Vote as you will, but he gets the money.

David Cameron won the latest debate, according to the polls. Nick Clegg ran in a fairly distant second and the hapless Gordon Brown trailed in last again. None of them fully explained how the deficit will be cut, all of them agreed immigration should be controlled but won’t admit they have no means to control it and all three warned the coming years will be “tough”.

Cameron blasted Brown about his tax on jobs, Brown warned Cameron’s policies were a danger to the alleged recovery and Clegg wondered why everyone couldn’t just get together and work things out.

Shall I stop now? Because we’ve heard all this before, haven’t we? We heard it in the first debate and then again in the second. We’ve heard it over and over in the scripted party messages and in the rehearsed sound bites carefully designed to avoid any and every question.

You have a week to choose which brand you prefer to deliver your tax increases and cut the services those taxes are supposed to pay for. In the “tough” times ahead your taxes will instead be used to fund the huge ransom paid to the banks that has effectively bankrupted this nation. In reality this is nothing new.

Meanwhile, outside the media tent, Greece is being buried and Portugal, Spain and Ireland are receiving the last rites. The same credit rating agencies that committed breathtaking fraud by gold plating the toxic debt created by the money lenders are trusted, without a murmur, to sign the death warrants of entire nations. The hateful pan-European socialist nightmare is staggering and threatening to fall, potentially taking 400 million people with it.

So which of the three great men will you endorse on May 6th? Which do you feel is best qualified to race to the rescue and throw this catastrophic global crisis into reverse?

Will it be the Tory who wants to count the paper clips and Post-It notes? Or the fake Liberal who wants to integrate completely with the European disaster? Or will it be the prudent man who has steered us to where we are today?

In which order will the British public arrange the deck chairs?

Eventually we will have change. It will either come in a controlled manner or as a series of uncontrollable and cascading calamities. The latter is inevitable if we return to office the same characters that have lead us to the brink. All of them claim our situation is some sort of grand accident brought about by incompetence and carelessness in the City of London and on Wall Street. If true, if these politicians really couldn’t read the flashing red warning signs then why should we believe they are suddenly qualified to rescue us now?

These questions are never asked, certainly not in historic election debates. If you look beyond the stage show though, some people are discussing the real and looming issues.

David Hale said Governor Mervyn King had said the measures would keep whoever wins the next election “out of power for a whole generation” – BBC, Bank of England governor ‘warned of tough times’

Is this why we are preparing for a hung parliament? So that no one party will have to carry the can for what is coming? Is this why the Liberal Democrats are suddenly in the mix?

Money lenders took control of our economy a long time ago. They control the money supply and the interest rates charged on the money they create from thin air to lend to the government in exchange for the labour and tangible assets that rightfully belong to the people of this country. This isn’t even a secret and can easily be discovered by anyone who bothers to look.

Politicians have colluded with the money lenders for centuries. Several great historical figures have attempted to contain the power of the usurers to varying degrees of success, but the cancer has always returned and now has spread to every nation on the planet and we are seeing the inevitable results.

The three “honest” men who want your vote have decided not to discuss this with you because they believe you are too stupid to grasp the reality or may lynch them if you discover the truth.

You are intelligent enough to understand that debt can never be money nor can credit provide sustainable prosperity. When expressed in the economic gobbledygook preferred by those who hope to keep you ignorant our economy may seem complex. But in plain English you surely know that using your credit card to consume beyond your means invariably results in bankruptcy.

These three debates are nothing more than a continuation of the great lie and regardless of the choices made on May 6th this will end in bitter tears.

Life is like a crate of chocolate!

So says John Prescott, ex-deputy leader of New Labour and recently some guy on a bus who also writes paranoid fantasies in the Guardian.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Labour along comes Prescott committing his trademark error, opening his fat mouth. Not content with stuffing £4,500 of food down it, courtesy of the British taxpayer, he now wants us to believe Gordon Brown is the victim in this hilarious tragedy.

Honestly though, what an arse the man is. I didn’t hear him complaining when Murdoch threw his weight behind the New Labour project in 1997. And I must have missed his impassioned speeches about the sinister surveillance state his buddies have subjected us all to. Invasion of privacy only becomes an issue when his mates are in the spotlight.

Well, if Gordon Brown “has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear”, wouldn’t you say? Isn’t that the message New Labour pushed as it marched from one rights violation to the next?

Using dirty tricks to gain ratings and political influence? Who would do such a thing, I wonder? The hypocrisy is astounding.

What Murdoch’s Sky News did today was just as bad as his paper’s phone-hacking. It was a breach of privacy. It was underhand. And it was done in the pursuit of ratings and political influence. – John Prescott, Bigot ‘gaffe’ is nothing but a Murdoch plot

Sorry John but even though I agree your ex-buddy Murdoch is a monstrous shit, on this occasion I have to disagree with your paranoid delusions. It appears even your die-hard and never-learn supporters feel the same way judging by their comments on your article.

It wasn’t Rupert Murdoch who smiled into Gillian Duffy’s face one minute and then insulted her when her back was turned. It wasn’t James Murdoch’s job to check for hot mics. And it isn’t Andy Coulson’s hand that has steered Labour’s campaign from one incompetent disaster to the next.

This stew has been cooked by a failed party that has failed the nation and is running a failed campaign and will soon be flushed down the drain by a fed-up electorate. Murdoch simply served your own mess up on a platter. Maybe you can ask Mandy to slap a Sky News guy around in the next press conference?

Tuck in but try to keep the bill down this time. In case you haven’t heard New Labour’s disastrous economic policies have left us all seriously short of cash.

After the feast perhaps we can enjoy a little poetic justice. Only yesterday I wondered how Labour’s nauseating “cancer” smear would pan out in the long run. Cheap ratings and political influence indeed.

Will this be the absolute low point in their frighteningly incompetent and morally bankrupt campaign? Or can they go lower? I’m betting the latter and have another political cliché at the ready, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” – Me, yesterday (LOL)

Just desserts are being served and aren’t they just delicious?

Remember me?

It would seem logical, considering we’re on the verge of the next election, to review all thirteen catastrophic years under this authoritarian and warmongering government. But even the opposition parties can’t seem to bring themselves to look in Blair’s direction.

You can understand why the Tories want to look the other way, they happily played along with Blair’s horrendous invasion and sat on their hands as the dire consequences unfolded.

But what of the Liberal Democrats? They’ll tell you all day long they didn’t officially vote for the war but what action did they take to try to prevent it? What did they do after the bombs started falling to put an end to the carnage? The answer is nothing at all.

Thousands of private individuals, at their own time and expense, have tried to bring Blair to justice so he can answer for his crimes against humanity. People have petitioned, attempted citizens arrests, lobbied MPs, written blogs, produced videos.

In the end though, if there is no political will to see justice applied to the powerful in society, just as it is routinely meted out to the common man, what can be done to make killers like Blair answerable for his actions? Nothing much, shout until you are purple with rage but it achieves nothing because the establishment has decided not to listen.

If the Liberal Democrats were genuinely opposed to the illegal war then where were they when they were needed most? Safe behind Westminter’s barricades, preaching loudly but practising none of it.

This is the signature of a minority party that stands to lose little by taking a popular view that runs contrary to the agenda of the state. Their trivial gamble has now paid off as they cynically parade themselves as the anti-war choice. It’s sickening.

So today we witness a Labour Party that desperately wants us to forget, Conservatives who know they’ll be dragged down by association and a bunch of Lib Dem opportunists who are happy to offer a sound bite but aren’t so keen to discuss the finer details.

This election campaign has been condensed to two issues, taxation and cuts in public services. Both arising from economic policies that all three parties watched unfolding, much like the carnage in Iraq.

The parties don’t want to go into detail on the “approved” issues either. They won’t tell you how much they’re going to tax you in return for providing less. In fact none of them want to speak about anything much at all.

That’s because, when you peel back the media filter, they are all guilty of failing the British public and refusing to represent our interests over those of the warmongers and the banksters. They all sat and fiddled expenses and turned a blind eye as Britain fell into ruin and Iraq and Afghanistan burned.

These charlatans want your vote on May 6th. Close your ears to their lies, close your eyes to the staged debates and instead use your mind. And remember, remember, because that’s what they fear the most, your memory. Your realisation of how corrupt and deceitful they truly are.

Then take a cold, hard look at the state of this nation and where we are headed if we, as a people, don’t put a stop to this once and for all.

Gordon Brown and his New Labour collective have a pungent new message. If you vote Tory in the coming general election you’ll die of cancer. That’s fine, now we can breathe some life back into that old cliché by proudly proclaiming, “I wouldn’t vote Labour, even if my life depended on it!”

Will this be the absolute low point in their frighteningly incompetent and morally bankrupt campaign? Or can they go lower? I’m betting the latter and have another political cliché at the ready, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”

There will be a lot of sniggering behind the scenes in the class hate energised ranks of the socialist war machine. “LOL, that’ll learn them Tory toffs, that’ll piss ‘em off, watch ‘em squeal at that one!”

Ho, ho, very funny guys but let’s just wait and see how this plays out in the longer term.

Here we go then, New Labour, New Low, scraping the scum from the bottom of the very last barrel. Be warned, it’s desperate stuff.

How now, Brown clown?

Mark Sweney in the Guardian reports, “The broadcast will attempt to shift the focus towards policy and away from personality, in line with Labour’s attempt to refocus election coverage away from the televised debates.”

Yes, you read that correctly, Labour will be engaging in fiction and focusing on another party’s policies as a scare tactic rather than taking its own record and manifesto to the British people. Yawn, change the record (if only).

And they would rather you didn’t look too closely at the motley crew whose names they are asking you to put your mark against on May 6th.

For me, this speaks a great deal about character (or total lack of it) so I’m not sure their plan to distract the voters from the grubby villains who have spent thirteen years dragging this nation into the gutter is a sure-fire winner. If anything viewers are more likely to end up seeing straight through this “cunning stunt.”

It smacks of desperation. A failed party of catastrophically failed policies running a failed campaign. And it clearly demonstrates the level of contempt they have for the British public. A public Mandy and Ali believe can be conned one last time into making a dreadful mistake it’ll have to live with for another half decade at least.

It also tells us where we are today with modern politics. It’s show business, devoid of substance where the actors no longer bother to pretend the drama is factual.

Welcome to the circus. On the left you can marvel at a little fat man being beaten senseless by two environmentally friendly toffs. On the right a little fat man will amaze you with chillingly spiteful prophecies drawn from a crystal ball. In the centre is Rupert the Media Clown who will lead you to your seats and wire you up. But you don’t get the price of admission until after the show when you attempt to leave.

What a joke. We don’t even get to throw stuff at them any more. I want my money back – all of it. And I want these clowns gone for good.

What Would Jesus Do?

“Hello Mr Voter, Frank isn’t it? I’m here to help. Pick an issue, Frank. Any issue. Whatever you choose, I agree with you Frank!”

“In fact, Frank, I’ll go one better, I’ll pick the issues for you. You don’t even need to speak, Frank. I’ll tell you what you are interested in, Frank. Moving forward, putting the past behind you, getting on with your life. Isn’t that right Frank? You want to forget, don’t you? Frank.”

Indeed wasn’t it Frank who asked if the parties could cooperate in a coalition? Whoever set that one up – comedy genius! Watching the three tossers plunge into a cat fight in response was certainly the high point of the evening.

Everything else was the low point.

The message is, you only have three choices. There are no alternatives to the mainstream. You’re getting taxed more come what may. The banksters are getting a slap on the wrist but keeping the keys to the vault. Europe here we come. Global warming, which is now termed climate change since the former was debunked, is here to stay. Nobody will be held to account for the grave war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes, we’re taking the Internet away. Nothing except the make-up is going to change.

If you think I’m being cynical, tell me – what did you hear tonight that filled you with enthusiasm? Were you promised a few quid in your pocket? Are you not up to speed on the global warming taxes coming your way in the next parliament? Trust me, whatever they have promised you will be more than wiped away.

They’re telling you the money is gone and you’ll have to pay the bills and at the same time you’re going to get better schools, a better health service, more cake, better circuses.

Do you buy any of this? Do you believe them? Who could voluntarily vote these guys back into office again to run (ruin) our lives? Why? What have we done to you that you’d injure us so?

David Cock, Slick Nick or Mr Pooh, take your pick. Juvenile? Well they’re treating us like children so silly names are the order of the day.

The poxy media. Who won? It’s a horse race, Clegg and Cameron are neck and neck, Brown has fallen at the first, and the second and the…

This is British politics. We’re doomed. I hate it. I can’t do anything about it. I could vote for an outsider, vote for nobody at all, spoil my ballot, run as a candidate. It makes no odds because it’s clear you can fool most of the people all of the time and in a democracy that’s all that counts.

Whoever ends up winning, the system is winning again. Even when they spend a decade rubbing our noses in shit we keep coming back for more.

I hate politicians.

Andrew Maguire is the story the BBC will not mention. Robert Peston is the BBC’s business editor and on his BBC blog Peston’s Picks he claims to offer his “take on the business stories and issues that matter.”

“Business stores and issues that matter” in this case of course refers to stories and issues that matter to Robert Peston and his fellow mainstream gatekeepers at the BBC. Anything else that might well be of critical importance to you, the general public, will never see the light of day.

Mr Peston’s blog is a typical mainstream filtering device. Corporations like the BBC rely on omission to ensure you are kept ignorant of or steered away from anything that runs contrary to the establishment agenda.

This agenda operates on many levels but is ultimately geared to protecting the interests of power and money. And, in the case of the BBC, it uses your money to do its anti-social work.

Some wonder, therefore, how it is possible to openly criticise the BBC and see your criticism printed. The BBC is a shield designed to deflect and absorb such criticism. The criticism is then used as evidence that organisations such as the BBC are honest and receptive to conflicting opinions. “Fair and balanced” as the notoriously unfair and unbalanced Fox News shamelessly boasts. It’s a clever trick and it works well.

But you will hit a brick wall of silence and censorship when you attempt to dig behind the issues and raise a wider perspective than is approved by the media gatekeepers.

Andrew Maguire’s revelations about fraud in the gold and silver futures market and the comprehensive proof he offered to the authorities that implicates JP Morgan Chase is a classic example of the mainstream media agenda at work.

The Andrew Maguire story has been gathering steam on the Internet for weeks now but the mainstream media has deliberately failed to notice. This story is important as it provides a link to other issues that have unavoidably broken into the mainstream, particularly the news that Goldman Sachs has yet again been charged with fraud for market manipulation.

The Maguire story connects dots, a practice long since extinct at the BBC. Goldman Sachs stand accused of manipulating the housing market prior to the crash of 2008. Will Hutton in his article in the Observer finally realises what has been obvious to many for years.

Hiding behind the complexities of our financial system, banks and other institutions are being accused of fraud and deception, with Goldman Sachs just the latest in the spotlight. This has become the most pressing election issue of all – Will Hutton, Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn’t a mistake – it was a con, The Observer, Sunday 18 April 2010

Well done Will, so will you follow this up to ensure it really does become an election issue? I think not. He’s right though, the banks have been stealing your money for ever. It’s the blue whale in the living room, because elephants just don’t measure up in size to the levels of the fraud we are discussing.

The mainstream media is playing a story about fraud in the housing market that discusses the same type of criminal activity detailed by Andrew Maguire in the evidence he submitted to the CFTC. Why is fraud committed two years ago a hot topic when fraud being committed today isn’t worth a mention? Who is drawing the bigger picture?

In 2009 Matt Taibbi aired all of Goldman Sachs’ dirty and blood-stained laundry in an epic article in Rolling Stone. It catalogues Goldman’s involvement in six major cases of deliberately creating financial bubbles and then profiting by collapsing them.

Does Robert Peston lack the necessary skills to do a Google search as he endeavours to offer his, “take on the business stories and issues that matter?” Is Will Hutton moving beyond the suggestion that tighter regulation is all that is required to control the banksters? He even hints the Lib Dems are ideally placed to come to the rescue. Since when have we heard Nick Clegg or the oracle Vince Cable even mentioning the banks’ perpetual debt machines that have sucked the blood from humanity through the ages?

No, a few new regulations here, a tweak there, a couple of scapegoats thrown into jail and all will be well and everyone can get back to business as usual. It’s called a limited hangout, you concede a little ground in order to disguise the fact you already own the pitch. It’s revealing the bare minimum in order to ensure the minimum fallout.

The banks can’t hide the massive scope of their misdeeds and nor can they hide the immense sum of money it has cost you. They think you are stupid but they know nobody is that stupid. So you get a few of the facts in isolation and they tell you what needs to happen next. The politicians parrot the same song and a consensus is constructed to which you’ll be invited to subscribe at pains of being branded a conspiracy theorist or general malcontent should you refuse.

The issues are very complicated, don’t you know? Far too complicated for you to understand. You need to leave it up to the Robert Pestons of this world to decide how much you ought to know and when you need to know it.

Please follow the links in this article. They’ll lead you on a path that Robert Peston hopes you will never tread. Then go back and read his blog and marvel at his footwork as he dances around the whale.

Andrew Maguire had the courage to step forward and expose corruption. When will the BBC have the courage to do the job we pay them handsomely to do?

Watch the following video closely. It shows Neda Agha-Soltan holding an unknown object in her hand as she lies on the ground apparently moments from death. She then moves her hand across her face and seconds later her face is covered in blood.

What of Dr. Arash Hejazi, who said he had been present during the incident but has since fled Iran out of fear of government reprisals?

At 19:05 June 20th Place: Kargar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father [sic, later identified as her music teacher] watching the protests was shot by a Basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than two minutes. The protests were going on about one kilometre away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gas used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.

His friend shoots the video, the doctor supplies the testimony to the western media and then he is gone.

Is this another case of Western propaganda designed to prime the viewing audience? How often does the media show people actually dying on our screens? Usually they are careful to protect our delicate western sensibilities. They might show us hazy Gameboy images of “terrorists” being “taken out” by missiles fired from heroes in helicopters. But nothing up close and personal in the way this woman’s death was presented.

Is this another baby incubator farce or a Jessica Lynch re-run? Another hysteria fuelled fake out? A prelude to massed tanks on the border?

Does anybody dispute the fact the Iranian government is a vile and oppressive instrument? I doubt it. Does anyone doubt the Iranian authorities reacted fiercely during the period of unrest? Can anyone not have sympathy for the victim? I think not. But given the amount of stories our media continues to fabricate can we take it for granted the events surrounding this woman’s death occurred as reported by our unworthy agencies such as the BBC and CNN? Why trust proven liars and propagandists? Much better to investigate their motives.

Could anything like this ever happen in the eternally virtuous west? Well, yes it could and yes it has and there doesn’t even need to be civil unrest on the streets. Any time a thug gets a gun there’s going to be a victim. But you need to make allowances for such acts of authoritarian thuggery, it’s all done to protect you. Remember?

Except when it happens in Iran. It’s okay to call it like it is or even embellish when “they” are doing it. But “us”, we never meant it, it was a mistake, here’s some money, go away, no public inquiry required. Close up video of “our mistakes?” Kidding me, right?

“It has been established that there has been a technical problem with the CCTV equipment on the relevant platform and no footage exists… Although there was on-board CCTV in the train, due to previous incidents, the hard drive had been removed and not replaced.

Never forget. Iran bad. West good. Iran bad, West good, Iran baaaaa-d, West good. Two legs baaa-baa-bad, Four legs good. Or is it the other way around? Or all the same and is anything true any more?

Ignorance is Bliss (David Shankbone)

Further, Americans live in a democracy and enjoy liberty. Americans worship a Christian God who is a God of love. Iranians are enslaved under a tyrannical and backward religion that is founded in violence.

Americans do good, they help police and protect the world, they liberate those who are enslaved. Iranians do evil, they sponsor terrorism and conduct secret programs to build weapons of mass destruction.

Americans live affluent lifestyles because they have worked hard to build a modern economy. They live in big houses with modern amenities. They drive luxury cars and wear fine clothes. Iranians are poor because their culture is medieval and their economy archaic.

Americans are intelligent and attractive, they are healthy and have great teeth. Iranians are simple folk. They are either old goat herders or young, indoctrinated terrorists. They dress in rags and funny headdress. They are dirty, unhealthy and have very poor teeth. And they speak a silly language and always have an AK-47 in their hands, even when they sleep.

And if I haven’t insulted your intelligence by now then I guess you watch a lot of western mainstream media. And I guess you’re wondering why I’m bothering to state the “obvious”.

For the rest of us there is grey space between the black and white. The documentary “Wake Up Call (2008)” lives in that grey space.

The film is a compilation of clips from several non-mainstream sources, spliced together by commentary or reflective messages. The format works well. The topics covered are diverse with each segment being informative enough to give an introduction to the subject. Credits to the original material are provided to allow for follow-on research.

Have a watch. Laugh at the parts you find incredible, think about the parts that ring true in the light of recent global developments. Perhaps the speakers don’t draw all the right conclusions or are a little hysterical in places but can you really say the circumstances being described are not real? Can you say those circumstances are not with us today?

It may have been possible to brush this material off very easily a decade ago, but the world has changed and is starting to look at least similar to the picture being painted in this film. Coincidence?

“Wake Up Call” is not a New World Order for Dummies guide. It’s a vehicle to encourage you to take a look at the world from a different perspective to the one being forced on you each day by the mainstream media. Watching it won’t hurt you, you don’t have to switch off at the first clip that doesn’t appeal – just wind forward. There’s something in there for everyone.

Watch through to the end to be rewarded by a great sequence taken from the animal kingdom. The clip tells us clearly that even the meek, if they cooperate, can conquer the mightiest predator. It gives us a hope that eventually, we will find our way.

UN council endorses nuclear curbs

The nations that currently hold the whip hand over the rest of the planet by retaining nuclear weapons whilst insisting nobody else develops them are nervous. Their ability to launch illegal wars and invasions with impunity has been threatened. Several of their potential victims have been attempting to build a meaningful deterrent to the rapacious advances of empire.

Take Iran, steady boys – I don’t mean literally. Iran can’t help but to have noticed the destruction of Iraq by overwhelming conventional (in most cases) force. If you recall, Iran is a nation that has the temerity to insist it retains control of its own national affairs. This automatically places it at odds with the empire.

Now Iran may or may not be developing nuclear weapons. There’s not a shred of proof to suggest the former, despite the most stringent of inspection regimes. But as we have seen, lack of evidence is no deterrent to imperial aggression.

America’s unruly stepchild Israel has repeatedly threatened Iran, from behind the security of its own undeclared nuclear arsenal. Unsurprisingly a nation that actually has waged extreme aggression against its neighbours and genuinely does engage in nuclear proliferation is not much of a concern to the chaps at the Security Council who claim to be gunning for world peace. Instead it is Iran, a nation with every justification to develop a deterrent given the circumstances, that is under the spotlight.

All the kings horses and all the kings men haven’t been able to pin anything credible on Iran in terms of identifying an active nuclear weapons program. With the blatant illegality of the invasion of Iraq still raw in the public mind, kicking off another atrocity without justification is a tough sell. Time to turn to the public relations team and where better than to stage the theatre than the UN Security Council?

Why not have all the main offenders get together and sing a song of peace? Russia, China, France, The UK and America, linked hand in hand for a rousing chorus of Kum Ba Yah. These are the nations who own all the weapons, bar an insignificant hand-full and excluding Israel that (shhhh!) isn’t showing and isn’t telling. These are the nations that have throughout modern history engaged in brutal wars, mainly against defenceless human beings. And this is the team that is bringing you world peace and will be slapping upstarts like Iran into their long-standing and apparently rightful status, subservient to the new world order.

The big hitters won’t be getting rid of all their weapons, mind you. They claim they will eventually but, given Gordon Brown has so far committed to a reduction of a single submarine by 2020, don’t go holding your breath.

Brown is having a tough time getting the British public to foot the bill for his new nuclear toys, at a cost of billions of pounds when we are all coming to terms with the banks having made off with the contents of our wallets. Brown has been lending the banksters a hand for the past decade and has also assisted the inequality drive by throwing away the nation’s gold and driving taxes on the average guy through the roof. People are getting sick of his demands so now he’s generously offered to cut his Christmas list. It’s the sort of offer that a Cameron, for the only example, might be grateful for, because it doesn’t really matter who’s in power provided the agenda of empire proceeds. You noticed that, right?

Put bluntly, if you had a pea shooter and had to go up against an adversary who was packing a suitcase full of guns, would you be more confident if your enemy tipped half the suitcase away? Would it make a difference?

Because politicians are liars and cheats and crooks and the most cynical and anti-social guys in the room, it’s easy enough to figure their sing-song at the UN is nothing more than an attempt to secure the supremacy of the empire and proliferate without causing too much of a fuss among the helpless and voiceless masses who pay the bills.

Or, I suppose, you could go with the theory that a massive change has really occurred. That’s what the BBC is reporting. Bwahhaha!