Inflammatory topic, I agree. But after being lobbied by a few dozen people to use my social media presence to draw my 14 million viewer demographic’s attention to this issue I have a few issues that overwhelmingly give me great misgivings over the impact of the ‘Kony 2012′ project. Everyone knows about child soldiers in Africa. It’s old hat. This is like the WSPA and their bear bile farming, they talk about it like it’s new when they’ve been fund raising on the issue for decades.
This guy alone has been public for almost a decade. Although this isn’t the real criticism that’s damaging this campaign. I should also immediately state has little to no relevance outside of America and project organisers haven’t even factored in that there are 194 other nations besides Uganda and the US. Now, let’s begin.
For starters, the name is moronic. Making a war criminal famous is one thing, but ‘Kony 2012′ tells me fuck all. ‘Katch Kony’ straight up identifies that the person needs to be caught and conveys more in two words than the first 15 minutes of the video outlining the project.
The video itself is boring, long winded, and tries far too hard to be creative and hip, which disengages the majority of people in the world who aren’t coffee shop working or welfare hopping wankers who are usually incapable of any social change. You’re disenfranchising real people who contribute real value to a real society and can commit that real change required.
The organiser of the project is a wanky hipster, so it’s a given this will be the agenda, and we all know that wanky hipsters are the ‘dirty hippy’ of this generation and that alone costs the hunt significantly. The forced over the top near snotty feigned sincerity that these pustulous muppets instil in everything they say or do wore thin with us about a year after their sub-culture emerged from the primordial goop. Yes, about last week.
The propaganda being released to encourage his capture is again extremely ambiguous. When I see “Kony 2012″ looking like an election campaign flyer, I shut down and ignore it. When I see a picture of a black dude in stencil format with his name on it I assume he’s some leader of a humanitarian push against oppression. I think he’s a good guy or something. I don’t think “OH WOW THIS IS REALLY NOVEL AND UNIQUE IT MAY NOT JUST BE A STICKER AND MAY BE WORTH FURTHER INVESTIGATION!” and then waste my time and effort looking up some silly cunts name I found on the wall in the dunny at the local cinemas.
These are common sense things, things that any halfwit would be aware of if they want to lobby effectively, and things that clearly these guys would have faced as criticism repeaetdly in the past and thus that lends us to believe that they ignored this criticism.
That tells me they want to be emotively creative and come across as ‘hip’ and edgy rather than embracing mainstream and leading psychological consensus on lobbying and promotion of materials to enter the human psyche.
So how have they done anything at all? Their whiney little hipster child army have harassed people like me. Why? Because we can reach a bigger audience and deliver a better message than they can and get shit done. So why don’t they do that themselves? Because it’s too fucking hard.
Call me a cynic, call me an arsehole. Re-read this, look at the facts, and there’s one thing you’ll find evident.
I’m right.
Addendum 07/03/2012: Before you have a sook at me; I’m not saying don’t support this objective. Do so. Just don’t get caught up in irrationality. If these guys wanted to get the job done, they’d have done it properly. They instead are milking it like cause whores, probably to cash in on the snivelling hipster chicks who make up 90% of the crowd photos for easy sex. I mean the guy who made the video has convinced his son that he ‘catches bad men’ for a living. He’s a fucking jobless amateur journo with a camera, not Superman. The amount of public pressure that could be brought to bare on this subject if handled correctly would be intense enough to see to it that the fuckjob kiddy-killer would be dangling from a noose before sun down, but instead the project coordinators run the project as best suits them, their egos, and their hidden agendas. That, when children are the victims, is a crime against humanity in itself.
Addendum 08/03/2012: I feel vindicated. Per News Ltd.
But not everyone has fallen in love with KONY 2012. Some are raising doubts as to whether social media is an appropriate forum for advocacy and fund-raising.
Blogs, such as Visiblechildren.tumblr, implore people to research the facts before putting their names to the cause.
“Do I have a better answer? No, I don’t, but that doesn’t mean that you should support KONY 2012 just because it’s something. Something isn’t always better than nothing. Sometimes it’s worse.”
Charity monitor Charity Navigator gives Invisible Children 2/4 stars for accountability and transparency, prompting concerns over how the not-for-profit organisation spends its money.
Invisible Children reports that in an official account of the $13.7 million raised in the 2010/11 financial year, $8.8 million was allocated for expenses – including filming costs, transportation and production.
Article at the bottom stolen (fair use) from News Ltd. about the arrest of 25 anons. Rant up the top provided by an unknown party who types remarkably like I do.
In the last few weeks we’ve had fucknut’s at the NSA starting to spread propaganda about anon saying that ‘in a few years they will be able to take down the US power grid’ through to this nonsense. The power grid was lol, I mean, no anon would bother, and PLENTY anons could drop a power grid already. Fuck, all you’d need are a few dozen $5 pagers and some magnesium and aluminium filings from a hardware store along with some sparklers and you could systematically physically drop a power network at infrastructure level; but the kicker is, why the fuck would you?
Lots of anons live in the US, we all need our internet access and computers, EVERYONE does these days, so no one would touch a power grid. We all also know that people are on life support, people are operating machinery which if interrupted may do horrible things, and that in general a DOS of a primary infrastructure like that wouldn’t earn you cool points, isn’t justified, and just makes you an epic boner.
BUT! No one is going to do that. No one will target innocent people for no reason. Every attack by anonymous has been justified, righteous and to punish a corrupt or otherwise evil tosser. The people have no power these days. Protests do nothing, and police don’t even obey their own laws when dealing with them and wrongfully arrest and inhumanely treat protestors, and worse, you’ve got cockless wonder nearly-retired baby boomer conservative fucks who instantly assume ANYONE protesting ANYTHING is a dirty filthy hippie and the police should shoot them and save the justice system money.
Without an outlet, people’s rage and anger at evil and corruption hits boiling point. 100 years ago people would be storming the places that were hacked heavily armed and violently overthrowing governments or burning down offices and lynching people. That ironically is not kosher with the above mentioned cowardly baby boomers who think 40 years gaol for a possession charge is acceptable, and that the death penalty is rad.
So, what can angry, angry people do?
Vote?
Like that’ll make a difference when cunts with one foot in the grave who serve no purpose in this world anymore and are anachronisms that we’re just waiting to pass away outnumber us significantly. Voting only works if the average person is intelligent enough to make the right, moral, and ethical choices. Democracy only works when you can say that most people aren’t brainless fucking uneducated morons living in fantasy land of AM radio and Fox news channels.
(Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an anarchist, or a … well, anything. I’m a centrist libertarian in it’s dictionary definition not the trendy hipster alternate that seems to be around these days who believes in common sense prevailing.)
People want to lash out. You have disenfranchised masses of reasonably intelligent mostly middle class mostly white mostly men mostly between the ages of 15-30 who have everything in the world going against them, yes that’s a lot of mostly’s but it really is the touchstone demographic in Australia at least for the average anon, and based on all of those mostly’s each one compounds their lack of a voice and the public right to victimise and otherwise destroy and dead agent until the cows come home and they can’t do or say a thing about it.
So, where do these demographics go? Online! Now there are many other demographics in anon besides the silenced majority, which are also silenced and otherwise the worlds bitch. But together, they can make a difference. Together they can kick a bully’s ass in the global playground that is the game of life. And you blame them for taking this action? You blame them for lashing out at paedophiles, animal torturers, corrupt politicians, corporations, governments, you name it?
For every anon arrested a hundred more will take their place. This has been the agreed maxim since it began, and this will be the truth until the end.
Anons are a game of pokemon you cannot win. Contemporary society owe anon more than it will ever realise, and in a hundred years time think about how society will look back at those who targetted and demonized them, trying to pretend they’re terrorists and communists and anarchists who are hell bent on destroying the world.
With the NSA’s bullshit feeding and lies, now with this Interpol attack, I can honestly say I see within the next 2-5 years that the American government will somehow claim anon is a terrorist organisation and start blanket arresting them where they can.
It’ll be McArthyism all over again. Just like the nazi’s came up with bullshit made up excuses to victimise Jews and use a few rare examples of corrupt Jewish bankers (even in some cases citing Shylock himself as cause) to tar an entire peoples with the same brush, Anonymous will be engaged on that same level. It’s only a matter of time.
The only difference is, they don’t know who or where to look to catch them all, and they don’t know how or when the revenge will come.
From puppy killers being fucked over by /b/rothers, through to /i/nsurgency taking down corrupt governments during the recent grab for democracy in the middle east (then counter attacks when the dictators deposed were replaced with a council of dictators like the muslim brotherhood) even down to the Quran burnings of 1 Quran per person killed in the psychopathic mass riots and massacres in the middle east because a prison burnt Quran’s filled with hate propaganda and terrorist instructions and directions to be smuggled out to the pbulic, EVERY action that makes the headlines even under basic scrutiny appears just and fair.
Yes, you will get trolls. Yes, people will attack organisations that attack piracy or obtaining entertainment in a timely and affordable manner because the industry needs a paradigm shift to bring it into this century. YES you will get fuckwits operating outside of the scope and morals of the collective.
But ultimately, at the end of the day, Anonymous is a force of good, and unlike most others, it keeps FORCE in the forefront of that statement, and cannot be stopped.
All hail Epic Beard Man, Ubiquitous Ruler and Overlord of ANONYMOOSE! *does secret salute*
Police from Interpol arrest 25 suspected members of the Anonymous hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said yesterday.
“Operation Unmask was launched in mid-February following a series of coordinated cyber-attacks originating from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain,” said the world police body based in the French city of Lyon.
The statement cited attacks on the websites of the Colombian Ministry of Defence and the presidency, as well as on Chile’s Endesa electricity company and its National Library, among others.
The operation was carried out by police from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain, the statement said, with 250 items of computer equipment and mobile phones seized in raids on 40 premises in 15 cities.
Police also seized credit cards and cash from the suspects, aged 17 to 40.
“This operation shows that crime in the virtual world does have real consequences for those involved, and that the Internet cannot be seen as a safe haven for criminal activity,” said Interpol’s acting director of police services.
“Here the high-waisted trousers no longer know what they are!” states one sassy anti sexpresso public servant. I don’t know what’s more amusing. Women bawwing that their husbands and boyfriends are going to a cafe with a scantly clad barista or her personal fan website’s horrible translation into English.
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it’s made the news almost globally, that women of a certain town in Italy have b& their boys from visiting a specific cafe. The barista, Laura Maggi. works in a little cafe in Bagnolo Mella, near Brescia, and decided to spruce up business by wearing slutty outfits.
From PVC (ew, thrush factory!) to lacey underwear and even down to tassle-tittied pasties, she has a keen business acumen of how stupid desperate men will do anything for a bit of T&A. But aside from her slutty photos (which can be found all over the internets) the translation of her website had me in tears.
First and foremost, here are some links to her more provocative photos. (NSFW obviously)
But seriously, this part had me cacking myself. I love bad translations, it really is brilliant how batshit insane things can seem if translated, or worse, translate something from English to, say, Chinese and then back again. Go on, do it, I dare you. Either way you’ll probably get something more coherent than this (translated by Google Chrome on the fly):
PHOTOS – And Laura knows to be fair. Even more. Post all your photos on Facebook, before I hang them in his restaurant. And business is booming more than they say they are even tripled in the last year. Business is business? Do not you agree the mayoress of Bagnolo Mella. Indeed, ironically: “Here the high-waisted trousers no longer know what they are,” accuses the Mayoress Christine Almici. “Now the country is only known from the sexy bar. Here the towns furious, have even turned to the police. ” Really? “Sure. Ms. Maggi has been summoned to headquarters. It warned verbally. ” Someone has even given permission to work until late at night. “Permission has it, but I knew that would serve cocktails dressed like that? Give me time, I’m thinking of a measure. Here the public has gone to hell. “
You know, watching the above video I’m quite surprised that not a single hand has headed in for a grope. What is wrong with those people? Ok, crudeness aside, well, no, not aside, I’m going straight into the land of crude and setting off fireworks.
So, Katy Perry has a great rack, I think we can all agree on that (except maybe socially awkward mildly retarded introverts who get angry at other females who have sex appeal above that of a toad), she always wears low cut tiny tops, and always seems to like draping her fans faces in her giant jugs while singing and leaning forward.
Thus, I present to you my ultimate challenge for 2012.
If you ever get a front row seat to one of her concerts, and are within boob groping range, ensure your friends all have their mobile phones out, bring a printed A4 sign saying something corny like “KATY, I has teh cancer n amb dying, pls to be kissing me!” and when she leans in to give you a smooch, or does her usual drape the audience faces in her norks, that is the moment!
The moment you cease to be a useless waste of skin and become an internet god.
I want you to reach up with both hands, as though you are about to embrace her tenderly, then take a firm hold of the top of her shirt and rip her fucking top off.
If you succeed, I needn’t explain the level of awesome rewards life will offer you, but the mere fact you’d have a face full of K-titty should be reward enough. Now pass this on to all your friends to increase the odds of this operation being successful.
The lame indie band from Victoria is known mostly for every tour being their last tour, until they presumably run out of money for drugs and do it all over again. It’s quite like John Farnham, except with more herpes.
This morning John Raymond Zimmerman was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years for raping 55 child sex victims he groomed through The Getaway Plan and their social media sites. The media reported that the ‘now-defunct’ band is still under investigation, but according to their website and Facebook they seem oblivious (as do their fans), and have an active touring calendar, no surprise there.
The 12 year sentence in the County Court today after pleading guilty to multiple rapes, sex acts, grooming and stalking charges, which means he’ll be almost 40 before his release. Normally nothing comes of these types of charges, and teenage girls are dismissed as groupies, yet it’s good to see that at least in Australia if you put someone on a soap box, shine a spotlight on them and call them a band it doesn’t mean they’re above the law.
He would lure young girls into sex, via webcam and in person, and then forced some to continue submitting to his depraved acts by threatening to post naked photos of them or telling friends and family. He was also charged with numerous child porn related crimes, from production, exchange, transmission and possession.
Ironically, the bands wikipedia page has managed to keep suppression on the news, with one editor having to point out that it’s in big press media and highly relevant and verifiable in hopes it wouldn’t be taken down.
It appears many new Wikipedian’s are editing the page and removing any mention of this, and most have never contributed to Wikipedia before. (Itt: The bands fans.)
From my point of view, it’s pretty lol to see a bunch of scum bags get rolled like that. It’s very, very rare you see justice in motion, especially amongst even the most Z-class celebrities Australian pub music can muster.
Edit: After a troll post on their facebook page I managed to have a chat with a few ‘ex-fans’ of theirs, and it sounds like the police investigation is far from over.
You all know I have a penchant for the internet hate machine, but I have to admit I can’t get their stupid Jesus loving song out of my head. They’re back, swapping Barbie for a more accosted demi-god deity, Jesus. Their new track is creepy, it’s dubbed Playmate to Jesus, but the lyrics don’t really have that Christfag (and I use it purely in internet speak for god botherers, no offence to my gay readers) undertone happening, but they’ve definitely got that stupid something that made them a smash in the 90′s, not that you’d freely admit you own an Aqua album … but we all do. :(
Whether it’s Lene’s haunting vocals, or Rene’s laid back “I don’t English well” MC style mixed with creepy capes, weird hoods yanked straight from the head of Laibach’s lead singers head (another Euro-pop-pseudo-goth band (equally shameful, don’t admit you know who they are)) while leaning over to try and take a peek at Lene’s duct tape covered nipples (there’s plenty of nudes of her out there, use google you sick fucks), they’ve always been catchy as fuck, and it goes without saying their new track is equally addictive. Support a dying pop band, give it a whirl. You know you want to.
Now that I’ve successfully abused parentheses adequately, on with the video. Hide your shame, and pretend you didn’t listen to this; most of all, pretend you didn’t hit repeat.
A great example of how much of an Americanised humorless srs fkn bsns nanny state we’ve become is a recent article I stumbled across on news.com.au relating to a woman who put her kids on eBay. You can see it’s tongue in cheek, but the way the media report on it, and the way the Victorian police are commenting, they make it sound so absurd.
A VICTORIAN woman is being investigated after offering her two young children for sale to the highest bidder on internet auction site eBay.
The woman, in her early 30s, lives near Geelong. She wrote a “lengthy sales pitch” that included photographs of her son and daughter, both aged under 10.
Several people placed bids on the sickening auction, which has alarmed authorities.
Detectives from the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse unit were alerted to the internet page by a horrified member of the public.
The page has been taken down and the woman’s children could be taken into permanent care.
Victoria Police has decided not to press charges against the mum, who claims the act was a joke.
However, police sources told the Sunday Herald Sun they were disturbed by the incident and in particular the genuine bidders who tried to obtain the children.
Officers continue to probe the people who bid on the children and the Department of Human Services is continuing its investigation into the family.
“Investigators from Geelong were notified last week that a mother was trying to sell her two children on eBay,” a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
“Photos of the children, a boy and a girl both aged under 10 years, were included in the sales pitch.”
The page was posted on Wednesday and was active until late morning the next day.
“The mother wrote a lengthy sales pitch that was very interesting reading,” a police source said.
“She said the page was created as a joke, but what worries us is the people bidding on the auction. Who knows who these people are. They could be paedophiles or anyone. It’s extremely disturbing.”
Officers immediately contacted eBay, which took the page down within two hours. Auction site staff then provided detectives with full details of the woman.
She faced charges under section 493 of Failing to Protect Child from Harm, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison.
But officers accepted her plea that it was a joke.
However, they have referred the matter to the DHS, which is still investigating the family.
A spokesman said it was possible the children could be taken into care.
“If there is a serious threat to the children’s wellbeing and the situation is so bad that the only safe option is for them to be taken from home, then that is definitely a possibility,” he said.
“This action could attract the attention of the wrong sort of people, whether it was a joke or not, and the family need to understand the risks and receive advice around that.
“We will continue to engage with the family and assess if there are any underlying problems.
“We need to get to the bottom of why she did this.
“Is there a mental illness, is the mother not coping or was it simply a joke? I don’t recall another case like this.”
You’re broke, so broke you can’t afford the $40 a month fee to keep your mans sperm frozen in cryonics. You don’t want it to go to waste, so what do you do? Why, you shit 8 kids bringing your child total to FOURTEEN (14! Yes, 14!), they won’t cost more than $40 a month right?
This is the logic that led to ‘Octomum’ shitting her litter of slutlets. The demented mind of a child abuser who systematically whores out her children to an apalling yet oh so typically American/Hollywoodesque bunch of carrion eaters.
She stated ONE year after her media blits that she was retiring from the media and was apalled that she was selling her children and wouldn’t be seeking anymore publicity and free crap. Every six to twelve months since then she’s done it again, and when called out on it she cries poverty. Bitch should have done her math and realised that $40 a month isn’t that bad!
She’s done it again, however. Oh ye of the loose snatch has whored herself into the media spotlight again. Not by consuming several adults by her cavernous coot, but by getting into a brawl on a plane with 3rd Rock from the Sun star Kristen Johnston.
The actress got so fed up with the noisy brood, she asked the ‘Octomum’ to keep the noise down. The mum of 14 did not take kindly to this remark, yelling back: “How would you like me to keep eight two-year-olds quiet?” To which the actress allegedly responded: “Get more help!”
Nadya’s spokesperson told TMZ that she shouted back: “Why don’t you grow a baby and get a life.” The family reportedly took up almost all of the business section of the flight, which was delayed for two hours before taking off.
This woman should have her children taken off her and be committed, and steralised.
Nico Botha of Moola Bulla Station’s Threat to Kill 200 Cattle a Day in Live Export Debarcle, and My Confrontation of his Flawed Logic (Because I’m Awesome) AND HOW YOU CAN HELP STOP THE CULL.
It hit the news earlier today that a moron by the name of Nico Botha was having a whinge that he can’t afford to feed his cattle. For my international readers, basically kosher / halal slaughter over here has had a rocky road with frequent ‘surprise’ finds that it’s cruel and sadistic and in no way a humane way to slaughter animals.
Whilst captive bolt method has degraded since the above lobby groups have pushed that it be a legal requirement it does not cause brain death instantly (claiming that spreads BSE, allegedly), but rather knocks the animal out and doesn’t pierce the cranium this method is still far less horrific than the video footage Australia got to see a while back.
Back in 1998 a halal slaughter house in Melbourne was shut down after video footage was leaked out, but more recently the footage exposed to the Australian public was from Indonesia and the level of depravity depicted was on par with what I’ve seen conducted WITHIN Australia as far as halal and kosher slaughter goes but it was the first time Australian’s had seen the meat industry in all it’s glory.
Don’t get me wrong, no preconceptions required here, I’m not a tree hugger, a hippie, or a vegetarian. I see the economical and ecological viability and requirements around me and adopt them as ethical business practice however. Therein lay my frustrations with Nico Botha and his ilk. The type of person who through negligence of their own part then plays off to the media as an ‘Aussie battler’ out to make a fair crust when in reality their own stupidity looks to be their downfall, yet ultimately they file a claim and underwriters fix it all whilst they get to trap off at the press and be used as a political lynch pin or bargaining chip.
As reported today on News.com.au:
Nico Botha owns Moola Bulla station in Western Australia and he told heraldsun.com.au he will start to cull cattle tomorrow because he can’t keep feeding them.
“Rather than let them starve to death over two or three months, I’m going to shoot them quickly,” Mr Botha said.
“My property is over-grazed and I have got too many cattle, I have to look forward to the next year or two.”
Mr Botha slammed Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig for failing to work through the problems properly and for leaving cattle stranded.
“It’s going to be far worse, now animals are going to die in their thousands in paddocks and nobody cares about that.”
A ban on live exports to Indonesia was put in place after horrific images of cows being tortured and harassed before slaughter were broadcast on the ABC.
These farmers were all given hefty compensation packages, which I cannot FATHOM as in any way warranted given that they’re all multi-millionairs in a multi-billion dollar industry where not a single cattle farmer I’ve met, having grown up in a rather rural environment and spending time on an extreme-rural family property as a teen, has ever been poor. They run large plantations, with a mass of staff, and have enough margin to weather the 8 year drought we just sustained.
Given the drought has broken and business is booming for the agri-tech section of our economy again they without doubt have enough sense to manage their businesses in a manner to ensure they won’t be floored simply by not being allowed to send off a bunch of cattle to be slaughtered by religious zealots for crazies back home to consume knowing the animal was sacrificed to their diametrically opposed yet theoretically identical sky fairies.
I mean, c’mon, only a half wit would plan his business profit margins and overheads so tight they rely purely on one minority contract, right? Wrong. Nico Botha, one such half wit, proved that common sense isn’t all that common. Either that or he’s pushing an agenda, and using guilt and threats of ‘horrible wasted deaths’ in paddocks ‘starving to death’ unless he ‘just shoots them’ of a number that scarily is precisely 200 per day until the embargo is lifted. I’d probably put my money on him being a conniving agenda pusher more than a half wit.
I decided that, given my tolerance for idiocy is always at an all time low, I ought to call this bloke up and question his logic. So, to google I went, ‘contact details Moola Bulla Station, Western Australia’ I entered. Out came not one, but two numbers for his office enquiries centre of his property, (08) 9168 8910 and (08) 9168 8911 along with fax and email facilities, far more high tech than my families rural property.
The following is the conversation I held with him, verbatim. Whilst it’s not as sensationalistic as many of you would probably hope, I figured I should give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is a half wit and be nice and give him some honest advice on how to float his business just to watch him dismiss it and prove to me that he’s merely on the take and wanting to use guilt to achieve a goal, being more hand outs and the embargo being lifted regardless of the ethics or morals involved.
“Moola Bulla,”
“Hello, may I speak to Nico Botha please?”
“Speaking,”
“Hello Nico, I saw your recent issues in the news, I hear you’re in rough times financially?”
“Yep,” said almost hopeful, as though I’m some carrion media mogul about to throw him money.
“I just wanted to congratulate you first on purchasing Australia’s largest cattle farm back in ’07, for $25 million you got it at a steal, especially given it coincided with the drought breaking, business must be boomi.. oh wait, no. It’s not, that’s right.”
“What?”
“Well, you see, I can’t help but question your logic and paralel it to say, slave masters in the Southern States of the US demanding that the average tax payer refund them for slaves they had to let go, when they knew full well that they were dealing in an industry that was unethical in numerous ways and had been abolished in most other nations, surely they saw this coming as much as meat industry farmers.”
“What?”
“Okay, I’ll try something easier. Did Nike complain and demand money from Governments when they suddenly were astounded to find out the sweatshop labor they employed used forced child labor? If you can’t afford to stay in business because of one contract that has a history of being up in the air ethically, as well as being banned outright in many European nations, surely dropping your cattle in paddocks or starving them to death is kind of cutting off your nose to spite your face isn’t it mate?”
“What am I meant to do? They put me out of business, I can’t feed my cattle.”
“Well for starters you could just slaughter them humanely and sell them on the Australian market like all other meat producers have been doing since colonization, but I find it far fetched you demand money from REAL Aussie battlers whilst pleading poverty. I don’t think Nike had the audacity to try that one.”
“But what am I meant to do?”
“I just told you mate, sell locally. You got caught out, you made a dangerous investment, you lost, thems the breaks. Get a loan, talk to a business advisor and financial planner and make your business profitable ethically, you’ll sleep better at night.”
*Nico, shamed by this logic, terminates the call; because putting a hand out and demanding is easier than working for a dollar.
Nico doesn’t want you to know his multi-million dollar property is one of the largest in the nation, is adjacent to a high class golf course, Halls Creek Airport, and a thoroughbred race course. He didn’t want to have a bar of logic, because it’s far easier to use empty threats to scare them city folks into line with horrible acts committed to animals. The brutal reality is, the animals are bred to be slaughtered, they’re going to die, the only thing controlled is the manner in which they die so let him have at it with a rifle and then watch him file false insurance claims for business loss (which he happens to have with GE, something the media in their lack of research missed (it’s amazing what you can find through google, and how many country folk talk big on forums)) and get the big money he wants rather than support the economy of the ‘Aussie battler’ he’s trying to steal the image of for the media to kowtow to.
Ironically, Moola Bulla station was also historically involved in the slaughter of aboriginies; I’m sure the occupants back then were hands out when they realised their gamble on exploiting the ‘black fellah’ hadn’t paid off also.
Whilst I have a feeling it’d be falling on deaf ears, here’s the blokes details should you wish to reach him:
(08) 9168 8910
(08) 9168 8911
Although if you want to make a difference, I suggest writing to (but be sure to ring them first and foremost and demand that a stop be put to Nico’s threat of a cull):
Senator Joseph Ludwig
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Australian Labor Party
I would recommend in doing so you strongly suggest perhaps the Senator see to it that Nico is held liable for negligent managing of a business involving livestock, negligent management of property, and cruelty to animals through the afforementioned negligence. Nico volunteered that his property is ‘over-grazed’ (given it’s size this is highly unlikely and if true is a clear sign of property mismanagement bordering on ecological disaster on a small scale), and that he has ‘too many cattle’, again a clear proof that he was wilful in his negligence for the purchase, breeding or obtainment of so many head of cattle.
The RSCPA can be contacted on:
(08) 9209 9300 or
1300 CRUELTY
(1300 278 3589)
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Provide them with a link to this article.
One can only hope should indigenous rights ever be respected that the indigenous peoples of that area take him to the Lands and Environment court for ameliorative waste as another avenue to stop this obvious half-wit from using what’s left of his brain to cause even more ecological harm, not to mention ethical and moralistic furor.
This made me smirk. Which for an unemotional stoic wank rockstar celebrity blogger like myself is a HUGE expression of mirth comparable to a mere mortals soiling of pants.
AT some point, somebody involved with the romantic comedy Love’s Kitchen must have thought that it was a recipe for success, but box office figures out yesterday told a very different story.
The UK film, starring Dougray Scott (who previously appeared in Desperate Housewives as Teri Hatcher’s love interest), Four Weddings and a Funeral actor Simon Callow and Gordon Ramsay (as himself), had indeed achieved one of the most remarkable opening weekends in cinema history, though not quite in the sense that the producers were hoping for.
Love’s Kitchen grossed precisely £121 ($181) nationwide, The (London) Times reported.
The entire UK takings would cover the cost for one person of the cheapest available dinner with two small glasses of house wine, coffee and chocolates at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, the Michelin-starred chef’s eatery in Royal Hospital Road, West London.
The record UK box office taking for an opening weekend belongs to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, which grossed £18.32 million $27.4 million) last November.
Love’s Kitchen, by contrast, appears to have been seen by more reviewers than paying punters. You would hope that they enjoyed writer and director James Hacking’s debut film more than the critics.
Wendy Ide, of the Times, awarded it no stars, describing it as “cack-handed, cloth-eared” and featuring “exchanges so painful to watch that you would be better off rubbing Scotch bonnet peppers in your eyes.”
Charles Gant, a box office analyst, said that the film’s opening weekend was “one of the worst performances ever” in the UK. “My guess would be 20 people saw this film,” he said.
Abdul Tiba, a crazy man with a crazy beard, talked tough today to the media. He’s a refugee from Lebanon, and while most of my readers know I’m a softy for the fugees as we’re all immigrants for the most part, this guy’s so fucked up I’ll pay for his airfare to get the fuck out of our country and stay out and take his crazy warmongering with him.
While playing the victim card, he identifies himself as the ‘head of’ a family involved in a so far bloodless fued that has caused several shootings and one bombing over the past week.
On Fairfax Radio, and cross posted on News.com.au he went on to state “No one helps me in this country, no police, not any community, no St Vincents (de Paul), no one … I tell them I want to protect my family. No one cares about this. They want to give me all the responsibility for this and I don’t know nothing. I give them my statement but still no one cares in this country.”
Heaven forbid if a man has responsibility. Especially over caring for his family. Especially while waging war on another family. I’m sure he’ll play ignorant, but I’m pretty sure families just don’t outright try and kill each other for no reason; even more so in a nation where gun laws are so pedantic even our Olympic shooters are fleeding to other nations, losing us dozens of gold medals because of it.
Of course he won’t stand up, take responsibility, and disarm his kin who’re running around in revenge attacks either. That’s too much responsibility for him to handle.
In other gems he went on air with, “I’ve been sleeping in the car. They give me two days in a motel like a fucking gypsy,” nothing like a bit of racial vilification to add to his charm.
And in the best nonsensical passage of drivel I’ve read or even heard: “I’ve had enough of this stress. Australia country they bring on 2006 from Lebanon all the citizenship, they spend 20 million thousand dollars but no one can spend $1000 to save my family. I tell them I want to go back, I don’t want to stay in this shit country like that.”
The fued is between the Kassab family and the Tiba family, and of course Mr Bigbeard-littleresponsibility has no clue why it’s happening or why his house in Guildford Street, Coolaroo is being targeted.
“If I know I tell the police. I don’t know,” Mr Tiba said on Monday to Fairfax journalists. Police have said they have spoken to the families but have received no co-operation, so it seems they’re adamant to duke it out and put innocent lives at stake for some petty blood fued, yesterday at 3pm in Glenroy, on a busy street, they did just that by carrying out a drive by shooting.
For my international readers, I have to stress, this just doesn’t happen here, and it’s only a minority of a minority who carry out such foolish acts.
News.com.au stated that a house in nearby Jacana was shot at last Thursday and again on Monday morning, followed by a car chase that ended in more shots being fired at a playground. They also stated that Mr Tiba’s house has been shot at twice, had a home-made bomb thrown through the window and been rammed by a truck and so far no one has been injured in the incidents.
So, without further ado, I wish to offer to buy the lot of them tickets back to Lebanon, where a lot of refugees originated during their civil war and other violence in the Middle East, most of which are thankful to be here while a minority brought the attitudes of warmongering hate fuelled stupidity across with them (kind of makes you wonder if we accidentally let in people who started the grief over there and not the victims of it per se!).
Again, to international readers, I just wish to stress that shit like this doesn’t happen here, this is a first for our country. And by no means tar all refugees by the same brush, as these two families are a special kind of fuckwit. The kind that clearly comes from thousands of years of incestuous inbreeding, drinking sea water, and eating strange mushrooms down the end of the yard, mixed with liberal dashings of head droppings as children.
The self-styled witch title already sets off alarm bells that she’s one of those batshi insane internet lurkers, and alternative therapies practitioner alone should have scored her a prison sentence. However, even though she claimed she was not subjec to earthly laws she was whisked off to another world today when a judge sentenced her to two months behind bars for being a dickbutt.
As she was being led to the cells Eilish De’Avalon told Judge Geoff Chettle: “I decline your offer, your Honour”.
“You decline my offer? Well I’m afraid it’s not negotiable,” Judge Chettle replied.
In his County Court sentence the judge said Sen-Constable Andrew Logan suffered serious arm and shoulder injuries in the incident in Geelong, Victoria, in February last year.
Judge Chettle said Sen-Constable Logan pulled De’Avalon over in Moorabool St after he saw her talking on her mobile phone while driving and asked for her details.
The judge said De’Avalon, of Highton, behaved in a bizarre fashion, telling the officer she was from another world and did not need a licence and that she had a spiritual and universal name that was not recognised here.
“Your laws and penalties don’t apply to me. I’m not accepting them, I’m sorry, I must go, thank you,” she told the officer.
Judge Chettle said she then drove off with Sen-Constable Logan’s arm trapped in the driver’s side window and it was only when she slowed down to turn a corner that he was able to reach in and grab her keys.
“The police officer was clinging on for dear life,” he said.
Judge Chettle said a message had to be sent from the courts that such behaviour was unacceptable.
“Police have to be protected when carrying out their everyday duties which are designed to protect people,” Judge Chettle said.
Outside court Sen-Constable Logan said he estimated he was stuck on the side of the car for 22 seconds.
“It was one hell of a ride,” Sen-Contable Logan said. “It was a case of hang on and survive.
“She told me on the day the rules of the state and the laws don’t apply to her. She got two months inside to think about it and I hope it changes her mind.
“It just worried me that her attitude might bring some other police officer unstuck.”
De’Avalon, 40, a marriage celebrant, self-styled witch and alternative therapies practitioner, pleaded guilty in Geelong Magistrates’ Court to recklessly causing serious injury, dangerous driving and driving while disqualified, using a mobile phone while driving and failing to stop on police request.
She was jailed for two months with another four months suspended, fined $1250 and had her licence was suspended for a year.
The magistrate granted bail after she indicated she would appeal the sentence to the County Court.
After hearing the second part of that appeal today Judge Chettle said that he believed the original sentence was too lenient but he would re-impose it after hearing De’Avalon had an anxiety disorder that prevented her from making a rational choice when pulled over by Sen-Constable Logan.
Judge Chettle heard she had a number of prior driving convictions and in December last year was pulled over again in Geelong for running a red light.
A psychiatrist told the court today that De’Avalon had expressed remorse and offered Sen-Constable Logan “spiritual healing and a massage” which he refused.
You can pay 10%-25% more for your insurance with the above insurers (I’m sure others are equally guilty) based purely on gender, if you’re male, you lose out.
I always find it ironic when sexism loldrama hits the tabloidal news over here, with claims women get paid significantly less than men and get treated worse, when in reality … well.
I propose anyone who believes that shit should run a little test. Hop on say, an MMORPG, roll a female character and a male. See which one gets given free shit, leveled, helped out, aided and entertained all day every day. You can play that game from begining to end game as a male and never actually even get a single word from another player.
As a male, I’m kind of fucked off at all this bullshit. I often promote mannimism, a reversal of feminism, trying to oppose outright sexism against men as the worthless sex.
If you support this ideal, follow @maninism on Twitter right now and let’s get something happening about it.
I noted with amusement casually looking at the bazillions of comments I get, a few hundred being from humans at best, and realized in an attempt to generate a near natural sounding load of wording that many batshit insane creepy artistes are out of a job.
I must say, I was mightily impressed. In fact, this is probably more moving than the Dalai Lama’s Twitter feed. More sensical too. The following prophetical rant came courtesy of one such spam script:
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I’ve been toying with calling him out for a while. I see him as a figurehead for the intellectually and spiritually lost. He is vacuous, naive, and idiotic. His education is meagre, and his world view reflects this.
I’ve been reading the Dalai Lama’s drivel for quite some time on Twitter, and he is currently in my fair nation of Australia at the moment running around skirt lifting and being a twat for very large fees to trendy wanky folks who’re into contemplating division by zero. I’ve never really found him compelling in any way.
His Twitter feed reads like a Multi-Level Marketing scammers empty headed random quotes.txt. In interviews he takes the generic asian mystic role of spouting utter shit as answers trying to pass himself off as deep or intellectual when in reality koan style responses are just batshit zealot cop outs. But what I want to address is, is he dangerous?
“Rather than working only to acquire wealth, we need to focus on the welfare of humanity as a whole.”
That’s a dangerous idea. Why? Because it deflects the problem, the starving suffering masses NEED to acquire wealth, and not touch each other in the pants and sing kumbyah.
Here’s a little snippet from a TED talk that I hope the Dalai Lama can check out to try and get a LITTLE bit of understanding before spouting crap. Sure, he thinks he’s Yoda, that’s his pitch, it’s how he pulls the bitches, but really; he needs to get a grip, his guru babble puts poisonous ideas into already unintelligent peoples minds who seek out a little asian Yoda in the first place to fill a void in their souls (or minds, given that souls do not exist). But I digress.
So, here we see a perfect example of why altruism won’t solve a situation that a clear lack of finances and especially food will.
“Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.”
Another example of hippy communist bullshit. People need money. Money is inadvertantly power, the power to control your future, the power to control your life, and the power to be able to obtain resources needed to survive. Circle jerks won’t feed you (aside from protein, if a sao is involved) and good feelings won’t put a roof over your head. This is again nonsense from a man who lives in extreme comfort, toting a rolex, and not in the piss poor nation he is from or represents. That brings me to this little gem.
“We should value our enemies because they provide us with unique opportunities to practice patience, tolerance and forbearance.”
This is from a man who was run out of his own country. He’s definitely not scared of mincing words, oh wait, actually he is, as this excerpt from The Australian from August 22, 2008 outlines: -
PARIS: The Dalai Lama has denied telling a French newspaper that Chinese soldiers may have shot dead 140 Tibetan protesters on Monday. The exiled spiritual leader was quoted in Le Monde as saying troops fired on protesters on Monday and 400 people have been killed since unrest erupted in March.
But his office said he denied a comment attributed to him by Le Monde that 140 people had died on Monday when the Chinese security forces opened fire. His office said there were casualties.
“The Chinese army again fired on a crowd on Monday August 18, in the Kham region in eastern Tibet,” said the Nobel Peace prize winner who is on a 12-day visit to France.
Le Monde quoted him as saying that up to 140 people had been killed, though the figure was not confirmed.
“His Holiness did not mention any number of casualties,” his office said in a statement after the interview was published, adding that “he clearly stated that we had no specific information on the number of casualties.”
Another gem:
“To arrive at certainty, you need to start from a skeptical posture. The best scientists are impartial, not swayed by their own beliefs.”
I particularly find it hillarious when religious nuts comment about science, scientists or skepticism. If he followed his own advice, he’d stop wearing dresses, buy himself a nice suit, and entirely give up his religious faggotry. And I don’t meant faggotry of the fun kind. Another example:
“The aim of spiritual practice is to become the friend of all beings, concerned about them and ready and able to help them.”
In closing, I have found a fantastic replacement for the Dalai Lama, and I propose should he or his representatives read this (you’d be surprised how many people I @reply in my titles of blog posts read the posts in question, I do have an 8 millionpw reader demographic after all), this person has the same character, intelligence, education, and charisma as the Dalai Lama and I propose she should step into his role forthwith.
How can anyone NOT prefer her, at least she can answer fucking questions put to her. Feel free to check out her other videos, she will definitely culturally enrich the readers of his Twitter feed far more than he is currently doing. Enjoy.
Addendum: For the record, I am not Chinese, I am not being paid by the Chinese government, I am not racist, I hate all races equally, I’m not sectarian, I’m a hypocritical Roman Catholic Jewish Atheist Ninja (it’s a religion!) with Jedi leanings who believes in the Ancient Astronaut theory and evolution (and other wonderous scientific mumbo jumbo!), I am also not in any way being paid, bribed, or given free shit to post this blog post, I just sincerely hate fucking moochers who run around touting hypocritical party pieces who live in comfort and tell everyone also living in comfort that circle jerks will cure all the woes in the world rather than addressing the food shortage or even the fact that PIG’s in the UNITED STATES alone consume SIX TIMES the food supply that it would take to FEED THE ENTIRE WORLD each year. Fuck. Seriously. He’s a fucking putz, what more can I say.
It amuses me when journalists try and pimp their Twitter accounts, and on review, I find they have 1/10th my following.
In Australia, on every TV channel from daytime talk shows like Sunrise through to tabloid journalism from the Daily Terrorgraph newspaper through to ACA/TT, you find journalists pushing their social media portfolio to the masses through materials that have HUGE demographic reach
Theoretically they’re using social proof to try and hyper inflate their online presense, yet just can’t get the kind of captive audience bloggers like myself get purely through ACTUAL integrity and not being boring barrels of dicks like most media ‘icons’ are.
I just wanted to take a moment to thumb my nose at attention hungry fame whores. Nothing more to see here folks, move along. :P
Well, this morning started with quite a start indeed. I was involved in a three car pile up. Pulled up to an intersection, checked right and noted a black car coming, straight ahead I saw a Ford Falcon heading to the intersection, I looked to my left, clear, looked back centre and saw that the Falcon barreled through the stop sign and got cleaned up by the black car and both came careening into me.
I don’t know whether it’s my latent video game trained ninja reflexes (only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja!) I managed to clutch the car, hard lock to the left, and was 0.5 seconds or less from slamming reverse, the stick was in reverse and I was just about to declutch. Fair enough that the hard lock and clutching prevented my left front wheel assembly from being fucked up, and clutching saved my transmission, driveline, etc from impact. But I’m kicking myself for not hitting reverse. One meter is all I needed and I’d have been clear.
The damage to my car was less than all the others and I took a head on 80kph colision with a 50kph lateral impact from the black car. The other two cars are statutory write offs for sure, but I hopped out and casually crawled under my car, as creepy car fanatics do (usually for mutual fondling and auto-lubbin’s) and I was actually shocked by how little damage it took.
Sure it’s the German model, sure it’s an RS, but it’s a bloody Ford Fiesta, those things are tiny. Two men could probably lift it up. My engine bay was intact, my passenger cab was intact, my chassis was unbent. My right front wheel assembly is a gonner, and there’s a lot of panel damage, but I tell you what, from a big car driver I am honestly humbled by the safety of that little thing.
I’ve seen my Falcon hit tree’s at 120 with a driver walk away but I expect that, they have a 5/5 ANCAP rating and are as safe as a house with PLENTY of crumple room. The Fiesta is about half the size or less, also shares a 5/5 ANCAP, and man did it show today. I’m just glad the airbag didn’t go off to add a broken nose to my injuries.
I injured my back and right leg in the impact, it’s exacerbated a (number of) pre-existing back injury (injuries?) from being a mental little feral kid growing up. It’s also set back my entry into the Australian Rally Championship in August, so I’m not sure what’s going to go on there, I’ll have to get in touch with my sponsors and see where they want to go with it. Either way, I guess it’s taught me a B-car is essential for rallying.
I’ve posted some pics of it on my Twitter stream, 1, 2, 3, 4, but they don’t quite do justice to the carnage of the impact. When the ambulance, fire and police arrived I was checking the wheel assembly and they thought I was a pedestrian squished between the cars. I feel guilty because two of the firey’s looked like they were legitimately shitting their pants at having a squished pedestrian. We all walked (or limped) away. Naturally the guy who caused the crash wasn’t insured, and the other party wasn’t either.
Am I the only sap who always has full comprehensive insurance on all vehicles, or what?
Imprisoned for “illegally petitioning” the government over corruption in his town, the former Chinese inmate known as “Liu Dali” has told the U.K. Guardian that in addition to back-breaking manual labor he and other prisoners were forced to play video games for hours on end. Not as a form of punishment or leisure activity, but because their overseers had assembled a massive “goldfarming” operation, wherein they exploited prison labor to earn money playing online games. From the Guardian:
“Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour,” Liu told the Guardian. “There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [£470-570] a day. We didn’t see any of the money. The computers were never turned off.”
While the idea of prisoners being forced to play video games may seem chuckleworthy, and it certainly is absurd, it is no laughing matter. Again, from the Guardian:
“If I couldn’t complete my work quota, they would punish me physically. They would make me stand with my hands raised in the air and after I returned to my dormitory they would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things,” he said.
Goldfarming is now extremely widespread in China, where the Guardian reports nearly $2 billion in online currency was traded accounting for 80% of the world’s goldfarming. While for some of the world’s poor population, goldfarming could mean a better life, the use of prison labor is bizarre and more than a little troublesome. It also complicates international trade, since some countries refuse to accept exported goods made in prisons.
Liu speculates that many other prisoners are likely still forced into goldfarming operations, and assumes that the practice must be widespread. His belief is backed by University of California researcher Jin Ge, who describes China as “the factory of virtual goods.” One wonders how comfortable gamers would be if they knew that the items and credits purhcased for a game came at the cost of forced labor.
Update: The Telegraph reports that Chinese officials have denied the story, saying that gold farming would allow prisoners to communicate with the outside world, which they would never allow:
[A]n official at the central office for labour camps in Heilongjiang denied that inmates were forced to play games online. “I have never heard of this. If you want to see for yourself, come to one of our labour camps,” he said.
The official, who declined to give his name, said: “We do not allow our inmates to do high-risk occupations, such as coal-mining. We do not have large numbers of computers. And we do not allow our prisoners to have any contact with the outside world. If they were playing these online games they could easily communicate with other people. We would never allow that.”
For all Trekkies, comic collectors and gadget gurus, here’s a day just for you. Today the world celebrates Geek Pride Day.
Geeks, nerds and whoever else wears thick glasses and a pocket protector can publicly boast about their geekiness without being labelled as weird. It happens on May 25 every year, which coincides with the release of the first Star Wars movie in 1977.
The day started in 2006 in Spain – strangely enough – when 300 geeks showed their pride by creating a human “Pac-Man” game. In 2008, it came to the US, where bloggers heralded it as a holiday.
Not sure of your geek orientation? Here are some rights and responsibilities, as outlined in Geek Pride Day’s manifesto. If they inspire you to put on your favourite Dungeons and Dragons cape, then, no question, you’re a geek. So take pride and celebrate.
Your Geekly Rights
The right to associate with other nerds.
The right to have few friends (or none at all).
The right to not leave your house.
The right to not like football or any other sport.
The right to be out of style.
The right to be overweight and nearsighted.
(WIth great power comes great) Responsibilities
Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
Don’t be a generalised geek. You must specialise in something.
Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
