Soapbox

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.

Have you heard of the BIMBO awards? No, neither had I until I saw something on a friend’s blog. It does not have to involve the archetypal pouting blonde, in fact far from it as the majority of awards are given out to men who make total prats of themselves.

The annual award for particularly stupid comments or in this case a total lack of comment, was won by Mark Steinberg, Tiger Wood’s agent.

The awards have been created by the Dallas based agency Spaeth Communications (or is that Space Communications with a lisp?).

‘The purpose of the BIMBO awards” says the company, ‘is to remind people that communication is strategic and can have a very real impact, In this instance, Tiger’s lack of communication has cost him his reputation and millions of dollars in endorsements.’

‘Team Tiger earns a failing grade on handling the crisis at Tiger’s house.” He didn’t say anything for days, the silence was deafening, and by the time he had got around to a rather weak damage limitation with mealy mouth, whiny comments about “transgressions” and “personal sins”, the cat, or rather, Rachael, Jaimee, Kalika, Jamie, Mindy, Cori, Holly, Joslyn, Loredana, Julie and Theresa to say nothing of Mrs Woods, were all out of the bag.

“This wasn’t ‘managing’ Tiger’s career,” said Merrie Spaeth an ex Ronald Reagan staffer, “This was criminal mismanagement. Professionals are hired for their experience and advice, even when the client doesn’t want to hear it.”

Tiger Woods needs the services of the Clinton’s spin team.

Research discovered that Hillary Clinton’s great-great uncle, Remus Rodham, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889.

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows. On the back of the picture is this inscription ” Remus Rodham; horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1883, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times, caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted, and hanged in 1889.”

Hillary Clinton, the new US Secretary of State, was e-mailed this for her comments and her staff sent back the following response;

“Remus Rodham was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to service at a government facility, finally taking leave in 1887 to resume his dealings with the railroad . Subsequently, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honour, when the platform on which he was standing collapsed”.

No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than the climate guru, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the brains behind its reports.
You, that is all taxpayers whose countries are members of the UN are paying this slippery windbag millions of dollars each year.
Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was glowingly described by the BBC, which is well known for its left wing liberal bias, as “the world’s top climate scientist”). As a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics ( I don’t know if this is PhD ‘failed’ as is a common occurrence with Indians), he has no qualifications in climate science at all. He is certainly knows how to make millions of dollars as a result of his involvement as a climate change ‘specialist’ or the oily rag as opposed to the engine driver.
Here are just a few of the financial interests that the slime ball doctor has that slot in very nicely with his climate change doomsday prophecies;
- Delhi-based Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI)
- Initially, when Dr Pachauri took over the running of TERI in the 1980s, his interests centered on the oil and coal industries, which is a little odd for a man who is best known for his opposition to fossil fuels.
- Director until 2003 of India Oil
- Director of the National Thermal Power Generating Corporation until 2009
- In 2005, he set up GloriOil – still going strong on fossil fuels eh doc?
- TERI Europe, based in London currently running a project on bio-energy, financed by the EU – that’s you and me.
- Another project, co-financed by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (the people who cocked up so badly on Mad Cow disease) and the German insurance firm Munich Re, is studying how India’s insurance industry, including Tata, can benefit from exploiting the supposed risks of exposure to climate change. Why the fuck Defra and UK taxpayers should fund a project to increase the profits of Indian insurance firms is not explained, but then many a bung to random Orientals are rarely explained.
- TERI’s Washington-based North American offshoot, of which Dr Pachauri is president, is a lobbying organisation, to “sensitise decision-makers in North America to developing countries’ concerns about energy and the environment”. The only concerns third world countries leaders have is the amount of money they can skim off the top. For sensitise, read whine.
- TERI-NA is funded by a galaxy of official and corporate sponsors, including four branches of the UN bureaucracy (that’s you and me again); four US government agencies (that’s you in the US); oil giants such as Amoco; two of the leading US defence contractors; Monsanto, the world’s largest GM producer (oops, sorry green luvies); the WWF (the campaigning group which derives much of its own funding from the EU – that’s us) and two world leaders in the international ‘carbon market’, between them managing more than $1 trillion (£620 billion) worth of assets.
- Tata is heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’, the worldwide market in buying and selling the right to emit CO2. Carbon trading has got to be the biggest give away showing what a huge SCAM the whole climate change lobby is.
- It is one of these deals, reported a recent article in the Sunday Telegraph, which is enabling Tata to transfer three million tons of steel production from its Corus plant in Redcar to a new plant in Orissa, so gaining a potential £1.2 billion in ‘carbon credits’ (and putting 1,700 people on Teesside out of work). So, they have a right to emit CO2 while the poor workers on Teeside have no rights at all. We the tax payer fork out for the carbon credits AND we pay the unemployment costs of 1,700 workers.
- In 2007, he was appointed to the advisory board of Siderian, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specialising in ‘sustainable technologies’, where he was expected to provide the Fund with ‘access, standing and industrial exposure at the highest level’. Right, so we pay him to get them to pay him again and then they charge us for it.
- In 2008 he was made an adviser on renewable and sustainable energy to the Credit Suisse bank and the Rockefeller Foundation. He joined the board of the Nordic Glitnir Bank, as it launched its Sustainable Future Fund, looking to raise funding of £4 billion. He became chairman of the Indochina Sustainable Infrastructure Fund, whose CEO was confident it could soon raise £100 billion.
- In the same year he became a director of the International Risk Governance Council in Geneva, set up by EDF and EON, two of Europe’s largest electricity firms, to promote ‘bio-energy’.
- This year Dr Pachauri joined the New York investment fund Pegasus as a so called ‘strategic adviser’, and was made chairman of the advisory board to the Asian Development Bank, strongly supportive of CDM trading, whose CEO strangely warned that failure to agree a treaty at Copenhagen would lead to a collapse of the carbon market and obviously hurt their profits and save you tax.
- He has become head of Yale University’s Climate and Energy Institute, which enjoys millions of dollars of US state and corporate funding – that’s the taxpayers again.
- He is Director of the Japanese Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and was until recently an adviser to Toyota Motors. As world leaders of LEAN manufacturing, they must have seen through this snake oil salesman.
- Harking back to his origins as a railway engineer, he is even a policy adviser to SNCF, France’s state-owned railway company. Ah, I knew that the oily rag would come in useful one day.
- Dr Pachauri retains a wall of silence on how much money he is paid for all these irrelevant and overpaid posts, which must run into millions of dollars. Not one of the bodies for which he works publishes his salary or fees, and this includes the UN, which refuses to reveal how much we all pay him as one of its most senior officials.
- As for TERI itself, Dr Pachauri’s main job for nearly 30 years, it is so embarrassed about the fees that it does not even publish its accounts – the financial statement amounts to two income and expenditure pie charts which contain no detailed figures.
- Dr Pachauri is equally coy about TERI’s links with Tata, the company which set it up in the 1970s and whose name it continued to bear until 2002, when it was changed to just The Energy Research Institute.
- But the real question mark over TERI’s director-general remains over the clear and obvious conflict of interests between his highly lucrative commercial jobs and his role as chairman of the IPCC.
- TERI have, for example, become a preferred bidder for Kuwaiti contracts to clean up the mess left by Saddam Hussein in their oilfields in 1991. The $3 billion (£1.9 billion) cost of the contracts has been provided by the UN. If successful, this would be tenth time TERI have benefited from a contract financed by the UN.
- Certainly no one values the services of TERI more than the EU, which has included Dr Pachauri’s institute as a partner in no fewer than 12 projects designed to assist in devising the EU’s policies on mitigating the effects of the global warming predicted by the IPCC.

So all those badly dressed unemployed lefties languishing in Copenhagen jails as a result of their violent demonstrations during the climate change conference, have been royally stitched up like kippers.
The old fakir is laughing all the way to the bank.

(Many of the facts and figures for the above article are taken from The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph)

Gary McKinnon has lost a High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States on charges of hacking into computers belonging to the US Navy and NASA. Good.

McKinnon, who is alleged to suffer from Asperger’s Syndrome, could face up to 70 years in prison if convicted in the US of what prosecutors have called ‘the biggest military computer hack of all time’.
Although previous attempts to halt the extradition – which reached the House of Lords last year – failed, McKinnon’s lawyers have since obtained a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome after consulting two psychiatrists last year. So all of a sudden this 43 year old has just been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome despite this condition having been missed by schools, colleges GPs and employers for decades.

It is unlikely that he would get a 70 year sentence. The idea is to scare the shit out of him and any other people who wish to wander through sensitive defense files.

One day some retard is going to launch a nuclear strike and then all the do-gooder lefties are going to ask Mr. Putin not to retaliate because little Johnny had some syndrome or other. Please, put him in an orange suit and he should count himself lucky that he is not water-boarded before his trial.

He has admitted to breaking into sensitive US military networks (So clearly he’s not stupid then), but allegedly only to hunt for confidential information about anti-gravity propulsion systems and UFO technology, which he believed the authorities were hiding from the public.
His defense team asked the High Court to overturn a refusal by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to put him on trial in the UK. His lawyers have said that he would admit to offences under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act if he was tried in the UK where the penalty is probably a few hours of community service and an evening class in IT. Having established that the man is not stupid but in fact pretty damn clever, one would have thought that he knew about the US/UK extradition process and the penalties for hacking US military sites.
The US authorities alleged that McKinnon stole 950 passwords and deleted files controlling the replenishing of munitions and supplies for the Atlantic fleet at naval headquarters in New Jersey.

Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: “People are right to be extremely concerned about our extradition arrangements. This is a case where there is a clear argument for it to be tried in this country, and our system should take health issues into account before considering deportation. I hope lessons will be learned.”
On this basis one must presume that the world’s most wanted man would not be extradited from wherever he’s holed up as he apparently has diabetes. Grayling is the twat who thinks that you can discourage muggers by taking their mobile phones and bicycles away, so his weighty support’s not worth a fart in a paper bag.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: “Of course a strong message must be sent out to hackers that their activities are unacceptable, but there is arguably a difference between McKinnon and cyber-criminals who are in it for the money.” Balls.
Some of the more common characteristics of Asperger syndrome include:

Average or above average intelligence Inability to think in abstract ways
Difficulties in empathising with others Problems with understanding another person’s point of view
Hampered conversational ability
Problems with controlling feelings such as anger, depression and anxiety
Adherence to routines and schedules, and stress if expected routine is disrupted
Inability to manage appropriate social conduct
Specialised fields of interest or hobbies.

If this man actually has Asperger syndrome, I really can’t see how the above symptoms are some kind of defense for what he is alleged to have done.

We’ve all heard of lions being led by donkeys but this postal farce is much more a case of lemmings and donkeys.

The management of Royal Mail led by ex Saatchi boy and ex head of the FA, Adam Crozier, have shown little in the way of imaginative forward thinking. Let’s face it, volumes of mail, particularly private mail and non marketing commercial mail, will continue to fall away. Why write a letter when you can email, why send an invoice when you can send a PDF? Why lick it when you can poke it? The stamp and the keyboard, silly. I don’t suppose it ever entered the heads of the management to set up or buy an ISP.

The Dutch post and the German post recognised that their parcel and express deliveries were being eroded by faster and more efficient courier services, and so decided that rather than try beating them they would buy them. So they bought TNT and DHL respectively. Royal Mail sits in no man’s land like a blind man, a crumbling infrastructure with no vision. British Leyland/Rover continued to make crap cars that nobody wanted with crap machinery dating back to the 1940s, the miners continued to behave as if the revolution was nigh and the proletariat would rise up against their masters. Result, gone.

Royal Mail will eventually be given to a competitor with a cash grant. That competitor will introduce PO Box systems so that you collect your mail from let’s say, your local petrol station. Business mail will be delivered to ‘CEDEX’ type addresses only and parcels will go through the courier side of the business. Around 80% of the staff will be fired within 18 months.

The CWU, the Communications Workers Union – that’s a laugh as they have not yet communicated to the suffering public exactly why they are striking. For bullying, read, being told what to do by their management. For their pension shortfall, read, like everyone else in the country you tossers. For objecting to the single afternoon delivery, read, do as you are told and get on with the job.

Britain was described by a French president as an island of coal floating in a sea of oil. Well it’s all gone now. We are left with a financially wrecked country run by a slack jawed shit, burdened with debt, grossly over populated by illiterate morons and a pretty crap alternative waiting in the wings.

Turn out the lights and close the door as you leave.