apologise - not in my name!

There was some drivel on telly today with loads of deranged looking vicars and other oddballs whining in that christiany way about 'slavery'. Am I missing the point or didn't this all finish 200 years ago? The hypocrisy of the christians getting involved in this is stunning - it was them buggers what spent centuries trying to convert Africans to their 'religion', killing their culture and proper connected (and Pagan) religions at the same time. Cast out of Europe when they'd run out of witches these nutters invaded the 'Dark Continent' determined to convert, enslave or simply murder the inhabitants, taking their wealth as they did so.

And then we hear our prefect rulers debating whether 'we' should apologise for this!! Not me Blair you christian fuck. You see, I'm not a racist, I don't share your christian guilt. You preside over a government determined to enslave us ALL, with your moronic ID cards, your fake 'terrorist' alerts and all the other rubbish you spout.

And then others whinge that we still enjoy all the wealth slavery created! Especially here in Bristol, world centre of the slave trade. Bullshit, Bristol has many poor people living in bad conditions - no home ownership here, no flash cars, no money gathering interest in foreign bank accounts. Just the hard grind of day-to-day existence with only the downfall of this 'Labour' government to look forward to - and Friday and Saturday night in town or at the local pubs.

So you can wring your hands Blair, and utter insincere tosh (how like Thatcher you are), and think you with your IQ of 128 and your rich Scouser wife can tell US what to do - but until I see you buying a round at Hartcliffe Community Centre on a Friday night you can fuck off!

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When the last plane has spluttered back from the the Costa Del Sol with its cargo of cancerous millionaires fleeing rapid climate change why not visit sunny Littlehampton on the Sussex coast - before sea level rise wipes it out. For a quick tour around the town and its attractions click on the arrow. See the laughable new developments along the riverside (before they're washed away), visit some of the back alleys I used to love as a kid (twittens we called 'em).

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This is a fun youtube offering featuring Littlehampton (LA) and its extraordinary collection of incompetent skaters. LA was my childhood stamping ground (from 9 months to 35) and it's nice seeing it's still there - despite sea level rise! To start click the arrow ...

how roads will die

We all know that cars are an endangered species and that the road network will fall apart as we enter the final phases of Peak Oil, but how will it actually proceed?

The first signs will be uncertain petrol supplies, government inaction and a slow falling-off of the number of cars and lorries on the roads. The media will start to stir everyone up with dark conspiracy theories, but there will be no conspiracy behind this, just simple supply and demand

economics. Already some of the stronger nations are tying oil-producing nations into long-term contract agreements, or simply invading them, keeping the wholesale price of oil around $60 a barrel.

Suddenly the airwaves and press will be full of 'how to manage without your car' articles and transport policy will swing away from roads and towards all forms of rail. Petrol rationing will be introduced, probably within 5 to 10 years. The very last new driving licenses will be issued around 2025.

There are plenty of stories doing the rounds about replacements for petrol, but study them closely you'll see they are flawed. Biofuel is a joke - it would never be economic even at ten times the price of petrol and land use would compete with food growing etc. Hydrogen is unworkable. Fuel cells would be very expensive, electric cars would increase energy demands so much the climate would go out of control ... cheap oil was a once in a billion years windfall and we've wasted it on frivolity.

The roads are the key - as demand falls away and 99% of us have to find other ways to get around the roads themselves will collapse. No local authority will prioritise road maintenance as climate breaks down and economies change completely. Roads will become no go areas for everything other than Land Rovers, horses and walkers. If roads survive at all it will be as multi-use leisure facilities at the fringes of towns and villages. Some may find new uses as longer distance cycle ways and bridleways, some may be lucky enough to be reborn as railways.

Because of course rail is the key to keeping some sort of regional transport system. There will have to be a HUGE expansion of the heavy and light rail network if we're going to retain any sort of wider economy in the UK (or more likely independent nations within the UK).

We have about 30 years to make the change so that there is not too much civil unrest. Peak Oil will soon become far more of a 'demon' than climate change because, of course, Peak Oil is a far greater threat over the short to medium term. You've been warned!

bring it on...

There's a general view that Global Heating has to be a bad thing. Globally of course it will be, and if runaway warming kicks in (probably on a 2 degree C rise) we'll all be fucked, but if you think of it as climate bands shifting northwards then for the UK it may well be, in the short to medium term, a good thing. Warmer winters, hotter summers, a rebirth of the UK seaside holiday, the final lifting of the dour 50s socialist mentality ... that's a good thing isn't it?

And if the Gulf Stream shuts down then perhaps the Scottish ski industry will take off, if only for 50 years or so.

Or course those tossers living at sea level will lose their homes etc, but surely these days that's their fault anyway. No-one can say they haven't been warned.

Climate Change is a global problem on a huge scale, but on a country to country basis some will be winners and some will be losers. Peak Oil will solve the emissions problem, and over 200 years everything should settle back down in a pleasant and worthwhile world, with a much smaller population, no pollution, steam trains, nice work and plenty of time for friends and family. And the final death of pointless consumerism and 'celebrity' culture, something surely all of us would wish for ...

seaside woes - but for how much longer?

More evidence that our 'betters' are still heading in the wrong direction! The BBC News today carried a sad report about how our seaside resorts are in decline.

Er ... they might be now but with temperatures rising year on year and even the most optimistic reports forecasting desertification of southern Europe following quickly after the end of air travel then the future for UK seaside resorts has never been brighter.

Sure, they'll have problems with erosion and storms and many will need to quickly restore their rail links to keep the visitors coming but why do we get this idiotic reporting from London's finest who have probably never visited a seaside resort in this country?

They'd be better off asking why this moronic government is actually planning to INCREASE air travel and the size of airports, why they have wrecked plans for tramway systems in Portsmouth, Bristol, Leeds and Liverpool, and why they have wasted BILLIONS on a USA-run resource war in a country thousands of miles away.

I was brought up in a seaside resort and still holiday in the UK whenever I can. I'll only fly every ten years, and even that is wrong. The British seaside holiday is far better than anything you'll get abroad.

So let's not worry about 'decline' of things that are going to have a bright future, let's start managing a planned decline of those things none of us need - roads, airports and crap music.

even these buggers are worried ...

This year's Geneva Motor Show is finally responding - ten years after the rest of us - to the threat of Climate Change. All the talk is of hybrids and future technology, low emissions etc. Jeremy Clarkson must be turning in his grave.

It'll probably be another ten years before the reality of Peak Oil sinks in and the car manufacturers, and particularly the venture capitalists, realise that they're in a dying industry with no future.

Everybody is now aware of Climate Change but the average person in the street is still ignorant of Peak Oil, which suits the governments fine. Peak Oil is a far more dangerous threat than climate change because we'll have to TOTALLY change our lifestyles to cope with it. Climate Change will be inconvenient, and deadly to some, but Peak Oil will change everybody in the developed worlds lives, and shatter the petrolhead illusory ambitions of billions in the Third World too.

The people to watch and listen to are not the politicians but the businesspeople who will have to make decisions now. Some of the biggest publicists for Climate Change have been businesspeople (NOT Branson!!), at the moment Peak Oil is discussed mainly amongst economists, but the businesspeople are beginning to listen. Even the investment community is beginning to incorporate Peak Oil futures into its decision making.

Investment in the future will involve buying lots of gold, silver and forests, and defendable houses on high ground and as close to the poles as possible.

the biggest con of all

The biggest con of all is the christians'/moslems'/jews' worship of the drivel of 'death'. All Pagans know that death is an illusion, a surface 'reality' that vanishes as soon as you study it.

No idea why this nonsense caught on, but I suspect it has something to do with consumerism and socialism, trying to trick us into running headlong into ambition, conformity and 'common sense'. All the dullest (and most unsuccessful) people you'll ever meet believe this monotheistic secularist rubbish. And they lead such miserable 'lives' because of it.

And before the coffin-lovers amongst you start saying that the Abrahamic Monolith Religion promises heaven and hell - these are not lives, but psychotic images of boredom and another form of death. They offer nothing.

Of course as Pagans we instinctively know how the universe/multiverse really works, that as thinking creatures we have and have always had an existence, and we always will, no matter what happens. Our spirits ALWAYS find a new home. Only if we're prats do we get stuck being Brian Merritt, accountant, over and over again. And listening to James Blunt, for ever ...