Coincidences may be just happenstance, or cosmic synchronicities, or, as Garrison said, that when coincidence piles on coincidence in a case, he knows he's looking at the evidence of an intelligence operation.
My breaks, upon my little bmx that I rode lo, those many years ago, were cut on the side of a hill, when I was but young. A bit of a puzzle, in fact, because there was nothing that could have cut them and, as anyone who has tried will know, cutting the break cables on a push bike isn't easily done. Obviously the intelligence services wouldn't have any interest in me, but conspiracies can be found closer to home too. I'm not suggesting, though, that I was intended as a Downardian pharmakos, although I've remarked before on the similarities of our lives.
9/11, which is to say 11/9/01, was the new Ethiop millenium. The Ethiopics have a peripheral but enigmatic role in history, home of Prester john, claimed home of the Ark of the Covenant and so forth. Obviously it was also the anniversary of the killing of that nice Mr Allende, not to mention the laying of the first stone of the Pentagon and the Bush I NWO speech and various other things.
The men who stare at goats - goats, that is, who were sacrificed to save solders. Through their use in medical training, admittedly, but still, another pharmakos perhaps.
Himmler's great chair redirects on wiki to a partially related article which never mentions the chair (which is currently on sale, it would seem). Not 100% sure what it's doing on this list, to be honest.
voynich kircher. Don't know what they means, but it sounds promising, doesn't it? Should have put a bit more on these notes. Athanasius and Meredith Kircher, probably.
A little thing, but there are caves under neith, a place in Wales, which have been linked to the Shaver mystery. The coincidence here being that the word is essentially "underneath". I believe Neath was also some sort of goddess of the underworld. Meh.
Buzz Aldrin was famously a 33rd degree Mason - Downard claimed one of the main aims of occultist Masonry was to bring prima materia to prima terra, which he interprets as the retrieval of moon rocks to the earth.
The ancients said the atlantic was blocked to shipping with mud, and that the land on the far side (America) worshipped Saturn. A veritable temple land for the usurped one. Not quite satan, but when one considers that Set, acknowledged to be etymologically and theologically related to Sathan/Satan, was also portrayed in the earliest Egyptian texts as the former ruler usurped by Horus (and at least one early dynasty Pharoah followed Set rather than Horus) it seems that they may be related more than just sounding similar. Of course Christianity doesn't portray Satan as usurped by God, but I dare say if the tale was told by the devil that's pretty much how it would sound. And americas destiny according to hall, of course. The special destiny. And why not, a land specially consecrated to the vengeful spectre of the filth of unholyness.
Mercury, the metal, is reportedly used in the transmutation of matter (Not the first, Andrew Tomas), the manufacture of hypothetical (or suppressed) room-temperature super-conductors and the manfuacture, according the ancient vedic texts, of vimanas (and according to those who claim to know, of alien space craft, see Alien Base by timothy Good which retails a claim that mercury and balsa wood will make you a nice interplanetary space craft.
The names Robin and Jack. Robin used for Goodfellow, Hood, and of course the caped crusaders masked companion, played in the TV series by notorious sex maniac Burt Ward. Jack used for Springheeled and The Ripper Jacks, not the mention as a synonym for a whore, the name of a porn mag (now defunct) and as another word for apprentice, a masonic rank, as in Jack of all trades. Oh, and there's a Jack in the deck of cards, one in each suit, the cards having an occultic origin.
Nottingham, supposedly for I don't believe this to be true, has six women for every man (according to news reports joking about the arrival of the footballer Sol Campbell, forgetting their former specualtions as to his sexuality). Used to be said to be five, when I was young. Senellocu, place of the caves, was the Welsh name for it back when there were Welshmen in these parts.
drew thornton 9/11/85. Another 9/11. "Company" man killed on this day.
Remember to tell yourself paedophiles don't run the world and this isn't a "paedophocracy". Malachi Martin, before his inevitable death, claimed the Vatican was secretly run by a "superforce", as he called it, of crooks who number amongst their perversions and criminal acts, paedophilia. I can believe the Vatican is behind paedophilia. Not so sure about the secretly part, mind. Malachi Martin, of course, was famous as an exorcist. Looking at Hopsciker's "big fix" we also find paedo vote fixing, with one of those dodgy vote-counting companies America is so fond of being run by a kiddie fiddler.
Tate, of manson family fame, dinner with rfk just before death and sirhan/manson cell sharing their specially made cell. Not at the same time, of course.
oswald landlady ruth paine and the 9/11 landlords - no-one follows the old dictum of following the money. An army marches on its stomach, but a covert op needs covert premises and logistical support.
The first US/Soviet co-production for the cinema was a version of Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, a story with mind control connotations, quite apart from the CIA having run a MK Project Blue Bird and Oswald having frequented a club called Bluebird. Another matter: Oswald was reputedly put into a behavioural modification centre during his time in Minsk. Perhaps The Blue Bird wasn't the only US/Soviet co-production.
trust in letters pages revealed by polls and dispatches reveal corruption of those pages by PRers.
911 domain names bought before 911, if i remember rightly.
delgado bull exp earlier than thought
tino de angelis - just like 9/11 those with knowledge in advance sought to make a profit on it. Not though psychotronic technology but throught the perfectly standard technique of the "bust out", as frequently chronicled by the illustrious Hopsicker.
Thursday, 1 October 2009
ghosts of mars
There is a film called ghosts of mars, featuring brain-dead pseudo-cockney action movie personage Jason Statham and former shape-shifting alien killer slut Natasha Henstridge as a pair of soldiers in a female dominated future martian society. I only mention it because it has formerly been suggested to me than John Carpenter's other movie, They Live, in which aliens take over the earth (although "maybe they've always been here") and attempt to wipe out those who see through their psychotronic materialistic delusions before being foiled by a pair of commando-killing construction workers who are then killed by a woman they had recruited as help but who was actually an infiltrator for the alienists and the human power elite, was a metaphor for the feminist subversion of civilised society. Never believed that myself, by someone may find it interesting.
shock
9/12 pigeon diana strobe gladio
So says my notes. This is what I have to work with when I come to expand my thoughs. That and the title of the file the notes are in, here "shock".
Well, shock is The Shock Doctrine, although the notes were inspired by a passing reference in a TV programme and the memories of my long ago reading of the book.
MY exact thoughts on the matter escape me for the moment, but a few things are obvious and the linking principle is obvious too.
Gladio, the long international terror campaign by supposedly democratic western governments to terrify their populations into submission and restrict the range of acceptable opinions. diana and strobe, the purported method of that woman's death when her driver may have been traumatised and tereby entraced by the very bright flash of light fired into his eyes by covert operatives on a motorbike driving in front, in a move first used by the Stasi. 9/12 the post-apocalyptic 9/12 project which I have vaguely heard of, evidently run by fox news in a cynical move the constantly evoke the post-disaster panic that was naturally prevalent in most of their viewers at the time, thereby also invoking a child-like and suggestible mindset in those viewers.
Not sure about the pigeon, but as the thread linking the rest is trauma-induced suggestibility I think it's most likely to refer to a story my memory is insisting I once heard about pigeons falling out of the sky after being put into a trauma induced trance by very loud noises.
So there we have it, another note elucidated.
So says my notes. This is what I have to work with when I come to expand my thoughs. That and the title of the file the notes are in, here "shock".
Well, shock is The Shock Doctrine, although the notes were inspired by a passing reference in a TV programme and the memories of my long ago reading of the book.
MY exact thoughts on the matter escape me for the moment, but a few things are obvious and the linking principle is obvious too.
Gladio, the long international terror campaign by supposedly democratic western governments to terrify their populations into submission and restrict the range of acceptable opinions. diana and strobe, the purported method of that woman's death when her driver may have been traumatised and tereby entraced by the very bright flash of light fired into his eyes by covert operatives on a motorbike driving in front, in a move first used by the Stasi. 9/12 the post-apocalyptic 9/12 project which I have vaguely heard of, evidently run by fox news in a cynical move the constantly evoke the post-disaster panic that was naturally prevalent in most of their viewers at the time, thereby also invoking a child-like and suggestible mindset in those viewers.
Not sure about the pigeon, but as the thread linking the rest is trauma-induced suggestibility I think it's most likely to refer to a story my memory is insisting I once heard about pigeons falling out of the sky after being put into a trauma induced trance by very loud noises.
So there we have it, another note elucidated.
seventh day advent hoppists
They say hope was the last to escape pandora's box, or at least to make a break for it, because hope is the greatest of all evils. I hope those who take solace in hope will look at Obama and come to their senses.
Dreamer of the Day, part one
A few thoughts on the first chapter or so of Dreamer of the Day by Kevin Coogan.
Odd though it may seem that he was a Sovietophile fascist, those who've studied the strategy of tension will recognise the affinity of extreme right and extreme left, both controlled by the same puppet master in the American intelligence services.
When he was captured he was carrying occult works such as a theosophical article and a list of occult book titles. I knew he was a fourth reichist Communite, so I don't suppose this should come as too much of a surprise, but it does.
Author of sado masochistic stories. Again, not a major surprise as we have the example of E Howard Hunt (?) writing stories about witchcraft and various others doing similar things from the elite.
"One aspect of feminism" by himself was found in a notebook he kept and also works by j robert moskin, otto weininger etc. My own personal interest in feminism make this of note. On his arrest a neo-nazi periodical called "women's voice" was to be informed, according to his instructions.
I've written "john gannon" here, but I now realise I should make my notes more comprehensive because I have no idea what it means.
Odd though it may seem that he was a Sovietophile fascist, those who've studied the strategy of tension will recognise the affinity of extreme right and extreme left, both controlled by the same puppet master in the American intelligence services.
When he was captured he was carrying occult works such as a theosophical article and a list of occult book titles. I knew he was a fourth reichist Communite, so I don't suppose this should come as too much of a surprise, but it does.
Author of sado masochistic stories. Again, not a major surprise as we have the example of E Howard Hunt (?) writing stories about witchcraft and various others doing similar things from the elite.
"One aspect of feminism" by himself was found in a notebook he kept and also works by j robert moskin, otto weininger etc. My own personal interest in feminism make this of note. On his arrest a neo-nazi periodical called "women's voice" was to be informed, according to his instructions.
I've written "john gannon" here, but I now realise I should make my notes more comprehensive because I have no idea what it means.
A4E
finished once more on the New Deal provision, although now the end is followed by several weeks of the highly inflexible "flexible New Deal". I saw a couple of posh women signing on today, which is something of a rarity. The jobcentre types signing them on were very eager to stress that they had to come and sign on and fill in the forms and so on to help them find work, rather than so they could keep an eye on them. Different approaches for different people. for the posh women they say that and might even mean it. For the likes of me they very definitely want you to think they're keeping an eye on you so you'd better not try owt.
Not much different at A4E, although our local branch has now shut down, despite A4E expanding in the nation as a whole and recently having its arse licked out by Channel 4.
something viewers of that OBN winning "documentary" might have noticed: pictures of the founder, not a particularly picturesque woman, adorning every flat surface with various meaningless slogan stenciled across it. I've got a picture somewhen of one of Saddam's protraits, the type painted on walls and billboards over iraq, but this one has been replaced by GWBush and has a soldier urinating against the mouth.
An odd moment in the "documentary" aforemwentioned, the women running the course took a moment from insulting and harrassing people to use a metaphor, somewhat incompetently, of a butterfly coming from it's crysalis, supposedly an analogous metaphysical transformation to that undergone by someone entering wage slavery. The favourite metaphor of lepidopterist serial killer Hannibal Lecter, of course.
And our branch has another poster: advertising that the church across the road doesn't lkike scum from A4E befouling their steps with our presence during breaks.
Not much different at A4E, although our local branch has now shut down, despite A4E expanding in the nation as a whole and recently having its arse licked out by Channel 4.
something viewers of that OBN winning "documentary" might have noticed: pictures of the founder, not a particularly picturesque woman, adorning every flat surface with various meaningless slogan stenciled across it. I've got a picture somewhen of one of Saddam's protraits, the type painted on walls and billboards over iraq, but this one has been replaced by GWBush and has a soldier urinating against the mouth.
An odd moment in the "documentary" aforemwentioned, the women running the course took a moment from insulting and harrassing people to use a metaphor, somewhat incompetently, of a butterfly coming from it's crysalis, supposedly an analogous metaphysical transformation to that undergone by someone entering wage slavery. The favourite metaphor of lepidopterist serial killer Hannibal Lecter, of course.
And our branch has another poster: advertising that the church across the road doesn't lkike scum from A4E befouling their steps with our presence during breaks.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Honeytrap: The Scandal
My usual series of observations on those things I find interesting in a book I've been reading, in this case Honeytrap: The Scandal, by Anthony Summers and Stpehen Dorrill. Dorrill, of course, also wrote MI6 and co-wrote Smear!.
EJ Dingwall parapsychologist, anti-feminist and famed author of The American Woman, get a mention due to his position as curator of the porn collection of Marquess Milford Haven, which may be sinister or may not.
Mariella Novotny, host of the infamous Man in the Mask party and supposed lover of JFK, was related none too distantly to the president of Communist Czechoslovakia, President Novotny. A most interesting character, her husband slash pimp claimed that she was a virgin when he found her due to her being terrified of sex, pursuant to some unspecified trauma during her family's flight from Communism. She was at a party with JFK when the host's girlfriend slashed her wrists. She was also smuggled out of America by the CIA after an arrest for prostitution.
Stephen Ward, whose cottage was exorcised because of the evil things that had taken place there, was allegedly close to Cardinal Montgomery - supposed lover of the short lived Pope John Paul I.
There is a witness account of naked women at an orgy bowing to a phallus in a ritualistic manner, "obviously done before".
Keeler was molested as a child.
William Shepherd MP wrote a letter to MacMillan about the immorality he perceived in the government, "one of these men [cabinet ministers] was involved with children".
EJ Dingwall parapsychologist, anti-feminist and famed author of The American Woman, get a mention due to his position as curator of the porn collection of Marquess Milford Haven, which may be sinister or may not.
Mariella Novotny, host of the infamous Man in the Mask party and supposed lover of JFK, was related none too distantly to the president of Communist Czechoslovakia, President Novotny. A most interesting character, her husband slash pimp claimed that she was a virgin when he found her due to her being terrified of sex, pursuant to some unspecified trauma during her family's flight from Communism. She was at a party with JFK when the host's girlfriend slashed her wrists. She was also smuggled out of America by the CIA after an arrest for prostitution.
Stephen Ward, whose cottage was exorcised because of the evil things that had taken place there, was allegedly close to Cardinal Montgomery - supposed lover of the short lived Pope John Paul I.
There is a witness account of naked women at an orgy bowing to a phallus in a ritualistic manner, "obviously done before".
Keeler was molested as a child.
William Shepherd MP wrote a letter to MacMillan about the immorality he perceived in the government, "one of these men [cabinet ministers] was involved with children".
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Levenda III
Levenda's Manson Secret
A few interesting facts (Woody Harrelson's dad confessing to shooting JFK while under arrest for the drug-related shooting of a federal judge).
A few basic errors (David Kelly taking a revolver into the woods).
A load of bullshit about induced (but not caused, because it's acausal) synchronicity and how Garrison's "coincidences piling on coincidences" were synchronicity, rather than conspiracy. Etc..
He obviously adheres to the left handed idea that the ego is part of the problem rather than solution, a conclusion I find surprising in view of his knowledge of depth psychology. Oddly he doesn't mention the Biblical mentionings, and those in Fraser, of the destruction of matter by contact with the divine. The divine, as he says, can also be sinister and is extremely dangerous for those who encounter it. In Fraser this is obvious, for example the proscription on pigs originating in the Egyptian belief they were divine. The Bible has the man whose thigh is withered while wrestling with an angle, and the times god appears in burning bushes and so forth because his actual appearance would destroy the witnesses. On page 211 he also mentions that a common occult technique has been tabu sexual practices for their own sake because the breaching of democratic and popular morals gives you powers, supposedly, some parallels there with the tabu breaking SRA practitioners. Nag Hammadi he favours, but it was a tip where obsolete scriptures were disposed of. Hence the almost identical Ethiopic Bible, with the addition of Jasher, Enoch and Jubilees, not Gnostic texts, despite their split from the Romans before Nicea.
A few interesting facts (Woody Harrelson's dad confessing to shooting JFK while under arrest for the drug-related shooting of a federal judge).
A few basic errors (David Kelly taking a revolver into the woods).
A load of bullshit about induced (but not caused, because it's acausal) synchronicity and how Garrison's "coincidences piling on coincidences" were synchronicity, rather than conspiracy. Etc..
He obviously adheres to the left handed idea that the ego is part of the problem rather than solution, a conclusion I find surprising in view of his knowledge of depth psychology. Oddly he doesn't mention the Biblical mentionings, and those in Fraser, of the destruction of matter by contact with the divine. The divine, as he says, can also be sinister and is extremely dangerous for those who encounter it. In Fraser this is obvious, for example the proscription on pigs originating in the Egyptian belief they were divine. The Bible has the man whose thigh is withered while wrestling with an angle, and the times god appears in burning bushes and so forth because his actual appearance would destroy the witnesses. On page 211 he also mentions that a common occult technique has been tabu sexual practices for their own sake because the breaching of democratic and popular morals gives you powers, supposedly, some parallels there with the tabu breaking SRA practitioners. Nag Hammadi he favours, but it was a tip where obsolete scriptures were disposed of. Hence the almost identical Ethiopic Bible, with the addition of Jasher, Enoch and Jubilees, not Gnostic texts, despite their split from the Romans before Nicea.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Friday, 17 July 2009
Juxtaposition
Cecil Adams says:
The Register (Scotland) says:
Conceivably those few might have included some critical applications, except for the second factor, which I offer in all seriousness: Windows is so notoriously unreliable that no one would ever build a life-or-death system around it.
The Register (Scotland) says:
See also the recent virus infection in the onboard computers of the Eurofighter.The Royal Navy's plan to fit most of its fleet with command systems based on Windows boxes continues, with the commencement last week of a programme intended to replace the existing commandware of the Service's Type 23 frigates. The Type 23s will make up the majority of the British surface fleet for the foreseeable future.
According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), HMS Montrose has now entered a planned docking and refit period during which BAE Systems plc will replace her original DNA(1) gear with DNA(2), said to be "based on the system being fitted to the Royal Navy's powerful new Type 45 Destroyers". This means it will be based on fairly everyday hardware running legacy Windows OSes - people who have worked on these programmes inform us that both Win2k and XP will be in use across the fleet.
Monday, 13 July 2009
Women-quote
"we just want to be near the top and have the fun"
From the Myth of the Monstrous Male by John Gordon.
From the Myth of the Monstrous Male by John Gordon.
Sunday, 12 July 2009
aangirfan's education porposals
aangirfan has had some ideas about schooling
1 choice of school
Something the government are very fond of talking up, perhaps anngirfan is a Blairite. Children and parents, as aan-ie puts it, already have a choice of schools. They get to choose a list of their first five choices. Several problems: 1) most areas don't have five schools; 2) schools can only hold so many kids, but all the parents want their kids in the best schools, so they fill up quickly, meaning; 3) all five schools might be full already. What actually happens is that the best schools get more money from the government as a reward for being chosen and the worst schools get less money and so get worse. The rich parents move closer to the best schools, as they generally prioritise by proximity to the school rather than first come first served, so you have a system designed to send more taxpayer money to fund the children of the rich.
So, a bad idea.
2 right to exclude
Teachers can already kick out whoever they want.
3 special schools for disruptive kids
It would be better to integrate them into the body of the class in a less troublesome role, rather than having the feminist teaching gestapo shift pupils they don't like of to schools for the criminally stupid where most of them won't desergve to be. A bit of trouble is a good thing.
4 schools for less academic kids
We already tried that. There's a saying in this country that you can't have grammar schools without having secondary moderns. Grammar schools were the schools for the academic kids who passed the 11-plus exam. Grammar school kids were meant to go to university and eventually to productive professional careers, while the secondary moderns would teach the rest a bit of carpentry and get them out as soon as possible. The public schools, of course, would take the stupid rich who could rely on papa for a job in the City. This system was abolished because it was seen as unfair to decide a child's prospects for the future based on their performance in an hour long exam when they were only 11.
Grammar schools at least produced a generation of intelligent people who were compassionate enough to introduce comprehensives to replace the grammar/secondary modern system. They also didn't discriminate of the grounds of income. A poor kid was more likely to get somewhere by the grammar route than they are now by the comprehensive route.
However, reintroduce the secondary modern is an unlikely rallying cry.
5 leaving age, length of day
He wants to lower the school leaving age and shorten the day. Might be a good idea. I could get on board with that one, maybe.
6 mothers stay at home
If fathers can do it too, it's not too bad.
7 bbc1 to be dedicated to educational programming
This would be Rupert Murdoch's wet dream. The reason BBC4 is so massively intellectual, and therefore less than massively popular, is due to campaigning by the rattled Murdoch Empire, and resultant government pressure.
8 non-profit trusts to take over the running of schools
Another Blairite notion. In schools it was in the form of Education Action Zones and City Academies, both schemes to get private companies to put money into schools in return for being able to run them as they see fit, but without making a profit out of them. I think what aan-ie has in mind is more along the lines of council housing Arms Length Holding Companies and the Commonwealth Development Corporation. The former were designed specifically to take council housing out of democratic control by local councils and have been characterised by rent increases, pay increases for senior management (no longer constrained by civil service pay scales, but able to use their funds as they see fit) and declining standards of the housing under their care. See the massive fraud and intimidation scandal at Sunderland Housing Group, which has dedicated its efforts, despite being "non-profit" to the executive apartments market to bring in extra money for the managers to share out. The CDC was a massive fraud whereby the governments investment in third world business ventures such as farming was handed to the managers for a fraction of its value (first year post-privatisation profits were greater than the entire purchase price). The CDC has effectively divested from grass-roots project in Agriculture and the like and instead gone into lucrative private equity deals, utility take overs and shopping centre construction.
So, no, let's not give control of democratic tax payer funds to a gang of former bureaucrats who want to steal them all. Or is the government meant to keep control of the money, which would give them control over everything?
8 sack the bureaucrats
Terrible idea. Bureaucrats are all that stands between us and the savages. They make the trains run not that far off being on time. Admittedly there might conceivably be a few too many, especially in the health service, largely because the government wants to keep unemployment looking lower than it is. Nonetheless it's good to keep a few of them about the place. Feel free to shut down the department of education's buildings in London though. Back to County control.
It would at least leave them with plenty of time on their hands to start up the non-profit trusts he suggests above.
Yes, that's two eights, whether its an attempt at humour, a typographical error or another type of error I don't know.
1 choice of school
Something the government are very fond of talking up, perhaps anngirfan is a Blairite. Children and parents, as aan-ie puts it, already have a choice of schools. They get to choose a list of their first five choices. Several problems: 1) most areas don't have five schools; 2) schools can only hold so many kids, but all the parents want their kids in the best schools, so they fill up quickly, meaning; 3) all five schools might be full already. What actually happens is that the best schools get more money from the government as a reward for being chosen and the worst schools get less money and so get worse. The rich parents move closer to the best schools, as they generally prioritise by proximity to the school rather than first come first served, so you have a system designed to send more taxpayer money to fund the children of the rich.
So, a bad idea.
2 right to exclude
Teachers can already kick out whoever they want.
3 special schools for disruptive kids
It would be better to integrate them into the body of the class in a less troublesome role, rather than having the feminist teaching gestapo shift pupils they don't like of to schools for the criminally stupid where most of them won't desergve to be. A bit of trouble is a good thing.
4 schools for less academic kids
We already tried that. There's a saying in this country that you can't have grammar schools without having secondary moderns. Grammar schools were the schools for the academic kids who passed the 11-plus exam. Grammar school kids were meant to go to university and eventually to productive professional careers, while the secondary moderns would teach the rest a bit of carpentry and get them out as soon as possible. The public schools, of course, would take the stupid rich who could rely on papa for a job in the City. This system was abolished because it was seen as unfair to decide a child's prospects for the future based on their performance in an hour long exam when they were only 11.
Grammar schools at least produced a generation of intelligent people who were compassionate enough to introduce comprehensives to replace the grammar/secondary modern system. They also didn't discriminate of the grounds of income. A poor kid was more likely to get somewhere by the grammar route than they are now by the comprehensive route.
However, reintroduce the secondary modern is an unlikely rallying cry.
5 leaving age, length of day
He wants to lower the school leaving age and shorten the day. Might be a good idea. I could get on board with that one, maybe.
6 mothers stay at home
If fathers can do it too, it's not too bad.
7 bbc1 to be dedicated to educational programming
This would be Rupert Murdoch's wet dream. The reason BBC4 is so massively intellectual, and therefore less than massively popular, is due to campaigning by the rattled Murdoch Empire, and resultant government pressure.
8 non-profit trusts to take over the running of schools
Another Blairite notion. In schools it was in the form of Education Action Zones and City Academies, both schemes to get private companies to put money into schools in return for being able to run them as they see fit, but without making a profit out of them. I think what aan-ie has in mind is more along the lines of council housing Arms Length Holding Companies and the Commonwealth Development Corporation. The former were designed specifically to take council housing out of democratic control by local councils and have been characterised by rent increases, pay increases for senior management (no longer constrained by civil service pay scales, but able to use their funds as they see fit) and declining standards of the housing under their care. See the massive fraud and intimidation scandal at Sunderland Housing Group, which has dedicated its efforts, despite being "non-profit" to the executive apartments market to bring in extra money for the managers to share out. The CDC was a massive fraud whereby the governments investment in third world business ventures such as farming was handed to the managers for a fraction of its value (first year post-privatisation profits were greater than the entire purchase price). The CDC has effectively divested from grass-roots project in Agriculture and the like and instead gone into lucrative private equity deals, utility take overs and shopping centre construction.
So, no, let's not give control of democratic tax payer funds to a gang of former bureaucrats who want to steal them all. Or is the government meant to keep control of the money, which would give them control over everything?
8 sack the bureaucrats
Terrible idea. Bureaucrats are all that stands between us and the savages. They make the trains run not that far off being on time. Admittedly there might conceivably be a few too many, especially in the health service, largely because the government wants to keep unemployment looking lower than it is. Nonetheless it's good to keep a few of them about the place. Feel free to shut down the department of education's buildings in London though. Back to County control.
It would at least leave them with plenty of time on their hands to start up the non-profit trusts he suggests above.
Yes, that's two eights, whether its an attempt at humour, a typographical error or another type of error I don't know.
make believe media
Parenti. Awful book. Man's deluded. Thinks the crowds were calmed by the film Ghandi, noting they were restless outside the cinema. Of course when they were outside they were in very long queues, when they were inside they were relieved to finally be out of them.
While we're at it, Ghandi was a villain, turning against Britain because he wasn't treated better than the blacks on a trip to south africa, then supporting Japanese imperialism. Once when he was "staying in the slums" he was in a mansion in the middle of the slums.
While we're at it, Ghandi was a villain, turning against Britain because he wasn't treated better than the blacks on a trip to south africa, then supporting Japanese imperialism. Once when he was "staying in the slums" he was in a mansion in the middle of the slums.
Thursday, 2 July 2009
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