Route 101 – Thunder Part 2 of 9

Flotsam

Here I am hung over looking down a Road which is effectively a deathtrap to all those unwary enough to travel down it and stubborn folk like me who doesn't like to back down from a bet once made.  I can just make out the blonde lass a mile in the distance they got a bunch lights all set up, I'm not sure a piece of tail is really worth risking my life over.  Its not like the bet is for much in the way of credits either.  I know what you are thinking and it isn't pride either,  its more to the wipe the smug smile off that old boy's face.  Still that mile just seems to be getting longer the more I look at it, fortunately or not depends on how you look at it there's only me here at this end.  They've probably thought I've bottled it, not me I maybe a little slow sometimes but I'm not stupid got me a secret weapon.

Okay so as secret weapons go it isn't too secret just a sheet of second hand syntho-shield which I managed to bend over the more weaker points of the hunker and then I also I've got a cloak of the stuff.  Didn't come cheap either the guy that sold it to me says its just like the shields the government uses for rescuing people from unexpected D-Shifts.  Thing is the shields don't last long and government always throws them away after one use so there is quite a trade in them.

The real problem is that The Storm itself isn't a D-Shift, more sort of the waste product of one so I'm not actually sure how good the syntho-shield is going to be against The Storm's effects and there are many.  You see I accepted the bet before I read up on the history of the Road, okay I admit that was stupid.  Though I suspect the whole thing was a frame up, I mean they all know about the new protected zone being built right next to my property.  They were just jealous and this is how they've managed to get back at me.  Its not my fault that I'm risking my life not one bit of it.  I bought that piece of land from one of the local widows two summers back apparently been in the family for centuries dating back to before the war of independence.  Of course the locals didn't like a limey like me buying their land, its good farming land not sure why its never been turned.  The soil is thick and black, had one of them big scientists from the city to test it before I bought it though just in case.  They said it was high grade you could grow anything from it, I think that is why the government blokes decided to build near it so they could use me to farm for them but the locals say the land is protected and its bad luck to farm there.  I don't believe in luck what happens happens, of course the locals tried to stop me from doing any work on the land straight off.

First it was none of the local farm-boys would hire out to me despite the high rate I was offering, then I had the cops down on a tip that my trailer contained government controlled plants and then the local hardware store refused my credits.  I've had bring everything in from hundred miles away at considerable cost I might add, for the amount of credits I've spent so far on this shindig I could of bought myself a nice little flat in a protected zone.  Of course that isn't me, I'm a farmer through and through don't like the indoors too much.

Its the government's fault again I had good farm back in Blighty, saw me a government sign about big money to be had in the land of the yanks.  Lots of spare land since the population drop after the D-Shifts started.  Apparently it effects your manhood not that I've ever had any trouble myself in that direction but since the D-Shifts the birthrate has dropped off quite bit.  Blighty seems fine for that sort of thing but the government says it because there's more D-Shifts in the US,  I'm not so sure on that front.  Still that's why I here looking down that stretch of road cause the locals obviously want me dead and away from their land.

Route 101 – Thunder Part 1 of 9

I am currently a bit fed up with politics so I have decided to post up a short story I wrote in 2014/15 based upon another story I wrote whilst in school.  I have split it up into nine parts and epilogue, Enjoy.

The Freedom Fiddle

The question on everyone's lips at the moment is did Russians attempt to affect the America election, now I do not have access to any high security files or even some fake ones however I can apply some basic common sense to the situation.

First off like the UK the popular vote does not guarantee a win, in the case of the 2016 election Trump lost by 2,864,974 votes however he won more states than Clinton so when the Electoral vote occurred he won but only by 14%  which makes it quite close indeed although the previous 2012 election was close on states but higher on the Electoral vote.  The whole thing just gives me a headache an overly complex system if you ask me.

To affect the Popular vote you would require a huge amount of manpower or they could use fake news articles which whilst it failed in the outcome of the Popular vote it, it could of had enough of an affect to win enough states so that the Electoral vote was effectively in the bag.

However did fake news articles really do all that damage are we really that gullible (yes I know they sold Brexit to the British people from the side of a bus) but still there are other possibilities we have not yet considered.

Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries.  I understand this occurs in America somewhat, the Washington Post has this to say on the subject: without-gerrymandering and this is technically legal.

If all else fails you pick key states and lean on the Electors, does such illegal activities occur in America politics and are the Russians involved?

Well fake news articles did appear mostly by a bunch of kids in the Balkans who were making a packet on the advertising they had no political agenda they just learned how best to leverage the election in their favour.

What were the Russians speaking to the Trump chaps about then or did they just learn from the kids and add to the fog of dodgy news.  Then there is Clinton's emails of which I have read a few on Wikileaks obviously I have not read all them but the ones I did read, are mostly spam, junk and quite pointless emails. Clinton's email server was hacked several times during 2012 and 2013:

"The FBI investigation found that 110 messages contained information that was classified at the time it was sent. Sixty-five of those emails were found to contain information classified as "Secret"; more than 20 contained "Top-Secret" information. Three emails, out of 30,000, were found to be marked as classified, although they lacked classified headers and were only marked with a small "c" in parentheses, described as "portion markings" by Comey. He added it was possible Clinton was not "technically sophisticated" enough to understand what the three classified markings meant..."

Considering the small number of messages you have got to wonder whether they are even real or not especially since Trump did not pursue the investigation.  Why investigate something that you know is a hoax or if not a hoax something you cannot win?

The timing of the pubic statements right of the middle of the campaign, yet more nails in Clinton's Election coffin.

Can you fix an election yes, just use lots of nails.

The Planets

NASA tells us that it has found Firefly's universe, a solar system with seven planets three of which are in a habitable zone and may have oceans.  Just one small problem, it is forty light years from us, at maximum velocity using our current technologies we can perhaps achieve 29,000 mile per hour.  Eight hundred thousand years later we can arrive at the new earths, of course the possibility that humanity had gone extinct during that period is a minor concern.  The other possibility is that a faster drive system is invented whilst the explorers are in flight and arrive just when the all planets in the solar system are bursting with human populations.  In fact the possibilities are endless, just read any 1950's pulp Scifi books.

Apparently it is a BIG discovery because basically they will be looking at the atmospheres and possibly finally say whether there is life out there.  Conspiracy theorists will say that NASA has had this information for years and only now they are just giving us a few breadcrumbs to work with, they will also probably point out that this is classical misdirection tactics to get the public's attention away from the orange terrorist that sits upon the throne of America.  I have to say the timing does seem a little bit coincidental but that's history for you, its full of such events.  Although we are working with a very small sample just ten thousand years of recorded history.

Also in the news is the possibility that Pluto will regain its planet status and the real question is do we really care?  The answer is quite simple until we are using a SatNav in our future spaceships to tell us which gravity well is a planet or not and whether we can do a handbrake turn in orbit without crashing like all those UFOs in conspiracy theories the answer is no.  Okay I admit not that simple.

Had a recent Twitter exchange with a Flat Earther telling me that all of NASA's photos are fakes:

@FlatEarthCity  Feb 21 @seadevil4 yeah maybe eventually they'll get one that looks real (but why dont they all match each other)...

Hey wait a minute none of my photos that I have taking since I had a camera match either does that mean they are all fakes.

@FlatEarthCity Feb 21 @seadevil4 yeap all fakes

It would appear so which means I do not exist, bummer!

Join The Revolution!

Today I decided to un-follow trump on Twitter it was a short time coming, his tweets are designed to do two things only:

• Deflection/Misdirection
• Allow members of the public to vent their feelings

I would hope everybody else that thinks trump has trampled upon the very freedoms that people around the world love would un-follow him too.  

You are only giving him the audience he craves!

Vent your feelings elsewhere somewhere it actually matters, replying to trump's tweets is like speaking into an abyss.  The man no longer deserve's a capital 't',  what amazes me is he has admitted that he got his 'news' about Sweden from Fox News despite claiming that the press is the enemy.

Apparently the White House is doing are such a good job of not telling the President anything useful he has to rely on the Press for information no wonder security adviser Michael Flynn quit.  Was he having dinner with the Russians or just trying to recover trump's unsecure phone

Incidentally nothing unusual happened in Sweden however there was an heavily reported terror attack on Saturday in Florida, USA.  Something orange appeared and then disappeared, as many as 300 million people were the victim of a savage attempt to silence the free press.  

Which is the first thing dictators of the past have done when taking control of a country.

The orange said that Sweden was in the middle of a terrorist/crime wave which left the world confused as to what the hell he was talking about.

That orange is obviously looking tired!

A top psychotherapist affiliated with the esteemed Johns Hopkins University Medical School said the orange "is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president.”

The problem with the orange terrorist is that he is not a politician, politicians are great at lying/avoiding the issues whilst doing the compromise shuffle with other politicians also known in some circles as diplomacy.  The Anti-Lorax however continues to show how inept and transparent (despite the orange) he is.  Just a broken record repeating the same thing over and over again!

Despite what you might think Executive Orders are not blank cheques!

America is just another business to be bankrupted by the orange terrorist!

Traffic Deduction

My previous post about the Luddite Dictator is getting a lot of traffic which is interesting because I have spoken and hash tagged him before so it must be one of the other tags causing this influx of traffic.

The tags used in the last post are:

• Dictator
• Finasteride
• Hair
• Immigration
• Loss
• Luddite
• Nasa
• Profit
• SubPrime
• Trump - used before

All the traffic is coming from Europe although most is coming from the UK.  If I reuse these tags will this post get the same amount of traffic.  Although I would be guilty of what YouTubers do, see below!

What really annoys me on YouTube posts, is the name of the video normally a BIG headline that turns out to be nothing to do with the video in question.  Yes I know they are designed to entice viewers still really annoying.  They love using adjectives in the extremist form possible.

A recent one I watched on Sunday was an interview with Edward Snowden, it said: "Everthing About Donald Trump"   Whilst Trump was mentioned a couple of times it most definitely not all about Trump.

This is how you drive traffic to your sites and it is also why Fake News sites worked so well, fiction is always more interesting than fact.  Please forgive me then for using the same tags again purely for testing purposes I will however add some extras for completeness sake.

Am I perhaps getting traffic from customers of Finasteride, sorry no help here.  Drinking hot water in the morning and evening is probably better for you, just my opinion I'm no Doctor.

I suppose it could have been down to the content of the post, I can only hope on that front.  It would be ironic though.

The Luddite Dictator

It would appear Trump is unmaking America one executive order at a time most of the international community have condemned his immigration policy a truly ironic act considering he wants to make America great again, America was born out of immigration plus considering his own roots somewhat hypocritical:

"Trump is of paternal German ancestry and maternal Scottish ancestry. His mother and all his grandparents were born in Europe. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Kallstadt, Germany, and his father..."

His recent order to begin scaling back banking regulations will probably be not spotted by most people because it is the sort of dry stuff that makes you fall asleep.  These regs were put in place after the Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis 2007-08 which wiped approximately twelve trillion dollars off the world's economy so while it is dry reading it is VERY important.

"A second order the president signed will delay an Obama-era rule that requires financial professionals who charge commissions to put their clients’ interests first when giving retirement advice."

You cannot trust anyone now!

The original deregulation occurred back in the early 80's,  America were not the only ones letting the banks do what they wanted.  Maggie Thatcher in Britain did it as well so when Sub-Prime happened we got hit as well.

Trump's administration so far is all about making the rich richer that's all it is!  Anything that costs money like science, climate change and NASA are having their budgets cut or have been put in the bin.

Basically all the things that may save our world in the future from natural and man-made disasters have been put on the scrapheap in the name of profit.  America is returning to the dark ages and the chances are they will take the rest of world along with it.

the Luddite Dictator is on drugs for his hair loss, wow how vain are you?

"...that the president takes finasteride, side effects include sexual, physical and psychological changes..."

Reminds me of another dictator that used to dye his hair, they found him hiding under a road apparently.