Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It really is and the proof is in its campaign against the new co-Chairman of the Conservative Party, Grant Shapps.
These attacks have been centred around Shapps changing his Wiki entry.
The latest is having a go at him for changing a grade he got in education. What this disgraceful article fails to mention is that he was correcting a grade that someone had entered that was too HIGH!!! This was perhaps a simple error by the person who made the entry but the fact is that there has been a campaign on Wiki to undermine Grant Shapps with smears egged on by the Guardian with repeated attacks.
Below are some of the blatent lies and smears entered on Wiki that Grant Shapps has been attacked by the Guardian for correcting:
...that he is a Jehovah's Witness
...that is is agnostic
...that he drunkenly drove his car into a wall
These are out and out lies that Grant Shapps was right to correct.
What this indicates is the desperation and moral bankruptcy of the Guardian and many of those who oppose the government. There are further indications of how rotten at the core Britain's left are at the TUC conference with the sale of party packs to celebrate the death of our greatest 20th century prime minister.
A moral and truth free zone exists at the Guardian and in many of the institutions of the political left.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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wikipedia is notorious for inaccuracies, the guardian will jump on such things as will all newspapers.
if it had been a politician on the left the mail and express would each have had a feeding frenzy.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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...He (GS) took great steps to conceal his identity as he 'emended' his Wiki entry. Several web-sites, now ostensibly controlled and run by his wife and eighty-five year(-ish) old mother, of course 'he' does not gain from the income from these sites. [A minor miracle in itself.]
Google have 'down-listed' these sites because of their content. (from memory the sites were offering something that went against agreed policy)
He is said to have offered (He, because the running of these sites has not always been the burden of his wife and mother.) software for about £200 that he guaranteed would bring in a monthly income well in excess of this...each and every month...more 'magic'.
P.S.
Talking of The Guardian and knowing that the Bicentenary of Charles Dickens elicits some interest from the readers of these pages. There is something of CD's non-novel writing work (with hyper-links to examples) in the readers letter below...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/11/dickens-words-wisdom-weekend
Under the above link there is mention of 'Tory' which is not entirely coincidental.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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But the attack is not so much about the inaccuracies it is because Shapps has been correcting them, a different matter. Anyway I am sure that many politicians of the left will have incorrect Wiki entries but it is the Guardian who are doing what they are doing and Shapps who is having a sustained attack on him in this way.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Why then Baz, did he not employ honesty to the 'needful' amendments? Why hide his identity, why confuse the issue with spurious rationality?
It was said of Michael Howard that he possessed "Something of the night..." It is plain to me that this GS, is possessed of, "Something of the crepuscular." [pronounced - kreep-uscular?]
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Let's cut-the-carp...
"Going under the name Michael Green and casting himself as an internet marketing guru, Shapps in 2007 claimed audiences could "make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back" - if they spent $200 buying his bespoke software."
From...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/02/grant-shapps-google-howtocorp-adsenseIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Let`s not only cut- the- crap cut the gobbledygook and the filibusting......................
Flashman`s 1st `rescramble`.........finali.....
Registered: Jun 2011
Posts: 1802
8 September 2012 - 11:15am#6
Sacked Ministers Knighted.............Sacked Ministers to receive redundance payoff of
£ 250,000...
Cameron mouse factor.....
Grant Shapps new Tory Chairman`s wife,mother and sister banned by Google for
infringing copy rights.
This will be of embarrassment to Cameron and other senior Tories as the tory party
have been `courting`Google in a similar fashion as they did with the Murdoch
tribe...........
.........to be continued.........
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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There's a whole industry out there trying to get websites to the top of Google's search list, very important if your business depends on the digital equivalent of 'footfall' to be successful.
I suspect the charge of infringing copyrights is a red herring (that would be down to the original authors to pursue) - what they did is being done by many others but Google don't like it because it stops them making money by themselves charging people to be top of the list.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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While web-sites do desire to increase their 'footfall', to increase awareness and sales, this was not, repeat NOT!! what was happening here.
What is at issue here is more akin to that which one of the members of this very forum rightly complained of, (Jeane).
This was 'scraping' about for content that would help in fraudulently representing one web-site worthy of Google advertising revenue. No better than a lay-about purporting to be an old-soldier in order to gain increased donations.
As the latter example only harms individuals of true worth, so the former only harms the owners of every other web-site. A con for a Con, indeed. Nothing suits a 'loophole' more than an 'ass-hole' and visa-versa.
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Brian Dixon
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unfortunetly i dont read either.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"A moral and truth free zone exists at the Guardian and in many of the institutions of the political left."
So concludes the rant in #1.
Question: What could you do, if you wished to hide your identity, but could not afford either make-up or costume?
Answer below...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/21/grant-shapps-posed-web-guruIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 1369 on elite greedy pigs also deals with this issue.
# 1 jumped the gun to protect the desperation and moral bankruptcy of the right wing.
.........there is more to come on Mr Shapps...........
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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The Shapps topic has indeed overlapped on this and the elite greedy thread, more or less at the same time of editing.
On that thread also the Guardian Sep. 2 article is mentioned on how Shapps has violated Google policies to scrape and plagiarise other people's online works and garner money through ads.
He's been selling software to other people to carry out these practices, so it'd appear, while claiming to be an internet guru or something.
Is this the Tory chairman???
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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This thread would not have appeared on here, had it been a smear against G B. and not G S.
Smears are never spread by the right wing papers, is it?
Eagerly awaiting reply to #5.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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If you want to get to page 1 of Google, ask Shapps
He'll sell the software how to plagiarise
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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The ironic thing about the Guardian is that they push their politics (anti-growth, environmental meltdown, soak the rich, more wind farms to save the planet whilst nobody else is, class warfare, hate anyone earning more than £40,000 except Polly Toynbee who earns lots more than that etc. etc.) and yet has the temerity to publish reports like this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/22/living-standards-report-divided-britain
I don't think they do irony on the Grauniad. It's the BBC's favourite journal (face it, the BBC can really be considered Guardian TV) and yet are unable to see that the policies they espouse help to to lead to a situation where we are set for a long and difficult economic depression for the next few decades.
Of course we all know that the tory-lite party headed by Cameron rather like the policies that the chatteratti in Guardian-read circles believe in.
However much he denies this you have to admit that he carries out these liberal policies to the letter - pro-Europe, totally sold on the environmental doomsters and an obsession with overtly liberal social policies much to the detriment of the wider economy.
Laughably Cameron's idea of growth come down to two things. They consist of the first which is the idea of making it easier for people to build extensions on their house.
The second is to create a green economy.
The second is the most alarming. Put simply it will bankrupt us all.
Living standards are set to fall even lower than they are now due to a flight of our meagre manufacturing base due to high energy costs, higher energy bills for us all leading to more premature deaths if this winter is as severe as the last few as well as rolling black-outs as the much trumpeted green energy sector fails to produce, well, energy.
It borders on the treasonable.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"an obsession with overtly liberal social policies much to the detriment of the wider economy"
[yes, many points could be made, perhaps one at a time]
So, there is such a thing as 'the wider economy'.
-Where did that come from, and when?
Where was it before the Big Bang where did it go after?
Was it around when there were mass redundancies and sackings, the closing down of one industry after another - at one end of the scale, and Hedge-Fund gains were soaring, board-room pay and percs were going through the ceiling and Stock-Market profits were stratospheric, when Banks could do no wrong - at the other end. Was it on it's holidays when politics and the media began obsessing over 'The City' and the eternal wonders of the trans-global nature of twenty-first century Business?
You are not alone Philip in following, and being utterly reliant upon, a popular brand of economic sat-nav. And just as long as you all stick together and continue to sing from the one hymn sheet, who is to know that Newcastle Under Lyme is not 'really' the Newcastle Upon Tyne you were looking for?
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Tom, Hedge-Funds didn't soar, and Stock-Market profits were never stratospheric.
Being pyramid schemes, they only seemingly gave massive yields in money. But in reality, as a reality-economist will know - and I deem you to be among them - these aforementioned schemes are only speculation-driven, they function only as a fake thing to bring in bogus profits until these schemes collapse.
They have nothing to do with the real productive economy, nor with real figures, but are totally fictitious, giving fake figures equating to sums of money that do not exist in the economy. Paper garbage that has driven many a small investor into financial ruin (shares). Whole banks went bankrupt on hedge-fund style investments and toxic debt.
Bankers always got their personal harvest out of it.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Tom I've tried Google-translate but no luck there with your last post. What has Newcastle got to do with the price of eggs?
During the seventies we were on the verge of becoming a banana republic. Cap in hand to the IMF, unemployment, nuclear free zones amongst other bonkers labour party weirdness.
The last government de-regulated the financial sector as the labour party succumbed to the flashlights and glamour of the trappings of power. They believed they could do no wrong.
Back to the specific issue - unless the government wake up and get back into the real world we really are stuffed.
The green economy is not only a symptom of the vacuity of ideas from all three parties it is possibly at the heart of the problem but most people are too short sighted to realise this.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"Finance in Frankfurt is more knitted into the wider fabric of the economy..."*
Is this not the way forward if the 'wider economy' is to get the boost it needs?
*
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/21/frankfurt-glimpse-idealised-financial-sectorIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.