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16 October 2011  |  | category: empires flux, film, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, Global Guerillas, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, tribal  | comments are closed  Our political system protects and enriches a fantastically wealthy elite, much of whose money is, as a result of their interesting tax and transfer arrangements, in effect stolen from poorer countries, and poorer citizens of their own countries. Ours is a semi-criminal money-laundering economy, legitimised by the pomp of the lord mayor’s show and multiple layers of defence in government. Politically irrelevant, economically invisible, the rest of us inhabit the margins of the system. Governments ensure that we are thrown enough scraps to keep us quiet, while the ultra-rich get on with the serious business of looting the global [ continue reading To us, it’s an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it’s the heist of the century ] 8 February 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed All of which brings me back to Egypt as the canary in a very large coal mine. It’s hard to overstate just how unexpected a transformation is occurring in Egypt. Death, taxes, and Hosni Mubarak — they were the three great certainties in modern Egyptian life. But just underneath the surface, the tectonic pressure of dumb growth was steadily mounting. Bogus prosperity’s like magma, filling the volcanic chamber of a society: you can bottle it up for only so long before it erupts, and spectacularly. Today, the world’s gaze is fixed on the pyroclastic flow: never-ending demonstrations, protests, people [ continue reading Egypt’s Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You ] 3 February 2011 | | category: can't make it up!, empires flux, prognosticators, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed Is is possible to replicate what happened in Tunisia in other countries, like Egypt? Global guerrillas in Egypt are working on it. Here’s what is going on: Numerous attempts at self-immoliation. Six in Egypt. These attempts at martyrdom are meant to symbolically spark revolution. Protests are being organized online. This one, called “day of revolt” and organized via Facebook, generated 16k supporters (although I suspect most of them are from people outside the country who are immune from retribution). The protest it sparked in Cairo resulted in three deaths and numerous clashes with Police. The Egyptian government is [ continue reading CAN AN OPEN SOURCE REVOLT TOPPLE EGYPT? ] 26 January 2011 | | category: empires flux, Global Guerillas, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed DK Matai has a great little outline on how the open source revolt spread in Tunisia. It was very open much open source warfare (OSW, the dominant form of warfare in the 21st Century), but with a rapidly evolving protest/revolt twist (OSW + flashmobs). Thing is, the conditions within which the revolt spread are becoming pretty common. Here they are: Extreme price shocks in basic commodities. Food and energy. Extreme corruption. A globally connected elite appropriating everything. Extreme connectivity. Cell phones and other social media. Given that the global system is highly unstable (extreme leverage, concentration, tight coupling, [ continue reading TUNISIA and OPEN SOURCE REVOLT ] 21 January 2011 | | category: empires flux, Global Guerillas, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed So if you go down to the woods today, you’ll find the best metaphor for Cameronism. Change your party’s logo to a lovely green tree – then sell off all the real trees to corporations. Oh, and then say you are “empowering volunteers” by doing it. The Prime Minister has said the forest sell-off “empowers local communities” to take over the forests for themselves as part of a “Big Society.” Yet sources within the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs say that – unsurprisingly – only about [ continue reading For sale: Britain’s forests and seas, and David Cameron’s claims to be green ] 7 January 2011 | | category: nothing new under the sun, one world, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed As writers say, the difference between fiction and fact is that fiction has to be believable. So all those Bourne films are so believable and everything on ‘The News’ is so ridiculous. Osama Bin Laden: still at-large, Ratko Mladic: still at large, Sylvio Berlusconi: in charge of a bankrupt country – and its media, Tony Blair & George Bush doing lecture tours, the €uro bankrupt while the workers of Germany subsidise a continent, and so on. The world changed years ago. Just ask the Book, Music and Film Industries, newspaper publishers, television companies, High-Street shopkeepers and expense-fiddling MPs, who can [ continue reading #WikiLeaks #cablegate – Mirrors of the website & #Visa, #Mastercard transferring funds to racists ] 7 December 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed On the subject of those TSA “grope” scanners at airports here is an insightful, and very early prediction of the wonderful advances in technology that will spring from science. They don’t make them like that any more. Thanks to @tpaleyfilm and @Zerofee for the link. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» YouTube – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes: .) [ continue reading The Man with the X-Ray Eyes – coming to a perimeter near you ] 18 November 2010 | | category: empires flux, film, Global Guerillas, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, travel | comments are closed “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!! #IAmSpartacus #twitterjoketrial “ 12 November 2010 | | category: Global Guerillas, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, social media tools, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, twitter | comments are closed “Mrs Thatcher is 85 today but ironically she’s been knocked off the news by a Government that looks after their miners! « LOL – RT @iancawsey” . This seems to be one of the commonest tweeted perspectives this morning. Great news that they will get the lads out of their mine but what a media scrum! Don’t the billionaire politicians line-up to get in the pictures with people they were barely aware of before? Let’s see how the miners cope with fame of this magnitude, it will not be easy to adjust. It’s hard for me to believe that Chile [ continue reading at least she won’t know anything about it ] 13 October 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, world of work | comments are closed This spew of a speech must surely go down in the annals as one of the most ridiculous collections of words and hyperbole this week – I refuse to believe that many of the people in that hall truly believed a word of it. DAILY MAIL GOVERNMENT. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» YouTube – Philip Hammond: rail is “subsidised”; roads are “investments”: .) [ continue reading Philip Hammond: rail is “subsidised”; roads are “investments” ] 5 October 2010 | | category: scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, transport, travel | comments are closed I am opposed to the building of the “mosque” two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on Ground Zero. Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and prejudice. I believe in an America that says you have the right to worship whatever God you have, wherever you want to worship. And I believe in an America that says to the world that we are a loving and generous people and if a bunch of murderers steal your religion from you and use it as their excuse to [ continue reading If the ‘Mosque’ Isn’t Built, This Is No Longer America | MichaelMoore.com ] 14 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, nothing new under the sun, one world, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, thinkers, tribal | comments are closed Open letter to Norman Baker, minister for cycling, walking, buses, alternatives to travel, etc Giving “freedom” to local authorities with less money and no precise remit to spend it on cycling will result in more kids failing to learn to ride. Many will be unhealthier and fatter and our roads will be clogged with more parents driving their kids around everywhere. Make no mistake – your decision will affect real lives. So Norman, ask yourself this. What is Norman Baker for? Or more precisely, what is the point of you being in the Department for Transport? Are you a fig-leaf [ continue reading Norman save cycling cash | Christian Wolmar, an open letter ] 10 September 2010 | | category: cycling, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, transport, travel | comments are closed You might not have noticed because most of the British press seems curiously reluctant to cover it, but earlier in the week, the New York Times produced some new evidence that the Conservative party’s chief spin doctor Andy Coulson knew much more about the phone hacking scandal of 2006 than he was letting on. Maybe they were too busy covering allegations regarding William Hague’s sexuality, and his emotional revelations about not being gay that came out at the same time, handily and totally coincidentally for the Conservatives’ spin doctor. Ahem. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Five Chinese Crackers: [ continue reading What would the Met get in return for not looking hard at News of the World phone hacking? ] 3 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Jeremy Hunt has recently suggested that hooliganism caused the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 people died, then apologised “IF his comments caused any offence” (which many regard to be a more offensive gesture than his original remarks). There are, at the time of writing, 150 comments published under the short apology on his website. But the people leaving comments on Jeremy Hunt’s ‘blog’ deserve to be warned that Jeremy’s apology is scheduled for deletion (probably within a month) along with any comment(s) they contribute. No, I am not extrapolating wildly from Jeremy Hunt’s recent mass deletion of tweets; I [ continue reading Jeremy Hunt: when only the freshest information will do | Bloggerheads ] 2 September 2010 | | category: scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, Sport? what sport?, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Wonder why I am having a Hollywood/Reality crossover … 1 September 2010 | tagged as: books, humans | | category: film, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed 1 September 2010 | tagged as: humans, life, writing | | category: nothing new under the sun, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Don’t get mad, get even … David Cameron has defended plans to use credit rating firms to “go after” people fraudulently claiming benefits. He said the firms, [ continue reading ‘you caught us and our expense-frauds, now it’s payback time’ ] 10 August 2010 | | category: scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the new 'priest class' | comments are closed More schools are set for disappointment after the government said 75 academy rebuild projects are likely to be scaled back, a month after it scrapped England’s school rebuilding scheme. Education Secretary Michael Gove said the schools would not be proceeding in their present form and instead face further review. BBC News – Rebuild plans for 75 schools scaled back ] 9 August 2010 | | category: learning, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Julian Glover (Comment, 3 August) is correct that the scale of government cuts being discussed is without parallel. We are not talking of the salami-slicing of the Thatcher/Major period. The rhetoric indicates the government is withdrawing from a range of publicly provided services in the hope that someone else will step into the void. In the place of cogent economic argument, we simply have the continued recitation that the deficit of £155bn is unsustainable and so the public sector must be [ continue reading Letters: Filling the void after public sector cuts ] 4 August 2010 | | category: empires flux, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Members of the community will have to pay to be part of the Big Society Network and receive support for their neighbourhood projects. The network, launched by prime minister David Cameron at Downing Street earlier this month, aims to become the ‘largest mutual in the UK’ and will be a support [ continue reading Communities must pay to join Big Society Network ] 2 August 2010 | tagged as: Big Society | | category: nothing new under the sun, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed This article is provided courtesy of the blogs feed at http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/blog “And what volunteering do you do?” “I do…golly, what do I do? Umm, a whole load of things….Um, gosh, that’s a really unfair question cold…” (Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in an interview with Eddie Mair on the PM Programme yesterday evening to talk about the Big Society). There was more: “Well, I do various things. It’s a great question to err… drop on me err… and if I had time to think about it…” It was both hilarious but painful to listen to. You can hear the [ continue reading Maude and NAVCA on volunteering ] 30 July 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed The real reason why conservatives hate the enforcement of speed limits is that this is one of the few laws which is as likely to catch the rich as the poor: newspaper editors and council leaders are as vulnerable as anyone else. The conservative reaction to speed cameras suggests that they love laws, except those which apply to them. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Monbiot.com » Tory Boy Racers: .) 29 July 2010 | | category: scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, transport | comments are closed MP Robert Halfon argues that we need to stop internet companies from creating their own surveillance society. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Spiked Google is watching you!: .) ‘a new symbol for europe’ installation in Den Haag, the Netherlands image © designboom the current european flag with its twelve identical golden stars placed in a circle on a blue background, was designed in 1955. since then society in europe has changed. Nowadays various cultures live and work together in a relative small area. in the last 50 years europe has become a complex maze of identities. what is the impact of this new society with its diversity in culture, language and traditions on europe’s identity and how can that identity take shape? what is [ continue reading foundation design den haag: a new symbol for europe ] iPhone/iPad users: the new version of iTunes showing up on your computer right about now has new, non-negotiable terms of service. If you install it, you “agree” to allow Apple to collect precise information about your location in real time and use it, sell it, or give it away. Apple promises that its location data is “collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you.” Of course, AOL thought that the search data it released was anonymous and didn’t personally identify people, either. They were wrong. New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time [ continue reading New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your ‘precise, real-time location’ ] 22 June 2010 | | category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, location+, maps & mapping, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Samuel Holberry (1816 – 21 June 1842) was a prominent Chartist activist. Contents [hide] 1 Early years 2 Radical Chartism 3 Death in Prison 4 Commemoration 5 References [edit]Early years Holberry moved to Sheffield in the 1830s, where he married Mary Holberry and began working as a distiller. Together with other activists campaigning to extend the political rights given by the Reform Act 1832, he [ continue reading Samuel Holberry ] 21 June 2010 | | category: nothing new under the sun, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed Nice manners, big kitchen, government by Boden. It’s all for the good of everyone. If only poorer people could be as nice to each other as this in their little ‘communities’, things would be so much lovelier! It’s like a dream. When old class warriors like Dennis Skinner pop up to randomly abuse the overlords, it feels like cheering a sad old bloke on Britain’s Got Talent, not because he can win, but because he has the gumption. The new poshness is the real break with Thatcherism and its loads-of-money showiness. [ continue reading Me, a pureblood prole, one of the new posh? ] Throughout history a lot of dodgy individuals have claimed to speak on behalf of ‘The People’, but Thomas’s might just be the most dubious claim yet. By ‘The People’ he actually means members of his audiences, who were asked, during his recent stand-up tour, to come up with policies for a manifesto. The idea that the kind of people who attend Mark Thomas gigs represent the people really is funny. Simply the fact that they enjoy being bombarded with radical-liberal prejudices camouflaged badly as gags – Coca-Cola is evil! Rupert Murdoch is Satan! – should be evidence enough that [ continue reading sp!ked review of books | Radical snobbery ] 29 May 2010 | | category: nothing new under the sun, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed A Prophecy Within three months I imagine that any Lib Dem/Labour/Others coalition will fall, a General Election will be called, the Lib Dem vote will be decimated, the Conservatives brought to full power and Electoral /Constitutional Reform will be nothing but a wistful memory as those of us with distaste for conservatism hunker down for the duration. Demos, riots, overturned cars in the streets, many more homeless, infrastructure decay, a rise in crimes against the person and property, a happy time perhaps for the City and the secure middle classes, a dreadful time for the vulnerable, the disabled, the [ continue reading Stalemate: PR and PR, Ice Cream, Bananas and Fudge ] 11 May 2010 | | category: prognosticators, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in | comments are closed |  
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