One laughs but the eye-watering salaries and bonuses are all too real!!
Capitalism, Trade Unions and how the economy works.
Poetry – Source of the chaos
Source of the chaos
Searching for the source of chaos
Is not a difficult task.
Look who’s sowing division
In his KKK mask.
Look who sacks anybody
Who disagrees with him.
Look who sulks petulantly,
Perpetually looks grim.
The harbinger of chaos
Can’t even read a book.
Is ignorant of science
And is nothing but a crook.
He won’t show us his tax returns
Or his Russian connections.
All he’s got inside his head
Is winning the elections.
He loves to have the power
And craves more wealth.
The only person he loves
Is the image of himself.
He’ll stir up the rioting
And condone the killers.
With snout in the trough
With all the other swillers.
The source of all the chaos
Is hiding in plain sight.
Pretending to have solutions
But never getting it right.
He feeds his loyal base
With cynical concessions.
While sneering at their loyalty
And feeding their obsessions.
The master of fake news
And conspiracy theory.
Tweeting long into the night
When other eyes are bleary.
Out on the golf course
In the midst of emergency.
Calling hoax, misinforming;
Not understanding urgency.
He does not care about people.
Has no ounce of compassion.
He’ll do anything for a vote.
The truth is on ration.
The architect of chaos
Is serving up the blame.
Passing the buck
Without an ounce of shame.
Opher – 3.9.2020
Trump has been actively inciting and dividing, lying and cheating, all his life. He thinks that’s the only way. He thinks that is what is meant by doing business.
He presents himself as something he isn’t – a successful businessman, a friend to the poor.
The gullible fall for it. They believe he’s fighting the alien lizards! That’s it, those lizards live out on the golf course!
What is wrong with capitalism??
Exploitation, inequality, war, greed, poverty and abuse of power.
Who controls the politicians??
Quantum Fever – A Sci-Fi novel – The future where capitalism has gone mad.
Quantum Fever
The System is made up of thousands of planets housing trillions of people in tiny doms arranged in tiers.
The Consortium are a group of wealthy capitalists who live above the metropolis in floating mansions. The name of the game is expansion and profit.
The Quships cross quantum space in search of planets to either colonise or plunder for resources in order to maintain the system.
Quantum Fever is a disease that affects people who jump the weird reaches of quantum space.
Was Tahsin Roeg suffering from Quantum Fever or were the Consortium seeking to control her?
What of the alien planet she discovers?
Were the Primitives going to achieve their dream?
Extract
Chapter 1
I hate every minute of being in such an elite club. I play the game and I know I do it well but it really is not me. Inside I am still Tahsin Roeg, the ordinary girl from the deeper beltways of Haven.
Having this rare ability has been my ticket out of the lower tiers. At first, I revelled in it. Who would not feel good about being able to do something that so few other people could do? For someone like me, now in my middle age, short, rather dumpy and plain looking and possessing a phobia about Nano surgical recontouring, it surely proved a lifeline for my ego.
Who would not feel great about being made to feel so special, or having the potential to be elevated into such a high position in society? That skill provided me with a status that was otherwise unattainable.
My rare ability transformed the future for my entire family and gave me a pass to a life, that as an otherwise rather average girl, I could only have imagined – attaining that place in the sky we all dream of.
The skill made me wealthy and famous, but it had not made me happy and now I was finding that it was not at all fulfilling either.
Disillusionment leaves a rancid taste.
I began to see it for what it was – emptiness – sheer emptiness – all sham, all front.
We thought we were part of their club but we really were not. All we Quship Skippers were being used. We were expendable. They, ‘The Consortium’, exploited our talent, paid us handsomely but would discard us as soon as we were of no further use to them. We moved in their world but we were not part of it.
Worse than that – they thought they possessed the right to control us.
There was an epiphany when I woke up to what the Consortium was really doing. For some reason I had shut my mind to it. Now my eyes were opened. I could clearly see what game they were playing. It was so obvious.
No matter how much I tried to kid myself that I was doing a good job and bringing back the resources that everyone needed, I knew I was really working for a bunch of crooks who I did not think were very nice. They certainly were not doing it for the people – that was for sure. The whole business made me feel used and grubby. Somehow, despite all my best intentions, I had lost contact with the friends I used to have in the lower tiers. Looking back now I can see that the moment I left to start the intensive training was when I subconsciously broke away from my roots. I severed that umbilicus. It was something I was now regretting. I was starting to wonder what had become of my friends. We had shared so much. They must have felt abandoned, betrayed.
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Quantum Fever – A Sci-fi novel. Capitalism out of control.
Quantum Fever
Capitalism gone mad.
The System is made up of thousands of planets housing trillions of people in tiny doms arranged in tiers.
The Consortium are a group of wealthy capitalists who live above the metropolis in floating mansions. The name of the game is expansion and profit.
The Quships cross quantum space in search of planets to either colonise or plunder for resources in order to maintain the system.
Quantum Fever is a disease that affects people who jump the weird reaches of quantum space.
Was Tahsin Roeg suffering from Quantum Fever or were the Consortium seeking to control her?
What of the alien planet she discovers?
Were the Primitives going to achieve their dream?
Extract
Chapter 1
I hate every minute of being in such an elite club. I play the game and I know I do it well but it really is not me. Inside I am still Tahsin Roeg, the ordinary girl from the deeper beltways of Haven.
Having this rare ability has been my ticket out of the lower tiers. At first, I revelled in it. Who would not feel good about being able to do something that so few other people could do? For someone like me, now in my middle age, short, rather dumpy and plain looking and possessing a phobia about Nano surgical recontouring, it surely proved a lifeline for my ego.
Who would not feel great about being made to feel so special, or having the potential to be elevated into such a high position in society? That skill provided me with a status that was otherwise unattainable.
My rare ability transformed the future for my entire family and gave me a pass to a life, that as an otherwise rather average girl, I could only have imagined – attaining that place in the sky we all dream of.
The skill made me wealthy and famous, but it had not made me happy and now I was finding that it was not at all fulfilling either.
Disillusionment leaves a rancid taste.
I began to see it for what it was – emptiness – sheer emptiness – all sham, all front.
We thought we were part of their club but we really were not. All we Quship Skippers were being used. We were expendable. They, ‘The Consortium’, exploited our talent, paid us handsomely but would discard us as soon as we were of no further use to them. We moved in their world but we were not part of it.
Worse than that – they thought they possessed the right to control us.
There was an epiphany when I woke up to what the Consortium was really doing. For some reason I had shut my mind to it. Now my eyes were opened. I could clearly see what game they were playing. It was so obvious.
No matter how much I tried to kid myself that I was doing a good job and bringing back the resources that everyone needed, I knew I was really working for a bunch of crooks who I did not think were very nice. They certainly were not doing it for the people – that was for sure. The whole business made me feel used and grubby. Somehow, despite all my best intentions, I had lost contact with the friends I used to have in the lower tiers. Looking back now I can see that the moment I left to start the intensive training was when I subconsciously broke away from my roots. I severed that umbilicus. It was something I was now regretting. I was starting to wonder what had become of my friends. We had shared so much. They must have felt abandoned, betrayed.
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Poetry – Who needs it?
Who needs it?
Who needs holidays
When you’re grafting for the US dollar?
Who needs a fair wage
When Trump’s got you by the collar?
Who cares about the climate
If there’s money to be made?
Who cares about the birds and bees
When the profit plans are laid?
Who needs the EU
Just twenty miles away?
We can sell our goods to the rest of the world
And make it pay!
What’s a few thousand miles
To transport our goods
Letting Trump orchestrate a deal
Will get us out of the woods.
So get Brexit done
Even if it ruins the nation!
It’ll make the rich even richer
Now there’s a sensation!
Opher – 22.10.2019
Brexit – organised on behalf of the wealthy.
They are after the right to exploit us all even more. What did you think Brexit was for?
Ken Loach on Socialism and Capitalism.
There is a con-trick being run by capitalists. They want profit. They want cheap labour. They dangle unattainable prizes – like ‘The American Dream’.
Ken explains it:-
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Greed will kill the world!!
An intelligent race would organise things a lot better, wouldn’t they?
Fascism and Socialism
Fascism is a product of extreme right-wing – totalitarian, authoritarian, controlled by a dictatorship deploying racism, nationalism, patriotism and suppression. It’s elitist, hierarchical, militaristic, divisive and works through identifying scapegoats (Jews, Blacks, Foreigners) deploying violence and creating fear.
Socialism is left-wing – collective ownership by the people for the good of all the people. It’s inclusive, non-hierarchical, fair and inclusive.
The trick is to prevent an elite taking over the socialist system and setting up a fascist state.
Where does democracy fit in??