7/21/2019 Bond Peppers and Drones.

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  Bond, Drones and Halaby Peppers.

  So it turns out that maybe Anthony Horowitz is right and Idris Elba is too “street to play Bond.

Bond does a!ter all, tell the world that although the sun might ha"e set on our empire, our publi#

s#hool system is still #apable o! #reating members o! an o!!i#er #lass possessed o! uni$uely British

#hara#teristi#s that ma%e one #apable o! e!!ortlessly thwarting the e"il plans o! !oreign a#ronyms

li%e S.P.E.&.'.(.E. or ISIS. S%in #olour seems to be, !or the time being, still integral.  )aybe he #an thin% about auditioning !or the part o! Blo!ield, whilst &ameron steps up and lets

e"eryone %now, that i! parliament won*t gi"e him a war that allows him to demonstrate his own

Bond li%e $ualities and pro"e that Britain still has a seat at the global Ba##arat table, he will ignore

notions o! due pro#ess that go as !ar ba#% as )agna &arta and show that he has a steely

ruthlessness.

  +ust loo% at the tabloid or the broadsheet- response to his a#tions, and see how well leming/ li%e

terms li%e “(eaper and “Hell!ire, play when part o! a narrati"e about o!!ing another subhuman

enemy o! our "alues.

But what has this got to do with the Halaby or Aleppo- pepper. 0hat indeed, it*s hard to imagine

Bond as he #leans his 0alther PP1, gi"ing mu#h thought to the !a#t that between 2334 and 2355,

global warming #aused a #ountry that had always been unsus#eptible to drought li%e Syria, to su!!erthe worst one in millennia, #ausing the !ailure o! 678 o! all #rops in#luding the a!orementioned

 pepper. 'he instability that resulted !rom a rural population !leeing to #ities and a water shortage

that led to the depletion o! ground water due to the drilling o! too many wells, played a big part in

starting the uprising that led to the #i"il war.

  Sadly it*s hard to imagine &ameron pondering this either, as he adds another s#ary detail to his

ongoing pro9e#t o! #reating a real li!e dystopian !uture !rom out o! a S#i/i boo%. 0riting out a %ill

list that must in#lude the names o! people we would ha"e been un#o"ertly helping and #alling allies

i! he*d ha"e got his way, and got his war against Assad. :ow we only #o"ertly pro"ide support and

!unding to the terror group that we helped #reate along with Ameri#a through our usual blundering

smash it all too bits approa#h- by turning a blind eye to #ompanies that are right now buying oil at

%no#% down pri#es !rom those e"il baddies ISIS. It*s 9ust part o! the $uadrophoni# nature o! the

retarded #luster !u#% that is our poli#y, itsel! the result o! pursuing the #apitalist goal o! unlimited

growth, ne#essitating the destabilising o! oil ri#h regions through the west*s use o! terror groups and

the support o! allies li%e Saudi Arabia that !und them. All the while insisting that the two

dimensional reality o! a Bond !ilm is the only reality there is.

As a tiny portion o! Syrian re!ugees rea#h Europe it seems it*s that reality that ser"es best. Britain

#ast as the sa!e ha"en that people !rom the #razy war torn #ountries are desperate to run too. Both

the %eep em out brigade and the open arms mob seem unwilling to 9oin e"ery dot and #omplete a

 pi#ture that shows our sa!e house is built !rom the "ery stu!! that #aused e"ery step o! the deepening

#risis, !rom global warming to terror. A holisti# "iew shows that in a post pea% oil world, no amount

o! tin%ering will pre"ent this #urrent situation !rom being 9ust the start o! a #ontinuing trend. ;nlythe #omplete dismantling o! the system we now li"e in and the trans!ormation into something saner

will pre"ent the slide into a world with a #onstant re!ugee #risis.

)eanwhile the go"ernment*s %eenness to see% solutions by granting itsel! a li#en#e to %ill, in a

remote #ontrolled, e<tra/9udi#ial, illegal, and I don*t thin% they are really trying hard to pretend

that it was legal. I thin% &ameron wants to be seen as the %ind o! #hap who will brea% the rules to

 prote#t this #ountry- should be seen as a truly terri!ying and dangerous de"elopment. Bond is a!ter

all, despite all his !au< sophisti#ation, a blunt instrument.