Vote for Fraud Buster!
Please take a couple of minutes to show your support for Marta Andreasen – the former EU chief accountant turned EU fraud whistleblower, who spoke at the DM activists’ conference at Woburn Abbey back in April.
Accountancy Age is running an online poll for ‘Personality of the Year 2003’, and Marta is a candidate. Here’s what their website says about her:
“MARTA ANDREASEN - Outspoken, tough and immovable once she makes up her mind, Marta Andreasen has proved a real thorn in the side of the European Commission. Last May she was suspended from her post as chief accountant at the commission after publicly declaring that the commission’s accounts were faulty and that the £69bn annual budget was open to fraud and abuse. After a long battle, the European Parliament published a list of recommendations
that went some way to vindicating Andreasen’s claims.”
Neil Kinnock is hoping that Marta’s case against the Commission will go
away and be forgotten, so it’s vital to thwart him by taking every
opportunity to show that people are still interested and support her.
Follow this link to access the poll:
http://www.vnunet.com/Surveys/personality.htm
Or if that doesn’t work, the Accountancy Age web site is at:
www.accountancyage.com – look at the picture icons on the right for the
link to the poll.
If you can, please leave it a while after receiving this e-mail before
voting, so that a sudden suspicious surge isn’t observed. It seems you can
vote without entering your e-mail address, but it’s not absolutely clear if
such votes are valid. If you do enter your address, they promise not to add
it to any mailing lists or sell it on – and you could win a prize! The awards ceremony is to be held on 12th November.
Please circulate this amongst your e-mail networks as widely as possible
and let’s do what we can to drive home this thorn in Kinnock’s side!
best regards,
Stuart
A “moral compass” having lost its way ??
Somehow, Dr. Rowan Williams’ compass seems to be spinning on a bearing of no solidity and no comprehension of reality.
In the D-T, there is a whole column about his having given his views on what, from his readings of the tea leaves and crystals, is the proper way to manage the world. Of course, he permits of no recognition that mealy-mouthed protests flung from a pulpit have no effect on those bent on evil, for he doesn’t understand that evil really exists.
One wonders if he should rather be preaching and prating on some other planet. He wanders about through life with a belief in all those ‘wouldn’t it be loverly’ wisps of thought so prevalent in the efite elite crew, instead of opening his eyes. As a moral leader, he seems to have no morals that have a purpose.
Comments are off for this postDid Nazism have repressed homosexuality as a theme?
Frank and I are watching a documentary on the Hitler Youth, and what struck both of us is how much the rhetoric resembles gay literature. The actual description of the young male form and their abilities was most striking.
Shiracht (Head of the Hitler Youth): “Hitler was my tree.”
Hitler: “We need our youth strong and supple.”
Geobbels: “Seeing all those young boys excercising lit a fire inside me.”
Frank and I are probably not the first to notice, but it was most interesting.
There are also similarities with Islamo-fascism. Young boys were taught “adore the cult of martyrdom”. The documentary even showed a young boy grab explosives and blow himself up for the Fatherland. Before the act of martydom he launched into a rant against an adult who was not so willing.
Wonder if Islamic Jihad and Hamas use Hitler Youth videos, dubbed, in their training of those young martyrs of today.
1 commentOi Vey that is a good ale
Kepple reports on ROPMA’s worse nightmare come true. Jewish beer and ale; called He’Brew.
1 commentGod does not listen to prayer…
Scientists in the US have concluded what we all knew. Heart patients who were prayed for had no better survival rates than those who had no one pray for them. Let’s hope the police use this as proof to prosecute all those idiot TV evangelists who bilk the money of sad people for “prayer sessions.”
Let’s face it, God has a lot better things to do than care about some redneck who wants $500 for his bills.
Score one for the Deists.
Comments are off for this postSleaze-ball on IDS
Adulterer and former member of the sleazy cabinet of John Major, David Mellor, has criticised Tory MPs for being cowards. Their crime, you ask? They are unwilling to give IDS the elbow and replace him. Amazingly enough, Mellor believes they should bring back Hague. His assesment of IDS and Letwin are a bit nasty, it has to be said.
I don’t think IDS needs to go so much as I believe someone like Tebbit or Beryl “the peril” Goldsmith needs to be recruited to fire CCO’s entire staff and make them re-apply for their jobs. As l’affaire BDS continues to expose the viciousness of some at CCO, it makes the culling of the organisation even more necessary.
1 commentHeroic Yankees to be charged by Boston Police
“Boston police plan to seek criminal summonses [Tuesday] against New York Yankees pitcher Jeff Nelson and outfielder Karim Garcia for their part in Saturday’s Fenway Park bullpen fracas that knocked Garcia out of the game and sent a Red Sox groundskeeper to the hospital …. In the report, Detective William Dunn and Officer Michael Pankievich, who were in the bullpen at the time of the incident, said they saw Yankees players ‘initiate an unprovoked attack upon’ the groundskeeper and that ‘numerous other members of the Yankees bullpen jumped on the victim’ ...” (10/13/03)
Via: Rational Review
Comments are off for this postSome fiscal conservatives are not that conservative after all…
“Some of Waltham’s [MA] most fiscally conservative political voices have been added to the chorus opposing Question 1, saying the budget-slashing ballot initiative goes too far. ... Waltham city officials … have nearly universally opposed Question 1. But WCTJ’s chairman, Richard Aucoin, who led the charge to collect more than 3,000 signatures putting the petition on the ballot, has not shrunk from his critics. Voting yes on Question 1, he says, will save homeowners about $1,000 …. Aucoin, who was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for lieutenant governor last year, now says he only wishes he had asked for a bigger cut than the $40.7 million.” (10/14/03)
Via: Rational Review
Comments are off for this postVillage Idiocy
SICKNESS AND IGNORANCE
By 2005, patients will be able to book their consultant appointments online.
Should get their hips done by 2007, then.
The Soil Association says that prisons spend more on food than schools.
Jarvis’s rail maintenance contracts have been “renationalized”. That’s a
word we’ve not heard in a long time. No doubt the usual results will follow.
Oliver Letwin would like to take kids out of council care and send them to
private schools instead. (Good idea: private schools are cheaper!)
Ofsted says that allowing popular schools to expand could mean unpopular
schools falling into decline. Good. Let’s hope it’s quick and terminal.
UNCIVIL SERVICE
Government jobcenters have allegedly dismissed staff in the week before they would qualify for employment rights, in order to avoid job-security costs.
The DTI has spend 600 grand renaming its “Trade Partners UK” export division to “UK Trade and Investment”. Much catchier.
Maintaining the (empty) Millennium Dome costs 64,000 pounds a day — that’s 20 million pounds in total until the Dome re-opens in four years’ time.
Two asylum seekers, jailed for using forged passports, won a record 130,000 compensation because a UN provision protects them.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
IPPR says that congesting charging should be introduced nationwide. I wonder where they got that idea? Of course, they see it as a way to cut car use and raise more cash for our dismal health and schools service.
The National Obesity Forum (yes, really), says that Britain is the fattest
nation in Europe. That’s despite the government’s drive to reduce obesity.
Progress! Gerry Adams has said that the IRA’s killing of civilians is wrong.
Via: ASI
Comments are off for this postOdds ‘n’ Sods
From an interesting study on blogs (link courtesy of Natalie Solent):
Nanoaudiences are the logical outcome of continued growth in blogs. Assume for a moment that one day 100 million people regularly read blogs and that they each read 50 other peoples blogs. That translates into 5 billion subscriptions (50 * 100 million). Now assume on that same day there are 20 million active bloggers. That translates into 250 readers per blog (5 billion / 20 million) – far smaller audiences than any traditional one-to-many communication method. And this is just an average; in practice many blogs have no more than two dozen readers.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
How to build traffic, how to build traffic . . .
I’ve got it! By relentlessly scouring the Internet (OK, the blogosphere) and posting links that will provide quality (OK, free) entertainment!
Plus I don’t have to do so much writing! This is easy! And I get to use a lot of exclamation marks!
You must see this! It’s a North Korean propaganda video! It’s actually quite catchy! At least you could dance to it, unlike Saddam’s retro tributes to 1958 Albania! Warning! Language!
Thanks to A Fearful Symmetry for the link!
After that, you might want to exterminate some vermin! So go here!
No, don’t thank me! Thank Ghost of a Flea!
Tomorrow! Question marks???
Comments are off for this postA Nice Car
Sorry about posting a joke but I couldn’t help it!
A guy driving a Mini Cooper pulls up at a stoplight next to a Rolls-Royce. The driver of the Mini rolls down his window and shouts to the driver of the Rolls, “Hey, buddy, that’s a nice car. You got a phone in your Rolls? I’ve got one in my Mini!”
The driver of Rolls looks over and says simply, “Yes, I have a phone.”
The driver of the Mini says, “Cool! Hey, you got a fridge in there too? I’ve got a fridge in the back seat of my Mini!”
The driver of the Rolls, looking annoyed, says, “Yes, I have a refrigerator.”
The driver of the Mini says, “That’s great, man! Hey, you got a TV in there, too? You know, I got a TV in the back seat of my Mini!”
The driver of the Rolls, looking very annoyed by now, says, “Of course I have a television. A Rolls-Royce is the finest luxury car in the world!”
The driver of the Mini says, “Very cool car! Hey, you got a bed in there, too? I got a bed in the back of my Mini!”
Upset that he did not have a bed, the driver of the Rolls-Royce sped away, and went straight to the dealer, where he promptly ordered that a bed be installed in
the back of the Rolls. The next morning, the driver of the Rolls picked up the car. The bed looked superb, complete with silk sheets and brass trim. It was
clearly a bed fit for a Rolls-Royce.
So the driver of the Rolls begins searching for the Mini, and he drove all day. Finally, late at night, he finds the Mini parked, with all the windows fogged up from the inside. The driver of the Rolls got out and knocked on the Mini. When there wasn’t any answer, he knocked and knocked, and eventually the owner stuck his head out, soaking wet.
“I now have a bed in the back of my Rolls-Royce,” the driver of the Rolls stated arrogantly.
The driver of the Mini looked at him and said, “You got me out of the shower for THAT?!”
Comments are off for this postMemories
Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs. His wife Hillary got $8 million for hers. That’s $20 million for memories from two people who for eight years repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn’t remember anything.
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