Gosh, that is a tough question. It's a conundrum wrapped up in an enigma...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Latest footage of Coalition forces implementing 'no fly'(ing tanks) zone just in!!
I'm guessing that once the French started shooting down tanks and military vehicles in the 'no-fly zone' over Libya members of the Arab League began to realise that they'd just been Tango'd and that they were being treated to an object demonstration of what's in store for them if they don't run their franchises more efficiently
Anyway, this latest round of 'just' slaughter serves the Libyans right for falling out with each other and threatening Western resource hegemony just before a monster earthquake hits Japan and initiates a huge unwinding of dollar positions
They won't be doing that again in a hurry
Friday, March 11, 2011
2012 so on it's early?
'I can see your house from here'Whilst I was living in Christchurch (NZ) I was struck by how relatively blasé the locals were about living on the Ring of Fire.
Admittedly, procedures were in place in the event of a geological hiccup and low-rise building is very much the norm. However, a heck of a lot of that building was on top of cliffs, underneath cliffs or on soft, easily liquified ground. A couple of locals who visited my home were thoughtful enough to take the piss out of the month's supply of tinned food I had sitting in a cupboard.
The thing is, whilst tsunamis were seen as being very much on the cards, few people believed that Christchurch would ever be hit by a major earthquake - what with the nearest seismic fault being 80 or so miles away
Only, as it turns out, Christchurch sits directly, and I mean directly, on top of a major, previously dormant, fault and it hasn't stopped rumbling since it kicked off all of a sudden last September
Being a curious soul I've been wondering ever since how it is that a significant rupture in the Earth's crust would burst into life after being quiet for at least thousands of years?
The answer could have been, and still could be, a stochastic 'shit just happens' explanation and what happened to Christchurch is a localised one-off event with no systemic implications for anywhere else
However, some on-line Earthquake buffs (e.g.) have been suggesting that there is a spike in global seismic activity which has been building up over the last 2-3 years. The problem with knowing if they're onto something or not is the risk that these doom-sayers could be indulging in the kind of subjective, dot-joining based activities that veteran conspiraloons know and love
And then this chap posted this vaguely-frantic video a couple of days ago...
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Monday, March 07, 2011
When is an Inquest not an Inquest? pt2
The answer to the question 'What costs eight pounds fifty and is full of more holes than a string vest?'There was already a long list of unanswered questions arising from the the Official 7/7 Narrative before the 7/7 Inquest commenced. Whilst I, personally, did not expect that the Inquest would answer, or even address, the majority of these questions I did expect that the Inquest would at least attempt to describe the composition and design of the explosive devices used on 7/7
Given that inquests are usually held to establish the how, when and where of unnatural deaths it was reasonable to expect that the 7/7 Inquest would at least pretend to offer plausible answers to these questions in the context of 7/7
Silly me
Rather than simply parroting other people's observations about the farce that is the 7/7 Inquest, I strongly recommend listening to 7/7 researcher and film-maker Tom Secker's recent interview with James Corbett here...
...as well as revisiting the J7 7/7 Inquest blog, particularly the entry covering the failure to carry out proper post-mortems on the 7/7 victims, here...
James Corbett has been one of the very few relatively high traffic alternative media personalities to give the Inquest anything like the treatment I believe it deserved. His interview with Tom Secker was part of an overview of the 7/7 Inquest which Corbett released as a podcast last Sunday. It is well worth a listen...
Abstracts of the almost overwhelming number of contradictions, unanswered questions, acts of misdirection and sins of omission that peppered the 7/7 Inquest will doubtlessly follow, hopefully on this blog as well as other sources, once the proceedings have formally closed. But, f*** me, even by the standards of past whitewashes this inquest has set some kind of new benchmark. It can only have been pulled off in the sloppy way that it has with a prior expectation by the perpetrators of total media complicity
There has been one small aberration in the total media complicity which, as sure as night follows day, accompanied the 7/7 Inquest and that took place in the Guardian...
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However, welcome as this aberration is, it barely scratches the surface of the flaws in the Official 7/7 Narrative and does not even start to address the fact that the Official Narrative of what happened that day is now even less well supported by anything that approximates to admissable evidence than it was *before* the inquest started
There is a very strong possibly, now verging on a certainty, that person or persons unknown are being allowed to literally get away with murder
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Friday, January 28, 2011
'Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver' Update!!
Max and MinimaxZany madcap financial commentator Max Keiser has an unparalleled track record of economic and geopolitical forecasting. So much so that the BBC gave him his own show called 'The Oracle'
Max's portfolio of uncanny predictions and empowering analytical insights include...
- prophesying that the Euro was shortly to become the world's reserve currency, a couple of months before it went tits up
- declaring his support for US Presidential candidate Barack Obama on the basis that there was a very good chance Obama would bring about 'change'
- connecting record cold, warm, wet, dry, windy, not windy, weather events with catastrophic anthropogenic global
warmingclimatechangedisruption, as well as postulating that there may be some connection between weather and crop yields
- predicting that the US Comex gold and silver exchange would default catastrophically in 2008, which it clearly did, without anyone noticing
- foretelling that the US will distance itself from Israel in its hour of need, just like it abandoned South Vitenam
The man is a soothsaying sensation, though it's not immediately clear if he is simply a brilliant analyst, gifted with superhuman psychic abilities, or whether the Universe actually submissively conforms to His Will
From the moment Keiser started his 'Buy Silver, Crash JP Morgan' campaign a couple of months back I've been watching global silver prices like a hawk
Keiser's plan was simplicity itself. JP Morgan has (allegedly) been driving the price of silver down by selling billions of dollars of silver it didn't actually possess. If enough people were to call JP Morgan's bluff, buy physical silver and drive the price up, JP Morgan's positions would collapse and the price of silver would skyrocket - destroying an evil bank and enriching those who killed it in the same act
A brilliant plan. Of course, if JP Morgan were to ever implode the resulting costs and losses (plus a dollop extra) would simply be assumed in all our names by government. But, nevertheless, a really, really brilliant plan
So, how's it doing? How much money have the legions of junior league silver bugs who have followed Max's call to 'Buy Silver, Crash JP Morgan' made so far?
Yup, The Oracle is still truly at the peak of his powers
Actually, anyone who joined the 'Buy Silver, Crash Morgan' campaign would have potentially enjoyed an even bigger (negative) return than -10.48% over the last 30 days
Silver coins, even those without a collectable value, sell for a mark-up of 15% or more over the scrap value of their silver content. Max presumably knows all about the excellent mark-ups in the bullion biz, as his site is, coincidentally, sponsored by bullion dealers
On top of the dealer's margin, if you buy a silver coin in Europe it is liable for VAT of, typically, 20%
So, if you bought a 1oz silver coin for something like £24 a month ago, it is now worth a shade under £17 today. Your £7 loss being shared out amongst the bullion dealer, the government's creditors, and speculators like JP Morgan
Sweet
And, yes, the fiat price of silver, and most other needful things which can't be printed into existence, will very possibly rise ahead of wages and interest on savings but timing, as they say, is everything
In the meantime, as fundamentally worthless as fiat currency is, the Max Keisers and JP Morgans of this world will still sell their grannies for a pot of it
Or, as a fellow conspiranaut said "If you want to put your hand in our pocket Max, give our nuts a scratch while you're at it...." .
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Free speech doubleplus bad
With these Orwellian headlines the Guardian is really spoiling us. First there was this a few weeks ago...
and now this gem...
The problem with the Guardian of course is that it is the largest-circulation, allegedly left-wing newspaper in the UK and a natural focal point for people who would like to see a gentler, fluffier world
Personally, I would describe the Guardian as an authoritarian allegedly left-wing newspaper
...and there's nothing fluffy about authoritarianism
A little while back a friend complained to me about the media treatment of an issue he is interested in and he said, in an exasperated tone, 'Even the Guardian is deleting my comments!!'
when my laughter had died down a little, and he was able to get a word in edgewise, he followed up with something like 'Come to think of it, that is a pretty knob end thing to say...'
plurality of debate - the very cornerstone of CiF policy...
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and now this gem...
The problem with the Guardian of course is that it is the largest-circulation, allegedly left-wing newspaper in the UK and a natural focal point for people who would like to see a gentler, fluffier world
Personally, I would describe the Guardian as an authoritarian allegedly left-wing newspaper
...and there's nothing fluffy about authoritarianism
A little while back a friend complained to me about the media treatment of an issue he is interested in and he said, in an exasperated tone, 'Even the Guardian is deleting my comments!!'
when my laughter had died down a little, and he was able to get a word in edgewise, he followed up with something like 'Come to think of it, that is a pretty knob end thing to say...'
plurality of debate - the very cornerstone of CiF policy....
Monday, January 10, 2011
Blogger.com - back to being a PIA
Those of us who remember the early days of Blogger will recall what a Pain in the Arse it used to be. Blogs would disappear for days on end, comments would disappear, the formatting of posts would get shredded for no reason at all. You got, as they say, what you paid for
For the last few years the service has been relatively sweet, with only the occasional, bearable niggle
Lately, however, Blogger has implemented an anti-spam filter which you can't turn off and which takes an arbitrarty and sometimes retrospective approach to sandboxing comments
The main reasons why I try and keep this blog going, even though I have competing calls on my time is the fact I enjoy the occasional outbreaks of informed, amusing and profane commenting that sometimes appear under my posts. It's heartening to be reminded that there are at least some people out there who are sceptical of Official Narratives but, at the same time, don't chug down and regurgitate Alternative Narratives without checking them out beforehand
Blogger is now getting in the way of that. Moderation fecks up the flow of commenting and Blogger is effectively imposing arbitrary moderation on commenting whether I like it or not. It doesn't help that Blogger does not inform me when a comment has been retrospectively removed. The comments aren't being erased permanently but as I'm not (quite) sitting on a computer permanently there may sometimes be a delay before they are released
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For the last few years the service has been relatively sweet, with only the occasional, bearable niggle
Lately, however, Blogger has implemented an anti-spam filter which you can't turn off and which takes an arbitrarty and sometimes retrospective approach to sandboxing comments
The main reasons why I try and keep this blog going, even though I have competing calls on my time is the fact I enjoy the occasional outbreaks of informed, amusing and profane commenting that sometimes appear under my posts. It's heartening to be reminded that there are at least some people out there who are sceptical of Official Narratives but, at the same time, don't chug down and regurgitate Alternative Narratives without checking them out beforehand
Blogger is now getting in the way of that. Moderation fecks up the flow of commenting and Blogger is effectively imposing arbitrary moderation on commenting whether I like it or not. It doesn't help that Blogger does not inform me when a comment has been retrospectively removed. The comments aren't being erased permanently but as I'm not (quite) sitting on a computer permanently there may sometimes be a delay before they are released
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What happened to the bacofoil rocket suits and personal robots?
Eco-sustainable Planned-opolis...
I was going to compare and contrast competing Visions of the Future by pasting up the Suicide Booth scene from Futurama, but the only online clip I could find that hasn't been taken down by the copyright bots was in Czech
Mind you, whilst unintelligible, it does have a charm of its own
And one of these days I would like to sit down and compile a list of all the characteristics of the genre of propagandistic film-making that I will forever associate with the Blair years in the UK.
There's a shared look and sound to the style of films I have in mind and they are often associated with the kind of 'Common Purpose'-esque, public-private initiatives which piss me off something rotten - however mumsy the voice over
Whilst I appreciate that many loons out there like to describe this propaganda as 'communist' or 'marxist', they're wrong. It is the product of an unholy merger of corporate and state power, and that is fascism, well mostly
I appreciate that it's easier for people who don't see themselves as lefties to identify anything they perceive as evil as being 'Marxist' or 'communist' (and for lefties to identify anything evil as being 'fascist') but the situation is a little more complicated than simplistic use of poorly defined or understood terms like 'Marxism' is capable of describing
The fact that unaccountable foundations, pressure groups and think tanks, like the one that made the video at the top of this post, are funded by big corporations as well as government should be a bit of a fucking clue as to the nature of The Beast.
If your definition of communism encompasses activities that are promoted by and benefit large, privately owned corporations and billionaire individuals it might be worth your while contemplating the internal contradictions in that point of view. I can understand how people might argue that a bastardised form of communism might, like so many other 'isms', be co-opted as a tool of those private corporations and billionaires but are those corporations and billionaires themselves communist? What word would you, should you use to describe them?
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I was going to compare and contrast competing Visions of the Future by pasting up the Suicide Booth scene from Futurama, but the only online clip I could find that hasn't been taken down by the copyright bots was in Czech
Mind you, whilst unintelligible, it does have a charm of its own
And one of these days I would like to sit down and compile a list of all the characteristics of the genre of propagandistic film-making that I will forever associate with the Blair years in the UK.
There's a shared look and sound to the style of films I have in mind and they are often associated with the kind of 'Common Purpose'-esque, public-private initiatives which piss me off something rotten - however mumsy the voice over
Whilst I appreciate that many loons out there like to describe this propaganda as 'communist' or 'marxist', they're wrong. It is the product of an unholy merger of corporate and state power, and that is fascism, well mostly
I appreciate that it's easier for people who don't see themselves as lefties to identify anything they perceive as evil as being 'Marxist' or 'communist' (and for lefties to identify anything evil as being 'fascist') but the situation is a little more complicated than simplistic use of poorly defined or understood terms like 'Marxism' is capable of describing
The fact that unaccountable foundations, pressure groups and think tanks, like the one that made the video at the top of this post, are funded by big corporations as well as government should be a bit of a fucking clue as to the nature of The Beast.
If your definition of communism encompasses activities that are promoted by and benefit large, privately owned corporations and billionaire individuals it might be worth your while contemplating the internal contradictions in that point of view. I can understand how people might argue that a bastardised form of communism might, like so many other 'isms', be co-opted as a tool of those private corporations and billionaires but are those corporations and billionaires themselves communist? What word would you, should you use to describe them?
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