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by Kato Otak

Good Bankers = Bad Brains

A report from the Wall Street Journal has shed some light on what it takes to be a successful investment banker. The report is rather revealing as it says things like…

The 15 brain-damaged participants that were the focus of the study had normal IQs, and the areas of their brains responsible for logic and cognitive reasoning were intact. But they had lesions in the region of the brain that controls emotions, which inhibited their ability to experience basic feelings such as fear or anxiety. The lesions were due to a range of causes, including stroke and disease, but they impaired the participants’ emotional functioning in a similar manner.

The study suggests the participants’ lack of emotional responsiveness actually gave them an advantage when they played a simple investment game. The emotionally impaired players were more willing to take gambles that had high payoffs because they lacked fear. Players with undamaged brain wiring, however, were more cautious and reactive during the game, and wound up with less money at the end.

Some neuroscientists believe good investors may be exceptionally skilled at suppressing emotional reactions. “It’s possible that people who are high-risk takers or good investors may have what you call a functional psychopathy,” says Antoine Bechara, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Iowa, and a co-author of the study. “They don’t react emotionally to things. Good investors can learn to control their emotions in certain ways to become like those people.”

So Joel Bakan has shown (in his book and documentary, The Corporation) that corporations are inherently psychopathic and now studies in neuroeconomics have shown good bankers to be brain damaged; which kinda proves what most of us already suspect – that the lunatics have taken over the asylum!

If you were told that a psychopath would be looking after your children you would be concerned; and yet we let these bastards make daily decisions that will effect the lives of billions of people

One solution – revolution!

Same As It Ever Was!

It’s 470 years since Hans Holbein published his ‘Dance of Death’ series of images and fuck all has changed for the majority of humanity. The following print is called The Magistrate and it just goes to show that they were as bent then as they are now…

It depicts a demon blowing corruption into the ear of a magistrate, who has turned his back on a poor man, whilst he is in close conversation with another person, to whose story he seems emphatically attentive. Death at his feet with an hour-glass and spade.

So what’s new?

ABAB (Part 2 – Bastard Bailiff’s Strike Back)

As part of their ongoing attack on the poor MPs are trying to give bailiffs new powers to enter people’s homes. Ministers have been accused of threatening individual liberties over proposals that privately employed bailiffs should be given rights to physically remove debtors who try to prevent belongings from being seized. Bailiffs have been denied the right to break into homes for hundreds of years and this move should be seen as a step to far by anyone who still gives a shit about freedom – unfortunately many people seem to value their property more than their liberty nowadays.

This is the kind of ‘fascist-lite’ policy that every mainstream political party is presently endorsing – and because mainstream parties have more chance of pushing policies like these through they must be seen as an even bigger threat to freedom than the much loathed BNP. As money gets tighter the middle-class will get more vindictive and it will be the impoverished and the minorities who will be held accountable – whilst the rich bastards who caused the problem in the first place will be bailed out with public money.

As for the bailiffs themselves, they’re exactly the kind of narrow minded scum who come out with phrases like “I’m just following orders.”, “I’m only doing my job.” or “If I didn’t do it somebody even worse than me would.” They’re the  ‘little men’ who oil the cogs of the fascist machine - oh yeah, and they’re all bastards!

Bent Bastard Beresford’s New Business Venture (PART 2)

We tracked down the company that will host mysolicitor.com and decided to warn them about their potentially dodgy client. We sent NetBenefit the following email message…

Hi,

Just a few short words to warn you that Jim Beresford, who is using your company to host ‘mysolicitor.com‘, is presently one of the most hated men in South Yorkshire. He has just been struck off because he conned money out of former coal miner’s who had been making compensation claims regarding work related diseases. The full story can be found here.

We would not suppose to tell you your business, but you would be telling the wider community a lot about your business practices if you were to continue working with a man who has already been reprimanded for unethical breaches of practice law. We would respectfully ask that NetBenefit withdraw services from mysolicitor.com with immediate effect.

Your truly,

Robin Goodfella
Cpn. Swing
General Ludd
Bonny Anne
Queen Teuta of Illyria
The Barnsdale Brigade

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You might want to send them your own email, or give them a ring on 0800 328 7477 just to make sure that they know exactly what kind of scum they’re dealing with.

Bent Bastard Beresford’s New Business Venture

Scamming fucker Jim (milk-a-miner) Beresford is setting up a new business venture called ‘mysolicitor.com‘ which will provide Britain’s first “legal services supermarket” and seeks to establish itself as the “consumer brand of choice”.

We were thinking of starting our own site called ‘mysolicitorisacunt.com‘, but it would seem that our server would not be able to handle the overwhelming volume of traffic needed for such a venture.

Remember kids, All Lawyers Are Bastards!

Child Services “CHAOTIC & DANGEROUS”

Doncaster’s children’s services have been branded ‘chaotic and dangerous’ in a recent Ofsted report. We were among the eight worst local authorities in the country; a list which also included Birmingham, Essex, Haringey, Reading, Surrey, West Sussex and Wokingham.

Doncaster is one of the UK’s poorest areas, which means we attract millions of pounds of funding to try and alleviate poverty in the area. Unfortunately this kind of money also attracts ‘grant monsters’; middle class parasites who are experts in sucking up all the resources and cash made available to local communities (we also have to put up with a corrupt council who think that they have first dibs on public money – for instance they robbed 17 million pounds from the New deal For the Communities kitty which was supposed to be spent on other projects). Only 5% of public money is spent by people who are publicly accountable; which means that 95% of our money is pissed away by people who have no real connection to (or concern for…) the people that the money is supposed to help. The situation in child services (and any other public body) will not improve until all people involved in public services are made publicly accountable – i.e. until we have a semblance of real democracy in local and national government. This, of course, is not to happen under the present system; the only real solution to impoverishment – no matter how unfashionable it may be at the moment – is insurrection.  It’s time to GO GREEK!

BE A WINNER! In our new competition…

Members of the Barnsdale Brigade are proud to announce the launch of their new “EAT MY SOLE!” competition. The rules are simple…

1. Find a celebrity; preferably a world leader or head of state, but failing that any passing media whore will do.
2. Remove your shoes.
3. Take aim – for the head if possible.
4. Throw your shoes at the aforementioned celebrity.

Each hit scores 100 points, whilst a near miss scores 50 points. Extra points will be given depending on how hated the celebrity is.

We have to confess that this competition wasn’t our idea, it was inspired by the actions of an Iraqi journalist.

The journalist launched two shoes at President Unelect George W. Bush whilst he was giving a news conference in the heavily fortified Green-Zone of the Iraqi presidential palace. George may be a twat, but he’s a spritely twat. The 63 year old ducked twice so the journalist’s shoes narrowly missed their target. Which means the journalist only scored 100 points for 2 near misses, the good news is that his target is the most hated man on the planet so he scores 10,000 extra points which puts him at the top of our leader board with 10,100 points. Beat that!

For footage of the event click here

‘Dear Deidre’ to save our children – BALLS!

Unicef, the UN children’s charity, reported last year that British youngsters were the unhappiest in the Western world. This may have something to do with the fact that a third of UK kids live in poverty. It may have something to do with living in a fucked-up society where the government and media seem keen to present working class children as outlaws. It may have to do with the fact that parents are having to work long hours away from their kids just to make ends meet. It may be the fact that our kids are growing up in an ever more fascistic society. Or it may have to do with the ridiculous league table meritocracy that we have put in the place of real education. The government however think it’s because our kids don’t have their own fucking agony aunts.

We kid you not; the government has paid for a convention of agony aunts, including The Sun’s Deidre Sanders (Dear Deidre), to work on providing advice for parents.

Children’s secretary, Ed Balls, said…

“We are funding the summit, the idea is to produce a guide for parents which will help them with their relationship difficulties which would provide a more stable environment for their children while they are at school.”

Balls, Ed! Our kids (and adults for that matter) will be a lot fucking happier when we have equality and social justice for all; class war will make us very happy indeed!

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Bastard Beresford Burn in Hell!

Solicitor Jim Beresford makes £30m from sick miners’ compensation scheme

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Beresford solicitors struck off after being found guilty over sick miners scandal

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We all know solicitors are bent, but Jim Beresford and his robbing cronies makes most of the others look like fucking angels. We hope that he and all the other scum involved in robbing the miners gets what they deserve from the courts, but we doubt that justice will be truly served. If you’d like to pass your own verdict on Jimmy Boy he can be reached via…

BERESFORD SOLICITORS, QUAYPOINT LAKESIDE BOULEVARD, DONCASTER, DN4 5PL – 01302 329 655

360 years ago the Levellers called for an elected judiciary – still waiting