Back in May last year I posted about the situation in Iceland where in 2008 their banking system had been looted and their financial sector had collapsed with debts beyond belief. The people and their elected politicians not least their Prime Minister, Sigmundor David Gunnlaugsson, responded by disbanding some banks and jailing the bankers.
Since then they have opted out of the European Union, they have formed only three relatively small domestic banks to keep the economy going and have gone from strength to strength. They also adopted sensible and pragmatic economic measures to ensure that their economy recovered and prospered. They now appear to be a very wealthy little nation.
Now here is the crux! Their politicians served their people. Their politicians showed a sense of national pride and their politicians were not on the take from the international corporations who have brought such misery to the people. Their Prime Minister is a Prime Minister and not a furtive corporate leader.
They do not squander millions every day on the EU. They don't ignore public opinion and continue to donate our money to China, India, Pakistan and Africa amidst outrage. They put Icelanders first and their country first. Iceland is therefore an example to us all and it is going even further.
Iceland is as aware as most of us are that we are being snooped upon by 'big' government like never before. They have therefore introduced 'Unseen.is' a rival to 'Skype' and 'E-Mail' based in Iceland. Potentially this is a huge stride forward in an effort to release the shackles of the huge tax avoiding multinationals.
In my opinion this is genuine leadership. It is the first instance of genuine, independent, national leadership since the EU was hoist upon us all through the back door. The Icelanders seem to be determined to make their mark. I wish them so much luck because I fear that they may need it. If you have mercenary tendencies you might like to fight for an independent Iceland!
In a radical departure from my normal anti-government and anti-corporate rants let me give you a gift for Christmas. This remarkable clip was sent to me by my daughter. I do not know who first thought it up but it was pure genius! I still feel sorry for the guy who wanted socks and pants!!
They just can't bring themselves around to tell us the truth! News has been breaking that Nelson Mandela actually died way back in June but for reasons better known to the South Africans they decided to pretend that he was still alive.
Perhaps too many people actually knew that he was dead to promote the myth of his survival further. This where I got it from and 'The Tap' is also reporting it. So it has been out in the open for some time but nowhere have I heard it reported within the corporation controlled media.
The BBC at lunch time was still burbling on about the queues of people lining up to view the body. I believe that if something like this has occurred, for whatever reason, the media has a duty to investigate the reason.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that we should throw away the newspaper (apart from the football reports) and seek the truth from the Blogosphere. I have therefore done something that I should have done years ago. I have updated the list of the blogs that I visit most often. Most of them are in some way or other trying to inform you about what is happening in the world.
Add them all together and there are plenty more and you have the beginnings of a truth seeking exercise. I apologise that my lack of IT skills do not put you directly through to the blogs but Google Chrome in every case has found the right one. I shall be working on this.
After seeing the spectacle of the three state heads playfully taking 'selfies' at a state funeral I have decided from now on to dispense with titles like President and Prime Minister and call them all Corporate Heads of State because they sure have lost the right to represent me. The only thing about that funeral that rang true was the beautiful sound of the South African leader being roundly booed by his own people. Even the corporate media could not drown that out!
It is now being revealed that the Obama regime lied to the American people about the sarin attack which killed hundreds in Syria! Most of us remember Senator John Kerry touring Europe trying to drum up support for an attack on the Syrian government on the basis that they had crossed the 'Red Line'.
Now and most of us knew it at the time the sarin attack was carried out by the rebel forces. The UK was saved from joining in on yet another illegal invasion of a foreign power by a cock-up in the Westmonster electoral process.
So the point of this post is why were David Cameron and William Hague SO convinced that bombing Syria was such a good idea? In particular did William Hague not betray his position of Foreign Secretary in his desperate attempts to stage manage a scenario which would please his banking masters?
The problem with trying to cheat on the public is that eventually the lies will be outed. Eventually the intrigue will be exposed and eventually everyone will know that you were not playing with a straight bat. You were elected to represent the British people not some group of investment bankers. Time to apologies guys and hope that most of the electorate will forget by 2015!
Today at the funeral of Nelson Mandela we saw a round up of all the worlds' thieves and crooks. In short all the servants of the world's bankers could not resist the opportunity to parade behind the bullet proof screen and pay homage to a man who the mainstream media deify as a saint but who the independent bloggers see in a different light!
People forget the history behind Mandela and his former wife Winnie. They are tainted by murder and torture this is only one example from informed blogs who refute the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Here is yet another! I don't know the truth because I am just a researcher.
When I look at the guest list of the people who attended the funeral it made me shudder and when you look at the people that Mandela cozied up to even in later years you begin to think that dark forces are winning the war against the forces of light hands down.
How can Mugabe still attend an event like this? How can the vicious African dictators appear in public when 'Save the Children' appeal on behalf of children who's Presidents have been given billions in foreign aid from Britain and spent it on fashionable properties in Paris?
Then how can our own PM and President Obama appear taking 'selfies' with the leader of Denmark (a particularly attractive Danish girl that did not please Mrs Obama). Do they not realise how unpresidential this appears to the public. Even my imagination went a little awry!
The bankers allowed their servants this event to enhance their profiles. To some of us it flushed them out. None of the people behind the bullet proof screen represent the public. Curiously Tony Blair sat alone at the back. Well if you sh** the bosses wife you have a limited shelf life Tony!
Enough! But where was Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg, Cathy Ashton, and so many other servants of the New World Order? Sorry guys only the most villainous were allowed to attend this particular funeral. Vladimir Putin I understand was not there! Is that significant?
UPDATE: Apparently Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg were there! I should have known.
When we witnessed the plight of Ed Balls trying to reply to the Chancellor's 'triumphant' Autumn Statement last week the media will have you believe that his career has been destroyed. When we read of the so called coke snorting Rev Flowers heading the Co-Op bank which has for decades funded the Labour Party. When we read that Labour and Unite tried to rig the Falkirk By-Election. When we read that 13 years of Blair/Brown took us into illegal wars and almost destroyed the economy of the country then surely,surely nobody left would be stupid enough to vote for Labour led by a man who politically destroyed his own brother.
Every fabric of my political acumen tells me that nothing about Labour and the Unions is trustworthy. They are a party of sleazebags almost as bad as the LibDems. Therefore the next election should be fought out between the Tories and UKIP?
Hoewever a recent poll for two key marginals paid for by a UKIP supporter arrived in the mainstream media. In Great Grimsby Labour are miles ahead (40%) and in Dudley North they are even further ahead (45%) with both the Tories and UKIP toiling approx 20% behind! The LibDems are suffering from the leadership of Nick Clegg (2% in Great Grimsby)!
Just who are these people who are ignoring all the evidence of electoral fraud and sleaze to continue to vote Labour. Well they don't read the papers, most of them cannot follow politics closely so do we have a lot of people fearing that they may lose benefits?
Many of these traditional working class Labour supporting areas have also been heavily affected by immigration. So perhaps the immigrants are voting to keep their avenues open and their benefits intact. The Conservative candidate for the 2015 elections is Afzal Amin and since 2010 the Conservative vote has collapsed in Dudley North by 12% where UKIP has advanced to 14%. The Lib Dems have lost 9% and Labour has gained 6%.
If the polls of these two key marginals are typical then, despite their appalling record, Labour will win hands down and we will once again been confronted by the political lunatic asylum! It is clear that to prevent this UKIP and the Conservatives will have to fathom out a plan for unity. It will not happen however with David Cameron supporting the EU.
We Rams fans have been through the mill for some time. We had a manager (Nigel Clough) who was appointed from the lower leagues and actually did quite a good job. He had little financial backing and had to keep the team in the Championship by scavenging from the lower leagues and developing the Academy team.
In that aspect he did a really good job BUT and it is a big BUT, once he had put a team together that was the limit of his ability. Time after time Derby County gained the upper hand and threw it away by negativity. If Derby scored a goal then Nigel's response was to defend and he never wanted to push forward the advantage.
His negativity was almost legendary. He never seemed to have a promotion ambition, he only had a, let us not be relegated, ambition so Derby have stuttered forward for some years since Clough was appointed. Give him credit but let's get real because under Nigel we would never have reached the Premiership.
The Board were therefore dead right because they sacked him. Step forward Steve MacLaren. His CV is exemplary. Look, wherever you want, because football management is a precarious occupation, but Steve MacLaren is one helluva coach/manager. He was a respected No 2 to Jim Smith and he set up the Rams academy . He moved onto, would you believe Manchester United, where they then won the elusive treble.
Yes Steve was the first team trainer under Alex Ferguson when they won the treble. He then took on the England job which is a kiss of death and ended up with the 'wally with the brolly' jibe. He then took bloody Middlesborough to the UEFA Cup Final and then guided FC Twente in Holland where they became Dutch Champions for the first time in their history!
Suddenly he went wrong (was it money)? He joined FC Wolfsburg who amazingly had won the Budesliga the year before and could not repeat it so he next emerged at Nottingham Forest where he had apparently misjudged the 'situation'. Steve Maclaren then disappeared out of sight until he turned up as first team coach at QPR under no other than Harry Redknapp! No matter what you think about Harry he REALLY knows his football. If Steve MacLaren is chosen by 'Arry as his first team coach then he is a special coach.
Suddenly Derby County are fifth in the Championship! We are only half way through the season! The difference between the squad inherited from Nigel Clough comes down to three players. Steve signed Simon Dawkins (who?) and Kalifa Cisse (who?) and then loaned Andre Wisdom from Liverpool! We have recently signed Michael Keane from Manchester United who is widely expected to replace Rio Ferdinand but I cannot see how this talented central defender can replace Jake Buxton (ex Burton Albion).
Suddenly we are looking up and not looking down. The record of Steve Maclaren is already impressive but he will add to his record when the Rams get promoted this year. You heard it here first!
