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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/denmark-goes-off-to-war-for-the-fifth-time/ Marching to Its Master's Voice by JAN OBERG Lund, Sweden. It must have been known for quite some time since, about a month ago, the Danish government decided to send a Hercules transport plane with humanitarian aid to Iraq. Most likely, it was a set-up because it was immediately changed into a Hercules transport plane + 55 soldiers to assist the U.S. and the Kurds. Today’s decision is a violation of the UN Charter – the spirit of the Preamble as well as Article 1 which states that peace shall be established by peaceful means – and, later, only when everything has been tried and found in vain can a military action be decided. Denmark must now calculate with Danish casualties and, even more worse, with taking responsibility for scores of innocent civilians’ death – something that can’t be avoided when targeting individuals from the air. The decision documents that Denmark has learnt no...

The Death Throes of Decline http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/u-s-wars-and-climate-crisis/ by ROB URIE As the cliché goes, no one rings a bell when a nation, or empire, is over. What is implied is gradual degradation, irresolvable circumstance as the default mode of social organization. Break or rupture that emerges as different political economy precedes this point of no return. As with the decline of Rome, full dissolution can take a thousand years and reverberate through historical memory for another thousand or more still. What makes itself evident in hindsight is functional incapacitation, a well-working social machinery of irresolution. The modern innovation is the capacity to bring the entire process about with the launch of a few bombs or an inability for environmental resolution. Such now is the place of the early twenty-first century U.S. with systemically generated polices accumulating toward self-inflicted Armageddon and threatening to take the rest o...

Breaking Wind again... http://www.caradvice.com.au/310887/porsche-911-cop-car-goes-on-nsw-patrol/ The cops in NSW get a Porche 911 Careerer.... Well so fucking what? One of my mates, his mildly hotted up 302 V8 - A bit of free breathing - by some porting, cams, extractors and a better carb - would leave the Porch for dead on the straights... Absolutely wipe it out..... The Porch's are not that impressive for anything, other than a bullshit price tag. Though the Porch, he said, was faster around the corners... And this - this is fucking horrible... Running an aircraft full of people, with Microsoft's piece of shit hardware and software. I don't like nasty irony - and I don't want to see bad things happen, but if only to spite Microsoft, in a fantasy kind of a way, I'd like to see the aircraft come plummeting out of the sky - and the people on the ground go to the flaming wreck and say, "What happened?" - "We don't know yet, the Microsoft Floptop di...

Going off to a War? It's not a war.... it's jolly little bit of high tech weaponry and a goon squad of gutless arseholes, going to murder and rob the entire nation of Syria - again. Oil oil oil.... the American and British oil industries and the bankers, and the weapons industries... These cunts - just murder everyone who gets in their way.... 5 million dead in Iraq? Not a problem. Send in the military to free them from the despot - who they (usually vote in) live with, in the name of spreading peace and democracy - liberate all the oil wells, of course., and build bases, and then occupy the country - just to keep the oil wells safe... of course. And when the population says "Fuck off" - at any stage of the proceedings, call them insurgents, terrorists, etc., etc., etc., ignoring the fact that it is THEIR country - and they don't want Empire Extortionists - Not so great Britian, US and A and other shit head lackeys like "Tha Austrains mate." And the lat...

This is good - as it should be..... Maggoty Meat from Fabulous Farms - Can't stomach making the Meal Time Media? Why not? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-25/surveillance-laws-defeated-south-australia/5767886 Laws that stop people making secret recordings on private property defeated in South Australia Laws that would have heavily penalised people for making secret recordings on private property have been defeated in South Australia's parliament. The Surveillance Devices Bill was intended to update existing, but dated legislation around the recording and broadcasting of secret material. The Bill would have made it illegal to publish or broadcast material that was filmed on private property without express or implied consent, or without permission from the Courts saying the material was in the public interest. But animal rights groups jumped on the laws saying they would have hampered whistleblowers and prevented the exposure of animal cruelty. From early on, the Bil...

Here are two of my famous jokes: One co-authored by a bro. Q: "What is the difference between a bunch of righteous christians and a bunch of drunken arseholes?" A: "The drunken arseholes have an excuse for their behaviour." Q. "What is the difference between a lying, thieving, scheming junkie and a respectable citizen?" A. "The respectable citizen doesn't do drugs." Some people do drugs, well most of us do, at some stages of our lives, be it socially or whateva.... But some people are outright cunts - doing drugs. Idiots, arseholes and losers....... And in looking at the "respectable citizens" and less so - and all their clubby, cliquey, incrowd, bullshit - well you can see where they have learned it all from. Mental parents make mental children. Arsehole role models role model being an arsehole. But I think savage drug use, kind of focuses the nastyness and bullshit to a finer anti-social point than the "cunts" who are dr...

This is not a bad idea actually.... Sort of... Bonus points for regulation, quality control etc..... Needs to be a seriously good product at a discount kind of a price.... I think it will satisfy the demands of the casual user... but not the seriously dependant. It's at these levels that the "meddling beaurocracy" begins to be a pain the arse and will be bypassed along with all their bullshit.... But at a cursory glance - it appears to be a good thing. Some people can be casual users.. and that is fine. But there are others.. who either need theraputic community or professional help to deal with underlying causes and conditions... and there are also some people who "quality dope" kind of fries their minds.... And they just end up a fucking mess.... So while I guess you can't be all things to all people, all the time, in every situation, and tragedies will always be falling by the wayside, and I personally don't condone drug use myself.... I think this is...