Bioethanol crime burning food atrocity murder children corn life

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Libertarian Alliance quote of the day….from our good and right friends at Delaware Libertarian…

The Stupidity of Ethanol in a single sentence

Peg, at A Secondhand Conjecture

, finds a sentence that cuts to the heart of the matter:

 

Every fill of the tank with ethanol uses the same amount of corn a child would eat in a year, and let’s not even talk about the amount of potable water used to grow the corn in the first place.

Sort of makes fossil fuels seem more rational, huh?

And this is what peter Hitchens thinks of the Tories, in his Mail on Sunday thingy

here.

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A BLAST FROM THE PAST… libertarianism versus Conservatism – a debate.

This was published by us in 1989, as “Libertarian Alliance Pamphlet number 14″ – that takes you back, doesn’t it; we were young then, Thatcher was in power, Gorbachev obeyed every word she said, the Berlin Wall was about to come down, and all was sweetness and light!

“Bliss was it, in that very dawn, to be alive”.

Here as a pdf

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/lapam/lapam014.pdf

Here’s what it broadly contains:-

I Gerry Frost: What Good Is The State?

II Chris R. Tame: The Bankruptcy of Conservatism

III Gerry Frost: Libertarians Versus Liberty

IV Chris R. Tame: Libertarianism Versus Conservatism

V Chris R. Tame: Some Second Thoughts

Chris Tame and Gerry Frost debate the relevance of Libertarianism to practical conservative politics, or to anything at all. A good read.

It is especially relevant in the context of the London mayoral elections tomorrow. Whether or not you think that cities ought to have powerful “Mayors”, or whether the sorts of things they try to get their teeth into can be sorted out by free markets, everybody elegible to vote in London ought to read this stuff today.

 

 

 

Is Libertarianism inseparable from the cause of upholding the British Nation? Roderick Moore writes a re-appraisal of British History…

…on a Grand Canvas. I personally agree with him.

Libertarian Alliance Showcase Publication No 1:

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Here’s how he begins. Readers will be familiar with the Gramscian deconstruction of (especially) British history, for nefarious and anti-liberal purposes.

Please remember that Moore was writing in 2001, and matters have moved much, much further down into the cesspit, as indeed he predicted:-

In the next few years, the debate about Britain’s membership of

the European Union is likely to intensify, as Euroscepticism gradually

grows in strength and the Eurofanatics start getting desperate.

It would be wise for us to anticipate the kind of arguments

that the Eurofanatics are likely to use against us, and prepare our

defences.

 

 

Their main propaganda tactic will probably be to attempt

to destroy our morale by persuading us that Britain is not

worth fighting for, because we have got nothing to be proud of in

our history and everything to be ashamed of – in other words,

they will step up the smear campaign against Britain which the

Guardian-reading intellectual elite have already been waging for

the last forty years.

 

 

As Oliver Cromwell once said, a good soldier should know what

he is fighting for and love what he knows. That also applies to

the war of ideas. Before we can regain our national independence,

we have to regain our national pride, and before we

can regain our national pride, we have to rescue our history from

the smears and distortions of the socialist intellectual establishment.

 

 

This essay is intended to be a small step towards that

goal. In it, I propose to examine some of the most important

events in British history and attempt to vindicate our reputation as

a nation.

 

THE BRITISH EMPIRE

 

“Perhaps the noblest task of the popular historian should be

to make us ashamed of our forefathers … now that the hilarious

residue of the White Man’s Burden has been chased

out of the reading books of schoolboys.”

(Dennis Potter, 1967. Quoted in James 1994, p. 602)

Dennis Potter was one of the few men in Britain who could use

more words than Neil Kinnock to say even less…..

 

…….so read more here:-

 

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/histn/histn039.pdf

 

A half-hour trip into any British State secondary school, by which age the child-inmates are thoroughly deconstructed historically, will confrim the truth of what he says.

Plants, animals and “Climate Change” – two ruminations on the environment, published by the Libertarian Alliance

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Good paper by Joe Peacott, in 2006, now in the Libertarian Alliance archives of free publications.

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/scien/scien015.pdf

A number of years ago I wrote a couple of pamphlets

about the politics of AIDS.

 

 

 

At the time there was a (read more at the above link)

There’s another good one here:

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/scien/scien011.pdf

This is called Global Warming: Inventing An Apocalypse, 1994, 4pp by Kevin McFarlane.

 

The opinions and beliefs of “pop” “stars” ought to influence us all, every day, so we become a better and better “people”, increasingly elegible for dissolution and re-election.

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There is some quite remarkably frank and plangent stuff in here about green-ness and global jet travel (on a tip from Moonbattery) even from the mouth of a “pop” “star’s” wife.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/04/trudie_styler_s_1.html

Libertarian Party of the UK to debate policies at Trinity College, Oxford, in May 2008

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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE …..

IT’S TOMORROW 23RD MAY 2008 ……..

I am pleased to resyndicate this from Devil’s Kitchen. The event ought to be as widely publicised as possible.

In May, the UK Libertarian Party has been invited to engage in a debate at the political society of Trinity College, Oxford. Ahead of that, the student paper, Cherwell, has published an article on the party’s policies

.Which is, of course, all very well except that it demonstrates just how pissing ignorant students are, even at our “top” universities. And so, since they have fired the opening salvo, I feel duty-bound to reply (oh, and it is a pleasure too).

Let us take the first idiot into our stride, shall we…..?

 

 

 

 

Read more here.

 Devil does more than credit to his usual self in this demolition of widely-held modern-day political myopias, about such things as taxation policy, and er, liberty.

 

 

I hope that he is right

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“When the people feel they are being made subject to laws in which they feel they have played no part and taxes to which they have never consented, respect for both law and government is undermined. Our tradition for order and peaceful change is based not only on the character of our own people but on an enduring, if tacit, bargain between Government and governed that the former will play fair and will be scrupulous in how they deal with the people’s rights. But if Governments do not play fair, if they behave in a way people consider to be in itself
unconstitutional, there is evidence enough in British history to show we are not a docile people but a very determined and fierce one indeed”.

Lord Peter Shore 1992

Quote of the Day – Milton Friedman

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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom, will end up with neither equality or freedom.

The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom.

On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today’s less well off to become tomorrow’s rich, and in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a richer and fuller life.

Whose side exactly is the “News of the World” on? In a socialist world, it would be closed down, the male journalists shot and the female journos (many, many I think) raped – and then shot.

THE PEOPLE (WHO WILL OF COURSE HAVE BEEN DISSOLVED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY RE-ELECTED TRIUMPHANTLY) WILL BE FORBIDDEN TO WANT SUCH A “NEWS” “PAPER”.

I do not think that North Korea, Red Ken’s favourite country after Venezuela (pretty girls and oil to seize for his heavies’ limos) and Cuba (pretty girls for the price of a Pepsi but no oil to seize for his heavies’ limos), and the objective toward which he ploughs, using the money of Londoners, has many newspapers like the “News of the World”.

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This afternoon I chanced on this:-

Here.

I do not know who “Lord Laidlaw” is – never heard of him. Apparently he has a “Sex” “addiction”, and has had it for years.

What a great guy! How lovely for him, and for the rest of us as human beings, for it to be realised that sex is so nice.

ATTABOY! 

He’s learnt what it’s about.

He has had the good fortune to chance upon the knowledge, sufficiently early in life to come to a fixed policy-position which he has clearly followed to the end of his strength. That is to say, that the exquisite thrill you get when having sex, with a girl – as is natural. I mean, who else, as a Man, can you have sex with?

[Listen:

I'm not denigrating homosexuals, who may very well be sincere human beings, and many are indeed libertarians, but what they (say that they) are having is not actually sex, which is strictly defined by Scientists - is, er, ummmmm, great.

Apart form anything else, no functioning or living Libertarian would kill, stone-to-death or sacro-religiously push walls over, onto anyone who described himself/herself as a homosexual/lesbian. It's your choice, people, coz' you said so, and it's your lives and not ours.]

But anyway, to business: this “Lord” has decided he likes sex with girls. A lot. Wonderful!  (They might even be pretty – I do hope so for his sake, and for their earning power….) Why does he have to apologise, and to whom, and what business is it of a British “national” “News” “Paper” what he does in his spare time?

And all this sad business about praising his “long-suffering wife….” ….they all do it. Why? Is that what the PR firm tells them to do, to hide the hypocrisy of the report being in the open in the first place?

As the great departed comedian Benny Hill, the greatest debunker of “political correctness” since Churchill or Dave Allen, said once (if not more often that that even):

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. If you enjoyed it today, then you can always do it again tomorrow.”

It is not exactly clear to me what business it is of “The News of the World”, or indeed its readers, how “Lord Laidlaw” spends his money and his free time. They ought not to be execrating it. They should be extolling it. 

If ”Lord Laidlaw” (must be a made-up name, unless he is from the Scottish Lowlands) wants to shag several “working girls” at once, or even invite his friends to help out, and pay for them like a good host ought, then should not the paper then be declaiming the delights of this activity, and its rewards (a lovely feeling for a few seconds at a time, for the man, every few hours, and lots of money for the woman/women) to the “deserving poor” - so that they can aspire towards something to achieve in this life, and to work for? 

A point that ought to be made about “Sex Addiction” is that, unlike (arguably) Alcohol, Drugs or Tobacco addiction, it disadvantages nobody and has no ill-health effects, not even for the people nearby to the addict. The “addict” is very happy all the time because he has a lot of sex, he suffers no bodily ill-effects (quite the contrary in fact) and the other participant, if of the right sex, get a lot of fun too, if willing. (If not, then it’s called rape, and we have lots of laws about that, so there!)

Moreover, if the “News of the World” wants to continue to sell copies of its “News”  “Paper”, then it ought to be promoting the benefits of “Sex Addiction”, particularly in “Tories” – and especially near election times – otherwise it will have nothing for its journos to write about on the dead-tree-material it uses.

I hear about all this stuff, and I really get PISSED OFF, that the entire world gets to think that the British people, the progenitors and originators of the idea of liberalism, and the idea that nobody else ought to interfere in your life’s arrangements unless you hurt them, actually get exercised about this sort of news……

…..After all, aren’t we, according to the same paper, supposed to be having acres of delicous sex, all the time, with all sorts of people? So if so, what’s the news in this report?

Sean v Archbishop’s Man re Poverty

Sean Gabb

I’ve been invited on the radio tonight to debate with one of the senior advisers to the Archbishop of Canterbury on whether high salaries should be “capped” in order ot help the poor.

I shall probably be allowed about three discontinuous minutes, while the majority of time goes to some clerical communist droning on about “compassion”. However, what I will try to argue is as follows:

The salaries of those who work for the State come from a forcible transfer of wealth, often form the poor. Such slaries should be capped at £20,000. The salaries and rewards of those who run big business and the
City are often based on a grant of state privilege. Such people should be exposed to real market competition.

But most people who do well in this country do so by offering goods and services on terms that others find attractive. Their wealth is justly acquired, and it is immoral to call for it to be taken away. Certainly,
what I earn is for me and my wife and daughter. It is not for some feckless prole in a council flat. The modern Church of England would never dream of calling for the regulation of what consenting adults do
with each other in bed. Why therefore call for controls on what they do with their cash?

Beside this, the whole idea of capping the rich is based on evil premises. The assumption behind these calls is that England is like some gigantic ant heap in which the few own and control the many. This assumption destoys all scope for exercising the free will on which salvation is supposed to depend.

Now, I shan’t be able to say much of this. But YOU CAN HELP!

Please tune in, either with your wireless or via the Internet. Try to call, e-mail or text your points across. You will probably be filtered out to make room for more whining communists. But it’s worth the effort. Do this if you live in england. But why not give it a try from abroad? If you think the Christian Faith is worth saving from the Left, here is an opportunity.

Here are the details:

From 10pm onwards – though me probably around midnight: 22:00 Stephen Nolan Show

Wireless frequency: 909 or 693 khz AM
Internet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/nolan.shtml

Call 0500 909 693 [free from BT landlines; charges for mobiles and other
networks will vary].

Text 85058 [network rates].

E-mail: nolan@bbc.co.uk

Good luck.

Sean

Sean Gabb on the Radio tonight Saturday 26th April, BBC Radio 5 Live, after 23.45 BST

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From Sean Gabb,
Director, the Libertarian Alliance,
to: Yahoo Group: Eurorealists

Dear Fellow Eurorealists,

I’ve been invited on the radio tonight to debate with one of the senior
advisers to the Archbishop of Canterbury on whether high salaries should
be “capped” in order ot help the poor.

I shall probably be allowed about three discontinuous minutes, while the
majority of time goes to some clerical communist droning on about
“compassion”. However, what I will try to argue is as follows:

The salaries of those who work for the State come from a forcible
transfer of wealth, often form the poor. Such slaries should be capped at
£20,000. The salaries and rewards of those who run big business and the
City are often based on a grant of state privilege. Such people should be
exposed to real market competition.

But most people who do well in this country do so by offering goods and
services on terms that others find attractive. Their wealth is justly
acquired, and it is immoral to call for it to be taken away. Certainly,
what I earn is for me and my wife and daughter. It is not for some
feckless prole in a council flat. The modern Church of England would
never dream of calling for the regulation of what consenting adults do
with each other in bed. Why therefore call for controls on what they do
with their cash?

Beside this, the whole idea of capping the rich is based on evil
premises. The assumption behind these calls is that England is like some
gigantic ant heap in which the few own and control the many. This
assumption destoys all scope for exercising the free will on which
salvation is supposed to depend.

Now, I shan’t be able to say much of this. But YOU CAN HELP!

Please tune in, either with your wireless or via the Internet. Try to
call, e-mail or text your points across. You will probably be filtered
out to make room for more whining communists. But it’s worth the effort.
Do this if you live in england. But why not give it a try from abroad? If
you think the Christian Faith is worth saving from the Left, here is an
opportunity.

Here are the details:

From 10pm onwards – though me probably around midnight: 22:00 Stephen
Nolan Show

Wireless frequency: 909 or 693 khz AM
Internet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/nolan.shtml

Call 0500 909 693 [free from BT landlines; charges for mobiles and other
networks will vary].

Text 85058 [network rates].

E-mail: nolan@bbc.co.uk

Good luck.

 

No blogging today, had to get the crops in for the coming famine (see biofuels)

David Davis

See “biofuels”. We have to eat. Later this year, when there is nothing in the shops as all the world’s food’s been burnt by stalinist guvmints who worship the evil fascist pig “Al” “Gore”, who has grown nothing in his life.

“Join British Army”

A search-engine string that hit us today, suddenly, on the port beam, in a heavy following sea……they do that, you know. You just don’t see them coming, the radar’s sort of quiet, but then you find you have to say something, to plug the hole in the hull. Hard business, running a Ship. Better call the Pusser to issue Grog to the Men. Everyone in the port/after-PO’s mess is soaked through, and angry.

The point about the British Army is that, if one is into armies and is either a libertarian, a liberal or a conservative (what is the practical difference in political terms?) and therefore knows truly what armies are for in this new, slightly un-nerving 21st-century world in which humorous but badly-challenged mountebanks like “Al” “Gore” and somebody else called “Putin” or “Ahmadinejad” or “Mugabe” or whatever it is, are disporting themselves for the benefit of the wireless tele bumboys at the BBC,  then it is the real thing.

Sorry, that sentence was too long. I will re-edit it. Later.

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Now I wonder why anybody, today, would want to do that thing, given the following:

(a) No body-armour (not like working for proper Defence-Ministers like in the USA or France)

(b) Calumnical criticism by non-combatant Maxist turds and toads, masquerading as “teachers”, who go round schools telling you how nasty and horrid the British Army is.

(c) No proper American or South-African vehicles (I bet the Israelis have got some too, God bless them! Let’s make them an offer) to protect you from “mines” (MINES for God’s sake? How low-tech can you go? No t*******d’s mine can be THAT big, even if bought from North Korea and pretending to be nuclear) or IEDs – I thought these were contraceptives until I listened to that Iranian madman who captured our whole navy last year.

We were complimented the other day on some poetry we published (not ours!) So here’s some more, also not ours.

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I have no clue who wrote this (it wasn’t one of us, I just found it saved on here somewhere) but I believe it to be recent, that is to say, inside the time of the current interregnum between the full demise of the UK and the full rise of the Fourth Reich. It’s author is probably “Ethnic English”, and may have some slight historical knowledge of folk-lore, predating the current British State-directed Schools History Syllabus.

The rhythm of the scanning is really quite wonderful, if you say it properly. It brings back memories of the olden-times, when the proper appreciation of poetry was also believed to contain an understanding of mathematics and, er, all that other stuff that is now not taught. No wonder that britain’s modern schoolchildren, in especial boys, have neither the understanding nor the will to encompass grand, polemical English.

It has, so far as I am aware, no title:-

 

Arrow of Agincourt! War-axe of Hastings!

Grey-Goose-feather’d Bodkin thro’ armour and bone!

Shall we of such forefathers be but as playthings?

Meekly accepting the crumbs that are thrown?

(See CHORUS below for every verse if wanted)

 

 

They fasten upon us their fetters of paper

and bind us in chains of their Treaty of Rome….

They claim us as vassals! By pen of foul traitor

rule over the Land that our Fathers call home.

 

 

Rise, Yeomen’s fury! Come, Seawolves in Longships!

Let us fling to the skies the fierce Viking “Ahoy”!

Scream fierce the wild Pibroch! Sing loud Men of Harlech!

O these are the mem’ries they cannot destroy!

 

 

By guile they would flail us, who could not assail us

but reeled from the steel of the Eorl and the Gael!

Shall we bow to such masters? Across our bright waters

yet guarding our freedom? Our Moat without fail?

 

 

Can paper bonds bind e’er the strong limbs of giants?

Can traitors or treaties make warriors tame?

Let us cast off their bonds like the mists of the morning!……

 

 

CHORUS:-

In the Roar of the Lion, the leap of the Leopard

the Truth Will Prevail! And our Freedom Proclaim!

 

(These last two lines can be sung or shouted, double-speed, after every verse if desired.

A quantity of beer is also required to be provided as this is a friendly and benign song, to be shared in the company of mates, such as in the Pub.)

Kelvin Mackenzie in the Telegraph today…very acerbic about jackboot-nannies and Soviet council jobsworths…and money.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/25/do2501.xml

Wonderful turn of phrase, that man has.

I feel in my bones, the time ‘a-coming, when the remaining 23 people in Britian who care about liberty will rise up – and (blog about pretending to) throw out the bureauweenies, jackbootists and uncaring socialist kurwy that we have allowed to infest us while we slept.

Motor(ists): are they somehow bracketed now with rap(ists), terror(ists), smoke(ists), Wykeham(ists) or “right-wing” journal(ists)? Is the “Green” “Levy” just another tax? Duuuuuuuuuuuuh……

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Tell the DT what you think.#

AND…

Would a teacher who didn’t read or like the Guardian (believed to be a “News Paper”) or didn’t want to go on strike today, even if HE was a member of the NUT, be called a…

TEACHIST ? (Perhaps he’d also be an “extremist”…)

???

11 wives, and he’s not happy. “government should have done more to help” says stressed husband…

David Davis

From the DT:

 

An Ethiopian man who has 77 children by 11 wives has urged others not to get married and has taken to dispensing advice on family planning to his neighbours.

Ayattu Nure, 56, says he used to be a wealthy man and married out of a desire to share his money around but claims he is now peniless because of the competing demands of his brood.

“I want my children to be farmers but I have no land, I want them to go to school but I have no money,” he says….

 

Read more (it gets better…)

NUT (case) “State” teachers on strike today. No change in how much will be learned by the pupils, then.

Our younger boy’s school has one class operating today, his. He was not very gruntled.

Older one’s outfit operating normally, as far as we could tell; just fewer newish cars in the staff car park.

Much less school run traffic, so therefore good. Will lead to less global warm-mongering.

If the State made it its business to not do anything about education (not even “provide” any) and Marxism was deleted from the “Fiction” syllabuses of British “Teacher Training Colleges”, all this fuss would be irrelevant.

More to the point, how does one “train” a teacher, for goodness’ sake?

St George’s Day, again. Things become old, because they are good. This is old, from Mark Steyn.

David Davis

“Englishness”, whatever that is, includes a gift for self-deprecating humour. We can even be funny about the acts of people who hate and fear our culture so deeply, for what it shows about the ultimate realisation and fate of theirs, that they’d really like to bury ours under a mound of forgetfulness.

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1180/30/

HAPPY ST GEORGE’S DAY!

Seasons of Steyn

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

April 23rd is England’s unofficial national holiday – unofficial because, under Blairite devolution, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and selected Muslim neighborhoods of Greater London, Yorkshire and the Midlands are all nations, but English nationalism is a dark demon that must never be loosed upon the land. This whimsical if-the-English-were-like-the-Irish column first appeared in Tony Blair’s pre-Iraq heyday seven years ago:  (17th March 2001, Daily Telegraph, copyright Mark Steyn)  England on the march New York, 2051 – The annual St George’s Day parade dominated the city today as thousands of English-Americans proudly marched up Fifth Avenue led by Mayor Chelsea Clinton in the colourful garb of the English community’s traditional mascot, “Ken-John Peel”. (Peel was a mythological figure who used to roam the countryside with his “goat so gay” – an animal in the advanced stages of BSE.) Other parade members dressed as St George, the small “cheeky chappie” known as a “leperchaun”, a word deriving from a notorious denunciation of the English 50 years ago this month, when Irish Cabinet minister Hugh Byrne referred to the country as “the leper of Europe”. St George is usually accompanied by his “dragon” – an intimidating female figure in a blue suit swinging a giant “handbag”. The good-natured throng, including many prominent English-American political leaders, sang such well-loved favourites as “Let’s All Go Down The Strand (‘Ave A Banana!)”, the old rebel song commemorating a march on government buildings during the dark days of the “meat famine”, when the haughty Celtic governor Tony Blair dismissed the emaciated peasants and advised them to become vegetarian. As in the less popular St Patrick’s Day parade, participants march under the banners of their ancient English counties – “Avon”, “Humberside”, “Salop” and “West Midlands”. Many of these were abolished when Governor Blair, in a cynical attempt to crush the nationalist movement, “partitioned” the kingdom of England into different regions. Most marchers regard these divisions as artificial and waved placards calling for a “United England”. St George’s celebrations are still outlawed in England under Draconian measures dating back to the Blairite regime. In the late 20th century, many Scottish families – the Blairs, Browns, Cooks, Darlings – settled in England, seizing the rich pasture land of north London, driving the local chieftains from the Palace of Westminster, and forcing the native population to work in servile, degrading jobs such as “Leader of the Opposition”. Many still speak of the effete decadent sadistic viceroy, Lord Irvine, who had entire herds of cattle slaughtered merely so that he could use…. read more….