Thank you John Peachey for sending them through!
Is Cummings an alien? He certainly looks like one – and what is this mind-control that he exerts?
Poetry – Welcome to Trumpville
Welcome to Trumpville
Welcome to Trumpville
The land of burning buildings
Teargas and clubs.
Hail the leader
Throwing petrol on the flames.
Urging the firing of guns.
Welcome to division.
Welcome to hate.
Welcome to the world of spin.
Welcome to Trumpville
The land of burning buildings
Teargas and clubs.
Opher – 1.9.2020
Poetry – Cynical Leadership
Cynical Leadership
Inciting, infiltrating and spinning
Deviously
To prey upon the gullible.
Threatening, posturing and jeering
Arrogantly
To enrage the peaceable.
Cajoling, lying and frightening
Blatantly
To scare the fallible.
Any tactic will do
To gain their power.
Illegal, immoral or insane
Turning the future sour.
Opher – 31.8.2020
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Tells Trump how it is!
Trump – The Washington Post says it all. (made me laugh)
Poetry – My Name is
My Name is
My name is Dominic Cummings
I don’t obey the rules.
My name is Gavin Williamson
I’m still in charge of schools.
My name is Dido Harding
From Track and Trace for fools
My name is Boris Johnson
I lack a full set of tools.
We’re all part of a government
That doesn’t walk – it crawls!
Opher – 24.8.2020
Republican shows the depth of division Trump has created.
Watching America pull itself apart is quite scary. The level of hate, division and violence is frightening.
I stumbled across this video that seemed to sum it up. Carlos Piccata directs his fury at the legislature.
I can see what Carlos is upset about – what is making him so furious. His business is going under. His livelihood has collapsed. He is worried about his mortgage, his family and putting food on the table.
He is looking at the Coronavirus and thinks that it is being overplayed. He wants the government to open up and get back to normal. He thinks it’s a hoax. He sees facemasks as a symptom of government interfering with his life.
He then starts talking about armed rebellion to take control of his country.
He is wrong. He is following a narrative that has been supported by Trump and the Republicans. What this illustrates is everything that is wrong in America.
At present 177,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. That is approaching four times the number of Americans killed in the whole Vietnam War. At present the USA has 46,183 new cases a day with over a thousand deaths a day. That is no hoax.
America is in the midst of a pandemic. If measures are not taken – society locked-down, social distancing, hand washing and facemasks, the disease will get completely out of hand, overwhelm the health services and result in millions of deaths. That cannot be acceptable.
There is no way that that life can go on as normal while the pandemic is present. It is not a hoax and it is not to be taken lightly.
Which brings me back to the people like Carlos. America is the richest country in the world but the wealth has accumulated in a tiny percentage and areas of the country are like Third World countries. There are very poor labour protection, workers’ rights, environmental protection, health services or welfare.
America has this attitude that anything coming from government smacks of socialism and socialism is communism, that big government is the enemy. The result is that the rich get richer and the poor are exploited.
Trump has encouraged this.
What needs to happen is people like Carlos need supporting by government so that he and his family and his business can survive.
Carlos is wrong because not taking the virus seriously will kill millions and threatening armed insurrection is just plain stupidity which would result in a terrible war in which millions would be killed and America destroyed.
That’s my view – give Carlos a listen. There’s a debate to be had here.
Today’s Music to keep me saaaaNNNNeeee in Isolation – Malvina Reymolds
Malvina looked like a little old granny but she was a feisty lady who took on the KKK and never backed down.
Most people don’t know that she was the lady who wrote Little Boxes (made famous by Pete Seeger) and What Have They Done To The Rain.
She was writing protest songs before protest songs were invented. She cushions a hard message with a soft touch.
Today I’ll be playing some Malvina and taking heart. We can make the world better!
Egypt and religious fundamentalism – photos
Egypt is at war with itself. It is in the midst of civil war. Many of its people want to move into the 21st century with its consumerism and affluence. The religious fanatics want it to stay in the 7th century with conservative values and strict religious laws.
It feels as if it is stuck in the past.
There is much about the modern life and its greed and consumerism that I despise. It is a valueless culture. But there is much about the strict religious fundamentalism with its intolerance that I despise even more.
Egypt has so much poverty and hardship.
Everywhere we went there were armed militia, machine-gun posts and the promise of violence.
Surely there is a middle way?
