Stef's SuperHappyFeelGood Music Videos of the week

Ends by Everlast...



Lyrics Here (thx Tony)



Hide U by Kosheen...



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and a couple more, non music, videos which are only likely to appeal to a very select number of British people. The kind of people who'd be amused by the cast of Star Trek advertising debt consolidation services or Gordon Ramsay pleasuring himself on the toilet - the Gordon Ramsay clip is definitely not work friendly...

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Most poignant, and silly, piece of art I've experienced for ages...

Original, non YouTube, upload here

In a way, we're all chocolate bunnies...

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One year on and, surprisingly, the lyrics are showing no signs of becoming dated at all...

Salvador Dali eat your heart out pt2

WTF?

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Salvador Dali eat your heart out

I live in a part of the country where local disputes have extended the national mail strike into a second post-less week

To add confusion to injury, The Post Office has just started a new television advertising campaign which aims to play down the ‘Post’ side of its business and talk up all the other products and services on offer.

And, in their aim to distract viewers from the fact that a Post Office without post is just a bank with shit décor, the producers of the new ad have IMHO created a surrealist masterpiece…



What does it all mean? Why the ant powder at the start of the commercial? What kind of alien technology are Royal Mail harnessing to cram such a big office into such a small building? Why aren't the staff protected from their adoring public by the customary walls of two inch thick, sound proof plexiglass? What’s with curious juxtaposition of Land of Hope and Glory playing in the background and the vaguely Marxist sounding talk of The People’s Post Office? WTF does Joan Collins have to do with any of this?

But wait, there’s going to be more…

“Joan Collins will be the first customer to visit a Post Office® branch appearing in living rooms across the UK on Sunday 14 October, in the new campaign, which highlights the wide range of great value products and services available at Post Office® branches.

The series of TV commercials are set in a fictional Post Office® branch which will welcome some famous faces in the coming months, with customers including Westlife, Bill Oddie and Keith Harris and Orville.”

The pain of the waiting is almost too much to bear

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The Police State is Here

Yes, I know this guy is obsessed but his work, and the way he goes about his work, pleasures me immensely

and top marks to him for pointing out to a couple of our policemen that, whether they are happy about it or not, their uniforms are plastered with Masonic symbolism...

This electronic All Seeing Eye appears to have a policeman in a silly hat attached to it

A honorary lifetime Conspiraloon™ Alliance membership is winging his way because, as we all know, being the servant of a fruity little secret club is not insane but pointing out that other people are is

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edit: and whilst on the subject of police logos, I noticed that a member of the public has thoughtfully submitted their own suggestion for a new Metropolitan Police motto on a sign on the Brixton Road today; written in Latin, no less, to give it that extra touch of class...





Sarcasm aside, I think it's great that our police put up notices all round South London to remind people that they are actually operating here

Very reassuring...

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Monkey Dust

One of the following videos is taken from the best and, as is increasingly turning out, the most prophetic British cartoon show ever made, Monkey Dust. The other isn't...





You Tube is crammed full of clips from Monkey Dust - it's all good

And it will be a cold day in Hell before the BBC releases Series Two or Three of MD on DVD or commissions a fourth. Way too near the mark...

Thanks to anon and Lord P. for the links

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edit: and if you want to see something really scary you could do a lot worse than checking out this passionate appeal on the subject of lost children from US First Lady Laura Bush ('embedding disabled by request'). No rapid blinking or fidgety gestures from Laura - disturbingly so. Watching stuff like this can really bring out the David Icke in a person

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Conspiratune™ of the Week: Bin Laden Didn't Blow Up The Projects

Alternate, more texty, video available here

Oooh, I think I need a lie down now...

(Thanks for the link Gary)

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edit: and whilst I'm linking to Conspiratunes™ I 've just realised that I haven't posted a relink to Rammstein's Amerika for at least a month now. Shame on me...

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A big disappointment for 'Due South' fans

In case anyone hasn't seen this yet, this is fucking marvelous...

Three agent provocateurs getting rumbled during a demonstration against an SPP meeting in Quebec earlier this week...





What seems to be going on is that the demonstrators very wisely set up a line of grannies between the riot police and the main body of the demonstration. Which meant that to stage a confrontation that would unleash the Cops of War our three unfortunate masked heroes were obliged to mix with the grannies

granny - masked man in combat gear - granny - masked man in combat gear

hmmm...

Coverage in the Canadian press, including the RCMP admitting that the three guys were theirs but only collecting intelligence (with rocks?), can be found here and here

By far and away the funniest bit is seeing the police go through the farce of 'arresting' their own men even though by that point everyone knew what was going on

Comedy Gold!!

And it's great to see Canadians maintaining their reputation for social inclusion by finding useful roles for their senior citizens such as deploying them tactically in urban warfare

Fortunately for us in the UK, this sort of false flag stuff only ever happens in other countries and anyone who believes different is an insane Conspiraloon™

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Aaron Russo Commemorative Post

Aaron Russo...


Alive - 23rd August 2007

Not Alive - 24th August 2007


A sad loss for Conspiraloons™ around the globe. Many of whom will mourn the passing of the producer of From Freedom to Fascism, an expose of the Federal Reserve banking system, with great regret.

but it's also worth mentioning that, earlier in his career, Russo also produced Trading Places, so that's another reason to celebrate his life, actually two reasons...

That Jamie Lee Curtis (Janet Leigh's body - Tony Curtis' face) scene from Trading Places. A few seconds of cinema that were single-handedly responsible for the development of the frame by frame slow play function on early VHS players. A landmark moment in the evolution of home entertainment systems

As well as devoting his last few years to the senseless and unjustifiable persecution of the entirely benevolent Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Service, Russo also found time to make some frankly startling, uncorroborated claims about what some of his billionaire friends said they were planning for the world. The fun part being trying to pick out which of those claims may have some basis in truth and which are the product of the kind of twisted sense of humour you presumably develop when you're a) richer than Croesus and b) bored...




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The Great Global Warming Swindle - now with extra Swindle

A few months ago Channel 4 broadcast a show called The Great Global Warming Swindle which enraged many Anthropogenic Global Warming advocates with its polemical style and crude, sensationalist presentation of scientific data

which, when you think about how many advocates of Anthropogenic Global Warming go about their business, is a very funny reaction indeed

Well, some previously unseen footage filmed for TGGWS has just appeared on Google....



The guy who posted it is someone called Clifford Rutley. At the moment I don't know very much about Cliff (though I have discovered that he includes reviewing his own books on Amazon amongst his interests) but his homepage includes what appears to be a periodically updated 'Cliff Quote'. The current quote being...

You so called environmentalists are all hypocrites. This MAN MADE global warming is nothing more than a distraction from the REAL environmental issues & a creation of fiction to tax us more either directly or indirectly. What about the depleting of the rain forests, cross species DNA research, the bees dying off, mutated food experiments, toxins in our food, government and military dumping of toxic waist, mercury in our vaccines, eugenics, the millions that die in Africa because they're not allowed to industrialise and use their natural coal and oil reserves, the radioactive shells that the military uses in Iraq and Afghanistan? The problem with the MAN MADE global warming hoax is that it is nothing more than an unproven distraction.

Nice one

but what's a toxic waist when it's at home?

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Odds and Sods pt1

I'm currently going through a bit of a catch-up session with comments, links and emails that have been left under or in response to posts in this blog

A few chunks of fallout from that exercise...


For starters, there's this rather special graphic from The Daily Mash...



The Daily Mash has also recently managed to punch clean through the Taste Barrier with this tribute prayer to Princess Diana...

Princess Diana, who art in Hermes,
Chanel was thy favourite brand name.
Thy King did come.
But he fancied another one, as did you anyway.
Give us this day a flash of your smile.
And forgive us our paparazzi,
As we forgive those who paparazzi against us.
And drive us not into the side of a tunnel,
When we aren’t wearing our seat belt. Amen.

Outstanding work ...which I won't be showing to my Mum


and whilst on the subject of daft fuckers in the financial markets, someone also left a few links relating to the very interesting Nassim Taleb and his work on randomness, especially 'Black Swan' events

'Black Swans' being large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events beyond the realm of normal expectations. The problem being that many of the people earning large sums as risk professionals appear to have no conception of Black Swans and carry out their business on that basis

Where I personally disagree with Taleb is when he maintains that Black Swan events, and Taleb cites 9/11 as an example of a Black Swan, are undirected. Maybe in the natural world but in the realm of human affairs at least some of the Swans are the result of deliberate planning - after all, people may differ over who it was exactly but someone did plan 9/11


And on the subject of 9/11 and the markets

There are a couple of key elements of accepted and often quoted 9/11 Conspiracy Lore that have always bothered me

The first being the short-trading of airlines stocks before 9/11. There did seem to be informed trading before the attacks and those trades certainly were widely reported after 9/11. However, if the people behind the trades really did know about 9/11 in advance they should have expected their trades to attract attention and be traced back to them after the event. You can't play the markets anonymously.

Unless the traders knew they were somehow immune from investigation - which is effectively how things panned out

On top of that, the potential profit was only a 'few' million dollars. So, why take a risk on exposing an operation with a multi-billion $ outcome for what was, relatively speaking, peanuts?

And then there's the story about Larry Silverstein, the lease holder of WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7, admitting months after 9/11 that he gave his consent for WTC7 to be 'pulled'

Many conspiracy theorists quote Silverstein's comment as being a confession that 9/11 was a staged event, that WTC7 along with WTC1 and WTC2 was wired for demolition but the plane that was supposed to hit WTC7 (Flight 93) was destroyed over Pennsylvania and so WTC7 was blown up anyway, without being hit by a plane beforehand

Of course, the big problem with all that is the question why would an alleged key figure in the carefully planned covert 9/11 plot casually blurt out a confession after the event?

This video attempts to address those and other similar anomalous issues...




If anyone is interested in 9/11 and hasn't seen it, it's worth a spin


Whoopsies, Richard Dawkins is back on tele tonight up to his usual, 100% intellectually honest, self-effacing tricks which only leaves me an hour or so to find some rotting fruit to chuck at the box. I shall have to finish this post later...

Contrary to what some people believe, ammonites (foreground) offer inconclusive evidence for the theory of evolution and actually appear to have evolved 'backwards' in the later stages of their existence - as has the enormous G8 in the background of this picture

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Every cloud has a silver lining ... apparently

Thanks to anon for sharing a link to this -

Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter

and its newly established partner site -

Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter

Admittedly these pages are currently US centric. However, there's a good chance they will soon to be part of a flourishing international network of similar sites - as soon as Central Banks stop bailing-out criminally negligent institutional investors with massive injections of made-up money. Made-up up money that will ultimately be paid for by ordinary people through inflation, taxation and interest charges.

Lee van Cleef is The Ninja - No INcome - No Job - no Assets - give that man a big fuck off loan straight away and then sell it on before everything goes tits up - Hmmm, you like that house price bubble don't you bitches...

As it happens, I have worked and retain acquaintances in the mortgage, hedge fund and foreign exchange trading rackets. Virtually everyone I still know in those rackets businesses now accepts that things are going to get a little rough from here on but they retain faith in the underlying strength of the System they've been doing so well out of in recent years

God knows why

Still, look on the bright side...



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and whilst I'm on the subject here's a link to (yet another) video that attempts to communicate the problems that accompany a debt-based money system





as one glowing review of the video gushed...

"it might not be very high budget and its even kind of boring. but its just so intelligent that i had to watch it. great job."

which is a reasonable summary

I'm linking to it because, unlike many similar presentations, it attempts to communicate how our current banking system pushes our economies towards the kind of unsustainable and exploitative growth patterns that will very possibly result in all of us choking on each other's shit. The kind of issues that intrepid environmental adventurers such as David Mayer de Rothschild don't comment on very much at all; preferring to wank on about lightbulbs, telling people who are poorer than them (i.e. 99.999999999% of people) how to live, the establishment of world government and the Original Sin of being born human instead

LOL!

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David Shayler and the Holy Grail

In case anyone is a) interested, and b) missed David Shayler's interview on BBC Radio 5 Live last night here's a chance to catch up on what was said



Monty Python fans will no doubt become aware, at least subliminally, that David makes the following claims in the interview

- he is definitely not Jesus

(though apparently some people did confuse him for Jesus in Judea 2,000 years ago)

- but he is King Arthur

Ringing any bells?



Shayler delivers a truly inspirational mix of discussion concerning matters of life and death that many of us are seriously concerned about, skillfully blended with a Messiah complex that would have made Colonel Kurtz blush and assertions that he is the reincarnation of a fictional(ised) English king and a splash of a homage to Graham Chapman

The second time I Iistened to this interview through I actually started to get quite annoyed

I take my Python very seriously

As a fellow member of the Conspiraloon™ Alliance has already said...

"Imagine if Shayler were still under the control of the secret services? Imagine the damage he could have done rather than the good work he continues to do?"


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Herbie the Hedgehog recommends...

And in my post this morning…

The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories (Rough Guides) (Paperback)

I think it’s worth mentioning because it’s a substantial, well-written book and even though it makes a couple of token nods in the direction of Elvis and Space Aliens it devotes most of its content to para-political conspiracy theories. Which is bad news for the Crop Circle / Ancient Sumerian Tablet brigade and potentially good news for those of us who don’t think you have to believe in Space Aliens to suspect the motivations and actions of the people who are currently running things.

However, because of my inherent mistrust of anything published by mainstream sources, I thought I’d ask my good friend Herbie – The Conspiracy Hedgehog to check the book out and share his objective opinion on its quality…




Herbie didn’t like it

Did you Herbie?



Actually, Herbie barely got past the Introduction, because generalisations such as the following made his fur stand on end…

“Nazi Germany was, admittedly, one of history’s most conspiracist regimes. But other totalitarian governments – Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia, Cuba and many contemporary Middle Eastern states, for example – have been equally conspiracist in their thinking…”

“It is curious that the majority of conspiracy theories seem to emanate from the right – notably when right wing beliefs are combined with fundamentalist religion…”

“Whether on the right or the Left, it seems that the world’s most conspiracist cultures tend to be those where people feel most disenfranchised. Without any chance to witness the chaotic workings of the machinery of power, it’s easy to believe that political affairs can be driven by sinister, implacable forces. Where there is no understanding of history, conspiracy theories are sucked in to fill the intellectual vaccuum…”

Whist enjoying the internal inconsistencies of the authors’ generalisations immensely Herbie thinks that what they are saying is a load of old bollocks and he’s a bit pissed off with me for rewarding them by buying the book



Sorry Herbie

But in my defence, the book is better written, more comprehensive and contains a lot more information than other attempts at this sort of thing I‘ve read and it’s worth the seven quid Amazon are asking for it as long as you keep the writers’ fairly evident bias in mind.

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Herbie did, however, enjoy a video on the subject of consumer debt I showed him recently...

In Debt We Trust

In particular, The Herbster was really pleased to discover that he was not the only person to believe that, by accident or by design, student debt in the UK and the US was being thrust on young people to introduce them to a lifetime of debt slavery as well as a weapon to curb any inclinations they might have to rebel against the system.

He also liked how a couple of people in the film pointed out that traditional class divisions of working vs. capitalist classes had less and less meaning in increasingly consumerist, post-industrial societies and that future struggles within these societies would be between debtors and creditors.

All in all, Herbie enjoyed the film and thinks the first half is stronger than the second.

Unfortunately, the makers of the film have their own debts to pay and have not (yet) made it freely available

Herbie did do a spot of Chris Langham-style research on the Web and discovered that it is available as a torrent but also points out that Langham got busted

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As a brief aside, whilst carrying out his research into bit torrent downloads Herbie noticed that some wicked characters are making versions of recent Hollywood blockbusters available via torrent with the added bonus of spliced-in spoilers for the latest Harry Potter book…



Herbie thinks that a well-classy thing to do

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And finally, Mr H. also recommends watching Adam Curtis’ excellent series Pandora’s Box (an exploration of the dangers of technocratic and political ‘rationality’) currently available on Youtube - especially Episode Three…

Ep3. The League of Gentlemen

Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. Pandora's Box tells the saga of how their experiments have led the country deeper into economic decline, and asks - is their game finally up?




Though Herbie is a little confused as to how someone as brainy as Mr Curtis can make a documentary about money supply, inflation and recession without making any reference whatsoever to expansion of money supply through expansion of credit.

Curtis implicitly endorses a notion that is still very prevalent today that inflation is primarily caused by wage rises, as opposed to lending silly people tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds they’re never going to be able to pay back to spend on shit.

The notion that increasing wages by a few percent will fuck an economy up but lending people shed loads of money at bonkers interest rates instead is good for the economy is a curious one and quite insane, unless you're a lender that is - in which case it's quite clever

Herbie thinks Mr Curtis is a very naughty boy

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The Wizard of Ounces

Quite a few blogs and alternative news outlets are starting to identify the recent slides in the US stockmarket and exchange rates as being harbingers of the global financial meltdown so many of us have been expecting

For some, it’s just like its 1929 all over again

And we all know what happened economically and politically in the ten years after 1929 don’t we?

Actually, to tell the truth, most people don’t, which is why it’s been so relatively easy to stage the rerun.

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A frequent response ordinarily financially astute people who I have discussed this with have given to me when discussing impending recessions/ depressions goes something like this...

'Yeah, the bubble will burst eventually but the people who will get hit hard will be those who were stupid enough to over-extend themselves borrowing money to buy over valued houses or consumerist shit. It will serve them right'

Hmm, the problem with that line of thought is, of course, is that it's bollocks. Only the ultra-rich will benefit and will be able to hoover up assets at fire-sale prices. Everyone below that level will have to shoulder the costs of having several million of their fellow citizens wiped-out financially. They will pay through increased taxation, job insecurity, and exciting but not so new forms of government. Everyone will get it up the rear end

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Still, it would be good news for people who like to dabble in documentary photography. Some photographers, like Martin Parr (more of him another time), have adapted to the times and have set about recording the horrors of faux prosperity and over-consumption but for most socially-aware photographers there’s nothing like a really good fucking depression and lots of people looking fucked up and wretched.

You can really display your humanity photographing people who are in the shit

Enter stage left, Dorothea Lang and the most iconic photograph of the 1930s Depression – Migrant Mother

'Migrant Mother' aka 'Oh look! Poor People! How quaint' - Someone made an entire career and a comfortable living off the back of this photograph - and it wasn't any of the people in it

I love that picture. I used to love it when I was younger because I thought, as I was told to, that it documented the despair of the excluded and was a powerful call for people to do the right thing. I now love the picture because I know that it was taken by a ‘champagne socialist’ under false pretences and totally misrepresents its subjects. In the words of the ‘Migrant Mother's grandson…

“…a shiny new car (it was only two years old) pulled into the entrance, stopped some twenty yards in front of Florence and a well-dressed woman got out with a large camera. She started taking Florence's picture. With each picture the woman would step closer. Florence thought to herself, "Pay her no mind. The woman thinks I'm quaint, and wants to take my picture." The woman took the last picture not four feet away then spoke to Florence: "Hello, I'm Dorthea Lange, I work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the plight of the migrant worker. The photos will never be published, I promise." Florence said, "Okay, if you think it will help." The woman turned, walked away, got in her car, and was gone. The next day the promise was broken: Florence's picture taken by the well-dressed lady was on the front page of all the newspapers…”

'Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet... I'm Hunting Poor People'

The moral of the story being, I think, that that the ruling class, be they industrialists or chattering liberals, always exploit the poor – they just go about it in slightly different ways.

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And whilst on the subject of Depressions, the 1930s and people called Dorothy, somebody made a comment under one of those ‘It’s 1929 all over again’ articles that reminded me of a theory that has always amused me…

The comment claimed that The Wizard of Oz was a political and economic allegory of America in the late 1890s and the not entirely dissimilar economic and political situation of the 1930s

"We're off to get fucked by the Bankers, the wonderful Bankers of Oz!!"

A few examples to illustrate the thesis...

• Oz is the abbreviation for Ounces, the traditional measure of Gold. The price of which was manipulated by financial ‘wizards’ such as JP Morgan
  
  
• The Yellow Brick Road leading to the Emerald City are allegories for the Gold Standard and Washington
  
  
• The Wicked Witch of the East (Coast) represents the money men from New York
  
  
• Dorothy herself represents the honest ‘everyman’ farmer from agricultural Kansas who eventually realises that she had the power to change the world for the better all along in the form of her silver slippers (a free currency/ the vote)
  
  
• The Tin Man represents the industrial proletariat held back by monopolies such as JD Rockefeller’s Standard Oil

…and so on and so on. There’s even a nod to the international drugs trade in the form of a field of sleep-inducing poppies that almost do our heroes in

There’s an entire article on the subject up on Wikipedia (so it must be true). Normally, I’m a tad sceptical about people reading things in books or lyrics without explicit acknowledgment from the author but the Oz thing seems solid to me … and very, very funny

It makes you kind of wonder what’s really going on in Teletubbies. It’s pretty clear that kids understand every word they’re saying but they won’t tell us grown ups

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And finally, on the subject of people reading too much into books or lyrics, my favourite example is the undoubtedly excellent Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix. The opening line goes...

After all the jacks are in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red and the wind whispers mary…




Now you could, as some Hendrix fans have done, try to decipher the complicated psychedelic allegories woven into these words…

Or, you can just believe, as I do, the story that Hendrix was piss drunk, late one night in front of a television and only had this to watch…



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Internet Dream

Discovered by way of a posting on The Alliance blog...

"Internet Dream" Original Song by Tay Zonday



One way or another this guy is going to go far - if his singing career doesn't pan out I hear that voice-over work for flame grilled hamburger ads and Simpson and Bruckheimer action movie trailers pays ridiculously well

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I'm so glad I got that on camera

This clip has already done the rounds but I've only just seen it so it still might worth sharing

Derbyshire Police motoring into action during those floods the other week...

The respect coming off the amused onlookers is so tangible you could cut it with a knife

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Stef's Guide to Essential Jihadist Training Videos

Like many other people out there I’m still puzzling over just what it is that Doctor Evil!! and his associates were planning to achieve with last week’s car, er, ‘bombs’

Zany madcap antics from the Provisional NHS

(from b3ta)

So I thought I’d try and get hold of some of the fearsome jihadist training material available on the web so that I could develop an insight into their tactics.

My first logical port of call was the Al-Hesbah website on which someone, apparently, predicted the attacks on London and Glasgow.

However, 15 seconds of in-depth research revealed that, like virtually every other jihadist site out there, Al-Hesbah is proxy hosted in the United States – Scottsdale, Arizona to be precise. So there’s just the teensy weensiest possibility of US intelligence service involvement.

The second site I turned to was Youtube. The nearest thing I could find to a training video for the Glasgow attack was this…

Like the attackers themselves, I was getting warmer

(b3ta again)

Anyway, to cut a long story short, my research was interrupted by an email from a chum who sent me a link to this video which covers the tactics and execution of the attacks in more than enough detail...

"A message to my brothers in the Jihad, get a grip"

It’s overly long and the guy is clearly trying to steal Boris Johnson’s act but there are a couple of good lines

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And whilst I’m posting chilling video clips now is as good a time as any to join in with a million other people and include my own link to the Dramatic Chipmunk video – on the basis that a) it is chilling, and b) there may be five or six internet users who haven’t seen it yet…

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edit: Billy, the maker of 'A message to my brothers in the Jihad, get a grip' appears to be labouring under the peculiar impression that MI5 is not in the infiltration or disinformation business...


So, even though I'm still linking to his video, he's definitely an inhabitant of NonConspiro™ World. A world that is becoming increasingly depopulated as we fanatical conspiracy theorists infect and Conspiraloonacize™ the young and the feeble minded with our insane beliefs*, one by one. Hahahahahahaha!!

We'll keep fighting - and we'll WIN!!

Freshly Conspiraloonacized™ children - 'Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you a Conspiraloon™'

(* = Stuff like knowing that most jihadist websites are registered and hosted in the US and the UK. That organisations like MI5 and the FBI have a track record of supporting terrorist attacks. Insane material of that nature...)
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