It is lead news in every outlet of the mainstream media today that there is a massive increase in terrorism – as everyone can plainly see from all the bodies littering our streets.
I can also tell you that there is a massive increase in the threat of deadly asteroids about to hit Britain and destroy us all. My unimpeachable evidence for the existence of this massive asteroid threat is my own anti-asteroid activity. I and my dedicated team have visited 268 sites this year where we thought an asteroid was about to strike. That represents a 40% increase on our activity last year and therefore the media can say a 40% increase in the asteroid threat.
Thankfully due to the brilliance and never-ceasing vigilance of my anti-asteroid team the world has been saved. We can continue to do this if given a further 15% budget increase to 32 billion pounds and the right to arrest anyone anytime who looks a bit dusky, and take Theresa May to pose in their home.
There will also be a new crime of denying that asteroids are dangerous or looking at videos and pictures of asteroids. Anybody found guilty of looking at asteroids in other countries will be found guilty of treason and hung drawn and quartered.
lol, Thanks Craig.
I imagine the threats increasing, such as it is. But nobody ever seems to recall Ireland do they.
I’d like to know by what mechanism increased threat is not assured, given the latest venture. I imagine it was considered and ignored. We mustn’t cow down in fear while in other peoples countries must we.
But politics, on your birthday. It doesn’t feel right. All the best.
I have a nice Ale i’m enjoying in the sunbeams. Cheers.
In desperation, dysfunctional Western capitalism is lashing out recklessly and irrationally, unwilling and unable to preclude the disastrous consequences of its myopic policies. And one possible consequence of current US/NATO policies is thermonuclear war.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Glen uk.
Go look it up.
Dubya, terrrrr and folks.
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/repeatoffender/folks
LOL
The BBC has just reported that five young men have been charged with intending to commit an act of terrorism. They conspired to buy a handgun with a silencer, and conducted hostile reconnaissance of a police station and army barracks, using Google Street View. Maybe they should have stuck to asteroids 🙂
Terror By Dubya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1hP4cz-ir8
He had a strange way of pronouncing ‘nuclear’ too.
Now he daubing paint on to canvas to pass the time away.
George Bush’s Paintings Aren’t Funny
But they are fascinating.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/george-bushs-paintings-arent-funny-105664.html#.VEESVOF0z4Y
“There have been 218 terrorism-related arrests in the England, Scotland and Wales this year, with 16 people charged with alleged extremist activity in Syria.”
So 202 people were terrorised by the police before being released, and that leaves 16 who were charged. Of those 16 one was Moazzam Begg, together presumably with the three others arrested and charged with him. They were released because there was no evidence against them. That leaves 12 who were charged. Runa Khan, who posted messages on Facebook when the UK was supporting the Syrian rebels advising sisters to send their sons and brothers to fight for Islam. That leaves 11. The Tony Blair terrorist of terrorists) alleged plotter, Erol Incedal and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, arrested with Incedal. That leaves 9.
I think we can see where this is going. Arresting the woman who posted messages on Facebook was hardly great detective work. The other two had clearly no formulated plan and were possibly fantacists like those guys in Small Heath a few years back. I haven’t got time to sift through the others, but there is no threat, “as everyone can plainly see from all the bodies littering our streets.”
This mythological terrorism just shows the paranoia and incompetence of the government and anti-terrorism squads. Muslims are not our enemy but like in all sections of society there are going to be deranged individuals among them. We need to be looking in the direction Guy Fawkes was looking about this time 410 years ago to see where the terrorists are.
@Robert Crawford: “Go look it up.”
No need, I remember it well enough. It was far more like a protest than any serious attempt at harm to individuals. If that sort of thing makes you think we’re beset by “terrorists”, and that we need to change our way of life because of it, you have seriously alarmist tendencies.
The Glesga airport incident whilst in your opinion “was far more like a protest than any serious attempt at harm to individuals” did entail the urgent retrofitting of most UK airports with car-free plazas meaning miles to walk through oodles of ‘no-shopping by landrover’ type bollards. It was an enormous cost to the nation, it manifestly changed our lives and hence was, by positive over-reaction, eventually successful as “terrorism”
Although this happened in UK, it strangely hasn’t changed the architecture in any of the other EU airports that I’ve been thorough recently.
The terrorists are our leaders. The terrorists against Jews in the Nazi holocaust were their own Zionist leaders. This is a bit off-topic but very interesting. Germany made provision for Jewish families to leave Germany, leave their properties, and pay $1000 dollars at the border.
“The Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey received this offer with the clear understanding that the exclusion of Palestine as a destination for the deportees was based on an agreement between the Gestapo and the Mufti.
The answer of the Zionist leaders was negative, with the following comments: a) ONLY Palestine would be considered as a destination for the deportees. b) The European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations, in order that the victorious allies agree to a “Jewish State” at the end of the war. c) No ransom will be paid. This response to the Gestapo’s offer was made with the full knowledge that the alternative to this offer was the gas chamber.”
http://www.truetorahjews.org/lieberman
This is not commonly claimed, but the man who wrote the article, Gedalya Liebermann, is a rabbi.
Glenn uk.
I am worried about you.
Two guys drive a 4 by 4 over/ through the barriers loaded with cans of petrol and gas canisters into the passenger area, detonate it. Fortunately, the whole lot did not explode, and you call it a protest. A helluva way to protest!!!.
One or both died from the burns they received.
More fortunately, no innocent passengers were hurt. A protest, get real.
“Your odds of getting killed by a meteorite are roughly 1 in 250,000. You are far more likely to die in an earthquake, tornado, flood, airplane crash, or car crash”
Try telling that to a dinosaur.
I think Glenn is trying to point out that it was a badly planned , unserious , amateur attempt at blowing something up.A gerry can full of petrol set alight wouldn’t explode Robert.All these pictures you see from Hollywood are just that,Hollywood.I s’pose if you heated it up the gas canister would explode,but if you knocked the regulator or valve off it would be more effective,take your hand off into the bargain.
No the biggest danger from these two doctors was that they knocked someone over with the car.
As the economy tanks, watch our for the terror uptick. It’s soooo easy now.
Special Branch or whoever can pull in some Muslims, cherry pick some key social media phrases, look for anyone buying sugar or fuckin boot polish with a debit card, see if they’ve been online to read up on AQ (now bigger and better brand ISIS) and hey presto — there’s your terrorist. And the beauty of it now is that most of the “case” can be kept sub rosa.
The only thing that can “save” western capitalism is a never-ending war (with commensurate repression at home to keep the masses cowed) and by fuck US/UK are doing their level best to create one.
The threat of Terror was projected outward but directed inward for the long game planners. We had to be frightened into funding with Trillions in war machines for two purposes; keeping the military industrial complex healthy, and to prepare for unrest in the ;homeland.
It’s a two-fer.
The [problem really starts when the Vorsprung durch technics are learning how to land on asteroids, getting asteroidal as they say, soon they will be changing their course through the universe and land it right next to a steel mill, ready to be dismantled.
There are also positive rumours that say the asteroid team has been infiltrated by the owl worshipping underground who want to crash it into the largest water reservoir on earth and set free the rock stored life giving liquid, revitalise the Yellowstone volcano in the process and have done with the north American bits of the continent.
I propose to raise the glas for a toast to Craig at 7pm tonight, in a bid to achieve mutual virtual reality….
Death by meteor – a favourite metaphor in our household for many a year whenever someone goes nuts considering the risk of any undertaking. Rays from space, is another, albeit even less likely cause of one’s demise.
What we are lacking at this time is any level of intelligent debate at a journalistic level. When did you last see a UK journalist turn around and confront a politician with remarks like: “But only two people died from terrorist activity in last two years, which is a historic low.” Most of the contemporary political class can’t handle any scenario outside a pre-scripted one.
The lack of this apparently filters down through society until we get a split:
*People who try to think things through and discuss with each other;
*People who don’t give a flier – can be poor folk who’ve given up hope or middle class who’d rather put their head in the sand and hope “things just stay the same” as one Edinburgh professor pathetically said on Radio 4 the other day.
Indeed, Ben.
Perhaps Ian Pannell or Mark Urban will be given a top job at Minitrue. In fact I can see Urban as an O’Brien type in about 15-20 years time.
For a few weeks (before the referendum) people in Scotland really saw how much an arm of the state the corporate media is. I have spoken to lots of people who have sworn never to watch the BBC, or believe what it says, again.
The Yes Alliance must build links with like-minded people in other countries, including England. The referendum was about more than Scottish democracy. It was about seeing through the bullshit and how power everywhere is configured and how it projects and protects itself.
Briefly, that was clear for all to see, before the Wizard of Fear pulled the curtain closed again.
DoNNyDarKo.
Do not try these unserious things at home.
Just keep watching the Hollywood movies.
Is there any professional terrorist attacks? If so, where, and who are they?
YouKnowMyName.
The Glasgow incident happened in Scotland, not, the U.K. as such.
Most E.U. countries are not involved to the same extent as England has, or, if you prefer U.K. is, in these countries where the threat comes from. Although, those countries who have become involved at the urging of the main protagonists,they have had attacks on railway stations and other places.
My experience of other countries facilities is, they get it right “first time” and don’t have the same need to “modify” after an incident shows up the weaknesses.
The fact is there are numerous threats to Earthlings. Watching the reactions to those we currently face makes it clear that a perfect storm, say an EQ of high magnitude coupled with a contagion, or a Cyclone may have low odds, but we can predict no good outcome based on our responses to one-at-a-time.
“before the Wizard of Fear pulled the curtain closed again.”
Ah yes Mike, but they gave many a glimpse of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity and that’s a problem for them.
Freedom is addictive. When you get a taste, you want more.
““War has long been seen as an endeavor urged on by the elites who stood the most to gain from conflict – whether to protect overseas assets, create more favorable conditions for international trade or by selling materiel for the conflict – and paid for with the blood of the poor, the cannon fodder who serve their country but have little direct stake in the outcome.
“. . . MIT political scientist Jonathan Caverley, author of Democratic Militarism Voting, Wealth, and War, and himself a US Navy veteran, argues that increasingly high-tech militaries, with all-volunteer armies that sustain fewer casualties in smaller conflicts, combine with rising economic inequality to create perverse incentives that turn the conventional view of war on its head. . . .
“Joshua Holland: Your research leads to a somewhat counterintuitive conclusion. Can you give me your thesis in a nutshell?
“Jonathan Caverley: My argument is that in a heavily industrialized democracy like the United States, we have developed a very capital intensive form of warfare. We no longer send millions of combat troops overseas – or see massive numbers of casualties coming home. Once you start going to war with lots of airplanes, satellites, communications – and a few very highly trained special operations forces — going to war becomes a check writing exercise rather than a social mobilization. And once you turn war into a check writing exercise, the incentives for and against going to war change.”
http://www.worldbeyondwar.org/different-war-good-us-argument/
Now that I no longer watch the Ministry Of Truth, I just read the Reuters website first each morning. It headlined with news from HongKong and the actions by the Chinese Authorities against peaceful protesters.
However I was in a public space between 8 AM and 8:40 this morning where the MOT was on. I glanced at it. By 8:20 I still had seen no mention of the HK story at all. By 8:40 I was wondering if I perhaps lived on a different planet than the MOT. I knew the weather forecast ( turned out that was wrong ), I knew a hospital ship was heading to West Africa, and I was told lots of people were being reported by their parents as potential Jihadis. Yet I did not see one single mention of Hong Kong.
You people in the rest of this Island should copy our Scottish example. Cancel your licence, stop watching this crap.
Crackin’ post Craig.
As ever you nail the hysterical bollocks and lies.
Many happy returns to you also,i really hope it’s a great year ahead for you and your family.
Ep. 11 Scotland: Victory Next Time! | The World Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qer7SNA2brQ
What about being beheaded by an asteroid, live on TV, or the blowing up of an airliner by an asteroid have you and your team taken counter measures for those scenario’s. If not then the whole world will need to inoculated by a serum that they don’t really need, for an event that will probably never happen.
I feel much safer already.
@Robert Crawford: If you want to elevate such a low-level act to one of nation-threatening “terrorism”, you are doing the work of real terrorists for them. Same applies when you attribute the act to “sleeper cells”. That sort of thinking is best left to hysterical tabloids. These were clearly a couple of guys who’d been pushed over the edge by what they saw – with not inconsiderable justification! – as British attacks on a defenceless middle-East country for no legitimate reason whatsoever.
This is an interesting YouGov Poll, no asteroids I’m afraid.
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/dmv27pn9yn/YG-Archive-Pol-Sun-results-161014.pdf
“Try telling that to a dinosaur.”
I’ll be sure to pass on your words of wisdom to the relatives of my aunt Edna who died as a result of slipping on a bar of soap while in the shower.
So I’m not sure the point you are making but I must confess it did make me laugh.
Here you go Craig, a news channel that would most definitely invite you on in the future, no asteroids though.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/broadcast-news-for-scotland