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The secret word is Finally
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
WE’RE STILL PAYING FOR THE COLD WAR
Now The Rapture’s failed and we’ve all had a god laugh at the expense of the God-fearin’ I guess it’s time to get serious. This story by Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker gave me food for though and I pass it along in the hope of providing you with the same.
"It's the end of the Second World War, and the United States is deciding what to do about two immense, poor, densely populated countries in Asia. America chooses one of the countries, becoming its benefactor. Over the decades, it pours billions of dollars into that country's economy, training and equipping its military and its intelligence services. The stated goal is to create a reliable ally with strong institutions and a modern, vigorous democracy. The other country, meanwhile, is spurned because it forges alliances with America's enemies. The country not chosen was India, which 'tilted' toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Pakistan became America's protégé, firmly supporting its fight to contain Communism. The benefits that Pakistan accrued from this relationship were quickly apparent: in the nineteen-sixties, its economy was an exemplar. India, by contrast, was a byword for basket case. Fifty years then went by. What was the result of this social experiment? India has become the state that we tried to create in Pakistan. It is a rising economic star, militarily powerful and democratic, and it shares American interests. Pakistan, however, is one of the most anti-American countries in the world, and a covert sponsor of terrorism. Politically and economically, it verges on being a failed state. And, despite Pakistani avowals to the contrary, America's worst enemy, Osama bin Laden, had been hiding there for years - in strikingly comfortable circumstances - before U.S. commandos finally tracked him down and killed him, on May 2nd." (Click here for the whole thing)
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The secret word is Dogma
DOC40’S SIGNS OF CATAPOCALYPSE #1
We are monitoring this very carefully. We are afraid. We may yet be very afraid.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
Sausage and mash in the pub with some of my co-conspirators and dearest friends. A yeoman lunch as I marshal my venerable resources and make Anglo-Zen preparation for the coming week of musical rehearsal – plus a little light writing and tidying up my new poetry collection for the guys who are going to publish it. (But more about that later.) Now we’re determined to do the once-and-future rama-lama, there’s no option but to do it good. We have to put in the time and we have to amaze. What else is there to say?
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The secret word is Prepared
GRATUITOUS FINN
He’s dropping hints about having his own website. But it may be another move in catapocalypse. (Pic by Hipspinster)
JUST PLAIN AMAZING
German photographer Markus Reugels specializes in high-speed photography, and captures a lot of images of water drops. By adding chemicals to the water and raising his shutter speed to one sixteen thousandth of a second, he’s been able to take some truly gorgeous images. (Click here for more images)
Saturday, May 21, 2011
GOD SEZ – “YOU AIN’T GOING NOWHERE”
So okay. No Rapture, no Day of Judgement, no precipitation into Infinite Nothingness. To quote the great Nelson Munz, “Ha-ha!” Life goes on as usual for a Saturday and I would really recommend that the God-fearing should perhaps shut the fuck up for a while after getting this one so massively wrong. Let’s not hear any more demented crap about Creation Science, Armageddon, or the fetus having a soul for at least a couple of months.
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The secret words are Screwed and Up
NOW WE CAN CONCENTRATE ON THE CATAPOCALYPSE
This vital link about the Feline Insurrection comes from our pal Elf Hellion who knows whereof she speaks. Click here to lean what your cat has in store for you.
Friday, May 20, 2011
ONE DAY LEFT
So The Rapture is scheduled for tomorrow at 6.00pm (all time zones) and, while hugely enjoying the prospect, I’m just biding my time for the moment and going about my pagan business. The fun can start after the Christians are out of here.
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The secret word is Glee
Thursday, May 19, 2011
IN SPAIN THEY’RE MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE
This is the real globalization, comrades!
"Spain’s people’s movement has finally awoken, la Puerta del Sol in Madrid is now the country’s Tahrir Square, and the ‘Arab Spring’ has been joined by what is now bracing to become a long ‘European Summer’. As people across the Arab world continue their popular struggle for justice, peace and democracy, Spain’s disillusioned citizens have finally caught on with full force. Slow at first, hopeful that Spain’s dire economic conditions would magically correct themselves, the Spanish street has finally understood that democratic and economic justice and peace will not come from the pulpits of the country’s corrupt political elite. Amidst local and regional election campaigns, with the banners of the different political parties plastered across the country’s streets, people are saying ‘enough!’ Disillusioned youth, unemployed, pensioners, students, immigrants and other disenfranchised groups have emulated their brothers in the Arab world and are now demanding a voice – demanding an opportunity to live with dignity." (Click here for more)
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The secret word is Rise
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
WE HAVE THE BAND BACK TOGETHER
No, actually that’s Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, who were younger and better looking, but we have the advantage of being still alive, although so far lacking suitable photographs. The band is (for the moment) working under the collective name “Mick Farren & The Last Men Standing” and that comprises Russell Hunter, Duncan (Sandy) Sanderson, and Andy Colquhoun – all former Deviants and Pink Fairies – Tim Rundall and Jaki Windmill (formerly of Space Ritual) and, of course your humble servant. Serious rehearsals are underway and the immediate goal is Glastonbury Fayre where we’ll be playing on the 1971 Stage at 5.40pm on Saturday June 25th. But, before that, we’ll be doing a couple of warmups. The first is around 2pm on Sunday June 5th , upstairs at the Prince Albert on Trafalgar Street in Brighton where Andy Colquhoun and I will be doing our poetry and electric guitar madness, and may well be joined by the fine slide of Tim Rundall. Then, on Friday, June 17th. the entire band will be doing a special show, again in Brighton, at The Hydrant, Preston Circus, London Rd for all those who can’t make it to Glastonbury. That’s the plan so far. More details will show up here and on Facebook as showtime draws nearer.
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The secret word is Future
FREE VIRTUAL HAMSTER
I lifted this from Dangerous Minds because it was so cute and adorable and I mindlessly played with it for hours. (Well, minutes.)
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
AMAZINGLY, THE NEWS IS GOOD
“KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan bill that mandated the death penalty for gays who are "repeat offenders" appeared to have been shelved again on Friday when it was not debated in parliament after provoking an international outcry. Parliament speaker Edward Ssekandi dissolved the house on Friday and said there was not enough time to debate the bill. A new parliament is to be sworn in on Wednesday. "I think we expected that this would happen," an lawmaker who did not want to be named, told Reuters. "The pressure had been too much over the last two years. It had to disappear."
And the odious (but not actually hell-spawned) Donald Trump will not be running for President.
“Donald Trump has confirmed today he will not run for President in the 2012 election. The announcement comes one week after he fell from first placed candidate to tied fifth place among Republicans in a survey by the Public Policy Polling organisation. The 64-year-old real estate mogul kept America guessing for months over whether he would run for the 2012 Republican nomination, among intense media speculation. His statement was made as NBC unveiled its new primetime schedule to advertisers, which has intensified speculation that his whole campaign was a big publicity stunt.” (Image from MrMR)
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The secret word is Hallelujah
Gwen Earl – RIP
ARE YOU READY FOR CATAPOCALYPSE?
Once we feared the godless commies, but now we must fear…CATS! (Finn has promised me safe conduct, but do I believe him?
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Cats here for cats in tanks
Monday, May 16, 2011
THE RULES DON’T APPLY
In case you’ve missed the gist of the unfolding scandal this the latest…
“NEW YORK – Dominique Strauss-Kahn's reputation with women earned him the nickname "the great seducer," and not even an affair with a subordinate could knock the International Monetary Fund leader off a political path pointed in the direction of the French presidency. All that changed with charges that he sexually assaulted a maid in his hotel room, a case that generated shock and revulsion, especially in his home country. Police said the maid picked Strauss-Kahn out of a lineup. Unless the charges are quickly dropped, they could destroy his chances in a presidential race that is just starting to heat up. The IMF, which plays a key role in efforts to control the European debt crisis, named an acting leader and said it remains "fully functioning and operational" despite Saturday's arrest. Strauss-Kahn's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told The Associated Press that his client will plead not guilty. He and another lawyer went in and out of the Harlem police precinct where Strauss-Kahn was being held early Sunday afternoon, and declined to answer reporters' questions until the arraignment, which was expected later Sunday. He denies all the charges against him," Brafman said. "And that's all I can really say right now." Brafman is one of the city's most high-profile defense attorneys. His clients have included mobsters and such celebrities as Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and ex-New York Giants star Plaxico Burress. Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested less than four hours after the alleged assault, plucked from first class on a Paris-bound Air France flight that was just about to leave the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport.”
I find it close to stunning that every media commentator and pundit I have read seems more interested in how Strauss-Kahn’s arrest will effect world business in general and the current European debt bailouts in particular. Few if any have reflected on how this son-of-a-bitch, at the top of the global power elite, has an almost medieval attitude to ordinary people. So he wants to rape the maid in his $3000 a night New York hotel room? No moral problem. So he maybe went a little too far? Hop a Air France flight at JFK and get the fuck out of there first class. So how do we expect this bastard to treat the impoverished population of a country crippled by capitalist created debt? I have a bad feeling that only a small corner of the curtain has been lifted and revealed just a tiny glimpse of what swine those in control really are.
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The secret word is Contempt
AND HERE’S ANOTHER ONE
Rand Paul is named for Ayn Rand and his Republican idiot mindset is the reason the USA is declining and falling faster than the Roman Empire. Unfortunately he may want to be president.
“With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies,” the senator said. “It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me.”
“It means you believe in slavery,” Paul added. “It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.”
“Basically, once you imply a belief in a right to someone’s services — do you have a right to plumbing? Do you have a right to water? Do you have right to food? — you’re basically saying you believe in slavery.”
“I’m a physician in your community and you say you have a right to health care,” Paul continued. “You have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That’s ultimately what the right to free health care would be.”
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IRON SKY – A NEW TEASER
Because of our perverse fondness for Nazi flying saucers, we’ve been following progress of the movie Iron Sky for some time now. Here’s a synopsis and a new teaser…
“As World War II comes to an end in 1945, Hans Kammler and other German scientists make a breakthrough in anti-gravity research. From a secret base in the Antarctic, Nazi spaceships are sent to the "dark side" of the Moon to establish the military base "Schwarze Sonne." Their plan is to build a powerful fleet and return to conquer Earth. The film is set in the year 2018 when their descendants finally return.”
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
Around the time of the LA riots, I wrote the line “is it a new day dawning or just another city on fire?” For once I feel it may be a new day dawning. It might just be a result of having finally had a really good night’s (and half a day’s) sleep but I am filled with a quite unusual sense of optimism. Just because the known-world seems to be in windmill panic and teetering on lips of the abyss doesn’t mean that we have necessarily to fall into it. And even if we do, it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the plunge like one of those extreme theme-park rides that seek to thrill us by means of a fear/adrenaline/gravity rush. Or maybe this is all a result of a kind of geezer recklessness because – at my age and in my condition – there really isn’t that much to lose (as long as someone cares for Finn should I miscalculate) and that, as the peach-drunk Pearl long ago informed us, is a definition of freedom.
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The secret word is Next
FUKUSHIMA CHIC
Don’t laugh too hard. Doom is never too distant and the atom barons are doing their damnedest to make the story go away and get back to nuke business and nuke profits as usual.
Friday, May 13, 2011
NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED SHORTLY
Before Blogger exploded again this morning I had resolved to take a couple of days off. Which is probably just as well since yesterday's post has now completely vanished. I expect I'll be back tomorrow. Sunday at the latest. In the meantime click here for the amazing dancing cows.
The secret word is Later
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
JUST ELEVEN DAYS TO GO
I just love end of the world scenarios. I’ve lived through Nostradamus and 1999, and Y2K and now there’s all this stuff about the Day of Judgment on May 21st. The great thing about doomsaying is that, for me, it’s a win-win situation. If we survive, I get to laugh without mercy at the doomsayers. If we don’t survive, who cares? But let’s get past this and on the big one in December 2012.
"The End of the World has been foretold time and time again, but this time it’s for real. Well, according to Brian Haubert and a small group of true believers, anyway. They claimed that hidden in the Bible are some clues that the world will end May 21, 2011. NPR’s Weekend Edition takes a peek inside the Judgment Day movement (and the radio show behind the latest J-date):
"I’ve crunched the numbers, and it’s going to happen," he says.
Haubert says the Bible contains coded "proofs" that reveal the timing. For example, he says, from the time of Noah’s flood to May 21, 2011, is exactly 7,000 years. Revelations like this have changed his life.
"I no longer think about 401(k)s and retirement," he says. "I’m not stressed about losing my job, which a lot of other people are in this economy. I’m just a lot less stressed, and in a way I’m more carefree."
He’s tried to warn his friends and family. They think he’s crazy. And that saddens him."Oh, it’s very hard," he says. "I worry about friends and family and loved ones. But I guess more recently, I’m just really looking forward to it."
Haubert is 33 and single. Brown is married with several young children, and none of them shares his beliefs. It’s caused a rift with his wife — but he says that, too, was predicted in the Bible."God says, ‘Do you love husband or wife over me? Do you love son or daughter over me?’ There is a test. There is a trial here that the believers are going through. It’s a fiery trial."
As May 21 nears, Brown says he feels as if he’s on a "roller coaster." What if he is raptured but his family is left behind?
"I’m crying over my loved ones one minute; I’m elated the next minute," he says. "It’s all over the place."
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The secret word is Pathos
Monday, May 09, 2011
BATH SALTS?
Okay, I’ll go along with toad licking but becoming homicidal and mindless by snorting bath salts seems well beyond even my perverse sense of fun. (All this good stuff and the music too comes from UK Steve.)
“From what I understand, there is a new drug on the streets, making ppls lives' worse, killing people, and driving people so see even 'crazier hallucinations' than LSD. The drug has the opportunity to 'tear thru communities' even faster than the popular poor person drug "meth." Here is the sweet, shocking 'sensational' intro that tells the story of a dudebro cutting his own face off.
“When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Snow, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.”
From the Deep South to California, emergency calls are being reported over exposure to the stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV. Sold under such names as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning and Hurricane Charlie, the chemicals can cause hallucinations, paranoia, a rapid heart rate and suicidal thoughts, authorities say. In addition to bath salts, the chemicals can be found in plant foods that are sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet. However, they aren't necessarily being used for the purposes on the label.”
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The secret word is Baffled
Big George Webley – RIP
THE FROZDICK FAMILY
Buzz Frozdick (third from left) would sit in bars and stare at Charlie Bukowski for hours on end.
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