Good thing there's no emergency!

This would be funny if it weren't so....oh, wait!....this is funny. Very funny. What a completely fucked institution the EU is.

Ban this...

Compared to his predecessor, Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-Moon is but a puny amateur in the sweepstakes of sleaze. Though I guess we ought to give him time, this interesting tidbit has surfaced which shows how much he has in common with the egregious Annan. Only days after telling us in no uncertain terms that unless we pony up the big money we're all gonna fry, come news that the UN has been...err, economical...with the truth about the previous "we're all gonna die!!" global catastrophe: HIV/AIDS: (emphasis mine)

The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week
that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic,
which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N.
documents prepared for the announcement. AIDS remains a devastating public
health crisis in the most heavily affected areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic........Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.

"There was a tendency toward alarmism, and that fit perhaps a certain fundraising agenda," said Helen Epstein, author of "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS." "I hope these new numbers will help refocus the response in a more pragmatic way."

Hmm. Sounds familiar.

Call it what it is: corruption of the worst kind...

Devil's Kitchen has more here on the truly alarming scandal of government-funded "charities" and "NGO's". I will write more on this at the weekend, but it is time that pressure is put on the MSM to either cover this in-depth or own up to their complicity in this eye-wateringly deep level of cynical corruption. The government should fall on this issue alone, and Brown, Blair...the whole lot of 'em marched off to a soccer stadium somewhere.

Dirty little secrets...

I have been seeing more and more about this lately but EU Referendum: The noose tightens really gets the goods on NGOs and how they are financed by the European Union to lobby the European Union to give legitimacy and support to EU initiatives under the heading of 'popular support'. This should scare you witless.

I'm melting, melting!!

Environment Agency chief Lady Young does her best here to convince the public that she is a gin-soaked crone who let her Prozac prescription lapse (quite irresponsibly). It seems that the global warmists are becoming more transparently shrill and hysterical...is that possible??...and at the same time more 'monotone' as if they realise that the 'debate is over' crap is, well....over.

Nurse!!!

Honey, Get the Charger...

One of the truisms of parenthood - which makes little sense to the childless - is that you have the innate ability to hear your own child's cry in a room full of other children. And so it is with electronic devices.

I was in the changing room tonight in preparation for my regular Monday training session...the sport remains nameless...having arrived late. I was alone in the room, a typical school gym changing room, when I heard the plaintive mumble of a Blackberry set to 'vibrate' mode.

I thought for a second...'didn't I leave mine up in the main hall?'...then could tell instantly by the sound it was not mine after all. Though in this case, I am not certain who is the child and who the parent.