dirty faggers

A new poll shows that the majority of publicans want the smoking ban to stay. I wasn't aware that there was any other option anyway!

Amazingly 26% of the respondents genuinely believe that the ban is negative!!! The sooner these losers are out of business the better - they clearly don't have a clue and are bound to go out of business anyway.

But the agenda is shifting. Now 72% want smoking banned when driving. Big deal. There should be a TOTAL ban on smoking in the UK, and the sooner the better. It serves no purpose at all except to make one bunch of losers look uncool, stupid and dirty and another bunch look wealthy. It has to be the most pointless activity ever.

I want the twins (above) to grow in a world without faggers. It would also be nice if they grew up in a world without that other bunch of lamebrain losers - meat eaters (or 'hippies' for short). That is also likely as the current rush to produce uneconomic, negative energy biofuels is rapidly squeezing out food production in any case. The Americans must be absolutely TERRIFIED of Peak Oil if they're allowing this to happen!

the state of things

Expect a far more active Looking Ahead from now on. I'm having one of those life-changing moments, giving up my boring finance role at the S&D, signing up for my PhD and getting building skills over the next few months - and pushing this blog as my one and only! So expect the usual polemics about idiots and CC/PO, the occasional foray into chavdom, diatribes against faggers but also far more cultural input, loads more economics and investment advice and even bits about what I'm doing as we get ready for our own personal push towards post-Collapse survival!

On Tuesday we went to see Reverend and the Makers at the Carling Academy at Bristol. Now the Carling sound may be as flat and lukewarm as their beer, but the Rev cut through all that to put on a brilliant show! Interestingly just before the show started, whilst the Ting Tings were on stage, the Rev and a few of the band stood next to us and watched them. It's a strange experience being so close to genius, but the Rev seemed to handle it well.

There are seven on stage, two percussionists, two keyboardists, bass, guitar and the Rev. So you get a really full, groove driven sound to highlight his amazing voice. The songs are about real stuff, dropping Etam, council estates, babies, all the usual material. With me music has to pass the Hartcliffe Test - be relevant, cool and sound good loud with the windows down on a Friday or Saturday evening. This does!

Support band were the Ting Tings, who seem to get more publicity than almost anyone else around at the moment. Singer Katie is an ex-girl band type, but seems to have found her forte with this new two piece. And it was a nice touch when the Rev invited the Ting Tings on stage for a final rousing 'He Said he Loved Me' which has to be about the best 3 minutes of live music I've ever seen!

So catch the Rev if you can whilst they're still fresh and hungry. Although I suspect they'll be around for years.

Next night out - Enter Shikari, Hallowe'en, Cardiff!

population implosion

There's been a lot of wild talk about population recently. That Britain will have 81 million in a few decades etc. It's drivel. We all know that population has to start falling soon. Latest crap is this, a report that suggests we need MORE housing - over a quarter of a million new houses each year! Where, exactly? Why, exactly??

The fact is with Climate Change marginalising millions of existing houses and Peak Oil making most current housing patterns unsustainable our population needs to start falling RAPIDLY now, not in 20 or 30 years time. Step one - end ALL immigration. It is insane to import people just to keep up the charade of economic 'growth'. Step two - encourage a one child per family scheme - not through compulsion but through the tax system. Parents with one child (or none) pay NO tax regardless of income, parents with more than one pay 50% flat rate tax on all earnings, increasing by 10% with each additional child. Similar incentives and disincentives can be built into the benefits sytem. Twins/multiple births should count as one child of course! Step three - encourage people to become self-sufficient wherever possible to alleviate CC/PO effects, this should match family size to land use within each family discouraging large families.

So let's forget all this rubbish about new houses. Let's stop ALL development of green field sites, encourage redevelopment of all sustainable brown field sites and get the idea of falling population into the general mindset. Let's get ahead of the game on this ...

reaping the whilrlwind

So half a million people are being evacuated as wildfires detroy homes and businesses in California. Do you suppose this will convert a few more Americans to the challenges posed by Climate Change, or will they just keep on behaving as they have before? In the fire above can be seen burning one of the principal reasons for the US's unreason on this issue - the bible, which encourages the stupid to destroy the Earth and to lord it over the animals and have as many ('christian') children as possible.

At the moment we have a phsychotic in denial 'nation' trying to rule over the rest of us. And we're having none of it. The USA, the world's last communist state, will suffer more than most from Climate Change, more than all from Peaked Oil, and will collapse into 50 warring and squabbling mini-states as things begin to bite. At least California has a reasonably astute Governor who will probably do more than most to smooth the transition ...

oh dear ....

All over Bristol there are posters begging that Cadburys at Keynsham be 'saved'.

This is ridiculous. It is closing because it is uneconomic. A factory doesn't exist as some sort of social club for losers. It exists to make money for its owners and shareholders. Workers choose to be workers. They choose the easy option. They fail at school, get married young, have idiot kids early, slump in front of the TV eating KFC and envy those that have made something of their lives. There is no security in employment and neither should there be. Workers should not be cossetted.

What they should be is harangued by their superiors. They need to be told in no uncertain terms that unless they educate themselves, constantly reskill themselves and learn the basics of decency and culture then they will always be nobodies. That doesn't mean they should be ill-treated, but they need to know their place. Closing their little factory reminds them sharply that the world is a harsh place, that nothing should be taken for granted and that uncertainty and discomfort remind you that you are ALIVE. Not a cog in a huge machine, but a thinking individual that should have aims in life beyond working in the same job forever and being able to remember the name of Elsie Tanner's first husband.

So let's celebrate the fact that Cadbury's are leaving Keynsham to move east. Let the ex-workers find that there's more to life than a bar of Dairy Milk, that there's scenery and animals and swimming and walking and reading. They may just rediscover themselves in the process ...

doing it right

This is the view of Lake Geneva from the Easyjet flight back to Bristol. Yes, I flew. It's often a misconception that I am anti-car, anti-flying etc. This is a big mistake. I love driving, I love flying. But I'm sensible enough to know that these things are ending, that they are rapidly becoming part of history. I'm not personally worried about adding to CO2 in the atmosphere, because all this frenetic drivel about Climate Change (we must recycle, must change to low-energy bulbs, switch off appliances etc) is just cover for the really big issue, Peak Oil. The environmentalists are as guilty as the leftists on this. They are REALLY scared about Peak Oil because it will change everything. And leftists and their polar opposites environmentalists have this one thing in common - they are terrified of discomfort. Climate Change, in its diluted developed world form will merely offer a Hollywood spectacle to our fat friends in the US and elsewhere. Okay, millions in the UK are going to lose their homes to coastal and inland flooding, but we're overpopulated anyway.

So I'm no more guilty about flying than I would have been guilty about riding the last real steam trains in the UK in the sixties. Seeing history unfolding is great. Air travel and car travel are quickly becoming nostalgia as they breathe their last. And we're flying twice more in the next 4 months, to Budapest and Prague.

It is funny seeing air travel still convincing itself that it's a developing industry rather than a dying one, with new routes opening, laughable airport extensions still being considered and all the infrastructure coming in just twenty years before it all withers.

So, like me, make the most of it. We will if we're lucky develop a Europe-wide high speed rail network that will still get you places at a reasonable pace, but our kids will never experience a one and a half hour trip to Geneva, not as adults anyway, any more than we can experience Mach2 travel to New York any more.



The Swiss transport system is superb. As well as trolleybuses running to the centre from the airport there is also a direct train link from the terminal to the city centre that takes 5 minutes and costs just CF3, about £1.30!



This is a tram from Cornavin station to the UN Building. This line is just 3 years old, Geneva is rapidly expanding its tram system, which had withered to just one route in the 80s. Travel is effectively free as hotels give their customers free public transport tickets. The trams are fast and clean and vastly superior to diesel buses.



This is the terminus of the Gornergratbahn, near Zermatt. This is at over 10,000 feet above sea level. Again it is electrified, using hydro electric power, from power stations hidden somewhere in the mountains.

Switzerland is miles ahead of the UK in preparing for Peak Oil. We need to begin to develop an all-embracing, cheap and efficient public transport system here at enormous speed, using renewables and nuclear power. We owe it to ourselves.

books as currency

The latest in the ever increasing range of Climate Change and Peak Oil books is the above, cleverly bound in plastic for durability. I'd advise all of you to get this as it addresses plenty of important issues and has information that will be invaluable once things break down.

Books will be one of the great survivors of the Collapse. They don't need energy to access, contain loads of information and/or entertainment and are reasonably light and transportable.

This book makes an interesting point that hadn't occured to me. As well as gold, silver and skills, another post-Collapse currency may well be books. So build up a good stock now whilst you can. I imagine the most valuable will be guide books to post-Collapse living (like the above) but also those mindless 'airport' style novels that help pass the time. Because free time is something we're all going to have plenty of in the future!

as gay as it gets

How fucking gay! The post office 'workers' have decided to attack their management by - attacking the public! Why don't these loser scum - union members, deadbeats, hippies and socialists - just for once wake up and realise this is 2007, not 1972? It is pathetic. These featherbedded numbskull hippy scum live dead easy lives with houses, food, TV, cars, everything, yet they still want MORE for doing their 'job'.

Well listen up losers, you will all be out of work within 5 years because your business model and your idiotic pandering to blubbery brain-dead union 'leaders' will allow REAL business to take yours away, especially if this strike lasts more than a few days.

Know your place in the grand scheme of things - you are at the bottom and need to stay there. You are uneducated cannon-fodder. The world is falling down around you and you still can afford the luxury of 'striking'. Unions for essential services should be BANNED.

But hold on, the management have it all fixed. They're offering the following advice - 'A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We will do all we can to mitigate the impact of the strike action but we would ask our customers to avoid posting mail during the strikes and if they do so, then to post any mail at Post Office branches, which will all be open for business as usual.'.

Well I shall keep posting where I want you middle-class wankers. Get off your arses and actually POST the letters, or you'll be on the dole too!

Now, let's google 'delivery services' and let the GPO lose a little more business - for ever!

more leftie whining

Some old tosser is suggesting that Al Gore's fillum An Inconvenient Truth shouldn't be shown in schools as it's 'politically biased'!! Al Gore is a christian American conservative who suggests that with a few tweaks the world can keep going on the way it always has. He's about as threatening as a piece of limp lettuce with a chocolate AK47.

Yeah, AIT is politically biased alright - biased towards the toads and middle-class twerps that insist that Climate Change is fixable, that the REAL issue isn't Peak Oil and resource depletion and that the American Way of Life is non-negotiable.

Okay, let the little kiddies watch this version of I Love Lucy with melting icebergs, but it's hiding the real Inconvenient Truth - that the little darlings oh-so-lovely middle class lives are about to come tumbling down and that school - as well as their simpering parents - aren't doing a thing to teach them how to survive in the future.

An Inconvenient Truth, like a lot of the greenwash the luvvies are piling on us, is just feel-good fodder for the soon-to-be-extinct masses. Al Gore's political bias is the same as that of Cameron, Brown, Blair, Bush and the old tosser first mentioned - business as usual. Like all lefties they convince themselves that materialism will always win out, that people are basically good even in bad times and that true leaders - men and women of vision willing to take REALLY hard decisions so that some of us survive - should be kept down in the morass of grey goo that all our running about to 'create' economic growth is leaving us up to the neck in.

would you like ice with that?

Arctic sea ice cover is the lowest on record. It is 39% below the long term average this September.

This is one of the most disturbing signs that Climate Change is happening far faster than anyone dared suggest just a few years ago. As always I'll reiterate that you need to start planning NOW to survive this and Peak Oil. Find a place that's safe, on high ground, near a railway or tramway, not too far from a small town or even in a small town if you deem it safe, gather books, tools and seeds and start integrating into your new community right away. You'll thank me later!