How the Simpson’s Opening Sequence Actually Supports Globalization (and probably wasn’t directed by Banksy)

by Scott Creighton

The worm has turned; it’s time to demonize China’s human rights and labor policies for the good of the global economy.  It was just last year that globalist Hilary Clinton decided that we had to ignore China’s terrible human rights record and draconian labor policies “for the good of the global economy” but now it seems China is moving toward protectionist policies (ooooooo) and that can’t be allowed… so bring in … The Simpsons.

(U.S. alarmed by harsh tone of China’s military  Oct 12 2010;  Stocks fall on China concerns Oct 12 2010; Worrying over China and food  Oct 12 2010; China and US clash at climate talks Oct 6 2010; How The Global Currency War Could Create Even Larger Chinese Asset Bubbles Oct 12 2010)

UK street artist, Banksy, has been given credit for having directed the opening sequence for the latest episode of The Simpsons and it’s receiving a great deal of “progressive” support… which it doesn’t deserve. Whether or not “Banksy” actually submitted the script for this sequence is almost impossible to confirm as that Banksy himself is anonymous and not likely to do a press conference about the subject. (The “official” Banksy website does have the video up, but with no commentary, and it is located with two other videos that simply mention his work or his name, as if it were showcasing cultural references to Banksy and not necessarily his work. Hard to tell what that means.)

The sequence basically exposes the inner workings of the off-shored animation industry (in a childish and cartoonish way) and it targets China specifically. References to slave/prison labor, child labor, and dolphins and pandas make it very clear that China is the location of the draconian animation mill in the opening sequence of the Simpson’s episode. Supposedly this is an attempt to educate the world as to the evils of globalization, but it isn’t. Instead, this is an effort to demonize the Chinese economy (and “protectionism” by extension) at a time that serves the interests of globalists like Tim Geithner and his friends at the IMF and World Bank.

I seriously doubt Banksy would choose to help globalists like Rupert Murdoch at a time like this.

(in the interests of full disclosure, yes, that is a Banksy mural on my banner at the top of my page. Has been there for about two years.)

UK opens 7/7 bombings inquest

from Al Jazeera

A court in London began hearing inquests into the deaths of 52 people killed in a series of bombings that targeted London’s transport network on July 7, 2005.

The inquiry will examine whether the police or the MI5 domestic intelligence service could have intercepted the bombers, two of whom had been under the surveillance of the authorities.

The hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice opened on Monday with a one-minute silence to commemorate the victims of the three simultaneous blasts on metro trains in the UK capital and a later explosion on a bus.

Families of victims and survivors have failed in their calls for a full public inquiry into the attacks. But the inquests will provide the first chance to challenge official accounts, which the families have labelled as insufficient, inaccurate and misleading.

“It is disgraceful that there has never been a public, judicial examination of all the facts which is truly independent of the government, the police and the security service,” Clifford Tibber, a lawyer whose firm represents families of six of the victims, said.

US physics professor: ‘Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life’

from the Telegraph UK

Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.

Anthony Watts describes it thus:

This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science.

It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).