and the devil went to georgia... c/o : hesq.,

And the devil went to…

well well my sweet friend world, what is it that i see as i look out from the window pane., what do i see through the rain falling or the shining sun., what i see is rarely the truth, for that is always hidden, misted over with lies and fabrications... in the modern world of politics "lies" have been rebranded as "spin"; just as "propeganda" was rebranded "P.R." or "public relations" by the legendary master of deception and manipulation, Edward Bernays., see http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html for the full text of Propeganda (1928) by Bernays (the book that shot him to both infamy and big bucks...)., so truth is something that we must seek out between the lines, but once on the trail of it the lies and misinformation become laughable in their hollow translucence, ah, thank Buddha for the gift of sight, not seeing which eyes give us, but sight, which is how we see the truth amongst all the rest of things, half truths and lies litter the pathways of our sight but still the truth is as a beacon. More often than not the truth is also simpler than the misinformation. For instance, over the last few weeks and years the UK population has been persuaded that, despite appearances, the Labour Government is a socialist one, it is, the people are told, a Socialist movement, a true Labour goverment, albeit a New Labour government, but ultimately, a traditional Labour government. Now, particularly within the field of politics it is bad for the health to split hairs (just ask the deceased Dr. Kelly about that one...), however, in this case it is not hairs being split. The so-called Labour government is Not a socialist government. Now, the spin (for "spin" obviously read "media-accepted-lies") dictate to us that it is a Socialist movement, fighting for the people, for the poor and the socially emancipated; and if anyone got another impression they are mistaken, oh pardon my French, in the Politically Correct NewSpeak, truth-seeingly-challenged... What a load of horseshite, and i mean fox hunting style horse shite, not that poor stallion stabled by the London-Edinburgh train line in a tiny paddock that screams every time a train goes past at record breaking speeds... Most recently we have seen the true colours of the government of the UK. Gordon Brown has increased the taxes on the poorer parts of society while at the same time lending something in the region of £50 billion to the banking sector. So Gordon Brown and his Labour government have lent the banking sector somewhere in the region of £50 billion – and we can’t be sure as to the exact amount because the government refuses to tell the tax payers the truth… Now, it seems that a very important point has been forgotten in all this, namely that the government exists to SERVE its people, that means if the people want to know where their tax money is going they should be told straight out, and if the government refuses to tell them, then it would be NO moral crime to refuse to pay any more taxes until they do. The government in the UK seems to forget that Taxes are Not obligatory. The government does everything in its power to make people think that they are, but they aren’t, and that’s just that. It’s simple. You see already the Truth is so much easier than all the lies.
With regards the relationship between a government and the people there exists what is often called a “social contract”. This means that there exists a deal between the governed and those who govern. If either of the those two parties defaults on the deal the deal is off. The deal can roughly be summed up as being; the governed obey the laws of the land, i.e. pay their taxes, don’t steal murder or commit treason, give some of their children to die in the armed forces and so on; while the Governing classes are obliged to tell the truth about what they are doing and basically seek to serve and benefit the populace that elected them. When this does not happen the social contract is Off, and no obligation remains to obey the rules set down in the metaphorical contract.
Well, when a government gets itself elected as a Labour government, then proceeds to finish off the Trade Unions, increase taxes on the poorest in society while offering untied loans of tens of billions of pounds to the banking sector (the same sector who has through fast and easy debt establishment made some of the poorer in society yet poorer and even sadder poor for life…) then somewhere along the lines that government has deceived its people. One of the most tenants of democracy is freedom of information and thought. Obviously if the government is LYING again and again to its own people it is undermining this most basic tenant of any functioning democracy.
It is a fact that the average council (i.e. localised government) spends over one million pounds a year on Publicity. If you add that up around the whole country that’s a lot of dollar… That publicity is in effect an attempt to counter balance the negative press the government gets from being caught out lying, it’s an attempt to regain trust (one of the things Brown said on coming into power, we need to get back the people’s trust in politics, well, that’s easy to do, stop Lying to the people, stop Stealing from the people, just stop deceiving your own electorate and over time they learn to trust their government once more…) but it doesn’t work. Just as no one in real life is really fooled by that poster in the Human Resources Dept that reads “we’re here to help” no one is going to believe a politician who is constantly being caught out both Lying and Stealing while in a public office when he says, no honestly, you can trust us Now…
It all comes down to the question of what kind of society we want. And the answer to that question lies with the people and not with the governments. The governments exist to serve the people, this cannot be emphasized enough. One argument that is often given against this point is that people do not know what is best for them. This can only be true if the education they receive is second rate. The answer is simple : increase education as a priority in our society. As sad as it may be, in our society, importance and priority are rewarded by the $ . Given this, one may wish to ask why a private in the army receives a higher wage from the government than an NHS nurse. It should be that the answer is a soldier is more valuable to society than a nurse. Do we really feel that a hired killer is more valuable than one who is hired to heal? If so, perhaps there is not much hope. But personally I cannot believe this. The answer is more along the lines that a soldier can make more money for the government than a nurse. Don’t feel that a nurse does not increase the GDP of a country. Obviously by keeping folk alive they work longer and pay more taxes, produce more wealth and in production increase output and thereby GDP quite directly. Also, anyone earning is consuming and this also generates vast wealth. The soldier however, and an entire army, can be thought of as a mercenary force. When profitable they will be sent to a particular region under any politically suitable guise and used to reap the rewards nationally. N.B. how the corporations of America have benefited from the offensive campaign in the Middle East, not only the defense industry but the logistics industries too. Bottom line : it’s big bucks. Bottom line : any competitive economy only Needs so many well educated people…


To return to the original point; Gordon Brown has lent at least £50 billion of tax payers’ money to a group of people who have of late been exposed as having, among other things, cheated the charity system (think of Northern Rock's comedy Granite tax free scheme based in Guernsey) and given huge pay offs to executives who have fucked it up as well as profit from their scabby mortgage schemes - carefully designed to rip off the under-educated working classes... (just for instance the sub-prime mortgages...)... Well, thanks Gordon, you sociopathic fascist, what exactly is it that you have in mind? Is it a job like Tony’s got now that is really causing you to fuck the British populace up the @$$ with your metaphoric £ock..? Well thanks anyway you lying scumbag... I have never personally had any contact with Gordon Brown the man, but one story i was told in Edinburgh of his student days really stuck. Apparently he had bet with a local in a small pub on a game of darts they were playing. When he lost the game he refused to pay up, at which point the pub local broke his nose... Well, it's a damn pity he didn't break his neck... but seriously now, it wouldn't have made any difference since he would only have been replaced by some equally uninspiring and insipid little robo-politician, as bland and completely devoid of true good or moral character as this slug that we have in power right now... and the Labour Spin (for Spin read Lies...) machine can tell the UK public till its blue in the face that it is a socialist movement but it just won't wash, well, except the whole blue in the face thing because to be fair the Labour party are Bluer than the Tories these days...(that was a smart move : to out-maneuver the opposition party, just become more right wing than they are, beat them at their own game, perfectly souless example of Spin at work...)... Well, after another pointless political rant, what next..? Action. That is what must be next if we are to honest with ourselves. The political machine in the UK has such a tight grip on the media that any kind of wide spread information campaign is impossible. This doesn't mean to say that the proliferation of the Truth is worthless, it just means that we cannot rely on it completely to solve all things. So, action remains. Though obviously Action too is subject to a media translation. When people peacefully protest on the streets they are branded extremists, in fact, various members of the Muslim community in the UK have faced criminal charges and even prosecution due to their saying the wrong things, speaking out against a fundamentally racist society (remember that the BNP are legitimate political party who preach “no immigrants” and “send them home” and “white is right”…), while when the leaders of the UK consistently LIE (and are proved to do so) about the reasons and justifications for the invasion of a sovereign nation (which was, by the way, illegal under international law) we are told that God is on our Side... well, if that's the case he ain't no god of mine... however in this department there is at least hope, for there is a certain movement now in the international legal circles to bring to international tribunals certain key figures in this aggression to war crimes tribunals... (as an aside, note that this did not occur until it seemed as though the economies of the offending nations were going down the pan, yes, the bed pan not the frying pan... i.e. they are going to shit...). In fact, i have to confess that only the other night i awoke in the midst of a wet dream (rated by the UK censorship board as an 18 and over...) in which George Bush was fleeing to Venezuela seeking political asylum... jesus, he'd have less luck than the damned Nazis... which kind of puts things into perspective. Oh, i just can't resist the parallel, as George W. Bush got into power less legally than Adolf Hitler... ah shit, how to spin that one.? ah, i know, get your brother to count the deciding votes... which is something i never understood about the Democrats, how they never really made a fuss about having the election stolen from them, how they never really mentioned much since the event that they were the rightful party to power... unless... they were in on it too, and were paid off, Nigeria style... no couldn’t be, although looking at the recent democrat race for nominee it does seem tenable… oh sorry, we're straying like rabid dogs off the point here... the point was, what to do about this. well, what to do is boycott the shites, boycott all major stores, all chains, all fast food retailers, all high street shops without exception. buy all your clothes from charity shops, or better yet, learn to make them yourself, boycott all supermarkets and buy your foods directly from farmers markets until your own crops have grown, give up all jobs and employments that support the heartless machine of the cities, and that means giving up all jobs that make nothing except profit, take out as many loans from the banks and legalized loan sharks as possible with no intention of ever paying them back and what’s more don't pay them back, or better yet, go into work one last time and trash the whole fucking joint before you leave laughing that you are no longer subject to the total bullshit that has gone so far as to be near on a total war against humanity conducted by those who feel themselves to be above it - it's the old "mirror mirror, on the wall, who's the (INSERT APPROPRIATE FLATTERY) of them all..." syndrome... yes that's what we need to do, but hey, gee wiz, that's only if you actually give a fuck about it all... otherwise, enjoy it, and keep reading the newspapers you fucking idiot...

the devil goes to georgia... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qepv1mtYdx0 .

(oh yea, shit, i know, youtube is a scumbag corporation making money out of advertising revenues... ah, but i so nearly had a point...)

from the sports desk.,

hesq.,