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A Computer That Thinks?
Again, prompted by scientists hyperbolic claims, the question of will computers ever be able to think like humans is raised. Technology nerds long for the advent artificial intelligence and the thinking computer but as usual they have not thought through the likely consequences.

Online Sceadugengan:
The faceless shawdow walkers of the internet
The Internet plays a bigger and biger role in many people's social lives but how do we know if we are communicating with real people or sceadugengan, internet shadow walkers, the faceless people to who use the anonymity the cybersphere offers to practoce deception and mendacity

So You Think You're An Anarchist

In part 2 of Anarchy For Beginners Ian Thorpe explores the origins of anarchism as a system of government and explodes the mordern myth that anarchy means lawlessness and chaos.

Since when was being a drunken slut a crime?
Yesterday we reported on a computer game that trivialises rape and sexual violence for entertainment. Today we look at a very real case of rape and violence, murder and injustice. Amanda Knox, the young American woman convicted of the Morder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy four years ago has been released on appeal along with her boyfriend who was also convicted. Another man ...

The Human Rights Act Needs To Go Says Top Conservative
Coalition government Home Secretary Theresa May, the most senior Conservative minister after David Cameron and George Osborne told the party conference in Manchester, "The Human Rights act has to go.. She said: 'Cutting immigration is what the people want.' The Border Police Command needed to be reorganised the minister said, telling her audience:

Facebook's Privacy Priacy
Once again Facebook are in trouble over their contempt for users privacy. It is quite astounding that this upstart corporation that is quite open about its ambition to control the internet does not seem to understand there are lines that cannot be crossed when it comes to broadcasting or "sharing" details of users private lives. [Totally Offensive}

Techno - creeps are getting sicker - what kid of weirdo would play The Path?
As a former information technology professional I have written many times in recent years of the sinister direction in which the entertainment side of the internet is heading. From the creepy neo - Nazi ambitions of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google semi autistic Creepy Exectutive Offices Page and Brin and the original world domination control freak Bill Gates the drive to make us "share" all ... [
Facebook Idiot ]

Gang Member Are Like Child Soldiers - IDS

by Ed Butt
3 October, 2011

Former Conservative leaders Iain Duncan Smith has tol the party conference young street gang members, who played a significan tpart in this summer's riots, are like Third World child soldiers. The statement was an obvious reference to Are We Sacrificing The Future To Save The Euro
Is it really worth sacrificing the euro to save the future as our leaders seem to believe. Or is there another agenda in which us ordinary punters were never going to have a future anyway?

Big Business Lobbying dwarfed by NGOs
It’s hard not to admire George Monbiot for publishing all his earnings. As he says, journalists often have a giving-it-out-but-not-taking-it problem. I know a columnist, for example, who often writes that Britain needs to export more weapons, but who has never, to my knowledge, divulged that he goes shooting at the expense of a prominent…

Devaluation By Degree
Most people involved in education, parents, employers and pupilds would agree that higher education is overrated. A University degree no longer guarantees career success and can even be a drawback. This satirical look at the university system highlights a few things that are wrong.

German Vote To Support Bail Out Fund Changes Nothing
Germany's Bundestag has voted overwhelmingly to boost the scope of the EU's rescue fund but implicitly capped its firepower at €440bn, leaving it no clearer whether Europe has the means to halt debt contagion to Italy and Spain. The vote in the Bundestag had been hailed as the make or break moment for the European Monetary System as sovereign debt in the weaker economies that use the Euro threatened to tear apart Zombies Economy, Zombie Nation
First there was the insane decision to cancel a loan to Sheffield Forgemasters (deferring it may have been justified, cancelling was not), then another to favour Siemens over a British consortium for the Thameslink trains contract; now comes news of 3,000 job cuts in aerospace engineering at BAE Systems, the defence contractor. The UK economy is supposed to be moving away from debt-fuelled consumption to export led growth, a formula for recovery virtually all economists and politicians agree ... [

New EU bureaucratic control freakery destroys British Jobs British Workers To Lose Jobs Under New Rules
Almost 30,000 young British workers will lose their jobs because of new European Union employment rules due to take force this week, Europe watcher report. Open Europe, a consultancy firm specialising in European regulatory compliance said the Agency Workers’ Directive (AWD) could put 28,000 young workers’ contracts at risk by making the temporary staff, employed on short term contracts, too expensive to ... []

So You Think You're An Anarchist (Anarchy for Beginners - part 2)
Anarchy as has been said in these pages before is not lawlessness but a well thought out political philosophy which rejects the kind of collectivism imposed by certral governmet hierarchies. Supporters of anarchism are not the bearded conspirators of cheap fiction but people who believe in individualism, self determination and minimal government interference in personal lives. Anarchy is the thing oligarchs fear most because it is the hardest to control... [Philo and Sophia}

Facebooks Latest Violation Of Users Privacy
The Daily Stirrer looks at Facebooks latest embarrassing climbdown after initially denying a new data mining schem covertly violates usrs privacy ... [Internet Trechnology] ... [Webupon Facebook - privacy issues]

Germany Slams American Plans For Euro Rescue
Germany and America were squaring up for a head banging contest like two rutting stags on Tuesday night after Berlin savaged plans put forward tby Timoth Geithner, arcitecht of the Obama admisitrations loonytoons spend, borow and spend economic policy, which demanded the EU boost the rescue fund set up to bail out failing Euro zone nations as a "stupid idea" and told the White House to sort out its own mess before ...

So You Think You're An Anarchist
Part two of a series Anarchism for beginners, this shows anarchy is a well thought out system of social organisation rather than the lawless chaos it is often represented as. Like most political theories it does not work in reality.

Principled Agnosticism
Principled Agnosticism, a phrase coined by UK writer Madeline Bunting offer a path between absolute faith and absolute atheism of the militant, science worshipping kind.

Trader Warns Public Their Savings Will Vanish
The Daily Stirrer said it three years ago, now Alessio Rastani, a trader in the financial markets has speculated in an interview with BBC News that Goldman Sachs rules the world rather than elected governments and that Goldman Sachs “don't care about the rescue package being negotiated to bail out Greece and save the European Single Currency (Euro)

Obama's Sidekick Makes Europe Responsible For Saving The Global Economy.
Europe, the G20, and the global authorities are drinking in the last chance saloon to deploy a cliche, as they try to come up with a plan to contain the EMU debt crisis. The must come up with a workable solution or abdicate responsibility and watch as the world slides into depression, endangering the benign but fragile order that has taken shape over the last three decades. Failure to do so will result in collapse of the system as a Greek default on it's debt

Drunken Moose Attacks Increase As Elkoholism Rises
Every year, the autmn brings news stories of drunkeness in animals as naturally fermenting fruit falls from trees and wild creatures get a taste for alcohol.

The World Braces Itself For The Crash
As the economic news unfolds and a collapse of the global economy following Greece defaulting on it’s debt and causing a disintegration of the European Monetary System I keep imagining I hear one of those haunting theme tunes to a Clint Eastwood western.

Monsanto: Black Hat Biotech and World Domination
You have probably hard claims that we need to adopt GM crops to feed the world. Chances are you only heard the side of the story told by food production corporations, their science poodles and government. While we would not spread alarmist ideas about health risks, there is a very big risk to the agriculture industry nobody talks about. Just ask Cui Bono? (Who benefits) next time you see a piece of propagandaupporting genetically modified food crop technology.

Alcohol Related Authoritarianism and Drink Related Hospials Admission
Alcohol is in line for demonisation by the politially correct thought police along with bsalt and junk food. But is booze really so bad or is it another case of massaging statistics to marginalise those who drink, as has happened with smoking.

Sudan - The forgotten war of genocide: While Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy preen and pose, soaking up the glory following the fall of Gadaffi another, more violent, conflict rages unchecked in north east Africa
The Barber Paradox - Philosophy and Sciece go head to head ... and common sense wins by a knockout

More Bad Economic News For Greece
Things just go from bad to worse for the eurozones most vulnerable economy

Old Wounds Fester As Cameron Warns Of New Crisis
The world teeters on the brink of a the economic abyss as a new crisis gathers strength like a hurricane depression formong over the mid Atlantic. The crisis, if it tuirns into an economic hurricane, to sustain the metaphor, would leave countries like Britain staring into the void, David Cameron has warned. The Prime Minister said that the failure of leaders in the US and Europe to ...

NHS Hospitals Cripped By PFI Schemes
Patient care is suffering at more than 60 NHS hospitals due to the financial press

ures imposed by PFI ( Private Finance Initiative) agreements imposted by the authoritarian Labour government Some hospital trusts are “on the brink of financial collapse” because of cost of these schemes dreamed up by Labour's loonytoons economists to help the party's biggest ...

Google's Schmidt Tells US Senators "We're Not Mocrosoft
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, giving his testimony to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee that focuses on antitrust began by recalling a ghost of the committee's past: Microsoft. Schmidt never actually mentioned its arch enemy but it is clear ...

CFLs - Another Scientific Scam
Some Truth About Compact Fluorescent Lights and the reality of claims about their efficiency.
Will Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power The Cars We Drive In The Future
With battery technology and biofuel looking increasingly unrealistic the fuel source of the future for our cars looks like being hydrogen ...

CFLs - Another Scientific Scam
Today we look at the much hyped CFLs which everyone hates. You will hate them even more when you find out its all another scientific scam.

The World's Unhappiest Children
Four years ago Britain was placed second to bottom in a UNICEF survey to measure the happiness of children from nation to nation. In the latest report published last week we were bottom. So when our children have so much materilly, what's wrong?

Policing The Ether
As a young British man is jailed for posting abusive messages on Facebook there are calls once again for the web to be regulated. But how can we regulate something so vast and nebulous? ask web apologists. Easy Peasy says Ian Thorpe with the benefit of 30 years systems experience, just don't listen to the script kiddies who say it can't be done.

Lib Dems Death By Gesture Politics
So what was the "issyoo" that got the Lib Dems excited yesterday. (Let's play the Hong Kong Fooey game here, those of you who were or had kids in the early 1980s.) Was it the debt crisis? Nope ... Was it climate change?Nope ...Was it jobs and ...

Vegemite Of Mass Destruction
Vegemite is to Australians as Marmite is the the British and guns are to Americans. Kevin Rudd, the Australian foreign minister, had to do some fast talkingh to get himself out of an unschedled trip to ...

Schools Cut History Lessons In Favour Of Multiculturalism Classes New research confirms what The Daily Stirrer has reported before, that rising numbers of secondary school pupils are receiving just two years of compulsory history lessons during secondary education instead of the recommended three because of pressure on school timetables. Where history used to be one of the spaples of education it is incrasingly being squeezed out to make room on the timetable for topics like multiculturalis, racial awareness and feminism studies. Many schools fail now to offer history as ...

Policing The Ether
Another young man is jailed for internet crimes and again we are told it would be too difficult to control the web. But would it? [ more Technology ]

New Gadgets Guaranteed To Break The Ice At Parties
The world is in trouble, over production, over consumption and over population combine to mess up the environment, the global exonomic system and the societies humans have formed. And the only solution our leaders can offer? More of the same stuff that screwed everything up ...
Mozart Exposes Another Scientific Scam
The world is in trouble, over production, over consumption and over population combine to mess up the environment, the global exonomic system and the societies humans have formed. And the only solution our leaders can offer? More of the same stuff that screwed everything up ...

Are Feminists More Evil Than Nazis A campaign by feiminists and lefties to get t shirts will slightly sexist slogans withdrawn from sale shows how authoritarian the progressive left are prepared to be in imposing their warped moral values on everybody.

Fear Of Anti Depressants Makes Patients Shun Treatment
Antidepressants are the second-most-prescribed drug in the U.S., for years doctors have been handing them out like smarties at a childrens' play group..In spite of this many people are still not prepared to tell their family doctor that they are experiencing symptoms of depression because they're afraid they will be put on ... [ ice cream and chips ]

Best New Gadgets In Nerd Heaven by Ed Butt (H/T The Independent)
Televisions you can graffiti on, video post it notes that stick on to the fridge, everything you don't need and only a cupid stunt would waste money on ... and all, if not quite under one roof then under many rooves at one exhibition. Every year, in the first days of September, Berlin is host to nerd heaven, the Internationale Funka-usstellung (IFA), said to be the world's ... [ The Aspirational ]

EU Leader Gives Germany An Ultimaturm: Act Now To Save The Euro
The president of the European Commission and leading proponent of a single global government, Jose Manuel Barroso, issued a stark warning to Germany yesterday that eurobonds could be the price of preventing a break-up of the single currency. Addressing the European Parliament, Mr Barroso said the Commission will "soon present options" for the introduction of a common European debt union ...

Is Age The 21st Century's Apartheid
Racism is the new witchcraft but as we are talking in terms of prejudices being recycled with different labels what is coming down the road to repace racial segregation?

Germany Slams American Plans For Euro Rescue
Germany and America were squaring up for a head banging contest like two rutting stags on Tuesday night after Berlin savaged plans put forward tby Timoth Geithner, arcitecht of the Obama admisitrations loonytoons spend, borow and spend economic policy, which demanded the EU boost the rescue fund set up to bail out failing Euro zone nations as a "stupid idea" and told the White House to sort out its own mess before ...

So You Think You're An Anarchist
Part two of a series Anarchism for beginners, this shows anarchy is a well thought out system of social organisation rather than the lawless chaos it is often represented as. Like most political theories it does not work in reality.

Principled Agnosticism


Principled Agnosticism, a phrase coined by UK writer Madeline Bunting offer a path between absolute faith and absolute atheism of the militant, science worshipping kind.

Trader Warns Public Their Savings Will Vanish
The Daily Stirrer said it three years ago, now Alessio Rastani, a trader in the financial markets has speculated in an interview with BBC News that Goldman Sachs rules the world rather than elected governments and that Goldman Sachs “don't care about the rescue package being negotiated to bail out Greece and save the European Single Currency (Euro)

Obama's Sidekick Makes Europe Responsible For Saving The Global Economy.
Europe, the G20, and the global authorities are drinking in the last chance saloon to deploy a cliche, as they try to come up with a plan to contain the EMU debt crisis. The must come up with a workable solution or abdicate responsibility and watch as the world slides into depression, endangering the benign but fragile order that has taken shape over the last three decades. Failure to do so will result in collapse of the system as a Greek default on it's debt

Drunken Moose Attacks Increase As Elkoholism Rises
Every year, the autmn brings news stories of drunkeness in animals as naturally fermenting fruit falls from trees and wild creatures get a taste for alcohol.

The World Braces Itself For The Crash
As the economic news unfolds and a collapse of the global economy following Greece defaulting on it’s debt and causing a disintegration of the European Monetary System I keep imagining I hear one of those haunting theme tunes to a Clint Eastwood western.

Monsanto: Black Hat Biotech and World Domination
You have probably hard claims that we need to adopt GM crops to feed the world. Chances are you only heard the side of the story told by food production corporations, their science poodles and government. While we would not spread alarmist ideas about health risks, there is a very big risk to the agriculture industry nobody talks about. Just ask Cui Bono? (Who benefits) next time you see a piece of propagandaupporting genetically modified food crop technology.

Alcohol Related Authoritarianism and Drink Related Hospials Admission
Alcohol is in line for demonisation by the politially correct thought police along with bsalt and junk food. But is booze really so bad or is it another case of massaging statistics to marginalise those who drink, as has happened with smoking.

Sudan - The forgotten war of genocide: While Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy preen and pose, soaking up the glory following the fall of Gadaffi another, more violent, conflict rages unchecked in north east Africa
The Barber Paradox - Philosophy and Sciece go head to head ... and common sense wins by a knockout

More Bad Economic News For Greece
Things just go from bad to worse for the eurozones most vulnerable economy

Old Wounds Fester As Cameron Warns Of New Crisis
The world teeters on the brink of a the economic abyss as a new crisis gathers strength like a hurricane depression formong over the mid Atlantic. The crisis, if it tuirns into an economic hurricane, to sustain the metaphor, would leave countries like Britain staring into the void, David Cameron has warned. The Prime Minister said that the failure of leaders in the US and Europe to ...

NHS Hospitals Cripped By PFI Schemes
Patient care is suffering at more than 60 NHS hospitals due to the financial press

ures imposed by PFI ( Private Finance Initiative) agreements imposted by the authoritarian Labour government Some hospital trusts are “on the brink of financial collapse” because of cost of these schemes dreamed up by Labour's loonytoons economists to help the party's biggest ...

Google's Schmidt Tells US Senators "We're Not Mocrosoft
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, giving his testimony to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee that focuses on antitrust began by recalling a ghost of the committee's past: Microsoft. Schmidt never actually mentioned its arch enemy but it is clear ...

CFLs - Another Scientific Scam
Some Truth About Compact Fluorescent Lights and the reality of claims about their efficiency.
Will Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power The Cars We Drive In The Future
With battery technology and biofuel looking increasingly unrealistic the fuel source of the future for our cars looks like being hydrogen ...

CFLs - Another Scientific Scam
Today we look at the much hyped CFLs which everyone hates. You will hate them even more when you find out its all another scientific scam.

The World's Unhappiest Children
Four years ago Britain was placed second to bottom in a UNICEF survey to measure the happiness of children from nation to nation. In the latest report published last week we were bottom. So when our children have so much materilly, what's wrong?

Policing The Ether
As a young British man is jailed for posting abusive messages on Facebook there are calls once again for the web to be regulated. But how can we regulate something so vast and nebulous? ask web apologists. Easy Peasy says Ian Thorpe with the benefit of 30 years systems experience, just don't listen to the script kiddies who say it can't be done.

Lib Dems Death By Gesture Politics
So what was the "issyoo" that got the Lib Dems excited yesterday. (Let's play the Hong Kong Fooey game here, those of you who were or had kids in the early 1980s.) Was it the debt crisis? Nope ... Was it climate change?Nope ...Was it jobs and ...

Vegemite Of Mass Destruction
Vegemite is to Australians as Marmite is the the British and guns are to Americans. Kevin Rudd, the Australian foreign minister, had to do some fast talkingh to get himself out of an unschedled trip to ...

Schools Cut History Lessons In Favour Of Multiculturalism Classes New research confirms what The Daily Stirrer has reported before, that rising numbers of secondary school pupils are receiving just two years of compulsory history lessons during secondary education instead of the recommended three because of pressure on school timetables. Where history used to be one of the spaples of education it is incrasingly being squeezed out to make room on the timetable for topics like multiculturalis, racial awareness and feminism studies. Many schools fail now to offer history as ...

New Gadgets Guaranteed To Break The Ice At Parties
The world is in trouble, over production, over consumption and over population combine to mess up the environment, the global exonomic system and the societies humans have formed. And the only solution our leaders can offer? More of the same stuff that screwed everything up ...
Are Feminists More Evil Than Nazis A campaign by feiminists and lefties to get t shirts will slightly sexist slogans withdrawn from sale shows how authoritarian the progressive left are prepared to be in imposing their warped moral values on everybody.

Fear Of Anti Depressants Makes Patients Shun Treatment
Antidepressants are the second-most-prescribed drug in the U.S., for years doctors have been handing them out like smarties at a childrens' play group..In spite of this many people are still not prepared to tell their family doctor that they are experiencing symptoms of depression because they're afraid they will be put on ... [ ice cream and chips ]

Best New Gadgets In Nerd Heaven by Ed Butt (H/T The Independent)
Televisions you can graffiti on, video post it notes that stick on to the fridge, everything you don't need and only a cupid stunt would waste money on ... and all, if not quite under one roof then under many rooves at one exhibition. Every year, in the first days of September, Berlin is host to nerd heaven, the Internationale Funka-usstellung (IFA), said to be the world's ... [ The Aspirational ]

EU Leader Gives Germany An Ultimaturm: Act Now To Save The Euro
The president of the European Commission and leading proponent of a single global government, Jose Manuel Barroso, issued a stark warning to Germany yesterday that eurobonds could be the price of preventing a break-up of the single currency. Addressing the European Parliament, Mr Barroso said the Commission will "soon present options" for the introduction of a common European debt union ...

Is Age The 21st Century's Apartheid
Racism is the new witchcraft but as we are talking in terms of prejudices being recycled with different labels what is coming down the road to repace racial segregation?

Tapping The Admiral
A national hero, a sex scandal, infidelity, social climing, hypocrisy snobbery, a war and some horrid history. What more could a reader ask for? This story of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton will raise eyebrows. The details of Horatio and Emma’s love affair are not wholly ...

EU Leaders In Denial As World Prepares For Greek Default
We are approaching end-game. Greece is supposed to pay off its next tranche of debts on 17 October, and the markets are now expecting what this blog has long predicted: a large-scale ...

UK Jobless Hits Two Year High
How many times have all of us here at the Daily Stirrer warned that high unemployment and long term joblessness are the inevitable consequences of economic policies that kill jobs by exporting work to low labour cost areas, encourage automation of sales and admin and reward firms for killing jobs by ...

An Appreciation Of Project Gutenberg Founder Michael S Hart The internet and the myths and culture that have grown up around it have created many billionaires, most of them highly underserving of success as their products did not live up to the hype. Sad then to har of the death on an internet pioneer who was not in it for the money

9/11 Conspiracy Theories Not So Irrational As Conspiracy Deniers Would Have You Believe The anniversary of the Al Qaeda attack on New York's World Trade Centre brought to the forefront of bloggers' attention the conspiracy theories that emerged in the wake of the day's events. Were the cospiracy theories as crazy as was suggested by those to like to style themselves as rational and ...

No Politician, Not Even The Obamessiah With A Wave Of His Magic Penis, Can Create Jobs By Spending Money
Barack Obama's plan to save is catastrophically failed Presidency from descending nto farce in the remaining eighteen monts before he must face the judgement of the electors involves another $$$ three quarters of a trillion spending spree in which, we must assume from the tone of his latest speech, money will again be lavished on ...

Miracle Day Or Miracle Century
As well as being gloriously entertaining sci - fi hokum the latest Torchwood series, Miracle Day raises some very signifgicant questions about where human civilisation is heading.

It's Dunken Moose Season AgainIn this story of a drunken moose stuck in an apple tree causes us to think back to all the drunken animals we have reported over the years.

Nurses Need To Speak English
At last somebody whose voice will be heard has spoken out against the policy of the Politically Correct Though Police that deems it ...

Waiting To See The Cuddly Side Of Big Business
Business leaders love to tell us they are nice people who care about third world poverty and are kind to small furry animals. but the rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer ...

Germany And Holland Push Greece To The Brink
As we predicted last week elected representatives of the people of Germany and Holland have promised they will block further bail out payments to keep Greece's stricken economy afloat unless the basket case country complies to the letter with the terms of austerity conditions imposed on them. As the spendthrift Greek government does not understand the meaning of phrases like fiscal controls, this latest setback for ...

Climate Change - The Edge Of The Abyss
Media and government reports still say we are staring into the abyss because carbon emissions are too high. But have they ever though we would have to shut down all economic activity in the developed world to change things.

Tripoli Breakdown Of Law And Order
It is typical of the dumbing down in democratic societies that The Daily Stirrer's opposition to NATO intervention in support of the uprising against Libyan tyrant Colonel "Mad Dog" Gadaffi was seen by many as support for the despot and his brutal regime. Far from it, the three of us who created this opinion and comment blog are old guys who have all been

How To Win At Politics The Machiavelli Way
500 years after his death has Niccollo Machiavelli really anything to teach our limp wristed, politically correct modern politicians? Yeah, when it comes to getting things done, plenty.

How To Look Good Naked Gok Wan Outed
Normally the slightest glimpse of the unber-irritant Gok Wan makes me turn into my hero Father Jack from Father Ted and throw something at my TV set as I yell, "Feck, who put that ...

Salt Health Risk - A Pinch Of Doubt
Remember we were told "ythe science is settled" on climate change and carbon dioxide - only it wasn't. Well here's another scientific scam. You know how we are always hearimg how salt in our diet is a major health risk? Well how come we never hear of the food scientists whose studies show it isn't. Here's how another science scam was pulled on us.

When You Gaze Into The Abyss ... When you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you, so goes Freidreich Nietzsche's famous one liner.

According to most economic pundits not in the pay of governments and big financial institutions or those who spend their lives cocooned in academic institutions, safe from the intrusion of reality we are gazing into ...

Tax Amnesties Turn HM Revenue and Customs Into A Money Laundering Operation
Having been a self employed consultant for many years I am very aware of the self defeating idiocies of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs or The Inland Revenue as they used to be known. For thirty years these paper clip chaim making nobodies in cheap suits have waged war on British business and enterprise. Now it seems instead of helping small businesses and startups cope with the ...

The End Of The World - Part 3
European Banks Face Collapse As Eurozone Crisis Triggers New Slump In Markets
Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, warned yesterday that "numerous" European banks and financial instiyutions would collapse if they were ...

The Great Arctic Oil Rush The melting of the Arctic ice caused by the climate warming, ocean currents shifting or whatever, makes it possible to expore for and exploit oil reserves in the arctic polsar region. With wind and solar energy falling waaaaay short of expectations as replacements for fossil fuel and demand for energy increasing you can understand why as exploration permits become available exploration companies and oil giants alike are piling in hoping to fill their boots. In July 2008, the US Geological Survey released the first ever publicly available estimate of the oil ...

Goodbye To The Mad Dog - Maybe Not
A heavily armoured column was seen crossing the border out of Libya into Niger. Has Gadaffi fled for good. Are the troops a force led by Gadaffi's son whih which he plans to fight a guerilla campaign or are they just mercanaries getting the hell out before thay are captured and shot?

Stock Markets Crash - We Got It , we were'nt pessimistic enough

It is not often The Daily Stirrer has to say "We got it wrong," we are much more likely to be telling you "We told you so." Last week however we predicted that the final collapse of the FUBAR global economy would beging in abou four to six weeks. We wwerre horribly wrong. It has started ...

Gadaffi's High Noon Will Be The Batle For His Hometown
Libya's transitional leaders believe hundreds of their supporters have been gunned down in Colonel Gaddafi's home town of Sirte by desperate regime loyalists, even as they try to negotiate its surrender. A more reasonable interpretation of the story reported by ...

Global Markets Crash The latest figures announced by the US Government show the American economy added no net new jobs in August, according to the key non-farm payrolls figures from the Department of Labor. The August number was much worse than had been expected - the predicted figure was an addition of about 70,000 new jobs. Overall unemployment remained ...

Atlantis: Lost Civilization, Myth Or Legend
One of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world is the lost continent / islan / civilization of Atlantis. Did it ever really exist?

More Americans Are Calling Long Stay Motels Their Home
A long way from the glossy world of Wisteria Avenue, where the Desperate Housewives lived their lives, beyond the deperation of the 'projects' (U.S. equivalents of our sink estates) featured in The Wire, further on from the glossy image America likes to present to the world than even the trailer parks featured in so many gritty novels and post modern fiml - noir movies there lies the shadow world of ...

World powers hail 'new Libya' at Axis Of Hypocrisy summit Avoiding 'another Iraq' - a descent into civil war - was the unspoken purpose of the Paris meeting according to the communique issued to thw world's press.

The Daily Stirrer loves that phrase "Avoid a descent into civil war." Typical of the vainglorious solipsists ho style themselves world leaders. Have they not herard there is alread a civil war going on? The press release went on "Sixty countries showered blessings on the birth of ...

Are Potatoes Natural Prozac
Depressed? Try Potato Instead Of Prozac. Sdome say they can work as well to balance serotonin levels as prescribed medication and have no side effects. Needless to say treating depression naturally is not as simple as stuffing yourself with mashed spuds. Moderation is the best way to balance amino acids and insulin levels

Don't Google It
Are we becoming too reliant on computers and the internet and what is the point of having at our fingertips so much poor quality information?

Tobacco Giant's War On Science
A giant in the tobacco industry is trying to force a Scottish University to hand over confidential information about British teenagers' smoking habits. Philip Morris International, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is using the Freedom Of Information act to force Sterling university to reveal full details of its research involving confidential interviews with thousands of children aged between 11 and 16 about their attitudes towards smoking.

Death of the Ice Cream VanThat venerable tradition of the English Summer, Ice Cream Vans have been sentenced to death by bureaucracy

Polypill
Probably the health fascists worst idea yet, the polypill plan involves prescribing for everybody over 50 a pill containing hear and circulatory system drugs including one to thin the blood (pollibly fatal if someone has a haemorrhage, and statins - the notorious anto obesity drugs the best know side effect of which is arse dribble.

Germany Rebels against Euro zone bailouts
German taxpayers have rebelled against bail outs for basket case nations. Will Frau Merkel dump the Euro or will her government coalition fall? "

What Actually Happened Before Big Bang
A look at what we actually know about the origins of the universe rather than the theory and mathematical speculation those whose have made a religion of science claim is proof. [ clear night - metaphysical love ]

The Curse Has Come Upon Me Cried The Lady Of Threadneedle Street Has the Lady Of Threadneedle Street cried 'The Curse Is Come Upon Me?'Economic news suggests the debt crisis in the western nations means the economy of the developed world is FUBAR.

Google Chief Slams British School System
Google chief Schmidt slams British schools but as Gogle trades in stupidity is he talking through his arse. America is simply better at importing Indian and Japanese nerds than Britain. After The Crusade Against Carbon Dioxide, The Jihad Against Junk Food
by Ian Thorpe in Issues, August 28, 2011Governments seem to be very keen to go to war these days – especially against us, the people who elected them. We have had the war on smoking, the war on carbon dioxide, the war on anti social behaviour and the war on drugs. The war on alcohol is in full swing, now they are talking about a war on obesity. And what is the purpose of these wars? An excuse to raise taxes of course. A fat tax is one of the poroposals being considered.

Milgram Goes Modern
Revisiting the notorious Milgram experiment carried out 50 years ago which revealed the propensity of most humans to behave like fascist thus in order to appeas those in authority.

Google Chief Slams British School System Schmidt told his audience at the Edinburgh Television Festival where he was giving the keynote MacTaggart lecture, Britain is "throwing away its computer heritage" by allowing humanities to dominate in schools at the expense of science, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, has claimed.
Mr Schmidt, who has a degree in ...

Pigs Will Fly A polemic in my strongly but irregularly rhymed monologues style. A rant against the control freakery of scientists and the science community.

New EU Jobs Law Will Derail The UK's Recovery
Often predicted, never seen, Britain’s economic recovery will be hindered by new European employment laws granting full employment rights to temporary stasff will cost British companies almost £2?billion a year, business leaders have warned. Business Secretary in the coalition cabinet and senior Liberal Democrat Vince Cable has agreed to a controversial European directive to give agency workers the same rights as full-time employees of ...

Alcohol Related Hogwash
The latest in the campaign to demonise drink by misrepresenting the number of alcohol related hospital admissions.

Brit Speak - the battle for our language
Americans get quite tetchy when pompous Brits accuse them of mutilating the language, so it’s understandable that we are a tad impatient when an American starts to criticise our slang and colloquial expressions.

Did You See That?
UFO sightings and cryptozoology are two topic that fascinate me though I neither believe nor disbelieve in either. Like those University departments decicated to investigating the paranormal, I am more interested in why so many perfectly rational, level headed, intelligent people have ...

Supermarkets To Offer Love For Sale - With Loyalty Points Sex workers in supermarkets, red light areas in the mall. Why not, it's the only area of business the corporate retail gians have not taken over yet.

Bog ButterArchaeologists claims to have discovered ancient food still preserved in an edible state after 1000 years in a peat bog may be misplaced. Boggart Blog's Ian Thorpe and Fatsally believe their Dear Old Mum might have has something to do with it.

Anarchy In The UK - and elsewhere.
An outbreak of rioting, violence and looting in Britain's inner city communities in August 2011 was described by the media as anarchy. But to dismiss what was simple criminality as anarchy disrespects a well thought our political philosophy. In the real world anarchism would be unworkable as a system of government but the ideas it offers us are a powerful antidote to the control freakery of the political and corporate establishment.

IBM Develop Computer Chips To Replicate The Human Brain
Todays main story deals with an old chestnut that resurfaces ever two or three years. Some scientists dream of creating life in a test tube or growing human clones for spare parts. Others dream of using drugs or chip implants to turn us into unthinking automatons. And still more want to build machines that think like us and have human senses ...

Silent Radio, A New Entertinment Concept
There is nothing new under the sun but technological overkill demands people keep trying to come up with new ideas. Which is exactly what one inexperienced presenter did while broadcasting a show about paranormal activity from a medieval castle.

Never Let Me Go - movie review
Pupils at the exclusive boarding school named Halsham seem to be rather quiet and subdued at an age when we would expect young people to be far more boisterous. When we learn the school's terrible secret we understand why.

Eurobonds: Politicians See The Light It looks as if somebody has at last shone a light bright enough to illuminate the global government scam that is behind the european single currency eurozone debt crisis

Oh Brave New World While the social breakdowns observed in the west in recent decades and the increasing separation of the wealthy and the academic and professional elites from the great mass of people are most often compared to the Big Brother regime and the system of oligarchic collectivism portrayed in Orwell's novel 1984, there are further, equally sinister parallels to be found with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, another prophetic fiction foretelling a dystopian society under a disengaged, authoritarian regime.
">World Bank Chief Warns Golbal Economy Is Entering A New Danger Zone
World Bank chief Robert Zoellick on Saturday warned of a "new and more dangerous" time in the global economy, as Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURTRUSD - news) struggles to resolve its debt crisis.
Zoellick said the eurozone's sovereign debt issues were more troubling than ...

The Thought Police Are Coming To A Town Near You
America's two centres of progressive liberal politically correct thinking, New York and California seem to be having a contest to pass the crziest, most repressive laws. Recently California gave goldfish civil right, in a retaliatory move New York is arresting people for eating do - nuts. Well, for what they might be thinking while eating do - nuts.

Concensus on the causes of last week's riots
I saw a revealing post on The Liberal Conspiracy blog, the web home of UK neo Nazi leftie fuckwits, which summarises what comment writers in the press think are to blame for the recent riots. It's an interesting list, obviously it was posted with the intention of winding up Liberal Conspiracy's following of leftie dopeheads, cokeheads, crackheads, dickheads and fuckwits for their daily ...

Eurogeddon Postponed Termporarily Due To Financal Conjuring Tricks
The Daily Stirrer brings you opinion and comment on issues in the news that are likely to affect the lives of ordinary people. We therefore focus on economic matters, prices and inflation, jobs and unemployment, health, diet, education and social comment. Our contributors are old gits who are prepared to say what everybody is thinking.
Below our finance expert John de Roe analyses the latest bureaucratic scam that claims to have saved the European single currency but in reality is only another attempt to scam German taxpayers.
The Real Cause Of The Riots: Moral deficiency led by politically correct thinking. Oh so very predictably the left were quick to try to blame 'poverty' for the outbreak of rioting, arson, violence and general lawlessness that has soiled our British summer. Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman aka Little Hattie Harperson even tried to claim the trouble was triggered by the coalition governments decision to increase university tuition fees. That is daft even by Hattie's usual impeccable standard of stupidity.

Climate Scientists versus Free Speech and Freedom Of Information This week four groups, whose boards represent a distinctly liberal world view and who oppose scrutiny of taxpayer-funded science by academics, asked the University of Virginia to disregard its agreement before the court with American Tradition Institute to provide the records of former climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, which belong to the public. The groups, led by the far-left Union of ....

Riots Expose The Intellectual Bankruptcy Of The Left
The rioting in London and other UK cities in Agust 2011 and the attempts of left wing politicians to pass it off as poliyically inspired protest when it is in fact pure criminality has exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of that politicallt fringe group that likes to style itself the Progressive Left or Progressive Liberals. In fact there is nothing at all progressive about them and the left they claim is the authoritarian left of Stalin and Mao Tse Tung ...

Sick Society Or Sick System David Cameron today blamed the rioting and looting that has spread around the country over the past few days on 'a sick society.' The Daily Stirrer's View is there is little wrong with 'society that a couple of aspirins and a day off would not put right. The sickness lies in the system by which our lives are governed ... and by this we do not mean Parliament and the government. The whole system is sick from the top, the cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and Captains of Thievery Industry and business, down to the jobsworths who are too eager to enforce petty and pointless regulations and far too reluctant to ...
Brother Bastion
Nothing for followers of our posts today but we have the latest addition to our stable coming online in the shape of Brother Bastion, the first music act in our stable and well worth checking out if you like rock / blues / modern folk.

Wonderful, wonderful Schadenfreude
To be honest I was pissed off about the rioting, if there is one thing it's had to find any amusement in, it is people losing their homes, possessions and even being physically injured.
Then a former colleague, another northerner who spent a lot of ...

Getting Started With Existentialism
In our section on philosophy existentialism had to be a major focal points. The world is constantly being defrauded by false prophets and self styled messiahs with promises of deliverance from the constant dangers and uncertainties of life. Established religion, faith and belief systems such as Christianity, Islam and Judaeism and systems of thought like Hindu and Buddhist philosophies at least offer the comfort of belonging and the refuge of ritual while the new crypto-religions of science and psychology arrogantly claim infallibility while failing to deliver on all fronts. Existentialism however is the philosophy of personal responsibility.

US Debt Downgraded
by John de Roe
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News that ratings asgency Standard and Poors had downgraded America's credit rating because of presistent budget and sovereign debt promlems came as a shock to finance markets but not to the wise old heads of The Daily Stirrer.

Atomic Girl and an adventure in particle physics
The quest for the meaning of life has always been futile but science and scientists are familiar with futile and pointless. Now that quest has trnsferred from the realm of metaphysics to sub atomic physics however it is even more futile. What is the point spending 'shiploads' of money trying to find something when you don't know what that thing is or even if it exists, how would anyone ever know they had found it if they had?

Ever Changing Ocean
The scientists warn us climate change will cause massive extinctions, species will be destroyed, nations will die, the oceans will swamp huge areas of land as sea levels rise and lots of scaremongering stuff like that. But life in the seas has survived much worse catastrophes, much more violent changes than anything we puny humand can conjure up. It is a measure of the arrogance of humans in general and scientists in particular to imagine we puny humans could destroy the planet.also availabe HERE

The Two Minutes Hate
The debating style of the 'progressive left' or 'progressive liberals' as they style themselves inthe United States increasingly reminds me of an Orwellian Two Minutes Hate session ...

The Transparency Of British Gas
After many complaints the utilities regulators have told energy companies they must be more transparent about how their prices are formulated. If this criticism includes my gas supplier I think it is totally unfair. Those theiving scumbags extremely nice people at British Gas wrote me a very polite letter explaining that they must put up my gas prices by ...

American Debt Talks Collapse
The Daily Stirrer is not a racist website but neither do we practice reverse racism, trying to show we are not racist by elevating other races above our own. Therefore we can be objective. We have always said Barack Obama was an idiot, and economic illiterate and a ...

The Eurozone Financial Crisis Made Simple
Completely predictably the leaders of Eurozone's solvent nations have cobbled together a deal to save the beleaguered Greek economy from defaulting on its debts. Predicable because firstly if Greece had been allowed to default and quietly leave the single currency scheme as it should have been, then Ireland, Portugal and probably Italy, Spain and Belgium would have followed in Creating Wealth
Politicians talk about encouraging entrepreneurs to create wealth,provide jobs and revitalise zombie economies. But entrepreneurs do not create wealh, they move money and goods around. Only the banks and the finance industry can create the wealth that drives the economy. Bankers do this by using asset values as collaterlal for loans. Learn how the system works and how it failed ....

What''s All The Fuss About
Heavy day's telly watching Mr. Murdoch trying out his Uriah Heap impersonation and also being attacked by an interloper armed with a custard pie! Well done that man! The saner, or perhaps more cynical, amongst us do wonder what all the fuss is about. If anybody thinks private detectives, journalists and police officers, to name ...

Kissing The Blarney Stone Goodbye I watched the final of The Apprentice last night. So glad Tom won, he seemed like the only one who didn't have their head so far up their own arse they were actually licking their tonsils. Helen was just too intense, I liked little Susie, but she was so naive, yet still full of herself and as for ...

Monty Python Joins Government's Lifestyle Police
For people expecting a little sanity in government, the coalition have been a great disappointment. For those of us who appreciate the absurdity of the human condition the ConDemnation government go from strength to strength ... read all

At Last! A Politician Gets It. Well Done Nick Clegg


The Liberal Democrats leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said he is concerned the crisis in the eurozone could spread to Britain and have a “direct impact” on jobs. It is so good to see that at least one politician is not obsessing about read full post
Nick Clegg Fears Economic Crisis

Gary Trotter and the Portal Of Pleasure
A bit more whimsical weekend fun. To celebrate the opening of the final Harry Potter film Greenteeth Multi Media invites you to enjoy our alternative boy wizard's adventures. Seven bit sized chapters
Chapter 1 - Gary Trotter and his Magic Wand ... Chapter 2 - Gary Trotter and the Chamber of Privacy ... Chapter 3 - Gary Trotter and The Forest of Secrets ... Chapter 4 - Gary Trotter and the Delta of Venus ... Chapter 5 - Gary Trotter and the Spirit of the Shower ... Chaper 6 - Gary Trotter and the Portal of Pleasure ... Chapter 7 - Gary Trotter - The Phoenix Rises, Again and Again

Apprentices
As we wait with stifled yawn the finale of this year's The Apprentice series, for a different perspective on the contestants cheack out this comic verse by In Thorpe.

News International Phone Hacking Scandal Spreads To USA With the irresistible energy of a Tsunami, the phone hacking scandal which has already swamped News International's best selling British tabloid, derailed plans to gram a bigger stake in television broadcasting and internet service provision and is now threatening ...

No Drama Obama blows a fuse

"I'se de President an' dem whitey all goan do what I say." Barack Hussein Obama stormed before walking out of a meeting with Republican congressional leaders on deficit reduction, telling them "enough was enough". (Well he didn't actually say those words, but close)

I has to be said the Obama's ghetto black act is still in need of a lot of work, being more Stepin Fechit than Richard Pryor but as an example of politics by throwing toys out of the pram it was ...more in Politics

Boggart Blog - July 2011
Boggart Blog Central has moved to our UK site, check out all July posts in the UK's top humour and satire blog here.

Stock Markets Panic As Italy Debt Problems Mount Stock markets experienced a second day of massive falls on Tuesday as Italy, the biggest economy yet to be dragged into the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis struggled to avoid being forced to default on its debts. Elsewhere, the first nation to see its economy collapse, Greece, moved closer to default. It give us no pleasure to reminnd you The Daily Stirrer has for two years predicted ...

The Roots Of The American Economic Crisis
John de Roe analyses the American economic crisis, the credit crunch and the collapse of the sub prime mortgage markey and looks at how the American government's efforts to solve the crisis and avoid a recession may affect the global economy ...

Climate Change and the Population Explosion
In all the debates about climate change and the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the environment there is one issue that has a huge bearing on humanity's relationship with our planet that neither politicians nor scientists will discuss. Population growth. So a philosopher has to step up to the mark and ask why people are encouraged to have children when we face so many population related problems?

The Truth About Conspiracy TheoriesClimate change, the World Trade centre, Obama's elegibility saga, GM crops, Enron, The News of the World hacking affair, Toxic debt andthe financial meltdown of 2008, The death of Princess Diana; conspiracy theories are everywhere. Many people claiming to be rationalists rubbish them but are there really no grounds at all for suispicion.

Theosophy For Beginners
With orthodox science and mainstream religion having failed to provide the answers to the great questions of life promised by both, people are looking elsewhere. No surprise then the nineteenth century belief Theosophy is attracting renewed interest from those seeking insigh into divine wisdom, the nature of god, moral philosophy and an understanding of our universe

String Theory Unravelled
We have seen ample evidence of science being turned into a religion in the climate change / global warming debate. There are other areas of scientific study in the academic world where the same religiosity is holding back progress, theoretical physics, nuclear physics and string theory are prominent among them.

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