Wednesday, 31 August 2011

CROYDON'S PROUD HISTORY


Jabez Balfour, first Mayor of Croydon (1883.) This crook used his own building society to swindle hundreds of people out of their life savings. What a wonderful history of selfless-service and communal sacrifice from our civic leaders.....etc etc

He did a few years hard labour.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow.

Croydon council's current shower are standing on the shoulders of giants.


Thursday, 18 August 2011

THE LOTTERY

                                                                                                                                                   by K. E



IT WONT BE YOU !!!



'The lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enourmous prizes, was the one public event that the proles paid serious attention to.It was probable that there was some millions of Proles for whom the Lottery was the principle if not the only reason for staying alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.'
-1984

                                                                   dickheeds !




'Winston had nothing to do with the running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware that the prizes were largely imaginary....the winners of the prizes being non-existent persons.'  -1984

                                                                  
We had the 'tax on stupidity' argument in the early days of the Lottery....and the 'Maths Tax' argument. We had an abortive attempt by Richard Branson to seize the monopoly out of the hands of the ghastly revenants who ran Camelot aided and abbetted by the impotent Lottery Commission and mobster High Court judges. But today any kind of Lottery dissent has been totally stamped out by the frenzied glitzy propaganda machine. It is seen as a good thing. Helping the community. It's a part of our everyday lives now. Engrained into our collective programming that it seems as if its always been here and will always get bigger and will always continue to do good.

The reality is very different.

We are staring into thick FOG.

In 2002 the turnover of the National Lottery (as the establishment money-making machine was called then) had started to drop dangerously. People had started to twig it was bullshit. Dianne Thompson was brought in as an exec to revamp it. And the first thing she did was make a speech at an annual dinner at the Chartered Insitute of Marketing, where we got the famous quote:

'you'd be lucky if you win a tenner.'

A seemingly extraordinarily suicidal Ratner-style faux-pas for a CEO to make in 2002?

Yes?

Well, that is until you find out that she was previously the Exec charged with rebranding the shattered Ratners name into Signet !!!!!

NO JOKE.




So the ailing National Lottery is rebranded using this cunning technique - TELLING THE TRUTH ie THE NATIONAL LOTTERY IS BULLSHIT. It's an old technique. You'll notice many pretend liberals like Peter Oborne using it in their Telegraph columns about the riots over the last few days.

                                   he's a liberal conservative on our side !     ?

Tell the truth...shame the devil, get people on your side and then use this new confidence in the goodness of things to rebrand, restock....AND ATTACK AGAIN....striking them at their weakest.



But we're wondering off into the bigger picture! 

So, the new-look LOTTO is launched in 2002 accompanied by a massive saturating advertising budget behind it. Billy Connolly WHORES himself out for a few more pounds...and just to show how truly popular the LOTTO is ...they run it on as many days as they can. What more proof of its popularity do you need?

Its new, its different, its bigger, its the same 

we're f*cked ! 

And then the EUROMILLIONS is CONJURED UP (2004)...and suddenly all the people who were fed up NEVER WINNING the normal lottery go for that one instead because it promises even more money. It's even reassuringly more expensive to play too.

THE MIND BOGGLES


Lets look a little deeper into the murky history of the Lottery.....

They first appeared roughly the same time as bank-notes (or IOU's) in old China. But the first UK Lottery was started under the watch of Queen(?) Elizabeth I and was described ominously as being for the 'strength of the Realm' !!!!


It's a truly scary phrase that..'the strength of the realm.'

We have stumbled upon one of the truly nastiest ages in British (capitalist) history..

Extraordinarily brutal things were conjured up in the 16thC under Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The British Empire. The modern banking system. Stock Brokers etc. Even GOD himself was rebranded and repositioned in the new Protestant universal order....



                          
                      UH UH....NOPE....SORRY






The lottery lasted from 1566 to 1826, this gambling insanity being finally suppressed (along with all those other dehumanizing and socially debasing curses that the new philanthropic methodist Parliament found so distasteful like slavery, alchoholism, prostitution, blood sports etc) in the emerging Victorian period. 

All the things in fact that are bigger now than they've ever been.







So who dug up the national lottery again in our times...?


Of course, the scumbag Tories decided to revivify its ghastly carcass in 1994 (under grey Major) and it became another in a long list of proud symbols of Britain under Queen Elizabeth II.



Bliar's Labour vampires then duly took command in 1997 and continued down the Tory road of ruthless and compassionless laissez-faire capitalism until the lottery was blown up into the unstoppable, unquenchable monster that you see today...

stupid cow

BILLY CONNOLLY



''They do say,'' Mr Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, ''that over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery''.
Old Man Warner snorted. ''Pack of crazy fools,'' he said. ''there's always been a lottery.''       -   The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.








                                         NO IT WONT !

It is a menace. It is run by criminals and used to fill the pockets of the already rich and powerful with even more wealth and power. It is a brutal monopoly.
It shatters peoples lives and their sense of place in society. It keeps people down. It is a Con....and one of the oldest ones in the book.

the only ones who ever win...are them.

and the next time someone says it's a great thing, raising money for community projects etc blah blah blah ...do us all a favour...

give em the lottery finger ! 

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Clippings from the real world.





'A single engagement in the actual class war is worth a thousand patronizing proclamations by microscopic leftist sects.''





“We are not involved in the looting and unlike the knee-jerk right or even the sympathetic-but-condemnatory commentators from the left, we will not condemn or condone those we don’t know for taking back some of the wealth they have been denied all their lives.”


It must be recognized that regardless of the potential for reformist maneuvering to win temporary material gains for restricted elements of the working class, such a strategy always results in the comprehensive political liquidation of the class and its integration into capital’s civic and national community.



The systematic looting and destruction which has swept England is of course completely insufficient in and of itself for the development of autonomous proletarian politics. It is however a thousand times preferable to the demands for democracy which buried the Arab Spring in a cosmetic restructuring of the state. The mass appropriation of Nikes and Iphones without explanation or justification is like any struggle for higher wages and fewer hours of work a direct assertion of the material needs of the class-and as such immeasurably closer to the living content of communist politics then any nationalist and reformist movement with a “coherent” message.



Those who identify more with the vigilante gangs of the petty-bourgeois defending their small enterprises (where proletarians are exploited, humiliated and cheated everyday), than with working class youth carrying out the dictatorial expropriation of the social wealth show clearly that they are not revolutionaries but cops in waiting-and should be treated accordingly.




“There is a direct correlation between the violence here in Chicago, which is off the charts right now, and the lack of investment in inner cities and inner-city youth,” Phillip Jackson, founder of the Million Father March, said in an interview on Wednesday.
“In Chicago and other major American cities, the violent acts are singular and isolated. The violence in London has become collective and focused, but the underlying causes are the same, and as soon as American kids figure that out, we’re in trouble.”




The first monarchies appeared as the political expression of a division of material tasks: whilst certain elements within the family unit or the primitive tribe took to hunting, fishing, agriculture or the first handicrafts, others were assigned to armed defence, or indeed to the armed plundering of other groups and peoples...













Wednesday, 10 August 2011

A REVIEW OF THE RIOT REPORTING

by Luther B


The first thing to remember when sifting through the wreckage, metaphorical and physical, is this.....the ELITE control a sophisticated propaganda machine.




By now the tag 'mindless thugs' has been hammered so repeatedly into the public consciousness that its probably worth unpacking that term and taking a look at it.

It's a fun game.....thinking about the words we hear and repeat. During the big Union demo and subsequent rioting the tagline was 'spoiling it for the rest of us'.

Well today its 'mindless thugs'.



One or two people have raised the point that it's a contradiction to BLAME a 'mindless thug'. That said, its interesting to note that the words we use to describe violent anti-social behaviour are perhaps unsurprisingly steeped in centuries of zenophobia and class hatred. Thug comes from the heady days of the Raj in British Colonial India and refers to Hindus. Vandals were a tribe of Germanic invaders (who funnily enough had their very own Kings and Queens). And the Hooligans of course were a drunken Irish family.

Racism is shot through the derivation and evolution of these throw-away words that we use and regurgitate today with not a moment's thought. The dark 'other' that has terrified the peaceful sleep of white patriarchal England since the time immemorial.

Not only does the ELITE have control of the propaganga machine but it has, via the school system , built 'a structurally reinforced disparity in people's access to education.''


As true anarchist Peter Gelderloos describes;

''Most people are not currently able to analyze and synthesize information that challenges the integral mythologies on Class Lines. People from poor backgrounds are more likely to be undereducated, kept in a mental environment that discourages the development of their vocabularies and analytical skills.




The OVEReducation of people from wealthy backgrounds turns them into trained monkeys; they are intensively trained to use analysis only to defend or improve the existing system, while being incurably skeptical and derisive toward revolutionary ideas or suggestions that the current system is rotten to the core.


Then you have the large majority middleclass in Britain and US, the ones who speak and think in cliche and soundbite.

''most people will respond to radical information and analysis with syllogism, moralism, and polemics. They will be more susceptible to pundits arguing conventional wisdoms with familiar slogans than to people presenting challenging facts and analysis. Because of this, activists taking an educational approach tend to dumb down the message so that they too can take advantage of the power of cliches and platitudes.''

A great example here is this clip of scientist Richard Dawkins struggling to make the retard Bill O'Reilly of Fox News see the ridiculousness of religion and the notion of GOD.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FARDDcdFaQ





O'Reilly reduces the argument to staggering levels of childish ignorance and stupidity. Dawkins is left having to reassure O'Reilly that even though he doesn't believe in God that doesn't mean he likes Hitler!

Compare this to the recent suppressed interview by a Nazi at the BBC who attempts to get a 'mindless thugs' cliche from Darkus Howe as the fires behind him burn his community to ashes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDQCT0AJcw



Darkus's comment 'you're just some idiot' said more about the reporting of the riots than countless hours of comments, observations and warnings from so-called experts ever could .

And this is the crucial point when looking at the vocabulary and message coming out in the knee-jerk reactionary response to the riots in the inner cities.

The true 'mindless thugs' are the middle classes who are locked within the rigid thinking imposed upon them by the Elite propaganda machine.



George Orwell's 1984 identified the middleclasses as 'The Party', not so much 'unable' as 'unwilling' to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever.

A blind faith in law and order regardless of the fact that the pre-riot status quo was anything but.

Blind to the fact that institutional lawlessness was happening all around them. That the very people intrusted to protect and serve them were ruthlessly selling the middle classes out and brutalizing the poor ...whilst piling more and more gold into the hands of the ruling Elite.


They remember and regurgitate a million useless things and phrases...''but all the relevant facts are outside the range of their vision. They are like ants which can see small objects but not large ones.''



Everyone who appears before the media cameras has to immediately denounce the violence otherwise they are not allowed a voice. Even people like radical socialist labour MP John Mcdonnell feel 'compelled' to deplore the violence first before taking a swipe at the government, even though anyone who knows John Mcdonnell knows that he's instinctively opposed to violence.
But politicians play a dangerous game in speaking their mind.

Its like some bizzarre ritual involving an invisible Bible...everyone has to swear allegiance to the establishment line and the establishment way of thinking before being given 10 seconds or so of airtime to offer alternative ways of thinking.


Heres another piece from 1984,

''the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be NO words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.''

Listening to news presenters such as Fiona Armstrong and Kaye Burley one is reminded of an essay about the English language written by Orwell , presumably around the time that 1984 was receiving its deserved pludits.

''one never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-spun turn of speech. When one watchess some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases, {'mindless thugs'} 'stand shoulder to shoulder' {'feral rats'} 'rivers of blood' etc, one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a 'live' human being but some kind of dummy...{or android.} A speaker who uses this kind of phraseology has gone some distance towards turning herself into a machine.The appropriate noises are coming out of her larynx, but her brain is not involved as it would be if she were choosing the words for herself.''



''When there is a gap between one's real aims and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.


In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.




CroydonClassWar advises people to think twice when commenting on the riots less they find themselves falling into the trap of spouting an opinion that isn't really their own. 

It would appear that Darkus Howe was attacked by the BBC because he hadn't equipped himself with the tools neccessary for inclusion into mainstream public opinion - discretion, aloofness,and 'a saving stupidity'.

''Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted all else follows.''




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EheLN-MDzrA&ob=av2e

















Sunday, 7 August 2011

TOTTENHAM WAKES UP !!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BxBs4f4RIU&feature=related


''Poverty is the worst form of violence''
Ghandi         




a clip from Ian Bone's website last night; http://ianbone.wordpress.com/


''The whole of Tottenham Hale retail park has been comprehensively looted inc. car phone warehouse/matalan/JD Sports.No cops anywhere as 600 shop wihout money. Cops tied down in Tottenham leaving Wood green Shopping City unprotected. Just had report three northern ireland style armoured police vans sen on streets. Cops have lost it – they are going to get an incredible amount of shit for leaving areas unprotected. No credible reports of rioting elsewhre. This is big. Tomorrow will be vital as to whether a one off or a re-run of 1981. Rioting and looting still in full swing – thousands on the streets. This is fucking really bignow what did I say about that long deep sleep! TV news is so way behind on this one. Allied carpets burned down. Trolley loads of looted computers/plasma screens being wheeled away.''


and from : http://truth-reason-liberty.blogspot.com/

''Various sources say 200 riot police and the Met's Territorial Support Group have been deployed to meet the protest. It will be worth watching to see how the police handle the situation, particularly as this situation has arisen in response to police violence. Only four months after the battle of Stokescroft, and thirty years after riots hit Brixton, Handsworth, Chapeltown, and Toxteth, this event has a clear significance amidst rising social tensions across Britain.''



''An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. ''
Ghandi

There was a very strong and articulate message from Symeon Brown (a black youth worker in Tottenham) talking to the BBC this morning among the bebris and wreckage of burnt-out cars and gutted shop fronts.

Reminding the BBC of the police murder of Tottenham's Cynthia Jarrett in '85, he suggested...

''you underestimate the power of collective memory''

adding,


''......we withdraw our consent of the police force.''





''Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary”          Bakunin



''It is not only government in the sense of the state which is destructive of every individual
value and quality. It is the whole complex of authority and institutional domination which
strangles
life."

Emma Goldman




The BBC braces us for an imminent live speech from a senior member of the police force. Funny, I didnt think we had any at the moment........