It is fair to say I believe every British Royal Family has made a huge contribution to society within the borders of the United Kingdom and around the world. Once that horrible, ugly little Australian (who by the way loves referring to his mother as Dame Elisabeth Murdoch) who runs Newscorp created the tabloid press in England thirty years ago, the Royal Family have become “perfect” fodder to sell his newspapers. Anything slightly salacious is blown out of proportion and for the last quarter century, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have had their dignity stripped from them and all their good work totally undermined.

The only legitimate negativity I see emanating from the present Royal Family has been three of the Queen’s four children making terrible judgments in choosing their spouses. The fact that Lady Di ended up with an Egyptian deadbeat says it all, Princess Anne’s failed marriage to a worthless commoner horseman was a total embarrassment, but the one who takes the cake is the ex missus of Prince Andrew. He certainly didn’t do his homework on that piece of work when he decided to walk her down the aisle.

I am going to give full credit to tabloid News of the World for exposing her for what she truly is; a lowlife of the first order. Unfortunately she chose to run and hide in America once the scandal broke only to receive a hero’s welcome from none other than Oprah Winfrey! The loud mouth former Duchess of York was aptly named a few years ago (until she joined Weight Watchers and became their spokesperson) the Duchess of Pork because of her size. Now she has re-earned her title in a different way; for extorting large sums of money, peddling the Duke of York as a corrupt royal, by pretending she could influence her husband over handing out commercial favors. Shame on you, you rude, crude and ugly bitch. America may accept you as great entertainment value but the British Commonwealth hold you in nothing but contempt and disgust.

Most flag carriers proudly paint their aircraft with national cultural emblems and usually the flag will prominently appear somewhere on the fuselage. Not so with British Airways; ten years ago they decided to take the flag (it didn’t really even resemble the Union Jack) of the tails and paint each aircraft individually in pop art fashion, mainly resembling the colors Willie Mandela, Nelson’s ex Missus, dressed herself up in. They should have renamed the airline as well. Ugandan International would have been appropriate. They started calling themselves BA instead of British Airways and the rest is history. When they directors of BA realized how much damage was done through loss of identity, they reverted back to their old colors and today the airline, just like BP, is also fighting for its very life as its flight attendants are taking them to the cleaners.

BP was once British Petroleum and until Margaret Thatcher’s government was 100% state owned. British Petroleum was a huge company even then but in so many ways because of its heritage it kept its competitors in check. Any dividends declared went straight into the government’s coffers. There were probably thirty large petroleum companies in the eighties all competing for the shrinking resource. The only cowboys in the business were independent “wild catters” based in Houston. Whenever they screwed up and were responsible for blow outs, along came Red Adair and his team to snuff the fires out.

When closet gay, John Brown rose to the top of British Petroleum in the early nineties, he wanted to show off his masculinity (that is until he was outed and ousted by a twenty-five-year old rent boy) by reinventing the darling of the London Stock Exchange. The first thing he did was to give it the generic name BP. He then set about colluding with Shell, Exxon and Chevron and within ten years the big four transformed what was once a very competitive global business into an oligopoly. In the States, BP purchased amongst others, Amoco and Atlantic Richfield with the result BP now controls the vast majority of crude which comes out of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. That is why apart from CEO Tony Hayward, every BP official we see on television is American. They either were employees of the old ARCO or Amoco.

As an oligopoly, successive administrations (particularly the Bush/Cheney outfit) have been bought and sold by the oil “magnates” heading the oligopoly. The result is they can do what like, where they like and how they like. The culmination to date of this new order is the disaster in the gulf. Just weeks ago President Obama was proud to declare he was behind more drilling. What a fool he looks now. And what a bunch of idiots BP executives look too. Why? Because of all the changes within BP, the company is totally bereft of either a soul or a conscience. Had BP remained as it was twenty years ago, it would be Amoco (or whoever else might have taken them over) fighting for its life. The oil oligopoly has proven to be bigger than President Obama’s administration and until we re-invoke the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and totally regulate the energy business, this disaster will pale into insignificance to what could take place into the future,

Greece with the help of Goldman Sachs “cooked the books” to gain entry into the European Union. Very early on Brussels discovered their shenanigans but political correctness dictated that it would be better to live with the lying trickery of the Greeks than to throw them out. Today Greece needs $60 billion (a drop in the bucket for America these days) to pay the piper. The Greek government is literally doing nothing about reining in its expenses and expects its E.U. partners to come to the party. By the time Brussels gets around to slapping Greece on the hand they will need another $60 billion to bail them out. The cost of government and the social programs within the European Union makes President Obama look like a miser! The most outrageous fact about the E.U. is millions of people are employed by governments with little oversight and certainly no accountability.

Example of bureaucracy gone crazy; the closing down of airspace in northern Europe, because of a little steam and ash belching from a volcano in Iceland. It seems that Great Britain and Germany were competing for the village idiot of the year award when their bureaucrats unnecessarily disrupted commerce and peoples’ lives by shutting airports across their countries. Although in the last fifty years three jet aircraft have lost power for a short time flying directly over erupting volcanoes, not one aircraft has fallen out of the sky nor has one life been lost. Everyday a near miss is recorded at busy airports around the world because of antiquated air traffic control systems.

To shut half the world down for a week and cause so much chaos when the facts were there was literally no safety issue involved whatsoever, to me demonstrates what a ridiculous world we now live in . The political leaders of Great Britain and Germany in particular are nothing but gutless wimps bowing to bureaucracies they both helped expand, when common sense should have prevailed. The shut down was absolute overkill and those morons responsible should not only be fired but also thrown behind bars for creating so much misery to so many innocent victims. I bet you dollars to donuts, nothing will happen; in fact I suggest the European Commissioners will probably create another layer of bureaucracy based in Italy to monitor the world’s volcanoes.