Recently European Comr. for Agriculture, Dacion Ciolos, has said, "any business that relies upon subsidies (grants, tax breaks) is NOT A REAL BUSINESS." (Oh dear, that's practically every Third Sector set up!)
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Climate Change Confusion and Disbelief
Thursday, July 26, 2012
British Schoolchildren Taught Betrayal is Good
James Higham at Nourishing Obscurity writes from personal experience."I too spent several years in Russia, in the years immediately following the fall of the communist regime, and can remember vividly the eyes of people around you, never making eye contact, always looking at the ground as they walked the city streets. But the one sound you never heard on the streets of Moscow at that time that struck me more than anything else, was laughter. In 95 they were still a people in fear of their own government, and the snitches who would denounce them".
It is far nastier than it seems at first glance:
One of the quirks of living in Russia was being among people just coming out of the USSR strictures whilst at the same time, things were being reported back here that the UK was moving towards a new serfdom, an EUSSR or UKSSR. If that seemed fanciful to many over here, it wasn’t to me as I saw the last vestiges and one of those was the policy of Denunciation.
Original Content at PJC Journal http://parker-joseph.com/pjcjournal/2012/07/26/snitching-loosens-social-cohesion/
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/petermullen/100172650/hm-revenue-and-customs-want-school-kids-to-snitch-on-tax-dodgers-it-smacks-of-eastern-europe-pre-1989/
House of Lords (Cessation of Membership) Bill
Do not know if you have received this message today , It is not just interesting , but shocking ! We the people are being shot down from all angles . It seems that this present administration are bolting all of the doors as we speak . There must be someone who can halt progress !
Dear All,Here for information regarding the House of Lords, is the last debate on this bill, and the second link is for the Bill itself.House of Lords (Cessation of Membership) Bill [HL]: Third Reading (24 Jul 2012)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2012-07-24a.609.7&s=speaker%3A13107#g609.8
Baroness Anelay of St Johns:
My Lords, as is usual in these matters, I
shall now read the following. I have it in command from Her Majesty the
Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, having been informed of
the purport of the House of Lords (Cessation of Membership) Bill, has
consented to place her prerogative and interest, so far as they are
affected by the Bill, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposes
of...House of Lords (Cessation of Membership) Bill 2012-2013regardsJ
The Queen has not signed anything, it is all rubber stamped by civil servants following the instructions of idiots in the Government. They all want hanging!
The Convergence Of Marx, Orwell and Kafka
Guest Post: Global Crisis -
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/25/2012 11:27 -0400Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
Global Crisis: The Convergence of Marx, Orwell And Kafka
The global crisis is not merely economic; it is the result of profound financial, sociological and political trends best captured by Marx, Orwell and Kafka.
The global crisis is best understood as the convergence of the modern trends identified by Marx, Orwell and Kafka. Let's start with Franz Kafka, the writer (1883-1924) who most eloquently captured the systemic injustices of all powerful bureaucracies--the alienation experienced by the hapless citizen enmeshed in the bureaucratic web, petty officialdom's mindless persecutions of the innocent, and the intrinsic absurdity of the centralized State best expressed in this phrase: "We expect errors, not justice."
If this isn't the most insightful summary of the Eurozone debacle, then what is? A lawyer by training and practice, Kafka understood that the the more powerful and entrenched the bureaucracy, the greater the collateral damage rained on the innocent, and the more extreme the perversion of justice.
The entire global financial system is Kafkaesque: the bureaucracies of the Central State have two intertwined goals: protect the financial Elites from the consequences of their parasitic predation, and protect their own power and perquisites.
While Marx understood the predatory, parasitic nature of Monopoly Capitalism, he did not anticipate the State's partnering with Cartel/Crony Capitalism; in effect, the State has appropriated the appropriators, stripmining the citizenry to protect the financial sector from the consequences of their "business model" (leverage, fraud, embezzlement and the misrepresentation of risk). But the State doesn't merely enable ("regulate") the predation of financiers; it also stripmines the citizenry to fund its own expansion into every nook and cranny of civil society.
This is where Orwell enters the convergence, for the State masks its stripmining and power grab with deliciously Orwellian misdirections such as "the People's Party," "democratic socialism," and so on.
Orwell understood the State's ontological imperative is expansion, to the point where it controls every level of community, markets and society. Once the State escapes the control of the citizenry, it is free to exploit them in a parasitic predation that is the mirror-image of Monopoly capital. For what is the State but a monopoly of force, coercion, data manipulation and the regulation of private monopolies?
What is the EU bureaucracy in Brussels but the perfection of a stateless State?
As Kafka divined, centralized bureaucracy has the capacity for both Orwellian obfuscation (anyone read those 1,300-page Congressional bills other than those gaming the system for their private benefit?) and systemic avarice and injustice.
The convergence boils down to this: it would be impossible to loot this much wealth if the State didn't exist to enforce the "rules" of parasitic predation. In China, the Elite's looting proceeds along somewhat different rules from the looting of Europe and the U.S., but the end result is the same in all financialized, centrally managed economies: an expansive kleptocracy best understood as the convergence of Marx, Orwell and Kafka.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-global-crisis-convergence-marx-orwell-and-kafka
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Grant Thornton - Just Doing Their Jobs!
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/332915/Inventor-kills-himself-over-tax-pursuit
“A BRILLIANT engineer with severe depression took his life on the day of his eviction over a council tax debt of £1,500, plus costs of £70,000.
Peter Williams, 63, stood in front of a train in February after he had been pursued relentlessly by lawyers over the debt for 16 years.
The council refused to drop the case despite efforts by Mr Williams’s MP, doctor and friends to stop it because of his poor mental health.
Mr Williams, of Langford, Bedford, died at Biggleswade months before his Vortex device was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most energy efficient hand dryer.
His suicide note said he could not face losing his home, stating: “I have had enough and cannot stand any more of the mental turmoil.”
He implored his friends to make “most public” his case “against the council and the system”. An inquest was opened and adjourned on Tuesday. Mental health barrister Laura Davidson agreed to represent his family without charge.
No one from Central Bedfordshire District Council attended……!
His GP wrote, telling the council his depression had put him in the “severe category”, but Grant Thornton instructed solicitors to evict him….”!
GRANT THORNTON, again! What a greedy,wicked firm this appears to be! I believe that this is the same revolting, predatory firm that helped to controversially foreclose on Brantwood School for Girls in Sheffield, in cahoots with the Rotten Bank of Scotland! I believe that this wonderful school was unfortunate enough to have on its board of governors - an ex Grant Thornton accountant, a data miner turned 'consultant' who, I believe, gets paid handsomely by Grant Thornton to meticulously go over firms' accounts but could not, I believe, help much to 'save' his daughters' school - !!?? I believe, allegedly, etc! http://forums.ukcolumn.org/showthread.php?tid=1406
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
BUDGET Airlines Caught Spraying Pollution
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
I have long suspected the cheap new airlines - EasyJet, RyanAir, etc. of being nothing more than flying toxic waste dumpsters. I have no proof but I just worked out the economics of these new cheap airlines and IT DOES NOT ADD UP! Why would hard-nosed, greedy businessmen suddenly turn into benevolent benfactors of the human race and create ultra cheap air travel purely to enable people to travel all over the place nice and cheaply when they can charge hundreds of pound for a ticket? It make absolutely no sense at all.
Everyone would stare at me and said "No, you can't be right!" and thought I was being a flakey "conspiracy theorist" nutcase -
Well GUESS WHAT? - I AM!
And now I am being proved right!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE SAYING THIS - "I TOLD YOU SO!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQA6WB_cSks
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Fukushima Children, Abnormal Growths From Radiation
(from BusinessInsider) – Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths– cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
The shocking numbers come from the thyroid examination section of the “Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey,” published by Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR) and translated by the blog Fukushima Voice.
Shunichi Yamashita, M.D., president of the Japan Thyroid Association, sent a letter to members in January that outlined what guidelines to follow for thyroid abnormalities. In 2001 Yamashita co-authored a study that found normal children in Nagasaki to have 0 percent nodules and 0.8 percent cysts.
The introduction of the letter, written by Fukushima Voice, states that the results in Fukushima show a “much faster progression compared to Chernobyl” as research done around Chernobyl showed the rate of thyroid nodules in children 5 to 10 years after the accident to be 1.74 percent.
In March 2011 a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami that led to series of nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, leading to the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
The introduction of the letter notes that Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott said that it’s not normal for children to have any thyroid nodules or cysts and that the results mean that Fukushima children received a very high dose of radiation.
ENENews also reported a specific case in which three children in a family who lived 60 miles from the Fukushima nuclear plant were found to have multiple cysts on their thyroids.
http://activistnews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/children-in-fukushima-to-be-given.html