May 2012
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April 2012
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Heritage of the Falkland War: Nationalism and...
THIRTY years to the Falklands Wars. SO MANY PEOPLE DIED! So much grief and misery… For what?
Both governments of Argentina and the UK manipulated the conflict for cynical dirty politics that killed many people. Argentina military junta tried to use the war as a last ditch attempt to rally people behind a hated dictatorship. UK’s Margaret Thatcher used the war to save her from a...
March 2012
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February 2012
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Bogus Piety
They assembled in black
red eyes tears dripping
appearance of touching piety
to bury our mother
While she was still alive
they care laboured
so she could be blinded
by aluminium foil fealty
for family kaleidoscope love
masqueraded knives of heart stabbing
haemorrhaging golden coins from the dying
Two women sitting seven days
needles for the soul
evaporated salt waste
eyes read and deader
than...
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January 2012
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A Man's a man for a' that - Robert Burns
Is there for honest Poverty
That hings his head, an’ a’ that;
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a’ that!
For a’ that, an’ a’ that.
Our toils obscure an’ a’ that,
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,
The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.
What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an’ a that;
Gie fools...
December 2011
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Human Love - By Aristophanes
In the beginning there were three parents: Sun, Moon, and Earth. Each produced an offspring, round and otherwise like itself. From sun was produced the man; from earth, the woman; from moon, the androgyne. Each of these three was a double, one head with two faces looking out in opposite directions, four arms and legs, and two sets of genitalia. They moved about on the earth with a great deal...
November 2011
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Weeping in black and wiping the blood
Black crocodile tears And poisoned knives Hidden behind small cloths Of crafty woven care of abandoned mad suffering of righteous toil of motherly misguided passions Knives prepared even to kill and slice the still living flesh and cut deeper after death Weeping in black And wiping the blood
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Pepper Spray for us + Bubble bursting
Dont you just just love our ConDem government? David Cameron announced that first time buyers will be able to buy with 5% deposit the home of their dreams because the government will act on our behalf as a grantor for toxic assets… Lofty lovely home affordable at last, everyone’s dream come true, the Conservatives can be kind and sensitive to the people’s needs… Right?
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“No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life...”
– Andre Breton
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Utopia
Utopia - A word coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia - he combined two Greek words, Eutopia - meaning a good place and Outopia - no where/place. He imagined in his book a Utopic island in the Atlantic ocean where property was owned collectively and people lived according to rational and enlightened ideals. The idea and dream of Utopia inspires many people to dream and act to make...
“Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.”
– Malcolm De Chazal
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The #Church and #OccupyLSX - Exposing the 1%
So many people ask me why the Anglican Church is so divided about Occupy LSX? SO, WHY, REALLY? Well first consider where Occupy London is physically most represented: St. Paul’s Square. The Cathedral is supported by Goldman Sachs and many financial institutions, and it costs £14.50 to visit St. Paul’s, yes very charitable. Many of the clergy sit on committees which work with the big...
October 2011
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“Don’t be fooled, many of the Human Rights NGOs and LGBT lobbyists are part...”
– Dan Littauer
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Steve Jobs as a fetish?
Apple is an amazing company and Jobs was a great man, not only in terms of technological but in ground breaking style and marketing innovation: he changed the world. Remembering this more completely perhaps can help do something more than a momentary fetish ideal to identify with, use his photo as your profile on facebook or chat about this death with friends while shedding tears with trembling...
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My translation of Gentileza by M. Monte (last...
Kindness
They’ve erased everything Painted all grey The word on the wall Is covered with paint They’ve erased everything Painted all grey Only left on the wall Sadness and fresh paint But we who rush by Through the city’s streets Deserve to read Kindness’ Letters and words So therefore I ask you Out there in the world Which is smarter? The book or wisdom? The world is a...
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September 2011
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Strangers
Maybe we are
All strangers
Trying to hold hands
In a fragmented world
Where society is a big ideology
Where there is no us
Just a word,
Picture,
Product
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Whirlpool moments
Whirlpool moments
Of untold shadows
Quick changing horizons
I look on the backwords
That shapes the forwards
Oh… whirlpool moments
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August 2011
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Sickness or Adaptation?
We’re lead by people who don’t even pretend to commit themselves to public service but to self-promotion and enrichment, enabling greedy cooperations to loot dwindling public resources. So why are we surprised at the rage, fear, & anger that plagues us? Expressions such as riots, or “where is the army”, “stuff human rights”, fear/hate of the Other, looting &...
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The financial help lines to our economies, or... ?
Are we really pinning our hopes on the money injected for resuscitation of our economies? It sounded good to some I guess… The economy is broke and we should get borrowing so that in time the money starts circulating and the “economy” starts going, right? We heard grave threats that if this won’t be forthcoming we would collapse and the consequences for the “little...
June 2011
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Wes hāl Lundenwic! Watch where you step!
Spricst þu Englisce? Don’t understand? If I’d transport myself to 7th century London very little would be understandable to me, even with my German. Wes hāl Lundenwic! Hello London! Lunden - what vaguely I guess refers to Londinium, and -wic denoting a trading settlement (notice many towns have the ending wic, wick, wich in the UK). The place to see and be seen and make big bucks was...
April 2011
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Origins of St. George's Iconography
If you have a moment to spare in Colchester, visit the wonderful museum in the Castle which stands on the grounds of the ancient Roman Forum. One of the most remarkable findings displayed there is the tombstone of Longinus, a cavalaryman of the First Suqadron of Thracians. It is beautiful tombstone, carved in the standard cavalry image: a calm, upright rider mounted on a well-controlled horse,...
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Fischerspooner: A Kick In The Teeth
Sawing, With my jaw tooth down. Guarded, Down upside frown. I‘m, I‘m looking for a pill, Something to ease my will, A kick in the teeth. You, You may not realize, When it‘s done or why, But it may be the best thing, it may be the best thing. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh and it may be the best thing. Pulsing, With a familiar pain. A comfort, From this disdain. Grind away. I‘m, I‘m looking for a thrill,...
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Internalised consumerism
While people go on about internalised homophobia, I think a bigger issue is big city gays’ internalised consumerism. Many seem to have a mentality that they dont appreciate the person and behave as if the city is a big supermarket and people are products. Added to that a shopping cart of refined search attributes on the latest dating sites, and there you have it: I’m out to get the...
July 2010
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“Consumerism is becoming the new natural order of things, its tainted glasses...”
May 2010
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Mr Meeble - 100 Pills
remember when we ran away to be one to make promises i’ll be your love to the end i never thought the end would come this way that’s for the other ones in a different place on a different day remember walking through the cambridge grass it was cold that day i was so alive now i’m dead and cold in a different way i remember almost every word and every smile you gave
what am i supposed to feel...
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February 2010
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December 2009
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What is going on in Iran?
The real battle in Iran is hidden and even more deadly. This is what naive journalists here in the west don’t seem to get… Behind the scenes, the Revolutionary Guard, which had its power increase over the years, has become the real power broker in Iran. They are really the ones pushing Iran into bloody confrontation, Ahmadinejad and the “spiritual leader” are less of...
The violence in Iran... →
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“Those who do not practice what they believe, are intellectual prisoners of fear,...”
– Me to K
Fischerspooner - A kick in the teeth