Monday, June 01, 2009

[science fiction] ten best authors


Who do you rate the top ten science fiction authors and/or books?

It seems to me you need to define science fiction first. What about Spielberg [admittedly a producer/director], Douglas Adams, Wyndham? Was that SF? Is there a clear distinction between SF and Fantasy?

In a recent poll, these two were not even mentioned:

Alan Dean Foster - Alien, for example plus a hundred other things he's done.

Patrick Tilley - Xan.

What would your top ten be?

H/T my mate.

[liberty] twilight’s last gleaming


Liberty is liberty, not equality or human happiness or a quiet conscience. [Isaiah Berlin, 1958]

In the lip service paid in this era by governments and the powers behind them to the concepts of fairness and justice through their ‘positive discrimination’ and ‘egalitarian society’, the central aim all along has been the curtailment of liberty.

To return to the original plan of Them, a plan which has never altered, the aims have always been:

1) Abolition of all ordered governments
2) Abolition of private property
3) Abolition of inheritance
4) Abolition of patriotism
5) Abolition of the family
6) Abolition of religion
7) Creation of a world government

[May 1st, 1776]

How many of the above are they on the way to achieving today and more importantly, how many of them would you subscribe to?

If you believe in N5, then you are subscribing to the removal of the building blocks of society, the primary loyalty of human beings, the last bastion of freedom. If you believe in N6, then you are subscribing to the suppression of free thought.

There are many measures of a society. If you feel fear when:

1. You are driving along the road, road tax paid up, MOT, all things in order and driving within the speed limit, then you see two police cars rapidly approaching;

2. You speak out on behalf of Christianity, you are attacked from all sides for your views and you patiently wait for them to come for you or to put a bureaucratic spanner in your works;

3. You enter a government agency building;

4. You are in trouble, you see armed policemen and don’t feel you can approach them for help;

5. It’s not possible to go through one day without breaking some law, old or new and you have no way of knowing which law you broke, until you are charged;

6. You are eternally enslaved by debt …

… then something is terribly wrong in that society and in its government’s views on the personal freedom of the individual.

Even more frightening than this is that people could even be speaking of a hung parliament in the next general election. If this government turns out to be, as is generally acknowledged, the worst government in living memory and the PM is an actual, real criminal who has broken the laws of the land, and if it still looks as if the results of the election would be line ball, then what does that say about the parliamentary process of party politics and about the leadership preselection process?

Even more frightening than this is that people, as they’ve been manipulated to do in this very cynical pan-European and pan-global planned agenda, have started looking seriously at alternative means of governance, oblivious to the EU monster’s slavering jaws on their necks, Common Purpose graduates in place in the regions to seize control, FEMA ready in America and the PR machine working overtime to prepare people for ‘Post Democracy’.

Examine every one of Blair/Brown’s 3000+ new laws and say which of these were instituted to allow people more personal freedom?

Do you really believe that the Expenses Scandal would ever have been allowed to see the light of day, especially by the Barclay Brothers, if it wasn’t time for the people to be so outraged by MPs on all sides that they’ll accede to a new model, miraculously ready to be put in place, which will ‘sweep away all this corruption’ in one fell swoop?

Plus the new global Brownean Economics.

Can’t you see the manipulation here and the cynical hand behind it? If you can’t see that hand, then start with Poettering over here and the CFR over there.

History

My area of historical study is Early C20th and as one reads the texts, correspondence and subsequent commentary on those, the correlation between the timeline of yesteryear and today is chilling.

One difference is that the Warburgs and Colonel Houses of today are far less visible, due to the increased political consciousness of sections of the populace and their ability to go to print through the internet.

We are now in the days of the new Weimar Republic - cumbersome, corrupt, inefficient and out of touch with people’s needs, if not in terminal inflation. Liberty is being increasingly portrayed as a luxury we can’t afford any more, a noble experiment which brought on all the ills from the moral bankruptcy of capitalism [in the socialist rhetoric] to the corruption at Westminster and on Capitol Hill.

Cometh the Man

He’ll be charismatic.

The people will nod at his angry denouncements of the corruption and uselessness of the incumbent structure and will say to you, ‘Just give me the tools and I’ll do the job.’

Just as Hitler did.

Then they’ll sign away their remaining rights and turn a blind eye to the coming privations [the early sacrifices for a better world] and inevitable atrocities.

You have to admire the grass-roots American with his implicit faith in his Constitution and the inviolability of the Yoo Ess of Ay. Maybe grass-roots civil disobedience and a new Paul Revere will stymie the cynical bypassing of these institutions by the CFR, TLC, NAAC and the military-industrial complex. Maybe the people can stymie the new gestapo, FEMA and actually pull this off.

Maybe the silent stubbornness of the average Brit will bring down the best laid plans of Brussels, the Scottish Rite, the Bavarian Bruderheist and the Clubs of Paris, Rome and anywhere else there’s a club dedicated to the seven holy principles quoted at the start of this article.

Balls, Millipede, Kaletsky, Raymond Barre, Thomas Friedman, Maurice Strong, Julia Middleton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Queen Beatrix, Prince Bernhard, Lord Black of Crossharbour, Nicholas Brady, Gordon Brown, Lord Peter Carrington, Bill Clinton, Marc Ladreit de la Charriere, Arthur Dunkel, Lawrence Freedman, Fritz Gerber, Katie Graham, Hank Greenberg, Henry Kissinger, Veronique Morali, David Oddson, David Rockefeller Sr, Queen Sophia, Michael Wilson, Grant Winthrop, J D Wolfensen, Véronique Morali, Marc Ladreit de la Charriere, Felicia Cavasse, Birgit Breuel, Virginia Rogononi …

… and so on and so on. It’s chilling to think that there are actually such as these dedicated to and working towards, either directly or by consequence, bringing down society, as we know it and snuffing out the candle of liberty.

Liberty

The political question will not be framed in this way but this is what it will come down to:

Would you prefer to feed your family and enjoy a modicum of comfort in your life OR would you prefer liberty?

This is how liberty will be all but snuffed out. Richard Rorty, in ‘Is this the end of democracy?’, April 27, 2004, quotes Attorney-General John Ashcroft, in reply to critics of the Patriot Act:

To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve.

This is the sort of thing we’re up against.

Further reading

[nourishing obscurity] the new goth blog

Now that's more than interesting. Google ads works, of course, on the things you've been posting on and I'm not sure but possibly doesn't take into account comments.

I'd like to know what I posted on which brought on a goth ad like the one in the screenshot [left]. something about the dark side or was it god-free-morals or was it the youtubes?

Interesting. Still, it's quite flattering.

[poll results] new poll up soon

Do you think the next government will be:

better than this lot 12%
the same 30%
worse 12%
eu controlled 30%
not democracy 12%
other 3%

33 votes total