One of the benefits of growing up in Sweden is the abundance of moonshine distributors. Were I spent most of my teens about every 4th house had their own apparatus and even though the police had a fair knowledge of most of them, they hardly lifted a finger until some idiot sold his stuff to the very young.
Why was the police so lenient you may ask? Well, firstly the police often came from the same neighborhood consequently knew the people very well; and secondly they were not above drinking the stuff themselves at birthday parties or at Midsummer. There is also the fact that people making their own hooch rarely get into any sort of trouble, so the police don’t really consider them to be a priority. Once in a while the police will pick one or two up, just to make their presence known, but generally speaking the police won’t care about minor distilleries, if they did they’d haft to arrest a large portion of the public.
Swedes, just as Finns and Russians, have a complicated relationship to alcohol. We don’t drink as much in quantity or as often as for example the French, but when we do drink, we drink a lot. It is a rare thing seeing Swedes taking a couple of glasses of wine on a casual day. It will happen, not just all the time as is custom in societies in southern Europe. Swedes rather gulp down a bottle of vodka each Friday (and Saturday) than have a glass of wine to dinner each day. We rather get totally wasted every free day than have one beer each day after work at the local pub.
This is a generalisation of course and is not always true; especially not in Sweden’s larger cities were people are more “continental” in their behavior, but it is nevertheless common practice.
I remember a couple of American exchange students in high school and the horror on their faces during their first couple of weekends in Sweden. While they were sipping on cider and trying to behave, the rest of us were knocking down pure vodka and skinny dipping in the moonlight. And whenever talking to African immigrants they are appalled by how alcohol is misused in Swedish society. Often pointing this out while chewing on CAT or smoking a joint, which in their culture is less destructive. They are probably right by the way.
Anyway, heading down the slippery slope of financial disaster there are a few skills that will make life easier. Knowing how to get a well dressed parliamentarian in the crosshair for one, and how to make your own mountain dew is another. I am not going to teach you how, not in either case, there are plenty of instructions online for that purpose, but I would urge you to hurry up getting tons of suger before prices goes through the roof. When there are no jobs, the world as a whole is going to hell, and you are contemplating eating your young to survive, moonshine will be nice to have so you should stock up with necessary supplies before the calamities begin.
The most common way for government to handle this “illegal” process is the same way as government handles everything else. People making their own alcohol are regarded as criminals who do their very best to sell methanol to preteens. Think of the Chiiildreeeen! Moonshine is only made by shady characters with filthy hands going ‘Mwa ha ha’ in dark basements, and whenever you drink their stuff blindness and crazy wackiness ensues. Government usually have at least one information campaign a year along with councilors lecturing at schools about the dangers of alcohol. Impotence, cancer, beaten up wives, homelessness, crime of all sorts, and many more things are comes into your life whenever you let alcohol into your body.
This flanked with Christian nut jobs pointing fingers and parent groups rallying is all designed to make us feel ashamed. And with bought and paid for journalists and the occasional ‘expert’ arguing governments’ case, we have a situation where people are hiding their bags of alcohol even when it is legitimately bought. Not drinking less, quite the opposite, but sneaking with it.
Whenever this happens government is happy. They have succeeded in “hiding” the problem, shown that they can do something and, most importantly, made us dance to their pipe.
As usual government action and words has nothing to do with concern, it’s all about money and power. If people make their own alcohol, government loses income, and they really need those new polluting jets, and how would our masters survive without lavish dinner parties? Also government has no intention of letting people going about their own business. How would that look? Free thinking adults handling themselves and taking care of their own problems? Oh my, that would be horrible. It would mean less power to the righteous elite, and that we cannot have.
So from a government viewpoint we need to be under their thumb, taxed and controlled.
Also, which is probably the most common expression of government behavior, they totally ignore history and pay no attention whatsoever to reality.
I cannot think of a single country in the history of mankind that hasn’t tried to outlaw, ban or tax alcohol in order to minimize consumption. They’ve all tried it, and they have all failed. Still they think they can do it, so they try, and try, and try, failing miserably each time. Now, what was the definition of insanity again…?
Actually, for the most part, they don’t just fail; the consequence is often the complete opposite of what is intended. Also very characteristic when it comes to government intervention – that is to say they increase the initial “problem” or create new ones.
For example one may assume that when a totalitarian government like that of the Soviet Union, with a sociopath leader killing people for looking at him the wrong way, outlaws alcohol with the threat of Gulag-camps if disobeying, it could maybe work. It didn’t, in fact Russians drank like never before. Within a couple of years Stalin canceled the law and started government owned distilleries instead…
The U.S. tried during the prohibition period during which Americans drank more than they’ve done before or since. The period also gave birth to the Mafia, and this is yet another unavoidable and unintended consequence of all bans – there will always be someone filling the demand.
Pharos, Military dictatorships and Swedish Kings have also tried it, always failing miserably.
It cannot be done, but they still try it. Government in its true glory.
But in the near future, when the world as we know it goes up in flames, what then?
It is likely that a government under fire will, in their minds at least, have no other choice than to ignore big criminals and instead focus on the smaller stuff. They need to show that they are doing something and it is easier catching people driving too fast and moonshine makers than finding and looking up robbers, rapists and banksters. If so, it is also likely that the punishment for lesser crimes will go up.
However, there is also a chance, at least in some countries, that the anarchy and upheaval will free people in certain ways hence make, for example, moonshine a way of life. This is a very possible outcome and so I would urge many of you to pick up an interest. It can be an interest in ropes and how to best string up dead weight in lampposts or it can be moonshine. As said, the information is available for us all. All you need is the right equipment and some know-how.
Let’s get cracking shall we.
The end is nigh and The Greatest Depression is closing in with millions of ferocious, unemployed, disillusioned and helplessly starving infected people erratically walking an unforgiving earth for years to come. Truth to be told we´re heading for a financial apocalypse because you, the people, believe in any tall tale The Powers That Be cables out. All we can do now is to wait for the fattest lady in history to sing the highest note ever heard...
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Oh, how fun it is to be right
America is showing one horrible number after the other at the moment. Things seem to unravel quickly across the pond.
U.S. lenders took over 102,134 properties last month, RealtyTrac Inc. reports say. That was the highest monthly tally since the company began. At the same time Bank of America have announced that it was suspending all foreclosure proceedings, presumably until further notice. Other banks have already suspended foreclosures in a whole truckload of states.
Today the dollar dropped even further after a report showed jobless claims increasing. This at the same time as inflation is gaining speed.
And as a small funny side note trade deficit widened with 8.8% in August which were more than the forecast.
All this when the number of poor people in America is higher than ever before.
The stock market however is going up with The Dow hitting a five-month high…
haha… it’s hard to come up with this stuff…
I am getting popcorn for this one. I suggest you do the same.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Devoting my love to the stupid female race
So... you want to rape me eh?
Women are apparently really stupid beings that need government protection as well as not to be allowed to go out after dark.
This isn’t something new, so it didn’t really come as a surprise that when one (or more) serial rapist/s roamed the streets of Örebro (a town in the middle of Sweden) committing 42 rapes over a period of a little more than a year, and women were told to stay at home. Apparently women shouldn’t go out, or at least not go out alone; if they do the police cannot guarantee their safety. And if they really feel it necessary to go out they need company, preferably from a military convoy.
During the same period of time 1200 assaults was reported against young men in the same city… but that’s beside the point, men are different, stronger, more trustworthy, not as slutty, so men don’t need to be warned or be told to take a taxi home and stay away from alcohol, no sire...
Anyway, back to the dumbness of the female species, it is obvious something is wrong with weaker sex isn’t it? I mean why else would they again, and again fall victim for the opposite gender? They should listen more to advice from the government and the police, don’t you think?
They are probably just asking for it - no Pussy dry that has something hard inside… But somehow men, as statistics show above, are able to stay away from trouble, so why can’t women?
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Dropping the irony for a moment I do know that there actually are stupid females out there. There are a few that have no problem going drunk and alone into a dark alley at 4am while casually flaunting their breasts. And there are those that when offered candy happily jumps into the black van. Frankly I believe such atypical individuals deserve whatever they get, and I won’t shed many tears over them.
However, when reading and hearing about events like those in Örebro, two questions immediately jumps to mind.
Firstly, why do societies all across the globe react in this different way when it comes to men versus women? Why there aren’t condescending voices heard arguing that men should stay at home is a fair question.
The answer to this question is probably not as awful as one might think, at least not for anyone outside hardcore feminist circles. Right or wrong, we have an inherent automatic response system that tells us that the ‘week’, adolescent and elderly needs protection. Men, in particular young men, are considered stronger and able to fend for themselves. That this group is much more inclined to end up in trouble than their female equivalent becomes secondary when faced with a comparison. This is not a justification for the difference in reaction, but makes it partly understandable.
The second question is however, in my mind, much more serious.
If the police cannot guarantee peoples (women) safety, why are we paying taxes for this pleasure and why can’t we/women fend for ourselves?
If we take the sad fact first; you should know that rape, or any crime for that matter, can very seldom be stopped before it has happen. Police are there to protect us yes, but for the most part they are there to arrest criminals who have already committed a crime. This is one of the many reasons I, for the most part, support and feel for the police. Must be a very hard working with that knowledge in mind.
But the interesting thing here is that we can ONLY be protected by the police.
Actually we are not even allowed to rely on anyone or anything else. Militias are outlawed and so are most forms of self-defense. And, at least when it comes to women, we’re told that we are so incompetent and so defenseless that we need to stay at home or we need be told how to act in order to avoid being hurt.
I don’t know why this situation has arisen, and I am very puzzled that we let it continue.
If we stick with women and the issue of rape for a moment - can women, in any way, do anything against a pair of big thugs looking for a rape session? Of course women can, but you see they are not allowed to.
Self-defense classes? Please. If you’re a woman you need a black belt to be able to fight of one attacking man if he’s a lot bigger and stronger. Sure a lucky punch in the right place or dislocating a knee with a kick will do it, and it happens that the tiniest of creatures can fend themselves against a much bigger attacker, but is that really the odds to play? And what if there are two of them? What if there are seven of them? No black belt or training in the world will help you then, no matter what movies tell you.
There’s only one thing that make all individuals equal, regardless of size, strength or gender – a gun.
I promise you all, if every woman on this planet had a gun or was allowed to carry a gun the number of rapes would go down dramatically. Even the risk of suddenly looking into the black void of a barrel is enough to scare of most attackers, which means that not all women need to actually have a gun. So if you’re scared of them or don’t want to own one, fine, but as long as some do and it’s legal any would-be rapists need to think very hard before acting out his sick impulses.
But wouldn’t this lead to some shootings and dead folk? Well yes it would, yet another reason why rapes would go down in numbers. Rapists are often multiple offenders, shot one dead and its very likely future victims will be saved.
And, as said, guns make us equal, strangely then that those women-rights activists aren’t advocating gun rights…
As long as we allow government to be the only protector sentences like “she was asking for it” or the ever so funny “Don’t go out after dark” will be heard. Honestly, if we aren’t allowed to rely on anything other than the police, who will only show up after the fact, what else is there to say?
But if we play with the thought that many women carries a gun, the same sentences can instead be laid upon the rapist. ‘That guy really was asking for it. Trying to rape a woman with a gun. Pfffff… what a smuck!’
The Great Tribulation about to kick off again?
It seems that a couple of thinking adults believe that financial Armageddon is picking up speed again and that we’re only a short step from round two of the collapse.
Me, I am not so sure. Yes it is October and yes looking at numbers we should already be burning in hell, but I don’t get the feeling that we’re heading over the cliff right now. The manipulations and scams haven’t completely run out of steam yet, and people in general are still hopelessly hoodwinked by spin-doctors gone extreme.
So no, I don’t think it is time yet.
Of course the dollar will, over time, continue to go down while precious metals and agriculture going the other way. We will continue to receive bunches of ‘good news’ while we in reality are digging the grave deeper and deeper. All along some countries will show slight improvement while others will try to avoid getting dragged down alongside Japan and the PIGgies.
I believe that there will be an event that really puts in the fifth gear. If this event is a country defaulting, a currency really going down the crapper, a huge terrorist attack or a certain market crashing is anyone’s guess – hey! I am rooting for all four - but the point is that as long as nothing out of the norm happens I feel that the powers that be can keep things pretty smooth for a while, probably another year or two.
And frankly it is more fun if we let them add to the sandcastle for a while. We’re already at the Greatest of all Depressions full out bloody hell of a mess stage, but if they are allowed to borrow, and spend and ruin all they touch a little longer, oh my, then it is goodbye sweet humanity, goodbye. If we are to destroy life as we know it, I prefer a real bang instead of hundreds of smaller ones.
With that said, you cannot really discard things like this either. Or this. And we do have THIS to take into account… Also seeing how the Swedish Finance Mentalist is putting away 57 billion kronor for “unforeseen expenditures” sends out a certain; 'hello - what's going on?', don't you think?
Prepare folks, its coming, and it’s going to blow your mind. Probably not this week, but soon…
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sweden’s Finance Mentalist sees shaky future
Listening to Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg presenting the budget for 2011, it is very obvious he’s not really happy with how the world looks. Time and again he points out how a “dark cloud” hang over several countries and that we need to prepare for a shaky future with a potential downturn a couple of years down the line.
Another clear sign of bad times ahead is that in the budget proposition there’s 57 billion kronor put aside for “unforeseen expenditures”, an almost unheard of number in Swedish history. Makes you wonder what the Finance Mentalist know about the future…
Sadly this is not obvious when reading the budget proposal as a whole, but still kind of interesting. Sweden’s oppositional political parties seem to buy that reality, although the lefties, as usual, have many magical billions more to hand out to those screaming loudest.
I don’t pretend to know everything about other countries and their political debate, but I cannot recollect that this view on the world and this obvious unison when it comes to a shaky financial future can be found anywhere else. Gives me a bit of hope about the future.
Sweden will still crash and burn as all the rest, mostly because of the dependency on foreign trade, but also because of a huge housing bubble and too much socialism, but maybe there’s some hope, just maybe.
Another clear sign of bad times ahead is that in the budget proposition there’s 57 billion kronor put aside for “unforeseen expenditures”, an almost unheard of number in Swedish history. Makes you wonder what the Finance Mentalist know about the future…
Sadly this is not obvious when reading the budget proposal as a whole, but still kind of interesting. Sweden’s oppositional political parties seem to buy that reality, although the lefties, as usual, have many magical billions more to hand out to those screaming loudest.
I don’t pretend to know everything about other countries and their political debate, but I cannot recollect that this view on the world and this obvious unison when it comes to a shaky financial future can be found anywhere else. Gives me a bit of hope about the future.
Sweden will still crash and burn as all the rest, mostly because of the dependency on foreign trade, but also because of a huge housing bubble and too much socialism, but maybe there’s some hope, just maybe.
Monday, October 11, 2010
A sad day for Sweden
Sweden's finance mentalist Anders Borg presented a budget for 2011 on Tuesday morning. According to the Swedish government they forecast that GDP will climb by 4.8 percent in 2010, and 3.7 percent in 2011, according to the financial plan in the budget proposition. If that holds, which it won’t, it would mean a budget surplus and further tax cuts.
Looking at unemployment measured as a proportion of the labour market aged 15- to 74-years-old, is set to amount to 8.4 percent in 2010, and fall to 8 percent in 2011 and to six percent by 2014. And this is almost real unemployment. After a change in the way unemployed are counted Sweden actually have fairly good way of measuring, unlike most other nations. They are still lying of course, but still.
Sweden also have trade surpluses and, in comparison with other European countries, a pretty low public debt.
As a consequence the Swedish right-center government is one of the few governments out there that actually have the power to save much of their country, if they were to do the right thing. Sadly, as in every other case, they won’t. Most likely this was the last or second to last budget before the real mayhem starts, and so this was probably the last time they could do anything significant to change our destiny.
Basically the budget doesn’t change a thing, pretty much exactly the same numbers as the last one. Kind of prudent not getting carried away throwing cash around like Santa’s, which the lefties would have done, but being slightly better than communists and tree-hugging freaks won’t cut it.
Sweden is very dependent on foreign trade and many of her biggest trading partners are the ones in big trouble - soon to collapse. Basically the only important trading partner not about to burn in hell is Germany, which is yet another export driven economy… Sweden also have a slow moving, very regulated and extremely socialist labor market, which will not work in our favor when the world goes down the shithole and unemployment skyrockets.
But the worst problem is without a doubt housing and real-estate which has grown to ridiculous bubble heights and have made the Swedish people more in-debt than even their US counterparts. It’s like watching a young blonde walking around naked in the woods getting stalked by Jason Voorhees; you know she’s going to die, but you don’t know exactly when or how. When this thing crashes - and it will - once the world economy plummets and/or interest rates move up to levels were they should be, then Sweden will suffer immensely.
All things considered, Sweden is actually a country in horrific shape and things will turn very ugly.
The only thing we can be happy about right now is that the right-center coalition won the election which means that we have only a horrible government instead of an extremely horrible one.
I also noticed that the Finance Mentalist issued a couple of warnings about the future and other countries. Among other things he mentioned troubles in the U.S. and a very shaky European banking system. So it seems like they do have at least a hunch were this is going…
And I also do have a slim hope that the government will sell out a couple of government owned companies while they still can. If they do, they may pay of more public debt and maybe use some of that money to cut taxes. That could be the thing that saves us from a collapse and total upheaval in the near future, but I wouldn’t bet any money on it.
What they should have done is of course to cut every corner possible, and a reasonable and conservative way of handling it that would be highly possible to do is to; cut at least 100 billion kronor ($15 billion) and lower corporate taxes with the equivalent amount. They should sell every publically owned and run company, all of them, and use that money to cut public debt with 2/3 or more. They should eliminate a hundred or so of the worse laws that keeps ingenuity and entrepreneurs down. And instead of increasing the number of departments, increasing politician salaries and instead of the increase in support for municipalities, they should have done the complete opposite. And, if possible, make the central bank increase interest rates by 2-3 percent in one go.
If that had been done in this budget and similar actions were to be taken with the next budget, I would have some hope for my birth nation. As it looks now we’re screwed.
Looking at unemployment measured as a proportion of the labour market aged 15- to 74-years-old, is set to amount to 8.4 percent in 2010, and fall to 8 percent in 2011 and to six percent by 2014. And this is almost real unemployment. After a change in the way unemployed are counted Sweden actually have fairly good way of measuring, unlike most other nations. They are still lying of course, but still.
Sweden also have trade surpluses and, in comparison with other European countries, a pretty low public debt.
As a consequence the Swedish right-center government is one of the few governments out there that actually have the power to save much of their country, if they were to do the right thing. Sadly, as in every other case, they won’t. Most likely this was the last or second to last budget before the real mayhem starts, and so this was probably the last time they could do anything significant to change our destiny.
Basically the budget doesn’t change a thing, pretty much exactly the same numbers as the last one. Kind of prudent not getting carried away throwing cash around like Santa’s, which the lefties would have done, but being slightly better than communists and tree-hugging freaks won’t cut it.
Sweden is very dependent on foreign trade and many of her biggest trading partners are the ones in big trouble - soon to collapse. Basically the only important trading partner not about to burn in hell is Germany, which is yet another export driven economy… Sweden also have a slow moving, very regulated and extremely socialist labor market, which will not work in our favor when the world goes down the shithole and unemployment skyrockets.
But the worst problem is without a doubt housing and real-estate which has grown to ridiculous bubble heights and have made the Swedish people more in-debt than even their US counterparts. It’s like watching a young blonde walking around naked in the woods getting stalked by Jason Voorhees; you know she’s going to die, but you don’t know exactly when or how. When this thing crashes - and it will - once the world economy plummets and/or interest rates move up to levels were they should be, then Sweden will suffer immensely.
All things considered, Sweden is actually a country in horrific shape and things will turn very ugly.
The only thing we can be happy about right now is that the right-center coalition won the election which means that we have only a horrible government instead of an extremely horrible one.
I also noticed that the Finance Mentalist issued a couple of warnings about the future and other countries. Among other things he mentioned troubles in the U.S. and a very shaky European banking system. So it seems like they do have at least a hunch were this is going…
And I also do have a slim hope that the government will sell out a couple of government owned companies while they still can. If they do, they may pay of more public debt and maybe use some of that money to cut taxes. That could be the thing that saves us from a collapse and total upheaval in the near future, but I wouldn’t bet any money on it.
What they should have done is of course to cut every corner possible, and a reasonable and conservative way of handling it that would be highly possible to do is to; cut at least 100 billion kronor ($15 billion) and lower corporate taxes with the equivalent amount. They should sell every publically owned and run company, all of them, and use that money to cut public debt with 2/3 or more. They should eliminate a hundred or so of the worse laws that keeps ingenuity and entrepreneurs down. And instead of increasing the number of departments, increasing politician salaries and instead of the increase in support for municipalities, they should have done the complete opposite. And, if possible, make the central bank increase interest rates by 2-3 percent in one go.
If that had been done in this budget and similar actions were to be taken with the next budget, I would have some hope for my birth nation. As it looks now we’re screwed.
Currency war? Sure, those are fun
Let’s create some wealth!
As I predicted long before Gorgon Brownie solemnly declared back in 2009 that he and his soul-sucking pals would make $1.1 trillion available for the world market to curve a depression - protectionism is on the rise today. And as expected they try to hide the trade barriers and the extra taxation on foreign goods through currency manipulations.
No-one wants to be protectionist, not openly, so instead they employ shadowy deals behind the curtain or simply let the central bank do what they do best – print money.
The debt-strapped households of America and Britain can no longer hold up the dysfunctional house of cards. PIGS were a nice, and fairly accurate, acronym to point out the Mediterranean screw-ups, and who can forget the madness of Ireland or the banking cartels robbery of Eastern Europe?
As pointed out several times before, not only by me on this blog but by several thinking adults who have the math-skill to pass 3rd grade, the world is in deep, deep trouble. Financially it’s hard to find something from history that comes close. Some have made references to the collapse of ancient Rome, others point to the Great Depression, but none of those economic calamities from the past can really measure up.
I am not going to, again, lift all the facts out in the open. If you haven’t got it by now, you probably won’t until you are forced to eat your young.
In short; we’re screwed. Big Time.
Many within the elitist sphere know this or at least suspect it. Sadly for them they have already played out every card they had, and they know this too. They borrowed, printed, and spent trillions. They imposed regulations to ease the mind of a stupefied public, and they have used every spin-doctor on the planet to assure that things are fixed and that we are heading for better times. What more can they do?
And it is here protectionism comes in.
Sure they could borrow more money, at least some of the countries could, and more regulations are always on the table, but they went all in last year to shock start consumers and banks to start spending again, so even the dumbest of Keynesians (except Krugman and Co, of course) should know by now that if that didn’t work, not a thing they do now will work either. That is if they had any money left to take us another circle around the asylum, which they don’t.
So that leaves only three options.
When they went all in, mortgaging our future several times over, most of them probably felt they would win the game. Shockingly Truth called them, then Mathematics put in a raise, and if that wasn’t enough; reality in turn also raised. With red faces and spinning eyes revealing the bad hand they are stuck with, another plan hast to be conjured up. (You might think that they have wives and children left to bet, but no, they were put into the pot as ante.)
When all else fails, governments, throughout history, have always resorted to war. War however has its time, and we are not really there yet. So they cannot pull out a gun and start shooting other players, at least not until the people have been groomed to accept it.
That leaves only protectionism and the printing press.
Protectionism isn’t really a good word today. Many out there know protectionism is wrong, and governments have gone great lengths to prove themselves to be eager proponents of free trade. One of the reasons the European Union was formed was to stop European countries from using barriers against each other since those, historically speaking, often lead to conflict.
But even more than that, all countries have countless diplomatic entanglements and the world economy is a complicated thing with trade being one of the important parts. If a country starts doing too much to protect domestic jobs or whatnot they will suffer greatly for it and there are very few that can get away with even slight alterations.
With this in mind only very slim protectionist actions can be taken and then only under the disguise of something else. Like a ‘Car for Clunkers’ program, or a bailout. Not to worry though, the further down this road we go the more openly they will impose restrictions, taxes and tolls, but not really yet...
This means that, in the eyes of our puppet masters, there’s really only one way to go right now. This choice is also something that seemingly can be used to, indirectly, protect domestic industry and jobs. And, if handled correctly, some part of the Debt Mountain can be paid off. But most importantly it can be use as an illusionary trick to cover up what really is going on.
For example journalists who never check any fact, and only report what they are told or what others already have reported, can be used to sell high numbers to the public. If the powers that be throw out billions claiming it is to save jobs or support healthcare, no-one questions were the money comes from. Taxes weren’t raised, no real cutbacks were made, but somehow billion upon billion pours down from above. It’s magic!
Rulers of all ages have not only fooled their people with this trickery, they often also fool themselves. Once they start using the printing press as a way out, they won’t stop. It’s an easy fix. Conjure up lots of money from thin air, give it away like Santa and accept the praise from a happy populace. No cuts in welfare, no extra taxes, only more money in circulation. Happy times.
The problem with this madness if of course inflation. It usually takes 1-2 years for the money to really reach the entire economy hence it takes a while for savings to wither and prices to go up, but it will happen. And the longer this enchantment last, the worse it gets. And the bigger the pile of phantom money is, the worse it gets.
What they have done so far was done almost in complete unison. Everybody printed hence everybody’s money lost in value, but since a currency is seen in relation to other currencies, the trickery reached a global level. If the dollars loses in value and inflation sets in, but the same happens to the Euro, the Yen and so on, there are hardly any detectable signs. The status que remains, or at least no real hick-ups is shown. Prices go up and so on, but the relation between currencies stays about the same.
This is what is about to change.
The countries actively intervening in exchange markets to suppress their currencies – China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, even Switzerland, to name a few – are all too often the same ones that have the biggest trade surpluses with the US. They are taking active steps to prevent America from using inflation to magically extricate itself from the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, now 17.1% in the latest U6 index.
Each country is doing so for "understandable reasons": Japan to avoid a deflationary crisis, China to hold together a political order that is more fragile than it looks. And since the Dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and everyone needs to have them and many have a lot of them, countries want the status que to remain.
The Euro has problems for yet other reasons. The asymmetric shocks that comes from a too diversified union with huge trouble for one reason in one set of countries, other huge problems for another reason in other countries while the very few that behave fight to not be stuck with the bill.
With this in mind currency devaluation and inflationary policies becomes reasonable solutions for those in charge. So of course they will print money, of course they will try to keep interests rates low, of course they will devalue their money. And of course they want to stay ahead of other countries – so of course there will be ‘currency wars’.
Our masters have run out of options, and they are starting to run out of time. Sooner or later (likely very soon) this castle of sand will be engulfed by a financial Tsunami of the likes no-one has ever seen. Before that happen you can be absolutely sure that printing machines will overheat across the globe.
This really is the worst nightmare of them all - a giant inflationary depression on a worldwide scale. And that’s where we’re heading folks.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Hahaha…
You are all screwed! Mwa ha ha!
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The Federal Reserve needs to pump at least $6 trillion to $7 trillion more into the U.S. economy to have any meaningful impact on sluggish growth, former Bush economic adviser Marc Sumerlin told CNBC.
Of course Timmothy Gaitner agrees, although he’s arguing that only $1 trillion is needed. His goal is to pump up U.S. stocks, which he will do in the short run (now), in the long run however we know where this path leads. The Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe have walked that road before alongside other failures from history.
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Nobelist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, and Harvard's Martin Feldstein, the former chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, achieved an unnerving degree of consensus about the future during an economic forum in Washington. Their views were shared by a third economist, Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs, who said the only economic scenarios he could visualize were either "pretty bad" or "very bad."
The consensus? Another war could save the economy…
Hahahahahaha…
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As I mentioned in another post the U.S. economy lost at least 95,000 jobs last month. (The real number is of course a lot higher.) But do you know what happened? The stock market went UP because "it will prompt the Federal Reserve to spur economic growth."
Hahaha…
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I am dying today. This is so hilarious. Millions of people will die, and practically the entire globe will suffer greatly for decades to come, and all these idiots want to do is to make matters worse.
Please remember the names above. I have pointed out others before and the hit list should be pretty long by now. Maybe you don’t believe you’ll need it today, but I promise you when you’re roaming the countryside in the future scavenging for food and trying to find a job, you’ll be happy you have that list… someone to blame, someone to string up…
Keep your eyes peeled for a mass exodus of dolphins
We’re getting the hell out!
The Greatest Depression seems to be more and more obvious to even mainstream circles. Sadly the awakening is going too slow and comes too late. And even sadder is that the answer to this financial mega-tsunami from hell is still the same bullshit that got us into the mess in the first place.
Print more money, keep interest rates low, expand government, impose more regulations, and most importantly; lie, lie and LIE!
They are lying about the statistics, they are lying about how much money they have printed, they are lying about the economic fundaments, they are lying about foreclosures, they are lying about stock prices, almost every single part of the economy in almost every country out there is a lie, partly or fully.
One such example is how they continuously report about U.S. unemployment. They lie. Openly. Normally they adjust the figures afterwards when no-one is watching, and the revisions are upward, against common practice and consequently a part of the scam. And then I haven’t even mentioned how they calculate unemployment in America which, if you take a look at it, makes you think of a third world country with a dictator at the helm.
So it isn’t strange that when the statistics they show today (strangely enough on a Friday – what a surprise!) were bad, but not so horrific. Worse then expected, but we can all relax. Right?
Wrong. They are lying.
And you don’t need to know anything about economics or even math, just read the damn thing. Find it here.
Among other things media, useless as ever, point out that private sector jobs increased and since public sector jobs decreased so we’ll probably hear one or two right-winged nuts saying it was a good thing. Of course this is all a lie, a convenient open lie.
The Market Ticker has this down if you don’t have the stomach or time to read the entire report.
Only the fact that 1,047,000 people became discouraged during the last month i.e. they stopped looking for jobs and/or got off the unemployment data, is enough to get cockroaches looking into the possibility to move to another country.
And speaking of cockroaches, Alan Greenspan had a statement to make today. The former Federal Reserve Chairman said the U.S. fiscal deficit is “scary” and the federal government needs to cut spending on entitlements. This stupid little ugly monkey that is largely responsible for blowing up the housing bubble and is the man that put the printing machine on ‘extra speed’ should be shot, not be allowed to throw out useless pointers. This is one of the orchestrators of Greatest Depression and if this elderly roach doesn’t die from a mysterious heart disease you should put him on the top of your hit list.
I don’t think there are so many out there that actually comprehend what trouble we’re in. You all need to understand that it’s not just the tens of trillions of dollars ‘worth’ of Derivatives out there waiting for the crash, it’s not only the debt mountains climbing to heights never seen before, it’s not only the “let’s see who can print the most money” –game, it’s not only terrible housing sectors across the board, it’s not only banks covering up trillions of bad assets, it’s not only the regulations and the unemployment. IT’S ALL OF IT!!! And much, much more...
WHEN (not if) the first big country defaults or any other event knocks over the first domino, things are going to go to hell fairly quickly and from there it can only get worse. We are talking the Great Depression times twenty and, in all likelihood, for a much longer period of time than back then.
Please remember that the depression back then (soon to be named ‘The miniscule Depression’) gave birth to funny gentlemen like Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin; we got a World War and people suffered immensely for a couple of decades.
You think that was bad?
Just wait…
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Finally a real winner
The Nobel Prize in general has become a joke, and the peace prize you can only win if you murder enough innocent people. Funny then that someone that seriously deserve it actually got one.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian author, has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author, considered one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking work, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."
The author of over 30 books - and very nearly the president of Peru - Vargas Llosa is one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the post-war era and really one of the really, really good guys. Most regard him as a libertarian, I wouldn’t go so far, but he is damn close and as such a unique figure to win a Nobel.
His highly public criticism of the Castro regime is enough to make into my good book. And as an outspoken critic of authoritarian regimes on the right and the left, who else but Vargas Llosa would have called for the legalization of drugs while addressing the American Enterprise Institute's annual dinner a few years back?
This is a real winner. One of the good guys. Sadly the committee won’t withdraw past prizes like the one given to the Obamination last year, and this does not in any way make up for past offences, the Nobel Prize is still going down the crapper as far as I can tell, but it is at least a small token of goodness.
And to hear the cultural elite, that is completely dominated by the far left, go complete ape shit is a big, big bonus.
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian author, has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author, considered one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking work, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."
The author of over 30 books - and very nearly the president of Peru - Vargas Llosa is one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the post-war era and really one of the really, really good guys. Most regard him as a libertarian, I wouldn’t go so far, but he is damn close and as such a unique figure to win a Nobel.
His highly public criticism of the Castro regime is enough to make into my good book. And as an outspoken critic of authoritarian regimes on the right and the left, who else but Vargas Llosa would have called for the legalization of drugs while addressing the American Enterprise Institute's annual dinner a few years back?
This is a real winner. One of the good guys. Sadly the committee won’t withdraw past prizes like the one given to the Obamination last year, and this does not in any way make up for past offences, the Nobel Prize is still going down the crapper as far as I can tell, but it is at least a small token of goodness.
And to hear the cultural elite, that is completely dominated by the far left, go complete ape shit is a big, big bonus.
The very essence of government III
There are a lot of fun things in this world. I can hardly keep myself on my feet whenever I watch the news. War, rape, murder, robbery, and lots of other very amusing things are conveyed to us from bought and paid for journalists.
And the stupidity! Oh my, oh my.
I mean really, why would any extraterrestrial ever want to come here - other than to sit and watch the drama from above with their equivalent of popcorn? I am utterly convinced that if there really are Aliens out there with the technology to come here, they have put up a sign somewhere around Saturn that says “Don’t go here, but if you do don’t feed the animals”.
Human life should be more than having a pizza and beer while watching the latest reality show, but it isn’t.
On a small little blue dot in the corner of one out of billions of galaxies, mankind evolved. According to the theory of evolution the first life came into existence about 5 billion years ago as a result of billions of years of accidental, random atomic collisions. Scientists call this development of the first living organisms from nonliving matter abiogenesis, a sort of virgin-birth. Despite, or maybe because off, meteorites, volcanoes, and cosmic radiation life begun and flourished.
Throughout the ages several apocalypses have destroyed much of life on this planet, just to see it emerge again, victorious. One out of the species transformed into an upstanding primate capable of imagining fantastic things like tools, how to control fire and even contemplate its self-existence.
By evolutionary standards and taking a distant look at our lives, our existence is very short, insignificantly short. Not a single one of us, no scientist, no athlete, no politician, not a single one will have any impact whatsoever on the universe. Maybe some chaos-theorist can argue the comforting thought that we may cause an earthquake or tornado thousands of years from now if we fart in bed today, but mainly we are irrelevant, a nonsense species that happens to be able to grasp how tiny we really are.
But despite all that one needs to stand in awe for what people are capable of, if they put their mind to it, if they are able to grow and use the intellect that is so unique. We exist, we have essence and we can understand it. When I see a science fiction movie or read about paranormal things, I don’t see such things as unbelievable, I see them as a matter of time. Sooner or later we will figure out how to travel faster than light, invent anti-gravity and teleportation devices. I’m absolutely sure of it. That is if we allow ourselves to do it.
And that last sentence is really the point. “If we allow ourselves”.
Today I would argue an emphatically no to that. We have reached a point where we no longer need to evolve, and if we do, government can fix it for us.
Government – the ultimate fix-it machine can handle everything. Because we mere mortals cannot. Women cannot give birth without government approved doctors. Children would never learn anything if it wasn’t for government controlled schools with government approved curriculums. The elderly would die from malnourishment and neglect if government wasn’t there to fix it. And without departments checking our food, water and clothes we would all soon die from starvation, attract countless diseases and burn alive because we didn’t used fire proof clothing.
Mankind’s worse enemy, from the very start, has been herself. The very same intellect capable of inventing marvelous things is also capable of conjuring up our own destruction. And throughout the notion of ‘collective’ have been the main culprit. Not collective as in helping each other or being a part of a whole, but rather the notion of group-thinking, us against them, red against black, white against yellow, team against team, nation against nation. This is what’s really behind all the religious wars, the confiscation of one group’s property to give to another and so forth. And the ultimate representative of collectivism is government.
We have become the victims of our own success. We have come so far that we today have the means to feed, clothe and take care of every single person on this planet, but this accomplishment also means we are relaxing, not taking proper actions to evolve further and in doing nothing, or hardly nothing, we have also become followers of those in charge. It’s easier to put the head back and nibble on processed food than to take charge of ourselves and really question our surroundings. There is always someone else that can collect our garbage, make our food, and sew our coats. This laziness that historically speaking have worked in our favor, making us invent things to save time, is now in our way. The apathy is hanging over humankind like a damp quilt.
Give people free gifts and they accept pretty much anything. Government knows this and takes full advantage of it.
Under the disguise of democracy, seemingly a good force, the elitists are doing just this, tricking us with nice words. Want equality? The government can fix that; just put your name on the dotted line saying you accept higher taxes. Want freedom? Sure, you can have that, but first you need to give up your rights of privacy and recognize government’s absolute power over you.
And whenever we don’t listen they use words and pretend animosity to make us listen. The most common way of doing this is the usage of ‘war’. Not necessarily the traditional war wherein combatants fight over some elusive, often made-up, cause on the battlefield. Rather they use the word ‘war’ as a way of stating how serious something is and how important it is for all inhabitants to fight on the “correct side”. Anyone against is marked as traitor and unpatriotic, and often, somehow, children are also involved – if you’re against the war on drugs, you want children to be addicts, if you’re against the war on poverty you want children to starve to death.
The war against traffic-death, the war against unemployment, the war against inflation, the war against racism. Sound familiar?
Of course they also use other words to further make their case. Like in the US, a country fighting a war against supposed terrorism, but in doing so seemingly needed to throw out the constitution and impose the Patriot Act. How about that one? You’re either fighting against terrorism or you are unpatriotic, or so the words tell us. The reality is of course the complete opposite.
If it weren’t for the dark ages we would probably be colonization space right now, and if it weren’t for the 20th century, the era of collectivism, we would have taken great leaps towards the future. And if it weren’t for today’s statism, which is growing exponentially, we wouldn’t have starving people or wars. Maybe older time’s citizens could blame the high and mighty or a lack of knowledge for their obedient following, but can we really claim the same today? These days all the information necessary for us to make informed, rational and intelligent decision is all around us. Despite all the propaganda, you can find it.
In reality, if you really want someone to blame for your unemployment, famine or murdering hostilities, you only need to look in a mirror. You voted for them, you have cheered them on, and, more importantly, you haven’t done anything other than to sit back with another beer.
Our ancestors would revolt if taxes increased, if the king did something too stupid or if wars went on for too long. Today we sit back in our chair and when suits from the taxation agency stops by to take the house we ask them to bring another beer from the fridge. All the while wars are prolonged, the banking cartels continue to rob us blind, and government rule over us with a power far greater than that of any Pharaoh or Monarch.
Apathy is what we are, apathy what we have become, and behind the curtain government mock us and rubs its oily hands together in a pure supervillain manner.
Government is the solution, government can fix it, and government will take care of us. Those are the sentences that rule supreme today, and you let it happen.
And the stupidity! Oh my, oh my.
I mean really, why would any extraterrestrial ever want to come here - other than to sit and watch the drama from above with their equivalent of popcorn? I am utterly convinced that if there really are Aliens out there with the technology to come here, they have put up a sign somewhere around Saturn that says “Don’t go here, but if you do don’t feed the animals”.
Human life should be more than having a pizza and beer while watching the latest reality show, but it isn’t.
On a small little blue dot in the corner of one out of billions of galaxies, mankind evolved. According to the theory of evolution the first life came into existence about 5 billion years ago as a result of billions of years of accidental, random atomic collisions. Scientists call this development of the first living organisms from nonliving matter abiogenesis, a sort of virgin-birth. Despite, or maybe because off, meteorites, volcanoes, and cosmic radiation life begun and flourished.
Throughout the ages several apocalypses have destroyed much of life on this planet, just to see it emerge again, victorious. One out of the species transformed into an upstanding primate capable of imagining fantastic things like tools, how to control fire and even contemplate its self-existence.
By evolutionary standards and taking a distant look at our lives, our existence is very short, insignificantly short. Not a single one of us, no scientist, no athlete, no politician, not a single one will have any impact whatsoever on the universe. Maybe some chaos-theorist can argue the comforting thought that we may cause an earthquake or tornado thousands of years from now if we fart in bed today, but mainly we are irrelevant, a nonsense species that happens to be able to grasp how tiny we really are.
But despite all that one needs to stand in awe for what people are capable of, if they put their mind to it, if they are able to grow and use the intellect that is so unique. We exist, we have essence and we can understand it. When I see a science fiction movie or read about paranormal things, I don’t see such things as unbelievable, I see them as a matter of time. Sooner or later we will figure out how to travel faster than light, invent anti-gravity and teleportation devices. I’m absolutely sure of it. That is if we allow ourselves to do it.
And that last sentence is really the point. “If we allow ourselves”.
Today I would argue an emphatically no to that. We have reached a point where we no longer need to evolve, and if we do, government can fix it for us.
Government – the ultimate fix-it machine can handle everything. Because we mere mortals cannot. Women cannot give birth without government approved doctors. Children would never learn anything if it wasn’t for government controlled schools with government approved curriculums. The elderly would die from malnourishment and neglect if government wasn’t there to fix it. And without departments checking our food, water and clothes we would all soon die from starvation, attract countless diseases and burn alive because we didn’t used fire proof clothing.
Mankind’s worse enemy, from the very start, has been herself. The very same intellect capable of inventing marvelous things is also capable of conjuring up our own destruction. And throughout the notion of ‘collective’ have been the main culprit. Not collective as in helping each other or being a part of a whole, but rather the notion of group-thinking, us against them, red against black, white against yellow, team against team, nation against nation. This is what’s really behind all the religious wars, the confiscation of one group’s property to give to another and so forth. And the ultimate representative of collectivism is government.
We have become the victims of our own success. We have come so far that we today have the means to feed, clothe and take care of every single person on this planet, but this accomplishment also means we are relaxing, not taking proper actions to evolve further and in doing nothing, or hardly nothing, we have also become followers of those in charge. It’s easier to put the head back and nibble on processed food than to take charge of ourselves and really question our surroundings. There is always someone else that can collect our garbage, make our food, and sew our coats. This laziness that historically speaking have worked in our favor, making us invent things to save time, is now in our way. The apathy is hanging over humankind like a damp quilt.
Give people free gifts and they accept pretty much anything. Government knows this and takes full advantage of it.
Under the disguise of democracy, seemingly a good force, the elitists are doing just this, tricking us with nice words. Want equality? The government can fix that; just put your name on the dotted line saying you accept higher taxes. Want freedom? Sure, you can have that, but first you need to give up your rights of privacy and recognize government’s absolute power over you.
And whenever we don’t listen they use words and pretend animosity to make us listen. The most common way of doing this is the usage of ‘war’. Not necessarily the traditional war wherein combatants fight over some elusive, often made-up, cause on the battlefield. Rather they use the word ‘war’ as a way of stating how serious something is and how important it is for all inhabitants to fight on the “correct side”. Anyone against is marked as traitor and unpatriotic, and often, somehow, children are also involved – if you’re against the war on drugs, you want children to be addicts, if you’re against the war on poverty you want children to starve to death.
The war against traffic-death, the war against unemployment, the war against inflation, the war against racism. Sound familiar?
Of course they also use other words to further make their case. Like in the US, a country fighting a war against supposed terrorism, but in doing so seemingly needed to throw out the constitution and impose the Patriot Act. How about that one? You’re either fighting against terrorism or you are unpatriotic, or so the words tell us. The reality is of course the complete opposite.
If it weren’t for the dark ages we would probably be colonization space right now, and if it weren’t for the 20th century, the era of collectivism, we would have taken great leaps towards the future. And if it weren’t for today’s statism, which is growing exponentially, we wouldn’t have starving people or wars. Maybe older time’s citizens could blame the high and mighty or a lack of knowledge for their obedient following, but can we really claim the same today? These days all the information necessary for us to make informed, rational and intelligent decision is all around us. Despite all the propaganda, you can find it.
In reality, if you really want someone to blame for your unemployment, famine or murdering hostilities, you only need to look in a mirror. You voted for them, you have cheered them on, and, more importantly, you haven’t done anything other than to sit back with another beer.
Our ancestors would revolt if taxes increased, if the king did something too stupid or if wars went on for too long. Today we sit back in our chair and when suits from the taxation agency stops by to take the house we ask them to bring another beer from the fridge. All the while wars are prolonged, the banking cartels continue to rob us blind, and government rule over us with a power far greater than that of any Pharaoh or Monarch.
Apathy is what we are, apathy what we have become, and behind the curtain government mock us and rubs its oily hands together in a pure supervillain manner.
Government is the solution, government can fix it, and government will take care of us. Those are the sentences that rule supreme today, and you let it happen.
The very essence of government II
War. Has there ever been a more fun thing to do? Humans have been waging wars since the first caveman clubbed his neighbor. Hundreds of millions have died on the battlefield; hundreds of millions more have died from famine, disease and poverty because of wars.
We humans like war. We love it.
And the only entity capable of starting wars, government, loves it even more. War can be used to conquer new land; it can be used to gain riches for the elite, and it can be used to overshadow any other problem. If the economy is bad, if unemployment is high, and if people want more freedom – what better way to circumvent such things than to have a vile enemy to fight?
War can also, today, be used to cover up financial problems. You see today we use GDP to measure wealth and if you build big bombs and create lots of guns and then go kill people, GDP goes up.
War is great.
And males, who are the main instigators of war, can gain a lot from building big ships that throws big missiles. A phallus shaped rocked flies into enemy territory, explodes, and kills other men... Aaah… orgasmic isn’t it?
Government however doesn’t only love war and use it to cover up their inapt ideas; they also lie and cover up what happens within war and what consequences war brings.
Read the news lately? How many articles about smart bombs, war tactics and how big ships and rockets are? And how many articles about suffering families, raped women and mutilated children? War is supposed to be great and bring honor and glory. War is not supposed to be misery and children losing their legs. And they do a very fine job handing us the correct message.
They do an even better job when it comes to bringing down the other guy. The adversary is a women hating thug, a religious fanatic that wants us all dead, a Neanderthal without morals.
Take the war in Afghanistan as an example.
This is a war that started on very shady premises. Apparently we had a corrupt regime that hated women, supported Bin Laden, and oppressed its people. Also they had a big drug operation going on. So of course they needed to be bombed.
9 years of war later the Talibans has been replaced with an even more corrupt regime that also hate women. Drug trade has never, in the entire history of the country, flourished like it does today. The former regime that actually didn’t support Alky Aida, are today close to allies with this terrorist group. The Talibans are stronger today, and have more supporters today than they did before the war started. And in the process tens of thousands have died and hundreds of thousands are homeless or on the run.
A success story? Not really.
The U.S. lead coalition has killed so many, done so much harm and committed so many war crimes that I can certainly relate to anyone wanting to strike back. I would. And if you were in these poor people’s bloody shoes, I believe you would think the same. 9/11 was a tragedy, but when does the “revenge” end? How many millions need to die so Americans can feel “safer”? Are a dozen or so suicide fanatics from Saudi Arabia performing a horrible terrorist attack equal to invading several countries (that had nothing to do with it) and going on a rampage murdering families, children and hundreds of thousands of innocent people?
I don’t deny that there are very bad people out there, some outright evil, and maybe you could even argue that invading two countries and killing all these people and committing all these atrocities is worth it. Maybe, just maybe it makes the world safer. I cannot see how, but maybe that’s a correct conclusion. But if that’s the case I would still not waver in my firm belief that people getting attacked have the right to strike back.
The Afghan people didn’t orchestrate any terrorist attack on U.S. soil; the Talibans didn’t attack any European country. So if we invade their country and murder so many, do you really think they will be grateful for it? Do you really think they won’t strike back?
There will be terrorist attacks coming our way, but not when government warns about it so right now you’re pretty safe. And can you really blame these “terrorists” if they do? If so, why? Picture yourself in their shoes and tell me that you wouldn’t be thinking about revenge or attacking back. I would, and I am certain you would feel the same.
We can be sure that government won’t let that feeling or revelation take hold. The propaganda machine will spin any terrorist attack into a virtual goldmine and use it as a way to stay in Afghanistan and possibly expand the war (Iran?). They attacked us, how dare they? Here we are murdering their families and killing their children and they have the audacity to attack us! What religious Neanderthal women hating drug running fanatic would do such a thing?
And okay, let’s say the U.S. and their actual allies have something to do in Afghanistan. There is no real reason for it and the whole thing is very bizarre, but let’s say there are good reasons for the killing and murdering. If so, what the hell are all those other countries doing there?
Take my birth nation Sweden as example. For the love of Beelzebub and all his glory, why does Sweden need to send troops to Afghanistan? We haven’t been at war for 200 years, but all of a sudden we need to send troops to support the US war machine.
They say it is to help the poor underdeveloped dark skinned Muslims living there. Apparently they are starving and they need protection from other poor underdeveloped dark skinned fanatic Neanderthal Muslims. Eee… okay…
Why would Afghans seeing foreign troops on their soil regard one group as friendly but the other one as the enemy? Would you make that distinction if it was your country?
But as we have already established: war is hilarious!
Why should only American’s and their allies have all the fun?
Even funnier it becomes when the troops Sweden have sent are undermanned, poorly equipped and need to rely on American support whenever they are in trouble. In essence more coffins coming our way. Fun, fun, fun!
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We humans like war. We love it.
And the only entity capable of starting wars, government, loves it even more. War can be used to conquer new land; it can be used to gain riches for the elite, and it can be used to overshadow any other problem. If the economy is bad, if unemployment is high, and if people want more freedom – what better way to circumvent such things than to have a vile enemy to fight?
War can also, today, be used to cover up financial problems. You see today we use GDP to measure wealth and if you build big bombs and create lots of guns and then go kill people, GDP goes up.
War is great.
And males, who are the main instigators of war, can gain a lot from building big ships that throws big missiles. A phallus shaped rocked flies into enemy territory, explodes, and kills other men... Aaah… orgasmic isn’t it?
Government however doesn’t only love war and use it to cover up their inapt ideas; they also lie and cover up what happens within war and what consequences war brings.
Read the news lately? How many articles about smart bombs, war tactics and how big ships and rockets are? And how many articles about suffering families, raped women and mutilated children? War is supposed to be great and bring honor and glory. War is not supposed to be misery and children losing their legs. And they do a very fine job handing us the correct message.
They do an even better job when it comes to bringing down the other guy. The adversary is a women hating thug, a religious fanatic that wants us all dead, a Neanderthal without morals.
Take the war in Afghanistan as an example.
This is a war that started on very shady premises. Apparently we had a corrupt regime that hated women, supported Bin Laden, and oppressed its people. Also they had a big drug operation going on. So of course they needed to be bombed.
9 years of war later the Talibans has been replaced with an even more corrupt regime that also hate women. Drug trade has never, in the entire history of the country, flourished like it does today. The former regime that actually didn’t support Alky Aida, are today close to allies with this terrorist group. The Talibans are stronger today, and have more supporters today than they did before the war started. And in the process tens of thousands have died and hundreds of thousands are homeless or on the run.
A success story? Not really.
The U.S. lead coalition has killed so many, done so much harm and committed so many war crimes that I can certainly relate to anyone wanting to strike back. I would. And if you were in these poor people’s bloody shoes, I believe you would think the same. 9/11 was a tragedy, but when does the “revenge” end? How many millions need to die so Americans can feel “safer”? Are a dozen or so suicide fanatics from Saudi Arabia performing a horrible terrorist attack equal to invading several countries (that had nothing to do with it) and going on a rampage murdering families, children and hundreds of thousands of innocent people?
I don’t deny that there are very bad people out there, some outright evil, and maybe you could even argue that invading two countries and killing all these people and committing all these atrocities is worth it. Maybe, just maybe it makes the world safer. I cannot see how, but maybe that’s a correct conclusion. But if that’s the case I would still not waver in my firm belief that people getting attacked have the right to strike back.
The Afghan people didn’t orchestrate any terrorist attack on U.S. soil; the Talibans didn’t attack any European country. So if we invade their country and murder so many, do you really think they will be grateful for it? Do you really think they won’t strike back?
There will be terrorist attacks coming our way, but not when government warns about it so right now you’re pretty safe. And can you really blame these “terrorists” if they do? If so, why? Picture yourself in their shoes and tell me that you wouldn’t be thinking about revenge or attacking back. I would, and I am certain you would feel the same.
We can be sure that government won’t let that feeling or revelation take hold. The propaganda machine will spin any terrorist attack into a virtual goldmine and use it as a way to stay in Afghanistan and possibly expand the war (Iran?). They attacked us, how dare they? Here we are murdering their families and killing their children and they have the audacity to attack us! What religious Neanderthal women hating drug running fanatic would do such a thing?
And okay, let’s say the U.S. and their actual allies have something to do in Afghanistan. There is no real reason for it and the whole thing is very bizarre, but let’s say there are good reasons for the killing and murdering. If so, what the hell are all those other countries doing there?
Take my birth nation Sweden as example. For the love of Beelzebub and all his glory, why does Sweden need to send troops to Afghanistan? We haven’t been at war for 200 years, but all of a sudden we need to send troops to support the US war machine.
They say it is to help the poor underdeveloped dark skinned Muslims living there. Apparently they are starving and they need protection from other poor underdeveloped dark skinned fanatic Neanderthal Muslims. Eee… okay…
Why would Afghans seeing foreign troops on their soil regard one group as friendly but the other one as the enemy? Would you make that distinction if it was your country?
But as we have already established: war is hilarious!
Why should only American’s and their allies have all the fun?
Even funnier it becomes when the troops Sweden have sent are undermanned, poorly equipped and need to rely on American support whenever they are in trouble. In essence more coffins coming our way. Fun, fun, fun!
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The very essence of government
When it comes to the topic of government there are only three sorts of people. The ones that understand who make up a small minority, the ones that have decent suspicion against government but have no problem using government to fulfill some Napoleonic or Hitleresque dream, and finally the ones that understand nothing and make up a majority of people on this planet.
Do you know what entity is the only one capable to start and wage wars? It is the same entity that always, alone, has had this ability. No collection of merchants, no families, and no organisation has ever had this power. Only government. That alone should get you thinking.
However this isn’t about the big stuff. War, pestilence, famine and other fun things can all be traced back to government, but this isn’t about that.
Ever wanted government to save you? Maybe use government to impose some restriction? Or maybe you have a religious or moral idea you like others to follow?
If you don’t like smokers, you’re getting a fistful of anti-policies aren’t you? Remember how that got started?
The voodoo priesthood gathered “facts” that told us that smoking kills and after a bunch of information campaigns, several parent groups rallying and a large portion of righteous propaganda we started to impose taxation, age restrictions and so on.
So far, so good. Smoking isn’t good for you, so maybe this was a nice way to go.
But those groups that got started didn’t die out, in fact they grew and before we knew it more showed up. And when this happened the righteous elite picked up the scent. There was money to collect, votes to win, and a moral high ground to occupy. Suddenly politicians started to compete to be numbero uno anti-smoker. The few that started to warn that things were getting to get out of hand and that privacy shouldn’t be overstepped got labeled as horrible pro-cancer thugs that wanted to hurt chiiildreeeen. If you’re against smoking bans obviously a tobacco company has bought you, or you’re just outright evil.
Perhaps you could also excuse this step. Politian’s are opportunists, parents only want to look after their young, and tobacco can be bad for you…
Next they started to talk about banning smoking at bars. Only talking at first. Most people probably didn’t notice or thought that that cannot happen. But smoking is bad for you. And second hand smoking kills faster than any gun can. And did I mention the Children? I am not sure how children fit into the smoking-in-bars scenario but they did, somehow. No-smoking signs can today be found everywhere. If you happen to be a smoker you are really hunted today and you are regarded as that gooey stuff that sometimes get stuck under the shoe.
I probably don’t need to go on, but I will.
Because now I will tell you what comes next.
This is what comes next. Maybe you think they won’t pass such laws, but they will. And after those comes prison sentences, maybe even the death penalty. Wouldn’t surprise me. Look what they did to drugs over the years. Same thing, same procedure, same end result.
And take a look around you. Have you seen the rhetoric, taxation and groups gathering against fat people? Or how about all the hatred pouring over anorexic models? You conform, or they punish you. You become normal or you’ll be extra taxed.
See how it works?
How about taxation. Ever wondered why taxes never seem to go away once imposed? No matter what government you have, once a tax is in place it will never go away. They might lower it, increase it or change it, but they won’t abolish it. In my life, and having lived in four different countries (soon five) I have never even heard of any tax being eliminated. Have you? As said, they may change its name, lower it or increase it, but throwing it out completely? Never.
You need to understand that government is like a leech or a tick, it attaches itself to the body of freedom and feeds on the life-giving blood of that body and it won’t let go until you burn it or scrape it away with a very sharp knife.
If you hand politicians the power to do one thing, they will automatically do a second, a third, a fourth and so on. If you accept one law, thirty-two more will follow. Worse still they will adjust, change, fickle and fiddle with the original law until the law you once accepted isn’t there anymore. Don’t believe me? Check the history of any law; you’ll see that its evolution follows the exact same pattern as smoking.
That’s government. That’s how it works.
It isn’t hard to find anything dangerous or find people in need of assistance. There are a trillion and two ways to get hurt or killed. Face it, at any moment, no matter where you are, you can die. And who doesn’t need help? The poor, the old, the young, black people, immigrants, the fat, the thin, teenagers, women, North Koreans, people on welfare, drug addicts, the mentally ill, people with a broken heart, they all need help. They need support. They need laws to protect them. They need government.
This is how it works.
As long as the righteous feel that there is unfair dealings, inequality and out of the norm people roaming around in this world government will always be there to hand you the solution. And it’s a simple solution. Hand over your life, your money and your very soul and government will fix it. Government is a universal fix-it machine.
You haft to understand this; if you offer government your left hand, they will gnaw off the entire arm and then they will take the right arm. There really is a cross-road, and there really is a deal to make, but unlike the legend the demon will not give you something good in exchange for your soul, it will only hand you bad healthcare, horrible schools and more wars, and then, then it will devour your soul.
That’s government.
It doesn’t matter what virtuous idea is behind it, it doesn’t matter how morally superior you think you are, the end result, whenever you turn to government to fix it, will always, without exception, be much, much worse than if you just let the thing be.
Do you know what entity is the only one capable to start and wage wars? It is the same entity that always, alone, has had this ability. No collection of merchants, no families, and no organisation has ever had this power. Only government. That alone should get you thinking.
However this isn’t about the big stuff. War, pestilence, famine and other fun things can all be traced back to government, but this isn’t about that.
Ever wanted government to save you? Maybe use government to impose some restriction? Or maybe you have a religious or moral idea you like others to follow?
If you don’t like smokers, you’re getting a fistful of anti-policies aren’t you? Remember how that got started?
The voodoo priesthood gathered “facts” that told us that smoking kills and after a bunch of information campaigns, several parent groups rallying and a large portion of righteous propaganda we started to impose taxation, age restrictions and so on.
So far, so good. Smoking isn’t good for you, so maybe this was a nice way to go.
But those groups that got started didn’t die out, in fact they grew and before we knew it more showed up. And when this happened the righteous elite picked up the scent. There was money to collect, votes to win, and a moral high ground to occupy. Suddenly politicians started to compete to be numbero uno anti-smoker. The few that started to warn that things were getting to get out of hand and that privacy shouldn’t be overstepped got labeled as horrible pro-cancer thugs that wanted to hurt chiiildreeeen. If you’re against smoking bans obviously a tobacco company has bought you, or you’re just outright evil.
Perhaps you could also excuse this step. Politian’s are opportunists, parents only want to look after their young, and tobacco can be bad for you…
Next they started to talk about banning smoking at bars. Only talking at first. Most people probably didn’t notice or thought that that cannot happen. But smoking is bad for you. And second hand smoking kills faster than any gun can. And did I mention the Children? I am not sure how children fit into the smoking-in-bars scenario but they did, somehow. No-smoking signs can today be found everywhere. If you happen to be a smoker you are really hunted today and you are regarded as that gooey stuff that sometimes get stuck under the shoe.
I probably don’t need to go on, but I will.
Because now I will tell you what comes next.
This is what comes next. Maybe you think they won’t pass such laws, but they will. And after those comes prison sentences, maybe even the death penalty. Wouldn’t surprise me. Look what they did to drugs over the years. Same thing, same procedure, same end result.
And take a look around you. Have you seen the rhetoric, taxation and groups gathering against fat people? Or how about all the hatred pouring over anorexic models? You conform, or they punish you. You become normal or you’ll be extra taxed.
See how it works?
How about taxation. Ever wondered why taxes never seem to go away once imposed? No matter what government you have, once a tax is in place it will never go away. They might lower it, increase it or change it, but they won’t abolish it. In my life, and having lived in four different countries (soon five) I have never even heard of any tax being eliminated. Have you? As said, they may change its name, lower it or increase it, but throwing it out completely? Never.
You need to understand that government is like a leech or a tick, it attaches itself to the body of freedom and feeds on the life-giving blood of that body and it won’t let go until you burn it or scrape it away with a very sharp knife.
If you hand politicians the power to do one thing, they will automatically do a second, a third, a fourth and so on. If you accept one law, thirty-two more will follow. Worse still they will adjust, change, fickle and fiddle with the original law until the law you once accepted isn’t there anymore. Don’t believe me? Check the history of any law; you’ll see that its evolution follows the exact same pattern as smoking.
That’s government. That’s how it works.
It isn’t hard to find anything dangerous or find people in need of assistance. There are a trillion and two ways to get hurt or killed. Face it, at any moment, no matter where you are, you can die. And who doesn’t need help? The poor, the old, the young, black people, immigrants, the fat, the thin, teenagers, women, North Koreans, people on welfare, drug addicts, the mentally ill, people with a broken heart, they all need help. They need support. They need laws to protect them. They need government.
This is how it works.
As long as the righteous feel that there is unfair dealings, inequality and out of the norm people roaming around in this world government will always be there to hand you the solution. And it’s a simple solution. Hand over your life, your money and your very soul and government will fix it. Government is a universal fix-it machine.
You haft to understand this; if you offer government your left hand, they will gnaw off the entire arm and then they will take the right arm. There really is a cross-road, and there really is a deal to make, but unlike the legend the demon will not give you something good in exchange for your soul, it will only hand you bad healthcare, horrible schools and more wars, and then, then it will devour your soul.
That’s government.
It doesn’t matter what virtuous idea is behind it, it doesn’t matter how morally superior you think you are, the end result, whenever you turn to government to fix it, will always, without exception, be much, much worse than if you just let the thing be.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
You gotto love ’em for it
The Swedish Democrats, the populist political party that is newly elected into the Sweden Riksdag (parliament), apparently stormed out of Church today during the re-opening of the Riksdag.
It seems that the bishop conducting the service talked about everyone’s equal worth (like a Church would know anything about the subject) and how important it is to treat people the same. The bishop probably didn’t mention all the millions murdered by Christians because they happened to be different, but in any case the Swedish Democrats (SD) didn’t really like what they were hearing, so they bailed on the ceremony.
SD Party leader Jimmie Åkesson was even so upset that he couldn’t talk with media, something he never pass up the opportunity to do otherwise. Among other things the Bishop apparently mentioned anti-SD demonstrations in her speech so I guess the bishop were a bit too obvious in her attempts to sound like one of the righteous elitists.
I wasn’t there myself, haven’t listened to it, and I really couldn’t care less.
What I do find interesting however is that SD actually walked out on a political we-are-all-as-one-against-you-the-people meeting. Normally when something like this happens those in power know better than to let their emotions take over. They act in accordance to the golden rule of vote-maximation. They will smile to the cameras and say something nice about the speech and trying to make it sound like they are now ready to go to work.
But not SD.
And I like it.
They go into to church in traditional Swedish costumes and they left because they felt offended. Of course the elitists, journalists and our normal bunch of puppet masters will spin this, make it sound very, very horrible. How could they leave church? And they are the party that loves Swedish traditions and the Swedish church. And wasn’t it unprofessional?
Of course the entire gang of misfits that make out the soul-sucking elite of Sweden is cheering on this turn of events thinking that the Swedish Democrats have made their first big mistake.
Idiots.
This will be liked by many. It’s refreshing. It’s not the politically correct thing to do. They will gain supporters for this, not lose some of them.
No matter what I feel about these SD crazies or their xenophobic madness I also need to say: Bravo! Good for you. More politicians and more people in general should stand up for themselves and their political view.
It seems that the bishop conducting the service talked about everyone’s equal worth (like a Church would know anything about the subject) and how important it is to treat people the same. The bishop probably didn’t mention all the millions murdered by Christians because they happened to be different, but in any case the Swedish Democrats (SD) didn’t really like what they were hearing, so they bailed on the ceremony.
SD Party leader Jimmie Åkesson was even so upset that he couldn’t talk with media, something he never pass up the opportunity to do otherwise. Among other things the Bishop apparently mentioned anti-SD demonstrations in her speech so I guess the bishop were a bit too obvious in her attempts to sound like one of the righteous elitists.
I wasn’t there myself, haven’t listened to it, and I really couldn’t care less.
What I do find interesting however is that SD actually walked out on a political we-are-all-as-one-against-you-the-people meeting. Normally when something like this happens those in power know better than to let their emotions take over. They act in accordance to the golden rule of vote-maximation. They will smile to the cameras and say something nice about the speech and trying to make it sound like they are now ready to go to work.
But not SD.
And I like it.
They go into to church in traditional Swedish costumes and they left because they felt offended. Of course the elitists, journalists and our normal bunch of puppet masters will spin this, make it sound very, very horrible. How could they leave church? And they are the party that loves Swedish traditions and the Swedish church. And wasn’t it unprofessional?
Of course the entire gang of misfits that make out the soul-sucking elite of Sweden is cheering on this turn of events thinking that the Swedish Democrats have made their first big mistake.
Idiots.
This will be liked by many. It’s refreshing. It’s not the politically correct thing to do. They will gain supporters for this, not lose some of them.
No matter what I feel about these SD crazies or their xenophobic madness I also need to say: Bravo! Good for you. More politicians and more people in general should stand up for themselves and their political view.
Monday, October 4, 2010
More terrorist alarms please
Let me start by asking you to put yourself in terrorist shoes. You are now a terrorist (not really a stretch if you smoke, use internet, weigh too much or happen to be Muslim). So now try and think like a terrorist. You are out to scare people, hurt people and make them react to you and your policies. It is not about convincing anyone or gaining support, it’s about you killing and maiming for a cause and you want to stir up as much feelings as possible.
Okay?
Here’s the scenario; several countries issue an alarm that you may attack. People are told to stay away from crowded areas, people shouldn’t fly to Europe, and everyone are told that individuals with breast implants, turbans and beards are shady types that are very likely to “do something”. Also you can be pretty certain that each country’s´ security forces, police, park rangers and meter maids are extra careful and may stop playing hearts for a moment to actually do some work. Boats, trains, aircrafts and trucks are randomly searched while hospitals are stocking up blood and preparing for potential victims.
So from a terrorist perspective half the work is already done. People are extra scared, papers are filled with speculation and horrors stories, billions extra is spent on heighten security, and entire societies becomes suspicious against anything out of the norm. Women leaving the shower with a towel rapped around their head take one look in the mirror and starts screaming that a radical Muslim is starring back.
With all this going on why would you actually attack? Can you think of a single reason?
The only reason I can think of is that you could prove that any security measure is useless, that the police are powerless to stop any thought-out attack and in doing the terrorist thing it could, maybe, increase the uncertainty and feeling of fear.
However that would be a bit of a gamble.
Firstly with tighter checks and less donughts eating the police and military are slightly more inclined to actually catch you. Only a couple of percentage more, but still a slight increase in risk from your perspective.
Secondly with all the hype people are already scared to a point almost at the same level as if you had already blown up that school you had your eyes on. On a 10 grade scale, with 10 being your targeted scariness, so many people are already at 7 or 8, not at 5 as they normally are. It’s a less of jump from 7 or 8 then from 5 up to 10 (yes it is, use a calculator if you don’t believe me) hence any explosion would mean a less of a jump in scariness hence less of a shock. And shocking societies and people is really one of your main goals.
Thirdly, one of your other main goals – to put a wedge between people and create animosity – is also already reached. Muslims, radical lefties and radical righties, hillbillies, neighbors, people with two mailboxes, chemistry teachers, youngsters buying knives, grandmas reading about Hitler online, and carnival workers are already being watched and monitored. Religious and cultural differences are discussed on the news, and there’s an upswing in people voting for populist political parties.
So why would you attack?
Isn’t it better to wait for the frightened people to calm down a bit, wait for the police to go back to doing nothing, and wait for the moment when targeted societies least expect it?
Why decrease the chance of success during a moment in time when the effect of what you do is less of a jump on the shocking-meter?
Ever wondered why that 2m tall Osama that supposedly lives in small caves with a broken liver hardly have done a single thing since 9/11? (Assuming of course that he had anything with to do with that in the first place – which has never been officially proven) Do you really think our security forces are that good at what they do that they have managed to stop terrorism that sufficiently? If you think so, why haven’t they caught a guy who is reasonably easy to spot no matter where he goes?
So after this little mind game did you reach the same conclusion as I did?
With no statistics to back my claim up and with nothing else than being able to think like a terrorist (which probably, again, puts me on any number of radars) I am utterly convinced that if you want to travel, visit the Eiffel Tower or use the subway you should do so, with less of a risk from terrorists, during one of these heighten security alerts. The more governments warn, the more you should do the opposite. This, coincidently, is good advice about everything government does.
I am not saying that terrorists won’t attack, only that I find it highly unlikely.
With that said you should also realize that even the cave dwelling Bin Laden need to stick his head out sometime. Sending videotapes to media may be scary for a while, but sooner or later he and his cronies also need to do something. And there are a lot of crazies out there; your own government is proof of that. So of course more terrorism is expected somewhere, somehow.
For me the few people dying each year from various attacks don’t merit terrorism to even reach my top twenty list. Far more dies from congenital diseases, malnutrition, wars, and so forth. Most of us actually live in the worst place you can think of. A place that is one of the main mutilators and killer of man – our own homes. And the main murderer of mankind, our real nemesis, the thing that is more likely to kill you than any disease or accident, is the very entity we rely on for protection from terrorists. And THAT is hilariously funny.
So no, I don’t travel less by buss and I don’t avoid crowded areas when government tells me to, on the contrary, I seek them out. The more newspapers tell me how unsafe I am, the safer I feel.
Sadly with all you morons out there frighten, government will take the opportunity to hand out two complementary notes. On one it say’s “give me your money and I’ll protect you”, on the other it say’s “give away your freedom or you’ll die”. These two notes are used to impose restrictions, controls, surveillance, taxation and, in the end, a totalitarian society.
Those ‘notes’ should scare you more than all terrorists put together.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
A terrorist from Sweden and other tales
Never mind the Vikings that for all intents and purposes should, to a certain degree, be regarded as terrorists.
But if we move forward in time to the break-up of the Kalmar Union (1397-1523) that had united the Nordic countries but was gradually opposed by Swedish terrorists taking action against the Danish monarchy, and finally broken off by the terrorist would-be king Gustav Vasa. A king that at the same time broke with the Roman Catholic Church and established the Reformation. A heretic and terrorist created modern Sweden. How about that one?
Personally I think this was a mistake. A unified Norway (and Iceland), Denmark, Sweden and Finland with all its might would have been a very powerful entity in Europe and the world. And take away the animosity that historically speaking has been very fierce between Danes and Swedes, and the countries (country) would have been much stronger not fighting each other and instead been able to focus armies and diplomacy elsewhere. I am very convinced that if a successful merger had taken place history and the European landscape would look very different. Frankly hardly anyone in the world would have been able to compete, at least not in the 15th and 16th century.
But I digress, so let’s get back to the terrorist father of Sweden.
Gustav Vasa was a great monarch. Probably the best and brightest in Swedish history, and his policies and laws were at the forefront laying the groundwork for a future grandiose country and transforming a very poor underdeveloped nation into a European Powerhouse.
However he did start out as a terrorist. A murderess scoundrel that killed thousands of people in rebellions and wars and assassinated Danish officers and broke out from a lawful and hundred years plus old entity. And he had no problem with turning against old allies slaughtering anyone that opposed him.
After his father got executed together with other terrorists for rebelling against the lawful sovereign, Gustav got himself involved in several revolts until he managed to rally an army in the province of Dalarna and gaining troops from Leipzig he then, after some years, repelled the legal king of Denmark and eventually, through wars and shrewd practices, became king of the nation of Sweden.
For most historians today (except maybe Danish ones) he is regarded as a liberator of sort, a freedom fighter. However he should rather be regarded as a terrorist and instigator of rebellions. By today’s standards he would probably be sitting in a secret CIA terrorist jail, alongside the USA’s founding fathers, getting tortured. Any contemporary politician and the politically correct would today have regarded him as a horrible nutcase, a fascist, and a terrorist. Isn’t it fun how things change?
This little excursion into the past isn’t the only example of how some individuals or groups in one passage of time can be labeled in one way, and gain recognition in a completely other way if times change.
History is written by the victorious.
But this isn’t really the point I am trying to make. Many others have made this observation before, probably a lot better then I just did. What I am trying to get at is that it’s not necessarily a bad thing doing the dance of revolution.
Those in power will never relinquish it without name-calling and certain elements both in-house and abroad will make an effort to curve any “terrorist” from gaining power and try stop such individuals/groups from having any say in matters of the state.
It’s not really about you (or Gustav) being or not being a terrorist, that’s secondary. You see those in power doesn’t care about your policies, your politics or who’s right and wrong, such archaic descriptions have nothing to do with it. The reason that they fear so called terrorists is that they oppose those in power. Nothing less, nothing more. Even religion or cultural differences are secondary.
Those sitting on power want to keep it, preferably expand and strengthen it. Those sitting on power are always the righteous legal leaders that you should obey. Anyone opposing those sitting on power are terrorists, extremists, anarchists or crazies. This has actually never changed.
Remember a fellow named Jesus? He too could be regarded as an instigator and since so many Jews at the time actually were terrorists against their Roman rulers, it’s not that hard to understand why Imperial Rome feared that Jesus had the charisma to lead a guerrilla uprising against them. Today we would probably have sided with Rome, at least most of you out there would. And with words thrown at you from an effective propaganda machine many of you would probably have cheered Rome on as it killed this terrorist Jew.
I am not religious and I’m frankly not convinced that the historical figure Jesus even existed, but what we do know is that many Jews (and people from other religions and cultures) were slaughtered for being what we today would label ‘terrorists’. And the Romans were in no means alone. Pretty much every leadership and country in the history of mankind have executed, tortured, or expelled potentially dangerous individuals. Sometimes with good reason, but mostly on a whim or in order to keep their power.
This hasn’t changed. The same thing goes on today.
Granted many democratic (and mainly western) countries do have an actual reason to argue their case. There are many communists, anarchists, fascists and religious fanatics out there that don’t want any form of freedom or democracy and have no problem murdering millions to get their way. And I cannot really sidestep deeply religious and nutty Muslims either; no matter how “racist” it makes me. So maybe there’s a slim difference here, but the real reason for those in charge to chase down and oppose terrorism hasn’t changed. It’s still about power.
You see they aren’t only chasing down fanatics or extremists - pretty much anyone that gets in the crosshair of the righteous elite is a target.
They start out small. People who like drugs, smokers, and fat people have been targeted almost with the same ferocity as real terrorists. And don’t even get me started on Internet users. In America people that believe in the constitution is today “potential terrorists”. And in pretty much every western country anyone wearing a turban or burqa is a potential suicide bomber.
Read that word again; “Potential”.
As said, they start out small. With suspicions.
Soon, very soon, they will go to the next step. Following in the footsteps of rulers before anyone that is not conformed, listens to ‘reason’ and those that have a deep seated suspicious view towards government will be targeted. Some say this has already happened.
And when you think about it, are you really safe?
Would your government take a view opposing yours and silence you, and those who would speak for you, and refuse to countenance any debate at all that would let you have a say? Would your government use lies and deceit to override anything you might want to do or say? Would your government use the law against you, demonise and punish you, encourage others to treat you as subhuman, for no other reason than they just don't like you?
Of course they would, and do.
The fact is that most of us live in societies were every single one is regarded guilty until proven innocent.
Ordinary folks, you and me, your neighbor and everyone you know are already treated as criminals. Not only in regards to internet or smoking. We have already seen and heard horror stories on how innocent people are locked up, flown to distant lands getting tortured for no other reason than that they can, maybe, possibly, know a bit about someone or something.
Spanish Inquisition… anyone? Leg-Iron has a magnificent piece on the subject. Go read.
This will escalate, and the good thing about it is that real “terrorists” will emerge as a consequence of these policies. I am not talking about religious fanatics living in caves or right-wing trailer park attendees; I am talking about ordinary citizens that simply have had enough.
As usual those in power will bunch all that oppose them together. Guilty by association. And Guilty because the government says so.
It’s all about power. Nothing more, nothing less.
But if we move forward in time to the break-up of the Kalmar Union (1397-1523) that had united the Nordic countries but was gradually opposed by Swedish terrorists taking action against the Danish monarchy, and finally broken off by the terrorist would-be king Gustav Vasa. A king that at the same time broke with the Roman Catholic Church and established the Reformation. A heretic and terrorist created modern Sweden. How about that one?
Personally I think this was a mistake. A unified Norway (and Iceland), Denmark, Sweden and Finland with all its might would have been a very powerful entity in Europe and the world. And take away the animosity that historically speaking has been very fierce between Danes and Swedes, and the countries (country) would have been much stronger not fighting each other and instead been able to focus armies and diplomacy elsewhere. I am very convinced that if a successful merger had taken place history and the European landscape would look very different. Frankly hardly anyone in the world would have been able to compete, at least not in the 15th and 16th century.
But I digress, so let’s get back to the terrorist father of Sweden.
Gustav Vasa was a great monarch. Probably the best and brightest in Swedish history, and his policies and laws were at the forefront laying the groundwork for a future grandiose country and transforming a very poor underdeveloped nation into a European Powerhouse.
However he did start out as a terrorist. A murderess scoundrel that killed thousands of people in rebellions and wars and assassinated Danish officers and broke out from a lawful and hundred years plus old entity. And he had no problem with turning against old allies slaughtering anyone that opposed him.
After his father got executed together with other terrorists for rebelling against the lawful sovereign, Gustav got himself involved in several revolts until he managed to rally an army in the province of Dalarna and gaining troops from Leipzig he then, after some years, repelled the legal king of Denmark and eventually, through wars and shrewd practices, became king of the nation of Sweden.
For most historians today (except maybe Danish ones) he is regarded as a liberator of sort, a freedom fighter. However he should rather be regarded as a terrorist and instigator of rebellions. By today’s standards he would probably be sitting in a secret CIA terrorist jail, alongside the USA’s founding fathers, getting tortured. Any contemporary politician and the politically correct would today have regarded him as a horrible nutcase, a fascist, and a terrorist. Isn’t it fun how things change?
This little excursion into the past isn’t the only example of how some individuals or groups in one passage of time can be labeled in one way, and gain recognition in a completely other way if times change.
History is written by the victorious.
But this isn’t really the point I am trying to make. Many others have made this observation before, probably a lot better then I just did. What I am trying to get at is that it’s not necessarily a bad thing doing the dance of revolution.
Those in power will never relinquish it without name-calling and certain elements both in-house and abroad will make an effort to curve any “terrorist” from gaining power and try stop such individuals/groups from having any say in matters of the state.
It’s not really about you (or Gustav) being or not being a terrorist, that’s secondary. You see those in power doesn’t care about your policies, your politics or who’s right and wrong, such archaic descriptions have nothing to do with it. The reason that they fear so called terrorists is that they oppose those in power. Nothing less, nothing more. Even religion or cultural differences are secondary.
Those sitting on power want to keep it, preferably expand and strengthen it. Those sitting on power are always the righteous legal leaders that you should obey. Anyone opposing those sitting on power are terrorists, extremists, anarchists or crazies. This has actually never changed.
Remember a fellow named Jesus? He too could be regarded as an instigator and since so many Jews at the time actually were terrorists against their Roman rulers, it’s not that hard to understand why Imperial Rome feared that Jesus had the charisma to lead a guerrilla uprising against them. Today we would probably have sided with Rome, at least most of you out there would. And with words thrown at you from an effective propaganda machine many of you would probably have cheered Rome on as it killed this terrorist Jew.
I am not religious and I’m frankly not convinced that the historical figure Jesus even existed, but what we do know is that many Jews (and people from other religions and cultures) were slaughtered for being what we today would label ‘terrorists’. And the Romans were in no means alone. Pretty much every leadership and country in the history of mankind have executed, tortured, or expelled potentially dangerous individuals. Sometimes with good reason, but mostly on a whim or in order to keep their power.
This hasn’t changed. The same thing goes on today.
Granted many democratic (and mainly western) countries do have an actual reason to argue their case. There are many communists, anarchists, fascists and religious fanatics out there that don’t want any form of freedom or democracy and have no problem murdering millions to get their way. And I cannot really sidestep deeply religious and nutty Muslims either; no matter how “racist” it makes me. So maybe there’s a slim difference here, but the real reason for those in charge to chase down and oppose terrorism hasn’t changed. It’s still about power.
You see they aren’t only chasing down fanatics or extremists - pretty much anyone that gets in the crosshair of the righteous elite is a target.
They start out small. People who like drugs, smokers, and fat people have been targeted almost with the same ferocity as real terrorists. And don’t even get me started on Internet users. In America people that believe in the constitution is today “potential terrorists”. And in pretty much every western country anyone wearing a turban or burqa is a potential suicide bomber.
Read that word again; “Potential”.
As said, they start out small. With suspicions.
Soon, very soon, they will go to the next step. Following in the footsteps of rulers before anyone that is not conformed, listens to ‘reason’ and those that have a deep seated suspicious view towards government will be targeted. Some say this has already happened.
And when you think about it, are you really safe?
Would your government take a view opposing yours and silence you, and those who would speak for you, and refuse to countenance any debate at all that would let you have a say? Would your government use lies and deceit to override anything you might want to do or say? Would your government use the law against you, demonise and punish you, encourage others to treat you as subhuman, for no other reason than they just don't like you?
Of course they would, and do.
The fact is that most of us live in societies were every single one is regarded guilty until proven innocent.
Ordinary folks, you and me, your neighbor and everyone you know are already treated as criminals. Not only in regards to internet or smoking. We have already seen and heard horror stories on how innocent people are locked up, flown to distant lands getting tortured for no other reason than that they can, maybe, possibly, know a bit about someone or something.
Spanish Inquisition… anyone? Leg-Iron has a magnificent piece on the subject. Go read.
This will escalate, and the good thing about it is that real “terrorists” will emerge as a consequence of these policies. I am not talking about religious fanatics living in caves or right-wing trailer park attendees; I am talking about ordinary citizens that simply have had enough.
As usual those in power will bunch all that oppose them together. Guilty by association. And Guilty because the government says so.
It’s all about power. Nothing more, nothing less.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Eugenics
I am not really a fan of the Georgia GuideStones theorem that pops up now and again in tin-foil hat circles. However no matter what one believes in that regard it is hard not to wonder what the end game really is when it comes to policies like the Manmade Global Warming swindle.
There are tons of very smart people coming up with schemes how to sell this idea that, as far as I can tell, has no basis whatsoever in reality, to the general populace. Some of these scientists, researchers and bureaucrats must know that what they are selling is bogus. Maybe even a majority of them. So why do it?
The reason is, in all likelihood, Power.
There are many ways of gaining, maintaining and expanding power. The most commonly used selling point throughout history has been the usage of FEAR. If people are afraid of something it is much easier to sell a bigger, better, stronger and more intrusive government. And with bigger, better, stronger and more intrusive government comes power for those that either sits in government or for them that knows best how to take advantage of government.
If FEAR is combined with a clearly defined antagonist that is sold as the real instigator of said fear and if the alternative is marketed with pink shimmering skies, pretty much everyone will listen and almost all of those will conform and become controllable little sheople.
Today we can see this trickery when it comes to internet where, apparently, every no-good horrible Muslimterroristpedophile is openly chatting up our daughters while spreading hatred and communicating on what train station to blow up.
Terrorist do exist, Muslims too, and pedophiles that according to the grapevine started to exist at the same time as computers and webcams, is a reality. And the fact of the matter is that internet can be used for evil purposes. Just as a fork can be used to kill so can internet be used to plan the killing. You can find out what fork is best for the crime, probably even get hints and tips from other would-be fork-murderers. So when it comes to internet they do make a slim, petite, very minuscule point.
Manmade Global Warming however have no such defined adversary, except, of course, mankind.
We know that The Sun (not the paper) is responsible for almost all weather on our planet. That single percentage or two that hasn’t to do with the Sun can be related to cosmic rays, our magnetic poles or the oceans. There are also other minor factors like the occasional asteroid, volcanoes and such. But for some reason mankind have such an imperative role in the environment that the end for the entire planet is near. Driving cars, factories, hairspray, refrigerators and our pets have for some unknown reason started a chain reaction that will end all life.
Already when reading such claims any thinking adult should start being very skeptical towards the Church of Climatology and its followers.
But it doesn’t stop with ill-defined and very vague claims; they also use pure fiction and outright lies to sell us this story.
For example the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been caught fiddling numbers, hiding facts, bullying opponents and outright lying in the name of science. Anyone reading the Climategate emails or checking what these tricksters use as “scientific material” (the ‘material’ that’s not SECRET that is) need to stand in awe.
Among other things we now know that one single tree in Siberia is responsible for the famous hockey-stick graph. We know that only data supporting their pre-determined view is used, all the rest of the data is ignored or hidden away. We know that they actively persecute and thrash anyone arguing against them. We know that both earlier and later proven faulty data is used and they do so intentionally.
This is facts. This we know.
And when they have an “independent review” of this scam, what happens?
Well when the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the world's science academies to review the work of IPCC. He did this by stating:
"Let me be clear - the threat posed by climate change is real"
And if that clear message wasn’t enough he continued:
"I have seen no credible evidence that challenges the main conclusions of [the IPCC's 2007] report."
And with this mission statement the InterAcademy Council (IAC) reviewed IPCC.
Oh, but wait. If the mission of IAC wasn’t clear enough, wait ‘till you know how “independent” they are. This is like sending out wolfs to investigate why the fox got into the henhouse. Well, in all fairness to wolfs, they probably would be more independent.
Taking a wee look at the IAC do you know who their partner organizations are? You guessed it; over half that can be seen on their webpage are UN programs. The rest is the World Bank and other international academy groups. And if that isn’t enough how about the fact that the same people that appoint the IPCC folks are the very same people that appoints the IAC folks.
And their website is filled with things about climate change. These are hardliner Climate Church goers. They pray at the altar of the Polar Bear God and they are to check their pals at UN?
These are sort of facts and knowledge one should have before watching these flicks I have brought for you to see. Even if you don’t buy the Eugenics angle (I don’t) you cannot ignore that the end result, the end game, may very well be the exact same thing implied in these clips and argued by conspiracists.
Happy viewing
Fun isn't it?
There are tons of very smart people coming up with schemes how to sell this idea that, as far as I can tell, has no basis whatsoever in reality, to the general populace. Some of these scientists, researchers and bureaucrats must know that what they are selling is bogus. Maybe even a majority of them. So why do it?
The reason is, in all likelihood, Power.
There are many ways of gaining, maintaining and expanding power. The most commonly used selling point throughout history has been the usage of FEAR. If people are afraid of something it is much easier to sell a bigger, better, stronger and more intrusive government. And with bigger, better, stronger and more intrusive government comes power for those that either sits in government or for them that knows best how to take advantage of government.
If FEAR is combined with a clearly defined antagonist that is sold as the real instigator of said fear and if the alternative is marketed with pink shimmering skies, pretty much everyone will listen and almost all of those will conform and become controllable little sheople.
Today we can see this trickery when it comes to internet where, apparently, every no-good horrible Muslimterroristpedophile is openly chatting up our daughters while spreading hatred and communicating on what train station to blow up.
Terrorist do exist, Muslims too, and pedophiles that according to the grapevine started to exist at the same time as computers and webcams, is a reality. And the fact of the matter is that internet can be used for evil purposes. Just as a fork can be used to kill so can internet be used to plan the killing. You can find out what fork is best for the crime, probably even get hints and tips from other would-be fork-murderers. So when it comes to internet they do make a slim, petite, very minuscule point.
Manmade Global Warming however have no such defined adversary, except, of course, mankind.
We know that The Sun (not the paper) is responsible for almost all weather on our planet. That single percentage or two that hasn’t to do with the Sun can be related to cosmic rays, our magnetic poles or the oceans. There are also other minor factors like the occasional asteroid, volcanoes and such. But for some reason mankind have such an imperative role in the environment that the end for the entire planet is near. Driving cars, factories, hairspray, refrigerators and our pets have for some unknown reason started a chain reaction that will end all life.
Already when reading such claims any thinking adult should start being very skeptical towards the Church of Climatology and its followers.
But it doesn’t stop with ill-defined and very vague claims; they also use pure fiction and outright lies to sell us this story.
For example the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been caught fiddling numbers, hiding facts, bullying opponents and outright lying in the name of science. Anyone reading the Climategate emails or checking what these tricksters use as “scientific material” (the ‘material’ that’s not SECRET that is) need to stand in awe.
Among other things we now know that one single tree in Siberia is responsible for the famous hockey-stick graph. We know that only data supporting their pre-determined view is used, all the rest of the data is ignored or hidden away. We know that they actively persecute and thrash anyone arguing against them. We know that both earlier and later proven faulty data is used and they do so intentionally.
This is facts. This we know.
And when they have an “independent review” of this scam, what happens?
Well when the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the world's science academies to review the work of IPCC. He did this by stating:
"Let me be clear - the threat posed by climate change is real"
And if that clear message wasn’t enough he continued:
"I have seen no credible evidence that challenges the main conclusions of [the IPCC's 2007] report."
And with this mission statement the InterAcademy Council (IAC) reviewed IPCC.
Oh, but wait. If the mission of IAC wasn’t clear enough, wait ‘till you know how “independent” they are. This is like sending out wolfs to investigate why the fox got into the henhouse. Well, in all fairness to wolfs, they probably would be more independent.
Taking a wee look at the IAC do you know who their partner organizations are? You guessed it; over half that can be seen on their webpage are UN programs. The rest is the World Bank and other international academy groups. And if that isn’t enough how about the fact that the same people that appoint the IPCC folks are the very same people that appoints the IAC folks.
And their website is filled with things about climate change. These are hardliner Climate Church goers. They pray at the altar of the Polar Bear God and they are to check their pals at UN?
These are sort of facts and knowledge one should have before watching these flicks I have brought for you to see. Even if you don’t buy the Eugenics angle (I don’t) you cannot ignore that the end result, the end game, may very well be the exact same thing implied in these clips and argued by conspiracists.
Happy viewing
Fun isn't it?
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