RANT: No(where) Ark

According to Reuters today:

"Irish pro-Palestinian activists accused Israel on Thursday of sabotaging their boat while it was docked in Turkey to stop it joining an international flotilla bound for the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.The crew of the MV Saoirse realized there was something wrong with the propeller shaft when they took the vessel for refueling at Gocek on Turkey's southwest coast on Monday. Activists said a marine engineer who inspected the damaged boat in dry dock declared that it had been sabotaged.

"It's identical to the damage to the Swedish boat and you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out who is behind this," Paul Hogan, a former Irish rugby international who was among the activists, told Irish state broadcaster RTE. "Israel has made statements saying that this flotilla will be stopped. The flotilla, which is now down to nine vessels from some 15 planned earlier, hopes to set out over the weekend in an attempt to run an Israeli naval blockade to take relief supplies to Gaza, home to 1.5 million Palestinians."





The Israelis are at it again.

No doubt the Israelis are denying it. Or scoffing at it in that self-righteous and smug arrogance that has become the hallmark of the racist Jewish state.



Whom am I to believe? A group of Irish peace activists versus Israel?

Irish peace activists vs The Apartheid State of Israel.

Hmmmm, that's a really tough one.

Do you get my point?

QUESTION: Where's The UK Domino?

I came across this interesting diagram today illustrating the ongoing eurozone crisis/ scandal.

The question is: where is the UK domino? Hell, but for its pound and Its City of London-inflated (bloated) economy, it should be right there as well - on the edge of bankruptcy.

Where is the Belgium domino for that matter?

I know which two dominoes I would LOVE to see standing there some day soon - those of Germany and France, the two big bullies on the euro block who keep strong-arming weaker economies into accepting 'bailout packages' and obscene 'austerity' measures, all to keep their Washington Consensus-inspired, corporatist single currency dream (read: nightmare) alive.

I've heard the French economy is hardly stellar at the moment. I've even heard rumblings that the German economy is not as 'hot' and 'robust' as once suggested...

Oh, can one dream?

RANT: Portugal Down the Rabbit Hole

Today Portugal goes down the rabbit hole. I mean this both figuratively and, even, strangely enough, literally.

Figuratively down a rabbit hole because today the Social Democrats take over government in Portugal, after having won the recent legislative elections. They're a bunch of neo-conservative pricks who pontificate about 'market reforms' and gladly kowtow to bullies like the EU and the IMF, whilst serving the interests of the super-rich and neo-con elites of Portugal and, to a lesser extent, the (fast-dwindling) upper-middle class. In doing so, they pander to the petty conservative fears of the middle-classes (or what remains of that in Portugal today) and even, to my endless amazement, some of the working class (in itself a fast-becoming oxymoron in that country if ever there was).

Literally down a rabbit hole because the man set to become Portugal's Prime Minister is a blandly handsome, thin-lipped creep by the surname of Passos Coelho (picture above - saying it all) - a surname loosely translated into English as "rabbit steps". How very fitting that this patronizing and sly technocrat set to banish Portugal into an abyss has a name so weirdly reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. It's almost Orwellian in its sinister irony.

The PSD, or Social Democrats, coming into power at this C-R-U-C-I-A-L time are the biggest mistake yet made by the Portuguese electorate since the Carnation Revolution of 1974 that brought democracy to the country. Portugal sits on a precipice not at all unlike that over which Greece is falling as I write this. The last thing it needed was a pack of lying, conniving neo-conservatives to push it over that precipice with more cuts, more austerity, more capitulation to the financial terrorists in Brussels and Washington DC.

Portugal should never have been in the euro and, now that it's stuck with that poisoned chalice and more of its population is slipping into de facto poverty, it sees its welfare system being stripped away by the neo-conservative scheisters that champion that blight on humanity, the Washington Consensus.

I always say that a country gets the government it deserves. I've said it for years and I continue to believe in that implicitly. It hardly matters when I say that about countries like Nigeria or the UK, for example - countries I hardly give a toot about. It's a bit more difficult to swallow when that country is one that I know so well and that is part of my heritage, such as Portugal.

Prime Minister "Rabbit Steps" has led Portugal down a primrose path with false terror tactics against the former Socialist government. A government that, at least under the until recently Prime Minister, José Sócrates (pictured below), understood the many dangers of capitulating to the 'bailout package' being foisted on Lisbon by Brussels and Washington DC. And warned about that 'package' again and again. To no avail.



Passos Coelho wishes he could be as erudite, witty and smart as Sócrates no doubt is. The latter will be missed.

Portugal will fall down that rabbit hole. And for that I fear for it very, very much.

Do you get my point?

RANT: The Rape of Greece

Greece is being raped - again.

Its very sovereignty is hanging on a the merest thread as its own government contemplates selling it right down the line, as the acronymed vultures named EU and IMF hover hungrily.



Greece is on the verge of having to declare bankruptcy. The last round of bailouts simply didn't do the trick after speculators and other financial terrorists targeted the country's fragile economy and 'huge' public debt. There's a surprise. And I bet the IMF is so very surprised that Greece is poised to default on its debt obligations.

Just yesterday a rash of desperate, last minute talks by the EU (read: namely Germany and France, the Big Bloody F***ing Euro Bullies) on another bailout for Greece came to nothing. The big problem? They couldn't get Greece to commit to even more painful cuts to public spending.

Yeah, 'public spending' - that innocuous-sounding phrase that actually means slashed government spending on social welfare, healthcare, education, pensions, supporting arts and culture - you know, all the things that make (or, rather, made) Greece a modern European country. All poised to be slashed yet again - and yet again it is the poor and the middle class of Greece who will take the brunt of all these 'necessary' cuts to public spending.

As if people were having cuts made to their ability to get daily manicures and pedicures and other such luxuries, you know.

'Cuts' made in the name of bailing out scheister banks, propping up a failed experiment that is the euro and kowtowing to financial terrorists like the IMF.



Greece is being raped, pillaged and its very guts ripped out. No wonder the people are in the streets, raging with anger.

This will go down in history as a shameful chapter in European and world financial history. No doubt about that.

Do you get my point?

RAVE: Berlusconi il Buffone

It's been over a month since I last wrote on this blog, even if I only today figured out that my last three posts written back in May were never published! That's way too much time, especially given how many momentous things have happened in the past few weeks - the ongoing debacle that is the 'freedom struggle' in Libya, the bona fide freedom struggle in Syria, the n-e-v-e-r-e-n-d-i-n-g disgrace that are the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the scary creepiness of the Japanese nuclear fallout, the latest rape of the Greek people by the financial terrorists of the world - the list goes on and on. Many of them reducing me, as usual, to a screaming, gesticluating Man Mad At The World - usually at a TV set, I hasten to add...

So what topic do I choose to do my first actual post in over a month? I found myself simply unable to resist a chance to have a good kick at Signor Berlusconi. This man, the very scourge of Italy and the very eiptome of all things italiano that are rancid and sick to the core, seems to have suffered a PRETTY BIG SMACK last week.

I, along with millions of Italian voters, told Il Diavolo Berlusconi just what we thought of him on not one but three different referenda issues, namely:

1. A resounding rejection of his desire to privatize water
2. A resounding rejection of his desire to bring nuclear power to Italy, and
3. A resounding rejection of his (deep, very deep) desire to have public officials immune from prosecution

I do think that the third issue on which he lost must have cut Il Diavolo/ Buffone/ Cretino Berlusconi the deepest and the harshest. After all, this is a man against whom charges of corruption and abuse of state and personal power run as long as his smile is shallow.

The man is contemptible beyond redemption - he is a corrupt, diabolical Macchiavelli and his success only further re-iterates the much-held belief that Italian politics is a joke unto itself and that Italian society is fundamentally warped to the core.

I detest Berlusconi and all that he stands for.

This triple whammy of defeats last Monday must surely have hurt him politically. Dare I say it - perhaps even mortally?

May my next rave for this hideous man be a rejoice of his having stepped down as Prime Minister of Italy - for the third time, may I add.

Where are the Red Brigades when you need them?

Do you get my point?

RANT: Vulgar Wealth Blocks SoHo

I read a silly little piece on Yahoo News a while ago which had the ability to irk me. It still does...

It was regarding Will Smith and a movie trailer the size of the Battlestar Galactica. Turns out that the residents of a certain neighbourhood in SoHo were up in arms because of the ginormous personal trailer that Will Smith had parked in the street.
The actor was in NYC doing shooting for the latest "Men in Black" instalment. You know, just another reason for the overrated actor to make another few tens of millions of dollars.
The New York Post reported how his 53-foot double decker trailer had so blocked the street that businesses were losing money and traffic was affected. That's roughly 28 metres long for those of us in the rest of the world who use the metric system. Residents in the area, true to Noo Yawk form, were furious and very vocal about it. He finally had to move his $9000 a week trailer (that's right, $9000 a week just for a lousy freaking trailer) up the street to a parking lot where it will now be docked.

A local public official made the hilarious comment that, "Hardworking New Yorkers have a right to wake up in the morning and not find a cruise ship parked out in front of their house."Too true! Not to mention a Hollywood star with clearly an ego the size of Manhattan to boot strutting about.

The poor little thing with his goofy grin and cauliflower ears now has to walk a full mile between his trailer and the set. Poor little munchkins.

Oh, and he also has his own $25000 a month apartment just a mile away. You know, as we all do when we're in these where-the-hell-do-I-park-my-53-foot-personal-trailer issues in life.


Who the fackula are these people?

Who are these twerps who prance around sets and make (some of) us laugh and be entertained for a couple of hours and JUST FOR THAT become these multi-multi-multi-millionaires who behave as if they were born this way and that their behaviour is simply so utterly normal and so, you know, earned, dude, you know, like.

It is this obscene, vulgar display of such conspicuous wealth, inevitably shoved in our 'plebian' faces with utter brattish contempt, that makes me so bloody angry. Not to mention want to smack a useless turd like Will Smith to within an inch of his life. Or get the Mafia to do it for me.

It is not cute, it is not funny and it is not just 'a little thing' to be shrugged off. It is symptomatic of just how warped our times have become when a Hollywood star sees fit to park a 53-foot trailer in the middle of SoHo.
Does this gormless idiot not realize there is still a recession going on in America? Of course he doesn't - he lives in the stratosphere, pissing down on the rest of us with his opulent and charmed-beyond-belief life. It's rather fitting, then, that he's shooting a film about aliens.

Does he care? Clearly not a damn. Thing is, neither would I if the masses were to one day get hold of super-rich f***ers like this and show them a thing or two about mob justice. Or just call in the Mafia.

Do you get my point?

RANT: Robin Hood Would've Wept

I came across another article on Yahoo News, once again linking to an article in the New York Post, which annoyed me even more than the one about Will Smith's super-size trailer (see previous post). This one had to do with a charity benefit in which Lady GaGa performed in front of a room full of Wall Street's 'best' (ahem...) and 'finest' (again, ahem...).

A room full of fatcat scheisters so grossly rich that they make Will Smith look like an impoverished Ethiopian.

The article was a showcase of one example after another of just how ironically screwed up the United States and its super-rich thieves have truly become.

Take Lady GaGa. She the modern temptress of ironic kitsch and wit. She performs in front of these super-rich twats, no doubt picking up a huge pay cheque for her one night's work, and what's her grand gesture of 'irony and wit' at this crowd? She supposedly 'breaks a nail' and shows the fatcats the broken nail, thereby "showing them the middle finger" as she giggled, according to the article. Oh, what wit, Ms GaGa!

That may have been her (lame) attempt at poking fun at the assembled fatcats, but she's still a big sell-out.

Then there's the assembled fatcats. According to the Post, "The generous bigwigs coughed up $11 million in donations via credit card machines on each table to help Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans and fight poverty while the night took in more than $47 million. Bidding on a recording session with the Black Eyed Peas reached $400,000."

The mind boggles (and the stomach turns) at that statement. Consider it:

• "Credit card machines on each table"?! The sheer vulgarity of that image belies description. And how does Wall Street give so 'generously' to these charities? By paying with...wait for it...credit! Oh, what sweet irony.
• "To help Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans"? Really? Shouldn't the government be doing that? Oh, that's right - your government is bankrupt, all because it decided to sell its soul to Lucifer and spend all those billions bailing your Wall Street fatcat asses out, you greedy, conniving bastards!
• "Fight poverty"? Would that be the poverty that you, Wall Street, caused more than anything else in your country in the last few years?! Is it that poverty you're wanting to 'fight'?
• "$47-million"? Is that all?
• "Black Eyed Peas"? Another bunch of sell-outs. Big surprise.

But the biggest irony at an event dripping with irony? The name of the charity - the Robin Hood Foundation. That's right - the biggest thieves in the modern era, the robber barons of Wall Street, were wining and dining and living it up and being warbled at by Lady GaGa for a charity called the Robin Hood Foundation. 

Except these rich scheisters on Wall Street got it all confused - Robin Hood was about stealing from the rich to give to the poor, not the other way around, you gormless, amoral turds!

Robin Hood would've wept, not to mention Jesus.

Where are those blood-baying crowds of the French Revolution when you need them, huh?



Do you get my point?

RAVE: It Says It All...

I came across this cartoon today regarding the massive bail-out given to Wall Street at the expense of the American public. And for which the average American continues to pay, pay, pay...



It really says it all...