Keeps rainin’ all the time
Don’t know why
There’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather . .
Keeps rainin’ all the time.
Summer should be like this:-
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In the summertime.
Upgrade the summer!
The Spews and the Scum
Pisses all over the culture, and then complains of the stench.
Nicked from Impossible Songs.
The Sun’s Kavanagh complains about a “witch-hunt”
Hilarious bleating from a pompous prat and utterly preposterous purvayor of humbuggery:
This witch-hunt has put us behind ex-Soviet states on Press freedom
THE Sun is not a “swamp” that needs draining.
Nor are those other great News International titles, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Yet in what would at any other time cause uproar in Parliament and among civil liberty and human rights campaigners, its journalists are being treated like members of an organised crime gang…
…[J]ournalists have been needlessly dragged from their beds in dawn raids, arrested and held in police cells while their homes are ransacked.
Wives and children have been humiliated as up to 20 officers at a time rip up floor-boards and sift through intimate possessions, love letters and entirely private documents”…
For a really good laugh, read the rest here. Then, all together now: Ahhhhhhh!
Come to think of it, this “beyond parody” thing is a pretty good idea that I may make a regular feature – ie simply republishing stuff that is such self-evident bollocks that it’s not worth even commenting upon, let alone mocking.
Easy blogging, as well.
Lady Warsi receiving a “rapturous reception” the Vatican with her complaint that religion is being denied “a seat at the table” in British public life, for instance… (here)
I Fisk You a Merry Christmas
This is fisking for dummies, but it’s Christmas after all:-
Let’s just hope God is merciful, Chris
By George Galloway
WELL, he kens noo. I hope that the deceased, unbelieving English man of letters Christopher Hitchens has discovered that God is not only great but merciful too.
[Now, when Christians say that kind of thing in pious tones, you know they are lying. May all my enemies go to hell, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel]
I had taken a self-denying ordinance over his demise at the weekend from osophageal cancer on the grounds that one should not speak ill of the recently dead and there would be nothing good to say about him considering the circumstances.
Two things forced me to shorten my purdah. The first was the way in which almost every one of the eulogies and profiles, in which I had declined to be represented on grounds of taste, nonetheless managed to attack me in the process of praising him.
[Oooh George – I've read loads of these, and y'know, you're not mentioned THAT much. The American ones don't mention you at all. But of course if your google alert says "George Galloway" – and I'm sure it does, not out of mere vanity though yours should never be underestimated, but for litigation opportunities - that's how it must seem to you.]
The second was the sight of his friend Tony Blair, his voice catching with emotion in the “death of Diana way”, telling us what a great man he was.
This canonisation of the departed by some of the worst hypocrites operating in the English language must be halted before it slithers any further.
[Weel, I'd be very careful of the "h" word if I were you.]
Hitchens was the only-known case of a butterfly changing back into a slug.
He wrote like an angel but placed himself in the service of the devils.
He was a drink-soaked former Trotskyite popinjay, the Englishman in New York who discovered there were large bundles of right-wing dollars available for apostates like him. If they were prepared to betray their friends, their principles and sell the soul he didn’t believe he had in the first place.
[And I'm sure your work for Iran's Press TV is done for a small pittance, barely enough to keep you in cigars. Also the "popinjay" – which one is the dapper little chap and which one the untidy handsome guy out of you two? And though it's the season for recycling, couldn't you have at least come up with some new insults?]
Easy. As Groucho Marx once put it: “These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
Thus, the man who once praised Saddam Hussein in adoration and opposed the first Gulf War when the Iraqi tyrant was still occupying Kuwait, was transformed into the main literary cheerleader for the second war.
[Ah, well you would know about "adoration" of Saddam Hussein, not to mention his rapist offspring.]
And he was still blowing the weapons of mass destruction trumpet long after its tinny notes were discredited.
The man who once championed the Palestinian cause became a little echo for Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the 10 Turkish dead on the ship Mavi Marmara as “Hamas-sympathisers” who got what they asked for.
[Do you mean that they DIDN'T sympathise with Hamas? I'm shocked. And – get your little head around this – it's possible to champion the Palestinian cause and not become a pimp for what Hitchens would call "gaunt fascists with an Islamic face".]
Sure his ditties were witty, his parsing precise and, if you like your men drunk, slurred and slobbering, he could be charming no doubt.
[You really know you were outclassed on all fronts – "ditties were witty", "parsing precise" – is that your way of showing you can do that writing thing as well?]
But when you’re slobbering in support of the re-election of George W Bush for his catastrophic second term, or backing Bush’s handling of the clean-up operation after Hurricane Katrina (where he was the only man in the country other than Bush who thought the Federal Emergency Agency was doing a “heck of a job”) and you have written the script for the most disastrous massacre since Vietnam, I’m afraid literary pretence must be put in its proper place. Down the lavatory.
Hitchens and I shared the ring in an epic “Grapple in the Apple” back in 2005 in Manhattan.
Thousands of people queued around the block for ringside seats paying top dollar for the privilege. You can watch it on YouTube or wait for the DVD, with commentary and my updates, which I will produce shortly.
[My dear, plug your work in the visual media as you will, your most popular appearance on YouTube will continue to be pretending to be a cat in a red leotard.]
Ultimately, the real reason for the tear-stained eulogies from the British media commentariat for the late Mr Hitchens is that, by and large, the writers and editors are weeping for themselves.
They share his guilt over the Iraq War and deep inside they know it.
But all the salty tears in the world will not out that damned spot. The next reason is class.
Hitchens was a toff, a Lord. And the English-speaking world, it seems, still likes to love a Lord.
[Admiration undeservedly won, nothing to do with talent of course. And congratulations for the best example of resentful envy and self-promotion ineptly disguising itself as principled opposition I've seen in a long while.]
Above: lest we forget: Galloway is, and always has been, a liar, pro-fascist appeaser and enthusiastic sucker of “strong-men”‘s cocks (writes Jim Denham).
The Graun at its worst…and best
I often despair of the Grauniad, my daily paper of choice for nearly forty years. Ignorant shite like this regularly reduces me to a quivering semi-coherent hypostasis of unalloyed fury. And they won’t even let me onto ‘Comment is Free’ because I’ve been nasty to posh-boy Seamas so his pretorian guard “pre-moderate” me every time.
Then every Monday, along comes the Graun‘s number one saving grace. He’s in vintage form, on a particular bête noire of mine, today:
“Anyway, the whole disagreement reminded me how furiously defensive sports fans become when you attack their favoured pursuit, as though they’ve invested half their personal self-worth into it. Was our relationship with sport always like this? Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of bitumen, did fans weep in the stands when their team lost? No. They limited their responses to a muttered “blast” or a muted “hurrah” before going home to smoke a pipe and lean on the mantelpiece. People had “hobbies” and “interests” and no one claimed to have “a passion” for anything…”
Give yourself a treat: read the rest here
Libya: the worst article yet?
Leaving aside the pro-Gadaffi nutters of the WRP, this must be the worst article so far published on Libya:
http://www.socialistaction.net/International/Middle-East/Libya/What-Can-the-Libyans-Expect.html
H/t: Stan C
David Duke to Gilad Atzmon: “fine articles on the evil of Zionism”
NB: It turns my stomach to reproduce the following piece of filth. I trust readers will understand why I feel it is important to do so, and to also provide links - JD
Letter to the Courageous Former Israeli Gilad Atzmon
By David Duke
http://www.davidduke.com/general/letter-to-the-courageous-former-israeli-gilad-atzmon_24245.html
Dear Gilad,
As usual Gilad, you write such fine articles exposing the evil of Zionism and Jewish supremacism. I do want to clarify a couple things that I imagine you have already considered.
1. A very small minority of influential Jews oppose immigration into European populated nations. And all of them who oppose immigration does so for one reason. Their opposition is not born of the detrimental effects of it on the indigenous people of our nations, but only from considerations of how Muslim immigration affects Jewish goals, political and social power and policies toward Israel. Most of them are busy manipulating Europeans, such as that Jewish-influenced Norwegian puppet, Breivik, to oppose only Muslim immigration while supporting all the other immigration from the Third World. At the same moment they support Israel fanatically, which of course is the opposite of real national spirit and solidarity of the people among whom these Jews dwell. Because they are essentially telling people that they must put in the interests of Israel ahead of their own nations and people, even to the point of enduring terrorism for Israel.
2.The vast majority of influential Jews who hold real power in Media, politics, academia, and finance are hell bent to promote massive immigration of all types. They receive great pleasure from every degeneration and degradation of the European people. They are exampled by the Jewish porn kings who openly boast how they are purposely degrading the Gentile enemy and subverting the ethical values of the European Christian people. They also celebrate and make cool, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual degeneracy in their “mainstream media,” and yes, we shouldn’t forget how they promote making White miscegenation with non-Whites a fashionable moral imperative, even though it is a genocidal destruction of the expression of White diversity on this planet. When combined with low White birthrates and massive immigration it is devastating. The existential threat to the Western World hardly touches the great mass of Asians in China and Japan or the Africans in Africa. Only Whites are supposed to solve the race problem by genetically exterminating their seed from the planet.
Ultimately, all this is reflective of the good cop, bad cop routine, and we Europeans are the object of the charade. Jews lead almost every destructive element in the Western World, from immigration to sexual degeneracy, to drugs and alcohol abuse, to White Slavery and organized crime, and the huge theft of the Zionist banksters such as the leaders of the Federal Reserve and IMF. They lead the cult of selfishness, materialism, and egotism as compared to altruism and idealism.
Our own people are told that the tiny minority of “conservative Jews” are the ones to save us from what their own brethren are doing to us, but actually these conservatives support their own brethren materially and morally and they are entirely dedicated to Jewish power which results in the nefarious destructive policies of America and the West.
The truth is, Gilad, they hate the European people many times more than the Muslims, who the overwhelming majority of powerful Jews see disdainfully as a woefully impotent enemy. They will not be happy until they see every last European either dead or dissolved in the rising brown sea. They believe they can eventually control all Arab politics as they did Mubarak, and as they do Turkey today, which whose leaders despite occasional public protestations, are lackeys of Zionism. They have openly stated that they believe Jewish media such as Zionist Rothstein’s MTV can corrupt and degenerate Muslims just has it has done to Europeans.
The truth is they want to create more Zionist trolls such as Breivik, for idiots like Breivik are schooled in the Jewish terrorist way at looking at things. Creeps like Breivik embody traditional Jewish hatred of their enemies and commit evil and unspeakable acts of violence, often against our own people.
The 90 percent Jewish power base can use this violence to demonize and brainwash our people into believing that the genocide of the European people is a good and moral thing and resisting it is the epitome of evil. Perhaps even more importantly, Jewish extremists are the ones behind the increasing Globalist hegemony and shrinking human rights in European populated nations. As you know, Jewish extremists have led the fight to criminalize opinion, limit and restrict political discourse, and generally constrict the democratic and personal rights of Western citizens in many nations. Acts such as Breivik’s lead directly to more suppression.
Jewish Commies and Jewish Neocons: Good cop bad cop.
They keep the conflict boiling, divide and conquer, and in the process are eliminating the longest and most hated enemy of the Jewish people, the European Christians.
To these Jewish extremists, Europeans are not humanists as people might characterize the proto-European Charles Dickens, but are anti-Semites, just as Dickens is hated by them for encapsulating evil and corruption in the hook nose of Fagin.
Jews, of course, are not completely monolithic, but please understand the Jews lead the two most influential movements in the world which are commonly characterized as being in fundamental conflict with each other, Radical Zionism and the radical Marxism that embraces Feminism, and Egalitarianism.
As you have pointed out these “humanitarian, Marxist Jews” have carefully led the anti-Zionist discourse to avoid the fundamental issues of Jewish supremacism and racism, terror and murder.
I am a European who respects all other peoples and who wants, nay demands, that my own people are allowed to live and flourish in its unique expressions of form, and life and culture; in a harmonious society reflective of our people’s soul and spirit. Jewish Supremacism, under the banner of Marxist Egalitarianism such as the mass murderers Lenin and Trotsky, and the their Jewish ideological descendants in the cultural Marxist movements of today – seek to rule over all the earth and end independence and all real freedom.
The true patriots of our people don’t see any Jewish extremist “good cops,” only bad ones, and the sad truth is that very few people of Jewish descent, such as yourself, dare to carve out a moral platform dedicated only to truth and fairness that goes even beyond the flesh and blood.
As you have pointed out so well with the Jewish corruption of the so-called Anti-Zionist Movement, please understand that for these radical Jews, destruction of European heritage and loyalty is a weapon they use to divide and conquer. Multiculturalism is a weapon for Jewish supremacism. Immigration is means to divide and conquer ,and they are already using its bad effects to garner support for Israel from unsuspecting European people.
It is my task to warn the world of this Trojan Horse before there are many more Breiviks and the immense damage and evil they cause our people.
Best to You,
David Duke
H/t: Bob, commenting at That Place
What a load of pretentious pseudo-academic bullshit…
…from that waste of space Lennie “Seymour” Tombstone.
“The thrust of this article, focusing on the UK, will be that the Right has so far had the initiative because it has successfully piloted a series of ideological articulations that speak to a certain neoliberal ”common sense” and thus plausibly explain and offer solutions to the crisis. These articulations mediate between popular discontent (manifested in loathing of the bankers, distrust of the parliamentary process, and fear of penury) and ruling class imperatives. This strategy is obviously not limited to the Right: the Democrats in the US and social democratic parties in Europe perform a classically ”transformist” role, absorbing the elements of dissatisfaction among subaltern groups, expunging their oppositional content, and incorporating them into a politics of the pro-capitalist centre. Nonetheless, it is the Right that has played the dominant role in securing the ”austerity” narrative, tailed by the center and center-left. This shouldn’t be surprising. In organic crises, the forces best equipped to adapt and re-deploy are those of the ruling class and its allied parties.
“For the Left to win, it needs to find adequate modes of political organization and an appropriate series of ideological mediations that explain the crisis, mobilize points of discontent and maintain the unity of the anti-austerity alliance. This should not be seen as opposed to ”industrial” struggles; rather, it will have a formative, organizing role in the economic class struggle, ensuring that localized conflicts are generalized (rather than isolated in a way that allows them to be picked off one by one by the ruling class), and giving the working class a chance to move into a ”hegemonic” moment in which it both leads and incorporates the interests and perspectives of allied groups. In none of the advanced capitalist states are revolutionary groups currently in a position to challenge for leadership of the working class – far from it – but they should be ready to take the initiative in alliance with sections of the social democratic left, as well as the left-of-social-democratic left…”
There was a time when SWP’ers thought it important to relate to the working class. No longer, it would seem…
You can bet on some things
There’s no surer way of looking foolish than making predictions, so I don’t usually risk it. However, here’s one I got right.
I wrote a piece about Spiked on 12 October 2010:-
The masses, working class and sturdy proles are useful bricks which Spiked always keep at hand to hurl at the dismissive liberals. I haven’t yet come across a piece about the liberal fear of and contempt for the EDL only shows how cut off they are from the English masses, but it must be out there somewhere.
The answer is that, for many liberal campaigners, this 90-second interview with one ‘thick EDL bastard’ represents the views and the intelligence of the EDL in general. Far from going on a march and speaking to EDL supporters about their views to understand them better, this one short internet clip is seen as enough to confirm all their smug prejudices: EDL members are badly dressed, incoherent, pissed-up yobs whose anger is more bestial than human.
This video does reflect the reactionary nature of the EDL outlook. Seemingly unable to make sense of the undoubted isolation and demonisation of the white working-class community and its traditions, EDL members blame outsiders – mostly Muslims – for making Britain feel more foreign. Yet instead of seeking to tease out what fuels this reactionary outlook amongst some sections of the disenfranchised white working classes, liberal anti-EDL campaigners have had a field day with it. It is nothing less than confirmation of their political and cosmopolitan superiority over the uneducated, provincial lower orders.
There are some things you can bet on.
H/t Mod for the pic. I find this demonstration of a “reactionary outlook amongst some sections of the disenfranchised white working classes” repellent. But then I’m a superior, cosmopolitan cow.
Mieville of Pseuds Corner
“Mieville has just launched into a serious discussion of the effects of consumerism on culture when the doorbell rings. He bounds down the stairs like a man possessed – an accessory for his new iPad has just been delivered.
“‘What’re you going to do, consumerism, well, you’ve got to buy stuff to live,’ he explains rather sheepishly, fondling the surprisingly enormous cardboard box. ‘And sometimes when that stuff is just so lovely … you have to surrender, I suppose.
“I ask if he and the box would like to be alone together for a while. Mieville seems to consider the proposition for an agonising split second, before deciding that the politics of storytelling are just too important. He pours tea from a silver teapot and calms down a little.
“‘You can’t escape narrative, and as a culture we need to think so much harder about how stories are deployed politically,” he explains. “Narratives can be very powerful without convincing anybody.”
Laurie Penny interviews science fiction author, SWP’er and intergalactic-standard pseud and poseur China Mieville for the Morning Star. Read the rest, here. If you can be bothered.
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On the subject of pseuds, poseurs and the like, Yer Man From Brockley has come up with his list of bad influences on the left:
But he’s also named some good ‘uns and some who deserve to be better known. And he’s invited us all to join in…
