Review of Marvel´s Agents of SHIELD

A cast with no real enemies working for the most inapt organisation of all time 

Let me do something I rarely do and comment on and review a current TV-show. The reason for this is of course, at least in some minor way, the involvement of Genius Joss Whedon. The creator of Buffy, Angel and the fantastic Firefly deserve a comment now and again and although the very limited show Dollhouse was cancelled slightly prematurely - it actually started to show promise just as it was taken off the airwaves – I cannot help finding myself getting sucked into another show. Although Joss isn´t that much involved in Marvel´s Agents of SHIELD and although the show promises a lot but delivers little, I still see a lot of potential and this may very well turn out to be one of the best (sci fi) shows of all time.

So far 
But let me start with stating that things, so far, have been slow to develop and I am reluctant to accept a few of the characters. Even worse though is the lack of good antagonists because the cast, good or not, hardly ever get something to sink their teeth into. The evil organisation Centipede (Centipede...? Really?) doesn't really do it for me so far, and the lameness of the supposed villain Donald “Blizzard” Gill was not really a high-point, although far more so then the even lamer origin of Graviton. And don´t even get me started on the niceness of Ian Quinn. At least the last mention should die soon or start murdering babies for fun - when not even shooting Sky (twice!) do not do it then he should just die already. The recent guest appearance of the enchantress daughter Lorelei was a big step forward, but since she will not be coming back any time soon and more than likely has nothing to do with any form of future storyline it felt more like a tease then anything else.

We viewers never really feel their fear and, except for a few moments, have they ever been in danger? Has anyone really got really hurt or killed? I have seen a lot of comments online complaining about that or that main character, but I feel it is more about bad scripting and specifically the lack of real, over time, threats. They are SHIELD agents for God´s sake! They should die or end up in Coma or something once in a while. We knew that Skye would make it; we knew that Agent Igot Rapedbylorelei would never let a little thing like a gunshot slow him down; we knew that Simmons would survive even when infected with the deadliest of alien viruses at the same time as falling from an airplane.

No dangers, no fear, no hard-core villains – shouldn´t those things be the priority of a show like this?

What really piss me off about the show though is how horribly ineffectual, inapt and stupid the supposed “secretive” organisation of SHIELD is. In every episode of the show we get more proof of how even an organisation of 14y old can-collectors would kick SHIELD ass from here to the next Tuesday. If the people on the “boat” are the best there is and if how SHIELD is portrait is really how the organisation “works” the Earth is definitely doomed.
For example the really crappy depiction of the SHIELD training facilities. How the hell are they supposed to work as a team when the nerds are kept to themselves with a “secret” disco in the basement while the macho fighters are somewhere else doing push-ups? Separate campuses with no tech training at all for mindless soldiers and not a cross-training course as far as the eye can see for the nerds. If that is how they train the “best of the best” on how to handle alien invasions?
And what’s with the guy trying to commit suicide? A highly trained agent who´s been able to hide from the entire world for two decades take out a pill he has inside his jacket, takes a moment with his hand stretched out while expecting his karate savvy opponent to NOT kick it out of his hand..? Is that the pinnacle of SHIELD training?
And when Agent Wardo McIdiot faces off against an Asguardian sorceress he stops to talk to her and let her get closer when he knows that her voice and touch is magical and he is holding a stun-gun pointing at her, then I just want to scream and have the moron die already. How the hell can that idiot be “one of the best” as May described him? And why the hell would SHIELD send in a lot of men trying to catch a sorceress who´s main power is to enthrall men? SHIELD is by far the worst and most unfit organisation even portrait on a TV-show.
SHIELD seems to be pretty good at marketing though putting their super-secret logo of their super-secret world protecting organisation on everything from coffee mugs to pool tables… Great job marketing team!!

What works
The idea of the show is amazingly great. A few “normal” folk digging deeper into the mysteries, origins and pantheon of superpowers, super villains and strange realms is fantastic. It is hard to think up a better premise for a TV-show. That they also take their time in building up the characters (yes, I know, I am contradicting myself) I also enjoy. The tech personnel of Fitz and Simmons is also a functional part of the storyline - especially comes to their dialog and their chemistry. The pilot and supposed kick-ass specialist Melinda May also, mostly, have it down delivering much needed extra points of view when Coulson do or say something stupid (once per episode). Even though the raised-from-the-dead Phil Coulson comes off as slightly two-dimensional the character is handled by such a good actor that he manages to pull it off.
The main premise and promise of the show however is what make it a good watch. Despite the writing and lack of good villains and regardless of what seem to be (although not mainly the actors fault) periodically bad acting, this is a show that has and probably will continue to deliver high quality entertainment.

We do need to remember that comics are not necessarily about great acting or a sensible approach to reality, it is an outlet for fantasy and an escape from boring reality. I always react when I see movie and TV-show reviewers do analyses about Sci fi (or porn for that matter) as if the point is to have the greatest actors acting out magnificent dialogs about global warming and puppies. It is about entertainment! If you want to be entertained it is the Stallone´s and Schwarzenegger´s you watch. If you want to huddle down and cry and see amazing acting then you watch something else. Kick-ass entertainment does not necessarily make a movie/tv-show worse or better, it’s just what it is. Mainstream reviewers in particular often forget this and consequently give really bad reviews to really great entertainment while praising paint-drying dialogues about menstruation.

What is missing? 
As already mentioned the storyline need better villains primarily and better writing/directing in general. Also a few more in the crew and a dark twist (May?) would make things more interesting.
What can also be addressed with additional squad members is the lack of skills which is highly noticeable in every episode (SHIELD "training" at its best I assume…). Okay, I do get that Fitz and Simmons are not martial art experts and that Agent Punch Toughsmack isn´t a computer expert, but SHIELD agents should have a wider range of knowledge no? And isn´t SHIELD supposed to be an international organisation? Why would the international community throw tons of money at big-ass flying carriers and allow the agents roam around their country´s backyard without asking for something in return like, oh let´s say, a Pakistani or French agent on the team?

The enemies so far have been jungle rebels, a couple of hackers, corrupt cops, a rich but pretty nice guy and a girl in a flowery dress. Oh wow, I feel so threatened… Yes, okay, they did have to fight a couple of super soldiers and a few berserkers (without backup and with only two people in the team capable to fend off worse foes then kittens), but I never felt like anyone was ever in danger and when soapy Agent Stuffy McBlanderson gets shot he is okay and able to fight off a bunch of police officers on a crashing plane… right…okay…

Consequently I would like to see more actors joining the crew – and that a few of the new or current ones die horribly without mysterious drugs to save them, if only to get the feeling of danger and feel more for the characters remaining. It feels very weird that they are so few and only two that actually can fight. Agent John Garrent did show up and hopefully will soon join on a permanent basis (take over the crew after the new super-villain Carson?), but I would love to see one or two more filling in the gaps. The problem here though (again!) is the writers and directors – they cannot handle the current, pretty limited, squad so how will they cope with additional cast?

Where is/should the show go? 
I do not agree with the conventional fan-base opinion that the team need a superhero or two in order to lift the show. I rather see them growing for themselves and fight with brains, wit and aid from the occasional outsider against superior and much stronger foes. I rather see “normal” people fighting against a billion to one odds then watch the current/extra cast put on spandex and fly about. Yes it is about the Marvel universe and yes we do need a few people throwing buildings lurking about on the show - like adding Lady Sif to the mix which was a great idea - but I rather see a bunch of great detectives with brains and a variety of skills taking advantage of a Super villain hubris then to see a hunky shampoo-commercial dude get enormous powers.

The story of Skye is a brain teaser and it can be a good origin story for her and something that can develop over time into something really great. Also feel like the character of Skye is the least developed with most untapped potential – and she has not even been enrolled at a SHIELD campus! I do have worries about this though, just as with Coulson´s little mystery. So far the writers and directors have not impressed so I am a little concerned that they will mess this up too and if so that would pretty much be the end of the show, at least for me.

I like the idea of SHIELD going evil or that Coulson got experimented upon with injected alien blood and that this experiment actually went horribly wrong and so he will be one of, if not THE main antagonist villain of the show.
BUT the crew need to get the hell off that stupid plane, preferably permanently, but at least more often. It is their transport and sort of headquarters so I get they need to have a few meetings and such, but it feels like 90% of the time they are flying or fighting on the “bus”. If that plane is such a villain-magnet and so comfy that they can stand around most of the time, what the hell do they do with the rest of the cash they throw at this show?
They can use the plane as their foe-trap and sit down and relax 40min of each show until the evil one show up. This show is like; plane flies, something is discussed on the plane, the plane fly some more, a few events happens outside, back on the plane they sort of solve the mystery, the evil one shows up on the plane and they fight on the plane and kill/trap the villain and then the plane fly off in the sunset. Someone is seriously skimming cash from this show or filming a plane flying is seriously more expensive than I thought…

Hopefully the first season will end with Coulson being an evil mastermind - revealed after they, sort of, defeat the main antagonist The Clairvoyant whom turn out to be Dormammu, Skye consequently turns out to be (of course) Clea. I also suggest that Hunky Mr fightsalot dies and I would also propose that one of the tech (preferably Fitz) also dies. This in a season finale of tears and lots of pain so the show, at least temporary, take a darker turn. Alternatively that Skye is Gamora (one of the most interesting female characters with lots of personality potential) and Coulson is the Clairvoyant. Although I assume, at this point, that Skye will be morphed into Abigail Brand (hm...) as the show goes on and that the Clairvoyant is that weird looking black/mulatto SHIELD agent with glasses that pops up now and again.

Regardless of where the show goes, I would emphatically suggest that someone buy a lot of vodka to the writers and directors and lock them up in a room filled with 9254972 comics and do not let them out before they come up with better dialog and better development of the show. I may have it wrong here and we may be surprised that the people behind the show have a fantastic plan and is deliberately teasing and annoying us (not a bad idea, going for the gold straight off is usually a bad idea for TV) – if so I probably owe them an apology later. This CAN be one of the best shows of all time so please people; get it right!

I will keep watching, even if I cannot find any other reason than coming up with more nicknames for Buzz Rockgroin… Agent Grrr Joinfight, Slade Granitethighs, Chuch Headpunch, Dunce Lackwit… Muscles McHairgel… Stone Wallface.. Beefy McSlab… Agent Stump Chuckman… Clench Buttsheek…

Despite the flaws this is an entertaining show and they cannot mess up the writing and directing more than they´ve already done so I assume it will get better and better over time.

Oh, and one last thing. I see a lot of people online compere this show with that of Arrow. Except for the valid point that the fighting choreography is much better on Arrow, that show is not only based on a completely different storyline, it is also crappier and a big yawn. The only positive thing about Arrow is the main characters work-out sessions which are a big plus for women and gay´s across the world. So please do not take anything from that crappy story, there are plenty of great stuff from the Marvel Universe that is much, much better.

The Hatred of Libertarianism

There are plenty of misconceptions and weird ideas about libertarianism. 

The (socialists) left regard us libertarians as rich narcissists closely linked to fascism and that we constantly look for new ways of making people homeless and that we laugh at the poor and starving on our way to our mansions and yachts.
The (conservative) right believe that libertarian is another word for “hippie”; that we want to destroy family values while puffing on a cannabis pipe. And the right seem to think that we´re part of the gay agenda and that we have neither morals nor reached religious enlightenment.
The general populace may think that libertarians are behind everything from the privatization of day-care to wars, everything from poverty in Africa to violence against women. This mainly due to mainstream media taking every possible moment to blame libertarianism for all the wrongs in our world.

Is there any other group so hated? So despised? So misunderstood? Not even Nazis, and certainly not communists, are so reviled throughout the world.

Why?

Personally I believe it is because we libertarians piss off everyone at the same time...

A libertarian is a person that sees no problem with a black lesbian woman living together with a Japanese lesbian woman, having adopted white kids and while watching their kids they clean their large gun stash, and this lesbian couple, and their kids, main source of income is their large cannabis field in the backyard.

Did you notice it? In above sentences alone I managed to offend and piss off religious nuts, Nazis, communists, mainstream scholars, journalists and the politically correct.

Let’s try another one;

A libertarian is a person whom argues that all forms of corporate subsidies as well as all forms of government controlled social welfare should be abolished and he/she wants to end the wars and both stop the surveillance police state and the crony corporate hegemony at the same time.

Here I pissed of banks, big conglomerates, government officials, politicians, neo-cons, the intelligence community and everyone who wants to have a welfare state. All at the same time.

You cannot really put us in the right-left paradigm. Although we in many issues, especially comes to economics, belong to the right, we also promote and argue social freedoms and argue human rights both of the individual and of groups. If you with feminism mean equality before the law and that both genders should have the same rights and freedoms, all libertarians are also, automatically, feminists. We advocate sexual as well as economic freedom. We promote gay rights as well as gun rights.

We libertarians believe that people have been given from the Universe/nature/God(s) absolute human rights that cannot be circumvented, cannot be eroded or in any form or way be taken away. This regardless if those rights are being taken away by a single individual or by the majority. And herein lays another big reason why the mainstream and politicians of all colours hate us. If the majority (or minority) cannot take away rights, why even have politicians? Why even vote? Is voting even a legal premise within a libertarian society?

We libertarians are pro-democracy, but not necessarily pro-voting. Democracy is much more than just casting a vote every 4 years or so, it is also about freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and so on. The voting process should never be allowed to become despotic or be allowed to infringe on our basic rights. The left in particular cannot understand this point of view since in their world, at least in theory, people should vote on everything that has an impact on their lives. In reality we know from a lot of socialist trial-and-errors that in a socialist country the (one) party controls everything and the party leader is, at best, a oligarchical figurehead, and at worst a 100% dictator.

Although most can understand that we should not allow the 51% to murder the minority 49% and consequently most also reject the notion of; voting decides all - people still have no problem to impose “minor” rules and infringements that are based on the very same premise.
A libertarian is a person that rejects the majority view/vote if this view/vote means forcible action taken against those that disagree. For example smoking; we know that smoking is bad for us, but it is my body, my life, my time and my money. If I want to smoke 57 packs a day it is my right to do so. No regulation, no tax, no law and no group, regardless if this group is the majority or the minority, has any right to tell me what I should or should not smoke. The same goes for sex and sexuality. If I want to sleep with a woman or with a man or with several at the same time, it is my choice. You may have your own moral objections if my girlfriend urinates on me while another man spanks my monkey, but that is your opinion and although you are entitled to it, you do not however have the right to tell me, by law and via threat of violence by the state, that such sexual activity is wrong.

And here we come to a final reason why people of all political views reject libertarianism; they see libertarianism lacking government rules and that the ideology is close to, if not purely, anarchism. Although there are anarchists within the libertarian movement, the so called anarcho-capitalists, the general consensus among libertarians is that there should be a government and that there should be a few central laws following the guide-lines of natural given rights. A government in a libertarian state would exist to uphold the law and provide military protection of the land. There might also be a little wiggle room for the government to have certain foreign and diplomatic tasks and perhaps even minor social ones. The key word here is however “voluntary”. A person should have the right to opt out of society in one form or the other and most (if not all) government actions should be founded via voluntary donations or via income derived from low/non-intrusive taxes such as voluntary VAT´s or lottery programs.

The rules/laws in a libertarian state are few and simple - easy to understand and easy to obey.

You, as an individual have, in a Libertarian society, an absolute right to do, think, act, say and work in whatever way you want until the moment you encounter another individual with the same right. In practice this means that you can own guns but not shoot anyone unless it is in self-defense; it means that declaring war will never happen, the government (and the people) will only act in self-defense; it also means that you can smoke weed but not force anyone else to do so; it means that you can hold hands with, have sex with and marry someone of the same gender but you cannot force a priest to wed you.

For conservatives and socialists these, what they refer to as “opposite duo-opinions”, are not compatible. How can you be for gay rights but not force a church/priest to marry them? How can you be for gun rights but against waging wars in foreign countries?
For a libertarian it is not only possible, it is required. You cannot claim to be libertarian and be for certain rights but not for others.

Liberals/socialists also have a problem with us libertarians refusing to rally together with them against NationalSocialists. Of course it is not only libertarians, also conservatives and pretty much anyone knowing anything about the red madness will refuse to go. But in the leftie mind-set not going in a demonstration against fascists and NationalSocialists is the same as being on the same side as such horrific ideologies. The left want us to ignore their blood-soaked red flags and the most evil symbols of all time; the hammer and sickle, and see it and them as something great and good just because they are against Nazis.

No, we libertarians are against totalitarian ideas and against any form of aggression against human rights no matter who utters them. We do not care if you are socialist, communist, social-democrat, neo-con or Nazis.

What we care about is basic human rights and civil liberties. Period.

Does that make us evil? 

180 degree turn spins our world into twilight zone

Crazy. I was Crazy ones. 

For us growing up under the cold war and during the 1980´s the world of today seem to have turned on its axles, jumped into a black hole and ended up in another galaxy were it rains crazy milk and matrix-like madness is the norm of the realm.

Back then U.S. was still a respectable power in the world. Although already tainted, dirty and falling the Americans and their only decent president since Warren G Harding, felt like a comfy secure haven. Together with Great Britain and their Iron Lady the U.S. was a force of good facing off against the evil empire of the Soviet Union. A USSR that, among other things, fought a losing battle against the CIA-backed Mujahedins of Afghanistan.

The world was crippled by the constant struggle of western democracy versus the communist nightmare. But it was a simpler time and it was easy to pick a side.

And back then China was a weird place filled with other communists committing mass-murder on their own populace almost daily. Back then what we today call The European Union still had some positive potential and there were so much positive feelings with and within pretty much everything.

The 1980´s was the decade of neon lights, Miami Vice, excess living, cocaine, Alphaville, and macho movies. The 1990´s feels now, afterwards, like a pass-through decade were the chess pieces were put into place for what we have today. A decade that saw the rise of Internet and mobile phones, but did not contribute with much more.

Today almost everything has been turned upside down. The U.S. is now close to an evil empire seemingly invading countries on vims and with flimsy excuses they blow up wedding parties, murder kids in droves and protect poppy fields in Afghanistan. This while their previous allies in the Mujahedin now are called Al-qaida, an organisation which now is the sworn enemy of America.

The previously hated STASI surveillance tactics have now been implemented in every western country - only worse. People can no longer watch porn without having an Intelligence Agency watch them watching it. All we do is monitored, collected and weighed in for or against us.

Today the European Union has morphed into EUSSR wherein unelected bureaucrats decide how many fish we should catch and how much food we should produce and they do so with 5 year plans and it is all ruled via nepotism.

Today Russia seem to be, despite their anti-gay stupidities, a better country then most in the west. Today China is the only great power in the world with a so-so intact credibility – and please here remember that the Chinese are building giant cities no-one lives in and fiddle the numbers to seem credible.

Feminism, political correctness, and GramscoFabianazi ideas is the norm and there is nowhere to run in order to get away from it. Airport controls feels like entering a war zone, any/all men working at schools are automatically said to be paedophiles, terrorism lurk behind every bush, and those trying to tell the truth about it all are chased and hunted down like animals.

In the world of economics debt is nowadays something positive and it has even been suggested by a Nobel Prize winner that an Alien invasion would be good for the economy. Today if prices goes down it is negative while prices going up is something positive. Phantom FIAT money thrown at the stock exchange forcing prices up is something great and how we solve any economic vows. That the price of a normal home cost the normal buyer 10 times their annual salary, which is 3 times the historical norm, is regarded as a perfectly well-functioning market.

And today we´re busy trying to save the world from manmade global warming - something that has been scientifically proven to be a false idiocy.

The world is a much scarier, weirder and crazier place today than it was when we lived under the threat of nuclear holocaust. We live in a world of upside down madness. To me it sometimes feels like we´ve entered a different reality.

What the hell happen? How did we end up here?

The only reason I can think of is that yet again the human populace show themselves to be the moronic clueless amoebas I always thought they were. Sadly I again get it right. 

Can it get worse? Ooohhh, hell yes!

Whenever I, a few years ago, pointed out the faults, the wrongs and the direction, everyone said I was a tin-foil hat and that I was a crazy delusional angry man that no-one should listen to. Today, when I have been proven right and even my previous bashes say so, and when I again point out what is wrong and where this will lead, the very same people, again, say I should take off my tin-foil hat and stop drinking.

People simply do not want to believe, they do not want to see, they do not want to know.

People think they can sit down in front of their reality show of choice, nibble on a pizza and what goes on out in the world will never bother them. If, for whatever reason, they get up to complain they do so against smaller things or they find the wrong entity/person/group to blame. It is easier that way.

That is why we´re fucked. And that is also why things will not get better; they will get a lot worse. A lot.

How to find evil people

One of the most hated in Sweden - which of course is reason enough to like her

If you understand Swedish you should once in a while visit the blog of Blondinbella. Not to read what she writes necessarily, it is usually pretty boring superficial stuff about clothes, fashion and a few things about her everyday life. Perhaps such things interest you, but for me its pretty mind-numbing. She also have a few political comments and a few good things to read, but mostly her page is not for me.

No, why you should visit and read her blog is for the comment section. There you can find the vilest, most despicable and wicked excuses for humans on the planet commenting on how horrific Isabella Löwengrip is since she is not a feminist and she is not left wing – and, worst of all, she is successful!

Oh, how horrific it is with a strong intelligent woman getting her way in life without making excuses while stating she is an anti-feminist. It is like the politically correct and their feminazi friends have found their nemesis and so have ganged up and with the worst possible wording thrash Isabella constantly. Its cyberbullying at its worst. It’s the very essence of socialist envy bottled up in abominable commentaries.

If you want to know how evil these people really are and how they act out what they say they are against, and if you want to know who the left-wing feminazi scum are that, if given the chance, one day will rape, kill and torture you, look no further.

But beware! You might lose all faith in humanity. I gave up on humankind a long time ago, but if you still carry hope perhaps you should not listen to my advice – there are of course mainstream news to instead numb and dumb you down…

Your country sucks - Part II

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” 

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Here´s another revelation that might shock you when you move to another country; you will realize that people regardless of religion; skin color or culture are basically the same. Listening to a Turk talking to a Egyptian, the French conversing with Spaniards, Norwegians gossiping with Russians etc you soon realize that if only the language were the same you would never be able to tell them apart.

On certain topics (religion and history especially) a few differences comes out, but the argumentation and views can as well be the difference between a New Yorker and Philadelphian, or between a North and Southern Swede.

If you constantly listen to mainstream media in the west you might believe that Muslims always are out to kill Christians and that suicide bomber is the norm and not the exception. The fact is not only the opposite; a vast majority of Muslims regard suicide bombers and religious fundamentalist views with the same revulsion we feel about Anders Breivik or reverend Jim Jones.

Another thing that is constantly ignored by media is the history and background story of a certain conflict. Problems in the Middle East (and Israel) are the most obvious examples since conflicts in the area go back to the Crusades, and even far beyond that.

Another story forgotten is the Balkans. Even if we do not go back as far as Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire there are so many other issues it will boggle your mind. Merely the fact that Serbs were slaughtered and exterminated in tens of thousands during WW II by Croats give you a broader understanding of the Yugoslavian “civil war” and why the supposed bad guys, the Serbs, did what they did in the early 1990´s.

There are plenty of such examples across the world and in Europe you can find plenty of issues between and within countries. This is one of the many reasons why the European Union, in its current form, is such a bad idea. There are over 70 official languages in Europe and hundreds of different dialects and smaller, almost extinct languages – and there are as many different cultures. Every single boarder has changed countless of times.

Only in Spain (where I live today) you have Basque, Catalan, Andalusian, and Galician –movements looking to break free from their, in their view, Castilian overlords and this is a story that goes back hundreds of years. For an American (yes I am going to bash you some more…) this is something incomprehensible.

I have worked for several US companies and every single time we have training or have a VP visiting holding a speech, they seem to think of and talk about Europe as one entity. The fact that, for example, differences between North Italy and Sicily is so huge and has such a long history that it make any difference seen in the US pale in comparison is completely forgotten, ignored and is even an inconceivable thought for most Americans. Assigning diplomats seem to prove this… 

My point however is that regardless of the differences that do exist between cultures, countries and historic views; the people; the individuals, are the same. We all want the best for ourselves and our loved ones. We all look for a better life. We all want to be free. And, what will probably surprise you, we also think of the world, politics and even religion in the same way. You will realize this once you hear a Turk say that Turkish politicians are morons, or when a Shiite Persian argue that the Mullahs are bigoted xenophobes.

I remember listening to a discussion between one Polish, one Brit, and one Lebanese, a couple of Czechs, one Moroccan, one Vietnamese and one American – all of which agreed that their own politicians are liars and that all people should have the right to their own religion and that the world would be a much better place if normal folk talked to each other over a beer or five. If we only took the time to get to know our neighbor and had a barbecue instead of listening to mainstream media and to those in charge, there would be no wars or conflicts.

I couldn't agree more.

The individual is a great person ready to help and understand. The hospitality of normal folk, across the world, would astound you. It does not matter who you are or who they are, once you work together, drink together, live together and share your experiences you´ll find out how similar people are in the real world.

The problem is in part government and in part people in group.

People in groups often lose their sensibility. Look at a football game or the world championship of Hockey and you´ll see people starting to act less and less like individuals and more and more like Neanderthal group of thugs waving flags and singing death threats towards a supposed “enemy”. If you look at larger group’s people’s intelligence seem to drop even further and a smug salesman in suit with a decent understanding of this group-psyche can basically get people to do whatever he wants.

The government, in turn, prey on larger groups. Convincing one group that they can win benefits and get greater lives if they just steal from; beat up; or in other ways impact on another group. Consequently we get blacks against whites, Muslims against Christians, the Rich against the poor, women against men and so on and so forth. This is further enhanced by socialist and fascist policies since those ideologies are built, partly or fully, on the premise that there is a horrific adversary somewhere that needs to be quenched and killed. Also (at least historically – but also today in many places) we have religious nuts and fanatical fuck-ups who´s agenda links up with that of government and thus influence the groups alongside politicians.

The people, as individuals, are good people, great even, and they will constantly surprise you and this regardless of who they are or where they are from.

People, as in Groups, and influenced and govern by soul-sucking entities up-high are however horrid hooligans with no grasp of fairness.

If I needed further proof of the greatness of Libertarian ideas and a boost in freedom thinking, then moving about in the world really did the trick. If I was an ultra neo-liberal anti-government extremist - which often was said about me in Sweden – when I was living in my birth nation I am much, much more so today. And the reason is because today I know more about my fellow man, I know more about how the world works and I now know that shit is shit regardless if you live in Los Angeles, Athens, London or Stockholm.

You should all travel more, see the world and move to another country, if only for a year or two. Not only will you grow as a person you will also get fantastic new friends and most likely you will come to the same conclusion as I have; government is the problem and freedom is the solution.

Your country sucks - Part I

“I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” 

― Maya Angelou

You do notice a few things when moving to another country. Personally, having lived all over the place, I can tell you a lot about how previous axiomatic views have been turned upside down.

For example when I lived in Sweden I honestly believed that the Swedish healthcare system, despite year-long queues, was one of the best in the world and that our Swedish public transport system was second to none. Of course that is far, far from the truth.

I still believe that once you actually get help, especially for major surgeries, Sweden is one of the best, but other than that I can with absolute certainty say that the only country in Europe (which I know of) that has a worse healthcare system then Sweden is the UK (yes, I have lived there).

For minor issues in Sweden you need to call before and go to an assigned specific healthcare central in your area – sounds socialist and horrid yes? Well, it gets better. Firstly when you call you need to do so during certain hours, usually you have a window of an hour on, for example, a Tuesday morning, so good luck if you´re working... Secondly the low level of service and professionalism offered will make you feel like a dehydrated turd that happen to get stuck underneath the doctors/nurses shoe(s). Thirdly you will probably be in waiting, despite having a scheduled time, for an additional hour or so.

Despite what the UN and the Swedish government tells you the healthcare system is substandard in most aspects that count for everyday folk trying to get help for everyday issues.

And I did mention the year long queues for surgeries and major problems right? I have a close friend waiting for a heart surgery right now (have been waiting for months) and his operation was just moved a few weeks into the future because they got one (sic!) new individual who needed it faster. Isn´t that something? One new person shows up and a very important life-saving operation need to be moved weeks, so… where are the other doctors? Other hospitals? 

In countries like Estonia, Czech Republic and Germany (all of which are countries I have lived in) the level of professionalism and sympathy and service is so much higher than Sweden that you might be shocked if you move there. And they have NO QUEUES!

Although the Swedish healthcare system can be debated the Swedish public transport system cannot - it is so bad, so horrific and so crappy I do not know where to begin.

In Sweden it seems that Swedes are happy if there is one bus going each day if that that bus is only 5min late. The only metro system in the country, in Stockholm, is overcrowded and very difficult to grasp. Not to mention the prices. The cost of a monthly metro pass can feed a small African country for a week. The railroad system is getting old and train lateness is nowadays so common that people rather take that once-a-day-bus. I have seen a few expat Americans stating that the Swedish transport system is fantastic and easy. Every time I see such a comment I ponder on what a hellish nightmare it must be in the US. Even Greece (yes, I´ve lived there too), today, has a better public transport system then Sweden. In most Eastern European countries it is so much better that it will make Swedes cry from envy.

But moving on; we Swedes are told that people in other countries know of Sweden because we´re so great in Sports, that people in other countries know of Björn Borg, Olof Palme and that we are so great in staying neutral in all conflicts that our greatness is acknowledge everywhere. We Swedes are, if you listen to a school teacher, known for our work ethics, our equality and for being environmentally and politically savvy. People across the world know of Sweden because we are a fantastic socialist paradise and we have so many great companies. Basically Sweden is a magical place filled with rivers of honey and pink unicorns fluttering around spreading joy joy feelings.

The words “Bah, humbug!” have never been more appropriate.

People in other countries know of IKEA, meatballs and Swedish women. That is it! Most can hardly even point out Sweden on a map.

Sometimes, in other countries, Sweden is brought up in public or political debates, usually as a good example by liberals/lefties and once in a while you can hear of Sweden and Zlatan in the same sentence, but other than that? Most normal people around the globe have either never heard of or they do not care about that cold place with cold people at the edge of human civilization.

Not that such revelations is only for us Swedes, pretty much anyone moving abroad will find better or worse things with their new home. I also need to emphasize: “Moving!”, because a lot of times you hear fellow countrymen utter stupidities because they have been to the Canary Islands once and spent a summer cleaning fish in Norway and because of that they think they are so worldly.

The people having it worst when moving abroad are probably Americans. I do not think there is a more clueless group of people comes to the world and worldly knowledge. Americans seem to think that their country is in the lead and best in every area. The fact is that the United States has less then 5% of the world´s population, but have almost 25% of the world’s prisoners - which is the only statistics where the US is at the top. Well, there is one more thing; military expenditure!

Americans also seem to think that the world view of them is good, if not great. The fact however is the complete opposite; Americans are literary hated everywhere. Not only because of their continuous wars and mass murders, but also because of their arrogance and lack of worldly knowledge. Regardless of where I have been or to whom I´ve talked to, almost everyone despise, hate and loath Americans. Only the French can sometimes be mentioned with the same aversion but then mostly in a fun love-hate sort of way.

Don´t get me wrong, we all love American TV-shows and movies, and there are plenty of great American companies and seen over time the US is probably the most successful country that has ever existed on this planet, but (or perhaps because of that) there are so many issues – especially nowadays.

It is not only because of NSA, CIA or the millions of murdered, it is also a lack of understanding and very isolated world view (the world is located be between Main and California), and it’s the arrogance, it is all of it and so much more.

But regardless where you are from or where you are going remember that politics always suck; socialism and fascism exists universally in different forms and degrees; and there are pros and cons with each country. There are no paradises, there is no perfect society in existence, and people are basically the same everywhere.

You think there are huge differences between a Shiite woman in Iran and a Christian woman in Italy don´t you? Think again!

The vilest of organisations and a few drug cartels

Anyone surprised by THESE news?

Although I can see the benefits, at least in the short run, I have a hard time figuring out why the, in comparison, nicer and less evil would want to team up with such a despicable and abominable murderous entity as the US government.

Though, from a government standpoint, I see lots of advantages. First they create the drug lords and cartels through the inhuman “war on drugs”, then they use government entities to get money from the drug trade and through the entire process they induce pain, suffering and fear into the general public - and where do people go to ease their suffering and to what entity do they run with their fears? That’s right! To Government!

It’s a Machiavellian scheme with a Faustian smell of such evil it makes all cartoon villains head for retirement.

The leaders of our obese TV-watching generation love this arrangement. It makes them feel important, it gives them power and they get to send killer squads into jungles to hunt down their previous friends and benefactors. This while useful idiot’s campaign outside public offices demanding harsher penalties and increased government founding for drug education of the young while our masters, inside mentioned offices, snort a line and rub their hands together while signing another petition to send more of the mentioned young to pointless wars.

 The truth, as always, is hidden, ignored and spat at.

If you tell someone that legalisation would save countless lives and end drug cartels, they look at you as if you´re wearing a pink tutu and you´d just told them you´re from another galaxy and that you love to eat puppies for dinner. If you tell your neighbour that ending the “war on drugs” would almost completely stop people from dying of overdoses, he will think you have a meth lab in the basement and will probably call the cops. If you argue that drugs on a free market would be cleaner, healthier and be available at the nearest store instead of buying from shady characters people will laugh at you. If you tell relatives that terrorism would, practically, end across the world if drugs were legal, they think you´re joking. And, worse of all, when you tell people about the government-fear-cartel paradigm no one will believe you.

Perhaps this revelation will change a few minds, but generally the public will continue to go with their fears over to the most corrupt, inept, lawless and evil group in the world; their own government.

Which form of tyranny is most acceptable?

There are many -isms, ideologies and religious ideas based on autocracy. Every form of government, even our experiment with Democracy, is oppressive. There is a reason for it; government is by definition oppressive and people are, in general, highly stupid and when they are not stupid they are selfish. This combination of a pre-determined oppressive upper management and large groups of highly stupid and/or highly self-centred people means that a democratic country will automatically head in a totalitarian direction.

People have tried to circumvent this, usually by law. For example the republican form of government is an attempt to build a country of and by law instead that of a country ruled by sovereign decrees or ruled by the vim of many. This too has always failed – from the Romans to contemporary USA. Sooner or later the country/empire crumbles from inflation, outside threats and a population increasingly succumbed by “free lunches”.

Communists/socialists have tried to build a form of government were everyone is supposed to be involved and take part in every decision that affects them. Locally and nationally the worker/inhabitant should be able to vote on and effect decisions and in doing so the communist/socialist believes that people will be happier, become more involved and that the end result will be better. This too has always failed in the most horrific of ways with hundreds of millions of dead as a consequence.

Monarchies, empires, sultanates and many others have come and gone with various results and various degree of oppression. We also have had, and still do have, religious types telling us to heed the words of God(s) and let those guide us.

Democracy seems to be, so far, the least objectionable form of government. But democracy too have failed on numerous occasions - from early city states in Greece, Germany and Italy to the Weimar republic there seem to be a built-in mechanism that can propel a democracy into totalitarianism. Looking around today it is easy to see a lot of problem with the democratic form of government. Democracy in itself is also, at least in some ways, oppressive.

We do not need to resort to bringing up the classical “black-haired majority VS the light-haired minority” –argument, in order to understand why or how a democracy is tyrannical – it is enough to listen to our neighbours and relatives to realize there are a lot of unresolved and overbearing issues.

Consequently if we push most of above ideas aside for a moment and instead focus on the most favourable and arguably most successful form of government; that of Democracy, we can conclude that although this form of government is, in part, a success story, it too comes with a lot of problems –especially in the long run.

Tyranny does not only come from above via of a small minority or from a king or Pharaoh, it can also come from the majority. Especially when the majority is; A) Tricked/Fooled/bamboozled into thinking/voting in a weird and soon to be totalitarian way. B) The politically correct road becomes the only road and all unbelievers are bullied to vote in a specific way. C) Government becomes too large and unmanageable so that each part of it is so anonymous that no-one really knows who decides what – there is no accountability.

We know from history that a smug salesperson can convince people and get them to vote for things they actually do not want. Adolf Hitler’s road to power is the most obvious example, but almost every general election works in the same way. We have a lot of political parties that want power, but few want power to do good and better humanity. A scarce number of politicians may both say good things and have good intentions, but they always get gobbled up by the system.

And if we´re really honest with ourselves; living under the scrutiny of moral busybodies wielding close to omnipotent power in a hard-to-grasp-democracy while they try to guide us to, what they perceive to be; moral path, which is religiously or politically correct, is not far from the same tyranny as that of a almighty sole sovereign. It is in another form and with the illusion that we can later vote for something else, but in the end; does it really matter if one person or the majority tells us what to do? Furthermore; isn’t it better to know who to blame? A king may be horrific, but at least we know, if something goes wrong, who to blame. Also any changes made by a king is immediate, in a democracy it is always slower or may not happen at all.

I have always seen those that torment and chaperon us with moral superiority as just as bad as any dictator. Not directly the same of course, but morally and at its core; is there a difference? A dictators lust for power and control over people’s lives sort of end with his control and decision power. Although there are exceptions the dictator does not need to proclaim moral dominance, he only wants obedience. This “obey or else” paradigm, however horrific it may be, is only slightly more objectionable then the “We know best what is best for you so obey or we will tell everyone you are a fascistRascistBiggotedMoron” paradigm. In both systems you may go to jail for not complying, in both you are obliged to follow rules, laws and sometimes you are even forced to vote.

The difference, you might argue, is that in a democracy we can still object and voice our opinion – which is partly true. But what if a democracy slowly, but surely, impose more and more laws and regulations aimed to push you into the politically correct folder with public flogging (not literally… yet...) as the alternative? Is that really so much better? And in order for us to be able to object and voice our opinion we need to know what is wrong and where the problem is, and we need to have a forum or an outlet to be heard. Especially with today’s surveillance society and todays situation whereas mainstream media and those deemed better control everything for normal folk, can you really argue your voice is being heard? In what way is that different from that of a dictatorship?

Yes, Democracy is better than dictatorship, at least in the short run, but morally and as a long-term consequence it is hard to see the difference.

To me the republican idea is probably best, at least in theory - as consequence it too seem to end up in the same bin as democracy, but isn’t there a way around that?

My thinking has always been to combine several ideologies and forms of governments to get the best result. For example combining a constitutional monarchy with republican ideas in a mixture with lots of governmental control functions easy to view, read and understand for any commoner. This also means that any form of socialism or stateism automatically goes out the window since such ideas also comes with big government – and the bigger the government is the harder it is to understand, grasp and see what the problem is and how to fix it. This coincidently is one of the main reasons why I usually title myself as libertarian since the libertarian ideology favours limited government and consequently we can in a libertarian society easily determine what is wrong with any existing government and fix it. In this sense libertarianism is the truest form of democracy.

I am not completely convinced that a libertarian utopia is the best form of government and I have too many conservative traits to completely throw out all government functions. The oxymoron of a republican monarchy with a limited government and plenty of control functions does appeal to me, and even if a few of the socialist- and social conservative worries about libertarianism would come to pass, I still see this form of government (and potential oppression) as the most favourable.

And the beauty of the libertarianism is that underneath the umbrella of free choice and individualism there is an option to have socialist- syndicalist or anarchist communities. As long as people join, for example a communist enclave, out of free will and have the option to, whenever they so pleases, to leave such a society, it is okay – you can do so.

However this beauty is also what I object to when I say I have conservative traits. Basically I do not think such a society would work very well and it is probably easily corrupted or taken over by unscrupulous types. Also I believe that people need structure, that they need a (very) small degree of overlordship. To take an extreme and today popular example; it is possible for paedophiles within the libertarian model to create their own country within the country and since (very young) children cannot fend for themselves, how can they cope? And what about the mentally challenged?

I know the arguments against such objections and I suppose that in a free and honest society based on free choice and individuality any such extreme example would fail since no one would trade with or protect the paedophiles from outside threats, and the social pressure coupled with direct coercion would stop them, but I can still not completely ignore the risk.

Also, as a quasi-conservative, I do like things like Monarchy, school uniforms, tradition and history. I believe that we cannot go forward without knowing what happen before and that sometimes when moving forward we should do so step-by-step and not rush.

The libertarian idea of a perfect society is the best I know of; at least it is the least tyrannical. Not sure if we can ever get to a point where there is no oppression, perhaps in a distant future, but until then I will continue to argue for a conservative republican monarchy version of the libertarian society.  

God´s loophole... 5th base...

I feel holier already..

2014 – The year when everything will be decided

This is the year when we will definitely know how deep the chasm really is, and this is the year when it all will be decided. I say this because beyond this point there is no return, no longer can action taken turn the tides and this year we will know much more about the policies that will guide us for the foreseeable future.  

This year the US will have midterm elections, the European Union will elect a new parliament and several notable countries such as Brazil, Hungary, Colombia and Sweden will also elect new parliaments. Brazil is important because it’s one of the biggest economies and the biggest in South America. Hungary is important because their debt is tied to Austrian and German banks and because their road towards fascism is well traveled. Colombia is important due to its ties to US and because boarder tensions with Venezuela is closing in on an outright war which will likely reach a boiling point within a year or two. Sweden is important in Northern Europe and it’s my birth nation.

That inflationary money-printing taken place across the world since 2008 have now been fully (except for a few trillions hold by certain banks) injected into the world economy so we´re going to reach stock- and bond peaks during this year or early 2015; stock- and bond markets can thus not go up much more. This means that the banks will start putting those tucked away trillions to work in order to keep real-estate and housing scams going and also keep inflation up - when this happens you only have about 1 year before the fat lady sings.
Prices will consequently continue to rise in the short run. The only question here is whether interest rates will start going up and destroy the fake “recovery” in the short run and crash markets in the long run, or if injection of FIAT (and new scams) will escalate further and assure hyperinflation down the line. The outcome is basically the same, but interest rates going up coupled with a few policy changes will crash economies faster and make The Greatest Depression shorter in length and depth i.e. the "good" option.

I also believe that conflicts in and around Iran-Syria-Irak will either escalate or, at the very least, lead to strange new alliances and of course I also fully expect the Saudis to do something stupid. On the conflict-front I also see growing tensions in and between several African countries, something that will certainly pick up speed as the famine disasters (that you probably not read about yet) get worse and people’s desperation increase. Africa will be a huge slaughter and famine house, certainly after 2015 and forward. 

During 2014 the Empire of lies will certainly strike back comes to protecting their police-state mass-surveillance. NSA and several other agencies (in several countries) have been a bit on the defensive lately with revelations by Snowden and Jacob Appelbaum etc. along with TPB and other torrent sites refusing to obey. Anonymous-networks and several independent news sources continue to defy mainstream-media and challenge The Powers That Be. I believe that our soul-sucking tyrants will strike back. Whether or not actions taken will succeed or not is not clear, but I think that there will be a few mysterious disappearances and/or a few weirdo car/flight crashes or, if those in power are really smart about it, we´ll see hackers go to jail for spreading kiddy porn and a few anonymous people will get caught helping Alky Aida.
They will definitely also try to scare us so more terrorism och new terror organizations will pop up, or perhaps one or two new (old) horrible enemies that we´re all supposed to hate? Not sure exactly how, who or when, but I am very certain such things will occur during this and the coming years.

Another thing notable during 2013 that will continue is that some countries will dive deeper into extremism. We´ve seen countries like Russia, Spain and Hungary impose laws and regulations against free speech, against gays, and against protesters. Other countries, like Sweden, are instead putting the politically-correct feminazi/socialist gear into overdrive with draconian laws stating, among others, that men are always guilty of rape. Yet other countries, like the US and UK, are taking sort of a middle road putting both the politically correct and more obvious oppressive policies into action. This goes on at the same time as fascists, communists and anarchists are gaining ground. Subsequently this year will be the year when such movements gain momentum and we will start seeing already created authoritarian embryos blossom and so give us a clue of what our future totalitarian societies will look like. Basically we will soon know whether our country/ies will head down the communist/socialist path of utter destruction or the fascist/socialist path of destruction. Although the difference is more in name then actual reality, a small dissimilarity will soon be visible for anyone paying attention.

Looking over how market behavior over the past months and how Evil Inc. (Goldman Sachs) and others seem to move equities and investments around it would surprised me if we already this autumn will see market crashes and new wars, but I think that The Powers That Be still have one or two more tricks left and I also believe they will continue/increase the speed of the printing press to postpone the unavoidable. With that in mind I believe in a "market correction" before or after the summer of 2015, then a horrific xmas and entering 2016 anything goes...  (remember the banks extra cash mentioned above? They will come in here, and then you can start counting down...)

In general 2014 will be a “normal” year, but this year will decide much of our faith and, even more important; from this point on things will start to deteriorate faster simply because there are no cures or remedies left. Our malevolent masters can still print more; they can still come up with more scams to cover previous ones; they can still take us to war or come up with other distractions (terrorism, war, refugees to hate, other countries to go to war with), but at the end of the day it cannot be postponed any longer – the era of The Greatest Depression is upon us.

With that said I hope you enjoy what I believe to be the last year of so-so normality. Perhaps the year 2015 can be decently ordinary, but there it definitely ends.

I have repeatedly told you readers to stock up on dried-up food packages, coffee, sugar, batteries and such to be ready for what to come, and I will continue to do so until time is up, but you really should start now. If you do not have an emergency or escape plan, please start working on it now. Even if I am totally wrong it does not hurt to talk about or plan for the worst because there might be a terrorist attack or a natural disaster so having reserve rations and a few ideas about what to do if a catastrophe happen is a good idea.  

Have a great 2014 everyone! 

Another year, another scam. Another year, more commercial crap.

You might think that I, as a harden advocate of capitalism, would love Christmas and the frantic shopping sprees that puts a lot of cash into merchant pockets. That is what most people are taught, that capitalism is about buying, selling, profits and stamping all over a sickly grandma to get the last toy in the store. It is not.

Capitalism is about value and property rights of that value. Although commercialism, advertising and shopping sprees may very well be part of capitalism - definitely more so then those socialist ´paradises´ where you need to stand in line for 10 hours to get a loaf of bread – such things would rather be the consequence of free choices on the markets, not an inadvertently building-block of capitalism.  

However the hysterical scam we see nowadays is not just commercialism, it is commercialism with no or very little value. What I mean by that is that we are not getting each other the perfect gifts or hand each other gold, instead we buy crappy useless things or toys that will fall apart long before the next xmas hype. Sure it is still about family and great food and as such Christmas is a fantastic holiday, but I remember that already at a very young age I started to ask questions; why just that day? Why hand out presents that no one wants? I think I was around 10-11 years old when I first said that we should give each other money (if any presents are necessary) and then eat and have fun together.

And then we also have the scam of the season itself, something I cannot, and never could, overlook.

You know that there was this guy that was born around 25^th of Dec, born of a virgin, was impregnated by the Holy Ghost and his birth was followed by a star in the East? This guy was of Royal decent and the birth was adorned by 3 kings. He later became a teacher at 12, was baptized at 30 and he had 12 disciples. He was called the light, and the son of God, and he performed miracles such as walking on water and raising of the dead. At his death he was crucified, was dead for 3 days and then was resurrected.

Yes, I am, of course, as you probably already figured out, talking about the Egyptian “sun”/sky God Horus.

Jesus came a lot later and he copied this formula, just as many other God´s did throughout the ancient world.

We can prove, scientifically and historically, that the Old Testament was stolen almost in it’s entirely from the Sumerians. The New Testament in turn was stolen mostly from the Egyptian religion and their book of the dead.

But okay, let’s say that we buy the concept that God did a rectification of earlier misconceptions and did send his Son down to us and things then, partly or fully, occurred as described in the Bible. Even if so, according to what most believe nowadays Jesus, if existed (probably not since there are no historical records outside of the Bible), was born in the summer. Also it seems that not only did the ´birth´ get moved to pagan dates around 22th, 24-25^th of December, his death was probably also moved to fit better with Jewish and pagan traditions around Easter. It is all about marketing and perception baby.

Consequently the entire foundation of Christmas is built on a faulty premise and it is a holiday with crappy commercialism induced by tons of lying commercials telling us to buy things we do not need and, even worse; to buy crappy things with no or little value.

I still like Christmas, if spent with family and with lots of great foods and snaps and beer and Glögg (mulled wine) and more food, and of course food. It is a good, traditional way of getting people together, but personally I would rather see that people did so more often, all over the year. Christmas is too much stress, too much pressure and way too much crap changing hands for no real objective reason.

Cheers! 

Does This Smell Funny to You?

Yeeaasss, so much gold! 

I love it when a spokesperson of the super rich and super powerful - someone whom also happen to be part of the most wasteful organisation of all time - says something like this: Click Here

When you are done reading about the pedophile protecting head of one of the Pentarchia´s, you can go ahead and kiss his golden ring: 

People are so stupid

How the world ended – a letter from 2027 to the past

Having fun in the future? 

I write this to acknowledge and convey the truth about how The Greatest Depression emerged, how it inadvertently transformed into wars and human destruction on an unprecedented scale. I write this to any potential survivors and with the hope that such things as computers and internet may still be available. I write this to all you erratically wandering an unforgiving earth with slim hope of finding work, food and shelter.

I write this to all those out there still able to read and to those still able to form coherent thoughts without instinctually hunting down braaaiiiiinnnnsss to eat.

Firstly I am not sorry myself - I tried to stop it with what little means I had at my disposal. I warned, I wrote, I talked to friends, relatives and neighbours and I tried to tell those I knew in power what they were doing and where it was leading. I did so for several decades and despite being correct every step of the way and with a spooky accuracy predicting event after event that led up to our annihilation, very few listen.

The few who turned their head away from soap operas and did listen to me, and to others like me, never made up more than a fraction of humanity. And once people finally started to admit that their comfy existence was no more and react, they of course reacted incorrectly.

So I write this in the hope that any survivors may listen and perhaps we can finally, as a species, realise those absolute truths we've been ignoring for the past 250 000 years or so. Irrefutable facts like $1 always is $1, that you cannot get something for nothing and that inflation is the same as an increase of new money in circulation, has been ignored too long.

If you still ignore or refuse to understand I guess you'll soon start World War IV with whatever sticks and stones you have as weapons there in the future.

The decline we entered and died because of was political and economical but also ethical. People’s morals had dissipated over time and almost every single person believed it correct to rob their neighbour. Benefit junkies with herd mentality voted for oppressive thugs promising gold and lush forests for everyone. Tree-hugging hippies and their feminazi allies destroyed what little production was left while creating an increase in xenophobia that, of course, was tapped into by nationalists and actual racists. 

 

Fascism, National Socialism, socialism, communism and political correctness sort of merged into a unified ideology everyone needed to follow. To make sure that the people obeyed this fascinazicommusocialism the total surveillance society was implemented - not over night, but step by step. Always under the guise of environmentalism and public safety. In order to save the children and stop terrorism we created new agencies that used super computers to keep track of, monitor and punish those that strayed. Reality shows and celebrity life became the only news we were allowed to read about, and we started to block and censure those with alternative views. 

Harsh penalties were created against public congregations and demonstrations. The banks were bail-out over and over with newly printed notes while our governments spend other freshly printed notes to keep millions of benefit junkies in their sofas.

The scams, the ID cards, the made up sicknesses supposed to kill us all, and all the rest was incrimentally imposed upon us. Step by step. 

At the same time the financial system - the entire global financial system - imploded. People by this time had had enough of all the misery; riots and bloody rebellions started here and there in a few countries. However a few countries had a final out, one final step politicians could take to save themselves and their cushy jobs; They Took us to War!!

Of course there was only a matter of time before a supposed terrorist with a suitcase nuclear device exploded in New York, or some terrorists attacked Jews, and similar events. 

Everyone blamed everyone else for everything. Only a few of the big banks kept laughing, buying up most of the known world, but their laughter soon turn into screams as violent mobs burned down their banking palaces and country after country started throwing nukes around.

We can assume that a few spokespersons of the elitists still exists, also in your world, and they will crawl out of their bunkers - perhaps you have already meet one? They are easily spotted. They will argue about equality, keep talking about sharing stuff, saving the planet and will say things like: “We need to take from those that still have to feed everyone” or: “We need to restrict working time and give everyone 10 weeks of vacation”. A few of them will even be savvy politicians or surviving banking trolls and they will say you need to create a central bank and have a unified currency in the hands of the people as well as create a centralised authority so that all the goodies that you manage to scrap together during hunts can be shared among all of you. 

If you encounter one that sounds suspiciously like above you have 3 options; let them stay and let them argue their evilness, throw them out and leave it to a broken world to take care of them Darwin-style, or you can string them up.

I hope someone is still left to read this and that you heed my warnings.

With Love and hugs and kisses   

    / Apocalypse Nowish

The global warming scam continues

Global warming!! 

The truth never factors into it, does it? It doesn't seem to matter which area or which one of the pseudo-scientific four-winged soul suckers that mumbles something about something, it can ALL be blamed on too many people doing the wrong things. It rain more this year than last year? Global warming! A typhoon hits Shanghai – Global warming! Wild fires in Australia is because we drive too many cars. Economic worries in Europe arise due to a horrific increase… I mean drop… oh, no.. increase? No, drop! Uauhm… a change in temperature.

Nowadays it is much harder finding a topic not directly associated to Manmade Global Warming, then the opposite. I have even seen/heard politicians argue that male oppression of women is due to an increase in temperature… ouhm… I mean decrease… decrease in temperature is due to global warming… hmm… No, that cannot be correct; I mean increase of course… although numbers point to a decrease and a new Ice age about 1000 years away, so females’ getting raped and dominated by horrible men is due to a decrease in temperature! No! No! I mean decrease in temperature! 

Arghh! 

Let’s just keep to “A change in temperature”, a change automatically implies humans and their horrible ways. 

A change in temperature is now also to be blamed for Coccidioides fungu! And; Naegleria Fowleri! And; the Black-Legged tick!

I just knew they would start throwing some scary name around soon. Just as with future flues (Swine flu was both harmless and had a pretty harmless sounding name) they need to come up with scary sounding stuff so we keep paying environment taxes and keep obeying government  decrees about hats and pets. Precisely as with one of the most frequent killer of man, dihydrogen monoxide (thousands die of it each year) scary sounding names awoke fear and creates a reaction when reading it.

Murderous killer Dinosaurs died from global warming!! (Or was it another Ice age?) Regardless; if such magnificent beasts died from it, how can we then survive the same?

When I read this story I felt like a Black-Legged Tick would jump me from behind at any second, bite me and infect me with Coccidioides fungu, anaplasmosis and babesiosis and that that would then lead to Naegleria Fowleri, borrelia and rash illnesses and then of course certain death.

Oh, and did you know that, according to Al Gore, the entire North polarized cap has now disappeared? Well, it can have disappeared already last year since Al Gore made his first 5-year prediction back in 2007. Of course he has spookily predicted the same every year since, not got it right so far, but eventually he will.

He is right you know - the polar caps will melt at some point. They have before, on numerous occasions, and they will do so again. Not that Al will be alive when it happens, but he can rest assure it will.  

So there you have it folks; A murderous Black tick named Gore will soon infect you with Global warming and impose rash illnesses on all babies while spraying fungi over families eating at McDonalds. That will in turn create a new Ice Age filled with Borrelia-infected male rapists roaming the earth looking for cute puppies to eat. 

Bitcoin – sounds sketchy to me

Terrorist money? Anarchy? A scam? Or real value? 

I see some of my liberty minded friends getting worked up over Bitcoins, but personally I am very hesitant. Especially in the long-run. Although the value will go up, so will the manipulations and what happens when governments and big banks start buying bitcoins in mass?

Bitcoin is open for hacking, fraud, bots etc etc. Sure, our regular, everyday Fiat money is counterfeit legalised by the powers that be and it too can be subjected to those things and government(s) do their best to make sure that our notes are turn into toilet paper – but, at least in theory, fiat money has intrinsic value; your hard work and the country it’s based/made in. As long as a government can keep the scam rolling and extract enough founds from subservient idiots and as long as they can pawn the country with big banks and other countries, you could argue that there is value behind our money - a dwindling value subjected to a hidden tax sure, but a value of sort nevertheless.

Bitcoin? Where is the value in that? A few 1´s and 0´s? Code? I keep seeing harden spokespersons of bitcode arguing it is just like gold and there is only one specific amount that cannot be tampered with. This is of course complete nonsenses. Gold has not just monetary value; it’s also a very usable metal that can be used in both technology and for jewellery. Gold hold its actual value over time and it does not fluctuate up and down like bitcoin, and gold has both historical and factual existence that should not be ignored.

If you look selling and buying volumes the volume only seem to be going up whenever those “insiders” (smart money, experienced traders, Goldman Sachs… whoever…) is selling bitcoin, otherwise its going down – which is very weird for a commodity with a (supposed) fixed amount.

Also the prices are impacted severely, both negatively and positively, by political decisions. Latest we saw a dip in bitcoin prices because China introduced restrictions in trading. If bitcoins really holds real intrinsic value and the number of bitcoins stays about the same regardless, then such a Chinese decision should increase bitcoin value/volume (and price), not the opposite.

But enough about my arguments, both technical (probably in some parts wrong) and economics and instead I will say this: bitcoins make me nervous.

I do get it, in a limited space and for a specific purpose bitcoins or any equivalent is great, probably a lot better, than any other payment or currency. In games for example, on specific websites, localised and for a specific audience it’s a great idea. It may even be a good investment, at least in the short- and medium term, but as an investment or even as a currency? 

I do not trust government(s) to keep their filthy mittens of this, or any other similar project. I guarantee that there are already super computers logged in keeping track of the “anarchy” of bitcoin with Government stooges closely following the, in the eyes of our politicians, horrible users of this currency. Likewise I guarantee that there are plans to take over the entire system, topple it, or turn it into another government owned controlled idiocy. What I mentioned about volumes, prices and political decisions above seem to, already now, verify this notion. 

It would not even surprise me if the entire thing was invented in a CIA bunker somewhere in Guam.

For now I stay away from bitcoins as I do stay away from bonds and stocks. The world economy will crash, burn, implode, explode in a decade or two from now and after that the real mayhem will start. Bitcoin is not a safe haven from this, not even close. I instead suggest that you invest in tangible intrinsic values such as gold, silver, real-estate and farming. But if you do buy bitcoins, sell them before everything crashes (just as you would with any asset). Perhaps Bitcoin and this new technology is the future and I have not yet understood how it exactly would work, but for now at least I remain very sceptical.