Ten Percent

The frame for the neoliberal discourse on welfare and benefits is that unemployment, disability and sickness are caused by benefits rather than the business cycle, social disablement and ill health. It is a consumerist political marketing campaign to fraudulently locate the blame for structural problems onto the individual and to assign these failures to personal shortcomings. This becomes bile filled blame originating in DWP briefings and echoed in populist corporate media whose parent conglomerates will benefit greatly from the downward pressure on labour costs caused by the dismantling of welfare provision.

In a functioning democracy an opposition party would not subscribe to this frame it would offer an alternative choice to neoliberal dogma, thereby giving people who did not believe in this failed ideology a chance to support a party and in time a government that did not simply repeat the same trickle up scams of previous neoliberal administrations. Liam Byrne proves we do not have a functioning democracy, by using a dishonest fallacy of composition rhetorical scam beloved of Austerinomics shills he has necrophilically fucked the corpse of WIlliam Beveridge. Making it appear his counter factual ejaculations are Beveridge supporting polices in the now rather than him and his banker MBA chums (for Byrne is also both of those, a well drilled soldier of the financerati) using the dead leftwinger’s reputation as a rotting puppet prophylactic to obscure & protect their simpering right wing electoral realpolitik.

In a brown envelope with a return address to Belfast, Northern Ireland, came a letter from a DWP office in Aberdeen, Scotland regarding the fake medical Atos test I was forced to undergo in Bangor, North Wales back in the first week of October. It said I had only scored 12 points on my Work Capability Assessment (15 are needed to be awarded ESA and be put into a worse position than I was, even more are needed to put me into the situation I have been in, for now I will be put in a far far worse position). They will stop paying me in January.

I am going to appeal.

Merry Fucking Christmas (and Happy Hanukkah)!

A worthy torch passing.

“We know too well the heavy cost of this war. More than 1.5m Americans have served in Iraq. Over 30,000 Americans have been wounded and those are only the wounds that show. Nearly 4,500 Americans made the ultimate sacrifice,” he said. “We also know that these numbers don’t tell the full story of the Iraq war. Not even close.”

Obama made no mention of Iraqi deaths. The cost in Iraqi lives is heavily disputed but is generally believed to run in to the hundreds of thousands.

Which is better than the BBC whose only mention was in photo caption of US soldier memorials-

Nearly 4,500 US troops died in Iraq while tens of thousands of Iraqis also lost their lives

Why is it ‘heavily disputed’? We tend not to dispute the death tolls caused by nations or forces our elite wish us to dislike, whereas their/our crimes are minimised. I recently re-watched Jack Gold’s movie ‘Escape from Sobibor‘ a fairly PG telling of the revolt and escape by Jewish prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp run by the SS-Sonderkommando. After the uprising/riot/escape Himmler immediately ordered the camp destroyed and the area was planted with trees to hide any trace of the death camp. However survivors carried the truth with them and the genocide machine there was exposed. We were receptive to that truth because the Nazis were our enemy, for comparison even today when mentions of our raid on Dresden is mentioned in mass media the deaths are minimised. At some future point we may know the fuller truth of Iraq, those who think our media and politicians and military have told them the truth today are the same brand of useful idiot that enabled Himmler to point at the freshly planted trees and say all is well, we may make mistakes but our proud nation is mystically, intrinsically less evil than our enemy. Though the walking time bombs of damaged veterans will be the daily reminder war is maybe not all it’s cracked up to be.

Maybe.

In the beginning was the bass, and Sly & the Family Stone saw it was good, but it needed some funky slapping

Thank You / Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin

Now just listen to that bass break at 1:14, for verily many ages later did Jam & Lewis come upon this funkfest and thereupon they didst sample it and make a greateth choon for Janet Jackson

First General Assembly 7 & 8 Dec -11 Bangor NW

on the 7th and 8th of December 2011 the Occupy North Wales will hold its first General Assembly. Bythe cenotaph in Bangor near Y Hen Glan Public House.
Please Bring
- A Tent
- A Sign
- Something warm to wear
- And if you have hot drink
#ONW
FaceBook Link:
http://www.facebook.com/events/295638193792571/
facebook.com/occupynorthwales

occupynorthwales.tk
@MeddianwnOccupy

At the same time Adennill y Nos Reclaim the Night will also be marching-

Reclaim the Night
Come march against violence against women, reclaim the streets and raise awareness.
People of all genders and none welcome.
Leave from Main Arts foyer at 5:45pm.
Rally at the Clock at 6:10 pm
Party at the Gwynedd Museum afterward!

I hope to be able to get to Bangor and stream some video.

Update: 7/12/11 Evening: Not a critical mass to make an occupation viable but well done to all and good to see (& meet) local journalist Rhodri Barker covering events, local Beeb take note!