Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Bernie Earns less In A Year Than Hillary Gets For One Speech To Bankers

Sen. Bernie Sanders released his income taxes details last wekend. It was his 2014 income tax details, anyway and did on Friday night. In journalism, releasing information at that off hour is what's called "a Friday news dump," usually an attempt to bury bad news.

They return showed that Sanders and his wife Jane jointly earned $205,271 for 2014, a good income, an income many people would cut off an arm and a leg for. Or to put it another way, Sanders made around $25,000 less for a whole year than his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, earned from ONE SPEECH that she delivered to the great vampire squid of global capitalism, Goldman Sachs, which paid her a cool $225,000 for a 45-minute job of a speech, a fee that was paid to the once and would-be future White House resident on three separate occasions. (Because, as Hillary shrugged in a 2015 debate, "that's what they offered.")

In 2014, Hillary and her ex-president husband Bill Clinton earned just over $28 million, or a whopping 135 times as much as the Sanders household. And of course Hillary Medusa Rodham Clinton is a member of the billionaire Rodham clan. And yet she claims to speak for 'the poor' and some people are naive enough to believe her.

Well nobody ever claimed democracy is a perfect system, it's just better than all the others.

Sourced from www.philly.com

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No surprise then that a whistleblower has exposed Hillary's charity, 'The Clinton Foundation as a fraud.

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OMFG - Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Can Shakespeare Help Me?

Thanks to Kelli Shrugs for bringing this to my attention (and to Shakespeare for the prescient lines -scroll down past pic.). The full headline reads:

Yellowstone Eruption In 2016? Shocking New Video Shows What Is Really Going On At Yellowstone

Over the past week, our planet has been hit by large earthquake after large earthquake, and according to Volcano Discovery there are 38 volcanoes around the world that are erupting right now. We have seen a dramatic spike in global seismic activity that is unlike anything that we have seen in ages, and that is why what is going on at Yellowstone, is so incredibly alarming. Geologists tell us that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would have up to 2,000 times the power of the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption of 1980, and approximately two-thirds of the country would immediately become uninhabitable. As you will see below, there are signs that something big is getting ready to happen at Yellowstone, and if it does erupt all of our lives will be permanently changed forever.
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Not being a Bible reading type of person, in times of stress I usually turn to Shakespeare for solace or inspiration. And sure enough I found these lines which helped me understand we cannot change the course of nature and must accept the inevitable.

The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird
Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
(Macbeth, 2.3)

Good old Shaky, always hits the spot.

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Monday, April 18, 2016

Guardian Reports Minimum Wage Reduces Earnings – Is The Left Seeing Sense.

Even the bright young things are finding that when a left wing government introduces a minimum wage, it quickly becomes the standard wage (Image source)

It has long been known (since the chaos that followed the failure of the Speenhamland Poor Relief System in the late eighteenth century, that attempt to help 'the poor' by imposing a minimum wage will not only fail but will end up lowering wages and causing low earners even greater hardship.

Only lefties and socialists denied this because not matter how many times we cite the economic hardship and widespread suffering that resulted from socialist policies in nations like Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia and Tony Blair's Britain to name but a few, the lefties respond that those countries did not implement 'real socialism', but when challenged they are not capable of defining what is meant by 'real socialism'. Instead they usually say things like 'equality and diversity', 'mass immigration and multiculturalism' or 'all join hands and sing Kumbaya.'

But even the left are waking up to the realities of economics and human nature it seems, as this report in the UK's most left wing newspaper, The Guardian, illustrates:

Employers claw back living wage in cuts to perks, hours and pay

From fish factories in Grimsby to coffee shops in central London and even Waitrose supermarkets, workers across the country are seeing perks and pay rates cut as companies try to offset the cost of George Osborne’s national living wage.

On Monday, just over two weeks after the new minimum pay rate of £7.20 an hour for over-25s came into force, MPs will debate the effect the 50p rise in basic pay has had on thousands of workers.

In the past few weeks the Observer has learned of companies withdrawing overtime and Sunday pay, bonuses, free food and paid breaks in order to keep the wage bill down.

Siobhain McDonagh MP, who called the backbenchers’ debate, said: “When the chancellor announced the national living wage, he said: ‘Britain deserves a pay rise and it’s getting one.’ I took him at his word on that. People should get a pay rise, not a pay cut.”

The left admitting that one of their sacred cows does not work, in fact it achieves the opposite of what it is intended to do is a major step towards restoring sanity to the political systems of developed nations. It has taken a long time, I have been saying this very thing in blogs and online publications for ten years.

Shakespeare made this comment on the folly of trying to impose equality on things that are simply not the same:

Are we not brothers?
So man and man should be; But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”

(Cymbeline, act 4, sc. 1)

And the wise old bubble-and-squeak Aristotle (who was a bugger for the bottle we're told ), over two thousand years ago, advised us; "The greatest inequalities arise from trying to make unequal things equal."

Continue lefties, let self - righteousness
wreak havoc where you try to spread justice
but with misguided zeal only succeed
in bringing low that which you tried to raise.

(and that's a Shropshire Lad's tribute to a Warwickshire Lad)

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Obama Bids To Persuade Britons To Sacrifice Their Nations Independence To Serve US Geopolitical Interests

U.S. President Barack Obama will head to London next week to join the international chorus of leaders imploring Britain not to leave the European Union.

According to a White House press release on Thursday (14/4/2016) the president will arrive in Britain on April 21 for a three-day visit, just two months before the country votes in an referendum on the issue.

“He will make very clear that this is decision for the people of the United Kingdom to make,” Obama’s close foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters.

“But we have no closer friend in the world and if we are asked our view as a friend, we’ll offer it.”

Rhodes said Obama would be “very straightforward and candid as a friend as to why the US believes that it is good for the UK to remain in the EU.”

Opinion polls suggest the June 23 vote will be a close one, but large numbers of voters remain undecided and Britain’s allies are keen for Europe’s second largest economy to stay in the bloc.

Aside from meeting British officials, Obama will have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II on April 22, one day after the long-serving monarch’s 90th birthday.

He will also stage a joint news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron, who is campaigning for a vote to remain in Europe despite broad support for “Brexit” within his Conservative Party.

On Sunday, after his stay in Britain, Obama will head on to a major industrial fair in Hannover, Germany, where he will give a more general speech on the challenges facing Europe.

Obama's intervention could boost the leave campaign if we all start reminding people of:
a) the disastrous outcome of Obama's wars,
b) The disastrous outcome of Obama's social engineering projects,
c) The disastrous results of Obama's green energy policy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/worlds-largest-solar-plant-21-billion-energy-department-loan-guarantee-files-bankruptcy
d) The disastrous outcome of Obama's 'affordable healthcare policy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/beginning-end-affordable-care-act-largest-us-health-insurer-may-exit-obamacare

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Saudi Arabia Threatens To Liquidate Its Treasury Holdings If Congress Probes Its Role In Sept 11 Attacks

An excellent insight into the west's relationship with the medieval mindset of Wahhabi Muslim autocracies. Why do we let the primistive mindset of these oil rich vagina mutilators dictate to us. Maybe it is because the USA has not, for atound a century been a democracy because it was hijacked by oligarchs during World War One and Saudi Arabia is not an ancient monarchy like britain but was created by an opportunist religious nut after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. And that's nor all the two nations have in common. Both like to achieve their political aims by the use of threats and terror.

Anyway, here's Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge on how, once again, the Saudi government is calling the Obama Administration to heel.

Back in January, when the market was watching in shocked silence as oil prices were crashing to decade lows and as concerns emerged that Saudi Arabia may need to commence selling its vast, if unquantified, USD reserves, we wrote a post titled "Attention Finally Turns To Saudi Arabia's "Secret" US Treasury Holdings" where we noted something very surprising: whereas we do know that Saudi Arabia is the owner of the world's third largest USD reserves ... their actual composition remains as a secret, because while the US discloses the explicit Treasury holdings of all other nations, Saudi Arabia's holdings, for some unknown reason, are not officially disclosed.

(Image source: Zero Hedge)

"It’s a secret of the vast U.S. Treasury market, a holdover from an age of oil shortages and mighty petrodollars," Bloomberg wrote of Saudi Arabia’s US Treasury holdings.

"As a matter of policy, the Treasury has never disclosed the holdings of Saudi Arabia, long a key ally in the volatile Middle East, and instead groups it with 14 other mostly OPEC nations including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria,” Bloomberg goes on to note, adding that the rules are different for almost everyone else. Although Saudi Arabia's "secret" is protected by "an unusual blackout by the U.S. Treasury Department," for more than a hundred other countries, from China to the Vatican, the Treasury provides a detailed breakdown of how much U.S. debt each holds."

So who does know how much US paper the Saudis are sitting on? Well, the Saudis of course,"a handful of Treasury officials," and some bureaucrats at the Fed, Bloomberg says, noting that “for everyone else, it’s a guessing game."

Yes, a “guessing game,” but one that will very soon have profound consequences for markets and for geopolitics.

We closed with a simple, if suddenly very prophetic question:

"who would be the new patron saint of the US Treasury Department in the event the Saudis drawdown all of their reserves and decide to diversify away from USD assets... Put differently, who will monetize the US deficit if relations between Washington and Riyadh hit the skids over Iran?"

It is this question that has suddenly reemerged with a bang, and could rock the US administration to its core as what until recently was a "fringe conspiracy theory" is suddenly exposed as an all too unpleasant fact, and becomes the biggest political scandal to rock the U.S. in years, in the process maybe even crushing the friendly diplomatic relations the U.S. has held for years with its biggest Mid-East ally, Saudi Arabia.

It may be pure coincidence of course that the Saudi Arabian treasury has deciced to put pressure on Washington in this way when of the topic of September 11 has reappeared in the news recent weeks. The taboo - in official circles - topic of whether there was a "Saudi connection" in the biggest terrorist attack on US soil (Yes there was). Last weekend, out of the blue, the 60 Minutes news review broadcast an item on the "28 pages" that were classified beyond top secret in the Congressional investigative report into 9/11 - pages that allegedly confirm the Saudi connection.

A report in the New York Times earlier this week revealed Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Saudi officials have always denied that the global beheading capital had anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks, and the 9/11 Commission officially found "no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the operation." But critics have noted that the commission’s narrow wording left open the possibility that less senior officials or parts of the Saudi government could have played a role or were selected to take the hit if Saudi involvement was confirmed.

Suspicions have lingered, not just because the conclusions of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks cited evidence that Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot. Just this week an independent invastigator claimed evidence existed of the detonation of three thermonuclear devices at the site (That is an unofficial report by the way, this publication mentions it as evidence of continuing doubts, we do not endorse it.)

The information contained in those 28 pages removed from the report, still has not been released publicly. It was the surprising rekindled focus on these 28 pages in recent days that suggested that something may have been afoot.

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Friday, April 15, 2016

EU to Keep Part of TTIP Trade Deal Papers Under Wraps

Representatives of various anti TTIP protest groups mock the secrecy surrounding negotiations of the trade deal's terms. (Image source)

One of the things about the dodgy trade deal being pushed through between the USA and EU, the Trans Atlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the secrecy that has surrounded negotiations. Even elected representatives, members of European national assemblies such as the UK Parliament and the German Bundestag have not been allowed to know what is in it.

That alone should tell you beyond reasonable doubt that the so called 'free trade' deal (which is actually very little to do with trade and a lot to do with transferring sovereignty over vital areas of national law and administration from national governments to global corporate businesses) is bad for the people and good for the elites.

Even now as the bureaucratic dictatorship in Brussels and the wretched Obama administration in Washington push to get the deal, nicknamed Obamatrade, completed before the worst American President ever leaves office, the officials in charge of negotiations are reluctant to release details to the public or the media.

The European Commission does not plan unveiling all documents on the EU-US free trade deal, Europe's top trade official said in an op-ed published in a French newspaper on Friday.

The publication in Le Monde comes less than two weeks before the 13th round of EU-US talks on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) kicks off in New York on April 25.

"Certain documents must stay confidential, either those related to tactical comments directly referencing Europe’s negotiating stance or those citing US documents, which are not for us to publish," EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said in the article.

The TTIP deal, which aims to deregulate trade US-EU trade, has been criticized for lack of transparency, prompting the Commission to publish some of the TTIP documents.

Malmstroem stressed that TTIP documents in question would be made available to national parliaments of EU member states, offering a degree of openness that had not been there before. Parliaments will also be the last to decide on the trade pact once the Commission is done negotiating it, she added.

European lawmakers have laid down a set of principles they want to be observed during the ongoing talks, including greater transparency, inviolability of social and environmental standards, and respect of EU’s red lines, she continued.

Last year, the secretive deal sparked widespread concern that it would lower environmental, health, safety, and workers’ rights standards in Europe, as well as enable the extra-judicial settlement of disputes in circumvention of national sovereignty.

Here's an extract from Malmstrom's Le Monde article translated into English

By Cecilia Malmström
Like any major initiative, the Transatlantic Partnership on Trade and Investment (TTIP) raises many concerns and hopes, giving rise to a lively debate about its purpose and its methods. One thing is certain: the role of national parliaments in the democratic control of the negotiations will be crucial as people who read the article by sixty [European] parliamentarians published in Le Monde will recall.

This forum demonstrates the commitment of Members of Parliament to exercise fully their role of elected representatives in the democratic control of the negotiations for over two years with the United States. This is not surprising: these negotiations are important for Europe, and also for France, which is a key player in the transatlantic relationship, which has always been about globalization of trade.

These parliamentarians set conditions for successful negotiations which I fully share: transparency at all levels, reciprocity between the parties, intransigence on social and environmental standards, which can be changed only to the highest bidder, respecting our red lines and the refusal of any private arbitration tribunal in favor of a global accountability for investment.

The Commission will not yield anything on defending the European agricultural and food model. Beef hormones or chlorinated chicken remain in the United States. The goal of negotiations is rather to promote our agricultural model, to obtain recognition of controlled appellations and support our exports high value added dairy products, wine and spirits or processed food. Imperative that we get more openness and reciprocity in public procurement and services. These are all vital interests for France and 22,000 companies that export overseas. They will be reflected in the final agreement.

Unfortunately, as you may have guessed, all that is total bollocks. The 'sixty parliamentarians' were all from parties fully committed to the abolishing the sovereignty of Europe's member states and absorbing the whole of the EU plus those Balkan, East European, middle eastern and north African states that figure in the bureaucracy's expansion plans into a single, federal superstate.

That is why we British must vote LEAVE and support popular movements in other states that are calling for IN / OUT votes. The EU is not transparent, not democratic and it is certainly not economically sound.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Four Hundred Thousand Premature Deaths Due To Climate Change

Scottish nationalist Party MEP took issue with carbon dioxide driven climate change sceptic James Delingpole recently, complaing in an article for breitbart London titled:

‘McBerk’ Fires Back At Delingpole: ‘Whether You Believe In Climate Change Or Not, Something Has To Be Done To Save Lives’

(Ian Duncan MEP - Breitbart, London)

Cars are driving climate change says Ian (McBerk) Duncan MEP who commutes between Scotland, Brusseks and Strasbourg by jet airliner. (Image source)

.... the European Union (EU) had expended considerable effort to limit emissions from industry and little effort limiting emissions from transport which is responsible for 25 per cent of all greenhouse gases. While Eurocrats worked to close various coal-fired power stations they seemed blithely indifferent to the fact that their headquarters was located on one of the most polluted streets in Europe. You can read my article here.

I noted that some pretty generous subsidies had failed to turn drivers on to electric cars, and that year on year the electric share of the EU fleet was actually falling. I’ve written before about electric cars, noting that since electricity is still generated mostly from hydrocarbons (often coal), then the cars are still pretty much fuelled by fossils. Check out the article here.

It was therefore something of a surprise when James Delingpole skidded his car to a halt in the pages of this publication, belching out the most noxious nonsense I have read in some time. I was accused of being, in no particular order, a Euro-technocrat living the ‘dream’, a ‘McBerk’ who didn’t understand the significance of fossil fuels, the reason why Conservatives have left the Party, an EU ‘inner’ and someone about to become an ‘Insect Overlord’ of the EU.

Where to begin?

As a geologist and former employee of BP, I am aware of the importance of hydrocarbons to the functioning of our world, all the more so as a Scottish MEP; the North Sea remains vital to our economy. Despite the claims of many, we are not but a small step away from full decarbonisation, and no where is this more evident than in transport sector: there are 240 million vehicles in the EU, with only 419,000 powered by electricity ...

Later in the article Mr. Duncan says:

Yet perhaps the most important figure in the debate is this: 400,000 premature deaths are caused by air pollution each year across the EU. That’s almost the population of Edinburgh. So, no matter whether you believe climate change is real or not, something needs to be done to save lives now.

The first thing that struck me was use of the phrase 'premature deaths'. Short of war, murder, catastrophe or fatal accidents, people die of disease or age related health failure. Nobody can predict how long an individual will live, thus unless Mr. Duncan means that some 400,000 people in whom death has occurred before they have actually turned up their toes are still walking around. What an amazing idea, someone should make a TV series out of it, the show would run for years.

On a more serious note however, the writer needs to explain what he means by 'air pollution'? Is he one of those unscientific scientists who has been brainwashed into believing totally harmless Carbon Dioxide is not only an 'air pollutant' but the only air pollutant?

In fact it is typical of the global warming lobby's institutioonalised dishonesty that they conflate atmospheric CO2 with air pollution. They are not the same thing. Premature deaths are of course subjective....40,000 ACTUAL deaths (as recorded by medical professionals and public notaries every winter in Europe....

are caused by energy poverty, due to sky high energy costs imposed by political pressure from green zealots ... we could save those live!

Duncan's whole article is based on the false premise that equates the clean, natural and necessary for life, carbon dioxide, an essential constituent of our atmosphere, with air pollution. Assuming for a moment the suspiciously round number of 'premature deaths' to be correct, wouldn't that have more to do with the EU's drive towards diesel vehicles at the expense of much cleaner (but slightly more CO2 emitting) petrol vehicles?

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Low And Middle Income Whites and Blacks Feel Threatened As Crime Soars Under Obama

News out today reveals another social catastrophe to chalk up to the cedit of the failed Obama administration.

A growing number of low-income American citizens, with African-Americansprominent among them, feel increasingly threastened by soaring crime rate, particularly violent and sexual crimes, according to a new poll.

The poll also reveals there is little extra concern declared by upper-income, managerial and professional class , Democratic-supporting Americans about rising crime in their neighborhoods. So in spite of all that 'soaring rhetoric' (with the personal pronouns strongly emphasised, in which Obama promised "I" will work to crease a post racial society in MY country," and bollocks like that,the corporate owned Obama administration has in fact reintroduced a kind of segregation.

The poll, conducted by Gallup, found that 53 percent of respondents now “worry a great deal” about rising crime and violence. That is a rapid rise — in 2014, just 39 percent were worried a” great deal” by crime.

Among swing-voting independents, concern rose from 36 percent to 53 percent, while the number of Republicans, seriously worried rose 15 points up to 53 percent, bringing it level with the 52 percent concern among Democrats.

Seventy percent of people with high-school level education but only 32 percent of people with college degrees said they were worried a great deal about crime. Those two numbers have risen by 20 points and 1 point, respectively, since 2014.

Concern among middle-income people has risen by 20 points since 2014, up to 57 percent. Among upper-income people, concern has apparently risen by only eight points, to merely 36 percent.

Donald Trump, whose populist stance has made him front runner for the Republican Presidential candidacy has made the rising crime-rate a major plank in his campaign platform. Last year Trump angered liberals when he said the USA needs to “give power back” to our police officers in order to fight the rising crime. He added to that claim when he said "police are the most mistreated people in America."

Trump has been so pro-police he even claimed he’d support a policy of making the death penalty mandatory for killing police officers.

But when the numbers are broken down farther it appears non-white respondents are far more worried than whites. Forty-six percent of whites worry a great deal about crime, but 68 percent of non-whites are worried a great deal. As Paul Mirengoff of Powerline commented, "The reason for the disparities seems obvious. Crime, violence, and drugs afflict nonwhite communities more than white ones."

This is perhaps because infiltration by 'liberals' and leftists has politicised both the legal establishment and the political bodies which oversee policing, making politically correct action paramount, thus justice is no longer blind but sees no further than the colour of the perpetrator's skin.

Gallup has asked the same poll questions on crime question since 2001. At that time 62 percent said they worried a great deal about crime but by 2002 it had fallen to 49 percent. By 2014 it fell even further to only 39 percent.

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Why Won’t The Panama Papers Lefty Leakers Expose EU or American Establishment Figures?

Soros the Puppeteer (Image: Syrian Free Press)

EU Financial Services Chief Jonathan Hill is set to make a statement to the European Parliament on the highly topical subject of 'tax havens' today.

Hill is Britain’s most senior Commissioner and a close political ally of Prime Minister David Cameron who is under the cosh because of his family's involvement in an offshore fund, the existence of which, though known of before, has been highlighted by the leaking of the Panama Papers.

"This is a carefully thought through but ambitious proposal for more transparency on tax," Hill said in a statement ahead of the plan’s release, "While our proposal … is not of course focused principally on the response to the Panama Papers, there is an important connection between our continuing work on tax transparency and tax havens that we are building into the proposal," he added.

He's talking bollocks of course, a quick look at the details of what is the statement will contain reveals it has little to do with Panama but is mostly concerned with Jermeny Corbyn's hobby horse of choice, greedy multinational corporations who dodge paying their tax on profits in the various countries where they make their money, by using accounting structures that are perfectly legal whether we like it or not.

Those who draft laws containing loopholes so big even the Titanic could get through them unscathed should not castigate individuals and corporations that exploit the loopholes, instead the incompetent (or perhaps well greased, financially) buggers should do their jobs properly.

But we find it strange that the Soros-funded Panama Papers leak has scarcely mentioned a single EU apparatchik or American Republican or Democrat figure, focusing instead on non EU member state Iceland, and indeed Russian President Vladimir Putin? Coincidence, or are Eurocrats and US political hacks all magically above board with their tax affairs? Having read up on the lengths to which Hillary Clinton has gone to avoid revealing how much she was paid for a series of speeches to Wall Street Bankers, and knowing something of Donald Trump's track record in business, we think not.

Even the US business magaxine Forbes questions this ommission. Could there be some collateral damage in the papers in the conveniently partial leak of these documents?

It is very significant that rather than doing a Wikileaks style data dump, the lefty leakers, Goerge Soros front organisations the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has chosen to decide for us what it is in our interests to know about.

Where’s the transparency from the partner organisations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Guardian, and Sueddeutsche Zeitung? (Anyone notice what these three have in common? Hint: They’re not exactly right wing, anti-EU outlets). Indeed Sueddeutsche Zeitung has already said it won’t publish all the files, arguing that not all are of public interest.

David Cameron has staked so much on keeping Britain in the EU that not only does his career rest on the success of the Remain campaign but if Bratain votes Leave his hopes of a well paid sinecure with one of the supra national bureaucracies. At the moment, thanks to the Labour party's obsession with the fact that Cameron's Dear Old Mum used a ploy that is older than David Cameron or even me to (legally) avoid paying death taxes on her estate, he is looking shifty and mendacious. (He is shifty and mendacious but we could have trapped him on a bigger issue than this, surely).

EU leaders are now busily trying to look as if they preside over a strong regulatory authority respondin to an issue of great public concern, in accordance with the views of the British prime minister. Funny that they have suddenly got all hyper over Pamama's tax haven status when they have tolerated Luxembourg, a far bigger tax haven than Pamama and a founder member of the EU for many decades. And let's not forget the special arrangements London offers foreigners who are shy about revealing their full income to tax collectors in their home nations. What are Dodgy Dave, his mate George Soros and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about exposing the tax dodging that goes on in those financial centres?

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Former Head Of UK Equalities Commission Admits He Was Wrong To Believe Muslims Would Blend Into Britain…

Trevor Phillips: the sign behind him reads "Working for equality and integration", a cause to wich he devoted a large part of his career but which he has now been forced to abandon because of Muslim racism and intransigence

Trevor Phillips, the son of migrants from British Guyana who became head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has conceded he "got almost everything wrong" on Muslim immigration in a new report on integration, segregation that blows the concept of multiculturalism to bits. Phillips also admits the report, the findings of which we will present in a Channel 4 documentary on 13 March, 2016, will confirm the claims of people often described as 'right wing extremists' that the followers of Islam are creating "nations within nations" in the West.

A former elected member of the Labour Party National Executive who served as the Chairman of the EHRC from 2003-2012, Mr Phillips will present “What British Muslims Really Think” as a wake up call to politicians who have fallen under the influence of politically correct thinking promoted by Fabian socialist academic idealists whose cocooned existence in University faculties has led to their almost total detachment from the realities of daily life in Britain.

An ICM poll released to The Times newspaper in advance of Phillips documentary reveals:

One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house;
39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband;
31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife;
52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal;
23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament.

Writing for the Times on the issue, Phillips states: "Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else. Britain desperately wants to think of its Muslims as versions of the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, or the cheeky-chappie athlete Mo Farah. But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we now know that just isn’t how it is."

Can't fault the lad on that opinion, but it has taken him and his fellow travellers around three decades to wake up to the fact that mass immigration to Britain from backward areas of the Islamic world was causing massive problems in the de-industrialised cities and towns where large immigrant communities have accumulated.

Phillips commissioned The Runnymede report into Britain and Islamophobia in 1997 which, according to both Phillips himself and academics across the country, popularised the word which cultural Marxists have now made synonymous with any criticism – legitimate or not – of Islam or Muslims.

Phillips has previously expressed controversial views when he suggested that multiculturaism had failed.

The screenshot below is from an article written by Trevor Phillips, former head of the Equalities and Human Rights commission for The Daily Mail (or Mail On Sunday)

Trevor Philips home truths on racism. Image source
Finally, we?re having that open and honest debate about immigration and race everyone has been calling for, Phillips says. Sort Of. The political left have no intention of joining debate and are resorting to their usual tactics of name calling and smearing their opponents.
Dan Hodges, a token Cultural Marxist writing in The Daily Telegraph responded:
"The taboo has been broken ? somewhat ironically ? by the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality writing in the Daily Mail. Trevor Phillips, long a hate figure for the anti-multicultural right, has this morning become their darling. ?At last! A man who dares to tell the truth about race: Ex-race tsar says silencing of debate has done devastating harm to Britain," exclaims the Mail?s headline, above a list of "10 True Things You Can?t Say?.