Hallucinogenic drug-addled cockroaches. That's what President 'Colonel' Gadaffi called those who have risen up against his regime in Libya, also "terrorists...rats...mercenaries". He claimed to have not even yet begun reppressing the protests, which is particularly ominous given that hundreds are probably already dead. Maybe more....there have been reports of military aircraft attacking civilians, though I was glad to see 2 Libyan pilots defecting to Malta in their Mirage jets. What must it be like being attacked by jet fighters? I can't imagine how frightening that must be.
It's been truly inspiring to see the bravery of those, probably mostly younger than me, who have brought about what is being called the 'Arab Spring'. Things are on the change and we're all going to feel it. Particularly if this unrest spreads throughout mainland Arabia as it is threatening to do. Why should it stop there? Maybe courage really is contagious. We might not need my Revolutionary Army after all. That's good for me! I can spend more time out of my brain! Wow I went on a spree this weekend and it was fun. No regrets cos I'm a total cockroach!
Meanwhile:
Elagalabus, manifested as bat-winged jet-black fairy of indeterminate gender, and Kanishka ,manifested as a Yurble (as usual), held a war council over the weekend to assess current events in an area of the world they both have had some influence upon. It is not known what they decided but we suspect they've already both got agents within the new political entities that are forming in the emerging democracies and will attempt to influence the activities of these comparatively naive political actors in order to accelarate the rate at which global power falls into their evil hands presumably so they can divide the world up between them.
It has been suggested that both Kanishka and Elagalabus are both the same entity or at least have collaborated closely in turning history's wheel; as far as we know Elagalabus disappears from Syria around the time that Kanishka's tribe begin moving west into what is now Afghanistan, though something that closely resembles part of Elagalabus is known to be at a location of great significance to one of the current in-play religions. Kanishka, on the other hand was somehow safely stored in one of the giant Buddhas on the silk road until it was destroyed by the Taliban in the 1990s, coveniently just as the world-wide web was taking off. Did he have the operation to free him planned more than 1700 years before? Or did Elagalabus manipulate the Islamic fundamentalists into freeing the Kushan God-King when it became possible to electronically re-incarnate him? The storage device was reported to have been a heavy black cuboid (like you-know-who)and no trace of it has emerged, except probably untrue rumours that the Americans are holding it at Begram airbase. Even if this is true, it's too late. He's in the web and he's probably reading this now, laughing like Anthony Head in Bleak Expectations.
I've tried sending an SOS beyond the invisible-dimensional-horizon but I doubt anything's getting through. By the look of it all the information just ends up being sucked into the Michael Ballsphere and sung in alternate lines of big show numbers by John Barrymon. Nobody ever notices. He's that fabulous.
Please help us!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Winkieliks
You can say what you like about Wikileaks but there sure is some interesting stuff there. The war logs all go over my head a bit I'll admit but the Cable viewer has been fascinating. I certainly wouldn't know about the eccentric President of Eritrea's woodwork habit. He is meant to have that in common with more than 1 of the Roman Emperors. Why not?
This latest one here concerns Iran and the strategies being developed by the United States to address the issue of its nuclear programme.
http://wl.opsec.eu/cable/2009/01/09LONDON207.html
It's off a mirror-site that's been constantly reliable.
" XXXXXXXXXXXX claimed the proximity of nuclear-armed Pakistan, a potentially radicalized and hostile Sunni state, looms even larger than the U.S. in Iranian calculations, and draws much expert-level planning attention in Tehran's think-tanks and ministries. "
Well I expect they have a lot to think about. Wow!
It'd be fascinating to find out who xxxxxxxxxxx is. He makes a lovely analogy about a carpet seller and his customer. I've always admired that aspect of Iranian culture, the carpets and the rugs and the way they're sold. Perhaps it's the entire islamic world? Possibly. Maybe it was a process that evolved in Mesopotamia all those years ago.
I was played some grotty anti-islam rant from some opiniated podcast nobody last night. He made all sorts of claims, most of which just arn't true. He claims to be a rationalist but was almost spitting his hatred. We're all being pressed now and it squeezes the bad stuff out of us more.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Happy Nirvana Day!
" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things obviously.
But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of lonelyness can be cured "
KURT VONNEGUT (Jr)
It turned up on http://escapepod.org/ . They (Mur Lafferty, Steve Eley or Norm Sherman) always ask you to blog about it or donate. Well I'll be able to be donater one of these days so this'll have to do. The stories are always worth listening to mostly nice, not always. The genre of the SF short story is in very good shape and I could fill blogspot with names of current writers I like. Having things read to you for free is the best thing on the internet. Social networking has killed the letter and internet porn is fueling an arms race of sexual deviancy. You know what I'm talking about.
Anyway let's get communities together with an immediate street party (now!) to celebrate the demise of The Streets. Apparently Mike Skinner says it's all over apart from some shite with those Grauniad twats. Hip Hip Hooray! That talentless peice of crap just annoyed the crap of me ever since he turned up. It must have been around the time that awful thing happened in New York and those wars started. Oh God what a waste. All that suffering. Mike Skinner really is a cunt. Whatever happened to Kosheen who turned up around the same time? I really liked them or her or whoever it was and yet they were all over in a blink of an eye while Skinnewr just chanted on like a derranged lone football supporter for years and years. Sometimes the planet Earth seems like a giant machine built to kick me in the face again and again. However tonight I'm wagging my tail and whooping at the moon because The Streets are over!
Happy ~Nirvana Day everyone! Hope you all get home.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Pollitt's dream
Around the houses today...
Let's start off with Estonia: Today I discovered that Koos ala goop a goop translated into Estonian means 'a site with goop goop'. Good eh? Estonia was, of course, part of the old Soviet Union along with this here stamp:
It's a little small but then it is a stamp. It's picture of Harry Pollitt who was the General Secretary of the British Communist Party from 1929-1956. There's a plaque dedicated to him on the door of Droylsden library where I went today and got out some nice books. They always sell a few old books there and I managed to get a copy of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' for 25p which I'm not sure old Harry Pollitt would appreciate. He's actually mentioned in a book I borrowed from there once (though he's probably in loads in the local section) which was 'Mao: The Unknown Story' by
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. That's not too pro-Communism either but having Pollitt on the door should reminds us that these books are available for me and all my fellow citizens thanks to the collective ownership of them. Under a purely capitalist system I might not be able to afford to buy and keep 'Mao: The Unknown Story' so I might not find out how bad Communism was. Unless of course some kindly rich philanphropist scumbag takes pity on his lessers and indulges us with gift of a library, if he feels like it.
It's no surprise Librarys are dissappearing at a rapid rate from the face of England during a Conservative Government. Council leaders have critisised the pro-libary campaigners like Philip Pullman and Mark Haddon saying that keeping Libraries would mean having to squeeze further services for vulnerable in the community. The elderly and the mentally ill etc. It really shouldn't be either one or the other. Not in a civilisation. Well a decent one anyway. Like lots of other fiscal-tightening related issues at the moment, you have wonder what happened to our society. It is a bummer paying taxes, no 2 ways about it, but in terms of a stable, healthy, prosperous and optimistic society, I really believe you get back more than you put in. I'll admit you need to constantly be vigilant against creating vast inefficient bureaucracys but it's still less of a risk than letting services get done on the cheap. A good example is the superbug scare of a few years ago that highlighted the lowering of standards in hospital cleaning thanks to the hiving off to the private sector of that area of the NHS. Not that publicly-run services are immune to corner-cutting and corruption but at least you know who's supposed to be in charge. The chain always leads back to an elected official rather than a faceless conglomerate. It's not like this is a terribly poor country either. It's just that the population generally thinks it's more important to spend their resources on toys like the endless mobiles phones and giant motor cars and all sorts of lifestyle crap to help them forget whatever boredom or fear or discontent rules their short short lives. Instead of investing our surplas back into society it's given to tax-dodging scandinavian technology firms, pissed against walls, burned away in adrenalin-generating pollution machines or shoved up our noses as powder. It's turned into plastic dolls of Doctor Who from a factory in China or given to owners of French Nuclear power plants so I can sit and type this. It's frittered away on individual distractrion instead of creating collective dignity.
I see our Prime Minister Mr Cameron has today informed that multi-culturalism hasn't worked. How chilling is that? Personally I think it's working out ok. I like the idea of being in a country where an Algerian is free to act like an Algerian or an eskimo is free to act like an Eskimo. Heaven help them becoming like nothing more than tanned or bleached versions of normal British people. There's plenty of them already. It's not like they're under any threat, no matter what shady Stephen Lennon thinks. We have laws for everyone who lives in this country and people of every community break them , including me sometimes. Honestly! A couple of angry, unhinged Muslims blow themselves up 6 years ago and now that means diversity is some kind of problem. Perhaps like the poor old libraries, multi-culturalism isn't generating enough profit for Cameron and Clegg and all those posh fucks in slick suits down there in that London. Maybe Harry Pollitt was on to something after all.
As I've said before our individual perspectives cannot comprehend what's happened on this planet and what is continuing to happen. Perhaps it's one of those great paradoxes that while as individuals we're capitalistic and playing out our own little versions of game theory, on a epoch-civilisation scale we're actually something more socialistic, gradually marching this thing called HUMANITY, hopefully this thing called ORGANIC LIFE into a future of both unity, diversity and most of all possibility. Harry Pollitt's dream. Goop goop.
Let's start off with Estonia: Today I discovered that Koos ala goop a goop translated into Estonian means 'a site with goop goop'. Good eh? Estonia was, of course, part of the old Soviet Union along with this here stamp:
It's a little small but then it is a stamp. It's picture of Harry Pollitt who was the General Secretary of the British Communist Party from 1929-1956. There's a plaque dedicated to him on the door of Droylsden library where I went today and got out some nice books. They always sell a few old books there and I managed to get a copy of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' for 25p which I'm not sure old Harry Pollitt would appreciate. He's actually mentioned in a book I borrowed from there once (though he's probably in loads in the local section) which was 'Mao: The Unknown Story' by
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. That's not too pro-Communism either but having Pollitt on the door should reminds us that these books are available for me and all my fellow citizens thanks to the collective ownership of them. Under a purely capitalist system I might not be able to afford to buy and keep 'Mao: The Unknown Story' so I might not find out how bad Communism was. Unless of course some kindly rich philanphropist scumbag takes pity on his lessers and indulges us with gift of a library, if he feels like it.
It's no surprise Librarys are dissappearing at a rapid rate from the face of England during a Conservative Government. Council leaders have critisised the pro-libary campaigners like Philip Pullman and Mark Haddon saying that keeping Libraries would mean having to squeeze further services for vulnerable in the community. The elderly and the mentally ill etc. It really shouldn't be either one or the other. Not in a civilisation. Well a decent one anyway. Like lots of other fiscal-tightening related issues at the moment, you have wonder what happened to our society. It is a bummer paying taxes, no 2 ways about it, but in terms of a stable, healthy, prosperous and optimistic society, I really believe you get back more than you put in. I'll admit you need to constantly be vigilant against creating vast inefficient bureaucracys but it's still less of a risk than letting services get done on the cheap. A good example is the superbug scare of a few years ago that highlighted the lowering of standards in hospital cleaning thanks to the hiving off to the private sector of that area of the NHS. Not that publicly-run services are immune to corner-cutting and corruption but at least you know who's supposed to be in charge. The chain always leads back to an elected official rather than a faceless conglomerate. It's not like this is a terribly poor country either. It's just that the population generally thinks it's more important to spend their resources on toys like the endless mobiles phones and giant motor cars and all sorts of lifestyle crap to help them forget whatever boredom or fear or discontent rules their short short lives. Instead of investing our surplas back into society it's given to tax-dodging scandinavian technology firms, pissed against walls, burned away in adrenalin-generating pollution machines or shoved up our noses as powder. It's turned into plastic dolls of Doctor Who from a factory in China or given to owners of French Nuclear power plants so I can sit and type this. It's frittered away on individual distractrion instead of creating collective dignity.
I see our Prime Minister Mr Cameron has today informed that multi-culturalism hasn't worked. How chilling is that? Personally I think it's working out ok. I like the idea of being in a country where an Algerian is free to act like an Algerian or an eskimo is free to act like an Eskimo. Heaven help them becoming like nothing more than tanned or bleached versions of normal British people. There's plenty of them already. It's not like they're under any threat, no matter what shady Stephen Lennon thinks. We have laws for everyone who lives in this country and people of every community break them , including me sometimes. Honestly! A couple of angry, unhinged Muslims blow themselves up 6 years ago and now that means diversity is some kind of problem. Perhaps like the poor old libraries, multi-culturalism isn't generating enough profit for Cameron and Clegg and all those posh fucks in slick suits down there in that London. Maybe Harry Pollitt was on to something after all.
As I've said before our individual perspectives cannot comprehend what's happened on this planet and what is continuing to happen. Perhaps it's one of those great paradoxes that while as individuals we're capitalistic and playing out our own little versions of game theory, on a epoch-civilisation scale we're actually something more socialistic, gradually marching this thing called HUMANITY, hopefully this thing called ORGANIC LIFE into a future of both unity, diversity and most of all possibility. Harry Pollitt's dream. Goop goop.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
EDF & EDL
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks to Ursula LeGuin and Heidi the cross-eyed Opossum without whom I'd never do this again. Yeh. Thanks.
Paxo's face was a picture! Jeremy Paxman that is, the presenter of Newsnight who attempted tonight to interview Stephen Lennon the LEADER of the ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE. Talk about the wrong Lennon!
Fascinatingly the EDL are doing to the BNP what they themselves did to the NF in the 1980s, ie replacing them as the Fascist opposition, a role that both EDL and BNP have denied playing, pretending instead to represent the authentic white working-class voice. The hardcore football hooligan types provide the street presence and get media attention while the leadership compose a rationale for their existence that becomes the basis of their unsophisticated somewhat paranoid political ideology. Each evolution of the Fascist movement gives a more nuanced and inclusive version of the ideology; the BNP dropped the NF's overt antagonism toward Afro-Caribbeans whereas the EDL denies having any concern about immigration at all, except for where it involves immigrants of the Islamic faith. Rather there is a constant re-iteration of the support the EDL gains from homosexuals and non-Muslim ethnic minorities. It points to injustices commited by Muslims on animals, women and unlike some of its notorious predecessors it applauds the nation of Israel's actions against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. They've come a long way from Mosley but not so far that they don't still stink of him. BNP founder John Tyndall once privately said they he couldn't care less about the blacks or immigration or politics. He just liked having a gang of toughs he could march around and there's always a section of males towards the bottom of any society who'll march to some tune or other. It's when those higher up start getting scared that the Mosley's, the Tyndalls and the (ha!)Lennons become an actual threat to civilisation.
Not that I believe that Lennon is the real brains behind the EDL. A grotty paranoid little Luton headcase with a equally grotty business turning women orange is hardly dictator material. Though I might be under-estimating the man of course. Certainly his analysis of the religion of Islam is nothing to write home about anyway.
It's just that with the uproar on the middle-east right now, who can say how that will tilt the delicate balance there and how the consequences could rebound on us here and well, everywhere. Israels only allies of any kind in the Muslim world have been Turkey and Egypt and if they're suddenly not as friendly, how will Netanyahu's government react? If it were me and you (hi!) we might think that more diplomacy may be advisable in the face of greater hostility but we're not Israelis, (I don't think we are anyway, perhaps one of us is) and there's a people whose history might suggest to them that a show a strength may be a better response to hostility. Particularly a show of strength against the allies of Iran like Hamas who control Gaza or Hezbollah who now control the coalition government in Lebanon. Iran itself isn't likely to be intimidated into submission by such action. Israel has nuclear weapons. Iran looks likes it wants them pretty bad and really can you blame them?
It might kick off this year or maybe a couple more years. Maybe sense will prevail but even so. Is it good to have the EDL marching around stirring up fear amongst ourselves? We're just furry little mammals, it's got nothing to do with us. These players are crazy collective-versions of us. They don't get hungry like us, or afraid or lonely. They don't feel love or friendship. Ah.. I'm losing it.
Also I owe EDF about £600 which I'm having a little difficulty raising in this frozen hell-hole. That worrys me more than any of that shite.
Never mind! MSN homepage has 'Foods to make you handsome'. The only thing I could concievably eat that would make me look any better in the mirror is LSD and a lot of it. Here goes!
Paxo's face was a picture! Jeremy Paxman that is, the presenter of Newsnight who attempted tonight to interview Stephen Lennon the LEADER of the ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE. Talk about the wrong Lennon!
Fascinatingly the EDL are doing to the BNP what they themselves did to the NF in the 1980s, ie replacing them as the Fascist opposition, a role that both EDL and BNP have denied playing, pretending instead to represent the authentic white working-class voice. The hardcore football hooligan types provide the street presence and get media attention while the leadership compose a rationale for their existence that becomes the basis of their unsophisticated somewhat paranoid political ideology. Each evolution of the Fascist movement gives a more nuanced and inclusive version of the ideology; the BNP dropped the NF's overt antagonism toward Afro-Caribbeans whereas the EDL denies having any concern about immigration at all, except for where it involves immigrants of the Islamic faith. Rather there is a constant re-iteration of the support the EDL gains from homosexuals and non-Muslim ethnic minorities. It points to injustices commited by Muslims on animals, women and unlike some of its notorious predecessors it applauds the nation of Israel's actions against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. They've come a long way from Mosley but not so far that they don't still stink of him. BNP founder John Tyndall once privately said they he couldn't care less about the blacks or immigration or politics. He just liked having a gang of toughs he could march around and there's always a section of males towards the bottom of any society who'll march to some tune or other. It's when those higher up start getting scared that the Mosley's, the Tyndalls and the (ha!)Lennons become an actual threat to civilisation.
Not that I believe that Lennon is the real brains behind the EDL. A grotty paranoid little Luton headcase with a equally grotty business turning women orange is hardly dictator material. Though I might be under-estimating the man of course. Certainly his analysis of the religion of Islam is nothing to write home about anyway.
It's just that with the uproar on the middle-east right now, who can say how that will tilt the delicate balance there and how the consequences could rebound on us here and well, everywhere. Israels only allies of any kind in the Muslim world have been Turkey and Egypt and if they're suddenly not as friendly, how will Netanyahu's government react? If it were me and you (hi!) we might think that more diplomacy may be advisable in the face of greater hostility but we're not Israelis, (I don't think we are anyway, perhaps one of us is) and there's a people whose history might suggest to them that a show a strength may be a better response to hostility. Particularly a show of strength against the allies of Iran like Hamas who control Gaza or Hezbollah who now control the coalition government in Lebanon. Iran itself isn't likely to be intimidated into submission by such action. Israel has nuclear weapons. Iran looks likes it wants them pretty bad and really can you blame them?
It might kick off this year or maybe a couple more years. Maybe sense will prevail but even so. Is it good to have the EDL marching around stirring up fear amongst ourselves? We're just furry little mammals, it's got nothing to do with us. These players are crazy collective-versions of us. They don't get hungry like us, or afraid or lonely. They don't feel love or friendship. Ah.. I'm losing it.
Also I owe EDF about £600 which I'm having a little difficulty raising in this frozen hell-hole. That worrys me more than any of that shite.
Never mind! MSN homepage has 'Foods to make you handsome'. The only thing I could concievably eat that would make me look any better in the mirror is LSD and a lot of it. Here goes!
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