Gmail was down for an aston­ish­ing 24 hours. It will, no doubt, cost Google a lot of mon­ey, as they have con­trac­tu­al oblig­a­tions to their com­mer­cial cus­tomers which will incur penal­ties. The out­age effect­ed much of the world, and most intense­ly North Amer­i­ca and the U.K. It start­ed around when the U.S. elec­tion polls closed, and con­tin­ued for the bet­ter part of a day. Now, I don’t know for cer­tain the cause of this unprece­dent­ed out­age, with its unlike­ly coin­ci­dent tim­ing, but I could ven­ture a guess. Read more »

FUCKING

AMERICAN

MORONS

I”m sad to say that I had a mis­guid­ed faith in the Amer­i­can peo­ple. It’s not just the mis­lead­ing polls that had me bam­boo­zled. From the time I lived in the Unit­ed States, I retained a deep feel­ing that the Amer­i­can peo­ple where at heart decent and patri­ot­ic, that they cher­ished free­dom, and that if push comes to shove they will do the right thing. That faith is now gone. The Amer­i­can peo­ple have destroyed that illu­sion. Mak­ing that ass­hole Pres­i­dent demon­strates clear­ly that the Unit­ed States is washed up, a nation of cow­ards and pathet­ic losers. If Amer­i­cans would rather be slaves than free human beings, it is up to Cana­da to take up the flag of free­dom. I will ded­i­cate my life to pro­tect­ing my beloved coun­try from the influ­ence of that mon­strous evil below the border.

In two days we will final­ly find out what degree of pow­er the Racism, Rape and Trea­son Par­ty will exer­cise in the Unit­ed States for the next four years. It’s plain that they will not win the Pres­i­den­cy — patri­ot­ic Amer­i­cans have sensed an immi­nent threat to the coun­try, and are turn­ing out in record num­bers to defend it — but what real­ly mat­ters is whether or not the RR&T (Repub­li­can) Par­ty will retain con­trol of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. A gen­er­a­tion of sys­tem­at­ic vot­er sup­pres­sion and dis­trict ger­ry­man­der­ing has allowed the Repub­li­cans to con­trol the House, repeat­ed­ly hold­ing the Amer­i­can peo­ple to ran­som and obstruct­ing any kind of ratio­nal admin­is­tra­tion. If they retain this pow­er, there will be four years of relent­less obstruc­tion of the kind that Amer­i­cans have become accus­tomed to in the last eight years. Repub­li­cans have no claim to being patri­ots: the well-being of the Amer­i­can peo­ple will always be the last thing they are con­cerned with. They are dri­ven by a total­i­tar­i­an ide­ol­o­gy that has fused old­er ele­ments orig­i­nat­ing in Amer­i­ca with Com­mu­nism and Fas­cism import­ed from Europe. Those who delude them­selves into think­ing that Don­ald Trump is some sort of aber­ra­tion in his par­ty need to wake up. Trump is the nat­ur­al, log­i­cal and inevitable con­se­quence of Con­ser­v­a­tive ide­ol­o­gy in exact­ly the same way that Stal­in was the nat­ur­al, log­i­cal and inevitable con­se­quence of Marx­ist ide­ol­o­gy. Every­thing that Trump has done in this elec­tion is some­thing that the Repub­li­can Par­ty has done before, every slo­gan he shouts and every slimy tac­tic he employs are straight out of the long-term Repub­li­can play­book. Trump will prob­a­bly not suc­ceed in his dream of destroy­ing Amer­i­ca and turn­ing it into a sleazy, Putin-KGB style dic­ta­tor­ship, but the Repub­li­can Par­ty will not stop their ide­o­log­i­cal cru­sade with his fail­ure, and their ambi­tion is exact­ly the same as Trump’s. They will keep on try­ing. Amer­i­cans will not be safe from the specter of tyran­ny until the Repub­li­can Par­ty is com­plete­ly erased from their lives. Read more »