Swine cold

The BBC are trying there best to get everyone panicing over swine flu. Including this eyewitness report from some expat who had the disease.

"I think swine flu is very different from a normal flu because I just couldn't get out of bed. "

No no no you silly moo, you have never had ordinary flu. As that leaves you bed ridden. Everytime you have claimed to have the flu in the past, you have merely had a bad cold. Because, well, simply and frankly, you are a wimp.

Plus look on the bright side, this first dose of actual flu, be it swine or normal, has left you alive. Congratulations.

Firebomb the press

I notice that the media seemed absolutely obsessed with this new 50% tax rate on earnings over £150,000. I was wondering why suddenly, it appeared that a majority of the population were earning that. Then I realised that the media moguls are so concerned with the new tax rate, because it is they, and not the majority of the population who will have to pay this tax.

I have a new solution, in order to make it that the media acts for the people, all journalists and reporters should be put on the minimum wage. As at the moment, they just contribute to a cultural hegemony which serves the interest of the rich few over the toiling many.

BBC Stumbles Upon Something Again

The BBC has done an expert piece of reporting here, managing to discover a 'leaked' leaflet that had appeared on the internet two months ago. In fact, I tore it apart in March here.

So there we have it, if you can tell your arse from your elbow, you too can work for the BBC News. Still it is good that the really stupid views of the BNP are being publicised, even if it does make me wonder about the quality of journalism.

No Borders, No Country, No Gods No Idols, Nothing

I have decided to demand the money I have spent on passports to be returned as I consider it theft. Borders are a system imposed from above, sometimes centuries ago and in which I have not been consulted. Therefore, I consider it my right as a member of a Lockean social contract, to terminate my recognition of borders.

I want to roam where I want, when I want. And no one should have the power to stop. As I am not hurting anybody and that is the only moral force I will recognise.

"Be realistic, demand the impossible!"

Hillsborough

When I was in year 10 Biology, my teacher told me how on the day of the Hillsborough disaster, he was listening to events unfold on the radio, when an announcement was made by the emergency services, pleading for anyone with a slight knowledge of the human body to go to one of the main hospitals as they were inundated with casualties.

He went to the Northern General, and was confronted with the terrible sight of injured people just lying everywhere, totally overwhelming the hospital staff. I don't know why, but that is the one story that always comes back to me on the days like today when the disaster is all over the news again.

Kill the poor

Found this a week ago on the Times website (I had a very busy week and never got round to blogging).

First problem I have is with this part.

"But nobody serious can really believe any more that there is some brilliant alternative we haven't thought of. Can they?"

If the alternative has not been thought of, then it cannot be tested can it? So there may well be an alternative that works, then again, there maybe an alternative that won't work. Unfortunately this current crisis won't change the world too much, as no one seems to be providing the new idea. But to dismiss an idea before it exists, is premature. But then again, Finkelstein is one of those Conservatives who thinks that capitalism is just human nature.

"They hit on the idea that the solidarity of the working class would allow them to plan and then discovered that the unions wanted to protect their own members, even at the expense of other unions or the unemployed. Human nature - the way we protect ourselves, our family and our friends against the claims of strangers - proved a constant disappointment."

Human nature is an absolutely shite way to defend an argument. There is no such thing as human nature above and beyond the basic necessities that all organisms need to do to live (i.e. eat, shit, procreate, respire etc.) The rest is cultural indoctrination dressed up as 'nature'. A few hundred years ago, the feudal system was considered natural. Now it is dead. As will capitalism eventually be. But possibly not for some time yet.

I also see this sad piece of news has just emerged on the Times site. Once again the Metropolitan Police have excelled themselves, killing an innocent man and then lying about it afterwards. They did that to de Menezes, and now they have done it to this guy as well. They act like legalised, hired thugs, a law unto themselves. Sadly, it now appears that only a riot on the streets of London, and Scotland Yard burning to the ground will make the police, the authorities, the whole establishment in this country realise that something has to change completely in the way our police force conducts itself. At the moment, I cannot tell who is meant to keep you safe in this country anymore.