Saturday, 11 January 2025
The Real War is ongoing: it is happening as right now.
Sunday, 12 March 2023
BBC: Where there is danger, there is opportunity - Time for change?
For some of us, moves concerning the BBC and the now really and trully defunct BBC World Service (what now exists is merely a skeleton service and a shadow of what used to be the record breaking broadcaster) were a catastrophic mistake. The BBC actually withdrew from the international arena, very much like other international broadcasters.
In 1991, I attended a gathering organised by an organisation based in Barcelona. Representatives from the BBC, Radio Netherlands, Deutsche Welle, Radio France International, Radio Austria International, Radio Moscow International, and others met in Sitges. What happened afterwards was forseable. For several broadcasters the writing was on the wall. In Britain, the move towards Value for Money (translated as Value for Rubbish) was already underway and one of the promoters of such move was none other than John Birt (now Lord Birt). Kenneth Clarke and Tony Blair sealed the fate of the radio and television services provided by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Britain lost and lost pre-eminence in many parts of the world including Latin America.
Year after year, budget cuts followed by very bad management have led to more and more service cuts at the BBC. There was a time when the BBC was supposed to present two opposite points of view and have three independent sources that could confirm the veracity of what was being reported. Not anymore. In the rush to very much mirror the private sector, the BBC have lost credibility dramatically. The move to replace BBC presenters with agency staff was catastrophic and there were reports of presenters being adviced to register as external service providers in order to avoid taxes. Having what are supposed to be BBC flagship programmes presented by agency presenters was not a happy idea and the recent Lineker Affair is a clear example of what is wrong about the BBC - vast amounts of TV Licence paid to external presenters and producers while the BBC is forced to scale down the organisation because of budgetary constraints.
Saturday, 26 February 2022
America: Lying to iself and lying to the world.
The USA is an expert in lying to the world and lying to itself. Regardless of a Civil War and of the Declaration of Emancipation, a war supposedly fought to free black slaves and promote equality on the basis that All men are created Equal and have therefore intrinsically the same rights, many decades after the Civil War in the 1960s the Civil Rights movement went to the streets and after a march the crowds assembled near the Abraham Lincoln Memorial to, once again, ponder about racial inequalities. The long forgotten Native Americans were followed by other minorities, minorities that are minorities on the streets, but are majorities in the vast American system of prisons spread across the USA. The prison system is the USA is a business.
In a country that is considered to be the main power in the
world, economic inequalities when it comes to race are appalling and is even
more appalling that despite vast resources, the United States of America does
not have a National Health Service that covers all of its citizens, the same
citizens that throughout the years have given their lives in many international
conflicts. Don’t wait for the said issues to be resolved any time soon as both
Republicans and Democrats share the blame for such scandal that blemishes the
United of America.
The same country that purports itself as defender of democracy
and equality is extremely undemocratic and suffers from enormous inequalities.
When it comes to International Law, the USA is not even signatory of the International
Court of Justice. So here we are. USA claims to be there to protect International
Law and is not even signatory of the International Court of Justice.
For ever and ever, the USA has told everybody else to live
within their means. Does the USA live within its means. We have become
accustomed to Congress having to pass legislation after legislation to increase
public debt and it continues to borrow and print banknotes as if there was no
tomorrow to finance all kinds of military adventures that often end up in
disaster for the USA and for all those affected by the USA. The first lesson in
morality should be for the USA to live within its means and spend its resources
to improve the wellbeing of American citizens without getting involved in any
more military adventures.
Saturday, 6 March 2021
Harry and Meghan: How Royal Family advisers are destroying the Royal Family
Friday, 22 January 2021
From Covid-19 to B117: This could be like the plague that killed 50% of the population of Europe
From Covid-19 to B117. 70 per cent more contagious and more than 30 per cent more deadly. We are flowered. More than 25 per cent of those who recover will die within five months because of the damage done by the virus to vital organs.
Since no country can exist under a permanent Lockdown, financial collapse will follow leading to riots and revolutions that will destroy any democratic form of government.
This is Das Ende. If you live in an area of the world where the pandemic is not an imminent danger coming to Developed World is the equivalent of committing suicide. Refugees and illegal imigrants are effectively migrating to die a most horrible death in the Developed World.
Monday, 2 March 2020
Corona Virus and Immigration: Yet another reason to restrict immigration
Corona Virus and Immigration: Yet another reason to restrict immigration
Saturday, 4 June 2016
Muhammad Ali refused to fight in Vietnam, one of the many artificial wars created by the American Empire
When there was a choice to be made between conscience and convenience, he chose conscience something that in today's World is very often in very short supply.
Today, many war veterans profoundly regret what was done in Vietnam where American troops burned men, women and children alive following the diktats of a Monster driven by greed that has ruined the lives of many across many continents supporting coup d'états, dictatorial regimes, carrying out illegal invasions, extorting resources, and subjecting millions to lives in extreme poverty.
The United States of America is a country that tells everybody else to live within their means but has no hesitation in building up trillions of Dollars of debt and printing worthless bank notes to take over other countries resources. The United States of America is constantly talking about Democracy and Human Rights while supporting dictators, torture, assassinations and persecution and mistreatment of its own citizens.
Monday, 2 June 2014
The 50 million Dollar Question: Was Barak Obama born in the US?
Donald Trump challenged Barak Obama proposing that he was going to give 5 million US Dollars to charity if Barak Obama came clean about his real birthplace.
When the 5 million US Dollars offer didn't seem to be enough, Donald Trump raised to the offer to 50 million US Dollars and Barak Obama still didn't offer any evidence about his birthplace. So we can actually concluded that Barak Obama is not US born and that therefore, according the the US Constitution, he was not entitled to stand for President of the United States of America.
The indictment against Barak Obama goes even further. In a very public statement, Donald Trump practically said that those running the US are basically incompetent and stupid starting at the very top of the US Administration because while the US is losing trillions of US Dollars in military adventures, China is reaping the benefits both in Iraq and in Afghanistan.