Michael Parenti - the quintessential pinko commie subversive
As an antidote to all that bullcrap from the BBC I've been linking to recently, here's me re-linking to a couple of talks by Michael Parenti which I consider to be absolutely essential listening for any budding Conspiraloons out there...
- The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State - Part 1 - Part 2
Parenti is essential listening because his ideas break out from the narrow confines of what currently constitutes 'permissable' political discourse
Parenti is a very robust and articulate spokesperson for those of us who believe that...
- there is such a thing as an elitist class
- there is such a thing as an elitist class interest
- that elitist interest is pursued with sometimes deliberate, sometimes covert, intent
It goes without saying that those of us who hold the above parapolitical beliefs are currently dismissed as lunatic, whackjob conspiracy theorists
...very often by newspapers and television stations that are owned or controlled by that non-existent elitist class which has no vested elitist class interest and which pursues its non-existent interests completely in the open with total respect for all human life.
Sad to say, I'm unaware of any heavyweight British academics of Parenti's quality. Come to think of it, there aren't many North American ones either. Peter Dale Scott comes to mind
None of the above constitues an unqualified endorsement of Parenti. He advocates some views and solutions I personally disagree with but his analysis of the socio-economic structure of our current system is bang on the money imho
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And whilst bigging up pinko commie subversives it's also worth mentioning a particular meme that's been doing the rounds on the conspirasphere since the current economic crisis entered a more overt stage...
That is the idea that, through the banking bailouts, the British and US governments are imposing Communism on their people via the back door
Hmmmmmmmmm, I'll just scratch my chin pensively for a second or two there
Maybe if the British and US governments were nationalising profitable businesses and putting them completely under state control then, yes, that could be a form of Communism
But what is actually happening is that the British and US governments are handing over stonking amounts of public cash, cash that will take generations to tax back off people, to the bankers in exchange for absolutely fuck all, and certainly no publicly-accountable control
That's as good an expression of Corporate Fascism*, not Communism, as you're ever likely to see
What's going on here is an awful lot of middle-class conservatives can see that they're getting buttfucked but cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that it's the very system they've endorsed all these years that is being harnessed to do the buttfucking
ergo, it must be communist in some way
yeah, right
hmmm, much cognitive dissonance
We didn't have genuinely free markets before the current crash got under way and they are not being replaced by communism. We lived under a oligarchical kleptocracy before the crash and we still live under a oligarchical kleptocracy after. The New World Order is the just the same as the Old One. It's just a tad more overt these days, that's all
I'd be the first person to acknowledge that populist concepts such as socialism, or environmentalism, or even religion get hijacked and subverted to suit elitist, totalitarian ends but that doesn't mean that ideals such as enviromental awareness, a desire for social justice or the natural human tendency for spirituality are intrinsically evil; even if some right evil bastards take control of them sometimes
There is, unfortunately, plenty of scope to get downhearted and depressed about the apparent power of the interests that would screw us all over and the flaws in the infilitrated movements which claim to oppose them but, fuck it, it's how we respond to the challenges in Life which define and shape who we are.
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* = of course, according to some right wing loons, Fascism doesn't actually exist and all Bad Things that have been attributed to Fascism in the past are, in truth, Socialist. Take this comment recently seen on The Antagonist's blog for example...
"Talking of 'fascism' (a term you throw around with the abandon of a child with a toy) do a little research, comrade, and you'll discover that both Mussolini and Hitler were socialists. Not to mention Stalin, Mao and all the other squalid little regimes around the world that have caused the world so much suffering. They've probably notched up a good 250 million murders at least between them. Talk about state oppression!"
Yup, neither Mussolini nor Hitler were fascists. An outstanding expose of Real™ History
here's another fucking commie to add to the list.
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Michael White, feeling a bit fruity?
"We need to know truth behind claims of UK complicity in terror suspect torture"
"What has David Davis's overnight speech on alleged British complicity in the torture of terror suspects got to do with the newly unveiled memorial to the 52 victims of the 7/7 London bombs, unveiled in Hyde Park yesterday? Alas, it is the shadowy world of conspiracy theory...
...scratch the surface of yesterday's moving ceremony for the families of the 7/7 dead and all is not well.
The website of the July 7th Truth Campaign crackles with barely contained fury at what it sees as a wilful refusal of the government to hold a public inquiry into what really happened that day, the police and intelligence errors, the discrepancies in the official account, the scale of the plot four years ago yesterday.
It gets worse. Last week, BBC2's Conspiracy Files series "exposed" a man already known to conspiracy theorists as Muad Dib (the name taken from Frank Herbert's Dune novels) to be Sheffield-born John Hill (60) who lives near the Hill of Tara in County Meath and believes he is the Messiah.
Hill sports a long white beard and baseball cap for added authenticity
What is relevant here is that Dib/Hill made the "Ripple Effect" video, which alleges that the 7 July bombings were organised by the usual suspects – Tony Blair, Whitehall, British and Israeli intelligence – to stiffen public support for the war in Iraq....
...The aforementioned J7 campaign has already condemned the Ripple Effect as "unsubstantiated speculation" and the BBC's Conspiracy Files as "risible".
In its stern, unforgiving way, it concentrates on the known facts and known oddities like the official assertion (later corrected) that the four bombers caught the 7.40 from Luton on 7 July 2005 when that train was cancelled that day.
We are already deep in the mirrored, bewildering world of conspiracy theory, in which an official inquiry may satisfy rational supporters of the J7 campaign but not irrational ones or conspiratologists beyond..."
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edit: and the scores on the doors are...
AFAIC the BBC is complicit in deliberately obscuring legitimate questions about an act of mass murder
It's no fucking joke.
Well, according to House Price Crash Forum anyway...
Or at least it did until the page was pulled about five minutes ago...
Can I just take this opportunity to say
Mwuhahaha!!
Ha!
We'll keep on fighting and We'll win
(The link to the original FT article about, shock horror, the Rothschilds being slavers is here)
(I've also noticed that some of my old favourite UK-based anti-conspiracy theorist types have recently taken to using terms other than Conspiraloon. 'Conspiranoid' is one alternative that appears to have started doing the rounds. Do not be fooled by these inferior imitations; except maybe 'Conspiranaut', I like that one)
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Went to see the All Blacks play Italy last night
The high point of the night happened before the match actually started, when spectators were treated to an authentic and fascinating exploration of what might have happened if the Romans had ever invaded New Zealand...
The Italians lost 27-6
Next time, I suggest the visitors bring plenty of infected blankets and fire water
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The Conspiracy Files: 7/7
Nearly four years after the 7/7 bombing, England's worst terrorist atrocity, The Conspiracy Files investigates the conspiracy theories flourishing on the internet.
There have been three official reports into the bombings on 7th July 2005, which claimed the lives of 56 people and injured 784 others.
The programme sees how conspiracy theories suggest four British Muslims were framed by the government, play on the fears of the Muslim community and spread a highly divisive and damaging message.
The Conspiracy Files: 7/7 examines the evidence in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.
Produced and Directed by Tristan Quinn
Series Producer: Mike Rudin
Tuesday, 30 June, 2009
2100 BST, BBC Two
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And, by some astonishing cosmic coincidence, this broadcast coincides with the formal launch of 'Terror on the Tube'; as cut and paste from the J7 website without permission and mixed-up with some manure by 'leading' 7/7 researcher, part-time crop circle aficianado and full-time holocaust denier Dr Nick Kollerstrom...
Fancy that
'Hello Everybody! Did you know that Auschwitz had a swimming pool?...'
I've flicked through Dr Nick's book and it's shit
As I'm in new Zealand, I won't be able to watch the Conspiracy Files mockumentary straight away, but I'll wager a crisp fiver that's going to be shit too
and wilfully dishonest shit at that
The J7 Forum stuck its fingers up at the Conspiracy Files production team long ago. Nor has it anything to do with Nick Kollerstrom, David Shayler or that bloke with the sack of gold coins who claims to be Jesus - not that these spooky, mentalist fuckers haven't tried to imply an association. Oh yes, oh yes they have
Aside from the fact that the State still hasn't proved its Official Narrative of what happened on 7/7, it is cross-media black propaganda bullcrap like this - attempting to conflate honest, rational people who have serious questions about 7/7 with nutcases who already have all the answers - which convinces me that it's right to doubt
I fully expect that the BBC program will not represent the views of those of us out there who do not pretend to know what happened on 7/7 but have strong doubts about the veracity of the Official Narrative. The program will not concentrate on the flaws in the Official 7/7 Narrative but will demolish a few hand-selected nonsense alternative narratives instead
This will be done wilfully, deliberately and in cold blood
Which, if that turns out to be the case, would mean that the BBC would be complicit in covering up 52, maybe 56, murders
Which would be a serious crime wouldn't it?
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edit: The J7 forum's collective thoughts on the impending BBC documentary here...
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Some debt porn nerd over at House Price Crash forum has put together a lovely little graph of average UK house prices as a multiple of average UK annual wages, based on data from the Nationwide Building Society going back to 1953...
Average property prices peaked a couple of years ago at over six times average wages. Every property crash in the last 50 years has seen property prices fall back to at least 3.5 times average wages. Which, if history repeats itself, would be a fucking excellent thing - unless anyone really thinks shackling future generations to a historically unsustainable ratio of housing costs to wages is a remotely sensible idea
Wages are either going to have to go up, lots.
Or house prices are going to have to fall further, lots
And I know which of the two options I think is most likely
That's it. That's the story
And no amount of bollocks peddled by vested interests from the mainstream media, politics or business will change that
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A little something to illustrate a comment underneath an earlier post...
University College London Hospital. Hmmm, pointy...
If the City of London is the centre of the financial power of the British oligarchical elite, the area around University College is the heart of its psychological and pharmaceutical power.
The City is about fucking with your wallet. Bloombsury is about fucking with your brain and your body
Bloomsbury is home to a delightful mix of state run academia, big pharma and benevolent (sic.) charitable foundations, all fused into one big yummy, indistinguishable mass; which some people would describe as fascistic but I think is just plain scary
The local architecture is a bit of a give-away
And one thing that continues to baffle me is, how when some of us point out that the oligarchical elite has a demonstrable fondness for fruity little clubs, rituals, symbolism and architecture, the sheer lunacy of the fruity little clubs, rituals, symbolism, and architecture is somehow laid at the door of the people doing the pointing out, not the people responsible for it all
Did I mention that the Tavistock Institute was founded in Bloomsbury?
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So, has anyone figured out who had the resources to compile dossiers on the financial backgrounds of a few hundred members of parliament yet?
Come to think of it, has anybody asked?
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Michael Parenti - the quintessential pinko commie subversive
here's another fucking commie to add to the list
