Last year the market for ring tones to mobile/cell phones was US$ 4 BILLION. Strangely this equates to people paying between 2 and 3 dollars for a short 30 second blast of a song that would normally cost US$ 1 to download. So there you have it, final proof that people think that less is more.
The ACCIDENT in the Gulf is a disaster, nobody’s arguing that point. BP SUB-CONTRACTED the exploration to a US owned rig crewed by US staff and which was passed by the US government as operating safely. Accidents do happen.
Everyone in the US and in the UK feel for the people whose livelihoods have been so terribly hit.
BP is also merged with AMOCO (American Oil Company) and directly employs tens of thousands of US nationals in America.
Obama is sneered at in the UK as having effectively done NOTHING to help his own people other than to carp, bitch and bully a company that earns the US billions in tax and employs large numbers of Americans. The effect that his attacks on a corporation has been to half the value of one of the world’s largest companies, destroy the pension incomes of thousands of Brit pensioners, endanger US jobs as someone is going to have pay for the cost cutting and shown him to be a weak vacillating wind bag.
Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Dutch offered the U.S. government ships which are equipped to handle a major spill larger than the BP disaster. The system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour meaning that the Dutch have more recovery capacity than all the ships that the U.S. were putting into theatre.
The Dutch also offered a pre-calculated contingency plan to protect Louisiana’s marshlands with sand barriers. The Dutch had, with all their own knowledge of coastal defences, planned to build 60-mile-long sand dikes within twenty days.
The Dutch know are on permanent standby for maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill, the Dutch government owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers and gives an oil company 12 hours to prove that they have the resources to control a spill. At the first sign of failure the government activates its own recovery at the oil company’s expense.
So with the world’s experts in oil spill disaster recovery offering immediate help, Obama responded with a ‘thanks, but no thanks’ (remember this when you vote you guys in the affected area). BP pleaded for the Dutch to be allowed to come but this was a political decision and the livelihoods of thousands of Americans was treated with contempt by Obama. In fact TWELVE countries offered help and all were rejected.
Floris Van Hovell, a spokesman for the Dutch embassy in Washington said “Given the fact that there is so much oil on a daily basis coming in, you do not have that much time to protect the marshlands,” totally bemused that the administration was launching a tirade of blame and NOT concentrating on the solution to the problem.
Remember the Exxon Valdez oil tanker accident off the coast of Alaska in 1989? Once again the Dutch offered help and actually turned up with their clean-up equipment at Anchorage airport only to be sent packing by US officials.
Oh and by the way, the compensation for that American disaster has still not been settled even after twenty years. Obama also forgets that other US corporation who quietly killed 15,000 (fifteen thousand) Indians in Bhopal (India) and still there is little to no compensation.
Obama, the step grandson of a Mau Mau terrorist in Kenya is violently anti British.
Pity as America probably only has ONE genuine ally in the world, the British. The almost hourly rants against BRITISH PETROLEUM are demonstrative of Osama’s nationalistic and racist outlook.
In Friday’s Daily Telegraph a literacy researcher by the name of Masha Bell said that it is the English spelling system that is to blame for the stratospheric levels of illiteracy among our teenagers.
According to some academics, a British child normally takes three years to read to an acceptable standard. In Finland where it is alleged that words are more likely to be pronounced as they look they can read within three months. What utter balls. For example, good morning, which is spelt so that even a total cretin can get his tongue around it translates as ja hyvää huomenta. Any chance you can begin to pronounce this? Of course not.
Ms Bell has conveniently chosen Finnish which has one of the smallest vocabularies of any language as a comparison which of course means that the average baby Finn can probably memorise the entire dictionary in the same way that an educated British child could learn a nursery rhyme. Secondly, it is the appalling standard of our teachers and schools that are to blame for the levels of illiteracy.
Ms Bell said “The antique, inconsistent spelling system of English is probably the main reason why the UK has a far longer tail (don’t you mean tale?)of educational underachievement than any other European country, why more of young people are Neets (Not in Educations Employment or Training), why so many end up in jail and why improving their chances of re-offending (surely she means NOT re-offending!) is much more difficult.” The English language is obviously so difficult that the world has accepted it as the common language of business and international communication.
Who owes what to whom
The PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain are all in a tangled web of IOUs which threaten to bring the Euro crashing to its knees as well as kicking off another recession. Have a look at the easy to view graph of who owes what to whom and you begin to see the domino effect that is about to kick off.
France is owed 911 billion dollars, Germany 704 billion dollars and the UK 418 billion dollars.
The real worry for the Euro is that Germany is sitting on a crock of shit with its debts – just add them up and all with very shaky economies. With Germany in that position who is going to save the Euro?
(Graph courtesy of New York Times)
This couple of greedy snout in trough socialists nominated three different properties in two years to be their main residence. Of course there were also a few dodgy double claims by pure accident. Not satisfied with an income from us the taxpayers of £300,000 between them, we also have to stump up £600 per month for their food bills from Waitrose. Try explaining that to your Labour voters who are struggling to survive as a result of your incompetent government.
Lord Stevenson: former chairman, HBOS
Sir Fred Goodwin: former chief executive, RBS
Andy Hornby: former chief executive, HBOS
Sir Tom McKillop: former chairman, RBS
John McFall MP: chairman of Treasury Select Committee
Alastair Darling: Chancellor of the Exchequer
George Osborne: Shadow Chancellor
Gordon Brown: Prime Minister and former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Terry Wogan: former presenter of Radio 2’s Breakfast Show
Obviously the answer is Sir Terry Wogan. The main differences are that he’s liked. He was excellent at his job. He’s honest. He’s charming and funny. Everyone misses him and we probably all want him back.
The REALLY interesting point is that he is the only one of this bunch of chancers who holds ANY formal banking qualification.
None of the people running the economy or planning to do so and none of the former heads of the above banks have a clue about their business. Would you employ somebody with no relevant experience or qualifications to run your finances?
Dimwits Darling and Wince Cable
How are the Tories going to make good the black hole if they don’t put up the employer’s National Insurance contributions? By not increasing NI contributions MORE people will be in employment so reducing unemployment benefit and making them tax payers who will spend their earnings in the economy so increasing VAT earnings and the take on corporation tax.
What these Marxists tosspots don’t understand is that we know how to spend our money better than they do.
Gordon Brown is a malevolent, deeply damaged and very unpleasant human being. He is allegedly at the epicentre of a culture of political bullying that has been the hallmark of the Labour Party and his government. The toadying lickspittles around him are nasty unpleasant people who have no place in a civilised political culture or society. They are secretive, malicious, vindictive and vicious.
No bullying eh? Well the former Labour General Secretary Peter Watt said that Number 10 is ‘completely dysfunctional’ under Mr Brown, who runs the country ‘by making it up as he goes along’. After witnessing Brown behave bizarrely at an official dinner, Watt’s wife told him “he’s bonkers”.
Strong rumours have been circulating for months around Westminster that the slack jawed jock in Downing Street is alleged to be taking powerful mood altering anti-depressants, specifically Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs) which are very rarely prescribed since the arrival of Prozac derivatives, and used only sparingly when dealing with severely depressed patients.
The evidence is foremost his behaviour – which some originally put down to a lack of emotional intelligence, is now being attributed to the powerful drugs to control his dark depressions. The stories abound of rages, Naomi style Nokia tantrums, destroyed laser printers, tables kicked over and smashed, and hysterical Downing Street secretaries who have been subjected to tirades of foul mouthed misogynistic filth. Everyone has seen the embarrassing and at times utterly bonkers YouTube performances, the painful contorted grimaces, his embarrassing emotional responses, such as smiling when offering condolences or frowning when giving best wishes.
Is this why the Beast of Westminster is allegedly undergoing neuroleptic drug therapy? Worryingly, confirmation of these rumours reveals that there is a civil service dietary restrictions list for the Great Slug which very closely resembles the kind of requirements for someone on MAOI medication. Psychiatrists warn of MAOIs that ‘Extra-pyramidal effects include acute dystonic reactions such as protruding tongue, muscular contractions and clenched jaw’. Now where have I seen that before?
Have we forgotten when Jane Kennedy, an environment minister, told Gordon Brown Shirt to stick his job? This is what she had to say;
“I’ve been unhappy for sometime about smears against colleagues, about the undermining of colleagues and friends orchestrated by Number 10. I can’t support it and I believe the Labour Party is part of reason for the rejection that people have indicated, and it’s a rejection of that kind of politics. I can’t distinguish between those around Gordon Brown smearing and Gordon Brown himself. It’s how politics is driven forward by Gordon and the people around him.
I fought against Militant in the 1980s and helped the Labour Party drive them out, because I was appalled at their conduct: the bullying, the threats and the intimidation. I can’t stand by and say I am content when that is still happening. Everybody who is active in politics in Westminster knows what I’m alluding to.”
Have we forgotten the Minister for Europe, the delicious Caroline Flint who resigned because of Brown’s sexism? He ignored her and even excluded her from the cabinet meeting dealing with the Lisbon Treaty. I would have thought that the one meeting you need your Minister for Europe might be this one!
Here’s her letter of resignation;
Dear Gordon
I believe the achievements of the Labour Government to date have been monumental and you have played an immense part in the creation of those achievements.
However, I am extremely disappointed at your failure to have an inclusive Government. You have a two tier Government. Your inner circle and then the remainder of Cabinet. I have the greatest respect for the women who have served as full members of Cabinet and for those who attend as and when required. However, few are allowed into your inner circle.
Several of the women attending Cabinet – myself included – have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing.
I am not willing to attend Cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer. In my current role, you advised that I would attend Cabinet when Europe was on the agenda. I have only been invited once since October and not to a single political Cabinet – not even the one held a few weeks before the European elections.
Having worked hard during this campaign, I would not have been party to any plan to undermine you or the Labour Party in the run up to 4 June.
So I was extremely angry and disappointed to see newspapers briefed with invented stories of my involvement in a “Pugin Room plot”.
Time and time again I have stepped before the cameras to sincerely defend your reputation in the interests of the Labour Party and the Government as a whole. I am a natural party loyalist. Yet you have strained every sinew of that loyalty.
It has been apparent for some time that you do not see me playing a more influential role in the Government. Therefore, I have respectfully declined your offer to continue in the Government as Minister for Europe attending Cabinet.
So that is crystal clear, there is no bullying by Gordon Brown at number 10.
The Minister of education, Ed Ballsup, puffed out his obese frame to launch the new Government campaign, ‘Zip it, Block it, Flag it’ earlier today. This ambitious scroat who is one of The Great Leader’s favourite ministers said, “it’s important that parents and children understand the risks involved with using the internet, as with any area of life.”
It was not surprising that there were red faces all round at the Department of Children, Schools and Families when it was discovered by some apoplectic parents that the viscous slug’s campaign ‘Buster’s World’ was in fact a male gay porn site.
This man and his cohorts of overpaid lickspittles did not even have the gumption to check out if their happy clappy fluffy dog mascot might have some more sinister connotations. It’s likely that several members of the cabinet were well aware of the link and were somewhat amused that Ballsup slipped on yet another banana skin.
The lesson to be learnt here is to CHECK if your domain or a very similar domain is registered before launching a campaign. As the meerkats say, simples!
There was an interesting article in this weekend’s Sunday Times which highlights the levels of utter stupidity that we have now arrived at under this appalling government.
The head of a recruitment agency in Thetford, Norfolk, was told that they could not advertise a vacancy for a ‘reliable’ worker because this would discriminate unfairly against unreliable workers and would so be deemed as offensive.
Clearly one can no longer advertise for ‘honest’, ‘diligent’, ‘competent’ or ‘sensible’ staff as this would give offence to the criminals, the bone idle, the incompetent and the plain stupid. Obviously neither can one specify gender, age, ability to read, write or even speak English.
I now understand why I do not understand any job vacancies advertised in the Guardian for the unemployable. God help us.
