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Is it time to recolonise Africa?

Here’s my totally politically-incorrect proposal for the week – the only way to save rotten, stinking, corrupt, excrement-covered, overpopulated, starving Africa is through recolonisation.

Africa has failed. All African countries have failed. One of the richest African countries – Rhodesia – once the breadbasket of Africa  – has been reduced to an impoverished hell-hole thanks to the efforts of Robert “I’m worth $3bn” Mugabe eagerly supported by his mates in South Africa. South Africa – once the richest country in Africa – is rapidly heading along the same downward path to hell as Rhodesia under the jackboot of the (IMHO) utterly corrupt and incompetent buffoon Jacob Zuma and his fellow thieves and fools in the ANC.

While 6 million children are born in wealthy, fertile Europe every year, 28 million are born in impoverished, famine-ravished Africa:

population Europe vs Africa

The population of Ethiopia, for example, was about 40 million when Saint Bob did his bit to get his knighthood and the opportunity to earn millions for himself. Now there are 96 million of them:

population re band aid

Same situation in Sudan. That doesn’t make any sense in a region where there are  famines every seven to ten years.

Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of Africans are paying millions each year to people smugglers so they can reach Europe where they will all claim to be refugees:

refugees 2

And as we now know, most of these supposed ‘refugees’ will be from the religion of peace as they have a tendency to throw any Christians overboard to drown.

While Asia is now developing after decades of misrule by communists and dictators, Africa is descending into total chaos and, unless we’re very careful, this chaos will spread and engulf us in Europe.

So, what is to be done?

The politically-correct answer is to pour ever more aid into the pockets of incompetent, kelptocratic African leaders who (as my video below shows) steal three times as much from their countries as they receive in aid each year. “Africa needs a Marshall Plan” the do-gooders claim while never mentioning that Africa’s real problems are overpopulation, stupidity and corruption. Moreover, during the last 50 years, Africa has had the equivalent of ten Marshall Plans in aid and all but the top 0.1% of Africans have got poorer.

Here’s the real solution to Africa’s problems – recolonisation. The skin colour of the recolonisers doesn’t matter. What matters is their mindset and culture. The recolonisers need to have a Western or Asian education and a Western or Asian understanding that by investing and spreading wealth the lives of the majority would be improved.

Most Africans want to live under a Western system of democracy. Well, if we recolonise Africa they can do this in the comfort of their own homes without having to emigrate to a Europe that doesn’t want them.

The ideal situation would be for the UN or NATO or preferably some new international body set up by the developed countries of Europe and Asia to send a small military force into some African hell-hole – the cesspit of Equatorial Guinea, a country rich in oil where almost everyone lives in poverty – would be a good starting point. The UN force could then clear out the thieving garbage running the place, put in proper administration, use the oil revenues to build roads, schools, hospitals, power plants, water supply and universities thus creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and starting to create a new middle class. Within just a few years, the place could be transformed. Then the UN force could move on to the next country.

Of course, this Utopian vision could never happen as those who know better than us would brand it as “waaaccciiiissstttt!!!”. But that’s the only way to save Africa from itself – recolonise!

How the elites lie to us

In the car, I was mulling over how we are constantly being told one thing by the elites, when exactly the opposite is actually true.

Here are just five examples of the lies we are fed day in day out by supposed ‘opinion leaders’ in politics and the media. Then below them, I have tried to show the truth:

Lie 1: We need to build more houses

Truth 1: No, we need less immigration. We cannot cope with 46,000 people arriving in Britain every month

Lie 2: We all need to all fight extremism

Truth 2: No, we need fewer M*sl*ms in our country and we need to get rid of the Human Rights Act and throw out anyone who preaches violence against our country. We should also ban the Burkha, ban first-cousin marriages, ban FMG, in fact ban almost every practise brought to our country by a certain backward death cult

Lie 3: We need to help Africa

Truth 3a: No, Africa needs to help itself by an immediate programme of birth control. Around 6 million babies are born in Europe every year. Around 28 million are born in Africa every year. Africans are starving, not because there’s insufficient food but because their population is growing too fast

Truth 3b: No, we need to cut the corruption of Africa’s ruling elites who steal three times as much each year than their countries receive in aid. If we could cut African corruption by half, we wouldn’t need to send any aid there at all

Lie 4: The NHS needs more money

Truth 4a: The NHS needs lower immigration and thus less demand for its services, particularly from primitive, low-skilled, baby-factory parasites from South East Asia

Lie 5: *sl*m is a religion of peace

Truth 5: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

I’m sure readers can think of many more of these lies

Another dementia day for me – so no real blog today

I did notice that in all the media reports of the 10-year anniversary of the London 7/7 bombings which killed 52 people and injured more than 700, not a single journalist mentioned the words “M*sl*m” or “*sl*m”.

I wonder why that was? Oh, stupid me. I forgot. *sl*m is not a violent, primitive, intolerant death cult. It’s a religion of peace. So, as any fule kno, the 7/7 bombings had nothing to do with *sl*m.

And here’s a well-known quote from Winston Churchill who personally observed the customs of our M*sl*m friends:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia (rabies) in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Winston Churchll

Churchill was right then and he’s right now. It’s a pity none of our leaders has the courage to admit what I’m sure they all know. But then by the time the ‘s’ hits the ‘f’ they’ll all be safe in their luxury, guarded, gated communities while hell breaks out for the rest of us as we’re overwhelmed by the *sl*mic locust swarms

Who has killed the most people? Hitler or Greenpeace?

The title probably looks like a stupid question. So let me explain:

Around 50 million people were killed in World War 2 thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of our German and Japanese friends. Most, of course, were killed by the Germans. So we should probably be grateful that now the Germans are using monetary, rather than military, force to create their new Fourth Reich – a European superstate run mainly by Germany with France as Germany’s lapdog and all the other countries willingly allowing their sovereignty to be handed over to their German overlords.

Now for Greenpeace. We can thank Greenpeace and other environmental groups for at least two massively stupid campaigns that no doubt gave the self-righteous Greenpeace fools enormous self-satisfaction while causing misery and death in the Third World.

Stupidity 1 – Banning DDT

There are between 300 million and 500 million cases of malaria each year. Of these cases, around 800,000 people die annually, about 600,000 of these are children under five years old. DDT was shown to be effective in hugely reducing malaria cases and deaths. In a typical study, in the 20 years up to 1955 in Sri Lanka there were 75,000 cases of malaria each year and 4,000 deaths.

malaria

After widespread use of DDT, the  number of cases had dropped to 17 with only a couple of deaths. Similar results were reported by many other countries.

However, in spite of the World Health Organisation strongly supporting controlled use of DDT to reduce malaria, environmentalists like Greenpeace campaigned aggressively for the banning of DDT claiming correctly that over-use damaged birds and fishes and claiming incorrectly that DDT was carcinogenic.

So, in the 30 or so years that DDT has been phased out, perhaps 24 million people have died from malaria. Had DDT still been permitted, this death toll might have been less than one million.

Also, please note that due to Greenpeace’s Stupidity Number 2 many of the people, who supposedly could have been affected by cancer because of DDT use, don’t live long enough to die from cancer.

So, let’s assume that the banning of DDT has caused at least 20 million unnecessary deaths.

Stupidity 2 – Preventing the use of GM crops

Malnutrition leads to around 3.1 million deaths each year. One of the ways of reducing malnutrition is to develop crops that are more drought- and disease-resistant. Other ways of reducing malnutrition would include a birth control programme in Africa so that Africa’s population doesn’t double every 20 years causing constant wars as ever more people fight over limited resources.

Had Greenpeace and other Greenies not opposed GM (genetically modified) crops, then new strains of rice, corn and other foods could have been introduced

greenies

We’ve no way of knowing how many lives would have been saved through use of GM crops. But if we assume that one million of the 3.1 million deaths annually from malnutrition could have been avoided every year for the last 30 years, then that’s another 30 million people killed by the Greenies.

Conclusion – Hitler or Greenpeace?

So, it’s a pretty close run thing. It seems that both Hitler and the Greenpeace Greenies are responsible for about 50 million deaths each.

But Hitler is now dead and so can’t go on killing people. The Greenies on the other hand will continue killing people with their fatuous but effective attempts to fight the fantasy of man-made global warming (or climate change or whatever it’s called this week), inflicting unnecessary taxes on people in rich countries and causing misery in the Third World by such idiocies as diverting  much needed crops into making biofuels.

All in all, the Greenpeace Greenies will probably be responsible for more deaths than Hitler and the Nazis. That’s quite an achievement and something the Greenies are no doubt proud of.

Dear Ms May

I came across this on the Internet. It’s a letter that was sent to our wonderful Home Secretary Theresa “*sl*m is a religion of peace” May. The letter says what most people in Britain think but are afraid to say. I believe that Ms May hasn’t yet found time to reply:

Dear Ms May

I am writing to you as a British Citizen.

I am watching with steadily mounting incredulity as you, David Cameron and all other Western Leaders, with the support of mainstream media such as the BBC, attempt to maintain the fiction of *sl*m as the Religion of Peace.

No other religion has to constantly protest that it is actually peaceful. No other religion is constantly ‘offended’. No other religion is incapable of living alongside other faiths. No other religion punishes apostates and ‘blasphemers’ with death. No other religion mandates the amputation of young girls’ clitorises. No other religion was founded by a paedophile, a rapist, a liar, warmonger, sex maniac and psychopath. No other religion has mounted over 26,000 terrorist attacks since 2001.

You have banned Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (critics of *sl*mic violence) from visiting the UK, while allowing free rein to hordes of hate preachers from places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. While these hate preachers actively encourage violence against non-M*sl*ms, especially Jews, Spencer and Geller have never espoused violence; they simply publicise truths about *sl*mic jihad and show how *sl*mic violence is related to *sl*mic scriptures and the life of M*h*mmed.

You insult the intelligence of the people of the UK with your respect for *sl*m as a legitimate and peaceful religion rather than the death cult that it is. Just as opinion polls show widespread support for *sl*mic State amongst Western M*sl*ms, polls similarly show widespread distrust and loathing for *sl*m amongst the general population. What, may I ask, are the substantive differences between the values and legal systems of *sl*mic State and our ‘allies’ Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen and Iran? Your continued support for *sl*m and sharia is causing a high proportion of the electorate to regard you as nothing less than a traitor.

Please bear in mind that you did not win the recent general election because people love you. You won it because your opponents were certifiably insane Marxists and you were the least bad electable option.

I find it difficult to believe that you support and respect *sl*m because you are stupid. Other reasons people have proposed are that you:
– are terrified of the repercussions of stating the truth about *sl*m when the UK has over 3 million M*sl*ms and is completely dependent on Arab oil and investment
– have been bought and paid for by M*sl*m interests
– are stuck in the failed multicultural paradigm because of groupthink, knowledge filtering (not listening to anyone with an opposing point of view) and are incapable of independent thought, which might cause you to lose your lofty position.

Which is it? I suspect a combination of all three.

I fear that your continued leadership failure on this matter will cause the loss of many more lives, for which you will be personally responsible.

I have spent the last year travelling in M*sl*m countries, researching *sl*mic terrorism and writing a thesis on how to defeat the *sl*mic State (something on which I see no coherent strategy whatsoever from Western powers). I would be delighted to advise on policy regarding this issue.

Yours,

And here’s a video from Qatar’s Al Jazeera explaining why it would be much beter to live in such earthly paradises as Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan rather than awful America:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/07/al-jazeera-4th-of-july-video-mocks-americans-as-fat-pill-popping-racists

Greece’s David stuns Germany’s Goliath – Goliath is very pissed off

The outbreak of Ebola in Africa seems to have been snuffed out. But the outbreak of democracy in the EU has caused panic and fear amongst the greedy, self-serving, thieving, wasteful EU-elites. They had hoped to grind the Greek Syriza rebellion into the dust as a warning to other countries that democracy is dead and that they should buckle under the rule of the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

The Greeks may have lost their Marbles, but they’ve still got their balls and have dared to stand up to Germany’s attempts to create a Fourth Reich – a single EU superstate under German control.

Here’s one of the reasons our EU-rulers are in a state somewhere between panic and constant visits to the privy. If Greece were to leave the Eurozone and default on its debts, these are the amounts of taxpayers’ money the main European countries would lose:

greece default

Ooops! No wonder Merkel and company have been involved in one of the greatest examples of kicking the can down the road in history by trying to force the bankrupt Greeks to borrow more money to pay back the debts they already owe but can’t repay in a million years.

Our EU leaders cannot or will not see how their actions and words constantly denigrate the common man, all while saying they are promoting democracy and equality. This “ever closer union” they keep blathering about doesn’t promote the people’s voice and democracy, but the power of the central government.

What the EU has been saying (through Junkers and various other bureaucrats) is that national sovereignty doesn’t matter, the future of Greece was less important than paying off the EU, who should never have lent money to Greece in the first place and then who had underhand dealings during the financial crash (forcing the Greeks to borrow even more money to avoid a collapse in the German and French banking systems) that made the entire debt problem worse.  And for all of that, they expected the Greek people to agree to pay out more money than they will ever be able to gather. The EU thought they could get away by offering permanent servitude and are surprised the Greek people rejected the offer.

We should not excuse past Greek regimes for borrowing and spending like drunken sailors. They did. But what’s done is done. This entire debacle is like our Wonga scandals. Everyone understands that someone on benefits can’t use payday lenders and make it work. While it was irresponsible for the borrowers to borrow money for holidays and TVs, it was even more irresponsible for Wonga to hard-sell their loans to people who had no way of paying them back. This is Greece’s story, too.

The Greeks had no choice in this vote. They could vote ‘yes’ and be permanently impoverished by the EU with no voice in their own future or vote ‘no’ and rip the plaster off in one fell swoop, take their lumps now as bankrupts and tell Merkel and company to foxtrot oscar.

I admire the courage of Greek voters. But I fear that the revenge of the Euro-elites will be brutal. The Greek David had better watch out. Germany’s Goliath is in a thoroughly bad mood now after David’s first stunning blow.

(By the way, things seem to unravelling for the Fat Lady of charity. We can expect more revelations over the next few days and this may be the end for fatty and her (IMHO) self-aggrandizing, self-promoting multi-million pound charity scam)

Be generous – help feed the fat lady of charity

Here’s the fragrant Camila Batmanghelidjh:

camila beautiful

She’s the founder of and will soon cease to be the chief executive of a charity called Kids Company:

You’ll probably have seen her being interviewed quite often on TV as she seems to get quite a deal of publicity for herself and her good works

She looks happy and well fed. But then she can afford to be on her quite generous salary. Unlike many other well-known charities, Kids Company refuses to reveal Ms Batmanghelidjh’s salary. But she is the chief executive and we know that the highest paid employee at Kids Company was paid somewhere between £90,000 and £100,000. So it would be reasonable to expect that the highest paid person was the chief executive.

Of course, many people will think that £90,000 to £100,000 is not huge for someone running a large organisation like Kids Company. Kids Company raises and spends about £22m a year and has about 495 employees. In comparison Save the Children pays its boss between £130,000 and £140,000, has a turnover of £308m and 3,551 employees, whilst the NSPCC also pays its big chief between £130,000 and £140,000, has a turnover of £125m and 1,810 employees. So, Camila is getting a reasonable wad for her comparatively small charity.

But do we need Kids Company at all? There are about 1,948 registered charities for helping children and another 309 helping kids. That’s 2,257 children’s charities. Of course, many of these children’s charities will be helping children in Third World hell-holes. But to my small brain, it seems almost inconceivable that not a single one of these 2,257 children’s charities is doing pretty much the same thing as Kids Company:

kids company

You’d be able to save an awful lot of money in salaries, office costs and suchlike if the bountiful Camila was employed by another charity rather than running her own. Though, of course, if the lovely and always exquisitively-dressed Camila was merely toiling away for some other children’s charity, she wouldn’t have got all the media exposure, honours and money that having your own personal charity can bring:

camila and cameron

But only a real cynic would ever suggest that Camila’s charity was as much about the promotion, financial remuneration and self-aggrandizement of the weighty Camila as it was about actually helping children in need.

Anyway, Camila has a little problem. The Government, which regularly gives Kids Company about £3m to £4m a year has threatened to withhold this money unless the Camila steps down as chief executive. Apparently the Government is concerned over ‘governance issues’ – I think that means financial mismanagement.

Depending on which news source you use, Camila has either refused to be bullied into resignation or else has resigned as it had always been her plan to leave after running the charity for 20 years. Moreover, Camila claims that there has been no financial mismanagement and that the real reason the Government wants her out is because of her criticism of the Government’s failures to protect children and prosecute establishment figures, such as the Great Escaper Lord Janner, accused of child abuse.

So, what will Big Camila do now if she loses her £90,000 to £100,000 boondoggle? Well don’t worry. Camila will now be taking up a new “advocacy and clinical role” so we should all keep giving to Kids Company to help feed the Fat Lady of charity.

Only our M*sl*m friends are allowed “hate speech”

Imagine if I wrote something like:

muslims vile

Well, I’d soon have PC Plod banging my door down and arresting me for hate speech and *sl*mophobia and incitement to violence and waaccciiiisssm and all that kind of thing.

As you have probably guessed, these are quotes from a rather well-known book in which the words ‘Christian’, ‘Jew’ or ‘unbeliever’ have been replaced with the word ‘M*sl*m.’

Here is how they actually appear:

Quran (8:55) – Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve

Quran (48:29) – Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves

Quran (9:30) – And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah… Allah (Himself) fights against them. How perverse are they!

Quran (8:12) – I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them

Quran (9:123) – O you who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness

Quran (5:33) – The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement

These verses come from different places in the Qur’an.  There are dozens of others scattered throughout that advocate violence in open-ended fashion.  There are hundreds more that speak of hatred and hell toward Christians, Jews, and other non-believers. And if you look at the list of atrocities below, there are really quite a lot of people who take this stuff rather seriously.

The language of civil rights and tolerance is merely an ironic tool of convenience for prominent M*sl*m organizations in the West to advance their cause of *sl*mic supremacy and to censor free speech so that no criticism can ever be made of our chums from the religion of peace. And our craven politicians and opinion leaders cower in fear as our civilisation comes under attack and use the law to prevent any of us voicing any concerns about what is happening.

Oh, and by the way, over the last 30 days over 3,500 people – more than 100 a day – have been killed (often in rather nasty ways) in the name of *sl*m by people who, PM David Qu’meron assures us as he slams the BBC for calling the “*sl*mic State” the “*sl*mic State”, have nothing to do with *sl*m which is a religion of peace and tolerance:

Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2015.07.03 Nigeria Malari 10 13 Two female suicide bombers blow up ten people in separate attacks along the same road.
2015.07.02 Mali Goundam 6 5 al-Qaeda attack a UN convoy, killing six peacekeepers.
2015.07.01 Yemen Aden 31 100 Women and children are among thirty horribly killed when Shiite radicals send rockets into a port city.
2015.07.01 Egypt Sinai 68 54 Three suicide bombings and attacks on five checkpoints by religious extremists leaves dozens of soldiers and civilians dead.
2015.06.30 Nigeria Monguno 48 17 Over four dozen men and boys are rounded up and mowed down by armed Sharia proponents.
2015.06.30 Afghanistan Helmand 2 51 A Fedayeen suicide bombing leaves two others dead.
2015.06.30 Syria Dair Ezzor 4 0 Two women are beheaded for ‘sorcery’ along with their husbands.
2015.06.29 Iraq Ramadi 4 8 Four people are pulverized when IS militants send rockets into a university.
2015.06.29 Egypt Cairo 1 7 An Islamist bomb blast claims the life of the country’s top prosecutor.
2015.06.29 Yemen Sanaa 28 35 Eight women are among twenty-eight mourners blown up at a Shiite funeral by Religion of Peace rivals.
2015.06.29 Israel Shvut Rachel 1 3 A targeted attack on Jewish motorists leaves a 25-year-old dead.
2015.06.27 Syria Kobane 42 0 Forty-two more civilians are discovered butchered by the Islamic State.
2015.06.27 Iraq Baghdad 5 13 Jihadi bombers take out five people near an auto-parts shop.
2015.06.27 Syria Daraa 9 24 At least nine civilians are killed during a two barrage of rockets into their neighborhood by Sunni extremists.
2015.06.27 Iraq Baghdad 3 8 A bomb blast at an outdoor market claims the lives of three innocents.
2015.06.27 Iraq Baiyaa 2 10 Two shoppers in a commercial district are exterminated by a well-hidden bomb.
2015.06.27 Syria Sheikh Hilal 40 0 At least forty are reported dead after three coordinated ISIS attacks.
2015.06.27 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Religion of Peace enthusiasts bomb a vegetable market, killing two.
2015.06.27 Mali Nara 3 0 Bearded Jihadis attack a small town and kill three defenders.
2015.06.27 Nigeria Maiduguri 3 16 Two female suicide bombers murder three people at a leprosy hospital.
2015.06.26 Afghanistan Want Waigal 12 25 A dozen local police and unknown number of civilians lose their lives to a Taliban attack.
2015.06.26 Somalia Leego 50 20 Fifty people are reported dead following a Shahid suicide bombing on an African Union base followed by shooting and beheading.
2015.06.26 Kuwait Kuwait City 27 227 Sunni radicals stage a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque, calling it the ‘temple of the rejectionists’ and leave over two dozen dead.
2015.06.26 Tunisia Sousse 39 36 Two Islamists massacre thirty-nine innocents with machine-guns at a beach resort popular with foreign tourists.
2015.06.26 France Lyon 1 2 A ‘normal Muslim’ attacks a factory, beheads one worker and raises the Islamist flag after hoisting the severed head on a fence.
2015.06.26 Syria Ain al-Arab 18 0 Children are among eighteen more victims found after an Islamic State rampage.
2015.06.26 Syria Kobani 103 150 Over one-hundred more civilians are butchered when the Islamic State overrun a Kurdish town and go ‘house to house’.
2015.06.26 Sudan Kadugli 2 0 Two traders are ambushed and shot dead by Janjiweed militia.
2015.06.26 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A physician is dragged from his hospital and executed by religious radicals.
2015.06.26 Afghanistan Alishang 2 1 Two people bleed out following a Taliban bomb blast at a bazaar.
2015.06.26 DRC May-Moya 8 20 Five villagers and three guards are killed by ADF Islamists.
2015.06.26 Syria Hassakeh 20 0 An ISIS suicide bomber takes out twenty people at a government building.
2015.06.25 Syria Kobane 15 70 Women and children are among fifteen Kurds killed by an ISIS car bomb.
2015.06.25 Iraq Hit 9 13 Rocket fire targeting an irrigation facility also kills nine civilians.
2015.06.25 Syria Kobane 5 5 Five Iraqis are taken out by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2015.06.25 Syria Bakha Botan 23 0 Twenty-three civilians, including women and children, are rounded up and executed by caliphate members.
2015.06.25 Syria Raqqa 12 0 A dozen captives are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2015.06.25 Iraq Nadheem al-Taqseem 14 27 ISIS fighters kill fourteen Iraqis.
2015.06.25 Pakistan Mubarkakpur 1 0 A young woman is beaten to death by her conservative father and brother over suspicion of an affair.
2015.06.25 Pakistan Oarmagai 2 2 Religious militants bomb a water truck, killing two occupants.
2015.06.25 Iraq Mahmudiyah 2 6 An 8-year-old child is among two disassembled by a Jihadi bombing at a market.
2015.06.25 Iraq Baghdad 6 16 A half-dozen Iraqis are reduced to part by a Mujahideen car bomb blast at a commercial district.
2015.06.24 Somalia Mogadishu 3 7 Three Somalis are laid out by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2015.06.24 Afghanistan Badakhshan 1 1 A Taliban bomb claims the life of a regional official.
2015.06.24 China Tahtakoruk 3 0 At least three defenders are killed when a Muslim mob descends on a police checkpoint with knives and bombs.
2015.06.24 Somalia Mogadishu 12 5 A dozen people are blown to bits by al-Shabaab car bombers.
2015.06.24 Iraq Mandli 14 21 Over a dozen civilians are wiped out by a car bomb outside their home.
2015.06.24 Iraq Jub al-Jarah 3 6 An ISIS assault on an Alawite village leaves three defenders dead.
2015.06.24 Israel Pedaya 1 0 A Jewish farmer is beaten to death in his field by Palestinians.
2015.06.24 Iraq Tal Afar 5 0 Five citizens are murdered by ISIS.
2015.06.24 Egypt Suez 1 0 A Christian is found shot twice in the chest after resisting pressure to convert to Islam.
2015.06.24 Iraq Nukhaib 2 8 A suicide bomber takes care of two Iraqis.
2015.06.23 Syria al-Tall 13 0 Thirteen worshippers at a mosque are sent straight to Allah by rival car bombers.
2015.06.23 Iraq Nineveh 4 0 Four men are executed by the Islamic State by being strapped into a car and then burned alive.
2015.06.23 Iraq Nineveh 5 0 The Islamic State puts five men in a cage, then slowly lowers it into a pool, drowning them.
2015.06.23 Iraq Nineveh 7 0 The caliphate straps explosives to the necks of seven men, then decapitate them by detonation.
2015.06.23 Nigeria Wagir 10 30 A ’12-year-old’ girl self-detonates in a crowded market. Shrapnel from the suicide vest lays out ten patrons.
2015.06.23 Yemen Aden 7 94 Seven civilians are killed when Shiite militia fire rockets into their neighborhood.
2015.06.23 Syria Deir Ezzor 0 2 Two children are tortured for not fasting during Ramadan.
2015.06.23 Nigeria Borno 42 24 Boko Haram burn homes, shoot children and cut the throats of women in a night-long rampage across two villages that leaves forty dead.
2015.06.23 Philippines Sumisip 2 3 An Abu Sayyaf bomb kills two soldiers on patrol.
2015.06.23 Syria Hassakeh 10 16 Two Shahid suicide bombers claim ten other souls near a children’s hospital.
2015.06.23 Iraq Balad Ruz 12 24 A dozen Iraqis at a tribal meeting are slaughtered by two Fedayeen suicide bombers.
2015.06.23 Niger Yebi 5 0 Boko Haram kill five villagers and set fire to their homes.
2015.06.23 Syria Aleppo 2 8 Two civilians are reduced to pulp by a Sunni rocket attack on their neighborhood.
2015.06.22 Philippines Shariff Aguak 2 0 Bangsamoro Islamists gun down two unarmed off-duty soldiers were helping to repair a school.
2015.06.22 Nigeria Maiduguri 30 30 Two teenage girls blow themselves up at a mosque, laying out thirty rival worshippers.
2015.06.22 Syria Izra 4 3 Four people are torn apart by a Sunni car bomb blast at the entrance to a Christian town.
2015.06.22 Libya Benghazi 4 20 An Islamist car bomb claims four souls.
2015.06.22 Iraq Tal Afar 70 0 A mass grave is discovered, containing the remains of seventy victims of ISIS executions.
2015.06.22 Afghanistan Kabul 2 31 A suicide assault on parliament claims the lives of a woman and 10-year-old girl.
2015.06.22 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 A Religion of Peace drive-by leaves two dead.
2015.06.22 Iraq Mosul 26 0 Over two dozen Iraqis are lined up and shot in front of a crowd by the Islamic State.
2015.06.22 Iraq Ramadi 2 8 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills two and injures eight.
2015.06.22 Iraq Habariya 8 0 A suicide bombing is one of four Mujahid blasts that leave eight dead.
2015.06.22 Afghanistan Logharo Peerano 3 0 Three people are shot point-blank in their car by suspected Sunni radicals.
2015.06.22 Afghanistan Chakhansor 1 0 A cleric is gunned down by Religion of Peace rivals.
2015.06.22 Iraq Baghdad 2 7 Jihadis set off a bomb at a crowded market, killing two.
2015.06.21 India Kulgam 1 0 Police claim that a civilian was killed by a Lashkar-e-Toiba bullet.
2015.06.21 Austria Graz 3 34 A 4-year-old boy is among three slain in a shopping district by a ‘mentally ill’ Muslim with a stated interest in Jihad.
2015.06.21 Syria Qamishli 2 4 A suicide bomber takes out two security guards.
2015.06.21 Iraq Mahmudiyah 3 9 Terrorists bomb an outdoor market, killing three civilians.
2015.06.20 Afghanistan Nangarhar 1 0 The Islamic State kidnaps and beheads a rural rehabilitation worker.
2015.06.20 Afghanistan Marjah 18 4 A family of eighteen is exterminated by Religion of Peace bombers.
2015.06.20 Syria Aleppo 3 18 Three residents are killed when Sunni radicals fire rockets into their neighborhood.
2015.06.20 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 At least one other person is killed by three al-Shabaab suicide bombers.
2015.06.20 Yemen Sanaa 2 6 Two people at a mosque are taken out by an ISIS suicide bomber.
2015.06.20 Iraq Mosul 3 0 Three former candidates for the Iraqi parliament are captured and executed by the caliphate.
2015.06.20 Somalia Afgoi 8 0 Islamic hardliners shoot eight policemen to death and steal their vehicles.
2015.06.20 Pakistan Sopore 1 4 Islamists attack a police vehicle, injuring four and killing a prisoner.
2015.06.20 Afghanistan Qara Bagh 6 2 A half-dozen police officers are massacred by religious radicals, who began with a suicide bombing.
2015.06.20 Iraq Julan 3 16 Three children bleed to death from shrapnel injuries caused by ISIS mortars.
2015.06.20 Iraq Garma 30 0 A mass grave containing thirty ISIS execution victims is discovered.
2015.06.20 Pakistan Punjab 2 0 Two women are honor killed by their brother and nephew.
2015.06.20 Afghanistan Baghlan 1 0 Fundamentalists are suspected of shooting a doctor to death in his home.
2015.06.19 Iraq Anbar 30 30 A 15-year-old suicide bomber wades into a funeral and sends thirty mourners to Allah.
2015.06.19 Iraq Hit 3 0 Three Iraqis are forced to their knees and then shot in the head by caliphate members.
2015.06.19 Yemen Shibam 1 0 al-Qaeda gunmen assassinate a rival imam.
2015.06.19 Afghanistan Girishk 2 0 An attempted assassination by the Taliban leaves two bodyguards dead.
2015.06.19 Israel Dolev 1 1 A 25-year-old Jewish man is shot in his car by a Palestinian terrorist who feigned needing help.
2015.06.19 Libya Benghazi 5 0 An ISIS mortar claims the lives of five Libyans.
2015.06.19 Afghanistan Nangarhar 3 0 The Islamic State shoots two men in the back of the head and beheads another.
2015.06.19 Pakistan Adda 1 0 A 17-year-old girl is ‘honor’ strangled by her father on suspicion of an affair.
2015.06.18 Somalia Adado 1 0 A bystander loses his life to a suicide bomber.
2015.06.18 Iraq Fallujah 11 23 ISIS mortars take the lives of a dozen Iraqis.
2015.06.18 Lebanon Ain al-Hilweh 1 1 A bystander is killed during a dispute between Jund al-Sham and Fatah.
2015.06.18 Nigeria Wakama 2 0 Muslims shoot an Anglican pastor and a 9-year-old boy to death.
2015.06.18 Niger Diffa 38 24 Boko Haram believers set fire to two small towns while shooting and burning about forty residents, including fourteen women and ten children.
2015.06.18 Syria Aleppo 12 21 A dozen people die from shrapnel caused by Sunni rocket attacks on two neighborhoods.
2015.06.18 Somalia Gedweyne 4 6 al-Shabaab claims an attack that kills four Somalis.
2015.06.18 Iraq Mosul 25 0 Twenty-five more Iraqis are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.06.18 Iraq Khurmatu 1 4 Shiite militia open fire on a civilian vehicle, killing a father of three.
2015.06.17 Iraq Qara Taba 1 1 Islamic bombers target a car carrying two teachers, killing one and wounding the other.
2015.06.17 Egypt al-Arish 1 3 Religious radicals kill a local police officer with a planted bomb.
2015.06.17 Yemen Mukalla 2 0 Two Saudi hostages are executed by an al-Qaeda firing squad.
2015.06.17 Syria Raqqa 1 0 Caliphate members tie a man to a cross and cut off his hand and foot before beheading him.
2015.06.17 Iraq Baghdad 7 16 A Shahid suicide bomber blows seven innocents into disparate parts.
2015.06.17 Yemen Sanaa 31 60 Five Sunni suicide bombers massacre over thirty people at Shia mosques.
2015.06.17 Nigeria Monguno 63 45 Boko Haram bombs claim the lives of over sixty innocents at a market.
2015.06.17 Iraq Anbar 12 0 ISIS fanatics sneak onto a military base and massacre a dozen personnel in their barracks.
2015.06.17 Iraq Anbar 2 0 Two Iraqis are forced to the ground and shot in the head by the Islamic State.
2015.06.17 Uganda Nabuli 1 0 A mother of eleven is poisoned by her own family after leaving Islam for Christianity.
2015.06.17 Philippines Barangay Pamalian 4 0 Bangsamoro Islamic members fire into a civilian vehicle, killing all four occupants.
2015.06.17 Afghanistan Musa Qala 11 0 Eleven security personnel at a government building are slain during a Taliban assault.
2015.06.16 Afghanistan Daykundi 3 16 Taliban bombers take out three civilians, including a child.
2015.06.16 India Bijbehara 1 0 Islamic radicals fire into a police station, killing an officer.
2015.06.16 Syria al-Mezzeh 1 7 One resident dies when Sunnis send a mortar into a rival neighborhood.
2015.06.16 Iraq Diyala 4 6 Caliphate members slaughter four female students with a roadside bomb.
2015.06.16 Syria Damascus 9 13 Terrorists shell a park packed with Ramadan shoppers, killing nine, including five women.
2015.06.16 Philippines Sitio Bohepeyat 1 8 Muslim ‘extremists’ kill a local soldier on patrol with a pipe bomb.
2015.06.16 Nigeria Damboa 8 0 At least eight security personnel are killed by a Boko Haram roadside bomb.
2015.06.16 Iraq Amiriyat Al Falluja 5 6 ISIS fire rockets into a small town, killing five defenders.
2015.06.16 Iraq Baiji 4 6 Four people bleed out following a brutal attack by the Islamic State.
2015.06.16 Afghanistan Kunduz 3 2 Three people are shot to death by the Taliban.
2015.06.16 Iraq Garma 4 0 Four Iraqis are disassembled by a suicide bomber.
2015.06.16 Somalia Mogadishu 3 9 Three Somalis are ripped to shreds by an al-Shabaab roadside blast.
2015.06.15 Afghanistan Sarak-e-Bala 6 0 A half-dozen Afghans are machine-gunned at a checkpoint by Sunni fundamentalists.
2015.06.15 Nigeria Potiskum 11 9 Two women are among eleven civilians taken out by two Shahid suicide bombers at a tea stand.
2015.06.15 Chad N’Djamena 33 101 A bloody suicide attack by Boko Haram leaves nearly three dozen others dead.
2015.06.15 Iraq Fallujah 13 23 ISIS militants kill thirteen Iraqis.
2015.06.15 Pakistan Sopore 2 0 Two men are shot to death in separate attacks blamed on Lashkar-e-Islam.
2015.06.15 Tunisia Sidi Bouzid 3 1 Three policemen are shot point blank by Islamists at a checkpoint.
2015.06.15 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslim terrorists murder a local cop on a motorbike.
2015.06.14 Iraq Mosul 25 0 Twenty-five Iraqis are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.06.14 Iraq Riyahah 4 6 Four others are killed by ISIS gunmen.
2015.06.14 Afghanistan Takhar 4 0 Taliban bombers murder four people with a roadside bomb.
2015.06.14 Iraq Baghdad 10 20 Ten patrons are sectionalized by a Fedayeen suicide bomber at an outdoor market.
2015.06.14 Syria Homs 0 32 Sunni terrorists set off a bomb outside a school, injuring over thirty.
2015.06.14 Nigeria Babbangida 4 0 Four people lose their lives to a shooting and burning spree by Sharia activists.
2015.06.14 Iraq Shalalat 1 0 A former female candidate is executed by the caliphate.
2015.06.14 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A woman is stoned to death for adultery.
2015.06.14 Afghanistan Khalil Bagh 2 3 A woman is among two people whose lives are cut short by Taliban bombers.
2015.06.13 Afghanistan Nangarhar 1 0 A captive is beaten and beheaded by the Islamic State.
2015.06.13 Egypt North Sinai 3 0 Several Bedouin are reportedly beheaded by Islamic radicals.
2015.06.13 DRC Beni 8 10 Eight people are hacked to death by ADF Islamists.
2015.06.13 Kenya Mangai 2 0 Islamists invade a village, preach at the mosque for hours, then murder two people.
2015.06.13 Iraq Hajjaj 13 29 Two Fedayeen suicide bombers kill thirteen Iraqis.
2015.06.13 Iraq Garma 18 25 A mass ISIS suicide attack leaves eighteen others dead.
2015.06.13 Afghanistan Helmand 20 10 Twenty local police officers are ambushed and killed by armed fundamentalists.
2015.06.13 Nigeria Bale 3 5 A suicide bomber on a bicycle pedals to paradise, taking three innocents with him.
2015.06.12 Libya Derna 7 30 Seven protesters are quickly shot to death for protesting the Islamic State in Libya.
2015.06.12 Pakistan Sopore 1 0 A shopkeeper is shot to death by militant Muslims.
2015.06.12 Saudi Arabia Jizan 1 1 A civilian is killed by a Shiite rocket attack on a rival mosque.
2015.06.12 Iraq Mosul 6 0 Six hostages are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.06.12 Pakistan Torkham 2 4 Jihadis take out two civilians with a bomb hidden in a push cart full of quilts.
2015.06.12 Egypt Sharqia 1 0 A teacher who opposed the Muslim Brotherhood is assassinated by three members.
2015.06.11 Cameroon Makari 2 23 Two Cameroon soldiers are killed by a Boko Haram rocket attack on their way to protect a village.
2015.06.11 Egypt Sinai 1 0 ISIS in Egypt force a man to dig his own grave before shooting him in the head.
2015.06.11 Pakistan Hayatabad 2 6 The Taliban take credit for a Shahid suicide bombing that leaves two others dead.
2015.06.10 Mali Misseni 1 0 Gunmen murder a cop while shouting praises to Allah.
2015.06.10 Egypt Luxor 0 4 Two suicide bombers attack a popular tourist site.
2015.06.10 Syria Qalb Loze 20 0 A child and several elderly people are among twenty Druze murdered in cold blood by al-Qaeda.
2015.06.10 Iraq Ghazlani 130 0 An ISIS mass execution produces one-hundred and thirty dead captives.
2015.06.10 Iraq Mahmoudiya 3 7 Jihadis plant a bomb on a motorcycle that leaves three dead patrons in a commercial district.
2015.06.10 Iraq Baghdad 9 22 Nine people are disassembled by a suicide bomb blast along a city street.
2015.06.09 Iraq Baghdad 10 24 Three women are among ten restaurant patrons pulled into pieces by a Religion of Peace blast.
2015.06.09 Libya Sirte 3 0 Three guards at a power plant are killed by Islamic State militants.
2015.06.09 Pakistan Sopore 1 0 A pharmacist is shot to death by Lashkar-e-Islam.
2015.06.09 Afghanistan Bagram 1 1 A female American civilian is killed by a Taliban rocket.
2015.06.09 Pakistan Shah Latif 1 0 A Shiite official is gunned down by the Tehreek-e-Taliban.
2015.06.09 Iraq Fallujah 9 15 Two suicide bombers take out nine Iraqis.
2015.06.09 Iraq Baghdad 6 21 Jihadis bomb a vegetable market, taking out a half-dozen shoppers.
2015.06.09 Iraq Youssifiyah 4 8 Four Iraqis are sent to Allah by Mujahid bombers.
2015.06.09 Nigeria Borno 27 0 Over two dozen people lose their lives when Islamists open fire on residents of two villages (Buraltima and Dirmanti).
2015.06.09 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 A 53-year-old man and his teenage son are shot to death in their truck by Muslim ‘separatists’.
2015.06.09 Afghanistan Faryab 5 2 A family of five is wiped out by a Taliban bomb blast at their home.
2015.06.09 Nigeria Matangale 16 0 Boko Haram open fire on women gathered to do laundry, killing sixteen.
2015.06.08 Saudi Arabia Dhahran Al-Janoub 2 0 Two border guards are killed by Shiite rockets.
2015.06.08 Pakistan North Waziristan 7 14 Seven others are killed by a religious radical with a suicide vest.
2015.06.08 Egypt Sheihk Zuweid 1 5 Velayat Sinai Islamists gun down a local soldier manning a checkpoint.
2015.06.08 Nigeria Huyum 19 3 Islamists walk into a village and begin shooting indiscriminately, slaughtering nineteen innocents.
2015.06.07 Iraq Qayara 2 0 Two Iraqi policemen are executed by ISIS.
2015.06.07 Pakistan Quetta 5 0 Five people are shot to death in Sunni raids on two tea shops belonging to the Hazara religious minority.
2015.06.07 Nigeria Maiduguri 16 24 Boko Haram bombers turn an outdoor market into a mass of blood and body parts.
2015.06.07 Iraq Qara Tapa 1 0 A civilian is kidnapped and burned alive by caliphate members.
2015.06.07 Nigeria Borno 2 4 Two people are reduced to parts by a female suicide bomber along a highway.
2015.06.07 Libya Misrata 4 2 Islamic State members capture four guards and slit their throats.
2015.06.06 Iraq Baghdad 10 28 A series of Islamic State bomb blasts produce ten dead Iraqis.
2015.06.06 Iraq Balad Ruz 15 37 A suicide car bomber lays out fifteen patrons at a restaurant district.
2015.06.06 Somalia Wajir 3 0 An Islamist opens fire on a group of people, killing three – including a woman.
2015.06.06 Philippines Maluso 1 0 A man is captured and beheaded by Abu Sayyaf.
2015.06.05 Iraq Baqubah 5 0 A brutal roadside blast takes out five civilians.
2015.06.05 Saudi Arabia Jizan 4 0 Four Saudis are killed in a cross-border attack by Shiite militia.
2015.06.04 Iraq Tharthar Lake 2 6 A suicide bomber kills two other people.
2015.06.04 Libya Derna 1 0 A local soldier is beheaded in front of a mosque by ISIS as kids look on.
2015.06.04 Afghanistan Lashkar Gah 4 6 A suicide bomber takes out four Afghans.
2015.06.04 Iraq Fallujah 17 8 A suicide assault on a security base produces seventeen dead Iraqis.
2015.06.04 Iraq al-Mazraa 4 9 Four people are left dead following an ISIS mortar barrage.
2015.06.04 Iraq Baghdad 2 7 Two people bleed to death following an Islamist bomb blast at an industrial area.
2015.06.04 Nigeria Yola 45 40 Two suicide bombers detonate at a packed market, slaughtering over forty innocents.
2015.06.04 Nigeria Maiduguri 8 0 Eight Nigerians are pulled into pieces by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2015.06.04 Iraq Fallujah 2 0 Two more gay men are thrown from a rooftop by the Islamic State.
2015.06.04 Iraq Barwana 6 4 The Islamic State sends rockets into a small town, killing six.
2015.06.03 Iraq Fallujah 4 7 Four people are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2015.06.03 Iraq Baghdad 7 17 Terrorists set off three bombs that leave seven dead.
2015.06.03 Iraq Baghdad 4 11 Four people are killed when Jihadis set off a bomb near an auto parts shop.
2015.06.03 Iraq Nineveh 1 0 A gay man is hung by his feet and then dropped from a building by Allah praisers.
2015.06.03 Algeria Batna 5 2 Two attacks by al-Qaeda leave five others dead.
2015.06.03 Nigeria Maiduguri 6 29 Six people are sectionalized by a Boko Haram blast at a mechanic’s garage.
2015.06.03 Afghanistan Nangarhar 10 0 Ten captives are beheaded by ISIS.
2015.06.03 Syria Hasaka 2 0 Two men are shot in the back of the head by the Islamic State.
2015.06.03 Thailand Yala 4 0 Off-duty soldiers riding in a civilian vehicle are machine-gunned point-blank by Muslim terrorists.
2015.06.03 Egypt Giza 2 0 Fundamentalists on motorcycles shoot two tourism guards to death near the pyramids.

 

Let’s play the “Great Greece Blame Game” – hours of never-ending fun for all the family

Money may be in short supply in Greece. But there is no shortage of accusations as to who is to blame for the country’s economic collapse. Most of Europe seems to be ganging up against Greece. And they are right to accuse the Greeks for profligacy, corruption, waste and massive overspending on public-sector non-jobs, inflated salaries and pensions at 50.

But Greek leaders, on the other hand, claim their country is being financially waterboarded and asphyxiated by the jackboot of Germany monetary might.

A 500-word blog isn’t the place to give a profound and educative analysis. But here are just three of many reasons (which most of the ‘experts’ often fail to mention) why Greece’s creditors are not quite as innocent of blame for the current catastrophe as they like to make out

1. Lending to a unreformed and unreformable spendaholic – Below is a chart showing how many times some of the world’s most incompetently run countries have defaulted in the last 200 years (click to see more clearly)

defaults

While not achieving the spectacular Gordon-Brownian financial incontinence of many Latin American countries, Greece is doing pretty well with no fewer than seven defaults – the latest five being 1826, 1843, 1860, 1894 and 1932. And now with the current cock-up, at eight defaults Greece has moved up towards Argentinian levels of recidivist self-bankruptcy.

The lenders, mainly German and French banks, seem to have blindly ignored history and shoveled money into the financial black hole that is Greece in the knowledge that their political power and ‘too big to fail’ size would mean they would always be bailed out by EU taxpayers if things went t*ts up as they inevitable would

 2. It’s the creditors that have been bailed out – we keep hearing about ‘Greek bailouts‘. There has been no ‘Greek bailout‘. The last Greek bailout was actually a bailout for the German and French banks that so foolishly loaned so much to Greece. Over 90% of the bailout funds went straight to the German and French banks which would have collapsed had Greece not been ‘bailed out’ and the Greek debts were pushed onto the shoulders of ordinary EU taxpayers. As for the new supposed ‘bailout’, Greece will be borrowing more money to pay back the money it has already borrowed. Even if Greece is ‘bailed out’ yet again, it will still owe more money than it can ever repay
3. Greece is bankrupt, it’s time to reboot – Greece owes €322bn. That’s over €80,000 for each Greek in work. If the Greeks are paying just 2% interest on their debt, that’s about €6.5bn a year – €2,200 a year for every working Greek.The country is bankrupt and can only survive with some form of debt forgiveness as the IMF have been saying all along. But our EU-rulers are afraid to give any debt forgiveness as their taxpayers might suddenly realise how much money they’re about to lose due to the bungling of their empire-building politicians.
Anyway, all in all, it’s rather fun to watch – so get a few beers in, order some pizzas and sit back to enjoy the show, folks!

Oh well, at least my mother isn’t wandering down the road naked

Not really time to research and write a blog today as I have a family situation to deal with. The joys of having a parent with dementia:

dementia

Still perhaps I should look on the bright side:

– the mother of one person I know has just been turfed out of a nursing home for going berserk and trashing her room and she’s in her eighties

– the father of another person used to attack him kicking and hitting him every time he went to visit

– another got his daughter to rush all the way from London to Wales because of a disaster he couldn’t cope with. It turned out he just got confused about which day the gardener was coming

– another had his father-in-law come to visit. His father-in-law drove a couple of hours, almost reached his son-in-law’s house, went round the local roundabout a couple of times and then drove straight home as he couldn’t remember why he was in his car

– and one woman’s mother did start taking her clothes off and wandering naked along the road.

Given these incidents, I guess I should count myself lucky that my mother hasn’t yet started on any of these games.