Sunday 25 July 2010

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Sewer.

Whenever I go for a drive, I end up behind a vehicle displaying the 'Help For Heroes' bumper sticker.
This shows the silhouette of two soldiers carrying a stretcher with an injured comrade.

Yes.
Once again we are told the bedtime story of how the military is about saving lives, and how to be a hero all you have to do is dedicate yourself to the legacy of Blair's lies and go off to kill people whenever you're told.
If you do get hurt, you're supposed to rely on the readers of the tabloid press to dub you a hero and cover the stench of lies and murder in heaps of paper flowers.

This is the thinking that made it possible for the Germans to murder millions and invade Europe 60 years ago, and it shouldn't belong in Britain.

Britain has an all volunteer military; in what possible universe can volunteering for fighting qualify you to whine to the Sun or the Daily Mail after you get hurt? It is no coincidence that the public boosting of the image of the military in this country has reached new levels, the less actual honour they really deserve.

The real cause of this sympathy is the blunted guilt being deflected by the criminals that abuse our military. By appearing to encourage sympathy for the British victims of their murderousness, they hoped to fasten themselves to one last streak of decency in the British people, and by doing so, exterminate it - so that they could turn around with a smile when they were found out and say it was our fault, not theirs.

Which makes the military the dupes of both domestic and foreign politics.

Tuesday 20 July 2010

They Lied, Thousands Died. But Really.

Today's testimony at the Chilcot Enquiry into the invasion of Iraq can produce only one conclusion; George W. Bush and Tony Blair invaded Iraq using our defence forces, and killed thousands of people, because they wanted to.

All the noises they made about Weapons Of Mass Destruction, and Terrorism, and Threats to our Safety, all these were absolute lies.

MI5 and the CIA both agreed that Iraq was not a threat.

But they were overruled because a handful of elected politicians wanted to invade another country which was no threat.

Our system is broken.

If it is beyond repair, these individuals will continue to live their lives unmolested.

If the system works, these people will be exposed to the public sight in the spectacle of a criminal trial, and imprisoned.

That's really all there is to say on the matter.

Is The Writing On The Wall?

Kodak is an American, English-speaking company.

When I ordered a remote control for my ZX1 video camera from the Kodak online shop, it was shipped to me all the way from Versmold, Germany.

Increasingly, Amazon products are sent from France or Germany as well.

Now, the German and French postal services are no better than the GPO, probably not as good.

And UPS operates in Britain just as well as in Europe, as does FedEx and CitiLink.

So why are online shops sourced in Germany?

It may be this: the German economy is still massively based on the manufacture of physical items for sale around the world; thus it makes sense that German export infrastructure is first rate.
The Dutch have made a business out of Rotterdam, called 'Europort', which makes Rotterdam(I believe) the biggest sea port in the world.

Meanwhile, in Britain, the export industries largely died in the 60's and 70's, due partly to Union irresponsibility, but mostly due to the absurd monopolistic edicts of the state, the Socialist state of 1945, which made business impossible and destroyed the infrastructure upon which the superbly integrated machinery of the British economy depended. And yes. The unions were put in the position of running the monopolies. both economically and politically.

So Britain no longer has the ability to sustain large-scale bulk (but not necessarily low added value) exports.

Couple this with the building of the Channel Tunnel, which cuts most trans-shipping operations out of the equation, especially for low volume items, and you see that despite the mediocre postal services in Europe, it is better, easier and cheaper to build logistics facilities there.

Also, Germany and Holland use English as a primary business language, leaving an even more appealing option for our American cousins.

Wednesday 14 July 2010

Sunday 11 July 2010

Harrowing

Turning the channel, I came across a film called "The Counterfeiters".
It shows life in a concentration camp.

Not what I'd generally watch.
But I can't stop.

I'm Not Allowed.

Monday 5 July 2010

The Helping Hand.

My sample programmes are designed to help me find a job.

One of them is a high-spec encryptor.
Because of this, my anonymous ftp site has been disabled, and now requires password access.

We can't have the masses talking to each other in private. Of course.

Just like we can't have me getting a job. Naturally they didn't tell me, or my hosting company apparently, so my last four applications referred the recruiters to non-available sample programmes.

Well, anyone who wants this:













Simply use Filezilla to login to ftp.simonoriordan.com, username boss@simonoriordan.com,
password quixote1112 and download it.
It's good, and it's fun.
Enjoy it while the bastards let you.