Been a while!

Its been awhile since I posted on here, but seems to be a precious thing at the moment. What can I say I awoke this morning to be confronted by wikileaks and the documents detailing the Afghan war and it appears to have been tarted up as winnable for our benfit.
Earlier in the week our wonderful PM was in America, meeting with his counterpart. At first I relished the idea of Dave going to America, especially after his ballsy and stubborn showing in Europe. What I got was a pathetic sycaphantic moron. His constant playing down of Britain's role in the special relationship. Don't get me wrong Britain in almost all ways is smaller than the States, population, economy, military, so on and so on and although our general weight in the world has been slightly shredded, it is by no means as badly shredded as America's. To top it all off he can't even get his history right, aparently the USA joined the war in 1940, predating Pearl Harbour by a year. What a useless mug this man is!!!!!

Burkha ban!

I read today about this ban with mixed feelings. On the one hand a victory for womens rights and a free society. On the other hand a further decay of liberty and freedom. If I wished to walk down the street with pink foam hat on I should be able to, but by the same token its impratical and not a part of regular dress.
I heard an amazing statement from an MP on Sky News stating somethings along the lines of 'I hope we(Britain) follow the ban in France, the burkha has no place in British society'. Whilst I'm torn on this statment, half of me agreeing with and half disgreeing with it. He is right that the burkha has no place in British society, but then does homosexuality or Hinduism. No, so should they go to?
I think that if you disregard the root of this problem then you disregard the problem altogether. The problem is immigration on a mass scale, I'm not opposed to immigration but mass immigration on the basis of an expiriment called multi-culturalism is flawed and wrong. At the politicans own admission this expiriment has failed, but now we are left to pick up the pieces.
I don't know what the future holds but I know that it isn't paved with gold and filled with milk and honey.

The wonderful economic wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum over 100 years ago wrote the seminal children’s book ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ever since the allegories surrounding this book have always centred on the economy of the state in Franks case America. This becomes more evident when you realise that Frank was political activist throughout most of his life, following the presidential candidate William J. Bryan around on Bryan’s free silver campaign. In the book Bryan has the role of the cowardly lion. Without wanting to get bogged down in history your probably wondering how this is relevant to today, well the guiding principle of Baum’s thinking comes from tally sticks.
Tally sticks were used by King Henry the first as a way of creating a currency outside of the goldsmith or banks. They were pieces of wood with notches cut in them to signify how much they were worth. The great thing about this concept is that it removes control from corporations and big banks, but would you trust the government to have the licence to print your money. Also there will be many shouting that you can’t have a currency based on nothing, but as long as you control the quantity your national debt never exceeds the amount of money in the system. Abraham Lincoln was also a proponent of this system with the greenbacks(strange how he was assasinted). Another president who tried to investigate the central banks control with an attempt to expose black Friday as a sham was James. A. Garfield(also assassinated). Andrew Jackson was another president who tried to deconstruct the strangle hold of banks(attempted assassination).
So the question is can we trust our leaders to affront this system of ‘fiat money’. As much as I would love to say yes, I don’t think we can. This would be the solution to all of current and very near future problems we face but will only work when there is a government whose only concern is it people and how to make our lives better!

Small break

Hi all! It seems I gave myself a small break, mainly to watch another disappointing exit by England from an international tournament. We shall dwell though this isn't a sports blog after all, but suffice to say that with all the mud thats going to be thrown around in the next couple of weeks there is clearly something wrong between Fabio and the players but more importantly there is something fundemental wrong at every level of the national sport.
Now thats over with back to business. In my absence there have been mega spending cuts, talks of further cuts to things like incapacity benfits and an immigration cap. Some good, some bad, some expected and some unexpected. The worrying thing is that the immigration cap seems like a publicity stunt to please the masses and the spending cuts are far more deeper and hurtful than what was mentioned during the election campaign.
There is no question that cuts had to come, but to put up VAT at the same time is surely in basic economics counter productive. The political elite have clearly prove themselves to be out of touch with the general population. To quote the refined anarchist Oscar Wilde, 'These are men who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing'.

Forgot!

How foolish of me, I posted a long and detailed post about the program 'V' the other day and forgot to mention the reson why I was writing it in the first place. The real reason for bringing up the program was to mention something they use in the program, 'The fifth column'. This is a phrase I haven't heard for some time, the last time I heard it was in a school history lesson when discussing the Spanish civil war. The original use for the term was to decribe a hidden or clandestine force, in the program this is the human and 'V' resistence movement.
Upon doing some research I discovered that the phrase was later adapted to mean any kind of resistence movement against the established or ruling government. More recently the 'fifth column' was described by an American author has used it to describe the 'fourth estate' or the press.
This is interesting given the general consenus here in the uk that there is no longer a free press. So is the press really on our side, some would yes, some no. The yes bridgade would argue that the press freely reports on any scandal without restraint and fill their reletive mediums with irelevent news until the next scandal presents itself. Their arguement would be bolstered by the recent expenses scandal broken by The Guardian newspaper. The no crowd would have a much more convincing and stronger arguement, the main one being the fact the news mediums here only report on one side of an arguement. The BBC, as much as I dislike them, are supposed to be the impartial, non-influenced medium of the people, but they constantly come under attack for this stance. We need only cast our mind to the furore caused by them allowing Nick Griffin on question time, I can understand the opposistion to this but by the token people should understand that this freedom has to been maintained no matter what. The moment these freedoms start to become restricted is the moment we start to shift towards fascism.

V

Recently I have been watching the American series 'V', not the old one but the new fresher remake. There is something strangely familiar about the ideas in this program. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, but I do try and see the real truth in things. The program highlights so many different items currently being experienced by us. The struggle between the main antagonist's the 'V's and the human, this contest between civilisation's is oddly reminiscent of the struggle we are facing today. I've read on other sites about the parallels with the Obama mania as I think its called and the mania caused by the arrival of the V's and it is strangely reminiscent. The V's in the program give a constant tap drip of technology, using it to sway the masses when public opinion starts to swing against them. Again this is strangely reminiscent of our own ways, like the fact that the human genome was fully mapped years ago, but still there have been only minor benefits for us in general.
The main character of the V leader Anna seeks to subvert the human population by clever political manipulation, ring any bells! In the true spirit of conspiracy theorists everywhere, maybe they are already here!!!

Justice secertary Kenneth 'Harry' Clark

Just heard the news that Ken Clark has been elevated to the title of anti-corruption champion of the UK. Another fantastic move by the coalition government and another reason why I'm so cynical, to quote our Atlantic cousins 'Goddamn'.
This is a man who was at the fore front of the expenses scandal, flipping his council tax bill back to the taxpayer. He had two homes one in Rushcliffe and one in London, he left us to pay the bill on the London one. However he wasn't satisfied with that, he then stated that he spent so little time in his Rushcliffe home that he told Nottinghamshire council that his wife should be entitled to a 25% discount on council tax. Far from satisfied he claimed for a mortgage on both properties which was later discovered to be false as only his London home still had a mortgage, which we were being charged £480 per month.
Still you never know maybe this appointment is a stroke of genius. It sometimes takes a criminal to spot a criminal.