The Fossil Fuel Goliath

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They have the wealth and power to control governments. They lobby and threaten. All they care about is profit.

Green energy is cheaper and cleaner. We could become a world leader in the new technologies. It could make us a fortune.

It needs kickstarting. We have to solve the scientific/technological problems of intermittency – new batteries/storage. A combination of wind, wave, tidal, hydroelectric, solar and geothermal could meet our needs. We need investment and some good breakthroughs. Energy storage can be solved. Intermittency is not insoluble. When the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine the water still flows, the tide still comes in and out, the waves still lap, the earth’s core is still molten. A well-thought-through combination makes sense to me.

Science is progressing fast.

Allowing the outdated, polluting Fossil Fuel industry to burn the world doesn’t make sense to me. You don’t shit in your own nest.

Out of the Darkness

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Out of the Darkness

In the darkness of the night, Putin’s wrath unleashed
Ukraine trembling under the weight of his fury
Blasting cities into dust, blowing civilians to shreds
Shelling homes, destroying dreams with each fiery burst

Threats of World War Three loom ominously
Nuclear holocaust whispers in the wind
Not war, merely a special military operation they say
But the cries of the innocent echo louder than any decree

Rape and slaughter, death and destruction
The horrors of war painted in shades of despair
Families torn apart, lives shattered in an instant
As the world watches in silence, the heartache too much to bear

In the midst of chaos, hope flickers like a dying flame
Courage rises from the ashes, a beacon in the night
For in the face of tyranny, humanity stands tall
United in defiance against the darkest of nights

May peace find its way through the ruins of war
And justice be served for those who have suffered
For in the end, it is the resilience of the human spirit
That will triumph over the darkness, shining bright forevermore.

Opher – 2.4.2024

Here we are in the 21st century still acting like barbaric imbeciles.

Is there a way out of this darkness?

Where will that light come from?

Will Putin meet his end?

Or Ukraine be destroyed?

Will Russia come out of this madness and be accepted in to the fold of civilisation?

How much is NATO to blame?

US expansionism and economic control?

Riddell sums up the Loathsome Tories!

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The Worst of the Gutter Press!! A Tory Rag in full battle mode churning out lies and Tory Propaganda!!

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Sinead O’Connor Slammed Piers Morgan and the Gutter Press

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This is one of the reasons we need brave people like Sinead – people who are prepared to stand up to the slime of the gutter press with their propaganda, lies and filth!!

The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express are all in the same ilk and the Telegraph and Times are not far behind – Tory rags spilling their slime into peoples’ minds.

Working for them!

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  Our self-serving politicians lead us down cul-de-sacs with their lies and soundbites. They are in it for themselves!

While they squirrel away their millions nurses and teachers are forced to use food banks, the country is thrown into austerity and public services are cut to ribbons.

This used to be Great Britain – now it’s an off-shore haven for Russian oligarchs and foreign investors.

They’re selling Britain for a song. Maggie and the Tories conspire to put all our assets into foreign hands to make pennies to cripple the unions and keep workers in check. Our wealth is bleeding into the Cayman Islands.

We live in poverty so bankers and CEOs can receive their multimillion-pound bonuses and the likes of Boris Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Cameron and Osborne can pull in millions.

Britain enslaves us all into working for a tiny minority. We slave while they live in luxury.

They’ve created a divided society. We are working, and voting, for them!

They are pissing themselves laughing at us!

Poetry – Denial of Truth is a Cancer

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Denial of Truth is a cancerDenial of truth is a cancerDestroying democracy.A vile scourge from the mouth of a liarDividing a land once free.You choose what to believeFrom the ones who deceive.It’s all a political choice;The truth a mere victimOf those with the loudest voice.The use of fake newsNow flavours your views.You don’t believe your own eyesYou’d rather believe lies.So get on your knees and rejoice!The denial of truth is a cancerThe belief of a self-serving chancer,A twisting of history,Fascism no mystery,Now a thing of the left.We now live in a world built of lies,Hating those we despise;The truth a victim of theft.The world – one great conspiracyAll a question of belief;A gigantic hoax.Hitler was a socialistThe earth is really flatTruth nothing more than what it evokes.We’d rather believeWhat our neighbours believeThan trouble ourselves with the truth.So covid’s a lieThere’s no climate changeIt’s a commie trickDonald has all the proof!The Whitehouse is run by lizards.We’ve got to drain the swamp.Though he’s scuttled with one point six billionTo keep him in his pomp,We know he’ll make America great,We wear the hat with pride!When it comes to the final reckoningHe knows we’re on his side!We don’t believe our own eyes.We don’t agree with what we see.We would rather believe the lies.So America descends into a nightmare.Osama Bin Laden won!He tore apart the fabric;The destruction has only begun!The Taliban are laughingAs they drive the Americans out.Their truth lies in a medieval bookOf that there is no doubt!The truth is now a cancer!Eating humanity.All from the mouth of a chancerDestroying democracy.Opher – 14.8.2021

I wrote this after listening to a Jonathan Pie tirade. Trump has created a monster that is destroying the fabric of society, undermining truth, demeaning science and experts and throwing America back into an age of darkness and superstition.They’d rather believe in a fake story than see what is happening before their eyes. So the election was stolen, the storming of the Capitol a commie plot, 9/11 was set up by the CIA and Democrats eat babies.Trump has opened Pandora’s box in order to plunder for his own ends. Now the stupid are spouting his lies. The evil has been let loose.

Intrigue and power

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Intrigue and power

In these times of obfuscation,

                Of charades

And diversionary tactics,

                Of populist ideology

                                And blatant propaganda:

In these days of lies

                And soundbites,

Designed to enthuse

                And deceive,

We are embroiled

                In the deceptions of

                                Greedy exploiters,

For whom

                The truth is elastic

                                And designed to fool

                                                The gullible.

Charisma has replaced honour

                So that politics becomes

A pantomime of

                Selfish power-seeking

                                And naked profiteering.

Opher 21.6.2023

The last thirteen years of populism exemplified by The Tories, The Republicans, Boris Johnson, Brexit and Donald Trump, politics has hit an all-time low.

We are looking at an era of blatant profiteering. The Tories, Republicans and populists around the world (Modi, Erdogan, Le Penn, Meloni, Oban and Bolsonaro – then add Putin and Xi) feathering their own nests at the expense of the people and robbing the poor to give to the rich.

Never has politics been so low. Never has sleaze and corruption been so very blatant. Never have there been so many lies and barrages of propaganda.

We are at an all-time low!

The Truth Too – another poem

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The Truth Too.

We glean our truth from a source we trust

But the best of sites are rarely just.

Too many spoons prodding the pie

Taking more than their share from both you and I.

They twist the truth to fit their lust

And usually believed and rarely sussed.

I wrote this for all those people who take their news from all those fake sites out there on the web, busy pushing their propaganda:  for those who take the mainstream news as gospel; for those who really believe that they have the only handle on what is really going on.

This is tribal.

This is all lies.

Cynicism is the only defence.

Putin And Johnson

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Putin And Johnson

Putin and Johnson

                Will soon be dust.

                                Their crooked regimes

                                                Will tumble and rust.

The pyramids

                Will blow in the wind

                                Even the galaxy

                                                Will cease to spin.

Nobody left

As the stars will go out

                                To wonder what

                                                It was all about.

Opher – 25.6.2022

I’m going through one of my philosophical moods.

One short life.

We can waste it or live it.

Purpose that we create for ourselves.

We can do something positive or we can do nothing.

We can build or destroy.

We can care or hate.

We can look after the planet or be greedy vandals.

The only thing that matters is what t we do in the moments that make up our lives. A positive force or a negative force. The moment is all we have. Nothing lasts.

When it is over it is gone.