Friday, March 18, 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Into Perpetuity (Re-Write)
it's the same old drama
it's the same old scene
but the nightmare won't stop
no matter how hard we scream
July 1st, 1916.
in a matter of minutes, 20,000 British soldiers were killed with a further 40,000 wounded.
This was one day's battle that would ultimately slaughter 500,000 British and an equal number of germans.
A grand total of 37, 508, 686 died during world war one.
in the muds of Europe
or some distant plain
man kills man
again and again
February 13th and 14th, 1945, somewhere in the region of between 30,000 and 130,000
innocent civilians were massacred when the British bombed the city of Dresden. There was a grand total of 55,014,000 casualties during world war two.
and even in dreams, the same
hideous scenes keep flashing
across our global screens
Then there was Afghanistan. And then there was Iraq.
And next?
Iran?
Korea?
Now Syria.
...with an alarming regularity, the brutal nature of man surfaces with a violence that is both random and terrifying and ultimately evil. how can any priest, cleric or holy man explain away this utter and total blasphemy?
No US
No THEM
JUST US
one life.
one heart.
one kind.
one world.
STOP WAR NOW
it's the same old scene
but the nightmare won't stop
no matter how hard we scream
July 1st, 1916.
in a matter of minutes, 20,000 British soldiers were killed with a further 40,000 wounded.
This was one day's battle that would ultimately slaughter 500,000 British and an equal number of germans.
A grand total of 37, 508, 686 died during world war one.
in the muds of Europe
or some distant plain
man kills man
again and again
February 13th and 14th, 1945, somewhere in the region of between 30,000 and 130,000
innocent civilians were massacred when the British bombed the city of Dresden. There was a grand total of 55,014,000 casualties during world war two.
and even in dreams, the same
hideous scenes keep flashing
across our global screens
Then there was Afghanistan. And then there was Iraq.
And next?
Iran?
Korea?
We are capable of composing music to make angels weep, of writing plays to make audiences laugh, poetry to steal the breath from your lungs and still man's madness continues.....
Now Syria.
...with an alarming regularity, the brutal nature of man surfaces with a violence that is both random and terrifying and ultimately evil. how can any priest, cleric or holy man explain away this utter and total blasphemy?
No US
No THEM
JUST US
one life.
one heart.
one kind.
one world.
STOP WAR NOW
Artful Youth
This is the slate roof,
Me beneath its flat depression.
I sigh into silent relapse
My mind on tilt.
Here is the corner exit,
The world lies adrift in terror.
The world lies adrift in terror.
See all the people.
There's the church, there's the steeple
Groans heave them blighted
Like shivering rabbits all.
Watch that pendulum fall,
Watch the Trumpeter trump as all.
Confound the tight circle,
Rigid in its claustrophobia,
A dispatch from the high house
High on High Hill.
High on High Hill.
Like Maud and Mable,
Drones to the killer Queen,
The truth takes a nasty turn
As it comes out perverted.
The truth takes a nasty turn
As it comes out perverted.
I spit on the greasy palm
Cool fingered, steel fingers
That binds no promise for it's
That binds no promise for it's
Deaf to reason, blind to treason
Like stillborn babies
Each rivals to the other,
Twins in comic combat,
We are that awful truth.
Who is the artful youth?
Where is the artful youth?
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Musical Quotes 4
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"I don't know whether I like, but it's what I mean."
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
HELP...End Corruption.
Please SHARE...Discuss...Think About.
PLEASE, Sign my Petition,
to be sent to the Prime Minster of Canada.
FAQ: ancient, I read your reply and understand the principles,but still have a question. If Country Grocer is a private business on private property does he not have the right to ask you not to do certain things on his property. Just askin my brother.
MY ANSWER: i do understand your question, as it's shared by many due to corruption... Like the Police enforcing human rights abuse instead of preventing it. That is why i shared that last *SPECIAL NOTE, in the post;
*SPECIAL NOTE: Human rights entail both rights and obligations. States/cops assume obligations and duties under international law to respect, to protect and to fulfill human rights.
The obligation to respect means that States/cops must refrain from interfering with or curtailing the enjoyment of human rights.
The obligation to protect requires States/cops to protect individuals and groups against human rights abuses.
The obligation to fulfill means that States/cops must take positive action to facilitate the enjoyment of basic human rights.
Essentially, this means that even though it's a private business on private property, it is within the community and has to provide FULL public access, including for handicapped.
That also means that unless i'm damaging property, or are a threat to myself or others, they are FORCED to remain OBLIGED to follow Human Rights Laws. Get it?
By even Posting; "No BUSKING" they are showing discrimination against me. By (pre-meditated) meeting with Police to ensure enforcement of a non-law is Conspiracy.
If i die...Conspiracy to Commit Murder. Get it?
By simply moving and allowing that sign to remain, i allow for it to follow wherever buskers go, because there is no such thing as PUBLIC LAND....everything is Private Property now.
Letter to Trump from 8 year old boy
"Dear Mr Trump,
I saw a video of you making fun of a handicapped reporter, and I thought that was TERRIBLE!
You bragged that you 'could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody' and wouldn't lose any votes. I REALLY hope this is not true!
You make kids afraid when they hear that someone who could be our next President would even think about doing something like that.
I would like to know if you would want your young children or grandchildren hearing the things you say about people. Do you ever feel sorry about the things you say? Do you ever feel sorry about the things that you say that are hurtful to others? I have never heard you apologize.
I would like for you to know that kids are watching you. The President of the United States is supposed to be our leader. You should be someone that we can learn from and hope to grow up to be like. I do not think you are doing a very good job of this.
Please, Mr Trump, start thinking about the children in this country. We may not be able to vote yet, but we are the future.I will choose to be a better person than what you have been teaching me to be."
The USA?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"
Oh Yeah?
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
RIP Sir George Martin
Arguably The Beatles were the greatest force for good exercised during the 20th Century. This only happened after George Martin signed them after every other person in England had rejected them. Then he produced The Beatles revolutionary sound. A great man in history and a case where a great man created history.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The most dangerous man
The most dangerous man
to any government is the man who is
able to think things out...without regard to
the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion
that the government he lives under is
dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
Monday, March 7, 2016
Oh say can you see by the dusk's grey light a nation once great fading from sight.
Some time ago, around the mid to late forties, The United States of America moved into the premier position of power. It effectively elbowed the dilapidated British Empire from the top spot, from being the world's number one superpower. This was a much-welcomed event even for the Brits, those of them anyway long tired of Imperialism.
The rise of the USA also brought with it a sense of liberality to those in England tired of the straitjacket of pomp, circumstance and forever knowing ones place. The Yanks did not know their place. In fact, the very idea galled them somewhat.
They gave the world Hollywood, Coca-Cola, Jazz, Levis, Converse Sneakers, the Blues and ultimately, Rock and Roll. It was a time of youth, world youth and even though those British imposters, The Beatles, sat firmly on that throne, still the thrust of change came from America.
Then Margaret Thatcher was elected. Then Ronald Regan. Two Neo-Conservatives with singular minds. They didn't much like the way the young had challenged the establishment so set about destabilising all those changes made, replacing them with what Margaret Thatcher called, 'Victorian Standards.
It was the end of the world as we know. And no, I don't feel fine.
A nation built on secularism is now drifting to a right wing fundamentalist viewpoint, evangelical in their zeal with mammon in their hearts.
Every coin turns a profit.
Now the United States, that beacon of modernity is taking a short walk back to Imperialism via Cruz and Trump. And as they march in reverse like a scene from a Monty Python movie so the rest of the world giggles unbelievingly at the idiocy being shown by candidates unfit for the Presidency.
Let's hope Europe will not deal with such as they. I know Britain will as that is now a state without a star.
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