FKN Newz 2006-04-14
Transcript
Climate change worse than expected says British scientist white middle class people may suffer. Most depends Rumsfeld in resignation. Clay says Trump's failed killed loads of people. Berlusconi demands a recount in the Italian election.
He says I'm very rich. That should count for something. Hi, I'm partially sighted. It's April the 14th 2006.
Here are tonight's headlines. Britain, scientists have warned that climate change could be much worse than they predicted. And they produced it was going to be pretty bad. Government advisor has warned that temperatures could rise by as much as three degrees C and the millions of poor black people all over the world could die as a result.
Needless to say nobody in Britain really gives a fuck about that. And we'll probably go on as normal driving our cars I mean our central heating oil fired power stations to look into fuck anyway. He's not gonna happen here you know? At least not for a long time.
Why even my children will be able to enjoy the lifestyle life joy, servitude and enslavement to Her Majesty the Queen. A life of work paying taxes till you just about paid off the small humble they allow you to purchase before you need care and one of the institutions set up by the government to take all your money at the end of your life. That's what you got to look forward to work all your life
a man have everything taken off your mind the government, you poor fucking slaves. Get used to it. It doesn't get any better than this. In America, President Bush has given his full day to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld saying I don't understand what all the complaint defines about Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld done a sterling job in Iraq.
He bombed the place to fuck and he killed loads of people destroyed the Iraqi army occupied by the country took over the oil reserves and set up vast numbers of army bases from which we can launch attack kings on Iran. He's doing a tough job. I don't see what the problem is. Italy, Romano Prodi has finally been sworn in.
As the new president, or prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi would refuse to conceive, as demanded a recount of the amount of money he has, and the number of businesses yields saying I own loads of this country. I own the television, the newspapers, the cars, most of the judges, you know, I own the whole parking country, I should run the country because I own the country, a sentiment to ensure the tech you're in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, America.
In fact, we can all look forward to our children being born into a planet where everyone already owe us the whole fucking place. And all they have to look forward to is slavery for the entrenched vested interests. Well, life doesn't get much better than this. Now, the weather the planet spots up, and it's gonna get worse.
But hey, all your rich white people can probably move somewhere nice. So why give a fuck? You just keep right on going. Don't change a thing, because everything's gonna be just fine.
Have a nice weekend.
Themes in this episode
Analysis essay
This episode comes from mid-April 2006, when climate warnings were becoming harder to ignore, Donald Rumsfeld was facing renewed calls to resign over Iraq, and Italy was emerging from a disputed general election. Romano Prodi’s centre-left coalition had narrowly beaten Silvio Berlusconi, who initially refused to concede and demanded recounts. Deek links these stories through ownership and indifference: climate change threatens the poor first, Iraq has been destroyed by powerful men without accountability, and Berlusconi behaves as though owning media, businesses, and influence should entitle him to own the state.
The climate segment is both environmental and class satire. The joke is that millions of poor, mostly non-white people may die, but Britain will only care when “white middle class people” suffer. Deek frames ordinary British life as a soft prison: work, tax, mortgage, retirement care, and finally the state or institutions taking what remains. Climate collapse is not separate from capitalism; it is the planetary version of the same exploitation. Rumsfeld’s defence is written as a confession: he did exactly what empire wanted—bombed Iraq, killed people, took oil, built bases, and prepared for Iran.
The Berlusconi sketch extends the theme of ownership into democracy. His demand for a recount becomes a demand to count money, media, judges, and property as votes. That lets Deek connect Italy to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, America, and the whole global order: the rich own the place before ordinary children are even born. Recurring FKN themes are stark here: Iraq as imperial staging ground, climate change as class violence, democracy as property rule, and the public told to keep consuming while the world burns.