Green with stupidity

I’ve been following the Green party for a number of years in various countries. They are the reason why I believe that no single political party will do anything for us, as a country.
They've got connections for getting good photovoltaics, windmills, and granola, but that's it.

The party poop
The only thing I’ve come to see is that, once a party starts looking serious, it realises that about itself also, and begins to play the long waiting game. That means it starts to look at the levers of power and stops seeking consensus with its grass-roots.

The grassroots “don’t understand the workings of politics”

they’ll say to themselves.

They don’t dare say it anywhere else
because they’ll get turfed out on their keisters if they do.

That one idea goes against the very notion of creating a new party; it’s against the present order of things.
That happened to the Greens, most certainly, once in power. They saw it in their interest to support the bombing of Serbia when one of their founding tenets is ‘don’t kill anybody for any reason other than self-defence’, or something like that. As would naturally happen, the German Greens have ‘lost their way’. I could have told you that. The ‘grassroots’ left, never to be political again (or to join an extremist/nationalist party). The ones who stuck with the party should have been seeking the head of Josca Fischer, the Green minister who gave the ‘all clear’ to bomb, but in the end, the remaining members were compromised by their desire to see the party in power, even though it’s now a Green shell of itself.
Let’s not even talk about the fact that the other German parties set this trap for the Greens who fell right in, those political neophytes. They should have discussed the rights and wrongs (as a democratic movement- or party) of bombing and then decided not to do it. Instead, they played the game, and were beaten, literally. Didn’t they have a single Poli Sci or History grad amongst them?
So, now that Western economies are melting in front of our eyes, some ‘political’ opportunists, Socialists, Communists and anarchists (too disorganised and childish to deserve a capital ‘A’) are telling people to join them. In my opinion, that would be just the continuation of more politics.
Where we often thought in the good old days that the bureaucracy of our countries was against the people, now we realise that, in hard economic times, the government is most definitely also against the people. Any government structure, I think, goes against the nature of human beings. That doesn’t make me an anarchist, but we just have to realise that we’ve seen democracy fail to protect the many, and rally to support the rich and the criminals.

In 2010, damnit! Everywhere!
The reason for this also damns any party.
If you have a system that places all the importance
on a bunch of people with nice titles,
they'll abuse their position.
It's corruption or collusion.
take your pick.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Let them eat polyunsaturated fat

When we’re staring long-term penury in the face, our governments are laughing, with their million-dollar bank accounts (that’s most of the cabinet) and their good-paying jobs, with connections (just ask T Blair how much money the oil companies are giving him annually- for good deeds, past and future).
So, all governments are about control, by their very nature.
If we are to protest, and we should, we should also say , not ‘listen to us’ or ‘we want fairness’, but

‘we don’t need you telling us what to do’, and
‘we’ll “take care” of business, and you too’, and
‘pack your bags’

Our actions should reflect our own independent nature. We should look after our immediate loved ones and ourselves, and withdraw from the economic system.
The political system will soon crumble if the government’s rich (tax-evading) buddies are losing money. They won’t know which horse to bet on, and the whole place will go ape-shit.
Let's take care of business and the other suits in parliament. Sing it!


-Costick67 ~(8^P

I’m not inviting myself to any Party that would have me as a member

Party politics is passe’.
Socialists, communists and anarchists are screaming now in their attempt
to replace the Centre Right Labour/Con-Dems here in the UK

Why is nobody listening to them? I don't think they realise it,
but we all know that
no party is ever going to solve anything, these days.
All it does is replace one bunch of suits with another.

No Conservative, Labour, socialist, communist, anarchist government is gonna

sort this sh*t-pile out.

Politics itself, as a concept where it is

‘by the people, from the people, for the people’

is completely shot. Every government is a tyranny in waiting, as you can/will see.
Now that they've laid things out for their rich buddies, despite some pretty good laws,

all bets are off. Folks are hunkering down for some poverty!

Governments will have to beat down the 99% to keep

themselves and the rest of the 1% in the lap of luxury.
Hey You. Look after yourself and your own.

What's going on? some highlights

we’ve seen democracy fail to protect the many, and rally to support the rich and the criminals. In 2010, damnit! Everywhere!
The political system will soon crumble if the government’s rich (tax-evading) buddies start losing money. They won’t know which horse to bet on, and the whole place will go ape-shit.
A succession of groups of politicians will come for a week and leave, just like in Argentina, until one of them decides to tell the bond-holders ‘sorry, I can’t pay you’, defaults, pays the short term pain, and continues on a new path of sustainable growth without debt, national or personal. It’s risky, but Argentina is now back as an economic power.
We have to realise that

the economy was fine.

It’s the bankers and the government who are killing us off.

It’s amazing how the good economic years that we’ve all seen were just an illusion propped up by borrowing (from our future, i.e. debt). Borrowing like that, unfortunately,

requires the guarantee that the economy will never fail.
However, the bank regulators let that one slip through their fingers.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

If Andy wants to be an imperialist, tell him to sort out the banks

Prince Andy, that is. A Wiki-Leak
I just realised how the goal posts have moved, lately. A few years ago we would have been happy if our governments were not killing Iraqis and Afghans and not working on behalf of the oil companies. Now, that’s small potatoes.
Now we want economic fairness, maybe a job or at least some food. As usual, many of us won’t get those needs (not wishes) fulfilled because the rich want to kill us off.

The Wiki-Leak
So, Andy goes to dinner parties and just lays bare the ‘Great Game’ metaphor, about what gets Western imperialists excited. It involves scoring the business deal, but using the army if necessary. It’s all about control.

Us-vs-them.

And then he has the temerity to call other countries corrupt. There’s more than one definition of corruption, Andy. Apparently, Andy is also corrupt, and in collusion with the very people he’s accusing of corruption. Timur Kulibayev, the son-in-law of the ‘corrupt’ Kazakh leader gave Andy £15 million pounds for his British mansion, through off-shore companies. That means that that income is non-taxable, because it’s gone! Corruption, indeed.

[song: Take a Leak on Andy]
-Costick ~(8^P

King Abdullah takes over Buckingham Palace in a bloodless coup

It’s a coup, and not a war, because King Abdullah already owns most of the UK government’s debt (and thus the government), and he is thus an honorary citizen, and Lord in the Upper Chamber, where full bedpans are thrown around willy-nilly (known as ‘taking the piss’).
Sit down, Mr Prescott!
[pic]
Never has it been so clear. If you’re listening to the talkative brokers in the US, they say that if

Ireland falls, Portugal is next.

On the Keiser Report last night, one analyst said that bailed-out brokers from the US are attacking anything (like countries), for their own gain. It is such a corrupt market, he was shaking his head the whole time. His advice: say ‘no’, Ireland.
I’m a bit more sanguine. I want Ireland to say ‘no’ and I’m going to pray for this. But, if Ireland falls, then Portugal will get a deal.

Notice how Ireland’s deal is at an ‘unsustainable’ rate of 5.75%

(according to analysts- they were saying it before, but they’re not warning anybody now. It’s bad for business). So, Ireland will be permanently enslaved.
Portugal will get an even worse deal because, as Nils Prately (Guardian) says Germany wants it that way to prevent others from taking ‘the easy way out’. I would also say that Germany is sick of propping up weak countries. [it’s not the countries’ fault, it’s the ill markets, but anyway...]
Prately is fairly positive, because he talked to a US broker (Jim O’Neill, Goldman Sachs) who says that if Germany and France swallow it all, the Euro will survive. That’s wishful thinking on Goldman’s part, because they want to eat another chunk of Euro money.
However, if Portugal goes, then it will be Spain’s turn, and then Italy. When this happens, the Germans, who run the show (because they’re paying for it), will pull the plug. They will rightly see that bailing out all these countries will also bankrupt Germany itself. Then it truly is game over for the Euro and the banking system, just as I said a few months ago (I’ll get you the title and date). If the Euro is killed off, then bankers will go after their ‘pals’ in the UK and US (actually the US is being eaten up from the ‘inside’ as we speak- an inside job by Paulson, Geithner) who are being funded by China and the Oily Kings. And that’s it.

Bob’s your uncle.
Abdullah’s your king.

Saud’s law is worse that sod’s law, I assure you.

Sharia!

Bless you.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

they want my lucky charms, and my wad too

I'll fix their wagon, the motherfu&^**kers.

That’s the day when their parliament (the Dial) votes whether to swallow the suicide pill, or not. The government has a weak majority, or even worse; things are a bit fluid. If they say no, they’ll have a couple of bad years of potato soup, and get back on their feet. If they say yes, they’re enslaved. Their bankers and government will have put the shackles on their limbs, and the good days will fade off into the distance.
[picture of cowboy and sunset]
The Irish are good gamblers and scramblers. They’re not jaded, corrupt consumers like most Westerners. They’ll be brave and do the right thing. They’re our last hope.
The people are simpler, more straight-forward and just want justice. What the government doing? I heard Cowen say it on the news

“we’ll take 17 billion from our pension fund”.

When other countries were destroyed by their banks, it was just conjecture that private pension were gone, they’d at least have a government pension fund (if their governments don’t eat that money immediately), maybe they’ll get their value back in the long term. But here, it’s clear theft, and Cowen admitted it. If it were going somewhere good, then maybe I’d agree with. But, it’s being chucked into a black hole, never to be seen again. The only people who will benefit are those who created the crisis, local bankers, US/UK hedgers (who were themselves bailed out!!) and the bond insurance markets their hedging against (and fraudulently undercutting with rumour and slander).
So, everybody pray. It’s in our interest. Ask that Ireland has the wisdom to thrown out this plan, the IMF, its government and their banks.

-Costick67~(8^P

Taking the -Leak with a grain of salt

[what? me? lie? I'm a diplomat.]
The latest Wiki-Leak documents might actually be an intentional leak, like the ones they do at nuclear plants, when nobody’s looking.

Other than some embarrassing personal comments about some rulers’ corruption and vanity (actually, they didn’t get the half of it, with Berlusconi). The only hot policy issues that were released were about the two big international political problems for the US, namely North Korea and Iran.
It’s not surprising that
the so-called ‘embarrassing’ leaks
actually help make the case for US intervention against North Korea
(abandoned by China)
and Iran
(abandoned by the Arab leaders).

In my world, if the end result of the leaks (other than the petty comments) is in the US’s favour, then they actually planted the leaks.
[Chomsky's has some doubts too]

You see it was meant to be found and spread as propaganda.
the best kind, because it appears genuine!

As you saw, the very next day, they attacked Iranian nuclear scientists. The world just said, ‘well, Iran deserves it.’

You did too, you idiot!

The Guardian, those half-wits, recognised both Clinton’s ‘shock’ about the leaks and her ‘righteousness’ regarding Iran as a problem.
They didn’t recognise that maybe these Iran/Korea leaks were the reason for the bunch of Leaks, and that the rest of the docs were just enticement, and a distraction for the hoi polloi.
If I were H Clinton, I would have used the anger of Iran’s Arab neighbours as a talking-point long ago. What’s so earth-shattering about saying ‘Iran’s neighbours hate Iran’. Just leave the details out, and you’re set. So, this is another reason why I don’t believe the Leaks. Let’s wait and see how many of these ‘Leaks’ are rejected as false by the ‘victims’. Or, how much pressure will be placed on the bought-and-paid-for Arab governments to not say ‘But, I didn’t say that’. Another article in the Guardian noted that Arab citizens don’t hate Iran, and instead hate the US much more. Maybe Arab governments are speaking about their own interests. Iran is just ruining their party by pushing for a political solution in their neighbourhood, which would lessen the need for the US to bribe Arab leaders, so they’d be slaughtered by their people.
I think we’ll never find out the truth about Iran, but it’s no surprise that the US has the country completely surrounded: they’re in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Other than the geopolitics and the natural resources, the third reason for this is to infiltrate, break the defences of Iran and take it over. Perhaps their spies will make the need for a long war unnecessary by weakening the country from the inside. Maybe the US will go bankrupt and leave, like the Romans did with Britain.

Let’s watch.

A writer, a former diplomat Jonathan Powell (Guardian), asked ‘whose interests are served’ by this massive leak. He says it squelches conversations between diplomats. I don’t think anything important was revealed in most of them, so he’s feigning upset to try to keep a lid on this ‘popular uprising’ which has, for a few seconds, levelled the playing field. Tomorrow, it’s back to normal. When he writes “on the whole it is surprising how few real surprises seem to be contained in quite such a huge amount of material” he actually argues against himself. When he says “it comes as no great surprise that Arab states fear Iran”, he is either a liar, disingenuous, or he wasn’t a bureaucrat. He should have known about this, and said to us ‘I knew about this issue before the leak’. If he didn’t, then it’s not true, and it was planted to make a case against Iran. Note: the guy was Tony Blair’s chief of staff for 13 years. If the Arab claims were true, he would have known about them. Mandarins live on salacious gossip. The Guardian doesn’t usually knowingly blind its readers, but it is often used by liars.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Agro about agri-culture

Although many farmers are red-neck rubes, food is culture.
It's part of the landscapes that poncey painters draw up; so there!

Some theatre producer from the US once said that it's becoming impossible to make a living by farming. We're getting food flown in from freaking Chile and Oz.
The UK is exporting 40 000 tons of wheat a year, and
importing 40 000 tons of wheat a year.
We subsidise our farmers for 1/3rd of their income or else they'd be broke.
Yet, we flood the markets of poor countries with our cheap food, bankrupting their farmers.

Do you know where we're going?
Rome got its potatoes from Egypt.
Athens got its corn from the Black Sea.

Ancient Rome and Athens
Just before those supply lines were cut off and they were defeated.

Here are some ideas from a cool group, translated from a Greens publication:

-stop use of agricultural products as fuel. Lessen transportation in general
-food as a right, not a product [I’m with them, to the nth degree. You can see small-scale farming is no longer viable anywhere. But the rich in Brazil can cut the rainforest, then grow and ship animal-feed to Europe. Why is this necessary? If our farmers can’t work, then we’ll get products from elsewhere, but anybody who knows Greek or Roman history knows that long supply lines create vulnerability, especially when oil becomes too expensive].
-lessen the consumption of meat
-stop affecting other agricultural markets negatively i.e. Africa. Feed our own people
-good food prices, for small farmers to survive
-a right to land use
-right to info on food products
-cut out middle-men
-teach kids about growing food

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout:
www.europeanfooddeclaration.org

Terrorists on the cheap. £50 000

This just in from the North East of England, near Hull to be exact.

She can be had for as little as £50 000, and you get all the works.

storage,
moving,
training room,
underground activity,
bomb dropping

It's in this dank, horrible terraced house, in Shitholl.
[a terraced house in Shitholl: £50 000]

say it quickly at the top of your lungs: /terraced,terraced/
/I saw a terraced/

Get it? Allow George W to esplain:

George W Bush: We're gonna get those 'terrists'. Now, watch this shot.
"This is one of our soldiers, completely legless.
Dontcha love American technology?"

terrist=terraced

Bush43's pronunciation of 'terrorist' is not a Texan drawl, because GWB is a rich Easterner, who went to Yale and Harvard...not to study, mind you. He just went there. Kinda like how the American Piers went to college. Like make-believe, and rubber girlfriends

His accent is actually indicative of an alcoholic
who has not received any treatment, whatsoever.

Sorta explains his presidency too, innit?

-Costick67~(8^P

dictionary:
dropping the bomb= going for a stinky sh*t.
underground activity= a basement
training room= a room with gym equipment
storage= garage, shed
moving= the movers, du-uuh

Sarah Palin is sexophobe

This is a serious psychological malady. I read it in the Guardian G2.

No jokes, please.

That's too bad because she looks ready to go. (above)
Her daughter, Bristol is also a hot unit. Started up pretty early, innit.

Anyway, back to the serious stuff.
This was revealed on her reality show
Million Dollar Bare (Bear?) Mommas, on US tv.
[*she gets a million to do the show,
yet still can't help but look stoopid]

According to Freud,
sexophobes develop their aversion
because of the stress of having made the wrong decision
when it came to whom to pork.
Just look at Mr. Palin,
and you'll have your answer.

Anyway, the problem for society is that
if such a person gets into a "position" of power,
she want so much to be 'loved' by the people,
that's she'll (if it's a woman)
try to metaphorically
slip her c*nt
over the whole country.
I know. I'm as shocked as you are.
Now it all makes sense. That's why she's
always cooing to us, through the media (tv, mags).
This is no shrinking....Violet.
And, it looks like most of the US
likes being 'stroked', with an up-&-down motion,
nice and slow.
DON'T LOOK NOW!
It's mini-Sarah!!

-Costick67 ~(8^P

[Truth be told, the idea for the c*nt-slipping came from an old saying.]
[AND, that's a killer tomato, from 'The Attack of the ....Gooood likeness, though.
In Calgary, a loose woman is known as a tomato, pronounced /tamayta/]

checkitout:
How the Palin Family Chooses Those Names
by Pamela Redmond Satran
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-30/how-the-palin-family-chooses-those-names/

sample:

Tripp’s name follows the tradition the Palins started when they named their first son Track. Now a 19-year-old soldier, Track was named for, well, that circular pathway people run around. It’s a word name, it’s a place name, it begins with T just like Todd’s. And it’s a truly original name with genuine personal meaning.

The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator spits out choices like
Wrench[Cheeky Monkey-Costick67],
Camp [Oh, behaaave- Costick67],
and Trout [replete with fish lips- Costick67].

Those are qualities a lot of modern parents say they’re going for in a baby name but rarely achieve, mostly because people want other people not only to like, but admire, the name they choose. Sarah Palin doesn’t have that problem. Say what you will about the nation’s first GILF, but as a baby namer she’s a real maverick.

Younger son Trig Paxson Van’s name follows the pattern set with Track: Trig is Norse for “true” and Paxson is a snowmobiling area in Alaska.

---End of story

Sh&*t and F$^^k! I thought he was named after the hardest class in high school-
Trigonometry