islamist beheading in FRANCE

ISLAMIST BEHEADING IN FRANCE NOT IN BBC RELIGIOUS POLITICAL DISCUSSION SUNDAY MORNING!

Tolerance to free speech should be a requirement for any immigrants to the UK/Europe: they should be required to agree to the showing of images of the Prophet Mohammed, who started 1300 years of war in his name, and had a child bride (Ayeesha) amongst his harem!

Sean Fletcher made a big statement about ‘white racism’ earlier in the Sunday Morning Live (religion-focused lifestyle programme) series, after a tweeter complained about a ‘black monopoly’ of presenters on the show that day (blacks are apparently only 3% of the population). They’ve also had loads of pro-Islam stories on over the series.
Today, he dodged the beheading of a French teacher for doing his job in a very religion-relevant story by saying it’s been a bleak news week, so they’ve chosen some funny ones to brighten it up.
To be fair to that programme, I checked Andrew Marr’s show before it too, and they didn’t have it either (he later ‘tackled’ white racism in an interview with Dawn French!).
So is it the BBC? Their news has given it quite a lot of coverage to be fair.
So it seems it is the programmes.
The big fuss they’ve made in support of BLM makes it all the more obvious. They don’t seem to consider free speech and white lives as important, despite being journalists!

That’s been my experience the last fifteen years. While they’ve made BLM activists out to be brave heroes, they’ve censored and persecuted me!

Charlie Hebdo

The original Islamist attack on Charlie Hebdo happened in 2015, as I wrote XaW Files: Beyond Humanity, and I referenced it in an epic poem, likening it to WW2 Nazis shutting down critical artists like Josef Čapek:

Chapter 3 Episode 23

There seemed no point
in asking Warsaw
if it saw our Wolfhol
as Andy’s motto
is ‘Wolf not War’
and if he’d passed
through noticed
surely the city
would now be called
‘Wolfsaw’?

No Check before the Czech Republic

I’d woken up early, feeling refreshed. Love and Jack were already awake. 

Jack said they were about to check up on me, and was glad I awoke beforehand, as he didn’t really want to use a ‘check’ joke before arriving in the Czech Republic.

Passing Poland Poem

We made good progress,
passing through Plock,
avoiding a road block.

We lost a little time
when Love got lodged
between loadsa leaves in Lodz.

We rolled into Wroclaw
where rock seems law
hair metal to the floor.

The border was in sight
but Love brailled a better crosser
finding all the letters in Czestochowa.

No Cheque in the Czech Republic

We crossed into Czech
without any checks
so straightaway looked for treks.

We didn’t have any
cheques to pay
so just went our own way.

Love liked the sound
of Hradec Kralove
so we went there straight off.

I knew it was a great choice
when I heard a voice
say we were on the Golden Road.

My Y loved walking on the Gold
and it reminded Grey of its epic trek
on the dust sandy path of Oz.

It got even better when we arrived
and I saw a coat of arms
with a lion holding a golden G.

I was in rhapsody
which was quite apt
as we were in Bohemia.

There was no Live Queen
but we met the unconscious
in Land of Many Names’s Josef Čapek.

A critical artist
killed in Concentration
similar in part to Charlie Hebdo.

I would’ve liked to visit
the western Karlovy Vary
as the name and images looked very…

… Yes, you may have guessed
greeny grey like my name
I hope so if you’re still playing the game..?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/XaW-Files-Beyond-Humanity-Fantasy/dp/1516969065/

New UK Cultural War? No, Megxit is a Ripple Effect of Brexit!

Some comments I’ve made elsewhere on Harry and Meghan’s behaviour, and the Manchester child-grooming scandal being uncovered after 15 years this week, but still ignored by Meghan and her fans!
More theoretically, I ask: Did she have plans to use UK as link for African takeover of Europe; a pincer move between African Americans and Africans?

On last night’s Question Time:

Shami’s shame: Meghan’s silence on the mostly white children being racially groomed by mostly Muslim men was mirrored by Corbynista leader; Jeremy’s inner circle member Shami Chakrabarti; continuing a silence they’ve always had; neglecting their traditional voters, which probably contributed to the landslide election loss.
In a week when 15 years of cover-up were revealed in Manchester, it wasn’t a topic on Question Time last night. Meghan was, and Chakrabarti spoke passionately on ‘racism’ there.
When actor Laurence Fox said race had been used to stop the police investigating the child grooming, Chakrabarti was silent, and didn’t comment!

Comments on MSN article about it being a new cultural war:

It’s not a ‘new cultural war’: it’s a continuation of the old one, and Megxit is a ripple effect from Brexit.
If Corbyn had won the election and Brexit had been stopped Britain would have become more like Meghan wanted, and she’d have been well placed to win the battle versus the traditional royals.
If a Meghanista won the US presidency they could have used Britain as a link between USA and Africa.
In answer to a question about Meghan’s ambitions for world-changing, using UK as base for African Americans – Africa pincer move on Europe:
Going a bit into conspiracy theory there admittedly, but Meghan’s quite a hard-line ‘African-American’; Serena Williams’s right-hand woman. After the wedding, with her lone black mother (sitting alone despite apparently being offered a place with the ‘white’ royals) the only family member there, Meghan always did visits and photo opportunities with ‘women of colour’, ignoring poor whites like the grooming victims. Likewise her ‘charities’.
Her Vogue cover was full of ‘black power revolutionaries’.
The symbolic propaganda seemed to peak with the South Africa visit, where Archie was unveiled to the media with Tutu, a famous anti-Apartheid leader.
Archie’s godparents have remained secret: I think I know why, but could be wrong!

From Russia with Confusion: Political Round-Up

After mentioning Russia with Cuba in the blog this week, I thought I’d round up some recent political thinking and events. I would have shown sympathy to the ‘Windrush’ victims a few years ago, but have received too much negativity, even when trying to be friendly and accommodating during the greenygrey years, although I have met many who were good. Now, I just feeling like writing the flip side of the coin is the ‘Homes Children’: vulnerable British white children who were sent around the ‘Empire/Commonwealth’ at the same time that immigrants were being enticed to Blighty! Moreover, the same kinds of children have been similarly abused over the last thirty years on our ‘sceptred isle’!!

‘Killing Own People’ Hypocrisy

Readers may ask what that’s got to do with Russia, and I only remembered half way through that paragraph. During the recent Syrian ‘chemical attack’ that resulted in Western bombing, Assad was described as being beyond evil for killing his own people; the same as Putin for the Salisbury one. As Peter Hitchens and some military experts argued, there didn’t seem to be any proof or rationale for Assad having launched the attack, as his forces were in the ascendency at the time. The Salisbury trail also seems to have gone cold, and certainly doesn’t seem as clear as ‘serial love cheat’ Boris Johnson claimed straight afterwards.

I also thought it was hypocritical for the ‘establishment’ to criticise Assad for killing own people after numerous cases of the ‘establishment’ doing just that with British people: from World War One, through the Homes Children to the recent grooming scandals, with some victims or their families having died. Soldiers are left homeless after serving the country, while the ‘establishment’ welcomes I.S. volunteers back and many such people seem to enjoy comfortable lives at the taxpayers expense.

I feel sorry for Stephen Lawrence and his family, but what about a memorial day for the victims of grooming too, such as Lucy Lowe. She was killed along with her family, but has hardly dented the national conscience, despite being even younger than Lawrence, and a whole family being attacked.

Cold War and Traitors

While I was an ideological supporter of socialism during the 1980s and 1990s, along with most working-class union members, as I wrote last week, even Russia has left communism behind now.

That means I’m freed from having any leanings toward them. Putin declaring his dislike for ‘traitors’ also makes me think I shouldn’t be a ‘traitor’ to ‘my country’. However, I still want to criticise my country, taking part in its democracy.

While I criticise ‘my country’ for seeming to ally with Islamists fighting Assad in Syria, Russia doesn’t seem to be any more virtuous, allying with Shia extremists in the self-proclaimed Islamist State of Iran. What would Marx and Lenin make of it!?

SAS Provide ‘Ideological Escape Route’?

The war against terror and I.S., defending ourselves while freeing victims such as the Yazidi women provided a world conflict I could really support. Now a return to a ‘Cold War’, seemingly divided on different sides of the Islamic Sunni-Shia civil war, doesn’t have the same inspiration. Hopefully things will get better, with Korea great news this week.

When I’ve watched documentaries about the SAS I feel that they are the closest to how I’d like to see Blighty’s image, but I also have some reservations when hearing them talk of operations against ‘communist rebels’, some of whom I probably thought had the moral high ground against a tyrannical power elite leadership.

Of course, it wasn’t the soldiers’ fault. When they sign up for the ‘country’ they have to fight where they are ordered. The Russian special forces and those from other countries are certainly no different.

The Left are Just as Biased

While I feel sorry for any innocent Rohingya victims, their conflict reminds me of the one in Kosovo I studied for my PhD thesis. In both cases the Muslim minority migrants started the conflict, and then portrayed themselves as the victims after the majority government reacted. If the Aleppo ‘chemical attack’ was a set-up, as many of the ‘victims’ claimed in a Russian news conference, saying some people just shouted it was a chemical attack and poured water over them, then it’s another case of Islamists trying to use their own people for their propaganda technique of ‘victimhood’; mixed with the strong superiority type such as I.S. torture and execution videos.

It’s ironic that some of the ‘left’ who tried to silence me for writing my views, such as the above about Kosovo, now seem to be on that side of the fence as Corbynistas; maybe they realise now what I was arguing! They probably supported the ‘underdog Italian Islamist’ against me in the department, but now she’s presenting papers at NATO conferences!!

As for me, I’m proud to be a stale pale male like Peter Hitchens… and Andrew Neil… who I usually agree with, but didn’t like his attack on poor Peter!

Doctor of Philosophy Speciality Poetry for Free

I don’t know which social-political-sporting system has won most battles throughout history, but when thinking about it recently, I thought that the authoritarian should win more than it does, with more of a total war attitude, and wondered why it didn’t.

Media War Propaganda My Doctoral Thesis

I don’t know if it’s a common theme or knowledge, and if I’ve read it somewhere long ago, perhaps in my studies, where it was my specialist subject. It emerged recently into my head as an original idea, inspired by thinking about the quick collapse of I.S. in Syria.

I thought that while a totalitarian attitude with promising propaganda can work to build a quick big following initially, if the promising propaganda is shown to be false, then it will also result in a quick big collapse.

The democratic side doesn’t have the sudden burst of energy from ‘big lie’ propaganda, but can sustain itself better through defeats, as they are not as crushing to its whole rationale. To use a food analogy, its like a sudden sugar rush v complex carbohydrates.

‘Big lie’ propaganda is like a ‘set in stone’ monolith that cannot be repaired when cracks start to show, whereas democracy is more like a brick wall that can be renovated, with the ‘new bricks’ derived from debate and policy-strategy changes.

Having chosen creative writing after my PhD I have written a Folding Mirror poem to demonstrate how I see the two sides of the above discussion. It also has relevance to ordinary society and culture, where these kinds of battles also go on; and even more now in the social media age; and to individual personalities, with regard to self-development and sociability.

Mirror Poem about Media War Propaganda

Democracy Debate v Authoritarian Agitate

weakness a waving
for all to see
positive attribute
enlightened society
balance power better
when enjoying strong economy

displaying replaceable tail, possible false trail

cultures with closed society
brainwash people by
boasting superiority
negative occurrences
set true picture free
exercise inner strength

Mirror Poem Reflections 21-25

Over thirty reflections from 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections are on the Writing and Poetry blog now, so following on from reflections 1-5, reflections 6-10,  reflections 11-15 and reflections 16-20 here’s reflections 21-25.

I originally repeated Reflection 22 in 24, and have now edited it. Sorry about that!

Reflection 21

Reflection 21 mirrored Between Times of Fantasy. Maybe it was thinking of some time in the future like now when it was written. Here’s Reflection 21:

Sometimes I have written poems about my unknown future with inspiration from the forgotten past.
Then, a few years later I read it again.
The time when I wrote the poem, which is now of course the past, is then relived by the future mind that was written about.

Reflection 22

Reflection 22 mirrored Multitasking Melody:

Been walking
around the mountain
looking for a clear path
enjoying the view
now it’s getting late
time’s running out
fog’s forming
need to make a decision
or just keep rambling
to the end.

Reflection 23

Reflection 23 mirrored Not Love, Gnat Empathy:

Is it worth contesting people’s religious, political and cultural beliefs and views? While you may save them, you could also destroy them.
Somebody who might be saved in one way from a life of slavery and ignorance may in other ways die from freedom and knowledge.
And if you show them the possibility that life has no meaning, without providing anything else, are you not like a doctor taking heroin away from an addict without providing any methadone.
And for yourself, maybe you’ll ruin your career or life trying to do what you think is good, and do very little to change anything: or even make things worse by giving those you consider wrong more ammunition and an enemy to deflect attention and legitimise their cause.

Reflection 24

Reflection 24 mirrored Contented Living, Contents of Dreaming:

Keep honey cooking in the kitchen
memories on the mantelpiece
old flames in the fire.

Reflection 25

Reflection 25 mirrored Inner Strength, Mental Health:

The poem was written after the UK riots of 2011. Although I sometimes dislike modern society and yearn for a more natural one, the scenes of mass destruction against homes, businesses and landmarks looked all wrong.
Whatever the pressures and problems (if it wasn’t just greed and power), there are always places to escape if desired, rather than trying to create space in somewhere densely inhabited.
Many people feel they’re not their real selves within modern society; which is literally a construction. Most think they become their real selves outside the work environment, when they spend time with their family, play sports, or escape into the countryside.
I often wonder whether this is something inspired by life in modern society; a natural desire of your life in the here and now; or is it something imprinted in your genes stretching back to our ancestors in prehistory.

Michael McCarthy was also quoted from an article about St. Kilda published in the Independent newspaper on August 9th, 2012: ‘…I think the longing for nature in its pristine state is much older. Remember, we have been computer operators for a single generation, and workers in offices for about three; but we were farmers for 400 generations, and before that we were hunter-gatherers for perhaps 20,000.’

Poetry Reflection on Modern Society and Political Speech

Hi, it’s William Wolfsworth, poetry correspondent at the Greenygrey, inspired by legendary Romantic poet William Wordsworth. There’s no new poems to import and report from the fmpoetry world this week I’m afraid, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have time for reflection.

Modern Politics and Society Poetry Reflection 

Reflection 9 reflected the Folding Mirror poem Quality Words are like
Koala(ity) on a Eucalyptus Tree at Sunset.

The reflection comments on the changes in modern technology that has created a 24-hours news and media world; and a desire for instant information in society.

Politicians have had to adapt to this change, and this has perhaps caused a lowering in political dialogue, as politicians seek to avoid saying something that could be considered negative, and try to talk in soundbites created to achieve good instant media headlines.

Is there time to think
before talking
in modern society,
where everything is instant,
silence is belligerent
and noise is magnificent.

Politicians still try to do it,
play for time
get answers to mind
see the interview through
hide the reality
reveal nothing on telly.

Blog Inspired by Award

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British Prime-Ministers’ Greenygrey Photo Opportunity

Hi, it’s Wolf Whistzer, legendary newshound at the Greenygrey. As greenygrey becomes symbolic of balance and unity, trust and truthfulness in the United Kingdom, British Prime-Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, chose a greenygrey background for their most recent press conference, as shown in this Birmingham Post photo:

Disclaimer: The Greenygrey was not consulted on the photo, and has no connection to Cameron and Clegg, or the Conservative and Liberal Democrats political parties. It also warns people not to trust all combinations of green and grey, because as all that glitters is not gold, all that is greenygrey is not good.

News: Sun on Sunday in the Sky World Poem

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Marc Latham’s latest Folding Mirror poem started out as one about perception and reflection, and what we see not always being real; but then the inclusion of sun, plasma and sky twisted it more into a Rupert Murdoch, News International, Sun and News of the World newspapers, Sky television one.

It is quite timely, with The Sun on Sunday first published yesterday, and maybe that was what unconsciously inspired it. Media privacy was also discussed yesterday on The Big Questions, which is available in the UK until next Sunday, March 4th in the  UK; don’t know about other availability.

Marc is ambivalent (greenygrey) about Rupert Murdoch from what he knows, thinking he has done a lot of good and bad things in his career. Marc values a free press, and enjoys watching Sky News and reading News Corporation newspapers; but doesn’t agree with invasions of privacy that are not in the public interest, and too much of a country’s media power being in the hands of one person. Former Prime-Ministers such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown being reduced to Murdoch’s lapdogs (when they weren’t being pets of the bankers) is evidence of the dangers contained in the latter! Here’s the poem:

News of World – Sky – Sun on Sunday

The sun isn’t yellow
and in our sky
that’s our perception
of magnetic fields
holding together
hydrogen, helium hot plasma

Sky watching, viewing Sun

plasma screen, signals sent
political hegemony
in messages from
News Int. proprietor
is the picture clear
does The Sun care?

Marc Latham’s central site is @ the greenygrey (http://www.greenygrey.co.uk)

Poem Plays with Words and Pays World

Image by Office of Governor Patrick via Flickr

Marc Latham’s latest Folding Mirror poem has a social conscience.  Although its message is not new, it tries for originality with its use of words and rhyming.

The top half of the poem has a double rhyming of ‘ity’ words on the top half, and the bottom half has a double rhyming of ‘ion’ words.

Does that make sense?  Please check it out for yourself:

Simplicate, Implicate, Complicate

Homo-sapiens became the height of clarity and hilarity
knowledge of sanity at backend of insanity
yet impoverished humanity can’t break parity from disparity

human is in the middle of inhumanity

media show images of construction coming before destruction
leaders use rigged elections or God’s intervention
justifying wars and excusing pollution is our evolution