Looks it to me! My traffic suddenly dropped off a cliff and is running at a fifth of what it was. It happened overnight, not as a trend. I’ve never experienced anything like it in ten years of blogging.
Even taking into account the covid year surge and drop off this is extraordinary. It coincides with the arrival of Blaze, a marketing tool they want you to pay for.
Pooja wrote an article about it:
The Land Of The Free
In the land of the free
You are brought up
To do as you are told.
Conform to the norm,
Salute the flag,
Take the oath,
Pray to an invisible being,
Believe in a dream!
That’s the way
The wealthy elite
Like it.
Opher – 25.2.2022
The thing that struck me most about America was its conformity. Even when Americans sort out a seemingly antisocial group they merely conformed to a strict set of rules and thinking.
There is a brainwashing process involved – the saluting, the flag, the oath of allegiance, the belief in God. It’s overwhelming.
The McCarthy campaign was so incredibly effective. Socialism and Communism are dirty words. The capitalists won hands down. They enslaved everyone and dangled the idea of the American Dream. If you worked hard you too could be a billionaire. Bullshit. The reality is that a tiny percentage are creaming off a giant’s share.
The public are threatened, beset with racism, violent control and work for a pittance without benefits.
It’s a model that capitalists are trying to impose on the rest of the world by stealth.
Slavery hasn’t ended, it’s just taken a different form.
They’ll be pie in the sky when you die – now get back to work on your three jobs! You can’t afford to be sick!!
This is a classic bit of Right-wing propaganda!
Gave who freedom??
In actual fact the only people who got more freedom out of Brexit were the corporations and wealthy magnates. They got leave to exploit us. They avoided the EU clampdown on stashing money in tax havens. They had markets open to exploit.
As for us:
We lost the right to travel freely through Europe
We gained the right to pay more for our goods
We gained the right to wait longer
We gained the right to fill in more red tape
We lost the right to work in Europe
We lost the right to study in Europe
We lost the right to have cheaper labour for restaurants, vegetable picking, lorry driving, nursing, caring etc etc – so all our prices go up.
We gained the right to have cheaper labour coming in from Africa and India rather than Europe.
We lost the right to decent environmental protection
We lost the right to our workers’ rights – protecting holiday pay, work conditions, pay, sickness etc.
The reality is that Brexit has already cost us £130 billion (more than we ever paid into the EU), it has ruined our trade – exports and imports are well down, is currently costing us a staggering 4% of our GDP, is strangling us in red tape and threatening to break up the United Kingdom.
We are now in a cost of living crisis with a diving economy.
Thanks Boris – you complete div!
If this is what you call FREEDOM!!!! To allow a bunch of selfish, greedy Bullingdon boys to rip us off!!
Birth
Genocide, larceny and slavery
The founding of a nation.
The red man and the black man
Exploitation, extermination.
Looking for a new life
Full of arrogant superiority.
With guns, whips and slipknots,
Possessing wealth the priority.
Born through rites of murder
And heartless cruelty;
Hypocrisy and fear;
Evading all penalty.
Hundreds of years have passed
But the attitude persists.
Throttling the very necks
Of anyone who resists.
Time to put it right
To make positive what might be.
To respect each other –
With a new era of equality.
Opher – 3.5.2020
The systems we have created are simply not functioning for the majority of people. There is far too much poverty around the world, far too much discrimination and exploitation.
A small elite have extreme wealth and control politics and governments. They buy politicians. They buy elections. They tilt everything their way and leave huge poverty and division in their wake.
