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30 April 2012
Green CausingEnergy Causing Global Warming
Fancy A Laugh? Here's a good story. A new scientific study says wind farms can cause climate change. The new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.
Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools. Simples
But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the air higher in the atmosphere that is warmer, pushing up the overall temperature.
Satellite data over a large area of Texas now covered by four of the world's largest wind farms, found that over a decade the local temperature went up by almost 1C as more turbines are built.
This may have long term effects on wildlife and vegitation living in the immediate areas of larger wind farms.
It could also affect regional weather patterns as warmer areas affect the formation of cloud and even wind speeds.
It is reported China is now erecting 36 wind turbines every day and Texas is the largest producer of wind power in the US.
Liming Zhou, Research Associate Professor at the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of New York, who led the study, said further research is needed into the affect of the new technology on the wider environment.
"Wind energy is among the world’s fastest growing sources of energy. The US wind industry has experienced a remarkably rapid expansion of capacity in recent years,” he said. “While converting wind’s kinetic energy into electricity, wind turbines modify surface-atmosphere exchanges and transfer of energy, momentum, mass and moisture within the atmosphere. These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate.”
The study, published in Nature, found a “significant warming trend” of up to 0.72C (1.37F) per decade, particularly at night-time, over wind farms relative to near-by non-wind-farm regions.
The team studied satellite data showing land surface temperature in west-central Texas.
“The spatial pattern of the warming resembles the geographic distribution of wind turbines and the year-to-year land surface temperature over wind farms shows a persistent upward trend from 2003 to 2011, consistent with the increasing number of operational wind turbines with time,” said Prof Zhou.
However Prof Zhou pointed out the most extreme changes were just at night and the overall changes may be smaller
It is just more scientofic bullshit of course and we are sure that next week there will be a new report from a bunch of scientists claiming the wind bolws steadily twenty four hours a day and therefore wind turbines are a wonerful source of cheap, non polluting energy that we can rely on for all out future needs.
Of course we could just vote out of office all the politicians who listen to this pseudo scientific bullshit, vote in people who have lived and worked in the real world and cut off research grants to the workshy dole bludgers who masquerade as scientists. The wind does not blow at the same speed round the clock every day and until it does (never) wind turbines are a waste of space and money. FFS it's not rocket science.
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ILO warns global employment situation is 'alarming'; Eurozone in crisis:
by Xavier Connolly
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has reported that the global employment situation is "alarming" and unlikely to improve soon. The agency said that austerity measures, especially in advanced economies, were hurting job creation and the situation was likely to get worse amid slowing global growth and more people entering the workforce. They have a point of course but it is just not feasible to keep borrowing money to pay for the hiring of more tax eaters. The global economy was dysfunctional and something had to give.
High unemployment has been a concern in the US and the major sEuropean economies, except for Germany, for several years. and has hurt the global economic recovery Now the austerity forced on thise high consumption societies is hitting grown in the nations of the developing world whose low labour costs had enabled them to take advantge of the credit bubble inflated by western bankers.
"It is unlikely that the world economy will grow at a sufficient pace over the next couple of years to both close the existing jobs deficit and provide employment for the more than 80 million people expected to enter the labour market during this period," the agency said in its report. Data out last week showed that the unemployment rate in Spain hit a new record high of 24.4% at the end of March.Unemployment in France also rose for the 11th straight month during March.
The tough times will go on for the forseeable future then, jut as The Daily Stirrer has predicted.
The ILO report comes at a time when some of the biggest economies in the eurozone are having to cut government spending in wake of the region's ongoing debt crisis.The agency was critical of the austerity measures taken by Europe's economies, saying not only had they failed to bring down deficits but they had hurt economic growth and as a result impacted the jobs market. Needless to say these think tank types did not offer a way out of the situation. Taking on more debt is not an option with even the powerful economies now approaching levels at which their debt will start to spiral.
"The narrow focus of many eurozone countries on fiscal austerity is deepening the jobs crisis and could even lead to another recession in Europe", said Raymond Torres, the lead author of the ILO report. However, the agency said that employment rates in developing economies had recovered much faster and had surpassed pre-financial crisis levels. Well yeah, but in the west the aggressive employment laws forced on sovereign nation by the "human rights" industry make it impossible to cut wages. Undrer EU law it is also almost impossibler to sack an inefficient worker too. When these self styled experts talk about a "new and more problematic phase" was emerging in the global labour market," they only prove once again that our politicians and the people they rely on for advice are clueless and totally out of touch with reality.
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28 April 2012
Bank of England's Disastrous Quantitative Easing Policy Destroying Pensions
Big News today is that the shortfall in the final-salary pensions schemes of the FTSE 350 companies has risen to £80bn at the end of last month, four times higher than at the same point last year according to pensions analysts Hymans Robertson.
The figures expose the extent to which repeated rounds of quantitative easing (QE a.k.a.creating money in computers) has distorted the value of pensions. A growing number of businesses are arguing companies should pump spare cash into business growth and job creation rather than plug "artificially depressed" deficits. But the pensions watchdog on Friday flatley rejected calls to make allowances for the impact of QE when calculating future scheme liabilities.
In its funding statement, the Pensions Regulator told strong companies to plug deficits rather than invest in capital expenditure.
Adam Marshall, policy director at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "The best way to meet future pensions liabilities is to return the economy to growth and safeguard the solvency of the employers who back the schemes. We need firms to invest in real jobs and growth rather than plugging paper pensions deficits." This is easier said than done of course after all the apparent growth in western economies ofver the past three decades had been based on increasing government spending.
We should feel sorry for young people today, in the private sector, final salary pension schemes don't exist any more for new entrants. House prices are sky high & likely to remain so despite minor fluctuations in the market. This puts home buying totally out of reach for most of the under-40s in the more expensive South East, many people can't even afford to insure a car. On top of that the government saddles them with huge debts in return for provinding sub standard tertiary education that actually does little to enhance potential earning power of employability.
Is it any wonder younger people feel increasingly alientated & turn to more extreme ideologies like Trotskyism, nationalism or anarchism or simply opt out of mainstream socirety. There will be a lot more social problems ahead if we continue to deny opportunities to young people, whilst destroying the savings and pensions of the old. To force companies into plugging artificial pension scheme deficits to make up for the effects of inflation brought on by the loonytoons economics of the New World Order, instead of encouraging them to invest for growth & jobs, is pure insanity.
The Daily Stirrer is fed up of banging on about the politics of politically correct concensus with it's obession with multiculturlism and globalism, its delusional belief that GDP growth can be maintained by borrowing money and pumping it into the public sector and with telling you that the people who run our nations are all cosseted elitists who have no clue about the lives of ordinary people, the lives that through their incompetence they trash every day.
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27 April 2012
Spain's Jobless Hits New Record
by Ed Butt
Nearly one in four Spaniards are now out of work, according to figures released by the government on today, as Standard & Poor's cut the country's credit rating by two notches over its debt burden and ailing banks.
The number of unemployed people hit 5,639,500 for March, with the unemployment rate reaching 24.4%, the national statistics agency reported.The figures came on the same day as rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Spanish sovereign debt. Official figures due out on Monday are expected to confirm that Spain has fallen back into recession.
Earlier this week, the Bank of Spain said the economy contracted by 0.4% in first three months of this year, after shrinking by 0.3% in the final quarter of last year. Other figures published last week showed that retail sales were down 3.7% in March from the same point a year ago, the 21st month in row sales have fallen.In the first three months of the year, 365,900 people in Spain lost their jobs. The country has the highest unemployment rate in the European Union and it is expected to rise further as the year goes on.
So what is wrong with the Spanish economy? The unemployment rate has risen sharply since April 2007, when it stood at 7.9%. "The figures are terrible for everyone and terrible for the government... Spain is in a crisis of huge proportions," Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said.
The new government has announced reforms to the labour market, including cutting back on severance pay and restricting inflation-linked salary increases, that it hopes will ease the problem. These measures have angered unions, which have organised widespread general strikes in protest. Spain is treading much the same path as was followed by Greece a year ago. HSBC chief economist Stephen King said:"The recession is so deep that when you take one step forward on austerity, it takes you two steps back."
The Spoanish government has also introduced drastic spending cuts designed to reduce its debt levels and meet deficit targets agreed with the European Union. These cuts are contributing to Spain's economic contraction.. The interest rate, or yield, on Spanish government bonds traded in the secondary market rose following the release of the unemployment figures and the S&P downgrade. The yield on 10-year bonds rose to 5.96%, up from 5.81%, suggesting investors were becoming more wary of Spain's ability to repay its debts. This extra interest burden also imacts on the Government's ability to reduce the deficit. The only way they can pay corrent debts is by taking on even more debt.
More bad news for the Eurozone today, the interest rate Italy has to pay to borrow money from international investors rose. In a sale of 10-year bonds, the government offered a rate of 5.84% compared with 5.24% at a similar sale a month earlier.
Late on Thursday night, the ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut Spain's rating by two notches to BBB+, warning that the country might have to take on more debt to support its banking sector. S&P predicts the Spanish economy will shrink by 1.5% this year, having previously forecast 0.3% growth.
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Argentina's Lightweight Government Throws Its Weight About
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The government of Argentina, still deluding itself that the Falkland Islands belong to them, has threatened to press criminal and civil charges on British oil companies exploring off the Falkland Islands if they do not "justify their actions" by a May 2 deadline.
In its latest display of megalomaniacal lunacy over the disputed islands, The Government of Argentina said it had written to Falkland Oil & Gas (FOGL), Borders & Southern, Rockhopper, Desire Petroleum and Argos Resources on April 17, to "notify them of their illicit actions and the consequences. In case of failure to offer a response and once the deadline expires, administrative sanctions will be imposed to each company within the framework of an Energy Secretariat resolution which deems these activities illegal," it said. "The Argentine government will also press criminal and civil charges."
It gave no details of the form in which it intended to pursue such action, however. None of the explorers has any assets in Argentina and the British Foreign Office has said it is "deeply sceptical" that Argentina could pursue penalties against such companies in foreign courts.
Argentina said in March it planned to sue the explorers, but this is thought to be the first time this year it has written to them and the first time it has set a deadline. Legal letters have been sent to the companies in previous years, and in March were sent to banks who advised them, but no legal action has resulted.
Earlier this month, FOGL chief executive Tim Bushell shrugged off the "political noise" from Argentina: "Our legal advice is there are no grounds under any international law for pursuing their claims," he said. The companies either declined to comment or could not be reached for response on Thursday night but it is not thought any of them intends to reply to the letters.
Right now we have enough problems without playing games with these crazy Dagoes and their new best mate, the jug eared, fuckwitted, closet queer, closet Muzza, closet Marxist in The White House. Let's have some old fashioned gunboat diplomacy, after all we already have a Roylal Navy Destroyer ctationedapable of blowing awaye Argentinas rag bag navy and airforce s in the South Atlantic. And by torpedoing Argentina's neo Fascist government and the infant delinquent wannabe dickhead Barack Obama's chances of re - election we'd be doing a lot of people a big favour.
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The Demon Stagflation Is On The Loose
by Phil T. Luker
The Credit Crunch is stil crunching European economies and the savings and pension funds of individuals.
Demand for housing loans has falled 70pc in Portugal, 44pc in Italy, and 42pc in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2012. Enterprise loans fell 38pc in Italy. The survey took place in late March and early April, and therefore includes the second of Mario Draghi’s €1 trillion liquidity infusion (LTRO). T his puts a rather different perspective on the UL Labour Party's outraged squealing about our economy contracting one fifth of one per cent over the last quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. While to coalition are not performing any miracles in economic recovery (or anywhere else for that matter) we are doing better in real terms than our neighbours and a hell of a lot better that we would be if a Labour government was printing money as if it was going out of fashion and pumping it into the economy to create an illusion of growth. The USA with closet Marxist, closet gay, coset cokehead President Obama following Labour's lead and trying to inflate his away America's obsecene debt, is faring even worse.
There is no real growth in the economies of the developed world while inflation is eating away at the value of savings and investments and eroding the value of earnings. Since the credit crunch hit after the economic collapse of 2008 almost everything the political leaders and their fuckwitted economic advisers have done was the opposite of what needed to be done.
The European Central Bank said net demand for loans had fallen "to a significantly lower level than had been expected in the fourth quarter of 2011, with the decline driven in particular by a further sharp drop in financing needs for fixed investment." Demand fell 43pc for household loans, and 30pc for non-bank firms.
Mr Draghi told Members of the European Parliament yesterday that short term loans had at least averted a horrendous crunch. "Our policy has been quite successful in buying time and I think [ in the circumstances ] buying time is not a minor achievement." He is certainly right about that. The mess he inherited from the Merkel/Sarkozy expropriations of bondholders in Greece, and the Trichet/Stark tightening of monetary policy was calamitous.
This slump in loan demand is more or less what happened during Japan’s Lost Decade as Mr and Mrs Watanabe shunned debt. Near zero interest rates did nothing, as they have done nothing in Europe and the USA. It is true that banks have slowed the pace of credit tightening, but they are nevertheless still tightening. "A banking crisis remains very much in play for much of the region," said David Owen from Jefferies Fixed Income.
The credit squeeze is entirely predictable – and was widely predicted. The IMF said last week that Europe’s banks would slash their balance sheets by €2 trillion – or 7pc – by next year. This amounts to an economic shock. The Fund said deleveraging on this scale at a time of sharp fiscal tightening risks a "bad equilibrium".
In simple terms it ensures a long slow descent into hell for countries with unsupportable welfare systems that have for too long relied on borrowing to fund their deficit. Judging by the rise of Sinn Fein in Ireland, the Dutch Freedom Party, the Dutch Socialist Party (hard-Left), the True Finns, France’s right wing Front National and near connumist Left Front , and some old fashioned fire-breathers of the right and left in Greece, they victims will not readily put up with this.
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Meanwhile As Punters Suffer Brussels Bureaucrats Throw Away Money As If It Is Infected
by Ed Butt
European Commission bureaucrats have squandered millions of pounds on bizarre projects that provide little or no benefit to member states, it has been revealed. Wasteful schemes include spending £20m on building three ports in Spain and Italy that remain unused four years after their completion and sending a ‘blogging donkey’ equipped with a solar panel and a video camera around Europe as part of a £5.7m programme to “foster European identity”.
Reports of the costly commitments come as the European Commission proposes a near seven per cent increase to its budget. No austerity for them then? Under the draft plans the UK would agree to pay an additional £1billion to Brussels at a time when Whitehall departments are on average facing cuts of 19 per cent. This is in addition to the £billions British taxpayers are being asked to stump up to save the Euro and the doomed and dysfunctional single currency scheme set up to smooth the way for the usurpation of national sovereigny and formation of a European Federal Superstate.
Both Downing Street and the Treasury have vowed to fight the demands, pointing out that the “unacceptable” increase was “in excess of inflation”. The Commission’s proposal would increase the EU’s budget to nearly £114billion. Britain’s share, at around 12.5 per cent, would be £16.6billion - a rise of more than £1billion.
Both Downing Street and the Treasury have vowed to fight the demands, pointing out that the “unacceptable” increase was “in excess of inflation”.
The Commission’s proposal would increase the EU’s budget to nearly £114billion. Britain’s share, at around 12.5 per cent, would be £16.6billion or around £45 million a day - a rise of more than £1billion. That would go quite a long way towards reducing the deficit before we had to even start looking at the money wasted on loonytoons projects and politically correct bullshit by our own public service sector.
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Cameron Gazes Into The Abyss
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When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you :- Freidreich Neitzsche
At Prime Minister's questioin time today David Cameron was given a threashing the like of which he had not experienced since he was at his very posh school, and he did not enjoy it. After less than 10 minutes of suffering "the slings and arrows of outraged MPs from members of his own and opposition parties, the Prime Minister looked like a pit bull with piles. The Leverson inquiry into the illegal 'news' gathering techniques of Rupert Murdoch's media empire has spread beyond the world of celebrity gossip to threated a few political careers. And the Prmie Minister along with his two predecessors will be lucky if he emerges only seriously embarrassed.
Probably the worst moment for Cameron was when he told the House that the media and the country should wait for the end of the Leveson Inquiry before we jump to conclusions about the conduct of his Government over the BSkyB deal (the deal cut by the traitor and war criminal Blair to help Murdoch destroy Independent Television thus handing News International a dominant position in British boroadcast and print media), instead of making judgements on a single day’s evidence.
That would be thin at the best of times, but coming an hour after a Government adviser has quit because it was revealed that Coalition advisers had continued to cosy up to Murdoch's lackeys just as Labour official nhad before them, it’s just looked desperate and the House knew it.
The derisive laughter that greeted Mr Cameron attempts to wriggle off the hook was significant. So was his reaction: the sullen, shocked look of a man who does not like being laughed at. For a moment, he seemed to stare into the middle distance, lost in thought.
Like the young Muhammad Ali after being laid low by our 'Enery's 'ammer the PM fought back, berating Ed Miliband about the tough choices of Government. “I don’t duck my responsibilities,” he raged, face red with anger. Or was it fear?
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24 April 2012
The Euro Crisis Gets Political
Worrying news from Europe: The Dutch government has failed as the euro crisis continues to claim political victims
This is probably a more significant pointer to where the Euro crisis will go next than the likely defeat of Sarkozy in France's Presidential election. While we knew Sarkozy was in big trouble the collapse of the ruling coalition in The Netherlands and Dutch PM Mark Rutte's resignation was not widely predicted. After more than seven weeks of negotiations, the über-populist PVV party, led by Geert Wilders, withdrew its support for significant budget cuts, many of which were demanded by the EU, and for the minority government itself. Rutte seemingly saw no alternative to resignation.
What really makes this interesting is that the collapse was heavily influenced by Eurozone politics. Wilders said: “We will not accept having our people bleed at the hands of bureaucrats in Brussels.” He added that elections, which could take place as early as June, will now be about Europe and the Euro. In other words, another government can be added to the Euro crisis' list of political victims along with Greece and Italy, boith now run by Brussels appointed bureaucracies..
The episode adds uncertainty to the eurozone crisis. We knew that there would be significant opposition to EU-imposed austerity measures in Southern Europe but the Dutch? Though it’s Germany has lost a key ally in its efforts to achieve a Euro based on sound money and budget discipline. As Handelsblatt warned this morning, if Wilders gains greater influence, Dutch ratification of Hausfrau Merkel’s fiscal treaty and the permanent bailout fund (ESM) could be in trouble.
Meanwhile the French presidential elections have the centre concensus in a tizzy too. One third of voters cast their ballot for candidates who are explicitly anti-euro (Le Pen) or strongly protectionist (Mélenchon).
There has been a lot of Hollande bashing in the UK press, but what is far more interesting is what a Hollande victory would mean for France's relationship with Berlin. Hollande is still flirting with the idea of changing the EU fiscal treaty (though he will most likely stop short of renegotiation), pushing the ECB to print cash and dropping France’s pension age back to 60. Clearly, a back-pedalling France under Hollande would make it far more difficult for Angela Merkel to get the political cover needed to put up German taxpayers money to prop up the economic basket cases. Increased likelyhood of debt defaults by Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy would mean more political uncertainty and anxious markets.
The German media are growing ir ncreasingly nervous. A leader in Deutsche Mittelstands Nachricten, popular with Germany’s huge and powerful small and medium size business community, said the results marked a “painful defeat” for Merkel’s vision of Europe. A leader in FAZ noted that the results “reveal a scary political landscape" in France.
Beyond short-term electoral politics, the move to political extremess in France and Netherlands are yet another reminder of the tension at the heart of the Eurozone. When European Union leaders forged the euro they gambled on two hugely unpredictable factors: that economic forces could be kept in check, and that national democracies could be managed. Crucially, they wagered that, should an economic crisis necessitate a more integrated economic and political union, national voters and parliaments could be counted on to play along and vote the “right” way.
Perhaps now they are starting to they bet their nation's life savings on a three legged horse.
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23 April 2012
Another Terror Loving Cleric Hides Behind European Human Rights Law As Abu Qatada Saga Goes On.
by Profanicus Maximus
As news emerges that another Muslim cleric suspected of terrorist links is using the European Human Rights Law and Little Hattie Harman's Politically Correct Though Police act the Human Rights Act passed into law by the Labour government to thwart deportation, it emerged yesterday.
Taha Muhammad, came to Britain 10 years ago claiming asylum from Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. He is regarded by police as one of Britain’s most dangerous Islamist figures, reported to have links with Al Qaeda, and to have taken part “in both terrorist training and activities”.
Muhammad, believed to be living in Birmingham, is even said to have been banned from studying AS-level chemistry because of concerns that what he learned could be used to make explosives for terrorist acts. He is resisting deportation to Iraq on the grounds he could be detained and tortured there, breaching his human rights.
Political activist Judges last year allowed him the right to stay in Britain despite opposition from the Home Office and Police.
Through his solicitor, Muhammad said: “I have never done anything unlawful.”
The Daily Stirrer has also learned that judges sympathetic to terrorists and enemies of the British people tipped off Muslim cleric Abu Qatada that there was still time to launch a last-ditch appeal against his deportation, it was claimed yesterday. Home Office sources alleged that people inside the European Court of Human Rights privately alerted the fanatical preacher his legal team could still make an appeal although the deadline appeared to have passed.
But officials at the Strasbourg-based court made no attempt to warn Home Secretary Theresa May about the looming deadline. Home Office staff were yesterday understood to be furious with the court over it's blatantly partisan behaviour in advising the suspected terrorist’s legal team. They blamed the tip-off for the debacle over the apparent mix-up that followed his arrest last week.
One Home Office insider said: “They took it upon themselves to go to Qatada’s legal team and say, ‘You haven’t appealed yet. Are you likely to appeal?’ It’s extraordinary they decided to alert his team the appeal deadline was coming up. But they did not bother to remind us.” Tory MPs attacked the alleged tip-off as “outrageous” meddling in British affairs.
The Daily Stirrer says this is more evidence, as if any more were needed, that we must get out of Europe before the left wing lunatics trying to create a fascist federal superstate suck us in too far. Remember these cupid stunts want to bring nascent Islamist theocracies like Syria, Egypt and Libya into an extended "Mediterranean Union," as part of their planned New World Order.
Controversy flared last week after Qatada, a Jordanian citizen, was detained by police as Mrs May announced a fresh attempt to deport him to Jordan, where he faces terrorism charges. He claims his human rights could be infringed there because evidence obtained from torture may be used against him.
Charles Walker, vice-chairman of the Convervative Party’s powerful backbench 1922 committee, said: “If it’s the case the European Court of Human Rights alerted Qatada he could still appeal, it is disgraceful. It would amount to a partisan interference suggesting the court’s sympathies lie with Abu Qatada, not with the British people. It demonstrates what a morally bankrupt outfit this court is.”
Labour, the party that hates everything that makes us British, are cheering the bid to give terrorists the right to stay in Britain, preaching hate and inciting violence against British people. The Liberal Democrats who become increasingly more illiberal and undemocratic remained wimpishly silent.
The European Court Of Human Rights declined to comment on “alleged contacts” with Qatada’s team which is almost the same as saying "We don't have to answer to the electorate so fuck the fucking fuck off.
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Church of England Has Nothing to Fear From Gay Marriage say (Gay) Clergymen
by Profanicus Maximus
In a blatant case of "They would say that wouldn't they?" a group of "influential" clergymen have written a letter to The Times saying the church has nothing to fear from gay mariage. The group which is comprised of openly gay or left wing political activist god - botherers say that as society evolves so must institutions such as marriage.
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These church leaders only succeed in proving themselves to be as out of touch with the feelings of their congregation as politicians of all main parties are with the voters.
A comment in the thread under this news item raised some interesting points when somebody commenting as William said:
(WILLIAM • Manchester, England • 41 minutes ago)Im a gay man ,we have already got civil partnerships,i and most of my friends think marriage is a step too far.Our so called leaders and gay right groups think this is what gay people want.I think the whole gay thing is getting pushed in peoples face and people are getting sick of it.Straight people have a right to opinion too but its got to the point like if you mention immigrants you are classed as racist,and if you disagree with things such as gay marriage you are classed as homophobic.
William is absolutely right. This whole gay mariage thing has been driven by the metropolitian elite which is comprised of politicians, lawyers, media professionals and senior public sector workers. They have not stopped to consider the feelings of the great mass of people (whom the elite covertly despise despite protestations that they are only interested in building a fair and equal society) The elitist "progressive left have only one aim and that is to advance their authoritarian agenda and impose their values on all of us, by law when persuasion fails as it certainly will.
Dangerous Cyclists Slammed By London Cab Firm Chief
by Xavier Connolly
The Chairman of London’s largest minicab company has said cyclists need to think more about their own safety before “throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world”.
John Griffin, the founder and chairman of Addison Lee, blames the rising popularity of cycling for the increase in road accidents and says cyclists should pay road tax.
The rest of us occupying this road space have had to undergo extensive training,” he said. “We are sitting in a protected space with impact bars and air bags and paying extortionate amounts of taxes on our vehicle purchase, parking, servicing, insurance and road tax.
“These cyclists are throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world. They leap on to a vehicle which offers them no protection except a padded plastic hat. It is time for us to say to cyclists: you want to join our gang, get trained and pay up.”
Mr Griffin also criticised campaigners who claim that cyclists are being “murdered” by motorists, saying they should take responsibility for their own safety.
He's right, cyclists fulfil no safety requirements before taking to the road, disregard the highway code whenever they feel it might inconvenience them, ignore red lights, try to pass on the inside when a car is indicating it is turning left, ride on pavements intimiating pedestrians and try to harrass motorists who are encasesd in a ton of metal. And they of course they claim they are the victims whenever their self righteoust irresponsibility gets them in trouble.
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Al Qaeda Threaten Terrorist Attacks On Britain If Hate Preacher Abu Qatada Is Deported
by Ed Butt
Militant Al Qaeda faction Al Shabaab has warned that Britain will face terror attacks if Islamic extemist and hate ptreadcing cleric Abu Qatada is deported to his homeland, Jordan.
The Al Qaeda militants warned of a “disaster” for Britain if the Government attempts to send Qatada home to face charges of sedition and inciting terrorism.
SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online activity from terrorist groups, said al-Shabaab had issued its warning on militant forums.
"The British public is also forewarned that it will be the British government, as a result of its imprudence, that shall be liable for any disaster that befalls them, or their national interests," the statement said.. It comes a week after Al-Qaeda threatened to attack Britain if it decides to extradite Qatada. In a statement signed by Al-Qaeda’s general command and published on jihadist forums, the terror network said Abu Qatada's extradition would “open the gates of evil” on “Britain and its citizens everywhere.” (Read the full story).
This is nothing much to worry about of course, it's very likely nothing more than typical middle eastern windbaggery. With any luck a few wannabe martyrs (the lure of 72 virgins is strong) will blow themselves up trying to build bombs, life in Britain will go n unmolested and the majority of law abinding Muslims will ontinue to live peacefully, side by side with their atheist, agnostic and Christian neighbours.
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Obama's Latest Kinfe In Britain's Back Should Wake Up Our Dozy Government
by Profanicus Maximus
The Daily Stirrer has commented many times on the obvious hatred U. S. President Barack Obama harbours for Britain. We have reported how the Festering Gobshite in Chief will grab any opportunity to insult our nation even as he is petulantly demanding the support of our government. No surprise then that Sidi Obama has no interest in supporting Britain over the Falklands. He declared in a press conference in Colombia at the Summit of the Americas: "And in terms of the Maldives [sic] or the Falklands, whatever your preferred term, our position on this is that we are going to remain neutral. We have good relations with both Argentina and Great Britain, and we are looking forward to them being able to continue to dialogue on this issue. But this is not something that we typically intervene in."
The Obama presidency has made it clear that it views Britain and Argentina as equal allies. This, despite the fact that Great Britain is a world power that has fought alongside the Americans in almost every major US-involved war over the past 70 years (with the notable exception of Vietnam). In contrast, Argentina is an insignificant international actor, currently led by a kleptocrat anti-Western government, which has barely lifted a finger to help the Americans in the past. But like Obama the Argentine gobernment loves terrorism and advocates oligarchic collectivism (like the Big Brother regime in Orwell's 1984).
Barack Obama's latest knife in the back for Britain – and there have been many - should sound an alarm around the corridors of Whitehall. David Cameron's recent trip to Washington was an undignified exercise in hero-worship toward a rabid leftie who doesn't even like the British. The prime minister should understand that Barack Obama is no friend of Britain and never will be. One only needs to read The Prez Dude's fantasy novel "Dreams From My Father" to understand why.
The Obama presidency has beeen the most consistently anti-British US administration of modern times. No amount of photo-ops at college basketball games, glamorous flights on Air Force One, or lavish state dinners stuffed full of Democrat fundraisers and donors will change that.The Presi9dent hates us because he his a professional "African - Amerucan how has digesated all the toxic lies ofg race hustlers like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Stolkeley Carmichael. To Mr Obama, the Prime Minister is little more than a convenient campaign prop: a compliant figure, popular with American voters, who can be paraded in frtont of the U. S. media to reinforce the image stuffed down the throats of the Ameriocan public by a sycophantic and tiotally biased media the impression "the beloved President" actually has friends on the world stage rather than being a laughing stock, a limp wisted pouf who has caved in and let himself be shafted up the arse by every leader who has stood up to him. He is popular only because his weakness, his attention seeking and desire to be loved has made America weak. It is time for David Cameron's reckless adulation of the Obama White House to come to an end.
President Obama doesn't believe in the Special Relationship, he sowed this in Colombia as well confuddling the Falkland Islands or Malvinas as his pro Argentine bias causes hin to try to call them, with the Maldives, the populaar holiday destination in the Indian Ocean, showing that far from the sharp witted intellectual he is presented as, he his no brighter than George W. Bush, but lacks Bush's charm and humour. Britain's true friends in the USA are not the authoritarian, politically correct, racist, iliberal "liberals"but American conservatives who are the natural allies of Britain, not the big-government liberals who support the wannabe currently occupying the White House, cheering him ecstatically when he promises to rule by decree if the elected assembly wil not do what he wants them to, and doing their best to import the European social model and EU-style bureacracy and regulations into America. The Obama administration has been relentlessly New World Order internationalist from the day it took office, backing every step towards further European integration, and supporting planbs to extend the E. U. to include African and Middle Eastern nations. Obama and his followers, the new elite, are not the allies of national sovereignty or democracy Europe.
With his embarrassing fawning over Obama, Mr Cameron has been burning bridges with the Right in America, while gaining nothing for his country other than an ally wo cannot be trusted, who would go to almost any lengths to damage Britain. With the latest Gallup polls showing Obama trailing in the presidential race, with scandals looming and the true depth of America's economic crisis about to be exposed, it would be prudent for the British government to rethink its entire approach towards the current White House, and start reaching out to US conservatives, who respect Britain and do actually believe in the Special Relationship. We may be divided by a common language as someone once put it, but we do share a set of traditional values.
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Unemployment Falls As Part Time Working Hits Record Levels And More Drop Out Of The Workforce
by Xavier Connolly
The fall in unemployment announced today will lead to a burst of false optimism in the media and a lot of silly talk from politicians about "green shoots of recovery" and other such meaningless phraes. Employment experts warn the fall in joblessness is masked by "underemployment", including a record high in the numbers of Britons being forced to work part-time.
The number of people having to work part time because there are few suitable full-time jobs available has risen by 89,000 between December and January and now stands at 1.4m - the highest figures since records began in 1992.
The rise in part-time working hasa briught down overall unemployment, which fell for the first time in almost a year by 0.1pc over the period to reach 2.6)5m. The figure was again helped by numbers of people whose allotted time on jobseekers allowance has expired being reclassified as not economically active and dropped from the register. The number of people classed as economically inactive, including those on long-term sick leave, students, those looking after a relative or who have given up looking for work, fell by 25,000 to 9.27 million, a rate of 23pc.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said changes to the way women's benefits are calculated, such as moving single mothers off lone parents' allowance and onto Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), account for some of the rise in female unemployment.
Significantly the number of people claiming JSA increased for the 17th month in a row in March, up by 3,600 to 1.61 million, the smallest monthly rise since last December. Long-term unemployment hit a 16-year high, with the number of people out of work for over a year jumping by 26,000 to 883,000.
There was bad news for people in work too. Average earnings increased by 1.1pc in the year to February, down by 0.2 percentage points from the previous month to the lowest since the summer of 2010 but with inflation running at 3.5% (official) or 5.5% (real inflation, everybody was wrose off.
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Another Euro Bail Out Looms As Spain's Debt Spirals Out Of Control
by Phil T Luker
Firstly, we have a bit of a change, the nom de plume John de Roe, formerly used by our finance expert, has been replaced by Phil. T Luker because of branding issues.
The pain in Spain threatened to affect all European taxpayers as news emerged yesterday that the interest on Spanish sovereign debt had again risen to above the critical 6% level. This poses the threat of yet another bailout in Europe as stock markets fell sharply early today. Spain's economy, already stricken by lunatic green energy policies and unemployment running at close to 25%, facing a second brutal recession.
Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos admitted that the country had 'probably' gone into recession again. He added that the nation's GDP was likely to have fallen during the last quarter and that the economy shrank 0.3 per cent. The official figures are yet to be released but the comments from Mr de Guindos will add fuel to the belief that Spain will suffer two successive quarters of falling GDP for the first time since 2009.
The news will also spook financial markets that the recession will make it impossible for Spain to meet deficit reduction targets and it will have to seek some kind of international bailout, like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
There was little respite as the country's borrowing costs also soared further above 6 per cent today.
Spanish government ministers tried to suggest the latest downturn may not be as bad as first expected. One told El Mundo newspaper: "At the moment I see a first quarter with a similar pattern to the last quarter of last year. If you had asked me two months ago, I would have expected the first quarter of 2012 to be much worse than the last quarter of last year. But that's not going to be the case."
This sounds very unconvincing to us, all he is really saying is, "No matter how bad things get, they can always get worse."
Spain's conservative government says it is committed to making major budget cuts but there are worries that borrowing costs could quickly reach unaffordable levels unless the European Central Bank resumed buying government bonds in a programme which has helped to keep yields down in recent months. "Spanish industry is so depleted after years of socialism and "save the planet" activism in government, borrowing money through the bond markets is the only way the country can fund its ongoing obligations.
The bad news from Spain comes as George Osborne prepares to sign an agreement that Britain will commit another £10bn to the International Monetary Fund.The IMF has been pushing to increase its resources from $400bn (£250bn) to about $1 trillion. It is time the Conservative led government in Britain got the message from it's supporters that trying to save the Euro is just throwing good money after bad. The ~Internationalist Euronazis leading this effort to save the single currency at all costs fear that if the Euro fails it will be the end of their dream of a single European superstate run by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. The British government should not be supporting such and illiberal and undemocratic shower of scumbags. We need to be reducing our own deficit.
George Osborne is fortunately not as slavishly devoted to Euronaziism as David Cameron and Nick Clegg. He is expected to support the IMF's calls for greater resources in back-room negotiations only if agreement can be struck with all the major non-eurozone nations, except the US.
US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner has made it clear the US will not make any further contributions until the eurozone has bolstered its own bail-out fund sufficiently. With the loonytoon President still crazy as a shithouse rat and wanting to thrown $$$billions at black activist organisations, the USA has a bigger debt timebomb ticking in it's basement than any European nation.
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by Ed Butt
A new blitz on benefit fraudnnounced by aWork and Pensiins Minister Ian Duncan Smith today will aim to stamp out cheats who claim state benefits while living abroad. Scams that cost the taxpayer about £43million last year included claimants failing to report they had moved abroad.
Relatives frequently continue to claim benefits for people who have died. Other fraudsters claim cash while working overseas, exaggerate disabilities or fail to report assets, including savings, property and even yachts. Overseas benefit fraud hotspots include Spain, Portugal and the US, but some cases have been traced to Thailand and Sweden. Britons living overseas can still claim some benefits, including their state pension. Sickness and disability allowances can also be claimed, depending on individual circumstances and whether your stay abroad is temporary or permanent.But Disability Living Allowance, Pension Credit, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance cannot be claimed abroad.
The latest crackdown will require officials from the Department for Work and Pensions working more closely with Foreign Office officials, banks and overseas fraud investigators. It is part of efforts to reduce Britain’s multi-billion- pound welfare bill and control the Government’s debt mountain.
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Vilified' Christians 'fear arrest' as Neo Nazi Secularist Persecution Increases Says Former Archbishop
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Carey has again defended the richts and freedoms of Chistians against what he feels is persecution by militant secularists. In a submission to thre EWuropean Court Of Human Rights Dr. Carey has spoken of fears that political activist jusdges and lawyers are showing anti - Christian bias in their judgements.
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German civil servant says he 'did nothing for 14 years'
by Ian R Thorpe
Both here in The Daily Stirrer and on our satirical blog, Boggart Blog we have often lobbed a few well aimed grenades at how this is not a problem confined to the UKpublic sector workers who moan about how hard done my they are. We have in fact suggested these people are the most under-employed workers in the world who actually draw a regular wage or salary and enjoy the benefit of a featherbedded pension at the end of it. Now, to show this is not a purely British problem a German civil servant has admitted that he "did nothing for 14 years" in frank retirement email sent to colleagues. Read full story
It remineds me of the time I spent as a very expensive information systems consultant working for the EU Commission in Luxembourg. At the end of my six month contract I had the option to renew but as I had been there half a year and not found out what I was supposed to be doing and as a good contract for a big Investment Bank in London was on offer I left. If I had not ben so adverse to boredom I might not have burned out at age 50, in fact I could well have been there still, wondering what I was supposed to be doing.
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"Queer Theory" Dominates Government Consultation On Same Sex Marriage
by Profanicus Maximus
Queer theory is an idea floated by left wing shirt- lifting academics that says if the gay lobby keep pumping their propaganda at us people will eventully believe it is more acceptable to be homosexual than straight. That is the tactic of Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels. Let the limp writed Nazis be known for what they are. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being homosexual but we just wish they wpould shut the fuck up about it.
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The Eurozone slow Motion Train Wreck Is Still Happening
Some people, even among the well informed crew of sceptics who read The Daily Stirrer may have been taken in by all the politicians' lies and the official statistics based on manipulated data, and believed things could only get better. Well no matter how many band aids the New World Order stick over the gaping wound in the global economy, the blood soon starts gusing out again. It's the debt you see, no matter how much money is shovelled into the botomless pit of a structuiral defecit, the huge welfare bills run up by contries that bough into the politically correct, soft socialism of "all join hands and sing Kumbaya" politcs, many nations can only fund their obligations by borrowing. Greece, Ireland and Portugal we all know about. Italy and Spain represent much bigger problems. Two stories from today's news show why:
Italy's borrowing costs double at a short-term debt auction, while European stock markets rise as investors take stock after yesterday's sell-off. Italy's longer-term borrowing costs have fallen fairly sharply today. Yields on 10-year bonds are down nearly 0.25pc, at 5.463pc. Spanish benchmark yields are down 16 basis points, at 5.777pc.
The Bank of Italy said that the higher yields reflected renewed eurozone bond market tensions. At today's bond auction a range of short-term debt was sold at much higher rates than at its last auction. The Italian Treasury sold €8bn of one year bills at average interest rates of 2.84pc - more than double the 1.405pc seen at the last auction on March 13. There were 1.5 bidders for every bond on offer (vs. 1.38 at the last auction). It also sold €3bn of three-month bills at average yields of 1.249pc - compared with 0.492pc at the last auction.
This is in spite of the austerity measures imposed by the EU appointed bureaucratic dictatorship in the wake of last autuimn's Italian crisis. Spain's toubles are worse than Italy's, with unemployment running at over 20% and the government still facong huge bills for it's insanely generous support of the green energy industry which sees Spanish taxpayer's paying foreign operators for the energy generated by solar farms during the hours of darkness.
Ralf Preusser, Merrill Lynch's rates strategist, ahs given the reasons why he thinks "Spain is more vulnerable than other troubled Eurozone countries":
Spanish and Italian banks’ funding concerns are not equal, with Spanish banks continuing to experience deposit outflows in February, while in Italy, deposits rebounded sharply. Interestingly, despite the deleveraging efforts in Spain, loan/deposit ratios there have been creeping up, while they have fallen in Italy (in Spain at their high since beginning of 2011, in Italy at their low). In January and February, Italian banks have seen their deposit (relative to loan) funding improve by EUR 28 bn, while Spanish banks have crystallized a funding need of EUR 8 bn. Given the analysis from our banks’ analysts on the long-term funding side, Italian banks also raised EUR 8 bn more in long-term funding compared to maturities over the same time-frame, while Spanish banks exactly covered their redemptions.
He may be a victim of over optimism about Italy but he is right about Spain. .As one of our friends commented, "The show ain't over til the fat landy sings and in this show she has not even entered the building yet.
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"We told them you have two choices. Either postpone this issue of borrowing and come up with any other way of dealing with it without our approval, or speed up the formation of a government," Khairat al-Shater told Reuters news agency.
The news service added that al-Shater "said he understood the country's finances were precarious and a severe crunch could come by early to mid-May at the end of the fiscal year
Last week, Egypt's central bank reported that total reserves had fallen to $15 billion, but - more importantly - liquid foreign exchange reserves had fallen to only $9 billion, equivalent to just two months' imports. Foreign exchange futures markets expect the Egyptian pound to lose half its value during the next year, and Egyptians have responded by hoarding diesel fuel, propane gas and other necessities.
With half of Egypt's population living on $2 a day or less, the expected devaluation would push a significant part of the population below minimum nutrition levels, and balloon the government's deficit as the cost of subsidizing imported necessities rose. Egypt imports half its caloric consumption.
As usual The Daily Stirrer taks no pleasure in saying "We told you so."
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10 April 2012
Ken Livingstone's Policies Are As Dodgy As His Tax Returns
With Easter over the focus for news shifts (we hope) from the middle east, the Eurozone economy and and the decay of western society to the campaign to be elected Mayor of London.
With Conservative Boris Johnson opening up a significant lead his Labour opponent Ken Livingstone, having seen a desperate big to woo the Islamist vote backfire as it alienated many white voters while not impressing the deeply conservative and very influential Muslim business community has been desperately trying to change the subject away from his tax avoidance – a “distraction,” apparently, from his preferred campaigning style of “American model identity politics.
If Ken truly believes the question of his dodgy tax affairs is a distraction why was he the first candidate to raise the subject of the candidates’ earnings? Clearly, American-style personalised politics, like tax avoidance, is one of those thing that the "progressive left" think has two sets of rules, one for their opponents and another, much more lax and permissive set for them.
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from Politico
Ron Paul isn’t going to win the Republican presidential nomination, and his long Capitol Hill career is coming to end.
But even as he winds down his career in elected office, his voice is being amplified across the country by dozens of House and Senate candidates who are seeking to carry on his legacy.
Paul activists of all ages, backgrounds and levels of political experience have taken to the campaign trail this year, inspired by the Texas congressman’s presidential campaign and a libertarian-infused message that has gotten more traction with voters than ever before.
There’s no exact way of measuring how many Paul-inspired candidates are running this year. But Jared Paine, a Paul supporter who operates a website that tracks the campaigns of libertarian-minded candidates, said he counted around two dozen active Paul backers who are running for House or Senate seats and another 200 or so who are seeking local offices — almost all of them running as Republicans.
It’s a measure of the depth of the passion Paul inspires from his supporters, which is marked by a ferocity and commitment to the cause that few other pols can command
What Ron Paul is doing in the USA then is much like whaty the UK Independence Party (UKIP) are trying to do in Britain, i.e. try to provide an alternative to the politically correct concensus of the mainstream parties. In Britain the Conservative and Labour party policies have become indistinguishable from each other, as with the Democrats and Republicans in the USA both try to buy votes with unffordale social benefits, both cling to sacred cows such as the idea that mass immigration is a good thing, both take the votes of their core constituency for granted as they vie for the votes of ethinic and sexual minorities by caving in to unreasonable demands that effectively make the people complaining they are oppressed into privileged groups who can flout the law at will.
People are fed up of the old way of doing politics, of elitists looking after each others' interests, doing deals behind closed doors.
Good luck to Ron Paul, as Politico say he will not win the nomination but at the age of 76 he probably does not want it. And good luck to UKIP too, though dismissed by the left as a bunch of right wing nutters they are playing the role of mavericks, troublemakers and upholders of traditional values such as the right to free sppech and self determination so gladly abandoned by the Liberal Democrats in return for a sniff at the skany knickers of the whore Power.
We neede politicians who represent the interests of their consituents not lackeys who represent the interests of their party's biggest financial supporters.
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4 April 2012
Are The Lib Dems More Fascist Than Labour
by Ed Butt
EXPLOSIVE claims by a Lib Dem Cabinet minister that the Government is more pro-European than Labour sparked fury among senior Tories last night. According the the magazine New Statesman the remarks were made during an interview that the magazine said was done over “a pot of tea and a gin.
Quite a few gins, it seems but it's nice of the New Statesman to grass up another closet neo-fascist posing as a Liberal Democrat.
David Cameron steeped in swiftly to slap down Energy Secretary Ed Davey’s claim that it would be “reckless” to rule out joining the single currency in the next few years. The Conservatives were angered by the single European naton enthusiast's comments which underlined the gulf between the pro-EU Lib Dems and their coalition partners.
However one Tory eurosceptic, Douglas Carswell Douglas Carswell said: “Ed Davey seems to have let the cat out of the bag. Far from being a eurosceptic government bringing back powers from Brussels, the Government seems to be run by the senior civil service, for the senior civil service and of the senior civil service, and the senior civil service are europhile to their fingertips.This is the most europhile government since Edward Heath’s. I don’t like what Ed Davey says but it’s refreshing to have honesty and truth.”
He added: “Since this administration took office they have transferred more powers to Brussels, they have spent billions bailing out European monetary union and they are implementing domestic reforms at the behest of EU directives.
As the Daily Stirrer has often reported, despite their posturings aimed at fooling an E U screptic electorate, all three main parties are rabidly pro EU and would glasdly sell out our nation to be part of a sigle European superstate run by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
On joining the euro, Mr Davey said he did not think Britain should do so in the next few years but that “you’d be an unwise person ever to rule something out totally” – as the Conservatives have done. Mr Cameron said later: “The Government’s position is absolutely clear which, is that we are not joining the euro. My personal view is that I think Britain should never join the euro. “I think there are many challenges we face in terms of our economy, but it is hugely helpful to have a situation where we have our own monetary policy to suit our own needs.”
Tory MP Stewart Jackson, who resigned as a ministerial aide in October to vote for an EU referendum, said: “Ed Davey should get on with his day job and stop contemplating his navel about issues that aren’t in his remit.
“My advice to Lib Dems is that if they want to campaign at the next general election as the most vociferously pro-European party, good luck with that because they are a million miles from what ordinary voters think about Europe."
This is absolutely true and it is why the Liberal Democrats will be virtually wioed out at the next election. It's leaders and party activists are totally out of touch with the electorate and sare so deluded they think they can impose the oligarchic collectivist doctrine they share with most of Labour's authoritarians on the electorate.
One word. RESPECT!
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Britain Misses A Double Dip Recession As Europe Falters
Service sector economic activity, which encompasses jobs from banking to retail, rose at its fastest rate for four years over the first quarter, according to the closely-watched Markit/CIPS survey.
Companies also reported a rise in volumes of new business as well as getting more business from existing clients. On a monthly basis, the Markit/CIPS services PMI rose to 55.3 in March from 53.8 in February, far above the 50 level than divdes growth from contraction. Economists had expected expansion in the sector to slow in March, forecasting a fall in the PMI to 53.4.
David Noble, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, said the PMI data demonstrated that "fears of a double dip recession were unfounded".
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, suggested the British economy had grown by as much as 0.5pc in the first quarter, with the services sector, which accounts for around 75pc of the British economy, expanding by around 0.7pc.
Today's services data rounds-off a positive month for the economy that saw the UK's manufacturing and construction sectors expand at a faster pace than economists had expected.
But Mr Williamson described it as "no run-away recovery. Job creation and inflows of new business continue to run well below rates generally seen in the years prior to the financial crisis,” he said.
Samuel Tombs, UK economist at Capital Economics also highlighted that the strong rise in the services PMI failed to account for a recent decline in activity on the high street.
"Moreover, even if the economy did grow in Q1, the prospect of a renewed rise in tensions in the euro-zone, further fiscal austerity and high oil prices suggest that the economy will struggle to expand in the coming quarters," he added.
Are these the first green shoots. Or it it just a plakkie bag from a pound shop we see peeping through the snow. We'll keep you posted
Obama, the Hypocrite In Chief, Says Supreme Court Is Only Right When It Agrees With Him
by Ed Butt
We report this in The Daily Stirrer because we see signs of the politicisation of justice creeping into the British system
On Monday of this week President Obama warned that any attempt by the Supreme Court to strike down the allegely unconstitutional individual healthcare mandate would be “judicial activism” of the very worst kind.
“I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” he said. In fact, the Supreme Court does that a lot – that’s sort of the point of judicial review. But for the uninitiated, it could sound like the Pres has embraced the noble, ordinarily conservative critique of judicial activism. Is Barack Obama a Newt Gingrich in sheep’s clothing?
In fact, Obama has consistently spoken out against judicial activism. In his book Audacity of Hope, pre-White House Obama, posing as the people's friend, was scathing of the use of the courts to achieve what the Democrats had failed to get past congress:
“In our reliance on the courts to vindicate not only our rights but also our values, progressives have lost too much faith in democracy. Elections, particularly presidential elections, became about gaining the power to appoint sympathetic justices: Instead of relying on Senate procedures, there was one way to ensure that judges on the bench reflected our values, and that was to win at the polls. Process replaced populism, and that widened the gulf between an elite liberal judiciary and the common voter".
Soaring rhetoric indeed, wonder who wrote it for him.
In passages like this Obama sounds like a strict constitutionalist who wants the worlds of Congressional mandate and judicial review to remain separate and unequal. But things aren’t that simple. The Prez Dude insists that while the judiciary should not subvert the authority of the congress\ (i.e. We The People), its decisions should always seek to reflect their values and wishes. Obama's preference for “judicial empathy” means appointments to the Supreme Court should favour: “Someone who understands that justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book … It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's lives — whether they can make a living and care for their families; whether they feel safe in their homes and welcome in their own nation.”
In the oval office his perspective is changed and Barack Obama defines judicial activism as anything that contradicts the needs of the folks who vote for him whikle anything he thinks might help him get relected is "Judicial empathy". And he defines those he hopes will vote for him as a coalition of the downtrodden and oppressed who all need a little governmental activism in their lives: the real people, the little people, the people with whom judges should have empathy.
Therefore, while no court should touch Obamacare (which benefits the poor Obama voters), the administration does not have a problem with federal courts overturning anti-gay marriage referenda in the states (which benefit gay and lesbian Obama voters). Likewise Roe v Wade – surely one of the most compelling examples of judicial activism in American history – is thought to benefit women/feminists and so is A-Okay with this administration. In fact Obama went so far as to issue a note of celebration for Roe v Wade on the anniversary of its passage, saying that the decision, “affirms every woman’s fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to have an abortion, as well as each American’s right to privacy from government intrusion. I have, and continue to, support these constitutional rights … Today and every day, we must strive to ensure that all women have limitless opportunities to fulfill their dreams.” Doesn’t it make the heart soar?
Well what is a legal imperitive requiring people to buy insurance if it is not government intrusion into their private affairs.
Judicial empathy produces in Obama a paradoxical (or as the bloody minded among us might say “hypocritical”) approach towards judicial review. One columnist at Red State points out,
“In 2003, the United States Congress passed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 by substantially larger margins than Obamacare. When the Supreme Court refused to strike down this law, which was passed by a “democratically elected Congress,” the limp wristed one, a state senator then, threw a humdinger of a hissy fit about the fact that the Supreme Court had upheld the clear will of Congress (and the vast majority of the American people) rather than doing what the effete metropolitan elite wanted.
However, when it’s his own legislation at stake, Obama seems suddenly ready to go back and undo pretty much every Supreme Court precedent over the last 200 years in order to strip the Court of their power to rule on any question of law.”
In short, Obama opposes judicial activism where he deems it to contradict the will of the people who vote his way, but calls it judicial empathy and endorses it when it upholds his point of view. The only “empathy” he wants to see are decisions that accord with his socialist, some might say authoritarian agenda which he feels is mandated by his 2008 presidential election, despite the fact that public opinion has actually turned against much of his platform.
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Why hasn’t quantitative easing worked for the UK economy?
by John de Roe
Ministers of the Coalition government have waxed lyrical about how the UK economy would avoid another recession and start to grow this year, or at least stagnate. But according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) we are going to enter another recession on April’s Fool Day. The Daily Stirrer told you this was inevitable of course.
How the government get it as wrong as their Labour predeccessor? Easay, both listened to the same academics, the same 'experts', people who have only experienced the world of business and finance through the theories of economists and political scientists whose whole careers have been spen in the cloistered environment of universities or the mable halls of government.
Successive governmemts, through the Bank Of England have now pumped around £350bilion into the economy and yet the recovery hassn't ever got off the starting blocks. Haven’t the Bank of England’s (BOE) quantitative easing exercises (QE) helped us all?
Well, yes and no. It depends on what the Bank wants to achieve by purchasing government assets (bonds). Basically the bank buys worthless IOUs from the government, using money contributed by we the poor punters. The second round of QE that started in September of last year was a pre-emptive move to limit damage when the Eurozone debt crisis exploded leading to a Lehman-like economic crisis. The UK is highly exposed to European debt and rather than promote growth QE was used as a monetary buffer to ensure that in the event of a major problem over the water the banking system had enough money to survive.
This was followed in February with another £50 billion of funds from the BOE. The reason for this move is slightly less clear. The economy had shown signs of picking up (it has since deteriorated) and the Eurozone crisis had stabilised somewhat. However, the bond markets expected more QE so the Bank had to give it what it wants.
QE is supposed to move money to the banks through the funds they raise by selling their UK government debt back to the Bank of England. ory this cashIn the then lent out to the wider economy. That is the traditional view, but it has some other effects too. If there is a buyer of Gilts with a voracious appetite (like the BOE) then it reduces borrowing costs for the government – as bond prices rise, yields fall. This is fantastic news for a country that needs to borrow GBP 126 billion this year to finance its budget deficit so long as you overlook the fact that the government is borrowing money from itself.
One of the biggest problems in the UK at the moment is rising unemployment and youth unemployment in particular. But just because QE has pumped money into the economy doesn’t mean that more jobs are going to be created. Banks may not lend out money because they need to hold larger capital buffers due to new regulations. Also, they may be under financial pressure and are worried they may not be able to finance themselves in the wholesale funding markets going forward. Hence they squirrel the money away by borrowing it from the government at the stupidly low rate of 0.5% that has held for three years now, and lend it straight back (by buying bonds) at a higher rate. Small businesses who represent a higher risk to government, don't get a look in.
Interest rates have been falling and corporate bond issuance in the US, where companies are active in the bond markets, has topped $1 trillion in the first three months of the year. Thus, to really benefit from the effects of QE you need to be active in financial markets.
As expectations grow of more QE in May if the UK falls back into recession, the public needs to remember that QE only effects the upper echelons of the economy, and just because the BOE prints more cash doesn’t mean that the unemployment rate will come down or that we will start to see genuine growth anytime soon.
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Muslim Brotherhood Seeks Power In Egypt - We Told You So.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9179297/Muslim-Brotherhood-raises-fears-among-liberals-as-it-names-presidential-candidate.html
The nomination of Khairat el-Shater, a millionaire businessman, puts the Islamist movement within reach of taking power in an Arab country for the first time in its 84-year history.
While many Egyptians will welcome the announcement, it is almost certain to heighten fears among liberals and Coptic Christians that the Brotherhood is seeking a monopoly on power with the intention of creating an Islamic state.
Senior officials in the movement defended the move, saying they had been left with no choice after the transitional military leadership prevented them from forming a civilian government despite securing an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections earlier this year.
31 March 2012
The Only Extremists In Mainstream Politics Are 'Progressive Liberals' aka The Loony Left
by Ed Butt
When the "progressive liberals" of the loony left start accusing the UK Independence Party of being right wing extremists it's time to take a close look at politics and discover who the real swivel eyed extremists are. Eyes left everyone
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30 March 2012
George Galloway's By Election Victory Shows Voters Contempt For Main Parties
by Ian R Thorpe
Mainstream political commentators are having a field day mocking George Galloway, former Labour minister now leader of fringe political group the Respect Party after his stunning by election victory in Bradford last night. They will endlessly show a video clip of Gorge. dressed in a jump suit and pretending to be a cat on Celebrity Big Brother. They will remind the world that he supported Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and that he rarely attends the parliamentary talk shop. They will be right about all these things. Galloway, the maverick, the popinjay, the clown makes it easy to mock him.
Galloway's victory, by a majority of 10,000 votes ( 56%) of votes cast) against candidates from the three main parties, Conservative Labour and Liberal Democrat in the predominantly working class Bradford West constituency does not herald the emergency of Respect as a political force but it should send a message to party managers of the three main parties that spells out the utter contempt the electorate feel at the political elite's attitude.. Startling results like this defy political analysis, leaving press and television commentators to explain it away with references to Galloway's rhetorical skills (an he can speak, eat your heart out Mr.Mumbles Obama) and tactical political genius. There's a certain irony to that, given that the picture contrasts unconvincingly with the jester they depict elsewhere.
Personal qualities have a lot to do with what happened last night. A charismatic and eloquent candidate is a necessary but insufficient condition if a minor party is to win any contest. What is also needed is a political context in which their message resonates. Galloway's post-Labour political career (he resigned from government and party over the Iraq invasion showing himself to be a man of principle) is a testament to the possibility of allying young people, radicals and Muslims against the mainstream Westminster agenda.
Was George Galloway not vilified for siding with Saddam then? you might well ask. He was by the political establishment and the media but the British people were overwhelmingly against that war and also aware that Galloway, whose wife if he is still married to her, is Iraqi. He knew the country, he knew Saddam who was opportunistic enough to fete the rising Labour MP when the Galloways visited the country to stay with family members. George Galloway's warnings of what would happen if Saddam was overthrown, a political void followed by the fragmentation of that oil rich and strategically important nation into theocratic and mutually hostile tribal homelands, is being borne out by events. And the public like a man who trashes his career on a point of principle even if they do not support the principle he resigns over.
The Respect party has often been described as an unholy alliance of conservative Muslims and radical leftists. It was treated as a historical curiosity. With Iraq the dominant issue in British politics for several years, it seemed like a unique moment in which these two groups would share an agenda. Normally the progressive left and conservative Muslims would be tearing each other apart over same sex marriage, female equality and gay adoption rights. In certain constituencies however, places where working class and middle class voters feel as if they have been abandoned by successive governments and thus have become alienated from mainstream politics, an alliance of young people and minorities, bound together by both groups' contempt for the political elite, can win elections.
The Bradford West result does not so much mark a rejection of Labour as a rejection of the British Parliamentary system. For many voters (not just minorities and young people) no party is easily distinguishable from the other two. In actual policy terms that assessment is not entirely unfair, their differences are far less significant than any political head of communication would like to admit. In cultural terms, the viewpoint is entirely accurate.
Galloway's justification for his appalling parliamentary attendance records (634th out of 645 MPs in the 2005 session — just ahead of the prime minister Tony Blair and five Sinn Fein Irish Republican members who refuse to attend) actually deserves to be heard rather than criticised.
The Respect leader said he spent a lot of time making countless public speeches, swapping parliamentary debates for engagement in the country. Of course, it is a patent rationalisation. Galloway, a Scot, did little for the people of Bethnal Green and Bow, the constituency where he was elected MP on the strength of it's having a large Muslim population, after he resigned from Labour. But there is a grain of truth in what he says. Westminster's culture has become entirely separate from the country at large, the public increasingly alienated from its old traditions, schoolboy taunts and stultifying homogenity of politics.
The most important issue for the public in the run up to the 2010 General election was immigration. None of the main parties wanted to discuss it, in fact the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown dismissed one vote as a bigot when she tried to raise the issue. All three parties insist immigration is good for the economy, mistakenly believing the immigrants already settled here and the second and third generation descendents of Indian, East European and Caribbean migrant families favour tighter immigration controls. Another concern is Britain's relationship with the EU. The Politicians, academics, media and senior civil servants almost unanimously favour greater integration and closer economic ties with the emerging single European nation. Voters of all parties are deeply suspicious of what is starting to look very like a bureaucratic dictatorship and are angry at how much sovereignty has already been surrendered to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
The classic illustration of the gulf between politics and population though is same sex marriage. This non - issue threatens to divide Britain more deeply than any of the more serious problems we face. Out on the streets nobody cares that two people of the same sex cannot get married in a church. Some do not like homosexuality at all and will never accept it, that is their right. Some don't give a flying fudgecake about church but feel we have gone too far in pandering to minorities. Some feel it is up to the church concerned, civil partnerships have always taken care of property and inheritance rights, (not that that was necessary, it is not difficult to make a will). Very few people feel it is outrageous that same sex couples are being denied the fundamental human right to marry in a church. It is of course not a human right but a privilege extended to members of that church.
Often on being elected, Members of Parliament become besotted with politics to the extent that they lose touch with the feelings of their constituents and start to believe in the myth of their moral and intellectual superiority and allow their individualism to be subsumed under the shroud of a politically correct consensus. Thus they come to be held in contempt with the people whose votes they rely on. But when there is no individual with whom the voters can identify, nobody who speaks their language, elections are won by inertia. People vote on class or religious lines without ever being aware what a candidate believes or stands for.
Labour will want to write this result off as an anomaly, the media will mock and disrespect Galloway and other politicians will scorn him. That arrogant approach merely humiliates those who use it. It is sneering and condescending towards those who turned out to cast their vote for the individual they believe will best represent their interests. The media's is the most damaging to the public debate, because it puts political journalists in the same category as politicians, remote, out-of-touch and uninterested in the actual views of the public and obsessed with the noisy whining of a small groups of self elected minority leaders. This shock victory for George Galloway is evidence that disenchanted mainstream, voters and minority groups can form a powerful political alliance against the establishment. And it shows how dangerous and foolish it is for Westminster to continue to operate in its own bubble of smug self - importance. It is a lesson neither politicians nor journalists are likely to heed.
What it also shows us is that while the debt crisis, unemployment, cyber - warfare, the tensions in the middle east, rising commodity prices and the ageing population are all serious problems, the biggest crisis we face is the collapse of democracy.
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We told you so, University Degrees Are Worthless
The Daily Stirrer has been saying it for years, now a leading British businessman has come out and said it too. University Degrees are worthless.
Self-made multimillionaire Simon Dolan left school at the age of 16 and went on to form a business empire which now turns over close to £100m a year, putting him 703rd on the Sunday Times Rich List. Mr. Dolan also criticised the designer degree business that is responsible for creating such oddball courses as waste management with dance. He described these and even the less insane courses like golf course maintenance or leisure centre management are ridiculous.
Known for taking risky business ventures, Mr Dolan became recognised as the world’s first “Twitter Dragon” when he invested more than £5m of his own money on business pitches composed of no more than 140 characters. He told media “younger, brighter candidates are much more employable” than university graduates.No matter what the government say we know that the current system doesn’t work. As an employer myself I know a degree is worthless, every other employer I speak to says the same in the main part. University is not the issue of whether you had a good time or not it is the whether you will be employable at the end of it.
He added “Graduates come out with a sense of entitlement, the believe they are too good to flip burgers even if it is the only job they can get. Schools need to educate children to become fully rounded human beings and not make them just pass exams so they can get to university. I think a far larger part of their education needs to be about how to be useful in an office or work environment."
Dolan’s autobiographical guide book ‘How to make millions without a degree’ has divided opinion but with more than 1.04m young people out of work and thousands more being priced out of university it touches on one of the burning issues of the day. Amid huge opposition to the increase of tuition fees this summer he said that the rise is a “really good idea” as it will overhaul “ridiculous” degrees on offer.
“Formerly university was the place for talented people to go to get higher education for later life,” Mr Dolan said. “It typically wasn’t the place where everyone went…everyone can’t be the most intelligent in society."
A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills spokesperson said: "A degree remains a good investment in the long term and is one of the best pathways to achieving a good job and rewarding career. Demand for more highly skilled employees continues to increase. Graduates like everybody else are facing tough times, but the evidence shows they fare better than non-graduates, and their prospects tend to pick up quicker during the recovery”.
Well they would say that wouldn't they?
The Daily Stirrer has always said that the boom in university placements under the Labour government was just a ploy to mask how bad the youth employment situation really is.
Apart from the best known university avoiders, Alan Sugar and Richard Branson and dragon Deborah Meaden there are plent of other highly successful British entrepreneurs who by passed university . Charlie Mullins of Pimlico Plumbers is worth £55 million; Sir Anthony Bamford, billionaire chairman of JCB Property magnate Trevor Hemmings, John Cauldwell, founder of Phones 4u and vacuum cleaner man Janes Dyson are just a few. For a more comprehensive list CLICK HERE
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Petrol Crisis? Don't Panic?
When nnews that petrol tanker dtiversd had voted for strike acion it should have been as cue for David Cameron to say quoting Churchill, " Keep calm and carry on." Insread he did the worst possible thing by advising people to store petrol in cans or platic containers, thus sparking panic buying.
Petrol sales were up by 45 per cent on a normal midweek day yesterday, as in repose to the government's advice people rushed to stock up on fuel as a "precaution" against a possible strike by tanker drivers o.ver the Easter weekend. No date has yet been set for a strike but it seems more likely the unions will wait, in the hope of carrying out their threat to disrupt Jubilee celebrations and the Olympic festival.
This would be an extremely foolish move and we hope Ed. Miliband distances himself and his party from it. To be een supporting, even reluctantly, such a move will cause a repeat of what happened last time union leaders got the idea they were running the county. In the wake of the so called winter of discontent the Labour government was defeated at the next election and spent eighteen years out of office.
So how serious is the thrat of a strike? Well if you have any plans forv Easter that involve long journeys you hould perhaps fill up your car. So many Garages and petrol stations have closed in recent years the nation probably has the lower stock levels in their tanks on the ground on the forecourts than any time since car ownership became widespread.
Petrol stations and garages are already said to be struggling to meet demand from drivers keen to fill up before any strike goes ahead. According to the Daily Post, the Black Cat Shell service station in Llandudno Junction closed at noon yesterday with a sign reading: "No fuel sorry". One Shell filling station worker said: “There has been panic buying all day and Rhyl (Shell) will have run out by the end of the day. Llanddulas is out of everything but regular diesel.”
Joanne Acton, from Sainsbury’s filling station in Rhyl, said: “People are panic buying after reading about the strike even though supplies are not affected. We have been very busy, it has been constant, but supplies are keeping up at the moment.”
Ironically North Wales in close to onde of the UK's biggest refineries.
27 March 2012
Petrol Prices Hit A New High
by Xavier Connolly
Driving a car has never been so expensive with the price of petrol hitting an all-time high this week of more than £1.40 a litre – and there was no reprieve for hard-pressed motorists in the Budget, fuel duty will push up the price further in the coming summer. The cost of petrol now averages 140.20p a litre, with diesel at 146.72p a litre. In August the planned tax increase will add 3.62p a litre, meaning the typical 50-litre petrol refill will cost £1.81 more.
To remind you how prices have rocketed, five years ago it a gallon of unleade was 89p for a litre and even in May 2009 the price was sill below £1, according to comparison site PetrolPrices.com. It now cost drivers more than £68 to fill up a 50-litre tank – £3.45 more than it cost a year ago £12.30 more than in 2010. Meanwhile, larger cars fout x fours and vans cost up to £100 a tank.
Is there any justificaton for this or are the government just soaking the mororist because to fill up the hole in the economy dug by urresponsible state borrowing over the past twenty years?
According to Whatprice.co.uk, the forecourt mark up makes up just 5% of the total cost of petrol, while the cost of oil and production amounts to a further 32% - but of course it’s taxation that eats up the largest chunk, at a hefty 63% of the price you pay a. t the pump.
At 139.67p a litre, the cost of a litre of petrol breaks down into: 57.95p fuel duty, 23.28p VAT, 52p wholesale, 1.5p biofuel content, leaving retailers a margin of 4.94p or less than one percent. Apart from financial traders who take fractions of a percentsge point commission as they move £$€billions around, there can be no industry working on such a fine margin. And your local petrol station is not turning ober billions.
Conor Faughnan, director of policy for the AA, is urging the Government to look at the impact of rising taxes on fuel costs, with no sign of these abating. He is right to do so.
“Ratcheting up taxes on fuels, which has been Government policy since October 2008, would be a bad idea for most countries but even more so for us given our dependency,” he said, "this week saw a “Budget Blow-Out”, with the decision to press ahead with the fuel increase in August. The hardship imposed on the consumer and on family budgets ... is extremely serious. We get calls and emails daily from people in near despair because of it. But it is also doing considerable damage to the economy”.
He is right people depend on cars to teavel to and from work and for social activities, the local economies of tourist areas depend on visitors arriving by car to keep businesses going. Whe whole economy depends on cars and delivery vehicles. Ministers make grandiose claims about economic recovery but their actions, based on advice from out of touch academics and scientists, are hamstringing the businesses and workers on whose efforts any recovery depends. It is madness.
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23 March 2012
With All The Important Problems We Have Why Are We Talking About Same Sex Marriage?
by Profanicus Maximus
Oh for fuck's sake, how sick are all we sane people of hearing about same sex marriage. what the fuck is going on? Anyone who asks the simple question of how gay marriage came to be a massive and bitterly divisive debate in both America and Europe will surely conclude that it is the most surreal and idiotic political issue of our age.
There is no popular deman for a new law as there was here in the UK for changes in abortion laws or decrimnalisation of homosexuality or for abolition of racial segregation and extension of civil rights in the USA in the 1960s; historically, homosexuals and lesbians have not been interested in getting married while transvestites and transexuals have traditionally been despised by gay and lesbian communities. According to a recent opinion poll, 45 per cent of Britons support gay marriage but 78 per cent think that making it legal should not be a political priority. And yet somehow gay marriage has become the issue of 2012 and is now more hotly debated in commentary circles than the economic crisis, immigration, the situation in the middle east, oil prices, food and water supply problems or any other thing affecting humanity.
In spite of all this nothing in the gay-marriage debate makes any sense. For example, gay-marriage rights are presented as a radical rallying cry for the "progressive left on a par with the struggles for women’s suffrage or black civil rights, and yet they’re enthusiastically backed by such superbly un-radical institutions as The Times, Goldman Sachs and David Cameron along with many in the Conservative Party that he leads. Politicians say they must do ‘the right thing’ on gay marriage, neglecting to mention that there has been absolutely no sustained public agitation, no gays or lesbians leaping in front of the King’s horse in the Derby chaining themselves to the railings around public buildings as the suffragettes did, no marches or sit ins in the face of heavily armed law officers as civil rights supporters did, for the right of gay attention seekers to go to church dressed in fancy clothes and put on a big show. Self-elected gay "leaders" present this effort as the logical conclusion to their 60-odd years of campaigning for equality, overlooking the fact that until very recently a great many gay activists saw marriage and the family as problems, and demanded recognition of their right to live outside of those institutions.
So far only the major religions, the Anglicans and Roman Catholics and Muslims have made a stand against the issue. The Catholic Church and Muslims are solidly against, among the Anglicans the issue threatens to cause a schism. Some political commentators have said it is a battle the religions can't win. Maybe so, but it is a battle the progressive left cannot win either. As usual they have allowed themselves to be fooled by the fact that working class voters support the socialist Labour party in general elections into believing the same people will support any policy the Labour leadership champions. Time and again the working class have shown that while their votes can be bought with promises of ever more generous social benefits, they are in fact far more conservative in their outlook than the middle classes. If this change is pushed through there will be a backlash of some kind.
Again, nothing in this debate makes sense. The legal beef about inheritance, which was mostly hyperbole anyway because wills were available to take care of inheritance rights, has been dealt with by civil unions; church marriage is not a right but a privilege granted to church members at the discretion of the congregation or leaders. This is such a relatively trivial concern to risk sundering already strained bonds of community over, and is so unconnected with any political or religious philosophy that it would make as much sense if, tomorrow, every politician and commentator in the land suddenly started talking about how important it is to give women the right to grow full beards or men the right to have babies. (see Monty Pyth Life of Brian lampooning the rights industry - You Tube) There are probably some women who want to grow beards and some men desperate to have babies and who are we to deny them those rights? The public might well support their the extension of such rights to people obviously not capable of exercising them right while also arguing that making it happen should not be government priority of a suitable thing on which to expend tax revenue (some people might well ask why making same sex marriage would cost anything, but to change the legal status of marriage would involve redrafting numerous laws and thus involve the payment of $£€millions to law firms, which as anyone who has read John Grisham will know, are expert at hiding money from tax collectors.
Given the surreal nature of the concept of same sex marriage, it is remarkable that so many intelligent people are taking the gay-marriage seriously and saying ‘Yes, I fully support the enactment of this long-traduced historic right’. What they should be doing is asking why gay marriage is an issue all of a sudden and untangling how it came to be a defining battleground in the modern Culture Wars. Because it strikes me that what is happening here is that, under the cover of extending equality, we are really witnessing the instinctive consolidation of a new political elite which is every bit as oppressive and corrosive as the old aristocratic elite, and which, lacking the familiar moral signposts of traditional values and the constraint of noblesse oblige seems determined to impose a new set of moral values of their own devising on the masses. In shot they think they can order human nature to change by passing laws. King Canute has a lesson for them. Canute is misunderstood of course, he was not trying to turn back the tide but showing sycophantic courtiers he could not. The modern Canutes are not so wise, having seen the pseudo - socialist dogmas they favour fail time and again they delude themselves that the failure was due to social engineering policies not being radical enough. The progressive mindset can only ever go further in the same direction.
The reason the gay-marriage issue arouses such passions and is so divisive is because it is not an organic issue that grew from the roots up, but a synthetic issue, an entirely top-down, elite-driven thing. The "liberal" elitists want to be seen to support minorities, to say, "look at me, see how I care about minorities and know what a morally superior person I am." Thus the true driving force behind it is not the force that drives any real or publicly manifested desire for change, for homosexual couples to get married in churches, far less a broader public appetite for the reform of the institution of marriage; rather it is the need of the political and media class for an issue through which to impose its values and thus affirm to itself and advertise its superiority. Gay marriage is not a real issue - it is a cultural signifier, like wearing ribbons and wristbands to show what causes you care about, it is the politics of shallowness, the only way in which the "look at me" generation are able to debate.
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Ignore The Media Squealing Like Stuck Pigs, Osborne Has Not Robbed Pensioners
by John de Roe
Forget all the howling coming from left field, the mainstream media and the Liberal Democrat bit of the Coalition. In yesterday's budget, Chancellor George Osborne did not impose a stealth tax on pensioners. What he has done is abolish an age relasted tax allowance for new pensioners. So anyone turning 65 and claiming their pension with get the standard allowance before paying tax of £9,200. The raised alowance of £10,500 will continue to apply to those already on pensions.
Here is what one commentator said:
Existing pensioners will still avoid paying tax on the first £10,500 of their income, rising to £10,600 for the over-75s, but those benefits will now be frozen until the basic personal allowance catches up.
Pensioners groups, it is said, responded with fury. But pensioners groups always respond with fury. I am a pensioner and also a part time financial consultant and I dewal with many pension related queries. In my experience if a chancellor gave pensioners a hundred pounds, oensioners groups would start screaming that it was unfair.
What everyone has overlooked here is that the budget raised the basic old age pension that we pay for through national insurance and should all be claiming, even those like myself who are on a good pension from work. I paid into the scheme so why should I not claim my entitlement? So as one of the pensioners who will be hit by the new tax I wil be paying "up to £322 a year more" but will be getting £275 more in my state pension. Big deal.
Pensioners who only have the basic state pension will not be affected as their total taxable income does not exceed the tax free personal allowance nor will people who get disability allowances as those payments are not taxable. Meanwhile the government faces a mega crisis of debt that has been building since the first Labour government after World War 2. There are signs that problem is going to get a lot worse very soon.
Good luck to George Osborne with his tightrope walking career. He may not be anywhere near the best Chancellor we have had but if Labour were in power things would be a whole lot worse.
21 March 2012
Asprin Cuts Cancer Risk Say Scientists - But They Don't Mention The Buts
The traditional press is full of reports that middle-aged people can significantly reduce their chances of being diagnosed with cancer by taking an aspirin a day for as little as three years, according to new research. This cheap drug, according to Big Pharma shills researchers not only appears to stop cancers developing in the first place, but also prevents them from spreading to other parts of the body, the new work shows.
This is nothing new, herbalists and holistic healers have long been saying chronic inflammation was a cause of cancer and the anti inflammatory properties of willow bark, from which modern aspirin is derived, were know to ancient Greek, Ayurvedic and Druidic healers.
The report claims those who start taking low dose (75mg) aspirin daily in their 60s appear to benefit just as much as those who start taking it earlier.
The studies, presented today in The Lancet, add to the argument that low-dose aspirin should be taken widely from middle-age, said the lead author, Professor Peter Rothwell, of Oxford University's Stroke Prevention Research Unit.
His team found that taking low-dose daily aspirin for between three and five years reduced the chance of being diagnosed with cancer at that time by 19 per cent. Five years or more after starting taking aspirin, the reduction rose to 30 per cent. He said: "These data do push the argument in favour of taking daily low-dose aspirin, particularly if you have a family history of heart disease or cancer.
"We showed previously that daily aspirin substantially reduces the long-term risk of some cancers, particularly colorectal cancer and oesophageal cancer, but that these effects don’t appear until about eight to 10 years after starting treatment.
"The delay is because aspirin is preventing the very early development of cancers and there is a long delay between this early stage and the eventual clinical presentation with a cancer.
"What we have now shown is that aspirin also has short-term effects, which are manifest after only two to three years."
Note that some cancers. Typical scientists evasiveness. Ask a direct question, "Does it prevent cancer?" and you get "Well is may prevent some cancers.
As we get deeper into this report it begins to look like another attempt by Big Pharma to persuade governments that mass medication without consent is a good idea. Previously suggestions that drinking water be medicated with anti - depressants and statins (anti obesity drugs) have been sen off by public opinion.
Unfortunately it looks as if the more fascistic a corporate culture is, the more influence that corporation weilds over government.
The findings also raised "the distinct possibility that aspirin will be effective as an additional treatment for cancer – to prevent distant spread of the disease", he said.
Aspirin, manufactured by pharmaceutical companies has long been hailed for its blood-thinning properties, leading some to argue that it should be prescribed to those who are at a higher risk of heart attack or stroke, even if they have never had one. Strangely the report does not mention the blood thinning and anti inflammatory qualities of garlic which can be grown in a small garden or window box.
Aspirin is being hailed as a real wonder drug: its usefulness (as willow-bark extract, for fever and pain) was known to the ancients; it does appear to have many potential benefits; and yet its mechanisms remain mysterious or at best poorly understood. When it was first synthesised, as acetylsalicylic acid, in the 1850s, it was used as to relieve the pains of "rheumatism", but no one had any idea how it worked. It wasn't until the late 20th century that doctors started to give it to patients as a preventative against heart disease. Researchers started to work out a theory of heart disease that involved some sort of inflammation process and something called C-reactive protein. C-reactive protein is a marker for inflammation: raised levels of it in the blood indicate an inflammatory process. It is also known that the base-line plasma concentration of C-reactive protein predicts the risk of future heart attack and stroke. Taking aspirin reduces CRP levels, and so may also reduce the risk of future heart problems.
Previous studies have warned that aspirin can do more harm than good in healthy people. Scientists taking a more objective view rather than producing the result Big Pharma required have found taking aspirin does not significantly reduce the risk of a heart attack in healthy people, and is no more effective that a healthy diet in preventing many common cancers but that it “almost doubles the risk of being admitted to hospital due to internal bleeding. Routinely prescribed by doctors as a preventative for heart disease and strokes, it's blood thinning effects have proved fatal in some people prone to ulcers or hemorrhaging.
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Inflation Falls Again As Government Continue To Talk Bollocks
by John de Roe
Inflation fell to a 15-month low of 3.4pc in February helping ease pressure on cash-strapped consumers and Chancellor George Osborne ahead of Wednesday's Budget.
The consumer prices index (CPI) is down from 3.6pc in January as a drop in prices for housing, lower electricity and gas bills electricity, and cheaper air fare pushed overall inflation down, the Office for National Statistics said. However, the fall was not as much as expected - economist had forecast a drop to 3.3pc - as a record January to February rise in alcohol prices, driven by spirits, held back further declines.
The drop comes as some economists warn that the overall rate of inflation may not pull back as quickly as previously thought amid resurgent oil prices, although the ONS said there was no evidence of this in February. Inflation has fallen steadily since hits a three-year peak of 5.2pc in September.
The official press release reports that in a sign that underlying price pressures are fading as well, core inflation - which strips out volatile components such as food and energy - fell to 2.4pc, the lowest since November 2009.
Meanwhile in the real world petrol has risen from £1.35 per litre to £1.41 per litre at my local garage, I make that a rise of 4.4% rise inside 2 weeks! And anyone who watches commodity prices will be aware that the price of cereals on the world market is up by 8% this year
My Water charges (another non essential removed from the calculations?) acros the UK have gone up by about 10% since last year.
Inflation certainly isn't falling! As long as inflation is higher than interest rates on savings, and as long as inflation is higher than the annual increase in wages, people are still going to be impoverished.
As long as taxes on fuel are rising, as long as council taxes are rising, as long as prices on energy, water, transport and food are rising, even if only to the level of this fabulous 'inflationary' decrease, people will be impoverished.
Who gave the government their very appetising recipe for cooked books? Look, here's how it works (figures simplified) Increase prices by 15% one year, reduce by 5% the next and bingo inflation has fallen year on year. The fact that you are paying 10% more over the two years means nothing. Politicians and economists must think we the punters are all stupid. Yes, inflation has stoped rising and is falling rapidly. if you stop eating , stop heating your home , walk or ride a bike instead of drive your car, then inflation is ONLY 2.4%. What a triumph for government economic policies.
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by Xavier Connolly
There is no doubt that of all the bad ideas the National Socialist government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown came up with in their 13 year bid to enslave the British people on behalf of their New World Order mates in the Bilderberg Group was the introduction of toll roads that would make it impossible to get anywhere without paying a road toll to a private company as well as road tax and about 500% tax on fuel to the government. My colleague Ian Thorpe worked out that the round trip from his home near Burnley to see his Mum in Morecambe would cost him around £100.
It was in effect a blatant attempt by The People's Party to tax the ordinary people on average incomes off the road.
We do not expect such stuff from the Conservatives although I have my suspicions that the Lib Dems have become more Nazi than the Nazis.
It is not the Lib Dems who will today be announcing plans to create swathes of new toll roads all over Britain but Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
If the plan goes ahead motorists face tolls and pay-as-you drive schemes on privately owned roads or gridlock on the public network. The Prime Minister will say Britain’s “second-rate” road system desperately needs a huge injection of private-sector investment. It's bollocks of course, what Britain needs is a government that will channel an apppropriate proportion of the stupendous amount of revenue they gain from duty on car fuel into maintaining and improving the road system. Instead, governments of both parties whould rather waste our money on foreign adventures in neo colonialism, vanity projects and sucking up to minorities.
The Treasury, Cameron will say, can no longer afford to keep funding improvements and repairs to motorways and trunk roads.
The plans are likely to provoke an angry response from the public and businesses. The roads could add hundreds of pounds a year to the cost of motoring at a time when drivers and transport operators already face soaring petrol and diesel prices and crippling fuel duties and road tax. Motoring organisations last night warned of a backlash, claiming the move was a return to “18th century turnpikes”.
Advance copies of Cameron's speech released to the press tell us he will say "Why is it that other infrastructure – for example water – is funded by private-sector capital through privately owned, independently regulated, utilities but roads in Britain call on the public finances for funding?” Mr Cameron will make clear that “sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors” could build and maintain new roads. He has instructed the Department for Transport and the Treasury to carry out a feasibility study with results expected in the autumn.
Funny he should mention the utility companies that suply water, electricity and gas. They are known as the biggest crooks and rip off merchants in the country. And as we are warned of water shortages and and hosepipe bans everybody knows billionsd of gallons of much needed water leak away through holes in poorly maintained water pipes the untility companies focus their efforts on hiring expensive consultsants to dream up ever more exotic scams for stealing from customers.
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Children Failing At Reading Is Child Abuse By The Education System
by Ian R Thorpe
In the latest propaganda spiel from the Ministry of Truth, Education Branch a masterpiece of understatement may be found. The bulletin states that the reading skills of junior school pupils must be improved. Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of the Minis Education Branch said, “One in five primary schoolchildren moving up from primary schools is not ready for secondary school. One in five, 20%. Surely they can't all be affected by that modern plague, dyslexia. Approximately a hundred thousand children a year are leaving primary school not able to access the secondary curriculum.”
How does the government's education Ministry of Truth (MinTru) (Quasi Autonomous Non Governmental Organisation) intend to improveme the situation, apart from burying it under a pile of bureaucratic jargon ? Sir Michael explained: “Teacher training colleges will come under greater scrutiny by Ofsted inspectors for the way they prepare teachers to give reading lessons using the phonic system.”
It will not work any better than any of the politically correct meddling of the past forty years has worked. If it were possible to improve literacy in our schools by introducing the crackpot ideas of Californian cranks, self styled educational psychologists, it would have already happened. Instead we have seen progressive ideas march and in hand with dumbing down. Unless of course the educational establishment woke up one March morning in 2012 a pandemic of illiteracy and said "Fuck me, half the kids in state schools are morons."
This decline of education has been going on for years with examination standards constantly being lowered to mask the extent of the system's failure. Even the education department admits that more than four out of ten children leave school, after 11 years of state education, unable to read and write properly.
Neither the constant chopping and changing in teaching methods nor the sheer incompetence of many teachers is blamed for this scandalous failure. Instead we are given the usual politically correct clichés of poverty, bad home background and single parents and fingers are pointed at, “children on free school meals” and “the very diverse schools population.”
But it is not an impoverished background or social and cultural diversity which causes the failure of so many children to learn to read. It is not class sizes, another familiar excuse, which are the problem. There is no shortage of books, computers and other technological aids not of teachers who waver their degrees in "educational science" at dissatisfied parents as if a bit of paper can make up for their inability you engage the interest of the young. I know I am writing the truth, because I have something with which to compare today’s shocking educational deprivation of our children. Experience.
My first school in the 1950s was Upton Magna Church of England School in a small village in Shropshire. The school had been built in the early nineteenth century and was one large hall in which the different years sat in separate rows of desks. The pupils were diverse, my Dad worked for a national newspaper and was one of the few people in the village to own a car. The other car owners were farmers or professional people. Many of my classmates were very poor, the sons and daughters of agricultural workers their clothes were hand me down, the free.school meals they had were for some all that stood between them and hunger. But those among us who were backward at reading were very few, even Charlie Record who was always destined for remedial education could read aloud from text books when it was his turn. And every day the teacher would read aloud to us from ripping yarns such as Treasure Island or the Hornblower stories or narrative verse; Tennyson and Longfellow were on the menu as was Lord Byron's stirring The Destruction of Senacherib. I can remember, aged seven, being able to recite William, Blake's Tyger, Tyger.
By the age of nine we knew all the parts of speech and could parse sentences, and at eleven we embarked on clause analysis. We were also, those from affluent and poor homes alike, competent at basic arithmetic from which all mathematics stems. Compared with what was achieved in those days of genuine deprivation for some, today’s education standards amount to child abuse.
Education, and particularly that primary education between the ages of five and eleven is vital to individuals and society alike. Once children have the basics of literacy and numeracy they are equipped to educate themselves no matter how idiotic the ideas of "progressives" they will encounter in the secondary school. At Upton Magna school we did not need lessons in diversity or mulicultural studies to teach us how to adapt to accommodate the children of gypsys, itinerants or refugees to came to the area to work on the harvest, fruit picking and later potato picking.
While we continue to sacrifice the education of generations of children to the gods of "progressive" and politically correct thinking we are only emulating the Aztecs whose priests, having failed to persuade their gods to intercede and defeat the Conquistadores could only suggest that the reason the Spanish were still winning was because not enough young people had been sacrificed. It is not just in education however that the "progressives" display this mindset.
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UK schoolchildren today plummeted down a major international league table after being outscored by pupils from countries including Estonia, Lichtenstein and Slovenia.
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The comprehensive education system has become one of the sacred cows of the "progressive left" in spite of its very obvious failure. The old Grammar School system only segregated on grounds of intelligence whereas the system now with its postcode lottery and the growth of private schools for the rich segregates on grounds of parental wealth, social class and geogrphic location. Intelligence does not enter the equation. So the selective way was more egalitarian, what are the leftie whiners on about.
More Graduates, Less Graduate Jobs
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The West Is Already Meddling In Syria (and making things worse)
Last week, US president Barack Obama rejected calls for military intervention against the Assad regime in Syria, despite saying he found the situation there ‘heartbreaking’. Yet while there are currently no NATO bombs falling from the skies or US troops’ combat boots on Syrian sand, the pressure being heaped upon Syria to behave in a way that suits the ‘international community’ (aka the West) is palpable. Here are five key ways in which the West is already interfering in Syrian affairs . Well, we have heard many times The President prefers going in through the back door.
The West Is Already Meddling In Syria (and making things worse) by Patrick Hayes in Spiked
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16 March 2012
Science Defeats Science - Resistance To Antibiotics Could End Modern Medicine
by Ed Butt
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned humanity is entering an antibiotic crisis which could make routine operations impossible and a scratched knee potentially fatal.
Now we should remember that the WHO are the people who gave us the Swine Flu pandemic scare, the Bird Flu pandemic scare both of which were going to kill us all, and also recommended that teenage boys should be vaccinated against cervical cancer. So whether the scientists who lead the WHO are actually barking mad, completely stark raving bonkers in the head, or they are just greedy little bureaucrats who are quite happy to dance to their Big Pharma paymasters' tune in order to keep their grubby noses in the ever flowing trough of taxpayers money we may only speculate.
This article then is about how the latest health scare the WHO is pumping up has come about as a result of following policies recommended by the WHO and Big Pharma. Ironic innit?
Margaret Chan, the organiation's director general warned that humans have become so resistant to common antibiotics it could bring about “the end of modern medicine as we know it.” As a result, she claimed, every antibiotic ever developed is at risk of becoming useless, making once-routine operations impossible. Hyperbole? Well probably, the WHO have a track record after all.
If there is substance in the warning, and similar warnings have been being sounded for many years, the redundancy would include many of the breakthrough drugs developed to treat tuberculosis, malaria, bacterial infections and HIV/AIDS, as well as simple treatments for cuts and septic sores.
Speaking to a conference of infectious disease experts in Copenhagen, Dr Chan said we could be entering into a “post-antibiotic era”. Replacement medicines could become more expensive, with longer periods of treatment required to bring about the same effect, she added.
Dr Chan went on to say: “Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill. Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units. For patients infected with some drug-resistant pathogens, mortality has been shown to increase by around 50 per cent. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it.”
The warning comes shortly after the World Health Organisation published a new book warning of the “global crisis”, entitled “The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance.”
It reads: “Bacteria which cause disease react to the antibiotics used as treatment by becoming resistant to them, sooner or later. A crisis has been building up over the decades, so that today many common and life-threatening infections are becoming difficult or even impossible to treat, sometimes turning a common infection into a life-threatening one.”
The paper blames the current situation largely on the misuse of antibiotics, which are not prescribed properly and used too frequently and for too long. The problem is not just in over prescription by medical doctors. Antibiotics are routinely added to cattle, pig and poultry feed to make animals put on weight more quickly thus reducing costs and the time lag from birth to slaughter, resulting in boosted profits.
The WHO paper points to an “inexorable increase in antimicrobial-resistant infections, a dearth of new antibiotics in the pipeline and little incentive for industry to invest in research and development” had led to a need for innovation”.
The WHO has now appealed to governments across the world to support research into the antimicrobial resistance. Ah; more research equals more research grants, more big fat salaries and expensive jollies in luxury resorts for scientists. Right. If we follow the money we always arrive in the same place, greed and self interest city.
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15 March
Ed Miliband Is Not Running The Labour Party, Who Is
by Ed Butt
Not wanting to witness the nauseating spectacle of Cameron and Obama kissing each others arses the Daily Stirrer editorial meeting today decided we would have a look at how things are going in the Labour Party.
We wish we had stuck with Cammy and Bammy. Here's one report we saw:
"On Tuesday, Labour held the weekly meeting of its shadow cabinet. At its conclusion the members filed out into the expansive, and expensive, atrium of Parliament’s Portcullis House. “Everyone broke into little groups of three or four,” said one observer. “They were all there, having follow-up discussions with each other. Except for Ed Miliband. He was left standing on his own with a member of staff. So he just got on the escalator and walked away.” (Dan Hodges)
At some indefinable point during the last few months, Ed Miliband stopped being leader of Labour Party. There was neither drama nor fanfare. No knife-edge votes, or late-night confrontations. Instead, the authority bestowed upon him in Manchester 18 months ago rose early, quietly packed its suitcase, and sloped off into a chill Westminster morning. It didn’t leave a note."
Wither Milliband? Or perhaps, wither milliband! in the imperitive case.
Poor Ed. I do think he's a decent bloke really, just waaaaaaaaay out of his depth. The task he landed himself with, keeping the unions sweet while trying to turn Labour into something capable of being elected and then capable of governing would have been beyond Hercules.
So how will it end? We forsee Ed being despatched to Room 101 where he will have to face the thing he fears most, Len McClusky. After that he may occasionally be sighted sitting alone in the Chestnut Tree Cafe sipping Victory Gin flavoured with cloves.
The Chestnut Tree Cafe in George Orwell's 1984
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Free Schools Are Needed To Save British Education But Labour Are In Denial
by Xavier Connelly
Labour Education spokesman and former Liberal Democrat Andrew Adonis has demanded that Labour come out in support of free schools. What Adonis has understood, and what the Labour Party and the Campaign for State Education remain in denial about, is that the state education system is close to collapse. While lefties grizzle about state schools not sending enough bright but disadvantaged children to elite Universities the schools under the control of the state, those teaching the nationl curriculum are not achieving acceptable levels of basic numeracy and literacy. The sysyem it is not producing enough students in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects that politicans and academics obsess about so much.
The system is not doing enough for the gifted and talented pupils pasing through the system, in fact such a culture of anti - intellectualism has been allowed to develop because of politically correct ideas on discipline that to display intelligence or scholarly excellence it to make oneself a target for bullying. Education in the state school system is not equipping school leavers with the skills employers need and which make the pupils employable.
The truth is that our education system is stuck in a time warp, ideas that were shown not to work as long ago as the 1970s still have currency. The education establishment has failed to evolve to meet the challenges of the actual world our school leavers must go out into and compete in. But education is run by progressives and progressives are incapable of acceptin that their pet idea has failed because it is a bad idea. The progressive mindset is no more for turning than the Iron Lady. A more relaxed approached to discipline has ledt to a breakdown of discipline?" they say, "Well obviously that is because we did not relax discipline enough." "Lowering exam standards so pupils are not alienated by failure has resaulted in the bightest pulpils getting dumber? Well we must relax standards even further. The theory cannot be wrong, conservatives have sabotaged it."
When its errors are pointed out the response of the educational establishment is to become hyper-defensive, defend their failed methods and mount a massive resistance to any real change, not on the basis of any rational criticism of weakness in what is proposed but simply on the grounds of it not being politically correct. The establishmen hate free schools for one reason; they wrench power away from those who think they ought to run our schools and place it in the hands of parents or reformers. For too long the only alternative to state schoolst for parents who could afford the fees was to run to private sector.
Education is too important a part of society to be used as a protective compound for the sacred cows of the progressive left.
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More EU Rebels Follow Spain In Defying Burssels Diktat.
by John de Roe
Over the course of innumerable crisis meetings European leaders have tried and failed to produce the right result for a glorious photon oppotunity: extravagant triple-kiss greetings, toothy grins, and wistful stares between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Last Monday night in Brussels however the stage management went horribly wrong: Jean Claude Juncker, head of euro zone finance ministers group, was snapped strangling his Spanish counterpart.
It was all a big joke of course. Luis de Guindos wasn't actually hasrmed in the making of the photograph and Jan Kees De Jager, the Dutch finance minister looming behind him, didn't wade in with fists flying either. But the grim look on Mr de Guindos' face shows he didn't find it all that funny.
Moments before the indident, the eurogroup had approved a €130bn (£108bn) bailout package for Greece. After months of wrangling and just a week before Greece was due to default on its debts the deal should have been a cause for an orgy of celebratory plate-smashing.. Unknown to the stage managers, behind the scenes, Spain had hijacked the meeting. In a bluntly worded statement, the eurogroup announced they had agreed to relax Spain's deficit target for 2012 - from 4.4pc set by Brussels last year to 5.3pc.
Spain had won some unscheduled breathing space. But what really angered Juncker was that in winning the concession, Madrid had stirred a radical retaliation of "sinner states" against the northern bloc's push for austerity and central control.
All year Spanish officials have pleaded with Brussels for permission to relax their deficit targets, arguing that Spain couldn't take any more austerity. They felt they had a strong case: Spain's economy is set to contract 1.7pc this year; unemployment, already the highest in the industrialised world, is heading for 24pc; while youth unemployment is already over 50pc. Officials warned Brussels that yet more cuts would be catatrophic for Spain. But the answer was firm and consistent: nein, non, niet: austerity targets were "non-negotiable".
At the beginning of March, leaders gathered in Brussels to entrench these rules in a new treaty. The so-called fiscal pact bound all European countries (except Britain and the Czech Republic who opted out) to keep their debt to GDP ratio below 3pc - or face punishment. Angela Merkel was tickled pink: the deal would last forever, she said.
But with sensational timing, just hours later Mariano Rajoy announced Spain would break the rules, immediately. Because the E U bureaucrats were forced to accept this it opens the way for Italy, Portugal and Ireland to demand the same concession. We are back where we started.
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Melvyn Bragg attacks Richard Dawkins' 'atheist fundamentalism'
Broadcaster, novelist and critic Melvyn Bragg has launched a fierce attack on militant atheists and in particular Professor Richard Dawkins, accusing him and those who follow him of “ignorance” and of showing “no respect” for religion.
Bragg poured scorn on the scientists insistence that “reason” can destroy the Christian argument, saying that faith was something that should be examined more closely.
Speaking on Sky Television's The Book Show, Bragg, a non theist himself, defended Christianity and other faiths and accused atheists such as Prof Dawkins and philosopher Alain de Botton of "hitching a ride" on faith.
“Ever since civilisation began people have believed in many gods, one god or none,” he said. “There have also been atheists, people who say that this is unprovable, that there could not be resurrections and reincarnations and miracles. These are all respectable traditions. What’s changed recently is the animus and the ignorance that has entered into the atheist argument, led by Richard Dawkins, most improbably a fine zoologist, a good scholar, Oxford trained, who seems to have thrown everything off in this odd pursuit, particularly of Christianity.”
Bragg argued that reason was not “the primary source of knowledge”.
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13 March 2012
Limp Wristed Vegetarian Nazi Scientists Want To Take Away Your Steak
Scientists Warn 'Red Meat Can Be Lethal', it is not only unhealthy but can increase the risk of death, according to a major US study.
Now you quickly get to the nature of this science in the line above. "can increase the risk of death". Unscientific, scaremongering BOLLOCKS. We are all going to die, forget the delusional belief among scientists that they can immunise us against death, nobody lives for ever. So the risk of death is 100%, it cannot get any higher, it will not get any lower. Therefore you should read reports of this type of research with the appropriate degree of scepticism.
New research carried out in the USA and published today demonstrates eating red meat regularly, especially processed meats dramatically increases the risk of death from heart disease and cancer. Each additional daily serving of processed red meat, equivalent to one hot-dog or two rashers of bacon, raised the chances of dying by a fifth. Data from 121,342 men and women taking part in two large US health and lifestyle investigations were analysed to produce the findings, published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine .
Now note the vagueness and obfuscatory tactics here. The do not say red meat eaters will die at 60 instead of 80. What they do appear to be saying is that for every ten people who eat red meat, twelve will die. The premise is irrational.
The study claims researchers found that cutting red meat out of the diet led to significant benefits but here again we see the way the issue is clouded in an attempt to manipulate readers. They find a problem with processed meat which in fact is not confined to red meat but, as has been known for years there is a problem with all highly processed foods, red or white meats, fats and they reduce it to appear as it it only applies to the food hate symbol of the limp wristed vegetarian Nazi party ("healthy low fat spreads" are the most dangerous things you can eat apart from the kind of stuff that comes in bottles with a skull and crossbones on the label).
Replacing red meat with fish, poultry, or plant-based protein foods contributed to a longer life, the study says although many other studies have shown vegetarians do not live significantly longer than red meat eater. Nuts are said to reduce the risk of dying by 20% - making a case for swapping roast beef for nut roast.
The studies monitored the progress of their participants for more than 20 years and gathered information about diet. In total, scientists documented 23,926 deaths including 5,910 from heart disease and 9,364 from cancer. Senior author Professor Frank Hu, from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said: "This study provides clear evidence that regular consumption of red meat, especially processed meat, contributes substantially to premature death.
"On the other hand, choosing more healthful sources of protein in place of red meat can confer significant health benefits by reducing chronic disease morbidity (illness) and mortality."
Funny how the results of these studies carried out by leftie academics always affirm the moral prejudices of leftie academics and serve to advance their control freak agenda, don't you think. When you read that cancer prevention charity the World Cancer Research Fund recommends that people avoid processed meat entirely and limit their consumption of red meat to 500g a week it's easy to see the hand of health fascism at work. In fact the biggest problem we have with western dies now is the result of scientists meddling with so much of the food we eat for the sole purpose of boosting corporate profits. It is not the meat in processed meats, the ground grain in bread or cakes nor the oil in processed fats that does the harm, it is the added chemicals, the colourings, artificial flavourings, preservatives etc. Look at the list of ingredients on a pack of processed meat, a savoury snack, a pack of breakfast cereal. Food is not the problem, science is the problem.
Dr Rachel Thompson, the charity's deputy head of science, said: "This study strengthens the body of evidence which shows a link between red meat and chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease. The research itself seems solid and is based on two large-scale cohort studies monitored over a long period of time."
And when you look at the length of time it becomes clear we are not talking about people living ten of five years less on average but a few weeks less. Ah well as the old saying goes, torture data long enough and it will tell you whatever you want it to.
We know that many other studies show there is no higher risk in eating red meat and that such results as are offered by this latest farrago can easily be obtained by manipulating data. Cult of Scienceology followers reading this will accuse The Daily Stirrer of being anti science. We are not, we are anti-pseudoscirntific-bullshit. And we are not the only ones..The study's findings were challenged by Dr Carrie Ruxton from the Meat Advisory Panel , an expert body funded by the meat industry.
She said: "This US study looked at associations between high intakes of red meat and risk of mortality, finding a positive association between the two. However, the study was observational, not controlled, and so cannot be used to determine cause and effect. "The authors' conclusion that swapping a portion of red meat for poultry or fish each week may lower mortality risk was based only on a theoretical model.
In other words, other lifestyle factors that could have ben significant were factored out of the study. And again we see the common preference of modern, politicised scientists for working with theoretical models rather than reality.
Dr. Ruxton went on to point out this study's conclusion conflicts with evidence from controlled trials. She pointed out that meat and meat products were significant sources of essential nutrients such as iron, zinc, selenium, B vitamins and vitamin D. So as these are all essential nutrients following the advice of the report would result in people being malnourished. Gfood work guys.
In the UK, red meat was "critically important" to zinc intake, contributing 32% of the total for men and 27% for women. Red meat also contributed around 17% of total dietary iron intake in the UK.
We give the last word to Dr. Ruxton: "In summary, this paper should not be used to dissuade people from reducing their current intake of red meat when it provides essential nutrients that are required as part of a healthy balanced diet."
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TYCOONS, HOOKERS AND OUR COUNCIL FATCATS PARTY IN CANNES
A host of British low life level politicians, town hall fat cats and quangocrats recently four days wining and dining business tycoons and ladies of negotiable affection at the world’s biggest property fair in Cannes, Southern France.
The Coalition government's Minister for Sport, Hugh Robertson was the most senior of politicians and council chief executives who enjoyed a taste of high life usually reserved for millionaires last week while taxpayers protested the closure of libraries, leisure centres, police stations and public toilets at home.
Our tax eaters were among 20,000 overwhelmingly male delegates who jetted to the French resort from all over the world to get their gribby snouts in the trough for the MIPIM property show where hotel lobbies, super-yachts and bars became a magnet for prostitutes cashing in.
The public officials were officially there to woo PFI investors for their pet property schemes, from housing blocks in Bristol to possibilities in the Olympic Park. While some councils funded their trips from public funds, others were on freebies with thousands of pounds of expenses paid by their 'business friends'.
They drank champagne in beachside terraces, strolled in the sun, and partied with bankers, lawyers and architects until the early hours with no sign of any serious work getting done..In the evenings delegates could be seen chatting to the high-class hookers that locals say come to Cannes specifically for the men and money of MIPIM. Luxury catering vans lined the harbour to serve guests on yachts, while restaurants charged £80 for Black Angus prime rib and bars hiked the cost of a small bottle of beer to £10. Well why not, it's all on expenses, the taxpayers will foot the bill.
It would be far cheaper to erect a marquee in Hyde Park said Sir Edward Lister, the London Mayor's chief of staff.
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After Last Week's Debt Fix Greece Is In Trouble Again Already
The day after a fix was announched for the Greek economy that incouded private investors including pension funds, schemes for small investors and banks in which people's saving are held, writing off a huge slice of Greek debt, The Daily Stirrer told you the so called fix, hailed by politicians and bureaucrats alike as the final solution, was similar to sticking a band aid on a soldier whose leg has been blown off by an IED.
As usual we were right. The Greek economy is in trouble again already.
The new Greek bonds issued after debt 'restructuring' started trading on today and remain the highest-yielding debt in the Eurozone, highlighting investors fears that Greece's problems were over. Greece issued 20 new bonds to its investors today, with early pricing showing bid yields ranged between 19.4pc on the shortest duration debt maturing in 2023 and 14.3pc on the 2042 bond, Reuters reports.
The debt-plagued nation remains the highest yielding country in the Eurozone with new 2023 bond carrying a 550 basis point yield premium over the closest comparable issues, from Portugal. Analysts said this reflected the investor view that the country faces an uphill struggle to meet the terms of its bailout and was seen likely to need further debt restructuring.
European Central Bank Governing Council member Klaas Knot has called on governments to increase the bailout fund as soon as possible. He adds that Euro bonds could provide a firewall against contagion, but are not suitable as a crisis instrument.
Simon Denham, managing director of Capital Spreads,says:
Investors continue to tread cautiously following the finalisation of the Greek debt swap over the week end and the impending expected official go ahead for the second bailout today. Ever since the sharp declines of early last week investors have been calling into question the sustainability of the rally so far this year and since we’re yet to have taken out the highs of the year following the recovery from last week’s lows, the stuffing seems to have been temporarily knocked out of the bulls.
The main reason for the soft start today is once again China.
This time a week ago their downgrade to GDP forecasts was the catalyst for the sell off along with other worse than expected growth figures from other emerging economies such as Brazil. Today Chinese export growth has disappointed and so the risk on rally is being kept in check.
China’s part to play in the global recovery is crucial and with data like this it fuels concerns about the possibility of a harder landing for their economy than was previously expected. If Europe and the West are not buying Chinese goods at anywhere near the rate that they have been in the past few years, then China’s economy could be in for more headwinds which is one of the biggest threats to global growth right now.
Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose, as they say parts of the Eurozone
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10 March 2012
The Elites Are Making A Virtue Of Intolerance
by Frank Furedi in Spiked
Last month, the French Constitutional Council struck a blow for the ideal of a tolerant and open society. It declared that the French government’s new law punishing the denial of the Armenian genocide was unconstitutional and infringed upon the freedom of expression.
The council’s summation was accurate. President Sarkozy’s government had effectively tried to criminalise an idea, albeit a misguided one. It had suggested that tolerance should not be applied to those who deny the Armenian genocide – hence it proposed a law prohibiting it.
Predictably, the government swiftly rejected the council’s judgment. Without a hint of irony it issued a statement ...
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Greece Defauts
Not much to comment on today. The Greks have finally defaulted on their debts by getting creditors to write of a huge chunk of their loans to the financiall stricken country. We have reported on the true state of Greek finances and the inveitability of this outcome. Until the details emerge and we can assess the fallout and it's likely effects on British jobs, incomes and our standard of living we can't add to what has already been said.
8 March 2012
Trouble in Europe, US and China promises tough times ahead for all of us.
by John de Roe
Economic figures release earlier this week and reported in The Daily Stirrer suggest that far form being over as it was claimed the false growth in economies proved, this great depression 2 has barely begun. So far 2012 has given us a breathtaking recovery in stocks and share prices and asset values. Unfortunately this is totally out of line with the economic realities in Europe, USA and China. The markets have existed for so long in a state of panic they are nearning breakdown and displaying symptoms of insanity.
Your Daily Stirrer commentators have been accused of pessimism but there is nothing pessimistic about being realists. Realists make decisions based on evidence and thus are better equipped to deal will whatever circumstances arise. Optimists dismiss the unpleasant aspects of reality and thous are caught unawares and totally unprepared when it sneaks up and bites them on the arse..
It is not just The Daily Stirrer that has spooted the latest iceberg to loom on the horizon. Graham Secker from Morgan Stanley said it is rare for global stocks, oil prices and government bonds to rise in lockstep, and such exuberance becomes a "very reliable sell signal for stocks" once speculators join the party.
Equity long positions on NASDAQ have reached 1.5 standard deviations and long bets on oil are at an extreme of 1.9, according to data from the Commodity Futures Exchange Commission. This is happening at a time when yields on 10-year US Treasuries are still at 1.96pc, signalling depression, deflation, or both.
The historical relationship between bonds and equities has completely broken down over the past six months. "You can't have a sustained period where equities are going up, while bond yields are flat or trending down," said Mr Secker. One or the other must give, and the players have no doubt which it will be. Fund manager John Hussman said the market is replicating the "extreme" conditions seen at danger moments in 1972-1973, 1987 and 2007-2008. His warning indicators include a rise in the S&P 500 index by more than 8pc above its 52-week moving average, a "Shiller price/earnings ratio" above 18, and bearish sentiment below 27pc.
America's Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) said its analysis indicates "pronounced, persistent and pervasive" signs that the US economy is sliding back into recession.
Fed chair Ben Bernanke warned last week that the US faces a "massive fiscal cliff" at the end of 2012 as tax cuts expire and the axe falls on $110bn of spending due to "sequestration". Medicare taxes also kick in. "All those things are hitting on the same day, basically. It's quite a big event," he said.
It is far from clear that the US economy is strong enough to withstand such fiscal drag. "Every time the US economy falls below the stall speed at 1.75pc it falls into recession: we have now been below that for the last three quarters," said Albert Edwards from Societe Generale.
"To me this feels no different from the start of 2011 but with one major difference. Profits are sliding instead of rising robustly," he said. The 12-month "forward earnings" data have peaked, replicating the pattern seen at the onset of the bear market in 2007.
Mr Edwards says the "Ice Age" cycle in America and Europe is still playing out much as it did in Japan after the Nikkei bubble, with each rally overpowered by the crushing force of debt deleveraging."
China's, premier Wen Jiabao has downgraded the country's growth forecasts to 7.5pc. It is far from clear whether the Politiburo can navigate a soft-landing after the kind of prolonged boom the Cinese economy has enjoyed. R&F Properties said house sales for China in the first two months of this year were down 40pc from a year ago, and prices fell 22pc.
Nomura said China's electricity use fell 7.5pc in January from a year earlier, implying a sharp industrial slowdown. The bank said the country has already reached "peak steel", with its steel production index crashing to 39.4 in February.
Dong Tao at Credit Suisse said "We believe the golden age of infrastructure investment is behind us now. The golden age of the housing boom is behind us now. The golden age of export is behind us now. The golden age of policy stimulus is behind us now. The Shanghai stock market has been signalling trouble for a long time, falling more than 60pc from its peak in late 2007. What is odd is that the bourses of countries that feed on China's commodity boom have not followed the trends of the feeder economy.
On top of all that consumers around the world are cash strapped and maxed out. There is still a lack of demand in the global economy as consumers stubbornly ingnore government exhoirtations to take on more debt, stat spending and kickstart domestic economies. So many individuals have sucjh a huge burden of debt they cannot see a way out of their sitiation. In Asian people nevrer bough in to the cosumer dream but, remembering hsard times are never far away, hoarrded money. The Asian "savings glut" is still with us. The East has not filled the vacuum left as the debt laden West tightens it belt. Liquidity has masked the deeper crisis, and flattered asset prices. The cancer has been fed by stimulus and printing money, the tumour is still growing..
Federal Exchange Ignores The Goal Posts, Moves The Stadium.
The US central bank, the Federal Exchange, in calling for another round of stimulus is operating a policvy of devaluation by stealth. Meanwhile the international finance community and global government agenda people like the EU commission and the Bilderberg group, while supporting the Fed are moving on a more sinister agenda.
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Federal Exchange Ignores The Goal Posts, Moves The Stadium.
7 March 2010
Dementia is "next global health time bomb"
Dementia should be made a top health priority on a par with cancer and lung disease, a leading expert has said, adding it has become the next global “time bomb”.
Well The Daily Stirrer reported on the 'age timebomb' over a year ago so again it is nice to see the 'experts' catching up with us old gits who really know what we are talking about.
Professor Peter Piot, former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, compared dementia to the AIDS epidemic and said one person is diagnosed with the mental illness every seven seconds. The population of sufferers, which currently stands at 36 million, is set to double by 2020 worldwide. He is now calling on the World Health Organisation to add dementia to their list of top priority diseases to fund research and treatment across the globe.
In saying: “It’s not adding years to your life, but life to your years," the professor hits the nail on the head. Scientists are obsessed with numbers and this has led to them aiming at the wrong target. Instead of focusing on prolonging life by any means possible rather than prolonging the quality of life they have created two problems rather than solving one. Dementia is a horrible degenerative condition and in the worst cases ends in people not only not recognising family members but not even knowning who they themselves are. Prolonging a life only to condemn a person to that fate is not an achievement, it is an act of selfish cruelty.
The second problem is the cost. We all know the state of the global economy and latest data shows ever the Chinese economic powerhouse is feeling the effects, while European nations, crippled by unsustainable bills for their overgenerous welfare systems are collapsing under the burden of sovereign debt. Providing personal care and medical services for people who are unable to do even simple things for themselves is already a huge charge on government revenues and can only increase. As well as dementia, heart and lung problems, diabetes and cancer are adding to the problem of looking after the old.
Despite his calls to improve diagnosis, Prof Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, admitted it may not always be ethical to diagnose dementia in parts of the world where treatment is not yet available. He told BBC Radio4’s Today programme that developing countries in Asia and Latin America were seeing the greatest rise in dementia sufferers, as better healthcare led to people living longer. He added: “The figures speak for themselves. We are really going into the next global health time bomb.
“I have worked for the last 30 years on AIDS. It was a time bomb several decades ago and it’s still not over.
(This is something of an exercise in fearmongering. Outside Africa AIDS has not really broken out of the gay and intavenous drug user categories. There are good reasons for that but to mention them will only get us branded racist and homophobic.
We only have reliable figures for the UK but the problem is global.
The National Health Service is setting aside as little as 10p per day to treat each patient with dementia, it has emerged in the wake of concerns about the age timebomb and its social consequences. One in every ten of the trusts investigated has even reduced their level of spending, in a situation condemned by a leading campaign group as an "embarrassment. One primary care trust, Nottinghamshire County, has admitted spending just £38 a year for each patient with the illness. These figures, revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, have been described as a "recipe for disaster” by charity the Alzheimer’s Society.
”Three quarters of British health trusts have refused to increase their funding for dementia care, despite government calls to make it a priority. This is because they a in a Catch 22 situation. If they don't care for patients they will have their funding reduced but if they fail to hit their financial targets because they have put patient care ahead of controlling the budget they will have their funding reduced. However, it is harder to prove dereliction of the duty of care than poor accounting standards.
Under government guidelines, NHS Trusts are required to prioritise dementia patients, with Primary Care Trusts being given extra funding to invest in services and treatment.
Today 36 million people are living with dementia according to WHO figures. Experts expect to see this doubling by 2020. A note of caution here however. The World Health Organisation are the fear and panic merchants who gave us Swine Flu and many other plagues that were going to kill millions but never materialised. The staff of the World Health Organisation are tax eaters and want to keep their grubby snouts in the trough.
Even so, common sense, always the most reliable measure, tells us that as the proportion of old people increases the problems will only get worse. We don't need not old people, if people are lining longer we need to extend youth and middle age.
The root of the problem is medical science has put so much time and effort into keeping the physical body going (transplants, drugs etc) but the brain is still setup for three score years and ten because little or nothing has been achieved to increase it's longevity. Its another case of scientists having an intellectual wank and not pausing for one single second to think about the consequences of what they are doing.
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6 March 2012
Three stories on the disintegration of the Eurozone
It's all happining in the Euro zone this week.
Stock markets fell today on worries over slowing growth in China and Europe, amid increasing tensions in the eurozone with the Dutch and Spanish challenging the Franco-German view and the risk of a Greek default and lousy economic figures from Greece and Italy.
The eurozone slush fund known as the European Financial Stability Facility, sold €3.44bn of three-month bond on Tuesday with a bid-to-cover ratio of 2 (info), Bundesbank data showed. This is less than in December when the cover was 3.2.
The main thing worrying investors and traders is the increasing likelyhood of a messy Greek default and exit from the EWuro single curency system.
Just to remind you of the Greek bond deal cuurently on the table:
• The steering committee of Greek creditors, which includes 12 major investors in Greek bonds (20pc) and was involved in drawing up last month's landmark deal, said on Monday it would accept the bond swap offer. The 12 are: Allianz, Alpha Bank, Axa, BNP Paribas, CNP Assurances, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Eurobank EFG, Greylock Capital Management, ING Bank, Intesa San Paolo and National Bank of Greece.
• Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has warned the bond exchange was the best deal holders of Greek debt would get and that he would not hesitate to activate laws forcing losses on bond holders who did not willingly sign up.
• Bond holders have until 2000 GMT on Thursday to accept the offer of new bonds, which have a longer maturity and pay a lower rate of interest, for their existing ones.
With just three days to go until holders of Greek debt must decide whether to accept a bond swap and accept losses of up to 70pc and many creditos digging their heels in, the Institute of International Finance has warned that a disorderly default could cause more that €1 trillion of damage to the eurozone, Reuters news agency reports.
Reuters has obtained a confidential document from the IIF - the body that negotiated the debt deal with the Greek Government. The news services quotes from the document dated February 18 and marked IIF Staff Note: Confidential:
There are some very important and damaging ramifications that would result from a disorderly default on Greek government debt. It is difficult to add all these contingent liabilities up with any degree of precision, although it is hard to see how they would not exceed €1 trillion.
In the document the IIF also warns that if there is a disorderly default Spain and Italy are likely to need a rescue.
As we reported yesterday the Spanish government has already thrown down a challnge to the Merkozy concensus on saving the Euro. Spain's sovereign thunderclap could signal the end of Hausfrau Merkel's single nation Europe dream. Her's what Daily Telegraph blogger Ambrose Evans-Pritchard said on the subject.
The Spanish rebellion has begun, sooner and more dramatically than I expected ... Taking what he] called a "sovereign decision", the Spanish Prime Minister simply announced that he intends to ignore the EU deficit target of 4.4pc of GDP for this year, setting his own target of 5.8pc instead (down from 8.5pc in 2011).
In the twenty years or so that I have been following EU affairs closely, I cannot remember such a bold and open act of defiance by any state. Usually such matters are fudged. Countries stretch the line, but do not actually cross it.
With condign symbolism, Mr Rajoy dropped his bombshell in Brussels after the EU summit, without first notifying the commission or fellow EU leaders. Indeed, he seemed to relish the fact that he was tearing up the rule book and disavowing the whole EU machinery of budgetary control.
He is surely right to seize the initiative. Spain’s economy will contract by 1.7pc this year under his modified plans and unemployment will reach 24pc (or 29pc under the 1990s method of counting). To compound this with manic fiscal tightening – and no offsetting devaluation – is intellectually indefensible.
The study said the eurozone cannot survive in its current form. The longer Europe’s politicians dither, the more costly it will become. "The euro can only survive if it becomes a fiscal transfer union with national sovereign debt subsumed in eurozone bonds," said co-author Charles Dumas.
So the new fiscal responsibility pact signed on Sunday by 25 of the 27 EU leaders (Britain and the Czech republic opted out) has crashed and burned within 24 hours.
Greece would like opt for a "negotiated exit" later this year, once the pain of austerity becomes to great to bear, but the country's creditors may not be willing to let things go on that long. Greece's exit will certainly be after the French elections in May, but before the German electoral season begins in 2013
Greece faces a stark choice about how to return to growth. It can continue along its current path of endless austerity aimed at engineering an internal devaluation. This option would probably involve a decade of depression and is therefore likely to be politically untenable.
The alternative to internal devaluation is for Greece to default and abandon the common currency. A new drachma would depreciate massively, boosting Greece’s competitiveness almost overnight.
She says "bright, young Greeks" are waiting to form "new political movements, untainted by the parties that have gone before. When she asked when this would happen, one young man told her:
We are all on the sidelines waiting for Greece to hit bottom. We do not want to mobilise and get involved now, because the house of cards could come crashing down on top of us. We will wait until the collapse has happened and then we can finally start rebuilding anew.
Greene adds that a Greek default and exit could signal the turning point that a desperately needed new political class is waiting for.
Dutch Freedom Party pushes euro exit as €2.4 trillion rescue bill looms
right wing Dutch Freedom Party has called for the country to quit the Euro Single Currency and return to the Guilder. It has thus become the first political movement in the eurozone with a large popular base to opt for withdrawal from the single currency. The True Finns, part of the ruling coalition in Finland are also anti Euro and opposed to further integration but have not called for Finland to quit the Euro yet.
Speaking in Amsterdam yesterday Geert Wilders, the leader of the right-wing populist party with a sixth of the seats in the Dutch parliament said "The euro is not in the interests of the Dutch people. We want to be the master of our own house and our own country, so we say yes to the guilder. Bring it on."
Mr Wilders made his shock statement after receiving a report by London-based Lombard Street Research concluding that the Netherlands is badly handicapped by euro membership, and that it could cost EMU’s creditor core more than €2.4 trillion to hold monetary union together over the next four years.
"If the majority in The Hague disagree with our report, let them show the guts to hold a referendum. Let the Dutch people decide," Mr. Wilders said.
The Freedom Party is not part of the coalition but the minority government of Mark Rutte relies on Freedom Party support to pass legislation. The two men were in talks on Monday on €16bn of fresh austerity cuts needed stop the budget deficit jumping to 4.5pc of GDP.
The Netherlands is beginning to show signs of increasing frustration at the their loss of sovereignty and fiscal independence as the euro debt crisis escalates. The Dutch Freedom Party has called for a return to the Guilder, becoming the first political movement in the eurozone with a large popular base to opt for withdrawal from the single currency.
Meanwhile in France as suport for President Sarkozy crumbles ahead of April's presidential elections, Marine le Pen, leader of the right wing National Front is steadily increasing her rating.
European recovery rocked by poor economic data in Spain and Italy
Hopes that Europe is on the road to recovery were trashed as poo economicr data from heavily indebyed Spain and Italy helped send stock markets around the world lower.
A key gauge of private sector performance across the eurozone showed business activity contracted in February after showing tentative signs of growth in January. Markit's eurozone composite PMI fell to 49.3 – revised down from an initial reading of 49.7 – from 50.4 in January, where anything below 50 shows a contraction.
This data suggests the region is slipping back into recession. The news pushed markets lower, with the Ibex in Spain down 1.3pc and Italian markets 0.7pc down.
The data also heightened concerns that the austerity measures forced on Italy and Spain by European policymakers are merely serving to kill growth in already hard-hit countries. Markit said its reading for Spain's services sector, which accounts for 70pc of the economy, fell from 46.1 to 41.9, against forecasts for a decline to 45.9.
The services sector in Italy fell from 44.8 to 44.1, with employment shrinking at its fastest rate since July 2009. The Bank of Italy predicted the country's economy was set to shrink by 1.5pc this year.
"It will put a dent in hopes that the fourth-quarter contraction was a one-off for the eurozone as a whole but the most worrying development is the continued weakness of the southern European measures," said Ben May at Capital Economics. "The European Central Bank is going to be setting policy for the region as a whole and not for individual economies and it is likely that policy is going to be less accommodative than, say, Spain or Italy would choose."
With three days to go until holders of Greek debt must decide whether to accept a bond swap and accept losses of up to 70pc, the Institute of International Finance has warned that a disorderly default could cause more that €1 trillion of damage to the eurozone. The IIF also warns that if there is a disorderly default Spain and Italy are likely to need a rescue.
So, the politicians have the debt crisis under control and everything is hunky dory then? Yeah, right.
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5 March 2012
You didn't really think it would stop at Greece did you - Spain's debt causes worry
by Ed Butt
News today that Spain risks being fined under new EU rules for a "grave" breach of budget limits, the European Commission warned on Monday, despite Jose Manuel Barroso stating that he was confident it would fulfil its commitments.
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso has told reporters that he is confident that Spain will respect the EU's new budget rules, despite the country's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy increasing the country's deficit target to 5.8pc in 2012, from its original 4.4pc goal.
A relapse into recession pushed Spain's budget deficit to 8.5pc last year, far above the 6pc target.
Commenting on the 2011 "slippage", Mr Barroso told reporters:
We still need some more information about the reasons for the slippage [...] I have no doubt that the government will honour its commitments regarding the stability and growth pact.
Mr Barroso's comments came as the spokesman for Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn described the 2011 slippage as a "grave" breach of budget limits.
Leaders took part in a signing ceremony of a new EU fiscal compact on Friday, which will allow tougher Brussels scrutiny of budgets. The fiscal compact was signed by all 27 EU leaders, apart from the UK and Czech Republic.
The European Court of Justice will have the power to fine countries up to 0.1pc of GDP if they fail to stick to the new rules.
Well that's really going to help when they're already broke.
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by Ed Butt
While we are on the subject of the EU's creeping fascism, Bruno Waterfield has also posted an interesting comment on Sp!ked, where he argues that the EU is doing everything it can to ensure that Ireland's referendum on the new "fiskalpact" is stitched up before a vote is cast:
It has been little noted, but the treaty text contains an innovation, described by European diplomats as ‘a very unusual step’. As opposed to all other EU treaties, the fiskalpakt will enter into force when only 12 out the 17 Eurozone member state signatories have ratified it.
[...]Once upon a time, the EU operated on the principle that its rules must be agreed by all its members, through democratic ratifications held according to national principles. Today, individual nations and popular votes cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the EU, which is emerging as the instrument by which elites pit their statecraft and institutions against changing European societies.
[...] Even the previously euro-friendly François Hollande, the grey French Socialist leader, has become too much for the EU establishment. There have been reports of murky (and completely backfiring) pacts to sabotage his bid to win the French presidency. His crime is that he wants to renegotiate the same treaty that Ireland is voting on. France, one of the most powerful EU countries, is creating more ‘nervousness’ than Ireland, senior EU officials have told me. ‘If he wants to significantly renegotiate the pact on debt brakes or sanctions then that will stop the process of ratification in a number of countries. The French elections are a big worry for Germany’, said the senior European source.
You may remember last time there was a vote on a change in EU rules that affected the sovereignty of member nations, Irish voters, the only elctorate to be allowed an opinion due to their contritution's clauses on national sovereignty, voted the proposal, The Lisbon Treaty, they rejected it. The Treaty was a thinly disguised version of the European Constitution, a document which would have trodden the sovereignty and cultures of member states into the mud of the first world war battlefields where so many millions died. The European Consitution had previouusly been thrown out by big majorities in France and The Netherlands with referenda in the UK, Germany and Sweden set to follow suit.
The smooth faced bureaucrats are not really in denial about the fact that further integration of nations is deeply unpopular with ordinary people eerywhere, they are now confident enough to openly display the contempt for democracy they have previousluy kept hidden.
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3 March 2012
RBS raises mortgage rates as Halifax prepares to follow suit
by John de Roe
The Daily Stirrer has repeatedly warned that an increase in interest rates must be imminent and of the consequences that would have for millions of financially hamstrung families stuggling o survive from month to month. Loss of the lifebelt of low interest rates, mortgage experts have warned, will plung them into povrerty, have a deflationary effect on the economy as spending is further curtailed and cause house prices to collapse.
The Halifax which was Britain's largest mortgage lender before the credit crunch led the way in preparing for an increase in m,ortgage rates with RBS quickly following suit. The Halifax has written to borrowers telling them that it was increasing the cap on its standard variable rate (SVR) from 3 percentage points above Bank Rate to 3.75 points in three months' time.
If it then moved its rate up in line with the cap, around a million borrowers would end up paying 4.25pc on their mortgage as opposed to 3.5pc. While the lender said its move was not a definite indication that it would raise rates, mortgage brokers are sceptical and suggest the move would come sooner rather than later for a million Halifax borrowers. What's more, rivals are likely to follow suit, they said.
Ray Boulger of brokers John Charcol said: "There would have been no point in incurring the negative PR from this move if there were no plans to increase the SVR in the near future. Any borrowers currently paying 3.5pc should expect an increase soon after March 31."
Stuart Gregory of Lentune Mortgage Consultancy, who used to work for Halifax, said he expected to see a "chain of events" whereby other lenders also increased rates. "Once one does it, the others see it as an opportunity," he said.
Indeed, just 72 hours after Halifax's cap increase was uncovered (it didn't make a formal announcement), Royal Bank of Scotland raised rates on three mortgage products. The rate on NatWest and RBS lifetime offset trackers rose by a quarter of a point to 4pc, while customers of the One Account, also owned by RBS, saw a similar increase on two products.
Mortgage providers have complained it is costing them more to raise money in the markets than they can make by lending it out. The Daily Stirrer has warned that The ban of England and other centrat bank's policy of keeping the bsase rate suicidally low (at 0.5 per cent - a move which was justified by the claim that it would get stagnant economies moving but which has completely failed to do so,) was eventually going to have a detrimental effect.
If you think the austerities of the past four years have been tough, as the man in the first talking movie said, "You ain't sen nothin' yet.
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Inflation The Big Threat To Recovery
Today's report highlights the concerns of business leaders who, while supporting the coalition goverment's austerity measures aimed at controlling the rinaway public sector deficit are worried that inflation and the crisis in the euro zone may still derail the economy.
Oil A Bigger Threat Than Greece
"With Greece and Syria fading (temporarily) from the headlines, the financial world has quickly found something new to fret and fuss about thanks to the recent surge in oil prices," Stephen King, HSBC's chief economist said. "If the trend persists, a fragile economic recovery in the developed world could quickly be derailed and inflation could return to emerging markets."
Mr King said that investors should be overweight in energy shares as "insurance" and foreign exchange investors should buy currencies of oil-producing countries such as Norway, Malaysia, Brazil and Russia.
Other analysts agree. "A rapidly increasing oil price is beginning to threaten prospects for recovery and better growth," Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodity analyst at Swedish bank SEB, said. "Paradoxically, recent rises are largely due to improving economic sentiment but also tight supply. In addition, outstanding geopolitical issues present further major upside risks," Mr Schieldrop added.
Brent crude surged to $128.40 a barrel on Thursday, the highest level since July 2008, as reports of a pipeline fire in Saudi Arabia spooked markets already concerned about brinkmanship with Iran over its nuclear programme. There have also been supply disruptions in Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.
However, prices eased on Friday after Saudi official denied the reports, which started in Iran. Brent crude closed down $2.55 at $123.65.
The Daily Stirrer thinks this is just the usual fear and panic that drives the markets. The price spike will soon level. Long term the price of oil is going sky high unless somebody removes Barack Hussein Obama from the equation or the other western leaders grow backbones and bollocks and at risk of being called "racist" tell the childbrain in The White House that his warmongering and political meddling in the middle east is harming western economies and can only prolong the economic lump we are now in.
W hat purpose does that jug eared streak of piss think can possibly be served by imposing oil sanctions on Iran when the Chinese are ready and willing to buy up all the oil the Ayatollahs can pump? Obama's childish petulance can only raise the price of oil in the west, and with it the price of everything else we use or consume.
2 March 2012
Almost Half Of English Adults Are Poor At Maths
by Xavier Connolly
A report from a new educational charity says almost half the adults in England have a poor understanding of maths.
National Numeracy claims it has discovered that 17 million people in the country struggle with mathematics. Many of them have an understanding of numeracy equivalent to that of a primary school pupil.
The number of innumerate adults in England has risen by up to two million in eight years and there is evidence this is having a major effect on the individuals and the UK economy.
Chris Humphries, the chair of National Numeracy, told News Services: "That's a scary figure, because what it means is they often can't understand deductions on their payslip, they often can't calculate or give change. They have problems with timetables, they are certainly going to have problems with tax and even with interpreting graphs, charts and metres that are necessary for their jobs."
He added: "It does matter, poor numeracy seriously blights an individual's life chances. Young people with poor numeracy are twice as likely to be excluded from school, we know adults with poor numeracy are twice as likely to be unemployed. It is simply inexcusable for anyone to say 'I can't do maths'. It's a peculiarly British disease which we aim to eradicate. It doesn't happen in other parts of the world and it's hitting our international competitiveness. With encouragement and good teaching, everyone can improve their numeracy."
Unlike poor levels of literacy, it seems many people are not even concerned about their lack of basic numeracy. Only 56% of those questioned were embarrassed about their poor maths skills. The charity is hoping to address the problem, encouraging those of all ages to improve their poor levels of numeracy.
Jan Dawson, who teaches maths to adults at Bournville College in Birmingham, is one of those trying to do something about the problem. She told a television news reporter many people are turned off maths while still at school.
"Invariably they're quite anxious about maths. They've had bad memories of maths from when they were at school but very often they will leave here and say that was great I understand, the penny has dropped," she said. Many of the mature students in her class have decided to brush up on their maths after realising their lack of knowledge has held them back.
Louise Galvin has a 13-year-old son and until recently she would worry when he asked for help with his maths homework.
"My son's got autism but he's very good at maths. Sometimes he comes home from school and I find his homework really shocking because it's tough for a 13-year-old, but now I can help him with it because I understand it better," she said.
Those involved in the new campaign believe too many people see maths as a geeky subject and a lack of ability at maths as a "badge of honour".
Speaking on Sky News television personality Johnny Ball, famous for popularising maths and science in TV programmes in the 70s and 80s, said the curriculum and the way maths was being taught were letting children down.
He said: "Teaching standards are not really strong enough in so many schools."
Wider studies have shown show that the UK lags behind other nations in the subject. In 2006, Britain was ranked 17th out of 30 developed nations measured by the proportion of people with low or no qualifications. Some 35% were considered to be at that level - double the number of countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany and Sweden.
The Daily Styirrer says maths geeks teaching maths are the problem. They can't get over the idea that one someone explains the magic of quadratic equations or differential calculus to them they will become as geeky and enthusiastic about the subject as their teachers (and quite possibly develop the same kind of personal hygiene issues).
There is too much focus on the abstract aspects of maths. The universe may well be an eleven dimensional dodecahedron (or whatever shape the geeks say it is this week. It does not affect my life in any way nor does it interest me in the slightest. I suspect most people feel the same.
Arithmetic and basic geometry and algebra are all most of us will ever need. Let the calculus and trigonometry come in later if it is approprate to a pupils likely course in life rather than boring them out of their minds and alienating them from not just maths but education in general.
FOOTNOTE:
When this report talks about "the mathematical abilities of a primary school child" it is necessary to put the statement into perspective.
A few years ago the television series show "That'll Teach Them" recreated a 1950s grammar school. The assembled kids were told they were going to sit a 1950s O level Maths exam. All the examinees were on target for an A or A star- GCSE, and so were regarded as mathematical prodigies. They sat the exam- the results were dreadful- nearly all had failed very badly except a couple who had done extremely well. Then the 1950s teachers delivered the sucker punch, this was not a 1950s O level Maths paper- it was a 1950s Eleven Plus paper in arithmetic!
It is almost certain the people involved in the test got their A passes and better in GCSE, so who in government cared, the Gods of stastistics were honoured.
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Sub Atomic Girl and A New Discovery In PhysicsA new discovery in physics, the existence of a previously unsuspected sub atomic particle has the world of science and scientists in a tizzy. But are they really onto something big, something that might help unlock the secrets of the universe and reveal the true nature of matter, gravity, protons, antimatter and other stuff. Or are they getting over - excited yet again.
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1 March 2012
Google's New Privacy Policy: 'All Your Base Belong Us'.
Google has defended its decision to change the way it handles users' personal data as its new policy comes into force today. The internet search giant will now be able to use information about what people are entering into its search engine to target adverts according to users' interests under the changes.
The company's computers will be able to collate data from all Google's various services including You Tube, Blogger, Gmail and Google Maps to create a single, comprehensive profile for individual users across 60 of its services.
Concerns have beent. raised by numerous regulatory authorities over the privacy implications of the move, with the French regulator claiming it may not be lawful. Peter Barron, head of communications at Google, said the firm was happy to meet with the French authorities to discuss their concerns. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said users could "control and manage" their search histories by opting out or switching them off.
"We have something called Google dashboard and you can go into that and you can change your settings," Mr Barron said. "If you don't want to receive adverts for recipes, for example, you can opt out of that." Well that's fine if you have a Google account. Many people do not.
Alex Hanff, who was involved in a campaign against advertising company Phorm, said: "They’ve been asked to suspend the changes several times, and Google keeps telling the regulators where to go. They’ve basically stuck two fingers up at the law."
Sticking two fingers up ayt the law and treating their usrers with utter contempt is of course what Google do best. It is high time governments grew some balls and bsckbones and told these neo9 - Nazi nerds that the same laws apply in the internet as in real life and if Page, Brin and all their semi autistic lackeys find that hard to understand they can have a few years in prison o contemplate it.
Google has emphasised that users can increase their privacy settings before the new policy comes into force. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US civil rights group, has published a guide. The safest way to protect your personal data from Google however is to avoid using their service. Yahoo, Bing and Ask Jeeves, while no angels, are excellent search engines to my certain knowledge and there are many other search tools out there I am not familiar with.
Numerous other very good video hosting sites are open to the public too, Google's PR hype suggests it is the only one but like so much Google public relations material that is just not true. It is time we, the people, put these arrogant upstarts in their place.
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Is The Russian Threat To Invade Ukraine Real Or A Globalist Conspiracy Theory?
While Joe Biden's handlers in Washington and Boris Johnson In London talk up the threat of war should Russia invade Ukraine as they claim Moscow is preparing to do,Ukrainian leaders are dismissive, accusing the west of ramping up hysteria in a bid to divert attention from oither problems ... Continue reading >>>
How COVID Corrupted Science Politicians who criticised AstraZeneca vaccine 'probably killed hundreds of thousands', says Oxford scientist in an outburst that reveals how the science acedemy have been totally owned by corporate money and thus have been guilty of lying, scaremongering, fabricating evidence, publishing fake statisics and spreadsing misinformation. And the politicians who told us to 'trust The Science' are just as guilty.
Psychologists say Government nudge unit ‘used grossly unethical tactics to scare public into Covid compliance’
The UK governments' behavoural science police ir 'nudge unit' set up in 2010 to influence public attitudes on things like immigration and climate change has been working overtime during the COVID pandemic but have their methods of trying to scare people into complying with policy been acceptable in a democratic nation? Continue reading >>>
British Government Laundered Fake U.S. 'Intelligence' On Ukraine The British government on Saturday accused Russia of organizing a plot to install a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, as the Kremlin masses troops near the Ukrainian border. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gave relatively little information about the intelligence unveiled Saturday other than to say that the Russian government was considering trying to make a Russia-leaning former member of Ukraine’s parliament, Yevhen Murayev, the country’s new leader. Continue reading >>>
As the COVID narrative crumbles under the weight of evidence that the vaccines do not work, masks are useless and lockdowns kill more than they save a new scaremongering narrative - or a revamped old one - is emerging as the threat of war with russia is the latest fear and panic vehicle to scare the people into compliance with tyranny.
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Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions With Britain and other parts of northern Europe basking in unseasonably warm temperatures which are forecast to last for a few days, while parts of the USA gring to a halt under a blanket of snow dumped by freak storms are, accoring to climate scarmongers, a signal that irreversible warming had arrived, it is perhaps timely for a hot topic from ten years ago, geoengineering came under the microscope again. This report from Global Intel Hub seems a good way to kick off the debate. ... Continue reading >>>
Latest Bill Gates Insanity: Injecting Sulfur Into the Atmosphere Will Cause EnvironmentalDisaster A study published in November by the University of Pennsylvania exposes the insanity of projects such as spraying particles of sulphur compounds into the stratosphere, self - anointed vaccime messiah Bill Gates' latest scheme to “save” the planet with "geoengineering" According to the mathematical modellers Gates pays hansomely to provide him with "scientific" data to persuade politicians to spend taxpayers money on projects run by companies his "charitable foundation" has invested in. Far from saving the planet this latest idiocy is actually destroying environments.
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We Told You So - Government-funded Report Confirms World’s Largest offshore Wind Farm is UnprofitableA report commissioned by the Norwegian government has contradicted Boris Johnson’s recent claim that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. The report also blows a huge hole in Johnson's grandiose pledges to the COP26 conference that offshore wind power would propel Britain to its net - zero target for Carbon Dioxide emissions well before 2050, the target set by the climate conference for achieving that target.
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Climate: The Science, The Lies, The Malfeasance and The Deep State Climate change hoax COLLAPSES as new science finds human activity has virtually zero impact on global temperatures
We have previously highlighted this report from Finland which exposes the great flaw in "the science" of global warming. The link at the end of this extract takes you to a much more complete account of the research project which, not for the first time debunks the fake science on which the politically - motivate climate change scare.
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COP26 Climate Conference - Just Another Elitist Scam To Steal Your Money If you are one of the people who still relies on mainstream media for information, the 'on - message' news reports coming from the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this week, and during the build up to the conference, might have convinced you that the entire world (barring a few crazy conspiacy theorists,) is signed up to the 'net zero' agenda and believes that destroying the economies of the developed nations while exporting our jobs, business and prosperity to places like India and China is the only way to save the planet.
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Forget The Hype About COP26 Saving The Planet, Here's The Reality
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Proof That The Alarmist Claptrap You Are Hearing And Seeing At COP26 Climate Conference Is A Load Of Bollocks The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places, the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions in the Arctic zone. Expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm ... Continue reading >>>
Green dreams of Heat Pumps
Continue reading >>> When Boris Johnson revealed the UK Government plans for achieving 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 it emerged the much teased clean, green replacement for gas boilers as our main source of domestic heating is to be heat pumps. The Daily Stirrer counters the pseudo-scientific bollocks and reveals this 'new technology has been around for a hundred years.
Green dreams of Heat Pumps
Continue reading >>> When Boris Johnson revealed the UK Government plans for achieving 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 it emerged the much teased clean, green replacement for gas boilers as our main source of domestic heating is to be heat pumps. The Daily Stirrer counters the pseudo-scientific bollocks and reveals this 'new technology has been around for a hundred years.
Governments' obsession with climate pseudoscience over economically and social viable solutions is leading to disaster The government's current obsession with pursuing the target of net zero carbon emissions in order to claim the UK leads the world in green wankery is more to do with virtue signalling that governing, but with the complicity of mainstream media, particularly The BBC, climate scaremongering is providing a convenient diversion from this governments abject failure to address and of the very real economic and social problems facing us.
Globalist Elites Now Pushing For Lockdowns Save You From Climate Change
Elite globalists are now proposing that lockdowns be imposed to protect us punters from climate change. Did we ask for this? Did we vote for this?
We need a referendum on net zero to save Britain from the green blob
from The Daily Telegraph
As with membership of the EU, the political elite is imposing a revolution on the public without consent. Does the blob never learn? Voters don’t like being treated like naughty children
Green Dreams Menu It may be driven by virtue signalling or self hatred but the urge to destroy civilisation in order to save the planet and the ideological agenda that drive the gree movement are too far removed from the realities of life to ever achieve their aims. "
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.
Leaked Documents suggest Moderna created its Coronavirus Vaccine BEFORE Covid-19 was known to exist A confidentiality agreement shows potential coronavirus vaccine candidates were transferred from Moderna to the University of North Carolina in 2019, nineteen days prior to the emergence of the alleged Covid-19 causing virus in Wuhan, China.And now further evidence suggests the American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that has made billions through the sale of said experimental injection, is actually responsible for creating the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Debunked: The Great Renewable Green Delusion The war in Ukraine has not caused the global energy crisis of early 2022 byt merely exacerbated it. Currently the nations currently in conflict with Russia over its incursion into Ukraine are those which are most dependent for their energy needs on Russian oil and gas. And now their loonytoons 'net zero' green energy policies have failed they are biting the hand that feeds them.
Oh what a lovely war! Taking Sides In The Ukraine Conflict I am a First Gulf War veteran and one of my sons, when very young,
asked me which ‘team’ I had been on as if that was a choice for a
British soldier. I was recently asked by one of my not so young
grandsons which ‘team’ I supported in the war between Ukraine and
Russia. Years of online gaming combined with a crumbling state
educational system have led young boys to consider that war really is
just a game.
The Dominance Of The U.S. Dollar Is Fading Right Before Our Eyes It was just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote an article arguing
that the economic sanctions we have cast upon in Russia, due to its
invasion of Ukraine, likely mark the beginning of a period where China
and Russia would bifurcate the global monetary system, leading them to
eventually challenge the U.S. dollar’s reserve status. Now, Saudi Arabia is joining the fray, further threatening to tip the balance of the global monetary scales that have kept the U.S. dollar afloat for decades.
Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis Telling voters that the spiralling inflation we are now experiencing, and the effect on living standards might sound like a politiian trying to be honest for once . Or might it be the case that Boris Johnson, never a man known for plain speaking, is preparing us to be told that Russia’s war against Ukraine, rather than the follies of 'net zero' policies and transitioning from fossil fuels to intermittent 'sustainable' energy sources are to blame for price rises that coming down the lione long before the first Russian boot stepped over ~Ukraine's border?
Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...
Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get? Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...
Syria - style Chemical Weapon False Flag Attacks Coming Soon To Ukraine While mainstream media reports on the current conflict in the all too predictable globalist style of 'Ukraine man good, Russia man bad,' the truth of how we came to the stage of armed conflict in Ukrain that threatens to spill over into a much bigger war, it is worth questioning the role The USA and NATO have played in making Russia's action inevitable ... Continue reading >>>
How Russia Will Overcome Western Economic Warfare Or Take Food Off Our Tables The US and EU are deluding themselves on the likely efectiveness of Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide...
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
The collapse of fascist regimes and fanatical cults never is simple. The New Normal is proving to be no exception. As the COVID narrative crumbles, the most authoritarian government in the western world refuses to accept reality as Canada's Prime Minister / dictator Justin Trudeau lashes out at anyone who challenges his unconstitutional authority ...
Russia-Ukraine crisis will put more pressure on the global food supply chain, driving up prices around the world After three weeks of non-violent civil disobedience outside the Canadian parliament in Ottawa by truckers and other Canadian citizens struggling to uphold their right to not be subjected to forced “vaccination,” Justin Trudeau unleashed the goon squads. Thousands of militarized riot police (and other unidentified heavily-armed operatives) swarmed the area, surrounded the protesters, started breaking into trucks and arresting people, and beating them with batons and the butts of their rifles.
Putin, Macron To Hold Urgent Talks To Halt Military Escalation In Ukraine Even though the leaders of Ukraine itself are talking down the threat of war with Russia over the breakaway region of Donbas, America and Britain are still beating the war drums and demonising Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia insists they have no plans to invade Ukraine and one western leader at least, France's Emmanuel Macron, seems to be listening to messages coming out of the East European trouble spot...
Germany News Mag. Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right About NATO Expansion?" As the confrontation along the border between Ukraine and Russia has escalated to actual shooting with ethnic Russian rebel separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling and initiating a "general mobilization" of military-age males, with Moscow denying they plan to invade and Ukraine's leaders accusing US, UK and French leaders of hysteria for talking up the threat of war, Germany's leading newspaper Spiegel asks the question fundamental to the entire conflict...
While Crazy Joe Biden Claims Victory Over Russia, NATO's Expansin Plans Have Been Derailed By PutinJoe Biden (or his handlers because we all know Joe's mind is gone,) have been trying to spin reports of Russian troops withdrawing from positions close to the Ukraine border as a diplomatic victory for the USA over Putin but in the geopolitical game things are seldom what they seem to be ...
Mainstream media's hyping of the threat to Ukrained posed by Russian aggression is the latest in a long line of attempts to lay blame for western foreign policy disasters at the fet of Russia. In fact had Joe Biden not started to babble about Russian aggression, talking up the threat of conflict, there would be no crisis ...
Is The Russian Threat To Invade Ukraine Real Or A Globalist Conspiracy Theory?
While Joe Biden's handlers in Washington and Boris Johnson In London talk up the threat of war should Russia invade Ukraine as they claim Moscow is preparing to do,Ukrainian leaders are dismissive, accusing the west of ramping up hysteria in a bid to divert attention from oither problems ... Continue reading >>>
How COVID Corrupted Science Politicians who criticised AstraZeneca vaccine 'probably killed hundreds of thousands', says Oxford scientist in an outburst that reveals how the science acedemy have been totally owned by corporate money and thus have been guilty of lying, scaremongering, fabricating evidence, publishing fake statisics and spreadsing misinformation. And the politicians who told us to 'trust The Science' are just as guilty.
Psychologists say Government nudge unit ‘used grossly unethical tactics to scare public into Covid compliance’
The UK governments' behavoural science police ir 'nudge unit' set up in 2010 to influence public attitudes on things like immigration and climate change has been working overtime during the COVID pandemic but have their methods of trying to scare people into complying with policy been acceptable in a democratic nation? Continue reading >>>
British Government Laundered Fake U.S. 'Intelligence' On Ukraine The British government on Saturday accused Russia of organizing a plot to install a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, as the Kremlin masses troops near the Ukrainian border. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gave relatively little information about the intelligence unveiled Saturday other than to say that the Russian government was considering trying to make a Russia-leaning former member of Ukraine’s parliament, Yevhen Murayev, the country’s new leader. Continue reading >>>
As the COVID narrative crumbles under the weight of evidence that the vaccines do not work, masks are useless and lockdowns kill more than they save a new scaremongering narrative - or a revamped old one - is emerging as the threat of war with russia is the latest fear and panic vehicle to scare the people into compliance with tyranny.
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Currency Wars - Now The Euro Challenges The Mighty Dollar Our http://www,greenteethmm.com/currency-wars.shtmlcurrency wars feature has taken a back seat these past two years as the COVID pandemic (or propaganda pandemic as some people might say,) has pushed all other stories aside. In our opinion however, the pandemic has served as a convenient smokescreen behind which all sorts of elitist skulduggery has been going on, hidden from the view of the general population. ... Continue reading >>>
COVID cover-up: UK media refuses to report that 4 of 5 coronavirus deaths over the past month occurred in the vaccinatedEarlier this evening Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a broadcast to the nation, implored British citizens to continue doing what they’ve been told to do throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately everything the government has told us to do: Stay at home, Work from home, Wear masks, wash your hands every twenty seconds, do not touch anything, Shun your friends and relatives especially if they are sick, Get a vaccine, Get a second, vaccine, Get a booster vaccine, ... etc, etc, etc,
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European Union Medical Regulators Warn of Health Risks Surrounding Repeat Booster ShotsThe European Medicines Agency, medical regulators for E U member states have issued a warning about plans to introduce regular COVID vaccine booster shots, with current proposals for a booster every three months. The Agency's public relations team warned that frequent use of coronavirus boosters could have unintended health consequences. Officials of the Agency sounded the alarm on proposals to vaccinate people with a booster shot every four months, instead leaving the door open for an annual booster.
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Covid Vaccine Refusers 'Thrive On Attention' Says Prime Attention Seeker And Chief Clown Boris JohnsonIronic isn't it that the one person guilty of telling more lies and spreading more misinformation about COVID throughout the pandemic, our so - called Prime Minister and according to observable evidence, the chief idiot Boris Johnson launched another attack on 'anti - vaxxers' today, saying they “thrive on the attention”? This outrageous farrago of lies and calumnies spewed at people who have simply chosen not to be injected with a shot of toxic shite that does not immunise anybody against anything
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UK School that ‘canceled’ JK Rowling as a role model over transgender views replaces her with ex - Olympic athlete who has even stronger views Managers and senior teachers at the exclusive Boswell's School in Chelmsford, UK faced a wave of criticism after withdrawing from Harry Potter author JK Rowling the honour of having one of the school's houses named after her and have now shot themselves in the foot again by naming as Rowling's replacement a former Olympic athlete, Kelly Holmes, who won two gold medals and who has recently voiced some strong opinions on the policy of allowing formely male transgender athletes to compete in women's events, ever though the athletes involved still have their male wedding tackle.
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Novak Djokovic is no victim but Australian government 's political opportunism is disgusting
While the world divides more deeply into two camps over the COVID mRNA vaccines, one of the most shameful incidents of the whole pandemic has been playing out in Australia where the world No 1 tennis player has been subjected to a medieval with hunt over his refusal to accept vaccination. The persecution of Novak Djokovic has been engineered purely because the nation's leaders want to put it at the forefront of the push towards global vaccine tyranny. Continue reading >>>
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Italy Pondering Total Ban On Unvaccinated In The WorkplacesItaly's unelected governments, which has already faced riots and massive resistance to its authoritarian measures to strip away citizens rights and liberties under cover of pretending their actions are necessary steps to deal with the pandemic, now risks plunging the country into greater chaos by mandating vaccines for the workplace.
Novak Djokovic is no victim but Australian government 's political opportunism is disgusting
While the world divides more deeply into two camps over the COVID mRNA vaccines, one of the most shameful incidents of the whole pandemic has been playing out in Australia where the world No 1 tennis player has been subjected to a medieval with hunt over his refusal to accept vaccination. The persecution of Novak Djokovic has been engineered purely because the nation's leaders want to put it at the forefront of the push towards global vaccine tyranny. Continue reading >>> ">Continue reading >>>
We have menioned the name of the eminent doctore Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. in these pages before. Indeed, Dr. Bhakdi has been one of the most prominent criticts of the "science led" responses to the COVID pandemic from day one and has consistently warned against the mRNA vaccines rolled out around the world, citing the scientifically sound reasons this technique for modifying DNA has in the past been studied and abandoned because of the unpredictable side effects. ... Continue reading >>>
Freak Weather Around The World Begs Questions With Britain and other parts of northern Europe basking in unseasonably warm temperatures which are forecast to last for a few days, while parts of the USA gring to a halt under a blanket of snow dumped by freak storms are, accoring to climate scarmongers, a signal that irreversible warming had arrived, it is perhaps timely for a hot topic from ten years ago, geoengineering came under the microscope again. This report from Global Intel Hub seems a good way to kick off the debate. ... Continue reading >>>
The Mystery Of Origin Of Omicron
The mystery of the origin of omicron strain of COVID-19
is raising new questions about the still undetermined origin of the
coronavirus outbreak and whether it leaked from a Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan in 2019. One common theory about abnormal mutations in the new variant Omicron suggests that it could have appeared from a person with an immunodeficiency after several months of incubation ... Continue reading >>>
A few weeks ago this blog reported a Swedish study which showed that natural immunity provides much better protection against infection by the SARS2-COV virus which causes COVID (COrona VIrus Disease,) than the Pfizer vaccine which is currently hyped as the most effective on the market, though it is no more effective than the others at provinding immunity. The more responsible voices in mainstream media that actually reported the story described by the news as “a bit of a bombshell”.
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Study Reveals That Unjabbed Are Better Informed Than Jabbed On the day we reported elsewhere that thousands of Germans had taken to the streets to protest against the latest fascistic measures imposed by their federal government Ulrike Guérot, a German political scientist has effectively shown that the so called vaccination opponents were far better informed on the CoVID vaccine effectiveness and adverse affects than the jabbed ones.
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Thousands Protest In Germany Ahead Of COVID Measures Set To Go Into Effect Tuesday Thousands of people took to the streets of Germany on Monday in protest over COVID-19 restrictions that are set to go into effect on Tuesday.The demonstrations were biggest in Mecklenburg, northern Germany, where roughly 15,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against tighter measures, according to local reports. In Rostock, a city along the Warnow River on the north coast of the country, roughly 6,500 people demonstrated, while in Schwerin there were roughly 2,700 and in Neubrandenburg, around 2,400 joined a demonstration.
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Study: At least 400,000 people in America have died from covid “vaccines”
Columbia University researchers have found that the true death count from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccination” is substantially higher than the official figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC claims that only 20,000 people have died from Fauci Flu injections, but Columbia’s underreporting factor estimates that 20 times that number, or around 400,000 deaths, is far more accurate.
Latest Bill Gates Insanity: Injecting Sulfur Into the Atmosphere Will Cause EnvironmentalDisaster A study published in November by the University of Pennsylvania exposes the insanity of projects such as spraying particles of sulphur compounds into the stratosphere, self - anointed vaccime messiah Bill Gates' latest scheme to “save” the planet with "geoengineering" According to the mathematical modellers Gates pays hansomely to provide him with "scientific" data to persuade politicians to spend taxpayers money on projects run by companies his "charitable foundation" has invested in. Far from saving the planet this latest idiocy is actually destroying environments.
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Vaccines Do Not Stop COVID-19 Spread As Governments Claim: Legal Advocacy Group
Vaccines are less effective effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19 that governments have claimed, an analysis of government narratives carried out by a constitutional rights group shows. The report was published Tuesday by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, found that claims made by governments promising vaccination will reduce or stop the spread of COVID-19 are not supported by either medical science or empirical evidence
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Government To Weaponise Welfare Benefits To Enforce Vaccine Mandates
As evidence piles up showing that the COVID vaccines have failed, or at least are nmot what we were told they are, because data shows that the vaccinated rather than being ptotected from infection are actually more vulnerable to COVID, government and Big Pharma are growing more desperate in their efforts to coerce people into getting vaccinated.
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German Schoolchildren Subjected To 'Ritual Humiliation' Over Their Vaccine Status
December 12< As this blog has been telling you for a few years now, The Nazis are back in Germany. With these sausage scoffing krauts it's not a case of 'do as we say, not as we do,' but "DO AS WE SAY OR WE WILL MARGINALIZE YOUR KIDS AND FINE YOU INO POVERTY. Only a matter of time until the National Socialist coalition's thugs start kicking door in and dragging those who are not fully vaxxed (two shosts plus all obligatory boosters,) off to internment camps. VACCINE MACHT FRIE.
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Why have we doctors been silent? — by Lucie Wilk
AS an NHS hospital doctor, I have had a front-row seat as the drama of the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded. It has been a year and a half of confusion, frustration and anger for me as I’ve watched our profession drawn into complicity with what I anticipate will be regarded as one of the most egregious public health disasters in history. I have watched as ‘the science’ has been presented on the national stage flanked by Union Jack flags as an unassailable truth. For something so apparently inviolable, it seems to shift and change disconcertingly from week to week ...
Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial
Press freedom groups have warned Assange’s prosecution is a grave threat. The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist. In a London courtroom on Friday morning, Julian Assange suffered a devastating blow to his quest for freedom. A two-judge appellate panel of the United Kingdom’s High Court ruled that the U.S.’s request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges is legally valid.
Are The Vaccine Slaves Slowly Awakening? TV Show Mysteriously Deletes Poll After Vast Majority Oppose Mandatory Vaccination A major morning television show in the UK deleted a Twitter poll asking if vaccines should be made mandatory after the results showed that 89% of respondents oppose compulsory shots.Yes, really. ...Continue reading >>>
Pandemic - The Thief Of Time A pandemic polemic in verse. The narrative of an unseeable monster that poses and existential threat to humanity is eating the days and years of our lives ...
Why Are Indians So Angry at Bill Gates?
The latest backlash against billionaire psychpath and his 'philanthropic' organisation the Gates Foundation from government, media and society in India is the result of long - existing concerns raised by activists about the foundation's cavalier attitude to human rights and civil liberties.
Cancer expert says U.K. seeing spike in “non-covid deaths,” nobody willing to call out vaccine elephant in the room
Excess mortality in the United Kingdom is off the charts, and yet nobody is willing to call out Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” as the culprit. Cancer expert and Prof. Carl Heneghan describes the current situation in Great Britain as a “national scandal.” A shocking 9,300 more people than usual have died in the U.K. over the past several months, and officials are blaming everything else except the injections.
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Throughout
history there have been sports players who suffered from multiple
conditions who have “collapsed” on the field during practice and during live games. However, a recent article from the German newspaper, Berliner Zeitung has highlighted an
“unusually large” increase in the number of these collapses recently, leading to much speculation.
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After a weekend of increasingly violent protests around Europe, similar to the one pictured above in London, against elitist plans to introduce new limitations on freedom, lockdowns and further steps towards compulsory vaccination (with a vaccine that does not immunise against a virus that makes very few people ill,) it is disappointing to see that in the US and UK, mainstream media is still doing its best to ratchet up the fear and panic ...
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We Told You So - Government-funded Report Confirms World’s Largest offshore Wind Farm is UnprofitableA report commissioned by the Norwegian government has contradicted Boris Johnson’s recent claim that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. The report also blows a huge hole in Johnson's grandiose pledges to the COP26 conference that offshore wind power would propel Britain to its net - zero target for Carbon Dioxide emissions well before 2050, the target set by the climate conference for achieving that target.
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COVID-19 infections are surging in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Czechia and Greece, with these countries and others returning to the kind of strict public health measures which have previously failed contain the spread of the 'deadly virus' that only kills people who are over a thousand years old and have dozens of pre - existing, potentially fatal conditions. Austria has gone so far as to enact a
nationwide lockdown beginning Monday.
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The Absurdity Of Vaccine Passports, Lockdowns and Segregating The UnvaxxedAfter reintroducing lockdowns from the beginning of this week in its two regions with the highest rates of COVID cases, Austria today became the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full, national lockdown which will start on Monday, November 22. The Austrial government is likely to be quickly joined by neighboring Germany, a statement from Berlin warned [...] Some commentators in Austrian capital Vienna were cynical enough to ask if the whole point of this latest escalation is justify more restrictions
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German Doctors Warn Of Terrible Chistmas, Advise New Lockdowns As Covid Cases Skyrocket No surprise mayebe that Garman doctors and scientists are recommending more lockdowns and blaming the unvaccinated, these two professions have been the vanguard for global health tyranny for two years now. ...Continue reading >>>
Insulate Britain protesters jailed for defying an high court injunctionAnti-civilisation activists chant 'we are unstoppable, another world is possible', as police officers lead them from the court to the cells.
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The Betrayal Of Humanity By The Corrupt Medical Professions From day one, back in March 2020 when the pandemic was declared, this blog has been questioning the fake statistics, highlighting the distortion of statistics to serve the scaremongering narratives of the elites and exposing the lies and dishonesty of politicians, sciencetitis (sic) and, surprisingly perhaps if you are of a credulous nature, doctors and the medical professions. ... Continue reading >>>
Austria Days Away From Imposing Lockdown On The "Shameful" Unvaccinated Says Chancellor SchallenbergAustria's globalist Chancellor Schallenborg said today that the government would shortly give the go-ahead for a lockdown of unvaccinated people, to be introduced in the two highest-incidence regions from Monday and possibly also nationwide [...] This would prevent people without proof of full vaccination or recovery from Covid-19 from leaving their homes except for essential reasons.
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Forget The Hype About COP26 Saving The Planet, Here's The Reality
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COP26 Climate Conference - Just Another Elitist Scam To Steal Your Money If you are one of the people who still relies on mainstream media for information, the 'on - message' news reports coming from the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this week, and during the build up to the conference, might have convinced you that the entire world (barring a few crazy conspiacy theorists,) is signed up to the 'net zero' agenda and believes that destroying the economies of the developed nations while exporting our jobs, business and prosperity to places like India and China is the only way to save the planet.
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Algorithms Are No Better At Telling The Future Than Tarot Cards Or A Crystal Ball According to a new report “An increasing number of businesses are investing in advanced technologies that can help them forecast the future of their workforce and gain a competitive advantage”. Almost every day we see more bollocks being written by supposedly intelligent people who believe that by using things called ‘Data Science’, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ and ‘Big Data’, machines can already be relied on to make better decisions than humans, and that soon computers will equal or even surpass us in actual intelligence. ...
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In A Fit Of Honesty Italian Institute Of Health Reduces Official COVID Death Toll By 97% Italian newspaper Il Tempo has published a shock report, claiming that the country's Institute has reduced the official figure for the number of people who have died from COVID from 130,000 to under 4,000. This may surprise many people who bought into the "killer virus" narrative and unleashed torrents of pure hatred on those of us who declined vaccination, having studied the figure for reported "COVID related deaths," and the methodology used to arrive at that figure ...
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Climate Hypocrites: 400 Private Jets Fly To Scotland For Save The Planet Climate ConferenceThe elitists currently gathered in Glasgow to yell at us about climate change and how we must all sit and shiver as energy prices go stratospheric or drive pimped up golf trolleys are just total hypocrites. These people who are flying in from all around the world to the COP 26 in their private jets and then motoring from the airport in motorcades of gas-guzzling limousines and SUVs are not here because they are concerned about the future but because they expect to shortly be making billions out of you and me from the new 'green' technologies being promoted as the fourth industrial revolution.
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Proof That The Alarmist Claptrap You Are Hearing And Seeing At COP26 Climate Conference Is A Load Of Bollocks The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places, the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions in the Arctic zone. Expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm ... Continue reading >>>
A newly published study from researchers in Sweden reveals that the immunity to COVID gained from vaccination, is dissipated by natural biological processes within months. Immunity, although it would be more honestly called temporary respite, from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injections is short term at best, and completely gone within months, this confirming the doubts raised by vaccine sceptics (or Conspiracy Theorists as mainstream media likes to call us
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UK Energy Crisis Deepens as prices and demand skyrocket while supplies shrink to critical levels It is ironic that in the week world leaders and flat faced Swedeish trolls are gathering in Glasgow for an orgy of virtue signalling that will inevitably drive millions of people in the developed world into fuel poverty and result in more industrial jobs being exported from the west to the world’s major produceres of Carbon Dioxide emissions, China and India, the energy crunch that is affecting the whole of Europe is about to hit the United Kingdom extremely hard.
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Green dreams of Heat Pumps
Continue reading >>> When Boris Johnson revealed the UK Government plans for achieving 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 it emerged the much teased clean, green replacement for gas boilers as our main source of domestic heating is to be heat pumps. The Daily Stirrer counters the pseudo-scientific bollocks and reveals this 'new technology has been around for a hundred years.
Green dreams of Heat Pumps
Continue reading >>> When Boris Johnson revealed the UK Government plans for achieving 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 it emerged the much teased clean, green replacement for gas boilers as our main source of domestic heating is to be heat pumps. The Daily Stirrer counters the pseudo-scientific bollocks and reveals this 'new technology has been around for a hundred years.
Surge in Emergency Hospital Admissions from Vaccinated People Suffering Acute Organ FailureThe USA's taxpayer funded broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR) is claiming to be mystified by a siginficant increase in hospital emergency admissions across the United States but does not find the fact that these medical emergencies are all among people already vaccinated against COVID-19 and also all due to people experiencing symptoms consistent with the acknowledged side effects of the vaccines.
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Analyst Reports ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of COVID Vaccine Injury Reports Backlogged in VAERSThe latest episode of “Doctors and Scientists” on CHD.TV, features regular host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., interviewing Jessica Rose, Ph.D., a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) analyst and computational biologist who specializes in biomathematics and molecular research. OK, I know this publication does not have much time for mathematical modelling, but that is because so much of it is obviously rigged to support propaganda narratives. We will always give an honest scientist a fair hearing even if we do not agree with their contribution to debate.
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Goodbye Freedom, Hello Global Governance. If at any time during the chaos the past eighteen months you have wondered what kind of idiots are running the world and have gleefully trashed economies, disrupted social and commercial life and stripped citizens of their rights and liberties only to bring us, in late October 2021, right back to where we were in late February 2020 when the words pandemic and COVID crept into our consciousness ...Continue reading >>>
SStarmer Outs Himself As More Fascist Than Boris Bonkers or Dementia Joe Biden The leader of the UK’s official opposition party, Labour, Sir Kier SStarmer after a year of starring in a remake of The Invisible Man has finally decided to let us see who he is. Responding to remarks made by Home Secretary Priti Patel, SStarmer said education authorities should be allowed to use exclusion orders to stop anti-vaccine activists from protesting outside schools ... Continue reading >>>
We need a referendum on net zero to save Britain from the green blob
from The Daily Telegraph
As with membership of the EU, the political elite is imposing a revolution on the public without consent. Does the blob never learn? Voters don’t like being treated like naughty children
Prof. Pilmer Is Going To Piss Off Boris, Biden, Bill Gates, theflat faced Swedish mini9 troll and the rest of the green Nazis Professor Ian Plimer blew the! whistle on the human driven climate change scam a while ago. Search the web and, of course, you will find plent of left wing websites including some 'fact checkrs' claiming his volcano theory has been debunked. The problem there is that the far left 'Church of Sciencology Cult' likes to rewrite the dictionary in order to make is attempt to discredit anyone who opposes its ideological approach to everything look credible.
If you've read Plimer's book you will agree; this is a good summary.
Europe's Energy Crisis Exposes Green Fraud Vladimir Putin has been celebrating the recent and much reported European energy crisis, knowing that withouout his doing anything, thanks to the obsessive pandrering to Greta Thunberg and the green lobby political leaders ion the UK and EU member states Russia has been handed control of European markets, with the option of manipulating supply chains and prices at the same time. In the meantime the European nations have failed to sufficiently diversify supply.
Turkey Kills Over 50 Syrian Troops, Russian Warplanes Intervene to Halt OffensiveTurkey Kills Over 50 Syrian Troops, Russian Warplanes Intervene to Halt Offensive Conflict in Syria’s Idlib Province has escalated during the past week, with Turkish forces attacking the Syrian army and claiming to have killed over 50 soldiers. Russia, the main Syrian ally in the conflict, took the pressure off Assad and sent a clear message to Turkey’s President Erdogan by sending in warplanes to halt to Turkish assault ...
Anyone Who Fancies A Bet Will Be Put On A Register, Just Like Sex Offenders.
In another signal that Boris Johnson's government has sold out to globalist ambitions and is lurching headlong towards fascism, The Information Commissioner’s Office has announced that as part of their pursuit of a Single View of the Customer (SVoC), they plan to create a database in which all “behavioural data” of people who enjoy a bet ...
Nine Scottish schools tell pupils to pay for lunch via FACIAL RECOGNITION as Scottish Nazi Party normalizes surveillance stateNine Scottish schools chosen to a pilot plan to introduce facial recognition technology for verification of children's school lunch payments, have launched this flagship policy of the governing Scottish Nationalis Party, claiming the system is faster and more hygienic, while failing to respond to critics who have raised the privacy issue posed by such intrusive technology ... Continue reading >>>
Dont Dictate To Us On Human Rights, Justice Secretary Raab Tells EU Justice Secretary Dominic Raab told the Conservative Party Conference last month Boris Johnson had given him the task of rewriting the The Human Righrs Act when he moved him from the Foreign Office in September’s reshuffle. This week Raab revealed details on how he plans to block interference from Strasbourg in British matters as part of his remit.
Globalist Elites Now Pushing For Lockdowns Save You From Climate Change
Elite globalists are now proposing that lockdowns be imposed to protect us punters from climate change. Did we ask for this? Did we vote for this?
I will get hate mail now': Lord Robert Winston backs professor in trans row saying 'you can't change sex' After making controversial comments on transgender issues during his appearance on BBC television's Question Time last night, biologist and science broadcasdter Lord Robert Winston said today he fears he will be the subject of hate attacks from trans activists and the 'woke' brigade. Winston, not for the fgirst time, publicly backed a fellow academic scientist who triggered the trans - hate mob last wek by saying people "can't change sex".
No End To The Insanity: Media Now Claims That "Double Jabbed" Brits Who Have Colds Are Suffering From COVID You might think from the title the media are at last getting the idea that the COVID "clotshot" vaccines are not working if large numbers of double vaccinated people are becoming ill but such common sense went out of fashion years ago. What the propagandists are doing is trying to blame the unvaccinated (purebloods as we now call ourselves,) for infecting immunised people with a virus we don't have ...
Governments' obsession with climate pseudoscience over economically and social viable solutions is leading to disaster The government's current obsession with pursuing the target of net zero carbon emissions in order to claim the UK leads the world in green wankery is more to do with virtue signalling that governing, but with the complicity of mainstream media, particularly The BBC, climate scaremongering is providing a convenient diversion from this governments abject failure to address and of the very real economic and social problems facing us.
Strictly Come And Be A Fascist Dancing Stooge Boris Johnson's fascistic demand that contestants on Strictly Come Dancing be vaccinates in the interests of safety (as if the public can catch the virus from an unvaxxed celeb through a television screen,) shows just how far along the road to fascism this authoritarian government has taken the country and how much further they are prepared to go
First Responders: From Heroes To Zeroes 2 October: Those who just one year ago were celebrated are now being vilified. The architects of this drastic rebrand? The ruling elite. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday that she would call in the National Guard to replace healthcare workers who did not meet Monday’s vaccination deadline.
500K Adverse Events Reported After COVID Vaccines In The US Alone
from Great Game India
As of Sept. 27, 2021 there were 569,294 adverse event reports associated with COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S., according to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
September 2021
Deaths among Teenagers have increased by 47% in the UK since they started getting the Covid-19 Vaccine according to official ONS data Shock news as ONS official figures for 2020 show teenage deaths in the UK were up almost 150percent against corrsponsing period in 2019. Just one of the many social costs of the governmen's over-the-top pandemic response NOT reported by mainstream media.
Boris’ Government Trying To Bypass Parliament, Introduce Vaccine Passports By Back Door We warned you this authoritarian government would not let the idea of vaccine passports go and here they are, reported by Summit News (well you didn't expect to see it in mainstream media did you?} tyring to bring in their wretched "Papers Please" legislation by the back door.
Green Dreams Menu It may be driven by virtue signalling or self hatred but the urge to destroy civilisation in order to save the planet and the ideological agenda that drive the gree movement are too far removed from the realities of life to ever achieve their aims.
Covid Vaccine Fascism Greenteeth Digital Publishing catalogue of posts on the covid pandemic authoritrariansm propaganda and pushbacks. Find posts on the authoritarian acts of government, the lies of Big Pharma vaccine makers and the protests and pushbacks from the people whose resistance is not being reported in mainstream media
Ivermectin? Neigh problem. US Food and Drung Agency Lists 'Horse Drug' As Approved COVID Treatment After banning the use of anti - parasitic, anti - inflammatory drug Ivermecting for use in the economically developed nations because it was a "horse drug" the US Food and Drug administration has now approved another horse drug. The difference? Ivermectin is a more efficient and cheaper alternative to vacccines, dexamethasone is only effective against those seriously ill with COVID. Or to put the case bluntly, it may cover up evidence that the vaccines are failing as more double vaccinated people than unvaccinated are falling sick with COVID.
Have You Committed Your Three Thought Crimes Today? You're a criminal. So am I. We all are, according to some legal experts there are now so many crimes, a lot of them loosely defined, it is impossible to get through the day without committing at least three crimes. In fac it is often the case that by obeying one law you are breaking another.
Vaccine shocker From Germany: "Out of ten autopsies, five deaths would be “very probably” linked to vaccines A shocking report from respected German scientists claims out of 10 autopsies carried out on people who tested positive for COVID, five of the deaths were somehow linked to vaccines and the many observed side effects that occur soon after beople have been injected with COVID vaccine.
UK School staff receive threats of violence amid anti-vaccination campaign
Government plans to push their dodgy vaccines onto schoolchildren are meeting opposition. On the back of scientific studies showing children are at zero risk from cOVID and do not spread the virus parents, and citizens concerned at this fascistic coercion of citizens to accept an experimental medication are reacting in the only way they can.
Are Vaccines The New Messiah Or Are They Bollocks? Throughout the pandemic of 2020 .21 we have been encouraged by a carefully constructed narrative to believe vaccines will be our messiah and only compliance with government diktat can save us from the kiler virus. But is it all bollocks?
"F**K The Jab, Long Live Australia" - 20,000 Shut Down Melbourne Highway In Massive Lockdown Protest Anti-lockdown protests have become commonplace in Australia since the latest round of "snap" lockdowns began two months ago although you wouldn't think so if you rely on mainstream media for information about what's going on in this increasingly insane world. Newspapers and broadcast news channels have almost totally blanked stories reporting the pushback against the Australian government's increasingly authoritarian measures
he cultural elite says our new culture secretary is uncultured, yet I’d wager she’s the first best-selling author to hold the job, and the only one I know of to have eaten an ostrich anus on TV, which sounds positively French. The appointment of Nadine Dorries – an outspoken former nurse, businesswoman and star of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here – is not a two fingers up to the culture industry but the direction of travel. That’s what so terrifies the gatekeepers.
How many more young lives will be sacrificed on Gates’s vaccine altar? It’s remarkable that the man who has become the unelected global health czar and population control advocate is not being questioned on his past more closely. Though we are living through a crisis predicted by Gates and a response triggered and bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which are driving us towards a vaccination and biometric ID solution which Gates has been working on for years, he’s still regarded as a benign philanthropist.
19 September 2021: India State of 241 MILLION People Declared COVID-Free After Government Promotes Ivermectin over Vaccines The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which has the equivalent of two-thirds of the United States population, has been declared COVID-free, the state government announced last week. There are no more active cases of coronavirus in the 33 districts of Uttar Pradesh, which has a population of 241 million people.
18 September 2021: New Anti - Vaccine protest in London as double vaccinated people continue to get sick with COVID Thousands of Anti-vaccine protesters marched from Camden to Downing Street in central London this afternoon, calling on the government to scrap plans to present Covid jab to youngsters.Police in riot gear dispersed protesters after purple paint bombs were thrown over the black ironwork of the gates of Downing Street.
France: Thousands of Health Workers Who Refused Covid Vaccine Mandate Suspended 17 September 2021: The French government have today suspended 3,000 health workers who have defied a manadte requiring all medical personnel to be vaccinated against COVI|D, The Guardian reports. Announcing the move France’s health minister said that many have since agreed to be inoculated now that they had seen “the mandate was a reality”. This of course violates the workers human rights under the Geneva Convention as well as about a million French civil and employment rights laws.
Italy Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine Passports For All Private Sector Workers 17 September 2021: Italys undemocratically appointed left wing government, acting no doubt on ordrrs from the EU which appointed the governing hotch - potch coalition yesterday (16 September) approved new and restrictive rules using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excise for this lurch towards fascism. The new rules which are aning the strictest in the world, in the world mandate that all private and public sector employees get the vaccine and show proof of vaccination,
Leaked Zoom Video Exposes Hospital Officials Discussing COVID-19 Scare Tactics 16 September 2021: A leaked Zoom conference reveals a doctor questioning how to increase the count of COVID-19 patient numbers on the hospital’s dashboard report.National File and other local media outlets that reported on the leak identified the people in the video as Mary Kathryn Rudyk, a physician at the medical center, who is asking Carolyn Fisher, the hospital’s director of marketing, how to inflate the number of people classified as COVID-19 patients for the purpose of generating fear in the unvaccinated.
10 September 2021: The Left is lying to itself, it needs limited migration as much as the Right does.
When Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish right-wing party Vox, delivered a press conference on the 30th August, it did not take long for perhaps the most controversial part of his speech to be put into bite-sized form. Europe does not have moral duty to welcome or accept every Afghan or African who seeks to enter.
Has Biden's Afghan Surrender Handed The Future To China 5 September: The abrupt and ill - considered withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan ordered by President Joe (Dementia Man) Biden and the susequent return to power of Islamic fundamentalist The Taliban hands control of the vast Afghan litium reserves to China and is a blow to the green agenda of the G7 nations
Why All The Fuss About Ivermectin?
First hydroxychloroquine, now ivermectin, is the hated deadly drug de jour, castigated by the medical establishment and regulatory authorities. Both drugs have been around for a long time as FDA-approved prescription medications. Yet now we are told they are as deadly as arsenic. As a physician, I am certainly aware of ivermectin but don’t recall ever writing a prescription for it in my 30+ years’ medical career.
The Illusion Of Stability, The Inevitability Of Collapse
Imagine being at a party celebrating the vast wealth generated in the last ten months in stocks, cryptocurrencies, real estate and just about every other asset class. The lights flicker briefly but the host assures the crowd the generator powering the party is working perfectly. Being a skeptic, you slip out on the excuse of bringing in more champagne and pay a visit to the generator room. To your horror, you find the entire arrangement held together with duct
tape
The Orwellian Vaccine Passport Agenda Relies On The Lie Of The "Social Contract" There is a fundamental question that needs to be asked when examining the vaccine passport issue, and what I find is that almost no one in the mainstream is tackling it directly. The question is this: "Is it legally and morally acceptable to constrict the rights and economic access of people in order to force them to submit to an experimental “vaccine”, or any other medical procedure for that matter?"
Johnson’s Proposed National Insurance Hike Threatens Jobs And Recovery The prime minister has been warned by The Confederation Of British Industry and other groups and campaigners representing various areas of the national economy that job creation and young workers will bear the brunt of what is essentially a stealth tax affecting 25m people.
Thousands Protests Against Covid Vaccine Passports In London Unreported by mainstream media as in previous months, crowds numbering tens of thousands gathered in London on the last weekend of the month to protest agains the government's plans to introduce vaccine passports next month.
August 2021
Hundreds arrested during anti-lockdown protests in Australia 31 August: Throughout the pandemic of fear one of the big surprises has been the way Australians, known for being a nation of independent minded, outspoken, awkward bastarts have meekly accepted some of the most opressive restrictions on personal freedom and civil liberties, but it seems things may be changing as the Aussies say "enough".
July 2021
Populist Politicians Threaten Legal Action Against Proposed Covid Passports Spanish populist party VOX has threatened legal action against the Madrid government if the ruling coalition implements a so-called health passport scheme that would require proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test to enter certain businesses. The leader of VOX, Santiago Abascal, stated this week, that if the Madrid government wanted to introduce a health pass he and VOX would take the matter to court.
E U Central Bank Digital Currency Is The Death Rattle Of A Failed Experiment
The announcement from the European Central Bank (ECB) that is is to intrduce an official European Union digital currency spells the end of the European Single Currency experiment and with it the ambition of "ever closer union until the EU's member states were merged into a single political entity Digital Currencies might not quite be Ponzi schemes but on appearances the difference can be compared to that between a horse and a pony.
Entire vaccine theory OBLITERATED as Biden promises you can’t catch Covid if you get the vaccinationIf the Covid vaccines really work, then everyone who gets them should
not ever be worried about catching it from anyone who doesn’t get the jab. The installed fake president Joe Biden said, “You’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations.” So if vaccines protect you 100 percent, why does it matter if others around you aren’t vaccinated?
The claim that unvaccinated people are somehow a risk to the vaccinated just got obliterated.
Blood doctor releases findings showing Moderna’s mRNA Covid vaccines change red blood cells 27 July: it’s time to become your own “medical investigator,” because these vaccine manufacturers and regulatory agencies do not have our best interest in mind. Would you like to know exactly what the mRNA vaccines do to your blood that’s far more dangerous than the Covid-19 virus or any of its variants? You don’t have to be a mechanic to learn and understand how dirty oil can ruin a motor, and you don’t have to be a doctor or scientist to understand how mRNA Covid vaccines are changing red blood cells to make them stick together.
First They Came For The Unvaccinated And I Did Not Speak Out Authorities in Germany have indicated that unvaccinated people could be banned from cinemas and restaurants and that those who have taken the jab will have “more freedom.” Angela Merkel’s chief of staff Helge Braun told Bild that if cases keep rising, new rules will be brought in that will ensure the unvaccinated are deprived of basic lifestyle activities.
July 28: Scamdemic! Leaked Data Shows Over Half of UK ‘COVID Hospitalizations’ Tested AFTER Admission NHS figures exclusively provided to The Telegraph allegedly show patients counted as COVID-positive by the British government were originally admitted to the hospital for separate ailments.No wonder the UK requires a COVID test to everyone admitted to hospitals, they’re trying to pump up the numbers!
Grooming & Abuse: Story of teenage girl raped, forced into child marriage and then abandoned by system July 29: A report commissioned after nine men were jailed over the sexual exploitation of girls who had been in council care in Bradford revealed that a girl victim of grooming and sexual abuse at the hands of one of the notorious gangs of Muslim mem who targeted such vulnerable young girls in Bradford and the surrounding areas. The victim, while sill a child, was raped by multiple men, physically abused and forced into an Islamic marriage against her will.
Scamdemic! Leaked Data Shows Over Half of UK ‘COVID Hospitalizations’ Tested AFTER Admission
Proving the COVID “pandemic” to be a total scam, leaked data out of the UK shows 56% of alleged COVID hospitalizations were people who tested positive after going to the hospital for a different health issue. NHS figures exclusively provided to The Telegraph claim to show patients counted as COVID-positive by the British government were originally admitted to the hospital for separate ailments.
Scientists want to insert ‘their mark’, be called ‘your creator’ and ‘own you’ We’ve said it before and we’ll no doubt say it again, scientists are dangerous. Ranging from the downright stupid (climate scientists, to the unashamedly neo – Nazi (cOVID vaccines eugenicists) to the criminally psychopathic (the transgender mob who believe their irresponsible tinkering with the human genome will create a race of superbeings.
First They Came For The Unvaccinated And I Did Not Speak Out Authorities in Germany have indicated that unvaccinated people could be banned from cinemas and restaurants and that those who have taken the jab will have “more freedom.”
Angela Merkel’s chief of staff Helge Braun told Bild that if cases keep rising, new rules will be brought in that will ensure the unvaccinated are deprived of basic lifestyle activities.“The number of new infections is increasing even faster than in the previous waves. That worries me very much,” said Braun.
London Freedom Rally:Tens Of Thousands In Trafalgar Square To Protest Against Covid Passports As the UK government stepts up its push to introduce vaccines passport which would exclude unvaccinated people from many basic, everyday activities, huge crowds gathered in London and other UK cities to protest against lockdowns, track and trace apps, coercive measures to force unwilling people to accept experimental vaccines, mask mandates, social distancing and all the other oppressive and fascistic measures imposed by Boris Johnson’s authoritarian government
France: Thousands Protest Against Vaccine Passports and Mandatory Vaccination July 21, Reports of numerous protests, with the total number involved estimated at over 1 million, took place across France on Saturday. They were protesting against authoritarian policies of forcing vaccination of health workers as a prelude to mandate the vaccination of all citizens and residents and requiring a COVID-19 free certificate, colloquially known as a “vaccine passport” to enter places such as sports stadia, theatres, restaurants, cinemas. and even shopping malls.
Doctors and Scientists Warn Of Covid Vaccine Dangers Government And Big Pharma Corporations Are covering Up The vast majority of people who are getting injected for Covid-19 will die within a few short years from heartfailure, warns Dr. Charles Hoffe, M.D., a medical practitioner in British Columbia, Canada. In one of his latest updates, Dr. Hoffe explains that he is observing in patients who took an mRNA (messenger RNA) “vaccine” from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna that their capillaries are now plugging up, which he says will eventually lead to a serious cardiovascular event.
So Much For "Freedom Day": UK Health Authorities Bar Unvaccinated Patrons From Nightclubs
Thousands of young Britons celebrated "Freedom Day" by piling into nightclubs that had been closed for nearly a year-and-a-half, indulging in the kind of nightlife activities they once took for granted. Unfortunately for those who haven't been "fully vaccinated", the UK's vaccine's minister Nadhim Zahawi said Monday that a negative coronavirus test will "no longer be sufficient" proof that a person is COVID safe.
Zahawi said a negative coronavirus test would soon "no longer be sufficient" proof that a person was COVID-safe, and instead they urged nightclubs and other businesses to use the NHS COVID pass, which contains their vaccination status. Public health authorities will be monitoring to see how many businesses voluntarily follow this 'recommendation'. Over the next few weeks, "we will be keeping a close watch on how it is used by venues and reserve the right to mandate if necessary."
But pretty soon, providing proof of vaccination status might be a requirement in the UK,
The EU is its own worst enemy
2 July 2021: If the European Union wants to achieve its goal of 'ever closer Union', along with continued border expansion, then it's time Brussels re-evaluated its strategy. The behaviour and approach in recent years has done nothing but tarnish the EU's reputation and make it perfectly clear to all neighbouring countries this is not a community you want to be part of if you do not want to be tied to Brussels for decades to come, argues Jayne Adye, Director of Get Britain Out.
"Panic Porn Passed Off As Science" As The Delta Variant Scare Used To Prolong Pandemic Misery
1 July 2021: Mainstram media was in meltdown today as the scaremonger in chief, sponsor of biological weapons development, liar, fraud, fake scientist and general cunt Dr. Anthony Fauci's warnings about the supposedly "dire threat" posed by the Delta variant of the SARS-COV2 virus which causes COVID-19 continues to be dramatically amplified by the news media in most democratic nations .
Sacked by the NHS – a Doctor with the courage to say No to vaccines
A GP who resigned his ‘job for life’ as a partner with a Hampshire practice because of his doubts about Covid-19 vaccines has been suspended by NHS England for questioning coronavirus protocol. Dr Sam White received a letter on Friday informing him that he was suspended with immediate effect, which stops him practising as a doctor within the NHS. On Saturday he was telephoned by a senior clinical adviser to NHS England, who condescendingly called him ‘poppet’.
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