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Is it time time to call the “Scottish Lion’s bluff”?

Here he is, the great Alex Salmond who claims “the Scottish lion has roared”. Though he looks more like a bloated overweight toad than a roaring lion:

scot bluff

But who in England wants to hear the triumphalist, benefits-dependent Scots whingeing and moaning every minute of every day for the next five years as they claim they’re being oppressed by the horrible Tawries? Not me. Perhaps it’s time to call the Scottish toad’s bluff?

About 36 years ago Labour Treasury Secretary Joel Barnett came up with a supposedly temporary allocation of money to the four countries making up the UK. It became known as the “Barnett Formula”. Every year for the last 36 years, the Scrots have received much more public spending per head of population than  the English and the Welsh. In 2014, this Barnett Formula led to the Scots getting £10,152 per head compared to just £8,529 in England. So the Scrots are receiving £1,623 per head in public spending (19% ) more than the English:

barnett formula

Lord Barnett never intended his formula to last for 36 years. In fact he described it as a “terrible mistake” during the Scottish referendum.

He said it had become a “national embarrassment” and that he felt ashamed his name was still associated with it. Lord Barnett, who died aged 91 in November 2014 admitted “It is unfair and should be stopped, it is a mistake. This way is terrible and can never be sustainable, it is a national embarrassment and personally embarrassing to me as well“.

Now that the People’s Democratic Republic of Scotland has become a socialist, one-party state, perhaps it’s time to discard the Barnett Formula? Perhaps it’s time to give the whingeing. complaining Scots full fiscal independence? That means they would have full tax and spending powers and they can only spend the money they raise in taxes and can borrow on international financial markets.

If we did this, the ghastly Salmond and Sturgeon would discover that they needed to find another £5bn to £8bn more than they currently raise in tax to carry on offering the Scrots all the goodies like free university, free prescriptions and other things the Scrots get, but are not available in England because we can’t afford them.

In fact, if the Scots actually got the fiscal independence they keep demanding, they would be bankrupt within a year. But they keep demanding fiscal independence in the certain knowledge that the dreadful Tawries would never give it. Maybe it’s time to call their bluff? Let’s give them full tax and spending powers and then watch with glee as they become another Greece and founder and sink. Perhaps their beloved EU will bail them out?

So, don’t be taken in by the strident Sturgeon’s and ridiculous Salmond’s empty bluster and outrageous lies. They have their greedy mouths firmly clamped onto the abundant, ever-giving teats of the English taxpayer and nothing will ever loosen their grip on our money.

Apparently there’s a joke:

Q: What’s a well-balanced Scot?

A. One with chips on both his/her shoulders

Let us savour arrogant Ed Milistone’s utter humiliation

I’d love to have heard the phone conversation between David and Ed MiliBrand after Labour’s crushing defeat:

Tring tring

Ed: Hello

David: Hi Ed

Ed: Yah, hi David

David: Ed, I’m just ha-ha-ha-ha- calling to say ha-ha-ha-ha how terribly sorry ha-ha-ha-ha how sorry ha-ha-ha-ha how really sorry I really am about your ha-ha-ha-ha election results ha-ha-ha-ha etc etc

In the meantime, let’s enjoy the crushing of Ed Milistone’s farcical dream of becoming the British Prime Minister. After all, as Dodgy Dave grovels to Adolf Merkel and her squadron of Junckers, we’ll have much to cry about in the months and years to come (click on pictures to see more clearly) (apologies for my lack of originality to readers who have already seen these)

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And now that Clegg is toast, what on earth am I going to do with all my copies of my book – GREED UNLIMITED:How Cameron and Clegg Protect the Elites While Squeezing the rest of Us

Britain pulls back from the brink of total disaster

I’m no fan of PR man Podgy Dodgy David Cameron. Hence my book GREED UNLIMITED How Cameron and Clegg Protect the Elites While Squeezing the Rest of Us

But the alternative to recidivist liar Cameron was truly too awful to contemplate. Red Len McCluskey’s wet dream would have been Britain’s worst nightmare:

Miliband and Mccluskey

Yesterday Britain truly pulled back from the brink of total disaster.

The person we should probably thank most is the lovely Nicola Sturgeon. The thought of this ghastly, strident Scottish Harpy controlling Ed Miliband and the country seems to have been more than many English voters could take:

sturgeon boot Cameron

Hence, I believe, the late Tory surge.

Amongst the other pleasures of the night were sublime moments like seeing the utterly useless Ed ‘Windmill’ Davey and David ‘Liar and Crook’ Laws leaving Westminster to find new jobs. What joy!

davey and laws

But it’s not over yet…….. Maybe there are more delights to come? I’m off to see if the financially-incontinent, economically-illiterate Gordon-Brown-thinkalike Ed Balls also loses his seat. Yup, he’s gone. Aaahhhh how wonderful not to have to see his fat, stupid face for the next 5 years.

In the meantime, Dodgy Dave can celebrate his great vic-tory:

cameron wins 2015

Though I do feel a little sorry for the LibDems. When they went into coalition, of course they wanted all the pay, perks and privileges of power. But they also did the right thing for our country. It was rather immature of voters to give them such a hammering.

Beware the “TicketMaster”, “Live Nation” and “Get Me In” (IMHO) scam

Readers have probably had enough of politics. So here’s something that doesn’t mention Dodgy Dave and Red Ed.

A reader sent me this email:

Ripped off at 66. You would think at my age that I would have encountered every scam going.
When tickets for a Take That concert in Manchester in May 2015 became available with Ticketmaster in November, I decided to purchase two tickets for myself and my Wife. One minute after they became available. I was told they were sold out but redirected to Get-Me-In.
The cost of the tickets were £210 each plus charges etc. taking the total to £509.59.
I purchased the tickets and received them today 6th May. I noticed the price on the tickets was £85. I went online to Get-Me-In and found that I could have bought similar tickets today for £150 including charges. The face value of the tickets was still £85 but were offered at £65 plus charges. This is robbery with insolence. How do firms like Ticketmaster and their partner Get-Me-In get away with it???

So, I thought it might be worth repeating a post I wrote in 2012. I hope some readers will find it useful:

Apologies if you already know about this (IMHO) massive rip-off on tickets to concerts and sporting events, but I just found out about it. It goes like this:

I saw an ad in the Sunday Times for a tour by Bruce Springsteen. I tried to buy tickets at www.ticketmaster.co.uk as directed in the ad. Unfortunately every type of ticket was sold out. But helpfully, ticketmaster.co.uk directed me to another website www.getmein.com where loads of tickets for all areas of the stadium were available – at 2 to 3 times the original price. So I tried the other website cited in theSunday Times ad – www.livenation.co.uk. Once again, all tickets were sold out. But once again I was directed to www.getmein.com where tickets to all parts of the stadium were available – of course, at 2 to 3 times the face price.

I did a little googling and found out that www.getmein.co.uk was originally a website where “members of the public” (actually, ticket touts) could sell supposedly “unwanted” tickets at whatever price they thought they could get. But the firm that owns ticketmaster.co.uk bought www.getmein.com in 2008. I believe what is really happening is that the firm owning the websites is creaming off thousands (probably tens of thousands) of tickets and then touting them through its www.getmein.com website at several times the real price. If they sold say 40,000 tickets at double the face value, they’d make an extra £2.5m from just one Bruce Springsteen concert.

Apparently, for a Rolling Stones concert, www.getmein.com was flogging £400 tickets for up to £15,000. Of course, Ticketmaster deny they are selling their own tickets through www.getmein.com. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the same firm also owns www.livenation.co.uk and the whole set-up is just a massive scam to cheat music and sports fans.

I wonder if Bruce Springsteen knows that this (IMHO) huge scam is going on. I wonder if he cares. I wonder if he and his promoter are also in on the scam so they too can earn lots more money. Who knows?

You can read more at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221371/Fury-Ticketmaster-directs-Rolling-Stones-fans-touts-website-charging-15-000-ticket.html

Human traffickers crack open the champagne at our stupidity

Boy oh boy, this is turning out to be a great week for Africa’s people traffickers. And it’s still only Wednesday.

We’ve now been told that our government is going to borrow more money to send a British ship and helicopters to rescue African migrants being sent by people-smugglers across the Med. Our HMS Bulwark – a 19,000-tonne amphibious ship – will work in tandem with three Merlin helicopters, operating out of a naval air station in Sigonella, Sicily to provide a wide-ranging search-and-rescue capability.

How Africa’s human traffickers must be celebrating. Previously they had to cram their cargoes of migrants into boats that looked like they might possibly be able to cross to Europe. But now the smugglers just need to get their human cargoes a few miles offshore and British and other rescuers will helpfully pick the migrants up and take them to Europe.

This brilliant decision will make the people-smugglers’ job much easier and will hugely increase the number of migrants they can send to Europe.

Why don’t we just build a bridge across the Straits of Gibraltar and hand a British passport and National Insurance number to every African that wants to cross?

Meanwhile, Australia has avoided being swamped by migrants under Operation Sovereign Borders, whereby their military intercepts the people-smugglers’ boats and takes them to offshore islands where the illegal immigrants are processed and most are then sent home.

It makes you want to weep comparing Australia’s decisiveness with our cowardice.

Help us! Help us!

As for the wonderful people we’re transporting completely free of charge across the Med, they make a great job of portraying themselves as victims:

save us

But most are actually economic migrants trying to escape the poverty and hopelessness caused by their own incompetent, corrupt, kleptocratic rulers.

We hate you! We want to kill you!

Yet as soon as they get here and receive their benefits plus free housing, free healthcare, free schooling for their children, free everything, do they thank us? Do they show any gratitude? No exactly. In fact, they try to turn our cities into Third World slums and try to impose their primitive death cult masquerading as a religion on us.

So, here’s a message to all those who gave their lives protecting Britain in two world wars: “you wasted you lives for nothing. Britain is being turned into an *sl*mic hell-hole ruled by Germany”

I liked a comment made by a reader a couple of weeks ago – “if you allowed all Africans to come to Europe and took all of Europe’s population to Africa, within 20 years Europe would be an impoverished, excrement-covered, corrupt cesspit and Africa would be a thriving, economic success story”.

(Just a little story that might have slipped by unnoticed by most people. On Monday this week, EU president Jean Claude Juncker held a meeting with Greece’s former prime minister Antonis Samaras. I’m sure Mr Juncker is a busy man, so it’s interesting that he had time to meet up with an ex-leader. I wonder what they talked about. Reminiscing over old times? Or getting ready for the EU to force Greece into bankruptcy to destroy the Left-wing elected Syriza government and replace it with an obedient administration led by Samaras because the EU is terrified that, if Syriza were to succeed in rescuing Greece from economic collapse, then that would give a huge boost to anti-EU parties in Italy, Portugal and Spain?)

Soon criticising *sl*m may be a criminal offence

Hopefully most readers know that one of the many pledges made by the treacherous communist Red Ed MiliBrand is that he will make “*sl*mophobia” a criminal offence.

But hold on, the dictionary describes a phobia as “an extreme fear or dislike of a particular thing or situation, especially one that cannot be reasonably explained”

About 30 days ago, I put a list of *sl*mic attacks and murders in the previous 30 days on my website. So, it’s that time of the month again – when I publish a list of the activities of our friends from the Religion of Peace (see below). In the previous 30 days (up to 6th April), there were 218 attacks. During the last 30 days there were 224. As for the number of dead and injured, there are so many, that I lost track each time I tried to count them. But at a guess more than 3,000 people – over 100 a day – have been killed in the name of the Religion of Peace during the last 30 days.

It’s a pity that none of the mainstream media considers this almost unbelievable daily carnage to be worth reporting.

Looking at the list, I’d say that fear of *sl*m is totally rational and can thus be “reasonably explained”. Therefore it is not “*sl*mophobic” to be terrified of “sl*m.

If the slimy little shit Miliband passes his ludicrous *sl*mophiliac law, it will be interesting to see whether the person accused can use the many thousands of examples of *sl*mic intolerance and violence to argue that critisicing *sl*m is totally rational and reasonable.

I can understand, even if MiliBrand can’t, why ordinary people might be ever so slightly apprehensive of letting our country become an *sl*mic state.

List of *sl*mic attacks during the last 30 days

Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2015.05.04 Pakistan Deri Ghazi Khan 1 0 One person is killed when Islamic militants attack a school.
2015.05.01 Iraq Baiji 16 10 Sixteen Iraqis are blown to bits by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2015.05.01 Libya Benghazi 3 7 Three medics are exterminated by a suspected Ansar al-Sharia mortar round.
2015.04.30 Iraq Madain 3 11 Three people at a cafe are obliterated in mid-bite by Religion of Peace bombers.
2015.04.30 Yemen Shabwa 15 0 The Islamic State releases a video showing the beheading and shooting of fifteen captives.
2015.04.29 Iraq Mosul 10 0 Ten oil workers are forced to their knees and shot in the head by the Islamic State.
2015.04.27 Libya Bayda 6 0 Six journalists are found with their throats slit months after being taken by the Islamic State.
2015.04.27 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A village chief is assassinated by Muslim ‘separatists’.
2015.04.27 Nigeria Damasak 400 0 Officials announce the discovery of a mass grave containing four-hundred Boko Haram victims.
2015.04.27 Iraq Nineveh 2 0 Two are stoned to death for adultery as children look on.
2015.04.27 Thailand Pattani 1 1 A bomb planted by Muslim terrorists kills one person and injures another.
2015.04.27 Afghanistan Kunduz 8 2 A Taliban assault on a small town leaves eight defenders dead.
2015.04.27 Iraq Kobani 10 0 Islamic State militants sneak into a town and execute ten Kurds.
2015.04.27 Pakistan Mekran 3 0 Three Shiites are shot to death by Sunnis while waiting for a bus.
2015.04.27 Bosnia Zvornik 1 2 A man yelling ‘Allah Akbar’ opens fire on a police station in the Serbian area, killing one person inside.
2015.04.27 Iraq Baghdad 10 27 Children are among the casualties when a brutal bomb blast in a shopping district claims ten lives.
2015.04.27 Nigeria Guma 13 0 Thirteen Christians are slaughtered in their homes by Muslim raiders.
2015.04.26 Kenya Mandera 1 0 Sharia activists kidnap a secular official, tie him to a tree and execute him.
2015.04.26 Iraq Nukhaib 7 2 Suicide bombers take out seven Iraqis.
2015.04.26 Syria Aleppo 3 1 A father and daughter are among three killed by an Islamist rocket.
2015.04.26 Afghanistan Shinkay 6 0 Two children and a woman are among a family of six disassembled by a Taliban bomb blast.
2015.04.26 Afghanistan Uruzgan 1 0 Religious radicals gun down a bank official.
2015.04.26 Afghanistan Noor-ul-Huda 1 0 A cleric who opposed violent extremism is quickly dispatched by fundamentalist bombers.
2015.04.26 Nigeria Shonong 4 0 Boko Haram members sneak up on a village and machine-gun four residents.
2015.04.26 Iraq Mahmoudiya 4 9 Religion of Peace car bombers take down four innocents.
2015.04.26 Iraq Baghdad 7 25 A suicide bomber kills seven people outside a rival mosque.
2015.04.26 Iraq Baghdad 6 17 A car bomb near a two square claims six lives.
2015.04.26 Syria Jisr al-Shughour 30 0 Thirty civilians – said to be mostly women and children – are rounded up and executed by al-Nusra, shortly after a group prayer.
2015.04.26 Iraq Baghdad 6 10 A series of Mujahideen bombings leave six dead.
2015.04.25 Iraq Anbar 4 12 ISIS suicide bombers kill four border guards.
2015.04.25 Iraq Baghdad 4 11 Four people at an outdoor market are sectionalized by a Religion of Peace bomb blast.
2015.04.25 Iraq Tarmiyiah 4 8 Sectarian bombers claim four souls at an outdoor market.
2015.04.25 Afghanistan Tireen Kot 2 0 Two people are ambushed and shot to death by the Taliban.
2015.04.25 Niger Karamga 74 71 Islamists pull up on an island and begin burning homes and shooting those trying to flee, killing at least eighty.
2015.04.25 Nigeria Mafa 5 0 Five people are murdered by Sharia advocates in an early-morning attack.
2015.04.25 Iraq Manbij 6 0 Six Kurdish civilians are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2015.04.25 Iraq Bayaa 4 0 Four men are kidnapped from a house by the Islamic State and then shot in the head.
2015.04.25 Iraq Trebil 15 22 Three suicide bombers take out fifteen others at a border crossing.
2015.04.25 Somalia Mogadishu 3 0 Three officials are assassinated by Sharia radicals.
2015.04.24 Nigeria Bultaram 21 0 Twenty-one civilians carrying food are massacred by Boko Haram outside their village.
2015.04.24 Tunisia Kasserine 3 7 al-Qaeda militants kill three local soldiers.
2015.04.24 DRC Kithevya 5 0 Five villagers are murdered by the ADF-NALU
2015.04.24 Somalia Jamame 1 0 A man is executed by an Islamist firing squad for ‘insulting Allah’.
2015.04.24 Afghanistan Farah 3 0 Talibanis attack a wedding party, killing the groom along with his father and brother.
2015.04.24 Iraq Mosul 1 0 A captive is beheaded by the caliphate.
2015.04.24 Iraq Nadhem al-Taqseem 14 0 A suicide bomb attack leaves fourteen others dead.
2015.04.24 Afghanistan Alingar 5 11 Four women are among five family members wiped out by a Taliban rocket.
2015.04.24 Iraq Jalka 2 0 Two children, ages 12 and 16, are executed by the Caliphate.
2015.04.24 Iraq Mahmoudiyah 3 9 Three people outside a courthouse are laid out by Mujahid bombers.
2015.04.24 Thailand Narathiwat 0 4 Children are among the victims of a shrapnel-packed cylinder bomb.
2015.04.24 Pakistan Peshawar 1 6 Islamic militants kill a local cop with an IED.
2015.04.23 Iraq Balad 8 16 Sunnis liquidate eight Shiite pilgrims with a car bomb.
2015.04.23 Syria Raqqa 2 0 Two men are stoned to death on charges of homosexuality.
2015.04.23 Afghanistan Daikundi 6 0 Six more innocent Shiites are brutally beheaded by Sunni fundamentalists.
2015.04.23 Iraq Kirkuk 34 0 Thirty-four young Iraqis are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.04.23 Pakistan Lahore 1 0 A 19-year-old woman is strangled – honor killed – by her father on suspicion of a sexual affair.
2015.04.22 Iraq Erbil 1 0 A father of five is beheaded by the Islamic State.
2015.04.22 Afghanistan Behsood 2 0 A local prosecutor and his driver are blown to bits by Sharia activists.
2015.04.22 Afghanistan Khashrod 6 1 Four children and their parents fall victim to Sunni fundamentalist bombers.
2015.04.22 Syria Ariha 70 0 al-Nusra claims to have killed at least seventy others with a series of suicide attacks.
2015.04.22 Iraq Baghdad 7 16 Seven Iraqis lose their lives to a Mujahid bomb blast outside a car repair shop.
2015.04.22 Iraq Baghdad 3 6 Jihadi bombers send shrapnel through a commercial district, taking out three bystanders.
2015.04.22 Yemen Yarim 5 0 ISIS kills five Shiites with a roadside bomb.
2015.04.22 Libya Derna 6 0 Six members of a family are killed by Islamists, including three who are crucified.
2015.04.22 Afghanistan Bala Murghab 9 0 Nine border guards are massacred by the Taliban.
2015.04.21 Somalia Mogadishu 10 15 A Shahid suicide bomber rams straight into a crowded restaurant, sending at least ten patrons to Allah.
2015.04.21 Syria Hajar al-Aswad 2 0 Two ‘apostates’ are beheaded by Muslim radicals.
2015.04.21 Afghanistan Kandahar 3 17 A planted Taliban bomb produces three dead Afghanis, including a woman.
2015.04.21 Afghanistan Kunduz 1 5 A civilian is taken out by a hardliner bomb blast.
2015.04.21 Egypt Cairo 2 0 Two security officers are murdered by Sunni extremists.
2015.04.21 Iraq Salaheddin 11 0 Eleven kneeling Iraqis are shot in the back of the head by Religion of Peace proponents.
2015.04.21 Iraq Madain 3 4 Mujahideen bombers take out three Iraqis at a commercial district.
2015.04.21 Syria Jisr al-Shughur 7 0 A couple and their four children are among seven exterminated by an al-Nusra shell.
2015.04.21 Iraq Kirkuk 3 19 A Jihadi bomb blast at a funeral yields three more bodies.
2015.04.20 Nigeria Potiskum 0 3 A suicide bomber detonates outside a Shia mosque.
2015.04.20 Syria Deir ez-Zor 3 0 Three men are beheaded in the street by the caliphate.
2015.04.20 Somalia Garowe 9 4 A Fedayeen suicide bomber slaughters nine UNICEF workers.
2015.04.20 Egypt Rafah 3 1 Three border guards are taken out by an ISIS roadside bomb.
2015.04.20 Mali Gao 1 0 Islamists murder a driver for a UN convoy.
2015.04.20 Iraq Baiji 7 0 Caliphate activists execute seven tribal elders.
2015.04.20 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 2 0 Two boys are killed in their home by an Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis mortar round.
2015.04.19 Somalia Lower Shabelle 3 0 Three AU troops are killed by Islamic terrorists.
2015.04.19 Libya Sirte 30 0 The Islamic State releases a video showing the brutal execution of thirty captured Ethiopian Christians, at least a dozen of whom are beheaded.
2015.04.19 Iraq Zab 24 0 ISIS executes two dozen ‘infidels’.
2015.04.19 France Villejuif 1 0 A 24-year-old woman is shot to death by an Islamic extremist who planned a shooting rampage.
2015.04.19 Afghanistan Helmand 3 19 The Taliban shoot three local policemen to death.
2015.04.19 Nigeria Baga 2 7 A Boko Haram bomb blast claims two lives.
2015.04.18 Iraq Diyala 13 38 Thirteen Iraqis are killed in a series of ISIS bombings.
2015.04.18 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 A lawmaker is assassinated by al-Shabaab.
2015.04.18 Afghanistan Ghazni 4 0 Four locals are abducted and beheaded by Religion of Peace enthusiasts.
2015.04.18 Afghanistan Jalalabad 35 105 Thirty-five people waiting outside a bank are obliterated by an ISIS suicide bomber.
2015.04.17 Pakistan Karachi 0 1 A 55-year-old American woman serving as vice-principal at a medical school is shot by Muslim extremists.
2015.04.17 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three shoppers are laid out by terrorists at a market.
2015.04.17 Syria al-Mayadin 6 0 Six people are beheaded in front of children by the caliphate.
2015.04.17 Cameroon Kolofata 10 0 An early morning raid by Boko Haram leads nineteen villagers dead. Most were beheaded.
2015.04.17 Nigeria Gwoza 12 0 Islamists slit the throats of a dozen people.
2015.04.17 Iraq Erbil 4 18 An ISIS suicide car bomb claims the lives of four Kurds.
2015.04.17 Pakistan Lahore 0 3 Extremists open fire on a Catholic school.
2015.04.17 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 1 5 A local soldier bleeds out following an Islamist bomb attack.
2015.04.17 Iraq Habibya 15 26 Fifteen people at a car dealership are reduced to pulp by a Sunni bomb blast.
2015.04.17 Iraq Ramadi 8 5 Eight Iraqis are disassembled by an ISIS suicide bomber.
2015.04.17 Iraq Baghdad 4 9 Four people at a commercial district are murdered by Islamist bombers.
2015.04.17 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three Iraqis lose their lives to a bomb blast at a cafe.
2015.04.17 Pakistan Muzaffargarh 1 0 A woman is set on fire by her husband and father-in-law for leaving the house without permission.
2015.04.17 Iraq Amil 13 24 ISIS bombers take out thirteen patrons at an outdoor market.
2015.04.16 Iraq Ramadi 32 0 The Islamic State executes thirty-two civilians, beheading the men and shooting the women and children.
2015.04.16 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Two Iraqis are publicly beheaded by the Islamic State.
2015.04.16 Italy Sicily 12 0 A dozen Christians on a refugee boat are thrown to their deaths by Muslims.
2015.04.16 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 1 3 Fundamentalists kill a local solider with a roadside bomb.
2015.04.15 Yemen Sanaa 15 0 Fifteen captured Yemenis are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2015.04.15 Iraq Albu Ghanem 9 0 Nine Iraqis are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.04.15 Egypt Kafr al-Sheikh 2 10 Islamic bombers kill two people waiting for a bus.
2015.04.15 Mali Ansongo 3 16 A suicide bomber takes out three civilians.
2015.04.15 Afghanistan Paktika 1 3 A child is killed when Sunni extremists fire a missile into a home.
2015.04.15 Iraq Baiji 16 0 Sixteen refinery workers are reportedly killed by a suicide bomber.
2015.04.15 DRC Beni 19 0 A pregnant woman is among nineteen victims murdered by the ADF-NALU, nine of whom were beheaded.
2015.04.15 Israel Jerusalem 1 1 The son of a rabbi dies after being intentionally run over by an Arab driver.
2015.04.14 Tunisia Kasserine 3 3 Islamic militants attack a checkpoint, killing three security personnel.
2015.04.14 Egypt Shibeen al-Qanatar 1 1 Islamists murder a traffic cop.
2015.04.14 Syria Hama 1 0 A man in handcuffs is beheaded for blasphemy.
2015.04.14 Iraq Mahmoudiyah 7 13 Sunnis blow up seven people waiting in line at a Shia bakery.
2015.04.14 Iraq Baghdad 4 10 Terrorists set off a bomb outside a hospital, killing four.
2015.04.14 Iraq Baghdad 3 8 Three people at a market are sectionalized by an Islamic State car bomb blast.
2015.04.14 Somalia Mogadishu 18 16 A suicide assault on an education building leaves eighteen innocents dead.
2015.04.14 Iraq al-Wihdi 6 13 Two ISIS car bombs at parking lots leave a half-dozen dead victims.
2015.04.14 Afghanistan Maidan Wardak 3 1 Three civilians are sent to Allah by Taliban bombers.
2015.04.14 Iraq Baghdad 8 21 Two women are among eight people disassembled by Sunni bombers.
2015.04.14 Iraq Muqdadiya 1 4 Jihadis kill a female university student with a well-placed bomb.
2015.04.14 Pakistan Nazimabad 2 0 Two people are beheaded by Muslim radicals.
2015.04.13 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A 52-year-old health inspector is shot to death by militant Muslims.
2015.04.13 Afghanistan Shahr-e-Safa 2 1 Two local cops are murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.
2015.04.13 Yemen Aden 5 0 Three civilians are among five killed when Shiite radicals fire on a government building.
2015.04.13 Thailand Yala 2 0 Militant Muslims gun down a middle-aged couple as they are working their farm.
2015.04.13 Iraq Taji 2 7 Two patrons at a market are pulled into pieces by a Religion of Peace car bomb.
2015.04.13 Iraq Baghdad 10 25 An Islamic State car bomb kills ten patrons at an outdoor market.
2015.04.13 Pakistan Karachi 1 1 A Shiite man is shot to death in front of his daughter by Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat.
2015.04.13 Iraq Baghdad 3 9 A Jihadi car bomb leaves three dead.
2015.04.12 Libya Tripoli 2 1 Islamic State gunmen kill two guards outside the South Korean embassy.
2015.04.12 Egypt Sheikh Zuweid 6 2 Religion of Peace extremists murder six local soldiers with a roadside bomb.
2015.04.12 Egypt al-Arish 8 45 A suicide truck bomber decimates a neighborhood, killing at least eight residents.
2015.04.12 Iraq Baghdad 4 9 A Mujahideen bomb blast in a commercial district produces four dead Iraqis.
2015.04.12 Iraq Baghdad 8 21 Three Jihadis bombings at two markets leave eight dead.
2015.04.12 Mali Segou 2 3 Islamic militants kill two local soldiers with a roadside bomb.
2015.04.12 Afghanistan Ahmadkhil 2 5 Two civilians lose their lives when Taliban members attack a house.
2015.04.12 Iraq Albu Faraj 5 37 Five civilians are sectionalized by a Religion of Peace bomb blast.
2015.04.12 Iraq Ramadi 35 0 Video is released showing the execution of thirty-five Iraqis by the Islamic State.
2015.04.12 Thailand Narathiwat 4 0 Four people are killed in their own home by Muslim terrorists.
2015.04.11 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 Two people lose their lives to an Islamist bombing.
2015.04.11 Afghanistan Maidan Wardak 1 0 A government worker is shot to death by the Taliban on his way to the office.
2015.04.11 Syria Aleppo 20 24 Terrorists shell a Christian neighborhood, killing twenty residents.
2015.04.11 Cameroon Dabanga 3 0 A Boko Haram attack leaves three dead.
2015.04.11 Iraq Albu Farraj 18 0 Eighteen more civilian hostages are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.04.11 Egypt Sinai 2 0 Islamic extremists behead a civilian and execute a soldier on video.
2015.04.11 Iraq Baghdad 4 11 Four people at an outdoor market are sectionalized by a Jihadi bomb blast.
2015.04.11 Syria Huwayk 2 1 Sunni radicals set off a car bomb that kills two rivals.
2015.04.10 Syria Raqqa 1 0 A man is beheaded to shouts of ‘Allah Akbar’ by the Islamic State.
2015.04.10 Yemen Bayhan 25 24 An al-Qaeda car bomb claims the lives of two dozen Shiites.
2015.04.10 Syria Homs 1 9 A 10-year-old child is disassembled by a Sunni car bomb.
2015.04.10 Iraq Tikrit 47 0 A mass grave containing forty-seven victims of ISIS executions is discovered.
2015.04.10 Iraq Baghdad 5 12 Jihadi bombers murder five people in a commercial district.
2015.04.10 Iraq Mishada 7 16 A suicide bomber sets off his explosives vest inside a small restaurant, killing seven patrons in mid-bite.
2015.04.10 Afghanistan Jalalabad 3 4 Three civilians outside an airport are obliterated by a suicide car bomber.
2015.04.10 Afghanistan Ghazni 10 0 Fundamentalists take out a family of twelve with a roadside bomb.
2015.04.10 Syria Homs 1 0 A man is stoned to death by the caliphate for sodomy.
2015.04.10 Afghanistan Badakhshan 28 44 At least twenty-eight Afghans are killed – some by beheading – when Sunni extremists attack a check post.
2015.04.10 Iraq Albu Faraj 15 0 After capturing a town, ISIS rounds up and executes seven children, six women and two elderly men.
2015.04.10 Yemen Najran 3 2 Radical Shiites fire an explosive at a Saudi border checkpoint, killing three guards.
2015.04.10 Pakistan Lahore 0 1 A young Christian is beaten and set on fire.
2015.04.09 Nigeria Dile 20 10 Gunmen invade a village and “shoot anyone in sight” while chanting ‘Allah Akbar’.
2015.04.09 Iran Mehrestan 2 0 Sunni extremists fire across the border and kill two signal officers.
2015.04.09 Afghanistan Zabul 2 0 Two religious minorities are kidnapped and executed by Muslim fundamentalists.
2015.04.09 Syria Salamiyeh 1 0 A civilian bleeds to death after being hit with a Sunni bomb blast.
2015.04.09 Egypt al-Arish 11 6 Eleven women and children are blown apart when Ansar Beit al-Maqdis send mortar rounds into a neighborhood.
2015.04.09 Afghanistan Mazar-e-Sharif 10 70 Ten others are killed when Sharia proponents storm a judicial office in a suicide assault.
2015.04.09 Iraq Albu Faraj 25 0 Twenty-five people are killed defending a small town against an ISIS assault.
2015.04.09 Afghanistan Chanarto 5 0 Fundamentalists kidnap and shoot five ‘Save the Children’ aid workers in the head.
2015.04.09 Nigeria Buratai 2 0 Two residents of a fishing village are murdered by Boko Haram.
2015.04.09 Syria Homs 17 0 The Islamic State kills seventeen people, including three who are beheaded.
2015.04.08 Nigeria Kwara 7 0 At least seven innocents are killed by Muslim raiders in a series of attacks.
2015.04.08 Nigeria Gidan Maso 1 0 A pastor’s daughter suffocates when Muslims torch a church over another Muslim’s conversion.
2015.04.08 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 2 0 Two cops are gunned down by drive-by ISIS terrorists.
2015.04.08 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 Sunni radicals behead a Shiite man kidnapped from a bus.
2015.04.08 Afghanistan Jalalabad 1 2 A US soldier is shot in the back by a Taliban in uniform.
2015.04.08 Iraq Hammam al-Alil 10 0 Ten physicians are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.04.08 Syria al-Ghab 5 5 Terrorists take out five civilians at a parking garage.
2015.04.08 Iraq al-Qaim 248 0 Two-hundred and forty-eight more Iraqis are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.04.07 Syria Marea 9 15 An ISIS car bomb claims nine lives.
2015.04.07 Afghanistan Kunar 3 3 Three civilians are machine-gunned by the Taliban.
2015.04.07 Syria Yarmouk 1 0 An ISIS sniper picks off a 13-year-old girl at a refugee camp.
2015.04.07 Syria Hawar Kilas 23 30 The Islamic State takes out twenty-three rivals with a car bomb.
2015.04.07 Yemen Aden 17 110 At least seventeen civilians are killed when Shiite militia attack a port city.
2015.04.07 Pakistan Negur 8 0 Eight border guards are killed by Jaish-ul Adl cadres.
2015.04.07 Tunisia Sbitla 5 3 Islamic extremists attack a border checkpoint, killing five guards.
2015.04.07 Iraq Mosul 4 0 Four men accused of theft are beheaded and crucified by the Islamic State.
2015.04.06 Afghanistan Baghlan 3 2 Three people are torn to shreds by a Taliban bomb blast.
2015.04.06 India Ashipora 3 2 Three policemen on patrol are ambushed and murdered by Muslim extremists.
2015.04.06 Saudi Arabia Awamiya 1 4 Shiite radicals open fire on a police patrol, killing one member.
2015.04.06 Afghanistan Qarabagh 6 0 Fundamentalists take out six Afghans with a roadside bomb.
2015.04.06 Nigeria Kaduna 14 20 Sharia activists massacre fourteen when they open fire on a group of market traders.
2015.04.06 Pakistan Mamond 1 0 An official is taken out by Tehreek-e-Taliban bombers on his way to school.
2015.04.06 Iraq al-Qaim 52 0 Fifty-two Iraqis are lined up and mowed down by caliphate gunmen.
2015.04.06 Bangladesh Sreemongal 0 2 A pastor and parishioner are attacked and stabbed by a group of thirty-five Muslims.
2015.04.06 India Baramulla 1 0 Muslim terrorists fire on a bus, killing one passenger.
2015.04.05 Egypt Cairo 1 3 A group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood is blamed for a bomb blast on a bridge that leaves one dead.
2015.04.05 Libya Misrata 6 20 A woman and two children are among six innocents laid out by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2015.04.05 Iraq Baghdad 4 10 Jihadis slay four patron at an outdoor market.
2015.04.05 Iraq Baghdad 5 13 Two separate bombing and shooting attacks produce five dead Iraqis.
2015.04.05 Nigeria Kayamla 4 0 Islamists raid a local market, kill four traders and take their food for the cause of Allah.
2015.04.05 Mali Gao 1 3 A woman is killed when religious radicals fire a shell into her home.
2015.04.05 Somalia Bossaso 2 1 Two people are killed when Sharia proponents open fire on a checkpoint.
2015.04.05 Afghanistan Jawzan 3 4 The Taliban ambush and kill three former members who had laid down their weapons for peace.
2015.04.05 Nigeria Kwajafa 24 30 Islamists roll up to a village, preach Islam to the people and then turn their guns on the crowd, mowing down two dozen.
2015.04.05 Iraq Mosul 8 0 Eight Iraqis are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.04.05 Iraq Qadsiyah 1 1 Shia radicals beat a Sunni professor to death at his home in front of his family.
2015.04.05 Iraq Mandali 7 0 Terrorists enter a quarry and shoot seven workers to death.
2015.04.05 Egypt Alexandria 0 4 Ajnad Misr members open fire on a church bus.
2015.04.05 Iraq Romana 25 0 Twenty-five civilians are executed by firing squad and then hung from poles by the caliphate.
2015.04.05 Afghanistan Pul-e-Khumir 5 7 The lives of five civilians are obliterated by Sunni fundamentalists.
2015.04.04 Pakistan Nanno 2 0 The Tehreek-i-Taliban exterminate two local soldiers.
2015.04.04 Sudan Tunguli 9 0 Seven children are among nine villagers blown apart by an Islamic Republic airstrike.
2015.04.04 Mali Bamako 1 2 Islamists are suspected of a planted bomb blast that leaves one dead.
2015.04.04 Afghanistan Baghlan 4 5 Taliban bombers take out four civilians and leave five others with splinter injuries.
2015.04.04 Saudi Arabia Asir 2 0 Two border guards are taken out by Shiite snipers.
2015.04.04 Syria Yarmuk 8 0 Six civilians are killed in the crossfire between al-Nusra and ISIS. Two others are beheaded.

Should you donate to the WaterAid charity?

Last week a charity called WaterAid ran a series of TV ads appealing for money to provide clean water for families in Ethiopia.

I’m sure WaterAid do excellent work and I’m sure they do provide clean water and sanitation for hundreds of thousands of people who wouldn’t otherwise get them. But should we be donating at all?

WaterAid raises and spends about £74m a year, has 684 staff and its chief executive gets a remuneration package of £141,201. That’s about the same as the British Prime Minister, who is responsible for a rather larger budget and rather more people. Moreover, the chief executive seems quite well rewarded compared to the chief executives at some other, much larger, charities. One might wonder, for example, why WaterAid’s chief executive should get £32,000 a year more than the chief executive of Oxfam (£109,000 a year) which has a budget (£386m) five times as large as WaterAid and around 5,000 employees compared to WaterAid’s 684 employees.

But let’s not allow that to dissuade us from helping WaterAid. Instead let’s look at the estimated wealth of Ethiopia’s ten richest people, all of whom appear to be part of or have close relations with the Ethiopian Government:

The 10 Richest Ethiopians in 2013

1. Mohammed Al Amoudi – Controls gold mines and massive tracts of fertile lands that were handed to him by Meles Zenawi, after their owners were kicked out and displaced. Estimated net worth: $10bn.

2. Azeb Mesfin – Widow of the late dictator Meles Zenawi, commonly known as the “mother of corruption” has ownership interests in many of the biggest companies in Ethiopia. Estimated net worth: $4bn.

3. mBerhane Gebrekiristos – The closest and most trust friend of Meles and Azeb; launders their loot out of the country. Estimated net worth: $2bn.

4. Sebhat Nega – His fortune has been declining after he was kicked out of the TPLF politburo and the Endowment Fund for the Relief of Tigray (EFFORT) by Meles and Azeb; he is currently rebounding. Estimated net worth $2bn.

5. Seyoum Mesfin – Current Ethiopian ambassador to China, former foreign affairs minister, used his chairmanship of Ethiopian Airlines and diplomatic status to smuggle illegal drugs between Africa and Asia; he is perhaps the biggest drug trader in Africa. Estimated net worth: $1.8bn

6. Samuel Tafesse – One of Azeb Mesfin’s business partners; their relationship has gone sour over the past couple of years, negatively affecting his construction business. Estimated net worth: $1.6bn

7. Abay Teshay – A senior member of the ruling party, has blind partnerships with many of the big companies in Ethiopia. Net worth: $1.5bn

8. Omer Ali Shifaw – Owner of Nejat International, whose wealth has been declining after TPLF started to compete with his coffee exporting business. Estimated net worth: $500m

9. Eyob Mamo – CEO and Chairman of Capitol Petroleum Group, Washington DC. Estimated worth: $500m.

10 . Suhura Ismail Khan – She has become the biggest khat trader in East Africa by establishing partnerships with TPLF officials and forging a close friendship with the late dictator Meles Zenawi. The TPLF-occupied Ethiopian embassies around the world are her main khat export routes to the Diaspora. Estimated net worth: $200m

It would seem that the Ethiopian elites have more than enough money to provide clean water and sanitation for all their people without WaterAid’s help!

As in so many Third World countries, the aid we give is just allowing the corrupt, kleptocratic elites to steal money from their countries as they know we’ll look after their impoverished people.

And let’s look at the population of Ethiopia:

population re band aid

When Saint Bob did his BandAid gig, there were about 40 million Ethiopians. Now there are 96 million. No wonder they don’t all have clean water and sanitation. No wonder they’re flooding across the Med, headed for Europe.

When asking for our money, charities like WaterAid forget to mention the scale of corruption in the countries where they work and they gloss over the unsustainable rate of population growth.

Likewise, when telling us that Africans drowning in the Med is all our fault, the media and the bleeding-heart opinion-formers also don’t mention the real reason for the tsunami of African immigrants – rampant corruption and unsustainable population growth.

It’s time to stop this foreign aid farce. It’s time to tell the truth:

1. African leaders steal three times as much from their countries each year than we give in aid. If we could just cut the level of corruption in Africa by half, we wouldn’t need to give any aid at all and the countries would still be better off

2. If Africans were to practice just a little birth control, then maybe 80% of them wouldn’t be living in abject poverty (less than $1.25 a day)

Beware the “let’s squeeze the rich” politics of envy

Being remarkably poor for someone of my (IMHO) immense talents, I am no defender of the rich. And I deplore the way we have all been fleeced by a cabal of greedy, self-serving politicians, bureaucrats, business bosses and bankers. Hence I’ve written books like FLEECED and GREED UNLMITED exposing the way we’ve been exploited under the system of corrupt crony capitalism that both New Labour and Tories have encouraged.

As it looks increasingly likely that next week we’ll have a minority Labour government, kept in power by a (laughably named) “progressive” alliance of SNP and LibDems, we can be pretty certain that a major policy is going to be “let’s squeeze the rich”. And maybe that’s something that a lot of people who aren’t rich would welcome.

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But let’s not cheer too prematurely. I’ve tried to write a little story which suggests that, however much we may all want to “squeeze the rich till the pips squeak”, a policy, that seems morally right after the way the rich have got richer while the rest of us have got poorer since the financial crash, may have unfortunate side effects for most of the rest of us:

Suppose that every week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this…

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay £1. The sixth would pay £3. The seventh would pay £7. The eighth would pay £12. The ninth would pay £18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.

But then the Government put a 20% tax on beer. So now the men would have to pay £120.

The first four men (the poorest) would still pay nothing. The fifth would pay £1.20. The sixth would pay £3.60. The seventh would pay £8.40. The eighth would pay £14.40. The ninth would pay £21.60. The tenth man (the richest) would pay £70.80

But the richest man sat down for a moment, thought about things then decided he didn’t want to go to the pub any more. That left the nine others with a bill for £108.

The four poorest men didn’t care that the richest man wasn’t coming any more as they would still get their beer free. So, even though the price of beer had gone up, it didn’t worry them. But the others were not quite so happy. The fifth man saw his bill rise from £1 to £2.63. The sixth now had to pay £7.90 – a big increase from the previous £3. The seventh was faced with a bill of £18.40 – significantly more than the £7 he paid previously. The eighth saw his contribution shoot up from £12 to £31.60. And the ninth almost had a heart attack when he was faced with a bill of £47.41 – an awful lot more than the £18 he had contributed before the richest man pulled out of the arrangement.

After the ninth man returned home that night and told his wife that he was now paying £47.41 instead of just £18, she suggested that he stop going to the pub and take up golf instead.

A week later, the remaining eight made their habitual pub visit. Their bill was now £96. The poorest four, of course, still paid nothing. But for the others that visit was not a happy experience. Man number five was now paying £4.17 compared to just £1 when there were ten men. Number six saw his share jump from £3 to £12.52. Number seven almost fell over in shock as he had to pay £29.22, over four times more than the £7 he had paid originally. As for man number eight, when he saw his bill rise from £12 to £50, he decided that he too no longer wished to go to the pub.

The following week, when they went for their beers, men number five, six and seven were so shocked at the size of their bill that they decided to stop going to the pub.

As for the four poorest men, who had been so enthusiastic about the richer men paying more, they now had nobody to pay for their beers.

Do we still get our virgins if we blow ourselves up by accident?

On this blog, I like to deal with the great existential philosophical, political, economic and religious questions of our time.

So, today I propose examining the sales pitch used to convince M*sl*ms to sacrifice their lives for their wonderful beliefs:

 

virgins 3

We all know that if a M*sl*m dies killing us worthless kaffirs, or even killing other M*sl*ms who have a slightly different interpretation of their holy book, then that M*sl*m goes to Paradise and gets a whole pile of virgins.

But what if some mad Muzzies blow themselves into mincemeat through sheer incompetence? What if they die without killing either a few of us kaffirs (who are, of course, lower than pigs) or other Muzzies?

I ask the question because of one of the most cheering stories of the week. Apparently an ISIL explosives factory in Syria has recently blown up killing about 25 ISIL fighters and seriously injuring another 20. He-he-he-he-he!

Will these clumsy, incompetent losers all get their one-way ticket to Paradise and their 72 virgins? Or will their failure to commit mass murder before they left us bar them from eternal delights? I don’t know. But I do feel that we need some bearded clerical lunatic to pronounce on the matter.

I also have three other questions about the whole “Paradise and 72 virgins” sales pitch:

Q 1. It is assumed that those virgins are female. But what if that’s not the case? What happens if, on getting to Paradise, some mad Muzzie finds out that his virgins are male? Does he then have to bugger them all for all eternity? And what if the virgins are LBGT? What does the dead Jihadi do then?

Q 2. What if the virgins you get on arriving in Paradise are virgins for a very good reason – they are fat, ugly, have excessive amounts of body hair and a problem with perspiration that no amount of deodorant can solve? Do you still have to spend eternity shagging them? Doesn’t sound like Paradise to me. (click on pictures to see more clearly)

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Q 3. What about female mad Muzzies. If they blow themselves up in the name of the Prophet, what kind of virgins do they get? Female ones? Or male ones? Or transgender?

All in all, as a former salesman and the author of a book – DON’T BUY IT! – warning about salespeople’s tricks and traps, I worry about the “Paradise and 72 virgins” sales pitch. It’s not sufficiently detailed, it doesn’t cover all eventualities and there’s no mention of “satisfaction guaranteed or your life back”. So, I personally wouldn’t buy it.

But lots of people do buy it. I reckon there have been over 8,000 suicide attacks since 9/11.

By the way, I did a quick calculation – if 8,000 suicide bombers are all to get 72 virgins each, *ll*h would need to find 576,000 virgins. Of course, I know the Great and Merciful *ll*h is omniscient and omnipotent. But finding more than 576,000 virgins is not going to be easy, even for Him.

My latest video – last day

I’d like to leave this post up just one more day to try to increase the number of people viewing my latest video.

I will start blogging again tomorrow – Saturday 2nd May. The subject for tomorrow is “Virgins” and our friends from the Religion of Peace. So please do visit.

Below is the link to my latest video.

It’s a spoof election broadcast by “Cast-Iron Promise” Dave asking, imploring, begging UKIP supporters to vote for treacherous Dodgy Dave and his gang of thieves and fools on 7th May.

I ask, implore, beg readers to do two things:

1. Watch the video

2. Send the link to your friends and contacts

(If you’re not sure how to do this, just email me at david.craig54@yahoo.co.uk and I’ll send you an email back with the link then you can just forward my email to your friends and contacts)

Oh, and if any readers know any journalists, could they please send a link to the video to them?

I hope you enjoy it:

 

And if you haven’t viewed my first YouTube video, here it is: