[change] it's all part of a very black joke

It’s been suggested that many movies are studded with references to real life situations, to planned scenarios for the future and even to psychological triggers for certain purposes. The Bond film DAD is an example of the former – there seems a likelihood that a project did partly take place in Iceland or at least there was a research station there.

And what of MAD? Why would a strategic policy be given such a cynically tactless title? What about the euphemism “peaceful purposes”? There is indeed a callous cynicism running through all of this, a sense of the inconsequence of human suffering, shrouded in black jokes and where does this emanate from? People aren’t born like this.

Closer to home, Councillor Gavin Ayling alerts us to another act of quietly cynical anti-humanity in high places: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act; Section 22. Look at clauses [g] and [h] in particular. Does this read like carte blanch to you? As Gavin says, "it gives me the willys, so to speak."

Just as with ordinary individuals, so it is with the leaders. They are most assuredly in control and pursuing their insane agenda into a new dark age.