THIS is why the public sector needs a massive cull

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The Great Inertia Sector: A whistleblower's account of council work where staff pull six-month sickies

In his emergency Budget this week, Chancellor George Osborne announced he was cutting public sector expenditure by 25 per cent. Unions have declared the cuts irresponsible. But are they? Here, one employee for a large inner London authority lifts the lid on the culture of inertia and incompetence at his workplace. The Mail knows the true identity of the man - a graduate who has been a planning officer for eight years. But to protect his job, he is writing under an assumed name.

Monday morning, it's 10am and I'm late for work - but there's no point hurrying because even though I should have been at my desk 30 minutes ago, I know I'll be the first to arrive at the office.

Sure enough, the planning department is a ghost town.

Our flexi-hours policy means that employees can start any time between 7.30am and 10am, but council workers like to treat that as a rough guideline rather than the contractual obligation that it is.

I'm a senior planning officer: it's my job to inspect buildings, grant planning approval and to guide members of the public looking to alter their homes.

Our department has 60 employees and - until last Tuesday - a budget of £22million.

I've been there for two years and in that period the only time I've ever seen every employee present and correct was at the Christmas party.

At least ten people will be off sick on any one day. The departmental record holder is Doreen - she has worked a grand total of eight days in 14 months.

Doreen must be the unluckiest woman in the country.

In the past year and a half she claims she has: fallen victim to frostbite; been hit by a car; and accidentally set herself on fire.

But she's really pulled out all the stops with her latest excuse: witchcraft. That's right, Doreen believes somebody in Nigeria has cast a spell on her and that it would be unprofessional of her to attempt to do the job she is paid £56k a year for while under the influence of the spell.

She has already been off for four months on full pay. I've no idea how long this spell lasts, but my guessing would be six months to the day - the exact amount of time council employees can take off on full pay before their money is reduced.

But having just eight weeks of full pay left won't be a problem for Doreen and the rest of the council's sickly staff - they'll simply return to work when the six months is up, put in a day or two's work and then go off sick for another six months on full pay again. Easy.

Of course they have to provide sick-notes from a doctor, but as you can buy fake ones online for £10 it's never proved a problem.

There are procedures in place to address attendance, but nobody ever follows them through - chances are the person whose job it is to monitor sickness is probably signed off himself.

Some human resources managers, usually new to the job, do try to take action - but it mostly backfires.

All credit to the bright-eyed young HR manager who, last year, wanted to dismiss a senior employee who had been off sick for three months.

The employee had still been using his company mobile phone, from Marbella.

However, the employee was able (with a little help from the mighty Unison union) to argue that there's no reason why 'sick' people can't rent villas in the Costa Del Sol.

I've been told by colleagues that I don't take enough sick leave - when I protest that it is because I'm in good health they look confused. What's that got to do with anything?

At my borough a worker can take two weeks before having to produce a doctor's note (fake or not).

With the five weeks' annual leave plus bank holidays, even the most conscientious worker in my department is easily taking 12 weeks a year off.

To add insult to injury, some London boroughs recently introduced a new scheme whereby anybody who did an extra 15 minutes' work a day for 20 days could take an extra day's holiday.

But when you can so easily take six months off, who needs official holidays?

Back to the day's business. Jerry is the next to arrive at 10.25am - before he takes his jacket off he performs his morning ritual of taking both his phones off the hook.

God forbid that any resident and council tax payer should be able to speak to him and get some of the advice he's paid £64k a year to dispense.

Jerry is 63 and two years from retirement. He is what is known in the civil service and local government as an 'untouchable' - he's been at the council for more than 40 years, does no work, but would cost an absolute fortune to get rid of.

So he's left alone to play online poker, Skype his daughter in Florida and take his two-hour daily snooze at his desk, no doubt dreaming of the day when his gold-plated public sector pension will kick in.

If you think Jerry's pay is generous, consider this: the head of my department is on an annual salary of £170k plus bonuses, his deputy nets £99k and even the office PAs are on a very respectable £38k - just two thousand less than I get.

I listen to my answerphone and, as usual, there are about 20 messages from people trying to report faulty streetlights or complain that their rubbish hasn't been collected - calls that have been misdirected by our useless call centre.

When I first started here at the council, I tried to pass these messages on to the right department, but eventually gave up - nobody answers phones, nobody listens to voicemails, and emails go unread.

There's no point showing any initiative. I once wandered down to the 'Streetcare' department to ask why the hell nobody was answering the phone.

But only two staff had turned up that day and they were both in the prayer room. Yes, you read that correctly, all large council offices now provide prayer rooms, primarily for their Muslim employees whose faith requires them to perform devotional prayers at midday, in the afternoon and at sunset.

Although it's two years since I started working for this authority I've also worked for two other London boroughs in various capacities over a period of 12 years. In that time I've never known anybody be sacked, no matter how inept and unprofessional they may be.

I'm not sure what it takes to get fired in local government. I'd say 'murdering the CEO' but, even then, you're more likely to be sent on an 'anger in the workplace' course.

Councils love their workshops, training courses and seminars. This week alone I've been invited to attend: A cycle hire and efficiency course; a traffic and pollution briefing; and a training course on offsite health and safety.

Next week there is a two-day course on 'letter writing skills' - I dearly hope that Jackie, our departmental PA, will attend this one. I've given up using her and now type my own correspondence and reports.

The last time she typed a letter for me (to an architect) she misspelt 'accommodation' and 'environment' throughout.

I gently pointed this out to her and asked her to redo the document. But she went sick for two weeks with stress, complaining that she was being bullied.

When my boss called me in to discuss this I, jokingly, said: 'Well I'll just let her misspell everything in future, shall I?' To which he replied: 'Yes, I think that's best for now.'

I'm not sure what workshop I was asked to attend for that particular misdemeanour, but I do recall the 'cultural awareness and sensitivity' one following an incident where I outrageously asked a black colleague if I could open a window behind her desk.

It was 88 degrees outside and our offices have no air conditioning. This lady was born and bred in North London but claimed her Caribbean heritage meant she felt the cold and opening a window by six inches would cause her to suffer.

I did the workshop and wrote her a letter of apology as recommended. I actually began to question whether I was racist or insensitive.

That evening I saw Sean, my oldest friend who is black. I ran the window story by him - he eventually stopped laughing after about 20 minutes.

You can't be made to attend these workshops but, surprisingly, the take-up is remarkably high.

Not because those going want to improve their skills, but because a full day's training comes with a full day's free catering.

' Fact Finding Missions' are another great favourite within the public sector. The last one I attended was a two-day trip ( transport and four-star accommodation included) to a football club in the Midlands.

Supposedly it was to understand how other inner cities tackle sporting events in areas of high population.

However, the only 'fact' I discovered was that it takes about 11 pints and two whisky chasers before my boss keels over.

In fairness, there are some very hard workers at the council, but they are so massively outweighed by the workshy that they're fighting a losing battle. The culture is very much one of getting minimum done for maximum pay.

Even when a reasonable proportion of the staff turns up for work (for our office that would be about 60 per cent) very little gets done because the officers cannot be bothered with the fiddly paperwork that goes with the job.

When residents contact the office because they want, for example, a loft extension or to replace windows in a conservation area, they hit such a wall of inefficiency and apathy that many simply give up or go ahead without permission.

I recently received a letter from somebody looking for the plans to a building that was erected ten years ago.

I passed it on to Jackie the ever-efficient PA, who claimed she couldn't find them. I went to look and located them in 30 seconds.

The only time the department ever really jumps into action is when architects complain.

They know planning inside out and won't be fobbed off with delaying tactics that ordinary citizens have to contend with.

You can't even give them the old council favourite of claiming that you can't answer any of their questions because of 'data protection'. We love that excuse - nobody really knows what it means, but we use it all the time.

Bosses of local authorities have bonuses dependent on not getting high numbers of complaints.

But the only way complaints can be recorded is if they are dealt with - if they're ignored or mysteriously lost then they never existed and won't be counted.

Despite all this, my department makes a huge amount of money - mostly from private developers.

If they want to build something it costs them £2,300 just to have an initial planning meeting with us.

What they don't know is that we've already had a meeting and decided they probably won't get permission - unless they agree to a 'planning gain' - a dodgy but perfectly legal practice whereby a developer who wants to build, say, a hotel, will be told that he can have his planning permission, but only if he also agrees to build a community centre too.

It's a way for councils to improve local amenities, without having to pay for them from public funds.

Some might call it bribery. For us, it's everyday business that ensures our budgets are protected for our vital work - like protecting our pay rises and perks.

So can anything be done to curtail this greed, waste and chronic incompetence?

George Osborne clearly thinks so, with his bold promises to tackle the bloated public sector head-on.

We had a meeting on Thursday to discuss the Chancellor's proposed cuts - there was talk of strike action among the younger workers, but much rubbing of hands among the 'untouchables', many of whom could walk away with six-figure golden goodbyes.

The cuts and pay freezes are desperately needed, but the one thing Mr Osborne will never be able to control is the culture of inertia and inefficiency that is rife throughout the public sector.

Of course, when I tell my friends in the private sector about my working conditions, they can scarcely believe it. As the recession bites, they consider themselves lucky to be holding on to their jobs, and are willing to work extra hours or take a pay freeze to ensure their firm's survival.

In the public sector, though, there is no competitive edge; no incentive to cuts costs or improve efficiency. Few genuinely fear for their job security, protected as they are by threats of union action every time the axe looks likely to fall.

It's the same story across the world: when a nation's public sector is allowed to expand into a bloated behemoth, it is almost impossible to cut it down to size, still less to change the culture of waste and laziness that sets in.

I don't know what the solution is. Even those, like myself, who join with the best of intentions are soon worn down and end up subscribing to the 'if you can't beat them, join them' school of thought.

Of course the real scandal is it's your money that's paying for the jollies, the prayer rooms and the never- ending workshops.

In my authority's borough, the average householder pays £1,330 a year in council tax. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to know that they're funding Jerry's internet gambling and Doreen's never-ending sick pay.

Good luck Mr Osborne - you're going to need it.

WHO to tax your internet usage to fund vaccines in third-world countries

(NaturalNews) The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing hard to impose global consumer taxes to help fund its various programs, including a new proposal that would tax the internet in order to pay for vaccines and other pharmaceutical medicines for third-world countries. Yes, you read that right - WHO wants every person in the world to help pay for drugs that make Big Pharma even richer.

Consider it a reverse Robin Hood ploy: They're stealing from the working class and giving to the ultra wealthy drug companies!

Of course this isn't the first time the UN has petitioned governments around the world to illegally tax citizens in order to further its own agenda. This body of unelected officials tried to push "cap and trade" legislation for supposed climate change just last year (but failed to do so because many countries simply refused the idea).

In the current scheme, WHO appointed a so-called panel of "medical experts" to prepare a report highlighting various financing ideas that would fund all the projects WHO is trying to accomplish in the world. One of those ideas is to have governments tax internet usage in their countries and give the money to WHO for "medical research and development" in poorer, developing countries. (This is code-speak for unlawfully pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of Big Pharma in the name of charity).

White people banned from applying for council position

A council has been accused of discrimination after white people were barred from applying for two £18,000-a-year jobs.

Bristol City has created the management training posts for graduates in an effort to recruit more minority employees.

As a result the council will only accept applications from ethnic minorities for the two-year placements.

But this has prompted criticism from white graduates struggling to find work.

One jobseeker, who did not wish to be named, described the posts as 'totally racist'.

Of course it is racist. It is also offensive to 'ethnics' because it assumes they cannot compete with white candidates on a level playing field. It can also be intepreted that the Race Relations Act presumes non-white people are inferior to white people, thus making them deserving of discriminatory regulations. The other way of looking at it is the state sees white people as all being inherently racist, hence justifying the passing of laws that affect everyone in the country.

James Easey, a spokesman for the council said advertising ethnic minority-only posts was allowed under race relations legislation.

He said: 'This traineeship was started because of the marked under-representation of ethnic minorities in our workforce.

'The normal recruitment process was not rectifying this unacceptably low trend so there was a strong case for this small positive recruitment traineeship for two ethnic minority graduates a year.

'We have a workforce of more than 9,000 employees, excluding school staff, so this is a small training programme.

'Graduates from any ethnic background are open to apply for the national graduate local government programme which we recruit from every year - we have just recruited two graduates in this way.'

The Race Relations Act 1976 states that if a racial group is under-represented councils can offer training to individuals from that group.

Another one for the Great Repeal Bill then (no, not the government one, the Real One). By the way, when the state is trying to engineer 'equality of OUTCOME' it is behaving in a communist (collectivist) manner.

Secret society investigation revealed to European parliament

H/T IanPJ

The results of longstanding research on a secret society were presented at the European Parliament on Tuesday by Daniel Estulin, author of the bestseller "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group."

Secretive and elite – the Bilderberg group, which unites some of the world's most powerful people, has been meeting behind closed doors for decades.

Its activities have become shrouded in a mist of conspiracy theories, with some claiming its members are trying to create a new world order.

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Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin has just revealed to the European Parliament all he claims to have discovered about the 'Bilderbergers'.

“Over almost 20 years of research I’ve found out that what today is called the Bilderberg group already existed over eight hundred years ago,” Estulin told RT. “Back then they were called the Venetian black nobility. Bilderberg is the creation of the Sinarchy movement who are very potentially founders and financiers of Hitler. As Sinarchy international they, in turn, were founded by the Free Mason esoteric secret society back in the 1770s, as a kind of a counter attack on the principals upon which the United States of America was built.”

“A lot of people speak of Bilderberg as a domain of conspiracy theories, and of course it’s not, it’s a historical fact,” Estulin stated. “A lot of people believe that Bilderberg is a one-world government or creating the new world order, especially people point out a speech made by George W. Bush made back in the 1990s about the creation of one world government. It’s actually not about that at all. It’s a meeting of people who represent a particular ideology. That ideology is of money.”

“So the idea is not to create one world government rather the creation of one world company limited to where financial concerns are far more powerful than any government on Earth,” the journalist added.

Secretive and elite – the Bilderberg group, which unites some of the world's most powerful people, has been meeting behind closed doors for decades.

Its activities have become shrouded in a mist of conspiracy theories, with some claiming its members are trying to create a new world order.

Read more

Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin has just revealed to the European Parliament all he claims to have discovered about the 'Bilderbergers'.

“Over almost 20 years of research I’ve found out that what today is called the Bilderberg group already existed over eight hundred years ago,” Estulin told RT. “Back then they were called the Venetian black nobility. Bilderberg is the creation of the Sinarchy movement who are very potentially founders and financiers of Hitler. As Sinarchy international they, in turn, were founded by the Free Mason esoteric secret society back in the 1770s, as a kind of a counter attack on the principals upon which the United States of America was built.”

“A lot of people speak of Bilderberg as a domain of conspiracy theories, and of course it’s not, it’s a historical fact,” Estulin stated. “A lot of people believe that Bilderberg is a one-world government or creating the new world order, especially people point out a speech made by George W. Bush made back in the 1990s about the creation of one world government. It’s actually not about that at all. It’s a meeting of people who represent a particular ideology. That ideology is of money.”

“So the idea is not to create one world government rather the creation of one world company limited to where financial concerns are far more powerful than any government on Earth,” the journalist added.

When you consider the fact these 'elites' have been born and raised on corporate thinking, corporate law, multi-nationals and central banks, it makes perfect sense. What we are seeing in the world is simply a consolidation and streamlining of their 'human corp'. A global government is merely a reduction in the size and power of their 'subdiaries' (nation states, central banks local corporations) into the main global system.

One of the main vehicles for this are the supranational unions, such as the EU and NAU. These enable the global directorship to impose rules and diktats with greater ease. No need to go forth and convince the numerous national governments to implement xyz. Simply pass it as the supranational level, local governments then impose them using their own legislation, doing their best to cover up the fact it came from beyond their borders.

The depopulation plan (Agenda 21 et al) is simply their desire to cut 'waste' from their farms. It also, by reducing numbers and exterting ever more control over individuals, serves to reduce the probability of rebellion. Another way of putting this is reducing the number of variables in the system to control the propensity for chaotic, unpredictable behaviour in the population.

They co-opt movements that a borne from such chaos and gently guide them out of harms way. Like seeding storms to break up potential tornadoes.

The cattle blink and then go back to being collateral for loans for private banks, reduce the cost of credit and encourage people to get into debt. Debt that cost nothing to produce but years of your labour (time and energy) to repay. Meanwhile governments, instead of printing money at 0% interest decide to borrow it from the private banks, and charge the cattle the difference and then some.

They moan about it a bit, but wait, X Factors on. Mooooo.

Luckily more and more cattle aren't being so easily distracted anymore. The chaos may have reached a critical point.

An Act to Correct the Money Supply

Give this a read

The Proposed Bank of England Act

This is a reform that could prevent a future financial crisis, clear the national debt, and restart the economy.

It cures the sickness in our economy and financial system by tackling the root cause of the problem, rather than just the symptoms.

It would make the 'inevitable' cuts in public services completely unnecessary, reduce the tax burden by up to 30% and allow us to clear the national debt. It takes control over the UK's money supply out of the hands of the commercial banking sector and restores it to the state, where it can be used to benefit the economy, rather than providing a £200 billion annual subsidy to the banking sector.

And share it. Thanks.

Carbon dioxide has almost nothing to do with global warming, in case you were wondering…

James Delingpole does it again.

Dr Spencer, formerly senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, now leads the US science team for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSRE) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. He co-developed the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He’s just the kind of egghead the IPCC claims to represent when it tells us the world is getting dangerously warmer, it’s man’s fault – the result of CO2 emissions – and it must be urgently addressed.

Except Dr Spencer doesn’t agree with any of that. He thinks it’s all nonsense, based on a very elementary error he describes in his new book The Great Global Warming Blunder. I summarise his arguments in this article.

Ah by the way, Lib/Lab/Con are all committed to spending lots of your money and raising the cost of living to ‘fight’ something that doesn’t exist. Don’t worry, it’ll only cost the Western world about $1 trillion a year.

Now maybe you’ll have a better idea of why Maurice Strong, UN Eco-Fascist extraordinaire said this little gem in 2002;

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

Blair In Blue

Good article from Hitchens in the Mail today, I suggest giving it a read.

He is truly what he once said he was – the Heir to Blair.

If he wins, he will – as the first Tory leader to win an Election in 18 years – have the power to crush all his critics in the Tory Party.

He will be able to say that political correctness, green zealotry, a pro-EU position and a willingness to spend as much as Labour on the NHS have won the day.

He will claim (falsely) that ‘Right-wing’ policies lost the last three Elections.

Those Tory MPs who agree with you and me will be cowed and silenced for good. The power will lie with the A-list smart set, modish, rich metropolitan liberals hungry for office at all costs who would have been (and who in the case of one of the older ones actually was) in New Labour 13 years ago.

And then where will you have to turn for help as the PC, pro-EU bulldozer trundles across our landscape destroying what is good and familiar and replacing it with a country whose inhabi­tants increasingly cannot recognise it as their own?

The Liberal Democrats? They agree with David. The Labour Party under exciting, new, Blairite Mr Miliband, heir to a Marxist dynasty?

He agrees with David, too. You will look from bench to bench in the House of Commons and see nothing but the people whose ideas have wrecked a great country in half a century, and who still won’t admit they’re wrong.

This system is only propped up by state funding and dodgy millionaires. The surge to the Liberal Democrats – because of who they are not rather than because of what they are – shows a great hunger for something genuinely different.

Yes indeed. I will not vote for any of the corporate three. It would be akin to choosing one of three doors that all lead to the same prison cell.

May 20 Everybody Draw muhammad Day

JIHADWATCH

The paintbrush/pen/pencil/crayon is mightier than the sword. Or hey, even needlepoint if you're up for it. The possibilities are endless. "Seattle cartoonist launches 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'," by Jamie Griswold for the Associated Press, April 23 (thanks to all who sent this in):

After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."

Norris told KIRO Radio's Dave Ross that cartoonists are meant to challenge the lines of political correctness. "That's a cartoonist's job, to be non-PC."

Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

The group said it wasn't threatening South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California production studio where South Park is made.

"As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central's message they sent about feeling afraid," Norris said.

Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any religious figure to be posted as part of Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor (CACAH) on May 20th.

But drawings of one "religious figure" in particular will provoke death threats and accusations of hatred and racism.

On her website Norris explains this is not meant to disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to express themselves.

Invisible Empire - Full documentary

Jason Bermas presents Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined produced by Alex Jones.

View the video on Youtube here.

EUISS and World Governance: We Need Immigration and Climate Change As Arguments for Military World State Control

Summary: The EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) is the brain behind the EU's military. It is centered around Bilderberger and Club of Rome member, Javier Solana, former NATO Secretary General and EU foreign minister (High Representative). EUISS' annual publication 2009: "What ambitions for European defence in 2020", contains interesting information: Swedish Tomas Ries writes that the ISS needs a European army to defend EU borders against massive poverty immigration. He calls it distasteful and immoral - but necessary!

Furthermore, Ries writes that Europe needs to be able to wage war against countries (including Russia) with other views on the world than the EU's New World Order views. Furthermore, this New World Order will usurp the right of deciding to occupy an area of a former sovereign state in the name of, e.g. climate or biodiversity! Nevertheless, the EU has started to fulfill its promise of free movement within the EU for Muslim Euro-Mediterranean partners, as promised in 2003.

Furthermore, the EU has set up recruiting offices in Africa to recruit 56 million. Muslims + their families into the EU by 2050! At the same time, the EUISS writes in the report from its annual congress 2009, "Soft power". Managing a Post-crisis World", that it would be wrong to bar the Union from the outside world, because it is contrary to the sacred dogma of "unity in diversity." But then comes the strange thing: It is stated, that there is no risk of confrontation between the great powers - for they are partners. Why else does the European Union want an army, then?

Regionalization, it is said, is part of global governance. The Global Agenda (21) is generated by the linkage of the fight against the crises (climate, financial, immigration, development) - that the elite behind the New World Order has created itself for this very purpose. The G20 must be strengthened - and bought NGOs must have much more to say in support of the New World Order program - because this is New World Order "legitimacy". Better is soft power - but make no mistake. The EU will put hard power behind if it does not succeed by soft means. The British Defence Ministry wrote that everybody must be linked to a verifiable network (chips, among others) - and it will be deemed suspicious to stay outside. It stipulated that it will be difficult for those who want to preserve their indigenous culture and beliefs. They will be considered radicalised - while this is obviously not true, for example of Muslim "neo-Europeans". The UN has started to realize John F. Kennedy 's proposal from 1961 to abolish all armies and only maintain a UN world army of 50,000 men to oppress troublemakers against the New World Order. The NATO has usurped this role in 2008.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

Just a thought…

Today I saw this;

Scientists unravel greenfly DNA code... now they can get to work on wiping them out

Last night, an international team of scientists announced they had deciphered an aphid's genome, or entire cache of DNA for the first time.

Armed with the genetic blueprint, they can start to look for weak spots that can be targeted with new designer pesticides, the journal PLoS Biology reports.

I then immediately thought of this;

The Human Genome Project

Project goals were to

• identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,
• determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
• store this information in databases,
• improve tools for data analysis,
• transfer related technologies to the private sector, and
• address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.

I’m just being paranoid I’m sure, it isn’t like these ‘elites’ want to wipe out the worlds population or anything.

BBC doesn't know how much of your money they spend

Who gives a fuck how much, it isn't like the BBC have to actually pay for it or anything.

The corporation did not know in advance how much it would spend covering individual events, from the Beijing Olympics to the Glastonbury festival, because so many departments were involved and they did not liaise on budgets, according to a damning National Audit Office report.

As a result, the corporation was unable to assess whether or not it offered value for money, it said.

The total expenditure for sport and music events in the 2008-09 financial year was £357 million, including coverage and rights. The public spending watchdog singled out the BBC’s construction of a £250,000 studio in Vienna for the Euro 2008 football championships because the one allocated did not have a backdrop of the city skyline.

No accountability leads to ever growing inefficiency and self indulgence, no difference if it is with foreign aid, the welfare state or any other state (taxpayer) funded system.

State propaganda

Stop smoking. Drink less. Learn new skills. Stop defrauding the benefit office. Claim tax credits. Wear a condom. Join the Army.

Britons are being bombarded by more than 10,000 government advertisements every day, prompting accusations that Labour is creating the "ultimate nanny state".

Messages from the state were relayed to the population via television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines and billboards on more than 3.7 million occasions during 2008, according to new research by media analysts at The Nielsen Company.

Current major campaigns include the Department of Health's "Condom – Essential Wear" campaign to promote safe sex, a police initiative to publicise the Anti-Terrorist Hotline, and the Department for Transport's "Think! Bike" campaign to encourage drivers to look out for motorcyclists.

The government is now the biggest spender on advertising in the country.

Its spending has increased by 20 per cent this year to more than £400 million at a time when the previous biggest spender, the corporate giant Procter & Gamble, has been cutting back.

Almost half a bil to tell the peasants how to think and act. Free nation my arse. Let us not forget the quangocracy and the fake charities. Billions of your money, taken off of you without your consent and used to brainwash you.

Fuck the government. They shouldn't even have an advertising budget, their job is to administer the law and protect property rights, the rest can be done by local governments and the people.

This is also an opportunity for me to post this webpage regarding psywar using the corporate media as a vector.

BRAINWASHING: How The British Use The Media for Mass Psychological Warfare

"I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television.... You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV set images....'' --Hal Becker, media ``expert'' and management consultant, the Futures Group, in an interview in 1981

"Muslim needs should be priority in Britain" - Gov analyst

More than half the population believe Britain is deeply divided along religious lines, according to an official survey.

A majority would also strongly oppose the development of a mosque in their neighbourhood, the research into social attitudes found.

Almost half - 45 per cent - say they do not believe that diversity has brought benefits to the country and that religious diversity has had a negative impact.

The government-backed inquiry revealed that only one in four people in Britain feel positively about Islam.

That would be the Muslim section of the population I presume. I don't know anyone who feels positively about Islam. A long time ago, I confronted one of my Muslim friends when he was talking about 'killing all the Jews'. We were children at the time. The tenets of Islam are completely opposed to individual liberty and limited government, probably one of the reasons they are importing them by the millions.

The warnings on the extent of the divide between Muslims and much of the rest of the country come in the annual British Social Attitudes survey, produced with funding from Whitehall.
It found that 55 per cent of people would be 'bothered' if a large mosque was built in their locality. Only 15 per cent said they would have similar qualms about a church.

Some 52 per cent think Britain is deeply divided along religious lines. The findings, following worrying signs in other government research that tension over religion is increasing, emerged in the wake of the furore over an attempt by Islamic extremists to march through Wootton Bassett.

The social attitudes survey is produced by leading academics from interviews with 4,486 people. Its findings, to be published in full later this month, will raise concern that the Government's policy of producing 'social cohesion' by backing moderate Islam and isolating extremism is not working.

Again, Islam is not supposed to mix with our 'unclean, kaffir' culture. Regardless of how many Muslims integrate, the FACT that Islam views other cultures as inferior means there will always be a very large proportion of Muslims who will not integrate.

Professor David Voas, who analysed the findings, said many people believe the size and nature of Britain's Muslim population presents a threat to national identity.

Professor Voas, head of population studies at Manchester University, said there was growing intolerance because of 'the degree to which Islam is perceived as a threat to social cohesion'.

That is people of the very real effect Islam is having on the British way of life. If it has a positive effect this wouldn't be a problem, would it? He continues by focusing on the plight of Muslims, poor things.

He added: 'Muslims deserve to be the focus of policy on social cohesion, because no other group elicits so much disquiet. This apparent threat to national identity or even, some fear, to security, reduces the willingness of the majority to accommodate free expression.

The language says it all. Muslims DESERVE to come first, the host culture must be forced to accept 'free expression' of a foreign totalitarian regime. The host culture is not allowed to have free expression in return though, that would be discrimination. They obviously view British law and culture as something inferior.

'Opinion is divided, and many people remain tolerant of unpopular speech as well as distinctive dress and religious behaviour, but a large segment of the British population is unhappy about these subcultures.'

The survey said those with no educational qualifications were twice as likely to have negative attitudes towards Muslims as university graduates.

That is because a majority of Muslim immigration has been into social housing (paid for by you) into poor areas, they then segregate themselves and set up their own communities, refusing to mix with the local people, being unclean infidels and all that.

Ministers have been anxious to reduce negativity towards Muslims and minority groups among poorer and less-educated white people in recent months, fearing an election backlash from one-time core Labour voters.

However, the survey suggests that unhappiness over the influence of Islam has spread beyond poor white areas and now concerns a majority of people.

That is one of the reasons why the Facebook group against the Islam4UK Wolton Bassett march now has about 740,000 members.

This isn't just about some fringe group. This is about a foreign cultural, legal and religious system that believes it should reign supreme over Britain, and a government that agrees with them.

Britain's ethnic cleansing

More than one in 10 people living in Britain today were born abroad, a record level, new figures show.

At the same time, almost a quarter of babies born in England and Wales had foreign mothers. This is also a record, according to the Office for National Statistics. The figures indicated that, in 2008, some 11 per cent of the population was born overseas, up from about 8 per cent in 2001 and 6.7 per cent in 1991.

A former government adviser recently claimed that Labour deliberately ran an open-door policy on immigration to change radically the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”.

Immigration is having a double impact on population numbers because, as well as those arriving in the country, the proportion of children born here to foreign mothers has also reached a peak.

Some 24 per cent of the births in England and Wales last year — or 170,834 — were to mothers born outside the country, the highest level since records began in 1969.

Let us not forget that foreign mothers have more children than indigenous families. Two reasons, first, it's the norm in their culture and second, you pay them for it! Let us not forget that the massive burden on working people to pay for others life choices also means you cannot afford to have children yourself, thus increasing the rate of the destruction of the society responsible for 1000 years of democracy and loyalty to freedom before state.

Yet another false rape accuser gets off

A wife who cried rape because she felt guilty about cheating on her husband in their home was spared jail yesterday.

Helen Dalby went to extraordinary lengths to stand by her false claim, having a full medical examination and even helping create an e-fit of her imaginary attacker.

But despite wasting £3,800 of public money and showing little regard for two men arrested, she was given a ten-month suspended jail sentence after admitting perverting the course of justice.

Eid al-Adha empties inner London schools

The Islamic holiday has emptied schools in inner London. My little sisters primary school class has only two students in it today. The other class has three. Such is the scale of Islamic immigration into Britain and their subsequent birthrates, subsidised purely by taxpayer funds through Income Support and Child Benefit, which for some inexplicable reason doesn't have a cap.

Indigenous people in Britain are not actually having enough children to replace their population. The cost of living is too high, one of the reasons is the tax burden, a large chunk of which goes to pay for unproductive people to have families. This cannot be an 'accident'. In my opinion this is criminal conspiracy to destroy the productive, intelligent people of Britain through state brainwashing and redistribution of wealth. Funding your own downfall, the same way the state taxes you to pay for the surveillance state to watch you with.

The globalist proxy which is the LibLabCon political oligopoly has its allegiance with supranational interests. Everyone is going on about AGW being about global taxes. But that isn't the big picture, that's a symptom of it, not a cause. Man-made global warming was invented to provide a global 'enemy' to 'unite' the nations of the world in opposition too.

To push a global tax there must be a global legal system, superior in authority to the people within those nations. This is about an centralised system of control, external to any nation, administered by a global elite, hidden behind various false democratic inventions such as the EU.

Remember, the indigenous people ARE Britain. Without you there is no Britain. Nations, borders, legal systems, businesses, freedom, anything. The only thing that really matters is you. The rest are inventions which rely on your consent to exist. Until people realise this, there can be no real freedom. People will just reject one tyranny and adopt another.

Global Warming and AGW SCAM has been destroyed

Simple really. No more pissing about. Courtesy of JD's comment in an earlier article.

You've seen Lord Monckton's recent talk?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stij8sUybx0

Here is the slideshow he uses (large download):
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/monckton_2009.pdf

He completely demolishes Gore's film, and the AGW scare. It includes a presentation of the results from Lindzen and Choi's recent research where measurements are taken to see what energy is radiated back into space from temperature increases on earth.

He seems well aware of the political motivations behind the web of deceit. He doesn't seem too hopeful about stopping the ongoing treachery though. It has massive momentum doesn't it? I notice he is concentrating his efforts in America (certainly not here!)

Seriously, if you believe man-made climate change is real, watch it. If you're not sure, this will settle it once and for all. Leaving some space for the fascist takeover of the government currently underway.

Third of children never see dad after a divorce

More than one in three children never see their father again after their parents split up, research into family breakdown shows.

And nearly one in ten is so traumatised by the separation that they have considered suicide.

Children are often used as ‘emotional footballs’ and left feeling ‘used, isolated and alone’, with many turning to drink, drugs and truanting.

Sandra Davis, head of family law at Mishcon de Reya, which carried out the survey of more than 4,000 people, said: ‘This research highlights that despite their best intentions, parents are often using their children as emotional footballs.

Notice how this article opens with fathers not seeing children, implying it is their choice (and thus are 'deadbeat dads'), but when it comes to children being used as emotional weapons, they generalise. I mean, if so many children are kept by the mother, and the father has NO CONTACT, you must assume that the majority of emotional abuse would come from the mother. But you cannot criticise mothers right, the all-perfect little things.

‘They can be seen as tangible objects. There has to be change to give our children a voice that’s meaningful.

‘The process now encourages an adversarial approach, but it needs to be about communication between the parents.

How about equal rights to the children, which is actually enforceable?

‘Therapeutic input, not litigation, is the answer and will reduce the emotional and financial cost of separation.’

For 38 per cent of children, separation meant they never saw their father again.

Although 70 per cent of parents said their children’s welfare was the most important factor in a divorce, a quarter of children said they had been forced by one parent to lie to the other.

I wonder which sex did that the most. Still, this will keep being promoted for two reasons. Men are the enemy of tyrants and women are the majority voting base.

Home Office engaged in conspiracy regarding immigration

Conspiracy; an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement.

Labour's “open door” immigration policy knowingly risked allowing dangerous people to settle in Britain unchecked, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times.

The Whitehall correspondence, which was illegally withheld by the Home Office for four years, shows how ministers were told by the country’s most senior immigration official that his staff were to be “encouraged to take risks” when granting visas, work permits and extended residency to hundreds of thousands of new migrants.

The cover-up of this policy of risk-taking was so concerted that Richard Thomas, the then information commissioner, sent a team of investigators into the Home Office to trawl all the relevant papers. Earlier this year he rebuked the department for breaking the law and ordered it to release the material under the freedom of information (FoI) law.

The documents help to explain the huge rise in the flow of migrants into Britain as the Home Office rushed to clear a backlog of 45,000 cases.

Officials agreed to fast-track 337,000 applications with minimal checks. This led to a rapid rise in immigration. In 1999, 170,000 visas were granted; by 2002, this had risen to 300,000.

Yeah, and the rest. Let's see. More immigrants floods the labour market, the public services, the scum they let in increase the crime rate (more laws and government surveillance anyone), the welfare state buys votes while disempowering the indigenous people. Single mothers breed feral brats, more crime, more mindless servants of the state, more dependents. Higher taxes to pay for this all, more redistribution of wealth, more stress and distractions, people less likely to revolt against the government, too busy surviving in a society with an ever increasing cost of living, powered by high taxes, red tape and unnaturally cheap credit. Government 'bailouts' debase Sterling, causing inflation and forcing the working people to work harder for the same value. And so on. Run by a bunch of globalist-communists for the express purpose of dragging Britain down to the shit hole status of much of the third world, making it easier to break up and control by the megalomaniacs of the Bilderberg, Club of Rome, EU etc.

Freedom begins with you.