My Life

Saturday

28/03/09

It is just after 10 am and it is on of those typical Scottish days where the Sun is shinning and the temperature is in single figures. This is Spring and out clocks go forward by an hour at about 1.00 am tonight. Nothing much will happen today,I hope. Glasgow is in the middle of a tit for tat gang war at present and people are being killed because of their allegiance to one or other crime family.It happens every ten or so years. 

The economy has its ten or so year cycle. Unfortunately, this downturn is going to be different in my opinion. The French kicked off the riot season a fortnight ago But they always have a riot in March!

Battle lines are drawn in the USA with FEMA camps set up probably to house anyone arrested for civil unrest. Therefore rioting in America could have dire consequences. Pack a big bag, you could be away from home for a while!!  Many homeless Americans, living in tent cities, may like the idea of the camps. A roof over their head, some security, food and free medical attention.

But any riot will not be the weekend affair that it has been in the past. Where you turn up have a riot, go home and get back to the day job on Monday. Seattle was the last big economic riot and it went on for more than a weekend and that did not play well with the American authorities. So there is a stand off at present.

In Britain, however, we have no camps and are close to Europe for moral support. We have the G20 meeting going on this week and as I write this many thousands of people are descending on London for the first riot of the Summer season!!  Football has not started yet and the football hooligans should be there for a bit of pre season practice!! Plenty of overtime payments will be made and I suspect that a huge amount of damage will take place. Fortunately our police do not carry firearms and there will not be shots fired, I hope. I also hope that no crazy group will use it as a reason to detonate a bomb!! In America, unfortunately, all the police carry firearms and a riot situation, where things get heated, could just be the catalyst for a shooting incident. 

I hope for a peaceful Summer but somehow I do not think that this will com about. I hop that I am wrong but I think that events will descend to a new all time low.

Byeeeeeeee 

My Life

Sunday/Monday

23rd March

So Jade Goody is dead. Sad for her nearest and dearest but really she made a right few quid out of it!!! Every day we got headlines like "Jade farted. ""Jade lost her hair."  Dying in the public arena is the new voyeurism. You could hear them in the shops wondering "how is Jade today?" 

Her lucky break was being picked to appear on a reality TV Show. she saw her chance and verbally attacked an Asian woman live on the show and then made the big apology and became a "star."

She went to India to see the poverty and had a cathartic change of mind. The whole thing was a set up !!The contestants on these shows are screened by physcologists and people are put together to spark off in order to gain the almighty ratings and make the sheeple watch it.

Th Asian woman was an intelligent sensible woman who saw through it and would not get involved in the manipulation. Jade was a loud mouth Londoner with set views on race. The fireworks followed and made her, firstly, a baddie with whom, secretly, many agreed. Later she becomes a saint working for the poor and making a few quid for herself and her publisher and her manager etc etc.

She saw her chance, with the hand that she was dealt, and took it. Fair enough. After all what did she have? Living with a violent criminal with two kids, in inner city London, with little future ahead and then the big break. Life becomes rosy and then the helter skelter of life hit her with cancer.

Oh, by the way, the Asian woman was an Indian film star actress and probably a plant in my view.Her career did all right as the "wronged woman." But you could see in her body language that she thought it all distasteful.  They tried to make it all confrontational and keep the pot boiling but quite rightly she was having none of it and went home to India to make more films.

Her international film career,which she had come to London to promote, finished. Her management and pushers must have been very upset. Good for her!!  She saw the plot and would not play.

So the boundaries have been pushed further out. Dying in "public" is the latest thing. We have had two American live suicides on the internet. Mass shootings where the perpatrators knew that they would be famous.

Is the new big thing going to be a real webcam live torture and shooting scenario? Blair Witch was a faked trial. The horror movie industry followed it up with many films like 88 Minutes and more. Even the TV Show Numbers had a plot where men where lured to empty houses from chatrooms and viciously killed. Are we now going to have a real one?  How far are we humans going to chase our "15 minutes of fame" as Andy Warhol said.  

Who ? nope don't remember him !!!!  

byeeeeeee

My Life

Thursday.

19th March 2009

Scotland is enjoying a few days of Spring weather just now with sunny dry days which start crisp and heat up in the afternoon. Just a couple of weeks until the clocks are altered.  Then we can look forward to our Summer in the month of June.

The Piratebay trial in Sweden actually made the BBC News and has succeeded in bringing many more films to their lists. Home support from the Swedes has brought a goodly number of films in English with Swedish sub titles. I am now learning Swedish.  Some Russian and Polish language films have also appeared,but not many in English only,unfortunately for me!!

Some rotter has put in a couple of films which ask you to go to a site to get a "key" to play them. This site only gives you a trojan!!  The rotters!!

There are now loads of movie download sites and it will be impossible to put them down as they are all based in different countries. So it looks like the movie companies will just have to lump it and take the loss of revenue. If they go all out on the attack the "freebie" advertising factor will come into play and more films and sites will become available. With the Summer "silly season" in the press circles coming soon there is no point in mounting an attack as it will just be reported worldwide.

Recently,the Sunday Times did a big piece on Piratebay and movie file downloading. This was surprising as the owners of the paper are News International who also own film studios and distribution outlets.  

On the economic front the banks have taken the money from various Governments and bought other viable banks! As I said many issues ago there will be big trouble this Summer.

The French, always the first to riot, have gone on strike in time for the Easter holidays.Look forward to police and strikers fighting it out. On a more sinister note it looks like the USA is in for many riots over this coming Summer. But their Government is prepared. The National Guard have been "practicing" locking down small townships and as I reported FEMA  have built concentration camps to house protesters. Light blue collar touch paper and retire!

The multi millions of damage will give some work and the police overtime will help out too!!!

Get the beer and crisps in now. Pull up your reclining chair and await the riots.

Byeeeeeee 

My Life

Wed 11/03

It has been showery in Scotland all of this week and this will continue for the next few weeks! Nice,normal and predictable. But the gun madness begins again!!

In Ireland police and off duty soldiers are shot for "religious" & independence reasons in the North of the Island of Ireland. The South is independent and the North remains part of the U.K. The alleged killers of the policemen were caught very quickly. This would not have happened in the past and is a good sign that people just want a peaceful existence. Is that so hard?

In USA and Germany there were two school shooting incidents involving lone gunmen. So sad for the families of the innocents.

On a lighter note. I have been banging on about "freebie adverts" where a silly story is "planted" in the national news and picked up by the world. One clever woman has been the first to open up a closed Woolworths store calling it Wellworths. She got it on the news, well done girl!!!

Woolworths, which originally opened in America and spread world wide, was a high street favorite for cheap and chearful items. They went bust. This lady was Manageress of the store which she has rented and reopened with the paid off staff all reemployed. She says that if folks don't buy a product then she will not re order it.  What a wonderful idea !!!!!

Nowadays most chain stores appear to have a job lot of goods for sale in each branch, whether people want them or not. Items which will sell in one area may not sell in all areas. Whatever happened to local market research ??

Anyway I got my car back today just in time for my birthday tomorrow. That just took nearly three months to get it into the repairers who were nominated by the insurance company. This silly system creates a monopoly for the nominee and leaves other garages idol who could be doing the work easily. Waiting lists appear, which is good for the nominated garage, but frustrating for the car owners who know that other competent garages are idol.  The other problem is the courtesy car. A repair garage should not be laying out huge sums to buy a fleet of courtesy cars which have to be maintained, taxed and insured. The company should expand into bigger premises and create jobs which will, in turn, generate more income!! Simple.

Do a deal with a hire car firm and save the wasted expense on courtesy cars.

Byeeeeeee

My Life

March 9th

Monday Evening.

Well it would seem that if you steal gazillions of money from people you can get a great deal while awaiting trial. Bernie Madoff is living in his apartment and has not been sent to jail!! His security costs are to be met by him. The list of witnesses will be huge and the taking of all of their statements will take many years. During this preparation time some of the witnesses will pass away. Indeed Mr.Madoff may pass away, too.

Most of the money is believed to be in offshore accounts and the family would appear to be the beneficiaries. It was members of his family who "shopped" him to the authorities which will make them squeaky clean and I would assume that if there is no trial or the defendant dies prior to a result being reached then he is presumed to have been innocent and the money cannot be forfeit.It is all a matter of time.  

Would any of the family like to invest in my non sectarian ponzi water desalination iceberg towing company?

In Scotland our weather is varying from light to heavy rain as it does most years in late Winter, early Spring. The temperature hovers around 40/45f.   What is this Global Warming crap all about??

I just cannot understand what the Global Warming Camp is on about. Data shows that CO2 amounts within the atmosphere rise and fall on a cyclical basis. If less trees had been chopped down then, with photosynthesis, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would have been lower than it is today. By chopping down trees more CO2 has been allowed to collect in the upper air instead of being processed by the trees and thus producing oxygen.

Leave  Nature alone. We should take and replace only what we need not just take what we want too.

byeeeeeee

My Life

Thursday

5/2/09

Well we have had some more snow in Scotland and the "normal" rain. The East Coast of USA is experiencing snow storms which I can remember from my youth. How times change. But with all this cold and snow where does that leave the global warming people? Conspiracy! Conspiracy!

The Sri Lankan cricket team attack is now an "inside job" and a "false flag" job. Two for one!

It goes that India did it making out it was Pakistan. The C.I.A. were involved as they want to break up Pakistan into small areas as opposed to one big country. They can then have areas fighting each other in a never ending civil war. Of course, all the weapons needed, by all sides, will be supplied by USA. Thus helping the economy.

Gaza, the biggest open prison in the world, has no cement to rebuild. The Israelis will not allow cement into Gaza as they say that it can be used to build and strengthen tunnels. I suppose that this is true but surly all of the cement will not be used in this way and hospitals and housing must be rebuilt on humanitarian grounds. Have the Israelis no seismic equipment that can be used?? 

Another .5% has been taken off the British interest rate. It is getting very near zero, now. Mortgage payments go down yet again. This is good for people who have a mortgage but it is practically impossible to get new one!  The Budget is due at the end of April and should be a real beauty!!!

Not much news so look forward to another "freebie advert" coming soon. The last one being Ryanair talking about charging to use a toilet in flight!  It made BBC,Fox News and national and international newspapers! You could not pay the bill for that advertising!!

To fit the money meters and locks on the doors would make this completely uneconomic but still they fall for it!!!!!!! Just go to the end of the wing as usual, I say. 

byeeee  

My Life

Sunday

01/03/09

Well the beginning of another month. Gary MacKinnon will probably get tranferred to America and spend the rest of his life in prison for hacking into loads of computers. If he had any sense he would go over to Northern Ireland and cross the border into Southern Ireland. He would then be in a different country with a different legal system and the whole process would have to commence all over again! He might get a better result in Eire. Bail out, Gary and don't forget the laptop!!!

The internet is really making everything free. I have read newspapers from all over the world, today. All the British Sundays and Dailys are there, As well as Pravda(Russia), Jpost (Israel), L.A, & N.Y. Times (U.S.A.), TheAustralian, Perthnews (Australia) The Star (Toronto,Canada) to name but a few!

TV channels are also on the web coming from all over the world. Pundits of all persuasions write blogs on every subject under the Sun. Movies are available to download for free, sometimes before they are even in the cinema!! Books covering many subjects and of all kinds are free to download. Manuals, talking books and fiction are all available.

Music videos are played 24 hours a day on VH1 and MTV which can be recorded onto tape or DVD. Many singles and L.P.'s are uploaded for others to download. Concert videos are available too.

A huge amount of income is being lost to writers, musicians and film companies. The guys at Piratebay are currently on trail,again, in Sweden. The Civil case, as I understand it alledges fraud. Their defence again as I understand it is that they only provide the medium and have no control over what files are uploaded and downloaded.

It is surely ironic that it was Microsoft who designed and wrote the whole high speed big file moving bit torrent system. Winzip provided compression and ended up free. Now there is RAR which compresses bigger files and a license had to be purchased.

Movie people knew that the "freebie generation" would not buy a license and they placed their films within RAR.  Unfortunately, for them, it was short lived. You can now  get RAR on a 40 day free trial, probably, as it was not selling and so it has been copied and uploaded. It is now available free!!      Another one bytes (sic) the dust!!!

Oh well another week beckons so.........

byeeeeeee