Ha Ha Victory!

I have finally been allowed back into my email account. However as punishment I will now never be using a Taiwanese manufactured Windows phone. After that was the Americans true motivation behind this pitiful little stunt.

Man the Greeks are Greedy.

Through years of reckless spending and tax evasion Greece has destroyed it's economy. As a results lots of people worked very hard to draw up a plan that would allow the Greek people to walk out on 50% of their debt. All they needed to do in return was institute economic reforms that would solve their crippling youth unemployment and make sure they don't get into the same mess again.

However rather then saying thank you the Greek government has today (31/10/11) decided to put the economic reforms to public referendum. Based on the latest opinion polls, strikes and riots that referendum is likely to vote against the reforms. So Greece is trying to position itself for an even more generous deal. The problem is that the recent Eurogroup summit pretty much insulated the Eurozone from a Greek default so rather then getting more money the Greeks could instead find themselves being thrown to the wolves.


Oh and have the east coast Americans got the little hint about Halloween and trick or treating yet?

Deadline Passed.

The absolute deadline for Croydon's Local Health Authority (LHA) to act on the abuse of my grandmother and therefore avoid spending the rest of their lives in prison has now passed. I have received no correspondence from them. At around 14:30 I did telephone Nicola Gage and she confirmed that the LHA have made no attempt to safeguard my grandmother by suspending or relocating staff. They have made no attempt to pass the case over to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) or the police. They have made no attempt to correctly diagnose her or provide appropriate care. They have made no attempt to cease moves to discharge to another facility. Nor do they have any intention of doing any of these things or discuss the matter with me any further. After some encouragement I was though informed that the matter has been passed from the social services department to medical department and was assured that the relevant manager, Rachel Cowley would be contacting me by the end of the day to confirm the suspension of named staff. No such telephone call has been received.

Unfortunately the G20 Summit begins of Thursday (3/11/11) and I am going to attempt to enter a holding pattern until then. Of course if I had access to email I would be able to email the case file to the CQC in order to quickly and easily start the next stage of the process. However the British Prime Minister has today (31/10/11) announced that local authorities that fail to carry out adoption within the time limit will be stripped of their powers. This is as clear an indication that you'll get that he is now going to instruct the Secretary of State for Health to impose an intervention order against Croydon LHA. I can only recommend that this is completed before the start of the G20. In fact it could be announced to Parliament on Wednesday (2/11/11) just before Prime Ministers Questions.

Kenya and Somalia.

Along with Ethiopia and Djibouti Kenya is still in the grips of a food crisis. It's neighbour Somalia is still experiencing a full blown famine. Britain's response to the crisis was to send in special forces from the Special Boat Service (SBS) who have been operating in Somalia since May 2011. In September 2011 a British couple were kidnapped by persons unknown from a holiday resort on the Kenya/Somalia border. As the SBS were mobilised to search for the kidnapped couple Britain felt the whole thing was a Kenyan attempt to track the special forces operating in Somalia and responded by blowing up a fuel pipeline in Nairobi killing at least 100.

This led to a spate of kidnappings along the Kenya/Somalia border. These included the incident on October 13th when armed men crossed into Kenya from Somalia and kidnapped two Spanish aid workers from the Ifo refugee camps and brought them back over the border into Somalia. Assuming that the men were from the al-Shabab militia the Kenya army then crossed into Somalia on a search and rescue mission. As this operation has now been going on for more then two weeks and the aid workers have not been located let alone rescued the mission seems to have been a failure. However both Britain and France have offered Kenya logistical support and weapons in return for turning the mission into a bridgehead for a full scale Kenyan invasion of Somalia. Clearly because the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to draw the line over Libya Britain and France have got a taste for getting Africans to kill each other and think they can do what they like.

That's the Thing About Spooks

After a while you really start to miss them.

Anyway I suppose I could turn to Twitter to solve my Downton Abbey mystery. However I think that would probably annoy Hugh Bonneville. Besides it turns out you need a WORKING email account to do that.

It's Enough to Drive You to Drink.

After being embarrassed by my mate last weekend I've been watching X-Factor. On my own, in the dark whilst taking notes. So far I've managed to work out the following five;

• Sami Brookes = My mates girlfriend,

• Sophie Habibis = His step-daughter/Selina Gomez,

• Janet Devlin = Rebekah Brookes,

• Johnny Robinson = Paul O'Grady,

• Frankie Cocozza = He hopes it's Russell Brand. I think it's an elaborate satire on female heterosexuality.

The two stars of tonight's (30/10/11) results show were Nicole Scherzinger who recently dumped her boyfriend Lewis Hamilton after Bernie Ecclestone killed their kids and Cher Lloyd who I worry about at great length. While she is talented she is sooo young and that gypsy tag is not an easy thing to carry around in Britain.

Now can anyone explain Downton Abbey to me?

Qantas Shutdown.

I'm not going to comment on the dispute between Qantas and the Australian Transport Workers Union (TWU) because that's been going on for ages. However yesterday (29/10/11) the Australian national airline Qantas shutdown all it's operations in response to strike action by the TWU. Australia has just finished hosting the heads of government summit for members to the British Commonwealth. The shutdown has made it very difficult for delegates to leave the country after the summit forcing them to liaise unofficially with their hosts. Australia is also trying to show loyalty to the British Crown by heaping pressure on China - the regional power - ahead of the upcoming G20 summit.

Oh and Lewis Hamilton has been having a bad time at what turned out to be a rather dull inaugural Indian Grand Prix. Apparently India shares a land border with China.

Edited at around 18:40 on 30/10/11: I'm going out for a cigarette.

Apart from that an Australian court has ruled on the Qantas dispute. Flights must resume and the strike must end. This is exactly what Qantas wanted because the strike did not cause the shutdown. Instead Qantas chose to shutdown the flights in response the strike. The idea was to cause a threat to the national economy in order to force the government to break the strike. I don't see this ending well for the Australian Prime Minister because she's a left-winger in the Obama/Blair mould and therefore supposedly backed by the unions. Also it is the policy of the realm to court not confuse China hence Cameron's announcement that British flag carriers (British Airways) should be allowed to shoot "pirates" before they start causing trouble.

Also this evening I've been to visit my grandmother. As no physiotherapy has been provided she fell again. As no psychological treatment has been provided she was very depressed. This depression was made much worse by the fact her glasses which are essential for sight had gone missing. Fortunately I found them nestling beneath nurse Janet Edwards ward notes. I hate to be dramatic but this sort of sensory deprivation is actually one of those techniques everyone calls torture when they're used at Guantanamo Bay.

Operation Oil Theft: Month 8, Week 2, Day 1.

On Sunday (23/10/11) the Transitional National Council (TNC) declared Libya to be liberated and pledged to institute democracy within eight months. What they actually mean is that they will follow the process laid out in the 11 page Constitutional Declaration document. This requires them to elect, by public vote, an all male National Public Conference (NPC) within 240 days. The NPC will then write a new constitution that will be put to a national referendum. Assuming the constitution adopted by the referendum requires democratic elections to be held they will take place 180 days after the adoption of the constitution. In the meantime the TNC have immediately abolished all national laws that contradict Sharia Law. This means that Libya is currently being run under Sharia Law with a particular focus on allowing men to take multiple wives. As I've yet to hear a single female voice represented in the TNC this does not bode well for the future of women's rights in the new Libya.

Last Friday (21/10/11) NATO provisionally decided to end operations in Libya on Monday (31/10/11). On Thursday (27/10/11) the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously voted to pass resolution 2016 which removed NATO's mandate to operate in Libya. This forced NATO's hand and they will now definitely end operations in Libya at 23:59 GMT on Monday October 31st. However there are factions within the TNC who want to invite NATO to stay on. This seems like a sensible idea because with all the weapons and the war damage the task the TNC faces now is probably more difficult then when the were fighting Qaddafi.

Throughout the week more and more details have emerged detailing the circumstances of Muammer Qaddafi's death. Although there is no video of the actual killing there is video showing the intial capture, video showing Qaddafi being transfered from the captors to another group of rebels, a video showing Qaddafi being sexually assaulted/raped prior to death and a video showing the moments just after death. In the transfer and aftermath videos men can be seen wearing military uniforms used by the armies of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) nations such as Qatar and Bahrain but not displaying any identifying insignia. The men are also apparently speaking Arabic with a Gulf region accent that is very different from Libyan Arabic. This coupled with the manner of Qaddafi's death has led to international calls for an investigation. The current theory is that either Libyan rebels trained and taking orders from British special forces were told to kill Qaddafi to make sure that he didn't stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) or that special forces from a GCC country - most likely Qatar - who are themselves trained by Britain were sent to do the job themselves. In response the TNC have announced that they will put Qaddafi's killers on trial. What they mean is that they intend to convict a man who posted a video of himself admitting the killing on the Internet in the hope that he will become a local hero and the whole matter will be forgotten about.

On Tuesday (25/10/11) the TNC finally buried Muammer Qaddafi at a secret location in the desert after his body had been left on public display in Misrata for five days. Although gruesome and totally against Islamic tradition this was sadly necessary to allow as many people as possible to see that Qaddafi is dead and take pictures and video of the corpse. You have to remember that in attacking Libya Britain did not merely want to replace a government that wouldn't sell it oil with one that would. Instead they wanted to create a war torn and full blown failed state into which the oil companies backed by their private armies of security contractors would go and pump the oil out more or less for free. To this end numerous conspiracy theories have started to circulate claiming that Qaddafi isn't really dead and is instead living in places like Zimbabwe, Niger or Algeria. These rumours are backed by very obviously faked pictures of Qaddafi's corpse and "expert" analysis claiming that genuine photographs and videos are actually fake. The idea is to encourage Libyan government forces to continue the fight by mounting an Iraq style insurgency that will tear the country to pieces. Therefore the best way for genuine Libyans to resist the invaders and occupiers now is by laying down their weapons.

The Tabak Verdict's In.

It turns out that Britain also tried to nobble the jury by placing two people on it who were never going to return a guilty verdict. In the end the Judge had to allow a majority verdict and today (28/10/11) Vincent Tabak was convicted of the sexually motivated murder of Joanna Yeates by a margin of 10-2. He has been sentenced to a minimum of twenty years imprisonment. That sounds reasonable for a time limited offer that expires at 17:00GMT on Monday 31/10/11. Beyond that we're going to need to start talking about whole life terms because the death penalty is most definitely still an option.

The Eurozone Deal.

Resisting the temptation to use the issue as a weapon at the upcoming G20 Summit Eurozone leaders yesterday (27/10/11) unveiled plans to finally end the Greek debt crisis without triggering a second credit crunch. From an economic perspective there are three main elements to the plan;

1. A Greek Debt Write Off. Eurozone leaders have agreed that Greece is an exceptional case and that requires extra-ordinary measures to address. Therefore they have given the Greek government permission to default on 50% of it's debts to lenders e.g. banks. In order to soften the blow Eurozone nations will spend E30bn buying up part of the debt that is to be defaulted on. They will also spend E70bn to stabilise Greek banks that are going to be especially hard hit by the default. Although this plan is voluntary and the Greek government will still need to reach agreement with all of it's creditors those creditors have been involved in the process and at the moment it seems that they will agree with the plan.

2. Bank Recapitalisation. In order to allow them to cope with a Greek default or the collapse of other banks European banks will increase their capital reserves to 9%. Although they will be allowed to change the way that debt and equity are recorded on their balance sheets the expectation is that the banks will raise this money from the private sector. If they are unable to do so they will then be allowed to approach the central bank in their home nation e.g. the Bank of England for short term funding. If the Home Central Bank (HCB) is unable to provide those funds the bank will then be able to approach the European Central Bank and the assumption is that the HCB will then have to approach the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) in order to avoid collapse.

3. The European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). The size of the EFSF is to be greatly increased. Part of this extra funding will take the form of Special Purpose Vehicles. These are financial instruments that mean that rather then having all the money dispersed from a central fund donors can team up with recipients and the EFSF in order to target money to specific projects. The idea is to speed up the process by circumventing often convoluted European Union (EU) politics and increase the effectiveness of the spending. The EFSF will also provide bond insurance that will underwrite bond holders against debt default but only if they choose to purchase the insurance and keep paying the premiums. Provided there are no further defaults this could actually help fund the EFSF.

The Eurozone leaders have yet to put an exact figure on how much the EFSF will be increased by. However rather then being due to an inability to agree a figure this is due to an inability to know what that figure will be. For example it's estimated that the funds will have a leveraging effect of up to four of five but could be much lower. Also the plan expects the Greek government to bring it's debts down to 120% of GDP by 2020 through the current package of austerity measures and expects the Italian government to bring it's debts down to 113% of GDP by 2014 by cutting red tape, abolishing internal tariffs and raising the state retirement age to 67. Either of those governments could fail to introduce those austerity measures and even if they did they still might not have the desired effect. Furthermore the Eurozone leaders intend to reach out to China and Brazil in order to get them to contribute to the EFSF. It is rude to be seen to be demanding a specific figure before those negotiations have even begun and could be potentially very embarrassing for the Eurozone leaders if those negotiations fail and they have to increase their own contributions.

The most important element of the deal though is political. Up until now decisions about the Euro have been discussed and made by all 27 members of the EU. From now on though the will only be made by the 17 members who actually use the Euro - the so called Eurogroup. They will hold twice yearly meetings and elect their own president who will periodically inform the other 10 members of the EU of their decisions. This will allow the Eurogroup to work more closely to better co-ordinate their economic policies and will speed up the decision making process by excluding members like Britain who seem to have a problematic attitude towards the single currency.

Die You Horrid B*stards!

It's around 00:01 on October 28th 2011. My father is back and my email IS STILL NOT WORKING!

Ah Yeah of Course

Today (27/10/11) my father's been off in deepest darkest sat phone territory with all the security issues that presents. In the meantime I may have accidentally got drunk while watching DCI Gene Hunt's extra-ordinary rendition to Europe, well France. Mind you it could have been worse. It could've been that time Summer Glau's mum turned up in Spooks. But I digress;

It turns out that Saif al-Islam Qaddafi is alive and well and considering handing himself into the International Criminal Court. The obvious answer to that is go for it. After all that's why you were given Tripoli and also while you were allowed to escape. However you need to strike when the knives are hot but not give away your position until you're out of range of the death squads.

Anyway I feel a hangover coming on.

Deadlines and Phonelines.

The deadline for the Adult Social Services (ASS) department at Croydon University Hospital (CUH) to take action on my grandmother's case expired on Tuesday (25/10/11). Having given them a days grace I today (27/10/11) have no choice other then to telephone Nicola Gage - the appointed manager for a progress report including why Dinigle Phiri is still attempting to involve herself in the case and why a letter has still not been sent to my father formally retracting the hospital's allegation of abuse against him. Apparently she is currently unavailable but I have left a message and she is to call me back immediately.

In the meantime I am unable to give my full reaction to the rather technical, 15 page statement released by EU leaders in the early hours of this morning following their summit on the Eurozone debt crisis. Needless to say though it went so badly for Britain that the Church of England through St Paul's Cathedral have already suggested that the finance minister or chancellor might like to take the opportunity to resign.


Edited at around 17:30: I telephoned Ms Gage again at around 15:15 and received no response. A message was left but she's still not got back to me. I then went and visited my grandmother. The deadline set by the hospital board for them to act against their errant staff is 17:00 tomorrow (28/10/11). However as I appreciate that up to now they have being in receipt of inaccurate legal advice I will extend that until 17:00 on Monday (31/10/11). Beyond that there's nothing more I can do for them and people who continue to conduct themselves in a inappropriate fashion may well have to be banned from the premises. After all while I can't prosecute a criminal offence I can most certainly make an arrest and force the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute.

The Tabak Trial is to End.

The trial of Vincet Tabak for the murder of Joanna Yeates is expected to come to an end today (27/10/11) at Bristol Crown Court. I for one am saddened by this because the story's been making me smile for the last couple of weeks. With all those Euro-summits going on the trial is exactly what it seems - Britain being forced to admit that at least one of it's operatives completely mis-read the situation and killed at least one young woman in Bristol. This is why the Judge has taken the unusual step of effectively telling the Jury to go easy on the defendant in order to prevent them from also pointing out that this was a sexually motivated crime carried out by a perverted mind.

Although there is now a strong argument for a mis-trial Tabak has already admitted to manslaughter so he will probably just be sent straight to prison. This sentence will have to be severe due to the complete lack of remorse shown. Through the process of admitting to this crime Britain has continued to offend by effectively defiling the "corpse" because the trial has massively increased the tension in the Bristol area in the hope of carry out further research. After all it's rarely relaxing to have yourself daily described as a corpse on the national news.

The fact that this research has only managed to conclude that Amy Winehouse liked a drink suggests it's been a complete failure. After all the clue's kind of in the name on that one.

Bad News For the Croydon.

Albert Haines has lost his mental health tribunal against his continued detention at the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. His was the first such tribunal to be held in public. The secrecy element is of course a reference to my Local Health Authority's (LHA) repeated attempts to have last November's Court of Protection ruling unsealed. I have of course studied my copy at great length.

The reference to the mental health act is a confirmation that my grandmother's detention could be authorised under said act. However as the act and the protections it provides have not been enacted my grandmother's stay in hospital constitutes unlawful imprisonment contrary to common law and the 1861 offences against the person act. Not something that looks good when you're trying to argue you're behaving in someone's best interests.

Also today (25/10/11) my father has again been summoned to a meeting at the hospital with Ms Phiri the social worker who is supposedly no longer involved in the case and Ms Carter the care manager. This is the fifth such meeting in as many working days and comes on top of my father's visits to the hospital to see my grandmother. This workload is making it difficult to cope with his constant correspondences with the tax offices (HMRC). After conceding that they forced him to overpay some £800 in tax last year they have refunded him the amount but charged him £1. However they couldn't possibly deduct the £1 from the £800 so that's something he's going to have to do him self.

Elsewhere Silvo Berlusconi is teasing us with a promise to step down as Italian Prime Minister within the coming months. So I wonder if today's EU leaders summit is finally going to release the details of the bailout plan or whether they're going to kick the Cannes all the way down the road to the G20.

Edited at 22:45 on 25/10/11:

Albert Haines' tribunal was of course to determine whether or not he can be detained indefinitely under the mental health. He lost. Although detention in a psychiatric hospital is legally quite different from detention in prison the UK Justice Minister Ken Clarke has this evening done a dramatic U-turn and announced that the government will end indefinite detention in prison. Meanwhile the United States have indited the former Goldman Sachs board member with an Indian sounding name, Rajat Gupta.

So while the locals are still fantasising about all the money they're going to make out of me their leaders are doing frantic bargaining over how long they will have to spend in prison. I would say that will have to depend on how much remorse they show by completing given tasks quickly and efficiently.

C*cks!

Sorry it's either Tourettes or the fact that my email is STILL not working.

I Have Returned!

I am back from an evening so uneventful and otherwise pleasant that I can't shake this nagging feeling that there's something important that I've forgotten to say or do. Anyway it gives me time (20:40) to talk about the latest from Occupied London.

In a questionable use of time and resources the Metropolitan Police's helicopter has been filming the occupiers while they sleep. The infra-red camera showed that only 1 in 10 the tents at the site are actually occupied. Having been handed this information by the police the City of London Corporation used it to dub Occupied London a "phantom protest." The only problem is that even before the occupation began promoters have been calling on people to donate tents. The idea being that if people were unable to afford a tent or didn't feel they could commit to the protest and it's silly hand signals full time they could just pop down for the day and still have somewhere to sleep at night.

Elsewhere the Melbourne Occupation has already been forcibly cleared by the police in order to make way for the Queen of England - surely the original 1%'r. The Rome occupation sadly only lasted for a day after the uber-macho Italian black bloc gave the police the perfect excuse to clear the occupation before it got started. Berlusconi remains as Prime Minister despite significant domestic pressure.

Of Course It's Tuesday.

So as I didn't have to cook I went with my father to visit my grandmother. She seems happy, bright and her appetite has most certainly returned.

Also because there's football on I'm not in a rush to get to the pub. So I might as well comment on France's offer of logistical and military equipment to support Kenyan troops who have crossed into Somalia to pursue al-Shabab. I've not commented on the situation so far for reasons I am not yet happy to disclose however before they get sucked into quagmire the Kenyan government might have to accept the possibility that someone may have been winding them up.

Complaint Against Hospital Submitted.

In order for the statement I submitted to the adult social care team on October 19th to be considered under the hospital's complaints procedure I also had to submit the statement to the Chief Executive. So today (25/10/11) that is exactly what I did.

Now running to four pages for the most part it is exactly the same document but with the following two additional allegations;

5. Having begun an investigation into my father [name] in response to allegations I supposedly made Dinglie Phiri made no attempt whatsoever to contact me. Instead she chose to go first to my father while putting pressure on him to make decisions about my grandmother's care.

6. Despite no psychological assessment having taken place and the investigation into my grandmother's care still ongoing care manager Helen Carter has hounded my father with daily requests for meetings to make discharge plans for my grandmother. It is my belief that this is being done in an attempt to railroad him in forfeiting the above mentioned rights.

And the following six steps that have to be taken to rectify the complaint;

1. Take immediate steps to safeguard [my grandmother] from retribution in light of this complaint being made. This should take the form of either suspending or re-locating staff on the Purley 3 ward or ensuring that their conduct is properly montitored by putting them under close, constant supervision.

2. You imemdiately report this matter to a proper, independent, non-local body e.g. the Care Quality Commission or Scotland Yard so evidence can be preserved and a thorough investigation can take place.

3. You immidetely order an independent, forensic psychiatric assessment of [my grandmother].

4. You desist from any attempts to discharge [my grandmother] to another facility until the above mentioned assessment is carried out and this investigation is complete.

5. You remove Helen Carter from [my grandmother's] case and instruct her replacement to make no attempt to discuss [my grandmother's] discharge with my father, other family members of other members of the care team until this investigation is complete.

6. You acknowledge the reciept of this complaint within three working days and keep me fully updated as to the progress of the investigation via the contact details above.

Of course, as always it is up to the hospital to make a free choice as to what to do with this complaint.



Edited at around 13:00 to add: Since posting it has been announced that at Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked for mishandling emergency (999) calls. This is an attempt to find out who knows that the Croydon Borough Commander was forced out of his job just before the August riots. However his replacement has also failed to act on the ongoing complaint over the local police's failure to make arrests over the harrassment campaign that contributed to my grandmother's misdiagnosis. So it also serves to explain why this investigation cannot be handled at the local level and why simply re-arranging the furntiture is not sufficent.

Back From My Doctor.

Well not specifically my doctor but another one at the same practice. It was all so routine the only thing worth mentioning was that they've still not replaced the building's glass frontage after it got smashed in during the riots.

As the surgery is literally right next door to the hospital I also popped into visit my grandmother beforehand. As they were doing medical things when I arrived I actually only got to speak to her for about ten minutes. She seemed slightly more depressed then the last time I saw her but we're really only talking about slight fluctuations on a upward trend.

Occupied London.

Joining with protesters around the world on October 15th protesters in London attempted to occupy Paternoster Square opposite the London Stock Exchange. The problem was that Paternoster Square is private property and the owner had already obtained a High Court injunction that made the protest illegal. So the police contained or kettled the protesters at their meeting point - Saint Paul's Cathedral, a world famous London landmark. Without even the choice to leave the protesters decided to occupy the Cathedral's church yard instead. This back fired on Britain somewhat because it immediately pulled the relationship between the Church of England (CofE), the government, the monarchy and the judiciary into sharp focus.

So on October 21st St Paul's Cathedral announced that it was being forced to close due to health & safety concerns created by the occupiers. However the protesters have liaised extensively with London Fire Brigade (LFB) to ensure that the occupation does not block evacuation points or access to emergency vehicles. As a result LFB can't find any health & safety problems so the Cathedral's decision to shut is a bit of a mystery. It seems to me to be an attempt the shame the occupiers into leaving of their own free will in order to avoid the CofE having to apply to the judiciary for an eviction order.

Whether that happens or not some of the occupiers have set up a secondary occupation in near by Finsbury Square. On the face of it these seems like a good idea because it follows the New York model of having a small, unobtrusive camp maintained by 300-500 protesters. Numbers then swell during the day with visitors and people arriving for mass marches on the weekends. The only possible problem I can see is that Finsbury Square is relatively small and overlooked by tall buildings on all sides. This will make it very easy for the police to set up advanced surveillance on the camp which considering all decisions are made by consensus during mass, open air meetings could become intrusive. It might be a better idea then to find a wide open space preferably one with lots of tree cover. After all it's much easier to pitch a tent on grass then on concrete.

Also the media seem to be describing the occupiers as "anti-capitalist protesters" as if that should be considered an insult. I'm really not sure this is accurate though. While there are a wide range of diverse opinions on offer at the occupation it generally seems to be a protest against austerity cuts and the general economic malaise. In no small part these were caused by governments decision to bail out the banks rather then letting them fail which is what should have happened in capitalist free market. So if anything the occupiers are pro-capitalists.

Still No Email.

As the Americans are still refusing me access to my email account in a futile attempt to assess Chinese information communication technology capabilities ahead of the COP17 summit today (24/10/11) I've just had to telephone my grandmother's independent advocate. The purpose of the call was to make her aware of the problem and check that she had received my email of October 19th while advising her that if she wants to contact me further she needs to do so by telephone.

She is actually about to hold a meeting with my father and my grandmother at the hospital. As a result I was only able to leave her a answer machine message. That's a shame because I think she really does need reminding that as an advocate her role is to reflect my grandmother's views not attempt to influence or change them

If You are at Work or at School.

Fear not because I am now an increment above stoned and I have found this video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhVyZEm83EU&feature=related&skipcontrinter=1

It is from an embedded Al Jazeera journalist and shows the moments just after Qaddafi was seized from his captors and just before he was handed over to his killers. My copy started with an advert for yogurt that urged me to remember my "Rachel moment."

More importantly then that thought I should explain that the brother I met yesterday is the same younger brother who is named as the "replacement attorney" in my grandmother's LPA's. So if the Local Health Authority (LHA) were to talk the Court of Protection into stripping my father of authority then they would also have to find a reason to strip my brother before they could win the right to make decisions.

Turkish Earthquake.

On the day (23/10/11) that Libya's Transitional National Council declared liberation and introduced Sharia Law a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the town of Vans in Turkey killing a reported 50. Well if they're that keen on reconstruction projects....

Yesterday (22/10/11) I took my mate up Gypsy Hill. There's not really much too talk about but I suppose I should tell the story of fun fair, the pubs, the wedding shop and the local town planning department. The thing is my email's still not working so I just can't be bothered.

It's a double shame really because today my brothers been up and we went to the pub for dinner. It turns out that on Wednesday (19/10/11) he was attending a talking shop with the head of the town planning department at the Mind in Croydon building on Altyre road. I keep meaning to congratulate the town planning department for zoning the Mind in Croydon building so close to the law Courts.


Edited at around 22:30 to add:

Ok I admit. At some point last night just between the seventh or eighth pint I may have accidentally proclaimed Gary Barlow to be the most boring person in all of human history. As he was presenting the X Factor live show at the time and therefore most definitely in the pub I thought I might have got away with it. Unfortunately I didn't so I had to confess that I've not really been watching it on account of my father being deaf and, well it's been a bit average this year.

I'd also like to take the opportunity to "thank" my TV critic brother for totally ruining the last ever episode of "Spooks" for me and everyone else in the pub who had the misfortune of over
hearing that conversation.

Also I don't mean to worry anyone but it appears there is a Queen on the board and David Cameron's pledged his undying commitment to the European Union. And no, still no email. I feel as if my entire digital identity has been kidnapped

Operation Oil Theft: Month 8, Week 1, Day 1.

This past week NATO forces have been in action in Kosovo. That war was supposed to have ended twelve years ago. So you'll excuse me if I don't rush to think up a new thread title even if Sarkozy's latest tantrum has caused NATO to leave Free Libya to it's fate.

Oh and there was some other point I meant to make but with all the confusion about me not being able to get into my email I guess I forgot.

Is Nicholas Sarkozy Actually on Crack?

It's just that he is still opposing the European bailout of Greece in an effort to secure as much taxpayer cash for French banks as possible. The only problem is that while French banks are heavily exposed to Greek debt they actually only make up a small proportion of total Greek debt. So if all of Greece's other creditors were to agree on a deal the French would simply be left out in the cold and already they've caused the average haircut to rise from 50% to 60%.

And my email is still not working so I guess I'll just have to ignore all the available evidence to pretend that this performance is still working.

My Email's Still Not Working.

For a third day I am unable to access my US based email account. This means that rather then emailing documents about my grandmother's case I'm being forced to hand deliver them which is obviously much more time consuming. Considering the Americans have been making a lot of noise recently about ozone cooling it seems counter intuitive that they would also participate in making sure I don't have time to deal with the issue. It's a shame because I'm sure the Chinese will have nothing to say on the issue until I give them permission.

Anyway grown up talk aside I did today (21/10/11) get in contact by telephone with the social worker in charge of the abuse investigation into my father. That investigation has now ended and they should be writing to him in the coming days to confirm that. The abuse allegations against the Local Health Authority (LHA) have been passed to a manager and must be actioned within five working days. That means that by Tuesday (25/10/11) Care Quality Commission (CQC) investigators backed by the police should be descending on the hospital in order to safeguard my grandmother from retribution and to preserve evidence.

As there is no longer an investigation into him the social worker did not attend the meeting my father had today with the care manager. I didn't attend either but the short version is that hospital management have ordered the ward team to carry out a psychiatric evaluation within seven days. The hope is that this assessment will come back clean and can then be used to absolve the LHA of it's section 117 obligations. The only problem is that any professional psychiatrist will only be able to conclude that based on the passage of time it is impossible to determine my grandmother's state of mind at the time of her admission (20/8/11). However if pressed they will have to conclude that based on the manner of the admission and the use of anti-psychotics as treatment on the balance of probabilities at the time of her admission my grandmother was suffering from a treatable mental disorder. What the LHA's funding board choose to do with that information is up to them.

Edited at 15:10 to add: Just in case the LHA had some funny ideas about not reporting themselves to the CQC I've just made them aware of the case. So the CQC's local inspector should be contacting the LHA over the matter.

Oh and it's Official

Calvin Harris is still not worth the skin in which he stands. Because it's around 00:00 on 21/10/11. I may have been on the beer and I might have just seen that infamous Rhinana video filmed in Northern Ireland but the important thing to remember is;

Can I have my email back? It's just that after two day it's starting to get annoying.

Let's Forget About Libya.

Because the war is won and it's time to talk about me.

It's currently 22:53 (GMT+1) on Thursday October 20th and I really need to spark up that tabak.

It is now 22:58. If you've been given access to the patterns of life surveillance you would know that between 17:30 and 19:00 every day my father goes too the hospital in order to feed my grandmother because the nurses can't be bothered. Today at around 17:25 he received an urgent telephone call from Paula Wiafe - the "independent" advocate from voiceability.org. It was after he'd been delayed for 20-25 minutes that my father was finally able to open a sinister A4 brown envelope from the hospital that had been posted on Tuesday (18/10/11). He didn't have time to read the contents because he was clearly in a rush but after he'd left I read it at length. It was the "Protecting Adults in Croydon From Abuse (guide 5v4) [January 2011]" leaflet subtitled "A guide if someone has made an allegation against you." The full document is four pages long so I won't publish it all here. However it is the second page (hopefully posted below) that is the most interesting.



The first paragraphs begins with the words; "An allegation of abuse has been made to the abuse reporting line of suspected abuse or neglect." The second paragraph states that "If the alert identifies a potential crime the police will be contacted." The fifth paragraph states "If you have been identified as the alleged perpetrator actions may be taken to ensure that you do not have further contact with the alleged victim during the safeguarding process."

However while my father was at the ward apparently all the staff were still there. Not only that but the social worker who is supposed to be in charge of the safeguard process/investigation took the opportunity to pressure my father into an "off the record" chat tomorrow at about 11:00.

Anyway it's now around 23:25 and I've completely forgotten what my point was.

Operation Oil Theft: Month 7, Week 5, Day 1.

Last Friday (14/10/11) residents of Tripoli attempted to raise the Libyan flag over the city in protest against the rebel's Transitional National Council's (TNC) occupation of the city. They were quickly attacked by rebel fighters leading to a two day gun battle. Libyan government and rebel fighters continue to clash in and around the village of Tarhouna just south of Tripoli.

On Sunday (16/10/11 rebel fighters attacked the town of Bani Walid in a pincer movement from the north and south. Although the rebels sustained what their commanders would only describe as "heavy" casualties by Monday (17/10/11) they claimed to be in control of 90% of the town. However they were also claiming that Saif al-Islam was still enable to enjoy freedom of movement across large areas.

At around 08:00 local time today (20/10/11) rebel fighters backed by NATO air support launched a large scale offensive against the last areas still held by Libyan government forces. By around midday the rebel flag had been raised over the Dollar holiday resort and victory was claimed. The rebels have also since claimed to have captured and then killed Muammer Qaddafi.

Coming just two days before the psychologically important start of the eighth month of the conflict and in a week where the rebels have also claimed to have killed Khamis Qaddafi for the ninth time many people are still skeptical about these claims. The rebels are not amongst them instead proudly chanting "The Fuzzy head is dead!" This childlike chant sounds almost cute until you realise that Libyan Jews are frequently categorised by their frizzy hair and at least one town in Israel has offered sanctuary to the Qaddafi family.


Edited at about 17:30 to add: The Rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) have officially confirmed Muammer Qaddafi's death.

Mimicking the killing of Osama bin Laden they claimed that rebel fighters raided a building containing Qaddafi and during a fire fight he was shot in the head. He then miraculously survived a 250km (155mile) ambulance ride to Misrata where he died. This will especially please the people of Misrata who feel they are being left out of the TNC but considering the way they behaved in Tarwargha that's only reasonable.

Unfortunately long before the TNC made their statement footage had already emerged of rebel fighters explaining how they'd found Qaddafi hiding in a storm drain. He handed them his golden pistol and asked them not to shoot while surrendering. Footage also emerged of rebel fighters essentially playing with Qaddafi's corpse on a pick up truck. Al Jazeera are also showing grainy footage of Qaddafi being manhandled by what appears to be a muscled white man. It is claimed this footage was filmed moments before Qaddafi was shot in the head.

So what appears to have happened is that Qaddafi was captured by rebel fighters before the SAS turned up and executed him. After all this is the best way of making sure that none of the wild claims used to start this war will ever be tested at the International Criminal Court (ICC). It's also probably why British Prime Minister David Cameron looks like he'll be the last world leader to confirm that Muammer Qaddafi is dead while he tries to run the "I only heard about it on CNN" defence.


Edited again at around 20:15: US President Barack Obama has given his reaction to the death of Muammer Qaddafi. Being the brilliant orator he is he perfectly summed up Americas involvement in Libya by making a huge, clanging mistake. He said that the mission had been achieved without a single American boot on the ground. Unfortunately on March 21st two US airmen bailed out their F-15 Strike Eagle and were recovered by a Marine recovery team. While I don't dispute America's right to recover downed airmen I'm guessing they weren't wearing flip flops.