THE OLYMPIC FLAME IS ON IT'S WAY!

TODAY, A GREAT SCOTTISH CITY, GLASGOW, FINALLY DIED.

Today a great Scottish city and many would say the "greatest Scottish city", Glasgow, finally died.

Glasgow was once known as the second city of the Empire.  It's engineering capacity and Universities were the envy of the world.  It had more parkland than any other city in Europe.  Yet, today, after being shit upon from a great height for 60 odd years by a narrow, entrenched, drug taking, corrupt, Scottish Labour dictatorship, they finally made it clear that they are the thick numpty bastards  that the rest of Scotland knew they were.

When at last they had the chance to get out from under the socialist jackboot and vote for a superior and optimistic future, fewer than one in three could be bothered to get off their lardy arses and do it.  Why not?  Was there something good on 'Eastenders', that their Sky boxes paid for, by the rest of us workers couldn't record?  Or were they just too thick to stand up for themselves like the rest of Scotland and see what damage has been done to their community over the years by Labour?  That is the Labour who have used the tried and tested, 'mushroom' theory of keeping them in the dark and feeding them shit, over the last 60 years.  It makes you wonder how many election irregularities will be picked up this time?  Aye, but they'll tell you, "my family has always voted Labour since we came from the Irish potato famine/the Ayrshire coalmines/the Great Depression/the General Strike/the siege of Calcutta"  and what is it you do now?  "Well, I run my own business/I'm a university professor/I'm a senior manager/I'm a company director, etc, etc.  Pricks!

Ach well, fuck 'em, if they're too thick to see what their lives have become, why should the rest of us worry?

WHERE DOES MONEY COME FROM? A MUST SEE.

WHO'S ALL IN RECESSION?

Click here to see what EU countries are in recession.

HOW CAN DANIEL RADCLIFFE BE WORTH £54m?

 

Now on this blog, I don't attest to the politics of envy.  I think if someone is a brilliant brain surgeon, engineer or entrepreneur they deserve all they get.

But browsing through the Murdoch rag that my wife likes to get on a Sunday, I noticed that amongst their 'rich list' was a certain Daniel Radcliffe, an actor I believe of the mature age of 22.

Now, I understand that he was some sort of principal character in a number of films about some supposed boy wizard.  Never having seen any of them, I can't make a comment about his talent, I think there has been about 6.  But, can anyone tell me how the fuck he is  now worth £56 MILLION!    Yes, I did say MILLION.   It's fucking obscene!  Now you could say that footballers are overpaid and I wouldn't disagree with you. But at least they have relatively short careers.  Radcliffe could be acting well into his 70s!

So what are his particular talents?  He does what the director tells him.  His agent obviously makes a pile.  He looks, I believe gawky and half witted at least in the early films.  What risk does he take if his talents are no longer viable?  What happens if he breaks a leg and hobbles for the rest of his life?

My answer would be fuck all.  And the sad part?  Struggling families will pay to see his  films and idolise him because he was chosen to appear in a number of films.  Oh, and her that wrote it?  Only ten times more on £540 Million.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS BASTARD TAYLOR IN THE UK AT THE COST OF £100,000 PER YEAR?

 

FORMER Liberian dictator Charles Taylor was today found guilty of sponsoring a brutal civil war that left tens of thousands dead.
Taylor, the first head of state to be convicted by an international court since the Second World War, will serve his sentence in a British jail at a cost of around £100,000 a year.

Can anyone tell me why we have to have him here at the cost of £100,000 per year?  When is Britain going to get off it's high horse and realise that we are skint and no longer a major world power?  Are our big headed politicians to blame or is it the 'majesty' of the Monarchy and our no longer existent Empire?  How long did it get the Greeks and Romans to get over the fact that they no longer ruled half of their know world?

The Yanks have got it right.  Just change the Government when they threaten to start to sell their oil in any other currency apart from the $ollar!

P.S.  Are they going after that fucker Blair NEXT?

MUON FUSION-THE WAY AHEAD FOR CHEAP, GREEN, SAFE ENERY PRODUCTION.

The way ahead for energy production, in my estimation will not be Nuclear, Renewables or fossil fuels, it will be by a new process called Muon Fusion, which is currently nearing final testing in Australia by a company called Star Scientific Ltd.

This process which I admit is a bit difficult to comprehend unless you are a scientist, takes seawater and fuses certain atoms together to eventually produce steam which drives turbines.  The only waste is an inert gas which won't cause damage to the environment and because it is fusion, rather than fission, is safe and can't be used for weapons.

It will of course, do away very shortly with renewable energy, which will please Mr Trump and I know that many Governments are aware of what's happening around the world, INCLUDING the Scottish one.

Let's hope that new cheap energy is not exploited by the global market to make millions and keep energy prices at the rate they are while they make even more money from the long suffering public.  Certainly the stated aim of the Chairman of Star Scientific is to make sure that their process is not exploited by the World's energy giants.  A further independent report is available here.

A WEE GREEK QUIZ

Greeks are revolting

We already know that Greece borrowed most of its debt from the ECB and American banks. We also know that US banking firm Goldman Sachs held a seminar in Greece during 2006 aimed at 'teaching' the then Athens Government how to lie to Brussels about the size of its borrowings.

There now follows a Q&A about other aspects of Greek debt.

Question: Who is the third biggest arms importer in the world, behind India and China?

Answer: Greece

Question: If Greece had spent the EU average on defence over the past 10 years (1.7% of GDP
rather than spending 4% of GDP on defence, how much money would it have saved?

Answer: 52% of GDP, or 150billion euros

So why are France and Germany not demanding that Greece cuts its defence spending?

Question: In the period 2006-2010 which country was Germany’s largest market for munitions?

Answer: Greece, which accounted for 15% of total German arms sales.

Question: In the same period, what country was France’s largest arms export market in Europe (third
largest overall)?

Answer: Greece

Question: In 2010 (last year data is available) social spending in Greece was cut by 1.8bn Euros.
How much did military spending change? Was it...

a) Decreased by Euro 900 million
b) No change
c) Increased by Euro 900million

Answer: C

Yesterday, Greece's central bank governor said his country would have to leave the eurozone if politicians do not stick to the austerity programme after the elections due to take place on 6 May.

"What is at stake is the choice between an orderly, albeit painstaking, effort to reconstruct the economy within the euro area, with the support of our partners, or a disorderly economic and social regression, taking the country several decades back, and eventually driving it out of the euro area and the European Union," George Provopoulos told the media.

On March 23rd this year, Greece signed up to a second, €130 billion loan paid mainly by other eurozone countries to reduce the country's debt and recapitalise its banks, along with a major debt restructuring agreed with private lenders. Had it not bought all those arms from France and Germany, of course, Greece wouldn't have a problem at all.

Conclusion: The other 25 eurozone States are all paying for the Franco-German arms industry.

h/t john Ward

WHY HAS OSBORNE PLEDGED A FURTHER £10 BILLION TO THE IMF?

A sly looking bastard if ever I saw one!

Just why has osborne pledged another £10 billion of our money to the IMF, which in turn is supporting the Eurozone.

The IMF is set up to help out individual countries like in  Africa to develop their economies.  It is not their job to prop up the Euro which is plainly on it's way out.  That is why the USA has NOT pledged any more money to the IMF, because it knows when the Euro goes down the tubes as will happen sooner or later, there is a good chance they won't get their money back.  I very rarely agree with anything Ed Balls says but this time he is right.

The IMF has a vital role to play in the global economy and must be properly resourced. But the IMF’s job is to support individual countries with solvency crises, not to support a whole monetary union which cannot agree the necessary steps to maintain itself. The IMF cannot and should not become the de facto central bank of the euro area.

It's come to a pretty pass, when a supposed Euro sceptic party is propping up a Euro system that can't survive.  When are these fuckers going to stand up for Britain???

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