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The Austrian Government is planning a tourist campaign to clean up Austria’s image, after that discovery of one of the creepiest news stories of the year. See here. Yes, that woeful tale of the father Josef Fritzl keeping his daughter Elisabeth prisoner in a dungeon for 20 years and having children by her. Utterly grotesque. Following on from a similiar sick tale here in Australia on 60 minutes, recently… without the coercion and dungeon part.

We at Idea Fix would like to suggest a few slogans for the Austrian Tourist Board, free of charge, our favorite is above.

Others include:

The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Incest

Oedipus Schmedipus: Come to Funny Austria

Amstetten on You!

Austria: Where families stick together

Austrians: We aren’t all a bunch of sick daughter raping perverts

Austria: We want to Anschluss You!

Ahh, I could go on all day…

Career crim Leigh Robinson killed a women 40 years ago, was released from the clink and just did it again. He was spared the hangman’s black touch, back when the world was listening to all that humanistic claptrap about reforming prisoners. He was spared a snapped neck by then Victorian Governor Sir Rohan Delacombe, who posthumously has blood on his hands it seems. Was the wisdom of the hangman the best way to go with this charming fellow? With Robinson’s first offence (at age 20) leniency was probably best…but not in hindsight. But hindsight always has 20/20 vision

But what about, now? I’m not normally a supporter of the death penalty, but in clear cases of premeditated murder, particularly second murder offences like this, its appeal is hard to ‘die-ny’.

Thoughts, people?

See here for story.

“Science Does not Think”, so said Heidegger. And I am with him.

Scientists do not think. They formulate, scheme, experiment, control, create and destroy. They do all this without any consideration of the consequences or ethics of their actions. Heidegger wanted to put philosophy back on its thrown as the Queen of the sciences and the head of all other disciplines, where it should be, we might add! But, alas he was ignored.

Now we have CERN, the Large Hedron Collidor (LHC) in Switzerland. A gigantic particle accelerator that aims to give physicists answers to questions like what happened at the beginning of the Universe with the Big Bang? (Hello people…Its called the Big Bang, should we really try and understand that through experiment?!) Or other questions like: Are there any other dimensions beyond our own? What is dark matter? And many other fascinating questions of theoretical physicists.

The only problem is it could destroy the World. Not just Switzerland, or Europe or even the Earth but our whole surrounding Sun and planets.

Small problem that one.

How?

Well, the LHC could open a mini black hole that could swallow the Earth, it could release a thing called a strangelet that would act like Vonnegut’s famous Ice Nine and multiply and destroy all surrounding matter. Or other side effects involving major changes to matter and atoms.

Now, apparently it’s very unlikely for this to happen. One scientist said its like winning Lotto three times in a row. Is this the same scientist that said the chances of Life existing on Earth are like winning Lotto every week for a year? Well, the odds are something like that for life existing on Earth. There’s no reason to think that the odds that will snuff us out will be equally long.

The Problem is Science simply will not Think. It will not think that if even the possibility of damaging human beings and Being itself in our galaxy is possible through this infernal machine, it should not go ahead. Who gives a fuck if we find out more about sub atomic particles? Science has given us great material and medical things, but it hasn’t provided one iota of real value or meaning to human existence. If anything it has removed and made impotent any attempt to give human existence meaning.

What knowledge does it give me to know I’m made of atoms and particles or whatever? How does that help any human being live their life? It doesn’t.

Now, probably CERN concerns are unfounded. But the slightest possibility, of what it has the potential to unleash, is a good enough reason to stop it. It’s like some scary 70’s sci fi flick I grew up on.

As Ballard, says “ Its not a good idea to write about the future”. We know… because there may not be one.

CERN flicks the switch and start bashing together things (like gold particles -Alchemy?) at speeds unseen since the time of the Big Bang around October. To be safe move all plans forward to the four or five months left.

Of course, nothing will probably happen…

It will either be a great discovery for unthinking science or human kinds greatest folly? I’m buying lottery tickets. If I win three times in a row. I’m taken the next plane to CERN to stop them…

See story here and here.

See picture below. Its not from some new science fiction movie. That SOB is real. Looks like like an abyss to me. Thus spoke Nietzsche, “When you look into an abyss… remember it also looks back”.

That Indonesian cunt Bakar Bashir has been inciting fellow citizens to attack Australian tourists, again!, like they did in Bali and to beat them up or harm them. See here and here.

Enough’s enough. Isn’t about time we followed Israel’s lead and took the fight to these bastards. Israel bumps off Hamas and Fatah leaders at random. Why can’t we be rid of this weasel Bashir? As a Transcendental Fascist, I deplore violence generally, but sometimes a little preventive medicine can go a long a way to save lives. It’s Jack Bauer morality time, people.

Surely, ASIO can set up some crazy Indonesian with a gun who can rid the world of this foul rodent. He delights in the carnage caused by the Bali bombings and Australia should act, covertly if necessary… to take out this mad cleric.

The cheeky monkey Bashir calls all Non Muslim’s “worms and maggots”, its time we introduced him to some real worms and maggots perhaps and he can decide for himself if that statement is true…

Australia needs to act. Just because the War on Terror started fake doesn’t mean legitimate putana’s like this shouldn’t be dealt with.

Act now before more Australian’s die from this asshole’s hate mongering.

Well, perhaps not. A video mocking black Sth African’s was produced on a Free State Bloemfontein University campus.

See Uncut video tape Here.

See story Here and Here.

CNN report, See Here.

Those words above make me laugh.

‘Home for Purim’ gets a tasts of Plaestinian brutality…See Here.

And Here.

Those familiar with James Lovelock’s theory of Gaia and his excellent series of books on that subject will be worded up. Others might find this article (a few months old now) interesting at Rolling Stone.

According to Lovelock, Global Warming is now irreversible and that no matter what we do the planet will be uninhabitable for all but a billion or so people by around 2100.

So this begs the questions: How do we pick those one billion or so? Surely that figure can be increased given modern technological advancement? Surely whoever survives should not be chosen in an arbitary way? What happens to everyone else though? The depopulation process, how would it occur, naturally or by other means? Surely whoever’s not on board the party invite list post 2100, will not go down with the ship lightly and without a massive fight that could even sink the life boats?

While fools discuss humanist ideas like Communism and Democracy, these disturbing questions are raised by the brute facts of science and left deliberately unanswered. Such questions are too scary to even contemplate, it seems. But if Global Warming is not a hoax, as some would have us believe, uber tough decisions lie not very far down the road.

Lovelock’s book The Revenge Of Gaia, which I read recently, is a sobering shock report on our Planetary destruction, devastation and our forgetfulness of Being. Lovelock provides many disturbing facts, figures and trends that go beyond many predictions from the general scientific community that do not sound so far fetched. One can’t help but feel that, like Heidegger said, our technological way of life now completely enframes and dominates us… possibly to a point of desperation with threats of extinction to major percentages of Dasein. What Lovelock says could be a real Holocaust, that of 5 billion (not million) people or more! If Lovelock and pals are correct what lies in wait for us is like a steamship above Niagra Falls whose engines have just failed and only a few speed powered lifeboats are available to take 20% of the ships passengers to safety.

Let’s just hope against hope that Lovelock is wrong, like Ostrich’s with our heads in the sand. Or we should at least start changing our ways pronto to prevent worse consequences. And even consider starting the grim business of planning the life boat guest list for Planet Earth post 2100. ‘Cause it looks like its right over Niagra falls that we are all headed…

I wrote a post called the Monstrous a few weeks back about how I find a lot of today’s advertising taking on a strange form of monsterism and deliberate decay.

Now I’m all for people who deface mainstream ads and make them ugly or change the message, etc. More strength to you.

But the phenomenon that interests me of late is the horrific message hidden in plain site behind a lot of modern ads.

Here’s one I saw recently for a Dymo labelling machine of all things:

The ad is supposed to be humorous but instead gives a picture of mutant teeth parent archetypes that says something completely different about mutation and deformity. I intend to post more of these ads which to me reveal the nightmare side of Capitalist emptiness.

A co-ordinated suicide pact in Wales amongst young Brits. There is such much hope for the youth of today in our beautiful Western capitalist utopia. What could have possibly got into them? Isn’t Xbox, Nike shoes and the doll cue enough for youngsters anymore?

But suicide?

Will bring down green house emissions, I suppose. Humans and their needs are the main cause of Global Warming…let’s not forget that. By that logic certain people should be encouraged to suicide, perhaps? Even helped along a little bit if the idea doesn’t appeal to them…

Only joshin’ ya!

Terrible news. Sad news.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080126/wl_nm/britain_suicide_dc