Thought for the day....

Here's my thought for the day.
If you have a car,and can get the bus to work,then leave the car at home and catch the bloody bus.DON'T BE SO FUCKING LAZY!The money you save on petrol can be spent on a few beers at the local given that you don't have to drive.
P.S. Don't whinge to me about the price of petrol.
Cheers!

Corporatocracy will eat itself!

It should hardly come as a surprise that the U.S economy is dangerously close to reaping the emptiness it has sown around the world for the last seventy years or so.Big Yank money lenders move into a third world country and offer all sorts of seemingly unattainable dreams along with the requisite cash loans to finance the lauded 'march to development':-The biggest usurer the world has ever known-The World Bank-offers to lend the money to build airports,roads,hydroelectric plants and various other infrastructure essential to U.S. corporate interests,whilst simultaneously making it conditional that said contracts be awarded to massive U.S. construction firms.Net result is that the money doesnt even leave the states-it's transferred from New York directly to huge seppo construction firms in San Fran or Houston,who then move into the third world region and start work.The reality is that these firms end up owing the world bank nothing,while the impoverished nation itself is indebted to the world bank to such an outrageous extent that repayments are defaulted on within a handful of years(the sooner the better for the lender).Thats when the yanks move in and exact their pound of flesh-access to natural resources,forced acceptance of construction of oil pipelines and a whole array of other indignities ranging from supporting the U.S unquestioningly in U.N voting procedures to allowing military bases to be built on their doorstep....
......and so the cycle of poverty strengthens as it continues.We are led to believe that all economic growth is good for humanity whilst at the same time swallowing the bullshit that impoverished masses need to be exploited for our present and their future good.BULLSHIT!Of every $100 received from oil sales in Ecuador,only $2.50 is ever seen by the local peoples whose sweat has built the infrastructure,whose water is no longer potable because of rivers being dammed for electricity and the dumping of toxic waste,and whose daily income is less than $2.00.(see-Confessions of an Economic Hitman-John Perkins.)No money for schools or hospitals-nada.
Don't believe the bullshit!We are being tricked every minute of the day into thinking that we must consume consume consume because we deserve to exploit the poor nations of the earth so that we can construct a better world.We simply cant treat eachother like that! All empires crash eventually.We'll all be fucked when the rivers run dry.

An interesting read....

"If morality represents how people would like the world to work,then economics shows how it actually does work."(Levitt&Dubner-Freakonomics-A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.)
I picked this book up today and was refreshed to learn that not all economists are hamstrung by conventional wisdom(or shall we say officially sanctioned misinformation) and as such not all are trapped in a daily cycle of explaining why yesterday's predictions weren't realised, right before giving a whole new load of predictions for tomorrow-much like channel 10's Tim Bailey armed with a degree and an(even greater) inflated sense of self importance.Steven Levitt seeks to peel away the layers of superficial econo-jargon and delve directly deeper to the incentives and disincentives that govern the way we as individuals set about getting what we need and want.He argues that the major problem with conventional economic thinking is that while there are so many answers to be gained by scrutinising economic data,nobody seems to coming up with any interesting questions.
Give this book a crack people-it'll get you thinking(about greedy fat cats who are getting away with murder simply because we allow it).

The Luddite has finally arrived!

AAHH!
Now that ive finally made it here there'll be no getting rid of me.Let the subversion begin!
What pisses you off about the world we are living in?Are you happy to compete with everyone for resources whilst simultaneously strengthening the position of the current holders of capital?Do you cringe at the glaring contrasts between the opportunities of the world's impoverished many to the priveleged few?WELL SO DO I!
May we all find the strength to shine a little light into these dark corners of our existence and expose them for what they are-shameful proof of man's own inhumanity.
Fuck 'em all-call a spade a spade and be done with it!
Let's get stuck in!
Duff.