Your mobile phone is a portable bug that you take everywhere
I suggest that you don’t discuss or SMS text anything important. Don’t discuss things in person – write on paper.
Your location and elevation is easily tracked through a mobile phone – invisible (to you) pings are used.
By order and by appointment 20 March 2022 will have a duration of 36 hours
…
Business as usual is not acceptable. We object. Capitalism is rejected.
later: 20 March 2022 Capitalism is rejected. Business as usual – the destruction of our planet – is no longer tolerated.
You will be working with people who have a totally opposed ideological perspective. Do it – it’s the same for them.
BY APPOINTMENT
Capitalism, business as usual is not tolerated – hours 23 to 36.
and continuing …
Capitalism is not tolerated from hour 23
LOCKDOWN, TOTAL SHUTDOWN use traffic to stop traffic
For your children, to stop the destruction of our planet
10 March 2022: I will be participating of course. I can’t ask other people to do it and not do it myself. There may be some issue about arresting me if I am under an Investigatory Powers Act order so perhaps the police could look into that before 20 March?
[More on that: I am uncertain about it but here’s my reasoning. If I’m watched under an IPA order, evidence that turns up and possibly the fact that I’m under such an order cannot be put before a court. (Is that correct?) So, I would be denied a fair trial. If I’m denied a fair trial then I shouldn’t be arrested or detained.] more: and if that’s the case does it also apply to Assange? There might be some words that make it acceptable.
Bicycles, small motorcycles would seem to be ideal to use – because you can get around traffic.
later: I think that perhaps I’ve been emphasizing Capitalism in this post too much. On the other hand, Capitalism is the problem. Note to self: work this out
10 March 2022: Why is 20 March extended to 36 hours? 20 March is the equinox and also has good numbers. The trouble is that it’s a Sunday and there’s no point disrupting traffic on a Sunday. 21 March is not the equinox and doesn’t have good numbers. So I cheated ;) more: I could have gone into the position of the stars and all that. The trouble is there’s no time to do that (, I’m not that good at it) and we’re not able to delay until the stars are good. [11/3/22 More that the dates of 20 March express what I intend.]
11 March 2022: Feedback is welcomed. It is very unfortunate that presumably the UK government does not permit comments to this blog. On the other hand in this instance they have denied themselves feedback. Hoping that I’ll be able to discuss this Sunday afternoon / evening.
Successive government serially fail to address the climate crisis and must be forced to act. We have now come to realise that 1.5 degree increase is too much. The latest IPCC report has said that we must act now.
Extinction Rebellion are intending to shut down oil refineries starting 9 April and I wish them every success with that. We are sharing the same logic – that we are unwilling to tolerate, actually cannot allow business as usual because it’s killing the planet.
12 March 2022: I’ve had some feedback, it’s usually supportive. The trouble is that it has to be interpreted like reading tarot cards.
I had some encouraging feedback immediately following me posting Now Let’s Do the American Oligarchs.
Other feedback I interpreted as you will be arrested and it follows that I’ll probably get my own chance to write some prison notebooks. I’m not surprised that I will be arrested, I’m going to be doing criminal damage after all, going out equipped with the intention of doing criminal damage, the discussion of IPA was just wishful thinking and getting arrested is part of the intention.
I also interpreted this feedback as somewhat disparaging, suggesting that I’m a novice. I think that the response to that is that I have been appointed to office, I am by appointment, I never asked to be appointed to a high honourary office and was not even aware of it to start with. I have authority through that office and I am exercising that authority. [ed: not sure that I should regard it as honourary] [14/3/22 I want to stop adding to this post and leave it. I’m not sure if it’s appointed to office – could be more of an official acknowledgement and recognition. I’ve never really benefited from it – I’ve been shown respect by people (including cake thanks) and that’s it. I am otherwise by appointment to … and have been quoted by the highest office.]
I also interpreted this feedback as asking me to take down the sword. It could be straight from Priti. I don’t want any violence or bloodshed which the sword can mean. I do however intend to defend myself according to the law if I’m attacked. I am not XR.
Many people locally are aware who I am. Give me feedback even if it’s just a thumbs up or thumbs down. Nobody’s going to mind you giving them the thumbs up. If you give someone else a thumbs down they’ll just think you’re a nutter. Decide what you want to tell me and tell me.
What’s going to happen? It makes sense to consider different outcomes, to be prepared. Looking at different outcomes, however likely or unlikely.
I could be on my own, I would prefer someone to watch my back while I’m smashing traffic lights but we’ll see.
People can turn out in support to shut roads. I mean blocking roads with their presence. There’s no point doing that until 7 or 8am.
I could get arrested before doing anything. Fine.
This blog could get shut, it’s hard enough to find it anyway.
Shutting down one area could be copied and spread to other areas.
There could be negotiation. Please negotiate with XR, they are in a far better position than me to negotiate.
We could succeed but what then? The intention is to stop business as usual, to show that continuing destruction of the planet is no longer tolerated. Business as usual must stop and XR’s intention of shutting oil refineries is a good one, the ultra-rich to be hugely taxed to finance the green new deal, no more new coal, any spaceport strictly not to include space tourism, superyachts converted to housing, flying restrictions, bitcoin abolished.
Depending on the extent of success, go for a smooth transition, install a caretaker government, no second chamber, early elections (3 months?), proportional representation, voting age 14?, far more involvement in democracy, recall of politicians. It’s not really down to me is it?
14/3/22 What’s going to happen? continued
Whatever happens in this instance, Capitalism is going to fall over the destruction of our planet. If nothing else, parents are not going to tolerate our planet being destroyed for private and corporate profit. A tiny minority – the uber-rich are responsible for this, those that benefit most from the current Capitalist system, the ones that are in charge and direct governments.
My current social landlord is crap summary
The place wasn’t inspected before I moved in. It wasn’t inspected because nobody was willing to put their name to it. Numerous issues.
I took one very serious issue to the Housing Ombudsman. The Housing Ombudsman is biased and prejudged, basically supports the social landlord that is paying them. Tried but failed to judicial review the Housing Ombudsman’s decision. Built up £4,000 in legal expenses and managed to get that waived ;) so the Ombudsman probably footed that bill ;)
BBC news abandoned and descended into soap opera bullshit
[8 March 2022: I’m very disappointed with this post and disappointed with myself for writing it. What you’ve got essentially is me moaning that the BBC has changed and I don’t like it.
20 and more years ago my analysis was far deeper [It’s almost as if I was deep then and now I’m just overwhelmed and dizzy but lazily accepting of that]. By contrast this is just siht. It is however worth pursuing: How do I understand this, what can I learn? I don’t understand the Nigel Lawsons, the Nigel Farages and the Steve Bakers of this world and instead resort to calling them idiots. If I learn how I was a similar idiot in this case, will it help me in understanding them?
I think that it may have something to do with humans’ relationship with technology. Us humans are designed and hardwired to live in caves, living off animals (including rodents) of varying sizes or eating fruit and vegetables when we’re lucky enough to stumble across it. Today’s World bristling with technology is a long way from that and we have problems with it.
We tend to personify technology when really it is just relatively stupid machanics that does a number of tasks reliably and extremely well. So our mobile phones work mostly perfectly for years [yes they do work for years if you give them the chance] and we become attached to them. We probably think Alex Bell is a great friend, I can rely rely on him. Then when Alex starts becoming unreliable it might be I thought you were my friend but you’re becoming unreliable, going to have to get rid of you and get a better friend, one I can rely on.
So with the BBC telly and radio output, we get used to it and start to think it’s our friend but get pissed off when it starts being an unreliable friend… This is starting to make sense isn’t it?
Going to think about this some more and come back to it.]
[8/3/22 Looks like we are descended from the !San hunter and gathering bushmen of the Kalahari desert. I need to suggest what a friend was to the bushmen.
I like it when my family shares cave and hunting with Bigwulfslayer Frank’s family. We always seem to have successful hunts and my children and his children enjoy each others’ company. My girls seem to knock out good healthy bushmen from his sons’ line and my sons enjoy his daughters. Bigwulfslayer Frank is a friend.
So that’s some idea of what friendship is early in our history. The bushmen needed genetic diversity and got it, joining up for a bigger hunting pack paid dividends, etc. Today we think of tech as our friends and personify cars, puters, phones, etc. So that is a problem.
later: Oops, made a mistake there assuming a patriarchal society. Should have read up on the San first.]
[10 March 2022: I suggested that this might help understand the Nigel Lawsons, the Nigel Farages and the Steve Bakers of this world. It hasn’t really so I had better explain how they and Tony Blair are idiots. Unfortunately this explanation doesn’t hold true for Steve ‘number two’ Baker because he didn’t attend public school. We need a different explanation for him – perhaps he’s just a whore to money, perhaps he’s woofing mad.
Public school actually refers to fee-paying private school so it’s only the rich that attend. As well as the educational qualification achieved mostly through examinations, there is a different aspect taught and learned at all schools. This extra aspect of education has probably got many names but I’ll call it the hidden curriculum.
Public school is all about teaching the rich to rule, to be the cnuts they are. So it instills the ideas that class stratification is the natural order of things, that the rich should rule, that the rich are better than us common plebs, that us common plebs are stupid, dirty and uncouth, that sort of thing. So public school is what enabled the ruling class to be such cnuts that they do massacres and that sort of thing – perhaps more in the age of the traditional British empire than today.
One aspect of the hidden curriculum taught at pubic school is to trust your instincts – to believe things without any supporting evidence and even when the evidence conflicts with those beliefs. So you have Nigel Lawson, Nigel Farage and other climate crisis sceptics dismissing the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and the fact that we have to act now to save our planet. We also have Tony Blair believing that murdering millions in Iraq was the right thing to do. Tony Blair is actually also totally insane.
[11/3/22 Written before the Iraq war 2003
THE HIGHWAY TO HELL
I respect all religions
And belief-systems worldwide
But
I have no time
for those b******s
That claim to be Christians
That claim Divine guidance
On the Highway to Hell
dt
]
10/3/22 later
At the risk of repeating myself. The purpose of public school is to instill and reproduce the sense of entitlement in the privileged scum that attend public schools. You need to have the established belief that you are superior to treat people like siht, you need to have the belief that you are superior to kill the planet, engage in massacres, rape, be a paedo, etc. You need that sense of the infallibility of your base instincts to rationalise (justify to yourself) being a cnut, paedo, etc]
[15/3/22 Nigel Farage is a whore to money, a little gobshite to bigger, richer shites].
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine BBC news has flipped into absolute soap opera bullshit. BBC radio and television exclusively transmits Ukrainian soap opera ignoring all and any other news. In a time when independent news sources are censored by the UK state I am not interested in the opinions of 8-year old Ukranian girls escaping Ukraine. Seriously, this is a real example of the absoulute bullshit BBC news is serving. [7/3/22 I should make clear that it’s not news. It’s usually people recounting their experiences – ideal for propagating propaganda / lies of course – and usually people with no specialised knowledge. It seems like wasting time with BS and anything outside Ukraine is not worthy according to BBC.]
What about an analysis of the West imposing a fekking clown as Ukrainian president? The real Fascism in Ukraine e.g. Fascist special forces committing war crimes, black people prevented from leaving?
WTF is that about?