Smiles & tears

To forget, forgot, forgotten.

Passengers are humans (well, mostly) and thus they forget. Sometimes they forget pretty important stuff. And the patterns of forgetting also evolves with time and with social changes.


Australian airline Quantas has a storeroom full of forgotten things. Interestingly, as times progress, recently Quantas pickes up lots of Ipads and Kindles. Under seat 35A or in the pouch of seat 56H. Less photo cameras these days because people probably use their cellphones and ipads more to take pictures. But there’s more. Plenty of hearing-aids (don’t the passengers feel their hearing is a bit strange to non-existent as they prepare themselves to disembark?); false teeth; X-rays of a cat;…


Human behavior can be forgetful.

So the fundamentalist freaks are at it again. This time it was an underwear bomb. A so-called upgrade from its 2009 garment attempt. The sequel underwear. The Al Qaeda nutters seem to like the balls-and-all department. Sexist frustrations? Maybe they should call it the Viagra bomb. Or “The Last Stiffer”. Or “The Last Stand”. Or…. “If I can’t use it I better blast it”.

Crazy. Luckily the CIA, NIA, FBI and all those seriously looking dudes (and some chicks too) with dark sunglasses were onto it. Spotted. Trailed. Caught.

Well in fact the next day it was revealed that the underwear-terrorist was one of the ‘good guys’. A spy. A James Bond type of hero. 008. An agent that had infiltrated the Al Qaeda Yemeni wing, gained the trust of the leaders, and said he was ready to become the next martyr. Knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door. Well played.

Well-done CIA and others. Now send out those jets, drones and stealths to blow those bombmakers and nutters to hell. In a million pieces.

So this 2012 boxer short version was the upgrade from the 2009 model that a Nigerian fool took on board a Delta flight enroute to Detroit. It luckily failed to set off. Maybe he peed over it out of fear of meeting his martyr-style virgins in nutter-heaven. Fear of having a hero status in martyrland and having to ‘perform’ in martyr-heaven.  

Human behavior can be a life changing experience.

Kick this. 2052 Looks like shit.

A bunch of scientists came together under the banner ‘Club Of Rome’ and looked at and to the future. A study of where this planet of ours is heading.

And the future aint what it used to be. 2052 Looks grim. More draughts. More floods. More insects.

So get your life insurance in order. Get some anti-bug spray. Fill the fridge. And if you live near a river or a sea or a lake or an ocean or a stream,…. start packing and search the property websites.

Sea levels will rise by 50cm. The Nordic ice will melt and melt. Agriculture will have to drastically change to survive the changing weather patterns. The earth will become warmer.

In 2040 there will be 8.1 billion people on this earth. It’s getting pretty crowded here. It’s tick tock.

Human behavior is killing its own future.

Asian body snatchers. For real!

Customs officials in South Korea have discovered thousands of pills containing powdered human flesh. For real! The pills were for “cure-all” remedies. Sickening. The body trade was run by a Chinese mafia. So called ‘natural’ medicine is a big market in China. Same why rhino horn is so popular. Chinese think it makes you a superhero in bed. Fools!

But it gets more sickening. The human flesh powder was mainly from babies. Aborted fetuses and still-borns were taken away by corrupt medical staff in hospitals and sold to the mafia. A trade in dead babies. How sick is that? And all for crap beliefs in crap cures. Over the edge of insanity.

When the mafia bought the baby bodies they put them in medical drying microwaves. This dries out the skin before it’s turned into powder. It’s a horror movie turned real.

Arrest. Charge. Sentence. Imprison. Throw away the key.

Human behavior is sickening beyond Stephen King’s imagination.

Obama is taking an enormous political risk with his pro-gay marriage stance. He must be applauded for sticking out his neck for his beliefs, especially in an election year. Although some might obviously say that it is politically suicidal. It certainly sets him further apart from the bible lovers in the Romney camp. And it has already lead Romney – a Mormon – to speak at a Reborn Christian university event. Obama’s stance is certainly pushing Romney more right and more conservative than he already is.

Still one should wonder, as always with politics, why this issue came up now and why Obama decided to go for it so publicly. The not so distant past in US politics has proven that moral issues are a very hot potato in a campaign year. Remember how Democrat Kerry lost out against Reborn freak Bush Jr because the abortion issue came to the surface near the end of the campaign and Kerry said he was pro. The Bush campaign team and the many many TV evangelists and radio preachers jumped on the occasion to put the final nail in Kerry’s political coffin. Kerry stayed in Massachusetts and Bush Jr moved to DC.

So Obama is playing a risky gamble and/or let his beliefs take the upperhand during a nasty, tricky election roller-coaster year. Time will tell. But it would be sad that a moral issue is the decisive factor in a vote between Republicans and Democrats while issues like jobs, banking system, terrorism, healthcare should be the issues really at stake.

Meanwhile back in the rest of the world. The ceasefire in Syria is a joke. A bloody joke. Destruction and killings are just going on daily without any hope for imminent peace or a solution to the crisis. Russia and China are still playing hardball and supporting the butcher in Damascus although their patience is running thin. But what else is possible? Arming the rebels? For sure the Annan-peaceplan is just ink on paper. The dangers of a deepening civil war are that chaos and strife are the perfect breeding ground for Al Qaeda freaks to slip in and recruit and operate. The imminent future in Syria doesn’t look bright. Probably best now is for the whole international community to squeeze has hard as they can. Sanctions. Freeze all money flows. Arms embargo. Trade freeze. Snatching up the foreign bank accounts and properties of the Damascus clique that surrounds the butcher president. Travel ban for the elite. Squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.

France had elections. Algeria had elections. Greece had elections.

Ah, what about this for the worst advertisement possible. Ever.

A new type of Russian plane is doing a promotional flight in Indonesia with executives and politicians and business people on board. Lots of champagne and public relations brochures and balloons and smiles.

Not for long. The publicity flight crashed into a mountain. No survivors. Smiles turned to tears.

Throw Out. This one’s a cracker! Fire & Ice are 4 lads from Virginia, USA and have just released their debut full length “Not Of This Earth”. A real groovy, hardhitting hardcore album produced by NY’s underground, guitar genius AJ Novello (from amongst others Leeway fame). A distinct sound that takes you on a rollercoaster ride.

C-Ya

Collateral – May 2012 rolls on

Put the evidence on the table

A two-year, uninterrupted, erection. That’s what’s at stake here.

That’s what the case is all about. That’s the subject of the court case in San Francisco. Some ladies might love the permanent ‘availability’ of the pleasure-tool, but it indeed sounds a bit like a tough one.

German car and bike maker BMW is being sued by a Frisconian because the dude alleges that his BMW bike left him with 730 days of a stiffer in his pants. Henry Wolf filed indeed a lawsuit against the German company, claiming that one of its bike models gave him “a severe case of a persistent, long-lasting erection”, after going for 2 back-to-back two hour rides on his BMW motorcycle. Cry Wolf? Complaining? Buy a car!

Wolf claims that the bike ruined his sex life. No more ‘rides’. How he can claim that his sexual activities have gone down the drain with a permanent hard-on is for him to explain in court. Would he be the first man in the court’s box with an erection? Sexual distress, Wolf claims. Will evidence be shown to the court? The wolf has become a puppy. Can’t trust those Germans, really.

Human behavior can be stiff affair.

Caught! The so-called respectable, renowned, classy magazine Vogue has fallen down to gutter level. Last year Vogue gladly accepted US$25000 from Syrian butcher Assad for a praising article about his British-born wife Asma. Under the title “A rose in the desert”, the Vogue’s writer (don’t use the name journalist!) put together a glowing article about the dictator’s wife. Like a herogram delivered by state-run TV stations in dictatorships like Syria, China, Zimbabwe or Iran. Praise the godlike!

Paid to write a pack of public relations dirt. Bloody dirt. The rose of the desert stands by her husband while the Syrian desert becomes soaked in blood. The wife with a new Coco Channel outfit from her latest trip to Oxford Street in London, stands by her butchering man. In support. In solidarity. In agreement. The rose is red like the streams of blood from the slaughtered opponents. Let’s not forget that the rose has thorns. Thorns that can cut through flesh. Through arteries of those demanding freedom and democracy. Vogue should be ashamed. But that’s asked way too much. Vogue knows nothing about politics, human rights and the cries of the butchered Syrian souls. It’s all about glam and cash. Even if the red rose is dripping of blood, the US$25000 is happily accepted.

And the American photographer who accepted the Vogue job to go and take happy family snaps of the Assads has also sold his soul to the devil. Money has no heart. No feelings. All sell-outs. May the Vogue bosses, that writer and that photographer have nightly nightmares of bloodthirsty vampires raging through their heads. No sleep for the soulless. Till eternity!

Human behavior is sold out.

On a lighter note. There is a new South African cleaning company in town that comes and does the job….. naked. Yeah indeed, cleaning teams with no clothes on. Luckily that the San Francisco biker didn’t call yet on their services. That would be trouble. Serious trouble. Maybe after his court case he might give it a go. “Happy to see us?” asked the cleaning lady to Mr. Wolf. He growled back.

Human behavior can be dust free.

To a better and thus cleaner world. Naked or not. The Clinton Foundation (yes from Bill and Co.) sent out one of its regular PR emails and asked the recipients around the globe how they would build a better world. Is that just Bill climaxing after a cigar and a ‘chat’ with an intern? Is this just fluffy, pop-corn-ish public relations crap for 5 year olds? And the PR ‘genius’ that came up with this probably got a fat monetary transfer, a Ferrari and some Cuban cigars. Not an intern!

The interns are off limits at the Foundation.

How would you make a better world? Start from scratch a couple of million years ago because some new licks of paints or plasters here and there wont do the trick. It’s rotten to the core. Nuke the shit out of it and start afresh on Mars.

How would you make a better world? Ban all religions. Death penalty to all hardline followers (aka nutters) of the Muslim faith, Christianity (reborn and old style), any spin-offs of these 2, Judaism,….

Change the US election system because as it is now it is an ongoing campaign with unlimited wastage of millions and millions of US dollars. Check this out. So a president gets elected in early November. He has to wait till January to start managing the nation. All his appointees need to go through a long, nasty Congressional procedure where the loosing political party gets its first opportunity at revenge for losing the presidential race last November. 6 Months later the new president finally – if he is lucky – has his cabinet together and can think of some governing. He in fact then has 1 year to govern. One year only. Because soon the mid term elections are looming and the battles begin and the money gets wasted and the dirt creeps up. And after the mid-terms the presidential race is straight back on the map. More wasted money, more spin, more dirt, more one-liners that change faster than the wind on the southern beaches of Florida in February. It’s a ridiculous system. Have Congress and presidential elections on the same day. That could a good starter. With a nice glass of chilled Sauvignon Blanc. 

How would you make a better world? Don’t give platforms to brainless, air-wasters like Paris Hilton or the Kardeshians (or whatever their name is spelled), or all these so called cooks on these million of cooking programs. It’s a disease! Stop reality TV because too many brainless fools out there really believe it is reality.

How would you make a better world? Respect the working man. Respect the middle class as they are the heart and soul of the economy. China can rot in hell with its lack of freedoms. Invest in greener energy if ya want this planet not to suffocate. The sad reality is we can make energy consumption much better but the oil spindoctors are controlling the powers that be. Plant trees. Rock the night away on some real music instead of a collection of washed out tunes with meaningless lyrics. Drink more Belgian beer. Respect ladies and respect children. Demand democracy and accountability to all in any positions of power. Stop the hype around Facebook, Twitter and other tools of so-called communication. It ain’t communication. It’s a highway of deafness. A highway of fake dreams, fake hopes, fake images, fake identities, fake lies and fake truths, fake opinions, fake thoughts, fake stances, fake selfs. Have we become to scared to even look in the mirror?

How would you make a better world? Fight it. The revolution is an option. As long as the goals are clear. Agreed upon. Well-defined. Replacing crap by crap is a waste of energy and time. Time is a crucial. Timing is crucial. Doing is crucial.

How would you make a better world? By not responding to this call which is anyway part of a spin campaign by some people in suits behind desks in high-rise buildings in Manhattan.

How would you make a better world? Realize and recognize reality. The real reality. The one that bites and kicks and stinks.

How would you make a better world? Switch it off.

Throw Out. It’s 2012 but LA-based punkers’ OFF!’s self-titled, 16-track album sounds like we are back in the early 80s in the gruff, alternative gig-halls in NYC or Boston or DC or LA. But it’s a place the OFF!-lads know well. The band is a recent new project by Keith Morris from Black Flag and Circle Jerks fame and glory. Still kicking.

C-Ya
Collateral – May 2012