Thursday, 29 March 2012
THEY COULDN'T RUN A PIE SHOP
Don't panic, don't panic says the government. All fill up with fuel in case we run out because of a strike which has not happened.
What did they expect. Everybody did panic and queues developed at petrol stations around the land.
Are they so thick that they use Dad's Army type messages to run the country.
It could be a ruse to put the blame on the tanker drivers who MAY have come out on strike.
I don't know all the issues but I do not believe the drivers that it was about safety.
I believe it is because cheap foreign drivers are being brought in to undercut conditions and the unions can not bring themselves to say it.
If it is not a ruse to attack the unions in the propaganda stakes it shows ineptitude and a failure to realise how the average person thinks.
They have to get to work. They want to go on holiday over Easter and want to make sure that they are able to do it and buy food
What do the government expect them to do?
Cease work or not go on holiday or starve?
That they are completely out of touch was shown yesterday when Cameron tried to remember where he last had a pasty, AND GOT IT WRONG.
He tried to say he was a fan of pasties but said he had eaten a pasty LAST SUMMER in a pasty shop which had CEASED TRADING.
HE IS A LIEING HYPOCRITE
It is coming to something when a government's reputation has been harmed over the issue of a pasty.
Of course they never eat pasties or pies. They eat in posh restaurants and would not venture into a pie shop unless electioneering and attempting to show "the common touch"
Pies and pasties are what manual workers eat for their dinner (not lunch). They have been up to now cheap and quick to consume and they are quickly back at work.
No posh meals in restaurants, not enough time and too dear
I do not think the chancellor deliberately attacked manual workers, I think that he has not a clue what goes on in the real world and how the actual PRODUCERS live.
It's no good Cameron showing his green credentials by using fuel to go to the North Pole or riding his bike while having his suit taken in a car following.
It's no good pretending he goes to a pie shop when he evidently does not.
All he does is show himself to be a hypocrite,pretending to be a man of the people. He is not, he is completely out of touch with ordinary life and yet he presumes to rule us in a so called democratic society.
Who in their right mind could believe anything he says?
Now I have to admit I do not visit pie shops often as I am retired and live at home, but occasionally do buy from Galloways or Greenhalghes when in town and do not remember EVER visiting Greggs although I may have done.
The point is I do not pretend to be a pie eater, even though as Wiganer I should be.
I am happy to say what I do and eat without pretending to be something I am not.
But is it not a sorry state of affairs when at a time of national bankruptsy a large part of the budget discussions revolves round pasties and pies.
I believe know why the chancellor made this change.
Big firms like KFC and Macdonalds will have complained that their overpriced rubbish is unfairly taxed and big firms have clout, unlike small bakers (or manual workers).
The chancellor said he wanted his budget to promote industry and jobs and small firms, an aim with which I agree.
So why did he reduce the top rate of tax?
It would have been better to reduce National Insurance which would have made it pay for small employers to take on staff and reduce unemployment.
But what did he do for industry? Reduce corporation tax which small businesses do not pay but his rich friends do.
It will help a bit on the jobs front but not nearly as much as a reduction in national Insurance which would help businesses large and small.
I know in this blog I am rambling on a bit, but there is so much which could be done and the government are so out of touch and incompetent it is difficult to know where to start.
They are supposed to be running the country but have shown in recent days they are incapable of running a pie shop.
We need a government which knows what makes the country tick if we are ever to get out of the mess left by Labour.
But do they want to OR DO THEY CARE?
I'M BEGINNING TO THINK NOT.
What did they expect. Everybody did panic and queues developed at petrol stations around the land.
Are they so thick that they use Dad's Army type messages to run the country.
It could be a ruse to put the blame on the tanker drivers who MAY have come out on strike.
I don't know all the issues but I do not believe the drivers that it was about safety.
I believe it is because cheap foreign drivers are being brought in to undercut conditions and the unions can not bring themselves to say it.
If it is not a ruse to attack the unions in the propaganda stakes it shows ineptitude and a failure to realise how the average person thinks.
They have to get to work. They want to go on holiday over Easter and want to make sure that they are able to do it and buy food
What do the government expect them to do?
Cease work or not go on holiday or starve?
That they are completely out of touch was shown yesterday when Cameron tried to remember where he last had a pasty, AND GOT IT WRONG.
He tried to say he was a fan of pasties but said he had eaten a pasty LAST SUMMER in a pasty shop which had CEASED TRADING.
HE IS A LIEING HYPOCRITE
It is coming to something when a government's reputation has been harmed over the issue of a pasty.
Of course they never eat pasties or pies. They eat in posh restaurants and would not venture into a pie shop unless electioneering and attempting to show "the common touch"
Pies and pasties are what manual workers eat for their dinner (not lunch). They have been up to now cheap and quick to consume and they are quickly back at work.
No posh meals in restaurants, not enough time and too dear
I do not think the chancellor deliberately attacked manual workers, I think that he has not a clue what goes on in the real world and how the actual PRODUCERS live.
It's no good Cameron showing his green credentials by using fuel to go to the North Pole or riding his bike while having his suit taken in a car following.
It's no good pretending he goes to a pie shop when he evidently does not.
All he does is show himself to be a hypocrite,pretending to be a man of the people. He is not, he is completely out of touch with ordinary life and yet he presumes to rule us in a so called democratic society.
Who in their right mind could believe anything he says?
Now I have to admit I do not visit pie shops often as I am retired and live at home, but occasionally do buy from Galloways or Greenhalghes when in town and do not remember EVER visiting Greggs although I may have done.
The point is I do not pretend to be a pie eater, even though as Wiganer I should be.
I am happy to say what I do and eat without pretending to be something I am not.
But is it not a sorry state of affairs when at a time of national bankruptsy a large part of the budget discussions revolves round pasties and pies.
I believe know why the chancellor made this change.
Big firms like KFC and Macdonalds will have complained that their overpriced rubbish is unfairly taxed and big firms have clout, unlike small bakers (or manual workers).
The chancellor said he wanted his budget to promote industry and jobs and small firms, an aim with which I agree.
So why did he reduce the top rate of tax?
It would have been better to reduce National Insurance which would have made it pay for small employers to take on staff and reduce unemployment.
But what did he do for industry? Reduce corporation tax which small businesses do not pay but his rich friends do.
It will help a bit on the jobs front but not nearly as much as a reduction in national Insurance which would help businesses large and small.
I know in this blog I am rambling on a bit, but there is so much which could be done and the government are so out of touch and incompetent it is difficult to know where to start.
They are supposed to be running the country but have shown in recent days they are incapable of running a pie shop.
We need a government which knows what makes the country tick if we are ever to get out of the mess left by Labour.
But do they want to OR DO THEY CARE?
I'M BEGINNING TO THINK NOT.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Jacob Zuma sings Kill the Boer (KILL THE WHITE MAN) at ANC Centenery Celebration
And OUR GOVERNMENT looks up to these people ?
I hope GARY LINEKER has something to say about this.
I hope GARY LINEKER has something to say about this.
Monday, 26 March 2012
THE WORLDS NEW BOGEYMAN - KONY2012
I was watching RT news today and they were discussing KONY2012, I'm sure you will have seen mention of it somewhere in the last few weeks.
I stumbled across this Blog today and was intrigued as to what KONY2012 was all about, as I hadn't seen the video, so decided to read -
I suggest you do the same -
My Little Kony – 2012 Needs A Boogey Man
It’s 2012 and we’ve made it almost 3 months into the year without a Boogey Man! Can you believe it? Bin Laden was officially declared dead on May 2nd, 2011 and the world was finally free of Boogey Men, and it lasted a whole 10 months… Until the begining of this month, March, 2012, when the Kony 2012 movie made it’s viral appearance all over the web and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+… And unfortunately there’s a new Boogey Man in town, and his name is Joseph Kony.
First we have the problem. A horrible evil man leading an army of abducted, raped, and tortured children. The movie makes it seem like every night hundreds of children are snatched in the dark of night, and their families are murdered in front of them, forcing them to join Kony’s LRA (Lords Resistance Army).
Then we have the reaction. The public outcry for our governments to do something to stop Kony. The millions of tweets and status updates posted by duped young people who feel they are doing their duty to protect children and encourage freedom by sharing and donating to the Kony 2012 cause, and the Invisible Children organization. Of course this kind of thing plays on the heart strings of the people who watch the film, and even I felt urged to “do something immediately”.
And finally, the solution. To invade Uganda with armed troops in order to hunt down the worlds newest Boogey Man, Joseph Kony, in the jungles of Africa. Something that could take decades and the perfect opportunity to build new military bases and oil pipelines to syphon the newly discovered oil deposits in Uganda. The whole thing is nothing more than a Problem-Reaction-Solution Psy-Op to justify an invasion of African countries for oil.
Here’s a video I found to provide a different perspective:
TONS Of Oil Recently Discovered In Uganda
The most suspicious reason for a need to send troops into Uganda in an undeclared war is the fact that there was recently discovered at least 25 years worth of oil drilling and over 2.5 billion barrels of oil in deposits in and around the area. You better believe the oil barons want a piece of that greasy pie, and what’s a better way to rally public support for an invasion than stopping an evil child abductor and murderer like Kony? The movie openly calls on its millions of fans to beg our government officials to do something by way of sending armed troops into the country without even declaring war.
Kony’s LRA Are Not In Uganda Anymore
The Ugandan government has even warned people that the threat of Kony and the LRA has been largely exaggerated, and that the LRA are not even active in Uganda anymore. Furthermore it’s believed that the Lords Resistance Army’s numbers have dropped to just 300 or so, not the tens of thoushttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifands that the Kony 2012 movie reports.
A different view of KONY 2012
http://allafrica.com/stories/201203120172.html
Uganda: Country Warns Against Misrepresentation of LRA Threat
Invisible Children – A Visible Scam
To add to my suspicion of the whole Kony 2012 movement it appears that the organization has been receiving millions of dollars in donations, with an incredibly huge outpouring coming in after the video went viral. In fact, the entire 30 minute video was pretty much a very strong plea for donations, centered around cute footage of the video producers 5 year old son. A great way to warm your heart and get you to open your wallet.
Publicly available documents show that the organization spends only 37% of their income in Africa. The rest of their money is spent on salaries and “raising awareness” which includes buying high tech gadgets, producing pretty videos and artwork, and designing attractive social media campaigns.
As with most charities only a very small portion of all donated money ever actually gets to the intended location of the person who http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdonated it. Most of it gets spent on “public awareness” and the salaries of the people running the organization.
Here is a good post that gives a better look at what the Invisible Children organization is all about: Visible Children.
A One Sided View
The viral video is extremely one sided. Though while watching it you tend not to notice, but in the entire 30 minute film there is very little footage or opinions that come from people who actually live in Uganda. Instead, the video focuses mostly on the Jason Russell’s 5 year old son, Jason Russell’s opinions, and only one Ugandan named Jacob, a friend of Jason Russell’s.
You’d think that a video intended to create a strong case for helping the people of Uganda through an armed military invasion would include at least a few interviews with people who actually live in Uganda right now and want help… But no, the video focuses more on the cute things that Jason Russell’s son says than it does on people who actually live in Uganda.
And just to be fair, here is an interview with Joseph Kony from 2006, when his army was still much bigger than it is today, although even then it was shrinking fast.
Helping People: Good. Invading Countries: Bad
I know that I’ll probably get a lot of hate mail for this post, but before you go angrily typing me a message about how I must not care about children or doing what’s right I’d like you to think for a minute about what is actually the right thing to do here.
I don’t believe that war will end war. It doesn’t work that way. So sending armed troops into a foreign country in an undeclared war is not going to solve any problems and will in fact create even more problems than we are already faced with.
I do believe that helping people is the right thing to do, but sending armed troops into foreign countries without legally declaring a war has never worked to solve any problems in the past, and I don’t believe it will solve any problems now or in the future either.
I strongly believe that abducting children and forcing them to join an army is terribly wrong. I also believe that starting wars with the intent of stealing oil and pretending to be helping children in order to gain support for such a war is also terribly wrong. Considering that today the actual threat of Joseph Kony and the LRA is quite small I find it absurd that anyone in http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftheir right mind would encourage an armed invasion of Uganda at this time, and believe that doing so would actually do more harm than good to the people of Uganda and surrounding areas.
If you haven’t seen the Kony 2012 video yet, here is the link to the full video on youtube. I intentionally left this link until the end so that more people would read this entire blog post without getting distracted.
At the time of posting the KONY2012 video had been hit 85,498,432 times.
I stumbled across this Blog today and was intrigued as to what KONY2012 was all about, as I hadn't seen the video, so decided to read -
I suggest you do the same -
My Little Kony – 2012 Needs A Boogey Man
It’s 2012 and we’ve made it almost 3 months into the year without a Boogey Man! Can you believe it? Bin Laden was officially declared dead on May 2nd, 2011 and the world was finally free of Boogey Men, and it lasted a whole 10 months… Until the begining of this month, March, 2012, when the Kony 2012 movie made it’s viral appearance all over the web and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+… And unfortunately there’s a new Boogey Man in town, and his name is Joseph Kony.
If you’ve been online much this month I’m sure you’ve already been exposed to the 30 minute documentary produced by an organization called Invisible Children, headed by a guy by the name of Jason Russell. I’ll admit that when I first found the Kony 2012 video on my facebook news feed I watched it from start to finish and was somewhat sucked into it.
Just like hundreds of thousands of other people who watched the video, I felt like it was a good cause and even considered getting more heavily involved. I even decided to write a new blog post about it that day, something I haven’t done for months! But the post I originally had in mind was a full out support for the cause, which this post definitely is not.
Dig A Little Deeper…
As usual I like to do a bit of deeper digging into issues, especially political ones, before I make any strong statements about them, but for some reason this Kony issue really pushed me to want to take action NOW, without doing further research. Luckily, I resisted that urge and even noticed how it was strange that it was having such a strong impression on me when normally I would be at least somewhat critical of such a film.
I’ve now done some more research on the topic and have had some time to let the fog clear and think about it a little more. After doing more research I am now convinced that the Kony 2012 film and social media campaigns are actually a well orchestrated psy-op designed to sway public opinion in favor of a new and undeclared war in Africa under the guise of “stopping Kony”, as well as a test run by the banksters, war mongers, and secret government in the effectiveness of a well planned social media campaign. Something that that up until now has been largely underused by these groups to sway public opinion on such matters.
Another Problem-Reaction-Solution
Until recently, most of the Problem-Reaction-Solution situations have relied on traditional media (TV, Newspapers, Radio) to deliver the punch, but now the controllers are seeing the power of social media and social sharing sites like Facebook and Google+ that connect people together and make it possible to make a message “go viral” and reach millions of people in a matter of days, and they are scared shitless of it.
The controllers know they need to master this new type of media (as well as limit its usefulness for regular people) if they want to continue controlling the population, and Kony 2012 is the first Problem-Reaction-Solution to fully utilize this new form of media to mould public opinion on an issue… And it worked extremely well!
First we have the problem. A horrible evil man leading an army of abducted, raped, and tortured children. The movie makes it seem like every night hundreds of children are snatched in the dark of night, and their families are murdered in front of them, forcing them to join Kony’s LRA (Lords Resistance Army).
Then we have the reaction. The public outcry for our governments to do something to stop Kony. The millions of tweets and status updates posted by duped young people who feel they are doing their duty to protect children and encourage freedom by sharing and donating to the Kony 2012 cause, and the Invisible Children organization. Of course this kind of thing plays on the heart strings of the people who watch the film, and even I felt urged to “do something immediately”.
And finally, the solution. To invade Uganda with armed troops in order to hunt down the worlds newest Boogey Man, Joseph Kony, in the jungles of Africa. Something that could take decades and the perfect opportunity to build new military bases and oil pipelines to syphon the newly discovered oil deposits in Uganda. The whole thing is nothing more than a Problem-Reaction-Solution Psy-Op to justify an invasion of African countries for oil.
Here’s a video I found to provide a different perspective:
TONS Of Oil Recently Discovered In Uganda
The most suspicious reason for a need to send troops into Uganda in an undeclared war is the fact that there was recently discovered at least 25 years worth of oil drilling and over 2.5 billion barrels of oil in deposits in and around the area. You better believe the oil barons want a piece of that greasy pie, and what’s a better way to rally public support for an invasion than stopping an evil child abductor and murderer like Kony? The movie openly calls on its millions of fans to beg our government officials to do something by way of sending armed troops into the country without even declaring war.
Kony’s LRA Are Not In Uganda Anymore
The Ugandan government has even warned people that the threat of Kony and the LRA has been largely exaggerated, and that the LRA are not even active in Uganda anymore. Furthermore it’s believed that the Lords Resistance Army’s numbers have dropped to just 300 or so, not the tens of thoushttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifands that the Kony 2012 movie reports.
A different view of KONY 2012
http://allafrica.com/stories/201203120172.html
Uganda: Country Warns Against Misrepresentation of LRA Threat
Invisible Children – A Visible Scam
To add to my suspicion of the whole Kony 2012 movement it appears that the organization has been receiving millions of dollars in donations, with an incredibly huge outpouring coming in after the video went viral. In fact, the entire 30 minute video was pretty much a very strong plea for donations, centered around cute footage of the video producers 5 year old son. A great way to warm your heart and get you to open your wallet.
Publicly available documents show that the organization spends only 37% of their income in Africa. The rest of their money is spent on salaries and “raising awareness” which includes buying high tech gadgets, producing pretty videos and artwork, and designing attractive social media campaigns.
As with most charities only a very small portion of all donated money ever actually gets to the intended location of the person who http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdonated it. Most of it gets spent on “public awareness” and the salaries of the people running the organization.
Here is a good post that gives a better look at what the Invisible Children organization is all about: Visible Children.
A One Sided View
The viral video is extremely one sided. Though while watching it you tend not to notice, but in the entire 30 minute film there is very little footage or opinions that come from people who actually live in Uganda. Instead, the video focuses mostly on the Jason Russell’s 5 year old son, Jason Russell’s opinions, and only one Ugandan named Jacob, a friend of Jason Russell’s.
You’d think that a video intended to create a strong case for helping the people of Uganda through an armed military invasion would include at least a few interviews with people who actually live in Uganda right now and want help… But no, the video focuses more on the cute things that Jason Russell’s son says than it does on people who actually live in Uganda.
And just to be fair, here is an interview with Joseph Kony from 2006, when his army was still much bigger than it is today, although even then it was shrinking fast.
Helping People: Good. Invading Countries: Bad
I know that I’ll probably get a lot of hate mail for this post, but before you go angrily typing me a message about how I must not care about children or doing what’s right I’d like you to think for a minute about what is actually the right thing to do here.
I don’t believe that war will end war. It doesn’t work that way. So sending armed troops into a foreign country in an undeclared war is not going to solve any problems and will in fact create even more problems than we are already faced with.
I do believe that helping people is the right thing to do, but sending armed troops into foreign countries without legally declaring a war has never worked to solve any problems in the past, and I don’t believe it will solve any problems now or in the future either.
I strongly believe that abducting children and forcing them to join an army is terribly wrong. I also believe that starting wars with the intent of stealing oil and pretending to be helping children in order to gain support for such a war is also terribly wrong. Considering that today the actual threat of Joseph Kony and the LRA is quite small I find it absurd that anyone in http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftheir right mind would encourage an armed invasion of Uganda at this time, and believe that doing so would actually do more harm than good to the people of Uganda and surrounding areas.
If you haven’t seen the Kony 2012 video yet, here is the link to the full video on youtube. I intentionally left this link until the end so that more people would read this entire blog post without getting distracted.
At the time of posting the KONY2012 video had been hit 85,498,432 times.
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