who is this John Gault, anyway?

My answer to the American Right's criticism of Socialised Healthcare

2009-07-26T18:32:00.002+01:00

The American right say that socialised health care(eg NHS) is Socialist, it probably is, I say Better Red Then Dead. [feel free to copy]

I might start using this blog again, depends how I feel in the next few weeks, if I do I will give an update on my health & social situation.

Health Update

2008-01-16T23:10:00.000Z

If you are regular reader of this blog you will remember in March I said I was experiencing difficulties with my mental health, these difficulties continued and came to a head in early October. I'm not gonna describe here various incidents that occurred throughout the majority of 2007. Surfice to say I did stuff that I am now not proud of and I really wish I could undo the damage I caused but I know I can't, part of the damage I have caused has occurred on this blog and the Guardian Comment Is Free Website.

But first off I will re-assert the sentiments I produced in reference to the Trump planned golf course, so I still stand by them. The article that shows best how I was coming unstuck at the end of September and the beginning of October is "I was gonna post more articles...." and shortly before that I posted a fairly disturbing idea on how to stop climate change which I now realise was taking it too far, the articles in question were "BBC drops climate special" and "The great global coal rush puts us on the fast track to irreversible disaster.", I also realise now that I spoilt the film Twevle Monkeys for people yet to see it. I'm not going to take or modify the articles in question because I would like this blog to chart my life, beliefs and ideas in fairly accurate way.

I would just to like to finish by saying I've been pretty level and calm & centred since mid December.

Trees absorbing less CO2 as world warms, study finds

2008-01-03T17:48:00.000Z

· Shorter winters weaken forest 'carbon sinks'
· Data analysis reverses scientists' expectations

Oil price hits $100 a barrel for the first time

2008-01-03T17:45:00.000Z

The Article

Selfish capitalism is bad for our mental health

2008-01-03T17:41:00.001Z

The growth in relative materialism over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on the wellbeing of English-speaking nations

Is this the big one?

2008-01-03T17:38:00.001Z

It is 15 years since Britain last suffered a recession. But now the housing market is slumping, oil prices are soaring and a credit crisis is paralysing the banking world. Are the conditions right for a 'perfect economic storm'? Larry Elliott reports

Happy New Year!!

2008-01-03T17:36:00.000Z

Just a quick post to say Happy New Year before I put up some articles for you to read.

Merry Christmas!!!

2007-12-25T23:28:00.000Z

Hello this is just a post wishing glad tidings to all(even those who violently disagree with my left wing views[At least I think I'm of the left correct me if I'm wrong]) who read my blog and here's hoping for a great 2008, personally I'm hoping the whole of 2008 for me will be like my February 07 which I spent in New Zealand(where I was born) which was fucking dead ace(as an old school mate would say).

A MESSAGE TO ABERDEENSHIRE COUNCIL

2007-12-12T18:12:00.000Z

My response to the firing of Councillor Matrin Ford as head of the planning committee over the rejection of The Trump proposal:

YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN WEAK-WILLED MONEY-GRUBBING MOTHERFUCKING CUNTS!!!

A MESSAGE TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT TRUMP IN HIS PLANS TO DESTROY A BEAUTIFUL LOCALE IN THE NORTH EAST OF SCOTLAND.

2007-12-04T18:36:00.000Z

IF YOU SUPPORT TRUMP IN HIS PLANS TO BUILD A GOLF COURSE ON A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE SITE THE NEXT FEW WORDS ARE FOR YOU: "YOU ARE A SHORT-SIGHTED WANKER."

NOTE: Don't get me wrong I would love to see something developed in the North East to attract tourism but there is no need to destroy natural beauty to build a tourist attraction.

Supporting Sustainable Aberdeenshire - No to Trump

Videos of the Rizarty Bay Sounds Night

2007-11-27T20:57:00.000Z

Chris Marr kicked off the evening with a magical set of acoustic numbers.

Some stomping bag pipe playing going on here by Archie. My uncle Barry playing guitar along with him but you can't hear anything over the bag pipes.

The legendary bothy ballad champion singing The Bonnie Lasses o' Fyvie. From an evening of live Scottish music at The Bay Hotel, Rosehearty

The legendary bothy ballad champion singing The Randy Piper and a few other ditties. From an evening of live Scottish music in memory of Gavin Gault at The Bay Hotel, Rosehearty.

The legendary bothy ballad champion with his mouth music.

An impromptu jam including The Skye Boat Song and the Gay Gordons. My DV tape ran out so the end of the song is cut short slightly. Photographs are of Pitsligo Castle, Rosehearty,

Rounding off the evening nicely with the Road tae Dundee & a few other tunies from Carol on flute and Gordon on the violin.

Earthman Video for Rootless Production Animated by Ross Sharp

2007-11-27T20:55:00.000Z

'Root' the alien crashes on Earth, bringing a corrupt digital virus with him. Can he cure mankind, make it back home, and still find time to enjoy some bangin' tunes while he's here?

Animated music video for 'Earthman' by dLUDEd/Rootless Productions. Design and animation by SoulCatchFire.

www.soulcatchfire.com
www.rootlessproductions.com

Sorry for not posting for over a month...

2007-11-27T20:45:00.000Z

...The reason I haven't posted since the end of September is because I had a nearly psychotic episode at the beginning of October, I say nearly because though I didn't get any delusions as such I did become quite self absorbed and at one point quite destructive & morose at the same time, also I felt like I did in early summer 2000 when I was entering my major psychotic episode and with all that happening my medication got trebled over a 3 week period & I seem to be settling down again but the only trouble is I seem to be very creatively blocked but I'll take that if it means I will stay relatively stable and sane.

Also I'll just say, I should be posting regularly from now on but maybe not as much as before.

I was gonna post more articles.....

2007-09-26T02:04:00.000+01:00

I was gonna post more articles at this session but I'm so fucking fucked off with my web browser constantly reloading for adverts on the Guardian, I'm gonna stop going on the Guardian site for now because the constant activity at the bottom of my browser window when I'm on the Guardian site is really starting to fucking agitate me to the point I want to hit my computer very hard and that's all because of those fuck-wits who think they are marketing wiz-kids by using the latest scripts when they are designing web adverts that are constantly causing people hassle trying to multi task on their computers, these fuck-wits are the reason why my computer slows right down for just having a lot of tabs open on advert laden sites which are otherwise static except for those fucking adverts.

I'm with the god Bill Hicks when it comes to marketing and advertising:

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show.

"You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!"

The tragedy of Dan Rather

2007-09-26T02:01:00.000+01:00

The former news anchor is suing CBS for $70m. It's not the first time he's had to defend his reputation in court.

Insulting our intelligence

2007-09-26T01:46:00.000+01:00

Our prime minister's own words on a TV show last weekend perfectly illustrate the fact that he fears and despises the rest of us.

'No homosexuality here'

2007-09-26T01:42:00.000+01:00

The Iranian president's claims are difficult to sustain, faced with a centuries-old tradition of homoerotic themes in Persian and Arabic literature.

In global warming we trust

2007-09-26T01:34:00.000+01:00

To call someone a 'believer' is a very curious term of abuse in the context of climate change.

Controversial company hired to get disabled people off benefit

2007-09-26T01:33:00.002+01:00

The Article

Ouch Blog Entry: Adult with disability or oversized child: who decides?

2007-09-26T01:33:00.001+01:00

The Blog entry

An old word for a growing problem by Tom Shakespeare

2007-09-26T01:31:00.000+01:00

In recent months, a series of deeply disturbing stories have hit the media. In each case, a vulnerable and lonely person is befriended and exploited by a group of people who proceed to torture him to death. The common feature of these horrific crimes was that the victim was disabled.

Pyjama Girl and the lost decade by Liz Main

2007-09-26T01:19:00.000+01:00

It's my birthday this week, and I'm turning a number that ends with 0. The big 4-0. Telling people you are turning 40 seems to be almost as risky as telling them you have a mental health problem - cue the friend today whose response was "Oh no. Poor you, that's terrible". - says Liz Main

This one of the few articles on Ouch that I can completely relate to because I've kind of lost the years between late 2000 to the beginning of 2003 almost completely and I'm still not experiencing life fully even though I'm in better mental health than anytime over the last 17 years, I say 17 years because when I was in the last year and two thirds of Primary School I had an almost normal childhood, mostly due to the fact of there being a friendly and inclusive atmosphere at my first school in Scotland & yes it was mainstream.

The annual assessment game by Liz Carr

2007-09-26T01:18:00.000+01:00

"Autumn is here, and whilst to most people that means the nights are drawing in, the leaves are changing and the weather is becoming cooler, to me it means just one thing - it's time for my annual Social Services review." - Says Liz Carr

13 Questions: Elyn Saks

2007-09-26T01:17:00.000+01:00

Dr. Elyn R. Saks is a professor at schools of both law and medicine in California, and is also research clinic associate at a new Center for Psychoanalysis. She has a particular interest in the law in relation to those with a severe mental illness, and serves on the boards of a number of mental health foundations. Author of a variety of books and academic publications, Dr. Saks has just released a very personal account, The Centre Cannot Hold: a Memoir Of My Schizophrenia, and is the latest person to answer Ouch's 13 Questions.

Unjust punishment

2007-09-26T00:17:00.000+01:00

Chris Langham is being bullied in jail: unsurprising in a system where intimidation dominates and the vulnerable suffer

Backing the bombers

2007-09-12T19:08:00.000+01:00

Martin Amis asks today why so many 'liberal relativists' take Osama bin Laden's side. It's not such a bad question.

Crack the shell of Brown's new politics and out crawl the same old maggots

2007-09-12T19:07:00.000+01:00

The push for participatory democracy has the disturbing whiff of an Astroturf campaign - a fake grassroots movement

Union demise is plain to see in the yawning wealth gap

2007-09-12T19:06:00.000+01:00

With the lack of any powerful force to stand up for workers, Brown should order an inquiry into income distribution

More on The Shock Doctrine

2007-09-12T02:49:00.000+01:00

Mirco Site

To sum up on my feelings towards the US...

2007-09-12T02:42:00.000+01:00

To sum up on my feelings towards the US, I think these lyrics say it best:

Hilary Duff - Stranger lyrics

Obiviously not every line goes for my feelings but you get the jist of my feelings from this song.

Divided we stand

2007-09-12T02:27:00.001+01:00

It's common to blame the end of post-9/11 unity in the US on the invasion of Iraq. But it was really down to the political misuse of 9/11 by people like Karl Rove.

Selling sex is a choice

2007-09-12T02:26:00.001+01:00

Criminalising men who use prostitutes won't help women find another means of earning a wage

THE BATTLE IS LOST!!!!!!

2007-09-12T02:08:00.000+01:00

After reading & watching all this stuff to do with The Shock Doctrine and thinking over the influence(political and most importantly economic) that the US Establishment has had on the world. I do now here declare that "My losing battle of not hating America" has in fact been lost, I don't hate many things but I now do hate the US Establishment & it will take a lot of back pedalling and actually living up to your(America) so called Christian values to get me to even just be neutral to American mainstream ideology, I say mainstream because I still like the stuff that Fox news rails against & the ideals that the Christian right-wing nut jobs would love to see banned.

The shock doctrine

2007-09-12T01:02:00.001+01:00

Her explosive new book exposes the lie that free markets thrive on freedom. In our first exclusive extract, the No Logo author reveals the business of exploiting disaster

Naomi Klein on her book

2007-09-12T00:54:00.000+01:00

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 1 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 2 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 3 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 4 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 5 of 6

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 6 of 6

Shock effects

2007-09-12T00:53:00.000+01:00

The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein's thesis of how the free market exploits crises to accelerate its agenda is spot on when it comes to hurricane Katrina.

The limits of belief

2007-09-12T00:48:00.000+01:00

Until Christopher Hitchens seeks out and engages with the most sophisticated religious thinkers, his critique will not be complete.

Most Britons ignorant about carbon offsetting

2007-09-12T00:47:00.001+01:00

The Article

What's your excuse?

2007-09-12T00:43:00.000+01:00

What, asks Leo Hickman, is the best excuse you've heard not to do your bit?

Move to identify climate change security hotspots

2007-09-12T00:40:00.001+01:00

The Article

Can we fight terrorism by reducing CO2 emissions?

2007-09-12T00:34:00.000+01:00

David Adam asks if the fight against terrorism needs to focus on the environment

Should you have a choice to choose?

2007-09-12T00:28:00.001+01:00

Leo Hickman asks should environmentally harmful products be 'edited' off the consumer menu?

BBC funding debate: why BBC2 & BBC4 should merge

2007-09-05T18:09:00.000+01:00

The Opinion Piece

When I saw the title of this piece, I was thinking don't kill BBC4 but the tone of the piece is more of a let BBC4 take over BBC2 but call the result BBC2 (kind of like the whole Bank Of Scotland taking over Halifax situation.

BBC drops climate change special

2007-09-05T18:00:00.000+01:00

The Article

Note to the BBC: You spineless cunts, When did presenting scientific facts become being biased. Also I think it is the BBC's job to do what's best for this country and I think doing a whole day about climate change would of been a really good move. I suspect the people opposed do this were got at by the sceptics(who [the sceptics] BTW I hope die a horrible horrible very slow deaths.)

Research boom in Arctic village as oil reserves draw big powers

2007-09-05T17:53:00.001+01:00

Countries battle for control of ocean tracts thought to be replete with fossil fuels

'We're in meltdown'

2007-09-05T17:46:00.000+01:00

Sea ice in the Arctic is approaching a record low - and the locals wear T-shirts in the summer. Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier tells Louise Johncox how climate change is threatening her people's way of life

Climate fears 'exploited for tax hikes'

2007-09-05T17:40:00.000+01:00

The Article

I disagree with this article because I think Green taxes aren't high enough because rich people aren't put off flying less for instance because of the Air Fare tax. I think the AF tax should be at least 100%. It should be not about off-setting it should be about stopping people polluting in the first place.

What are your favourite movie plot twists?

2007-09-05T17:26:00.000+01:00

Premiere magazine has posted a rundown of its top 20 plot twists. Which films would make your list?

Don't read if you are very good at figuring things out with little info & you want to see some of the films mentioned.

Our masters' voice

2007-09-05T01:16:00.001+01:00

Andrew Marr's new radio series on the English tells us more about the UK's Scottish elite than it does about England.

After reading the article, I just have to say, God the English are whiney fuckers & could the reason why there are so many Scots in UK national life be down to the fact that in Scotland intellegence is seen as an asset & that all the gubbings of the UK national life is focussed in the south-east, so any Scot that wants to make it has to move to near London or face a life in obscurity.

I should also point out that the Scots, The Northern Irish & the Welsh are the oppressed people in this UK, not the English, we(the non English [I'm Half Scottish & Half English)) have to speak your language to even get by in the UK & increasingly the world, we have to put up with you(English) claiming important UK things for your own from the Queen to the Central Bank, also blurring the distinction between England & Britain/UK so much so that people from other countries think that England & Britain/UK are interchangable, you will never know the anger of people saying that England is in Scotland for instance, when you tell them you live in England[Note: reverse that for the state of affairs at the moment]. Also you will never know the rage that is felt among Scots when Scottish things are claimed by or labelled as English, An recent example of that would be when KT Tunstall was effectively called English by Kevin Bacon at the Live Earth Concert in New York.

I think basically what I want to say is "Go Fuck yourselves if you the English think you've been horribly oppressed by the Scots, you don't know the meaning of the word oppression you arrogant cunts!"

War games by Charlie Free

2007-09-05T00:57:00.000+01:00

"I may be a mass killer when I play Max Payne 2, but that doesn't make me a violent person in real life."

Opium: curse or cure?

2007-09-05T00:46:00.000+01:00

Obsession with drug mafias and addiction has blinded western governments to a chronic shortage of pain-killing opiates.

I don't remember if I've posted much pro-street drug stuff or not, anyway I'm saying here despite not being able to use any recreational drug(legal & Illegal) for various medical & psychological reasons and feeling really uneasy around people when they are either smoking[anything] or completely wasted on something, I would die in the battle for the right of everybody to do whatever they want (I even extend this to suicide and consentual [sp] cannibialism(such as that case in Germany)) to their bodies.

The harassed strike back

2007-09-05T00:36:00.000+01:00

I have determined no longer to mutely ignore the uninvited sexual advances of strangers

Rules of attraction

2007-09-05T00:35:00.000+01:00

Intermarriage is a sensitive topic in the Jewish community - and lazy stereotypes aren't helpful, however humorous the intended effect.

This great free-market experiment is more like a corporate welfare scheme

2007-09-05T00:30:00.001+01:00

A hospital in Coventry lays bare the deceit of neoliberal logic: staff cuts, ward closures and millions to the financiers

Loss of Arctic ice leaves experts stunned

2007-09-05T00:25:00.000+01:00

The Article

My comment on this article: Jesus Fucking Christ, this is the fault of Western thought(in a round-about way.)

North-West Passage is now plain sailing

2007-09-05T00:24:00.000+01:00

The Article

Armchair Highlanders join revolt to save the TV glen

2007-09-05T00:15:00.000+01:00

Fans of BBC drama back campaign to stop power lines spoiling estate where series was set

I was ready to be opposed to the idea of this article because I mistakenly thought that the cables were gonna be used for tranmission of renewable energy and that the campaign was against the power line route full stop but since they suggesting putting the cables underground instead & the main reason is to let more people use the national grid more heavily, I fully support the CRAP pressure group.

Biofuels switch a mistake, say researchers

2007-09-05T00:14:00.000+01:00

The Article

How I feel sometimes!!!

2007-08-30T14:39:00.000+01:00

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness Lyrics:

Well, you're my friend
And can you see
Many times we've been out drinking
Many times we've shared our thoughts
But did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got
Well you know I have a love, for everyone I know
And you know I have a drive, to live I won't let go
But can you see this opposition, comes rising up sometimes
That is dread full imposition, comes blacking in my mind

And then I see a darkness
And then I see a darkness
And then I see a darkness
And then I see a darkness
Did you know how much I love you
There's a hope that somehow you
Can save me from this darkness

Well I hope that someday buddy
We'll have peace in our lives
Together or apart
Alone or with our wives
And we can stop our whoring
And pull the smiles inside
And light it up forever
And never go to sleep
My best unbeaten brother
This isn't all I see

Oh no, I see your darkness
Oh no, I see your darkness
Oh no, I see your darkness
Oh no, I see your darkness
Did you know how much I love you
There's a hope that somehow you
You'll save me from this darkness

From Unkle's Eye For An Eye:

Even now in heaven
There were angels carrying savage weapons

Does our ruin benfit to earth?
Does it help the grass to grow sunshine?
Is this darkness in you too?
Have you'd passed through this night?

Livin On The Edge By Aerosmith:

There's somethin' wrong with the world today
I don't know what it is
Something's wrong with our eyes

We're seeing things in a different way
And God knows it ain't His
It sure ain't no surprise

We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge
We're livin' on the edge

There's somethin' wrong with the world today
The light bulb's gettin' dim
There's meltdown in the sky

If you can judge a wise man
By the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man that I

We're livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge

Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion
Complication - aggravation
Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it wasn't would you still come crawlin'
Back again?
I bet you would my friend
Again & again & again & again & again

(solo)

Tell me what you think about your sit-u-a-tion
Complication - aggravation
Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin'
Even if it was would would you still come crawlin'
Back again?
I bet you would my friend
Again & again & again & again

There's something right with the world today
And everybody knows it's wrong
But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go
But I would rather be a hanging on

Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' On the Edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Livin' On the Edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself
You can't help yourself
Livin' On the Edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' On the Edge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, you got to that now

Adem - Warning Call

If we received a warning call,
Would we change at all?
Close your eyes and make believe
And tell me what you see.

Will we rise
From our sleep
Like a bolt from the blue?
Will we realise?

If they found a tube in outer space
And no-one knew who put it there.
If they looked inside and
Found out they’d lived lonely lives,
Followed by a lonesome death
They sent it hoping we would learn
They blew it here with their final breath.
They made a list of their mistakes-
It looked a lot like ours.
If it happened, do you think we’d learn?
Do you think we’d learn?

Will we rise
From our sleep
Like a bolt from the blue?
Will we realise?

If they knew how to talk through space,
And we received a warning call
Do you think we’d learn?
Would it be in vain?
Do you think we’d learn?

Let’s not end our days
Like they did on earth.

How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves

2007-08-30T13:56:00.000+01:00

A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects

The great global coal rush puts us on the fast track to irreversible disaster

2007-08-30T12:27:00.001+01:00

The dirtiest fossil fuel of all is on the resurgent, dressed in climate-friendly garb. We'd be wise not to flirt with it

I commented on the above piece which is listed in the comments under Johngault22, then some asses responded saying I should start with depopulating the world by topping myself, the comment below is my response which I guessing isn't gonna get posted on the Guardian Website probably for various legal reasons, here it is:

In Answer to why I haven't topped myself yet, there are two reasons, First off I haven't lost hope in Humanity seeing the error of their ways and secondly I wouldn't just top myself, I wouldn't either become a suicide bomber even with a Nuclear warhead I would only take out a few million at the most, no I would break into somewhere like the CDC & clean out their deadly infectous dieases and do a Twelve Monkeys on it and fly around the world releasing the infectious agents in the main Air hubs of the world, then after I'm sure that the pandemics are spreading rapidly, I would take a gun, place it in my mouth & blow my brains out, so I think you should pray I never lose hope.

NOTE: Fuck me, they did put it on their website, now I just sit back and wait for either the anti-terrorist squad or my CPN to come a calling.

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will remember in the post where I come out as an empath I note that I have a dark side well, the above is a mild example of how dark I can be sometimes. If there is a demand I could do a wee post of some my more light hearted dark thoughts, such as "They should do a reality show where all the people who applied for it were executed on life TV."

Critics of the growing pay gap are missing the point

2007-08-30T12:26:00.000+01:00

Revealing what the average chief executive earns sends an important message to aspirational and able young people

Did the 'Diana effect' really change the nation? Weren't we already confused and over-emotional?

2007-08-30T12:25:00.000+01:00

The Comment piece

BULL$#!+ - Dalai Lama by Penn & Teller

2007-08-30T12:16:00.000+01:00

I post this more in the spirit it goes against the accepted view, I think this video itself is bullshit because no country is perfect, for instance there are 45 million Americans without Health Insurance and 2 million Americans in Prison [Note: Percentage wise there are more Prisoners in America than in China.] I do accept that probably Tibet was no paradise before the Chinese Invasion but is this really the fault of the Dalai Lama because after all the organisational structure that was in place before the Chinese invasion was probably centuries old.

Small is beautiful

2007-08-30T12:15:00.000+01:00

Building up an effective national system of early years provision will take a generation, so the critics of government policy should hold their horses.

It's grim up north

2007-08-21T20:51:00.000+01:00

The speculative rush to develop gas and oil reserves under the Arctic ice could spell environmental catastrophe far beyond the pole.

Selective standards

2007-08-21T20:38:00.000+01:00

The biggest hypocrites of all are the ones who criticised people for attending the Camp for Climate Action.

Laws of emotion

2007-08-21T20:25:00.000+01:00

We must stick to the principles behind the decision to let Philip Lawrence's killer stay in England, rather than engage with his widow's feelings.

Chill, Andrew by Suzanne Moore

2007-08-21T20:23:00.000+01:00

September 11 changed the world but only as much as you already wanted it to be changed.

Fuck me look at her shoes!!! ;-) ;-) LOL

Beneath Heathrow's pall of misery, a new political movement is born by George Monbiot

2007-08-21T20:13:00.000+01:00

It was not flawless, but the climate camp was still the most democratic and best organised protest I've witnessed

Life on Daily Mail Island by Nick Angel

2007-08-21T20:12:00.000+01:00

A month spent reading the nation's leading mid-market newspaper took me into a terrifying, depressing world, filled with suspicion.

Do the drug companies takes us all for mugs?

2007-08-14T20:48:00.000+01:00

The Article is about drug companies given freebies to the Mental health services of the UK, I first noticed this happening when I started to noticed that whenever a mental health professional took out a pen it always seemed to have a medication name on it.

Raise disabled employment rate to boost economy, says report

2007-08-14T20:43:00.001+01:00

The article

Government backs campaign to end mental health stigma

2007-08-14T20:38:00.001+01:00

The Article

Learning disability campuses to close

2007-08-14T20:35:00.000+01:00

The Article

Mental health services are failing the elderly

2007-08-14T20:34:00.000+01:00

· Most with dementia or depression not diagnosed
· Age discrimination a major problem, says study

And we're rolling

2007-08-14T20:32:00.001+01:00

The new film from Martin Scorsese sees him turn once more to one of his greatest passions: rock'n'roll. And who better as his subjects than the Rolling Stones? In an exclusive interview, the great director talks to Craig McLean

Hollywood tears up script to make anti-war films while conflicts rage

2007-08-14T20:27:00.000+01:00

Tradition overturned as star-studded movies deal with Iraq and Afghanistan

Good, Americans are finally realising that they are just like the rest of the countries in the world, namely a morally and ethically flawed society.

Tony Wilson (1950-2007)

2007-08-14T20:20:00.001+01:00

FUCK, Tony will be missed

Its funny, I was first aware of him for his TV Journalism and Presenting, I only came to know his work, to do with Factory, in the mid to late 90's. One of my favourite Tony Wilson momments was when on Question Time he said basically that Terrorism is a really good method of getting your point across.[Legal Disclaimer: He said it not me, I'm just saying I thought it was a really great TV moment.]

Global warming: Met Office predicts plateau then record temperatures

2007-08-14T20:17:00.001+01:00

The Article

Dangerous species' Highland haven

2007-08-14T20:07:00.000+01:00

Millionaire granted licence to recreate Scotland's wild past on 23,000-acre estate

The rise and fall of Turd Blossom

2007-08-14T20:06:00.000+01:00

Karl Rove departs the White House as damaged goods, a divider and dirty-trickster who tried to distort US politics in his own image.

The editorials urge us to cut emissions, but the ads tell a very different story

2007-08-14T19:59:00.000+01:00

Newspaper exhortations on climate change sit uncomfortably alongside promotions for budget flights and oil companies

Prophetic/Inflamatory Levi Advert song

2007-08-09T00:36:00.000+01:00

Just a quick editors note, I've made a fuck up of my schedule this week, I hope to have time to a proper couple of links early next week, but for now consider this....

Babylon Zoo Spaceman Lyrics

Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man (intergalactic Christ)
Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man (intergalactic Christ)

Pungent smells they consummate my home
Beyond the black horizon
Trying to take control

See my girl she shivers in her bones
The sun and zenith rising
Trying to take us all

There's a fire between us
So where is your God
There's a fire between us
I can't get off the carousel
I can't get off the carousel
I can't get off the carousel
I can't get off this world

The sickening taste
Homophobic jokes
Images of fascist votes
Beam me up 'cause I can't breathe

Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man

It's time to terminate the great white world

Morbid fascinations television takes control
Decimation diffrent races fall
Electronic information tampers with your soul

There's a fire between us
So where is your God
There's a fire between us
I can't get off the carousel
I can't get off the carousel
I can't get off the carousel
I can't fall off this world
The sickening taste
Homophobic jokes
Images of fascist votes
Beam me up 'cause I can't breathe

Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man

Babylon Zoo, Babylon Zoo, Babylon Zoo, Babylon Zoo, Babylon Zoo, Babylon Zoo, Babylon Zoo

Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man (intergalactic christ)
Spaceman I always wanted you to go
Into space man (intergalactic christ)

Spaceman, Spaceman, Spaceman, Spaceman
Spaceman, Spaceman, Spaceman, Spaceman

Please Note: I consider the two different emphasis I used to be the two sides in today's climate. Where I've combined them the one time, is how I feel sometimes when thinking about the state of Humanity.

Stop doing the CBI's bidding, and we could be fossil fuel free in 20 years

2007-07-31T22:31:00.000+01:00

Prospects for renewable power are promising. But it means nothing if the public interest is drowned by corporate power

They still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies

2007-07-31T22:25:00.000+01:00

The unions will clearly take any level of Labour abuse, leaving Brown free to bank their money as he appeases the bosses

Ethical shopping is just another way of showing how rich you are

2007-07-31T22:24:00.000+01:00

The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before

Brown's contempt for democracy has dragged Britain into a new cold war

2007-07-31T22:23:00.000+01:00

The prime minister has broken his word and put us all at risk by allowing a US missile defence base on the North York Moors

Note on Comments

2007-07-09T14:38:00.001+01:00

I have been informed that the way I had the comment prefences made it very hard for people to leave comments, so I've set the comment prefences to the most open, so we will see how it goes.

Unfortunately I'm in the middle of a fortnight in Crete and have very limited access to the net, so for the next ten days people could leave any comment and if it was unsuitable it wouldn't get removed until a week Thursday, so sorry in advance for the possible spam on this blog.

Note: If you want to have some fun with this please use this post for posting: Weird, Smutty or offensive comments (If they are any good, funny or thought provoking I'll leave them on if it is just your usual internet crap they will get deleted.