H/T NS.

My version:

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Lift attendant
You will need:

• Experience of operating a passenger lift in a working environment.
• Experience of working in a large building operating a passenger lift.
• To have a good understanding of customer care.
• To be smart and articulate.

Job description:

• To operate lifts throughout the Palace on a roster basis.
• To provide a service for clients and customers.
• To provide escort for non security cleared contractors, clients and staff when required (this may be for extended periods.

For this, the princely sum of £17,277 a year (plus excellent benefits) is on offer.

I understand that there will shortly be vacancies for around six hundred and fifty members of parliament, for which no experience is necessary, at a salary of £64776 a year plus excellent benefits.

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The skill is in the storytelling, so I recommend watching it, but the story itself is simple. Overdependence on the motor industry set the stage for economic disaster if anything happened to the car industry; white flight to the suburbs, possible because many people could afford cars, hollowed out the city centre and the loss of a tax base turned it into a ghetto; the oil shock of the 70’s accelerated everything; racial tensions worsened as people moved from the South in search of jobs. The motor industry and the city recovered as oil prices fell, but the motor industry relied on SUVs and Detroit on the motor industry. The recent economic turmoil has dealt a hammer-blow to the city.

Barking is not a direct match for Detroit, but the closure of Dagenham Ford was a similar economic disaster. This was similarly coupled with bad social planning – specifically, right-to-buy (or, rather, the effects when the tenants who became owners moved out) – and now we have a situation in which the BNP can do well.

Perhaps some of the northern cities of England would be a better match, but Barking seems to be the focus, given that Nick Griffin is standing there and the BNP hope to take the council at the next election.

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I’m fairly new to YouTube, but you can see some more of my videos, if you’re interested, at youtube.com/DLandonCole. I’d appreciate any comment or criticism.

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It’s quite interesting to see everything being co-ordinated – fire, police, ambulance, water board, gas board, Hackney council and the assessors all there, knowing what they’re doing and with a command centre set up to handle it all.

It seems the fire started in the Prophet, a restaurant in buildings on the corner of Tabernacle Street and Worship Street. It’s near the office, so I wandered down (fearless citizen journalist that I am!) to take a couple of pictures. The smoke doesn’t seem to be going upwards so much as along Worship Street, but it’s really quite dense; you couldn’t see the platform the firefighters were using when the smoke blew in front of it.

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“Adolf Hitler took Darwin’s evolutionary philosophy to its logical conclusions.”
“…Darwin was a racist.”
“Darwin believed that women were not as competent as men, and less intelligent than men, but they were better than a dog.”
“The legacy of Darwin’s theory can be seen in the rise of eugenics, euthanasia, infanticide, and abortion.”
“DNA… presents a formidable challenge to Darwinian evolution.”

H/T The Don’t Diss Darwin Institute.

As you may or may not be aware, the Gideons International place copies of the Bible or the New Testament in hotel rooms across the world – close on one and one-half billion since their foundation in the early twentieth century. I have to mention, as it’s International Women’s Day, that the Gideons always refer to their members being “businessmen and their wives” or similar.

How about we take a leaf out of Cameron and Comfort’s book (well – not quite; we’d be honest) and come up with a simple, short atheist introduction to the Bible that travelling atheists can print out and put inside any Bibles or other holy texts that they find in their hotel rooms?

Any takers?

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