Privatisation drive

The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as JR Group (JRグループ, Jeiāru Gurūpu?), consists of seven for-profit companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987. Most of the liability of the JNR was assumed by the JNR Settlement Corporation.

JNR Settlement Corporation (日本国有鉄道清算事業団, Nippon Kokuyū Tetsudō Seisan Jigyōdan?) was a corporation formed to handle long-term debts and redundancies following the privatisation and breakup of Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987.

It was dissolved on October 22, 1998 after being unable to pay back more than 30 trillion JPY in long-term debt. Following its dissolution, its assets and liabilities were inherited by the Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation.

In 1998 JRCC assumed the assets and liabilities of the JNR Settlement Corporation; JNRSC’s existing long-term debts were incorporated into the national government’s general debt. The JRCC was dissolved on October 1, 2003 and its responsibilities were passed to the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT).

Increased efficiency and profitability. Sure. Silly liberals.

Stop the Crazy Brits

The notorious Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, south east London – used as the gritty backdrop for the film Nil By Mouth – is being demolished and a new 4,000 home suburb built in its place.

For fucks sake.

Aylesbury Estate, soon to follow suit and be demolished and “regenerated”, probably as something equally revolting as the Ferrier Estate.

Phenomenon in Ross-shire

A curious phenomenon occurred at the farm of Balvullich, on the estate of Ord, occupied by Mr. Moffat, on the evening of Monday last. Immediately after one of the loudest peals of thunder ever heard there, a large and irregular shaped mass of ice, reckoned to be nearly 20 feet in circumference, and or a proportionate thickness, fell near the farm house. It had a beautiful crystalline appearance, being nearly all quite transparent, if we except a small portion of it, which consisted of uncommon sizes, fixed together. It was principally composed of small squares – diamond shaped – of from one to three inches in size, all firmly congealed together. The weight of this large piece of ice could not be ascertained; but it is a most fortunate circumstance that it did not land on Mr. Moffat’s house, or it would have crushed it, and undoubtedly have caused the death of some of the inmates. No appearance whatever of either hail or snow was discernible in the surrounding district.

The Scotsman, 1847

Happy 11/9

We’re making pornography.

Commieblocks of the World (Pt. 1)

Some form of large-scale and high-rise public or social housing estates exist in most of the major cities around the world. Their characteristics are different in many regions, and sometimes drastically different within a region, sometimes depending on from where certain influences have come. In some areas, there are even subtle differences and unique designs occurring in different regions of the same nation. This will be a multi-part series on so-called “commieblocks”, so named for their prevalence in the SSSR and nations in their sphere of influence. To some extent, they have evolved independently in many places around the world for the same purpose – to provide cheap but relatively high-standard housing to the masses. They are rarely built to this day with a few exceptions; in Russia, Japan, Turkey and Hong Kong, new estates are still going up. In the west, the concept and design of those buildings have become considered as discredited by social problems most clearly illustrated in the United States.

United States

In the United States, the city of most interest regarding housing estates is obviously New York City. The New York City Housing Authority has a great number of housing estates of some size, providing some 8% of the city’s flats and homes. As is to be expected from a country like the U.S. , the NYCHA is underfunded and delegated to managing by the best of its abilities an aging housing stock in dire need of renovation. Most of the housing estates were built during the 1950’s and 60’s, with the help of Robert Moses, a man who has been insulted in such rubbish books such as “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro, a piece of character assassination blaming motorway construction rather than other social factors for the decay of inner city New York.

The housing estates of New York are generally speaking of a poor standard, even when ignoring their poorly kept status. Often they were built on the cheap. In many of the older towers, there are no balconies. An interesting design is featured on the Luna Park Houses in Coney Island, next to the old Coney Island Amusement Park (what’s left of it) and on the site of the old Luna Park site. Built in 1959-1961, the 23 story towers feature a central elevator tower surrounded by an open space that serves the purpose of hall and a communal balcony. The flats are arranged in four wings connected to the communal balcony and elevator tower in the middle. The areas around the towers consist of lawns and trees, playgrounds and various recreational facilities. A metro station is found in the south of the estate, the West 8th Street – New York Aquarium station. There are five towers in the estate. They were also featured in the videogame GTA IV as the “Firefly Projects”, though significantly scaled down.

Close by is also the Peter Warbasse Houses, consisting of 5 more conventional but nevertheless interesting and in the New York area unique design. Also of some note in the Coney Island area are the Sea Rise Apartments, a greyish white brutalist complex of buildings of varying heights, to some extent reminding of classics such as the Trellick & Balfron Tower’s in London. Most housing estates in New York City have brownstone and brick façades, but the Sea Rise Apartments offer a pleasant change from this with stark grey concrete and curious alignment of building components, as well as an ornamental treatment of the façades themselves. The estate was completed in 1974 and has three tall sections of each 24 stories. Elevators for the complex are provided in elevator towers external to the main building bodies, clinging to them like ladders.

Of further interest in the area are (in Brooklyn): the Linden Plaza Houses (built over a metro yard) in East New York the many estates of Brownsville, Brooklyn, the Tompkins Houses and the Lindsay Park Houses (22 stories and with renovated balconies), the Bushwick Houses, and many more. Of special interest in the Bronx are the curious Morrisania Air Rights, a large complex of three towers with some brutalist ornamentation, tallest one being 29 stories and completed in 1980, the Concourse Village Apartments, six towers of 25 stories each in a more traditional commieblock design, completed 1963-64. Along the East River of Manhattan all the way up to the Trans-Manhattan Expressway, plentiful wonderful housing estates can be found, particularly the wonderful 27 and 26-story Esplanade Garden Cooperative complex deserves mention, found between 145th and 147th streets and 7th and Lenox Avenue, next to the Lenox yard of the New York Metro.

Last but not least deserving of a mention is the wonderful estate of Co-Op City, featuring wonderful towers in a nice park-setting on the outskirts of Bronx in Baychester.

Housing estates do exist elsewhere, but they have typically been demolished, as in the case of Pruitt-Igoe and many of the estates in Chicago (Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini Green) and replaced by the incompetent and fail Chicago Housing Authority with hideous so called “mixed-income developments” or exclusively more up scale housing.

SEARS TOWER, SEARS TOWER

On July 16, 2009, at 10:00 am Central Time, the building was officially renamed Willis Tower.

Sears Tower is Sears Tower. Structural names ought to be kept for historic consistency except when the nature of the business in the building is reflected in the name (if a structure housed a court but no longer do so, former hospital, etc). Fuck Willis Tower.

Say what?

Oh jolly. Retarded advertisements. Kill with fires.

News Roundup and intellectual malaise

Even the more democratic nations which are controlled by the people have problems instilling complete order over their populace.

-Imbecile on the Internet

Time sure flies. The stupid pothead lights another joint and flips the page in the book on conspiracies. September eleven images flash by on TV, and the pothead sighs. “You’re all just sheep”, he says to himself and return to the book.

It’s coming quickly now, coming? It’s here, already, everywhere, no escape. Scuttling across the alleyways and hanging outside the doors. A dark sinister shadow that haunts every step, a luring horror from beyond that clutches for you with skeletal arms – the pandemic. 12 years of fear: and now, it is here. Like the fires across the world in the last weeks of the life of the dinosaurs.

People lament the loss of pathetic pop-phenomenon Michael Jackson, they cannot shut up about what a loss it was, and what an important figure he was in the world. Lunatic Latoya spawns conspiracy theories like any inhabitant of an insane asylum; after such a childhood, mental illness is unavoidable. Meanwhile, in Tehran, opposition leaders are bothered by a loss that was visible years ahead, shouting election fraud in a manner similar to the Indian opposition following Indira Ghandi’s election in 1971. Despite opinion polls clearly indicating almost to the exact percentage the result, absurd claims hail from the opposition, and even more so, from the Western media. Apparently, people in an official’s home town will always vote for this person, as though it is some tribal thing. I guess that is how the West views the Middle East, tribal. The West of course, as always, has an opinion of how things ought to be done – everything is their business after all, masters of the world as though they no doubt see themselves. Moreover, the West never distrust expatriates and exiles.

In Tibet too, the Government in Exile and the expatriate forces are the one’s shaping the western perception of the Tibetian problem; not only in Tibet (Xizang) but in Xinjiang as well. Again, expatriates and exiled lying morons such as Rebiya Kadeer, seen presenting various unrelated pictorial “evidence” at a press conference as evidence of police violence in the handling of the riots. The west, as always, assumes that a so called “oppressed minority” is always honest and sincere, and seemingly incapable of doing anything wrong, as though they were not at all themselves involved in and responsible for a lot of violence in the recent riots. Instead, it’s presented as a question of “peaceful demonstrations” – this also happened in Iran. Despite the burning cars, the police was being oppressive by suppressing violent riot. As though the West does not try to handle violent riots themselves – and for that matter, since when does the West really handle peaceful protests well, what with Kettling and suppression of protests in relation to WTO, G8 and G20 summits and various other events anyway?

Point is of course, that the West has no qualms about supporting certain movements they would not like to see at home when they are bothering the enemy – perhaps a bit of the old notion “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” – perhaps, funnily enough, originally derived from a Chinese proverb.

You have no cultural rights Uyghur’s. Assimilate or perish.

“[...]… colonists [the han-chinese] who want to replace us with their own people and assimilate those of us who remain, wiping out our culture.” -Erkin Alptekin

Retarded Randoids Regenerate, Reproduce & Replicate

Idiocy at work: The Randoids

There is no objective morality, nor any objective “nature of man” beyond the biological functions.

Those comments are sickening.

Especially that adler (adler-junk) fucktard.

Fuck Ayn Rand and fuck objectivists. Same goes for you von Mises/Hayek lovers.

The True Face of Mormonism & Christianity

Taken from some forum posts on the Internets; a crazy Hawaiian/Samoan retarded nutter:

Banning All Sexual Misconduct

it is not enough for China to simply ban Pornography and sexually deviant things people see and read on the Internet

China must also ban the Sexually deviant Perverts and porn addicts, and homosexuals and pedophiles who are coming to China

China needs to monitor foreigners spreading homosexual ides and who display sexually debauched mannerisms

One good idea, is on the Visa form for coming to China, one required section should be to admit if they are “homosexual” or “Bisexual”

and then China could be free to deny entry to that person based on keeping out their destructive sexual perversions

China also needs to work with the agencies around the world to check the travellers records in their Home Country, like America, to give a list of all known homosexuals and sexual predators and anyone who has ever committed sexual crimes, then red-flag and notify the visa agent checking the visa, and deny entrance to that malicious morally and sexually destructive individual

and China should do some random searches of foreigners apartments, and kick any Foreigners out of China for possessing any Porn, or looking at it online

and China should also outlaw sex between foreigners and Chinese people

ban any and all sex between Foreigners and Chinese, and at the very least, Ban all unmarried Sex between foreigners and Chinese

and encourage all Chinese children and girls to report any foreigners known to have unmarried sex in China, and pull their Visa immediately upon the at the first offense, and send them out of China.

Also, there are many homosexuals in China sending Homosexual SMS messages and pornographic MMS messages, all English SMS in China should be sent to a filter and monitored, and then once a number has entered the filter, each message from that number should be monitored, and the numbers that number calls, and then the users should be traced and identified by a spotting team on the ground, and that individual should be kicked out of China

foreigners in China do more sexually immoral damage to the Chinese Cultural Fabric and Bonds than do the Porn sites on the Internet

and they should be punished for it, to include prison time for moral misconduct, or removal from the Country and a permanent Ban from ever entering China again, at the very least

they spread their sex and rape and pedophilia, and homosexuality, and sexual deviance and perversions, and fornication and debauchery and degenerate ideas, everywhere they go

and they should be banned

and only MORMONS should be allowed to Come to China

as they do not believe in Sex or anything Sexual before Marriage

i dont peuople who don’t believe in Gd should be called out and braned with amakr on their forehead which separates them from other humans andputs them in th Animal Kingdom,

and we put them on farms, and milk the females and use the males tor breeding and meat

all morals in the world exist because of God

as no morals were created since the foundation of darwinism and evolutionism

thus morals do not apply to Aethesits, and we should be able to trreat them animals?

what wrong is there, “IF” there was no God, in me eating people and killing everyone I see for food and sport??

nothing

i think aethesist should be used to feed the hungry

you have the most hippy haole view on the planet bra

nno even stay one chinese, one korean, or japanese, one hawaiian, with your view bra

most haoles no even get your view bra

is one braindead local idea bra

you deny the form and will and presence and personality and presence and work of God

Gods all Chinese Koreans, Japanese, Hawaiians, and even most Haole believe in bra

what is it bra?

you no more culture at al bra?

no shame eh?

where your mind at?

you no even believe in Jah

what kine local boy you bra?

what is you from O’ahu? Maui?

what kine Local Boy has no respect for their Creator Bra?

what kine local style that bra?

what kine Local people dont believe that Gods is everywhere, in all things, in the trees, the wind, the mountain, the sea, even controlling the ocean and all its life bra

where you wen grow up boy?

for shame bra

we hate Christians from European churches and Anglos and all churches in America who are the enemy of the True and Living God

those who arent Mormon

Mormon are not in that boat with the enemy of all mankind, the Anglo churches

as the LDS Church is the House of Israel, House of the Living God, Zion, the Church of the Holy One of Israel

that is the eternal truth and purpose of the creation of this Earth

do not throw “Mormons” in the crockpot with the rest of the anglo churches

it is not an Anglo curch,

it is the Restored House of Israel

its about protection of a people from outside evil lies and wicked influence

these harsh things are only for foreigners, and laowai

they are not ever spoken of in China, amongst the Chinese, as there is no need,

and further than that, this is about freedom to speak out the truth against those homosexual faggots and pedophiles

look, i dont give a crap if those laowai die, but they arent going to spread their lies around China, and their hippy love fest shyt

and they for damned sure are not going to push their Aetheist propaganda and evolutionist doctrine of Darwinia on the people of China for their desires at “getting laid”

you think alot like a local boy

but Local boy is nothing bra

its not Hawaiian, its not Chiense, its Not Japanese, its not Filipino, its just nothing

its belittling to hawaiians

Hawaiians are not stupid

they are avery rightteous people

of all the people in Polynesia and probably the world, hawaiians are the most faithful to their Gods, and the most purely and wholly religious

Hawaiians Left Tahiti because of their weak religion and faith, fallen away and out of favor of the Gods

Hawaiian were the most righteous people, who listend tot ehir Gods, and followed them into the sea, into the unknown, in the outrigger canoes, and led them straight to Hawaii so that the gods could create a race of people and a culture which was Wholly theirs, and wholly righteous and belonged to the Gods in every way imaginable

Locals are killing Hawaiians .. breaking our heart

Hawaiians are too loving and caring

“No Hawaiians, No Aloha”

its so true…

deep and meaningful

thanks for your contribution to the conversation

but your ideas are irrelevant

you have no God

you are from an evolution of some slime, i step on slime everyday, murdering millions of your ancestors

how do you feel about that?

and i figure you can go the way of all the amoeba

what is the diffrence?

kill an amoeba, kill a bug, kill a rat, kill a fish, kill a chicken, kill you, their offspring..

i wonder if you taste as good as the rest of the animal kingdom

eh, dey iz no wayz u iz hawaiian bra

being from hawaii and being one hawaiian is 2 different tings bra

you is one ilo bra

broke da nose ilo

born in hawaii is not one hawaiian bra

get nothing fo say u iz hawaiian bra

an u get nothin fo say about wat iz and iznt hawaiian bulie

bra, if deyz one ting i no can stand, iz ilo on my island bra

i like crack dey head open bra, like one brokeass coconut bra

only get one kine haole stay welcome in my hale bra

u get em bra, iz da Mormon kine bra

u and ur flock wen come to hawaii and park em eh bradda?

wen smoke plenty pakalolo too eh bradda,. shoots, bra I know cuz.. i know u ahready

and den what bra? ur head went makemake?

a’ole hana eh?

your mana’o pono’ole bra

no go bra

you think hawaii is one state eh?

u think is just like america eh bra?

but bradda, i goin fo teach u sometimg bra

Hawaiian is Hawaiian bra

Hawaii stay Hawaiian

stay minez bra

and u no care eh bra i no care too

Na Po’e Hawai’i stay weak because your kine kuliana bra

your kine lolohead mana’o

you is one ilo bra

U dun kno what is Hawaiian Bra

u jus don kno cuz

Hawaiian stay Samoan Bra

u went go Samoa Bra?

u get plenty Samoan frendz cuz?

u kno what?

Fuk Haole bra,

and Fuk ilo cuz

LDS Church, the Mormon people, have done more For Hawaiians and Polynesians than anybody bra

Na Haole wen Huki Ku’u ‘Aina bra

and wen destroy my Culture cuz

My father and all his generation no stay even allowed fo ‘Olelo Hawai’i in their own Schools and in their own lands bra

bra

Na ilo wen take everything, Na Mea Hawai’i Apau, and give em to da Haole bra

Da Mormons Bought dey Land bradda

wake up bra,

your Po’o wen Hiamoe oh what bra?

you is One Mahu bra

N how da fuk u goin sit dey and talk Kukai about da Mormons cuz?

u like tell me da mormons wen steal da land eh bra?

u fuking homo

i had you nailed from square one cuz

you is one Laowai bra

one hippy fuka too

u like tell me more lies bra?

SE UFA

KEFE

eh U FUKA

one ting no belong in Hawaii br..

daz laowai bra

daz haole and all da ilo bra

my peolpe is Hawaiian Bra

Kanaka Maoli

and My Islands is Mine bra

and Mormons stay cus

and u can go home bra

cus Hawaiians no need u bra

Hawaiians is Koa Bra

Na Ke Akua E Malama Makou

dey no stay even one Hawaiian who denies Lono, Pele, Kanaloa, Ku, or Kane Bra

not even ‘ekahi bra

and Hawaiians only wan fo live in the time wen get nothing but da grass beneath our feet, da wind in our hair, calling our name, Na Kolohe ‘Uhane apau,, na ‘Aumakua Apau, and Na Akua Kapu Apau

and Lono goin fo come bra

and Mormons is his Church bra

you are as destructive to my people in Hawaii as you are to my people in China

as I said..

you have no place to go

well u still get lots fo learn cuz

about your own land even

U gotta know who da real enemy of your culture is bra

u gotta look within bra

da enemy is da foreigner cuz

u have to go back to your roots bra…

back to the anciient times

And believe in your people, and your race and your cutlutre, and your bloodline

believe what they believed in

know what they kkew

learn what they wanted you to learn

possess what they passed on for you to possess

dont waste it bra

dont lose the tie to your ancestors ways and beliefs

they are not stupid bra

they told the stories and passed on the knowledge for their race and culture and bloodline bra

for you cuz

believe in the stories, and walk in their paths,

perpetuate their beliefs and culture, and let them live through you

redeem your ancestors from beyond the grave, listen to the sound of their voices in the wind

hear and see the spirit world all around you

feel them and feel their truths, and feel what they feel and know

Believe in their Gods and Truths

study the Dao, and believe on the paths of righteosuness and eternal Life, and the things of the heavens and the afterlife

believe in the immortal Deity, and in their goodness

have faith in the Gods of your ancestors

fear not, be as LaoJun

know them, and know their ways

and follow those, and keep them always in your heart, and let nothing, or no man come between you and their Realm

and then, beyond it all, will you find the truth, at the origin of all things

will you find your place, and he who awaits there for you

always striving to atttain the Kingdom of Heaven and the immortality of Gods

overcome all earthly things which belong to this material world

dont give a thought to others who will hold you down, betray you.. stay only with Chinese

and ascend to heaven you will

and Find Eternal Life you shall

and take up your soul and body, and Become a Deified Immortal, you may

you are the queer wanna be transvestire twotoebe

it is not enough for China to bean Pornography and sexually deviant things on teh internt

China must also ban the Sexually deviant Perverts and porn addicts, and homosexual pesophiles whoar coming o China

as well as they need to check their records in America, work with Americn intelligence agencies to redflag any sexual preadtor or anyone who has ever committed sexual crimes

and another thing I suggest is outlawing foreigners from Having unmarried Sex in China

and only MORMONS should be allowed to Come to China