The Armoury

Throughout Omniscience I have touched on many areas of the power struggle.

I’m now going to get right to it and explore the munitions store.

The Machine has many weapons and facets including, but not restricted to:

Weapons

• Image Manipulation
• Sense of Fair Play
• Sense of Duty
• Hon our
• Sacrifice
• Altruism
• Lies
• Misdirection
• Misinformation
• Guilt
• Fear
• And of course, Force

Facets

• The Media
• News
• Newspapers
• Religion
• Politics

Scary eh?

I know some of this won’t be sensational or even a revelation but when you see it all written down like this it graphically demonstrates the forces pitted against you.

But I simply avoid much of it – I don’t watch the news or read newspapers, I don’t vote and never have. I don’t get involved in credit or games. I watch films but am acutely aware that there’s a ‘sell’ somewhere ... I am always looking for the motive behind a request and searching for the catch.

The Media

All media of any description has one sole function … to make you buy something.

A film is only shown on the TV to get in the adverts out. The bigger the blockbuster, the more expensive the advertising slot. In this new age of 'commercial offal', TV shows are created around the revenue from premium rate lines.

Did you know that the average person is exposed to around sixty one trillion advertising messages a day .. didn't know that one did you???

The Media in all its forms is integral to The Machine's growth. Watch the films, enjoy the soaps, laugh at the comedies ... But watch out for The Hidden Message.

As I said, I never watch the news or read the papers. In fact, I could never see the attraction in reading 'yesterday's news' in print and am surprised that papers stay in business in this up-to-the-second environment.

The news actually we see and read has very little to do with 'keeping us informed.' it is carefully selected and screened for the most 'sensational' stories. The more shocking a headline story, the more people will tune in or buy the papers, the more money flows!

Why is it that most news channels show the same news when they’re all supposed to be independent? If they were in competition, then surely they’d all show different news; surely they’d all be trying to find the ‘best’ news story? Not different versions of the same one using stock media images.

Are there only a few newsworthy stories each day or is The Illuminati carefully vetting what we see? Or maybe it's just plain old state control?

There are independent stations but they all need a government licence to broadcast!

Never underestimate the power of The media. It is the voice through which The Machine gets out it's message.

The Media has the power to sell you a can of Heinz to generating mass hysteria and genocide.

Much of what we believe to be true and historical fact is simply a false picture dreamed up and edited in a hollywood cutting room. The Titanic didn't really hit an iceberg at all, nice story though. It actually spent many profitable years plying the oceans and is now leased by the Moldavain Government running as a ferry in The Baltic Sea ... or is it?

Our childhood was spent playing Cowboys and Indians.

The Indians always being the savage barbarians who took the scalps of any passing peace-loving, God-fearing wagon drivers who were simply on their way ... to steal the land they desired, rape the native's in their tipis, kill all the buffalo and generally plunder the land of any resources to be found ... and to eventually slaughter every peach-loving, God-fearing Indian in the country!!!

The image of bad indians and good cowboys is simply a media fantasy ... it's called the Wild West for a reason and real history will show the Indians to be good and strong, whist the explorers were the exploiters.

The most recognizable face on the planet has absolutely no basis in fact ... Jesus. It was taken from statue at The Great Temple of Zeus at Olympia, one of the ancient seven wonders of the world. and ever since artists have perpetuated the likeness. Jesus was actually Chinese African-Algerian! (apparently)

There are people that think 'Braveheart the movie' was a documentary!! That William Wallace really did have a strange Aussie accent and that Robin of Sherlock was a bloody yank!!!

Kevin Costna looks nothing like Robin hood and he could have at least made the effort to repeat his lines with a remotely English twang!

Having said that, after listening to America's favorite freak dwarf, Tom Cruise's excruciating Irish accent it's maybe not such a good idea after all!

Homer Simpson isn't really president, The USA is run by someone far more comical!

The Media has the power to change lives!!!

So be acutely aware of The Message.

Politics

The older you get the sicker and more twisted the world appears ... Nothing is fair, nothing is good anymore. I used to think it was just me, but if you talk to the older generation you understand that very little stands for anything at all anymore. Except you, your life and your family - and a few close friends. Even friends come and go throughout life.

They do say that if you can count, on two hands your true friends - and I mean those that would do anything for you - you've a better life than most.

I thought I had tons of friends but over the years, as my situation changed, I was let down. I still have good friends but few that I could absolutely, unequivocally rely on.

Friends often become your fiercest enemy as you become more successful. Even family members will try to hold you back and belittle your efforts. You have to be prepared for all this - I wasn't!

It's a well-worn cliche that money breeds contempt and jealousy, something I would never have believed when I was sailing round the world broke but rich in life - but you'd better believe it ... it's true alright!

You change and so do the people around you; it's what I call 'collateral damage' and the price we pay for freedom. Growing exponentially truly sorts rocks from the sandstone. The rocks remain firm, unbreakable, uncompromising as the sandstone turns to dust.

The one consolation it that the sandstone was always going to crumble at some stage and no one wants to build their empire on powder. (unless you're a drug dealer!!!)

I used to think that governments must obviously be good things, after all, weren’t they elected by the people, and if the majority of society wanted something, it must be for the general good … mustn’t it?

I used to worry about doing the right thing but have now come to realize that The Right Thing is defined by what you feel comfortable doing. We all know what is right and what is wrong and so long as you're doing the very best you can do in anything and everything you do - you shouldn't go wrong.

You'll rise above those that many admire - leave them to their dirty games and tricks.

I've always said that if you put your head above the trenches you'll get it shot off Irwin Schiff, author of The Federal Mafia being a case in point.

He claims Income tax is Illegal in the US!

Irwin claims to provide extensive and irrefutable proof of how federal judges and the Dept. Of 'Justice' lawyers knowingly violate the law in order to convict defendants (Illegally) charged with income tax crimes. And why only misstatements of law ever 'come from the bench' at such trials.

Since the income tax was repealed in 1954 when Congress adopted the 1954 Code, it is clear that for 50 years, federal judges in conspiracy with U. S. Department of Injustice prosecutors have been illegally and criminally prosecuting people for crimes that do not exist in connection with a tax that nobody owes.

Is he nuts!!! Even if he was right does he think he'd win his point?

"Study the Constitution! Let it be preached from the pulpit,
proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice."
- Abraham Lincoln

Irwin Schiff is back in jail again for the third time, not because he is wrong, and not because he's broken the law, but simply because he will not shut up about what 'tax law' really and truly states.

Schroff hasn't discovered a loophole, by any means. It's law he reckons.

Several dozen people went to the trouble of deciphering the entire United States Tax Code (IRC or Title 26) within the last ten years or so. In order to determine what your taxable income FROM WITHIN THE UNITED STATES is, as a UNITED STATES CITIZEN, there are four or five different cross-references within the IRC that say you must look at Title 26, Section 861. Curiously, the only listed sources within Section 861 are all foreign based sources, and say nothing about the earned income of an American Citizen at all!

Even more curiously, the IRS and the courts apparently insist that you NOT look at Section 861, when that is the very section a Citizen must use, according to the law itself. Not only that, but the court will not allow a plaintiff or a defendant to use Section 861 as an excuse for not paying income tax.

Many tax professionals look to the 16th Amendment to say that's why all American Citizens must pay income tax on their earnings. The phrase 'From whatever source derived' is very misleading. What the 16th actually did was to keep the federal income tax within its boundary as an excise tax, which is what it is, an excise tax. Since all American courts are in agreement with that, the 16th is actually moot.

It doesn't matter whether the 16th was really ratified or not, as there are many who say it was ratified illegally.

All United States Law, including its tax law, must be in harmony with the United States Constitution, or else it is unconstitutional.

U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 says in part: 'direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States.'

If the federal income tax were a direct tax, as some like to say it is, then it must be apportioned among the states. It is not a direct tax, however, so apportionment is not required.

U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 says in whole: 'The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.'

Notice it says: 'All Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.'

The income tax is an excise tax, and therefore it must be applied uniformly throughout the United States, like fuel taxes and tobacco taxes are.

It is *not* applied uniformly.

This means that, while under the IRC, you may have taxable income, but under the U.S. Constitution, which trumps the IRC, your taxable income is exempt - free from tax.

So while the federal income tax itself is legal within its own jurisdiction, the way in which it is applied today, against the American people at large, is not.

That's another problem with it: It's legal within the jurisdiction of the United States, which DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY STATE.

You will notice that Washington, D.C. itself is located outside any of the 50 States. The Founders set it up that way for good reason.

Each State's jurisdiction is separate from one another, and from Washington, D.C.'s jurisdiction as well.

And of course, if you should dare to bring any of this up with your local tax advisor, Congress critter, or anyone whose subsistence depends upon income tax, you'll get most anything from silence to song & dance to outright threat, but you absolutely WILL NOT get any straight answers from anyone.

Is there no area The Machine won't touch, no stoop low enough?

There is so much more that you shouldn't mention for fear of death! Here's just a snippet I found in a few minutes Googling!

George Bush, Skull & Bones and the JFK Assassination

Rodney Stich's book Defrauding America tells of a 'deep-cover CIA officer' assigned to a counter-intelligence unit, code-named Pegasus. This unit 'had tape-recordings of plans to assassinate Kennedy' from a tap on the phone of J. Edgar Hoover. The people on the tapes were "[Nelson] Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, [Lyndon] Johnson of Texas, George Bush and J. Edgar Hoover."

Could George Bush be involved in the JFK assassination?

The War on Drugs: An Intellectual Fraud

Before the Vietnam War, the Golden Triangle was run by French Intelligence and Corsican mobsters. After the French bailed out and America moved in, the triangle was run by U.S. intelligence, with aid from Sicilian mobsters.

Monika Jensen-Stevenson, a 60 Minutes producer, quit her job after the CBS news program refused to air the story she had uncovered relating to the covert drug trade. Her book, Kiss The Boys Goodbye, details how our intelligence community used the apparatus of the POW/MIA governmental agencies as a cover for the trafficking of opiates from the Golden Triangle.

Also, there has been much speculation as to the use of the off-shore rigs, pipelines and other assets of Zapata Offshore being used for narcotic trans-shipments.

Narcotics such as cocaine and heroin cannot be manufactured without the precursor chemicals. One of the largest makers of these precursor chemicals is the Eli Lilly Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The Quayle family is a large stockholder, and George Bush has been on the Board of Directors. Eli Lilly is also the company that first synthesized LSD for the CIA.

Great stuff!

I can't understand why people get so wrapped up in this.

Of course there are conspiracies; of course there are secret agencies and hit men and cover ups. Of course there's power struggles and a lot of bad people who'd be happy to see us all thrown into a pit of hellfire ... so what, get a life and get on with it!

By now you’ll have a solid grounding and hopefully be prepared for the rest of your life. This is by no means the end, it’s just the beginning. A it’s like passing your driving test; the certificate is merely a piece of paper that allows you onto the highway and to begin learning how to drive!

When yacht owners used to trust me with their expensive toys they weren’t interested in my 'bits of paper'. What was important to them was my sea mileage log. How much ground I’d covered in the 'real world'.

I would often get newly qualified Yachtmasters on the boat. You could tell them a mile off as they walked down the quay in their yellow wellies and sailing jumpers, despite it being a hundred degrees!

They’d cluelessly fumble their way round the deck, barking orders at their friends and families!

After many hours spent on deck you develop an instinct for the layout. If you unexpectedly hit a swell from a passing boat your hand magically finds the nearest rigging stay without a thought; you check your balance and watch as Mr Knowitall ends up on his arse in the cockpit.

The same can be said of our time together here. I’ve got my 'Life Mileage Log' and much ground has been covered.

Owners would trust their yachts to me, clients their lives … I never let them down.

You have trusted your future to me because I boasted: 'I had walked the walk.' I have now shared with you all I have and can give so you can go it alone and learn your life lessons.

You’ll fully understand now that people aren’t equal; few have what it takes to even set out on the journey to Personal and Financial Freedom, fewer still go on to achieve it ... which is a thoroughly good thing.

It’s a crime that success breeds contempt from those who’d wish it for themselves but are not prepared to do a thing about it. It’s a crime that The Machine’s resolution is to steal from the rich and redistribute it amongst the weak, pathetic, lazy and inept. It’s a crime that it achieves this through force, fear and downright violence.

But now you understand that the most important things in your life are your well-being and the happiness of those closest to you ... and that this can only be achieved through wealth ... then nothing else matters does it?

The worker termites will carry on working, The Machine will grind on, and nothing will change if you break free because you are one of the elite … the world will remain a bitter twisted place in which you’ll have created your own sanctuary.

By now you’ll be well on your way to personal freedom. You must become free before you can become wealthy. You cannot do this whilst The Machine maintains its stranglehold on you through its weapons of mass destruction and manipulation.

The Machine has people dancing like a puppet whilst others pull the strings.

So long as The Machine has the power, you are powerless … lack of power leads to lack of wealth and freedom; lack of freedom leads to poverty and depression … depression saps you of energy and motivation … and The Machine rolls on.

But YOU'VE developed a great fat pair of shears!!!

You’ve cut the power strings and that umbilical that sucked you dry.

Like a newborn baby, you can now breath with your own lungs, you can develop your vision; the bones that support your flesh will grow thick and strong, you’ll mature, blossom and flourish … and like a newborn, occasionally shit yourself!

You’ll now be acutely aware of just how out of control your life was before we met.

Now, like He Man “You have the power!!!”

Power leads to wealth. Power and wealth lead to freedom … Freedom leads to happiness, increased energy levels and more time to create more wealth or enjoy life…

Unfortunately, the only thing missing from this equation is health, which we have little control over … but, the good news is, it’s an undeniable statistic that the affluent generally enjoy better health; they enjoy better food, they enjoy a healthier lifestyle, they have less stress and if things do go wrong, they can afford better healthcare.

So I really can’t understand why so few do strive for the ultimate goals of Wealth, Power and Freedom.

Maybe it’s because The Machine’s weapons are now so sophisticated, so accurately targeted and honed. Maybe the myth that it’s greedy and antisocial to be elitist has become so ingrained as to have the termite workers thoroughly brainwashed … if they have a brain!!!

There’s nothing wrong with an elitist system; after all, universities exclude much of the population from their institutions considered too stupid to waste resources on … that’s elitist isn’t it?

The myth is utter hog shite!

It’s truly empowering to be one of the elite. You are respected; people talk about you, you develop supreme confidence. There’s nothing like the buzz of waking in your own life!

And you know it’s true!!! … When people describe others it’ll generally be along the lines of: “you know so and so, the fat one with the one legged dog!” or “poor old Harry, you know Harry, he lost his job last year when the building was sucked into a parallel universe, the one whose wife ran off to Goa with the transvestite gardener!”

Now, it’s a different story when people describe the successful: “You know, Lord Trant ...The Millionaire” … am I right? Of course I am! And there’s always an undertone of awe in their voices.

When I used to walk into a room people would greet me and have a laugh and joke, usually at my expense. Now, when I leave a enter, people glance and whisper: “that’s Mr Money King he’s the one I was telling you about … sexy too!!!”

People just can’t help talking about the successful, they want to be around them, they want some of their life, their charisma; they want the keys to their yachts, their super-cars, their villas … but do absolutely fuck all about it.

As you grow, you’ll begin to bath in the light – and I’ll give you this advice - just stay grounded; enjoy it, but understand this: Not all, but many of these people are pricks, harlots and members of The World of Scum who’ll stab you in the back in the blink of an eye … YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Yes, there’s a lot of admiration and ‘up talk’ when discussing the elite but this is nothing compared the evil Green Demon. Yes, they want your life but would like noting more than to see it come crashing down like the twin towers. You see, many people have become collaborators, tools of The Machine.

These people are not part of the system but have been terminally wounded by the bullets and ammo.

Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe the relationship a hostage can build with their kidnapper.

The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in a hostage, in which the hostage exhibits seeming loyalty to the hostage-taker, in spite of the danger (or at least risk) in which the hostage has been placed. Stockholm syndrome is also sometimes discussed in reference to other situations with similar tensions, such as battered woman syndrome, child abuse cases, and bride kidnapping.

A strange phenomenon is exhibited by hostages and kidnap victims whereby they begin to develop an empathy with their incarcerators. It has been known for captives to eventually see the kidnapper as a victim too! It’s their predicament or cause that is to blame for the stand-off and hostages have even been know to aid their jailors.

Millionaire heiress Patty Hearst, after having been kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in February 1974, helped rob a bank with the group two months later. She was arrested in September 1975, and her unsuccessful legal defense was that she suffered from Stockholm syndrome and was coerced into aiding the SLA. She was convicted and imprisoned for her actions in the robbery, though her sentence was commuted in February 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and she received a Presidential pardon from Bill Clinton in January 2001.

Daily Express journalist Yvonne Ridley was captured in Afghanistan by the Taliban in September 2001 and held for 11 days. During this period she promised an Imam that she would study Islam if she was allowed to return to London. Ridley became a full convert to Islam in the summer of 2003 and currently espouses strong Islamist views, describing moderate Muslims as "house slaves"

Japanese who were abducted to North Korea during the late 1970s and early 1980s. After five of them were allowed to return to Japan in October 2002, they exhibited behavior of submission to the North Korean regime and, given that the regime would not allow their North Korean-born children to join them in Japan right away, attempted to go back there to join them; however, their Japanese families, seeing this as symptoms of brainwashing, restrained them.

This is the situation as is: The Machine is the hostage taker – the vast majority of the populace are victims … many have developed compassion for ‘The Cause’ and become willing participants.

Whenever there’s more than three days of sunshine in the UK the water companies impose a hosepipe ban!

They recently set up a hotline for people to inform on their decadent and sinful neighbors if they should dare to water their daisies!

… and the fuckers do!!!

They ring up and dob in their fellow citizens ‘because they’re wasting precious water.’

What the water companies fail to reveal is that a huge percentage of the ‘wasted water’ is lost through the leaking, hundred-year-old pipes that the bastards have failed to replace in order to keep the investors happy.

One company alone loses 915 million liters a day - enough to fill 366 Olympic-sized swimming pools!!

The point being that the victims were blindly complicit in the lies and deceit of the water companies without ever looking at the big picture.

BUT THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

Work hard for a lifetime; give up your freedom to service a lifetime of debt … Prey to a God or attend a church on a regular basis … failure to do so will result in an eternity of pain and suffering …

Blindly obey laws; all sorts of laws. It matters not that many of the laws are complete bunkum … ‘The Law’s The Law!’

The lawmakers govern lives … and this is a democracy!!!

"Die for your country because your country needs you!!!"

Give up your life in ill-conceived battles or campaigns dreamt up by the incompetent to benefit the few.

Pay your taxes, all of them, every last solitary penny to politicians who arrogantly consider it their money to do with as they wish.

Be controlled by the media in all it’s forms – suck in the relentless message of doom spiced up with a little fear and terror for good measure.

Be controlled by money and management.

Obey the law and religious fervour.

Be controlled by The Image the indoctrination would have you aspire to; be a model citizen. Be misdirected and deceived by the illusions created by The Machine.

Control is an attempt by con artists to extract value from the willing under a multitude of lies and false hope. Your value is a commodity to be traded against false rewards.

Your value to The Machine is real and tangible, no different from any other service or product. The more services that can be harvested from you, the more valuable you become.

The Machine wants your:

• Time
• Work
• Effort
• Loyalty
• Kudos
• Support
• Complicity
• Docility
• Worship
• Sacrifice
• Money…

… And this is all extracted under false pretences.

I love this analogy; it’s called:

The Pharaoh Principle

Pharaoh's Principle maintains that people will generally take the line of least resistance throughout their lives, because it's simpler and easier to do so. Pharaoh's Principle shows that it is in the nature of people to follow the herd.

The Pharaohs of old built their empires, great wealth and staggering wonders of the world on the backs of slaves who would willingly give up their short time on Earth because they believed they were working for the God of Rah!

Even back then The Machine was developing and evolving; tuning its weapons and tempering the blades!

BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY OF OUR WORLD!

We are taking back The Control … we are letting go of the guiding hand that led us up the garden path!

We are removing the controls placed on our lives from the day we took our first sip of O2.

We know The Game; the tricks, the illusions and the weapons of The Machine and it’s time to use them for our own benefit.

The most important and dangerous weapons are:

FEAR
That dark place where bad memories sit …

In this uncertain world, we all live in constant fear of the next terrorist attack … should we!

Just how big is the threat? If you believe The Machine's propaganda you’d think there was a deranged psychopath hiding under every bush with rucksacks full of ricin, anthrax and radioactive waste. There is a threat granted, but whether it’s from a bunch of people who just want to kill us all because we don’t share their views or it’s The Machine itself, is something we’ll probably never know.

What we can see in plain view is the spin and exploitation of the horror being milked on a global scale. Though acts of the most vile and cowardly nature, on the grand scale of things, these bombings, maimings and killings are fairly rare.

The Media report troops being sent home in troop boxes on a horrifying scale. There must be bad people out there ... or is the resistance just fed up with occupation by a force that invaded under a shadow of pretence? Whatever, on the face of it the world looks to be facing a terrible threat.

Many atrocities have a motive, such as the Israeli Vs Palestine problems where one is accusing the other of stealing lands and illegal occupations. I don’t know all the facts and have little desire to make an in depth study due to the 'selfish' (weapon) fact that it has no bearing on my life ... but there does seem to be genuine passion there.

When England was in occupation of Northern Ireland the IRA bombed their way to the negotiating table. Whatever the rights and wrongs there was a justification in the minds of the perpetrators.

As far as I am aware, 9/11, 7/7 and other high profile heinousness acts of violence (weapon) seem not to have such a clear motive other than to spread fear and hysteria.

It’s working!

Termites do believe the misinformation and half-truths.

Fear is a powerful weapon and can be used to achieve many goals.

The fear of the 'inevitable' is key, the bombs never actually have to go off, so long as they create enough perception of the impending catastrophe.

Fear comes in many guises. The fear of violence will often be enough to achieve the aim. Then there’s the fear of non-acceptance, the fear of disapproval, the fear of being weak or the fear of an eternity spent with the Devil for your sins. The fear of debt or failure … the fear of losing a favorite toy!

GUILT
A widely used weapon on many levels, from The Machine’s: “If you don’t pay your taxes, all of them, every last cent, the old will die, the young will perish from scurvy and the country will descend into an anarchic hell-hole.”

To your partner’s: “oh, it’s alright for you to go out tonight with all your friends, drinking, having fun and generally causing havoc!

My friends are all busy, I’ll just stay in on my own and get fat eating popcorn and chocolate and drinking Coke and it’ll all be your fault for leaving me in on me own and when you return and find me hanging by me neck from the rafters it’ll all be your fault and …"

There’s religious guilt for your sins: an act that violates a moral code of conduct or the state of having committed such a violation. In monotheistic religions, the code of conduct is determined by God. Colloquially, any thought, word, or act considered immoral, shameful, harmful, or alternative might be termed 'sinful'.

Don’t masturbate because some stuff old fart somewhere in the passage of time deemed it to be a sin, and if you do, be prepared to face the wrath … nothing wrong with a good old wank in my book! Well not in my book exactly!

Apparently, there’s nowhere in the Bible that says it is a sin but what do I know or care!!!

There’s the guilt of not doing enough around the house – My wife is forever hovering under my feet when the floor's spotless just to prove a point. I have to regularly remind her that I’ve worked bloody hard to be able to sit around on my arse drinking beer and watching the TV all day!

Then there’s the guilt that is generated when they show those poor starving kids in Africa on a charity commercial just as you sit down to eat. Breaks my heart, but the 'guilt trip' unfortunately doesn’t work on me.

I have a problem with charities in that I have no guarantee my money will a. go to the kids and not some despotic dictator or official and b. get spent wisely.

$billions upon billions went out to Asia after the Tsunami – how much actually got to the real people who were affected?

Well let’s listen to someone who has half a clue:

Henrietta Ashby went to help Sri Lanka’s victims.

In Sri Lanka the Tsunami hit claiming the lives of 35,000 people and destroying more than 80,000 homes.

I left England with hopes of working to re-build some of the country's houses. Just before Christmas I returned having built only one shop - and with my eyes opened to the problems that dog aid work.

Exactly how much of the $3bn/£1.64bn that was pledged to Sri Lanka in aid has been embezzled by the government of Mahinda Rajapakse is unclear, but only 1,126 homes have been rebuilt since the Tsunami - with the cost of building a basic house said to be only around $2,500/£1,400.

Despite this, aid agencies have struggled to import materials. Oxfam was made to pay $1m in import duty for its vehicles; containers filled with clothes and other items were detained in Colombo on demand of 30 per cent import duty...

...But regardless of the added confusions, one fact remains. For the past year, thousands of self-sufficient, skilled people have been reduced to a state of poverty. In the same period, it is estimated that the Sri Lankan government has received enough aid money to rebuild the whole country twice over.

I became really cynical when at the boatyard one time, this young kid in his early twenties pulled up in a brand new Lotus Elise to speak to one of my mates – about £30ks worth of sports car – after he left I asked the inevitable question: “what’s he do for his money then?”

It turned out he was a manager for Oxfam!

Africa has had so much help and is still struggling. The guilt trip doesn’t work on me … you make up your own mind, after all, you’re free now!

Don’t drive gas-guzzling 4x4s because they damage the environment!

So let’s explore this particular guilt trip’ shall we? I couldn’t find figures for the USA but then, as the current President seems to be not that interested in global warming they may make embarrassing reading! Not the people’s fault I might add!

It has been estimated that Britain contributes around 2 percent of the world's man-made 'greenhouse gas' emissions. Of which 12 percent are from all transport (aircraft 7 percent, public Transport 2.5 percent and Cars 2.5 percent).

It is the cars bit that I am interested in. Of all the cars sold in Britain last year, just 7 percent are from the 4x4/SUV category. But this includes all 4x4 vehicles inc Fiat Pandas and so on. If I estimate that 4 percent of 4x4's are the hardcore gas guzzlers that the ‘Lentilistia’ object to so strongly it would seem fair don't you think?

So these anti-4x4 extremists, who waste their time trying to rid the country of 4x4s in the name of the environmental and "oh won't somebody please think of the children" are, in fact targeting (wait for it)...

4 percent (number of gas guzzling 4x4's) of which
2.5 percent (percentage of emissions that cars are responsible for) of which
2 percent (Britain’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions) of man-made emissions.

That's 0.002 percent of global, man-made emissions!

Now we must consider that the overwhelming majority of these emissions are natural - volcanoes, cow farts, the carbon cycle, Lentilists exhaling methane and Co2 from all the cycling that they do and so on. It's estimated to be between 60 percent and 80 percent, so let's call it 70 percent for argument's sake.

So, a quick recalc, to work out the 4x4's impact on total global, man made emissions = 0.002 percent (Total Global emissions for Gas Guzzling 4x4's) of 30 percent (Stuff that we could change) of total emissions.

That's 0.00066 percent recurring

Just in case you don't understand I shall recap...

4x4 Gas Guzzlers are responsible for 0.00066 percent recurring of global "greenhouse gas" emissions.

Hmmmmmmmmm!!!

LIES AND MISINFORMATION
That’s right, simple downright dirty, rotten lies!

The sort of stale, festering, steaming shite that flows with wanton abandonment from virtually all politician’s every orifice.

But we’re not just talking politics here. People lie with such ease. I’m far from perfect but one of my qualities, or some would say most embarrassing afflictions, is my bluntness. If you ever meet me you’ll see what they mean, I say it how it is and if people don’t like that then it's something they need to deal with.

Many questions require not an honest answer, but an answer that the person doing the asking ‘wants to hear.’ When I tell my missus that the dress she’s spent the last fifty minutes carefully selecting, by trial and error, from her vast wardrobe of unworn garments no longer fits properly, she gets the right hump!

People lie for all sorts of reasons. It’s generally because the lie is constructed in such a way as to be most effective in conning some value from you.

Then there’s misinformation often justified ‘because of the cause’. In other words, if the lies and half-truths achieve the objective quicker or more easily that the plain old truth then that’s reason enough to use them.

Everybody tells 'good lies' in their private life, whether about Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or how nice that new haircut looks.

We understand what Mark Twain meant in describing how Tom Sawyer's God-fearing auntie, suspecting he had lied to comfort her, fortified herself with the thought: "It's a good lie - it's a good lie - I won't let it grieve me."

But public life is a different matter. There are those horror stories that turn up regularly by bereaved and traumatised parents about their three-year-old girl who died of heart failure. She weighed six stone, not because her parents stuffed her face with food, but because of a “rare genetic condition!” (said in a labored and hushed tone!)

“I… did… not… have… sexual… relations… with… that… woman!!!”... he lied.

Obviously, old Billy Boy wanted to keep his job and the public’s support .. a no brainer really ... wouldn't the truth and an apology have been a more honorable (weapon) approach?

“Saddam is just FORTY FIVE minutes away from launching an attack… ”

We all know the real motive for dropping several hundred billion dollars worth of ‘Shock and Awe’ onto the heads of Bin Laden’s soldiers … uh, hum cough, sorry ... mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, babies, brothers and sisters … and the subsequent invasion was oil!

The politicians now predictably blame the media for misreporting the case for war.

This case fits into a pattern of public figures playing fast and loose with the facts, and seeking to justify it by talking about the 'greater truth'. Think of the Government's 'dodgy dossiers' on Iraq. Politicians might concede that they got the ‘odd detail’ wrong about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, but insist that what matters is that the war was just.

Incredibly, 9/11 was “a great day to bury bad news”, according to one politician.

But the weasels that steer The Machine are only the tip of a huge crapberg.

“This is a glorious free country. Work hard, play hard, be an individual. Rise as far as your talents will allow; be all you can be. We will encourage this. Every child will get a fair education in this wonderful, free society, so get out there and achieve”

Roughly translated:

“…but remember, you are tool in the collective. Your highest moral duty is to sacrifice most of your earnings to the needy. We will enforce this with violence and you will be battered and imprisoned if you disobey.

Your money will be taken away and given away to despotic overseas regimes to buy votes and favours. Your life-efforts will be looted and redistributed to the shiftless and indolent.

You will be spied upon to ensure your compliance. Attempt to hide your money from your brothers and you will be branded a criminal to be hunted down. You should rejoice in this and feel good about your contribution…

Is this not the plain, unvarnished truth?

Did the USA really land a man on the moon?

There are many who think it was all an elaborate hoax.

All we have to 'prove' the fact are the pictures they published. But well meaning people have found all sorts of discrepancies leading to the now well documented conspiracy theories.

Well here's an eye opener for you. A very good friend of mine revealed some very interesting info recently. You see, his farther actually worked for NASA and was involved with the moon race.

Here's where it gets interesting!

The US did actually put man on the moon but the pictures were crap!!!

So the marketing men got to work and produced fake pictures of the real event - ha fucking ha!

How royally has that backfired?

Lies and deceit - they couldn't admit to it because that would put everything into question so they continued to treat us like moorons. Again, what you think you see and know turns out to be nothing of the sort.

Is the Globe really warming due to man's abuse of fossil fuels?

Or is the globe warming due to the sun's activities and is more natural CO2 being released because of this? Time will tell.

Christ, this one got me!

I thought I'd pick up some light reading on a recent flight from Malta and see just what all the fuss was about. What a mistake that was!!!

Fuck me backwards! I was so scared I'd taken the kids out of school, built my compound and was preparing for global devastation. I had my arc half built and the animals were lining up two by two. I'd chosen which neighbors would join me, the 'useful' ones like Dr Nick and barricaded out the ones that had less to offer like the car dealer.

All because of some fucking creep who decided he would cash in by writing a book called 6 degrees. It's full of facts; non of them his!!! And most, as I eventually found out, were based on unsound science and global computer models.

They can't get the weather forecast right from one day to the next, let alone map the whole world climate in intricate detail for the next two hundred years ... what a complete bastard for scaring me half to death!

I never knew this.

CO2 is actually only 0.015% of the atmosphere and of that only a tiny percentage, less that 20% is attributed to man.

That's a pimple on a dimple on a flea's left bollock!

They don't tell you that in the last thousand years there's been a medieval warm period AND a mini ice age. They also don't tell you that records began at the end of that mini ice age so of course temperatures are going to sodding well rise.

Go into Google and they'll work out your carbon footprint. The average is less than a ton, mine came out at over SIXTY FIVE tons. Am I to feel guilty? am I fuck!

My footprint is high because I fly a lot so am I churning out the cCO2 or would it be the great hulk of metal that's burning five hundred tons of fuel a second? Damn good reason to charge a bit more on fuel surcharges though?

The IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - was actually set up by Maggie Thatcher with a brief to 'dirty' the use of fossil fuels because she was being held to ransom by the unions. (so I'm led to believe cause I know very little about anything!). it's now grown to become a massive business.

Of course it's the right thing to save our embattled planet. It makes me puke the things we're all doing to it ... but how dare The Machine lie, and lie and lie, especially when the real motivation is not about saving the planet at all, but lining big fat, greedy, slime-lined pockets

HONOUR
Duty and Fairness.

Your country needs you!

It is the most ‘Honorable’ thing a man could to sacrifice himself for ‘The Common Cause’.

How the fuck can that be??? What fucking benefit is that man gonna receive once the ‘cause’ has been achieved other than a twenty-one gun salute at best.

Try using that one on the families of the boys returning home in coffins.

You can bet your last dollar that the fucker who thought that one up did it from the comfort of some bombproof bunker deep in some anonymous mountain in the heart of some anonymous state!

Not all people are honorable so this weapon does not always work. In an attempt to leverage more power from the weapon of Honor and a sense of duty, the weapon of Lies is brought to bear.

If you are not an honorable person then you’re a bad person. But who is defining hon our?

There is surprisingly nothing in the dictionary that state exactly what you have to do in order to be an honorable person' other than to adhere to another's set of rules and expectations:

What in the name of all that is human, is honorable about getting your friggin head blown off in some far off land, on the orders of some fuck-whit who heard through a thread of Chinese whispers, that a group of badly trained insurgents with a couple of rocket launchers posed a threat to civilisation?

Hon our, duty and fairness are weapons that interchange, merge and weave, depending on the situation.

It is your duty to hand over to your partner, who has just left you and your family for a younger model, everything you have strived so hard to provide for the last forty years. It is fair that you do this because it was your fault they gave up the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a Hollywood megastar to be with you! … and you know it don’t you!!!

It is only fair that you give up great swathes of your income to be redistributed amongst the losers, waster and gutter trash!

It is the Honorable thing to resign after your tissue of lies was revealed!

Hon our is subjective and only your 'intuition' will dictate what you feel is honorable and fair. I personally feel there’s far more hon our in providing for and protecting my family than leaving them to fend for themselves whilst I go off on a mission orchestrated by a stranger.

And I’m not just talking wars here. You could be imbued with a sense of duty towards a fellow criminal because he kept his mouth shut about your involvement in the bank heist. But then hon our amongst thieves would prevent you telling all you know about the rape you watched him commit.

SACRIFICE
This is taken to the ultimate extreme as young people indoctrinated by The Machine’s weapons, lies, fear, guilt, hon our, misinformation, martyr themselves for The Cause.

This is nothing new. The Divine Wind was the most hellish weapon the Japanese came up with in the world War.

Kamikaze refers to suicide attacks carried out by Imperial Japan's military aviators against Allied shipping towards the end of the Pacific campaign of World War II, by crashing their planes into warships.

Air attacks were the predominant and best-known aspect of a wider use of—or plans for—suicide attacks by Japanese personnel, including soldiers carrying explosives, and boat crews

Since the end of the war, in 1945, the word kamikaze has often times been applied to other varieties of attack in which the attacker is sacrificed in the process. This is a wider variety of suicide attacks, in other historical contexts. Examples of these are the proposed use of Selbstopfer aircraft by Nazi Germany and various suicide bombings by terrorist organizations around the world

To go on a Kamikaze mission and sacrifice oneself was considered the ultimate Hon our!!!

The only people who ever gain from sacrifice are those who are requesting it from others!!!

While commonly perceived that volunteers signed up in droves for Kamikaze missions, it has also been contended that there was extensive coercion and peer pressure involved in recruiting soldiers for the sacrifice. Their motivations in 'volunteering' were complex and not simply about patriotism or bringing hon our to their families.

Special ceremonies were often held, immediately prior to kamikaze missions, in which pilots, carrying prayers from their families, were given military decorations (lot of good they were as they ploughed into the nearest hundred thousand tons of 'enemy' steel). Such practices honored and legitimized the suicide missions.

With the passing of time, some of those who survived the Kamikaze raids have become critical of the policy.

Saburo Sakai, a Navy Ace:

"Kamikaze is a surprise attack, according to our ancient war tactics. Surprise attacks will be successful the first time, maybe two or three times. But what fool would continue the same attacks for ten months? Emperor Hirohito must have realized it. He should have said 'Stop.'

Even now, many faces of my students come up when I close my eyes. So many students are gone. Why did headquarters continue such silly attacks for ten months!

Fools!

All those men lied that all men volunteered for kamikaze units... They lied."

Well spotted Sherlock ... of course they bloody lied ... suicidal sacrifice is most definitely NOT honorable!!! It's plain fucking stupid!!!

And it's obviously all Hirohito's fault because he didn't say "Stop!" Got naff all to do with all the termites jumping in their planes because the bloke who forgot to stop them said: "it was an hon our to do one's duty!!!"

He forgot to stop all those Kamikazes because for those ten months he and his war council were too busy dreaming up other honorable ways to send termites to their death.

Who is the enemy anyway???

Millions upon millions of termites have been sacrificed across history because a few powerful men couldn't sit round the table over a few beers and sort out their differences over land, oil, ethnic origin or simply which Divine Entity created man!

If the termites simply refused to turn into bastard 'automatons of compliance' then The Machine would have to find a way to resolve issues.

ALTRUISM
Altruism holds that the purpose of a man’s life is NOT his own happiness – a truly good person will always put others first!!!

Err, hello … would the chap who came up with that one just happen to be at the head of the queue for your favours?

“If a man is to discover real happiness it is through helping others.” True enough maybe, but Old Money King, he say: ”help your bloody self first and then help others if it is of benefit to you and of your choosing!”

Altruism holds that the purpose of a man’s life is to serve others; become a sacrificial animal to anyone who feels they have a right to a piece of you. Your reward for this philanthropic generosity? A place in heaven or a Certificate of Hon our for doing your civic duty handed out by The Priests of Collectivism!

A true altruist will not be granted pride in a job well done for Pride is a Sin; there is NO reward – not even satisfaction.

True ‘good’ people will never put themselves before others, they never think of what they want as that would be selfish!

But aren’t they popular? Especially with those whom benefit!

IMAGE MANIPULATION
Few people have the confidence to set trends. We are force-fed a barrage of icons we aspire to be, on a daily basis through the media. Few people are happy with the way they are and by promising contentment when conforming to a particular stereotype The Machine bleeds a will.

Generally, the driving force behind ‘Image’ is money, great fat wedges of it.

Fashion by its very definition is ephemeral, fleeting, ‘of the moment’.

Image-makers are forever striving to create ‘this year’s black’.

We do enjoy conforming to The Image as it ensures approval and acceptance from others but beware; it can be a powerful weapon. Paradoxically, you cannot be conventional AND be an individual.

Which brings me onto another of The Machine’s weapons:

APPROVAL
The need for approval varies from person to person.

The insecure are at greatest risk from their enemy. When they discover this weakness they will fully exploit it to master them.

The need for approval will force people to act in ways they normally wouldn’t do. Like the teenager sticking a bloody great ring through their nose because fellow pierced Grungeites reckon it’s cool!

We all seek and enjoy approval from others – I get a real kick out of receiving emails that ‘stroke my ego’ but I don’t need that praise in order to feel good. We all enjoy a long cool beer but once we crave one we're an alcoholic!

FORCE
The bluntest, crudest MOST EFFECTIVE weapon.

Should all others fail The Machine will simply fall back on this tried and most trusted nuclear warhead!

On a personal level "you will comply" or your doors will be kicked in at some ungodly hour; you’ll be pulled off your partner right on the money shot and be dragged, cuffed and battered to the waiting Black Maria.

It’s a police car!

>>>Black Maria: a police vehicle for transporting prisoners. ORIGIN mid 19th cent: said to be named after a black woman, Maria Lee, who kept a boarding house in Boston and helped police in escorting drunk and disorderly customers to jail

Then there’s force used by others to extract whatever they desire, be it your wallet, your body for sex, your car and valuables. Force, or more often the 'fear of force', will be used by the playground bully to extract favours; to get the weaker to do his homework or hand over their lunchbox.

You may be restrained in a mental institution because a psychotic relative wants an early inheritance. You get tied up in the bath until you sign the required paperwork because they want early access to their trust fund.

If you dare to air your more radical views, and I’m not talking about the real extremist stuff, just talk that’s not on The Machine’s agenda of acceptance, you’ll be dragged off without trial for as long as The Machine desires.

There are a thousand Guantanamos throughout the world and I have no idea if the people held there are crazed maniacs or just innocent family folk who were trying to protect their loved ones from the onslaught of real weapons, bombs and bullets … it’s something we’ll never know. But most of these places hold a myriad of people who where either in the wrong place at the wrong time or said the wrong thing to the wrong person.

Don’t get me wrong, there are filth who do deserve all they get and worse, but The Machine cleverly twists their threat to flex it’s muscles and control the innocent.

Should an oil rich country for instance, decide not to comply with The Machine's will, there’s ever increasing degrees of force available to bring to the 'negotiations' ... oops! I did it again ... 'persuasions!'

The Machine can send in its troop termites almost at will and drop bombs of the most devastating kind; bombs that rarely hit their intended targets. It can pretty much do as it likes and spin its way to justification.

Force is the most effective and controversial weapon, which is why it’s often used as a last resort … but as that last resort, it will be used!

Having ranted and pontificated for that last hour or so you'd be forgiven for thinking that I really am the paranoid, insecure outcast you suspected!

I'm not, and despite all I've written in my experience the world isn't all bad and on the whole you're left to get on with your own thing.

My advice to you now is to keep on doing more of the good and productive things, keep growing stronger and free. Enjoy life, don't take it too seriously and NEVER GIVE UP.

Simple eh!

Epitaph