Monday, December 22, 2014

Poverty

 Poverty is not caused by men and women getting married; it's not caused by machinery; it's not caused by "over-production"; it's not caused by drink or laziness; and it's not caused by "over-population". It's caused by Private Monopoly. That is the present system. They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air - or of the money to buy it - even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it's right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: "It's Their Land," "It's Their Water," "It's Their Coal," "It's Their Iron," so you would say "It's Their Air," "These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?" And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on "Christian Duty" in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of th gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you'll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to "justice" in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.” 
― Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Monday, December 8, 2014

What school do you go to?

Land ownership is in fact the very basis of the British class system. It is also the fundamental basis of Andrew Mitchell's "pleb" outburst.
You see the core issue is that in Public Schoolboy parlance, a "pleb" was a pupil who was not a member of the "landed classes" i.e. the titled lot with big estates. If you didn't own a big chunk of the British countryside, then you were a "pleb", a nothing, in Public Schoolboy parlance, no matter how much money your family had.
This theme was continued in the English public schools of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins Language, said.
He said: "In public school parlance, a pleb was a pupil who was not a member of the landed classes."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30191866
On 26 November I explained on a Hadley Freeman article on the Guardian, why landownership was the fundamental basis of the British Class System. Hadley who is an American who has lived in Britain for a long time, had expressed bafflement at the British obsession with class, and why what school a 60 year old man had been sent to, was so important. I explained it was all about land ownership.
http://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/44223585
You will then notice that I was viciously attacked by a Countryside Alliance astroturfer, who has been pursuing me for some time under various pseudonyms for pointing this out.
I had used an unlikely reference to explain this, Country Life magazine.
What we do know, however, is that the aristocracy and the Royal Family still play an important role in the ownership of our country. More than a third of land is still in the hands of aristocrats and traditional landed gentry. Indeed, the 36,000 members of the CLA own about 50% of the rural land in England and Wales.
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/articles/who-really-owns-britain
The CLA is the Country Landowner's Association. They run the annual "Game Fair", the biggest show of its type for the "Huntin, Shootin, Fishin" crowd in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Land_and_Business_Association
Whilst the Wikipedia page says not to be confused with the Countryside Alliance, this is misleading and false. Exactly the same major figures are behind both organizations, Britain's wealthiest, and titled landowners. They maybe different organizations, but the same key figures are behind both.
Also the same key figures are behind the British Establishment, and the Conservative Party. Whilst these entities may look different, in fact the same key powerful figures are behind all of them. It is the very basis, the essence of the British Class System - and it is exactly the same clique running all of them. It is like one great big club. Everyone else is just a "Pleb" as far as they are concerned. We are simply a bunch of "plebs" to these people, who don't count, something they wipe of the bottom of their shoes.
All this democracy rubbish and everyone is equal under the law, is just one great big sham. It's just a con to deceive the "plebs", and to stop them revolting against the system, and overthrowing this "secret club" that has run Britain for the last 1000 years. I kid you not.
That is what the Domesday Book was about nearly 1000 years ago, who owns Britain. It was the obsession of William the Conqueror, and it has been the obsession of those that have ruled Britain for the last 1000 years or more.

Land is the fountain of youth. It belongs to your children's children..... not you. A major portion of your life should be dedicated to attaining it for them.