NEWS - 20th MAY 2013

BATING WEEKEND

After our first Bating Weekend ( May 10th - 12th )  which was fully booked,  I am delighted by all the wonderful e mails and phone calls from many attending about how much they enjoyed the weekend.
I was a little aprehensive at first, as this being our first weekend of this kind I was unsure what others would make of it,  and it seems it was all AOK.  
Similar weekends in the USA have venues with outdoor pools, and are hosted in stunning locations like Florida and California and the weather is on their side,  A hot tub would also be nice but as it is, this is the UK and we do not have that stuff and it didn;'t make any difference to the weekend.

I certainly have a few things in mind to add and change for future Bating Weekends and in August ( 16th - 18th ) when our Mid Summer Bate weekend takes place,  I shall have a few new items on offer, one being a day at the naturist each and another a naked drive to the countryside in the evening ( pray for long hot days and nights...)  

So big thankyou to all those who made the weekend so much fun and thanks for those who offered input and assistance.  Until the next time, I shall be bating happily iomagining the next time we are all together again.

Happy Bating Guys.
 

ROW WITH SOUTHERN ELECTRIC


After some heated words with Southern Electric after their complete and utter cock up with my gas and electric accounts after I joined them at Christmas,  where they did not set up my Direct Debits to pay monthly instalments so I would not have a massive bill,  and where I ended up with 2 massive bills - all I was offered was tons of apologies for making the mistakes but no financial recompense.  As far as I am concerned, when a company offers apologies, it means nothing at all as we all know nothing at all will change.  Only when they have to pay financially for a mistake will they ever learn how much damage their incompetance has caused them, and I will not rest until I get this sorted out.

If I have to cancel an event here,  I offer a few free days as compensation, especially if they have already booked and paid their coach or train fare.  For many reasons, if something is wrong here at Hammy Hall; and for some reason, we have to make some changes, then I will offer something like a few days or a free meal as compensation,  as this keeps the customer 'on side and happy',  and will hopefully mean he will come again in the future.  Southern Electric - right at the start and before I have even paid them a penny - has made me absolutely hate their company and hate the staff who are so caught up in corporate stategies and not being allowed their own opinion and this does not make me happy at all.  They have one mega pissed off new customer. 

It seems that Corporate Power doesn't give a damn about people, only profit, and considering the billions being screwed from the public in over prices utilities,  this kind of corporate abuse puts me on edge and makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, as I prepare for a fight.  I will not give in and will not stand by and allow this corporate giant to bully me and I will stand and fight.  If it means going to court and paying them £10 a month, I will, as this was their mistake - completely - and twice they screwed it up and twice they did nothing about contacting me to get things put right, and it was only when I saw these two massive bills that I was even aware they had had a proble, as there had not been a ingle word from them concerning the Direct Debits. 

If I go to the ombudsman, this will cost the company thousands,  and yet they could have offered me just £200 and I would have been happy.

Seem,s corporate power relies oin the fact that most people do not bother and hope it goes away and they get paid because of their heavy handed treatment of customers.
M... and that does not rest well with me.  I shall contact the ombudsman and I shall be taking this firther.
 

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GUNS IN AMERICA  -  THE CLOCK IS TICKING

 this article is not finnished and needs editing. Sunday 10th March 2013  

I have always been adamantly against  the American culture of guns.   Back in the 80's I lived in USA for a number of years, travelling and living all over the place,  and I rarely came into contact with fire arms although knew people who had them and on occasions I would hold one - and was always amazed how heavy it was.  I was aware of how powerful the gun lobby was and aware how widespread the ownership of guns was.     I remember a TV commercial for a bank that promised you a hunting rifle FOR FREE if you simply opened an account  and was horrified at the ease at how so many people acquired a lethal weapon. 
 

Watching the  news  of tragic  killings where dozens have been killed;-  Columbine High School where 25 were killed in 1999;-  Newtown School where 20 - mostly children between 6 and 7 years of age  and a couple of adults  were killed in December 2012;-  and how Anders Behring Breivik killed  77 young people in 2011 in Norway;-  and Michael Robert Ryan who killed 16 and injured a futher 15 iin Hungerford, UK in 1987  and I was convinced that guns should be banned.  

But I have had a change of heart of late.

What needs changing is the education around owning and using  a gun of any kind and stricter control - MUCH STRICTER CONTROL over who is allowed to own and use a gun and strict guidelines need putting in place and strict maintenance of those guidelines. 

We live in a society that disenfranchises many people. Where the state - Government - Councils use heavy handed powers to bully, threaten and frighten the general public while trying to make out they are just the peace keepers and that they are the  hard working people 'in the front line' - and many TV shows try and spin the truth and make us believe what is fast becoming clear to the masses.  The police are incompetant and out of control.   Too many innocent people are harrassed, bullied and intimidated by the very people who are suppose to be protecting them and too many innocent people are being murdered by the police in the USA;    blaming the gun culture is not the answer.

The police - in far too many instances - are out of control. 

Governments cutting back on health and education while spending billions on the war effort against a terrorist we and the USA have created in our mad rush to claim oil and gas - has caused the tipping point between who is the good guy and who is the bad guy - who is in the right and who is not, and the lines between have blurred dramatically in the last couple of decades and we - the people in the west,  are faced with a mountain of spin ( or lies ) from governments - and we buy it hook line and sinker.  
 

We are the good guys and those Arabs in the desert are the bad guys.  The white folks are good and the black folks are not,  and the same can be said against any minority group or anyone who takes a stand for what is right and that may differs to the way politicians and governments see things,  and then the police are sent in to quieten dissent and sadly in the USA,  guns have caused innocent people to be murdered by the police, or tasered repeatedly or even pepper sprayed against all legal guidelines,  and too many people feel powerless and disenfranchised by the state and powers that be.

America introduced draconian terrorist laws  after the attack on the Twin Towers - The Patriot Act  ( Twin Towers alternative truths here  -1- - 2 -  - 3 -   - 4 - )  which really should have been aimed at their own corporations and the power they weild,-   for it is not the Arab or any other foe that Americans should fear ( and it is not a lot different here in the UK ) it is their own government and the corporate power that rules over and makes policy - and people like George Bush and Obama,  Tony Blair and even Cameron, are scared of the power and control weilded by these mighty giants,-, , and governments do nothing but roll over and play along and we, the people,  are then at risk.

Corporate power does not care about you or I.   It cares about power - and power comes from money - and money comes from screwing the system any way it can, be it through bribing politicians to give huge billion $ tax breaks ;-  Allowing banks to completely fuck the whole system up, claim help from the tax payer and then CONTINUE to fuck things up, take ENORMOUS bonuses and STILL give it all the arrogance and condescention to those who have been massively hurt by their actions, and the governments have done - and continue to do - nothing - absolutely nothing, but talk and suggest and talk some more and end up doing nothing.

The truth is, the government are scared to take on big business because big business has the power. 

Terrorism in the USA is not seen as just the Arabs or any other dangerous country that hates America;-   it is seen as URBAN TERRORISM - and that means you and I - anyone who stands up and opposes the bullshit lies and opposes the manner in which the government - working to support and back-up corporate power - and where we the innocent population who see our lifestyle going down the toilet;- our pension halved because of irresponsible thieving bankers;-  our food full of horse meat and dangerous chemicals;-  thousands of jobs gone and homes re possessed and families put on the streets so the banks can rake in even more money;-   feel we need to take a stand and have our voice heard, and we are then called Urban Terrorists.  The police and government then  spin the story to defend themselves and innocent people are rounded up and put into FEMA CAMPS - ( see more here  - and here ) which are basically concentration camps for the masses who stand up and show some balls - and appose the bullshit, oppose the system that is so one sided for corporate power and against the normal person in the street.   Any man, woman and child who is sick of the way things are done,  will be rounded up and put away.

Here in Dorset, Poole town council used  Anti Terrorism laws to use private investigators to follow a family and photograph them because they doubted they lived in the correct catchment area for their children to attend certain schools, and this use of the Anti Terrorism laws is unacceptable and an  outragous abuse of the systen to suit itself, and I was pleased that the Poole Town Council was eventually reigned in by central government when this came out,  and it was told that this was not an acceptable usage of the Terrorism laws.  But this kind of abuse continues all over the place and it is NOT about people any more, it is about targets, financial targets and budgets and control.  Control of the people to keep things running along just honky dorey while the powers that be screw us blind.

The same is happenign in the USA but in a much larger manner, where the police and killing autistic people in their homes because they consider them a threat - where elderly and physically handicapped people have been brutally shot and killed by the police and where nothing is done about it and where Pepper Spray is used against innocent people sitting in the park by over zealous and agressive bully boy policeman who throw their weight and uniform around as if they were God,  and the mass of people are awakening to the truth of what is going on and arming themselves with guns of all sorts for when ' it happens.'  

And by the look of things, it is going to happen real soon, or so the authorities think,  otherwise why on God's earth has the USA got over 800 concentration ( sorry FEMA ) camps open and ready for urban terrorists.  They obviously know something we do not and the clock is ticking and we, the people  are seriously at risk from the very authorities who are designed and paid to protect and watch over us and NOT to bully, damn and destroy us.    

The more you investigate what is going on  in the USA and Europe,  the more frightening the whole thing looks and the more draconian it becomes.  

The other day in B&Q there was a confusion as to what exactly was on sale and we sent for the manager who argued with us that we were mistaken, and when we pointed out how in error she was and how utterly confusing and incorrect she was,  there was absolutely no way she was going to admit fault and no way she was going to accept that the customer was correct and that the mighty B&Q might just have got it wrong - which in this case it had,  and it was frightening how blocked and brain washed she was - how absolutely stuck and rigid she was, that she was right and we were wrong and there was absolutely no room for a new vision of truth.  
This is how it will be done. This is exactly how brain washing of staff and people is done and where we imprison our minds through this kind of behaviour and how millions of jews were murdered during WW2.  By those too afraid to question and just blindly following orders.

Well my mind is free and I choose to investigate everything and will always be open to alternative viewpoints and these days,  I would tell my American friends to get properly educated - in depth, and then arm themselves to the teeth because one day, their own government is going to turn on them and then all hell will break loose and it will be ugly civil war. The people against private corporate power.  The people against the government who is financed and run by private corporate power.  The people against the police and armed forces which will all be financed and run by private corporate power.  The people will be rounded up and put in FEMA Camps and the Land of The Free will no longer exist and by then, it will be too late.

Please eductae yourself, There is a ton of things on the internet or listen to Dark Ciuty Radio and many other superb priovate and radical stations that are not as crazy as you may think.  Pay attention and do not just roll over and play dead or you damned well will be dead.  Get involved, wake up and take notice,  for it is happening even here in the UK and Europe and the world is fast becoming a very different and more dengerous place because of the very powers that are suppose to be protecting us - our government, armed forces and police. ~
 

We were having  a laugh on the IPod and made this quick piece of music about Hamilton Hall.  

See what you think... ha ha 

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The horse meat scandal in Europe has gone global.

Earlier this week, Swedish mega-retailer Ikea announced that it was withdrawing sales of Swedish meatballs in Thailand, Hong Kong and the Dominican Republic after finding horse meat in these. Ikea will also stop selling sausage which were also found to contain horse meat (traced to a Swedish supplier, Familjen Dafgard) in the U.K., France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Russia has found horse meat in sausages from Austria.

Now, in South Africa, other types of meat, including donkey, are being found in packages labeled to contain beef.

Scientists from South Africa’s Stellenbosch University say that “species which were not declared on the product label” comprised 68 percent of the 139 minced meats, burger patties, deli meats, sausages and dried meats that they tested. Specifically, the scientists found soy, gluten, chicken and pork in products labeled as something else, as well as “unconventional species” including donkey, goat and water buffalo meat.

“Our findings raise significant concern on the functioning of the meat supply chain in South Africa,” says Prof. Louw Hoffman of the Stellenbosch University Department of Animal Sciences. While “local regulations” to protect consumers do exist, they are clearly not being observed or enforced.

The meat products tested came from supermarkets, butcher shops and other retail outlets. Burgers, lunch meats and sausages were the most commonly mislabeled.

Shoprite Holdings, the biggest food retailer in Africa, states that it runs routine DNA tests on the products in its meat departments. A spokesman for South African’s health department, Maja Popo, told Bloomberg that an investigation would focus not so much on retailers but on slaughterhouses and meat processors.

Sales of frozen burgers in the U.K. have fallen as the scandal has dragged on and officials rush, or say they are rushing, to investigate. While local butchers have seen some increases in sales, farmers have found themselves “even angrier,” fearful that the scandal will result in more red tape and regulations for them to abide by while supermarkets and even food processing plants muddle their way through the uproar.

Some are shrugging and saying, what’s so bad about a little horse meat? It is a huge travesty that, all around the world, products are not accurately labeled, especially in regard to animals and meat. What if you have dietary restrictions about eating certain types of meat such as pork due to your religion?

'We have all been in abusive relationships, and sometimes we were the one being abused.'
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