No Money for Education!

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The USA remains one of the worst educated countries – unless you are rich and can afford one of the top schools. The general population is ignorant of science and maths and has a low literacy rate. Ranked 31st in the world way behind the UK and other European countries.

Despite being the world’s top economy there is no money for education because the Billionaires take a huge proportion (increased their wealth by 60% while ordinary people struggle) and a huge chunk goes on WAR!!

Since the war began on February 28, U.S. forces have launched more than 7,800 airstrikes targeting Iran’s navy, missile stockpiles and defence infrastructure

Missile TypeApprox. CostSource
ICBM (Sentinel program)$141 billion (program cost)
Standard Missile‑2 (SM‑2)~$2 million each
Cruise missilesBetween $1.8 million and $2 million,
S‑500 system$2.5 billion

So next time you see those missiles going off in Iran – each one is a school!

Judgement is coming!!

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Yes! I’ve just completed the first rewrite of my new Sci-fi novel Judgement.

The aliens are coming and they are about to assess whether we are worthy or not!

77,200 words over 155 pages. They are hovering above us and studying what we are doing. They are recording what they see – the wars, the violence, the inequality, corruption and cruelty. They see the tribalism of nations and divisions in religion. They are assessing how we are treating each other and life on this planet of ours. Are we good custodians? They are weighing the bad stuff with the good. They like our creativity but does it make up for all the nasty stuff? The Judge is arriving soon. The judgement will begin.

I’m starting the editing process now. I may be a while! Talk among yourselves.

A great Idea!!

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Give the ultra-rich an extra trillion dollars! They’ll invest it wisely. The economy will grow and it will trickle down to the poor!

But where can you get a trillion from?

We’ll take it from Medicare. The poor will die off and that will solve that too. They probably vote Democrat anyway! Win! Win!

That’s nowhere near enough!

OK. We’ll cut food assistance for the needy. That’ll kill more off them off, reduce the bill and stop them voting Democrat. Win! Win! Win!

Still nowhere near enough.

Right! So we spread all this conspiracy about Green Energy being useless and expensive, then we extort big money from the gas, oil and coal industry, sell it to MAGA as bringing back jobs and lowering costs and make a killing.

But what about the pollution? What about the future – we should be world leaders developing that technology. In the long term it’ll be a disaster.

Who cares about the future? We’re here now. By the time the shit hits the fan we’ll have made a fortune and be out of here.

You’ll never sell the idea of taking a trillion from the poor to give to billionaires. They won’t buy it.

Of course they will. Depends how you dress it up. We’ll call it ‘The Big Beautiful Bill’, put lots of stuff in it so that it confuses them and tell them it’ll Make America Great Again.

But the media won’t go along with that.

We own most of the media. They’ll do what we tell them. The ones we don’t own we’ve discredited. Everything they say is fake news.

This’ll sink the GOP forever.

Who cares? Did I tell you – I’ve already made $3 billion in the first six months!

I still don’t believe you can get away with taking a trillion from the poor to give to the rich!

We’ll see.

The Billionaires Club

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Busy making us poor and spreading misery!

There is a war

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There is a war

There is a war!

                There has always been a war

Between those who care

                And those who don’t;

Between the fascists

                And the democrats

Between the selfish

                And compassionate

Between the greedy

                And the starving.

There is a war!

Between those who abuse

                And those who nurture

Those who are selfish

                And those considerate

Those who love nature

                And those who just use it

There is a war.

                This is where integrity resides;

                It’s time to take sides.

Opher – 13.1.2025

I don’t think it’s ever been clearer.

On one side we have the Trumpist mentality and on the other the socialists.

The Trumpists believe that it is the survival of the fittest. They have become rich because they deserve it; they are better than the rest. That people who are poor deserve to be poor. They should work harder. That wealth is all that matters. That nature is there to be exploited. That we do not need controls, government or regulation. We do not need taxes.

On the socialist side we have people who believe that people and nature matter more than money. That we should care for each other and the world we live in. That the wealthy have got to where they are through privilege, luck and profiteering. That we need welfare for the needy, good education for all, good healthcare for all, good policing and good infrastructure and this costs money. That a society with greater equality is a better society. That requires taxes and bigger government. It requires regulation, safeguards and rules.

I believe in people, nature and a fairer society.

One of the strongest, most heartfelt, songs ever recorded!

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Buffy St Marie is a full-blooded Native American. She pours all her anger at how her people were mistreated into this song. This epic is one of the greatest!

This is a song that sends shivers through me every time I play it.

Never have the words run more true. At this time of the fascist corruption of Trump, Musk and the whole MAGA movement it is very true to say that My Country Tis Of Your People You’re Dying. All morality is being set aside, along with compassion and empathy. The environment is to be plundered. All that matters is greed and profit! America is a heartless business in which the bosses exploit the workforce. This is now the land of inequality, run by billionaires for billionaires. People conned, duped and fleeced. Profiteers run the media. Profiteers pour fake news and propaganda onto the internet. The social media has become the main method of control.

They spread fear, hate and division through mass of lies!

People are indeed killing anything good. The land of guns, hate and callousness. The land of destruction and gross exploitation. The poor and weak are dumped. The wealthy gloat.

It’s a land of racism, violence and shame.

Tis of your people you’re dying!

Youtbe Buffy St Marie My country – Search

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Land of the free?? I laugh!!

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I live in the UK.

I enjoy better pensions, better holidays, better healthcare, safer working conditions, better maternity leave, better food standards, better environmental standards and better everything than Americans!

You’ve all been conned by profiteering Billionaires!!

They treat you like suckers!

America – a Country without Morality

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A more religious country is hard to find.

A country based on morality.

Scratch the surface and the sweet Apple Pie crumbles into greed and corruption.

Jesus commanded to look after the poor and warned about the rich not getting into heaven but that cuts no ice. The wealthy evangelists and senators live in luxury while the poor are destitute and live under flyovers and on streets.

They choose a leader who is a criminal rapist who uses religion to gain power and make money. Religious leaders make themselves obscenely rich and prey on children instead of praying.

Morality is dead. Judge a tree by its fruit.

Hypocrisy rules.

Billionaires pull the strings. Greed is the mantra. Religion is greed.

This is ‘Exactly’ what you voted for!

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Played into the hands of Billionaires!!

Makes me ashamed to be human!

Using Immigrants as Scapegoats!!

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Immigration is a big problem. It needs dealing with! It’s costing us billions.

Tax Evasion by the wealthy is a much bigger problem. It’s costing us tens of billions!

Exploitation by the wealthy results in low pay and poor work conditions. It costs poor people tens of billions.

Profiteering by big corporations and companies puts up the price of all our goods and services and costs poor people tens of billions.

Corruption in the Tory government with their VIP lanes and awarding of contracts to Tory donors cost the country tens of billions.

While immigration is a problem and we do need to control our borders the far bigger problem is hiding in full view – it’s greed, corruption, exploitation, tax evasion and gross inequality. The wealthy are running the show. They run the media. Tories represent the wealthy. Corruption and profiteering are rife. The poor are being robbed by the rich and the rich are scapegoating immigrants.

It’s time the poor woke up to what’s really going on!

It’s time the media bias was dealt with!

It’s time profiteering was stopped!

The likes of Trump, Farage, Johnson, Braverman, Rees-Mogg and Tice are the real problem!