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| US troops in top secret WW2 deployment to Cheltenham England - sshhh mum's the word |
The British government is allowing
foreign governments to spy on the British population and to make the way
clear for these activities to descend to even lower depths of
perversity... Home Secretary Theresa May is proposing the Communications Data Bill.
Big Sister is watching us, how very 21st century that concept is...plus...it is what
poor batty old Theresa May thinks she is doing, namely Ronald McDonald's
right-hand girl and champion of every woman's right to be a power-crazed lunatic, scuttling the ship of state on behalf of the IMF and Wall
Street, the global grand larceny, the pauperisation of our population to feed the bloated bellies of the corporate monster.
Politics in
Britain (and for that matter most of the world) are no longer a matter of supporting political
parties, they are all carbon copies of each other anyway ... the whole parliamentary system is a form of street-walker's
street theatre and a vacuous celebtocracy, no - the real political struggle in Britain is more
like being a member of a global Neighbourhood Watch Scheme. It is the upright and
just populations against the unjust corporate criminals, corrupt
officials and the outright gangsterism in high office we are witnessing every
day both here and abroad.
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| Theresa May - Big Sister is Watching Us |
The sham-government's new
Bill widely known in Britain as the Snooper's Charter would allow
corrupted public officials and their transatlantic counterparts to listen-in,
collect and store every communication we make with anybody for any
purpose anywhere in the world and trade this information to the highest bidder. Such personal information in our bit of the empire is collected
and sent by GCHQ to the paranoid sociopaths that run the American National
Security Agency (NSA) on behalf of big business and their fully paid
for political soap opera currrently staring Barack Obama in the president role.
This
is a world that has become recognisably unhinged to the vast majority of rational
humanity. What we seem to be dealing with here are a distant race of
alienated cyborgs who, having lost touch with any vestiges of
conventional reality, now apparently think they are not part of humanity
per se... and that is why they have to spy on us human beings 24/7.. because
they are scared of us, terrified of consummer power or of democracy and
so they are always trying to second guess us, steal a march on us and
get ahead of us... in order to predict our behaviour and of course up their profit
margins at the same time. Nice work if you can get it you might think?
According to twisted paranoid logic of the NSA the reason they have to know our every thought and action is not only all the usual 'national security' 'war on terror' blah, blah. blah old guff... but also to gain economic advantage for the US multinational corporations that are as everyone knows, the real American government behind all the smoke and mirrors and who are pulling strings in Greater Bilderbergia... or GB as it is also known.
But
what about the British government listening post GCHQ in Cheltenham
(not to be confused with the US government listening post at Menwith
Hill, in Yorkshire -although there is no real difference) ...we know that GCHQ has been bankrolled by the NSA and
coaxed... although to be fair bribed might be a better way of putting it... into taking part in domestic spying 'operations' with rather daft names like PRISM and Tempora that could only have been thought up by a resident of Disneyland or some other non-existent fantasy realm.
The US government has contributed at least £100m to the budget of the
UK's GCHQ in the last three years in a bid to make sure the intelligence
agency "pulls its weight", according to information revealed to the Guardian
by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
This incidentally is not exactly a new
experience for the GCHQ spooks, British intelligence has always been
notoriously porous as the Cambridge Five amply demonstrated during the last Cold War
before this one. Edward Snowden was preceded a decade earlier by our very own Katherine
Gun a modern English heroine and a former translater at GCHQ.
As her Wikipedia entry points out:-
"In 2003, she became publicly known for leaking top-secret information to the press concerning illegal activities by the United States of America in their push for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Some of these activities include the U.S. NSA eavesdropping operation
on countries tasked with passing a second United Nations resolution on
the invasion of Iraq."
....(T)he case came to court on 25 February 2004. Within half an hour, the
case was dropped because the prosecution declined to offer evidence. The
reasons for the prosecution dropping the case are unclear. The day
before the trial, Gun's defence team had asked the government for any
records of advice about the legality of the war that it had received
during the run-up to the war. A full trial might have exposed any such
documents to public scrutiny as the defence were expected to argue that
trying to stop an illegal act (that of an illegal war of aggression) trumped Gun's obligations under the Official Secrets Act 1989."
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| Katherine Gun- The Archetypal English Heroine |
The
fact that British national's are today in the pay of a foreign regime to
routinely spy upon other British nationals and pass sensitive data about
them to a foreign power, not to mention strictly dodgy commercial interests... sort of suggests that whoever the British "government" actually represents
it certainly is not us, the population of Great Britain. Indeed if we
live in England we don't actually have anyone representing us at all (unlike the
Scots, the Welsh and the Northern Irish who have their own parliament
or national assemblies at least) - this makes the sell-out all the more
worrisome for the sons and daughters of Albion.
In effect this situation makes England an unconstitutional anarchy and
a country (as opposed to a constituent of the United Kingdom or Great
Britain) that really should be listed as a state with no government of
its own and where no machinery of English national self governance is even in
place.
So here we are looking a lot like George Orwell's Airstrip One being
spied on by our fellow citizens to feed the gluttonous transatlanticism
that impoverishes populations on both side of the Atlantic and all
points of the compass as a matter of fact. Orwell called the overarching
superstate Oceania, I call it Greater Bilderbergia, but it really
doesn't matter what we call it, it goes by many names, acronyms and
alliases, for the moment its called Theresa May or Big Sister, an
anodyne cult of no-personality.
From
an English perspective this is all bad enough, no government, no
parliament, no representation, used as an airstrip by Greater
Bilderbergia, a listening post by the NSA but neverthe less paying hand
over fist to be occupied by aliens.
It's
no life is it? We need to rekindle the various cultural archetypes to
reassert English cultural heritage, the Herewards, the King Arthurs, the King
Alfreds, the Queen Boudiccas and Queen Aethelflaeds of Mercia ...the
pantheon of English mythology that gives England its nature and its
identity as a place of progress by rebellion.
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| Boudicca - Anti-Imperialist Avenger and Feminist Role Model |
Ripped Off England
It
might help concentrate minds if people knew how we as British taxpayer
fork out for the priviledge of being snooped on by Big Sister and her
American friends at GCHQ. GCHQ’s individual budget isn’t public
knowledge, but according to Chris Milnes running totals on the Gizmodo
blog its funding comes from the Single Intelligence Account (SIA), which for 2012-13 is set at £2.1 billion. There’s also a £650 million government slush fund
set up to counter cyber security. Given that, it’s easily believable
that GCHQ was able to sling £80-odd million into its flagship snooping
programme. Thanks to MI5 for the figures.
These numbers don't seem far off what was reported in the British tabloid paper The Daily Mail in 2012 which stated that:-
The
Home Office estimates that the programme – under which internet
providers will be paid to store hundreds of millions of pieces of data
for up to two years – will cost £2billion over its first decade alone.
Beyond this point there will be annual running costs of £200million – or £380 a minute.
Even these figures, which are based on
2009 prices, could be an underestimate given the complexity of the
project – and officials’ terrible record for estimating the price of IT
schemes.
So,
lets just recap here. England is a country with no democratic
representation in its own right, it is administered by interests that
lie outside the geographical boundaries of England whether they be in
Edinburgh, Brussells or in Washington, the political suppression of
English sovereignty is universal and all encompassing it seems.
The current
unelected and unmandated so-called British government was appointed by HRH
the Queen after all versions (i.e. variations) of the current parliamentary political argument were rejected by the majority of English
voters in the last UK
general election in 2010 . No parliament, no representation, no influence and no democracy
in England, but as the most populous region of the United Kingdom we pay
dearly for our disenfranchised servitude.
Austerity Britain is an IMF construct born disproportunately by the population of England which forms 84% of the UK.
According to the Office for National Statistics the estimated populations of the four constituent countries of the UK in mid-2012 are 53.5 million people in England, 5.3 million in Scotland, 3.1 million in Wales and 1.8 million in Northern Ireland.
Austerity Britain is an IMF construct born disproportunately by the population of England which forms 84% of the UK.
According to the Office for National Statistics the estimated populations of the four constituent countries of the UK in mid-2012 are 53.5 million people in England, 5.3 million in Scotland, 3.1 million in Wales and 1.8 million in Northern Ireland.
England
has ten times the population of Scotland, but unlike its northern
neighbour it has no parliament of its own, its laws are made by a fair proportion of people
who don't live here, our hard earned taxes are used to line the pockets
of US based corporations like Amazon, Google, Starbucks, McDonalds and
so on while minute details of our private lives are mauled by avaricious
cyborgs all across the globe, whose dirty paws comb through our private
papers and whose crassness turns our colective stomachs and for whose paymasters we
have nothing but utter contempt and loathing.
I really can't see how it
will be possible for the diverse populations of England to continue to
be treated like this. All sub-cultures are united by the blanket
ambitions of Big Sister and her army of geeks on the public payroll at GCHQ to control
and subdue us. In ideological terms the corporate opinion formers are losing
the battle for hearts and minds I think.... now dissent is once again the order of
the day in England.
Our very souls are under threat from all the intrusive busy-bodies and night-clubbers that couldn't be trusted to look after a house plant let alone all our personal business. Something needs to be done about this ...and soon I think! An English parliament would be a start, so let's sit back and see who declares themselve inelegible to sit in it....so far the Tories , Labour and the Lib Dems have all counted themselves out, sounds promising doesn't it?
Whether Scotland votes for independence or the alternative devolution light this is not going away as an issue in England. Despite recent attempts by the improbabaly named United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) to hijack the campaign for an English parliament (or a UK parliament... or what exactly?) the movement is a broad one with supporters drawn from various strands of political opinion from right across a broad spectrum.
We must work to break the log-jam and liberate England from its state of supine suppression, the monarchy and the unelected global oligarchy that currently hold the keys to our as yet - rather uncertain futures.




Excellent essay AA. You make an excellent case for the lack of effective representation for "Airstrip One".
ReplyDeleteIt might be a minor consolation, but at least you have the hope that a future English parliament might come to pass, though it is likely some sort of mini-NSA national security apparatus would have to always be kept in check by some future Katherine Gun.
The problem to me stems in part from a confluence of events--the blowback from ultra-Islamic "jihad" fighting cells (whatever their ultimate generation) has fueled a desire to counter measures from an all-powerful and all-profitable cyber-intelligence state. Said state seems to be more and more the province of a new priestly class of "geeks", many of whom, more accustomed to interacting with machines rather than people and perhaps in personality traits for such contacts, will combine with the military (Pentagon) and "spook" (Homeland Security) caste. Combined with a near--secret civilian-judicial review board--the FISA court system, it is unlikely that much will change here in America barring a lot more Snowden/Manning style revelations.
It is important to recall that Edward Snowden was a high-salaried "hacker" working for a private-contractor in an intelligence gathering service in Hawaii, one that had the same global intelligence-gathering power as the NSA "big brothers" have. The only way to break the logjam of insularity to my mind is to have people of empathy and good conscience in the heart of this "techie" and combat-oriented power matrix who are there for "the underdog", the general public, and who can provide a counter-force to oversee the overseers.
Add to that the power that totally private multinationals have, and it seems that most if not all of your concerns are well-founded.
Thanks for your very comprehensive comments here Doug, sorry about the typos though, one life's little irritations, particularly to those who like me - suffer from dyslexic forefingers. Your point about states always needing 'security' services is of course true (as do all large businesses too of course). It is one of the fundamental characteristics of late capitalism that standing armies are ever ready to 'persuade' difficult customers to recant the errors of their ways. Meanwhile a cornucopia of glittering celebrities attract admiring window shoppers who are invited to come in and watch the show, join the club, get the look, live the life...shop till you drop and if you should unhappily fall behind don't worry - we've got the cure its called 'shopping therapy'.
DeleteOne dim light at the end of a long tunnel is that just as globalism has rendered nation states irrelevant, transitional dual power will render the multinational corporation obsolete in time too. This future period is called (by me) transnational localism because just as globalism shrank the world so extraterrestrial expansion will shrink the solar system in time time (after Thorium achieves its full potential of course)....A by-product of this future expansion will be a reduction of pressure on the home planet and the new terrestrial age of Communicipalism will link all human societies with the biosphere and each other. That's my idealist Age of Aquarius type take on the situation which as I read it back sounds frighteningly Hegelian, but I suppose it is running in the background even while I support ideas and ways of construing the world that refute it. However situationalist one is in every day affairs we have to have a moral destination I think (a personal Utopia) and that is mine...in the meantime we do what we can I suppose.
"doing what we can do" until things get better is a good recipe for going through life, AA, as for as I'm concerned. I certainly look with a brighter disposition to a vision of the future where power is more local and mega-companies are less able to send us big bills and lobby to send other people's children and grandchildren (or my own in one case) off to some bull***** war for goods or resources. Bring on the Thorium Reaction I say!
DeleteYes Doug Thorium is indeed the way forward, in the meantime we have dual power and transition towns to be going on with. With any luck the Bilderberg Group will board a Virgin Thorium rocket piloted by Richard Branson and head for some other part of the solar system leaving us to clear up the mess they'll leave behind. Good riddance I say, no more hydrocarbon wars dreampt up by bankers and psychopaths, we don't need it...there are better ways of doing things. Cheers Doug.
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