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By  David Craig, on February 18th, 2020(Wednesday blog) I don’t have time to do a story as I’ve got to prepare for a hot date. So, instead, here’s the brilliant Nina Conti being interviewed on Australian TV when she recently arrived to do a tour there. You’ll find plenty of clips from Nina Conti shows on YouTube.
By David Craig, on February 17th, 2020(Monday/Tuesday blog) Let’s start today’s blog with a little Limerick I found floating around in cyberspace: There was a transgender from Khartoum Who invited another to his/her/its/ze’s room But they spent the whole night In a terrible fight Arguing who would do what with what to whom Depending on your viewpoint, the above is mildly humorous or a vicious ‘hate crime’ or perhaps just a ‘non-crime hate incident’. The ‘crimes’ of Harry Miller?You’ve probably now all heard of the case brought by the police against Harry Miller. Miller, a former police officer and a shareholder in a plant and machinery company in Lincolnshire, was prosecuted for a “non-crime hate incident” a series of allegedly disobliging comments he had tweeted about transgender issues. Miller, described as intelligent and highly educated with a number of degrees, tweeted a series of comments, some of which were possibly satirical and profane, about transgender issues and definitions. These came to the attention of one Mrs B, who described herself as a “post-operative transgender lady” and who took offence. Accordingly, she reported Miller to Humberside police, describing him as a “bigot” who “eighty years ago … would have been making the same comments about Jewish people” (a remark described by the judge as “at the outer margins of rationality”) or in different times about gay, black or Asian people. The judge found that Mrs B’s characterisation of what Miller had tweeted was not accurate. Nevertheless, Humberside police recorded what he had done as a “non-crime hate incident”. Despite the fact that at no stage did they hold that Miller had committed any crime, they created a document called a “Crime Report Print”, and referred to Mrs B throughout as “the victim” and Miller as “the suspect”. They stated that Miller’s comments were “designed to cause deep offence and show his hatred for the transgender community” – a claim for which, says the judge, there was no evidence. A police officer, PC Gul, visited Miller’s place of work. Upon finding him out, he left his card with a company director and asked for Miller to call him. In a subsequent phone call, Gul told Miller his tweets had upset “members of the transgender community” – although there was no evidence of anyone other than Mrs B being upset – and that a lyric about silicone breasts that Miller had tweeted had come closest to being a crime. According to Miller, this exchange then followed: “I informed PC Gul that I was not the author of the verse and that it was simply expressing in verse the sense of imbalance of power between the sexes in the context of transgenderism. He said by Liking and Retweeting it on Twitter, I was promoting Hate. I again asked for, and received, confirmation that neither the verse, nor any of the other alleged 30 tweets, were criminal. I then asked PC Gul why he was wasting my time. PC Gul said ‘I need to check your thinking’. I replied: ‘So, let me get this straight, I’ve committed no crime. You’re a police officer. And you need to check my thinking ?’ PC Gul answered: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Have you any idea what that makes you ? ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is a dystopian novel, not a police training manual.’” Miller went on: “PC Gul explained that, on the basis of the third party complaint, a Hate Incident Record would be generated, regardless of there being no crime nor any evidence of hate. He warned me that continuing to tweet Gender critical content could count as an escalation from non crime to crime, thus prompting further police intervention.” Got that? A non-crime can morph into a crime simply by virtue of the non-crime being committed on multiple occasions. But then came this: “… Finally, PC Gul offered his final words of advice, words that I will never forget as I was so stunned by them. He said, ‘You have to understand, sometimes in the womb, a female brain gets confused and pushes out the wrong body parts, and that is what transgender is. I replied, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Wrong body parts? You have to know that is absolute bullshit. Is this really the official police line?’ PC Gul said, ‘Yes, I have been on a course.’” And back to today’s Poetry CornerHere’s one I’ve just written: A randy transgender from Khartoum Invited another for boom boom But they got into a debate About how to mate And there was no boom boom that night in Khartoum And another from my poetic pen: A transgender family from Inverness Got into a terrible mess Janet/Jock took as ze’s lover Ze’s sister who was also ze’s brother What happened next? I’ll leave you to guess By David Craig, on February 14th, 2020(Friday/weekend blog) What percent are really dying? Yesterday’s Coronavirus figures from the lying corrupt lying corrupt rotten untrustworthy Chinese were as follows:
From the little I understand, we’re being told that the death rate for this virus (which was probably manufactured in Dr Peng Zhou’s laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology based on bio-engineering a virus sample that originally came from a Canadian research facility) is around 2.5% – that’s 1,1118 deaths from 45,206 I think (or it may be 1,1118 deaths divided by the total confirmed and suspected cases which comes out at around 1.8%). But that doesn’t make any sense to me as we don’t know how many more of the 45,206 confirmed and 16,067 suspected cases will die. Plus we have the 8,204 severe cases – presumably a few of them will pop their chopsticks in the very near future as many will be interned to rot under armed guard in China’s new isolation gulags (which our mainstream media optimistically call “hospitals”) with little to no medical care. Surely, the most relevant statistic is to look at the numbers who have been through infection and either survived or died? If you do this you have 6,241 (1,118 died + 5,123 survived) who have either died or survived. If you then calculate the percentage who have been through the illness and died, this comes to about 17.9% (1,118 deaths divided by 6,241 completed cases). I’m no mathematical genius, but it seems to me that this death rate of around 17.9% is slightly higher than the official death rate usually quoted by the ‘experts’ of somewhere around 2%. Though I would expect the death rate in China to be much higher than in any other country as:
Time for a holiday in Europe? Now, just imagine for a moment what you would do if you were a reasonably affluent corrupt, rotten Chinaman: Would you stay in filthy, dirty, disease-ridden, corrupt Communist China and risk yourself, a member of your family or your ‘second wife’ getting the virus and thus a possible death sentence? Or would you decide now was an excellent time to take an extended couple of months ‘holiday’ in Europe or Australia or New Zealand because:
I rather suspect many corrupt, rotten Chinese have worked this out and are packing their bags and heading for the airport and safety. Meanwhile, if you check flight arrivals at Heathrow today, you’ll see there are still plenty coming from China – I think there are around 19 scheduled arrivals from China this week. I rather suspect that flights out of dirty, corrupt, pestilential China are extremely full at the moment while flights back to China are rather empty. With thousands of Chinese (some of whom may be carrying the virus) rushing out of their filthy sh-t-hole country to avoid the new plague, that they have inflicted on the world, and with Western governments allowing their planes to land, what could possibly go wrong? Oh, I almost forgot, happy Valentines Day (By the way, there are some great comments on my last blog featuring the Tony Heller debunking the latest climate alarmism. You can read the comments by clicking on the headline) By David Craig, on February 12th, 2020(Wednesday/Thursday blog) Here’s part of an excited BBC report from a few days ago: A record high temperature of 18.3C (64.9F) has been logged on the continent of Antarctica. The reading, taken on Thursday by Argentine research base Esperanza, is 0.8C hotter than the previous peak temperature of 17.5C, in March 2015. The temperature was recorded in the Antarctic Peninsula, on the continent’s north-west tip – one of the fastest-warming regions on earth. It is being verified by the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). “[This] is not a figure you would normally associate with Antarctica, even in the summertime,” WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva. Temperatures on the Antarctic continent have risen by almost 3C over the past 50 years, the organisation said, and about 87% of the glaciers along its west coast have “retreated” in that time. The glaciers have shown an “accelerated retreat” in the past 12 years, the WMO added, due to global warming. But before you get out your bathing gear and your suntan lotion and start looking to book your next summer holiday in Antarctica, here’s the inimitable Tony Heller explaining why this latest ‘shock, horror’ supposed story is just yet another ecofascist scam. Given that our useless, Greta-worshipping government is about to ban petrol and diesel cars and gas central heating, it’s sort of important to know that the whole ‘save the planet from Climate Breakdown’ is just a massive pack of lies cobbled together by capitalism-loathing, anarchist, lefty-scumbags. Anyway, here’s Tony Heller: By David Craig, on February 10th, 2020(Monday/Tuesday blog) I’ve got some really neat news for you if you’re a multi-cultural enricher either living in or intending to move to the Izlumic Republic of Swedistan. It seems that rape is no longer a serious criminal offence in Swedistan – but only if you’re a multi-cultural enricher. Even rape of under-age girls seems to now be ok in Swedistan. In fact, the more brutal the rape and the more you hit, kick and strangle the girl you’re raping, the less likely it is that you’ll be punished. I guess the ever so progressive, ever so liberal Swedes have realised that violent rape of underage girls is part of the culture of many migrants and therefore in ever so liberal, ever so progressive multi-cultural Swedistan, they’re not punishing anyone who is acting according to their culture. Hussein from SomaliaLet me tell you about Hussein who travelled all the way from his home in Somalia to enrich Swedistan: A 19-year-old Somali Muslim migrant in Sweden was sentenced to just 75 hours of community service for brutally raping a 13 year old girl several times, both vaginally and anally, that caused her so much pain, she wasn’t able to sit down for two days and has recurring nightmares. The prosecutor was looking to get him convicted of rape against a minor, but the Swedish court decided to only convict him of “taking advantage” of the young girl reports Swedish news site Samnytt. The age of consent in Sweden is 15. Despite this, the court did not convict 19 year old Hussein of rape against the 13 year old girl, but instead he was convicted of “sexually taking advantage” of her. The Somali Muslim man received residence permit in Sweden by the migration authorities on the 13th of April 2016. On the 9th of March 2019 he was arrested by police. On the 6th of May 2019 Mora District court sentenced the man to a suspended sentence, 75 hours community service and ordered to pay SEK 15 000 ($1 579) damages to the girl. Mikael Shaba and the 12-year-old Swedish girlA 12-year-old girl who was so brutally raped she bled from her ‘abdomen’ after being groomed on Snapchat has seen her rapist avoid jail. Mikael Shaba, 17, groomed his victim on the picture sharing social media site. On June 21st, 2018, Shaba lured his victim to his basement where he carried out the vicious attack. The victim is said to have bled from her “abdomen” and suffered several bruises around her body. When talking with the police, the 12-year-old victim stated that Shaba came “from another country” but she couldn’t recall his nationality. Initially, the girl didn’t report the sexual attack. The victim’s older brother overhead Shaba boasting and joking about the rape to his friends. After this, he told his mother who later called the police. Shaba denies the rape, claiming that the victim and her friend–who was present–are fabricating their claim in order to sully his reputation. Since the rape, the victim has begun to lose her hair due to psychological problems which have arisen out of the incident.
The rapist was handed a light sentence of fifty hours “youth service”. Shaba and his friends are also accused of verbally harassing the victim after the rape, in some instances calling her a ‘whore.’ Muhamed from SomaliaAnd let’s not forget Muhamed from Somalia: (This one is a bit difficult to read, but by now you must be getting the picture of Swedistan’s descent into a progressive, liberal, multi-cultural hell)
By David Craig, on February 7th, 2020(weekend blog) Slight change of subject today. It’s the same the whole world overFor most of my life I’ve lived in detached houses, in the UK and abroad. However, for a few years while I was travelling a lot, I moved into a penthouse flat as it was much more secure than a house when left empty for months at a time. I also have a small condo in an exotic country often referred to as the Land of Smells (LoS) or something like that. So what? The ‘so what’ is that I was rather amused to see the property management companies in the UK and 6,000 miles away in the LoS using the same tricks to fleece flat-owners. Here are just four tricks that I’ve come across. Readers can add some more by clicking on the headline. Money, money, moneyTrick 1 – The overcharge Whenever commissioning work – painting, carpet replacement, new security system, roof replacement etc – the management companies in the UK would get three quotes for the work and choose the one that supposedly offered the best value. But strangely, when I privately got quotes for the work (without telling the management company) the prices I got were around 30% cheaper than the ones the supposedly ‘professional’ management company received. Basically, the management companies in the UK and the LoS were allowing suppliers to massively overcharge for any work and then were taking a cut from the money fleeced from flat-owners. Perhaps amusingly, I decided to play the same game. Some work needed to be done in my flat to prevent rain-water leaking in under some large sliding patio doors which led out to my roof terrace. As usual, the management company got their three prices. I contacted a company which came with a price around 30% cheaper than the management company. So, I did a deal with that building company – if they submitted a quote just 10% below the management company’s prices and threw in new patio door/windows free of charge for me, I’d get the management company to use their services. These are the kind of patio window/doors I mean:
Often those who make a killing by cheating others are so arrogant and so convinced of their own superiority that they never expect their own tricks will be used against them. Trick 2 – Unnecessary or premature work As far as I understand, most property management companies get a fixed payment each year depending on how many flats there are in the building. However, the management company also gets extra money if any building or repair work is needed as this clearly entails extra work for them. So it is hugely in the management company’s interest to get as much work commissioned as possible. Thus you will often find things like carpets being renewed when the existing ones are still in good condition, lots of painting work and, the biggest earners of all, flat roofs or lifts being replaced as soon as the initial guarantee runs out even if the roof or lift is still in an acceptable condition. Trick 3 – The insurance con Typically the management company will organise insurance for the building. It appears to be accepted practice that the insurance companies pay the management company a kick-back every time the insurance is renewed. From what I understand, the professional trade body ARMA (Association of Residential Managing Agents) approve of this practice of kick-backs from insurance companies. ARMA claims to be the leading trade association for residential leasehold management in England and Wales – “Setting the standards in property management”. ARMA has members across the UK and claims that to be a member management companies have to “adhere to a strict set of standards”. Trick 4 – Building their own property empires Given that owners and employees of property management companies work in the property business, they will know which blocks of flats are the most lucrative for anyone owning a rental flat and they will know when flats are for sale. This allows some owners and employees of the property management company to start building their own portfolios of rental properties. Then when a couple of thousand pounds of electrical or plumbing or other maintenance work is needed on their rental properties, they commission the work and just charge it to the building’s general maintenance or sinking fund. Thus they get the other flat-owners to pay for maintenance of their private property portfolios. After all, what flat-owner ever goes through the financial accounts for their building and identifies exactly what work was done by examining every single invoice submitted each year? None. And certainly not the building’s usually useless Board members. What about the Board?Most blocks of flats choose a Board whose job it is to liaise with the management company and ensure the flat-owners are getting good value from the management company. But this usually doesn’t work because the kind of people elected to the Board are often those least well-equipped to be effective in defending flat-owners’ interests. If a flat-owner has a challenging and/or responsible job, or a hectic family life, or a busy social life, they’ll often be reluctant to take on the extra work of being a Board member. So, those who do put themselves forward are often those with rather uninspiring jobs and/or lives and who see becoming a Board member as boosting their own sense of self-importance and giving them the position – a Board member – they haven’t managed to achieve in their lives. In life, people’s awareness of their limitations is usually inversely proportional to their intelligence. So such people are often unaware of their own weaknesses and are easily manipulated by the property management company. A ‘successful’ management company can even manipulate weak-minded Board members to take the management company’s side in any disputes with flat-owners. A licence to steal?I suspect some of the most corrupt companies in Britain are property management companies managing blocks of flats. Starting a property management company can look like just being a licence to steal. By David Craig, on January 31st, 2020(Friday/weekend blog) Oh no, here we go again. At the time of writing, it looks like our useless politicians are going to approve the hugely-costly and totally unnecessary HS2 project. Ask the wrong questions – you get the wrong answerLet me bore you with why I think the idiots in Westminster have blundered into yet another horrifically expensive disaster. There are two questions our politicians should have asked: Question 1: Do we need more rail capacity between the South and North of England? The answer is probably yes, although new communication options may mean that in the 20 to 30 years it takes to build the HS2 disaster, people will be doing less physical travelling and more on-line communication. But let’s for a moment accept that there is a need for more rail capacity from South to North. Then there’s a second question: Question 2: What is the best, fastest and most economical way of delivering that extra capacity? There are various answers to this. For example, modernising signalling on the existing line may allow more trains to run. Additionally, building a new conventional line, allowing trains to travel at 125 mph, alongside the existing line might also be a possibility. And then there’s the £100bn+ HS2. HS2 will be (I believe) much more expensive than a new traditional line because high-speed lines have totally different engineering requirements and high-speed trains are much more expensive than traditional Intercity 125s. But our worthless politicians didn’t ask these two simple questions. Our politicians got the two questions mixed up together and so got the wrong answer. Fast trains in a tiny country?Now let me explain why it is totally ludicrous to use a high-speed train in a tiny country like England I’ll make this part of my blog today simple so, were any politicians to be reading it, even they might understand. France is a big country – about 640,000 km2. The UK is a small country – about 242,000 km2. England is an even smaller country – 130,000 km2. France has an extensive high-speed rail network – the TGV. It makes sense to have high-speed trains in a large country. It doesn’t make sense to have high-speed trains in a small country. Now let’s go a bit deeper. The French train route from Paris to Lyon to Marseilles can probably be seen as comparable to the UK train route from London to Birmingham to Manchester in terms of how it connects major cities. But the differences in distances are huge. Paris to Lyon is 292 miles, whereas London to Birmingham is only 128 miles. And Lyon to Marseilles is 488 miles, whereas Birmingham to Manchester is just 86 miles.
The much greater distances in France justify a high-speed rail network. But squandering over £100bn on cutting just a few minutes off the train time from London to Birmingham and then even fewer minutes off the train journey from Birmingham to Manchester is utterly ludicrous. Moreover, as far as I understand, the new HS2 won’t start at Euston. Instead it will start at a new station to be built at Old Oak Common in West London. This means it might be quicker for business travellers from or to Central London to use the old conventional line to Euston rather than the new HS2 line to Old Oak Common station. Good grief!!!!! Plus, once the stupid thing got past Birmingham, the distances between stops would be so small that the train would have to start slowing down almost as soon as it got up to speed. Oooppss!!! There are many better things the Government could do with £100bn+ than the ridiculously unnecessary HS2 project. They could, for example, have just built another conventional line and maybe saved £20bn or more. But that would have been sensible and therefore not something our dumb-arse stupid politicians would have considered. By David Craig, on January 29th, 2020(Wednesday/ Thursday blog) I’ve got some great news. There are no poor countries in the world. There are no countries which do not have sufficient natural resources and agricultural land to feed and house their people and to build schools, universities, hospitals, power plants, roads and all the other stuff a country needs to give its people a decent standard of living. This means we can stop all foreign aid immediately. There isn’t a single country which needs it. That will save Britain over £13bn a year – £433 a year for every taxpayer. That’s got to be good news. Though there is one smallish problem. Although every country has the resources to give its people a decent standard of living, unfortunately in over 100 countries most of those resources are being looted by a tiny elite leaving over 90% of the people living in excrement-covered poverty. There are many ways these elites are looting their countries. But here let’s look at three of the most commonly-used and most lucrative. “The Africa Special” I’ve called this one “The Africa Special” as it’s probably most commonly used in Africa, though a few of the ‘Stans also seem to like it. It’s pretty simple. The president’s son or one of the president’s cronies decides he would like to buy a few more luxury properties in London, Florida or New York or perhaps buy a couple of sports teams or a luxury yacht that’s for sale. He rings up the governor of the country’s central bank and asks if there’s any money. “I’m afraid not,” the bank governor replies, “the president took all we had – over $500m – last week.” “That’s not the answer I wanted,” warns the president’s son or close crony. “But it’s ok,” the bank governor says in fear, “tomorrow we have around $300m in foreign aid arriving to build a hospital, 6 clinics and 4 schools.” “That’s better,” says the president’s son or close crony, “when it comes, move it to my Cayman Islands bank account.” The money gets moved, there’s nothing left to build the hospital or clinics or schools and the aid donors keep very quiet indeed about what has happened as they wouldn’t want ordinary Western taxpayers to find out how the billions they pay to help poorer countries are looted. And anyway, it would be waaaccciiisssttt to expose this form of theft. “The Oligarch” I’ve named this one “The Oligarch”. It’s found throughout Africa but also in Russia and all the former countries of the Soviet Union, especially the thoroughly rotten Ukraine. The classic situation is that when the country was socialist, all its main resources – mines, oil fields, agricultural land, power plants, etc etc – belonged to the state (supposedly the people). When the country breaks away from socialism, somehow all these resources mysteriously become owned by a very small group of oligarchs usually using obscure offshore companies to hide their ownership. The oligarchs rapidly become immensely wealthy – billionaires or multi-billionaires. Moreover, some oligarchs are granted monopolies on things like imported medicines, imported food, imported raw materials. They then use their monopolistic control to push up prices and, yippee, they become billionaires too. The vast amounts of money these oligarchs strip from their countries is quickly shifted into offshore bank accounts just in case there’s a change in regime and any attempt to recover the stolen tens or hundreds of billions. “The Bob the Builder” I’ve called this little trick “The Bob the Builder”. Here, instead of our money being looted directly, some attempt is made to build whatever the money was intended for. This is usually because so much of our aid money has been looted in the past that the donor countries are demanding some visible and tangible results. A country gets a few hundred million to build a hospital, some clinics, some schools, a power plant and access roads. The recipient government puts the work out to tender and invites three companies to put in bids. Three bids are received – one for say $95m, one for say $110m and one for $200m. The committee reviewing the three bids diligently assesses which provides the best value for the donors’ money and naturally chooses the bid for $200m as the company which put in this bid is owned by a Cayman Islands company which is owned by a Liechtenstein Company which is owned by a Panamanian Company which is owned by the president’s son. The winning company gets to work demanding a first payment of $50m to buy materials and equipment. Around $30m of that is immediately transferred to one one the president’s son’s many offshore bank accounts. Nevertheless, the work starts and the foundations for the buildings are laid. But as the winning company has no incentive to do proper work, the foundations are made with cheap sub-standard concrete, old rusted iron reinforcements and, to save money, are not deep and solid enough. Next walls and a couple of floors are installed. But as the foundations are not strong enough, the walls start cracking and work has to stop as the walls would be unable to support a roof. The winning company then demands another $50m to continue the work. Another $30m is sent off to the president’s son’s bank accounts. But the rainy season has arrived and the heavy rains wash away much of the soil under the inadequate foundations. As for the access roads – instead of being properly constructed, some tarmac is laid onto the dirt tracks that were originally there, the rains come, the soil under the tarmac is washed away and the roads collapse. Let’s not forget the power plant. This is actually built, the generators are installed and are soon working. But nobody thinks about maintenance. So, within a few months the generators have all broken down and nobody can work out how to repair them. A few months later some enterprising locals break into the building and start dismantling everything there to sell for scrap metal. ConclusionYou do not cure an alcoholic by giving them ever more alcohol to drink. Likewise you do not stop a kleptocracy by giving it ever more money to steal. It’s time to stop all foreign aid, stop all donations to any charities working in Third-World countries and it’s time to deal with the real issue – the mass looting of more than 100 countries by the thieves and robbers who have seized power. By David Craig, on January 24th, 2020(Friday/weekend blog) I haven’t had the time or sufficient brain power to fully think through this weekend’s blog. But I’ll start it anyway and see how things go. How can you solve a problem you won’t admit you have?The basic premise of this weekend’s blog is that you cannot solve a problem if you won’t recognise that problem exists. For example, if you have cancer but won’t accept that you have it, you’re rather unlikely to seek a cure. Welcome to the ‘disintegrating countries’We tend to think of the world’s 193 countries as belonging to one of three groups – developed countries, developing countries and Third World countries. The developed countries are, of course, Western Europe, the SA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Developing countries would include places like Vietnam, Thailand, China, maybe Russia, Costa Rica and I guess there must be a few more. Then we have the Third World countries which are too numerous to list here. For the last half century or more, there has been a kind of unspoken assumption that with enough foreign aid and foreign investment, many Third-World countries will eventually start becoming developing countries. But since foreign aid really started pouring into many Third-World countries since around 1965 when many Western countries committed to helping the Third World, how many Third-World countries have actually become developing countries? Answers on the back of a postage stamp please. What has really happened since the post-1965 big foreign aid splurge by Western countries is that most Third-World countries have become poorer in spite of the trillions in foreign aid and investment they have received. Lootocracy – How to wreck a countryThe poster boy for how a country gets impoverished and destroyed by its rulers is probably Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe – Once the bread-basket of Africa, Zimbabwe is now an impoverished sh*t-hole. Mugabe and his cronies stole or destroyed pretty much everything that was ever of value in Zimbabwe. When Mugabe was retired and his crony, the Crocodile, took over, our liberal progressive mainstream media assured us that things would now get better. In fact they got worse. With constant power cuts, Zimbabweans are now so poor that they are cutting down trees to make charcoal. And this deforestation leads to erosion of fertile soil and desertification. If Zimbabwe’s rulers are ever ousted, it will take hundreds of years to repair the damage they have wreaked on their own country through their greed and stupidity. Angola – should be one of the world’s richest countries with its vast resources of oil, gas and minerals. Instead, over 80% of Angola’s population live in crushing poverty and poverty is increasing. But not all Angolans are poor. The IMF estimated that over $10 billion a year is looted from the country by its rulers. South Africa – once the richest, most advanced country in Africa, South Africa is now following Zimbabwe on the well-trodden road to self-destruction. The former leader and his cronies stole billions – nobody really knows how much. The generally accepted figure is around $48 billion since black rule started in 1994. But the real amount is probably much higher. Meanwhile, South Africa’s former president is faced with the challenge of how to spend his many billions. And now South Africa’s great leaders want to ‘do a Zimbabwe’ – confiscate all the productive land owned by white farmers and give it to utterly venal ANC cronies who know nothing about farming and who will destroy the country’s agriculture and further impoverish the population Here are probably the most corrupt evil people on this planet:
South America – here the problem is different. Here most of the countries are run by narco cartels. There’s a Mexican saying “how do you want to be paid – in silver or lead?” – do you accept a bribe or shall we just kill you? Given that choice, most Latin American politicians, police, prosecutors and other public officials take the bribes meanwhile their countries are collapsing into crime and misery. Don’t mention the unmentionableThere are at least 100 Third-World countries which to a greater or lesser extent are just the same as Zimbabwe, South Africa and Angola. These countries – these lootocracies – are not progressing or developing. In fact they are becoming poorer every year as their populations rapidly increase and their rulers steal everything in sight. These are disintegrating countries and all will collapse into failed state conditions with starvation, impoverishment and civil war. All foreign aid given to these countries is a waste of money as it just gets stolen by the rulers. The problem is that political correctness prevents us admitting that around half the world’s countries are ‘disintegrating countries’. Why? Because almost all these countries are either run by black leaders or else are religion of peace countries. So, to class them as ‘disintegrating countries’ would be waaccciiisssttt or Izlumophobic or both. And so we continue in the illusion that somehow these Third-World hell-holes will eventually start developing when, in fact, the opposite is happening – they are disintegrating. And we will all pay the price as country after country collapses and their populations flee to the once prosperous, once civilised West:
By David Craig, on January 22nd, 2020(Wednesday/Thursday blog) Clarkson discovers climate disaster? You may remember that a few weeks before Christmas, there was great excitement in the mainstream media when arch petrol-head Jeremy Clarkson seemed to agree that there was a climate crisis. Here’s how the hopeless, Greta-worshipping Grauniad reported the story: Jeremy Clarkson finally recognises climate crisis during Asia trip Grand Tour host says impact of global heating on lake bed in Cambodia was ‘genuinely alarming. Clarkson has made what could be the biggest reversal of his 30-year career. The anti-environmental columnist has, for the first time, accepted the existence of global heating after seeing the impact for himself. Clarkson’s epiphany came as he and his Grand Tour co-stars ran into difficulty while filming a 500-mile boat race from Siem Reap in Cambodia to Vung Tau in Vietnam. The group’s jet boats slowed to a crawl and they were forced to wade through Tonlé Sap lake in the usually vast Mekong river system, which has been affected by water shortages. “The irony is not lost on me,” he told the Sunday Times. “A man who hosted a car programme for 30 years, limited to 7mph by global warming.” He described enduring “two days of absolute frustration” as the group had to be towed through the river, which had been reduced to a “puddle”. The former Top Gear host confessed he found the “graphic demonstration” of global warming “genuinely alarming”. So let me tell you a little bit about the Mekong River Environmental disaster – Made in China The Mekong springs up from the Tibetan Plateau in China and flows to the South China Sea through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Around 60 million people depend on the river for fishing, farming and transportation. But there’s a problem. China and Laos are furiously building dams on the Mekong and its tributaries – partly to harness hydro-electric power and partly to provide water for agricultural irrigation. China has built seven hydropower dams on the upper Mekong River (known as the Lancang in China), and plans to build 21 more. Laos, one of the region’s poorest countries, to turn itself into “the battery of Southeast Asia” by building dozens of hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries and selling power to neighboring countries. Last year, Laos had 46 such power plants operating and 54 more planned or under construction.
Dams disrupt the migration of fish, preventing them from reaching their spawning grounds upstream and hampering their natural life cycles. This, in turn, could significantly affect fish production in the Mekong, home to the world’s largest inland fishery. Experts have predicted up to a 40% reduction in Mekong fish stocks of by 2020, and up to 80% by 2040 as a result of hydropower dams in the region. And water extracted for irrigating agricultural land, of course, reduces the water flowing downstream of the dams. Moreover sediment is critical to the health of the river and essential for replenishing fish life. For Vietnam, the Mekong is crucial – a source from which the country draws approximately 50% of its foodstuffs, and which contributes more than 23% of its GDP. Vietnamese ecologist Nguyen Huu Thien is deeply worried about the next 15 to 20 years. “I am not sure how Vietnam can survive as a nation without the delta,” he said. What the Chinese and the Laotians are doing to the Mekong with their damn dam-building is going to be an act of massive environmental and economic vandalism on a level with what the Soviets did to the once huge Aral Sea:
How about protesting against that, Greta and the brainless Greenies????? Where are the real journalists? What’s worrying about the Clarkson story is the way the supposed ‘journalists’ reported it. Not a single mainstream media journalist did what I did – thought the Clarkson story sounded a bit dubious and spent just a minute Googling “Mekong River water level“. If they had, they would have found plenty of well-researched and well-written articles from serious publications detailing the catastrophic environmental and economic damage the Chinese and Laotians were causing with their short-sighted race to construct dams. Then the journalists could have written decent balanced reports about the Mekong River disaster instead of the shallow rubbish most came out with. |
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