Misery at the Frontlines

Our man Misery Houston, Air-Field marshal or some such, presses the flesh with the troops, or at least some blokes in camo in front of a shed. He's in camo himself, proving that in the Australian army, even the brass hats wear a really crappy floppy hat.

The other thing Misery proves, and with breathtaking agony, is that the Aussie military is a hierarchy of unhappiness: while the officers and other ranks are valiantly depressed and otherwise ill-at-ease, each in keeping with their rank, he is himself unrivalled at the summit, certainly in this era, if not all others.

If more evidence is required, take a look at this slightly less miserable subordinate

signor BungaBunga

 

plastic surgery has converted BungaBunga's face into a misshapen assemblage of features

western intervention

 

the white man's burden as a boy.

When the Stasi's offices in Berlin were attacked by protesters in 1989, Vladimir Putin is supposed to have defended the repressive apparatus's files, brandishing a pistol before the crowd. Can you see British PM Cameron, or Barack Obama, or US defence secretary Robert Gates doing the same at the offices of the Egyptian secret police. And yet seeing those files from their no 1 renditioning torturer made public is as disastrous for the US as the Stasi files for the old Honecker regime

 

mossad spies

suburban reprisals in Libya

the public reject Washington's man on the spot in Cairo

Even Washington eventually rejects it's man on the spot in Cairo, and begins the search for a newer model

the dictator as a young man, and a chorus of shoes

Kristy Kreme - attempting to explain

Another horny cop with a van - part 2

This one infiltrated reclaim the streets in London

T B Liar contemplating trial

Travails of a coca banker

'Sir Allen', confidant of Antiguan politicians and a sponsor of the English Cricket Board was running a money laundering outfit disguised as a get-rich-quick ponzi scheme. In the aftermath of Bernie Madoff the SEC moved in and froze his banks assets, preempting, it's said, the DEA

But there are ways of delaying or preventing unwanted testimony. Like Allan Bond, you could have a stroke, or contrive medical records proving as much, and then say 'I don't recall'. Since going to some Texas prison to await trial, in the space of a year Sir Allen has been beaten around the head twice and acquired a sedative habit. As he appeared in neck brace and shackles, the lawyers feinted and counterfeinted around the question: just when would Stanford be competent to answer questions. Was he just a pill-head, who could be force-detoxed, or had he acquired a brain injury rendering him permanently unfit?

madness and the will to power

is that a teapot I see before me?

Another horny cop with a van

 

Let's do something really naughty

'Flash' aka PC Mark Kennedy of the Special Demonstration Squad - the famous Hairies - deep undercover operative and admitted agent provocateur who infiltrated many English and European dissident groups

 with his flash cash and ever ready van, from 2000 to the present. Shagging for her Maj. in Nottingham - one of Robin Hood's merry band

He may have been either deemed ineffective, or to have gone native, as he claimed to have been sacked by the London Met in 2009, when he was recently confronted and exposed.More information can be found here

Four undercover cops infiltrating environmental organisations have been exposed so far, and there are clearly plenty more

Andy Coulson, David Cameron, and the "War on Murdoch"

 

as above

 

so below ...

Former News of the world editor Andy Coulson, who had no idea his journalists were tapping phones ...

 

and then pops up as UK PM Cameron's propaganda chief(even as one of his minister's announces a 'war' on Murdoch - before losing his job!).

So just who colludes in tapping the phones of 'celebrities' to provide contemporary moral tales for the underemployed mind?

Capital at the pinnacle

Tower Capital find a saviour in Dai-Ichi

Meanwhile, in Europe, bondholders(that is to say, the ultrarich) are executing a play to expropriate the pension funds of the people, with the collusion of central bankers, working from the periphery to the centre, from Greece to Ireland to Portugal, Spain, and then Italy, and England, France, and even Germany itself. If that succeeds, there remain even bigger fish to fry, up to the level of the US itself. Merchant banks give self-interested advice to all parties, without a whisper about conflicts of interests, and then take bets on inside information. Any person, corporation, or government who takes the advice of - and hence opens their books to - Goldman Sachs is in such a delusional state as to be approaching insanity.

All have believed their own propaganda and now are exposed to be picked off, one by one. A big player can effectively corrall the hysterical sheep of the market into supporting their short-selling schemes, and amplifying their profits, provided they choose their moment - a moment of crisis. A long period of boom underpinned by forced inflows of superannuation seduced the speculating public, and blinded them to the risk. Public policy(and not just in Ireland) contrived the property and asset bubble , which ate all the benefits of the historic return to low interest rates in the mid-90's, essentially imposing massive bank rents on economic activity, while growth continues. The so-called 'financial services industry', in an age of automated financial systems has ballooned to close to a fifth of the western economy.

And eventually, growth falters, bust follows. The contradictions between the member economies of the Euro zone has simply added arbitraging to the possibilities, making it easy, if you have the money, to squeeze one state treasury after another, eventually(of course), agreeing to buy their bond, but only at the price of beggaring their peoples(and having also agreed to defer all carbon mitigation to the post-2020 era, apart from creative accounting - see this page )

Hierarchy of misery

 

Vice-Admiral Matt Tripovich(of the military-industrial corps) is not as miserable as Air Marshal Houston, because he is not so senior. If he wants the top job, he must demonstrate a superior quality of utter unhappiness

Vice Presidential hunting party enjoys bipartisan support

US veep mime an extrajudicial murder? Who will deliver me from this turbulent geek? Nothing could be further from the truth. I was just saying how much I love hunting, with my buddies. Dick Cheney liked to do that, and so do I!

Stephen Conroy- minister for televised sport

oh yeah, and the nbn, that little thing

porker owns casinos

The trencherman with his hand in your pocket, if you're a sucker for mechanised gambling.

The hero of capitalism, lionised because he has the gall to create, manipulate, and exploit pathological gambling addictions. If this system won't collapse of its own accord, it's time to demolish it: our survival demands it. We cannot afford endless growth and exploitation, simply to aggrandise fatcats with their impoverished minds, who need an oversized pile of tokens to compensate their inadequacy. Let them have an education, and understand that whatever wealth is at some moment in history, it's all in the mind, and that real status is earned through service to your community and society - which does not equate to psy-ops and brainwashing.

Let Porker gamble for match sticks, or something equally harmless, or make money a token that is only usable for gambling

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. This credo of social organisation is itself imperfect and problematic, but for fairness and justice it is manifestly superior to "I saw it first, so it's mine, if only you'll tell me what it is", and we've made a society work according to that cretinous rule, so anything is possible for a species with our imagination and adaptability

governance of the opium fields: words of advice

Taliban rule was unacceptable because it closed the opium industry, and with it the off-budget funding of spooks and mafiosi and the biggest protection racket of them all. But, to give human rights to women, that well known feminist, Dick Cheney, corrected this state of affairs.

Naive latte and chardonnay(oaked or unoaked?) drinkers might complain about the chaos, the indiscriminate rain(reign) of death from predator drones hooked to playstation consoles. But a new world is not born in the cold light of day. The stultification of a functioning system of law would paralyse the dynamism of capitalism. The revolutionary army of the US of A needs a free hand, unencumbered by the carping criticism of interfering civilians, or it cannot play its part as the midwife of democracy and enduring freedom.

Talk of rigged elections is inconvenient however. It scares the horses. Learn from the west: whatever the reality, the appearance of propriety is essential. If the TV says it was free and fair, then so it was. End of debate.

It appears that the pressures of government are building in Ms Gillard's rear.

Obama phone

Have you got his phone number?

the big lie technique

 

if you want to tell a lie, tell a big one, and repeat it until it is believed implicitly