Bored and ungrateful migrants There is an article in today’s Daily Mail: "They told us we were going to Frankfurt, but we’ve ended up in this wilderness": Migrants turn up their noses at ‘boring’ German village… and some have already left. The tiny village of Sumte in Germany – population 102 – received 750 ‘refugees’ […]
Desperate refugees – or ungrateful, manipulative, economic migrants? Read More »
Here’s a few sobering facts to think about when you wonder about the future. Population : When I was born there were 3.1 billion people on the planet. As I write this (in 2015) there are now nearly 7.3 billion and that number is accelerating. At what point do we start to run out of
A few sobering facts about population and greed. Read More »
In a recent article by Ars Technica entitled After moving money around, Google paid tiny amount in European taxes Basically the company created a shells company in Ireland to be its “European headquarters” and then set up a series of other shell company around the world – notably in Bermuda – and then charges its
Google 'cheats' UK and Europe out of billions in tax. Same old, same old! Read More »
The irony of cold callers I’ve just spent 6 minutes on the phone arguing about irony! (They called me). The first couple of minutes to the initial telesales contact, the rest to her manager, who was quibbling pedantically and accusing me of being hostile. It goes like this: Them: “Can I speak to …” Me:
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Rather irked at the moment after one of DPD’s drivers had a major lapse of concentration. My wife’s monitor died so I ordered a new one. That was annoying in itself as it was a big and rather expensive Dell which, it turned out, has a flaw in that after 4 years – just outside
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As yet another program airs to show the ‘truth’ about the easy life of scrounging benefits claimants and the masses of Twitter in the UK rage about #benefitstreet I thought I’d take a look. A road of 137 houses with 90% receiving benefits. Well that’s a crowd drawer on it’s own, surely. Front page news
Benefits Street – which side of the fence are you on? Read More »
Conspiracy theories – or cover-ups? As Andrew Snowden’s exposures have shown, the United States government – via the Pentagon and specifically the NSA – has paid the world’s leading encryption company $10 million to partially cripple it’s security software so they could more easily spy on everyone. Why am I not surprised? It’s already accepted
Will Andrew Snowden shed light on other conspiracy theories? Read More »
Austerity is selective Generally, I stay well, well away from politics (and religion) but every now and MPs and their cronies do something that makes you think, you know what, you are really starting to take the proverbial about now. Pack it in! I started adding trends to the posts, bringing your attention to things.
Austerity, we are all in this together, right? Guys? GUYS!? Read More »