It's 1979 all over again

A correspondent, in response to my previous post, writes...

"Che(e)r up,old fruit, it might never happen!(but probably will)"

As it happens, I'm actually quite keen on 'it' happening

The recent consumerist binge proved once again, if ever it were needed, that selling and buying useless shit doesn't make people happy and fucks up their environment and other people in its production

So, if this system does break down I don't think we'll be losing very much in the long run

And, more importantly, we really could do with some decent music (and cinema - I saw Ironman last night - how shit was that!?)

Vapid, superficial, self-indulgent times make for vapid, superficial, self-indulgent tunes


So, I was delighted to discover, via a Youtube link someone sent me, that ska warriors The Specials have apparently reformed in anticipation of the impending Global Economic Apocalypse...





though their line up appears to have changed a little since their glory days back in 1979...




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Mainstream Conspiraloons #322 - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

Thanks to The Antagonist for bringing my attention to the improbably named Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur waxing truthily on the subject of the proposed Wall Street bailout...





I haven't been discussing the most recent financial shenanigans much with people, either on-line or in the real world. That which much of us knew was coming is now here and will now run its course

It goes without saying that the proposed bailout is clearly a nonsense.

It also goes without saying that our beloved leader Gordon BrNWO supports it wholeheartedly

Along with Brown's repeated references to an 'Economic New World Order' and 'doing whatever it takes to maintain stability', this should give anyone living on this bankrupt, CCTV-saturated little island the willies

Any bail out of Wall Street, or the City, will fail for a very simple reason

Over the last twenty years the US and the UK economies have become structurally reliant on the creation of irredeemable debt. The income and lifestyles of hundreds of millions of people are totally dependent on the perpetual creation and expansion of eye-watering amounts of credit

and it's all over




Even if some Magic Pixies came along and made all the bad debts and all the 12 figure derivatives liabilities go away, there's going to be no more easy credit going forward and anyone whose business or job is dependent on a world filled with people living beyond their means is going to get fucked.

And that's going to happen with or without a bailout




Optimists would say this is an excellent opportunity to see the end of 'Unipolar' Corporate Global Empire and to reorient our societies and populations to the production of solar powered Jetsons-style flying bubble cars, decent education systems and organic potatoes, instead of cluster bombs, invasive bureaucracy and junk food

oToH Pessimists would say that this is an excellent opportunity to see the reintroduction of feudalism and to increase our societies' output of cluster bombs, invasive bureaucracy and junk food

I'm not optimistic

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Yet another fair and impartial inquiry begins

One of my preoccupations in life, and therefore of this blog, is trying to identify and record the kind of legitimate questions which support perfectly healthy and rational scepticism of 'Official Narratives'

I personally don't offer people, here or in real life, much in the way of fully-formed alternative narratives as, much of the time, my doubts arise due to the absence of sufficient information to form any.

My problem with 'Official Narratives' is that they are promoted as being the definitive end of a story and used to justify assertions that no further investigation is required; when I often have grounds to believe nothing could be further from the truth

The inquest into the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes is now, finally, under way

A website has been set up to publish transcripts and other material from the inquest here

It's early days yet but it's already clear that much of the hearing will be preoccupied with the alleged case of mistaken identity which resulted in de Menezes' execution

LWTC247

As it happens, the mainstream media has already decided what happened that day and routinely refers to the reason that Menezes was shot as being because he was mistaken for a known terrorist




There are plenty of inconsistencies in the Official Narrative of that day - surveillence tapes went missing and were erased, log books were retrospectively changed, dubious eye witnesses appeared on television that morning talking about de Menezes wearing heavy clothing and behaving suspiciously, the head of the police went on television claiming that de Menezes was a terrorist long after he would have known otherwise, due process was obstructed...

Everything about that Official Narrative stinks

But here is, what me for is the most disturbing flaw in the Official Narrative...

De Menezes was wearing thin clothing and wasn't carrying anything

A possible case of mistaken identity is arguably totally irrelevant and at best secondary to the question of whether shooting someone in public was a criminal act or not

Even if de Menezes was a wanted terrorist, public gunplay would only be justifiable if he was carrying something that could have honestly been mistaken for a bomb

That's the alleged case of mistaken identification that most needs investigating here

I await the inquest's detailed discussion of this question with bated breath

because if it's now OK to blow people away in public for being suspected bombless bombers it's now OK to blow anybody away

In the meantime I'm off to buy some stick-on bullet holes and to top up my Oyster card



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Max Keiser's been on top form lately...

More Mad Max here

Obviously, the standard caveats about anyone who's granted corporate airtime apply

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Back to the Future

One topic of conversation that's cropped up with friends and family in recent days is the corrupting influence of the economic boom of the last 10-20 years on ordinary people and whether or not those people are mentally prepared for the possibly very hard times ahead

And that corruption is evident is so many trivial, yet irritating ways

Having moved a few months ago from central South London to the suburbs of North London I rapidly developed vehement contempt for a particular breed of dickhead who drives something like this...




and lives somewhere like this...




Fellow inhabitants of Suburban Hell UK will understand

I was with the other 1/2's father in a North London shopping centre the other day and, being from New Zealand, and not understanding how things are done here, he asked us...

'Do people here actually deliberately try and walk into you?'

Silly man

Of course they do

There really are an awful lot of people in this country who, after 20 years of unparalleled economic expansion, have been rendered incapable of aspiring to anything more than being arseholes in public places and living in a Mock Tudor plastic mansionette with a BMW X3 parked outside

And that, sadly, is the high water mark

The economic tide is now turning

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A couple of friends of mine from 'Up North are of the firm opinion that the majority of British people will simply revert back, and be capable of reverting back, to a 1950s-paced lifestyle - lots of brown clothing, tinned food and having nothing better, or cheaper, to do than chatting with your neighbours





Some other friends of mine are, I think, holding out for a regression slightly further back in British history to something like 1926




Me, I reckon something like 1381 is nearer the mark...

Need a peasant in a hurry? Call Rent A Peasant

Come to think of it, what am I doing nicking images from Rent A Peasant when I've got a hard drive filled with pictures of my own family...




Actually, my old folks owned enough land to grow enough food to feed themselves, which puts them light years ahead of the supposedly much wealthier people who live in the UK in 2008

A few posts back someone left a comment along the lines of

'A truly wealthy country is one with abundant natural resources and a well-educated, hard working population which makes things people need' .

I could qualify that a little but I think it's pretty close to the mark

So, how does the UK, or the US, score these days?

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Crunchy TV

And what a Crunchy night of prime time television it was in the UK yesterday



BBC1 8.30pm - Panorama: How Safe is my Money?
ITV1 8.00pm - Crunch Time: Tonight
C4 8.00pm - Dispatches: The Human Cost of the Credit Crunch
C4 9.00pm - The Price of Property


It would be fair to say that the debt-laden masses are now been given official establishment permission, nay, encouragement to crap themselves royally

The Golden Rule when consuming all mass media coverage of economics is, of course, to remember that it is always wrong; either factually or in its timing, or both

which means, given the universally bleak tone of last night's Crunchy TV, that either

a) the economy is about to boom

b) the situation is even worse than portrayed and we're facing The Apocalypse

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As well as answering the question of 'How Safe is my Money?' yesterday, the BBC also tackled the important question of the rising number of fake £1 coins in circulation. Estimates of the number of fake coins are as high as a potentially economy-crippling £30m - something like, say, 0.05% of the money spunked on Northern Rock

The BBC website provides a clear explanation of how to identify fake coins which every concerned citizen is advised to read - after all none of us want to be caught holding currency that isn't worth the paper, or metal, it's printed on

One of these coins is a cheap, shitty knock off with no inherent value - the other's a fake

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Anthropomorphic Global Warming - The Chilling Truth™

Thanks to Paul over at the Conspiraloon Alliance for making me aware of this powerful simulation of what might really happen under certain circumstances:..





this is going to be a winner with the kind of people who hold in-depth conversations with their cats or who buy pyjamas for their poodles
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Rambling #2 - aka The Genius of Darwin

Here's a new friend of mine...




I met him whilst walking in the fresh, crispy mountains of Italy last week. I think it's what the locals call a 'Ghiro' - in English a 'Fat Dormouse'.

Conspiracy fans will be delighted to learn that the fat dormouse was introduced to the UK a 100 hundred years ago by Lord Rothschild...

"Their nickname is the Seven Sleepers as they hibernate for seven months of the year. Walter Rothschild, who later became the second Baron Rothschild, brought the first six Glis Glis to England in 1902. No-one knows exactly how, but they escaped into the wild from the Rothschild home at Tring Park and have spread and bred! However, instead of happily hibernating out of doors they moved inside for the English winter! Soon, local farmers were complaining of apple stores being ruined and local people were hearing unexplained bumps in the night ... a sure sign that the Glis Glis were making themselves quite at home in the attic. One woman was convinced she was going mad!"

This was clearly a pioneering act of primitive bioterrorism, though how fat dormice fit in exactly with the global banking conspiracy, the foundation of Israel, freemasonry and space aliens is still not 100% clear to me

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And because I'm more than a little bit sad, all the walking I've been doing here and in my Mothersland and my encounters with fat dormice, amusingly-shaped mushrooms (another time, another photo) and all sorts of other livings things in their natural environment, I've been pondering upon the 'Genius of Darwin' as much as ever - especially the impact of Darwinism on the way people think

As it happens, whether Darwin was right or wrong about the Evolution of Life makes virtually bugger all difference to most people's daily lives. However, Darwinism has affected the way people interpret tangible events that do impact on their daily lives

Before Darwinism and the Enlightenment, most people believed that someone, or some entity, was responsible for everything that happened. The weather, the outcome of battles, the shape of tea leaves in a cup, the throw of some dice; all was the Will of some god or other.

There was no such thing as chance. Everything that happened was the predetermined outcome of a controlling intelligence

After Darwin, it was considered very clever to believe that everything of any importance or scale was the result of blind chance. Any pattern of events that appeared to be result of design was simply the result of blind chance combined with some kind of selection mechanism

The result was that, in the act of denying the Hand of God in natural affairs, Darwinism also had the consequence of denying the Hand of Man in human affairs

Anyone who suggests that the course of human, or natural affairs, may be the result of the interplay of intelligent planning and the natural selection of random events is now branded an irrational religious lunatic or a conspiracy theorist

Shit just happens

and if you don't believe that Shit just happens then you're only fit for the Funny Farm

Because I'm a Loon I believe that the promotion of this kind of thinking, as an essentially exclusive model to explain how the world works, was an entirely deliberate course of action - but I would wouldn't I

If you would like to witness a nice example of what I'm talking about, the mainstream coverage of the recent financial turmoil is a nice case history

Suspect Paki

The unwavering message of the mainstream coverage of the 'Credit Crunch' is...

• The impending implosion of our financial system is an unintended consequence of unreasoning, animalistic, undirected greed and fear
  
  
• No-one could have predicted it
  
  
• There is no predetermined objective
  
  
• The people responsible for our great financial institutions are honestly trying to unfuck things as best as they can for the Common Good

The possibility that the crisis could have been deliberately engineered in some way, and that some very clever, powerful people knew exactly what was going to happen, is deemed so unlikely it is not raised even to be debunked

Presumably, the fact that so many On-line Conspiranauts have been predicting this crash for years, in accordance with their insane models of how the world really works, is merely blind luck

And if all those CCTV cameras, databases, terrorism laws and detention infrastructure are turned towards, instead of the shadowy terrorists, a general public fucked-off with being robbed blind that will be an unintended outcome too

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Woke up this morning feeling fine... No you didn't (aka F**k off Howard)

I was in a Halifax branch today helping an elderly relative transfer her savings somewhere else, anywhere else

There was an impressive queue of people all doing the same



A member of staff walked up to the queue and said...

'Anyone making a deposit please come to the counter over here. Anyone making a deposit?'

Everyone shook their heads





Got to the front of the queue, had a large withdrawal cheque printed and then the clerk tried to, persistently, flog us a fucking credit card

Says it all really





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Not long to wait now pt 374

...and whilst on the subject of the impending Global Financial Apocalypse we Loons have been foretelling for some time, now's a good time to, yet again, dust off that famous Jefferson quote...


"If the American people ever allow the banking system to control their money, first by inflation, then by deflation; their children will one day wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."


It is a much repeated though, I suspect, not completely understood quote

I think people understand the inflation part of the con because they have experienced it in their daily lives. Deflation, for the moment anyway, is a much more theoretical concept

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Strange things are going on in the world of money right now - retail inflation is going through the roof, yet the prices of shares and commodities are going through the floor

And because I'm such a nice person I'm writing this post to explain to anyone who bumps into it exactly what is happening, and that is...

Virtually no-one in the global finance industry knows
what the fuck is going on

Quite simple really

The recent spikes in the price of oil and food weren't the result of the Chinese eating steaks and driving SUVs, Peak Oil or biofuel production

Nope

Total bollocks

All of it

The price volatility is the result of people not knowing whether to hold onto cash or not

• If you expect that the shadowy fuckers who control money supply are going to print money like there's no tomorrow and dilute the value of the £, $ or Euro in your pocket, you would be daft to hold onto the stuff. You'd buy something more tangible with it whilst there were still idiots out there daft enough to take it
  

• If, on the other hand, you expect the amount of cash in the system to start evaporating, every time a bank goes down the toilet for instance, then you'll hold onto cash and turn everything you can into cash in anticipation of its scarcity and buying power increasing

The trick is, of course, knowing for sure if the amount of money in circulation is going to increase or decrease

And the shadowy fuckers who do know aren't telling

So, there are a lot of very silly, very well paid people moving into and out of cash, commodities, equities and derivatives like headless, very well paid chickens

And, because virtually none of them know what the fuck is going on, they all pile in behind anyone who looks even faintly like he does - which makes for some very large, and not necessarily rational, price swings

It will all end in tears

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As it happens, I've had a few emails today from chums and acquaintances in the wonderful world of finance, sharing all sorts of little snippets and rumours of various large institutions bracing themselves for a major poo storm in the next couple of days

And whenever the real poo storm does finally kick off, be it this week, next month or next year, there's one thing you can be sure of. Those of us with money deposited in any bank that fails will have to take their chances. Those of us who owe money to any bank that fails can sleep easy knowing that their debt will be 100% safe whatever happens

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