Thursday, November 29, 2007
George Monbiot on 3 million homes
. . . . . . . . . . . . Shit. I was going to post what I wrote but I've lost it.
Arse.
Basically I gave him the misanthropic treatment with lashings of "if people haven't got room to house children then they shouldn't have them, if they do its child abuse". I really can't see that 3 million new homes will be used to house all the people of the country currently living in substandard accomodation. More like they will be used to house a token thousand families on social support and the rest sold at enormous profit to single, young professionals. Don't even get me started about the inevitability of the gross profiteering that will ensue as soon as this is put out to tender, like some bloated PFI cash cow dripping city bonuses from its udders . . . . . oh hang on- I said "like some bloated cash cow. . ." What I meant was "like the bloated, PFI cash cow that it is".
Yeah, that's right.
Fuck knows what the tories are going to do when they get in at the next election. Propose building on Hampstead Heath and Victoria Park because that's where the commoners hang out and they don't matter in politics?
this is fucking appalling
Johann Hari interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As this well drafted piece reveals, however, Islam is not the only of the Abrahamic religions to specifically endorse misogyny.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
UK nuclear consultancy
This is all superfluous to the fact that renewable generation programs, both wind and solar, have been demonstrated to be vastly cheaper alternatives.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
This is even more awesome!
When I rule the world (sooon, very sooooooon) I will have this translated into every language on the planet and make everyone watch this at least five times a day.
This is awesome!
Monday, November 26, 2007
from New Humanist
HAHAAHAHAHahahahaaaaa . . . .
Another great piece from a contributor to the magazine examines the upcoming visit to London of Hebrew University's VP of external relations, and former head of Israel's torture service, Shin Bet.
Order of The Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique
the plural of mongoose . . . . . .
"The mongoose emits a high pitched noise, commonly known as giggling, when it mates. The giggling is also a form of courtship when this animal is choosing a mate"
BTW- I'm posting drunk again . . . . . . . . . oh dear.
the . . . . . . .
Michael Meacher rocks again
Ben Verwaayen is a corporate cockweasel
Cockweasel!
US anti ballistic missile system
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Like we didn't already know that renewable generation is completely cost effective
The UK government- the elite of climate change denialists- have, of course, declined to participate despite the increasingly unequivocal nature of the problem. This means that the government are actually acting against our interests, invalidating the reason for their existence. Do the public know this? Probably not. Too busy watching Ugly Betty or East Enders. Fuckers.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
microwave converts plastic back into oil
peak oil and Gordon Brown's dereliction of his duty to secure energy supplies
David Strahan has a CiF piece on the government's abject failure to plan for peak oil.
"Tony Blair wrote in last year's energy review that it was a principal duty of government to secure energy supply. He was right. Gordon Brown must now abandon the reliance on IEA forecasts, institute a truly independent assessment of global oil depletion and launch a massive programme of mitigation. Anything less would be dereliction.
But of course he won't. Even more than climate change, peak oil demands that governments confront voters with uncomfortable truths that will affect living standards. In Whitehall, legs will remain crossed and buttocks clenched as politicians and officials pray to God that it doesn't happen in their term of office, or before they draw their inflation-linked pension."
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Polly Toynbee is somewhat naive if she thinks Brown is going to pull this one off
academics and muslims denied US visas without explanation
listen to Uncle George, everyone
- NOT using military force against Iran
- withdrawal of our military from Iraq and introduction of the McGovern program
- dropping all support for ID cards
- prohibiting faith schools
- taxing aviation fuel
- unreservedly endorsing the EU Bill of Rights
- prohibiting road construction or expansion
- renationalising the railways
- enforcing the ban on exporting military material and torture equipment
- implementing subsidies for renewable generation and investing heavily in its research and development
- scrapping Trident and its planned replacement
- implementing the single transferable vote
- criminalising corporate sociopathy
- nationalising all PFI deals and prohibiting their further implementation
Ruth Kelly is a fucking idiot and should be sectioned
"If we don't build it then someone on the continent will and so air traffic will continue to increase."
Right. OK. So if I go out in the street and break into a car and crash it into a crowd of school children, killing and maiming them, I can stand up in court and say "If I hadn't done it, some other idiot would have." And I will get let off, will I?
This is such an obviously flawed argument that I am consumed by an overwhelming desire to beat my head against a brick wall until I lose consciousness. It is so desperately depressing to see an elected representative mouthing such gross fallacies in the national press. The Guardian didn't even mention the obvious flaw in this argument, revealing that institution to be as gutless and pathetic at confronting threats to public wellbeing as any other corporate media entity.
I really, really fucking hate Ruth Kelly.
"The British Government - the environmental equivalent of crack dealers."
Additional:
A CiF piece a few days later had more on the 3rd runway issue.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
a slacker's manifesto
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
fuck off fatties
"Fat person cries because people think she's ugly".
The funniest thing I thought was that the author hadn't submitted a photo of herself to be published alongside her article. It is also significant that the author seems to specifically feel that "not all overweight people want to conform to the notion that thin is beautiful". Well, not all normal people feel that way either, you fat fuck! I don't think thin is beautiful. I hate stick insects who hobble around in clippy-cloppy shoes with designer handbags, lunching on a leaf of lettuce and swigging their bastard-fuckwit-arseblind-twatmonger skinny-lattes. My feeling is that, like the wobblers, such people have excluded themselves from a vast array of life-affirming experiences for no other reason than their bastardised aesthetics. They do not find the toned, healthy human form acceptable- for whatever reason. I consider this to be an inverse prejudice: Being normal is not acceptable for stick insects and wobblers- they are better than normal. They have some insight into life which us normally framed persons do not which allows them to perceive the evil nature of the standard human outline.
I could go on, but I think you get the message.
Brown's climate rhetoric sounds good but his governments other policies lay his lies bare
Face it, Brown is full of shit.
Monday, November 19, 2007
baseline data on output from renewable sources
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Sharia law is monstrous and the Saudis are too
Friday, November 16, 2007
Gordon says non-UK domiciles shouldn't sit in the Lords
Thursday, November 15, 2007
UK pulls funding for 2nd degree courses
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Michael Meacher rocks!
Brown builds pressure on Iran
"When we are dealing with nuclear proliferation, this needs to be taken seriously." said the Prime Minister. Whether we should take Egypt's, Pakistan's India's or, indeed, anyone else's nuclear programs seriously he didn't feel at liberty to say.
Monday, November 12, 2007
the red queen of corporate tax avoidance
There's another good piece of economic analysis there too.
talking about overpopulation misses the point
The real problem are all those fat fucks in the US and Australia with carbon footprints that are twice ours. Them and all the multi-squillionaires jetting all over the world to their "weekenders" in their private cunt-jets. And, of course, the exploding industrialisation of China and India with dirty, coal-fuelled power stations. I've linked to an article on overpopulation by one of the founders of ZNet before but I'm obviously going to have to again because Juliette isn't getting the message.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Maddox rules almost as much as me
Friday, November 09, 2007
the house of wool and straw
The choice is yours.
Green Party leadership vote
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaHahHAAHAHAHAhahahahahAHahHHahaahaaaa. a.a. . . . ..
nearly 900 views!
Grateful, they should be.
When it hits 1000 I will make sure I have some powerful drugs on hand to celebrate. That's really not much out of the ordinary but hey!
:~)
US uses threats to pressure EU nations to reduce investment in Iran
TBC
Thursday, November 08, 2007
the 80% challenge
I haven't read it yet as I am working (yeah, really hard!) but I will update when I have done so.
Word!
Additional:
I still haven't read it but the preamble refers to a sister report which looks just as cool, as does the IPPR study associated with it.
Green Party leadership debate
A comment from some guy on the GP facebook page reads:
This is particularly well put.
I did, however, encounter a yet superior diatribe on the subject, courtesy of "spiggynodules" on a CiF article by Derek Wall, GP male Principle Speaker and advocate of the status quo. It will quickly become apparent why I favour this version ;~)
"- For God's sake, you stupid hippy!
The Green Party scored like 8%, 12%, 16% of the vote in one Euro Election, a million years ago.
- And ever since then, you're like dead, dude!
How can "green issues" be getting bigger and nastier every single year, and you suckers have more or less completely disappeared?
"You" don't need a leader?
The planet needs you to have a bloody leader, and a great one! You need a Churchill... and the planet needs you to have a Churchill.
But you're still antsy-farty about one "ego" (maaaan) spoiling the overall veggie-pacifist, laid back, non-male, impeccably girly, superbly "surrendered" image of the party.
"It's not like there's any sense of urgency here, is it?"
- Chucking Smell!
It's the biggest issue, on the planet, now or ever. And you dweebs don't want to be "too assertive".
Look, chummy, if being useless is all you wanna do, then do us all a favour and get out of politics; stop splitting the anti-Tory vote while being nothing!"
a clash of cultures
I love it.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
books I want - "Capitalism as if the World Matters"
This is an updated edition with more material in it. I like the premise- capitalism is a suitable system but its abuse is threatening our environment's integrity and our health and wellbeing.
aspartame gives you cancer
I was flummoxed and bamboozled! Why put aspartame in such a product? Is it to keep the calorie count down? Is aspartame actually cheaper than corn syrup now due to the growing demand for biofuels?
As a matter of intrigue I chased down a few papers on the subject and was appalled to discover this. If you skip to the conclusion you find this passage:
"Our study shows that APM is a multi-potential carcinogenic compound whose carcinogenic effects are evident even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg bw, much less than the current ADI for humans in Europe (40 mg/kg bw) and in the United States (50 mg/kg bw)."
APM = aspartame
ADI = Average Daily Intake
Be afraid, motherfuckers!
warmly depressing
Rudy Giuliani is a cock-weasel
"The man lies with staggering impunity. But here's the thing: he does it with such conviction and such seeming authority that people who are not inclined to study the matter will believe him - will in fact be utterly convinced that Giuliani is speaking the gospel truth, and they will prove almost impossible to shake from this conviction."
this is so wrong and yet not the least unexpected
Other areas to be trimmed include money for improving SSSIs- already in a shit state (eg. Plymouth Sound- one of the most toxic pieces of coastline in the Westcountry), national nature reserves and areas of outstanding natural beauty. One of the budget aspects I haven't got a problem with being trimmed at all is a hefty £2 million on improving access to the countryside for ethnic minorities!
I beg your fuckwit pardon? Do minorities currently face significant obstructions in their attempts to get to the Cotswolds? Is the Lake District patrolled by neo-nazi thugs on the look-out for Bangladeshis desperately seeking to hike up Catbells?? What is this fucking arse-biscuit, politically-correct, wankstain of a policy?
One other area of their budget that needs money spent on it is their website- the Pink Palace of Poop.
waterboarding is very definitely torture
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Power Trip - a film by Paul Devlin
Patrick Cockburn on Basra
how to write a powerful polemic, with Robert Fisk and George Monbiot
Monday, November 05, 2007
faith schools pushing up stealth selection practices
Addition:
Polly Toynbee also thinks faith schools suck ass.
The Misanthropic Principles: Principle Number 4
Addition:
In fact, especially scientists. Because we get paid fuck all.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
environmentalism is synonymous with a strong economy
Timothy Garton-Ash is a cock-weasel
Addition:
AC Grayling's CiF piece, on the other hand, totally rocks!!
Brendan O'Neill, however, is as much of a twat as ever. Honestly! This guy is one of the most backward fuckwits of a commentator I've ever had the displeasure of reading.
Cockweasel!