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The Rainbow Bank: Our Tolerance Tested
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Friday, 22 January 2010. We hear much about the abuse of Western power and the exploitation of Muslim communities around the World. Whilst one must accept that an accord should be arranged between the Palestinians and the Israelis and indeed this is in the interest of us all, it should also be remembered that Islam is the new kid on the block. Currently Islam plays the victim and justifies it's violence as the only way of expressing it's view. How many countries have a religious police, which is nothing ...
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The Rainbow Bank: Snow
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Thursday, 7 January 2010. Well people we have snow, with more forecast over the next two weeks. We don't often get this stuff in Britain, so when it happens, it ends up being a national disaster! In Alnwick we currently have about 26 centimetres in the town, that's ten inches to you civilised people. The children love it, no school! Far too dangerous for teachers to go to work. As a result parents must take time off work to look after their little horrors, compounding the economic results of a little snow.
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The Rainbow Bank: Letter to America
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Saturday, 30 January 2010. An open letter to all right minded Americans who feel that we are in a period of uncertainty as to the future of the English Speaking Peoples. Ever since Eisenhower, America has been pushing Britain to form closer ties with mainland Europe, a position that some 70% of the population of this island do not want or agree with. The European Union is dominated by a Franco-German alliance, which has no love for the English Speaking World. It doesn't take much to realise that this sit...
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The Rainbow Bank: Triumph
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Saturday, 23 January 2010. In the nineteen sixties, the British motorcycle industry was utterly decimated by four Japanese companies.Suzuki, Kawasaki, Honda and Yamaha. They offered the customer a cost effective machine, that was well engineered and reliable. The great names of British motorcycling disappeared one by one. BSA, Norton, Greaves, Ariel, HRD , Triumph and many many more. It was an HRD machine that broke the 200 mph barrier on Utah salt flats, ridden by a Stevenage lad called George Brown.
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The Rainbow Bank: January 2010
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Saturday, 30 January 2010. An open letter to all right minded Americans who feel that we are in a period of uncertainty as to the future of the English Speaking Peoples. Ever since Eisenhower, America has been pushing Britain to form closer ties with mainland Europe, a position that some 70% of the population of this island do not want or agree with. The European Union is dominated by a Franco-German alliance, which has no love for the English Speaking World. It doesn't take much to realise that this sit...
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The Rainbow Bank: The Blackbird
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Monday, 11 January 2010. As long as you are not a shy retiring soul, The BlackbirdMemoirs are worth a visit. Christina is an abrasive soul who doesn't take prisoners and her posts are often offensive to those of a delicate disposition. However as an Englishman who has grown up in our native pub environment, she is a lass after my own heart and would be massively popular in England. Her withering criticisms and social observations are some of the funniest writings I have come across. Take care, Simon.
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The Rainbow Bank: World Music
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Saturday, 9 January 2010. I have always had an open mind to music. I guess that growing up in the sixties where you were exposed to new forms of music, whether it be blues, rock, folk or classical, must have had something to do with it. Today, I will listen to anything, provided it has spirit. For example tonight I am listening to a compilation called Buddha-Bar, music from all over the World that is played in a bar in Paris. It is incredible music, Brazilian, Spanish, French, Arab and Indian. Http:/ www...
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The Rainbow Bank: The Rise of the Right
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Tuesday, 5 January 2010. The Rise of the Right. A conversation in my local pub recently encouraged me to investigate an organisation called The British National Party. This political organisation expresses somewhat extreme views, but does so in a subtle way, designed to attract the disaffected in Britain. What is alarming about them is the way they play on the fears of the working classes, just as the Nazis did in the 1920's. The Nazis did exactly the same thing. Tories, Labour and The Liberals are too f...
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The Rainbow Bank: What is to be done?
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Monday, 18 January 2010. What is to be done? Every time you pick up a newspaper or switch on the television, you are confronted with some form of bad news. Currently and rightly so, the news is full of the appalling tragedy taking place in that luckless country, Haiti. President Obama, before the current disaster, had put this country near the top of his list of places that needed some serious support. I know I will be shot down in flames for suggesting it, but the corruption that has prevailed, since in...
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