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Straight out of low-tax Written by Lawrence Thanks    Tuesday, 09 October 2007 Is it time to add "Cries Death to taxes" to our exclusive MORIbund poll, What Makes Cameron So Electable? In last week's accelerated snatches of mediated time, the slimline Camewrong spun back on his proposals to abolish the evil inheritance tax. That dastardly levy that weighs against the sacred  (c1979) British principle of ‘ aspiration' could be the vote-swinger. Maybe this hurrah over DC's plans reflects a now family-raising, new Labour crowd finally ready to return to the low-tax Tory fold (fuck raising money for the common good, I've seen the commoner and he is not good). Or maybe it's because most of the journalists writing about it and Tories lauding it are affected by it - total box tax bollocks.   It also plays nicely with libertarian Marx warpers like the odious Claire Pox, who see this 'tax on aspiration' as stopping 'ordinary decent folk' from acquiring cash in a manner (doing nothing) normally associated with the rich and ascending the feted social ladder. Never mind the fact that the lauding of the social ladder is confirmation of the present rude health of class prejudice, the left is so fragmented or under represented that there is no reported squeaks from them on this. The Observer's dosh pages also started a campaign that I am sure will be running next week, if they remember. On Buerk's R4 Maze, however, an accountant put up a cogent and totally convincing defence of IHT and made sMel Phillips look the extremist reactionary idiot she is. IHT is one of the fairest taxes there is and the obvious one for recouping for the public purse revenue from the massive increase in housing prices over the last decade, the beneficiaries of which have done nothing to 'deserve' other than mainly living through the hardship of southeast England life  and become more scared about the future in recent years, what with climate terrorism and Muslim change. Give the already-well-catered-for next generation a house for nothing and it's a tax on egalitarianism, perpetuating layers of superiority as even 60-year-olds walk round thinking they've made it.   Last Updated ( Friday, 02 November 2007 ) Read more... Beguiling travels: Update Written by Nessa    Monday, 17 September 2007 London explorer, who last time out for Cull wrote a great review of Kraftwerk, finds many things of wonder on her travels around southeast Asia. *******now with more on the Thai monks and N Vietnam in paras 5 and 8 I arrived in Hanoi a couple of days ago, and am whimpering with superlatives - it's a gorgeous city, like Paris in some ways (little alleys and wine cellars), except both tranquil and insane. I love it. Hong Kong was nice and mild and restful. We spent the whole time living in a little village under a mountain. I managed to avoid the giant snakes on the island by taking my trusty big stick. Swimming was lovely, particularly at night, when the sea was full of iridescent blue algae that would glitter when I swam. We also spent a couple of days in a hut in an old missionary camp on the top of the mountain, watching the clouds float by us and through us. I then buggered off for a month in Thailand on me tod to engage in an orgy of self-improvement, taking courses in Thai massages and yoga. My teacher for the massage was also my experimental dummy and was the tiniest, wee-ist thing, who just about survived me stomping all over her. For the last couple of weeks I've been hanging with monks (bad boys, those monks) and meditating up a mountain. My cynicism and materialism is just about strong enough to overcome evidence of some distinctly odd and powerful experiences I've had during this time. It was all rather incongruous in some ways - Thai Buddhism is a highly conservative force in society, and my socialist and femist ideals found themselves goaded into (passive, non aggressive) battle, particularly when told that a woman cleaner had good karma in a previous life as she had four sons in this one. In the process I managed to learn my first archaic language, Pali, and more about canine sex acts then i first thought possible. Last Updated ( Friday, 02 November 2007 ) Read more...

McClintock's "Revolting" Cock Fights Written by Peter Planets    Monday, 27 August 2007 Self-styled environmental freedom fighter Jeremy McClintock has caused outrage in his hometown of Bromley by raising money for charity through illegal cockfights. The globetrotting ex-reporter and current leader of The Right Path Party, who recently organised a charity football game in Kenya with Chris Martin from Coldplay, has been described by Charlie Shine, his next door neighbour of fifteen years, as "revolting" and "a cock abuser". In an exclusive interview with Cull, Mr Shine, who's known Jeremy since he was a schoolboy, said: "Jeremy's really let himself and the whole community down. One minute he's playing soccer with Coldplay, and the next he's cock fighting. If it was dogs I could understand it. I think most people will feel revolted by this." Although precise details of his involvement in the cockfights are still unclear, McClintock is known to have attended at least one contest in May 2007, in Loxley Woods, Chislehurst, in which he and other participants abused their cocks. Cockfights are currently illegal in Britain. More recently McClintock's website has promoted cockfights in Bali, including a "charity event" held on 16 July 2007, which his website describes as a "worthy environmental cause". McClintock hit the headlines at the beginning of this year when Rolf Harris and a host of TV celebrities attended the launch of his political party in Royal Parade, Chislehurst. Since then McClintock is reported to have been campaigning for The Right Path Party in Bromley and Chislehurst, as well as in a number of UK constituencies in the southeast.     Last Updated ( Monday, 27 August 2007 ) The US army cannot win in Iraq… Written by Mankl    Wednesday, 22 August 2007 ... so they speed up the rise in the use of the Unaccountables, ie, outsourced military. There are 160,000 US troops in Iraq but even the bullish should not think that small beer when they realise that there another 180,000 in the pay of private contractors of the likes of Blackwater, Dyncorp and Aegis of the UK. Wierdly, that's still not enough secure the peace for the occupiers. "Congressional sources estimate the United States has spent at least $6 billion on mercenaries in Iraq" "They interrogate prisoners, gather intelligence, operate rendition flights, protect senior occupation officials and, in at least one case, have commanded U.S. and international troops in battle." "They have not been subjected to military courts martial, nor have they been prosecuted in U.S. civilian courts. And they cannot be prosecuted in Iraqi courts because in 2004 the U.S. occupying authority granted them complete immunity" Read more from Scahill's piece in Counterpunch, all part of the promotion of his Blackwater book. When Petraeus and Crocker file back to Washington, we presume they'll be including the role of this very convenient cannon fodder in their progress report. Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 ) A walk through validation street Written by Mertle White    Tuesday, 07 August 2007 Complicity is ubiquitous. How I coped without my daily fix of PeteandKate, PeteandKate PeteandKate before the likes of the London Shite and the London Raper quite literally littered my train back from work I don't know. I now know that if for some inexplicable reason neither of these hapless narcos - one I believe is a model, the other a mate of Rimbaud's - make it into these daily vectors of fame, I will be compensated with the latest from Callum Best's Bymoronic mission to do a fat line off every available media dependante in the West before he dies of floods or bioinsecurity. This noble pursuit, along with the entertainmentals of a troupe of others, is thoroughly monitored and relayed in easy journalese. But I still don't know what a Lindsay Lohan is. Why am I ‘reading' this? Because I'm too tired to read anything with substance but I want to hold a paper in my hands. Ever slavish to the recorded spectacle, I see that things aren't much different in the real world. Men and women are like the buildings, carving new identity out of tired frames. The local drink and puke bars are easing post-smoking ban fears that women will be easier targets for drug-induced date rape by providing glass covers for unwitting ladies who like to step outside for a fag. Stopping the cause at result rather than root the only way of dealing with the sexually aggressive culture, where young men and ladies are encouraged to exhibit as much of their bodies as possible, or if not at least their boxers or brasiers, while still for some staying as an object of desire. It's like a sneak preview for the lucky, with confirmation that follows when a picture text is received again a tantalising insinuation. It's the culture of the new and the young, but anyone can get enfranchised. Don't worry, it won't make it onto Youth Tube, but there are plenty of sites as well as mainstream organisations or viral agencies that will take it. We like to see our live in pixellated replay now. Fights, fucks, fuck-ups, rows. We may need to get a life, but at least we are all l!ve on one platform or another. On Big Brother, Charley (I don't know what she ‘does' either), epitomises this predatory culture. I haven't watched this already-tired TV format (or ‘pioneeering sociological experiment' as those in the business like to call it), but tales of her ruthless pulling prowess abound in diverse media. In fact, I was naïve to suggest that they needed a bona fide career when their self-representation is clearly such a full-time job for these avatars of instant gratification. She'll happily say she's a sex-obsessed bitch to her self, but don't try saying that to her face. Like the high street honeys in the Surrey bars, the double-standard has been erased. In girl power, such strong-willed self-effacement is seen as a good thing. "We is calling da shots now, ya get me?" Nah, it makes me feel uneasy. So uneasy that I would never suggest that the fetishising of the female looks runs all the way down to the even youngers and the obscenely young - because I'll be told the only people who justify child abduction are pederasts themselves. Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 August 2007 ) Read more... CAPITALIST'S PUNISHMENT Written by Simon Goingaboutmybusiness    Thursday, 05 July 2007 "Regarding the terrorist bomb attacks: seeing as those murderous lunatics have no compunction in taking their own lives along with the lives of the citizens of this country in the pursuit of their twisted ideology, I am sure none of us would mind reinstating the death penalty and reserving it for these disgusting thugs" Thanks to D Turner, who tells the Arab doctors where to hang in a textletter headlined EXECUTE BOMBERS (for wasting a perfectly good SUV). The London paper published this.

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