An Expensive Outsourcing?

A number of people with whom I work are customers of the NatWest bank, a part of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which readers will recall was the beneficiary of a £37billion bailout at the time of the 2008 financial crisis, (caused in large part by the losses incurred by American banks lending too much money to African Americans and Immigrants who did not pay them back). 

Customers of NatWest and RBS have had a very difficult few days, and so have those banks!

Last Friday a software upgrade within the RBS systems went wrong, and efforts to correct the error accidentally resulted in the entire day’s transactions, for millions of customers, being erased. This was the biggest computer error ever to occur within the UK banking system, certainly in this century,  and has caused total chaos, especially to customers whose salaries were being paid in that day, or whose rent or mortgage payments were due to be made.  In addition thousands of house purchases and business transactions fell through, and in one instance a man on trial, who had been granted bail had to be kept in prison over the weekend as he was unable to raise the necessary funds as a direct result of the failure. 

The bank has promised to compensate anyone who lost money or suffered extra costs as a result of this error, and it is estimated that the debacle will cost the bank hundreds of millions of pounds, even before factoring in the loss of confidence, bad publicity and a potentially hefty fine by the bank regulator. There has also been a sizable slump in the bank's share price.

The problems started last Friday, and have not yet been resolved, and as the bank struggle to restore order and reputation, a story is beginning to gain purchase within the media, albeit it has not made it past the news censors at the BBC.

The story, which the banking unions have also begun totake up is that the error occurred due to inexperienced technicians in Hyderabad India.  It seems that the RBS recently laid off a large number of UK based technicians and relocated their jobs to India where people could be employed to do the job at a quarter of the salary.

If this is true then that cynical any unpatriotic decision to dump British workers and employ cut price staff in India, has cost the bank very dearly indeed.

I do not yet know if the story is true, the RBS CEO Stephen Hestor somewhat disingenuously insisted yesterday that the crisis was not a result of the outsourcing move, but he would say that wouldn’t he, also, he and the bank's rather freyed PR department have suddenly become considerably less forthright on the issue today!  If it does turn out to be true, the irony would be too delicious for words.

Maybe there is such a thing as karma after all!

Farm attack victim dead, wife fighting for her life

Johan van Rensburg, 77, who was killed in a farm attack in Limpopo, is pictured with his son Hanno and his grandson, also Hanno. (Beeld)

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Johannesburg - A 65-year-old woman who was shot three times in a farm attack in which her husband was killed, is fighting for her life in a Polokwane hospital.

Beeld reported that doctors said Gloudien van Rensburg would probably be paralysed if she survived.

She was shot as she lay sleeping next to her husband, Johan van Rensburg, 77, on their game farm Cosmopolite near the Botswana border.

Her husband was shot dead by the four men who cut the electric fence and bent back burglar bars in the bathroom to get into the house.

The couple were attacked early on Wednesday morning.  American tourists, who had come to hunt on the farm, were woken up by the shots and raised the alarm.

The Americans were apparently too shocked to talk to reporters.

Firearms were stolen from the house but the couple’s cellphones had not been taken.

They celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary in January.

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Afrikaner community in mourning over ongoing slaughter

As Censorbugbear has reported members of the Afrikaner community led by celebrities, such as Singer/Songwriter Steve Hofmyr,  have been protesting against the brutal violence being inflicted on their three and a half million strong community.  If anyone has seen any reference to this in the Western media please post a link in the comments section (you can do so anonymously)
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The Rise of New-Variant Liberal Totalitarianism and the War against England by Frank Ellis

 

Dr Frank Ellis ( a regular contributor to this site) recently made a speech to the Traditional Britain group at the Enoch Powell Centeniary Dinner.  

Click here to read The Rise of New-Variant Liberal Totalitarianism and the War against England by Frank Ellis at the Dr Frank Ellis blog

or click here to watch a video of Dr Ellis delivering his talk

Death of a Celtic Tiger

The new Irish join the unemployment queue

The Irish unemployment rate has just reached 14.8%, yet with apparent disregard for the plight of their own people the Irish government continues its suicidal immigration policy.   

4,000 people from 110 countries delighted to receive Irish citizenship

And they wonder why the once thriving Irish economy is in free fall!

Mike Smith

Thanks to all those who have written to be regarding my earlier posting about Mike Smith's blog.  I will get back to you as soon as I can.

It appears that Mike recently posted to say that is taking a break. I am told he is expected to return soon, which appears to be why his blog is currently off line.

It is a tribute to Mike's excellent blogging that so many people were concerned about his absence.

The Reporter who asked Obama a question

 
He MUST be a RACIST!!!

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With apologies to H.M. Bateman

Obama Shows his true Colours .... again!

With an official unemployment total of well over 8% and a real one closer to 20%, President Obama decides his own job is more important and seeks to buy Hispanic votes by adding millions of additional job seekers to the job market in what is in effect an amnesty for illegal immigrants. To do this, he bypassed Congress, just like any other third world dictator would do.

Is there anyone in America still dumb enough not to see through this man?

Mike Smith's site

A large number of readers have written to me asking why Mike Smith's Political Commentary is currently offline.  I am afraid I do not have any answers at the moment, but I am seeking to find out, and will update you as soon as I get any information.

It has been suggested that Mike is merely taking a break, lets hope that is the case, and that he will be returning shortly.

If anyone has further information, please leave a comment below or write to me privately.

The cycle of life and death

I have spent the last week dealing with the loss of a much loved uncle, hence I have not had the time or inclination to write much for a while.

His death was most unexpected, as recently as April he was out hiking on his beloved moors, little knowing quite how ill he was. He even managed to enjoy a few weeks of trout fishing, which was another of his passions.

His appearance of ruddy health was in part what killed him, because of it the cancer was diagnosed too late to deal with and within less than four weeks he was gone. Kind perhaps that he did not suffer long but, but cruel to those of us who were not prepared to lose him.

His was the third funeral I have attended in less than three years, some may recall I wrote of another one before.

It is true for most that death tends to come in phases in one’s life.

In your early teens your grandparents generation begin to die, one by one the four of them go, usually the men first and then the women, and others of their age group, people who had been around you all your childhood, and who could be relied on for gifts and treats, are suddenly no longer there.

The pain of those losses although acute are mercifully short lived, the lord’s kindness enables children to move on and to somehow understand that old people die.

However, sometimes people die out of turn, and that is different. My beautiful aunt, the wife of my, once equally handsome, uncle who died last week, died thirty years ago, when I was twelve, in a sailing accident which shocked us all, and makes me nervous even now when my eldest son goes near the sea.

My uncle never remarried, and until his death he still spoke of her, as if she was still there and had only gone for a while.

For most people then two or three decades pass before the next phase of deaths begin. I was unlucky in that my parents both died before their time and I had lost both by the age of thirty two. But now in my forties it is the time when my parents' siblings like my uncle and their friends who came of age after the war or in that most hopeful decades, the 1950’s, to begin to take their leave.

Unlike the fleeting grief of childhood, the pain of that loss, the loss of parents, never really goes, or certainly it has not left me yet.

I guess when they have all gone if I am lucky thirty years will pass before my own generation begin to die, and that third phase of funerals will begin. And, then of course it will be my turn to take the journey my faith still tells me I will take.

Some break the circle and die young, like my aunt, and then my first ever boyfriend who died in his 20’s. We had split up some time before, but had remained friends and I still mourn and miss him.

On the other hand, others like my grandfather’s sister, my great aunt, live on into their 90’s, still walking dogs, and holidaying away from home at least once every year as they robustly approach their century.

The cycle moves on and we can never know when our day will come, or what mark if any we will leave when we go.

I suppose that if those we have left have reason to cry that we have gone, as we all had reason to cry this week, then we will have achieved as much as most in life will ever do and have little else to ask for.

Silencing Speech in Norway

Following the massacre carried out by the deluded lunatic Anders Breivik, the Norwegian government declared that, going forward, it would allow greater openness in debate within the fiercely politically correct state. However, give the experiences of one writer who dared to challenge the ludicrous fairy tales which pass for “African history” in Norway, it appears that, like so many statements and promises by corrupt European politicians, the government’s declaration amounted to little more than a gust of meaningless hot air.

Clickhere to read “No freedom of Speech for Norwegian public workers”

A Tribute to Emma West - My Tram Experience

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hat tip: Runic and Emma4Queen

A Lost world

An English family picnic in 1952

When the BBC and others show us photographs and film of life in Britain before the never previously experienced levels of mass immigration which has so changed our society, they invariably, and I am sure deliberately, show us dull black and white photographs and film all of which make Britain appear a drab, austere and generally unappealing place to be. However, as the picture at the top of this article and these pictures from Saturday's Mail online suggest the truth was somewhat different. 

 

As means of comparison, here are some pictures of modern Britain which have received the treatment which the BBC applies to our past - suddenly it doesn't look so "vibrant" does it?

A direct comparison?

Schoolboys and authority figures - then and now

A very different world

I am a Racist

The following article appeared on South Africa's News 24 last week, however, much of it could apply equally to Britain, America or really any current western nation:

I am a Racist  

A South African artist called Brett Murray has been causing a huge stir since his painting of South Africa’s president titled The Spear was put up in  a local gallery. The ANC have worked themselves up into a total frothy about the painting and their biggest issue with it - It’s racist. ???????

Disrespectful, maybe. Rude, maybe. But racist???

That little word that has become the political whip with which the ANC work the masses up into angry mobs and riots anytime something happens that they don’t like. And it’s becoming really really tiring.

In South Africa, the word racist has lost it’s original meaning and now only get’s used to describe a white person doing something a black person doesn’t like. You never hear it used in any other context. You can’t say to a black CEO that he is racist because he won’t hire white people, no - he’s just making sure that only blacks get hired because of BEE. You can’t call a university racist because they won’t accept an application from a white student with straight A’s for 8 subjects - instead taking on a black student who barely passed matric. Nope, they’re not racist, they’re just correcting the wrongs of the past. But god forbid you do hire the white person or you do admit the white student, you’ll be branded racist by the government quicker that you can say “colour shouldn’t be the issue here” because how dare you choose a white person over a black person in a democratic South Africa.

Most of the time when you are a white person and you call your fellow countrymen to be held accountable for their unacceptable words and actions such as corruption, nepotism, fraud, theft, you’ll be branded a racist. 

Continue reading 

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Hat Tip: Dina, Tinus and Laager

Liberty Lost

By Diana West 

Back in 2001, Britain’s political parties signed a fantastic pledge. They agreed to say nothing to “stir up racial or religious hatred, or lead to prejudice on grounds of race, nationality or religion.”

This gag order did more than keep the parties polite. Vital issues – from massive immigration and multiculturalism to their eradicating effects on British civilization – were officially banned. Thus, such concerns became impermissible thoughts. Not that such issues weren’t already thoughtcrime, as George Orwell would have put it. But this unprecedented pledge turned “violators” into political lepers.

I thought of that elite code of cowardice this week when a London judge sentenced a 42-year-old British secretary named Jacqueline Woodhouse to 21 weeks in jail. Her crime? An expletive-laden rant about immigration, multiculturalism and the disappearance of British civilization. Not in so many words. But that was the unmistakable gist of Woodhouse’s commentary one January night on the London Underground.

This same week, another London judge ordered two black girls, 18 and 19, to perform community service after a savage physical attack on two white legal secretaries. “I am satisfied what you both did, you did that night because you were fueled by alcohol,” Judge Stephen Kramer said, as though tut-tutting a child’s unknowing apple theft.

A few months ago, another London judge freed four Somali Muslim women who set upon a white couple, yelling, “Kill the white slag,” and other anti-white slurs. The gang beat the woman to the ground and ripped out a patch of her hair. Judge Robert Brown was lenient because, he ruled, as Muslims, the women were not used to being drunk.

Jacqueline Woodhouse was drunk, too, but that was no mitigating factor in her case. She harmed no one, but that was no mitigating factor, either. Judge Michael Snow invoked the “deep sense of shame” Woodhouse’s display elicited, because “our citizens … may, as a consequence, believe that it secretly represents the views of other white people.”

“Thoughtcrime is death,” as Orwell wrote in “1984.”

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If it can happen Down Under

The following article by Hal G.P. Colebatch recently appeared in the American Spectator

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Australia is a nation where freedom of speech has appeared as solidly established as anywhere in the world.

Today, however, it is under a massive threat. This is all the more shocking because it is as head-on assault on Australia's entire political culture of liberty and democracy.

In the latest development, the governing alliance of the leftist Australian Labor Party and the extreme leftist Greens have received an official report into media regulation recommending draconian controls.

The 470-page report, commissioned as part of the government's vendetta against the Murdoch press, demands that the media be made more "accountable," and that the government have the power to impose "professional standards." The chairman of the inquiry that made the report, retired Federal Court Judge Roy Finkelstein, recommends a News Media Council be set up to license the press and to censor news reporting and political commentary.

Licensing the media has always been abhorrent in the English-speaking world. It was not contemplated even in Australia's first days as a penal colony.

It is recommended that the council -- presumably to be called the Ministry of Truth -- should have a judge or lawyer as its chairman, appointed by the government, and 20 members, a large portion of whom would be nominated by the Labor-affiliated journalists' union.

The council would have power to alter or permanently ban articles. Disobedience would result in a fine or imprisonment for contempt of court, and there would be no appeal. As well as having the power to ban articles, the council would have the power to compel media to publish responses to stories.

Now get this: its jurisdiction would extend not merely to newspapers -- which would be outrageous enough -- but also to any website. Perhaps even if it was visited by only one or two people a day. Finkelstein says its jurisdiction should cover websites which get more than 15,000 hits a year, or an average of 41 a day, that is, practically every website that could be described as publishing "news, information and opinion of current value."

It would also, it is recommended, cover every magazine with a print run of 3,000 copies -- it is uncertain by what process of obscene delicacy the figure of 3,000 copiers was arrived at, but plainly this would catch virtually the entire magazine-publishing industry. At a rough guess, 10,000 copies is a break-even point in terms of attracting advertising.

In paragraph 4.10 of the Finkelstein report it is stated that the council should control speech in Australia because the people are too stupid to be allowed free access to news.

When the representative of Murdoch's News Ltd. claimed readers were "capable of making up their own minds," Finkelstein stated: "Often, however, readers are not in a position to make a properly informed judgement." John Roskam, of the think tank the Institute for Public Affairs, has commented of this that:

This is intellectual arrogance at its most breath-taking. And it's a great argument against democracy. If, as Finkelstein claims, people aren't smart enough to decide for themselves the merits of what they see in the media, then they're certainly not smart enough to decide who to vote for.… Finkelstein and the Greens believe access to the media should be restricted to those who are "balanced and responsible."

To make matters worse, the opposition Liberal Party's media spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, instead of rejecting the proposal out of hand, as he should have done, has been ambiguous and equivocal, claiming that "It has been said that the legal arrangements at present" (that is, ordinary freedom of speech) "do not adequately advance the public interest."

The report, says author Chris Berg, represents a reversal of the whole principle that it is not the role of the government to judge public debate, and that "The media inquiry was obviously political retribution against critical journalism."

Critiques of the government's and Greens' policy of a tax on carbon emissions are specifically mentioned in the report. Meanwhile, Government Senator Doug Cameron has attacked the Murdoch press -- "an absolute disgrace… we should absolutely be having a look at them" -- for having published news of a leadership struggle within the Labor Party that turned out to be true.

I said at the beginning that this was contrary to Australian traditions of freedom of expression.

In fact, in the last couple of years there have been ominous foreshadowings of press control.

Broadcaster Alan Jones was hauled before the Australian Communications and Media Authority because after one incident he described New South Wales bureaucrats as "scumbags that run around preying on productive people." In response to a complaint from Get Up, one of those murky foundations associated with George Soros. the "Authority" is holding a formal investigation into whether Jones interviews too many climate-change skeptics. In another particularly disgraceful episode, commentator Andrew Bolt was hauled before the court for questioning the Aboriginality of some light-skinned Aboriginal spokespeople.

Keith Windschuttle, editor of the conservative magazine Quadrant, has written defiantly:

If this oppressive scheme is ever implemented, we would feel compelled to defend the long tradition of press freedom by engaging in civil disobedience. While ever I am editor, Quadrant would not recognize the News Media Council's authority, we would not observe its restrictions, and we would not obey its instructions, whatever the price. We hope other publishers will take a similar stand.

Poet A. D. Hope once wrote of Australia: 

The men are independent but you would not call them free…

It seems that that may be about to be tested.

Shaming a nation

On sentencing 42 year old Jacqueline Woodhouse,to 21 weeks in prison for saying stuff the state does not approve of, District  Judge Michael Snow said of the video clip, filmed by a member of the Cameron Youth, capturing Ms. Woodhouse’s words : “Anyone viewing that would feel a deep sense of shame that our fellow citizens could be subject to such behavior,” 

No Judge Snow, the deep sense of shame I feel is not on account of that video, or this unfortunate woman's words, my shame is that I share an ethnicity with a bigoted hate filled old traitor such as yourself, and so many in my nation are willing to betray those of our forefathers who fought and died for this country.

It is you Judge Snow who should hang your head in shame if you were capable of understanding the concept.   You are a willing cog in a totalitarian state which incarcerates people for thought crimes, for words, and for resisting the ethnic cleansing of their homeland, it is that which is truly shameful.

White Girl Bleed a Lot

Race Riots return to America, black on white Racial violence is on the rise with hundreds of attacks occurring in over 50 cities.  So far most of the violence has been successfully hidden by the controlled, Obama worshiping, media.

A new book from Washington Post-award winning reporter Colin Flaherty begins to tell the truth, click here for more details

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Hat Tip: Mister Fox

More of the ongoing saga .....

ringleaders Amar Hussain and Shamrez

Gang behind bars for rape of Shropshire girls 

Five men involved in raping and sexually assaulting two Shropshire teenagers have been jailed for more than 38 years.

The two Telford victims, aged 15 and 16, were abducted and lured to a dingy Birmingham flat where ringleaders Amar Hussain and Shamrez Rashid repeatedly attacked them, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

 Three further defendants were jailed having been convicted of rape and sexual assault. 

Both girls were victims of a series of sex attacks after being plied with alcohol during the 36-hour ordeal in November 2009.

NOTE:  This case happened last month, before the convictions in the Rochdale case but received very little publicity other than in the local press.   New report in the Shropshire Star

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Hat tip Runic