Friday 24 July 2009

Sit Up And Beg

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"They said they've got two people willing to testify that I've been begging."
The Lost tells me about the trouble he gets from the local police force. It struck me, made me angry.
The Lost has been given his chances. The system has processed, marked and rejected him. The housing foundation threw him out for fighting. Sure, maybe he should have kept his fists to himself, but this is a man who spends his days alone in a crowd. To suddenly find yourself sharing space with others who are equally socially cold, or worse have set up there clique's must have been difficult. I might have thrown the odd fist about.
So now he finds himself on the streets. No hope to speak of, just the kindness, or the want to appear kind of strangers. No doubt he'll find himself in front of the local magistrates where they will see no option but to impose a fine. How will he pay for that? What if they ask for community service? To work for free? Would it do him any good? I plan to sit in on his case if/when it happens.
This is just one of the problems I mull over on a daily basis...

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Tuesday 21 July 2009

Line Busy

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Redirecting..................
574...azd.........
Sending out search.....
RMP responding........
*42 is not available this standard Earth week.....
*42 is not available this standard earth week.....
(message looped)
(admiralty code break)
543-256-****-*********-***
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Profile attached....
Redirecting.
DS43 responding....
Level 5 security clearance required....
Break in transmission^()--
Attempting to reconnect.....
Failed.

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Wednesday 8 July 2009

Torture

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Ah, the world of business. With spiraling R and D costs and the huge risks involved in market investment the car industry is learning to outsource. Awarding contracts to specialists is, of course, not a new idea. The Saxons' arrived in Britain as part of an outsourcing idea in the chambers of King Vortigern... or possibly Rome.
The superpowers of the Twentieth century outsourced the war of ideals to the developing world in South America and Asia whilst feeding the fires with guns and ordnance, propaganda and promises.
It was to no great surprise that this weeks news held tidings that MI5/6 etc had outsourced torture to the Pakistani security services.
So;
On the one hand we condemn torture in Iran/Rwanda/Zimbabwe/China etc, etc and on the other we (by proxy) torture our own citizens for doing things that they have been inspired to do by the heavy handed foreign policies that include torture.
All things are cyclical.

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Friday 3 July 2009

MyFace

Facebook.
Part of the egalitarian dream, part of all the puff I've been making out of the Internet recently.
Today though...
Today I found one of my friends had joined a "Cheltenham needs an Asda" group.
Hang on, what?
1,000,000 people against the BNP. Jolly good.
Joe Bloggs missing somewhere - can you help? Great. But "Cheltenham needs an Asda". What kind of corporate balls is this? Fortunately Facebook supplies a "report group" button for offensive data being published on there site. Unfortunately the drop down menu supplied (racist, pornographic, etc..) didn't include 'this offends my existence'.
The solitary comment on the message board read; "I love Asda".
F*ck.