the underwhelming 'right' in the USA

The so called 'right' wing in the USA are in terminal decline. They are supporting the candidacy of a complete moron - Michelle Bachmann - for the US presidency. You would have thought they'd learned their lesson with the borderline retard Sarah Palin, but hey, these folks ain't for learnin'!

This Bachmann twat has many failings. Firstly she's a 'creationist'. These idiots believe the world was 'created' by a 'god' 6000 years ago. Not just the world but the whole universe. Now, we can disprove this on any clear evening. Michelle, ask your warders to let you out one starry night. Look up in the sky. See the stars? The light from many of them has taken well over 6000 years to reach us. We are seeing them as they were 10000, 50000, 100000 years ago! And look out for little blurry shapes as well. These are galaxies. They are at least a million light years away. Yes, these have been around for at least a million years. TWAT!

Secondly she thinks global warming is a 'hoax'. For fuck sake you commie cow - the only people that believe that are far leftist scum who don't want it to be true as it will be the end of the socialist dream if we can't just exploit the earth's resources for ever. The evidence is everywhere, no sane person 'disbelieves' it. It's happening. Don't be such a fucking moron!

Thirdly she doesn't believe that gays should have rights! Her fuckwit of a husband actually said, last year, on a 'christian' radio station, that gays are 'barbarians', and that they 'need education and discipline'. Discipline eh? No doubt with him wearing leather pants. I think we've sussed out his agenda right away.

In reality the USA is both the world's poorest country (because of its huge pile of debt) and it's last communist nation. Joke candidates like Bachmann are a sure sign of the once great nation's decline into irrelevance and decadence. It's sad to see that the 'right' is the worst offender. The USA is heading for collapse - I have two more trips there, New York city in December and Orlando next October. I suspect they may be the last times we'll be able to go. The USA will collapse sooner rather than later.

The right isn't all stupid and decadent - the excellent Ron Paul holds true to REAL RIGHT wing values with no hint of the communism, fiscal childishness and absolute uneducated stupidity of the other right, of which Bachmann is just one of the stupidest and most incompetent examples. But he won't be voted in because he actually confronts Americans with the reality of their situation.

Meanwhile in the UK we don't even have a right wing party!!

pravda ...

Thanks to Rupert Murdoch and his parade of brainless, immoral twats, we've been given a taste of the communist media. Decent people live a life that never thinks for a second of the sewer that is the Sun and News of the World. But it's been rather waved in our faces over the last week or so.

But who are the real villians? Why, the readers of those rags, that's who. People whose lives are so damaged, so vile, so fucking STUPID, that they allow this muck into their lives. People that have no respect for anything, the uneducated, smoking, litter dropping, thoughtless scum that should, let's be honest, be the victims of mass murder.

I know that none of my readers would ever allow this filth into their houses, so you are safe, but surely now is the time to begin building a register of worthless people to be culled once Peak Oil hits? It's hardly an extremist viewpoint.

never again

I thought I was dreaming this morning when I spotted the following, unbelievable, headline in the Evening Post.

'Let us smoke in pubs again'.

This is ridiculous. Life should be lived moving forwards, not backwards. The smoking ban in workplaces is there to protect employees from secondhand smoke. IT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE. From now the war against this old man's habit should be stepped up, with smoking banned in all open spaces, and within 5 years completely. It is an embarrassment that a few old men still do this, I suppose they've simply given up on life. But should a tiny minority ever have the  right to force this on others? Of course not.

Pubs have improved no end since the ban. It seems incredible now that it had ever been allowed. The pubs are now full of decent people, families, teenagers etc. Okay, we still have to (for a few more years) have to run the gauntlet of a few elderly losers in the pub entrance showing the whiole world how uncool and fucking stupid they are, but once in a pub I'd challenge anyone to say that it's not 1000% better than the old days.

So a simple message to all smokers - FUCK OFF AND DIE!!!!!!

greece ... oh dear

There's something very wrong with Greece, and if you stand back and apply logic to the situation it gets even stranger.

Greece was the cradle of civilization, but it really isn't European in the sense we think of 'European'. And the behaviour of its people at the moment is about as un-European as you can get.

Situation - the countrty has been living beyond its means for years. Entry into the EU made it even worse. And membership of the Euro simply gave them another layer of  protection from the real world.

And now some very large chickens have come home to roost. Greece has enormous debts, a crumbling economy, Stalinist style infrastructure and a people who seem to think that it's 1972 and there are still 40 years of cheap oil in front of them.

And how do they react? Do they pull together to get the country out of the mess it's in? Do they start paying taxes rather than think they are voluntary? Do they give their government the respect it needs to get through this? Do they fuck! No, they stick to that 1972 mentality and call a general strike! How exactly is that going to solve their economic problems? Will it increase productivity? Efficiency? To my simple mind all I can see it doing is decrease economic activity and cause even more problems.

And who's behind this? The usual suspects - communists (remember them?), socialists and trades unionists - the very groups that think the world owes them a living, that the future will be one of increasing wealth and sod the environmental destruction.

In a year's time Greece will be bankrupt, Europe's first (but not last) failed state, and its people will be much, much poorer than they are now. They may even have been expelled from the EU.

The simple fact is that the centuries of growth are over. Without growth interest and debts can't be paid off. Without growth our huge nanny states will have no option but begin to shed parts of themselves. Perhaps the Greeks will be lucky, being first to suffer they will scale down, build resilience into their communities and start living off the land again. Perhaps, at least in that sense, they are fortunate. Who will even remember socialism, communism and trade unions in fifty years' time?

trees - your time is coming

Amazingly British orchards are in decline. It seems incredible that something as important as our trees can be neglected in this day and age. Trees are going to be our lifeblood in the future, for food, fuel, building and controlling climate change. The reason British orchards are in decline is because the chavs and the supermarkets are working in collusion to destroy the British apple market.

It won't work. Supermarkets are beginning to source food locally. This has nothing to do with environmental responsibilty but everything to do with economics. Transport costs are rising and are only set to rise faster and faster as the cheap oil vanishes.

Now is the time to start planting. Trees take a long time to grow but even our two year old apple tree, less than five feet tall, is absolutely full of apples this year. We've only room for three trees in the garden, but one advantage is that they have a very small footprint and tou can grow other things underneath them.

In fifty years wood will be everywhere. It will heat our homes, the trees will produce tonnes of fruit and nuts, even our steam trains will burn wood rather than coal. Houses, furniture and carts will be built from it, and there will probably be hundreds of other uses we haven't even thought of yet.

£50 fine? A bullet more like ...

They're planning to amend the littering law so that the driver of a car is responsible for the people in the car not throwing rubbish out of the windows.

About time. But you know what - some fuckers are whining that this is wrong! The classic was the mother who said she couldn't be expected to keep an eye on her kids and stop them throwing rubbish out.

Er, why on earth has she not educated her kids not to do this? What sort of people are these? Her kids should be taken into care and she should be taken out and shot. Scum.

They are only planning to fine between £50 and £80 yet some civil liberties baby was whining about the 'huge' fines.

If we want a clean country we can be proud of perhaps the law should be £1000 for a first offence, £10000 for a second and deportation for a third. We'll soon see a cleaner Britain.

absolutely insane

We live in seriously peculiar times. Now I'd have expected a Labour government to attack allotments - all that freedom, fresh air and working class accents make them sick to their stomachs. But the tories? I'll grant that Eric Pickles looks like a 1950s cross between Humpty Dumpty and a far left northern Labour councillor, but does he have to act like one?

It seems the bulky bolshevist wants to take away the requirement that councils provide allotment spaces. WTF?? There are huge waiting lists for allotments, and they will only get longer. EVERYONE grows their own these days, and in just a few years once oil-based inputs such as fertilizer and tractors wither and die we are going to need to grow on every available square inch of land. It will be grow or die.

Churchill encouraged us to Dig for Victory. I doubt that the corpluent commie has ever even heard of him. Peak Oilers often quote Churchill - he was a man centuries ahead of his time. Growing food will become the most important thing for all of us soon enough.

And what's forecast for the abandoned allotments. Social housing! What the FUCK!

We need to be planting fruit trees everywhere NOW. Parks and open spaces need to be planted with crops NOW. Every single allotment and garden needs to be planted NOW. People need the skills, the seeds, the tools and the space to learn to grow successfully NOW.

Can't someone just puncture this Trotskyite twat with a pin?

hunter's rest

 

The pub car park.

Entrance.

Stilton and Cheddar ploughmans.

A surprise extra - miniature railway on site!

The Hunters Rest is one of those pubs you have to work hard to find. All I'm saying is that it's to the south of Bristol! Great atmosphere, great range of drinks and a decent vegetarian food selection.

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And a real treat is the miniature railway in the grounds which gives an excellent ride through the woods - and was open today.

the good the bad and the totally fucking stupid ...

Everyone in Bristol should be very proud of yesterday's event, when a group of local people defied the police - including foreign officers imported from Wales - and told Tesco's that it wasn't wanted in Stokes Croft.

Stokes Croft is a Bohemian and forward-looking community in Bristol. It's a place of small local shops and sustainable initiatives. Yet multinational hippy supermarket Tesco decides it's the ideal location for one of its useless Express supermarkets. No need to ask the locals, what's it got to do with them?

So yesterday they paid the price. Decent Bristolians went out on a sultry evening and told Tesco's exactly what the community really thinks of them. The police, duffers that they are, totally misunderstood what was going on and decided to randomly strike out at locals looking on. What a chance for the Welsh to have a go at the English.

But of course what happened is that the heavyhandedness of the outsiders was splashed all over the media. Local heroes have ensured that  not only will Tesco's NEVER open a shop in Stokes Croft but, hopefully, as a result of this sharp learning curve will NEVER do the same anywhere else.

Does this mean that all supermarkets are bad? Of course not! Here in Hartcliffe Morrisons opened a new store in a very run down part of the area giving locals a good place to shop, where most of us can walk to, and providing dozens of jobs in the area. They didn't take trade from anywhere else (apart from the ASDA in Whitchurch) and certainly nobody in Hartcliffe opposed it.

Of course in the long term all supermarkets will fail as the oil runs out, but hopefully the building itself will find a new role in the future, perhaps as an indoor market and bring and take centre.

And as for Tescos in Stokes Croft? Well this is what one of their spokespeople said (probably a 23 year old middle class prefect who seriously believes he'll be driving an electric car in 20 years' time) - 'we'll defy local resentment and reopen the supermarket'.

No you won't you hippy twat! 'Cos if you try the WHOLE of Bristol will chace you back to fucking London!

barricades ...

Seething. There is some socialist dinosaur twat scumbag currently whingeing on about how it's the workers in the country who create the wealth, not the entrepreneurs. We should bring the gallows back for these maniacs.

This is of course a response to the disgraceful scenes in London where some scumbag prats have got it into their tiny brains that Fortnum and Masons is a legitimate 'target' for their 'protests'. This is because in their middle class world anyone who is not a lifelong student and member of the Socialist Workers' Party is some elitist, Eton-educated git.

Alongside the dinosaur was a very sound fellow who bore an uncanny resemblance to Paul Whitehouse and made the BRILLIANT point that if we (that is mainly the public service workers) continue to pay ourselves for doing fuck all we are stealing money from our kids and their kids. This should have shut the lefty up but of course it went through one ear and out the other two.

I am proud to say that I attended both the Poll Tax events in the 80s. But I went because I DESPISED Thatcher and her socialistic policies. These fat, soft, tory scum that now go on protests are opportunist lowlifes of the idiocracy.

In this case we should have taken a leaf out of the soon-to-be-late Colonel's book and GUNNED the fuckers down!

fool prices

(Copyright Steve Sainsbury Collection/Rail Thing)

George Osborne - yet another socialist trying to keep consumerism going. Pathetic. Why are British politicians so frightened to let the price mechanism determine the pace of the change from oil to renewables? Why keep subsidising gormless motorists rather than let the market dictate quicker pick up of mass transit development and change the amount we drive?

And what do you make of the BBC giving air time to idiots (of the conspiracy theory persuasion) whimpering that garages put up fuel by 1p a litre yesterday morning as if they had foreknowledge of what was probably the biggest surprise in the budget? What world do these dickheads live in and why do the BBC pander to them?

So the idiocracy continues to get ludicrously cheap petrol, still go for growth and still push their bullshit conspiracy theories.

Never have I felt so needed or wanted!

idiots

There's been a parade of idiots this week! A couple of days ago a group of real skanky humourless looking chavs took a petition to 10 Downing Street claiming that fuel prices were too high and would the government kindly subsidise their anti-social behaviour and spread its costs on to general taxation. Morons. Listen you fucks - petrol and diesel is incredibly CHEAP. Make the most of it because prices are going to skyrocket over the next decade and most of you will not be able to get fuel at ANY price. Get used to it.

Whilst here in Bristol a bunch of equally chav dinosaurs were celebrating our spineless council's pathetic attempt at keeping the past going by authorising a new Sainsbury's supermarket. The chavs are some football team supporters who seem to think that this is a green light to build a new stadium. Miles from the railway!!

The best thing about Ashton Gate is that it has its own railway station, currently unused but easy to reopen (it's on what will be the extremely busy and profitable Portishead line) which is obviously Sainsbury's main criteria for grabbing this site at a knock down price. Not that supermarkets have a long term future, but it may keep customers coming for a few more years after oil, and will of course make it easy to bring in fresh stock.

All in all a bit of an anachronistic week!

the war on bullshit

Yes, this blog gets a new name yet again, but I reckon this will be the last one!

There is a theme in most of what I write, and pretty much a life theme too. I HATE bullshit. Whether it's lying christians, multi-level-marketing, meat eaters, politicians, socialists, Ufologists, cowards, racists, smokers, the BNP and a horde of other morons, I'm sick of them all. And from now on this site will attack every bit of bullshit I come across, whether in real life or on the news.

So use it. I'll try to post every day, I promise. Have stuff on students, multi-level-marketing and 'Chrsitmas' in the pipeline. Please feel free to comment!

the wisdom of students ...

This is a true story. You won't believe me but it's no less true for that!

University Plymouth, this week. Question by lecturer - 'Who believes in global warming'. A sea of hands obviously goes up. But just to be naughty he then asks 'Who doesn't believe in global warming?' A few hands go UP!

Now remember, these are students - they are supposed to be reasonably informed and intelligent. And they are on a travel and tourism course, one of the areas already affected by global warming. WTF??

A simple fact - you can't 'believe' or 'not believe' in global warming. Global warming is happening. Climate change happens nearly all the time. Nobody disputes it. All scientists agree it is happening. So you can't 'believe' or 'not believe' it - it's a simple, recordable, scientifically proven FACT.

Where there's dispute is in the level of global warming caused by human action. Common sense suggests, and scientific records prove, that as carbon dioxide increases so do global temperatures. But the earth circles the sun in an orbit that changes over long periods of time. Movement of continents also change ocean currents. Volcanic activity can drop the temperature, pollution can mask levels of temperature rises. How much climate change is caused by human activity? That's the question.

What's scary is that despite the facts a proportion of even educated people haven't got it. I know it's not nice having to deal with it, and their lives will be a lot harder than ours were, but hiding from it won't make it go away. Idiots.

halloween

Halloween is the most important time of the year for Pagans, even more so than Yule. We had a huge party here last night and have had a procession of trick or treaters this evening. This is becoming a big thing even for non-Pagans. It is of course our New Year's Eve too.

Bristol's the gateway to the most Pagan part of the UK but even here there's still a vestigal christian influence, trying to ruin everything British as usual. The Bristol Evening Post actually had a poster to put in your window saying 'Trick or Treat NOT welcome here'. Total twats. They did redeem themselves a little by running a spoof letter from 'Vic Veritas' (obviously a Pagan!) saying that kids dressing up are flirting with satanism (despite 'Satan' being a christian, NEVER a Pagan god) and that children should instead dress as saints LOL!

battle of the blands

Most people live life at 10% of capacity. Everything they do is a shadow of reality. They never get out of their comfort zone, and they are rewarded accordingly.

You only live an infinite number of times. Why waste a single second of a single life?

Why do people accept the shit that's thrown at them? Why do they listen to crap music, eat bland food, drink Fosters, go to boring places on holiday, stay in crap jobs, stick in boring relationships, vote socialist, watch soap operas, just waste time? I don't get it - especially from the christian and atheist 'one-lifers'? If they think this is all they'll ever be why don't they just go for it? What exactly have they got to lose??

Ahhh ... come to our Hallowe'en party and see what REAL life's like!!

the dying gasps of thatcherism

A consumerist socialist paradise was what arch-twat Margaret Thatcher promised us in the 80s. Nobody had to work, we'd all have enough money for drink and the future would be just like the present. Nobody would need to think. We'd finally be one huge flock of sheep, and scum like her would lord it over all of us.

But it depended on a certain amount of economic activity. Not real work of course, that built communities and gave people individual power. Socialists like Thatcher hated both, they were a threat to her.

A lot of my readers weren't even born when this vile pointless sow ruined the country. Ignoring reality she fell deeper and deeper into her utopian socialist fantasy and tried to bring us down with her.

Soon Idiot Blair was singing from the same hymn sheet, treating us all as stupid and expendable. He quite sincerely set the start of the new millennium as 1 January 2000 (01/01/00) rather than the genuine date of 1 January 2001 (01/01/01) becuase we wouldn't understand that!!

Easy credit and an engineered house price bubble kept us quiet, made us think we were better off than we were. Decline set in everywhere, but we felt we'd never had it so good.

Thatcherism taught us all that we didn't need to work. My Thatcher years were spent signing on through the winter and then spending the summers in the south of France and the Swiss Alps. I doubt my life was a lot different from most peoples. Of course Thatcherism taught us all the little tricks that keep the tax-free income coming in. Poll Tax taught us that we could comfortably avoid paying tax - did you ever meet anyone that had actually paid it?

Then bastard son Tony Blair kept at it, telling people to go to uni to learn stuff that may have been useful in the twentieth century but would be meaningless in an energy-poor twenty first.

A load of wankers ... and they're still at it.

But at last the world is catching up. Soon there'll be big cuts. Everyone will have to actually search for productive work, real work, making things, offering real services, building real communities. Dole money, sickness benefit, pensions, all will wither and die. You'll save for a house, and much more. You'll travel on foot, bike, horse, tram and train. The roads will crumble and be converted to footpaths, bridleways, cycleways and tramways. Culture will be more locally based. Business will be real, capitalist enterprises, not subsidy junkie jokes, wasting resources, there just to 'employ' people.

Soon Thatcher herself will be dead, and after the celebrations we'll all be getting down to work.

cassandra time ...

From the excellent Whiskey and Gunpowder people ...

How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Turmoil

I was in Paris recently, in a park near the Louvre museum enjoying a lazy summer day. I wasn’t the only one with such a great idea, there were probably a few hundred others enjoying the sunshine — children playing football, kissing lovers entwined on the grass, businessmen on a lunch break…

You can imagine my surprise when I looked up and saw a squad of French infantry troops on patrol through the park, brandishing assault rifles at the ‘ready’ (essentially holding the weapon in a fire position with index finger over the trigger).

The only thing missing to complete the picture would have been Taliban forces and the Afghan countryside.I was shocked at the display, wondering what possible threat could necessitate sending infantry troops through one of the world’s most peaceful city parks. Even more, though, I was shocked that no one else seemed to be shocked.

This sort of security charade has become commonplace. Ridiculous and unnecessary shows of force are simply accepted in today’s world; our governments blame faceless, conceptual enemies like ‘terrorism’ and have convinced everyone that such measures are for the common good.

Think about it — when taking public transportation or patronizing public buildings, how many times do you see signs or hear announcements that start with, “Ladies and gentlemen, for the safety and security of all passengers…”

This wasn’t the case 10-years ago. If French troops went marching through Paris in 2000, the whole city would have gone nuts. In fact, consider many of the other ways that the world has changed so drastically over the past 10-years:

The endless War on Terror and the rise of police states around the world

Elimination of any semblance of financial privacy

The bursting of four major bubbles — stocks, credit, derivatives, property

Developing nations’ increasing economic dominance

The end of America’s economic and diplomatic primacy

The greatest global economic decline since the Industrial Revolution

Rising world population coupled with food and water shortages

Loss of confidence in major institutions: government, banks, corporations

The growing, addict-like social dependency on technology

Central planning in the world’s most “free” economies Lying there on the grass in Paris hoping to not get clipped by a negligent discharge, I started thinking about the boiling frog.

The allegory illustrates that when you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, he immediately senses danger and jumps out. When you put him in cool water and slowly bring it to boil, the frog won’t sense danger until it’s too late.

The changes over any decade are remarkable, but what’s happening now is vastly different. In the next ten years through this period of dramatic change, your country, your business, your neighborhood will look nothing like they do today.

In the past, the world ran on a system of endless debt and consumption; everyone played a part. Students would rack up huge debt at university and in turn enslave themselves immediately to corporate jobs in order to service the debt.

Social reinforcement was a powerful mechanism, encouraging people to indebt themselves further through mortgages, car loans, and credit cards. Conspicuous consumption became a social tradition, and corporate profits surged as people filled their McMansion garages with useless imported trinkets.

For those who got in early and played by the rules, the system was very generous. In exchange for unwavering trust in the system and continued indebtedness, people were rewarded with large salaries, excellent standards of living, soaring investment returns, home price appreciation, health benefits, and generous retirement plans.

In fact, the baby boomer generation, which rode the bulk of this tide, is the most prosperous generation to have ever existed in the history of the world.

Little by little, though, this system has been changing. We have spent decades living in a period of unsustainable fiscal irresponsibility. The crisis is accelerating and the consequences are now being realized.

These economic consequences will drive future political decisions, geopolitical tensions, social stability, demographics, crime rates, resource availability, immigration policy, police activity.

They will even affect the reliability of our infrastructure, utility grids, and food transportation networks, leading to a significant reduction in standard of living for hundreds of millions of people.

Undoubtedly, we have entered what I consider to be the Age of Turmoil — a time that is marked by exceptionally rapid change and fluctuating crises.

Many people will resist the change and instead cling desperately to the old system — the cycle of debt and consumption that provided jobs, stability, and prosperity. These people will have their lives turned upside down because that system is gone forever.

The game as we know it is being reset, and the new rules have not yet been written. For those who are well prepared, this is a time not of fear, but of once in a century opportunity. During this rough period, the die shall be cast for generations. Fortunately, we can see what’s coming and there is still a bit of time to act.

The action required is the same as always - get hold of gold and silver, buy land, buy seeds and hand tools, reorientate your life so you don't depend on others, learn good, solid skills that will be needed in the future - carpentry, plumbing, building, tram driving, teaching, nursing etc. And become useful to your community. Anything less and you may well be signing your own death warrant.

china twats

China should be proud that one of its own has just received a Nobel Prize. So do they fete him, push him towards the world's press, shower him with awards, make him an ambassador for their country?

No, these communist twats JAILED him. For eleven years!! For advocating democracy.

And they even had the gall to suggest to the Nobel prize committee that he shouldn't be honoured.

For fuck's sake!

I'll be skipping sweet and sour this week in protest ...

moscow tops 38 degrees - C!

The heatwave in Russia and Finland has broken many records. Both Finland and Moscow have broken their all time temperature records, and this heatwave has been going on for a month.

Back in February Bristol had a cold snap with plenty of snow.

This local weather event, hardly unusual for February, brought out a magnificent rant from 'John of Whitchurch' who very boldly asserted that because it was snowing (in February) there couldn't be global warming!

So where is John of Whitchurch now? Surely the heatwave in Russia just as obviously proves the existence of global warming as the cold snap in the UK disproved it? Or does he have different parameters when things go against him?

Frankly, the man is a twat. NOBODY claims that global warming isn't happening, the only argument is that it is difficult to ascertain how much of it is due to human activity. And the point of global warming is in the name - GLOBAL warming. Local weather events mean nothing, it's the global mean temperature (which nobody disputes is rising) that is the important thing.

So is the heatwave in Russia and Finland proof of global warming? Or course not, no single weather event proves anything - except that John of Whitchurch is a left wing wanker supreme!