With all the heat and noise being generated over Treacherous Theresa’s Brexit supposed ‘deal’, I could hardly expect to add anything to the fury, anger, ignorance and chaos.
There seem to be a few incontrovertible facts:
we got totally screwed by the EU because we had worthless, UK-hating, Europhiliac, Remoaner bureaucrats pretending to negotiate while actually surrendering at every opportunity
our two so-called “Brexit secretaries” – David Davis and Dominic Raab – were hardly involved at all in the process – instead they were just front-men while the bureaucrats cobbled together our capitulation
human slime like Blair, Clegg and others kept encouraging Brussels to face down the British demands in order to force us into this humiliating capitulation or even to remain shackled to the EU
the EU has done everything it can to cripple us economically to ensure that Brexit is a failure so that other countries won’t be tempted to follow us out of the EU
having humiliated us and won so much, the EU sees no need to make any compromises now and Germany in particular is relishing its victory over us and its ability to humiliate us
One could go on, but I imagine most readers understand our situation much better than I.
The key issue now is how best to move forward. In business or economics there’s the idea of ‘sunk costs’ – that you shouldn’t let costs that have been incurred in the past influence future decision-making.
When making business decisions, organizations should only consider relevant costs, which include the future costs and revenue of one choice compared with another. To make an informed decision, a business only considers the costs and revenue that will change as a result of the decision; sunk costs do not change because they have already been incurred and cannot be recouped so should not be considered:
With the Brexit situation, there’s no point bleating about sunk costs – what happened in the past:
May’s disastrous general election decision losing her parliamentary majority
how Berlin’s stooge, Martin Selmayr, has out-negotiated the civil-service scum that were supposed to represent Britain’s interests
how the Tory Government has wasted the last two years fighting among itself rather than working together to try to get a decent deal for Britain
But we are where we are and nothing can change that.
So, looking forward, we should be considering only what costs and benefits can be achieved by different options taking our current position as a starting point – getting rid of May; parliament voting down May’s deal; leaving on World Trade Organisation terms; trying to renegotiate with the EU under a new Tory leader etc.
The ideal situation would be for the Tories to dump May, put in an interim Brexiteer leader without a leadership battle, go back to Brussels, explain May’s ‘deal’ is unacceptable and get something better.
But is that going to happen? Given two years of Britain being betrayed by the elitist Remainer ruling classes, is Brussels going to give any concessions now? I doubt it. Why would a victor give concessions to a loser?
Therefore, personally I believe we should swallow May’s capitulation, leave the EU next March and make the best of an extremely bad job. What could have been achieved has not been achieved because we have been betrayed by our own ruling elites. Britain has been in worse position in the past and has always succeeded due to the innovative culture and energy of its citizens. The past is a sunk cost and should not influence future decision-making.
I think we have to accept that we’re in a dreadful situation and just get on with it. Or, as a lovely blond young lady once said to me many (too many?) years ago “Forget the foreplay, shove it in!”
I suspect most readers will see this as defeatist and will disagree with me.
“Jim Acosta clearly never touched that White House Intern! That’s a lie!”
Hopefully most readers know that the Trump-hating, UK-hating, EU-loving, treacherous mainstream media will twist and spin every story to mislead and misinform us. But it’s not often we can definitely prove that the mainstream media is deliberately lying – that it’s making up totally fabricated fake news in order to attack those it loathes.
This brings us to the story of a journalist from CNN (aka the Clinton News Network), Jim Acosta, who has just had his White House press pass revoked.
If you’ve been following the Acosta the Accoster story, you’ll know that there was a bit of a scene at a White House press conference a few days ago. Usually there are (I believe) over 50 journalists present and the normal protocol is that a journalist gets to ask the President one question and then sometimes a follow-on question. Then the journalist is expected to pass the microphone on to someone else.
In the case of (IMHO) ‘lying’ Jim Acosta the Accoster, he not only asked about four or five questions but he also started preaching to Trump about the caravan of illegal migrants. Then, when a young female White House intern tried to take the microphone away from (IMHO) ‘lying’ Jim Acosta, Acosta physically pushed her away in his attempt to keep on preaching and asking questions.
Anyway, following that a vlogger called Paul Joseph Watson uploaded the video of (IMHO) ‘lying’ Jim Acosta and, while uploading the video, zoomed in on the moment when Acosta pushed the young female intern’s arm to stop her taking the microphone.
This has led to an extraordinary storm of lies and abuse from the US and UK media against Acosta’s treatment by the White House. There are two main lies the mainstream media is peddling:
That the original video showing Acosta pushing the female intern is somehow doctored
That Acosta never even touched the female intern
There are several videos on YouTube now from the mainstream US media and even the UK Guardian and Independent (if I remember correctly) in which supposed video experts ‘explain’ how the video was doctored to make it look like Acosta touched the young female intern. These are clearly just lies. As for the claim that Acosta at no point touched the female intern, a claim Acosta himself and several of his like-minded progressive, Trump-hating liberals have made, that is such a blatant lie that one wonders how he and his supporters can keep a straight face when lying to us.
To cut a long story short, here’s Paul Joseph Watson explaining the whole thing. Some of the best bits are around 2.20 to 3.20 minutes into the video when (IMHO) ‘lying’ Jim Acosta and others claim Acosta never touched the intern. But it’s worth watching the whole 7 minutes video.
It’s shocking how low the mainstream media has sunk due to its hatred of Trump and anyone who dares stand up for their country against the wonderful, progressive, no-borders, multi-cultural diversity the mainstream media is trying to force down our throats.
While our rulers lecture us on the equality of all cultures and on the benefits of multi-culturalism and diversity, a certain group of people seem to be learning a rather different version of reality:
“And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out; persecution is worse than slaughter. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, kill them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is all-forgiving, all-compassionate. Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.” (Qur’an 2:191-193)
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)
“They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore do not take friends from among them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, seize them and kill them wherever you find them; do not take for yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
“This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth to do corruption there: they shall be killed, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall be struck off on opposite sides; or they shall be exiled from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.” (Qur’an 5:33)
“When your Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers; so strike the necks, and strike every finger of them!” (Qur’an 8:12)
“Fight them, till there is no persecution and religion is all for Allah; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.” (Qur’an 8:39)
“Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatever you spend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.” (Qur’an 9:5)
“Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
“Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)
“O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.” (Qur’an 9:123)
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray.” (Qur’an 47:4)
“Judgment Day will not come before the M*****s fight the J***, and the J*** will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh M*****, oh servant of Allah, there is a J** behind me, come and kill him”
I watched yet another biased BBC documentary last night. This one was about the failures of the new Universal Credit (UC) and how the introduction of UC was pushing people into poverty, homelessness and helplessness.
As usual, the BBC found lots of supposed ‘victims’ of Government cruelty and oppression. I do understand that there have been two problems with UC: claimants are getting less money than under the old five-benefits system and claimants are having to wait too long for their first payment. And I believe these two problems are being (too slowly) rectified.
But it seemed to me that there was one other problem with UC that the BBC carefully tiptoed around – the stupidity and financial incompetence of many claimants. As far as I understand (and that’s not very far) the biggest difference between UC and the previous five-benefits system is that under UC the Government is trying to make people responsible for their own finances by paying them their rent money directly rather than straight to landlords – private, council or housing associations. This puts the onus on claimants to budget properly. However, many claimants prefer to spend their money on their Sky TV subscriptions, fags and alcohol and so don’t have enough left for their rent and thus fall into arrears and risk eviction
There were loads of the supposedly ‘oppressed’ interviewed by the Biased Broadcasting Corporation bleating that they didn’t have enough money to feed their kids. But they all seemed to have large-screen TVs and quite pleasant homes that we pay for.
The British economy is booming; unemployment is at the lowest it has been for fifty or more years; over 3 million Europeans have come to Britain and found work; we have a benefits system which is encouraging most of the Third World to try to get to Britain; everywhere you look there are job vacancies and yet the BBC manages to find people who are supposedly starving to death. I suggest that many (though not all) of the BBC’s supposed ‘victims’ have wasted the 12 years they spent at school, have managed to leave school unable to read, write or do simple arithmetic and are too useless and lazy and irresponsible to get a job and/or manage their own finances.
They’re victims, I agree. Victims of their own idleness, fecklessness and uselessness. Many may also be victims of their own fecundity – churning out children with every passing stranger, children they expect the rest of us to pay for.
2. Disability? My large, hairy, flatulent a**e!
There was yet another gem from the BBC. It was on BBC Breakfast this morning. The reporter claimed that “one in five” Brits is disabled. One in five! I couldn’t believe this, so I checked. And it’s true. An estimated 19% of working-age adults and 22% of the whole population in the UK have a disability, according to the latest data published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
A person is considered under law to have a disability if they have a long-standing illness, disability or impairment which causes difficulty with day-to-day activities in line with the Equality Act 2010 definition.
Since 2012/13 the proportion of working-age adults with a disability has risen from 16% to 19%. The proportion of all people with a disability is 22%, which has also been slowly increasing.
Looking at the chart, it seems that the proportion of ‘pension-age adults’ with a disability has fallen slightly while the proportion of ‘all people’, ‘working-age adults’ and ‘children’ claiming to have a disability is rising.
So, do we really believe that just over one in five people actually has a disability? Or might a cynic be tempted to wonder whether claiming to have a disability is so easy and so lucrative – disability benefits and carers’ allowances – that ever more healthy people are jumping on the financially-rewarding disability bandwagon?
You’ve probably noticed that the BBC is once again gearing up for its annual CHILDREN IN NEED appeal. The big night is Friday 16 November 2018. But you can already buy your Pudsey (made in China) stuff at your local supermarket.
Oh what fun we’re all going to have! Oh how amusing it will be to see attention-craving former celebs and even us ordinary plebs doing really crazy things to raise money for good causes! Yippeee! Hooray for the BBC!
The BBC claims that “every penny you give makes a difference”. But a difference for whom? The children in need? Or the BBC bureaucrats and pen-pushers? After all, since when could you trust any of the left-wing, progressive, rapefugee-hugging, UK-loathing biased garbage put out by the self-serving scum at the Beeb?
Before you hand over your money, let me just tell you a few inconvenient truths about this great charitable BBC event. Then you can judge for yourself whether you really should be throwing your already heavily-taxed cash into that great, corrupt, politically-biased, libtard, steaming cesspit of parasitical, self-serving, overpaid, over-pensioned bureaucrats that is the BBC.
The BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED charity only has about 134 employees. But they seem to be awfully lucky employees indeed. While the average employee cost (salary, NI and pension contributions) at our larger charities is between £20,000 and £30,000, the employee cost at the BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED is a wonderful £38,575 per employee. In the chart below I show the rather stunning difference between the annual cost per employee at children’s charity Barnardos (£20,436) compared to the BBC’s Children in Need (£38,575):
Moreover, the CHILDREN IN NEED boss managing these 134 people pocketed about £110,440 of our ‘charitable donations’ in 2015, £119,934 in 2016 and £130,000 in 2017 – an 18% increase in just two years – not much austerity for him. That’s about the same as the boss at Oxfam who got around £130,000 in salary and pension for managing over 5,100 employees (including loads of kiddie-fiddlers?) across the world, many of them in some of the world’s most dangerous countries. And the head of Oxfam gets his £130,000 for generating and spending income of over £400m, rather more than the BBC CHILDREN IN NEED’s boss’s £130,000 for raising and spending a slightly more modest £68m.
Moreover, current employees at the BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED are fortunate enough to be eligible for one of the most generous pension schemes in Britain – the BBC’s gold-plated final salary pension scheme, which will give them guaranteed, inflation-protected pensions for the rest of their lives.
Sadly for us TV licence-fee payers and for contributors to CHILDREN IN NEED, the BBC’s pension scheme is so unbelievably generous to BBC employees that it doesn’t have enough money to meet its liabilities. In fact, it has a shortfall of over £1.14bn. No problem – the BBC has decided to fatten up its own pension scheme with our money. Over the 12 years from 2014 to 2026 around £905,000,000 extra of our money (in addition to the regular contributions the BBC makes each month for each employee) will be put into the BBC pension scheme to ensure all BBC employees can have a comfortable, secure, well-rewarded retirement at our expense. So, Fiona Bruce and Angela Rippon and others of their ilk can relax in the knowledge that we will be paying for their lives of luxury for many more decades.
As for the CHILDREN IN NEED part of this pension scheme, it was also underfunded and so in 2015 got an extra £274,000 of our charitable donations which rose to £298,000 in 2016 and then was £296,000 in 2017. The BBC CHILDREN IN NEED would need 29,600 people donating £10 each just to help top up the CHILDREN IN NEED employees’ pension scheme for 2017.
Of course, we should support worthy charities. But is it really necessary to allow greedy, money-grabbing, self-serving, lefty, UK-hating, Europhiliac, lying BBC bureaucrats to take such a generous cut of everything we give? Why don’t you just find a local charity and give directly? At least you’ll know your money will go to those whom you intended to get it.
These over-paid, over-pensioned, self-regarding BBC bureaucrats are laughing at our stupidity and gullibility while grabbing huge amounts of our supposed ‘charitable donations’ for themselves.
Maybe it’s time to put an end to their party?
And if you know anyone who might be tempted to give their money to these lucky BBC bureaucrats, perhaps you should send them a link to today’s blog?
As this is Remembrance Weekend, a cynic might be tempted to ask whether those who so courageously and so patriotically gave their lives in the last two wars would be pleased at what has happened to the country, the traditions and the freedoms they fought to defend:
After all, it seems those cowards and traitors, who now run Britain, want our country to be a humiliated vassal state to a new resurgent German Fourth Reich:
Ruled by Germany but fronted by a useless drunk from a crappy little country the size of Leicester:
And the ‘new Britons’ are no longer interested in the freedom past generations died to preserve:
Nor do the ‘new Britons’ seem particularly enamoured of democracy:
Crime in Britain is spiraling out of control:
There are multi-cultural enriching rape gangs operating freely in pretty much every city and town:
Our police have become a pathetic, impotent laughing stock getting endless medals for political correctness above and beyond the call of duty while running away at the slightest whiff of danger:
Those who rule us despise us:
And make no attempt to protect us against our enemies:
And anyone who dares voice concerns about what’s happening in our once great country is persecuted and imprisoned by our Big Brother state:
I don’t believe this is what so many fought and died for.
I ended yesterday’s blog with a quote from Voltaire:
Because I believe this quote tells us so much about what is happening in Europe , I’d like to repeat it and then remind readers of a case that was recently decided at the inappropriately-named European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A lady in Austria was convicted in February 2011 by the Vienna Regional Criminal Court for disparaging religious doctrines and ordered her to pay a fine of 480 euros plus legal fees. (I’d like to tell you what the good lady said and who she was talking about. But that would probably get me killed. So, not a great idea)
Anyway, after having her appeal against her conviction thrown out by both the Vienna Court of Appeal and Austria’s Supreme Court, the lady took her case to the ECHR on the basis that her human right to free speech had been infringed.
But the ECHR backed the courts’ decision to convict the woman. The ECHR found there had been no violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In a statement the ECHR said: ‘The Court found in particular that the domestic courts comprehensively assessed the wider context of the applicant’s statements and carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected, and served the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in Austria.’
I have looked through the 30 Human Rights listed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and through the European Convention on Human Rights and nowhere does it mention the “right of others to have their religious feelings protected”. Article 9 provides a right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. (Perhaps amusingly, this right includes “the freedom to change a religion or belief“. I wonder if anyone ever told that to our friends from our favourite religion who rather enjoy killing supposed ‘apostates’?)
However, the supposed “right of others to have their religious feelings protected” doesn’t exist. This supposed ‘human right’ has just been invented by the ECHR in order to prevent any criticism of our most favouritest wonderful religion.
So, returning to the quote from Voltaire “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise”. We’re allowed to criticise Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Vegans, Trekkies, Catholics, the Pope, Jesus, the Irish and even Adolf Merkel. But you’re not allowed to criticise the world’s most favourite religion.
Go figure, as the Americans say.
2. Enrichment comes to Australia, again and again
There have been quite a few Religion of Tolerance attacks in Australia. Every time there is one, the authorities always deny it had anything to do with you know what, even when the attacker is screaming about his ‘snackbar’. Well, here’s a picture from the latest attack (yesterday) – one dead and several injured. Judging from the gentleman’s appearance and clothing, I think we can assume this is yet another ‘snackbar’ attack:
But it will be fun to see how the Australian politicians and police explain away this one. I imagine it will be the usual “psychological problems” and “nothing to do with I****”. But I think we all know who our enemies are despite our rulers’ pathetic, lying attempts to fool us.
3. Trump kicks ‘journalist’s’ ass
You’ll have heard about the altercation between President Trump and a CNN journalist a couple of days ago. And however you get your news, this will probably have been presented as Trump bullying the poor journalist and as just another example of Trump trying to prevent free speech and a free press.
So, here’s the full video of the encounter. As you’ll see there are 50-100 journalists in the meeting, many of whom want to ask a question. But the CNN journalist grabs the microphone and keeps asking question after question after question after question denying anyone else the chance to pose their questions. Moreover, the huge-a-rapefugee supposed ‘journalist’ starts preaching to Trump about how wonderful all the people in the South American migrant caravan are.
The guy, Jim Acosta, is less a journalist and more a left-wing, Trump-hating political activist. Trump knows who his enemies are and kicks the guy’s ass:
We should hang our heads in shame. In shame at our own cowardice. As for the progressive, look-at-how-virtuous-we-are lefties, they should hang their heads in shame at both their cowardice and their hypocrisy.
When it comes to helping refugees and migrants posing as refugees, the lefties are always out in force virtue-signalling and demanding the rest of us pay for most of the Third World to move to Europe:
And, of course, holier-than-thou multi-millionaire celebs like Lily Allen and Gary Lineker and Saint Bob Geldorf are ever so fast to demand the rest of us welcome these supposed refugees into our country:
But now we have a case of a real refugee who needs help – a refugee who is genuinely threatened for her beliefs. The person is, of course Aasia Bibi:
She has been on death row in Krapistan for the last 8 years because some women in her village got into an argument with her claiming she had defiled a cup by drinking from it because she was an infidel (Christian) and not from the Religion of Tolerance and Peace. So they did what our friends from Krapistan’s favourite religion always do when dealing with Christians – they accused Aasia of blasphemy. And, of course, blasphemy in Krapistan is always punished by death:
But this week, three judges in Krapistan surprisingly overturned Aasia’s conviction. Immediately there were mass riots by members of the Religion of Tolerance and Peace demanding she be hanged:
Her lawyer has already fled abroad and the three judges are living in fear of their lives. Meanwhile Krapistan’s supposedly ‘Western’ Prime Minister, a former cricketing international playboy with more hair than brains, has caved in to the howling mob and prevented Aasia Bibi from leaving the country:
The West’s cowardice?
So, where are the protests in the West demanding we give asylum to Aasia Bibi? Where are the holier-than-thou, virtue-signalling celebs? Where are the supposed ‘opinion leaders’ demanding we give asylum to Aasia Bibi? Why haven’t we heard from Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott and Polly Toynbee and the Guardianistas and all others of their ilk? And why haven’t there been “Aasia Welcome” protests across Western Europe?
Is it because Aasia Bibi is a Christian? Is it because Aasia Bibi doesn’t come from the elites’ favourite religion? Is it because our rulers and celebs are afraid that welcoming Aasia Bibi into Britain would be perceived as ‘Izlumophobic’ and maybe even cause mass rioting in Britain? It is because our rulers and all the virtue-signalling progressive are worthless, cowardly, hypocritical scum terrified of upsetting those who will be running our countries within the next 30 to 40 years?
Italy’s courage?
I never though anyone would ever praise Italians for their courage. But thankfully there has been one exception to the West’s craven cowardice – Italy. Yes, Italy has offered Aasia Bibi and her family asylum while the rest of our leaders shat themselves in fear of upsetting our friends from the West’s dominant religion. There was even a small demonstration in Italy in support of Aasia Bibi:
But there weren’t any demonstrations in support of Aasia Bibi in London or Paris or Berlin. Why not? Because Aasia Bibi is a Christian? Because our rulers and elites would rather see Aasia Bibi die than risk upsetting you know who? Because the case of Aasia Bibi is an embarrassment to our cowardly, hypocritical ruling elites and, as far as they are concerned, the sooner the screaming mob gets Aasia, the better it will be for everybody?
Who really has power in the West now?
French writer Voltaire perceptively warned:
I humbly suggest that the way the West (apart from Italy) has failed to stand up to Christian Aasia Bibi’s religious persecution tells us all we need to know about who now really has power over us!
A couple of months ago, President Trump cut all US aid to the Palestinian authorities through UNRWA. The US State Department described the organisation, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), as “irredeemably flawed”.
The US administration has “carefully reviewed” the issue and “will not make additional contributions to UNRWA,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
Previously the US had been the most generous donor:
Of course, we had the usual outrage and fury from our Palestinian friends. A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later said the move was an “assault” against his people.
And, of course, those who were living well off Western cash protested and claimed they were doing wonderful work towards eternal peace and happiness. A UNRWA spokesman bleated: “These very programs have a proven track record in creating one of the most successful human development processes and results in the Middle East. The international state community, our donors and host countries have consistently praised UNRWA for its achievements and standards“.
Anyway, now the US has sensibly pulled out, we in Britain will be the third largest individual country donor to our wonderful, tolerant, peace-loving Palestinian chums.
And here is a short video showing how our money is used by the Palestinian authorities to foment hatred, violence, war and the extermination of all Jews. Aren’t you glad your taxes are paying for this?
First, many thanks to a reader who found the press release in which MasterCard proudly announce that they are providing pre-paid debit cards (paid for mainly by us through the utterly corrupt UN, the equally corrupt EU and various holier-than-thou, self-serving, greedy, grasping charities) to the Third-World millions pouring over Europe’s non-existent borders.
Here’s what MasterCard say:
MasterCard Prepaid Debit Cards Provide Refugees with Mobility, Flexibility and Dignity
In celebration of World Refugee Day on June 20, MasterCard recognizes the 65 million refugees displaced from their homes and seeking refuge throughout the world. By leveraging our technologies and products such as MasterCard Aid Network and Prepaid, MasterCard collaborates with partners to provide essential services at the most critical times of refugees’ lives. To date, MasterCard Aid and Prepaid cards have been deployed in humanitarian responses across Africa, Asia and Europe – in countries such as Turkey, Kenya, Yemen, Nepal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Niger, the Philippines, and Greece – and are on-track to support thousands of beneficiaries
Here’s one of these pre-paid MasterCards – it’s called a “Cash Passport”:
And here’s a lucky multi-cultural enricher (his name is Ahmed) being taught how to get at our (sorry, I meant ‘his’) money:
And here are some more MasterCard customers on their way to a life of luxury at our expense:
And here’s how one Croatian official described the MasterCard customers who are currently attacking and overwhelming unarmed Croatian border guards:
According to him almost all migrants “are armed” as “almost all have a knife”. “The Croats are really trying to handle this alone. They have also positioned Special Forces at the border,” the expert says. There are barely any women and children in the group, 95 per cent are men and a border policeman has already been stabbed.
“The majority of them come from Pakistan. And there are many Iranians, Algerians, and Moroccans. Their goal is not Austria,” the official added.
According to him the migrants want to go to Germany or one of the Scandinavian countries. “Most of the young men have prepaid credit cards supplied by the United Nations’ High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF),” the official adds.
And here are some MasterCard customers helping border guards understand who is boss:
David Craig, on November 16th, 2018
