Another crack in a declining empire

A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes.

Among the things revealed the US military gave a secret order not to investigate torture by Iraqi authorities, that they deliberately withhold the actual number of civilians dead, and a couple of incidents of pure executions.

Sadly, nothing of this is a surprise. I’ve highlighted several of these things before, and so have others, but thanks to WikiLeaks we now have much more evidence and something to actually point to whenever someone says it cannot be so.

To a certain point war crimes and a limited amount of events can be “excused”. What I mean by that is that in war shit happens, and no matter how cautiously recruits are chosen, there will be one or two complete psychopaths picked. But what is shown by these documents is deliberate, planned and ignored “shit”. This isn’t some occasional idiot doing something against orders, no, it’s sanctioned and encouraged.

Please also remember that the reason for starting the war, invading Iraq and occupying its territory were extremely shady to start with.

One also has to add Afghanistan to this equation, as well as continuous drone attacks against fleeing civilians in Pakistan and many other fun things being done by this coalition of mass murderers.

America is not only losing the war in Afghanistan they are also losing credibility and support all across the world. And this they do at the same time as they are throwing trillions of dollars into a devouring war machine, running enormous deficits, crushing their communications with restrictions, imposing 1984-style internet laws and mad government schemes. US have an uneasy population back home and a looming depression at the horizon.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how empires die!

Sorry, but I need to say this to you US citizens out there, you’re starting to deserve it. Your masters are really at fault, but you let it happen, you voted for them, and with millions of dead demanding justice and revenge ordinary folks will be and, to a certain extent, should be targets.

And this is, for me, probably the worst thing about the whole thing. US forces and the American establishment have alienated hundreds of millions of people that is now starting to look at Western democracy, ‘capitalism’ and consumerism ( none of which has anything to do with these crimes against humanity) as the very essence of evil. These people didn’t hate American freedom and way of life before, but they are certainly starting to do so now.

There have been so many scandals; so many crimes against humanity, war crimes and total disrespect of all things the U.S. should stand for that it will be almost impossible to rebuild any sort of good reputation again. Most Americans doesn’t seem to understand this. Partially because the American media fail to report and dig into the stories.

Once upon a time America was the dream, even for me. As the only country in the history of mankind that started with the premises of equality, justice and freedom many have looked at the U.S. as the shining beacon of hope. This is getting destroyed, and although the deterioration has been going on for a very long time we’ve certainly seen an escalation in the last decade.

The terrorist attack of 9/11 was a tragedy, and a cowardly assault on innocent people. Although there are some who argues that even that attack was deserved – I am not one of them – it wouldn’t be wrong to feel like that if another similar attack happens today, today it actually would be a justified one.

I’ll even go so far as to say that I almost root for so called “Muslim extremists” wanting revenge. This is a war, and the ones doing all the killing, all the torture, the rapes, and slaughtering the innocent is the U.S coalition. “It's only terrorism when the bad guys do it” doesn’t cut it anymore, enough is enough

Finally I want you all to go and check papers from across the world. Read what British, French and Swedish papers write about WikiLeaks (and the difference between them) and then go across the pond and check out American news. If you don’t see the difference you’re a moron. U.S. citizens are feed lies, but so are you. Journalists aren’t your friends, they are your enemies. Get that into your skull and take that into account every time you read, see or hear any sort of news from any sort of news-outlet.

(10) Things I don’t hate about Dexter

As a long time hater of all things commercial and loather of all things politically correct, I rarely watch TV. In fact I haven’t own one of those idiot boxes in over 11 years. I do continuously watch a couple of shows, downloading them online free from commercials, but almost only to keep myself occupied during rainy days. Generally I only watch documentaries about science, history and our deteriorating economy.

But I have followed a few shows – like Buffy the Vampire slayer and the magnificent Firefly as two of the most shining exceptions. The last couple of years’ only one show is actually on my radar – Dexter.

This politically incorrect show features a mass murderer as the ‘hero’ and we get to follow him trying to avoid ending up in the electric chair while he hacks up other killers and throw their mutilated bodies into the Golf Stream, all the while he works for the police as a forensics investigator…

There are a lot of things about the show that tickles my interest, like the cursing over the top sister of the psychopathic ‘hero’ or the raw sense of humor that’s like a red thread throughout, but the main attraction is probably that it never stops changing. Main characters die frequently, and the problems for our lovable mass murderer is everything from changing diapers to how to best get rid of body parts.

Just as I assumed the show peaked last season with the magnificent John Lithgow playing the ‘Trinity Killer’, the writers and makers came up with an intrigue that involves the beautiful and captivating Julia Stiles. Hopefully a new adept of Dexter’s, maybe even a spin-off with a female serial killer in the service of “good”? But, as said, the show is very unpredictable and it wouldn’t surprise me if Lumen (Julia Stiles) dies from tripping on a children toy in the next episode.

The Music is great, and the supporting actors, although stealing a bit too much focus sometimes, are also on the top of their game.

As I hinted above there are a lot of things to do with a show like this. The writers really have a sack full of treats and things can really go anywhere. Will Dexter get caught and play the Hannibal to a new Clarice? Will CIA recruit him to catch Bin Laden? How will sister Deborah react once she finds out what her brother really does all those late nights? Will they follow the story of the books and let the kids learn the way of Harry?

Me, I really hope they rap up things with a sixth season, end at the top so to say, and then let the new serial killer and Dexter’s female equivalent of Julia Stiles go on a spree across America in her own spin-off. Maybe even have a cross-over with ‘Criminal Minds’? Yeah, I know - another network…

I suggest you take look at this show, if you haven’t already. With the exception for the occasional naked breast and one or two heads being decapitated, it’s really a family show that everyone can watch.


And no, I don’t get paid for this, but if any casting director for the show need a Swede to make meatballs out of his victims, please let me know…

Police Intellectuals

A crack team of profilers, a massive manhunt and lots and lots of police are all over the shootings in Malmö, Sweden. They’ve came together to solve the wave of seemingly related shootings targeting immigrants in the city.

After they'd investigate the evidence from the crime scenes, composed a profile and brought forth the entire brain trust of Sweden’s justice system they have come up with the following:

- The shooter is between 20-40 year old and in all likelihood a man.
- It is likely that since immigrants been targeted that this guy hates immigrants or belongs to a right-wing group.

Wow… that’s just fantastic work isn’t it? A couple of eye witnesses have pointed out that it’s a man and that 20-40 year span is just breathtaking, probably with a slight margin of error. And the smartness of figuring out that the shooter probably doesn’t like immigrants when only those have been shot is like… Sherlock stuff.

I mean, really, is this what we pay taxes for?

Just after I’d blog posted yesterday, another two women got shot through a window in the center of Malmo. Probably by the same “man-like” fanatic racist homophobic Muslim-hating Nazi right-wing maniac shooter between 20-40 years that our brilliant investigating whizzes are looking for.

Apparently people are getting afraid to go out, I have a solution for all you out there - get a gun! If someone starts shooting at ya, shot back. And if (a very big ‘if’) the geniuses within the police actually manage to find you and want to lock you up for defending yourself, you still have that gun left…

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Well, it happened again.

For a country were guns are totally banned and any form of carry-on weaponry can lead to prison time, Sweden certainly have a lot of shootings.

Isn’t it strange that criminals seem to ignore anti-gun laws?

Very puzzling it is.

While the police, magnificently ineffective as always, tries to find the, according to journalists; fanatic racist homophobic Muslim-hating Nazi right-wing maniac shooter that seem to roam the streets of Malmö, a 16y old got to look down the barrel of a gun in the same city. Probably unrelated to the fanatic racist homophobic Muslim-hating Nazi right-wing maniac shootings, but who knows. The 16y old is still alive and safe by the way.

In Kalmar, also in Southern Sweden, a man who claimed he was wearing a bomb were encircled by police and later surrendered. The guy didn’t really have a bomb, and I was kind of puzzled by that little intermezzo too for a while. I mean, it is illegal to run around town with a bomb isn’t it? So why did the police encircle him? Seem strange to me. If it is illegal, everyone obeys, so in actuality the police didn’t need to be there. In fact, do we actually need the police? At all?

Maybe we need them for stuff like this ?

Now that’s taxpayer money hard at work.

Again, I need to ask, when (not ‘IF’) the next spree occurs, would you rather have people unarmed, unprotected and let the police stop by later to collect body parts or do you want people to be able to defend themselves?

This is what it comes down to you know.

We all know what the soul-suckers of Government will say; they don’t want people to defend themselves. Cannot have self-reliant humans without fear being able to shot back at criminals out there, wouldn’t be in the best interest of the elitists now would it?

This is the difference between armed, and not armed. Please watch.



And if you ever wondered why government don’t won’t you armed, listen to her last sentence.

A country without guns

As we all know criminals always obey the law, that’s why they are criminals, right? So whenever our righteous masters believe it is in our best interest that self-defense is outlawed and no-one is allowed to put safeguards in place because - and this is the funny part – government will protect us, we can be absolutely sure we’ll be safe. Right?

Okay, so what is wrong with this picture?

Map over Shootings in Malmö, Southern Sweden.

And mind you, this is one city, and only this year.

Of course some will argue that this is because the city of Malmö is by large a haven for immigrants and so for gun-toting Muslims, militant mafias and biker gangs. Although not completely wrong, that is a very simplified picture seen more from xenophobic eyes than reality.

Others may argue that the Social Democrats governing the city have capitulated and their socialists’ ways have brought forth the worst in people. Even if I would like to believe that to be true, it’s not really so.

I’ve also seen so called ‘experts’ argue that the closeness to the continent via Copenhagen and a rapid expansion of the population are key elements in the escalating violence. If that was true one can only assume that cities like Hamburg and Amsterdam are war zones and that whenever people fuck too much or move in larger numbers mayhem ensues.
You don’t really need a degree in asylum-awareness to dismiss such a claim.

The truth is that all of these are a part of the ‘why’, but there is also two other reasons that should be acknowledged.

Firstly we have a situation in Sweden whereas people in general are losing confidence in the law and the justice system. For most of the time this isn’t visible so it won’t show up in statistics, and I can hardly prove it other than to point out that every person living in Sweden continually, and consciously, break the law on a daily basis.

Think about it for a moment.

Do you really drive within the limit? Do you always have your seatbelt on? Do you always apply for permits when doing alterations to your house? Do you really care that downloading music and movies is punishable? And how many have smoked a joint, bought smuggled beer or put a jug of moonshine on the table lately? Do you always file correct tax information? Ever walked against a red light?

The laws are so many, and so intrusive that we need each lawyer to have their own, small, petite, minuscule area of the law as their expertise. No-one knows exactly how many laws and regulations there are for everything around us, and when you start to think about it it’s worse than picturing all the billions of galaxies in the universe filled with trillions upon trillions of stars and planets. So why care about every single detail?

Do a little experiment a normal day and try to see how many laws you break. The result will probably shock you, and that’s only for the laws and rules you can or may know.

As if that isn’t enough we’re on a weekly basis reminded that the law only applies for the common man. When banksters waste billions on scams they get a pat on the back and get their pockets re-filled via the treasury, but God help a normal citizen if his tax-return contains a small error. And how many times haven’t we seen, heard or read about politicians’ frequent visits to porn clubs or how they put lavish dinner parties on the taxpayers tab?

This combination has over time deteriorated peoples respect for law and order. And rightfully so.

Also there are many laws that are highly moronic, seemingly only there to create criminals and not to protect anyone. The limitation on bringing in alcohol from abroad is one such law, the illegality of Marijuana another. Not to mention all the crap that pours in from EU each year.

Secondly we are not allowed to protect ourselves. Well okay, there are certain things we are allowed to, like defend ourselves when attacked, within reason that is – cannot hurt the attacker too much… But in general we’re pretty much defenseless and the only thing we can rely on is the police - an under-staffed bunch of bullies that, like the rest of us, have no clue what law really says, and can almost ONLY arrived at the scene after the fact.

Getting raped and manage to phone it in? Well, just wait for 15min and two officers will arrive and take your statement. If you’re alive that is. And if you are getting raped and fight back, please be gentle to the poor rapists, if you bruise him too much you can get sued or locked up, maybe even get jail time far longer than that of any rapist.

A women getting raped should have the absolute right to cut off the penis of her attacker, a family facing a home inversion should have the absolute right to take a machete and hack the thugs into little pieces, a shop keeper getting robbed should have the absolute right to pull out a shotgun and blow away the head of the robber. This isn’t so, only government has the right to protect you.

So when ordinary folks aren’t allowed to own and carry guns, no-one else will either. Right? After all when government has outlawed something even criminals listens. Right? At least that’s the premise we live by.

How strange that it doesn’t seem to work…

Black Monday followed by a horrible rest of the year?

Yesterday was a cut off hand still wiggling on the ground while blood spurted all over the place. It was yet another black day on humanities road towards the chasm of absolute darkness.

As usual it was the market manipulations that made the day hilarious to say the least.

We got news that foreigners continue to acquire U.S. Treasury securities despite their low yields, and despite the obvious frauds. Foreigners need to consider both the additional exchange rate risk and the lower expected return, making it very irrational for non-Americans to invest in U.S. treasury securities.

Makes you wonder who the buyer really is, doesn’t it? Oh, it couldn’t be any of the foreign banks that got some hundreds of billions in dollars from the FED (and others) bail-out, right? And it is not other failing governments propping up the dollar and the market. Certainly not…

But the fun was really up and running when we were told that:

“NYSE Euronext cancelled all trades in the $74.8 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust that occurred at almost 10 percent below the security’s opening price, according to an email sent by the exchange."

This is the same as to say that the market crashed but they halted it by simply refusing people to trade… Or, in layman terms, FUCK YOU! WE CONTROL THE MARKET!

And China decided to, again, cut export quotas for rare earth metals next year by up to 30 percent. China, which accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's total production of rare earth, has cut its export quotas this year by 40 percent from 2009 levels. You may not look at this as something that is that bad, but consider that these rare earth elements are used in crucial new green technologies such as hybrid cars and wind turbines as well as in mobile phones and missile guidance systems, and consider that China provides almost all of that to the rest of the world, and maybe you understand.

China is of course saying they need to save their supply so they won’t run out, but it’s really another protectionist action which will have more impact than the obviousness of much higher prices on several key products within our modern economy.

Meanwhile in several areas of Africa the countdown towards a massive famine catastrophe continues, hardly even noticed in the rest of the world. Niger, Chad, Mali Mauritania, and many other countries and areas are filled with hundreds of thousands of children who are severely malnourished; and people’s most precious asset, their livestock, has died in large numbers. The autumn harvest doesn’t seem to have filled up the necessary quota and we’re only half a step from those tens of millions dead I was talking about 2 years ago.

So if I’m right about the next financial crash being just around the corner, we’ll be looking at so many heaps of dead in Africa I suspect cannibalism will be the next big thing. Probably something for the banking cartels to consider trading in - very easy to manipulate the livelihood of gnawing on human flesh. Me, I am looking forward to seeing newly acquired inner thighs from a 7y old who died from malnourishment on the shelves.

Zombieland indeed.

Anyway, I could go on, but I’ll finish off with some side-splitting news from Sweden where the government isn’t too happy with the current low death-toll among our under-equipped soldiers. Apparently the Swedish forces in Afghanistan will embark on a southward move to more unsecure locations. This conflict that has nothing to do with Sweden on the other side of the world with “enemies” that has never, not even once, done anything against us, is about to take a more bloody color.

And it appears that many of my countrymen love this so much that each coffin landing back home is a reason to sign up to join the slaughter. Applications to go abroad to help out with the murder of Muslims is souring.

Do I even need to argue the case of the “everyone on this planet is an idiot” theorem anymore?

Finally we were told that government own enterprises in Sweden that were supposed to be sold off, will haft to wait. What I thought would at least buy a small respite for my birth-nation when the real financial mayhem starts, will likely not happen any time soon which brings me back to the ‘we are all fucked’ scenario.

On a high-note I’ll be happy to inform that my stock-pile of suger is sufficient. Still looking for other basic goods, such as guns, a shortwave radio, and information about how to best kill zombies, but at least some preparations are on the way. Can you say the same?

How they indoctrinate you

Here’s another angle about the pointless deaths of Swedish soldiers you should know about.

Have you noticed the headlines and how journalists are writing about the Afghan war? How many words like “blood”, “raped”, “murdered families”, and “suffering children” have you read lately? How many articles have you seen pointing out that women are hurting more today than 9 years ago? How many news reports have you seen about the exponential increase in drug trade? How many pictures, videos and articles have you seen about blown-up children or beheaded families?

Not many eh?

Okay, so now think about what they try to tell you about this dead soldier.

It’s clearly a “tragedy”, the feeling among the other soldiers is “sadness”, and politicians are feeling ”sympathy” and “sorrow” for the soldier’s family. Very soft and comforting words. These are mixed with statistics on how the horrible Taliban have stepped up their attacks seemingly killing the innocent and, of course, murdering brave Swedish soldiers fighting for freedom and puppies everywhere.

This is brainwashing, nothing else, nothing less.

To a point it is also understandable brainwashing. From our masters point of view they need us to be complacent with how things are. From a military standpoint they of course need both public support and motivated soldiers. Journalists cannot really write that Swedish soldiers are helping with the slaughter of tens of thousands for no reason whatsoever. Wouldn’t sound that good now would it? And ordinary citizens partly have an inherited defense mechanism telling them that ‘the others’ are always the bad folk, and partly they feel more for a young Swede killed than hundreds of Muslim families butchered.

So it is slightly understandable, but nevertheless frightening. Well, kind of humorous to.

Ever heard people around you questioning how so many Germans could stand idly by when trains went to holocaust camps? Or why so many, almost voluntary, let Soviet death squads execute them? Well now you know why. You would have done the same. All of you out there who are buying the crap they are feeding us and swallowing the brainwashing, you are exactly the same sorts of people that would have stood idly by when Jews were thrown into camps.

Most of you reading this will of course dismiss my writing - you’ll feel you’ve been Godwin-ed. Also a perfectly understandable reaction. But if you feel it necessary for young Swedish soldiers to fight in a conflict that has nothing whatsoever to do with Sweden, against a supposed enemy that has done nothing to us, half across the world where there’s absolutely nothing for us to gain, what would you call it? Insanity perhaps? Maybe you just want lots, and lots of dead Muslims?

And if we really are there to help, why are women suffering more today than 9 years ago? Why do we protect a regime who wants rape to be legal? Why are we letting drug kingpins in Afghanistan grow stronger for each day that passes? Why are we watching house after house getting destroyed while handing out food rations that hardly would feed a rat?

I find this pretty hilarious actually. We’ve learned nothing from history, and when Sweden for the first time in 200 years is involved in a war, we do so with reasons far shadier than any war before.

Fun, fun, fun…

When did pointless dying become a good thing?

Cannon fodder posing.

A Swedish soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, he wasn’t the first, and he won’t be the last.

To me a dead soldier isn’t really the worst thing. His grieving family may make me sad, and since he died for useless cause in a country we have no business being in, I do get a tad upset. However neither of those things are what I feel is the worst about this fiasco.

The worst thing is that so many within the general public feel it is a good thing for Swedish soldiers to fight and die in a war across the globe in a country and against a people that has done absolutely nothing to us. No Taliban has ever attacked Sweden, or hardly anyone else for that matter. Yes, sure they are a horrible women hating bunch, but the puppets now ruling the country isn’t much better. And as mentioned many times before, if all we need is a women hating regime with another religion in a far away country for us to send soldiers to, our supplies of manpower would dwindle very fast. If that’s the criteria there are more countries on the planet to send soldiers to than the opposite.

IF we’d been attacked, if we really were in a defensive war I would get behind the Swedish military 100%, hell I would probably apply to join and put myself in danger to protect my family and friends. This isn’t the case here; we are involved in a conflict we have absolutely nothing to do with. There’s no reason for us to be there, no argument valid and no enemy to fight.

These soldiers coming home in coffins are not dying honorable deaths or getting blown up for good cause, they are not defending Sweden or their own families. They are meaninglessly dying for absolutely no reason at all, in a conflict we have absolutely nothing to do with, in a country far, far away that has done nothing against us.

And seemingly many Swedes think this is great. Looking at polls in papers and looking at how absent reactions are, a majority or close to it think we should stay in Afghanistan and that we are doing a great job. Why? Why the hell do they think that? What can possibly be gain from this?

Sweden has been involved in many wars before in history, but most of those I sort of get. We wanted to expand our empire, gain a foothold across the Baltic or stop Russia, Poland or Denmark from gaining influence and threaten our shores. Our kings wanted glory, and our generals wanted to get rich. Those reasons are shady and very questionable, but I still sort of get it, and it was another time when that way of life was acceptable.

But this? In Afghanistan? Why? We’re not getting anything out of this except gaining enemies. There are no riches, glory or land to gain. They say we are there to help people. How? By handing Afghans candy and coke cans while British and American warplanes destroy their cities? They say we are there to protect women. How? By supporting the current puppet regime that is corrupt beyond compare and wants it to be legal to rape women? And, again, if those are the reasons there are a hundred more countries to send soldiers to.

The entire thing is absurd, despicable and totally unnecessary.

Is this what the Swedish people want?

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. People think that restrictive drug policies that murders thousands each year is a good thing, people believe that sky-high taxation and fascist regulations are great, so why wouldn’t they applaud when young men are pointlessly dying? Seem to fit the profile. Murder is good, black is white, and war is peace.

Letting soldiers die is fun

How many more dead do YOU want?

While the American killing-machine rages on, Swedish journalists are trying their very best to keep the Swedish populace thinking it’s a good thing that Swedish soldiers are dying in a conflict we have absolutely nothing to do with. Papers and news coverage are filled with mamby pamby boohooing stories worthy of any Oscar.

When media show us Swedish soldiers they are helping. A kid who has lost his family to American warplanes gets candy, a stray dog with three legs get some water and of course our heroes confiscating one bag of drugs while handing out food and aid to the locals who later go around a hill to work on those poppy fields.

Any camel-fellating or shady deals going on in the background is ignored.

For some reason it is great that Swedes die on the other side of the world. Probably because, after all, they are protecting a corrupt women hating regime and, at the same time, supporting the murder of thousands of families. How can you not love that?

A flourishing drug trade that has never before, in Afghanistan’s entire history, shown such profits – got to support that right? And the fact that during the 9+ years the world’s strongest military with the world’s biggest intelligence service has ONLY manage to do one thing; create more enemies! Yeah, great stuff.

Sending soldiers out to die have been a favorite pastime among politicians throughout the ages, and so when we today (yesterday) are faced with another soldier down, are we really surprised by this?

Our government murders people every day through too high taxation, too overzealous regulations, anti-drug laws, through the manmade global warming scam and countless of other schemes said to protect and help us. So for our politicians to send soldiers to die in a country far, far away and to a conflict we have absolutely nothing, nada, zilch, nil, zero to do with is fully understandable. Soldiers are there for our masters’ amusement.

Should we mourn the dead? Absolutely. Should we support their families? Completely! And as long as they are there our soldiers should have the best equipment possible, which they are seemingly withheld, probably to increase the pleasure that comes with more dead.

For the love of all that is un-holy, why are they there? To protect the drug trade? I know the argument is that it was a horrible regime and bladibladi-bla, but if those reasons are the ones that made us go there, why aren’t we in China? Sudan? Why aren’t we sending troops to Venezuela? To Mozambique or Indonesia? Or how about the country we’re selling military equipment to - Saudi Arabia?

If we really are supposed to help, if we really want to win this so called war, why aren’t we sending tens of thousands of soldiers down there? Why aren’t we urging the Americans to use tactical nukes and really put the pressure on? Why won’t we act with force, determination and conviction? If we did, the conflict would be over very soon. Since we’re not, the only conclusion anyone with working synapses can draw is that they don’t want to win. Probably with the intention to create more terrorists so when they bomb our cities our masters can impose more hilarious regulations.

A tool you should own III

Nuff said…

A tool you should own II

Not really fitting with the text, but still...

Having a good hardy rope around is always a good thing. A rope can be used for hanging laundry, tying up the wife, going rock-climbing or in any number of ways. Of course the choice of rope depends on the purpose of usage. If one, for instance, want to drop something weighing around 190 lbs from between four and ten feet the rope needs to hold for that particular pressure and it should also hold several times over, no need to get to many ropes when you can get the job done with just one.

The strength of a rope, in regards to rock-climbing (which is a good way of knowing what is what when it comes to bodies and falling objects) is measured by the rating of static elongation and maximum impact force. The elongation measures the amount a rope stretches when weighted with a standard load (80 kilograms/176 pounds). Ropes with low static elongation stretch less. Higher static elongation means ropes have more stretch (cushioning the impact of a fall). Maximum impact force refers to the amount of force transmitted to a climber during a fall. Low maximum impact force means the rope (not the climber or the protection) absorbs more of the energy generated in a fall. However, such ropes stretch more, increasing your chances of hitting the ground or a ledge.

But we do not really think about this for our main usage since there should not be any ledge and the feet should certainly never hit ground, but it is good to have some solid background information.

Also, one might consider ignoring doing proper calculations, if the rope does not hold; there will be a funny couple of minutes getting another rope, so to “wing it” have its inherent charm. Maybe we can get additional mandrake root out of the deal?

Another fun potential consequence of not doing the proper groundwork is the same thing that happened to the historical figure of “Black Jack”, that is to say a so severe spinal cord injury may occur that it leads to a total separation.

For our future procedure we also need to decide whether or not to induce a ligature. That may lead to more tenderness between the most upper part and torso with the result of less movement afterwards, but is that really want we want? Such method has been used effectively before, among other places Nuremberg, but surely a bit more dangling and a tad more of muffled noises are preferable?

There is yet another choice to be mad – namely the choice of venue. A tree is classical and has that sense of being close to nature. On the other hand a lamp-post has proven useful before and lampposts are often in close proximity for most urban inhabitants. Whatever the choice may be, make sure to make room for applauding spectators.

Afterwards we need to consider that one or two sphincters may go into relax mood and spontaneously evacuated urine and faeces. Although fun as supplementary proper consequence, it may lead to some stench, which, coincidentally, the entire baggage will produce sooner or later.
Even though the dangling end-product can induce certain levels of righteous thinking, we need to find a proper burial ground. Not of religious reasons, but rather sanitary. Also please remember to mark the spot for future travelers. One can always find a reason to urinate and do a little jig…

A tool you should own

You see? Not big enough...

Some purchases are not that easy. Wheelbarrows for example. A wheelbarrow is a handy tool well designed to distribute weight of the load between the wheel and the operator so it enables you to carry more weight than you could do alone. The capacity is variable of course, but somewhere around 170 liters is an average. And with that capacity you should be able to carry with you projectile hardware or large bundles of papers much easier.

But how do you know which one to choose? Should I go for that small hand propelled machine especially designed to be pushed and guided by single person? Or do I want something more rugged and hardy that can manage all kinds of weather?

When shopping for a wheelbarrow its necessary to first determine your intended purpose. Gardeners for example generally prefer the smaller garden variety because those offers plenty of room for gardening tools, potting soil, and plants but is still very maneuverable. Construction workers however need something tougher to cope with the harder environment they work in. My thinking however is that I (or at least you Americans reading this) need something in-between. I would like to have something big enough so I don’t need to go several times back and from the soup-kitchen getting a meal, but it should also be easy to handle and small enough to fit in my shelter.

Furthermore should I buy with one wheel or two? I mean the two-wheel type is a bit more stable so you don’t knock over that big pile of bundles and, if used for sleeping, it will be more stable. The more universal one-wheel type however is easier to maneuver and if you want to unload, for instance in a bank or in a shop, the one-wheel type is easier to handle and trouble-free turning around those empty shelves.

And then you have the material it is made of. Should I go for the plastic type or something in steel? Both commodities might be scarce in the future and you do not want the wheelbarrow to be tempting to other squatters. Maybe I can find one in wood? But wait, wood could be used to feed fires, so wood might not be such a good idea. I did find one wheel-barrow nicknamed ‘The Big Bertha’ and that has a nice bombastic Germanic sound to it and it was apparently equipped with flat-free tires and that would minimize any problem with trying to find a new wheel if I happen to roll over some barbwire. But the Chinese seem to have a lot of nice ones being sold so this is a hard decision.

I do suggest however that many of you out there start pondering on this issue, especially if you’re living in Bernanke country.

The sexy bitch that started it all

Roaming the net as the lazy nerd I am, I stumbled upon an article about Ana Alicia that got my attention. For those of you that have no idea who this beautiful lady is, she played the role of Melissa Agretti on the soap Falcon Crest. Ana was on the show for seven years, playing opposite the wonderful Jane Wyman (RIP).

I actually followed that show, as the only soap I’ve ever watched more than two episodes of, and Ana were the main reason for it. I was completely smitten by the woman and being a teen at the time she had a reoccurring cameo in my hands-under-the-cover activities.

Reading the article in question it dawn on me that this is the woman that got me started on a destructive love-path. I know she played a part, a fictional character, but the personality she portrayed and her looks are almost identical to all women I’ve ever loved and seriously dated.

Yes I do have an ability to catch really hot women, which is kind of strange since I am not that special myself, but for some reason hot, really sexy women find me interesting. In particular hot, really sexy women who are psychotic manipulative bitches just risen from hell with the mission to suck the marrow and soul from poor defenseless morons as myself.

This got me thinking, am I the only one with a story like this?

I’m not saying that Ana herself is really responsible, but she sort of set the tone, she was in a way my first love and having studied psychology and having a good eye for what make people tick, I think I am right in my assumptions written here.

Psychology when applied to relationships tends to point out how similar respective spouse is to his/her mother/father. “She is looking for a father figure” isn’t just a saying; it is a darn accurate description. A sort of Oedipus complex applied to adulthood. And whenever a father or mother is absent, another person takes their place. Sexuality and sexual reproduction is however not always laid upon parental figures per say, rather the development of sexual roles and identity comes from early on imposed feelings towards a “perfect” example that tickles his or her nether regions. Boy bands on the wall of preteen girls, or a busty porn star on the wall of adolescent boys are examples of what I mean.

These sort of incestuous desires aren’t really incestuous - as with most psychology it’s more a way of explaining human behaviors and finding a cure to mental illness or a way in when talking to people with problems rather than an actual fact. However it also explains certain trait obvious to the perceptive when watching human interaction. For example whenever I look at my friends and their respective companion I always try to picture his/her mother/father as younger and it almost never fails, that spouse is 9 times out of 10 a splitting image. Not necessarily look-wise, but in behavior. Test it yourself, it’s uncanny.

This is also one of the ways any good ‘psychic’ can prod your mind and so take control of the situation letting you believe that your dead mother is close by talking to said ‘psychic’ so you will hand over your money. And it is also one of the ways you can make a really good commercial which I as a marketer I have done extensive research on.

Anyway, back to the original storyline and Ana Alicia and how she fits into my ramblings I would argue that she did tap into my evolving sexuality but also made a good case for how I want my women. I want them to know what they want, be smart and manipulative. Why? Because it challenges my intellect and such women keep me on my toes and make life interesting and I am all about experience.

Deep down inside I believe we all share this longing for something that matches how we are as individuals. I need a crazy four-winged demon woman feeding on my flesh, for others it can be about a latent Oedipus complex or maybe some significant experience in younger years that has triggered a certain desire, but whatever and whoever, it is clear to me that our deep seated need to fulfill that void is probably what drives us towards our partners. I also think this is why one partner hardly ever gets us going, but another doing the exact same thing can get us horny and ignited beyond any normal feeling.

The only thing that doesn’t really fit into my equation is fixed marriages. Fix, or arranged, marriages has been the most common way of finding a husband/wife seen over time. Strangely many of those have worked, or at least reached an acceptable level.

If I had to guess that has to do with women being tied down before in history and so today, being freer to choose, women tend to wander or test before settling on someone. If so, this also means that men are slightly less picky or happier with a so-so relationship than women are, and that is a can of worms for another day…

Speaking of hilarious…

…hardly anything can compare to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke.

When reading this, please be aware that too much laughter may kill you.

Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba naked

Been watching the magnificent, horrible, and hilarious, movie ‘Machete’, and you just gotto love a movie wherein a couple of beautiful women parade around naked and the “hero” jumps out a window using intestines still attached to the “bad guy” as a rope.

And yes, this post is mostly get more hits while you idiots search for naked sexy Alba or Naked horny Lohan, but it is nevertheless a film worthy to watch.

Americans – fight or flee?

You can really picture us picking up a gun and fight government don’t ya?

USA was founded by European outcasts, criminals, the very poor, the starving and religious fanatics fleeing their home countries. This mixture of people brought forth what is arguably the brightest and richest country in history – out-competing everyone and producing more science, culture and wealth than anyone before or since.

However seeing how things are slowly, but surely, turning the home of the brave into the home of the foreclosed, and how the land of the free is today nothing more than the land of the fooled, I see a future, not far from now, whereas the next emigration wave will leave north America.

The numbers ticking in are showing a dire future and so even mainstream screw-ups are starting to take notice. However reality is far worse. Much of the closing in catastrophe is still not common knowledge and the scope of the problems is still ignored by media.

Today we’re told that Confidence among chief executive officers in the U.S. is sinking to very low levels and that increasing expectations that the Federal Reserve will pump more money into the US economy next month under a policy known as quantitative easing sent the dollar to new lows against the Chinese renminbi, Swiss franc and Australian dollar. It dropped to a 15-year low against the yen and an eight-month low against the euro. The dollar index, which tracks a basket of currencies, reached its lowest level this year.

With this, and other statistics earlier mentioned, I cannot stop wondering where this will lead.

An actual rebellion is a possibility. But thinking about it, U.S. citizens are probably too jaded, and they have never actually done something of the sort before, so why would they now? The constitution has withered away and has for a long time been nothing more than a piece of paper from the past. Governments have come and gone, but their continuous intrusion into peoples lives stay. America of today is more like the countries its founders fled from than the country they founded back in 1776. If Americans haven’t rebelled before, I see no reason why they would today.

It is far more reasonable to imagine emigration as the common response to the Greatest Depression. Why? Simple, it’s easier and less messy, and Americans are fat and lazy. They want to sit down in front of the TV and watch reality shows, they want that beer and home delivered pizza, so why would they take to arms and risk getting killed? They won’t. And even if their country is going down the crapper, many Americans do have respectable educations and will be able to find good jobs in other countries.

I do think there will be minor uprisings in rural areas while lefties rally in the cities, but when all is said and done I expect that the actual revolution will be that of fleeing, not fighting. And if so a very, very sad ending to what once was the shining beacon of hope.

Making Moonshine in the future

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.

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.

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…

Holy Jesus on a stick sweet Mary mother fuck

This may be one of TV’s best moments of all time.

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.

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.

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.