Expatica Review

(nr.8) http://www.expatica.com/
Expatica Forum is to be improved, as the website admin has promised - by the end of July, or in about 2 weeks from now.
Apart from the usual spam, crashes and 'pruning', 2 serious technical problems are: some topics now have one/two/three LAST pages empty/emptied with a false declaration "No posts exist for this topic". Notably thus affected are popular topics by Kathaksung, 'avsie' and one topic by 'niceone'. The 2nd problem was an uncontrolled machine-like registration of 'members', which ran into thousands. Unfortunately, the button "members list" has disappeared, so one cannot see it. There were also discrepancies between Total posts numbers for members, myself included, as displayed in different parts of of the database. Alas, the 'offending' numbers were simply erased.
We keep our fingers crossed.
I shall post now and then a short overview of the Expatica topics here on my website.
My site has no counter and I have not switched on the comments option. So, the feed back is via my e-mail and or via Expatica Forum.

The most read topic I started on Sat. 6 May, 2006 (with 15644 hits at the moment) is "Read before MAY 11 - internet safety! " :

http://my.expatica.com/c:nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=74547

The second most popular discussion is about NEWSPEAK in a topic, started by 'niceone', but taken over by me.
NB ! The last two (?) pages have misleading "No posts exist" and are empty, so do go back a couple of pages to see that the topic is there.
So, "A bit of fun " with 11727 hits:

http://my.expatica.com/c:nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=75097

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I had an enlightening conversation with Peter Westhorpe - the manager of the Gosport JobCentrePlus yesterday. Keep my fingers crossed.
It turns out the reception desk is staffed by yet another temp/security company.
I could not really ask about extraordinary '3 pairs of eyes' at the reception on Wed. February 28. They now have different people - 'permanent change' indeed.
Could it be the Kestrel agency from Southampton, which is subcontracted by the Gosport Library?
Too many companies, changing company names and logos if you ask me.
By the way, the "11 may" topic this week has mind-boggling BANKING ARRESTS (?) news, which prompts me to remember BARCLAYS bank LOGO.
A few months ago there was a new, changed logo displayed on our High street, which has since been removed (the old one is back). That new logo had an extraordinary semi-abstract underwater siluette - a crown 'sunk', at the bottom of the sea. All in blue shades.
It may be overstretched, but I noticed that THE FOX pub has an old sign, which not in content, but in composition and outlines (green shades instead of blue) featuring lighter center circle with darker perimeter reminds me of that experimental (?) and now removed Barclays sign.

Cape Buffalo Video

(nr.7) Buffalos save their young from LIONS !

http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2007/06/when_lions_buff.html

PUPPETS+

(nr.6) Kathaksung on the Expatica Forums had written a brilliant description of Puppets, called informers, stukachi, provocateurs, agents and what not. The latest is his post nr. 488 of June 9, 2007 - a 'must' read.
".... they usually work part-time .... chosen for excessive harassment of innocent citizens .... bullies, perverts, racists, ex-convicts and other dregs whose sole purpose is to drive people crazy and ruin their lives.
... bizarre group of people showing up everywhere you go .... and behaving like psychotic clowns."
I remember first being aware of strange behaviours (before they turned 'child-molesters') in Gosport and writing: I called them STUMBLING PUMPKING, I didn't know they were called PERPS!
I call it S-theater (S for satanic, sinister, sodomite, sadistic, stupid, simply silly often bordering on imbecile and in bad taste).
Some of them are regulars and are easily recognisable, their 'trainers' often in close proximity.

Yesterday was the last day of Gateway to Work course in Portsmouth. It's not a big secret that unemployed, who attend so-called courses are often temporarily taken off the unemployment lists or put in a different category, so that figures and statistics look better.

ALL courses I attended were venues for puppets training. Questions, behaviours, social engineering at its worst. Some trainers are 'middle chain' with Coordinators usually out of sight.
This Wednesday one participant brought me 2 pages from Tuesday issue of The Daily Telegraph - asking me 'to read in reverse' an article by Rachel Sylvester. The second page was Letters to the Editor with a contribution from .... Oleg Gordievsky.
Today they announced Queen's Birthday Honours List with Salman Rushdie, 'Dame' Edna and Oleg Gordievsky being among recipients. The first two are on front pages of newspapers, Gordievsky's name - on Channel Four Radio News this morning.

Coming Wednesday I am to see Stephanie Simpson of Gosport Job Centre Plus.
I hope she won't have her s-ribbon around her neck this time (black background with small white ribbons and text : Tickled Pink).

Last but not least! A woman who was next to me in the computer room in Gateway to Work for 2 days and asked me to help her with a Word doc. had just her name and address typed (impossible not to see) with the surname ... PENNOCK.
Perhaps as a follow-up of sorts, an hour later in the Carnegie Library, a visitor showed her card to the receptionist (which was simultaneously for me to see) with "Mrs Carnegie" on it.
Vincent sounded almost alarmed when I phoned him 2 years (?) ago.

PS. ( Mon.18 June) I slightly edited the text above, notably it was Wed. 13 June (not Thursday) when I was given The Daily Telegraph pages, which, by the way, were too crumpled for a day old paper.

Litvinenko +

(nr.5) The way media (under-) reported Andrei Lugovoi (Lugovoy) statement at his international press-conference yesterday speaks loads. I found The Sun website ref. to it, but did not find the news in 'The Sun' or 'The Times' newsPapers yesterday. Just bought Financial Times - the only paper, which has Lugovoy on its front page today. Two websites, which I commented on in the past: RMN and TheTruthSeeker.co.uk reported NOTHING (as I write this).
Just a glimpse into a greater truth, but how refreshing ... .
Not a great 'rhyme', but:

Litvinenko, Lugovoi - MI6 zabud pokoi !

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FPM Margaret Thatcher coming to God's Port this Sunday!
On Monday I go to CDG Portsmouth (Venture Towers) for NewDeal25+ (!) courtesy(?) Gosport JobCentre+ .

S - Theater and Gosport Triangle

(nr.4) S stands for Satanic/Sodomite/Sadistic/Sinister/Stupid/Simply Silly+

Since I'd moved from Woolston Court to St.Matthews Court, the S-Theater had mostly taken place in a (rugged) triangle:

Gosport Ferry - Masonic Hall - Morrisons.

Some Expatica Posts "lost"

(nr.3) Today Expatica Forum apologized for accidentally deleting posts between 11 and 17 April. That includes mine - some about Berezovsky, Litvinenko, 2 technical problems (yet to be solved), child abuse/censorship, Hampshire IT dept polices, etc. I'll have to reconstruct missing bits, which I have saved, luckily.

Go Expatica! [please see note PS]

(nr.2) I have participated in several discussions forums over the years. Currently I post more or less regularly on EXPATICA.COM - Netherlands - Discussions - (mostly) International News.
Under the name 'hantser' I started "Read before May 11 ...." topic and posted about 300 messages so far.
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PS - 22 January 2008 : the new (redesigned) EXPATICA website may have disabled old links and references. The topics and ideas are alive and well (hidden inside) but the website is in an abominable state and hardly functional. I take my words "Go Expatica!" back.