Poetry – Chimps with Large Brains

Chimps with Large Brains

Chimps with large brains

And capricious natures

Stomping across the world

With no limiting legislature.

Out of control;

Without limits or empathy;

And for the rest of nature

There’s no sympathy.

Clearing the land

Of all that has life,

To create a plastic jungle

Where only problems are rife.

What are we doing?

Creating such ruin?

Is there no way out of this cul-de-sac?

Is there no way back?

Opher – 29.4.2019

We might have large brains but we sure don’t always do things intelligently. We are our world’s worst enemy.

With burgeoning numbers and careless disregard we are leaving a heap of problems in our wake.

Have we the intelligence to put it right?

Poetry – The Will, the Means or the Might

The Will, the Means or the Might

Gigantic cerebral power,

With electricity jumping neurones

In creative ways.

Huge invention and

Problem solving ability –

A progressive maze.

In a dichotomy

Of good and bad

Creating uncertain days.

We’re on the edge

Of disasters of our devise

And could go out in a blaze.

Can we use our giant brains

To solve the problems we create?

Or are they all too big?

Is it all too late?

I’d like to feel that we have the ability

To make it right.

But do we possess the will,

The means or the might?

Opher – 29.4.2019

I am always amazed by our ingenuity and ability to solve problems. When I look back over the last three hundred years what we have achieved is stupendous.

But in the process of developing our world of technology and science we have impacted greatly on the natural world and put our own future in jeopardy.

My frustration is that I am sure we possess the ability to put it right. I just don’t think we have the will.

While it doesn’t directly affect us we will remain complacent. When the impacts finally manifest themselves it will be too late.

Tory Entitlement – The Wheels on the bus go……

Tory Entitlement

25 years of peace.

The Corona Diaries – Day 559

A cold, cloudy day in Yorkshire. I walked up my hill in the morning to find it was quite clear and bright. A good view over the sea. But it was cold. It was jacket, hat and gloves time.

in the afternoon I drove to York through a deluge, drizzle and floods. There was thick fog on the to0p of Garraby Hill. Not nice!! Makes me crave warm climates. Why the hell did we move out of Africa???

We have rellies staying so no work on the book, no reading. We cook meals, wash up and entertain.

I’m getting a little stressed with the mounting work required to produce the Beefheart book. The deadline is next July but I am already feeling the stress. The amount of work I have to get through is DAUNTING.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland the slime gathers for their conference.

While I was driving I was listening to the radio (as well as playing Beefheart) and was so saddened to hear stupid northerners from the ‘Red Wall’ constituents saying they they liked Boris. It felt like a rape victim requesting a gang bang. They are so pathetic. They are being shafted but they’ve fallen for the cuddly, disheveled teddy bear. They can’t see the overprivileged, conniving conman at all. He is taking them for a ride. While robbing them blind, and giving their money to the wealthy, he is getting them to beg for more of the same. Makes me feel sick.

The power of propaganda. The simplicity of deceit. The transparency of a self-serving twerp.

How does he get away with it? Why are people so stupid and gullible?

Johnson is an inept, overprivileged, entitled liar – yet poor people, while being mugged, think he’s lovely.

They deserve to be done over, Illiterate, ignorant, stupid, uneducated people – they should study their history and understand what fools they are being taken for. Tories are laughing their heads off as they fleece them for every penny.

So, yesterday there were another 34,256 new cases with another 166 deaths. The government is good with that as the public don’t seem at all concerned. People have become habituated to this number of deaths. Like a drug that is drip-fed it is no longer having an effect. People are reacting as if these numbers are insignificant – so politicians can relax.

Scientists warn that far worse is yet to come. 100,000 schoolkids are off school as the virus rampages through the young. School absences have risen by two thirds in the last fortnight.

People now think it’s over. They are going about business as usual – no masks, distancing or fears.

The unspoken government policy is herd immunity – yet anybody with a biological background can tell you this is bollocks.

The Johnson variant, foolishly allowing in from India on all those unchecked flights, is the predominant variant. It is not short of hosts because it infects fully vaccinated people. Even if you are fully vaccinated you can get ill and you can spread the disease. You might not get seriously ill. You might not die. You will be a host for the virus – so there is no chance of herd immunity.

Herd immunity will only come when we have a vaccine effective against the Johnson variant.

The people at risk of serious disease or death are the 2.6 million who are shielding, because they are being treated for cancer etc. or have an illness or treatment that suppresses their immune system, and the fools who are antivaxxers.

I expect the infection and death rates to rise!!

The government does not care about this level of deaths, long covid or new cases – as long as it does not affect their popularity and cost them votes.

They are evil!!

So, I stay masked, distanced and am avoiding the mindless masses.

Stay safe. Johnson is in charge. We are fucked!!

Jonathan Pie – A decade of the Tories!!

Boris Johnson the Liar and cynical destroyer!!! A dangerously inept man!! An opportunistic coward!!! Aristocratic populist twat!!! An unremarkable turd!!! An egotistical arsehole!!

Brexit Britain – the view from Australia

The Daily Express – Brexit propaganda and lies. The Tory Party – Brexit propaganda and lies.

The promises, the lies, the reality.

Oven ready trade deals, lower prices – a glorious future. Ho Ho Ho. The reality is that Brexit is a disaster. We are going bust.

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/brexit/13569402

85 Years of Working Class People fighting Fascism!! – Joe Solo (Now we vote them in power!!)

Joe Solo

Yesterday at 07:32  · 4th October 2021 marks the 85th anniversary of the Battle Of Cable Street, when the East End of London rose up to prevent Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts passing through their communities with the battle-cry ‘No Pasaran!’ or ‘They Shall Not Pass’.Worth remembering too that the people of Leeds had done the same at the Battle Of Holbeck Moor on 27th September, and Hull had routed the fascists at Corporation Field that July.Up and down the country Working Class communities organised and fought back, and though Cable Street will always be remembered as the culmination of their efforts, it was by no means the only resistance to the BUF.Interned during the war, the Blackshirts returned in the post-war years when they were defeated by the 43 Group, a network of veterans of both Cable Street and WW2.Originally rallying around anti-semitism, the fascists switched to anti-immigration as workers were shipped here from the far corners of the Commonwealth to fill jobs vacated by those lost in the war against Hitler. These days fascists couple this with wider anti-Muslim propaganda, but are still very much alive and well on UK streets.So today maybe it’s a good time to reflect on the lessons taught us by those who stood in their way in 1936, raised their fists and would not let them pass; if not, we have no right to stand on the shoulders of such giants and watch their victories fade before our very eyes

.No Pasaran.

Not then.

Not now.

Not ever.

Vote Fascism out!!!!!

Tories – in by the back door!!!

Ice Cream and Chocolate.

When I scream Ice Cream.