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More Climate Science Fraud Exposed: Himalyan Glaciers Are Not Melting
The Himalayas has lost no significant ice over the past decade, according to a new study, that found melting ice from glaciers is having a much smaller effect on sea levels than previously thought. Previous studies relied on physical measurements of ice caps and glaciers on the ground. It's ironic that people who have relied on high tech modelling techniques to conceal the reality of what is going on are now exposed (again) as crooks and liars by new high tech methods of measuring glaciers ...

Bank Of England To Print Money To Avoid Recession
Monetary policy policy-makers at Bank of England have unveiled plans to inject an extrat £50bn of stimulus money into the economy in an attempt to avert a second recession. Before we go on to look at how much harm this wil;l do there are one or two things that must be understood. When we talk about printing money in a modern economy it is not simply a question of buying paper and printing ink and setting up the presses ...

Greek trump card fails as stronger Europe shrugs off break-up threat
The European Union's strongest economies and institutions for the first time gave a clue that they are willing to risk a Greek default and the departure from the European Monetary System (EMS aka The Euro) if Athens refuses to comply with austerity demands. The governments and central banks calculate that the eurozone is now ...
Lay Off Our Adele, Limpdick.
Here at the Accrington end of the Boggart Blog operation we love Adele. She is a talented and original songwriter, has a wonderful voice and comes across as a really fun person who is not up her own arse. OK she's not a bag of bones like ...

U.S. Drones target aid workers and mourners at funerals.
Another "We Told You So" moment for The Daily Stirrer. We have reported many times that the Obama administration is interfereing in places where it has no business interfereing all around the middle east and east Africa. "President" Obama announced with great fanfare and to rapurous cheering from his pseudo - liberal, crypto - Nazi supporters that in any conflict his administration would ...

Can The Euro Survive If Greece Leaves The Single Currency System?
Away with banners and air horns and out with batons and knuckleduster in Athens this afternoon as a wave of public protests agiants the EU imposed austerity measures and the hijack of Greeek democracy by European bureaucrats swept the country.. Greek police have been trying to disperse protesters with tear gas, leading to a few violent clashes outside parliament. Police say up to 8,000 people ...

Zombies Getting Back Together
Older punters may remember the Zombies, younger followers of Boggart Blog will perhps have heard their biggest hit "She's Not There" with singer Colin Blunstone straining his vocal cords to sing way above his natural range and behind him probably the greatest bassline in ...
Klondike 2: The Great Arctic Oil Rush
As the case for CO2 driven climate change continues to crumbe we start to look at how we can keep the wheels of our national economies going. Drilling for oil in the Arctic is a high risk activity but absolutely necessary

Shakespeare's Proud Loner and The Wisdom Of Crowds

Internet billionaires and trendy, fad following media pundits like to talk of the wisdon of crowds suggesting a mob can produce a better, more intelligent result that a small team of specialists. If we look at a few examples of the widom of cowds however we soon find things are not what they seen to be.

UN Veto On Military Action Against Syria Shames The West Says Hague
In yesterday's United Nations Secirity Council meeting Russia and China provoked international outrage for using the veto to block attempts to initiate military intervention by the west in Syria's internal affairs ostensibly to end the violence but really to bring about regime change. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague accused the two major military powers of ...[ War ]

Mrs Obama and the most expensive knickers in the world. The Currant Bun las week was full of news and comment about Mrs Obama going on a spending spreed in sexy undies shop Agent Provocateur that ended up with her spending £32,000 ($50,000) on sexy knickers. In one way this is hrad to believe. Why would the first lady lash out on ... [ more comedy and satire posts ]

Middle East Problems Getting Worse Human rights groups claim 200 civilians killed in Syria by government troops as demands for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad's regime goes before the UN security council. As news of the violence spread, a crowd of Syrians stormed their country's embassy in Cairo and protests broke out outside Syrian missions in Britain, Germany and the United States. The Syrian government says reports of the violence and numbers of dead is greatly exaggerated and it ... [Middle East]

Argentina accuses Britain of using the Falklands as a distraction from economic woes


hrgentina has accused David Cameron's government of fanning the row over the Falklands Islands in an attempt to distract the British public from high unemployment. The moves "have to do with British domestic politics, with the high ... [ War by Proxy] ... [World Politics]

Environment Minister Resigns. Environment Shouts 'There Is A God' Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne resigned this morning from his role as Energy Secretary after being charged alongside his ex-wife Vicky Pryce with perverting the course of justice over speeding cover-up allegations. Mr Huhne and Miss Pryce have both been charged with the same offence after Miss Pryce allgeged that he asked her to take speeding points ...[UK Politics]

Green Policies Will Not Save The Planet But Are Costing Poor Families The Earth>
Politicians bleat sabout the plight of the poor then press on with their clean, green, sustainable energy policies which include stealth taxes to subsidise expensive and inefficient wind turbine and solar panel power generators. Can they not see it is the green agenda that is driving up inflation ...[Environment]

Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan says Will Hutton. WRONG!
by John de Roe.

>We need global economic and social institutions working across national borders economist Will Hutton who now appears to have been re educated and started working for The New World Order argued recently. If only it were that simple. Unfortunately globalization is the enemy not the trigger of the kind of economic recovery we need ... [Money - Finance]

Egypt Football Riot kills dozens
Remember the hope and anticipation that followed the downfall of former Egyptian President Honsi Mubarack. Remember how American President Barack Hussein Obama strutted around the world stage as if he had personally led the protests in Tahir Square that led to the overthrow of the dictator's regime? Remember how The Daily Stirrer told you it would all end in tears? After the outbreak of violence at ... [Middle East]

No Jobs For The Masses In The New Economy Despite University Education
No matter how leaders like David Cameron and Barack Obama try to talk up their economies or assure voters the jobs market is improving, growth returning and unemployment will soon start falling, the truth is change does not equal progress and forcing the pace of social change has only masked the true depth of economic and social problems. One of these is unemployment and particularly joblessness among the young. Even a universdity education does not provide a guaranteed career path ... Education

More Old People Are Falling Through Gaps In The Care System Old people are increasingly being let down by a lack of co-operation and communication between the NHS and council-run social care, MPs looking at the crisis in care will reporert this week.
Conclusuions drawn from a study by the all-party health select committee ... [
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Not Qualified To Press A Button
Janice Woodward spent 75 minutes trapped with her granddaughter in a lift at her local ASDA store at Portland, Dorset, after health and safety rules stopped staff pushing a button to rescue them according to ...

Drivers Cool About Electric Cars
Have you purchased your new, clean, green, politically correct, all electric car yet? No? I thought not. Neither have I. It is not so much that I hate the enviroment or that I do not want to support the fabulous clean, green, sustainable job creating indistries fabulous, clean, green Dave has promised us will ...


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One Decent Jobs Report Does Not Make A Recovery
There are two reasons why President Obama rushed to the microphone on Friday shortly after the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released relatively good news (by recent standards) that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3% in January, while the economy added 243,000 seasonally adjusted jobs. ...

Let's Learn From Libya Before We Get Involved In Syria
If we are not careful we are soon going to find ourselves getting into the same mess over Syria as we did in Libya. This time last year the clamour for a military intervention in Libya was gaining ground as forces loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi threatened to overrun the eastern city of Benghazi ...

India Disses UK Aid: 'More Importasnt To Donors Than Recipients'.
Congratulations to Rahul Bedi for putting into words what we all half-suspected: India neither needs nor wants UK aid. Such grants are outdated and patronising, he says, and encourage corruption. Indeed, Indians have ‘become so contemptuous of Britain’s contribution that they accept it merely to avoid causing the embarrassment’.

London Atheist And Secularist Societies Under Attack From Islamists
I know on occasions in the past I've asked you, dear readers and fellow bloggers to share something widely that needed wider exposure. Well this situation desperately requires that wider exposure and all the help we can provide, especially as the mass media are notably silent on the issue - very likely because of a self-censoring trend itself inspired by fear of what has befallen ...

Unemployment at 8.3% Still Leaves A Vast And Destructive Jobs Deficit Robert Reich, The Guardian
The most significant aspect of January's jobs report is political. The fact that America's labor market continues to improve is good news for the White House. But as a practical matter, the improvement is less significant for the American workforce.
President Obama's only chance for rebutting Republican claims that he's responsible for a bad economy is to point to a positive trend. Voters respond to economic trends as much as ...

Much Media Ado About Nothing What connects seemingly disparate works such as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Mad Men, and Seinfeld? It is the philosophy of nihilism, first popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 19th century. But in the last few decades, how did it become the dominant worldview of Hollywood? Dawn Of The Ice Age Signals The End Of The Global Warming Scam Back then, the media and activists trumpeted the arrival of a new ice age, with the specter of ice sheets and glaciers covering half the northern hemisphere, and brutal winters in the remaining ice-free zones. The fact that the media and popular culture and academia have veered from one panic-inducing disaster scenario to another one which completely contradicts the first one is funny enough in its own right. But reading The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age opened my eyes to an even more significant aspect ...

Hundreds of Independent Bookshops Face Closure
Hundreds of independent bookshops could be forced to close unless local authorities do more to support them, a leading retail group has warned. The Booksellers Association (BA), which represents 3,500 independent bookshops across the UK, has written to almost 400 council chiefs urging them to do more to support their local high streets or risk ...

Solar Panels Subsidy Was The Most Ridiculous Green Scheme Deramed Up
A plan to subsidise solar panels on homes was “one of the most ridiculous schemes ever dreamed up”, a Government minister has said.
Lord Marland, an Energy minister, hit out at the cost of so-called feed-in tariffs, which the Government has axed as part of the cuts programme. Last week Court of Appeal ruled that the sudden axing of the tariffs ...

Goodbye Great Britain
Recently, there have been two powerful challenges to the conventional wisdom about the United States. First, Robert Kagan published a lengthy essay in The New Republic, arguing that predictions of America's decline as a global power are woefully premature. .Is it possible, I found myself wondering, to do something similar for Britain? Robert Colvile has a go in this Daily Telegraph article ...

Our rising debt levels are becoming unsustainable – soon we may be talking about wealth confiscation (By Daniel Knowles, Daily Telegraph)
Debt, debt, debt; we’re drowning in it. This morning, the Office for National Statistics published the latest estimates of public sector borrowing. Though borrowing is falling faster than anticipated, thanks to the fact that spending cuts are finally beginning to kick in, the national debt has risen to 64.2 per cent of GDP. More significantly,…

The Obama administration knifes Britain in the back again over the Falklands - By Nile Gardiner World
In yet another display of disdain for the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the Obama administration has weighed in on the mounting tensions between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Just two days after Prime Minister David Cameron issued a robust statement in the House of Commons vowing to defend the sovereignty of the Falklands,…

Drones In The Hands Of The Paparrazi - It's an ethical minefield
America's use of drones for targeted killings is serious enough. But commercial and law enforcement uses are on the horizon. Whether you view them as model aeroplanes for grown-ups or the handmaidens of the killer robot, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are taking off in earnest. ...

The Observer uncritically regurgitates Trotskyist smears against Katharine Birbalsingh- By Toby Young, Daily Telegraph
There’s a disgraceful attempt to smear Katharine Birbalsingh in this morning’s Observer. Under the headline “Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over ‘wasteful’ free school project“, the paper’s policy editor Daniel Boffey tries to create the impression that there’s growing local opposition to the Michaela Community School – Birbalsingh’s free school – which is due to open in…

We’re being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF - By Daniel Hannan First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it’s the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons,…

The Three Parent Family More on the progressive left's war on the family and the scientific dictaorship's attempts to dehumanize us all. Babies with three biological parents could be born within three years. Scientists have come up with an IVF technique that uses the undamaged DNA of a third party when couples risk giving their children a genetic conditions such as muscular dystrophy or ataxia. The Wellcome Trust has funded the research (the figures vary between £4 million and six million …

As Obama Positions Himself For A War In Syria We Learn That Like Gadaffi, Assad Is Popular With His People
Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western mediaAssad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war. Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Well one did and we never heard a word of it in the Obama felching western media ...

Bullshit Sherlock
While other blogs are full of how great the cliff - faller ending of Sherlock Holmes was I felt a bit let down. The fake suicide was telegraphed all through the show. And the coda assured us Sherlock had survived. We should not forget of course it was the habit of ...

Will bringing back grammar schools boost social mobility? by Toby Young Daily Telegraph
The possibility that England may shortly see its first new grammar school in over 50 years has, predictably enough, re-opened the debate about selective education. Yesterday, for instance, Allison Pearson came down firmly in favour, while Fiona Millar shot back with an instant rebuttal. I’ll get into that argument in a moment, but first let’s be…

So Why Read Books Anymore
There is great “truth and beauty” in Homer’s Iliad, but I would not try to make his sale on such platitudes. Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains a classic. But I confess it can be hard to get through. Conrad’s Victory or Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil, if authored by writer X this year, would be trashed on Amazon.So what are the reasons, in this age of ...

Eric Holder and the Chicago Way In America Obama's Brownshirts are getting hysterical as they try to make race the major issue in the election campaign.

Dystopian Prophecies Are Coming True - The Government Will Soon Choose Our Wives
Thinking of this entertaining new literary award – “the Hatchet Job of the Year” – it was natural to turn to Macaulay’s Essays, for few reviewers have ever been less reluctant to wound. I had in mind two long review-essays, one on Robert Montgomery’s Poems, the other on The State in its relations with ...
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31 March 2010
Catholic Church & Child Abuse - Progressives Left's Hypocrisy Starts To Show
by Ian R Thorpe

As an election approaches some pretty unpleasant people are going to be asking for your vote. The most unpleasant of these are not the BNP or the EDL as you might expect, the real Nazis are the people in the Labour party, a very influential group too, who style themselves the progressive left. One thing the "progressive left" can be relied upon to deliver is .... (no, not election promises, don't be silly) ... hypocrisy.

We at The Daily Stirrer have always been highly critical of the Roman Catholic Church's attempts to sweep under the carpet cases of child abuse by its priests. We are none of us religious and all agree the so called Christian values actually have little to do with Christianity. Thus we would never make excuses for Church officials who misbehave, in fact we would wish they be punished more harshly for having abused positions of trust.

Likewise we would hope that mature adults placed in positions of trust, those trusted to look after young children for example, would behave properly and respectfully to those in their care and those who trusted them to behave properly.

Child abuse is a terrible thing both when its involves the violation of a young child and when it relates to the seduction of a pre pubescent girl by a middle aged man. Thus we deplore the Church's cover up of their priests' crimes and we also deplore cases in which a wealthy, famous man takes advantage of a thirteen year old girl.

It is here we part company with the "progressive left" because they seem to think if the seducer is an artist, a director of stunningly up-his-own-arse films and a supporter of the crackpot ideas of "progressive left" politics called Roman Polanski it is perfectly OK to commit statutory rape on an under age girl.

Not only are the "progressive left" supporting Polanski's attempts to return to the USA thirty years after he fled American justice having entered a plead of guilty to the crime he was accused of, they are clamouring for a Presidential pardon for him.

Ah, but it is alright for Polanski to do such thinks. American leftie air-head, feminist and race hustler Whoopi Goldberg says "What Roman did was not rape rape." No? Well what kind of rape was it?

Other stars supporting Polanski include Martin Scorsese, Kevin Costner, Susan SArandon and the Fuckwit Of Fuckwits Woody Allen. These people have sent a petition to Barack Obama on behalf of the director. Polanski, you see, was so talented, so special, mortal laws could not apply to such a genius. Yeah right, obviously none of them has ever sat through one of his films.

Funny, I do not remember this group being so sympathetic towards Gary Glitter. I don't remember them calling for clemency in the case of a footballer accused of seducing under age girls. I do not recall much support for actor and comedian Chris Langham when he was found to have been visiting child sex sites on the internet. What I do recall is the neo - nazi left howling for blood. No punishment was great enough for the perpetrators of these terrible crimes. In much the same way they are howling for the blood of Pope Benedict now even as they demand our indulgence for the child - fucker Roman Polanski.

If we are to have rule of law one guiding principle must be honoured.

SAME RULES APPLY

A group that want to apply draconian laws to its opponents but exempt those with whom it sympathises from such rules has nothing to offer a democracy.

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30 March
So Just How Much Did The Banking Crisis Cost Us?
recommended by John De Roe

How much do you think the banking crisis cost the governments of developed nations. A Trillion? Two? Five then?

Best sit down or at least make sure you are holding on to something solid. Two hundred Trillion US dollars. That figure emerges when all the costs are factored in, from the huge bail outs of investment banks to the bankruptcies of small businesses that suddeny found their credit lines cancelled. To put that in terms people can relate to, because I worked with numbers thought my career and I cnnot beging to put $£200,000,000,000,000 into any kind of perspective, it represents around £3,000,000 for every person in Britain. Thre million pounds is not an enormous fortune these days, while interest rates are so low it would produce an income of about £50,000 a year at best. Even so, a gift of £3,000,000 would sort out most people's financial worries and ensure a comfortable future.

So where did this money go because I did not see a penny of it and I'm sure you didn't either.

There are two global banking systems, one is visible from Planet Earth, one is not. This invisible banking system uses money as a tool but not as its stock in trade. The real currency it trades in is power.

We are enering a turly dangeous period in human development. The road ahead splits into two. In one direction lies chaos, in the other lies authoritarianism and slavery. It is not possible to turn back, to retrace our steps to where we went wrong and start again. What do we do? Chaos sems an attractive option, it has always worked before. Whenerver an authoritarian regime, The Roman Empire, The Catholic Church, various Kings and Warlords, Boneparte, Hitler's National Socialists, Stalin's Bolsheviks and any others, the resuilt has been disaster. There is safety in chaos, we muddle along somehow and necesity teaches us to be tolerant and help each other.

The world the invisible banking system has in mind for us does not look anything like so attractive.


29 March 2010
Election Debate
Immigration - The Elephant In The Room
by Xavier Connolly

There is a weird atmosphere developing in the nation as we wait for the official request for the dissolution of parliament that will signal the start of the election campaign proper. The subject that the mass of voters are most concerned with, immigration, is the one none of the political parties or their leaders want to talk about

Back in the days of Maggie Thatcher there was a lot of talk of "two Britains." Some took this to be a reference to the north - south divide. It never was truly that though, it was the divide between a fairly small minority of the the well off middle classes, mainly academics, lawyers, medical professionals, teachers and public service workers who can afford the luxury of self righteous and apply the salve of political correctness to their guilt tripped consciences.

To hear there people speak you might think not only that Britain suffered from the same kind of racial tensions as the southern part of the United States and also that race was the main problem facing the nation during the next parliament. In reality such racial problems as we have are mostly created by this group and by the politicized members of minorities who exploit them.

Another of their obsessions is gay rights. Homosexuality is no longer illegal and homosexuals have exactly the same rights as heterosexuals. Some of the elitist left, the progressives as they call themselves, give the impression they would like to make homosexuality compulsory.

They would certainly like to make it an offence to criticise members of ethnic, sexual or other minorities on the grounds that all such criticisms cannot possibly be a fair and objective opinion but must be driven by prejudice and therefore constitute a hate crime. Is it any wonder more and more people are referring to these University educated morons as The Thought Police. Like the fictional state agency of Orwell's novel 1984 they want to control what we may and may not think.

The real Elephant in the room in this election, the topic most electors are desperate to talk about but no politician will discuss is Immigration. There are too many people in the country, social services and the health service cannot cope. The welfare system is driving our public sector deficit ever higher. Our economy cannot provide enough real jobs to support the population and creating public service jobs has the same effect as an increase in unemployment. And yet these self righteous, politically correct fools who have hi jacked the Labour party, dominate the Liberal Democrats and seem to have infiltrated the Conservatives are talking about loosening rather than tightening immigration controls.

Labour's immigration policies, from the open door idealism of the 1960s to the "immigrants help the economy" lunacy of the current government have always been driven by the nutty, politically correct fringe of the party. Here Andrew Green highlights the problems failure to deal honestly with the problem.

Immigration - A Real Problem

In the comment thread at lot of abuse is hurled at the "racists" who will vote for the BNP. This shows the hypocrisy of the people, the unrepresentative minority who are controlling the country and are imposing their views. Many people who are not fond of the BNP are thinking of voting for them and as the idea that they are the only people who speak up for the working class takes hold they look forward to a good election result.

We are not lovers of the BNP (although the politically correct fascists will insist we are because we do not spit hatred towards them) but if the three main parties are not willing to address the real issues in this election, if the politicians are not willing to face up to their responsibilities and represent the people whose votes they seek, if they insist on treating voters like children who can blame anybody for giving their vote to an extremist?


27 March 2010

The End Of The Free Web?
by Ian R Thorpe
When the internet started to take off in the early 1990s there were many totally daft ideas seeded by the Californian acid heads amongst its founders that took root and like Japanese knotweed are proving almost impossible to get rid of. Most of these ideas as well as being totally insane were deeply damaging to the web and those who tried to use it as a business tool.

One of the most persistent of these was that the net would make everything free. The tree hugging acid heads love the word free but because their brains are so addled they have completely forgotten that a word can have many totally different meanings in different contexts. it costs money, a great deal of money to run a system like the internet so while it can facilitate publishing one's philosophical musings, opinions, poems, jokes, fiction, photos, lurid descriptions of lovers' private parts or anything else free of constraints from editors, moral censors, licensing authorities etc. it is not unreasonable to be asked to pay something for the resources we use.

Back in the day the early adopters would get very tetchy about anybody trying to earn a crust via the web, from selling a products to levying a charge for viewing content. The free content web quickly descended into a cesspit of talentless and incoherent babbling, bad porn and "me too" idiocy. A lot of good content was driven off the web by the babble of the rabble or else the creators just gave up because they could not understand how on this medium proclaimed by "progressive" opinion makers as a transformative force for good, a series of cartoons on a man who defecated constantly in public could get a claimed 250,000 page views a day while an entertaining article or a piece of quality fiction could be ignored.

The free access web is all but dead. The looming battle of Google and the Obama administration versus China heralds the end of the "free to do what we like" web and the free content web is looking pretty terminal too. Newspaper publisher and broadcast media mogul Rupert Murdoch is finally acting on his threat to hide content behind a firewall. The Daily Stirrer is no fan of Murdoch but we see the inevitability of this. It costs money to produce and broadcast a television news program or write, edit, print and distribute a newspaper. The people who put in the work need to be paid for their effort, they have families, rent or mortgages to pay, obligations. It was insane to think this aspect of the free web could continue forever.

The fallback of the free web brigade was that advertising would pay for such operations. Web users quickly became ad blind though. How many ads do you click on in a week? And how many times have you bought a product after clicking on a wen advertisement? It will not be long until advertisers learn the web is an ineffective medium for advertising.

That everything could be free on the web was a nice idea while it lasted but to persist with it is as deluded as Barack Obama still persuading himself that if he just tells the world about hope and change we will all join hands and sing Kumbaya and there will be peace and plenty.

It was never going to work in the real world.


26 March 2010
European Turkeys: Conservatives Want Turkey In The EU
by Ian R. Thorpe

All of us know Turkey would not fit into the EU. This vast nation of almost 100 million people, mostly impoverished peasants is not a developed nation by any stretch of the imagination. Crime and corruption are Turkey's main industries. Yes I know many of the people are lovely and that their hospitality is famous. I also know prepubescent girls are married to men in late middle age who are willing to pay a good bride price. Perversely (I seem to be using that word a lot today) the stongest supporters of the inclusion of Turkey into the EU are the "Progressive Left" aka The Politically Correct Thought police. One would think fom the way these people are always ranting about womwn's rights and minority rights they would want nothing to do with a nation in which the majority people are sexist and hompohopbic to our certain knowledge. But of course me must remember the New World Order, the global governance fascists, the Bilderberg Group and their jug eared, limp wristed puppet Sidi Barack Hussein Obama, President of The Entire Universe And Everything Else Besides wants Turkey in the EU even though it is not a European nation, even though lifting its vast population out of poverty, not to mention feeding, educating and housing them, caring for them in infancy, sickness and old age and wiping their arses for them would place an unsustainable burden on those European nations that have not already been bankrupted by the New World Order's insane single currency project, i.e. Germany, Sweden and Holland (France is not quite bankrupt but is on the edge. Today Blogger Old Holborn blogged on the Conservative Friends Of Turkey and noted that David Cameron has done nothing to slap them down, to say that the EU is for European nations, that Internationalism is a nice idea on paper but will never work in reality. But of course Cameron, like Brown and Blair, like Obama Bush and Clinton, like so many progessives s the New World Order candidate. If you want Britain, the country you live in, to be the familiar place that despite all its faults you love rather than an Orwellian bureaucratic dictatorship vote for your local maverick in the election. Voke Green, Independent, UKIP, Pirate Party, New Party, Jury Team, Respect, anyone except the LabLibCon - solidated New World Order party.

Old Holborn on Turkey The Tories And The EU.


div id="whatsgoingon"> 24 March 2010
What's Going On - The Budget and other stuff.
by Ed Butt

You probably think if you look in at The Daily Stirrer regularly that we have all lost interest. Not so, we are actually going great guns despite a dearth of new big articles. Ian has been working of something big on climate change and another article on the unhealthy dominance of Google on the web. John de Roe is always watching the financeial world because he was involved in that field for many years (When Bankers helped people and busineses rather than robbing them he says) he says though now he is a finance officer for a local council. Xavier Connolly who was a professional engineer and became a lecturer in engineering technology will have plenty to say on the state of education both in schools and colleges just as soon as we get over the budget bollocks. And me? Well I'm just a journalistic device whose joke name is applied to random comments or e-mail rants the others receive from their friends. So what is the Daily Stirrer take on the budget: John says "the reduction in stamp duty is an electoral gimmick. How will a cut of a maximum 2,500 in a one off tax help call centre workers or junior public service employees on £15,000 a year be able to afford to take on as first time buyers the kind of mortgage needed to buy a decent first home (£175,000 oer most of the country) or save the 10% deposit lenders are looking for these days."

Xavier says: "Tax gimmicks and giveaways are not going to get the economy 'moving' as the Government claim they will, what we need are real jobs in real, wealth generating industries. This government's mismanagement of the economy and industrial base over the past 13 years has left us over reliant on finance as John has said many times, and public services. While there is still a $quadrillion in toxic debt still polluting the global financial system the banking indistry will remain moribund. The only area in which the Government can create jobs is public service and that will only inflate the public sector borrowing requirement and make matters worse.

Ian says: Ideological politics and Politically Correct thinking have caused people in the political and academic establishments to lose touch with reality. Public sector borrowing is out of control but the budget proposes policies that will increase public sector borrowing. The increase in fuel tax will raise a paltry amount but will hit the local economies of areas that depend heavily on tourism. There are a few sweeties habded out to small busineses but nowhere near sufficient to encourage startups or investment in expansion. It seems Labour is still pinning its hopes on selling off the national assets to foreign rivals and bailing out failed businesses rather than investing in British firms, British ideas and British workers.


23 March 2010
Folding Plug Wins Another Useless Gadget Design Award.
Politicians and leading science and technology commentators were quick to hail the inventor of a new folding mains plug as a genius. But who needs a folding mains plug? Or has the guy mistaken the powrer transformer for his laptop computer for a bulky, overweight mains plug?
read full postFolding Plug Wins Another Useless Gadget Design Award.


22 March 2010
Live Forever Or Choose Life
by Ian R. Thorpe
Never a week and scarecely a day goes by without the latest shot in the wannabe global government's campaingn of fear and panic being fired at us ordinary folk. It will relate to health, drink, drugs, diet or smoking and offer in exchange for another freedom some dubious advantage. The lastest on the British front in this war on reality is a warning that air pollution in casusing 55,000 early deaths a year. Now if we stop all indusry in its tracks (because industrial processes are the main cause of pollution) thus increasing unemployment to 99% of the employable population (those who work in public services are in real terms unemployable) thus stopping those 55,000 deaths, ban smoking and drinking, stop people eating dodgy stuff that promotes stomach cancer etc. etc. pretty soon, if you add up all the lives these measures will save, nobody will be dying... Which would be a nightmare future in a world full of incontinent old gits.

Live Forever Or Choose Life


20 March 2010
Another Government Waste Of Taxpayers Money?
ecommended by Ian R Thorpe

Brown's Lastest Plan To Cost The Taxpayer Billions Gordon Brown's announcement of a scheme to give every adult and child in the UK their own personal webpage falls apart as soon as we remember the government's abysmal record with even small IT projects like the Passport Office.


19 March 2010
Real Jobless Numbers
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Jobless Figures - What's Really Going On Wat Tyler at Burning our money on the fraudulent way of presenting the unemployment figures that has produced the apparent fall (but real rise) in the unemployed this year.

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18 March 2010
Unemployment Falls And Rises
by Xavier Connolly

New unemployment figures released yesterday show unemployment fell by 0.1% in the three months December 09 to February 10. Contained in the same set of figures however was a statistic that damns to perdition the Labour government's talk of an economic upturn being on the way. This figure was the number of people in work. Now although headline unemployment, the number of people claiming benefits, has fallen the number of people in gainful employment has also fallen.

So what is going on?

To find out what is going on with the contradictory unemployment figures read Real Unemployment

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Explaining The Financial Crisis. As the obviously misrepresented unemplyment figures fail to convince people that an economic upturn is under way Tim Worstall explains why in an economy dependent of financial markets things can only get worse.


15 March 2010
Hate Crime Law Is Unjust
by Xavier Connolly

Those in politics who like to call themselves the progrssive left or progressive liberals love to talk about fairness and equality. Why themn are they so keen to introduce 'hate crime' laws that will grant privilege to certain groups in a system that depens on all being equal? Call us old fashioned but in our view there does not seem to be much justice in replacing one privileged elite with another.

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Nothing Good Has Come Of The Internet
by Ian R Thorpe

When a technophobe denounces the internet as anti - social, anti jobs, a force for dumbing down or a waste of time it can easily be dismissed but when the CEO of a major technology company like Sony saays nothing good has ever come of the internet we should perhaps listen.

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14 March 2010
Wind Farms Could Contribute To Global Warming
by Ed Butt

When we read this it made us laugh almost as much as Ian's latest Boggart Blog lunatic fantasy The True Hockey Stick posted yesterday. Wind will contribute to global warming and we are not talking about cow farts here. Yes those clean, green, monster windmills the government want to erect on every beautiful skyline to help their buddied The Bilderberg Bastards and the neo nazi New World Order of elite bankers and investors create an Orwellian Big Brother regime will actually make global warming worse not better.

AGW sceptics have a new ally, the formerly drum beating, flag waving Climate Change evangelical Massachusetts Institute Of Technology has unveiled a report based on studies by their scientists (who cannot pooibly be wrong because they are scientists) that shows if plans for wind power go ahead wind farms could raise the average gloval temperature by 1degree by the end of the century. Which is nice.

Wind Farms Could Contribute To Global Warming


12 March 2010
Bond Villain Targets Britain's Future
by John De Roe

Bill Gross, the world's biggest bond investor might have voted for Obama and has some sympathy for Labour because they talk of creating jobs, but he thinks the British economy is in worse shape than anyone is going to admit and is quite willing to take advantage of our vulnerability."
Read full post hereBond Villain Targets Britain's Future by John De Roe.


11 March 2010
UKIP Gagged Again In European Parliament

by Ed Butt

We have warned since we began The Daily Stirrer of the undemocratic global neonazi consensus that has hijacked the EU and European Parliament. Today, as Ian who is our main writer is still laid up with a back injury and John is still down with non-porcine flu we brink you more on the abolition of free speech and dissent. Check out this post from no - holds - barred blogger Trixy on how a UKIP MEP was suspended for criticising the unelected head of EU common foreign policy Baroness Ashton.

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10 March 2010
More Big Brown Lies
by Ed Butt

A blog we always enjoy though we suspect the person or people behind it would not agree with out now defunct brand of Liberalism is Burning Our Money

These bloggers have set themselves the task of alerting reders to the Government's attempts to pull the wool over our eyes about exactly how they waster the 48% of our hard earned they rake back into the national coffers.

Gordon Brown spoke today of his plans to protect the illusory recovery by printing and spending even more money and thus running up bigger deficits which future generations will have to repay. Well while Godon give the impression of being a man so embarrassed by riches he can scatter banknotes around the economy like rose petals are scattered around the temple at a Hindu wedding, the Burning Our Money bloggers have provided an analysis of the ievitably disastrous consequences of Labour's latest financial insanity.


9 March 2010
Does Prison Work?
by Xavier Connolly

A constant refrain of the left is that prison does not work. It's rather surprising however to see an argument for this case in the right wing Daily Telegraph today in relation to John Venables, one of the young killers of two year old James Bulger. There can be few people in Britain who by now are not aware that Venables who along with his accomplice was released on licence into society after serving eight years for sexually assaulting and murdering a two year old they had abducted, has been recalled to prison for violating the terms of his parole, allegedly by carrying out serious sexual assaults and having on his computer pornographic pictures depicting assaults on children.

It is widely rumoured from sources that are usually reliable that since his release, his being given a new name and identity and supported by the state Venables has been connected with a number of investigations into alleged sexual offences.

So those people trying to argue prison does not work and should be replaced even for those such as Venables who have committed extremely serious violent crimes should be rehabilitated by psychotherapy and tender loving care. Which means this incorrigible little shit would have been free for the past nine years to wander the country attacking and violating the innocent.

Prison may not be an ideal form of rehabilitation but it does have the effect of segregating those who cannot be trusted to behave decently towards others from the vast majority who live the public part of their lives responsibly. It seems the party in government for the past thirteen years has always been very keen to meddle in the private lives of the responsible, law abiding people, telling us what we can eat or drink, what kind of cars we should drive or which light bulbs we should use, but they are less keen to take action against the troublemakers, those who will not allow fellow members of the community to live peacefully.

Prison does not work as a form of rehabilitation, it never has and was never intended to. It will enrage most Labour supporters but religion appears to be the most effective rehabilitation programme. A harsh prison regime supported by a non politicised police force and judiciary prepared to hand out appropriate sentences bearing in mind the perpetrators of crimes are not victims and deserve no leniency can serve as a deterrent to thieves or fraudsters who commit crime for gain.

For sexual offenders such as Venables who seek victims to torture the way most of us seek partners for consensual sex however, whose nature drives them to acts abhorrent to society the appropriate response of long term incaceration in mental hospitals is no longer available. It was removed as a cost saving measure by that heroine of the right Margaret Thatcher. Now the anti - prison campaigners who would fill the streets with such unrepentant criminals (that was deliberately hyperbolic, in reality there are few of them) complain about the cost of keeping such people in prison. I would suggest it is probably less than the cost of caring for and rehabilitating the victims of their crimes throughout the course of their lives.

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A survey carried out by the BBC found a majority of people around the world believe internet access should be a basic human right. We suspect a bit of statistical rigging because the majority of people in the world live below the poverty line and probably have more urgent priorities than surfing the net.

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5 March 2010
Gagging Of UKIP's Farage shows Nazis are alive and well in the EU
The fining of UKIP MEP for saying something the unelected "President" (Kommisar) of the European Union Herman von Rumpuoy - Pumpy tells us all we need to know about the EU attitude to democracy.

Europe Racing Towards Dictatorship

Far be it from us to tell you who to vote for (no Daily Stirrer writers will be voting UKIP but you can is you wish and good luck to them). What we will say is that unless you fncy living in a bureaucratic authoritarian superstate run by unelected Brussels fonctionnaires, make sure yoiu vote for a candidate who supports Britain leaving the UK.

I am not wildly enthusiastic about the idea of leaving the EU but if the alternative is living in a neo - nazi multicultual nightmare it's a no brainer. We have to get out.


3 March 2010
No Miracles Before 2012
by Ian R Thorpe

What a strange couple of weeks, no major articles from our writers because nothing much that is new and worth commenting on has happened.

There was that ridiculous poll published in The Sunday Times that suggested the Conservatives lead was down to 2% which would mean a hung Parliament. Funny is't it how whenever that phrase "hung Parliament" comes up people start to walk around wearing a small grin of morbid anticipation.

It was all a storm in a teacup however. On Sunday comentators were pointing out the Conservative lead had diminished by five percentage points between the poll first being published in early editions and the final edition hitting the streets. By Tuesday polls were once again showing a Conservative lead of 6%. Kerfuffle over.

But what do people expect from a new Government. A week of dire economic news and a ludicrous upward revision in the economic statistics for the final quarter of 2009 saw the value of the Pound drop several cents against the US$ and similar amounts against other world currencies on Monday. Apart from demonstrating how accrurately we at The Daily Stirrer have predicted the movements of the economy it should have reminded you all the recession is far from over. In fact this is not a recession, it is a fundamental shift in the balance of power from West to East.

One commentator said: “I hate to burst your bubble, but if you’re looking to the next election to ‘fix things’, you’re in for a terrible surprise; whoever wins the next election might affect how fast things deteriorate, but the terrible outcome is certain.” We could not have put it better ourselves.

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1 March 2010
Britian's Credit Rating Lowered? by John De Roe

The Government is not going to admit it ahead of an election but Guido Fawkes who is seldom wrong on these matters pointed his readers to this story from the Financial Times suggesting that thanks to Gordon Brown's insane and uncontrolled spending Britain's credit rating has alread been lowered from Triple A status. This has little immediate impact on nus as individuals but it does show that far from recovering the Britush economy is sinking deeper into the shit.

We are now right up with the PIIGS in the race to national bankruptcy, still a little behind Greece but ahead of Ireland, Iceland, Portugal and Italy. And we cannot even blame the iniquities of the Single Currency. Labour did it all by themselves.

What it does mean for all of us is the cost of servicing our crippling debts rises as creditor nations demand higher interest on what they see as riskier debt. As the wretchedly incompetent Labour government are already borrowing to pay the interest we owe on what we have already borrowed there is only one possible conclusion. We're up shit creek.



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