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A Happy New Year To All Spammers, And The Hope They’ll All Get A Proper Job In 2014.

Sparrow Chat appears free of any further spammer intrusions. There were no viruses involved, so contamination of other blogs and websites is not a concern. Their purpose, apart from to cause disruption to others, was only to publicize shady web-links possibly for sex-enhancing Rx drugs, or more likely as a cover for other sites harboring viruses or pornography.

It’s easy to feel hatred and anger towards the poor suckers lured into this pathetic game. Imagine, though, the low mentality and sickness prevalent among these sad human creatures, whose only entertainment is to disrupt the lives and work of others, presumably for nothing more than minor kicks.

While it’s hard to understand what drives spammers – after all, their successes are entirely anonymous – it’s really quite easy to understand the desperation and hollowness of their existence.

It was brought home to me tonight by, once more, the propagandist activities of national news organizations. In this case it was CBS.

New Year’s Eve, yet CBS is more concerned with declaring the stock market a winner for 2013. News cameras on Wall Street evidenced wealthy investors dancing and singing. Of course, CBS was quick to include a happy soon-to-be pensioner rubbing his hands with glee as his financial adviser showed how his portfolio had swollen over the last twelve months.

There was no mention of those millions of Americans with no portfolio. You know who I mean: they work two jobs, live from paycheck to paycheck, always short to pay the monthly bills, buy secondhand clothes, eat out of McDonalds because it’s cheaper than cooking, probably don’t even know what a ‘portfolio’ is, and likely never will.

My son-in-law works two jobs. They’re not crap jobs either. He’s a heating/air conditioning engineer by day. At night, he helps run a State-sponsored shelter for underprivileged teenage boys. His wife works full-time driving retarded adults around, making sure they get fed and have outings that provide interest to their otherwise humdrum lives.

Despite three incomes, they can’t afford a “portfolio” and live paycheck to paycheck, struggling to meet the monthly bills that drop remorselessly into the mailbox.

It’s not just in America such people exist. My own daughter, made redundant when the great corporation, Honeywell, decided to cast off many of its employees, has been unemployed in Britain for two years. The UK government is squeezing its unemployed into a degree of poverty previously unknown in that country since the 1930’s, while welcoming cheap labor from Eastern Europe – Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians – to fill the crap service jobs British people cannot afford to take.

Millions of our fellow human beings in the so-called civilized “Western World” are poverty-stricken, while a relative few enjoy the delights of untold wealth that should, in all fairness, be divided out among those who have nothing.

Socialism is a dirty word in America. It’s rapidly becoming so in Europe, as American corporate influence spreads its filthy tentacles throughout the continent, and further, to Eastern Europe and Asia.

History recalls similar situations reaching back to the Roman Empire and beyond. Many empires have existed through the ages. All have fallen foul of avarice, collapsing in on themselves as the peasantry turned on their leaders with often devastating, bloody, consequences. The French revolution is a prime example.

No-one would wish such dreadful bloodshed to befall Britain or America. Yet it cannot be ruled out unless the politicians wise up to a situation that is entirely their responsibility. Politicians are elected to serve the people, not corpocracy – despite any decision the Supreme Court might declare.

They turn their backs on the electorate at their peril. It’s a lesson the British Parliament and the US Congress have still to learn. Let’s hope they don’t leave it too late.

I began this post discussing spammers and the dire conditions they, and so many others, are living under. Spammers have a chip on their shoulders. They’re anti-social and wish to hit back at a society they believe has abandoned them. Sadly, like so many terrorists, they make the mistake of turning their anger and frustration against their own kind, instead of those truly to blame for their situation.

For that there is no excuse. By all means, be a Robin Hood. Hit the rich where it hurts and help the poor. To attack those little or no better off than you, is surely to attain the lowest level into which human beings can sink.

A Happy New Year to all my readers, and may 2014 bring more humanity into a world that is rapidly starving for the lack of it.

Scumbags At Work

This is a test post to ascertain if certain scum who take a sick pleasure in trying to destroy or deface the work of others are still active on feed readers such as NetVibes and Feedly. The Sparrow Chat website is unaffected, but if you use a feed reader for the latest post you’ll have noticed spam inserted within the post. Please use the website to avoid this petty annoyance, until matters are set to rights.

Why Fracking And Clorox Are ‘Making A Difference’

Sometimes there just seems nothing worth writing about. Oh, sure, hell an’ all is going on, but the internet is awash with the stuff and what’s the point of one more blogger weighing in on dross that’s done to death, anyway?

Then, on the other hand, there’s too darn much to write about. Everyone knows that blog readers lose interest after half a page (unless you can throw in a juicy sex scandal or a couple of pornographic photos, and Sparrow Chat’s not really into that stuff) so a long catalogue of disaster isn’t going to curry too many votes in the ‘Blogger of the Decade’ award.

And then, NBC chose to waste much of their damn half hour of evening “news” coverage running an infomercial for fracking, involving an overweight oil billionaire from Oklahoma interviewed by an unsurprisingly stupid reporter asking the most inane questions of Mister Oil Barrel, while every so often stooping to scoop up the hundred dollar bills that fell from Mister Oil Barrel’s eyes each time he blinked.

According to Mister Oil Barrel, fracking was the best thing that ever happened to America (for ‘America’ read, ‘Mister Oil Barrel’) and there was more oil under the US than in the whole of Saudi Arabia.

“Why,” he cried, “we can leave the Middle East to its own devices. We don’t need ’em anymore!”

Quite right, Mister Oil Barrel, you don’t need them anymore. Now, you can concentrate on ruining the lives of your fellow countrymen for a change.

Of course, Mister Oil Barrel makes much of the jobs he brings to his fellow citizens. Chickasha, Oklahoma, is now a booming oil town with jobs to spare. No-one mentions it’s just one small US town out of thousands. Many of which are rapidly dying.

But that’s what NBC News is all about. While America is still reeling from the ‘bank-ruptcy’ of 2008, they’ll always find a good citizen, somewhere, “Making a Difference”. It’s the one ‘hero’ that matters to NBC. Sod the other 299,999,999 who also happen to live here.

Sadly, no-one’s making a difference in Detroit, Michigan. This week we learn that city workers, including firefighters, police, and other civil employees will lose most of their pensions as the city filed for bankruptcy. The media made sympathetic noises, but not one anchor paused to remind us that the pension money that’s mysteriously disappeared from the city’s coffers belonged to those employees – had been paid in by them throughout their working lives. Not one bothered to ask the simple question: “Where’s it gone?”

I’d like to ask another question: “Why aren’t the city’s lamp posts festooned with the swinging corpses of those responsible? Why is America – this supposedly gun-toting, macho, no-nonsense, citizenry – so passive when blatantly robbed and plundered by those they trusted to govern them? In most countries of the world the blood would be running down the streets by now.

Still, maybe Mister Oil Barrel will find black gold under the Penobscot Building and bring the city back to life. The methane released by fracking can make spectacular fiery fountains. Just the job for a Thanksgiving Party, or perhaps a summer barbecue.

To close, I’d like to ask for a moment’s silence for “Burt’s Bees”. For those not familiar, Burt’s Bees is was a manufacturer of some of the nice things in life: natural shampoos, body lotions, soaps, and other little luxuries one could be sure were formulated not to damage us, or our environment.

I’ve used their toothpaste for years. This week I ran out and tried to order more, only to discover it’s no longer available. Oh, there are a few sharks on Amazon and eBay offering it at $75 a tube (while stocks last!) but Burt’s Bees Natural Multicare Fluoride Toothpaste is no more.

Why? Because in 2007 Burt’s Bees was bought out for $925 million – in cash – by CLOROX! Clorox has decided, like all multinational corporations, that profits are all that matter, and their toothpaste just doesn’t cut it.

Clorox manufactures some of the most environmentally un-friendly products in the market place, so users of Burt’s Bees body lotions may like to think twice before rubbing it into their pores, or, at least, check out the ingredients on the label first.

Meanwhile, I’m off to “Tom’s of Maine” for my next tube of toothpaste. After I’ve made sure they’ve not been bought out by Chevron, Exxon, or British Petroleum, of course.

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