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The day before yesterday's edition of the 'Morning Star' was certainly poignant in the light of recent posts on this blog.
It seems that Michael Crick recently interviewed Theresa May on Channel 4 News and as part of a discussion regarding previous Conservative Gov'ts stance on apartheid South Africa, Crick asked Theresa if she ever attended any anti-apartheid protests. Theresa testily observed that Michael Crick knew that she had not.
The 'Morning Star' reported that John McDonnell remembered that he and Jeremy Corbyn campaigned against apartheid in the 1970s and 80s and that on one occasion, Jeremy was arrested outside the South African Embassy during a protest. McDonnell remembered that at the time the Federation of Conservative Students were wearing 'Hang Nelson Mandela' badges. I remember it all well.
Sadly while those on the left were making a lot of noise about apartheid, many of them remained silent about the en masse abuse of kids in care and vulnerable adults in their own constituencies/Councils, including Jeremy and John McDonnell. What was happening to some dispossessed people was not only no secret but one had to work really hard at not noticing it.
Brown and I attended an anti-apartheid protest outside South Africa House in 1987. The police weren't quite as violent as they sometimes were – on another protest Brown was kneed in the knackers by a policeman and I was shoved – but on that particular day in 1987 we didn't see any police violence, although we did see a few people trying to wind the police up. We did however have quite an adventure in a tube station on our way back from the demo, after we stopped to help a girl whom we found kneeling over the semi-conscious body of a young man, crying 'please don't die'. It transpired that the young man was called Smurf, he had been inhaling solvents which was not a good idea and he was now in a bad way. Brown and I did what we could to keep Smurf breathing and chatted to his girlfriend at the same time. She was 15 and had run away from a children's home in Swansea. Smurf had also run away from a children's home. The tube station was busy and for more than an hour and a half while we waited for an ambulance – it couldn't get through because of the anti-apartheid protest – hundreds of people passed us by. Two people offered to help – TWO. A middle aged lady – she was the one who called the ambulance – and a snappily dressed young man. Not only did hundreds of people ignore what was going on, but while we sat with Smurf and his girlfriend, about eight of their mates appeared. All of them had run away from 'care' and were living on the streets in London. Then a tramp appeared and offered to help. So out of all those hundreds of people – many of whom had been part of the anti-apartheid protest – who witnessed a boy who had run away from 'care' and who was in difficulty, only three people stopped and one of those was a tramp.
When the ambulance finally arrived, the ambulance staff took one look at their intended patient – Smurf had a red mohican and because he had inhaled solvents he had saliva running from his mouth – and refused to touch him lest 'he's got AIDS and he spits at us'. I told the ambulancemen that there was no risk of HIV being transmitted via saliva. Brown reiterated that. They still refused to touch Smurf. Smurf's mates all ran away when the ambulance appeared because it was accompanied by a police officer. After much umming and ahhing and donning of protective gear, the ambulance staff finally agreed to touch Smurf, eventually got him into the ambulance and told us that they were taking him to – I seem to remember – the Westminster Hospital. The next day Brown and I popped in to see Smurf, only to find that they had discharged him just hours after he had arrived, when they considered his life to be no longer at risk. A teenaged boy who had run away from 'care' and was living on the streets – the leading Top Docs and Angels of London had sent him right back onto the streets.
At the time I was living in Harringay and the girlfriend of one of the boys in our house was an Angel. I told her that I was appalled that so few people had stopped to help Smurf and she told me that it was hardly surprising, whoever would want to help a young man on the streets with a red mohican? Well not the NHS, obviously.
When Brown and I met Smurf and his mates, I had not long escaped the clutches of Dafydd after he had illegally imprisoned me in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. I have mentioned in previous posts that after I'd been there a few weeks, one day without warning Dafydd arrived on the ward, told me that he would release me if I agreed to go straight back to London and never return to north Wales again. Dafydd told me that he knew where I was living in London and that he had rung Haringey Social Services to alert them to my presence in the area. This was not any sort of referral for 'after-care', it was a threat. I was then driven to a train station by two Angels and literally put on the next train to London, after being told to 'shut your mouth about DA' and never to return to north Wales again.
The Leader of Haringey Council at the time was Bernie Grant, who was subsequently elected as the MP for Tottenham in June 1987. Bernie Grant was born in British Guiana and in 1963 his parents took up the UK Government's offer at the time to people from the crown colonies to settle in the UK. Grant attended Tottenham Technical College and went on to take a degree course in Mining Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. In the mid-1960s, Grant was for a period a member of the Socialist Labour League, led by Gerry Healy, who was notorious for his sexual aggression towards women. The Socialist Labour League later became known as the Workers Revolutionary Party. Grant quickly became a trade union official, moved into politics and became a Labour councillor in the Haringey in 1978.
When Thatch introduced 'rate capping', Grant led the fight against it in Haringey, which created division in the local constituency Labour Party and it was through this split that Grant became the Borough of Haringey leader in 1985.
So Bernie had his feet well under the table at Haringey by the time that Dafydd knew someone there well enough to give them a ring without my knowledge or consent and alert them to my presence in the Borough. When I was living in Haringey, I witnessed at first hand the neglect and abuse of vulnerable people who were the responsibility of Haringey Social Services. Haringey Social Services have now been condemned repeatedly in a whole series of deaths of vulnerable children. In every case, Haringey Social Services and Council have been revealed to have been in chaos.
Tony Smythe – who was a self-styled anarchist involved with MIND when Dafydd was a leading light in MIND, as well as being involved with the NCCL when that organisation campaigned for paedophiles' rights and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality when some branches of CHE (including Chester) were alleged to be a front for paedophile activity – in later life was a leading light in Haringey MIND. Smythe and his wife Jean were involved in a number of other community charities, including some in Haringey. See previous posts.
Bernie Grant was associated with the Socialist Campaign Group and spoke out against police racism. He didn't speak out against the appalling social services, or indeed the truly dreadful local GPs, two of whom I encountered in Harringay myself. One Top Doc, a Dr Lippitch or it may have been Liptrott, listened to my concerns regarding what had happened to me at the hands of Dafydd et al, asked me what I did for a living and when I told him that I was doing a Masters in Experimental Pathology at Hammersmith Hospital he told me that he would be contacting Dafydd immediately. I walked out of the surgery and registered with another Harringay GP under a false name because I could see that the cosy relationship between Dafydd et al in north Wales and folk in the Haringey area was going to be difficult. Fortunately for me, the next GP was so negligent that he barely noticed my presence and never noticed that he was unable to trace the records of his newly-registered patient, if indeed he ever tried. He'd have had a shock if he had, because when decades later my lawyer finally obtained my medical records, I discovered that records relating to me at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh had been forged. There was no record of me being discharged on the day that I was put on that train to London let alone Dafydd's phone call to Haringey Social Services, but there was a discharge note signed by a Top Doc of whom I'd never heard stating that I had been discharged some weeks later and was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia no less. At the time that Top Doc was discharging me from Denbigh and discovering that I had paranoid schizophrenia, I was sitting in a lecture theatre at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.
Bernie Grant died from a heart attack at the Middlesex Hospital – Gwynne the lobotomist's alma mater, who's network protected Gwynne for the rest of his career – on 8 April 2000, aged 56. Grant was a diabetic and needed to maintain a good relationship with the Top Doctors, because it is quite easy to cause a diabetic to peg out. I note that Bernie died two months after the Waterhouse Report was published, among the many angry shouts of 'massive cover-up'.
According to The Guardian′s report, after Bernie died 'An estimated 3,000 people… turned out to salute the black radical. There were dancers and singers, a Highland piper and African drums. Also present were Home Secretary, Jack Straw, Chris Smith, Culture Secretary, Clare Short, Minister for International Development, and Paul Boateng and Keith Vaz, Britain's most senior Black ministers'.
Jack Straw knows much about the crimes discussed on this blog, he has been actively involved in concealing them for decades, since his early years in political life. Jack got off to a flying start, both in terms of being a leading light in Islington Council, which at the time was hosting a paedophile ring in its children's homes and of course as Barbara Castle's adviser at the DHSS, when Castle was refusing to investigate the deaths of scores of disabled children in the care of Hackney Council.
Chris Smith, now Lord Smith, was the Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury. Chris Smith made history for being the first MP to admit that he was HIV positive. As an older man, Smith has been in a long term relationship. He has never made it public whether he was ever a partner of many of the young men involved with sex work who were HIV positive.
Clare Short knew much about Dafydd and related gangs from her time as a civil servant in the Home Office, as a West Midlands MP whose constituency included Aston University when the VC was Thatcher's corrupt mate Sir Freddie Crawford and from her many years in the Labour Party working with colleagues who were concealing Dafydd et al (see post 'Remember Girls – Never Get Into A Car With A Stranger!').
Paul Boateng knew all about Dafydd, because Boateng was working as a solicitor for Birnberg & Co when Mary Wynch sued Dafydd and the paedophiles in the 1980s – Mary was represented by Birnberg & Co (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'). Boateng's wife Janet was a social worker who was Chair of Lambeth's Social Services Committee when Tyra Henry died in the care of Lambeth Social Services in 1987 (see post 'A Few More Who Might Be Able To Answer Questions'). There was a big paedophile ring operating within Lambeth Social Services with links to Dafydd's gang in north Wales. For more information about Paul Boateng, see post 'Tower Hamlets, Paul Boateng and Tessa Jowell'.
Bernie's widow, Sharon Grant, was on the shortlist to succeed him as the official Labour candidate for Tottenham, but was beaten by David Lammy, who won the by-election in June 2000.
On 5 December 2017, a portrait of Bernie Grant was unveiled in Parliament.
In 1987, Bernie Grant was one of the first UK Black British MPs to be elected. The others were Paul Boateng and Diane Abbott. Before she became an MP Diane Abbott was the PR/press officer for Lambeth Borough Council.
When I was living in Harringay, Jeremy Corbyn was the MP for nearby Islington North. Jeremy also sat on a Health Authority which covered the Haringey area.
The MP who preceded Bernie Grant was the Labour member Norman Atkinson, who was elected for Tottenham in 1964. Atkinson was born in Manchester, educated at technical school and became a design engineer at Manchester University. Atkinson was a councillor on Manchester City Council, 1945-49. A member of Labour's NEC for five years, Atkinson also served as the Party's national treasurer, 1976-81. As treasurer, he clashed with Chancellor Denis Healey at the 1976 Labour Party Conference. Healey was yet another person who concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al, but then so did everyone on the Labour Party's NEC. Atkinson was a Marxist on the left of the Party, a founding member of the Socialist Campaign Group and at one point he Chaired the Tribune Group. In 1981 Atkinson backed Tony Benn's campaign for the Deputy Leadership. Tony Benn was someone who actively looked in the opposite direction when I drew his attention to the abuse of psychiatric patients in north Wales (see post 'No Cuts').
In 1983 boundary changes enlarged the Tottenham constituency and before the 1983 General Election, Atkinson won the nomination for the constituency over a rival, another left winger, Reg Race. Atkinson was comfortably elected, yet in 1985 Atkinson was deselected by the constituency party in favour of Bernie Grant. In 1987 the Windbag was Leader of the Labour Party and Mandy was pushing the boat out in a desperate attempt to make him electable (see post 'I Warn You…'). Atkinson, Grant, the Windbag and Mandy all knew about Dafydd and the gang, so presumably Atkinson was deselected for reasons unrelated to a pan-European paedophile ring who were murdering witnesses.
To return to John McDonnell's memories of the Federation of Conservative Students and their desire to Hang Nelson Mandela; the FCS did of course become so excruciatingly embarrassing that Tebbs disbanded the organisation after they went on the rampage in a sea side resort where a conference was being held and indulged in extensive vandalism. There was someone in Bethnal Green who was keen on the notion of hanging Mandela the year that Dafydd was unleashing the hounds of Haringey in my direction. I described in my post 'The Turn Of The Screw' how my best friend from school and her husband who both knew what happened to me at the hands of Dafydd et al were sacked from their jobs and found gangsters after them at the same time that Brown and I did. When I first went to London in the autumn of 1986, I stayed with them in their flat in Bethnal Green, which they shared with a group of people with whom they had been at Stirling University. Within months, virtually all their friends at Stirling became very cool towards them and two of those 'friends' caused havoc in their lives. One of the people who had been in their circle at Stirling was Jack McConnell, who later became Scotland's FM, the year after the Waterhouse Report was published. Jack had only been an MSP for two years when he became FM! See previous posts and comments for accounts of Jack's staggering rise to the top of Scottish Labour politics.
Parts of Bethnal Green had begun to become gentrified at the time – an expensive shoe shop had just opened and Bob Geldof came to look around a posh apartment block which had been recently developed – but most of it was still quite rough. When we used to go to Brick Lane market, there'd be a line of skinheads flogging NF/fascist mags there. One night my friends went out and painted 'Free Nelson Mandela' on a wall opposite their flat. Within a week, the slogan had been re-graffitied to read 'Hang Nelson Mandela'.
My mates had been grumbling about all the fascists that were in Bethnal Green, so when we started getting hassled we just thought that it was because we were lefties. My friend's husband was followed home from the tube station every night by skinheads who threatened him with serious damage and he thought that it was because he wasn't macho and they'd mistaken him as being gay. Then a bunch of skinheads tried to gatecrash one of my friends' parties and it got very nasty. The worst happened after I had escaped from Dafydd's clutches in early 1987. I wasn't living at the flat in Bethnal Green by then, but I used to go over to visit my friends from my place in Harringay. Every time I that got off the tube a seriously unpleasant man who would be waiting outside as I arrived followed me to my mates' place threatening sexual violence. Brown later found out that this man was a serial rapist who had recently been released. Since I began writing this blog I have been told that at least some of these scumbags were presents from Dafydd and the gang who had been clocking my whereabouts and the whereabouts of my friends.
Dafydd and the gang were running a trade in kids/underaged sex workers between north Wales and the east end at the time. The local MPs were Ian Mikardo (see previous posts) and Peter Shore, who both knew what was going on. When the sexually exploited kids in care began dying from HIV/AIDS, Shore helped conceal the scandal all over again (see post 'Apocalypse Now').
On 18 Nov 1987 a fireball ripped through King's Cross Station, killing 31 people. I was due to pass through the station at the time of the fire but my plans had been disrupted so I missed it. Since I began this blog I have been told that the fire was an attempt to kill me. The cause of the King's Cross fire was never positively identified.
The 'Morning Star' also reported that UCU members in England are going to be balloted over strike action. Sally Hunt, the General Secretary of UCU, has been spouting off about the wages of staff in universities being 'held down' and 'fat cat' VCs raking it in. It is true that some universities are now paying their VCs enormous salaries, but Sally Hunt has been using this discourse for a very long time, before the recent trend for astronomical VCs' salaries. Back in 2006 when I was working at Bangor University, I and other post-docs and PhD students were doing the work of a contingent of senior lecturers who did not show their faces in the Dept for weeks on end. None of us had permanent jobs or even full time salaries and the PhD students weren't being paid at all. Sally Hunt paid a visit to Bangor University at that time and amazingly enough I found her sitting behind me in a coffee lounge. Had Sally come to help the oppressed ie. the post docs and PhD students? No. Sally Hunt was holding court with those we know and love, who were pulling in £45k pa or sometimes considerably more, for not coming into the University for more than one day per week – if that – and giving their teaching and marking to the rest of us to do.
Sally Hunt had rocked up at the invitation of the Bangor University UCU rep, Eileen Tilley. Tilley was a laugh a minute, not least because she was colluding with the corrupt Director of Human Resources, Lyn Meadows, who is now a member of the Betsi Board. Meadows was a frightful bully, breached confidence after accessing confidential details about staff and offered jobs to people who, when they arrived to take up their post, would find that their contract stated that they would be paid £2000 pa less than had been agreed when they accepted the post. See previous posts for details of Meadows' wrongdoing. Meadows had previously worked for the Welsh Ambulance Trust and was a big mate of the paedophiles' friends who were constantly harassing and threatening me. I was told that Tilley was systematically ingratiating herself to my friends in order to gain information as to whether I was going to sue the NHS. Tilley reached a peak when she saw a witness to the threats that I was receiving from NHS staff reading through his witness statement in the library. Tilley walked up behind him, stopped, looked over his shoulder and very obviously read his witness statement.
I was told that Tilley's ambition was to become a rep on the UCU national executive and that she had thrashed out a deal with Lyn Meadows in order to achieve this, which involved Tilley failing to support anyone who had been on the receiving end of Meadows's bullying and unlawful practices.
At one point Tilley appeared in the press grumbling about the salary of the VC of Bangor University. The VC had made no secret of his salary and he had not been involved in any of the negotiations regarding his remuneration. Furthermore his salary was nowhere near the top of the scale in terms of VCs salaries, he actually earned less than the VC of the chaotic mess that was Glyndwr University. Unfortunately for the VC of Bangor University, he had challenged the paedophile gang, as had one of his close friends and therefore He Had To Pay. When his wife developed a serious illness, they found that there was nothing that the Top Docs could do. She died. Interestingly enough, she had a virtually identical condition to one of the social workers who had facilitated Dafydd's gang, who made a complete recovery at the hands of the very same Top Docs. It might have been a coincidence, but what was not a coincidence was the plan on the part of some members of staff to wait until the VC's wife had died and then 'blacken his name' and frame him for a criminal offence. I gained the impression that Tilley knew all about those plans.
Fancy popping up to Bangor to have a word with them all then Ms Hunt? How about a march through Gwynedd, where the average income is I think still less than £18k pa, to plead the case of the paedophiles' friends who have to scrape by on £45 k pa?
Before working as the HR Director at Bangor University, Lyn Meadows was a non-executive Director of an NHS Trust on Merseyside. Meadows was named in Hansard and on Frank Field's blog as having colluded with a group of Top Doctors on Merseyside who committed a fraud from which they all benefited financially. There were rumours circulating around Bangor University that Meadows had made a packet from her dodgy deals and she was also boasting to her mates in the NHS regarding the scams that she was working at Bangor University.
So why did the VC of Bangor University appoint a poisonous corrupt cow like Lyn Meadows as HR Director? As far as I could work out he didn't. Because his wife was ill and had been told by the Top Doctors that there was nothing that they could do, he had taken some months off work for the purpose of compassionate leave. When he was absent, the decision to employ Lyn Meadows was made by Professor Fergus Lowe, who had built his entire empire on his knowledge of Dafydd's crimes and who in high places had colluded with Dafydd (see post 'Feet In Chains'). Fungus was ably assisted by Elfed Roberts, a member of the Council of Bangor University. Elfed was formerly acting Assistant Chief Constable of the North Wales Police who had left the force amid allegations of corruption.
The Welsh Gov't – when Rhodri was FM – appointed Elfed as Chair of the North West Wales NHS Trust, which automatically gave Elfed a seat on Bangor University Council. When Chair of the Trust, Elfed had me unlawfully arrested on a number of occasions, once because I had pink hair and called his car a penismobile (see previous posts). None of my complaints about Elfed's abuse of his position were ever investigated. On one occasion a PhD student- who had witnessed the harassment of and threats made towards me by NHS staff – and I were followed around the University by an unidentified man who did his best to intimidate us. I knew who he was – he was a bent copper who many years ago had been stationed at Bangor. I recognised him from the Good Old Days when people were trying to set fire to my house and I and others were threatened with arrest ourselves when we went to the police to report offences against us.
Many moons ago, Elfed had been the Sergeant at Llangefni Police Station, where, I was told, he was known to be corrupt. Dafydd lives about three miles away from Llangefni and always had a very cosy relationship with the police there.
When Elfed was obliged to leave the North Wales Police, he led a campaign against the Chief Constable who had kicked him out, Richard Brunstrom, who was desperate to clean up a rotten force. The 'Daily Mail' was happy to publish stories about the sins of Mr Brunstrom that Elfed had given them. The 'Daily Mail' reported that Richard Brunstrom was known in north Wales as the 'Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban'. The only person who called Mr Brunstrom that was Elfed.
When the NW Wales NHS Trust was abolished because even the Welsh Gov't could no longer stomach the stream of deaths and scandal, Elfed declared war on the CEO and Chairman of the new Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board which replaced the NW Wales NHS Trust. The Chairman of the new Heath Board was the VC of Bangor University – who's wife by then had died after the loving neglect dispensed by the Top Docs of the Walton Centre on Merseyside. After the VC's wife died, Edwina Hart, the Health Minister, proposed that elective neurology patients should no longer be treated at the Walton Centre. A campaign was launched immediately, both to get rid of Edwina and to ensure that all neurology patients from north Wales should continue to risk their lives at the Walton Centre.
The leader of the campaign was Professor Robert Owen, Dafydd's mate from Liverpool University who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang in 1989 after I complained about them (see post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen'). In support of Professor Owen's attempts to ensure that Dafydd's mates at the Walton Centre should be allowed to kill off grasses, a 'memorandum' was submitted to Parliament's Welsh Affairs Committee. The 'memorandum' was submitted by a 'group of retired professional people from north Wales'. Every one of the names on the memorandum was that of an associate of Dafydd and the gang (see post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!').
Oh, I need to mention a small matter re the unfortunate death of the VC's wife at the hands of the Top Docs. Not only had her husband and her husband's friend dared take on the paedophile gang, but many years ago, she did as well. So they fucking killed her.
Get it straight Top Docs – someone should have dropped a bomb on you lot a very, very long time ago. 10,000 documents. I haven't mentioned half of the contents of them so far on this blog you worthless toe rags. Now piss off, sod off, bugger off.
The icing on the cake re Elfed Roberts was that although he wasn't recycled into the new Health Board, Edwina Hart appointed him to the Board of the Welsh Ambulance Trust – Lyn Meadows' former employers. Just look at what is happening at the Welsh Ambulance Trust… But Edwina had to give the old bastard another job. Not only because Edwina and Elfed had mountains of dirt on each other, but Edwina doesn't want to die slowly and painfully should she become ill…
Dim problem Top Docs, you refused me all treatment years ago and then people armed with guns began pursuing me! There's not much more that you can do to me is there. So you've got this blog….
The 'Morning Star' also told us that Theresa is visiting Nigeria to tackle human trafficking and slavery. That's the Theresa who was a Councillor for Merton, an area served by St George's Hospital Medical School when that institution was facilitating a pan-European trafficking ring (see post 'Comedies Of Menace'), the Theresa who as Home Secretary organised a review of the Waterhouse Inquiry by Lady Justice Macur which was yet another cover-up and the Theresa who organised the IICSA and so far has appointed a series of Chairs who have all been associates of paedophile rings, except for Dame Lowell Goddard, who returned to New Zealand in despair because the Home Office wouldn't let her do the job properly.
Diane Abbott said that Theresa's 'warm words' 'rang hollow' considering that it was her hostile policies as Home Secretary that 'worsened the plight of victims of slavery and trafficking in Britain'. I'm not sure that Diane helped such people very much when she worked as the PR/Press Officer for Lambeth when kids in care in that Borough were being abused and trafficked. Diane is the former partner of Jeremy Corbyn, who ignored warnings that a paedophile gang was operating in his Islington constituency and who's election agent was the business partner of a man who was jailed for a series of sex offences against school boys, as detailed in previous posts…
Diane stated that border guards and police officers 'are the front line in the fight against modern slavery' and that the Labour Party will employ hundreds more border guards and 10,000 new police officers. Diane, if the border guards and police officers themselves are corrupt and colluding with the trafficking gangs – and believe me, they are – your additional officers are only going to add to the problem.
Today's 'feature' in the 'Morning Star' concerned 'clergy's sex abuse cover-ups'. The 'Morning Star' reminded us that there have now been numerous sex abuse scandals within organised religion, including at Ampleforth, Downside, Buckfast Abbey and of course that of former Archbiship of Canterbury George Carey covering up the offences of Bishop Peter Ball. The 'Morning Star' failed to mention that colluding Top Docs played a major role in concealing all these matters. The 'Morning Star' reported that the IICSA has found that the 2000-01 Review on Child Protection in the Catholic Church in England and Wales which Lord Nolan Chaired was a 'whitewash'. Nolan carried out that Review in the immediate aftermath of the publication of the Waterhouse Report.
When Lord Michael Nolan was growing up, his family home was at Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, a centre of paedophile activity where many of those who later concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang were based. (Sally Hunt lives in the area.) Michael Nolan went to Ampleforth, then did his national service in the Royal Artillery, 1947-49. Following that, Nolan read law at Wadham and Gomorrah when the debauched Maurice Bowra was Warden of that College (see post 'Comedies of Menace'). At Oxford, Nolan became close friends with Sir Patrick Mayhew and Stephen Tumim.
Patrick Mayhew became a barrister, worked for the MDU and was responsible for ensuring that the child psychiatrist Dr Morris Fraser continued to work as a psychiatrist after he committed sex offences against children. Mayhew became a Tory MP, then Attorney General and in that capacity he authorised three prosecutions of me for contempt of court, although he knew that the paedophile gang had perjured themselves on each occasion (see previous posts). Mayhew wound up as Secretary of State for N Ireland, where he concealed the 'VIP' abuse ring at Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast, an institution with which Dr Morris Fraser had been involved. Judge Stephen Tumim never tried to imprison me like Mayhew did, but Tumim knew that many of those in prison were victims of organised abuse/trafficking gangs and had been fitted up and was a friend and associate of many of the people involved with this (see post 'Conference At Cold Comfort Farm').
Michael Nolan was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1953. Sir Ronnie Waterhouse was of a similar vintage to Nolan and was also a member of Middle Temple, then a Bencher and served as Treasurer to Middle Temple. Nolan became a Bencher at Middle Temple in 1975. Nolan became a QC in 1968, was called to the Bar in N Ireland in 1974 and became a QC in N Ireland at the same time. Nolan was a member of the Bar Council, 1973-74 and a member of the Senate at the Inns of Court, 1974-80.
Nolan was a recorder in the Crown Court in Kent, 1975-82 and then in 1982 was appointed a High Court judge. It was Michael Nolan who in 1984 granted injunctions to the NCB to stop the NUM using flying pickets. In 1985 Nolan granted an injunction to Westminster Council stopping the GLC from pursuing a poster campaign against its own abolition. The Tory Westminster Council was led by the Tesco heiress Shirley Porter who famously flogged off three cemeteries for literally a few pence to developers and also orchestrated gerrymandering on a huge scale, cleansing the area run by Westminster Council of poor people who were in danger of voting Labour. When Porter was finally held to account for her illegal practices and fined a great deal of money, she buggered off to live in Israel, although she later returned to the UK when the coast was clear.
Nolan was Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit, 1985-88. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1991. Nolan heard appeals in many high-profile cases. In 1991 Nolan was a member of the Court of Appeal which rejected claims for compensation for psychological damage brought by relatives of those who died in the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium tragedy. Nolan reviewed the decision not to bring prosecutions after the Marchioness Disaster in 1989.
Nolan quashed the conviction of Judith Ward for involvement in the bombing of a coach on the M62 in 1974. Judith Ward was a vulnerable young woman who was known for confessing to crimes which she had very obviously not committed. Reviewing that case in 1992 will have left Nolan in no doubt as to the level of corruption prevailing within the criminal justice and legal/judicial system and he described the conviction of Judith Ward as 'a grave miscarriage of justice'. Judith Ward was convicted at a time when, in a number of cases, the prosecution did not disclose to the defence material which might have been helpful to them and the jury. In 1992 the North Wales Police were investigating the possibility of a VIP paedophile ring operating in north Wales and Cheshire, a possibility which they dismissed in 1993. In the case of the north Wales/Cheshire gang, a running theme has been the non-disclosure of evidence, including the non-disclosure of evidence which would have helped those who were fitted up by the gang. Such as the existence of the scores of documents in my own case which demonstrated perjury, conspiracy and attempts to pervert the course of justice.
After just over two years in the Court of Appeal, in 1994 Nolan became a Law Lord, retiring from this position in 1998.
Nolan chaired the Committee on Standards in Public Life, 1994-98. John Major's Gov't set up the Committee in late 1994 after the cash-for-questions scandal, which involved Sir Peter Morrison as well as others. No-one mentioned that Morrison was molesting kids in care in north Wales as well as in other locations when he was named in the lobbying scandal. Morrison was found safely dead in July 1995, so that was one less thing for Nolan to worry about.
The Nolan Committee produced its first report in 1995 and 'created waves' by recommending full disclosure of MPs' outside interests. Nolan also produced a report regarding standards of conduct in local government in July 1997. The principles embodied and articulated in the first report have since become embedded in public life in Britain and are often referred to as the Nolan Principles.
It was in 2000, at the request of the Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor who was a big admirer of Lord Longford who – along with his extended family – spent his entire life keeping quiet about the abuse of vulnerable people in 'care' settings which he found out about in detail through his penal reforming and charitable activities (see post 'Comedies Of Menace'), that Nolan investigated the issue of paedophile priests in the Nolan Report.
Nolan was Chancellor of the University of Essex, 1997-2002 and was described as 'hands-on'. When Nolan was Chancellor of Essex University, that institution was housing Professor Andrew Radford, who in the 1980s had been Chair and Head of Linguistics at UCNW, where he caused great concern as a result of his Ugandan discussions with female undergrads and even greater concern when it was noticed that there was a high correlation between students who had entertained Radford and students who had been awarded Firsts. See post 'Today We Have Naming Of Parts'.
Nolan also served as Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. He died in 2007.
In the words of his obituary in 'The Guardian' "Lord Nolan .. made a profound mark on national life by substantially cleansing the Augean stable of corrupt politics as founding chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life."
So that's why there was the Parliamentary expenses scandal in 2010 which resulted in one MP going to prison and the revelations that a great many more should have but their bacon was saved by a massive shifting of goalposts. Then there are all the recent revelations regarding the sexual misconduct of those in Parliament and no-one's even got round to doing anything about those who colluded with far more serious organised abuse…
It was Nolan who declared that MPs 'should end their cosy self-regulation with the introduction of a permanent, independent, anti-sleaze Parliamentary Commissioner'. That will be the independent, anti-sleaze Parliamentary Commissioner who has consistently refused to take action against the many MPs who have since been exposed as being involved with sleaze.
While maxing out on Clergy Abuse, the 'Morning Star' feature reminded us that 'fellow establishment stalwart Lady Butler Sloss' – had to apologise for her inaccurate 2011 Report into the way that the Church of England handled allegations in a Sussex sex abuse case and that Butler-Sloss's brother Sir Michael Havers limited the scope of the Inquiry into the Kincora Boys' Home in the 1970s. This is all true – although Lady Butler-Sloss is actually Lord Justice Butler-Sloss because when she was appointed no woman had ever held the position of a Lord Justice of Appeal and no-one had the wit to call her 'Lady', so she was known as 'Lord'. However, the sort of PR that Lord Butler-Sloss receives has certainly changed recently.
Butler-Sloss was appointed to Chair the Inquiry into the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal, which reported in 1988. That scandal resulted entirely because of the insanity of those who had concealed the paedophile ring in the north of England and who had links to Dafydd et al (see post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named…'). The Cleveland crisis, which was a consequence of Dafydd's Friends In The North 'discovering' that huge numbers of children had been anally raped by their own parents which gave Dafydd's colleagues an opportunity for repeatedly committing what in any other context would be considered sexual assaults on children, occurred most conveniently when Alison Taylor, Mary Wynch and I were making a lot of noise about Dafydd's gang in north Wales. Furthermore a few innocent people from Cleveland who had dared complain about the Top Docs found themselves in prison, one of whom committed suicide in there.
At the time of the Cleveland Scandal, the right wing press frothed at the mouth regarding the excesses of pinko social workers and Guardian-reading paediatricians. However, the liberal/left press uncritically took the side of the Top Docs who were causing havoc in Cleveland. I knew by that time that no matter what happened to us in north Wales, the mainstream press just would not report it. All coverage was of 'caring' doctors and dangerous patients, there was no other angle. Furthermore, every time that the Guardian was obliged to report a disaster – such as a suicide – resulting from Cleveland, it would be routinely accompanied by an article explaining to Guardian readers that child sexual abuse was a huge unacknowledged problem. None of those articles mentioned that Top Docs and social workers were facilitating organised abuse, although journos were well aware of that.
When Butler-Sloss was drafted in to hold an Inquiry because Dafydd's associates had brought the NHS in Cleveland to a standstill with their idiocy and the Cleveland police refused to work with them any longer, the many profile articles of Butler-Sloss were hagiographies. It was repeatedly stressed that she was a Woman, so was by her very nature caring, warm, child-centred, level-headed and honest. Furthermore she was a Woman who had Broken A Glass Ceiling and a Woman of Fine Legal Pedigree to boot, so she was uniquely genetically endowed to be a judge and being a Woman she'd be a better judge than all the rest of them.
At no point did anyone mention that Butler Sloss's brother Michael Havers, the Attorney General, was a corrupt Tory and had actively blocked the prosecution of a number of high profile paedophiles, including the diplomat Sir Peter Hayman, a senior officer in MI6. No-one mentioned that the entire Havers clan had reached their exalted positions in life by being born into well-connected privilege – the father of Butler-Sloss and Havers was Sir Cecil Havers, the High Court judge who presided over the trial of Ruth Ellis. Neither did anyone mention that Elizabeth Butler-Sloss had not made it to university and instead had worked as a secretary, only becoming a lawyer when she was older. Had Butler-Sloss fought with disadvantage, that would have been very admirable, but anyone familiar with her biography knows that this was a rather dim massively privileged woman who ended up as a Lord Justice Of Appeal because of who she was related to. Furthermore Elizabeth Butler-Sloss had tried to get elected as a Tory MP and was a leading light in the Church of England. 'The Guardian' and 'New Statesman' loved Butler-Sloss, because she was the best chance that their millions of readers who worked in the welfare services had of ensuring that the en masse trafficking of children in care which was happening at that time would be concealed in the face of the explosions in Cleveland and in north Wales.
Thirty years after Cleveland, with Peter Morrison, Cyril Smith, Greville Janner, Norman St John Stevas, George Thomas et al all safely dead, along with most of the judges who helped them and Dafydd and Lucille looking into their own graves, we can now be told the truth about Butler-Sloss and her nearest and dearest. What a pity that didn't happen in 1988, when Dafydd's gang were running dozens and dozens of children's homes in north Wales containing hundreds of kids who were being beaten, raped and trafficked and who would find themselves in Risley Remand Centre, the dungeon in Denbigh or a secure hospital if they complained.
Peter Preston was the Editor of 'The Guardian' at the time. Preston knew about the organised abuse of vulnerable people in the welfare system, but welfare professionals were his bread and butter. Preston is now dead. The Mili Tants who wrote many a feminist column at the time reassuring us that the poor Top Docs and social workers of Cleveland had been hung out to dry for daring to tell the Truth have still not admitted that it is welfare professionals who are the key figures to the success of these trafficking gangs and instead now construct the problem as being one of male sexuality. I await their explanation for the many women who lied about me in Court in an attempt to see me in prison because I complained about those facilitating the trafficking ring of which they were part or indeed the comments of the feminist commentators regarding the many innocent boys/men whom were fitted up by Dafydd's gang – often for sex offences – because they were witnesses who would not keep quiet.
Here's a Caring Angel who knows a great deal about the trafficking ring in north Wales, Grace Lewis-Parry, Board Secretary, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board:
The 'Morning Star' feature on Clergy Abuse reminded readers that in 2014, the Archbishop of York apologised for previous cover-ups of abuse by Robert Waddington, the former Dean of Manchester Cathedral, who was once in charge of church schools.
Robert Murray Waddington, (24 October 1927 -15 March 2007) was the Dean of Manchester, 1984-93. He additionally served as Superior of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd (a dispersed community of Anglicans), 1987-90.
Dafydd's old colleague and mate Dr Bob Hobson relocated to Manchester from the Maudsley in 1974. Hobson facilitated organised sexual abuse while he was at the Maudsley and he continued to do so when he moved to Manchester, where one of those who 'trained' with him was Tony Francis (see post 'The Mentor').
Robert Waddington was born in West Sussex and educated at Dulwich College, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Ely Theological College. Ordained in 1954, he began his career at St John's, Bethnal Green. Afterwards he was Chaplain at Slade School in Warwick, Queensland. He returned to England in 1959 to join the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, an order of celibate priests. After 18 months, he returned to Australia to become Headmaster of St Barnabas School, Ravenshoe, where he remained nine years.
Returning to England in 1971 he was at Oxford University's Department of Education before becoming a Canon Residentiary at Carlisle Cathedral and Bishop's Adviser Adviser for Education, then General Secretary of the National Society until his appointment as Dean. In 2007, Waddington died in West Sussex.
Waddington was accused of abusing boys in Australia and Manchester, as far back as the 1960s. In April 2013, it was revealed by the press that as a result of allegations of child sexual abuse made against Waddington in 1999 and in 2003, his right to officiate at services was removed by the then Archbishop of York, Lord David Hope. However, Waddington was not reported to the police; Hope had cited his '[concern] about Waddington's state of health' as the reason for not doing so. It is likely that claim was backed up by a Top Doc's opinion in order to tick the appropriate boxes.
One of Waddington's reported victims told 'The Times' in May 2013 that the abuse by Waddington began when he was a choir boy at Manchester Cathedral in the 1980s when he was 13 and continued until he moved away to university. David Hope, among others, was censured for failing to act when complaints were made which put other children at risk. Bishop David Walker praised the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu for starting an enquiry. However, Sentamu has been accused of concealing other instances of abuse by clergy. Sentamu's wife Margaret is a non-executive Director of the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (see post 'Apocalypse Now'). NHS professionals in Yorkshire concealed organised abuse, including that involving Jimmy Savile, for decades.
Bishop Walker praised the courage of those who spoke out about abuse and said:
Every time a survivor of abuse speaks out it makes it just a little easier for the next person to speak. Thank you for the courage you have found.
Bishop Walker might like to consider that in north Wales, many, many people complained about abuse. They were harassed, threatened, arrested, imprisoned, denounced as insane, incarcerated – often unlawfully – in secure mental hospitals, fired from jobs, subjected to vicious slander and libel, physically attacked and quite a few were found dead. They might well have been brave but I suspect that far from making it easier for the next person to speak out, they have acted as a highly effective deterrent. As one person screamed down the phone at me in terror after being on the receiving end of the Hergest Unit, 'you complained and looked what happened to you'…
If Bishop Walker wants to drop me a line, he can e mail me or leave a comment on the blog. I can't arrange to meet him because I'm in hiding and I don't use phones with people whom I do not know because they can be used to trace me. Bishop Walker might be interested to know that a number of other people who were on the receiving end of Dafydd et al left the UK. Their attitude to Operation Pallial was 'I'm buggered if I'm going to give evidence, everyone knew what was happening to us and they didn't give a stuff'. A great many people knew what was happening to me as well. Those who did give a stuff and tried to help found themselves under attack, along with me.
The 'Morning Star' reported that in 2015 the Methodist Church apologised after an independent investigation unearthed nearly 2000 reports of sex abuse cases dating back to 1950. Two of those who helped me were active in the Methodist Church. They provided witness statements regarding the threats to which they had seen me subjected by NHS/social services 'professionals'. They were hounded out of their jobs at Bangor University by Professor Fergus Lowe, with the assistance of Fungus's mate Professor Lew Hardy; their letter to the Chairman of the NW Wales NHS Trust about an attempt to wrongfully arrest me for making 'hoax calls' when I dialled 999 in an emergency was ignored; and a Top Doc expert witness described them as 'naive academics' who had been 'manipulated' by me. One of them had a stroke and was told by his GP from Bethesda – a man who back in the 1990s was one of the Bethesda GPs who ignored the abuse of kids and psych patients – that he had an ear infection. He subsequently had another more serious stroke. He recovered well because he knows about strokes and knew what to do to give him the best chance of regaining speech and movement, but he has since found that for some reason, there are constant delays and missing test results within the Betsi Board regarding another health problem that he has had for about two years now.
I very much hope that my Methodist friends do not ever find themselves referred to the Walton Centre.
The 'Morning Star' feature on 'Clergy Abuse' mentions the multiple police investigations currently underway into historic allegations of child sexual abuse by church staff throughout Britain and N Ireland. The man who wrote the feature, Steven Walker, the 'Unicef children's champion' and an expert on safeguarding, does not mention that virtually every Social Services Dept in the UK is now under police investigation for child abuse and trafficking.
No-one at all has mentioned the role that the Top Doctors are playing in all this.
'Brain tumour love? Ooh, inoperable and incurable I'm afraid. We should know here at the Walton, we're the best.'
'Stroke? Don't be daft, you've got an ear infection.'
'Kidney stone when an in-patient at the Hergest Unit? Go and lie on your bed and stop making a fuss.'
'Cluster headaches, one of the most serious forms of pain that you can experience which are also called suicide migraines because people used to kill themselves to get away from the pain? Oh you've got a borderline personality disorder. We'll now section you and keep you in a locked ward for a year under constant bright lights while failing to provide any pain relief.'
'In labour and the foetal heart monitor showed that the baby was in distress? We ignored it and the baby died. Legal action? Don't even bother, the staff are all going to lie on oath, they've been briefed already.'
Let's hear it for the Top Doctors, what would we do without them?
The day before yesterday 'The Times' ran a feature on Jan Morris, the travel writer. I used to live just a few fields across from Jan Morris's house near Llanystumdwy. Jan's son Twm Morys is well-known locally because of his gigs with his Welsh language folk/rock band. Twm is also a writer of serious Welsh verse and won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod some years ago. Since then Twm has been children's laureate for Wales. Jan Morris herself jokes that when she dies – Jan is in her 90s now – the obituaries will make more of the 'sex change' that she underwent many years ago than they will of her writing. Jan used to be James and she underwent gender reassignment when it was very rare indeed and she was subjected to the most appalling hostility and abuse as a result. Jan went to I think Casablanca for surgery to avoid the excesses of the UK Top Docs who at that time treated people with gender dysphoria appallingly. I really admire Jan Morris for doing that at a time when it was damn near impossible to do such a thing without running a high risk of physical violence from the great British public.
There is however a mystery surrounding Jan. Jan – and her son Twm – must know about Dafydd and the paedophiles, not only because of the circles in which they have moved for decades now (see post 'Heart Of Darkness'), but because of Jan's early career. James Morris was a journo for 'The Times' and he was a member of the 1953 Everest expedition. Another member of the expedition was Sir Charles Evans, the neurosurgeon from Liverpool, who regular readers of this blog will know spent decades as the Principal of UCNW, throughout the years when Dafydd and the gang dominated the college and ran their trafficking ring from within. Sir Charles personally knew Gwynne the lobotomist and Dafydd, because of his Top Doctoring activities. Sir Charles was at the heart of the medical corruption on Merseyside, part of Dafydd's empire and then ensured that the UCNW branch of the trafficking ring continued untouched.
The leader of the 1953 Everest expedition was Lord John Hunt, an Army officer who worked for the security services. Charles Evans undoubtedly used his contacts in the security services to ensure that the trafficking ring was protected and to send troublesome people the way of Brown and I, as described in previous posts. I'm fairly sure that James Morris must have been working for the security services as well, it will have come with the territory of being a journo with 'The Times' in the early 1950s. Charles Evans was known to be a very difficult and unpopular man who when he was older fell out with his old Everest comrades so badly that he refused to go to the Everest team reunions. I knew someone who was close to Charles Evans who told me that even on his death-bed, Evans had 'bitter words' regarding his Everest colleagues. So Jan could well have been one of those whom fell out with Sir Charles in a big way.
However, whatever the state of Jan's relationship with Sir Charles, she knew about the trafficking ring and what was happening to those of us who were targeted. Whatever Jan was doing in the security services and whatever sort of pioneer she has been for people with gender dysphoria, she was doing bugger all to save the lives of the people whom that gang were trying to kill and in some cases succeeded in killing.
The past activities of the security services were mentioned on Radio 4 this morning, in the programme 'The Reunion'. The programme looked back on the murder of the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, who famously died on 11 Sept 1978 after an unknown person in London stabbed him in the thigh with the tip of an umbrella on 7 Sept 1978 which had been loaded with a ricin pellet. Georgi's assassin was never caught and this has always been blamed on the incompetence of Scotland Yard, which at the time was famously corrupt. The Commissioner of the Met when Markov was killed was Sir David McNee, who had only recently succeeded Sir Robert Mark who was notorious for having presided over a corrupt force. Mark served in Manchester and then in Newcastle, where there was corruption and organised abuse and then hit the jackpot as Chief Constable of Leicester, 1957-67. Mark served on the Mountbatten Inquiry into Prison Security, when his abilities were spotted by paedophiles' friend Woy Jenkins who was at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1967 Mark was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Met and eventually became Deputy Commissioner of the Met and then Commissioner in 1972.
The Met had recently been rocked by exposure of massive corruption in the CID and Mark set about attempting to reform it. He changed disciplinary procedures, returned many detectives to uniform, made a number of television appearances praising the uniformed branch following student unrest and protests against Vietnam and began to gather around him a group of loyal, ambitious uniformed officers. The uniformed branch began to gain precedence and CID was increasingly put under uniformed command. In 1971 Mark had formed A10, a special unit established to investigate corruption. Among those rooted out were Commander Kenneth Drury, Head of the Flying Squad and DCS Bill Moody, Head of the Obscene Publications Squad and ironically also of the Anti-Corruption Squad. Both were jailed, along with several other officers and nearly 500 more were dismissed or forced to resign. The rest of Dafydd's mates remained in the there.
Robert Mark was responsible for the introduction of the SPG who enjoyed removing their identification and beating up black people. It was one of the SPG who killed Blair Peach, but as all his colleagues in the SPG kept schtum no-one ever discovered who inflicted the fatal blow. See previous posts. Mark resigned in 1977 when he fell out with Woy, who was by then Home Secretary.
'The Reunion' mentioned that it was presumed that Markov was killed by either the KGB or the Bulgarian secret services. The Bulgarian security services were keen to assist in the murder investigation and it was only after the event that people realised that the Bulgarian security services almost certainly offered to help in order to acquire information about the British security services and their techniques. So 'The Reunion' touched on the possibility that Markov's killer got clean away because of collusion/fuckwittery on the part of the police and the security services.
As ever, the possible role of another group of people who regularly assisted with crime and flouted the law was ignored – the Top Doctors. The Top Doctor who treated Georgi appeared on 'The Reunion'. He was Dr Bernard Riley, who at the time worked as a forensic pathologist at St James's Hospital. Balham. St James's merged with St George's Hospital Medical School in 1980 and the St James's building was closed in 1988 and the staff relocated to St George's. The staff of St James's were colluding with Dafydd and the paedophile gang and were operating as many scams as their neighbours down the road at St George's were (see post 'The Rakes' Progress').
Dr Riley freely admitted that when Markov turned up at St James's explaining that he was concerned that he had been the victim of an assassination attempt by the Soviet or Bulgarian regimes, Riley thought that Markov was 'a nutter' or another 'paranoid defector'. This is odd, because in 1978 everyone was acutely aware of the Cold War and tales of the horrible fates that tended to befall defectors. No intelligent person faced with a defector from the Soviet bloc would ever believe that they were a nutter or paranoid – it was well-known that defectors would be targets of assassins for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, after Markov defected he worked for the BBC World Service. He was an intelligent, multilingual man but had already been dismissed as a lunatic by one GP, which is why he turned up at St James's.
It was mentioned on 'The Reunion' that after Markov died, samples of his tissue were sent to Porton Down – Bernard Riley had extracted a pellet from Markov's muscle tissue after Markov died, but it was Porton Down who identified the ricin in the pellet. Porton Down is the Gov't biological/chemical warfare research establishment and it had such a grim reputation that when I was working in biomedical research in the late 1980s, the salaries offered there were very high because no-one wanted to work at Porton Down. If you wanted the grimmest, nastiest, most unethical medical experiments, you bypassed the Institute of Psychiatry with its primates in cages being electrically shocked and decapitated and the Huntingdon Institute with its thousands of animals being subjected to pointless cruel toxicity tests and you went straight to Porton Down to sign the Official Secrets Act and pick up your big pay cheque.
Dr Bernard Riley's colleagues at St James's were concealing a pan-European peadophile and trafficking ring. They'd be well capable of not saving the life of Georgi Markov for any number of reasons.
At the time of Markov's murder, Jim Callaghan was the PM and Dr Death was the Foreign Secretary. Why are we not surprised that the assassination of a Bulgarian dissident in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge was never satisfactorily resolved, even though the victim went to two different Top Doctors and clearly explained that he believed that he had been poisoned by either the KGB or the Bulgarian security services?
Dr Bernard Riley is now a Top Doctor at Nottingham, a city which has featured previously on this blog with regard to misconduct and research fraud among the Top Docs there (see post 'Oh Lordy, It's CR UK!').
In 2015 'The Liverpool Echo' reported on three deaths of patients at the Walton Centre who had been given far too much anaesthetic, resulting in their deaths. One of the second opinions used in one of the cases was Dr Bernard Riley, who testified that the patient had been given far too much of the drug concerned. There was a police investigation but no member of staff at the Walton Centre was disciplined or prosecuted.
The success story that is the Top Doctors continues, with all national newspapers reporting medical breakthroughs and miracle cures at a very impressive rate. The Top Docs are finding cures for previously serious or incurable conditions at such a pace that there is not the scope to cover them on this blog. It is clear that these stories are actually either accounts of very much more modest research programmes which have been written by journos who do not understand the research, or PR pieces prepared by the researchers who are being dishonest about the miracles which they claim to have witnessed but who are putting in for a follow-up grant so they need to report major advances. Some of the 'discoveries' were discovered years ago and have either been discredited or have become part of accepted knowledge so it is a mystery as to why they are being rehashed at the moment as 'major new breakthroughs'.
These numerous medical miracles are taking place against a more sober background of serious healthcare failure in the UK. The Torygraph today reports on the scandal at the St George's Hospital Medical School's heart unit which is the centre of allegations that patients have died as a result of 'a feud between surgeons' – 15 patients have died over five years. The Westminster coroner has been asked to re-open inquests on the dead patients.
There's more trouble at t'mill at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust. The 2017 inquiry into seven deaths at their maternity unit is now to be widened. Independent consultant Donna Ockenden has now been appointed to review further maternal deaths and the cases under review now number 23. The Trust are currently denying that there have been 60 maternal deaths. Should anything really terrible be happening at the Trust, Donna can be relied upon not to admit it.
Donna Ockenden was commissioned as the 'independent' consultant to review events regarding the Tawel Fan Scandal by the Betsi Board, after undercover filming by a whistleblowing nurse revealed elderly mentally ill naked patients crawling around on floors covered with urine and faeces while Angels swore at them. One patient had an untreated broken arm. See post 'The Tawel Fan Scandal'. The police investigated but no charges were brought. The Angel who blew the whistle was sacked and struck off and has received death threats. The staff filmed abusing the patients told the 'Daily Post' that they had done nothing wrong and that the scandal was the fault of 'trouble making relatives'. The staff were transferred to work on another ward, where months later some of them were caught abusing patients again. No staff have yet been sacked or struck off, except of course for the whistleblower. The staff refused to co-operate with an investigation into the abuse.
When Donna Ockenden was commissioned to investigate Tawl Fan, she made public that she wanted to hear from anyone who had experience of the mental health services in north Wales. I contacted her and she invited me to meet her and a surgeon who was assisting her with the investigation to discuss my experiences with the mental health services. Donna also asked me to send her any evidence that I had. I sent Donna evidence of patient abuse, assault, perjury, threats to patients, a flat refusal by the NHS to investigate serious complaints and the destruction of evidence by Martin Jones, the former CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust. Donna explained to me that Martin was helping her investigate the Tawel Fan Scandal. She then e mailed me cancelling our meeting and I heard no more from her. Neither did another patient who also sent Donna documentary evidence as damning as that from my own case. A few weeks ago Donna appeared in the media explaining that she had investigated Tawel Fan and had told the Betsi Board that things had to change and that they did not have a functioning mental health service. Donna then went away and has not returned. The relatives of the Tawel Fan patients told the media that they felt 'let down' by Donna (see post 'Conference At Cold Comfort Farm'). I am now in hiding. Martin Jones has now been appointed as the Chief Investigator for the Wales NHS.
The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust has absolutely nothing to worry about now that Donna is on the job, no matter how many patients they have killed.
Here's another Top Doctor who knew about the trafficking ring in north Wales who probably thinks that he's gone under the radar – Dr Evans. I can't remember Dr Evans's first name, but he was another of the GPs who arrived to do a few shifts at the Student Health Centre in 1984-85, when Dr D.G.E. Wood was facilitating the trafficking ring. Dr Evans was based at Bodnant Surgery…
RAUS, RAUS, I'll be naming more of you soon…


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When John W. Carlson was named Nice Guy of the Year in 1987, he was saluted not only for his success in business, but also for his extraordinary generosity to charities. Mr. Carlson's designation of which charities should share funds from his Nice Guy honor said it all: He chose the Eagle Scouts, SDSU Athletics and Nice Guys Charities.
He supported the Nice Guys in the group's early days to assure its future as a central organization dedicated to providing a hand up to those in need in San Diego. Mr. Carlson was proud of the fact that his chairmanship of the Aztec Classic Golf Tournament still holds the record for raising $495,000 to benefit Aztec athletics. He continued his support through an annual membership in the Aztec Cabinet. He was an ardent SDSU fan and attended his last game Feb. 19, when the Aztecs men's basketball team trounced Wyoming. Mr. Carlson felt great allegiance to the Eagle Scouts and supported them throughout his life.
Mr. Carlson, 84, died Sunday of natural causes.
If one were to write a biography of John Carlson, the theme would have to be about overcoming obstacles. At the age of 6, in St. Paul, Minn., he was hit by a milk truck while riding his bike and almost died. He spent six months in a hospital and lost his right leg and left thumb, but he was not to be deterred.
After recuperating, Mr. Carlson secured his first job delivering newspapers and engaged his siblings to help him with his route. He also became a Boy Scout and later earned the Eagle Scout award. He was able to perform the same merit badge requirements as able-bodied boys. Mr. Carlson later attended the University of Minnesota, where he became an All American wheelchair basketball player.
Mr. Carlson moved to San Diego with his wife and entered the auto parts business, and enjoyed two huge successes with startups.
The first was Nelson Auto Parts, founded in 1956 and which he owned until its sale to Lucky stores in 1970. He then started Mr. Parts Auto Parts, which grew to employ 1,200 in San Diego and generated $83 million in annual sales.
In 1977, he faced another obstacle when an entire city block was engulfed in flames and destroyed the Sunbelt Distributing/Auto Parts warehouse. Overcoming the fire damage and difficult national economic conditions, Carlson continued to grow Mr. Parts Auto Parts, which he sold in 1985 to Cardis Corp.
Mr. Carlson coached his three boys in Del Cerro Little League and Pony League and later became the president of the Del Cerro Little League. He later established Mission Janitorial and Abrasive Supplies along with his sons.
Mr. Carlson was devastated when his wife, Marilyn, contracted cancer and died in 1975.
His success allowed him to become active in supporting civic causes in San Diego. Mr. Carlson served on the Qualcomm Stadium Advisory Board for 12 years, he was an Aztec Booster, a Nice Guy, a founding benefactor of the Mission Valley YMCA and that organization's Man of the Year in 2003. He was a supporter of and was the Boys & Girls Club Man of the Year in 2003 and the former president of the Hillcrest Lions Club. He also supported the Torrey Pines Stadium Fund, the American Ireland Fund and was an underwriter of the Surf Soccer Europe Trip fund.
In retirement, John hosted elaborate parties, be it a birthday or to celebrate a special event in San Diego, such as the Super Bowl. He also was a consummate card player and world class in gin rummy and bridge. His sense of humor was legendary. When he saw young children with their thumbs in their mouths, he would show them his thumbless hand and say, "I used to suck mine, too!" Inevitably, the kids would quickly withdraw their thumbs.
John W. Carlson, born Sept. 27, 1928, to Charlotte and Walter Carlson, is survived by his sons Todd, Kevin, and Greg; seven grandchildren; his ex-wife Margaret Carlson; a brother, Jeff, and sisters Janet, Judy, Joyce and Julianne. He was predeceased by his wife, Marilyn, and siblings Jean, Jerry, and Jim.
A celebration of life is scheduled for 1 p.m. today at Torrey Pines Christian Church in La Jolla that is open to all, followed by an invitation-only reception at the Crosby Club.


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Tomatoes are summer's glamour crop, round, red and ripe. But though zucchini will never get as many magazine covers, real cooks know you can't beat it for versatility. If you've got a perfectly ripened backyard tomato, there are only a few things you should do with it (yes, admittedly, all of them are delicious). But if you've got a bag of zucchini, well, the sky is the limit. Here are some quick ideas.
1. Bulgur salad with arugula, zucchini and pine nuts: Salt zucchini and set aside until soft. Rinse, pat dry and combine with toasted soaked bulgur and minced red onion, dress with olive oil and lemon juice and at the last minute add torn arugula leaves and toasted pine nuts.
2. Ratatouille: Saute onions in olive oil until they're tender and transfer them to a big pot. Saute zucchini until tender and add that to the pot. Saute eggplant until tender and add that to the pot. Add peeled, seeded, diced tomatoes and red wine vinegar and cook until they thicken. Add them to the pot and heat everything through to combine flavors.
3. Zucchini-basil frittata: Saute sliced onion and shredded zucchini in a nonstick skillet until the zucchini is no longer moist. Stir the mixture into a bowl of beaten eggs along with grated Parmesan cheese and torn basil leaves. Return the mixture to the skillet and cook, stirring, until the egg mixture sets like soft scrambled eggs. Run the pan under a broiler just until it browns on top.
4. Zuni Cafe zucchini pickles: Slice the zucchini about 1/16 of an inch thick. Combine in a bowl with a sliced onion and salt generously. Cover with ice water and set aside until the zucchini is softened, about 1 hour. Rinse and pat dry. Combine vinegar, sugar, dry mustard, mustard seeds and turmeric in a small saucepan and simmer for 3 minutes. Set aside until just warm to the touch. Pour the brine mixture over the zucchini, transfer to jars, seal tightly and refrigerate for at least a day.
5. Braised zucchini with mint and lemon: Braise the zucchini in olive oil with chopped onion, garlic, lemon zest and mint. When you remove the lid and turn the heat up to high, add more lemon juice and cook until the liquid is reduced to a syrup. Cool to warm room temperature and stir in more mint and toasted pine nuts.
6. Zucchini and pine nut salad: This is another very simple (and delicious) adaptation of a basic technique. Salt zucchini as in the bulgur salad and combine it with minced red onion and pine nuts and dress with olive oil and lemon juice. Stir in shredded basil just before serving.
7. Zucchini in agrodolce: Cut the zucchini into large pieces. Heat olive oil and a whole peeled garlic clove until the garlic begins to brown. Add the cut-up zucchini and cook until the zucchini begins to brown, add white vinegar, sugar, toasted pine nuts, softened golden raisins and a chopped anchovy fillet and cook until the liquid reduces to a syrup. Remove from the heat, stir in chopped mint and season to taste with salt and black pepper. This can be served either warm or cold.
8. Calabacitas con crema: Cut an onion into thick slices and cook slowly until golden. Add sliced garlic, shredded roasted, peeled, seeded poblano and zucchini cut into thick slabs and cook, covered, until the zucchini is tender. Add Mexican crema, increase the heat to medium, and cook until thickened. Just before serving, stir in chopped cilantro.
9. Garlic and herb-stuffed zucchini: Make a flavorful tomato sauce. Cut zucchini in half lengthwise and use a melon baller to carefully remove enough of the flesh from the center to make a boat. Season lightly with salt and steam until tender. Grind fresh bread to crumbs in a food processor with basil and garlic. Pour into a bowl and stir in chopped anchovies and toasted pine nuts. Pour the tomato sauce into a lightly oiled gratin dish and spoon the breadcrumb mixture into the zucchini, mounding it slightly on top. Drizzle with olive oil and bake until the tops of the breadcrumbs are browned. Serve hot or at room temperature.
A look at some types
There are hundreds of varieties of summer squash sold as zucchini, but they break down into two main families. Though they can be used interchangeably, each has different strengths. -- Russ Parsons
The familiar deep green cylindrical zucchini tends to have the best flavor, and the darker the zucchini, the better it is. But the flesh can be soft and breaks down when cooked.
The light gray-green slightly bulbous zucchini, which is common at Latino and Middle Eastern markets, has a milder taste but denser, firmer flesh that holds together during cooking.
You may also sometimes see round zucchini, such as Ronde de Nice and Tondo di Piacenza. These are not technically zucchini but summer pumpkins. Nevertheless, they have firm flesh and mild flavor and are very good for stuffing.


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Hannes Norrvide's Lust for Youth started off as a lo-fi project, with a murky sound loosely indebted to early synth-pop and darkwave. Skeletal synth lines bounced against each other, assisted by strident drum machines and Norrvide's lonesome cries, always too distant to grasp whatever emotions he was trying to process. Drenched in reverb, his first recordings seemed to create a comfort zone for their own architect; as a listener, you'd have to patiently work your way through it. Occasionally, you'd remain locked outside.
In a relatively short time, a dim light began to surface from that crust of noise. Compared to the smothering atmospheres of Solar Flare (2011) and Growing Seeds (2012), last year's Perfect View showed minor signs of readability. The basic formula remained in place, but thanks to a less obfuscating production, the album sounded warmer and less monotone. LFY's songs were still bleak, but less unnervingly opaque and perhaps more in tune with the rave component of their gigs.
Returned in the studio as a trio with live collaborator Loke Rahbek (runner of Copenhagen label Posh Isolation and member of Sexdrome/Vår) and Malthe Fisher (here guitarist and producer), the band has made a big leap forward in terms of accessibility. 'Unrecognisable as a Lust for Youth record on first listen', suggests the press release. It's hard to disagree, if only because of the polished production, the expanded sonic palette and its ubiquitous summery feel: International is brilliantly pop in substance and spirit. Drawing on Eighties synth-pop influences, LFY have been successful in forging sticky hooks which make comparisons with Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys all the more accurate.
'Illume', the brightest cut off the album, with its shimmery synths and suffused acoustic passages, sounds like something you'd play on a morning ride to the beach (without necessarily being a retired goth). Norrvide's trademark sulky vocals seem out of their element at first, but gain force in the exchange with the cocksure chant of the chorus. It's charming and hilarious at the same time. 'Epoetin Alfa', featuring Elias Bender-Rønnenfelt (Iceage/Vår)'s lonesome guitar, is easily one of the highlights on the record, alongside the stunning 'New Boys' and 'Armida', all convincing experiments which blend the bleak sensibility of LFY with the most inviting synth-pop.
The songs on the album were reportedly inspired by the rootlessness and excesses of touring, but no matter which bits of the lyrics you'll manage to discern, melodrama never sucks the fun out of it. 'New Boys', nodding to Pet Shop Boys via Moz's lessons of self-indulgence, it's melancholic in tone, but remains a booming, incredibly catchy dance song. 'Armida', where razor-sharp, clanking drum machines and organic vocal loops meet the glacial timbre of Copenhagen peer Soho Rezanejad, maintains the level of addictiveness.
LFY's records used to feel particularly lonely. With all these additional voices scattered over the course of its 35 minutes, International feels more 'crowded' and inclusive. 'Lungomare' is a delicate atmospheric tune, a three-note reverie embellished by the occasional field recording (children playing by the seaside) and a bright guitar. Recruiting a young woman to recite a poem in Italian over it might seem a pretentious trick to weird you out, but consider that to my Italian ears, 'Lungomare' sounds perhaps even weirder, in light of the singer's detached interpretation of the plot-line (take "The boy reaches for the other boy and holds his head/chest against chest/'I'm the son of God'/The other one nods/he knows/I love everyone and I never saw the sea inside the sea'"). With the exception of the enchanting 'After Touch', the first fully formed, tenderhearted LFY guitar ballad, no other standouts emerge. 'Running' and the instrumentals are preoccupied to recreate nocturnal, cinematic atmospheres which surely make it up for the band's murkiest side, but don't add much to what's been already disseminated in recent years. The record needed its joints, so to speak.
Considering that LFY have been consistently releasing new material for the past five years, we can only expect them to keep following this rewarding direction and come back with another killer pop record. For the moment, you've got all summer to wear this one out.
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The season of excess is here again. Between cookies, gifts, cards and travel, the holidays often mean a bit too much of a good thing. For many of us, that can lead to the post-holiday slump. We've eaten too much, sat in the car too long, have more knickknacks and ill-fitting clothes to shove in our closets … and where does it leave us? Usually not better off than we started.
I'm hoping that a holiday season emphasizing a "less is more" mentality can help solve this problem.
Here are 7 ideas on how to put your holiday on a green diet … and make it more satisfying in the process:
1. Give non-material gifts.
Most of us don't need more "things." Really. Think about buying people experiences instead: restaurant gift cards, tickets to a museum, concert or sporting event, surfing or cooking lessons, or a plane ticket to visit you (and an offset for the trip). These items surely won't end up in the back of a closet and have virtually no packaging to be thrown away.
2. Organize a media swap.
If your family is up for it, you could also organize a media swap. Find your 5 favorite movies, books or CDs with an explanation of why they are so meaningful and bring them to your family gathering. Everyone gets to go home with something new to watch, read or listen to (before they mail it back to you within a few months), you get to learn a little about your family members in the process and no one has to buy a thing. Everyone wins!
3. Or better yet, give to charity instead.
Every year I look at all the gifts piled around my feet and end up feeling a little down. So if you are having trouble finding a gift for the person that has everything, consider giving instead to someone that doesn't. Charitable donations to a friend or family member's favorite charity in their name can be a great gift.
4. Ditch the wrapping paper.
According the Clean Air Council, an additional 5 million tons of waste is generated during the holidays, 4 million tons of which is wrapping paper and shopping bags. If you do end up wrapping gifts, consider using an alternative to traditional wrapping paper: the Sunday comics, magazine pages, old maps, calendar pages (you probably already have one with 11 of the months to spare!) or pieces of fabric. If you have to buy wrapping paper, avoid buying the kind with glossy foil, because that kind can't be recycled.
5. Celebrate with root vegetables.
I love a good Christmas cookie. Or 20. I think we all have been guilty of eating too much during the holidays, and I don't think Americans will be ending that trend anytime soon. So, since we probably can't do too much about the amount of food, the least we can do is try to improve the kind of food. Just like any other time of year, the best ways to green your food choices are to eliminate animal products, eat in-season produce, and choose options with the least packaging (one big bag of dried beans vs. 10 cans of prepared beans).
6. Switch to e-cards.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans send 1.9 BILLION Christmas cards each year. Everyone loves getting mail from friends and family, but your wishes for holiday cheer and that annual newsletter will probably be just as well-received in an inbox rather than a mailbox.
7. Cut the power bill.
Choosing LED lights to line your house or wrap around your tree can make a big dent in carbon emissions and energy costs. According to the Electric Power Research Institute, if LED bulbs had been available to movie characters in the late 1980s, Clark Griswold could have cut his power bill from $2,400 to just $50 for his (best in the neighborhood) 25,000-bulb outdoor display.
And if all the seasonal mini-lights in the United States were switched from standard incandescent bulbs to LEDs, the energy savings would exceed $250 million and carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 400,000 tons.
Because LEDs last about 10 times longer, the lights your child sees as an infant could be the same ones he's helping to hang up as a teenager. And an investment in a light timer will help to make sure you aren't sending holiday cheer to a fast-asleep neighborhood at 3 a.m.
While it might be hard to make all these changes at once (especially ones that involve long-standing traditions), just making one or two changes could make a big difference. And after the holiday excess is over, try talking to your family about how to make new green traditions together.
What will you be doing to have a more eco-friendly holiday season this year?
-- Text by Margaret Southern, Cool Green Science Blog


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SEC sees it as a victory, but you have think about the $13 billion dollars profit Goldman Sachs has made last year. The settlement was a good message to firms who may be on the edge of fraud or illegal activity. Watch the interview video here:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to pay a $550 million settlement on claims it misled investors about collateralized debt obligations linked to subprime mortgages.
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 17, 2010 –The new Securities and Exchange Commission unit that obtained a $550 million settlement from Goldman Sachs in a fraud suit is pressing ahead with investigations into wrongdoing during the financial crisis by big banks, but is also turning its attention to exotic financial products that might be used to harm average investors, officials said.
The Structured and New Products Unit, one of several specialty groups in the agency's enforcement division, filed the landmark suit against Goldman and later negotiated with the powerful Wall Street bank's lawyers on a settlement. A source familiar with the unit's work, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that while it is looking at wrongdoing by other big firms, it's unclear whether the Goldman case will be replicated with other Wall Street firms.
Agency veteran Kenneth Lench, chief of the 40-person unit, said the agency is looking to examine exotic financial products that might be used to deceive or defraud ordinary investors. The investors allegedly defrauded by Goldman were Scottish and German banks.
"While the Goldman case — which is the first case out of the unit — involved larger institutional victims, we also are looking at products that are marketed and sold to retail or less sophisticated investors," Lench said in an interview Friday. "We are looking forward, looking around the corner for what's next. We assign small teams of people to do a deep dive into a new product that hasn't been around all that long."
Historically, the SEC has launched probes based on a specific tip about wrongdoing at a company or when a whistleblower comes forward. The Structured and New Products Unit will sometimes be more aggressive, scanning the marketplace for securities that seem unduly risky for investors, then examining those products and the companies that might be trading them.
For example, the group could target securities that have been touted by financial firms as ultra-safe for investors who have been burned by the ups and downs of financial markets.
A few months ago, when the SEC filed its suit against Goldman, it would have been hard to anticipate that the unit would obtain a settlement so soon and be free to focus on other cases. The Wall Street bank at first slammed the SEC and said it had done nothing wrong.
Sources close to the case said that about a month after the SEC filed its fraud suit, however, Goldman changed its attitude and began to seem much more serious about considering a settlement.
At the time, Goldman was facing a new Justice Department criminal probe and harsh questions from Congress about its conduct. Televised hearings put senior Goldman executives, including chief executive Lloyd Blankfein, through the gantlet. The SEC case wiped billions of dollars off the firm's market value.
A source familiar with Goldman's deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an internal matter said the bank determined it was important to put the SEC case behind it and preserve its reputation, despite the costs involved.
On Friday, Goldman's stock closed up 95 cents, or 0.7 percent, after rising several dollars in morning trading on the news of the settlement. The gains came despite a broad market sell-off that weighed on financial shares.
To win the settlement, the Structured Products unit not only had to reach an agreement with Goldman but also had to convince the agency's five commissioners. Just as they had when the SEC filed the lawsuit against Goldman, the two Republican commissioners voted against the settlement, according to a source familiar with the vote who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the proceeding was not public. But SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro and the two Democratic commissioners voted for it.
The SEC team moved on two fronts in recent months, building a court case against Goldman while negotiating with the firm over a settlement. The agency wanted Goldman to pay more than a fine. It wanted the bank to admit some sort of guilt and to undertake remedial actions. Such prescriptive settlements are being embraced by the SEC more commonly than in the past. The agency required a series of changes to how Bank of America runs its business in a settlement earlier this year.
SEC officials said they expect both Goldman's statement of regret and the remedial actions to serve as a template for future settlements. The SEC has long faced criticism that its settlements allow firms to pay a fine but avoid any sort of culpability.
Under the settlement, Goldman must review the role and responsibilities of company lawyers and compliance executives in the preparation of marketing materials for mortgage securities. Goldman employees in the mortgage business must receive additional education and training. Those changes put more pressure on Goldman to increase the vetting of disclosures that accompany products the bank sells to clients.
The deal let both the SEC and Goldman claim a share of victory.
The SEC was able to secure its largest penalty ever against a financial firm, make Goldman acknowledge it had made mistakes and strike at an issue at the heart of the financial crisis.
For Goldman, the company was able to put the matter behind it, pay a fine that won't make a big dent in its bottom line and avoid officially admitting wrongdoing.


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I am the proud owner of TC Firehawk 54 Cal. Muzzle Loader that does group well even at 50 yards. The ignition system has been up- graded to utilize a 209 primer and I have been using TC 250 Gr. XTP Mag Sabots. I have also been using 100 Gr. pre-formed Pyrodex Pellets. Does anyone shoot this firearm and can anyone sugest a specific load / projectile that has grouped well. A rock solid Bushnell Elite riflescope is also mounted on my TC.
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Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day and Number to Know.
Word of the Day
Recalcitrant rih-KAL-sih-truhnt (adj.) Obstinately defiant of authority or restraint; difficult to manage or operate; resistant -- www.merriam-webster.com
Web Site of the Day
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Number to Know
$6.6 billion: The amount of money spent at kids clothing stores in August 2005 (the most recent numbers available). – U.S. Census Bureau


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My seats are close to the field. I think this game may have been as loud as I've heard any game at Reliant from start to finish. You could sense the energy from how it sounded during pregame. It was amazing.
And I think we could get even louder.
The above picture is one my friend Mike took from the field of my bestest friend Diane and me. I should have had multiple personal fouls called on me because I accidentally hit Diane in the head twice during the game. Hard. I was being a little too overly enthusiastic.
[Update 10:00 PM. I just discovered a nice sized bruise on the back of my right hand. I'm pretty sure I got that from bopping Diane in the head. I am not kidding around about the enthusiastic fandoming going on.]
I'd love just to be plain old happy with this game. If the Texans can clock control, and run on a good Atlanta run defense, they can run on anybody. If they can hold a good balanced Atlanta defense to 10 points, you have to like their chances going forward.
However, it is hard to watch WR Andre Johnson, CB Jason Allen, P Brett Hartmann leave the game due to injuries. LB Brian Cushing seems to believe he's okay after leave the game with a leg injury. Please. Please be okay.
Not enough bubble wrap in the world for this team.
Your thoughts? Questions? Display of various emotions?