The Red Cross calling the NHS a 'humanitarian crisis' must be music to Conservative Parties ears because that is the plan, to run it down to such a state that it HAS to be privatised.
Hard to argue against when they have been underfunding it for the best part of a decade and the man in charge of it, Jeremy Hunt, wrote a book called 'Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party' where he wrote that he wanted to privatise the NHS.
Due to the lack of funding, hospitals have been closing health services have been asked to to identify which services can be centralised and which can be axed or centralised.
In my area alone 2 hospitals have been closed in recent years meaning waiting times at the one remaining hospital is measured in hours with 4-5 hours being the norm.
We are not a poor country, we are the worlds 6th richest economy and can afford to properly fund our NHS but it appears that our politicians have decided not to do so but will spend £133bn on nuclear weapons we won't ever use and £56bn on a new train line for slightly faster trains.
It has only taken the right wing Conservative Party seven years to run the NHS down to breaking point, depressingly impressive even by their standards.
Monday, 9 January 2017
Saturday, 7 January 2017
The Killers
I don't know how good Adolf was at keeping a beat going but i would guess if the t-shirt was the top four killers then he would make the shortlist but not sure about the rest.
Using Factcheck.org to check the facts, Hitler is sat in third place in the most murderous regimes with Mao Zedong top with 60 million victims, Joseph Stalin second with 40 million, then Hitler with 30 million and then King Leopold II of Belgium who was responsible for 8 million deaths.
If they are the headline act then the t-shirt is widely wrong as George W Bush is responsible for 1 million deaths which puts him 10th, Saddam's victims numbered 600,000 which makes him 12th and Bin Laden doesn't even feature in the top 36.
It would be like going to see Gun N' Roses but instead of Slash and Duffy there's Brian May and Roger Deacon instead.
I'll give this one a miss i reckon.
Beware Monday Emails
Emails are an intractable part of modern life, most of us have a work one, a couple of personal ones, one which we use to sign up for things knowing full well it will be bombarded with spam afterwards and probably a few more if you are Hillary Clinton but email has become so important that it really is one of those things that you couldn't do without.
An email management service, Boomerang, estimates that approximately 200 million are sent everyday worldwide and the average office worker receives or sends 120 each workday.
One of my bugbears is when people just launch into the email without introduction, not even a Hi Lucy at the top, call me old fashioned but i wouldn't send a letter or make a telephone call without my first words being a greeting so it annoys me that some people don't think they need to do so in an email.
Boomerang say that the most frequent mistake people make when emailing are making an error with capitalisation and misspelling in the subject line which not only looks unprofessional and sloppy but will make the email less likely to be replied to.
Rather predictably, Monday emails have more errors than any other day of the week which make sense because we all want to rush through the boring 'what time is the meeting today' ones to answer the ones from the exiled Ethiopian ministers.
An email management service, Boomerang, estimates that approximately 200 million are sent everyday worldwide and the average office worker receives or sends 120 each workday.
One of my bugbears is when people just launch into the email without introduction, not even a Hi Lucy at the top, call me old fashioned but i wouldn't send a letter or make a telephone call without my first words being a greeting so it annoys me that some people don't think they need to do so in an email.
Boomerang say that the most frequent mistake people make when emailing are making an error with capitalisation and misspelling in the subject line which not only looks unprofessional and sloppy but will make the email less likely to be replied to.
Rather predictably, Monday emails have more errors than any other day of the week which make sense because we all want to rush through the boring 'what time is the meeting today' ones to answer the ones from the exiled Ethiopian ministers.
Of Course Russia Helped Trump Become POTUS
It is without doubt that the Russian President Putin would want Donald Trump to be the man sat inside the White House because he ran rings around President Obama and sees Trump as an even bigger softer target to push the Russian agenda.
That Trump seems content to bend America over and invite Russia to be gentle can either be down to some Trump master-plan or Trump being a political novice that Putin is going to play like a piccolo.
Putin is a hard nosed Politician, Trump is a four times bankrupt reality TV man with a child's temperament and wholly unsuitable for the top job so Putin must think Christmas and all his Birthdays have come at once.
Regarding the Russian hacking to help their man get elected, it would be shocking if they didn't as it would be shocking if America did not try to influence internal affairs of nations worldwide.
The Americans and the Russians are the World leaders in the field of intervention, research by political scientist Dov Levin found that the US and the USSR/Russia together intervened no less than 117 times in foreign elections between 1946 and 2000.
Where Russia 'helped' Donald Trump to gain power, America 'helped' Boris Yeltsin take the Presidency in the 1996 election after the USSR split.
Removing leaders or 'regime change' has been an American thing for decades, since the tune of the century America has taken it upon themselves to remove the leaders of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine so while allegations of Russian interference in the US elections are undoubtedly alarming for Americans, nobody was invaded or who cities and populations laid to waste in bringing their choice of leader to power.
The US has interfered with impunity in the internal affairs of so many other countries but my question would be why is Donald Trump so adamant that Russia wasn't involved somewhere in the process because the big news would be if they wasn't
That Trump seems content to bend America over and invite Russia to be gentle can either be down to some Trump master-plan or Trump being a political novice that Putin is going to play like a piccolo.
Putin is a hard nosed Politician, Trump is a four times bankrupt reality TV man with a child's temperament and wholly unsuitable for the top job so Putin must think Christmas and all his Birthdays have come at once.
Regarding the Russian hacking to help their man get elected, it would be shocking if they didn't as it would be shocking if America did not try to influence internal affairs of nations worldwide.
The Americans and the Russians are the World leaders in the field of intervention, research by political scientist Dov Levin found that the US and the USSR/Russia together intervened no less than 117 times in foreign elections between 1946 and 2000.
Where Russia 'helped' Donald Trump to gain power, America 'helped' Boris Yeltsin take the Presidency in the 1996 election after the USSR split.
Removing leaders or 'regime change' has been an American thing for decades, since the tune of the century America has taken it upon themselves to remove the leaders of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine so while allegations of Russian interference in the US elections are undoubtedly alarming for Americans, nobody was invaded or who cities and populations laid to waste in bringing their choice of leader to power.
The US has interfered with impunity in the internal affairs of so many other countries but my question would be why is Donald Trump so adamant that Russia wasn't involved somewhere in the process because the big news would be if they wasn't
Thursday, 5 January 2017
Coming Back For Their Weather Balloon
There are many reasons why we are less than amused that Hillary Clinton didn't win the American election but one of the main ones was because she promised to make public the Area 51 files and reveal if we are being watched by little green men or women from other planets.
As it turned out she didn't win and the weak 'weather balloon' excuse still holds so unless Donald Trump sends out a tweet in the middle of the night spilling the beans, we are still none the wiser.
What we also don't know is what NASA has called 'Massive Objects' which are hurtling towards Earth which they can't identify.
The NASA scientists think the first of these objects which is set to fly close to Earth this week, is a comet, however they have yet to determine what the other one is, as it isn't set to properly appear until February this year.
They have ruled out it being an asteroid or a comet as it isn't displaying the usual gas cloud around it but although they are baffled by exactly what it is, the objects present course will take it 32 million miles from the Earth and 'is not a threat at present'.
It's the 'at present' bit that is worrying, especially as they don't know what it is but my guess would be an alien probe from some far flung galaxy on it's way to explore our Solar System in a search for life.
It is due to arrive, and hopefully carry on past, on 25 February so may be a good idea to turns the lights out and pretend nobody is home because it may just be coming to claim the 'weather balloon' that it lost in this planets vicinity about 70 years ago.
As it turned out she didn't win and the weak 'weather balloon' excuse still holds so unless Donald Trump sends out a tweet in the middle of the night spilling the beans, we are still none the wiser.
What we also don't know is what NASA has called 'Massive Objects' which are hurtling towards Earth which they can't identify.
The NASA scientists think the first of these objects which is set to fly close to Earth this week, is a comet, however they have yet to determine what the other one is, as it isn't set to properly appear until February this year.
They have ruled out it being an asteroid or a comet as it isn't displaying the usual gas cloud around it but although they are baffled by exactly what it is, the objects present course will take it 32 million miles from the Earth and 'is not a threat at present'.
It's the 'at present' bit that is worrying, especially as they don't know what it is but my guess would be an alien probe from some far flung galaxy on it's way to explore our Solar System in a search for life.
It is due to arrive, and hopefully carry on past, on 25 February so may be a good idea to turns the lights out and pretend nobody is home because it may just be coming to claim the 'weather balloon' that it lost in this planets vicinity about 70 years ago.
Monday, 2 January 2017
Facebook Owner Likes God
I have never understood religious folk, not the ones who come to it later in life anyway. The youngsters who are brainwashed by their parents i have sympathy for but what makes an adult ignore all the science facts and reason that actually there is a big man in the sky somewhere who made all this?
That is the route Mark Zuckerberg has taken as he has eschewed his atheist beliefs and now asserts that 'religion is very important'.
Not it isn't but anyway Zuckerberg undertook a religious rebirth over the Christmas period and said that he went through a period where he questioned things but now has refound his religious zeal again although he hasn't given details on what undeniable, verifiable proof he has of the existence of God.
I would say he didn't question things very hard otherwise he couldn't have failed to notice that the whole religion thing is a crock and the God/Jesus story that he just celebrated is a mix-up of stories stolen from other older religions around at the time.
Still, up to him if he wants to dedicate himself to God but he is right about religion being important, those suicide bombers and terrorist attacks all in God's name wouldn't be happening otherwise.
That is the route Mark Zuckerberg has taken as he has eschewed his atheist beliefs and now asserts that 'religion is very important'.
Not it isn't but anyway Zuckerberg undertook a religious rebirth over the Christmas period and said that he went through a period where he questioned things but now has refound his religious zeal again although he hasn't given details on what undeniable, verifiable proof he has of the existence of God.
I would say he didn't question things very hard otherwise he couldn't have failed to notice that the whole religion thing is a crock and the God/Jesus story that he just celebrated is a mix-up of stories stolen from other older religions around at the time.
Still, up to him if he wants to dedicate himself to God but he is right about religion being important, those suicide bombers and terrorist attacks all in God's name wouldn't be happening otherwise.
Send In The Clown (He Is Already Here)
If he wasn't such a terrible human being you would feel sorry for Donald Trump, but because he is nobody should and that's why he can't get anybody to sing at his inauguration so he has been reduced to pleading with half remembered British singers such as Rebecca Ferguson who was the runner up in the 2010 X-Factor.
His dancers have at least been sorted out after the first choice dance troupe turned him down the Mormon Tabernacle Choir have been press-ganged into it under threat of being kicked out of the choir but even some of them have taken the moral high ground and walked rather than dance for the orange haired lunatic anyway.
Andrea Bocelli initially agreed to sing for Trump but withdrew after a fan backlash and Elton John was apparently one of the big names who had been approached and politely declined the offer but Rebecca Ferguson has agreed on the condition that she chooses the song and her choice is the anti-racism anthem 'Strange Fruit' by Billie Holiday.
'The song speaks to all the disregarded and down trodden black people in the US and is a reminder of how love is the only thing that will conquer all the hatred in this world' she explained which probably means she won't be getting the call anytime soon.
With only 18 days left to plan it, the Trump inauguration looks at the moment like it will be half a dozen Mormon dancers and Sarah Palin belting out some show tunes.
His dancers have at least been sorted out after the first choice dance troupe turned him down the Mormon Tabernacle Choir have been press-ganged into it under threat of being kicked out of the choir but even some of them have taken the moral high ground and walked rather than dance for the orange haired lunatic anyway.
Andrea Bocelli initially agreed to sing for Trump but withdrew after a fan backlash and Elton John was apparently one of the big names who had been approached and politely declined the offer but Rebecca Ferguson has agreed on the condition that she chooses the song and her choice is the anti-racism anthem 'Strange Fruit' by Billie Holiday.
'The song speaks to all the disregarded and down trodden black people in the US and is a reminder of how love is the only thing that will conquer all the hatred in this world' she explained which probably means she won't be getting the call anytime soon.
With only 18 days left to plan it, the Trump inauguration looks at the moment like it will be half a dozen Mormon dancers and Sarah Palin belting out some show tunes.
2017: What To Look Forward To
The changing of the calendar always brings hopes that the new year will be an improvement on the last one but invariably we realise before January is out that it is going to be much the same.
In 2017 there are elections in France with ultra right wing Marine Le Pen doing disappointingly well in polls as is Geert Wilders in The Netherlands although we hope the French and Dutch voters see sense and don't vote for the clown parties but then i remember we said about American voters last year and look who is the President elect over there.
Elections are also to be held in Hungary and Iran and with Iran being manoeuvred into the sights of a warmongering Israel and USA so who takes over in Tehran could turn out to be pivotal.
Sex pest Donald Trump will be inaugurated on January 20 and nobody is expecting that Presidential term to turn out well considering he has annoyed large swathes of the globe, most importantly China, even before he gets his teeny tiny little hands on the nuclear codes and any unfortunate women in his close proximity.
Prime minister Theresa May has said she will trigger the two-year process for leaving the EU by the end of March although that date is expected to slide as the remaining EU members play hardball and watch us go for a long walk off a short pier and it finally sinks in what a monumental mistake 52% of us made.
Communists will be celebrating though as it will be 100 years since the Russian revolution in 1917 which introduced us to Lenin, Stalin and ice-pick enthusiast Trotsky and was directly responsible for the dreadful 99 Red Balloons song by Nena and me having to sit through 'When The Wind Blows' film every year throughout my school years where i learnt that the way to survive a nuclear missile attack was to shelter under an upturned sofa.
All in all 2017 will be much the same as 2016 only with different celebrities dying.
In 2017 there are elections in France with ultra right wing Marine Le Pen doing disappointingly well in polls as is Geert Wilders in The Netherlands although we hope the French and Dutch voters see sense and don't vote for the clown parties but then i remember we said about American voters last year and look who is the President elect over there.
Elections are also to be held in Hungary and Iran and with Iran being manoeuvred into the sights of a warmongering Israel and USA so who takes over in Tehran could turn out to be pivotal.
Sex pest Donald Trump will be inaugurated on January 20 and nobody is expecting that Presidential term to turn out well considering he has annoyed large swathes of the globe, most importantly China, even before he gets his teeny tiny little hands on the nuclear codes and any unfortunate women in his close proximity.
Prime minister Theresa May has said she will trigger the two-year process for leaving the EU by the end of March although that date is expected to slide as the remaining EU members play hardball and watch us go for a long walk off a short pier and it finally sinks in what a monumental mistake 52% of us made.
Communists will be celebrating though as it will be 100 years since the Russian revolution in 1917 which introduced us to Lenin, Stalin and ice-pick enthusiast Trotsky and was directly responsible for the dreadful 99 Red Balloons song by Nena and me having to sit through 'When The Wind Blows' film every year throughout my school years where i learnt that the way to survive a nuclear missile attack was to shelter under an upturned sofa.
All in all 2017 will be much the same as 2016 only with different celebrities dying.
2017 Predictions
The problem with making predictions is that when they don't come true you can end up looking a right gimboid which is why many psychics on the internet now only make vague predictions such as much loved 90s star dies and terror attack in Europe.
The only psychic who appears willing to make specific predictions and risk the shouts of 'gimboid' is the Canadian Psychic Nikki who is the Psychic to the Stars so although she seems to be terrible at this guessing the future lark, here are her top 20 predictions for 2017:
Kidnapping around the Trump family
The moon will turn green
Leaning tower of Piza in Italy collapsing
Terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden
Cuba becoming the 51st US State
Houses of Parliament in London, England has a great fire
Explosions on Wall Street, New York – many deaths
A meteor hitting San Francisco
A member of the Royal Family will be kidnapped
A robot will break into the White House
Iran and the US will attack each other
The Golden Gate Bridge will be partly destroyed and many people dead
A UFO lands in Lake Erie
Bomb blast at Buckingham palace
Squirrels attack people worldwide
A beloved male singer turns out to be a woman
A change in the British Monarchy.
Bomb blast at 10 Downing Street, in London, England.
A plane goes into Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Kim Jong Un will vanish
As usual we will come back at the end of the year and see just which male singer turns out to be a woman, my money is on Justin Bieber.
The only psychic who appears willing to make specific predictions and risk the shouts of 'gimboid' is the Canadian Psychic Nikki who is the Psychic to the Stars so although she seems to be terrible at this guessing the future lark, here are her top 20 predictions for 2017:
Kidnapping around the Trump family
The moon will turn green
Leaning tower of Piza in Italy collapsing
Terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden
Cuba becoming the 51st US State
Houses of Parliament in London, England has a great fire
Explosions on Wall Street, New York – many deaths
A meteor hitting San Francisco
A member of the Royal Family will be kidnapped
A robot will break into the White House
Iran and the US will attack each other
The Golden Gate Bridge will be partly destroyed and many people dead
A UFO lands in Lake Erie
Bomb blast at Buckingham palace
Squirrels attack people worldwide
A beloved male singer turns out to be a woman
A change in the British Monarchy.
Bomb blast at 10 Downing Street, in London, England.
A plane goes into Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Kim Jong Un will vanish
As usual we will come back at the end of the year and see just which male singer turns out to be a woman, my money is on Justin Bieber.
Sunday, 1 January 2017
Who Could Be Gunning For Trump?
Come 20th January 2017, the most powerful man in the World will be Donald Trump which hasn't pleased Charlie Sheen who has asked God to send the Grim Reaper around to Trump Towers to give the orange haired businessman a tap on the shoulder and whisk him off to wherever orange haired businessmen end up.
Sheen quite rightly got the brickbats lobbed at him, nobody should be hoping for the death of anyone else but American Presidents have a habit of receiving fast traveling bullets so what are the chances that Charlie Sheen will be celebrating and Donald Trump will be assassinated?
Going on previous events, there is a 34% chance that he will be killed, injured or narrowly escape an assassination attempt as 16 of the previous 43 Presidents have had an attempt on their life.
That percentage increases significantly for all the soft Trump targets and attacks against his properties which have already started by those in his own nation and as he has properties Worldwide, it could very well be open season for Trump Hotels and Golf courses.
The President Trump's chances of him having less hotels in a couple of years time are almost 100% as his hotels span Europe, Asia and South America where the Trump brand is even less enamored than it is in his home country, with the exception of Russia possibly.
Throw in that the potential assassin could be from one of the many groups that Trump has irked, feminists, Mexicans, black Americans, Muslims, the disabled, a Trump University student, an environmentalist, a gay activist, a disgruntled Trump Hotel employee or even one from his own side of the ideological fence if he does not deliver the much promised Mexican wall or Muslim ban.
Assassination is not the only way to Trump could be stopped from fulfilling his Presidential obligations, his approval ratings are already in negative numbers and this is traditionally when a President is at his most popular so impeachment could be an issue that is raised at some point.
Given his age and obesity, there is also a chance that Trump will be replaced by his Vice President before the next election due to natural causes or if the CIA decide he is a danger to the USA he would still be found dead of 'natural causes'.
To end with, for those who like this sort of thing, in the 227 years that the USA has been around there have been four successful assassinations, meaning on average there is an assassination every 56 years and 9 months.
As JFK was assassinated in November 1963, 56 years and 9 months on from November 1963 is August 2020.
The Donald may want to keep an eye out for someone who looks very much like Charlie Sheen if he is still around in the summer of 2020.
Sheen quite rightly got the brickbats lobbed at him, nobody should be hoping for the death of anyone else but American Presidents have a habit of receiving fast traveling bullets so what are the chances that Charlie Sheen will be celebrating and Donald Trump will be assassinated?
Going on previous events, there is a 34% chance that he will be killed, injured or narrowly escape an assassination attempt as 16 of the previous 43 Presidents have had an attempt on their life.
That percentage increases significantly for all the soft Trump targets and attacks against his properties which have already started by those in his own nation and as he has properties Worldwide, it could very well be open season for Trump Hotels and Golf courses.
The President Trump's chances of him having less hotels in a couple of years time are almost 100% as his hotels span Europe, Asia and South America where the Trump brand is even less enamored than it is in his home country, with the exception of Russia possibly.
Throw in that the potential assassin could be from one of the many groups that Trump has irked, feminists, Mexicans, black Americans, Muslims, the disabled, a Trump University student, an environmentalist, a gay activist, a disgruntled Trump Hotel employee or even one from his own side of the ideological fence if he does not deliver the much promised Mexican wall or Muslim ban.
Assassination is not the only way to Trump could be stopped from fulfilling his Presidential obligations, his approval ratings are already in negative numbers and this is traditionally when a President is at his most popular so impeachment could be an issue that is raised at some point.
Given his age and obesity, there is also a chance that Trump will be replaced by his Vice President before the next election due to natural causes or if the CIA decide he is a danger to the USA he would still be found dead of 'natural causes'.
To end with, for those who like this sort of thing, in the 227 years that the USA has been around there have been four successful assassinations, meaning on average there is an assassination every 56 years and 9 months.
As JFK was assassinated in November 1963, 56 years and 9 months on from November 1963 is August 2020.
The Donald may want to keep an eye out for someone who looks very much like Charlie Sheen if he is still around in the summer of 2020.
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