just sweeping around the minefield

Just what everybody in a precarious country wants for Christmas.
An affordable minesweeper.
Honestly, I have, for years thought, why spend money and time
trying to detect, dig up and defuse mines. Why didn't anybody
just go around with a big stick, like a ten-foot pole, or 20,
and bang the ground. Instant end to the mine. Cheap and fun.

Well, this guy's thing works too, but it ain't a big stick.

Merry Christmas and Happy 4 Limbs Day

Let's cut to the video:


Mine Kafon | Callum Cooper from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

remember remember the 22nd of November

Max Keiser, the ghost of Guy Fawkes, got into parliament in the UK.
He was invited in by George Galloway, that most unique of
UK politicians.
He gets kicked and he just keeps going. He, frankly, makes most
every other paycheck-gathering, oxygen-wasting politician,
and I use that as an insult, look unbelievably self-interested.

So, Max insulted David Cameron in his natural roost. He
linked Dave with fraud.
Here's the first clip

let's cut to the video:




in a vaguely related issue, Guy Fawkes, who was roasted
again, recently, was the subject of the revenge movie
V for Vendetta, which starred Natalie Portman. Here's
what Nat has to say about her V and her shave. Brazilian
I think it's called
Let's cut to the video:

we want change that doesn't jingle

We have We Are Change, who are using a camera
and a ballsy reporter or two, to question the status quo.

It looks like Walmart employees want change. They're
on their first strike tirade. They make the pennies,
while the Waltons make the millions.

We are all looking for fairness in a society that is
going in the opposite direction. The oligarchs are
trying to strangle us.

So, when a politicians tells us he or she can offer us
change, I say, you don't mean the stuff that jingles
in my pocket, do you?

ZZtop song Just Got Paid

"I just got paid today, got me a pocket full of change."

He's anxious to kill & he approves this message

CHUCK was shaking when  he talked about God being kidnapped
by Obama after the next election.
I think that he's got a neurological problem, or he just
can't wait to kick ass. LOOK at the man.
He's looking kinda scrawny.

let's cut to the video:


Read 'em: Letter to Zerohedge-


sgt_doom's

That moron [CHUCK] Norris doesn't even have a clue they exist!

That idiot should keep his yap shut -- he was Mental Category Four when he served in the USAF (lowest acceptable mental category for the military back then) and he's only gotten dumber since!

For chrissakes, if these douchetards don't know anything about finance, economics or poli. sci. they would best STFU already.

Thankfully, I've yet to ever pay for an Eastwood move or a Norris movie, and never plan to in the future.

Geez, Louise, I can't stomach how stupid these half-assed Hollywood types are.

Cue the Foster's ad

The drone goes slowly, low over a beach and finds the
over-extended pair of mammaries bursting out of a
swim suit.

Guys at drone control: "ah, rippa"
as they open a can of Foster's.

Fosters? you owe me.
Let's cut to the video [1:50 onward]:




Checkitout: from Hang the bankers

Oz moves to buy $3b spy drone fleet

04 Sep 2012

by Jacque Fresco

The Defence Force is quietly resurrecting plans to buy seven huge maritime surveillance spy drones at a cost of up to $3 billion.

The unmanned aerial vehicles will be used for maritime surveillance and intercepting asylum seeker boats.

The decision comes despite claims that the Royal Australian Air Force’s top commanders have long opposed the acquisition of unmanned aerial vehicles because they will put pilots out of a job and threaten RAAF culture.

The $200 million Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drone is the largest, most expensive unmanned aerial vehicle in the world today.

Its vast wingspan of 39.8 metres can lift the craft to 65,000 feet and stay airborne for 35 hours with a non-stop range of 16,000 kilometres – eclipsing the endurance of similar manned aircraft.

In 2004, the Howard government was so impressed with Global Hawk that plans were announced to buy a fleet of 12 of the spy drones for $1 billion.

LYSTERIA taking over the alt media

Lauren Lyster of Capital Account is , as I've
noted, impressive in her knowledge, her
interviewing skills and certain other things,
as this tweet notes:

UP4Liberty
There's a lot I'd like to explore with Lauren Lyster-
and it has nothing to do with an ETF...
Or maybe on second thought...if ETF stands for an

"Extremely Taut Fanny" -

then I'm all IN!  [IN, indeed- Cos67]
Just sayin'...

----end

Not that I recommend such language about specific people,
largely because it seems kinda creepy. I'm just reporting.
By the way, to all my non-British readers, you need to
find out what 'fanny' means.
Don't worry, this fact makes Brits laugh uncontrollably,
like using the word 'pants' also does.


Let's cut to a video which a 'fan' has created


what is a fanny?
For those who haven't witnessed this mythological pleasure zone:

question: Where did that bubble come from?[zach & Miri]

 [now, do you understand?-zach & Miri make a porn]
Back to the show:
Capital Account on Russia Today, America's best news network, does
a good job in revealing the crimes that the US oligarchs wish to hide.
The fact that it's delivered by a fine-looking lady, is besides the
point. The show has an ever increasing crowd of supporters
as you can see by following Lauren , Demetri Kofinas or
the show on Twitter.
Notice also how glowingly the guests talk about their 'contact'
with Lauren. You can tell by the goofy smiles that some of them
enjoy Lauren more than her words, when they talk to her.
The smile says "I'm really happy, but I'm not looking at
your good stuff"
"seriously, I'm not"
Ya, sure.

Plebs and the London police

[daily mirror]

I don't know why, but I'm gonna come to the defense of
a Conservative minister, a whip no less, when I hate
UK Conservative politics for obvious reasons and I
have written in the past about how anti-democratic
and frankly sado-masochistic the role of the whip is,
in a political party.

However, the London cops can be bastards.

I once had a run-in with their nazi tactics myself. I was
dressed for a consulting job and just minding my own
business going into an Underground tube station.

As I get to the gate to swipe my Oyster card, I see a
cop with a massive slobbering dog waiting for me. The
cop was making like nothing was going on, but I had
no other way of getting past.

I get through the gate and the cop allows the dog
within millimetres of my clean clothing, sniffing
for you-know.
The cop was pulling on its leash so the dog was on
his hind legs with his front legs flailing wildly, I suppose
trying to scare me.
I could see this easily descending into
a game of Paw and Slobber, with my as the target, so
I said "oh, for f*ck sakes"

So, the cop pulls me aside. In a tone reminiscent of an
interrogation, he says some crap and then asks me
if I insulted his dog. I said no. Luckily I hadn't because
he could have written me up. I just cursed into the air.
cursing my fate.
I discovered afterward from friends that actually they
can write me up for cursing in public. What a f$%&*king
country. They haven't got enough to do, and they
write out cursing tickets.

I've also taken part in lawful marches and had the route
surrounded by cops who insulting me and others, because
apparently cops as organs of state repression believe
that we should all be in favour of unlawfully killing Iraqis,
which I am not.
They also sent horses amongst us for extra oppression.
What if it bolts and flattens people?
The omnipresent cameras also made us famous, for
no reason.

So, I kinda see what that Mitchell fella was on about.
Anyway, he lost his job. Who cares. Bring on the
next piece of meat.

 

Striply come unclothed

The burlesque competition.

I got this idea seeing how the 84-year old host
of Strictly come dancing, in the UK,
is getting so excited by the chicks falling into
his lap that he has to take a week off. I don't
watch, but I was channel surfing past and saw
him "accidentally" grab the breast of one
surprised dancer. That beats the tea lady in the
senior's home, any day.

Lucky bastard.

Then, his time off story comes in the newspaper,
with a pic, and another gorgeous chick is falling
into his arms.
Anyway, as much as I hate contribed contests,
I've always been fond of burlesque. We fans don't
actually need a competition, but London needs
more burlesque. The Paris company with
the cowboy name, Crazyhorse, has come to the
rescue.

They've got their website
http://www.forevercrazy.co.uk/

and their nightly show. I think I'll check it some day soon.

Cos67 may be a prophet, part 3

As you'll see, after 9 years of waiting,
it took my blog entry about Gitmo
to get the US government to give
their victims their day in kangaroo court.


more on the details later

from last month:
http://posturenbluster.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/amnesty-inc-holds-pussy-riot-party-at.html

MIRROR, MIRROR, in WHITEHALL. WHO’S the SICKEST MINISTER of all?

I know that politicians care about the working stiff who
pays her taxes,
if only out of a fear of jail.
I know that British politicians are trying their best
to lighten the load of these troubled classes.

However, it seems as if politicians've always got their hands
in the cookie jar, being that, by helping rich people evade tax,
they're also helping themselves.

Observing the suffering, and yet still padding his nest. Sick

Read 'em: daily Mirror
Manna from havens: Taxing questions for Osborne over new loophole for the rich
The Government will lose out on an estimated £1billion in tax revenues, that’s according to the Treasury’s own figures.
Dead loss: Chancellor George Osborne's move will cost £1bn Dead loss: Chancellor George Osborne's move will cost £1bn
Try this for a money-raising venture.
You are a multi-million pound corporation in Manchester and you decide to open a branch in Spain.
You then open another branch in the tax haven of Luxembourg.
At the end of the year you take the profits from all three and place them in a Luxembourg bank account.
Now, here’s the good bit.
Thanks to George Osborne, you only have to pay Luxembourg tax rates on all your profits, whether they were made in Manchester or Alicante.
Of course, these rules would never apply to small enterprises such as hairdressers or window cleaners.
But from 2013 they WILL apply to huge multi-national firms based in the UK and, as a result, they are going to be able to avoid paying millions of pounds in tax in this country.
To qualify, you would have to be a corporation with other corporations in the countries where you are shifting profits and dodging taxes. You’d also need to be rich enough to afford expensive tax lawyers and accountants.
Currently the law stops companies from abusing the system in this way and the Government has the right to force you to make up the difference.
But Mr Osborne decided this was bad for British business. So earlier this year, he sneaked measures to RELAX tax haven laws into the Finance Bill.
The Government will lose out on an estimated £1billion in tax revenues, that’s according to the Treasury’s own figures.
And, as we are being constantly reminded, the Government is not exactly awash with cash at the moment. So this money, which could pay for schools, police and the NHS, has to be raised elsewhere.
That means us all paying more in fuel duty and VAT but getting less in benefits and tax credits.
Let’s make this clear: not content with giving a tax cut to millionaires in his March budget, the Chancellor is also cutting the tax bill for the companies they run by £1billion.
But we are not the only ones to lose out.
Let’s say you are a UK multi-national which owns a brewery in Ghana. You don’t want to pay corporation tax in Africa because it is too expensive, so you shift profits made from the brewery to the low-tax regime of the Cayman Islands.
Previously, the British government would come after you for the tax they are losing. Now George Osborne is going to do nothing about it.
Not only does it mean less money for the UK coffers, it also means the citizens of Ghana lose out too.
The charity Action Aid has ­estimated that Mr Osborne’s decision to relax the rules will cost developing countries £4billion.
That is money which could be spent on education, vaccinations and poverty reduction. It could also make these countries more reliant on aid from nations such as... yes, you guessed it, Britain.
Aid, incidentally, paid for by taxpayers.
The Chancellor recently said tax avoidance was “morally repugnant”. But since entering the Treasury in 2010 he has pushed through policies which have made tax dodging easier rather than harder.
Take the deal he signed with Switzerland. Many British millionaires use the low-tax country to stash their cash, costing the Treasury billions.
To great fanfare, Mr Osborne announced a clampdown on Swiss tax avoidance.
It was nothing of the sort.
Under the new laws if you are a very rich UK citizen and have a bank account in Switzerland the Treasury can now demand you pay 40% tax on dividends and 48% on interest and other income.
If you agree to pay the new rates you DON’T have to disclose how much money you have in the bank.
It could be that you had made enough from interest and share dividends to pay the top rate of tax, 50% in the UK until April 2013, but the Treasury is not bothered about that.
George Osborne has achieved the exceptional feat of bringing in the only “tax avoidance” laws in the world that reward secrecy.
The deal also contains more holes than a slice of Gruyere cheese.