According to a report I heard last night on the radio ,there was an incident somewhere in France yesterday where a wild boar apparently attacked Christmas shoppers. It found itself inside a shop and charged at everyone in sight . I didn't hear of any death or injury of any people caused by the military manouevre of the tusked creature, but the mayhem and chaos it created must have been quite awful .
There was one death though ; that of an animal .The panic provoking pig was eventually shot down and killed 'In in a hail of bullets '.
It happened in Poitiers , a town in western France, inside a clothes shop .Customers and staff were evacuated whilst the 90 kilo (198 lb) beast chased armed police officers who pumped more than thirty or so bullets inside it before it eventually fell.
No one seems to know how the animal found itself in the store .According to Forest officials it must have roamed away from a country-bordering area where some boars were being relocated to their natural habitat .
The Wild boar or Sus scrofa is quite a powerful omnivorous creature . It has been native to central Europe and especially the Mediterranean countries for thousands of years .The male of the species has teeth or tusks that can grow up to twenty or so centimetres (around ten inches ) .If cornered it can defend itself quite effectively against humans . The female might have smaller teeth but she is known to put up a very stiff resistance if her young are interfered with.
Recently wild boars have been reintroduced to Britain and because of the demand for their meat , there are farms which breed and rear them under special enclosed conditions.
I don't know if this Porcine Prowler of Poitiers was such a boar that had escaped. But what was reported suggests that they live in the wilds out there . I'm not sure if in this country , our local boars are allowed this freedom ,but do know that some have been released or 'liberated' by animal liberation activists in the past .
So this seemingly ,disorientated ,terrorist swine could have just lost its way . Must have been confused and even scared.... And what does it do ? it goes on the rampage.
I guess if I were there and it charged in my direction , I suppose I would have been grateful for the gun toting Gendarmes for saving my skin . Yet somehow
looking at it from another point of view, I can't help sympathising with the pig .
Lost , dazed and confused it falls into the hands of the dreaded human pack ,who being very unforgiving ,will destroy the inadvertent urban guerrilla with impunity.
Billions, yes literally billions of its brothers lined up passively in slaughter houses after several months of incessant torture in the 'factory farms' would be cheering if they could rationalise about their plight . They would be cheering their heroic brother who stood up and fought the enemy bravely, only to be ultimately shot down by their cowardly and immoral overlords. Many would even queue up to volunteer like four legged Jihadis , to have died in his place with a bang ...
Yet the Porcine Spartacus spectacular cliche is nonsense .Many so called 'animal lovers ' tend to over humanise or 'walt Disnify' the whole truth .The boar appears to be a wild creature , that seems to have some predatory instincts and its 'brothers' in the 'holocaust' like farms cannot sit down and plan a Marxist revolt .
But still , is not that the reason why so many so called 'fanatics' do all sorts of cazy things in defence of these animals? The very fact that having half a brain can help one human deduce that when a pig's skin is pinched :'ouch!' it hurts like it hurts us? , and because it appears to be true that they can't speak for themselves , cannot organise themselves or make any collective protest ,
someone must?.
I would hate to have anything to do with humans if I were a stray boar .Moreover I would try to do away with myself immediately, if I were one of its less fortunate and less ferocious ,incarcerated brothers .
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Good Bye Uncle Mario
Buried Uncle Mario yesterday. It is stating the obvious ; but it needs to be stated that funerals are so damned sad! Especially within the Greek Orthodox church
Uncle Mario was a cousin to my late father Constantine .
They knew themselves as first cousins although no blood ties exist ,as far as I understand my paternal grandfather and Uncle Mario's mother were both orphans who were brought up together in the same household in Cyprus as brother and sister. And from that tie Uncle Mario's sons and my brothers have always known each other as cousins.
Uncle Mario must have been one of the first people I remember as a relative in London when we arrived here in the late 1950's. He was always technically gifted , worked in electronics , used to service Dad's Power amplifiers and seemed to be able to turn his hand to anything technical . He seemed able to build a house or a car by himself. I also have fond memories of being driven home by him in a Morris Minor in the sixties , must have been my first experiences of being in a motor car. Not many people used to drive in those days.
Drifted apart from Mario himself in the last years but kept in touch with his son's George and Mike . He had a severe stroke some years ago and lived as a disabled person for many years ,his wife having to do everything for him. I never visited him then ,so I still have memories of him being very able.
As agreed the night before , George, My brother ,his wife Sue and Mum came over to my place at about 11.00.AM to pick me up as the funeral service was to take place at my name sake: Church of St Demetrios , Town Road , Edmonton , London N9 .
When we arrived Uncle Mario was already boxed up and laid out on trestles in the church alter,a priest and backing vocalists chanting the funeral rite in Byzantine
style. Incense was being burned and every so often the priest swung his lantern in the direction of Mario's coffin the mourners , at least hundred or more did the sign of the cross on their chest. I no longer take part in this and just stand or sit motionless. Having decided long ago that I don't recognise any church ,or its Hocus Pocus ,I feel it right only to go so far with these rituals .
The priest was an English man I was informed , he gave various parts of the sermon in Greek and English . Long after the funeral I debated with Sue this conversion to Greek Orthodoxy seemed bizarre , we agreed that it is mystery why anyone would be attracted to joining the Greek Orthodox church let alone work for it . To convert to Buddhism or some branch of Hinduism seemed kind of normal for a westerner , but Greek Orthodox we agreed seemed strange.
So the priest chanted and chanted , George told me how much he did not want to leave his mortal coil in this manner, so impersonal and generalised only several references to the deceased man's name with the emphasis on 'Christian' (If I remember , Mario was an atheist....... ) . I replied that I agreed and we better both make it clear or we may get this treatment by default .......How can one ever rest with such a send off?.
The main gist of t he priest's chanting was that Now , Mario had 'gone to sleep' which seemed not to express the Greek word which is used for death and sleep somehow. And when he kept on repeating that Mario has just 'gone to sleep 'it reminded me of the explanations the very young infants get when a family member dies. This prompts the next question , will he wake up then? And yes, the priest continued in the Typically Greek Orthodox depressing and repetitive manner to state that Mario had gone to sleep but will wake up. We were comforted by the notion that when Christ comes again in glory , those who believed and did not sin will reunite with their bodies (spiritual bodies) and have an everlasting joy in heaven ....I'm not sure it was heaven or earth as there seemed some contradictions in what he was saying , also although the sinful will be excluded from this club , they too do have a last minute choice to sign up and what do you know? their mischief or evil deeds will all be forgotten and we shall all be happy.............Not very fair for those that tried hard never to sin all their lives . Hold on ! what's that ?, It's Uncle Nick ,Mario's brother (affectionately known as 'Red' for his passionate Marxist views) , He got up from his seat , shaking his head and tutting in disapproval , then walked out of the church in an almost stage managed kind of manner .I almost laughed out loud for a minute and thought that would have been excellent to record on my video camera phone.
Eventually the chanting stopped ,the mourners lined up and had their turn at paying last respects . As I walked past , I touched the coffin , kissed it , and thought , good bye Mario , just thinking about what he meant to me and how long I have known him. We moved on to kiss the closest family members and offer condolences .
Next was the journey to Southgate Cemetery , Just pondered on how many people I know that are buried there ....... strange to think that I know so many there and that many others will end up there . I must make sure that I don't end up there , just don't really like the idea of taking so much space and having so much running costs. Must get this written down one day . I was chatting with Sue on the journey there ,about cardboard coffins and forest funerals , I did hear about this and sounds like it is the funeral of choice for me. ( this is beginning to sound like a will) , must look into that one again and make a proper will and finish with all this putting it off .
As we parked in the Cemetery , I could hear Irish Auntie Josie who long ago has already purchased a plot there . I could hear her say : 'Look there's so many people moved in !' as she had not been there for a long time and noticed new grave stones everywhere . The whole thing sounded like some kind of property market ..( I couldn't help imagining the shades of the dead coming out at nights asking each other whether they had got a good bargain for today's prices ).
So Mario was lowered to the ground and that's when the weeping was heard the most , his wife had cared for him many years in his long lasting moribund state, yet the separation was audibly painful . The sons and some others lowered the coffin to its ditch and again the priest waved his incense and chanted prayers as we took our turn in walking by and throwing in some Earth. This moment was the most emotionally tense and the atmosphere turned quite morbid .
After the coffin was lowered to the ground , the atmosphere lightened somewhat and resembled the day's weather which was , cold , dry , bitter but covered with a pervasive brightness. Halloumi cheese , olives , Cypriot bread and St John's Comanderie dessert wine were dished out and people chatted , it was an opportunity to see some cousins from this part of the family that I had not seen for years .
An hour or more at the cemetery and the convoy eventually headed for Auntie Christina's house (Mario's widow).It was only about a quarter of a mile away from my own house and it just occurred to me now that so near yet , all those years , I did not visit . I should have , maybe before he got the massive stroke , as people don't really want to be seen by everyone in that state (if they can make such a decision that is ) yet in reality I know that I would not go there as that's just the way things are , we are destined to meet with many people of a wider circle only in weddings , christenings or funerals.
The house seemed quite small and over crowded , the atmosphere was relaxed and I could see how Mario's wife had over come for now the major part of her grief for today and had time to smile and chat . There was plenty of food and drink and after an hour or so , I got restless and started to nag the driver to get going . George was in the conservatory , or back garden (that's where people who commit the deadly most evil sin of smoking a cigarette go) .
We said our good byes and left . Mum George and Sue came over to my place for a coffee and eventually left,it must have been coming on to four o'clock in the afternoon, what a long day . All I wanted to do now after feeling so drained was to
'go to sleep' but not in the sense that the young priest used the phrase . I did intend to wake up a few times yet before I get sentenced to being a living dead man without a body waiting for Christ and hoping I did join the club at the right time! . It still doesn't make sense , the meaninglessness is no clearer , the make believe can help as long as we convince ourselves that it is not make believe , for the rest of us we are cursed for having our own minds.
Good bye Uncle Mario .
Uncle Mario was a cousin to my late father Constantine .
They knew themselves as first cousins although no blood ties exist ,as far as I understand my paternal grandfather and Uncle Mario's mother were both orphans who were brought up together in the same household in Cyprus as brother and sister. And from that tie Uncle Mario's sons and my brothers have always known each other as cousins.
Uncle Mario must have been one of the first people I remember as a relative in London when we arrived here in the late 1950's. He was always technically gifted , worked in electronics , used to service Dad's Power amplifiers and seemed to be able to turn his hand to anything technical . He seemed able to build a house or a car by himself. I also have fond memories of being driven home by him in a Morris Minor in the sixties , must have been my first experiences of being in a motor car. Not many people used to drive in those days.
Drifted apart from Mario himself in the last years but kept in touch with his son's George and Mike . He had a severe stroke some years ago and lived as a disabled person for many years ,his wife having to do everything for him. I never visited him then ,so I still have memories of him being very able.
As agreed the night before , George, My brother ,his wife Sue and Mum came over to my place at about 11.00.AM to pick me up as the funeral service was to take place at my name sake: Church of St Demetrios , Town Road , Edmonton , London N9 .
When we arrived Uncle Mario was already boxed up and laid out on trestles in the church alter,a priest and backing vocalists chanting the funeral rite in Byzantine
style. Incense was being burned and every so often the priest swung his lantern in the direction of Mario's coffin the mourners , at least hundred or more did the sign of the cross on their chest. I no longer take part in this and just stand or sit motionless. Having decided long ago that I don't recognise any church ,or its Hocus Pocus ,I feel it right only to go so far with these rituals .
The priest was an English man I was informed , he gave various parts of the sermon in Greek and English . Long after the funeral I debated with Sue this conversion to Greek Orthodoxy seemed bizarre , we agreed that it is mystery why anyone would be attracted to joining the Greek Orthodox church let alone work for it . To convert to Buddhism or some branch of Hinduism seemed kind of normal for a westerner , but Greek Orthodox we agreed seemed strange.
So the priest chanted and chanted , George told me how much he did not want to leave his mortal coil in this manner, so impersonal and generalised only several references to the deceased man's name with the emphasis on 'Christian' (If I remember , Mario was an atheist....... ) . I replied that I agreed and we better both make it clear or we may get this treatment by default .......How can one ever rest with such a send off?.
The main gist of t he priest's chanting was that Now , Mario had 'gone to sleep' which seemed not to express the Greek word which is used for death and sleep somehow. And when he kept on repeating that Mario has just 'gone to sleep 'it reminded me of the explanations the very young infants get when a family member dies. This prompts the next question , will he wake up then? And yes, the priest continued in the Typically Greek Orthodox depressing and repetitive manner to state that Mario had gone to sleep but will wake up. We were comforted by the notion that when Christ comes again in glory , those who believed and did not sin will reunite with their bodies (spiritual bodies) and have an everlasting joy in heaven ....I'm not sure it was heaven or earth as there seemed some contradictions in what he was saying , also although the sinful will be excluded from this club , they too do have a last minute choice to sign up and what do you know? their mischief or evil deeds will all be forgotten and we shall all be happy.............Not very fair for those that tried hard never to sin all their lives . Hold on ! what's that ?, It's Uncle Nick ,Mario's brother (affectionately known as 'Red' for his passionate Marxist views) , He got up from his seat , shaking his head and tutting in disapproval , then walked out of the church in an almost stage managed kind of manner .I almost laughed out loud for a minute and thought that would have been excellent to record on my video camera phone.
Eventually the chanting stopped ,the mourners lined up and had their turn at paying last respects . As I walked past , I touched the coffin , kissed it , and thought , good bye Mario , just thinking about what he meant to me and how long I have known him. We moved on to kiss the closest family members and offer condolences .
Next was the journey to Southgate Cemetery , Just pondered on how many people I know that are buried there ....... strange to think that I know so many there and that many others will end up there . I must make sure that I don't end up there , just don't really like the idea of taking so much space and having so much running costs. Must get this written down one day . I was chatting with Sue on the journey there ,about cardboard coffins and forest funerals , I did hear about this and sounds like it is the funeral of choice for me. ( this is beginning to sound like a will) , must look into that one again and make a proper will and finish with all this putting it off .
As we parked in the Cemetery , I could hear Irish Auntie Josie who long ago has already purchased a plot there . I could hear her say : 'Look there's so many people moved in !' as she had not been there for a long time and noticed new grave stones everywhere . The whole thing sounded like some kind of property market ..( I couldn't help imagining the shades of the dead coming out at nights asking each other whether they had got a good bargain for today's prices ).
So Mario was lowered to the ground and that's when the weeping was heard the most , his wife had cared for him many years in his long lasting moribund state, yet the separation was audibly painful . The sons and some others lowered the coffin to its ditch and again the priest waved his incense and chanted prayers as we took our turn in walking by and throwing in some Earth. This moment was the most emotionally tense and the atmosphere turned quite morbid .
After the coffin was lowered to the ground , the atmosphere lightened somewhat and resembled the day's weather which was , cold , dry , bitter but covered with a pervasive brightness. Halloumi cheese , olives , Cypriot bread and St John's Comanderie dessert wine were dished out and people chatted , it was an opportunity to see some cousins from this part of the family that I had not seen for years .
An hour or more at the cemetery and the convoy eventually headed for Auntie Christina's house (Mario's widow).It was only about a quarter of a mile away from my own house and it just occurred to me now that so near yet , all those years , I did not visit . I should have , maybe before he got the massive stroke , as people don't really want to be seen by everyone in that state (if they can make such a decision that is ) yet in reality I know that I would not go there as that's just the way things are , we are destined to meet with many people of a wider circle only in weddings , christenings or funerals.
The house seemed quite small and over crowded , the atmosphere was relaxed and I could see how Mario's wife had over come for now the major part of her grief for today and had time to smile and chat . There was plenty of food and drink and after an hour or so , I got restless and started to nag the driver to get going . George was in the conservatory , or back garden (that's where people who commit the deadly most evil sin of smoking a cigarette go) .
We said our good byes and left . Mum George and Sue came over to my place for a coffee and eventually left,it must have been coming on to four o'clock in the afternoon, what a long day . All I wanted to do now after feeling so drained was to
'go to sleep' but not in the sense that the young priest used the phrase . I did intend to wake up a few times yet before I get sentenced to being a living dead man without a body waiting for Christ and hoping I did join the club at the right time! . It still doesn't make sense , the meaninglessness is no clearer , the make believe can help as long as we convince ourselves that it is not make believe , for the rest of us we are cursed for having our own minds.
Good bye Uncle Mario .
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Remember Remember November 11th
Today is the 11th of Novemeber : Armistice Day ,Far as I remember it commemorates the cease fire of what was called the 'Great War' agreed on: ' the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month '. It was in 1918 that the barrels
of the western front stopped firing , yet the actual peace negotiations continued I am informed well into 1919.
Now today we are reminded of the sacrifice our people: or forefathers made for our freedom . We are told by campaigners and government officials , that this is not a celebration of war but an aknowledgement . Yes it is important to recognise the appalling predicament these people were in and the the horrific circumstance that many died under and others endured . Yes, we must recognise this and give a minute's
silence in thought , contemplation and rumination .
Yet I can't help seeing some meaningless absurdity in of all this . The pomp and ceremony seems to perpetuate the myth that all was about good versus bad and we are now free from the enemy's clutches. The filthy politicians will place their wreaths on the Cenotaph in London ,holding back their tears and stiffening their upper lips. The Royal family contingent will be wearing feathers, brushes , pinned jewellery .... and carrying swords ...
yet : Balderdash! all of it Balderdash ! ,with no offence intended to the veterans . The first world war was a dispute between aristocratic blood relatives at the expense of millions of poor people . To think only of 'our dead 'is to miss the point , I will be thinking of all the dead from opposing armies in this pointless war . I won't go into the subject of world war two,which is a different matter , but today the masters of ceremony and the rulers will also be mindful of the bizarre situation that only yesterday if I am not mistaken , a British soldier was killed in action , fighting in Afghanistan !
What was this about ?,Did he really die for our freedom ? did he die for anything? I am sure our rulers will fit his and many of his recent comrades' deaths neatly into the the belief system they promote , regardless of the fact that the people ruled by the politicians may not be in favour of this war : So the recent heroes or victims , have again died for the freedom of citizens of which a large proportion do not feel listened to about the current wars in Afghansitan and Iraq. Many soldiers have expressed their resent to the military adventures of this Government which seems to have been annexed long ago by the USA and partly by the E.U.
So we will hear stories of how men (and women now) have fought bravely for our freedom so that we can express ourselves enjoy our way of life and ultimately have no more wars.....and at the same time these criminals will get back to the office taking their orders directly from their American superiors to plan the next bloody
war !
So tell me what did anybody die for ? for us to be governed by a rubber stamping parliament ,obedient to the whims of Washingtons's war mongers?
We need silence to think about the importance of this and the fact that real democracy still needs to be fought for within. May peace be with you too.
of the western front stopped firing , yet the actual peace negotiations continued I am informed well into 1919.
Now today we are reminded of the sacrifice our people: or forefathers made for our freedom . We are told by campaigners and government officials , that this is not a celebration of war but an aknowledgement . Yes it is important to recognise the appalling predicament these people were in and the the horrific circumstance that many died under and others endured . Yes, we must recognise this and give a minute's
silence in thought , contemplation and rumination .
Yet I can't help seeing some meaningless absurdity in of all this . The pomp and ceremony seems to perpetuate the myth that all was about good versus bad and we are now free from the enemy's clutches. The filthy politicians will place their wreaths on the Cenotaph in London ,holding back their tears and stiffening their upper lips. The Royal family contingent will be wearing feathers, brushes , pinned jewellery .... and carrying swords ...
yet : Balderdash! all of it Balderdash ! ,with no offence intended to the veterans . The first world war was a dispute between aristocratic blood relatives at the expense of millions of poor people . To think only of 'our dead 'is to miss the point , I will be thinking of all the dead from opposing armies in this pointless war . I won't go into the subject of world war two,which is a different matter , but today the masters of ceremony and the rulers will also be mindful of the bizarre situation that only yesterday if I am not mistaken , a British soldier was killed in action , fighting in Afghanistan !
What was this about ?,Did he really die for our freedom ? did he die for anything? I am sure our rulers will fit his and many of his recent comrades' deaths neatly into the the belief system they promote , regardless of the fact that the people ruled by the politicians may not be in favour of this war : So the recent heroes or victims , have again died for the freedom of citizens of which a large proportion do not feel listened to about the current wars in Afghansitan and Iraq. Many soldiers have expressed their resent to the military adventures of this Government which seems to have been annexed long ago by the USA and partly by the E.U.
So we will hear stories of how men (and women now) have fought bravely for our freedom so that we can express ourselves enjoy our way of life and ultimately have no more wars.....and at the same time these criminals will get back to the office taking their orders directly from their American superiors to plan the next bloody
war !
So tell me what did anybody die for ? for us to be governed by a rubber stamping parliament ,obedient to the whims of Washingtons's war mongers?
We need silence to think about the importance of this and the fact that real democracy still needs to be fought for within. May peace be with you too.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Remember The Fifth of November ?
It has been a long time since I entered into this blog. The meaninglessness theme will remain . But due to lack of any real feed back and shortage of time I have decided to make entries even shorter and hopefully 'sweeter'.
Yesterday was 'Guy Fawkes night' hardly ever spoken of now in official circles or in the popular press. The fire works still go off but for what celebration or anniversary few people seem to know or care about .
Guy was a catholic who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the 17th century . I just read recently that some have joked that 'Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter the house of commons with honourable intentions '.
Well I can't help agreeing partly with that . Guy Fawkes never succeeded and was caught together with his fellows all of whom had a horrific session of torture followed by a grisly death .
The main inspiration for the plot was one of rebellion against the persecution of catholics by the regime of the time. Seems always to be the case that protestants or catholics have been -persecuting eachother .Who ever had the most power would treat the other badly.Shame on them both Christians! So glad I'm not taken in by all their rubbish , Maybe one reason for low profile of this celebration could be its offence to the catholics . No more effigies seen of Guy being burnt in the streets of London . Having been resurrected for burning every year for so many hundreds of years it is time he earnt a rest, he has more than paid for his crime
Well there are some in the houses of parliament who could do with a little Guy Fawkes remedy , those war mongers would be blessed if they got a suicide hug from a modern day discontented citizen . But Justice does not always show her self .
Rest in peace Guy .
Yesterday was 'Guy Fawkes night' hardly ever spoken of now in official circles or in the popular press. The fire works still go off but for what celebration or anniversary few people seem to know or care about .
Guy was a catholic who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the 17th century . I just read recently that some have joked that 'Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter the house of commons with honourable intentions '.
Well I can't help agreeing partly with that . Guy Fawkes never succeeded and was caught together with his fellows all of whom had a horrific session of torture followed by a grisly death .
The main inspiration for the plot was one of rebellion against the persecution of catholics by the regime of the time. Seems always to be the case that protestants or catholics have been -persecuting eachother .Who ever had the most power would treat the other badly.Shame on them both Christians! So glad I'm not taken in by all their rubbish , Maybe one reason for low profile of this celebration could be its offence to the catholics . No more effigies seen of Guy being burnt in the streets of London . Having been resurrected for burning every year for so many hundreds of years it is time he earnt a rest, he has more than paid for his crime
Well there are some in the houses of parliament who could do with a little Guy Fawkes remedy , those war mongers would be blessed if they got a suicide hug from a modern day discontented citizen . But Justice does not always show her self .
Rest in peace Guy .
Sunday, July 29, 2007
To Blog Or Not To Blog
That is really the question . I have not written here for a long time . The main reason my enthusiam has dwindled is two fold : one is because there is no damned feedback . Nobody reads my blog , or I guess most people don't read most people's blogs . Some blogs get very noticed but in my experience , the vast majority like mine for instance are totally ignored or on very rare occasions visted by other neighbour bloggers who happen to surf by .
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The Neo Dictatorship
There is no doubt that we are being dictated to in this country , which prides itself on freedom of speech and democracy. Yet although these high ideals , once associated with this great country once meant something , The mainstream political process has become devoid of any meaning and the plethora of authorities which preside over our daily lives have become increasingly more oppressive .
This type of Neo Dictatorship is very unlike the Brand of Hitler , Mussolini or even Stalin established in the last century , all of which ruled by violently devouring all opposition and maintaining power by instilling fear in their subjects and physically punishing or killing them if they stepped out of line.
No. That model of dictatorship although much more cruel and destructive , by definition was destined to fail at one point . The brand which seems to be spreading in most modern so called ' liberal democracies ' is outwardly more benign, pretentiously 'caring ' and 'progressive ' yet very insidious and all powerful . sometimes spreading its policies by manufacturing consent by subtle deception . One does not need to give examples , the current war this country is entangled in speaks for itself. This brand of Neo Dictatorship is spreading its tentacles by the day and changing the way we live by the minute. The alarming thing is that many of us are unaware of this happening and that most of us have not chosen to elect this ruling political party !
The mainstream political parties on the whole in this country have little difference in opinion or policy whether this is home or foreign policy . To be fair to the liberal party though , they did object to the invasion ,and the botched up failed conquering of Iraq.Yet does this party belong to the mainstream ? Although one of the most important political parties of this country's history , the Liberal party is effectively a fringe party , with due respect to genuine Liberals .
The number of eligible voters who have turned out for the past few general elections has been quite small .
In the 2001 General Election, Labour won 62% of the seats with 40.7% of the vote. Taking into account those who did not vote, that meant 24.2% of people eligible to vote, voted Labour in 2001.
In 2005 Tony Blwar's (misspelling intentional ) New Labour party won again despite the fact that only 21% of the 44 million electors supported his party - a record low in British electoral history.
Now given that we have a government whom only 21% of the eligible voters voted for , a figure which I am informed is lower than the percentage who did not bother to vote let alone the figure that voted for other parties . One can only conclude that we are governed by a group of usurpers that 79% or the majority of us are either passionately against ,indifferent to, or totally oblivious of! Yet this ruling party which some say has given away our sovereignty to two other bigger entities namely USA running foreign and military affairs , European Union controlling home affairs. If that is the case why do we have so many rulers in parliament when they are not wanted in the first place ? And apart from the hot air they puke in parliament and on TV Screens their job is a foregone conclusion predetermined by the real powers mentioned .
Yet in reality even if it is only a rubber- stamping or administrative , propaganda and law enforcement power they wield , by the Gods they wield it with impunity !
Now having established that we are living in an oligarchy( a word often misused by the current media to denote a group of wealthy Russian gangsters , but really means government over the many by the few), This oligarchic satrapy consists of various layers including local mini-dictatorships called councils . To these councils the main ruling party bestows various powers : for example to punish mostly law abiding individuals who have perhaps exceeded 30 miles per hour in their car on occasion ,or have dropped litter .
The councils have been given increasing powers to punish individuals and raise revenue for various of their pet projects .
Recently ,according to the forthcoming total ban on smoking cigarettes, the general ruling party has ordered all businesses and other establishments to display NO SMOKING!signs everywhere , there will be fines if this is not done .
Imagine a business man .(sorry!or woman ):although most know I am using generic terms here , the 'thought police ' of this regime may well indeed pick me up on that and accuse me of Chauvenism although they don't know me . I will continue , A business man on his own premises : say for example a publican who smokes himself and employs staff that smoke ,are aware of the dangers , and also informs the public that this is for people who don't mind the smoky environment . If this publican ,after 1st July 2007 ,when the law is enforced , is seen allowing a worker or customer to smoke ,he will be fined . So whatever your views on smoking , this is quite scary .
The very early prohibitive policies that Adolf Hitler introduced in NAZI Germany were in relation to banning smoking in public places .......So whatever your views on smoking , remember,whatever your favourite vice ,obsession or peculiar ,personal freedom is, respect that others have their own ,and fight for all to be accommodated , because next....:They may come for you !
This type of Neo Dictatorship is very unlike the Brand of Hitler , Mussolini or even Stalin established in the last century , all of which ruled by violently devouring all opposition and maintaining power by instilling fear in their subjects and physically punishing or killing them if they stepped out of line.
No. That model of dictatorship although much more cruel and destructive , by definition was destined to fail at one point . The brand which seems to be spreading in most modern so called ' liberal democracies ' is outwardly more benign, pretentiously 'caring ' and 'progressive ' yet very insidious and all powerful . sometimes spreading its policies by manufacturing consent by subtle deception . One does not need to give examples , the current war this country is entangled in speaks for itself. This brand of Neo Dictatorship is spreading its tentacles by the day and changing the way we live by the minute. The alarming thing is that many of us are unaware of this happening and that most of us have not chosen to elect this ruling political party !
The mainstream political parties on the whole in this country have little difference in opinion or policy whether this is home or foreign policy . To be fair to the liberal party though , they did object to the invasion ,and the botched up failed conquering of Iraq.Yet does this party belong to the mainstream ? Although one of the most important political parties of this country's history , the Liberal party is effectively a fringe party , with due respect to genuine Liberals .
The number of eligible voters who have turned out for the past few general elections has been quite small .
In the 2001 General Election, Labour won 62% of the seats with 40.7% of the vote. Taking into account those who did not vote, that meant 24.2% of people eligible to vote, voted Labour in 2001.
In 2005 Tony Blwar's (misspelling intentional ) New Labour party won again despite the fact that only 21% of the 44 million electors supported his party - a record low in British electoral history.
Now given that we have a government whom only 21% of the eligible voters voted for , a figure which I am informed is lower than the percentage who did not bother to vote let alone the figure that voted for other parties . One can only conclude that we are governed by a group of usurpers that 79% or the majority of us are either passionately against ,indifferent to, or totally oblivious of! Yet this ruling party which some say has given away our sovereignty to two other bigger entities namely USA running foreign and military affairs , European Union controlling home affairs. If that is the case why do we have so many rulers in parliament when they are not wanted in the first place ? And apart from the hot air they puke in parliament and on TV Screens their job is a foregone conclusion predetermined by the real powers mentioned .
Yet in reality even if it is only a rubber- stamping or administrative , propaganda and law enforcement power they wield , by the Gods they wield it with impunity !
Now having established that we are living in an oligarchy( a word often misused by the current media to denote a group of wealthy Russian gangsters , but really means government over the many by the few), This oligarchic satrapy consists of various layers including local mini-dictatorships called councils . To these councils the main ruling party bestows various powers : for example to punish mostly law abiding individuals who have perhaps exceeded 30 miles per hour in their car on occasion ,or have dropped litter .
The councils have been given increasing powers to punish individuals and raise revenue for various of their pet projects .
Recently ,according to the forthcoming total ban on smoking cigarettes, the general ruling party has ordered all businesses and other establishments to display NO SMOKING!signs everywhere , there will be fines if this is not done .
Imagine a business man .(sorry!or woman ):although most know I am using generic terms here , the 'thought police ' of this regime may well indeed pick me up on that and accuse me of Chauvenism although they don't know me . I will continue , A business man on his own premises : say for example a publican who smokes himself and employs staff that smoke ,are aware of the dangers , and also informs the public that this is for people who don't mind the smoky environment . If this publican ,after 1st July 2007 ,when the law is enforced , is seen allowing a worker or customer to smoke ,he will be fined . So whatever your views on smoking , this is quite scary .
The very early prohibitive policies that Adolf Hitler introduced in NAZI Germany were in relation to banning smoking in public places .......So whatever your views on smoking , remember,whatever your favourite vice ,obsession or peculiar ,personal freedom is, respect that others have their own ,and fight for all to be accommodated , because next....:They may come for you !
Monday, April 09, 2007
Kidnapped Sailors
It has been in the headlines for the past four weeks or so . The kidnapping of 'our boys ' and one girl we were continuously reminded by the journalistic side kicks of the government.
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How do members of the armed forces in military uniform , thousands of miles away from the home land they are purportedly sworn to defend , get themselves 'kidnapped'. According to the Iranian military the sailors were in their territorial waters.
Mr Blair 'the Omniscient' was seen early on in the crisis outside his digs in Downing street stating categorically that there was no doubt that the members of the armed forces were in Iraqi territorial waters in which they had every right to be in . He as well as his miserable assistant the Foreign secretary Margaret Becket who appeared somewhat flustered over the whole affair insisted that in addition to the above 'we were there in Iraqi waters under a U .N mandate.' what ever that means .
So the affair unfolded throughout TV screens and propaganda sheets throughout the world as st he public and the cynical manipulators of their opinion got heated .
Many were heard stating over the airwaves of radio phone- ins: Bomb the Iranians !
It's hard to believe but I heard a growing intensity of belligerence toward this crisis, which by now had been dubbed the 'hostage crisis ' in the nation's propaganda press.
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Now were they kidnapped? this implies that they were abducted for some kind of gain . Were the Iranians going to demand money for the hand over of the abducted? like a mafia gang kidnapping a rich child?. Or was it a hostage crisis. The fifteen hostages to be executed within a time limit if some impossible demands were not met?
How ludicrous This became . Now whether the fifteen were in or out of Iranian waters was immaterial . They were close. And for a country that is being threatened by the major military powers of the world ,that country would be a little defensive . Imagine if we saw a Chinese or Russian vessel outside the territorial waters but a little close and in our opinion , having no right to be there. What would our peace loving leaders do . Probably the same as their Iranian counterparts.
So as the debacle intensified , various hollow threats were made by by both sides and hey presto , just several days ago all the 'hostages' were released ostensibly by Mr Ahmadinejad , without condition ' as a gift to the British people ' .
Blair the 'Omniscient ' looked utterly humiliated and defeated by a tin pot tyrant who came out with an air of patronising confidence throughout.
Blair was literally speechless on his TV appearance when the release of the 15 was announced .
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Some back stairs diplomacy could have been used , it's unlikely that what the public was fed through the TV and newspapers was all that took place .
The fifteen were apparently treated 'surprisingly humanely' as if we some how have the assumption that all that are not British or American are barbarians , regardless of history and current affairs indicating the contrary.
So the latest in this 'hostage/kidnapping ' case is that after a debriefing by their military masters ,the service people will be allowed to tell their story to the hysterical press for a gullible public for vulgar sum of money .....couldn't get any more bizarre could it?
Now what conditions did they sign with the Ministry of defence before being giving its blessing? you can reach your own conclusion .
But one thing is clear when military personnel are sent on missions of conquest , occupation and possible espionage or infringement of countries near those they occupy , then after capture they are termed 'hostages' and 'kidnapped ', it proves that we really are living in a very extraordinary world where language is charged with political motives where public disinformation is paramount for our leaders to continue in their mischief and in the process endanger the countless lives
of other people as well as our own service men in the process.
This is something which continues to escalate in the recent years with little or no opposition . So what next ? invade fiji on a pretext that they are planning to destroy the world and when we are busy ' debating ' this , we can forget the most recent outrages . The sooner we get rid of this one party state system and make politicians accountable with some respect toward democracy the better.
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How do members of the armed forces in military uniform , thousands of miles away from the home land they are purportedly sworn to defend , get themselves 'kidnapped'. According to the Iranian military the sailors were in their territorial waters.
Mr Blair 'the Omniscient' was seen early on in the crisis outside his digs in Downing street stating categorically that there was no doubt that the members of the armed forces were in Iraqi territorial waters in which they had every right to be in . He as well as his miserable assistant the Foreign secretary Margaret Becket who appeared somewhat flustered over the whole affair insisted that in addition to the above 'we were there in Iraqi waters under a U .N mandate.' what ever that means .
So the affair unfolded throughout TV screens and propaganda sheets throughout the world as st he public and the cynical manipulators of their opinion got heated .
Many were heard stating over the airwaves of radio phone- ins: Bomb the Iranians !
It's hard to believe but I heard a growing intensity of belligerence toward this crisis, which by now had been dubbed the 'hostage crisis ' in the nation's propaganda press.
.
Now were they kidnapped? this implies that they were abducted for some kind of gain . Were the Iranians going to demand money for the hand over of the abducted? like a mafia gang kidnapping a rich child?. Or was it a hostage crisis. The fifteen hostages to be executed within a time limit if some impossible demands were not met?
How ludicrous This became . Now whether the fifteen were in or out of Iranian waters was immaterial . They were close. And for a country that is being threatened by the major military powers of the world ,that country would be a little defensive . Imagine if we saw a Chinese or Russian vessel outside the territorial waters but a little close and in our opinion , having no right to be there. What would our peace loving leaders do . Probably the same as their Iranian counterparts.
So as the debacle intensified , various hollow threats were made by by both sides and hey presto , just several days ago all the 'hostages' were released ostensibly by Mr Ahmadinejad , without condition ' as a gift to the British people ' .
Blair the 'Omniscient ' looked utterly humiliated and defeated by a tin pot tyrant who came out with an air of patronising confidence throughout.
Blair was literally speechless on his TV appearance when the release of the 15 was announced .
.
Some back stairs diplomacy could have been used , it's unlikely that what the public was fed through the TV and newspapers was all that took place .
The fifteen were apparently treated 'surprisingly humanely' as if we some how have the assumption that all that are not British or American are barbarians , regardless of history and current affairs indicating the contrary.
So the latest in this 'hostage/kidnapping ' case is that after a debriefing by their military masters ,the service people will be allowed to tell their story to the hysterical press for a gullible public for vulgar sum of money .....couldn't get any more bizarre could it?
Now what conditions did they sign with the Ministry of defence before being giving its blessing? you can reach your own conclusion .
But one thing is clear when military personnel are sent on missions of conquest , occupation and possible espionage or infringement of countries near those they occupy , then after capture they are termed 'hostages' and 'kidnapped ', it proves that we really are living in a very extraordinary world where language is charged with political motives where public disinformation is paramount for our leaders to continue in their mischief and in the process endanger the countless lives
of other people as well as our own service men in the process.
This is something which continues to escalate in the recent years with little or no opposition . So what next ? invade fiji on a pretext that they are planning to destroy the world and when we are busy ' debating ' this , we can forget the most recent outrages . The sooner we get rid of this one party state system and make politicians accountable with some respect toward democracy the better.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Art and civilisation
Its comforting to see that the arts are so respected . Especially the visual arts,my favourite medium .And indeed one where I am but an insignificant , minor , unrecognised but persevering practitioner in .
Our great leader Mr Blair himself was seen having a photo shot with some paintings by one of our all time greatest painters : Turner .
Mr Blair , two days ago posed with his enormous grin in front of this powerfully atmospheric sea scape in London's Tate Gallery and was quoted to have said in support of arts that they serve the purpose of :' ....Enriching peoples lives and their communities '.
Very comforting . The fact that somebody appreciates a great work of art makes one have an affinity with the other's finer judgement and transcendent leanings to the higher sensibilities ......
Again this morning as I read my favourite propaganda sheet ; the Guardian , I read about another man who judging by the painting on his wall was an art lover .
Yes this man : Terrence George Adams , reportedly leader of the most
feared gang of criminals in the country was jailed for seven years yesterday for a charge of laundering one million pounds . This apparently being the tip of the iceberg. According to the report , Adams was a ruthless criminal whose fortune was in millions supporting a lavish lifestyle for himself and his family . Police bugging devices have recordings of him graphically boasting about the removal of one his enemy's knee caps: 'His knee cap came right out there....all white ,Dan , all bone and white ..'
So this Criminal waved a salute to his wife and went down into custody yesterday
whilst the case on him gets bigger , hopefully his sentence gets longer on other charges so that he can rot whilst his fortunes wither or pay for his costly court case . Yes ,well maybe he can start some kind of art appreciation society in prison or something like that .
So two powerful men , both lovers of art , this is a sign post to some kind of higher human evolution surely ? But no .
Power , however transient is what both devils have had and used with violent consequences .
The major difference is that Blair has what some sociologists call 'legitimate power' and Adams the 'illegitimate '.
Ultimately it is the same thing as we do not have a society led by politicians that use this power morally or legally in certain cases.
Hopefully the other bigger fish or an art lover may one day be brought to justice and we can have a growing art lovers' movement down there in the cells , it will definitely be a civilising force ,maybe we could call this new movement: 'Bully ism'.
Our great leader Mr Blair himself was seen having a photo shot with some paintings by one of our all time greatest painters : Turner .
Mr Blair , two days ago posed with his enormous grin in front of this powerfully atmospheric sea scape in London's Tate Gallery and was quoted to have said in support of arts that they serve the purpose of :' ....Enriching peoples lives and their communities '.
Very comforting . The fact that somebody appreciates a great work of art makes one have an affinity with the other's finer judgement and transcendent leanings to the higher sensibilities ......
Again this morning as I read my favourite propaganda sheet ; the Guardian , I read about another man who judging by the painting on his wall was an art lover .
Yes this man : Terrence George Adams , reportedly leader of the most
feared gang of criminals in the country was jailed for seven years yesterday for a charge of laundering one million pounds . This apparently being the tip of the iceberg. According to the report , Adams was a ruthless criminal whose fortune was in millions supporting a lavish lifestyle for himself and his family . Police bugging devices have recordings of him graphically boasting about the removal of one his enemy's knee caps: 'His knee cap came right out there....all white ,Dan , all bone and white ..'
So this Criminal waved a salute to his wife and went down into custody yesterday
whilst the case on him gets bigger , hopefully his sentence gets longer on other charges so that he can rot whilst his fortunes wither or pay for his costly court case . Yes ,well maybe he can start some kind of art appreciation society in prison or something like that .
So two powerful men , both lovers of art , this is a sign post to some kind of higher human evolution surely ? But no .
Power , however transient is what both devils have had and used with violent consequences .
The major difference is that Blair has what some sociologists call 'legitimate power' and Adams the 'illegitimate '.
Ultimately it is the same thing as we do not have a society led by politicians that use this power morally or legally in certain cases.
Hopefully the other bigger fish or an art lover may one day be brought to justice and we can have a growing art lovers' movement down there in the cells , it will definitely be a civilising force ,maybe we could call this new movement: 'Bully ism'.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Anti war Demonstration February 24th , 2007 ,London
Well I actually did it. I attended a march in central London to demonstrate about things I have been angry about and felt that the government not only does not listen or care about but is actively in favour of causing serious mischief in .
I had been increasingly worried about the possible bombing of Iran . I have been getting a recurring feeling of 'deja vu' where despicable politicians from USA , Britain , Israel and their minions have repeatedly made noises about how the leader of Iran is so much like Adolf Hitler and that he plans to 'wipe Israel of the map ' and of course if that is part of his plan for Israel , imagine what he has in store for the rest of these poor and under prepared super powers ?
Hitler , 1939 was in charge of a military super power of his time , he did invade many countries and planned to dominate many others with an institutional policy of racism of the worst kind. But what these despicable politicians are saying and what is echoed by a bland and docile media is false , Iran has never in its modern history invaded any countries and neither did Iranian president , Ahmadinejad threaten to destroy Israel . Those who would seek various reputable or varied sources will realise that this is a fabrication similar to those used by Goebbels :' A lie is only a lie but if repeated enough times , becomes the truth ' . How ironic that the very same people that cry 'Hitler is coming ' are the same rascals that mimic Goebbels.
It is incredible ! I heard a top journalist on radio speaking to an American politician who was virtually advocating the possible air strikes on Iran repeating this mantra about Iran's leader wanting: 'To wipe Israel of the face of the map' and the journalist not challenginging the veracity of the statement. This is the lame media of the BBC world service , you can imagine what the traditional jingoistic right wing press and pro Zionist outlets have gone to town with .
So, amidst the distortion of the truth it is hard to single out exactly what is happening ,It would be wise to look for various sources and see their views. It becomes abundantly clear to me anyway that , Iran is no threat to Israel apart from maybe her military supplies to Hezbollah or other shi'ite factions in the region . And so what?; allies tend to help eachother . The US and Britain both stood by, did not call for an immediate cease fire whilst they watched children burn in Lebanon from the fire of an invading Israeli force. But not only that ,the scoundrels were supplying the highly equipped Israelis with more ammunition . That is the outrage.
So we seem to be being prepared to acquiesce as passive witnesses( albeit with carefully censored and selected visual information) to another example of American terrorism of the worst sort. At present there is a military build up in the middle east with American air craft carriers close by . Some independent journalists are saying that what the Americans want is to destabilise Iran so that it can disintegrate from being a unified ,sovereign state ,that they are encouraging rivalry amongst various ethnic groups in order to instigate a regime change and 'hey presto! ' oil , gas , military pathways etc are theirs .. But hang on , things are not that easy are they? look at Iraq ? . it's hard to believe , but although I may be deluded or reading the wrong reports , these criminals are planning again to do some bad things in the name of greed and generally to acquire wealth for the few rather than the many .
So I attended the 'peace march' . Nobody would come with me , nobody ,and I was wondering whether I should really go or not. but I did , I arrived by 12.00 at Hyde Park Corner. I felt lost and out of place being one of the very few loners their . I looked odd, not holding a placard or wearing a badge or distributing leaflets of my favourite cause. I ended up being herded into a line on a road within Hyde Park , very orderly and heading for Trafalgar Square .The crowd was ushered into a straight line of a width of at least 6 or seven people by the official stewards . It didn't look enormous to me but I could not estimate the size. I could not see the front. I waited standing , not talking to anyone , I wanted to be alone somehow in this crowd as I had come alone ,I wasn't in the mood of 'meeting wonderful people and making friends' but there was an implicit feeling that all present were friends and although I had pictured an event in my mind that could attract pickockets and other like minded scum , I was pleasantly surprised to see a genuine mix and match of all ages, classes, political persuasions and races all having some reason to be there in an atmosphere of friendliness and respectfulness.
Some had placards of 'Bush the world's greatest terrorist' others were definitely 'ban the bomb ' people of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ' campaigning against the governments's recent decisison to renew the Nuclear submarine fleet known as Trident ,and various other causes .
In fact this variety did lack a specifically targeted common cause for a campaign and I guess that's what made it lack much collective passion and outrage to focus upon . However some youngsters were banging drums continuously to a 'Ba boom ba boom !' rhythm and were well coordinated , others were shouting into megaphones :'Come on everybody dance to this ; War what is it good for - nothing !' This song from the eighties being revived by a campaign supported by the renegade former 'new labour ' MP George Galloway .
I had been motivated by what I believe is a gradual process of public desensitisation by the government, right wing press and other hangers on ,in preparation for another major assault on a foreign country ;Iran .
I eventually found a placard with 'Do not attack Iran' and held this all the way to Trafalgar.
I waited a long time until the orderly mob started marching proper . We moved like a large snail . set into motion at about 1.00pm . I was getting inpatient by then but got to enjoy the various spectacles . Endless groups of inviduals desperately handing leaflets of their causes to who ever . I bought a copy of the 'Peace Times' for 50p and accepted leaflets for so many different political causes that it reached a fatigue level and I couldn't care less any more about 'jews against Zionism' , 'The Twin Tower Conspiracy ' the 'socialist Worker ' 'The Bolivar Revolution ' etc etc. I started refusing and saying ' Thanks ,I already have one' as they nodded in approval .
We continued to walk and after about what seemed like an hour but must have been 40 minutes ,I had just come level to Green park tube station . I could not believe it and thoguht to myself , well at this rate I won't be back in time for my afternoon
nap which I usually like to take at about 2 or 3 o'clock . But then I reasoned that this was a worth while cause and how selfish was I to compare my little nap to the real horrors we here to denounce. I passed 'Grosvenor House ' a big office block
where 34 years ago I started my first job as an apprentice telephone engineer ,the company had a meeting base at the basement of this building , how I had a flash back of arriving early one morning and getting a little too comfortable whilst waiting for the rest , had begun to doze; they never let me forget that , I eventually suffered the ignominious sacking after struggling for a year or so trying to be 'the apprentice ' ; Bastards"!. Such a long time ago I thought , what a young , confused boy I was, I needed understanding not mocking . A long time ago that was.
I left the unhappy memory behind and cruised along Park Lane or Piccadilly,whatever that road is called , I have walked past there so many times and thought to myself : this is were I belong , this is my home town , I was born in Nicosia but I don't have the same connection as I do here , I always feel a pang of excitement in my bones when I walk up the West End , where ever I have lived in London over the past forty years or so , that was not my place , not Burnt Oak , Manor House , Crouch Hill ,Edmonton , no the only constant was the love of travelling to the West End .
When I went to live in Cyprus in 1992 , It was the West End that I missed.
But this walk in the West End was different , I was the traffic , the road had been closed off for me to walk on instead of being used by the motorists . The cars had to wait for me and a few thousands of other faceless VIP's to carry on the march, get to the destination and then allow normal traffic right of way .
So amidst the thousands or tens of thousands of heads and shoulders , I looked up at familiar buildings , statues , restaurants , book shops etc, all from such a strange angle never before experienced , alongside the somemwhat eccentric jumble of activists made the whole view surreal . I was just staring at the buildings with loudspeakers blaring , drumbeats thumping , young girls' hips gyrating and me plodding along with a placard and mixed up thoughts of past present and future.
One thought whilst listening to a group in their late teens discussing the march and their anger againsts the government made me think, how slow I was again ,taking me forty nine years to get off my bum and join in a mass protest rather than staying at home and fuming .
By four o'clock or so we had reached Trafalgar Square , it was peaceful no bad incidents seen , no problem with police etc . We had made it . Placards were
discarded into piles on the floor as marchers watched the large video screen which projected the image of various speakers including George Galloway MP . A Spokesman for the 'Muslim Initiative' said many things about the misrepresentation of Muslims and how true Muslims will protest ligitimately etc. George spoke as usual in his rabble rousing manner , always worth a listen . He seems quite hated , many boo'd him as he spoke . there was a live link up with Bruce Kent, leader of CND who in my opinion made the best speech which in essence was:'think for yourselves ' don't just listen to the rubbish spoken around the corner in Whitehall etc.'
After I had listened to a few speakers , I did feel that the atmosphere was somewhat dead-beat and that the turn -out was a disappointment ,yet figures seem to be a matter of opinion in these marches , I would make a very crude guess at 10 thousand , but can't be sure .
I left , as I saw others trickling toward the Leicester Square Tube station .
This way I thought I could avoid a crush movement under ground . The trains were crowded, but I got back in good time with no complaints or major discomfort apart from exhaustion . When I returned home I actually thought it was worth it , just to show and be part of the expression to our leaders of the oligarchy that , 'you are not listening and you do not represent us, get that? I also managed to get two hours late afternooon's sleep .
The next day I watched some videos of the march on the internet posted on u-tube , Brian Haw, the man who is permanently camped outside parliament was the guest speaker that seemed to attract the most applause , his message was simple and a little blunt , almost naive ,peace not war , love etc , but many agreed and applauded . Seemed a little like a mascot of the left or the dissidents to me . A token allowed by the oligarchic system to demonstrate that big brother does love us all and cares and even allows limited protest outside its front door providing it does not get out of hand .
Well I hope after all this , that Iran is not attacked . Some may read this and think it's a naive notion because Iran may get stronger and stronger then turn on all of us and be able to destroy us all . I think that notion would be more naive and that an attack on Iran would be criminal. I may be wrong but time will tell .
Peace be with you .
I had been increasingly worried about the possible bombing of Iran . I have been getting a recurring feeling of 'deja vu' where despicable politicians from USA , Britain , Israel and their minions have repeatedly made noises about how the leader of Iran is so much like Adolf Hitler and that he plans to 'wipe Israel of the map ' and of course if that is part of his plan for Israel , imagine what he has in store for the rest of these poor and under prepared super powers ?
Hitler , 1939 was in charge of a military super power of his time , he did invade many countries and planned to dominate many others with an institutional policy of racism of the worst kind. But what these despicable politicians are saying and what is echoed by a bland and docile media is false , Iran has never in its modern history invaded any countries and neither did Iranian president , Ahmadinejad threaten to destroy Israel . Those who would seek various reputable or varied sources will realise that this is a fabrication similar to those used by Goebbels :' A lie is only a lie but if repeated enough times , becomes the truth ' . How ironic that the very same people that cry 'Hitler is coming ' are the same rascals that mimic Goebbels.
It is incredible ! I heard a top journalist on radio speaking to an American politician who was virtually advocating the possible air strikes on Iran repeating this mantra about Iran's leader wanting: 'To wipe Israel of the face of the map' and the journalist not challenginging the veracity of the statement. This is the lame media of the BBC world service , you can imagine what the traditional jingoistic right wing press and pro Zionist outlets have gone to town with .
So, amidst the distortion of the truth it is hard to single out exactly what is happening ,It would be wise to look for various sources and see their views. It becomes abundantly clear to me anyway that , Iran is no threat to Israel apart from maybe her military supplies to Hezbollah or other shi'ite factions in the region . And so what?; allies tend to help eachother . The US and Britain both stood by, did not call for an immediate cease fire whilst they watched children burn in Lebanon from the fire of an invading Israeli force. But not only that ,the scoundrels were supplying the highly equipped Israelis with more ammunition . That is the outrage.
So we seem to be being prepared to acquiesce as passive witnesses( albeit with carefully censored and selected visual information) to another example of American terrorism of the worst sort. At present there is a military build up in the middle east with American air craft carriers close by . Some independent journalists are saying that what the Americans want is to destabilise Iran so that it can disintegrate from being a unified ,sovereign state ,that they are encouraging rivalry amongst various ethnic groups in order to instigate a regime change and 'hey presto! ' oil , gas , military pathways etc are theirs .. But hang on , things are not that easy are they? look at Iraq ? . it's hard to believe , but although I may be deluded or reading the wrong reports , these criminals are planning again to do some bad things in the name of greed and generally to acquire wealth for the few rather than the many .
So I attended the 'peace march' . Nobody would come with me , nobody ,and I was wondering whether I should really go or not. but I did , I arrived by 12.00 at Hyde Park Corner. I felt lost and out of place being one of the very few loners their . I looked odd, not holding a placard or wearing a badge or distributing leaflets of my favourite cause. I ended up being herded into a line on a road within Hyde Park , very orderly and heading for Trafalgar Square .The crowd was ushered into a straight line of a width of at least 6 or seven people by the official stewards . It didn't look enormous to me but I could not estimate the size. I could not see the front. I waited standing , not talking to anyone , I wanted to be alone somehow in this crowd as I had come alone ,I wasn't in the mood of 'meeting wonderful people and making friends' but there was an implicit feeling that all present were friends and although I had pictured an event in my mind that could attract pickockets and other like minded scum , I was pleasantly surprised to see a genuine mix and match of all ages, classes, political persuasions and races all having some reason to be there in an atmosphere of friendliness and respectfulness.
Some had placards of 'Bush the world's greatest terrorist' others were definitely 'ban the bomb ' people of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ' campaigning against the governments's recent decisison to renew the Nuclear submarine fleet known as Trident ,and various other causes .
In fact this variety did lack a specifically targeted common cause for a campaign and I guess that's what made it lack much collective passion and outrage to focus upon . However some youngsters were banging drums continuously to a 'Ba boom ba boom !' rhythm and were well coordinated , others were shouting into megaphones :'Come on everybody dance to this ; War what is it good for - nothing !' This song from the eighties being revived by a campaign supported by the renegade former 'new labour ' MP George Galloway .
I had been motivated by what I believe is a gradual process of public desensitisation by the government, right wing press and other hangers on ,in preparation for another major assault on a foreign country ;Iran .
I eventually found a placard with 'Do not attack Iran' and held this all the way to Trafalgar.
I waited a long time until the orderly mob started marching proper . We moved like a large snail . set into motion at about 1.00pm . I was getting inpatient by then but got to enjoy the various spectacles . Endless groups of inviduals desperately handing leaflets of their causes to who ever . I bought a copy of the 'Peace Times' for 50p and accepted leaflets for so many different political causes that it reached a fatigue level and I couldn't care less any more about 'jews against Zionism' , 'The Twin Tower Conspiracy ' the 'socialist Worker ' 'The Bolivar Revolution ' etc etc. I started refusing and saying ' Thanks ,I already have one' as they nodded in approval .
We continued to walk and after about what seemed like an hour but must have been 40 minutes ,I had just come level to Green park tube station . I could not believe it and thoguht to myself , well at this rate I won't be back in time for my afternoon
nap which I usually like to take at about 2 or 3 o'clock . But then I reasoned that this was a worth while cause and how selfish was I to compare my little nap to the real horrors we here to denounce. I passed 'Grosvenor House ' a big office block
where 34 years ago I started my first job as an apprentice telephone engineer ,the company had a meeting base at the basement of this building , how I had a flash back of arriving early one morning and getting a little too comfortable whilst waiting for the rest , had begun to doze; they never let me forget that , I eventually suffered the ignominious sacking after struggling for a year or so trying to be 'the apprentice ' ; Bastards"!. Such a long time ago I thought , what a young , confused boy I was, I needed understanding not mocking . A long time ago that was.
I left the unhappy memory behind and cruised along Park Lane or Piccadilly,whatever that road is called , I have walked past there so many times and thought to myself : this is were I belong , this is my home town , I was born in Nicosia but I don't have the same connection as I do here , I always feel a pang of excitement in my bones when I walk up the West End , where ever I have lived in London over the past forty years or so , that was not my place , not Burnt Oak , Manor House , Crouch Hill ,Edmonton , no the only constant was the love of travelling to the West End .
When I went to live in Cyprus in 1992 , It was the West End that I missed.
But this walk in the West End was different , I was the traffic , the road had been closed off for me to walk on instead of being used by the motorists . The cars had to wait for me and a few thousands of other faceless VIP's to carry on the march, get to the destination and then allow normal traffic right of way .
So amidst the thousands or tens of thousands of heads and shoulders , I looked up at familiar buildings , statues , restaurants , book shops etc, all from such a strange angle never before experienced , alongside the somemwhat eccentric jumble of activists made the whole view surreal . I was just staring at the buildings with loudspeakers blaring , drumbeats thumping , young girls' hips gyrating and me plodding along with a placard and mixed up thoughts of past present and future.
One thought whilst listening to a group in their late teens discussing the march and their anger againsts the government made me think, how slow I was again ,taking me forty nine years to get off my bum and join in a mass protest rather than staying at home and fuming .
By four o'clock or so we had reached Trafalgar Square , it was peaceful no bad incidents seen , no problem with police etc . We had made it . Placards were
discarded into piles on the floor as marchers watched the large video screen which projected the image of various speakers including George Galloway MP . A Spokesman for the 'Muslim Initiative' said many things about the misrepresentation of Muslims and how true Muslims will protest ligitimately etc. George spoke as usual in his rabble rousing manner , always worth a listen . He seems quite hated , many boo'd him as he spoke . there was a live link up with Bruce Kent, leader of CND who in my opinion made the best speech which in essence was:'think for yourselves ' don't just listen to the rubbish spoken around the corner in Whitehall etc.'
After I had listened to a few speakers , I did feel that the atmosphere was somewhat dead-beat and that the turn -out was a disappointment ,yet figures seem to be a matter of opinion in these marches , I would make a very crude guess at 10 thousand , but can't be sure .
I left , as I saw others trickling toward the Leicester Square Tube station .
This way I thought I could avoid a crush movement under ground . The trains were crowded, but I got back in good time with no complaints or major discomfort apart from exhaustion . When I returned home I actually thought it was worth it , just to show and be part of the expression to our leaders of the oligarchy that , 'you are not listening and you do not represent us, get that? I also managed to get two hours late afternooon's sleep .
The next day I watched some videos of the march on the internet posted on u-tube , Brian Haw, the man who is permanently camped outside parliament was the guest speaker that seemed to attract the most applause , his message was simple and a little blunt , almost naive ,peace not war , love etc , but many agreed and applauded . Seemed a little like a mascot of the left or the dissidents to me . A token allowed by the oligarchic system to demonstrate that big brother does love us all and cares and even allows limited protest outside its front door providing it does not get out of hand .
Well I hope after all this , that Iran is not attacked . Some may read this and think it's a naive notion because Iran may get stronger and stronger then turn on all of us and be able to destroy us all . I think that notion would be more naive and that an attack on Iran would be criminal. I may be wrong but time will tell .
Peace be with you .
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Pigs !
After this , I will no longer use that expression . Come to think of it we generally use such a term in a derogatory manner to describe one who is rude, insensitive , cruel or evil ; all very common and potent human attributes, not necessarily traits of the pig . It demonstrates how egocentric and psychotic our own human condition is .
How often have you seen or heard of a group of pigs , capturing , imnprisoning , torturing and executing another species for food ,clothing and other products and services which , in this age of technology , it could be argued, we could do without . Diogenes the great cynic philosopher used the phrase 'Thrice human ' for those he thought were lacking in any moral fibre or integrity . He got it right two and half thousand years ago .
How often have we seen pigs turn on their own species in large numbers and attempt to wipe millions of their own kind off the face of the earth ? I don't think they are a perfect species and I understand they can show aggression to eachother at times but to a miniscule degree compared with us smug humans .
I have been a life long lover of eating meat , amongst my favourites being a variety of pork dishes . However I have often had battles with my conscience every time I hear from animal rights activists that eating meat promotes and perpetuates untold cruelty throughout the world . I would think about it at times and then shove it to the back of my mind as I munched on a pork chop . It was too much of an invasion of my comfort zone to take action , even a little difference could be worth while. I even got close to working in a slaughter house when I went to live in my birth place , Cyprus in 1992. So much was my cowardice , that I knew deep down that if I took on the job offered to me in the abattoir , I would be so uncomfortable , seeing what went into providing my bacon , or pork kebab on the table for that matter, that I could of had to bring my meat eating days to a halt then and there . But I enjoyed it too much and refusal of the job allowed me to carry on without thinking. I continued like this for years, thinking about it at times but not making a decision . This year at the turn of the hour that brought in 2007 I was thinking again that I must do something as I have always admired those that choose not to eat animals .
So at the turn of the year returning home quite late ,I was hungry and demolished a tin of corned beef like a heroin addict .. Ahhhhhhhhhh,. Then I said ; tomorrow , I must and will do it , and so far, since that day , I have managed to keep away from eating mammals or birds , I feel quite proud of myself as I thought it would be impossible, still I have moments where I reminisce but over all I have found good substitutes for meet and still eat fish( that's another debate altogether) which I cannot enter into right now . And in my conscience I feel better and a little truer in my own self. I still can be accused of hypocrisy as I am wearing leather shoes and still eating meat of another sort but at least , that's several hundred pigs less for slaughter , and a little less hypocrisy .
Pigs are seen by some to be possibly the fourth most intelligent species after , humans, apes and sea mammals such as dolphins . Having had a pet dog for the first time in my life has made a difference I often pondered as I looked him in the eyes thinking how many millions of such eyes stare into the humans' eyes who do our dirty work for us in the factory farms. It is totally incongruent that we in the western culture deem cats and dogs as almost holy or sacred yet slaughter millions of their equals . This is exactly how we have been adjusted with little questioning .
Having stopped eating mammals and birds for almost two months , I felt a little more curious to search the internet about these animals . I was shocked by what I saw , for example a group of people in a third world country slaughtering a pig in the most gruesome , drawn out and agonising way ,leaving it to squeal and groan for minutes as they incompetently pinned it down and butchered it ..I had to stop viewing . I also saw another video , where what appeared to be some kind of 'celebrity ' chef showing, how he humanely and painstakingly reared two pigs all the way to the day he took them personally to the abattoir and watched them being slaughtered in a reputable establishment whose manager assured our 'celebrity' that the pigs 'did not feel a thing. ' , to be fair to our TV cook ,he did look emotionally involved and needed reassurance to believe what he saw.
The very strikingly surreal moments in this mini video were first , the filming of the last days of the pigs, as they were treated like pets in the chef's garden . The Tv cook was saying on their last day as he prepared to cart them to the abattoir that:'They normally run up to me to greet me in the mornings' they remained in their kennels, although it was drizzling lightly ,he said 'I don't think it's the rain , they must know something'. Thats the tragic side to it , that he felt they knew , however he was at the same time talking about the dishes and exciting recipes he was going to produce from them . The other bizarre moment was when the two carcasses had ceased twitching and had moved further down the production line , having seen them removed of all hair and been disembowelled , he spoke of various culinary delights as the camera drew close to the two features that distinguished these two strung up pieces of pork from their dead peers ; they still had name tags tied to them :Elizabeth and Harold .
Pigs !
How often have you seen or heard of a group of pigs , capturing , imnprisoning , torturing and executing another species for food ,clothing and other products and services which , in this age of technology , it could be argued, we could do without . Diogenes the great cynic philosopher used the phrase 'Thrice human ' for those he thought were lacking in any moral fibre or integrity . He got it right two and half thousand years ago .
How often have we seen pigs turn on their own species in large numbers and attempt to wipe millions of their own kind off the face of the earth ? I don't think they are a perfect species and I understand they can show aggression to eachother at times but to a miniscule degree compared with us smug humans .
I have been a life long lover of eating meat , amongst my favourites being a variety of pork dishes . However I have often had battles with my conscience every time I hear from animal rights activists that eating meat promotes and perpetuates untold cruelty throughout the world . I would think about it at times and then shove it to the back of my mind as I munched on a pork chop . It was too much of an invasion of my comfort zone to take action , even a little difference could be worth while. I even got close to working in a slaughter house when I went to live in my birth place , Cyprus in 1992. So much was my cowardice , that I knew deep down that if I took on the job offered to me in the abattoir , I would be so uncomfortable , seeing what went into providing my bacon , or pork kebab on the table for that matter, that I could of had to bring my meat eating days to a halt then and there . But I enjoyed it too much and refusal of the job allowed me to carry on without thinking. I continued like this for years, thinking about it at times but not making a decision . This year at the turn of the hour that brought in 2007 I was thinking again that I must do something as I have always admired those that choose not to eat animals .
So at the turn of the year returning home quite late ,I was hungry and demolished a tin of corned beef like a heroin addict .. Ahhhhhhhhhh,. Then I said ; tomorrow , I must and will do it , and so far, since that day , I have managed to keep away from eating mammals or birds , I feel quite proud of myself as I thought it would be impossible, still I have moments where I reminisce but over all I have found good substitutes for meet and still eat fish( that's another debate altogether) which I cannot enter into right now . And in my conscience I feel better and a little truer in my own self. I still can be accused of hypocrisy as I am wearing leather shoes and still eating meat of another sort but at least , that's several hundred pigs less for slaughter , and a little less hypocrisy .
Pigs are seen by some to be possibly the fourth most intelligent species after , humans, apes and sea mammals such as dolphins . Having had a pet dog for the first time in my life has made a difference I often pondered as I looked him in the eyes thinking how many millions of such eyes stare into the humans' eyes who do our dirty work for us in the factory farms. It is totally incongruent that we in the western culture deem cats and dogs as almost holy or sacred yet slaughter millions of their equals . This is exactly how we have been adjusted with little questioning .
Having stopped eating mammals and birds for almost two months , I felt a little more curious to search the internet about these animals . I was shocked by what I saw , for example a group of people in a third world country slaughtering a pig in the most gruesome , drawn out and agonising way ,leaving it to squeal and groan for minutes as they incompetently pinned it down and butchered it ..I had to stop viewing . I also saw another video , where what appeared to be some kind of 'celebrity ' chef showing, how he humanely and painstakingly reared two pigs all the way to the day he took them personally to the abattoir and watched them being slaughtered in a reputable establishment whose manager assured our 'celebrity' that the pigs 'did not feel a thing. ' , to be fair to our TV cook ,he did look emotionally involved and needed reassurance to believe what he saw.
The very strikingly surreal moments in this mini video were first , the filming of the last days of the pigs, as they were treated like pets in the chef's garden . The Tv cook was saying on their last day as he prepared to cart them to the abattoir that:'They normally run up to me to greet me in the mornings' they remained in their kennels, although it was drizzling lightly ,he said 'I don't think it's the rain , they must know something'. Thats the tragic side to it , that he felt they knew , however he was at the same time talking about the dishes and exciting recipes he was going to produce from them . The other bizarre moment was when the two carcasses had ceased twitching and had moved further down the production line , having seen them removed of all hair and been disembowelled , he spoke of various culinary delights as the camera drew close to the two features that distinguished these two strung up pieces of pork from their dead peers ; they still had name tags tied to them :Elizabeth and Harold .
Pigs !
Sunday, February 04, 2007
'I am not a Racist'
'I am not a racist ' This phrase is often heard nowadays , normally as an introduction to making some comment which may involve judgedment or criticism of another racial, cultural or religious group .
It was often repeated in the recent debacle on the so called British Channel four reality show of 'Celebrity big Brother ' when a young lady who has by the way become a 'celebrity' solely by appearing on a previous series of this show, Jade Goody , now a household name was accused of making racial remarks against a fellow contestant , Shilpa who apparently is a super star in India's film industry . Now I didn't watch the show but that wasn't even necessary ,for all the media and even the serious radio stations and newspapers had the antics of these characters as their main news story,it was difficult to avoid.As if not to broadcast the adventures of these 'celebrities ' the news station or newspapers might lose their readership or viewers .
So this Jade person together with another female contestant did some bullying and in the process made racial comments against Shilpa. I believe on one occasion she referred to the Indian actress as' Shilpa Pappadum'.
The radio stations and newspapers went to town and Jade was accused of racism even by the show's presenters , to which she bitterly protested :'I ain't a racist!' and cried as she said this , she stated that she 'takes people as they are '.
So what is racism ? , I would like to explore . I would think it is on an individual basis the belief that another race is inferior to one's own or of lesser intelligence or moral worth, or something like that . On a collective level I would say it is the outright opression or attempt to dominate , persecute or wipe out another race .
Now most people can be accused of racism if we take the first definition ,suppose I was to say I don't like the Swiss , does that make me a racist ? I guess so. I state that I don't like the Swiss because of they way they talk and their eating habits disgust me . Is this not my right regardless of government legislation. Is this not more a xenophobia , of which I believe is the natural human condition ? Most of us if honest find ourselves surrounded by a group of people speaking an unintelligible language amongst themselves , eating strange food and behaving in a manner which we are unfamiliar with would feel a little strange and possibly phobic .This does not mean that I would like to arrange a mass extermination of the Swiss people? Of course not ,it would probably mean I am a little ignorant of Swiss people and somewhat bigoted . If I got to know a Swiss person and became great friends with that person I would learn about his or her language and customs and might even become lover of the Swiss . On the other hand I could even get married to a Swiss person and still not really like the Swiss way of life or mentality although I would no longer be ignorant but somewhat bigoted or opinionated . So this type of racism although very widespread could be considered innocuous .
On the other hand supposing I had come accross millions of Swiss that had just immmigrated to this country looking for work and settlement . I might see them as a group that presents a threat of taking my employment opportunities and using 'My
Country's ' resources . And although I am an immigrant myself having been on the receiving end of this view myself , it could still be a possibility . Now if my xenophobia developed to such a degree that I joined a nationalist party that is dedicated to getting rid of these people in a violent manner , then what would follow if this party got into power and started to literally wage war on the Swiss immigrants would be real racism , a very dangerous thing .
So using the example of the Swiss seems quite sanitised as they as a group are quite affluent in the world and if anything are not known as immigrant workers or as an indigenous group that has been invaded. If we make the same comments about another race for example Australian Aborigonese , Jews, Indigenous Americans or Afro Carribbeans then it becmes much more emotionally loaed , sensitive , complex and explosive .This is because these people in history have been persecuted with real racism and are still feeling its consequences in today's generations .
Now lets come back to our original example with the two local white English girls making some derogatory comments , targeted at the Indian contestant's race . Well if race was used in the bullying process , this we could call 'type one racism ', the type that is near enough impossible to erradicate . It is the type of agression that would have been targeted at a ginger haired person or obese person , just down right cruelty targeting the victim's personal attributes whatever they may be . The 'type two racism' of course is the ugly face of racism. It has not only taken its place throughout human history and in the past few centuries but also continues to this day .Take the plight of the Palestinian people , a group occcupied in their own land , living with the utmost humiliation , degradation and under a racist regime imposed by the occupying state of Israel , which seems , with the support of the powerful western imperial nations to dominate every aspect of these peoples' lives crushing any organised military resistance with maximum force and devastation . This is racism , And I really wonder if this is our natural human condition given similar circumstances .
Yet even under this aggressive, destructive and institutional racism of the above example and many others throughout the world there is still a trace of hope as many Israeli citizens see the reality of this madness and struggle to influence their leaders' and their fanatical patrons to change some of their policies .And many Palestinians would want to make a settlement without the use of indescriminate violence .Some Israeli soldiers refuse to serve in the army for this reason alone . The killing that goes on between the two groups of this conflict creates fear and hatred .There is little choice for the Israeli or Palestinian , involved in this conflict to say 'I'm not a racist' ,Whatever an individual believes in this situation , it is 'us or them' , people are dying around them , they have lost relatives and friends, they live in fear of their lives taken by a stranger. So in this example when a group is threatened by another there is fear and suspicion of the other group, this could develop into denying the weaker group civil rights , the rest is the history of mankind; war , suppression ,violent resistance and revolution .
So when I hear people state 'I ain't a racist' , it means nothing. This is a cliche with the notion that:'There are good and bad in every race ', is so pointless , and begs the question . Of course there are good and bad , or likeable and less likeable people of all races but this has no bearing on what these good and bad people would do when the battle lines are drawn and often the battle lines are drawn between race , religion , region or political affiliation , regardless of the personality traits of individual members of either group.
So racism then is very difficult to define , it is true that at its ugliest it is when one group of people persecutes and attempts to eliminate another , on its most harmless it could be a person not wanting his daughter to marry a person of a different race . The one is abhorrent the other could be seen as bigotry or even by some as a freedom of choice and right of opinion . The danger is when the latter type escalates into the former and when people develop the belief that one group is inherently inferior to their own and that it is justifiable to exploit them , peresecute them and ulimately wipe them out . This is truly dangerous and could be the reason that the political correct legislators of the western quasi democracies
make even the utterance of a comment as mild as Jade's unacceptable . The 'thought police' having from their own point of view , good intentions , have taken away from us the freedom to think the unthinkable ; for whatever is good or bad about us we will ultimately have bad thoughts about people , sometimes even about their race without paradoxically wanting to exterminate them or consider them inferior, But Alas the Orwellian thought police of the political authorities have terrorised us to such a degree that when someone like the rich fool Jade says 'I ain't a racist ' you can see the look of fear on her as if to be branded as such ,she is signing a contract to being lynched.
So racism is a complex subject and should in its most dangerous form be unacceptable but to define it and to erradicate it is difficult as the cntradictions above show . Sadly it is not going away, for as our serious news stations are debating whether Jade is a racist or not and how terrible racism is , our good leader is sending more troops to Afghanistan and is maintaining others who in Iraq are risking their own lives to occupy a nation that was no threat to us : An aggressive, illegal war waged on citizens of another country ;That's racism , some must be accountable who are they ?
It was often repeated in the recent debacle on the so called British Channel four reality show of 'Celebrity big Brother ' when a young lady who has by the way become a 'celebrity' solely by appearing on a previous series of this show, Jade Goody , now a household name was accused of making racial remarks against a fellow contestant , Shilpa who apparently is a super star in India's film industry . Now I didn't watch the show but that wasn't even necessary ,for all the media and even the serious radio stations and newspapers had the antics of these characters as their main news story,it was difficult to avoid.As if not to broadcast the adventures of these 'celebrities ' the news station or newspapers might lose their readership or viewers .
So this Jade person together with another female contestant did some bullying and in the process made racial comments against Shilpa. I believe on one occasion she referred to the Indian actress as' Shilpa Pappadum'.
The radio stations and newspapers went to town and Jade was accused of racism even by the show's presenters , to which she bitterly protested :'I ain't a racist!' and cried as she said this , she stated that she 'takes people as they are '.
So what is racism ? , I would like to explore . I would think it is on an individual basis the belief that another race is inferior to one's own or of lesser intelligence or moral worth, or something like that . On a collective level I would say it is the outright opression or attempt to dominate , persecute or wipe out another race .
Now most people can be accused of racism if we take the first definition ,suppose I was to say I don't like the Swiss , does that make me a racist ? I guess so. I state that I don't like the Swiss because of they way they talk and their eating habits disgust me . Is this not my right regardless of government legislation. Is this not more a xenophobia , of which I believe is the natural human condition ? Most of us if honest find ourselves surrounded by a group of people speaking an unintelligible language amongst themselves , eating strange food and behaving in a manner which we are unfamiliar with would feel a little strange and possibly phobic .This does not mean that I would like to arrange a mass extermination of the Swiss people? Of course not ,it would probably mean I am a little ignorant of Swiss people and somewhat bigoted . If I got to know a Swiss person and became great friends with that person I would learn about his or her language and customs and might even become lover of the Swiss . On the other hand I could even get married to a Swiss person and still not really like the Swiss way of life or mentality although I would no longer be ignorant but somewhat bigoted or opinionated . So this type of racism although very widespread could be considered innocuous .
On the other hand supposing I had come accross millions of Swiss that had just immmigrated to this country looking for work and settlement . I might see them as a group that presents a threat of taking my employment opportunities and using 'My
Country's ' resources . And although I am an immigrant myself having been on the receiving end of this view myself , it could still be a possibility . Now if my xenophobia developed to such a degree that I joined a nationalist party that is dedicated to getting rid of these people in a violent manner , then what would follow if this party got into power and started to literally wage war on the Swiss immigrants would be real racism , a very dangerous thing .
So using the example of the Swiss seems quite sanitised as they as a group are quite affluent in the world and if anything are not known as immigrant workers or as an indigenous group that has been invaded. If we make the same comments about another race for example Australian Aborigonese , Jews, Indigenous Americans or Afro Carribbeans then it becmes much more emotionally loaed , sensitive , complex and explosive .This is because these people in history have been persecuted with real racism and are still feeling its consequences in today's generations .
Now lets come back to our original example with the two local white English girls making some derogatory comments , targeted at the Indian contestant's race . Well if race was used in the bullying process , this we could call 'type one racism ', the type that is near enough impossible to erradicate . It is the type of agression that would have been targeted at a ginger haired person or obese person , just down right cruelty targeting the victim's personal attributes whatever they may be . The 'type two racism' of course is the ugly face of racism. It has not only taken its place throughout human history and in the past few centuries but also continues to this day .Take the plight of the Palestinian people , a group occcupied in their own land , living with the utmost humiliation , degradation and under a racist regime imposed by the occupying state of Israel , which seems , with the support of the powerful western imperial nations to dominate every aspect of these peoples' lives crushing any organised military resistance with maximum force and devastation . This is racism , And I really wonder if this is our natural human condition given similar circumstances .
Yet even under this aggressive, destructive and institutional racism of the above example and many others throughout the world there is still a trace of hope as many Israeli citizens see the reality of this madness and struggle to influence their leaders' and their fanatical patrons to change some of their policies .And many Palestinians would want to make a settlement without the use of indescriminate violence .Some Israeli soldiers refuse to serve in the army for this reason alone . The killing that goes on between the two groups of this conflict creates fear and hatred .There is little choice for the Israeli or Palestinian , involved in this conflict to say 'I'm not a racist' ,Whatever an individual believes in this situation , it is 'us or them' , people are dying around them , they have lost relatives and friends, they live in fear of their lives taken by a stranger. So in this example when a group is threatened by another there is fear and suspicion of the other group, this could develop into denying the weaker group civil rights , the rest is the history of mankind; war , suppression ,violent resistance and revolution .
So when I hear people state 'I ain't a racist' , it means nothing. This is a cliche with the notion that:'There are good and bad in every race ', is so pointless , and begs the question . Of course there are good and bad , or likeable and less likeable people of all races but this has no bearing on what these good and bad people would do when the battle lines are drawn and often the battle lines are drawn between race , religion , region or political affiliation , regardless of the personality traits of individual members of either group.
So racism then is very difficult to define , it is true that at its ugliest it is when one group of people persecutes and attempts to eliminate another , on its most harmless it could be a person not wanting his daughter to marry a person of a different race . The one is abhorrent the other could be seen as bigotry or even by some as a freedom of choice and right of opinion . The danger is when the latter type escalates into the former and when people develop the belief that one group is inherently inferior to their own and that it is justifiable to exploit them , peresecute them and ulimately wipe them out . This is truly dangerous and could be the reason that the political correct legislators of the western quasi democracies
make even the utterance of a comment as mild as Jade's unacceptable . The 'thought police' having from their own point of view , good intentions , have taken away from us the freedom to think the unthinkable ; for whatever is good or bad about us we will ultimately have bad thoughts about people , sometimes even about their race without paradoxically wanting to exterminate them or consider them inferior, But Alas the Orwellian thought police of the political authorities have terrorised us to such a degree that when someone like the rich fool Jade says 'I ain't a racist ' you can see the look of fear on her as if to be branded as such ,she is signing a contract to being lynched.
So racism is a complex subject and should in its most dangerous form be unacceptable but to define it and to erradicate it is difficult as the cntradictions above show . Sadly it is not going away, for as our serious news stations are debating whether Jade is a racist or not and how terrible racism is , our good leader is sending more troops to Afghanistan and is maintaining others who in Iraq are risking their own lives to occupy a nation that was no threat to us : An aggressive, illegal war waged on citizens of another country ;That's racism , some must be accountable who are they ?
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Andrew Adams is Innocent!
Andrew Adams ,36 , was freed from jail yesterday after spending 15 years incarcerated for the murder of Jack Royal in 1990 . Adams was 23 years old and Royal 58 at the time.
After 15 years of imprisonment Adam's conviction for murder was quashed by Lord Justice Gage , Mr Justice Silber and Mr Justice Treacy . They ruled that 'criticisms and failures ' relating to the handling of Adams' defence and specially pre-trial had rendered the verdict unsafe. The defence at the time failed to prepare their case properly and did not give the jury the opportunity to hear important evidence about Kevin Thompson the main prosecution witness , which would have undermined the cae for the prosecution .
So Adams is free, and who had heard of him up until now ?, I certainly haven't. I guess the case must have been very high profile at the time , at least there was a good coverage on his release.
Cases like this can be very alarming and can put the abolition of the death penalty in good light .
Now Adams, according to the report by Karen Mcveigh in today's paragon of independent reporting and truth ,and possibly the best of a bad bunch of propaganda sheets The Guardian , was originally found guilty of killing Jack Royal in a 'gangland style shooting ' .The murder was said to have been a revenge attack for the death of David Thompson (No relation of Kevin Thompson) who had been fatally attacked by Royal ,the 58 year old retired science teacher, in a street fight in 1987 . It was alleged that Adams and John Hands (also acquitted of the same crime ) , were persuaded by Catherine Thompson , the dad man's sister to murder Mr Royal . She was also acquitted of soliciting murder. This travesty of justice followed a failed attempt to prosecute a Mr Walter Hepple for the murder of Mr Royal . The other irony to this case is that Mr Royal himself had been acquitted of murdering Mr Thompson ( a former business partener of his son) , Royal had been cleared of murder, and after two trials it was ruled that he acted in self defence .
It seems to get complicated . An innocent man though, adheres to one story however ridiculous or ignored , The truth sticks and is one whereas cunning alibis and lies are many and constantly changing. Good luick to Adams , I hope he gets the conpensation that he deserves. His only regret was that his mother was not there to witness this moment , as she died whilst he was still in prison.
Adams reported that he had mixed emotions and that he had to wait 15 years for the result he should have had in the first place. he thanked his current legal team and also expressed sympathy for the family of the murdered man Mr Royal as the killer is still at large.
The Chief Superintendent of Northumbria Polce ,Steve Bolam, refused to comment as he stated he had not yet had the opportunity to study the findings.
It is quite shocking how in a country that prides itself on its standards of justice , that this could happen . But when corruption sets in at any level of the process it is not difficult to see how one can be swept away , have an ufair trial and suffer the ignominity of languishing in jail for years for a crime one did not commit There are many ways this has happened especially in cases that are politically motivated . Remember the cases of suspected IRA members being falsely imprisoned . It was the Bradford , Guildford and if I remember clearly Birmingham groups of indivisuals locked up after falsified evidence , confessions taken after beatings by the police etc. SoundS like a cAse out of the annals of Amnesty international . But truly there are many ways a false conviction can be successfully upheld .Much depends on the competence of the defence or prosecution rather than the integrity of the jury .
justice has not been done,because nothing can compensate for those 15 years .Lets say that injustice has been slightly thwarted and the man has not been left forgotten like many others we have not heard of in this country and possibly hundreds of thounsands in other countries that languish in prisons within regimes that do not even pretend to value true justice , democracy or human rights .
After 15 years of imprisonment Adam's conviction for murder was quashed by Lord Justice Gage , Mr Justice Silber and Mr Justice Treacy . They ruled that 'criticisms and failures ' relating to the handling of Adams' defence and specially pre-trial had rendered the verdict unsafe. The defence at the time failed to prepare their case properly and did not give the jury the opportunity to hear important evidence about Kevin Thompson the main prosecution witness , which would have undermined the cae for the prosecution .
So Adams is free, and who had heard of him up until now ?, I certainly haven't. I guess the case must have been very high profile at the time , at least there was a good coverage on his release.
Cases like this can be very alarming and can put the abolition of the death penalty in good light .
Now Adams, according to the report by Karen Mcveigh in today's paragon of independent reporting and truth ,and possibly the best of a bad bunch of propaganda sheets The Guardian , was originally found guilty of killing Jack Royal in a 'gangland style shooting ' .The murder was said to have been a revenge attack for the death of David Thompson (No relation of Kevin Thompson) who had been fatally attacked by Royal ,the 58 year old retired science teacher, in a street fight in 1987 . It was alleged that Adams and John Hands (also acquitted of the same crime ) , were persuaded by Catherine Thompson , the dad man's sister to murder Mr Royal . She was also acquitted of soliciting murder. This travesty of justice followed a failed attempt to prosecute a Mr Walter Hepple for the murder of Mr Royal . The other irony to this case is that Mr Royal himself had been acquitted of murdering Mr Thompson ( a former business partener of his son) , Royal had been cleared of murder, and after two trials it was ruled that he acted in self defence .
It seems to get complicated . An innocent man though, adheres to one story however ridiculous or ignored , The truth sticks and is one whereas cunning alibis and lies are many and constantly changing. Good luick to Adams , I hope he gets the conpensation that he deserves. His only regret was that his mother was not there to witness this moment , as she died whilst he was still in prison.
Adams reported that he had mixed emotions and that he had to wait 15 years for the result he should have had in the first place. he thanked his current legal team and also expressed sympathy for the family of the murdered man Mr Royal as the killer is still at large.
The Chief Superintendent of Northumbria Polce ,Steve Bolam, refused to comment as he stated he had not yet had the opportunity to study the findings.
It is quite shocking how in a country that prides itself on its standards of justice , that this could happen . But when corruption sets in at any level of the process it is not difficult to see how one can be swept away , have an ufair trial and suffer the ignominity of languishing in jail for years for a crime one did not commit There are many ways this has happened especially in cases that are politically motivated . Remember the cases of suspected IRA members being falsely imprisoned . It was the Bradford , Guildford and if I remember clearly Birmingham groups of indivisuals locked up after falsified evidence , confessions taken after beatings by the police etc. SoundS like a cAse out of the annals of Amnesty international . But truly there are many ways a false conviction can be successfully upheld .Much depends on the competence of the defence or prosecution rather than the integrity of the jury .
justice has not been done,because nothing can compensate for those 15 years .Lets say that injustice has been slightly thwarted and the man has not been left forgotten like many others we have not heard of in this country and possibly hundreds of thounsands in other countries that languish in prisons within regimes that do not even pretend to value true justice , democracy or human rights .
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Irrepressible.info
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The Irrepressible.info campaign continues to be hosted by
'The Meaninglessness of Life'
Also try our sister blogs:
'Pellas: The Incomplete works'
'Gallery Seventy Five '
and
'Me and Deo '
You will not be disappointed .A few people have visited after a promotinal campaign but not one comment!
It's good to have freedom of speech and privacy.
May Zeus be with you .
The Editor .
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
The Death Of Saddam Hussein
Well it eventually happened , the so called government of Iraq , after a 'trial' decided to sentence Saddam Hussein , the ex tyrant of Iraq, to death for his guilt of crimes against humanity with regard to events that took place after a failed assassination attempt on him in Dujail in 1982.Specific charges included the murder of 148 people, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 others .
On November 5, 2006, Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging. On December 26, Saddam's appeal was rejected and the death sentence upheld. No further appeals were taken and Saddam was ordered to be executed within 30 days of that date. The date and place of the execution was secret until the sentence was carried out on the 30th December .
It was a globally public execution . We were bombarded with footage on the mainstream tv channels of Saddam Hussein having the noose placed around his neck by masked men . These images were repeatedly broadcast with no further scenes but that of the noose being placed around his neck . After the execution took place , footage from mobile phone video cameras was 'leaked' or released on the internet .This showed his executioners taunting him and the trap door opening , and eventually his body laid flat . I let morbid curiousity get the better of me and though I have never viewed anything like this before over the internet , found it very distasteful. The irony for his enemies though was that however much of an evil ruthless dictator the man was, he did appear to face his final moments with what many would hate to admit was dignity and courage .
So the Iraqi hand-puppet show of a democracy apparently carried out the whole farce , (not the USA military of course ). Yet the media tools of the establishment although pedalling this myth as if it were true , in the same breath kept on repeating that Saddam Hussein was 'handed over ' to the Iraqi goverment for execution . What was the U.S. military doing 'holding'him and doing just about everything else to him up to now?
So he is now dead , after a very dodgy trial to say the least. Now what many people with some common sense are asking themselves is why was the man put to death so quickly and why was the main charge that warranted the speedy death penalty , with respect to the victims, a relatively minor crime compared to the bombing of Halabjah and gassing of 5,000 Kurdish villagers of i988? .
Why wasn't he tried for this major mass murder ? Could it be because the American , British and many other governments would have been seen to be complicit in these crimes by encouraging , arming and generally doing business with him for their own interests against the bogey man of the time , Iran ?
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Well it looks very much like it to me. Imagine Saddam being asked by a neutral judge (if that were possible)to testify in detail about these crimes and why he perpertrated them , and with whose help ? Of course it would be very embarrassing eventhough the major criminals ; his paymasters would still not have any shame whatsoever. They are a total disgrace and if they were to go to the gallows themselves for what crimes they are responsible for , I doubt if they would take it in the neck as bravely as Saddam did .
Does not this show to the world if anything that killing and state execution is barbaric full stop?
Surely it would have been more appropriate and civilised to maintain this criminal alive in a prison for the rest of his days? I wonder whether the implications of complicity not withstanding , that this is what America and and its British subsidiary really wanted ? For now the anger is raging thoughout many quarters of the Arabic speaking world and not necessarily because they are supporters of Hussein. There is a bigger principle here and it is to do with the demonstration and abuse of an oligarchic power that knows no rule of law outside its own agenda.
What unfolds next in Iraq is anybody's guess , the 'Crusaders' of peace justice and democracy have their attention on Iran at the moment. Regardless of the immense amount of suffering they have caused in Iraq , the scoundrels are beginning other plans and are gradually starting to dress them up with the same clothing via various sound bytes and mantras ,repeatedly chanted by their media , just like the clothes they wore last time!
A public demonstration is being arranged against these warlike intentions sometime in London this February . I never go to demonstrations like this , but due to the extent that our oligarchy has gone to in not listening to its subjects , I am
seriously considering to make an appearance.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Goodbye Mike and Manos
Goodbye to Mike Dickin the Talk Sport Radio presenter . I was shocked to hear that he died . I heard this today. He was involved in a six car pile- up yesterday and it
was reported that he died on his way to hospital in a helicopter.
What a shock . He was part of my life style.
Uncle Manos was buried yesterday .. I did't attend the funeral . He died about two weeks ago whilst on holiday in Egypt,his birth place. Manos was found dead in a hotel bath tub., no explanation, and an autopsy was not carried out by the Egyptian authorities . Manos was about seventy seven , the same age as my father Costas would have been had he not died five years ago .
I did not have a special relationship with uncle Manos . I guess he had bad relationships with most people: blood relatives or otherwise. I remember Dad didn't like him much . He was divorced many many years ago and remained quite bitter and depressed . Often appearing at family parties late and hungry. He lived a lonely life and what struck me was that he seems to have died a lonely death. May he rest in peace.
I have to admit Mike Dickin was a bigger loss to me . I used to look forward to listening to his show on Friday and Saturday nights, and when it was time for bed I would put my ear plug on and listen to his angry , passionate and entertaining reactions to the meaninglessness of the experiences he and listeners recited as well as the absurdities of a regime imposed by the elected government ,both
central and local branches alike.
He used to analyse the behaviour of the mini dictatorships known as local councils . How they delighted in taking people's money for parking vehicles against their rules or other even more bizarre and trivial offences. He would invite guests on the show who would be expert in how to take on the wrath of these mini despots and not give in to their intimidating tactics. He was a champion in this field of standing up to the nasty behaviour of jobsworth government employees.
When it came to political ,topical or more philosophical issues he debated excellently coming accross with a balanced view; neither too far to the left or right of the political spectrum . What I guess I admired was his cynicism or should I say realism. About politicians and their like . He also had a love of straight forward decency and expressed the anger and frustration shared by millions of listeners about the sheer stupidity of how the law and its minions affect our everyday lives .
He was not blinded by manipulative nationalism and although a proud Englishman shunned the values of being over patriotic to the point of allowing one'self to
become bigoted.Neither did he fear to challenge the exaggerated political correctness of the day and confronted callers about their own perceptions of their
religious , racial or political identity.
He was an unashamed , self confessed outright atheist defying the self righteous who claimed the moral high ground purely because they proffesed a 'faith'.
I did not know him personally but over the years he revealed quite modestly a lot about himself . He was a family man , loved Cornwall and had a life of varied achievements . I hear he was a musician , sportsman aswell as knowledgeable on all aspects of motoring . He seems to have travelled to most parts of the world and in conversation would occasionally mention as an aside ,within an appropriate context,his acquaintance with all sorts of interesting people , political demagogues as well as so-called celebrities . And he wasn't afraid to broadcast publically if he thought a particular character, however 'important ' or 'famous', was a 'pratt'.
It's a great loss. I tried to express my condolences to his family via talk sport e-mail as the station has opened a condolence book in which admirers were able to write their comments. Unfortunately it seems to be jammed . I have given up with that but felt drawn to write in this blog instead . It must be a shock for his family , his children are quite young although he was in his sixties according to BBC reporting .
It is a real loss to his close family , but also to his wider family many who like myself invited him in into their homes over the weekend .
Good bye to both . Uncle Manos who seemed quite unhappy with life. I hope he is no longer unhappy.
And Mike , seemed ,although to be angry about many things in this life , somehow knew how to get some kicks. I hope that if he was wrong about the existence of God , that he is treated with the utmost respect by all the immortals of Hades. He would be as good a catch for them as he was a bad loss to the living .
His most used catch phrase was 'My health is not in question '.And that is ironically so true now.
Goodbye
was reported that he died on his way to hospital in a helicopter.
What a shock . He was part of my life style.
Uncle Manos was buried yesterday .. I did't attend the funeral . He died about two weeks ago whilst on holiday in Egypt,his birth place. Manos was found dead in a hotel bath tub., no explanation, and an autopsy was not carried out by the Egyptian authorities . Manos was about seventy seven , the same age as my father Costas would have been had he not died five years ago .
I did not have a special relationship with uncle Manos . I guess he had bad relationships with most people: blood relatives or otherwise. I remember Dad didn't like him much . He was divorced many many years ago and remained quite bitter and depressed . Often appearing at family parties late and hungry. He lived a lonely life and what struck me was that he seems to have died a lonely death. May he rest in peace.
I have to admit Mike Dickin was a bigger loss to me . I used to look forward to listening to his show on Friday and Saturday nights, and when it was time for bed I would put my ear plug on and listen to his angry , passionate and entertaining reactions to the meaninglessness of the experiences he and listeners recited as well as the absurdities of a regime imposed by the elected government ,both
central and local branches alike.
He used to analyse the behaviour of the mini dictatorships known as local councils . How they delighted in taking people's money for parking vehicles against their rules or other even more bizarre and trivial offences. He would invite guests on the show who would be expert in how to take on the wrath of these mini despots and not give in to their intimidating tactics. He was a champion in this field of standing up to the nasty behaviour of jobsworth government employees.
When it came to political ,topical or more philosophical issues he debated excellently coming accross with a balanced view; neither too far to the left or right of the political spectrum . What I guess I admired was his cynicism or should I say realism. About politicians and their like . He also had a love of straight forward decency and expressed the anger and frustration shared by millions of listeners about the sheer stupidity of how the law and its minions affect our everyday lives .
He was not blinded by manipulative nationalism and although a proud Englishman shunned the values of being over patriotic to the point of allowing one'self to
become bigoted.Neither did he fear to challenge the exaggerated political correctness of the day and confronted callers about their own perceptions of their
religious , racial or political identity.
He was an unashamed , self confessed outright atheist defying the self righteous who claimed the moral high ground purely because they proffesed a 'faith'.
I did not know him personally but over the years he revealed quite modestly a lot about himself . He was a family man , loved Cornwall and had a life of varied achievements . I hear he was a musician , sportsman aswell as knowledgeable on all aspects of motoring . He seems to have travelled to most parts of the world and in conversation would occasionally mention as an aside ,within an appropriate context,his acquaintance with all sorts of interesting people , political demagogues as well as so-called celebrities . And he wasn't afraid to broadcast publically if he thought a particular character, however 'important ' or 'famous', was a 'pratt'.
It's a great loss. I tried to express my condolences to his family via talk sport e-mail as the station has opened a condolence book in which admirers were able to write their comments. Unfortunately it seems to be jammed . I have given up with that but felt drawn to write in this blog instead . It must be a shock for his family , his children are quite young although he was in his sixties according to BBC reporting .
It is a real loss to his close family , but also to his wider family many who like myself invited him in into their homes over the weekend .
Good bye to both . Uncle Manos who seemed quite unhappy with life. I hope he is no longer unhappy.
And Mike , seemed ,although to be angry about many things in this life , somehow knew how to get some kicks. I hope that if he was wrong about the existence of God , that he is treated with the utmost respect by all the immortals of Hades. He would be as good a catch for them as he was a bad loss to the living .
His most used catch phrase was 'My health is not in question '.And that is ironically so true now.
Goodbye
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Promoting the Brand
In the beginning it is meaningless: Totally bewildering , you have seen this on the expression of a very young child, new to the world . You don't even comprehend a thing and go on strenuously learning by dropping things out of the pram or tasting things that shouldn't be eaten.....Years pass ... you learn and then you begin to question things and get to the heart of examining this existence. Still no meaning and of course you can then like many before you: conform by borrowing, stealing or even inventing something meaningful about your life : It helps. Buying some 'meaning' off the shelf, accepting ideas of others who purport to know the enigma of being : An answer you were striving for . You can carry on like this for a long time until the meaninglessness returns , looms and reveals itself and leaves more mystery . Eventually life comes to its end , a glimmer of revelation the opportunity for you to make some sense of all this meaninglessness and see what it was all about :Alas! you will not be and therefore not able to acknowledge whether your life had any meaning at all , let alone conclude that there was any meaninglessness either .
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Mr Blaiunder ...........blunder ?
Breaking News
Mr Blair was, I am told by news programmes over the radio , interviewed by David Frost .The Interview was for Al Jazeera news station.That station that the U.S bombed during the Iraq invasion because it was squeeling to loudly : freedom of speech ?
Anyhow the old fossil Frost (About time they replaced him , aeons ago when I was a still a child and he was already an established TV presenting mogul ),suggested to Blair that the war in Iraq had..........'So far been pretty much of a disaster '. Mr Blair responded thus :'It has . But you see,what I say to people is :"Why is it difficult in Iraq?", It's not difficult in some accident in planning ,it's difficult because there's a deliberate strategy - Al Qaida with Sunni insurgents on the one hand, Iranian backed-elements with Shia militias on the other - to create a situation in which the will of the majority for peace is displaced by the will of the minority for war '
Please read his reply analyse every statement , think about what was going on in Iraq then and what is going on now , what Blair said the war was about then, and what he is saying now and what is actually happening now, then draw a conclusion about the facts and the amazing man himself ....has he conceded or has he got a little mixed up , dazzled by the shine of the journalistic , avant garde fossil?
Or merely just not bothered any more as its close to the time to hang up his gloves of real mass destruction and commence his tours of universities and 'give '
extortionate after dinner speeches........( save some crumbs for the victims Tone!)
Mr Blair was, I am told by news programmes over the radio , interviewed by David Frost .The Interview was for Al Jazeera news station.That station that the U.S bombed during the Iraq invasion because it was squeeling to loudly : freedom of speech ?
Anyhow the old fossil Frost (About time they replaced him , aeons ago when I was a still a child and he was already an established TV presenting mogul ),suggested to Blair that the war in Iraq had..........'So far been pretty much of a disaster '. Mr Blair responded thus :'It has . But you see,what I say to people is :"Why is it difficult in Iraq?", It's not difficult in some accident in planning ,it's difficult because there's a deliberate strategy - Al Qaida with Sunni insurgents on the one hand, Iranian backed-elements with Shia militias on the other - to create a situation in which the will of the majority for peace is displaced by the will of the minority for war '
Please read his reply analyse every statement , think about what was going on in Iraq then and what is going on now , what Blair said the war was about then, and what he is saying now and what is actually happening now, then draw a conclusion about the facts and the amazing man himself ....has he conceded or has he got a little mixed up , dazzled by the shine of the journalistic , avant garde fossil?
Or merely just not bothered any more as its close to the time to hang up his gloves of real mass destruction and commence his tours of universities and 'give '
extortionate after dinner speeches........( save some crumbs for the victims Tone!)
Monday, November 06, 2006
Hanging In The Balance
It's official , the life of the former dictator of Iraq is hanging in the balance.
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by the Iraq 'government' yesteday .
He is to hang . He did prefer death by firing squad we are told , but no longer wielding power and ordering others to their deaths or being waited on by servants in one of his palaces , the former despot does not even have the luxury of his final choice in the menu of death .
The question really is ; 'Will he swing or sing?'.
Either way it could be troublesome.
If he swings on the end of a rope, the analysts are telling us his Sunni supporters will elevate him to a martyr and inflict countless more atrocities thereby destabilising the fragile 'democracy 'even further into chaos and mayhem.
If he sings, this could be equally disturbing. for his lawyer is already lodging an appeal . If this is succesful ,I imagine further charges will continously be launched against him until he is finally nailed down . But then he will have so much to sing about when various details of his previous crimes come into the open. He may well implicate various good guys who encouraged him along in 1980-88 in the war against Iran. The real weapons of mass destruction (Not the imaginary ones),the weapons used agianst his own citizens . Who sold them to him ? when and why? . He will have lots to say .
Either way then if he swings or sings , things are not looking good for the beleaguered people of Iraq and the board room Guerillas of The White House or Downing Street.
Now If he is eventually executed , how will he or his magnanimous victors Bush and Blair be entered into the sewage of history?
The Iraq /Iran war , a million casualties? from reliable sources. The persecution of his own people included for so many years of his reign. The figures could reach tens or hundreds of thousands it is not clear .
His adversaries though when considering the assault on Iraq using the most powerful weapons of mass destruction during the war to liberate Kuwait , the interim , the second invasion of Iraq in 2003 and all that followed , have exceeded him .
When one includes the suffering imposed indirectly whether intentional or not , one must be a fool to not come to the conclusion that America and its European province of Britain has caused more death and suffering .
Remember that we live in a world of selective reporting and sophisticated spin by devious politicians who dress up military imperialist acts of genocide as 'humanitarian interventions'. The facts are out there if one is willing to look for alternative views from reliable sources ; Unicef ? The Lancet? to name but
a few of the more establishment orientated ones for those that do not trust the brilliance of 'lefty ' commentators such as Pilger ,Fisk or Chomsky.
In conclusion , I can only make the following analogy to describe how all three scoundrels are related.
Remember that excellent film by Copolla : The Godfather? picture these elegant mafia dons, dressed smartly , seated in their plush offices , offering warm Italian hospitality to their adversaries . They speak of lofty virtues such as : family values , honour , respect .....and being a 'reasonable man'. How superbly portrayed by Marlon Brando . When the battle lines were drawn and there was a conflict of interest between major gangs ,the killings happen...men are machine gunned down whilst in a wedding or funeral , others are brutally stabbed by gangleaders' henchmen. These lower ranking henchmen and thugs often in the story , after serving their purpose as paid assassins , would be then bumped off themselves for security reasons. The poor buggers were vitims in their own right, sacrificed whilst the mafia dons in their suits regained power and restored 'order ' to the community.
Well, in the dumping ground of history all three of our players will be there : Bush the Mafia don , Blair the close and trusty junior partner of the family business , then The great tyrant himself in the role of the cheap , hired ,expendable thug whose fate is to be bumped of ......swinging after he helped to settled the score .
The devastion of Iraq is a big crime , Saddam is guilty but the price paid by his people at the mercy of their liberators is much higher than can be imagined or dared to be made public by a dishonest system of 'Free press'.
Saddam's life is now hanging in the balance but millions did not even have a fair trial.
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by the Iraq 'government' yesteday .
He is to hang . He did prefer death by firing squad we are told , but no longer wielding power and ordering others to their deaths or being waited on by servants in one of his palaces , the former despot does not even have the luxury of his final choice in the menu of death .
The question really is ; 'Will he swing or sing?'.
Either way it could be troublesome.
If he swings on the end of a rope, the analysts are telling us his Sunni supporters will elevate him to a martyr and inflict countless more atrocities thereby destabilising the fragile 'democracy 'even further into chaos and mayhem.
If he sings, this could be equally disturbing. for his lawyer is already lodging an appeal . If this is succesful ,I imagine further charges will continously be launched against him until he is finally nailed down . But then he will have so much to sing about when various details of his previous crimes come into the open. He may well implicate various good guys who encouraged him along in 1980-88 in the war against Iran. The real weapons of mass destruction (Not the imaginary ones),the weapons used agianst his own citizens . Who sold them to him ? when and why? . He will have lots to say .
Either way then if he swings or sings , things are not looking good for the beleaguered people of Iraq and the board room Guerillas of The White House or Downing Street.
Now If he is eventually executed , how will he or his magnanimous victors Bush and Blair be entered into the sewage of history?
The Iraq /Iran war , a million casualties? from reliable sources. The persecution of his own people included for so many years of his reign. The figures could reach tens or hundreds of thousands it is not clear .
His adversaries though when considering the assault on Iraq using the most powerful weapons of mass destruction during the war to liberate Kuwait , the interim , the second invasion of Iraq in 2003 and all that followed , have exceeded him .
When one includes the suffering imposed indirectly whether intentional or not , one must be a fool to not come to the conclusion that America and its European province of Britain has caused more death and suffering .
Remember that we live in a world of selective reporting and sophisticated spin by devious politicians who dress up military imperialist acts of genocide as 'humanitarian interventions'. The facts are out there if one is willing to look for alternative views from reliable sources ; Unicef ? The Lancet? to name but
a few of the more establishment orientated ones for those that do not trust the brilliance of 'lefty ' commentators such as Pilger ,Fisk or Chomsky.
In conclusion , I can only make the following analogy to describe how all three scoundrels are related.
Remember that excellent film by Copolla : The Godfather? picture these elegant mafia dons, dressed smartly , seated in their plush offices , offering warm Italian hospitality to their adversaries . They speak of lofty virtues such as : family values , honour , respect .....and being a 'reasonable man'. How superbly portrayed by Marlon Brando . When the battle lines were drawn and there was a conflict of interest between major gangs ,the killings happen...men are machine gunned down whilst in a wedding or funeral , others are brutally stabbed by gangleaders' henchmen. These lower ranking henchmen and thugs often in the story , after serving their purpose as paid assassins , would be then bumped off themselves for security reasons. The poor buggers were vitims in their own right, sacrificed whilst the mafia dons in their suits regained power and restored 'order ' to the community.
Well, in the dumping ground of history all three of our players will be there : Bush the Mafia don , Blair the close and trusty junior partner of the family business , then The great tyrant himself in the role of the cheap , hired ,expendable thug whose fate is to be bumped of ......swinging after he helped to settled the score .
The devastion of Iraq is a big crime , Saddam is guilty but the price paid by his people at the mercy of their liberators is much higher than can be imagined or dared to be made public by a dishonest system of 'Free press'.
Saddam's life is now hanging in the balance but millions did not even have a fair trial.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Iraq inquiry
This very moment in The Houses of Commons ;those chambers of splendid debate and oligarchic virtue where we find ourselves in a:
' World of appearances where what appears to seem true is not equal to how the truth seems to appear '
(Pellas 2006)
There has been a a call for another inquiry into the trouble that won't go away from Tony Blair and his minions: The horror that is the Iraq war.
Obviously Mr Blair himself must be shivering up where his spinal chord should be as members from the Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties are calling for an inquiry.
The party faithful such as The foreign secretary Margarety Becket said there would "come a time" to learn lessons from Iraq, but this was not it. There was a danger of "sending the wrong signals at the wrong time" and appeared to set a deadline for operations, she said.
Blunket that other almost obsessionally allied and uncomfortably close colleague of Blair's mumbled something equally stupid:That inqiries going on would lessen the morale of our soldiers . Standard stuff.
It's amazing how the people with real blood on their hands seem to talk so passionately and defensively about our troops like they really care . It's so obvious that their support is one of condescension and manipulation , to keep the poor , dispensable foot soldiers feeling important and irreplaceable (which they are to their families but not to the likes of our leaders).
This very minute I hear the 'debate' or mumble on the net on a well known radio channel run by the government .I gathered the 'Ayes' were beaten by the 'nays' I am not sure I have fully understood what's going on . I will have to comment again later when I have it clearly reported on the news again . But if it is what I think I heard that the majority of MPs voting , again did not have the gumption to challenge and bring down these gangsters by not voting for the motion..... then I really do have to lose faith in the virtues of our beloved oligarchy .
May they sleep in peace .
' World of appearances where what appears to seem true is not equal to how the truth seems to appear '
(Pellas 2006)
There has been a a call for another inquiry into the trouble that won't go away from Tony Blair and his minions: The horror that is the Iraq war.
Obviously Mr Blair himself must be shivering up where his spinal chord should be as members from the Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties are calling for an inquiry.
The party faithful such as The foreign secretary Margarety Becket said there would "come a time" to learn lessons from Iraq, but this was not it. There was a danger of "sending the wrong signals at the wrong time" and appeared to set a deadline for operations, she said.
Blunket that other almost obsessionally allied and uncomfortably close colleague of Blair's mumbled something equally stupid:That inqiries going on would lessen the morale of our soldiers . Standard stuff.
It's amazing how the people with real blood on their hands seem to talk so passionately and defensively about our troops like they really care . It's so obvious that their support is one of condescension and manipulation , to keep the poor , dispensable foot soldiers feeling important and irreplaceable (which they are to their families but not to the likes of our leaders).
This very minute I hear the 'debate' or mumble on the net on a well known radio channel run by the government .I gathered the 'Ayes' were beaten by the 'nays' I am not sure I have fully understood what's going on . I will have to comment again later when I have it clearly reported on the news again . But if it is what I think I heard that the majority of MPs voting , again did not have the gumption to challenge and bring down these gangsters by not voting for the motion..... then I really do have to lose faith in the virtues of our beloved oligarchy .
May they sleep in peace .
Monday, October 30, 2006
Stern message about climate
There has been lots reported on all the media stations about the 'Stern Report' .
This individual who is an economist by trade has released a lengthy document warning us all about severe climate change if we don't all change our ways now.
The economist who is a 'Sir'and a highly renowned government spokesman made comments on how climate change , if we do not control emmision of green house gases, will damage the economy by 20% .
There were all sorts of dramatic and alarmist predictions spun off this report by the usual media pundits.
Devious cynical,politicians also quckly threw their tuppence worth in and were echoed on various TV stations chanting : 'Green Tax !' this ,apparently the answer often reached by our rulers. If something is being over used e.g cars, aeroplane journeys ,(Which politicians use more than the average man in the street), then tax it and it will go away .
Everything has to be so punitive , like punishihng naughty children .
Coming back to climate change . All of a sudden it is real and is with us because a member of the establishment has said so .
When organisations such as 'friends of the Earth' or other independent minds warned years ago , there would be a wise answer from ruling elite to dismiss all this . Yet now it is legitimised , not only that but we have to pay.
Why didn't these leaders impose limits on industries who were making quick profits with no thought of tomorrow? Still today why doesn't the government chastise water comapanies for example who waste more than a third of the water supply which they do not own by the way?
Why , to give a very simple example do beer companies not recycle beer bottles and give incentives to the puiblic by reward rather than punishnent : by giving a small deposit on an empty ? Why indeed doesn't the government force the companies to do so? Because they are part of the same oligarchy which serves the interests of a few.
You See there were various ways we could have at least slowed down this disaster. Also there could have been ways the government could have acknowledged its reality earlier on rather than avoid the issue then discuss it like an asteroid coming to hit us today .
And of course the punishment of it all! ...For example on a smaller scale , there was discussion on the main propaganda stations about teen drinkers. teenagers are binge drinking and endangering their health etc etc. The politicians then of course found a good solution , which was to increase taxation on alcoholic drinks !
How innovative , clever and effective !
So people prepare yourselves for more punishment by this oligarchy. Prepare yourselves for taxes that are : green.
Prepare ;yourselves for the repeat of the same old , same old punishment , which of course does not reach the privileged. But take heart that this punitive tax will be Green .
This individual who is an economist by trade has released a lengthy document warning us all about severe climate change if we don't all change our ways now.
The economist who is a 'Sir'and a highly renowned government spokesman made comments on how climate change , if we do not control emmision of green house gases, will damage the economy by 20% .
There were all sorts of dramatic and alarmist predictions spun off this report by the usual media pundits.
Devious cynical,politicians also quckly threw their tuppence worth in and were echoed on various TV stations chanting : 'Green Tax !' this ,apparently the answer often reached by our rulers. If something is being over used e.g cars, aeroplane journeys ,(Which politicians use more than the average man in the street), then tax it and it will go away .
Everything has to be so punitive , like punishihng naughty children .
Coming back to climate change . All of a sudden it is real and is with us because a member of the establishment has said so .
When organisations such as 'friends of the Earth' or other independent minds warned years ago , there would be a wise answer from ruling elite to dismiss all this . Yet now it is legitimised , not only that but we have to pay.
Why didn't these leaders impose limits on industries who were making quick profits with no thought of tomorrow? Still today why doesn't the government chastise water comapanies for example who waste more than a third of the water supply which they do not own by the way?
Why , to give a very simple example do beer companies not recycle beer bottles and give incentives to the puiblic by reward rather than punishnent : by giving a small deposit on an empty ? Why indeed doesn't the government force the companies to do so? Because they are part of the same oligarchy which serves the interests of a few.
You See there were various ways we could have at least slowed down this disaster. Also there could have been ways the government could have acknowledged its reality earlier on rather than avoid the issue then discuss it like an asteroid coming to hit us today .
And of course the punishment of it all! ...For example on a smaller scale , there was discussion on the main propaganda stations about teen drinkers. teenagers are binge drinking and endangering their health etc etc. The politicians then of course found a good solution , which was to increase taxation on alcoholic drinks !
How innovative , clever and effective !
So people prepare yourselves for more punishment by this oligarchy. Prepare yourselves for taxes that are : green.
Prepare ;yourselves for the repeat of the same old , same old punishment , which of course does not reach the privileged. But take heart that this punitive tax will be Green .
Friday, October 27, 2006
Run Away !
I remember years ago , my favourite comedy team: Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
Sometime in the early seventies if I'm not mistaken . It was totally out of this world,the first time I saw it . It was a mixture of surrealism , absurd humour and pure anarchy. It used to be introduced thus : 'And now for something completely different: It's Monty Python's ........' Superb comedy I watched it when I was a teenager .Well ,after the Monty Python team eventually disbanded , each went their own ways and made their own niche somewhere, John Cleese being possibly the most successful. Others became very obscure .One of my favourites was Eric Idle. Nowhere to be seen ......suddenly I hear he has produced or directed a west end stage show : 'Spamelot' ,I wish him luck ,maybe I should go and see this ?.
So as the original Monty Python show ended some major films were produced by the team , the most popular possibly being 'The life of Brian ' a spoof on Christianity , or more likely society's response to a religious figure. Other films were also produced .
I can't rember which film it was but there was one where the noble knights or renowned warriors were heard every time a confrontation with enemy occurred , to say : 'Run away !' as they retreated , I found that hilarious and so honest !
Well our government in America and its department in Britain have decide to 'RUN AWAY !' from the war in Iraq. After years of repeating the mantra; 'Our brave boys will stay in Iraq until the job is done !'(they have forgotten what the job was ) .
Well now it's 'Runaway!' time , just like Monty Python. Yes the bumbling clowns in charge of this miserable project to 'liberate ' Iraq are now even blaming the victims and I hear statements from our U.S government and its local branch in Britain saying things like : 'It's time the Iraqi 'government ' started to take more responisibility so that we can leave them to it.'
'RUN AWAY!' It's official our brave boys are to be instructed to start running. Of course it will not be expressed this way by our devious , obsequious politiciians. But it's amazing how this disasterous operation is ending in tears. Too many of our soldiers are dying . This is the reason . I believe that at least ninety Americans were killed in the last month . That's what hurts, public opinion starts to affect the leaders' opinion. But when Iraqis were and are still dying at a rate of a thousand to one or more that doesn't matter , didn't matter.......they are successfully transformed by media pundits and sly politicians into what John Pilger calls 'Non people ' .
Run away ! Sadly it has the ingredients of a Monty Python master piece .
Cause a bloody mess , destroy millions of lives of many nationalities , waste of human resources and wealth that could have been used for a better cause ....then have the the audacity to :
RUN AWAY !
Sometime in the early seventies if I'm not mistaken . It was totally out of this world,the first time I saw it . It was a mixture of surrealism , absurd humour and pure anarchy. It used to be introduced thus : 'And now for something completely different: It's Monty Python's ........' Superb comedy I watched it when I was a teenager .Well ,after the Monty Python team eventually disbanded , each went their own ways and made their own niche somewhere, John Cleese being possibly the most successful. Others became very obscure .One of my favourites was Eric Idle. Nowhere to be seen ......suddenly I hear he has produced or directed a west end stage show : 'Spamelot' ,I wish him luck ,maybe I should go and see this ?.
So as the original Monty Python show ended some major films were produced by the team , the most popular possibly being 'The life of Brian ' a spoof on Christianity , or more likely society's response to a religious figure. Other films were also produced .
I can't rember which film it was but there was one where the noble knights or renowned warriors were heard every time a confrontation with enemy occurred , to say : 'Run away !' as they retreated , I found that hilarious and so honest !
Well our government in America and its department in Britain have decide to 'RUN AWAY !' from the war in Iraq. After years of repeating the mantra; 'Our brave boys will stay in Iraq until the job is done !'(they have forgotten what the job was ) .
Well now it's 'Runaway!' time , just like Monty Python. Yes the bumbling clowns in charge of this miserable project to 'liberate ' Iraq are now even blaming the victims and I hear statements from our U.S government and its local branch in Britain saying things like : 'It's time the Iraqi 'government ' started to take more responisibility so that we can leave them to it.'
'RUN AWAY!' It's official our brave boys are to be instructed to start running. Of course it will not be expressed this way by our devious , obsequious politiciians. But it's amazing how this disasterous operation is ending in tears. Too many of our soldiers are dying . This is the reason . I believe that at least ninety Americans were killed in the last month . That's what hurts, public opinion starts to affect the leaders' opinion. But when Iraqis were and are still dying at a rate of a thousand to one or more that doesn't matter , didn't matter.......they are successfully transformed by media pundits and sly politicians into what John Pilger calls 'Non people ' .
Run away ! Sadly it has the ingredients of a Monty Python master piece .
Cause a bloody mess , destroy millions of lives of many nationalities , waste of human resources and wealth that could have been used for a better cause ....then have the the audacity to :
RUN AWAY !
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
'Celebrity 'child
Whata day ! hated being at work today .I have resorted to clock watching ; one of my favourite past times when I'm unhappy at work . Most jobs I have had in mental health nursing have been challenging, sometimes over bearing but also periodically rewarding. This number is a sinking ship with staff turning over before they can even jump off! A culture of bullying and a holier than thou attitude from above .
The highest of the pecking order almost act like celebrities ..
What is it with these so called 'celebrities '? 'Madonna adopts child from Malawi'.
The child's biological mother according to the press died at child birth . The father is still alive but cannot afford to keep the boy ,who is called by the Goddess herself David .
There were snippets of film on the 'news' stations showing the celestial body herself swirlng around in 'spiritual harmony ' with a local African woman : how basic ? how down to earth and primeval 'In sharing this dance the Goddess demonstrates as she deigns to shuffle hips and breasts opposite her host ,that
through dance we are all the same '.Yes!she is only a simple person herself really .
Now did Madonna really want to help the poor people of Malawi live a better life?
Did she really want to satisfy her motherly instincts ?
Or did she want to fuel her starhood with hydrogen and helium in order to shine brighter amongst a fast growing galaxy of equally shallow peers.
Or did she simply want to acquire a plaything which she could observe inherit her magical , superhumnan qualities and become a newly born star and be able to observe him as she grows old and say to the world :'I created David'.
I really don't know , but let's say the child was adopted because
1)She wanted 'to do good 'Well this one is a non starter for beings of her status and material wealth can do much more 'good' by digging into their pockets and donating appropriately to the community in Malawi and encourage some activity or service which sustains itself and benefits the community . In short she could have given the father enough of a start in life to at least enable him to bring up his own child.
2)I cannot believe she wanted to adopt this child so much because of her motherly insincts , for there was a report that David arrived in London airport this morning
in the arms of a 'nanny ' . So quick was the bond that the Madonna already has got the dog's body in . And what ever happened to Madonna's biological child .? Does she meet up with him/her ?
3)Okay let's go for the publicity . Maybe she didn't really want so much publicity any way? Yet I am sure she enjoys seeing the clip with the 'Malawi dance'again and again ........'what about new album?....African theme...........'You can see the ageing red giant of a burnt out 'star' already reincarnate into a bright white dwarf!
4) Plaything ? well she's probably played around with more than us mere mortals can dream of , but the Gods get easily bored you know. That's why they occasionally come down to Earth .
Well the working day ended . I heard on the radio that there is a project for as many members of the public as possible to be encouraged to write a single day of blog on a sight called 'history matters .com'Must investigate.
The highest of the pecking order almost act like celebrities ..
What is it with these so called 'celebrities '? 'Madonna adopts child from Malawi'.
The child's biological mother according to the press died at child birth . The father is still alive but cannot afford to keep the boy ,who is called by the Goddess herself David .
There were snippets of film on the 'news' stations showing the celestial body herself swirlng around in 'spiritual harmony ' with a local African woman : how basic ? how down to earth and primeval 'In sharing this dance the Goddess demonstrates as she deigns to shuffle hips and breasts opposite her host ,that
through dance we are all the same '.Yes!she is only a simple person herself really .
Now did Madonna really want to help the poor people of Malawi live a better life?
Did she really want to satisfy her motherly instincts ?
Or did she want to fuel her starhood with hydrogen and helium in order to shine brighter amongst a fast growing galaxy of equally shallow peers.
Or did she simply want to acquire a plaything which she could observe inherit her magical , superhumnan qualities and become a newly born star and be able to observe him as she grows old and say to the world :'I created David'.
I really don't know , but let's say the child was adopted because
1)She wanted 'to do good 'Well this one is a non starter for beings of her status and material wealth can do much more 'good' by digging into their pockets and donating appropriately to the community in Malawi and encourage some activity or service which sustains itself and benefits the community . In short she could have given the father enough of a start in life to at least enable him to bring up his own child.
2)I cannot believe she wanted to adopt this child so much because of her motherly insincts , for there was a report that David arrived in London airport this morning
in the arms of a 'nanny ' . So quick was the bond that the Madonna already has got the dog's body in . And what ever happened to Madonna's biological child .? Does she meet up with him/her ?
3)Okay let's go for the publicity . Maybe she didn't really want so much publicity any way? Yet I am sure she enjoys seeing the clip with the 'Malawi dance'again and again ........'what about new album?....African theme...........'You can see the ageing red giant of a burnt out 'star' already reincarnate into a bright white dwarf!
4) Plaything ? well she's probably played around with more than us mere mortals can dream of , but the Gods get easily bored you know. That's why they occasionally come down to Earth .
Well the working day ended . I heard on the radio that there is a project for as many members of the public as possible to be encouraged to write a single day of blog on a sight called 'history matters .com'Must investigate.
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