of obstacles to the development of any of the U.S. reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas. The refusal to approve a Canadian oil pipeline to our Gulf coast is just one dramatic example, the failure to be able to tap the huge energy reserves in Alaska is another, and the slowness of issuing permits to seek oil on federal lands and offshore is another.

For two decades the U.S. has tied its own hands despite being the Saudi Arabia of coal and having more oil than any other nation. The size of our natural gas reserves is huge. And we need to be building more nuclear facilities to generate electricity. Instead, the EPA is forcing coal-fired plants out of business. Our electrical grid is in need of repair and expansion. Et cetera!

Putin must look at Obama and the U.S. and wonder just how stupid we are.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Teatime Totty................

Obama Just Grubered Us Again


We already know the Democrats think we’re all stupid, now it only remains to be seen just how stupid they think we really are. In the wake of a plethora of videos showing Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber citing “voter stupidity” as the reason why the Obama administration had to deceive the American people in order to pass Obamacare, Democrats have again resorted to Grubering to convince us none of it ever happened.       (continue reading)

NewsBusted 11/18/14.....................



Cartoon Round Up....






News.................

Four killed in terror attack at Jerusalem synagogue

Stop Fearing Iran and Back the Free Syrian Army

The Environmentally Friendly Drone That Could ‘Disappear’ on the Battlefield

Time for Congress to Declare War on Obama

Gruber: States Refusing to Expand Medicaid “Awesome” in their “Evilness”

The “Cadillac Tax” is for You

Iraqi security forces enter Baiji refinery

China's Selling the J-31, But Who's Buying?

Iran nuclear talks: what are the prospects of a lasting agreement?

Out of ISS: Russia going solo with space station?

‘ISIS smuggles $1mn of oil daily in water-tanks, fire-trucks’- refinery worker to RT

Signature.....................from Rico

It has been hilarious to watch the LOTUS lying about his lying [Gruber this time].

In a regime so filled with lies, half-truths, deception, fraud, ad nauseum, the latest ones about Gruber and ObamaCare are signature lies.

- Gruber was part of the 'team' back in 2009 working with Barry, Harry, Nancy, Jon 'help us' Carry and the rest of that mendacious crowd to craft the grand fraud that has been lauded by "progressive" Democrats [read: Commie rat bastards] as his "signature legislative achievement"...until coming to light as Barry's "signature lie" (no small thing in a lifetime of lies).


Tuesday Totty..................

Arab Terrorists Kill Four In Jerusalem

One of the four who were butchered by Arab terrorists



Overnight News..............

How the left recruits trolls to make website comments

NYC plan would replace pay phones with Wi-Fi hubs

The Great Deceivers: Obama, Mary Landrieu, and the Democrats

Limbaugh unleashed: Obama is a ‘sociopath​ic’ liar

CNBC Told Journalist to Quit Negative Obamacare Reports – She Was “Disrespecting Office of President”

'GET A GUN': Supposed #Ferguson Cop Warns, ‘We Won’t Be Able to Protect You’

I want this shirt....................from Rico

I just saw this at "90 Miles From Tyranny" and must say I WANT THIS SHIRT!
- I'm going to go find one now.................

Monday, 17 November 2014

USSOCOM Paracommandos: Alabama Vs. Mississippi State 15 Nov 2014

#5 Alabama hosted #1 Mississippi State on 15 Nov 2014, and the ParaCommandos got things going in an electric SEC environment!



H/T Doverthere

Bedtime Totty...............



[HOONIGAN] KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA SEVEN: WILD IN THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES



Late News................

Dutch Officials Demonize Israelis

Regime Change in America?

Obama Says He'll Send Ground Troops to Fight ISIS, But Only if They Get a Nuclear Weapon

Surgeon dies after 'false negative' Ebola test

The World Is Running Out of Chocolate

Obama Says He Just Found Out About Flap with 'Some Adviser' Gruber

Joe Wilson Was Right

VA didn't track medical job openings until this year

Auburn fan writes open letter about mistreatme​nt in Athens

USDA Christmas Tree Tax Takes Effect

Halliburto​n to buy Baker Hughes for $35B

Life Under the Victimocracy

Gruber: States Refusing to Expand Medicaid “Awesome” in their “Evilness”

Cleric: Iran Will Use ‘Suicide Operations to Send its Message to the World’

Elephant fatally tramples Thai handler, runs off with Russian tourists

Airbus seeks patent for 'flying doughnut'

Russia kicks out Polish 'spies' in tit-for-tat expulsion

Mugabe nephew found dead in a cupboard

Intelligence gap poses major challenges in US-led air war against Islamic State

Putin's Reach: Merkel Concerned about Russian Influence in the Balkans

Muslim Beheadings: Reckless, Repulsive, and Reprehensible!

Moscow’s Many Misdirections

2,100 Army Reserve and National Guard Troops From 12 States To Deploy On Ebola Mission

Top five World War One drinks

Huge solar plant lags in early production

Brazilian Woman Reportedly Contracts HIV From Manicure Instrument​s She Shared With Cousin a Decade Ago

Nebraska patient case raises questions about Ebola test

Missouri gov declares 'emergency​' ahead of grand jury

Stunning new images show Philae bouncing off comet’s surface

Poll: Resistance to Obama order on immigratio​n

Actavis to buy Botox maker Allergan for $66B

All your money are belong to us!................from Rico

Thank you G20!

The Cyprus template is now fully implemented in every major economy. Effective 16 NOV 2014:
- Bank deposits are no longer 'money' but paper 'investments' in your financial institution.
- Your asset (CASH) is now a liability (INVESTMENT).

Everyone with ANY cash in a checking, savings, or money market account just had it all stolen.
- Sure, you can still get small amounts of cash from an ATM or at the teller window of your bank, but the new banking rules agreed to across the G20 mean banks no longer consider your deposited money as 'yours' or as 'money' but instead as part of the bank's capital structure...and pretty far from the most senior part of that structure.

Congratulations! We are all now at the end of the line of claimants to recover our 'investment' from a financial institution if/when it fails.
- Maybe a penny on the dollar. Math-wise $1,000 on $100,000 sounds about right.

B-b-b-b-b-but the FDIC! Some may sputter.
- Sure. Right. With $25 billion in the FDIC fund, that covers about 1.15% of "insured" accounts.

The last financial crash was funded by taxpayer bail-outs.
- The next financial crash will be funded by depositor bail-ins.

CYPRUS


New US Map..................



H/T Doverthere

Late Toons.............



H/T Paul B

Obama Flacks for Islam (Again).................from Dan Friedman

[Thanks again to Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish) for keeping us alert. No doubt, Barack Hussein Obama has a sweet spot in his heart for Islam. Of course, it could go even deeper than that. Either way, we elected a freak for president in 2008 and 2012. The next two years, and the behavior of the Republicans, will tell us if we’ll be able to undo Obama’s damage in the years to come. df]
 
frontpagemag.com, November 16, 2014
By Daniel Greenfield

Ken Block Airfield Rallying (HQ) - Top Gear



Praying or Not on the Temple Mount

 
By Alan Caruba

The Palestinians never lose an opportunity or excuse to kill Jews. What is feared is a new intifada or holy war in Israel, specifically in Jerusalem, where attacks on its civilians and soldiers have been occurring. The present grievance has to do with the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism, but one that was taken over by Muslims when they invaded in 638 A.D.

Muslims have a habit of either destroying the places of worship of Jews and Christians or converting them to mosques. In the case of the Temple Mount, known to Arabs as Masjid al Aksa, the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik, around 688 A.D., built the Dome of the Rock, a mosque. The site, Mount Moriah, had been holy to Jews for 3,000 years as the place where Abraham offered his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice when his faith was tested by God. 

As recorded in 2 Chronicles 3:1 “Then Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David, his father.”  

And then Mohammad came along with a fanciful story. As recorded in the Koran, Sura Al-Isra 17:1. “Glory be to Him who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Sanctuary to the farthest Sanctuary, whose precincts We did bless…”  According to Mohammed, one night he was transported from Mecca to Jerusalem, escorted by the angel Gabriel. From the future site of al-Aksa, he ascended to Heaven where he met the great prophets before returning to Mecca. Suffice to say the “Night journey” became a sacred event for Muslims and al-Aksa, when built, a sacred mosque.

Apparently anything in Islam is justification enough to kill any “unbeliever” and Jews have been on the top of that list since it was created by Mohammed, largely because the Jews of his time refused to abandon their faith and accept him as a prophet.

When Israel became a sovereign Jewish state in 1948, it was immediately attacked by its Arab neighbors and has had to fight several wars since then. It has never been free from attacks, the latest being those by Hamas from Gaza that provoked a military operation to stop their ceaseless rocketing.

In the wake of the first war the Jordanians retained control over the Mount Moriah, refusing entry to the area. The Israelis conquered the whole of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War and liberated the Temple Mount. It was the first time since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans that they had control.

Currently, the Israelis allow Jews to enter the Temple Mount on a restrictive basis, but they are barred from praying there!

Prayer is forbidden because the Israelis have not wanted to offend Muslims. Meanwhile the Palestine Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, has accused Israel of launching a religious war when Israelis responded to attacks by Palestinians on their civilians and soldiers as a way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death. Abbas has had years in which to find a way toward peace with Israel, but never has.

Access to the Temple Mount has been a topic of discussion among Israelis for whom the site is as holy as that of the Muslims. Attacks on Jewish activists and others have increased, reflecting the Muslim resistance to any policy of tolerance that might permit Jews to pray there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on record that Israel will not change its policy, but prominent Israeli political figures have made trips to the plaza of the Temple Mount to protest the regulation.

For all those in the West who speak of the necessity to extend tolerance to Islam and try to accommodate the demands of Muslims, it would be wise to look at what is happening in Israel, a holy land for three thousand years to Jews, then for two thousand years to Christians, and then to Muslims who arrived on the scene 1,400 years ago and who are engaged in a holy war to dominate the whole of the world.

These days, when not fighting each other throughout the Middle East, Muslims are committing atrocities around the world, killing innocent people with abandon in the name of their holy war and while they do Jews and Christians are forbidden to pray on the Temple Mount.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Open Letter to Jonathan Gruber...from TPC


Dear Dr. Gruber: How does it feel to be the latest victim of Barack Obama's 'throwing an ally under the bus' gambit?

At The Political Commentator here.

Teatime Totty................

14 very funny posters about a very sad excuse for a President!...from TPC



While there is absolutely nothing funny about this President, his six years in office or the prospect of another two, these 14 posters will hopefully make you laugh if only for a few seconds!

Still Generating Thatcher Hatred By Corrupting History...............From Daniel Thomas



We have to accept that the days of honesty in political discourse are well and truly over having been replaced by spin, deceit, lies and propaganda. Distorting history has traditionally been the preserve of the victors in battle, in the case of modern political power seeking, politicians indulge freely.

These unscrupulous power seekers will say or promise anything to get their grubby hands on political power regardless of the cost to honesty, decency or moral integrity. It would appear that poisoning young minds by generating a visceral hatred of an opponent is an acceptable practice.

A chance meeting in a social club with an aspiring eighteen year old writer/politician revealed the truth about deliberately generated hatred. It was reminiscent of the 'three minute hate' made famous by George Orwell in his futuristic novel 1984.  

The young man in question has a "deep burning hatred in his heart for Margaret Thatcher...he will never forgive her for destroying the Welsh coal industry and his community".  Hatred on such a scale is a wasted emotion but it is a tragic waste when it is based on deliberately distorted history.

The fact that the correct version of history is easily accessible confirms that the young man has accepted the version of history given to him by unscrupulous ideologues and sadly fostered his burning hatred on the basis of it.

Presumably he will pass it on to the next generation and so forth with the result that the corrupted version is accepted as fact. Consequently political loyalty and votes will be assured in perpetuity.

I am not an apologist for Margaret Thatcher by any means nor do I endorse her policies but this gentleman's ignorance of the history about his local community is staggering. I feel it incumbent upon myself to put it right, demonstrating how history has been shamelessly distorted in the process.

The following facts are taken from South Wales Coalfield SeriesBook 62Merthyr Valley - Ray Lawrence Bsc. Also Collieries Of South Wales: Volumes 1 and 2 - John Cornwell

Our young friend's town and the surrounding area were thinly populated backwaters until the rise of iron making in the late eighteenth century. Four great ironworks were built between 1760 and 1780 causing an immigration boom which took the population into the tens of thousands. So it was iron and not coal that was responsible for the rise of his community in the first place.

Due to technical innovation and market pressures, the iron industry, along with the surrounding communities, went into decline in the 1860's and by the turn of the nineteenth century it was all but finished.

The remaining coal industry was still substantial consisting of over two hundred registered deep mines, drifts and levels in his home valley. The discovery of cheap, easily accessible oil started the decline of the coal industry but it was the recession starting in 1929 that just about finished it off.

By the time the industry was nationalised in 1947 the two hundred coal mines was reduced to four (4) and by 1955 that was reduced further to just two (2)

For the record Margaret Thatcher was born in 1925, became a research chemist then a barrister. She entered Parliament in 1959. She held the Education and Science portfolio until becoming Leader of the Opposition in 1975. By the time she became Prime Minister in 1979 the coal industry and its communities had already declined to the point of dereliction.

The facts that our aspiring friend chooses to ignore are that Margaret Thatcher wasn't born when the iron industry ended and was only four years old when the coal industry went into decline. She wasn't in Parliament at the time of nationalisation or when the industry was reduced to two mines in his valley.

The coal industry that remained was old, inefficient and costly. This necessitated a re-organisation which saw the Labour governments under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan closed two hundred and ninety mines.  The ongoing re-organisation saw a further one hundred and sixty close under Mrs. Thatcher's Conservative government. That's one hundred and thirty less than her Labour predecessors.

It was the year long miners strike of 1984/5 that raises the emotional temperature but the blame for that lies with the politically motivated leadership of the mine workers union. Arthur Scargill and Mick McGahey were two lifelong communists who had a deep loathing for the Conservative government and for Mrs.Thatcher in particular.

They misused the traditional loyalty of the mining communities in an attempt to bring down the democratically elected government. They refused to hold a national strike ballot and forbid local union lodges to hold one either. They left it the local miners whether to strike or work normally, those who decided to work normally were picketed out using threats, violence and intimidation.

It is the considered opinion of Mr. Lawrence that had a ballot been allowed, the South Wales area would have voted to work normally.

The democratically elected government of fifty five million people was never going to submit to a union comprising one hundred and ten thousand members.  The remaining industry never recovered from the political ambitions of Messrs. Scargill and McGahey but agenda driven commentators ensured that Mrs.Thatcher got the blame.

Our aspiring young friend was horrified that someone could actually exonerate the object of his anger and vilification and pass the blame to his heroes. He obviously has an emotional need for fiction to become fact and vice verca

*In a footnote to this history it should be noted that if the industry had survived in some form after the malign attentions of Scargill and McGahey, it would have been finished by the restrictions set out in the Climate Change Act.

This industry killing legislation was put in place by the then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change,  a Mr. Edward Miliband. Better known today as Red Ed, the leader of the Labour Party.