biginabox
The container for the thing contained.
Library Times
1960s
The library was an important bit of the childhood Saturday in the industrial Welsh past, at one time. Along with the Odeon in the morning, then rissole and chips at the Savoy, then Frost’s comic and toy stall on the market, and Hodges’ model shop in Market Street with its spitfires, and model aeroplane ‘dope’. The incredibly opulent sports shop in Stepney Street with its arrows, fishing rods, footballs and shotguns with their gleaming walnut stocks. And its high wooden racks and display cases and counters. Apart from being a train driver or fireman or spy or fighter pilot or outside half for Wales, or Davy Crockett, being a shop assistant among such wonders would have been one dream career.
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For a particular kind of Llanelli teenage bargain-book-hunter, there was the ‘Refugee Aid’ bookshop in Llanelly House, the decaying C18th architectural masterpiece at the heart of the old town. This book cave stank so much of mildew you could almost see the spores drifting through the air like pipe smoke in a pirate tavern, and the two little old ladies knitting among a pile of damp cardboard boxes might have been its blousy barmaids. They might also have been sitting in a psychedelic haze, if modern research into book-dust is to be believed.
Which particular refugees we were aiding by buying one book for every three we stole, we never knew.
There were strange and expensive books there which must have come from defunct country house libraries and middle class Great Depression bankruptcies. The story of the book was as much in its appearance and smell as in the words. Great rusting tomes of Carlyle’s pernicious and unreadable essays, church editions of The Pilgrim’s Progress, with brass corners and Sunday school lesson plans in a special appendix. History was very near in those books even if the original homes of the books were beyond my experience. But so were copies of the mad, banned Beat poets and Williams Burroughs from god knows what trendy Llanelli avant-garde cellarites. Here was another Llanelli I knew just as little about.
The imposing stone battlements of the town library opposite were quite different.
Since I was little, my father had taken me with him to replenish his weekly ration of Zane Gray westerns, and I’d got used to the place. And rather liked its grown up waxy meaty smell of stout leather municipal bindings and polished wood shelves. I liked the high toplit ceiling with its pigeons and, when I was only 8, the fact that I could go in to a huge stone building, and take away expensive books, and that the adults around weren’t trying to stop me, but were actually at my beck and call.
But most of all, I liked the grown-up feeling of imitating my father. That is what most instilled a lasting interest in books, not being read to or inspired by enlightened teachers. There weren’t many books in the house apart from the usual religious texts and a few self-help books and technical volumes from my father’s Depression Era attempts at self-improvement. He had no literary interest as such. I suspect the Zane Grays were a side-effect of his military service in Europe. Escapist fiction to dispel boredom and numb the senses to the horrors he never spoke of.
Any parent hoping to encourage their children to read books should read books themselves. Or at least, appear to. They should appeal by association with the love and comfort of home and family – not tests of intelligence in the sterile factory of the schoolroom.
I remember my father getting up to answer the back door, with a half-eaten sandwich in one hand, book in the other, a chunky middle finger keeping his page. Because of publicly funded literacy, books simply seeped into our everyday domestic landscape. Like the coal delivered every week to fuel the fire my father read by.
I definitely liked the record library when I was older, and heard things courtesy of the Llanelli ratepayer, with a dash of teenage random dumb luck choice, which I might never have heard otherwise, and which have served me very well down the years. Likewise the books. And all partly made possible by the subscriptions of people who worked so hard they seldom had time or energy to read a book themselves, and who would probably not live to see much return on their investment.
Westfa Waterfall Mystery
Untitled Diptych of waterfall. WillIam Collins R.A. born 8/09/1788 – died 17/02/1847.
From estate of Westfa House, Felinfoel, via Richards family of Llethry Cottages, Westfa Fach, & Rhandir House.
This is not typical of Collins’ other work, apart from his trademark swooping Swallow over the surface of the pond. (see River Scene with Trees and Mountains West Northants Council).
The paintings are not listed as submissions to the R.A. annual exhibition, which suggests they may be a private commission. And they cannot be found in any searches. They have probably not been seen in public before now, having been acquired by the Richards family by the early C20th., and hung on the walls of humble estate houses ever since.
The work presents itself as an almost stereoscopic view of the same scene from different positions. In fact, the work is completely misleading. The tree has magically moved from one bank to the other. This reveals a huge degree of artistic licence in the name of symmetry, implying they were intended for decorative purposes in a rich house.
On the grand overmantle of Westfa House, they can be interpreted as a Victorian symbol for a pair of newlyweds. Possibly under the influence of Jane Nevill, wife and lifetime partner of Charles Nevill, Llanelli Copperworks master and first owner of Westfa House from its construction in the late 1840’s. But his industrial position also makes them symbolic of his mastery over nature.
The location of these falls remains a mystery. However, there is a striking resemblance to the site of the Lower Lliedi Reservoir, Built 1888, less than a mile from Westfa House.
These paintings have undoubtedly led an Upstairs – Downstairs life. At some point in the early 1930’s they found their way into the humble cottages on the Westfa Estate in Felinfoel. By 1939 they were hanging on the passage wall in my parents’ newer humble permanent home, Rhandir House, which is where they stayed until 1993, and then in storage until now.
This intriguing and rare example of a landscape diptych, is in the spirit of the apologetic nature-worship of the time, adorning the baronial manor of a mogul of the ‘Dark Satanic Mills.’ But it is not typical of Collins’ other work, apart from the trademark swooping bird over the surface of the pond. (River Scene with Trees and Mountains West Northants Council).
In fact, the work is completely misleading. It declares itself to be an almost stereoscopic view of the same scene from different positions. (The first English stereoscopic iages were produced in 1832 by Sir Charles Wheatstone ) If so, how did the tree move from the left bank to the right? This reveals a huge degree of artistic licence in the name of symmetry, implying they were intended for decorative purposes in a rich house. They would have done justice to the chimney breast of the grand south-facing drawing room of Westfa House, overseeing the Nevill Copper industry from its wellspring. It’s easy to imagine the feminine influence in this choice of interior decoration for the new house. A pair of dynamic water spirits for the newlyweds, an improvement on the usual sickly Victorian cooing Doves.
Westfa House was the imposing, hillside, riverside mansion built in the late 1840’s by the Nevill family for their eldest son Charles’ wedding in 1841. Rhandir House was one field away from Westfa with its gothic spire looming through a wall of Oak trees and the nightly cacophony of roosting crows..
Somehow these expensive objects became available for a family like ours to own. A family of smallholders and colliers. The family account of their provenance was taken for granted, that they were from the effects of Westfa during the Evans clearance in 1906, or even from the Nevill clearance in 1888. The industries of both owners (medicinal bitters and copper respectively) depended on water, in particular that of the Lliedi valley, which ran right past Charles Nevill’s new house. Half a mile downstream from a natural chokepoint in the Lliedi where a keen-eyed Victorian industrialist would have spotted the perfect site for the reservoir which was built in 1888. And where, in during his walks to survey a site for his marital home, he would have found a waterfall exactly like the one depicted by Collins, nestled in the same configuration of hills as today’s Swiss Valley Lower Reservoir. Can anyone to tell the difference?
Westfa was a proper site for the family home of a master of Welsh water, overlooking the headwaters of the river which was to quench the molten copper and tin-plate sheets in his family’s factories in thriving Llanelli downstream.
Richard Crawshay’s Cyfarthfa House oversaw his ironworks in a similar way. As depicted in Penry Williams’ painting of Cyfarthfa Rolling Mill At Night.
In that context, the two paintings seem like a statement of ownership, but the Collins is a more feminine, symbolic examination of the relationship of industry with nature, possibly the result of his marriage to the 21 year old Jane Davies in 1841. They were together for 47 years, she survived him by 6 more.
The paintings are not listed as submissions to the R.A. annual exhibition, which suggests they may be a private commission. Since Collins was a prestigious artist of his day (out-selling Turner at auction) his work would only be affordable to the rich. The Nevill family got very rich from exploiting Welsh resources, including rivers, while simultaneously destroying the landscape.
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Pair of paintings by William Collins.R.A. (1788–1847).
In family ownership throughout most of C20th, having been acquired from Westfa House at the exchange sale between the Nevill family and Gwilym Evans in 1888, or when Evans sold in 1906 .
Two female members of our family were in domestic service at the time, and like many families of the period on Llethry Road, ours were tenants of the Westfa Estate. Since the paintings were somehow available in the early C20th for a family like ours to own, I have to believe the family legend that they were from the last sale of effects at Westfa after the death of Gwilym Evans. Or were bartered in some way for work or produce. My Mother remembered them being moved to our house in 1939 from ‘Westfa Fach’, the little estate cottage opposite, rented by my great-aunt. They hung on the gloomy passage wall next to the staircase for the next fifty years.
The paintings are not listed as submissions to the R.A. annual exhibition, which suggests they may be a private commission. Since Collins was a prestigious artist of his day (out-selling Turner at auction) his work would only be affordable to the rich. The Nevill family got very rich from exploiting Welsh resources, including rivers, while simultaneously destroying the landscape.
This intriguing and rare example of a landscape diptych, almost a stereoscopic technique, is fairly typical of the apologetic nature-worship of the time, adorning the baronial manor of a mogul of the ‘Dark Satanic Mills.’ But it is not typical of Collins’ other work, apart from the trademark swooping bird over the surface of the pond. (River Scene with Trees and Mountains West Northants Council)
There seems to be more vitality and freedom than usual. Neither is it a faithful depiction of a specific location.
The River Lliedi runs alongside the site of Westfa House. Knowing the geography of the valley well, it is not impossible that the scene depicted by Collins is of the Lliedi valley, at the choke-point where the first reservoir was built in the 1880s. The scene is there now, but with the curved dam, with its Swiss turrets, and its ‘giant steps’, As an enterprising engineer, born downstream, on the banks of a Lliedi harnessed and polluted by his father’s Copperworks, Charles William Nevill (1815 – 1888 ) would have known the spot, half a mile from his new home. He would also have been impressed by the village, clustering churchless around the ‘bald’ watermill which gave the Felinfoel its name, and which was one of the oldest surviving industrial uses of the Lliedi. A proper site for the family home of a master of Welsh water, overlooking the headwaters of the river which was to quench the molten copper and tin-plate sheets in his family’s factories in thriving Llanelli downstream.
Richard Crawshay’s Cyfarthfa House oversaw his ironworks in a similar way. As depicted in Penry Williams’ painting of Cyfarthfa Rolling Mill At Night.
In that context, the two paintings seem like a statement of ownership, but with a feminine touch of his lifelong partner. In 1841 he married the 21 year old Jane Davies, who seems to have been without important county connections. They were together for 47 years, she survived him by 6 more.
WESTFA NEWS CLIPPINGS
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Llanelli 1920
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Nevill Family
https://elphrobfamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I1152&tree=tree080518LLANELLY LINKS
RICHARD NEVILL Jnr
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TO THE SLAVE TRADE
https://www.llanellich.org.uk/files/440-llanelli-and-its-association-with-the-slave-trade
Shameless Doggerel
The Seasiders and Ian
(Apologies to Stanley Holloway)
There’s a little seaside team called Blackpool.
What’s noted for football and fun.
And young Master Ian Holloway
Went there with a job to be done.
He didn’t think much to the stadium.
The stands was all piddlin and small.
There was no riots and nobody trampled.
In fact nothing to laugh at at all.
So seeking for further amusement,
They got promoted a division or two
Where there was Uniteds and Chelseas and Arsenals
And money and cups not a few.
They caused quite a stir in le League Premiere.
They’d forgot they were not meant to win.
In their shirts the colour of stewards
On a day out to sunny King’s Lynn.
There were one great big team called the Villa
In claret and blue they were dressed.
And since a big match were on at ‘weekend
Ian gave ten of his lads a quick rest.
Now Ian had heard about Villa.
How they was all nervous and tame.
And seeing as how he’d got nothing to lose
Told his lads: ‘Play your natural game’.
T’were a right proper upper and downer.
That Wednesday night clash there’s no doubt.
The crowd cheered and clapped their approval.
And some paid again on’t way out!
But the lads up at football headquarters
Were watching, and said ‘What’s to do?‘
There’s far too much fun here for comfort.
We’ll stop that or they’ll all want some too!’
So they fined little Blackpool a fortune
For playing the game with some zip.
While United and City were walking the park
Like pensioners on a day trip.
The F.A. were quite nice about it
Saying ‘No-one was really to blame.’
And hoped that Ian and Blackpool
Had enough money to play one one more game.
At this Ian got proper blazing.
‘And thank you sirs kindly’ said he.
‘Run our legs off each week playing football
To feed Rupert Murdoch – not me!’
Farage Hate Week & Wonderful Wednesday.
The Triumph of ‘Woke’ August 2024
With the exhumation this month in Epping of last Summer’s Farage-Fascism, many in the media have despaired, and seem to be surrendering to the theory that burning refugees alive is defensible, and even inevitable. But they are invariably the tribe who are congenitally incapable of recognising the value of any genuinely popular and effective working class initiatives. Like Universal Suffrage and a health service free at the point of use.
And so they have swiftly forgotten that the Farage Hate-Week was snuffed out by spontaneous popular self-defence.
The collective resistance to fascism co-ordinated by Stand Up To Racism and others on @AntiRacismDay ·Aug 7, Wonderful Wednesday, deserves mention alongside Brick Lane and Cable Street in the history of British Anti-fascism. And stands as a constant glaring reminder of the bleedin obvious to certain liberal radio talk-show hosts endlessly asking ‘How’? ‘How do we turn back this inexorable tide of hate?’
By mass co-operation. The antidote to the toxic culture which spawns Psychopaths prepared to incinerate ‘foreign’ children seeking refuge, and British children at play. The sickness is the same in both cases.
Documents and Links to Hate-Week exchanges.
(Last to first) All memories and exchanges welcome.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Both. Against Racists and Thugs because they are the same animal. The Passive but Massive Dad’s-Army was resisting Fascist Lynch-Mobs. By royal Appointment, it turned out.
By sheer force of numbers it helped deter the fascists & protect lives.
Not least those of on-duty police.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No different. The Labour landslide is the overlooked cause of the fascist backlash. It was inevitable since July 5th. They just HATE democracy.
Even the media-perverted imitation democracy we endure.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The entire country has been blathering on about nothing BUT ‘immigration’ (that is the Freedom of Movement of Labour) for decades. And only a few weeks ago it had its say in a general election fought over ‘immigration’.
All parties fundamentally opposed to immigration lost.
That’s democracy.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The only identity that counts is Class Identity. And the sooner it becomes the universal identity, the sooner radical policies can emerge.
Modern Backlash is an Identity Crisis. The inevitable result of Climate Science which denies the 1000 year Reich of Psycho-Consumerism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Who was trying to burn children alive? Who burnt the library?
You’re denying these things happened. You’re deranged.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A GREAT opportunity not to be missed. Many barriers between community groups and the police were challenged last night.
The effect on young officers present would be interesting.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A great example of community cooperation in a common cause. I expected to see images of police dancing with the Dad’s Army defenders. A positive, bonding experience for all, creating a golden opportunity not to be missed.
Stand Up To Racism
@AntiRacismDay ·Aug 7
This is what a mass movement against the far right looks like @wfsutr #StandUpToRacism
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Last night was the Triumph of ‘Woke’. The Many WOKE up to the fascist threat, and to the power of unity to deter it. Now everyone knows what that ‘Woke’ simply means Humanism. Or even more threatening: Humanitarianism.
That is what sticks in the craws of the gutter media and their fellow-travellers.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So the night before, when there were 38 planned lynchmobs and 38 turned up were fake too. Right. Nobody tried to burn any refugee children alive.
As a classic Consumerist Psychopath, what else do you deny?
How about climate science? That’s always a sure-fire indicator of infection.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Both. This is the fascists in total flight, clutching at any straws in the face of intolerable community action saying NO to their hate. A very memorable, bonding moment, almost unprecedented as an effective community action. I knew they’d blame Starmer. ‘Project Fear’ no doubt.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A lot of people were LIED to by Billionaire fake-news machines. Money buys Power. Which is why ‘capitalist-democracy’ is a contradiction in terms.
If you trust its output, you are too innocent for your own good.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They had to officially discourage Dad’s Army militias last night. For public safety, and to maintain political distance without which, the Gutter racist press would not be so stymied today. They would be accusing Starmer of ‘bias’. This is a great community opportunity. TAKE IT.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Just goes to show the utter uselessness of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ as accurate – or even honest – signposts to anything. Not only that, but ‘right’ of course is given a huge head start by culture and usage. See the Bible and every depiction of the last judgement (‘right’?)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No. Today is the first of many days to rub your nose in the triumph of Human values last night, and the opportunity it represents for a decent future, minus your Psychopathic lynch-mobs baying for the blood of children.
Don’t hijack causes you don’t care about, like children.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You want a consumer society, you got it. And all the psychopaths that go with it. The respectable family man who decides one fine day to kill his family with a crossbow. Blair didn’t create the Capitalist rat-sack or the class system. Maybe last night can show the way out of both
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
We are many, You are Few. Barbarian lynchmobs. But still the losers of history. So take your fatal identity crisis back to your prehistoric cave and huddle in your pre-technological dark.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s up to you to make the point that the events of last night’s triumph of Human values represents an almost unprecedented opportunity for community cooperation, and to heal wounds between the people and business, police, even politicians. I’ve never seen anything like it. Help.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Pure fascism. A repeat of the attacks on Deptford Albany Empire and Moonshot club in 70’s London. Soon after, the New Cross Massacre happened. History never repeats, but it does echo. Farage is just a massacre waiting to happen.
blackhistorystudies.com The New Cross Fire – Black History Studies
The New Cross Massacre https://youtu.be/H_vP-ScHZ8I The New Cross Fire killed 13 young Black people during a birthday party in a house in New Cross, southeast London on Sunday January 18, 1981. The…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Wrong. TERRIFYING is the word. The aim of this fascist Hate Week is to tell all black people ‘You Are Not Safe Here.’
I call that Terrorism. Not mere ‘thuggery’.
Charities report rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia at schools in England From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The clock is ticking. Every minute Farage doesn’t denounce this hate brings a fatal confrontation days nearer. The more police are unable to divide fascist mobs from the community, the more certain a death. And if this madness persists, some lone psychopath will go over the edge
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
For planning to tinker with a traffic signal @ExtinctionR get 5 years.
Add on the violence and Hate Crimes, and the fascist lynchmobs could be looking at 10.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The fascists graduated officially from mere thugs to a fascist lynch-mob today. If Frogface Farage doesn’t condemn this UNEQUIVOCALLY today, he will have blood on his hands.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In Rotherham, the #fascistthugs promoted themselves to #fascistlynchmobs
A massacre was only prevented after police were injured. The hotel is still under siege At some point, one of these hate-frenzies will succeed, and people will be killed.
What will Frogface Farage say then?
Rob Kenyon
@@biginabox.
‘Not ‘far-right’. A PSYCHOPATH. (please use words which mean something)
This sick society cannot do without the sickness it creates. It runs on it.
It’s a cancerous symbiotic relationship. A rare thing in nature, but not in capitalism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Every minute Farage and his Goats refuse to condemn this fascist madness brings its first death a day nearer. The lynch-mobs are already targeting mosques. How long before they succeed? Shades of Mississippi Burning.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There was nothing political about 2011. All big demonstrations in Britain are invariably issue-based, not markedly ideological, and certainly don’t intend to drag Britain back to the C19th. The Faragistas use the nazi propaganda manual. Keep it stupid & make people afraid.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
14 years of NatC shit hitting the fan. Redneck Britain exposed. The real depth of the problem made clear No more whining denials possible. Deporting Human Beings because of their colour IS racist But these fascists want to LYNCH them. Psychopaths created by a Psychopathic society
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“What sort of society do we live in when a highlight of the summer holidays ..turns into what witnesses likened to “a scene from a horror movie”?”
A SICK society, which can only create SICK people.
Another day, another psychopath goes pop!
Southport stabbing latest: victims named as Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva…
From theguardian.com
The Bonfire of the Humanities
The Nightmare World of Musk.
Orwell vindicated daily.
2025 >
News at the top – history at the bottom
Online comments during the expanding war. Links to all context.
Key texts:
‘The Power of Pathocracy’
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Comment history
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
I asked for years, with no results except accusations of ‘antisemitism’ & ‘trolling’, whatever THAT is Not a single quote or clip of @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
which would stand up in court The charge that labour was ‘systemically’ racist was also a farce. Depending on a zionist definition of racism
Bill @billn.bsky.social · 2d
And no one was able to point to a single anti-Semitic statement made by Corbyn at any time in his life.
14:58 · 14 Dec 2025
Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 13:06 In response to ndl4321
Simple.
Just provide a healthy, real society to overcome the obsession with sick, fake fantasy-worlds which should be out-grown by the age of 7.
Meet a real social need with a social society. Which would kill several birds with one stone.
Why not?
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Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 13:01 In response to TheWickerMan
The online fake community has to replaced by a real community.
In fact, the entire concept of community has to be rediscovered, and rescued from perpetual demonisation by the usual suspects.
The damage of 60 years of rancid anti-social consumerism has to be undone. Meaning radical solutions in all directions. A return to rational politics.
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Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 12:36
Removing the dead virtual playground from children can only ever succeed if an alternative real playground is restored to them.
If the Childhood denied to the last 3 generations can be reborn or reinvented. One which encourages genuine socialisation and interaction with reality. Without toxic AI, which parents of its developers are already denying to their kids, and which every billionaire oligarch demands be allowed to roam unregulated.
Why would they want that?
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Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 12:29 In response to longist
And if everyone was perfect the world would be perfect.
In the meantime, in the real world, children have to be protected somehow from predators and billionaire brain poison.
The minority of gatekeeper parents are merely rocks thrown in the river of sewage, when a dam is needed. Only a government can build it.
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Russia is now an economic basket case because of Putin’s war. And millions of boys have died needlessly. How long do you think the ‘Grey Masses’ will carry on slaughtering their children on the altar of Putin?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You surrender the future to Putin if you want. Don’t demand that Ukrainians do the same. Or the rest of Europe after being dismantled back into petty feuding nationalisms ripe for picking by Trump and Putin. Leading to the Great Grab of the remains of a Russia destroyed by Putin.
Rob Kenyon
@biginaboxCorbyn had the chance to form a formidable alliance with the Greens, SNP and half the LIbdems and blew it. Politics has moved on from tribalism. The radical (i.e. RATIONAL ) political world has to unite around the founding values of #Humanism. Easy to defend, impossible to oppose
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
When Finkelstein has experienced the conditions of the workers he castigates, and their actions, he will have the right to pass an opinion. Until then he has to obey the democratically expressed will of the workforce As do all who presume to impose a value the lives of others.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You have to ignore child abuse because it’s SYSTEMIC in Power-Worshipping deathbed capitalism. Which must be perfect and must last forever. A medium for Losers who know their lives are lost and must revenge themselves on the powerless. Child-abusers are obeying Trump’s Law.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Time for all with Humanist values to unite under the banner of Humanism. The universally understood common ideology which barbarians cannot refute. Force them to be ‘Anti-Humanist’ – which they are. Destroying the ecosystem is NOT ‘Humanist’. All other policies write themselves.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel is now a ‘Torahnic State’. Like Iran, only Jewish.
A bronze Age myth forced on the modern world with predictable results.
irac.org
Ben gvir Qoutes — The Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“They were offered their half”...?
Listen to yourself. You mean they were told to get out of half their land.
Land they’d occupied and civilised while Abram was still driving goats and shagging servant girls.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The war began with Zionist land-grabs in 1948. ‘From the river to the sea’ if Likud had its way. Extermination of the racially impure from The ‘Holy’ land.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Genocidal, psychopathic misanthropy. Bronze-Age Messianic Death-worship. The Zionazis are re-enacting Rome’s crimes under Hadrian (‘god rot his bones’).
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When a veteran actually blames the capitalist origins of all war, rather than merely condemning its horrors, we shall have made some progress.
The truth of how the war-machine works will have begun to sink in.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Since when did Racism have a hierarchy? Which you are at the top of?
‘Criticism of Israel comparable with that of another country cannot be treated as antisemitism’ (IHRA Working Definition)
Israel is a racist, fascist war-state which will never see peace. Like Putin’s Russia.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Christian Spain was the direct result of the Roman conquest. How bloodless was that, exactly?
Primitive territorial conflict was inevitable before mechanisation. But now there are no real shortages of anything, Machiavelli was wrong.
Modern wars are only needed to preserve wars.
And then there was the Spanish inquisition, and its genocide of Jews and anyone who hadn’t sent the Pope a birthday card. Religion – so it goes. So-called ‘Christians’ and ‘Jews’ have been industrially slaughtering Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists without impunity for centuries
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
‘It could be claimed…that the most important part of Marx’s theory is ..in the saying: ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also’ (Matt. 6:21)..that laws religions & moral codes are a superstructure built over existing property relations..’ https://telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19440225.html
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Which essay is this from? Not done to grasp quotes from thin air. “because a society of free and equal human beings has never existed, it never can exist. By the same argument one could have demonstrated the impossibility of aeroplanes in 1900”
orwellfoundation.com
Second Thoughts on James Burnham | The Orwell Foundation
“It is curious that in all his talk about the struggle for power, Burnham never stops to ask why people want power.”
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Trump is the descendant of Burnham’s Power-Worshipping, anti-Humanist managerialism. Orwell. “The question that he ought to ask..is: Why does the lust for naked power become a major human motive exactly now, when the dominion of man over man is ceasing to be necessary? ”
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/second-thoughts-on-james-burnham/
20 Nov 2025, 00:15
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Verbal Language changes constantly. Written – not so much. The state of standard written prose has stabilised nicely over the last century. Like the design of the gentleman’s suit. (Excluding grotesque corporate uniform speech and dialect). The language of Thought is constant. 2+2=4.
20 Nov 2025, 00:02
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
At times like this, thoughts turn to what 2026 will probably be like After a Washington-backed Russian Anschluss of Ukraine With 2Million starving, traumatised people in the rubble of Gaza, and the Israeli election creating desperate tactics by Nutteryahoo Then there’s the stroke heading Trump’s way
19 Nov 2025, 23:54
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The hideous, impenetrable cacophony of words produced by many people when they try to write would be straightened out if they were to read their work aloud before posting. A surefire way to discover if it makes sense. After that, just avoid all pretentious jargon, and most people can be understood.
19 Nov 2025, 23:44
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Corporate Newspeak combined with internet babytalk and the reversion to primitive pictographic communication is destroying language. And with it rational thought. It really is that bad. If not, Trump would merely be an obscure record in the bankruptcy files. And not the Anti-Truth psychopathic he is.
19 Nov 2025, 23:29
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Tramp to Surrender Europe to Putin. Deserves the biggest headline since the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Those are the stakes. Ask Poland, Finland, and the Baltic State. And any country that existed behind the Iron Curtain. www.flickr.com/photos/bigin…
LENINGRAD NOVEMBER 1978www.flickr.com
19 Nov 2025, 23:09
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
It blights the futures of any children born here. Why should they invest in an uncertain future?
It is also a huge hostage to fortune. The next tory madhouse could use it to deport thousands on a whim – or ‘reports’ by informers about their ‘un-British’ lifestyles.
19 Nov 2025, 16:36
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The BBC, with its Zionist sponsored placements like Robbie Gibb, has overseen the greatest dereliction of journalistic duty in the BBCs history. Giving a green light to Zionist genocide, Trumpist insanity and Faragist fascism. Letting their lies go unchallenged.
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Unless the leakers are threatened with the butcher’s block and acid bath, like whistleblowers on Tramp’s new best buddy. What’s going to protect them? A CIA witness protection program?
19 Nov 2025, 16:11
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
‘C.I.A.? – FAKE NEWS!’ The message to enemies of the USA is that Tramp ignores his Intel. The Bunker mentality grows deeper. A massive security breach is just a matter of time. Handed on a plate by a Traitor.
19 Nov 2025, 13:29
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A ‘stretch’? You’re tolerant. A LIE would be the truth. Any words or actions critical of Zionist nationalism are spun as ‘antisemitic’ – a SUPERIOR form of racism reserved exclusively for ‘the chosen’. How racist can you get? Plus the despicable debasement of a once-noble word.
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Immigrants are just as vulnerable to industrialised lies as the ‘native’ population. Like this caller. PLUS, they are undoubtedly intimidated by the tide of racism to appease racist thuggery and lies. Like this Home Secretary.
18 Nov 2025, 14:23
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
AI is the delusion of a personal earthly Utopia which will sacrifice of our precious future enewable energy capital on the altar of competitive profit. Making the real world a Hellholle. A ‘Dystopia’. A de-Humanising brain-cancer which, untamed, will shrink our brains to pre-Stone Age dimensions.
18 Nov 2025, 14:00
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Tramp has launched blanket bogus Federal cases against Democrats in order to make may files sub-judice, and heavily redacted. And if he wants, he can simply veto release. Who would bet against it? How many Republicans would DO anything about it?
18 Nov 2025, 12:45
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Out of curiosity, what’s the difference between your right and left hands? The point is that the terms are meaningless. Without any reference to the real world. Good luck giving a Martian directions to the post office. Not to mention the cultural bias.
biginabox.com/2021/03/02/w…
WORD DUSTBIN 2: ‘LEFT’ AND ‘RIGHT’
In every newspaper and website the political squabbling drags on, and two words are largely guilty of miring it in the muck. In every newspaper and website the political squabbling drags on, and tw…biginabox.com
17 Nov 2025, 20:44
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
No mystery here. The EU is the greatest threat to Manbaby’s fantasies. He has to reduce it to a collection of bickering little countries again. A fellow-psychopath like Orban is a perfect tapeworm in EU unity. But he is threatened at the polls. So has to call on his Gangster friends for a ‘favour’.
16 November 2025 at 21:31
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Or. He could be a closet-Trot bank-clerk with a fearsome boss desperate for an excuse to sack him. Privacy does enable free thought and speech. The list of writers who adopted a Nom de Plume is long and illustrious. And most had good reasons.
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe
15 Nov 2025 11:43
In response to WolfgangAlone
This Nerd Battle is between two vast carbon footprints devoted to pure profit.
The sacrifice of our precious renewable energy capital on the altar of Sleaze-Biz.
When they have colluded to destroy the ecosystem and civilisation, ‘art’ will be a distant memory. A collection of charred relics poking through the ashes.
Any surviving humans still subjecting themselves to AI will find their brains withering back to the size of their pre-Paleolithic ancestors, who hadn’t yet discovered how to change the world with their hands.
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
‘Pop Culture’ is not actively attempting to do anything but make money. But by merely doing so it carries on with its wholesale narcosis. Ensuring cultural inertia and indifference. Ending up with apathy about truth itself, which becomes just another consumer product. Bought & sold by the pound.
14 November 2025 at 21:17
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Right too about the taboo on Climate science in U.S. media. Now climatologists know how socialists have felt for the last 60 years.
14 Nov 2025, 20:28
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
They can never say when this mythical Golden Age of theirs was.
Before antibiotics? Universal Suffrage? Mass education? Pensions? When?
The truth is they don’t have a time in mind as much as a state – of permanent war.
Which is what nationalism boils down to.
14 November 2025 at 16:49
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
14 Nov 2025 14:14
In response to GeorgeMonbiot
Why else is Putin in Ukraine?
The Carbonists are fighting to retain their ‘right’ to poison the planet, and understandably see the falling prices of renewables as a threat.
If Ukraine defeats the Kremlin oil-giant and its allies, it means a victory over imposed consumption of fossil fuels. Which is why Trump won’t help Ukraine.
The invention of AI is another front in the war against sustainability. Designed to eat up future energy credit before it is even generated.
An explicit political agenda for the toxic status quo. View discussion
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
14 Nov 2025 14:05
I cannot think of an occasion on which anyone at the BBC has had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger.
I cannot think of an occasion on which the BBC has presented a ‘leftwinger’, except as a cartoon.
There has never been a documentary on the oldest political instinct in existence. Some form of egalitarianism can be traced back to earliest settled life.
Only now has the BBC re-aired its ’70s discussion on Marx, the philosopher. And even that has to be shared with Hegel…
Humanist politics is taboo on all British media. Against the constant barrage of capitalist propaganda spewed out by the infantile Entertainment industry, and the advertising Goebells of Charlotte Street. Poisoning everything they touch. View discussion
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
London has a HUGE problem. It’s called Capitalism. It’s symptoms are everywhere. And it is being demonised by the Arch-Prophets of – Capitalism! You couldn’t make it up.
14 November 2025 at 12:52
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Another word that means the opposite of its use. Surely a person who tortures children is a ‘Paedo-phobe‘. Someone who hates or has an irrational fear of children.
By rights, a ‘paedophile‘ ‘loves’ children, and childhood.. As in ‘Francophile’, Audiophile’, ‘Oenophile’…
13 November 2025 at 18:43
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
There are many unanswered questions.
But the unasked question is: ‘What is the cause of child-abuse?’ What makes these people feel pleasure at inflicting pain?
The fact nobody is interested implies that the answer would not be welcome.
It might overturn the power-worshipping, dog-eat-dog status-quo.
13 November 2025 at 18:35
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Just a technicality, but exactly where would this ‘case’ be heard? What court would preside? I would suggest the Rhetorik department at Oxford. www.english.ox.ac.uk/publication/…
Rhetoric and Lawwww.english.ox.ac.uk
13 November 2025 at 15:59
How should we tackle Reform and the rise of the far right? Our Gen Z panel has some ideas
13 Nov 2025 14:30
Emphasis the positive, eliminate the negative, and don’t mess with Mister Inbetween.
Don’t be ‘anti-racist’. Be HUMANIST.
Purge elitist pretentious technobabble like ‘meme’ and ‘trope. Likewise meaningless babytalk like ‘woke’.
Make words have concrete meanings again.
“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
“the B.B.C. is relatively truthful .. does not disseminate lies simply because they are ‘newsy’ ..untrue statements are ..broadcast .. But in most cases this is due to genuine error, the B.B.C. sins .. more by avoiding anything controversial than by direct propaganda”
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21 April 1944 – As I Please – George Orwell, Book, etextwww.telelib.com
12 November 2025 at 23:25
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
They suffer from Commercial-Withdrawal symptoms. A form of ADHD, culturally-induced by a century of relentless profit-propaganda from cradle to grave and on every street corner.
The messages:
CONSUME. CONFORM. OBEY.
No Time for LOSERS.
12 November 2025 at 12:35
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The accurate term for the civilised values hated by Trump and His Goats is HUMANIST. Being a movement of political ‘Antis’ is a recipe for defeat. Negatives are not a credible political agenda.
12 November 2025 at 11:15
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
It’s all part of the systemic obliteration of language. & with it rational thought The replacement of real words with concrete visual associations by elitist abstract gibberish. Either dribbling babytalk or pretentious tecnobable like meme’n’trope, or outright perversion. ‘Radical’ for ‘Terrorist.’
12 November 2025 at 11:12
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t
8 Nov 2025 12:36
At the moment, there is no doubt that the war to preserve civilisation between Carbonism and Humanism is being lost, mainly because the effects of climate change are still academic for most people. In addition, the consequences of adopting the radical policies necessary are too scary. They mean the end of the Consumerist fantasy-identity they have become addicted to. A Utopia which Gates godfathered.
Only hard experience can tip the balance of opinion away from denialism. The sooner the better.
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Corbyn could have worked with Greens & ScotsNats. The numbers were right. And with European partners, a Fact Campaign would have scuppered Brexit, and everything after. But Corbyn was never the man for the job. Pacifists have no grasp of politics in the real world.
11 November 2025 at 11:59
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
I despair at blind adherence to ancient party tribalisms at the expense of a genuine Humanist Alliance which would be impossible to demonise. Corbyn had the chance, but blew it. ww.theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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11 November 2025 at 11:56
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Better than you, you shameless billionaire poodle AND your squalid, Bookie-Backed outlet.
Done any documentaries on gambling addiction yet? And how it destroys families? While taking money from the Numbers Racket?
The shady doings of any of your quasi-gangster sponsors?
George Gale was a liar too
11 November 2025 at 11:11
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
I never saw Othello as a villain. That’s Iago. Othello is a tragic victim. Undone by human flaws. The question of his ‘guilt’ becomes the legacy of the play.
All great art asks questions that time tries to answer, but only produces more questions.
9 November 2025 at 11:55
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The species Homo Sapiens evolved due to a key USP. Evolutionary geneticists call it ‘Human Reciprocal Altruism’. It’s the co-operative instinct that fosters a spectrum of socialisation from caring to queuing. The Human values which can produce a Humane society.
People are not just overgrown amoeba.
9 November 2025 at 11:38
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
He probably won more votes with his middle-aged rapping than by holding workshops in class-consciousness. Mainly because he didn’t hold any, or he might have realised that the only ‘identity’ that counts is Class Identity. The current Identity Circus is a gift to the Barbarians. A suicide note.
9 November 2025 at 11:49
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
You’re living a fantasy. The USA is chronically incapable of understanding socialism. And why should it?
A radical new direction does not mean party hacks playing verbiage tennis over dialectical materialism.
It means a bonfire of the old slogans & dogmas and a rebirth of clear thought and language.
8 November 2025 at 16:43
Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it
30 Oct 2025 16:22
In response to ochongodeo
Which illustrates absolutely nothing.
Until the language of political debate escapes academic abstractions and makes contact with the real world, the barbarians will win.
The Resistance has to turn from being a negative entity, perpetually ‘anti’ everything bad, and assert its own values.
Humanist values.. Check them out. They are a natural sale – to Humans..
Promote and identify with them and the tide could turn.
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Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it
30 Oct 2025 16:06
In response to eamonmcc
‘Conscience’?
Crikey! How quaint.
Like a word rusting in the corner of an agricultural fair. Waiting for Jack Hargreaves.
No successful politician since the steam engine could afford to be diverted by laws or the suffering of others. ‘Morality’ is merely a series of excuses for the status quo.
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Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it
30 Oct 2025 15:56
Selling the word ‘Left’ is a loser anywhere.
Firstly, it’s meaningless pettifogging, designed to cloud political thought. Best of luck to the Martian asking for directions. ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are merely anthropocentric orientations derived from our bilaterally-symmetrical morphology, and not designed to navigate our political environment.
Secondly, western culture is entirely biased against it. In several languages.
Right – ‘adroit’, ‘dextrous’,
Left – ‘Cackhanded’, gauche’.. sinister, hm? All the way up to Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement.
‘Humanism’ means something real to everyone. Who would dare challenge it?
Let the barbarians reveal themselves.
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles
29 Oct 2025 11:20
In response to PhilWebster
Sometimes more subtly, as in the case of Western “liberal democracies”.
That is ‘capitalist-democracies‘, the ultimate contradiction in terms, where power is sold to the highest bidder.
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles
29 Oct 2025 11:07 In response to jp1203
‘You claim that the left‘
You mean Humanist?
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles
29 Oct 2025 11:05
The collapse of Consumerism is well-predicted, and this is what it looks like.
Global wars, famine, dictatorships and environmental catastrophe.
Those aware of this reality would take control of the debate by asserting their Humanist values, and daring anyone to oppose them. Being ‘anti-this or that or the other will not do.
Neither will dividing the resistance by ‘Identity Politics’
The only ‘Identity’ that counts is Class Identity. Humanism is the future, or else.
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BAE systems cuts AID flights to pay for 5% N.A.T.O. Spending.
21.50. 25/10/2025
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/24/bae-ends-support-atp-aircraft-caa-airworthiness-aid-deliveries-south-sudan-somalia-drc
The starving to die to pay for the bombs to kill others.
Record profits recorded by BAE Systems last year.
The Man-Baby’s obsession with war unmasked as another attack on social democracy.
Combined with his Aid war against the world:
Malaria Cuts risk 525 million more cases, 990,000 more deaths
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/21/global-health-infectious-disease-aid-cuts-malaria-funding-cost-deaths-gdp-africa
The mad fantasy seems to be glinting in his skull that ‘solving’ the global over-population problem by exterminating the vulnerable and worthless would be a great way to win a Nobel Prize. Who could object? The Man Who Saved The World! (by killing billions of babies)
France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing
12 Oct 2025 13:38
With all due respect, faith in a ‘democratic’ world is not vanishing.
The creed which is no longer credible is the blatant contradiction in terms of ‘capitalist-democracy’, where power is sold to the highest bidder. A cesspit of corruption most honest people recoil in disgust from.
The dilemma for Humanists who still believe in civilisation is to create a viable future based on sustainable cooperation without humiliating the ‘Identity’ of those completely invested in a status quo sliding easily and comfortably into barbarism.
Barbarism is much easier to invoke than cooperation.
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9 September 2025
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It’s like Rugby reborn. Washed clean of sin. In the words of the old Welsh invitation:
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Yn afon Calfari.
Arglwydd, dyma fi
Ar dy alwad di,
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A gaed ar Galfari.”
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There is no ‘thought’ at all in what you laughably call the ‘political right’. It is not a rational ideology but a string of phobias and myths held together by corruption and intimidation. It was always doomed to fail.
As it has.
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If Farage and his Goats want total disclosure of the ethnicity of all suspects, fine.
The gutter press will be so crammed with lists of white, male offenders there won’t be room for the property ads.
And Farage lies will be stuffed down his throat by the facts.
Refusal by the gutter press to publish these facts will be a genuine ‘cover up’. But only an extension of the collective media immigration lie of the last 30 years.
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‘MISTER’ Trump doesn’t have the ‘measure’ of anything.
Trump just ran into the stone wall of his own ego, is all.
His constant internal monologue tells him he is omniscient and omnipotent.
Putin just thwarted his Xmas day expectations and the result is predictably infantile.
As are all his responses to the real world. How he will react to the record bombardment of Ukraine next weekend is anyone’s guess.
Blame Ukraine and ‘wash his hands’ with an air of superiority, would be a good bet.
End of an Era.
I made ‘constructive debate’ impossible by “off-topic contrarianism.”
Such power!!
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When rap fans start quoting the lyrics of their idols, the sooner the curious will stop asking them to.
Until then, and some sort of coherent case is made, Rap is a smokescreen, and a contradiction in terms. A lecture, not a conversation – not a ‘rap’. With more than a hint of Minstrelsy.
Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out review – reunited rap greats deliver one of the albums of the year
10 Jul 2025 16:43
In response to Stillgrizzly
‘Overrated’?
That’s one word for allegedly world-changing words which nobody ever quotes..
Like the Emperor’s New Bling.
I just got removed for asking for the 10 most memorable rap lyrics.
Can you believe it?
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By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics
10 Jul 2025 15:10
In response to davedave747
Ah the good old ‘If God Had meant Us To Fly he Would Have Given us Wings.‘
Ah the good old ‘We’ve never known it better so it never can be.‘
Make What succeed?
You don’t even know what you’re denying?
The scientific fact is that your Consumerist Utopia is a cancer whose only ‘success’ since eliminating the Divine Right of Kings will be to make civilisation impossible, and human life itself a struggle worthy of the Ice Ages.
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By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics
10 Jul 2025 14:24
In response to davedave747
How socialist was the USSR’s electrified Neo-Czarism?
As Christian as the Spanish Inquisition.
This knee-jerk association of opposite ideologies is one of the marvels of the British Education system
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By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics
10 Jul 2025 11:54
Socialists and Environmentalists can’t see the wood for the trees, or the natural alliance for the labels. Both are natural enemies of Consumerism. Both espouse Humanitarian egalitarianism. Get a room.
If Marx had known about the Greenhouse Effect, C20th history would have been very different.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 15:20
In response to Voiceofreason7
You don’t understand..
Britain is in a desperate life or death struggle with the rest of the world. Every ounce of physical and mental power must be harnessed to the Great Competitive Effort in the global growth race. A race Britain must win at all costs.
Childhood is just a minor sacrifice.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 15:14
In response to Klytie
The nuclear family is not now and never has been the formula for a healthy society.
Since its invention with the steam engine and class-system, it is one of the key factors in creating the state we’re in now.
So look around.
I know I was ‘raised’ by my village. It was a community.
Not a dormitory for functionaries.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 15:08
In response to HarrytheHawk
As long as parents are enslaved by their mortgage repayments, and their children forced to over-share bedrooms, the property industry will be a tapeworm to any attempts by government to provide true social housing, a National Housing Service, if you like, to add to the other two leg in the tripod of Health and Youth.
If you don’t ask for everything you need, you never get anything.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 12:11
In response to labourgooner
Founded, as it is, on the release of ‘feel-good’ hormones in the brain, so-called ‘Socialism’ is perfectly teachable as a module in GCSE human biology under the Endocrine system.
It also appears in Paleo-genetic studies as ‘Human Social Reciprocal Altruism’.
The reason Homo-Sapiens rules.
No need for ‘dialectical materialism’ at all. or anything to scare the golf club.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 11:59
A National Youth Service is just as essential as the National Health Service.
In fact, the health of the nation depends largely on how we socialise our children.
The original NHS was never designed to heal sicknesses caused by an alienated, dysfunctional population – or those instigated by ruthless Junk-food corporations.
A system which teaches little people not to be afraid of each other is the basis of all true civilisations.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 11:51
Fine.
Now just start defusing the Property Fetish by abolishing the toxic Right to Buy scam, and Labour will be on the path to finding its true vocation and true congregation.
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The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
6 Jul 2025 17:09
It’s easy enough to find entry-level reading material consisting of simple, unambiguous mono or bi-syllabic words. Longer words become second nature by familiarity and basic syllabic lego.
No need to tinker with the alphabet at all, at least not much. Especially not in ways which promote a single official pronunciation, and therefore exclude the wide diversity of ways the majority actually sound. View discussion
JenPaws LittleRichardjohn Have you ever tried to write a story in simple phonically-regular monosyllables. Yes there are lots but the stories are almost always nonsensical, repetitive and very boring!
Reply to reply if given time.
“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.
Oh I do like to be beside the sea.
Oh I do like to stroll along the Prom-prom-prom
Where the brass-band plays:
Tiddlee-om-pom-pom….” etc etc.
In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism 3 Jul 2025 12:23
In response to deputywinner
Specify the parts of Marxist ideology which demand genocide.
Your millions of dead were the result largely of organised interference by outside powers to internal revolutions.
The anti-French Revolution of Imperial powers is the classic example. Spawning the Terror, Napoleon and a decade of war across Europe killing millions.
The Russian Civil War was equally nothing to do with Marx and everything to do with the ruthless but doomed hereditary empires clinging to life.
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In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism
3 Jul 2025 12:16
In response to ID3777
Name 2 of these ‘Marxist’ regimes.
I’ve never heard of any, except maybe the Seychelles, which wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did had it controlled oil-tanker traffic in and out of Texas.
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In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism
3 Jul 2025 12:13
When Christ stood on the Mount of Olives and pronounced ‘Where your treasure is there will your heart be also’ he could hardly have known that 1830-odd years later a Christianised Jew would reinterpret his words for the industrial Money-lenders and military moguls of the day.
Laws, morality, conventions and bureaucracies are all merely the scaffolding of property values. It’s why bishops can bless battleships and Might is Always Right..
If only Marxists exploited the ideological convergence more.
It would also have been useful if Marx had known about the Greenhouse Effect. Marxists do now, which is another potentially irresistible and natural alliance in the making.
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Trump is angry with a world that won’t give him easy deals
25 Jun 2025 09:09
If he’s capable of learning anything, Trump will now know that his frenzy has, in Sun-speak:
BOMBED IRAN INTO THE NUCLEAR AGE’.
The last thing he should have wanted. But who knows with this psychopath – Mods please note, this is no longer ‘vulgar abuse’, let alone libel. It is the solemn testimony of qualified psychologists, including some friends and family. The patient needs physical restraint.
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
12 Jun 2025 13:32
In response to wyrcommunity
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is still not a capital offence. As a ‘Jaywalking Law’ will make it, in practice. A licence to kill.
“Honest officer. He just broke clause 2 sec b of the Jaywalking Law.”
We are not quite America.
The absence of such a monstrosity is a reminder that pedestrians always have right of way, and that cyclists are not vehicles but merely pedestrians on wheels.
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
12 Jun 2025 13:23
in response to Fossilised
Your pedestrian-avoiding mechanism has had millions of years of R&D behind it. And the same amount of ruthless product-testing in the real world. And even now, it’s not perfect. Adrenalin always overcomes judgement.
Robo-cars are in their primeval infacy.
Their brains are a a bacterial stage of evolution.
I wouldn’t trust one to miss a bull’s arse with a shovel.
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
12 Jun 2025 10:46
Wake me up when the automotive industry has finally harnessed ancient Radar technology to produce the Asimov. The car which which cannot kill people.
This has been possible and practicable for decades, and would have saved literally millions of lives. It has been used for decades to protect precious paintwork from parking scrapes.
So why not lives?
Or don’t they matter?
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it’s time to rethink the hype
10 Jun 2025 11:50
We are about to blow all our Renewable Energy credit (and our future) on this magic madness which wiill only increase global inequality.
Another systemic waste-strategy on a par with the nuclear arms race, and designed to do the same thing. To divert resources from the needs of the people, keeping them in perpetual conflict with each other for survival..
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 12:41
In response to NotWithPastry
Who are this ‘new left’ you invent?
These are ordinary people protecting themselves from armed, masked mobs of thugs tearing families apart and destroying businesses.
They are also appalled at the prospect of their state being annexed by a fascist regime.
A fate being promised by der Weißes Haus which you either don’t trust or care about. Which is it?
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LittleRichardjohn
NotWithPastry
The ICE kidnap mobs are the ‘rioters’. They are the terrorists tearing families apart and closing businesses. Inciting political opposition to inhuman policies designed to create more conflict and the imposition of martial law. A police state by the Reichstag Effect.
This is not the same as Rodney King, the racist attack by an LAPD with deep ancestral roots in the deep south. This is the pretext for ultimately suspending the constitution. A Tump that can watch blatantly Nazi groups like The Base actively sabotaging Ukrainian infrastructure can do anything his crazed mind tells him to. Like telling his mob to hang his then Vice President.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 12:11
In response to TimHowell
Who elected him to create a police state?
And don’t play the raw prawn, only a raving psychopath would perform as he has throughout his sad excuse for a life.
The fact is he was only elected by industrial peddling of an enormous attack on the nature of truth itself. By the contradiction in terms called ‘capitalist democracy’ which encourages the sale of power to the highest bidder.
No British politician has ever been able to commit such an atrocity and get away with it. Parliamentary democracies do not have ‘Presidents’ who can delude themselves they are God. As even Chirchill and Thatcher discovered.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 11:54
The political pivot of this issue is the reaction of the immigrants who voted for Trump.
If they realise their mistake he is in trouble. If they follow him like sheep, conflict within communities could become toxic.
When Trump has annexed California by military force, they might come to their senses.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 11:48
In response to NotWithPastry
He is blatantly not
“taking steps to preserve the peace along with people’s lives and property is not wrong per se.”
He is deliberately inciting mass violence.
Soon someone will get killed, in the resulting chaos, he wil unleash his Jan 6 lynch-mob brigade to ‘spontaneously’ retaliate, and he will have his pretext to declare martial law and suspend the constitution, citing Lincoln (!)
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 11:34
1. Armed, masked kidnap-squads and National Guard sent to terrorise communities.
2. ‘Someone ‘accidentally’ gets killed.
3. Bereaved community retaliates by targeting ICE agencies and property.
4. Maga lynch-mobs attack immigrant communities en-masse.
5. Trump declares martial law.
6. R.I.P U.S.A.
The Reichstag Effect.
California secedes, taking its Silicon Valley arsenal and Washington state with it.
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Tory proposal to leave ECHR would put peace in Northern Ireland at risk, Labour suggests – as it happened
6 Jun 2025 12:30
Fantasy politics, unless Badenough is ready to throw the Good Friday Agreement on her bonfire of the Humanities, along with the Scottish and Welsh devolution agreements. Not to mention enabling a list of humanitarian obscenities worthy of Putin’s Neo-bolshevism.
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
That’s the noise of Tesla shares and sales crashing. Along with his brain.
Spoilt Brat doesn’t get NASA as a toy and has a paddy. ‘KILL THE BILL’
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Doublethink of the Day.
‘Tesla lobbied UK to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and lorries
Pushed for British government to introduce rules for HGVs, as it readies Semi truck’
June 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
Show me the evidence for your sick DENIALISM. Your revenge agony has damaged your brain. Just as the genocide you are inflicting on Gaza is ensuring another bloodbath.
You must hate Jews very much to wish more death on them.
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
You don’t know what ‘communication’ means. Your cult has replaced it with Doublethink and indoctrination. Maga is not a plan, it is psychopathic revenge against Humanity. The howl of toxic consumerism on its deathbed. Depending on ever-higher doses of Carbon to kill the pain. And everything else.
June 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset
4 Jun 2025 14:52
Language is on its deathbed.
The universal abuse of ‘radical’ for fanatic is possibly the most glaring example of the triumph of Newspeak.
A word with an intrinsically, essentially rational meaning. To literally address the root cause of an issue or proposition. A very useful word indeed, especially in a hysterical era like this.
But instead of using it for its purpose, to enable clarity of thought and actions, the media mangle it to fit every myth-worshipping fanatic, murderer and psychotic rampaging the planet, making it practically useless in rational political discourse. And without the word, where is the action? Or even the thought..
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
We fit cars with radar to protect their precious paintwork, but won’t use the same technology to save lives. The Asimov car, incapable of injuring people, was possible decades ago. But we treasure speed and power more than life.
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Spot the quote,
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
They were the Farage Hate-Week.
And must never be mentioned without the Wonderful Wednesday which ended them.
When 1000s organised anti-fascist action comparable with Cable Street and RAR.
May 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Because to admit that they are sick implies an environmental cause.
And there is only one environment, Toxic Consumerism, and we are too addicted to it to face its reality.
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
You mean like the aeroplane before the Wright Brothers.
‘If God had meant us to drive cars he would have given us wheels.’
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Zionism is just fascism in a yarmulke, as Einstein predicted.
Like all nationalisms, it is a genocidal lie based on a genocidal origin myth.
Absolute rule ‘From The River to the Sea.’
Israel never learns from history, whether from the suppression of the Bar-Kokhbar revolt or the excuse for Krystallnacht.
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The Carbonist manifesto prohibits sustainability because its political power depends on manipulated shortages of fossil-fuel energy.
It cannot bottle the wind or sunshine, so it must criminalise and deter their use for the common good.
May 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Interviewer: Hadrian, (‘God rot your bones’). How’s the Bar-Kokhba revolt 135A.D. going?
Hadrian: We’ve bottled them up on Betar,
Interviewer: So if it’s not siege, what is it?
Hadrian: Genocide. We are defending Rome.
Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform will continue to prosper
8 May 2025 12:24
In response to guardianistaleeds
Redneck Britain has always existed. Johnny Speight was both a satirist and a prophet.
As recently as the 2010s I was sitting at a cosy tea with aged relatives, and had to listen in silence to the most disgusting racism by assorted cuddly grans and grandads who fought to defeat fascism. And some citing conversations with a prominent local baptist minister whose lesson was “Enoch was right. Send them all back.”.
In some, this racism almost amounted to a form of ‘Chromo-phobia’, an irrational fear of darkness, as induced in Apartheid kindergarden.
This may be a condition induced by a Depression-Era fear of dirt. We live in hope.
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Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform will continue to prosper
8 May 2025 12:11
Class is the only thing that really matters.
If all the energy wasted in the last 30 years on futile self-indulgent, middle-class, pseudo-intellectual, divisive ‘Identity Politics’ had been invested in raising consciousness of the Class Identity we all share, so-called ‘Populism’ would be inconceivable.
People would be far too aware of who their real enemies are.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The list of Flump’s untreated mental diseases is professionally documented by colleagues and family. And the effects are now no longer news or opinion, but pure counting. Add the increasing senility and I give him 9 months before they drag him away.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I’m not pretending to be a head of state. He is.
Trump is a psychopathic megalomaniac who despises law-abiding citizens as SUCKERS, and all Human institutions as barriers to his global sabotage – including all laws, the U.N. & science. To defend him is to also deny reality.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A lot of people are obviously as sick in the head as he is. Hardly surprising since everyone swims in the same sewer with the disease-rats. Consumerism kills. And when it kills itself, as it obviously is doing, the advance knowledge drives everyone even crazier.
Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong
23 Apr 2025 10:52
In response to wiseowler
The problem is that the collective Humanism you propose is the enemy of blind Profit and Power which lives by perpetual war – a creed so corrupted and crazed by its global supremacy that it is unable to act in its own survival.
How do you overcome a monstrous creed like that?
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Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants
22 Apr 2025 15:29
The greatest pestilence infesting social housing stock is penetration by cowboy landlords sucking as much profit out of their sublets as possible.
The use of cowboy contractors, or none at all, for plumbing and other essential repairs is routine.
And seemingly powerless local authorities are ultimately landed with the cost of the repeated floods, fly-tippimg, removal of structural walls and other vandalism of property owned by the taxpayer.
Abolish the Right To Buy’ now. It’s been done, and the sky never fell in. If it has to exist – strict apartheid and no subsidies of Leaseholders. No mixed developments, they are merely an anti-social hostage to the future.
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With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster
21 Apr 2025 14:45
‘Sleepwalking’ at a suicidally high Carbon cost.
Or maybe that’s the point, as usual.
To hijack any technological advance to enslave Humanity rather than free it.
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rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
It’s ‘about’ destroying thought. About making coherent calculations from observable data impossible, since all conclusions must conform to ever-shifting party orthodoxy. So any research may lead to dangerous (‘woke) conclusions. Ban the word ‘climate’ and you throttle all climate science.
April 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
How long do you think the United Nations can survive the global bonfire of the humanities aka MAGA? The League of Nations did not survive the last fascist pandemic.
April 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
How long does he give the U.N.? I can’t see it surviving a 2nd MAGA term in office. The bonfire of the humanities won’t stop at libraries and charities. All unifying institutions are the enemy of fascism, and must be eradicated.
April 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
e) The preservation of the species. The planet is burning and every human testicle is infested with micro-plastics. Both potentially fatal to the Human Race, both furiously ignored by the Trumpists. academic.oup.com/toxsci/artic…
Microplastic presence in dog and human testis and its potential association with sperm count and weights of testis and epididymis
Abstract. The ubiquitous existence of microplastics and nanoplastics raises concerns about their potential impact on the human reproductive system. Limitedacademic.oup.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
But it can’t be interpreted rationally through an irrational use of language. Like the widespread use by apparently intelligent people of ‘radical’ for its opposite, ‘fanatic’. A
ny schoolboy knowledge of Latin exposes this folly
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
‘By definition, ‘radical’ politics literally tackle the ‘root’ cause of problems. This is the essence of the word, in spite of attempts to conflate ‘radical’ with ‘terrorist’, as in the use of ‘radicalisation’ to refer to those in fact ‘fanaticised’ by real traumas.’ biginabox.com/2024/01/28/g…
April 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
One stock seems truly doomed this week: if you hold any Kemi Badenoch, accept my condolences
11 Apr 2025 15:17
Don’t expect any shame from Badenough. You underestimate the powers of doublethink.
See Farage today decrying the Truss budget he originally praised to the skies.
The mental gymnastics of a Spider Monkey on speed.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Every word he wrote was a warning against Trump, who, like Hitler “specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘Science’... a nightmare world in which the Leader..controls the past.” Just like now. http://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1…
Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
7 Apr 2025 17:39
Trump’s 1st Five Year Plan will work exactly the same as Stalin’s.
It will destroy worker’s rights, increase inflation, reduce living standards, and cause disease and starvation among ‘Loser’ states.
It will impose feudal loyalty on the workforce, glorifying those who enrich their employers most. Expect a version of Stakhanovism to emerge to reward the ‘Hero-Workers’.
Plus awards for the most fertile mother.
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Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
7 Apr 2025 17:31
One explanation is that Trump is a dedicated, fundamentalist Trotskyite, determined to destroy the global money-system.
Then see what emerges from the ruins.
Fiendish clever those Trots.
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Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
7 Apr 2025 17:26
In response to DunNechtain
it’s pathological.
Against the tide of craven silence, Joe Walsh (Republican ex-Congressman) has just called a spade a spade.
“We have a Madman in the White Housee.”
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And then the rich go shopping, buying bankrupt companies for cookies. The result, mega-monopolisation as predicted by Marx and forbidden by Adam Smith.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The weak must go to the wall. It’s Nature. God’s Will. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever. Or at least until the Day of Judgement, when the ancient prophesies will be fulfilled..
Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both
4 Apr 2025 16:10
In response to Deckard85
The so called ‘American Dream’ is perfectly embodied in its bankruptcy laws.
If you go broke, cross the county line and find a new batch of suckers to fleece.
It’s called ‘re-inventing yourself’ and is almost obligatory.
It also accounts for the vast Psychiatric and Divorce industries.
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Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both
4 Apr 2025 16:05
Why am I getting flashbacks of Prohibition-Era America?
Which also imposed ideological trade restrictions and fostered organised crime – but nothing on this scale.
Or the Corn Laws, which caused Higher Costs of Living, lower disposable Income, Social Unrest and famine.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’re certainly addicted to the Art of the Pogrom. Acquired behaviour, presumably. The Abused becoming Abuser. The dictator beaten as a child by a brutal Father.
‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return’..
Trump and Musk have ushered in the era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it
2 Apr 2025 15:38
The inevitable consequence of Trump’s catastrophe politics will be environmental catastrophe, and the end of civilisation.
Start there, and work backwards to the point of first resistance.
Victory for the Carbonist Axis of Trump, Putin, Mohdi and the rest means death for the planet.
How much more motivation does anyone need?
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As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist
31 Mar 2025 17:31
Millenial paranoias throughout history have always fanned Bonfires of the Humanities and nihilistic mass-movements dedicated to eradicating civilisation in preparation for the Last Judgement.
Trumpism is the latest incarnation of this psychosis, only this time not one founded on superstition but science. The only anti-dote to science is Magic Thinking. Deny the problem exists and it will go away. The essence of fascist populism.
And if woke-o-phobia demands the end of science and causes mass-extinction, so what?
‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’
As Orwell also wrote:
‘Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘Science’. There is only ‘German Science’, ‘Jewish Science’, etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ — well, it never happened.’
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
NOW will the media call a psychopath a psychopath, and admit that only a psychopathic society could spawn a creature like this? (Or Trump.) Or would that be to touch a huge nerve?
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
Too busy destroying the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress. Then send the United Nations the way of the League of Nations. Purge all vestiges of the C20th contract.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So adolescent. All wind and pipecleaners. A generation that thinks democracy is a TV which renovates your house when you change the channel. A supermarket where ‘The Customer is Always Right.’
‘The lights must never go out. The music must always play.’
Eh Michael?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The economy doesn’t run on conscience. Until you grasp that fact you will always be disappointed and disillusioned and easy pickings for fascist groomers like Farage.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Pete Hegseth TEAM UPDATE: TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE.
Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch. 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package) 1345: “Trigger Based” F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location…
SHOULD BE ON TIME – also Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s) 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH 2nd strike package 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP pending earlier “Trigger Based” targets) 1536: F-18 2nd Strike – also 1st sea-based Tomahawks launched
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Grow up. The reason children aren’t allowed to vote is because they would expect a new government to wave a magic wand and make it all better. The real world never works like that.
In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 18:09
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
Try re-reading what you respond to.
Who claimed any ‘media support’ for anything except dictatorship?
The media which has kept the rural vote in shackles.
Your strategy of total submission has certainly never threatened any tyrants.
Refusing to do their bidding has. It is what they fear most.
‘During the first secession in 494 BC, plebeians walked off the job to protest a law that would increase their debt. The strike resulted in a repeal of that law, as well as a government representative position for plebeians. ‘
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 16:15
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
Erdogan has rural support. ensured by monolithic media control.
When the TV screens are blank, the indoctrinated will have no leaders.
The only sure way to topple dictators is to strangle the state machine they rely on by refusing to operate it.
The existence of the Trumpist obscenity proves that the mere activism of ’60s America delivered only superficial and grudging progress.
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 14:33
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
How would Erdogan’s army force people back to their factories and offices?
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 14:32
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
Who would do that?
The only people who matter. Anyone in Turkey opposed to dictatorial autocratic rule.
The General Strike is a well-understood weapon of the people.
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 12:41
Erdogan does not fear street protest of any scale.
His worst nightmare is a comprehensive package of internal sanctions which would cripple the Turkish economy and state machine.
Namely, massive organised withdrawal of labour. The under-used siege-tactics of the masses.
Workers cannot be forced to work by teargas and baton-rounds.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If they’re ‘nothing’, let’s see them.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Saving civilisation usually requires some sacrifices. Especially when the sacrifices are of useless JUNK which are the main threat to civilisation in the first place. Whatever happened to the ‘Blitz Spirit’?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why? To show they CAN. That reality is merely what they say it is, at any time.
Which means they can impoverish and abuse Americans while claiming to enrich and nurture them.
Many chemical toxins have the same euphoric effect.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You don’t have to define what the words you use mean?
Definitive proof that your brain is dead. The ‘news’ is that the Psychopaths are determined to destroy civilisation. Sick degenerate gangsters abused by brutal fathers and now taking their revenge on Humanity. Including you.
Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again
18 Mar 2025 15:43
In response to hammersmithtownie
‘To do what?‘
For starters, to ditch the obsolete planet-killing economic dogma which created Trump in the first place. Before it kills us all.
Every other milennarian trauma in history was mere superstition.
This one has the backing of undeniable simple arithmetic. The psychological aftershock of that realisation is the politics of denial. The politics of the nursery.
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Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again
18 Mar 2025 15:34
“Lonny, selling a used political dogma is very much like sexually assaulting a beautiful woman… “
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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?
16 Mar 2025 19:45
In response to speckledhen
A new era of genuine Austerity for all, in the finest British tradition.
If consumption levels had stabilised at early ’60s levels, it’s hardly likely the world would now be facing catastrophe.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Grow up. He’s a Minister, not a Matron. And like all ministers, relies on his team.
Since you’re the expert, if the number of diagnoses IS accurate, why is this EPIDEMIC happening and how do you recommend ending it?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What do you blame for this relentless increase in mental illness? Which predates Covid by years. Streeting’s mistake is not in his psychiatry but in his lack of applied Sociology. It’s a truism that a sick society creates sick people. So what would make society healthier?
Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?
16 Mar 2025 14:53
I’ve always had a plan for this.
Live within the minimum as defined by the benefits system.
Which just so happens to be sustainable for the planet.
If everyone was on the dole, there would be no environmental crisis caused by toxic levels of over-consumption.
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It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state
16 Mar 2025 11:59
Before the ‘contract’ can be ‘restored’ it has to be rewritten.
The clause which allows power to be sold to the highest bidder must be removed.
It totally undermines any pretence to democracy.
The contract needs a Sanity Clause.
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Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy
14 Mar 2025 11:29
What is anti-democratic about abolishing NHS England? A Quango created by tories to protect unenthusiastic tory ministers.
Putting ministers back in the firing line is surely a democratic act. No?
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 14:00
In response to tazi
You soon realise the JUNK we’re wasting our precious currency on.
None of it worth a single tear, and most of it clinically toxic.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:57
In response to FirmbutFair
You don’t get it.
He wants to hurt his electorate.
Firstly to create another scapegoat for his arsenal, but also to demonstrate his power to hurt.
A terrified people is a compliant people.
That truth didn’t die with the Stasi or Spanish Inquisition.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:53
In response to ArthurOPodd
Sadism is at the core of all reactionary politics.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:50
In response to Shanika
Cart before Horse.
It’s the consequence of capitalism on its deathbed. Having reached the stage where its environmental price had to be paid, and its inherent contradictions hit the buffers.
Nothing that wasn’t predicted over a century ago, and in scientific detail since the 1970’s.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:46
In response to dr8765
The logic is to scramble the brains of the workforce with so much contradiction and absurdity so that they stop asking damn fool questions and do what their owners tell them.
‘Keep your nose clean, your mouth shut, and you won’t get hurt.’
Terrorism is another word for it.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:43
In response to KingHomer1965
Careful now..
Guardmins don’t lie the use of psychiatric terms. Even if it’s a case of Rem acu tetigisti.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:38
In response to Andyouwillknowme
‘2+2=5’
The political E=MC2, and yet to be bettered as a formula for the doublethink nightmare we are seeing with our own eyes.
But for how long? Already, millions of Americans are blinded to the horror they are being subjected to. What makes us so immune from the pandemic?
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:33
In response to jp1203
For the squillionth time:
So called ‘Capitalist Democracy’ is a contradiction in terms.
How can a system where Power is a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder be called ‘democratic’ in any shape or form?
In America, the decay has reached the stage where a vote is of as much use as a medieval Indulgence.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:28
‘It’s certainly difficult to attribute Trump’s policies to the intellectual influence of any one strand in economic thinking.‘
Trump is better understood as the latest in a long line of Revolutionary Millenarianists and Mystical Anarchists. As catalogued in Norman Cohn’s invaluable ‘The Pursuit of the Millenium’
The failure of previous projects was made inevitable by their supernatural foundations.
Trumpist eschatology is forced to be founded on the scientific reality of impending global catastrophe. And so Science must be discredited – except to make money and build bigger bombs.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Another 180-degree Doublethink back-flip. Trump’s massive stroke another day nearer. No normal brain can take this much punishment. And this is not a normal brain.
Vance’s immigrant-wife should be measuring curtains.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Psychopath is the word everyone is afraid to use. Trump is merely the tip of the toxic Consumerist Iceberg. Il Psycho di tutti Psycho. Nutter of all the nutters.
20% of all CEOs qualify as Psychopathic. (Search & See.)
Canadians believe that Mark Carney is the man to stand up to Donald Trump
10 Mar 2025 15:31
Carney to shut off electricity to the U.S if Trumptrum refuses to behave. Fighting talk and a lead to the real ‘free world’. A lesson in parenting.
Can pampered U.S. consumers take it as well as dish it out?
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
H2N1 Flu virus now rife in US dairy herds, and favourite to jump species barrier this year. Nutter Kennedy to “give infectious diseases a break for 8 years.” No defences. No vaccines. No research, because the banned word CLIMATE would appear.
https://cepi.net/richard-hatchett-reflects-banner-year-viruses-and-looks-ahead-2025…
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Richard Hatchett reflects on a “banner year for viruses” and looks ahead to 2025 | CEPI
The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now
9 Mar 2025 11:43
In response to nonanon1
How ‘astonishing’ is it that the land of the Jim-Crow Silent Majority was cleansed of its culture of lynch-mob dog-eat-dog triumphalism by 100 years of competitive consumerism and perpetual wars?
The legal advances of the 60’s and later ‘Identity Politics’ activism were always a facade of civilisation. The real, fanatically regressive face of the USA was always there under the collogen and store-bought hair. View discussion
LittleRichardjohn
KateKingWarwickshire
Glad you got away with ‘bonkers’. The Guardian is afraid of allowing anything more clinically accurate to describe the Trusk’n’Mump act. There seems to be a worldwide media ban on the elephant in the room term : ‘psyc***ath’. That means we have already lost the information war.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He’s a Psychopath who cannot enjoy the pleasures of Humanity, and so has to destroy it. The Bonfire of the Humanities. With all Gravy Trains running to Trump and pals.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He despises democracy. The new Pathocracy is merely Orwell’s 1984 come true.
Orwell got it right. Fukiyama got it horribly wrong.
Now is the ‘end of history’. Now that Mump & Trusk control it. https://heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23871185.power-pathocracy-politics-attracts-dangerous-people/…
The power of ‘pathocracy’: How politics attracts dangerous and disturbed people From heraldscotland.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
BadEnoch’s entire rant today should have been directed at every tory regime of the last 15 years. Her loony NatC agenda for the world invites China to invade Taiwan.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Trump caused the chaos which left US hardware in Taliban hands. Excluding the legitimate government from talks delivered the country to the Taliban on a plate. The US taxpayer should send him the bill.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The war of the Taliban Vs the Women and Children of Afghanistan never stopped, and was given the green light by Trump, who hates women.
By excluding the Afghan government from talks he ensured chaos. Like Nixon in Vietnam.
UK defence spending to rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 with aid budget slashed to help fund move – UK politics live
25 Feb 2025 13:39
Bad Enoch exploiting the suffering of the Ukrainian people to score bonkers political points and promote her toxic dogma of the Dog-eat-dog world of perpetual war. An explicit, shameless reversion to the realpolitik of C19th Imperialism.
The quote: “NatC” death-cult she admitted to and wishes to infest the world with is a gift to Putin, and to every superpower intent on annexing Taiwan.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A WORLD problem, which the US is a part of. You cannot escape. Justice is not a commodity but essential for life. Your gangster regime will eat itself as its insane contradictions unfold.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The U.S.S.R. was never a union of soviets and never socialist.
It was Bolshevism, the bastard offspring of Half-read Marxism and Electrified Czarist Feudalism driven partly by personal vendettas. What we have now is the Neo-Bolshevism predicted by Orwell, only fuelled by mega-cyber-power.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Because he is eating the carpet. Because his world exists only in what is left of his brain.
A total breakdown is imminent. His minders should keep him well away from red buttons.
He is King of the 1 in 5:
https://forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/…
The Psychopathic CEO
From forbes.com
We are on the road for democracy and justice
19 Feb 2025 16:28
In response to WilcoxySteve
‘This article details correctly how the American people can defeat Trumpism…’
Sorry.
It just doesn’t do that.
Lots of C20th era oratory and Humanist demands, but no Rat-trap blueprint. And no real sense that Bernie understands the scale of the vast arsenal facing any dissenting voices to the Cyber-fascist oligarchy. Every A.I. valve will be burning red to prevent any sliver of truth from polluting the media-sphere.
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We are on the road for democracy and justice
19 Feb 2025 16:16
Unless the Democrats, the US working class movement, plus the intelligentsia realise with a bump that the ‘American Dream’ is a lie, the Cyber-fascist oligarchy will have no worries.
For as long as well-meaning liberals like Sntr Saunders try to square the circle of capitalist-democracy, which sells political power to the highest bidder, genuine progress will be impossible. The medicine has made us sick. The treatment is not more of the same.
What Mump does fear is genuinely universal class-consciousness. The realisation that the Human Race has more in common than divides it, and that in an age of hyper-productive industrial capacity, poverty and suffering should be a thing of the past. Class identity is the only ‘identity’ that can create truly radical policies, which stay away from dubious dead-end causes.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The lie of the ‘American Dream’ has been exposed. So called ‘Capitalist democracy’ is a contradiction in terms because it sells power and information to the richest (and therefore the most ruthless) individuals, who then monopolise & control them. More feudal then ‘democratic’.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
#Orwell‘s 1984 anti-Truth world has been achieved. Putin’s Neo-Bolshevism, Trump’s Cyber-fascism, and Xi’s Neo-Confucianism united in a vast apocalyptic Bonfire of the Humanities. That is the enemy the remains of Civilisation faces. Only Human class-consciousness might save us.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
#Orwell‘s 1984 anti-Truth world has been achieved. Putin’s Neo-Bolshevism, Trump’s Cyber-fascism, and Xi’s Neo-Confucianism united in a vast apocalyptic Bonfire of the Humanities. That is the enemy the remains of Civilisation faces. Only Human class-consciousness might save us.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
NOW will the BBC finally admit that Trump is clinically insane?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Or. How to Destroy the Atmosphere Forever. The Hyper-Data wars demand vast amounts of energy. And all merely to sustain a toxic, indefensible Consumerist Death-Cult dedicated to total barbarism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Remember Afghanistan.. Which Trump sold down the river in exactly the same way he is about to sell Ukraine. By excluding the Afghan government from the talks he sowed the chaos which Biden was blamed for. Delivering millions into barbarism. He doesn’t care. Psychopaths never do.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Show, don’t tell. Or stop lying. “More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year – Oxfam” Published: 30th September 2024. (More to come) https://oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict…
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 11:32
In response to MissMoneypenny99
It’s ‘what happens’ when the contradiction in terms called ‘capitalist democracy’ reaches its inevitable conclusion in war, dictatorship and genocide. In our case universal suicide.
It’s not as if the average politics student in the 70’s wasn’t informed of this buckle in the capitalist bike-wheel, meaning a total breakdown sooner or later.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 11:27
In response to yvesferrer
The Bonfire of the Humanities.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 11:25
The problem with history is the fact it is breeding exponentially, making it ever more impossible to process. At this rate we are reaching a state of information overload, both practically and psychologically. Many crackpot conspiracy theories can be explained by this ever-growing maze of data. (Mazes are scary, they have monsters in them..)
Every second spawns new events and discoveries to be documented, analysed and interpreted, and new interpretations to be fought over for generations.
The sheer bulk is now taxing the powers of modern cyber-space and of our feeble brains, How can so many versions of the past be true? Better to invent it, like a lonely child and its imaginary friend.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 10:50
In response to jimboy63
Then YOU are ‘bunk’ since you are the direct product of your history.
Despise it, despise yourself.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 10:48
Is there anything Orwell got wrong about now?
The Double-think, the Thought-crime, the Newspeak, the vast oligarchical Power Blocs, The destruction of Truth, the Perpetual War? The Mechanised Prolefeed, The Daily Hate, 2+2=5, war is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery.
All boxes ticked within the last 10 years.
If Orwell had known about The Greenhouse Effect, 1984 would have been even more prophetic. And even without knowing, he still sensed the horror of unfettered industrial capitalism, as his Green essays demonstrate..
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Unless there is total Arab solidarity, Trump will sanction his way to Gazan genocide. The Arab OPEC cartel still has it in its power to repeat the Oil Shock of 1973/74. And many would say that Trump’s insanity has given them even more reason than they had then.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Science only fuels denial and hate in those totally invested in the Carbonist Identity. As everyone can now see. 2+2=5.
The Pathocracy is Fundamentally Misanthropist, and bent on a Bonfire of the Humanities. The only solution would be a miracle achievement of Class-Consciousness.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
With psychos like you wandering the streets, who needs Trump to kill you all? In ten years you’ll be waging tribal wars to the death. with Trump cackling at you from his tower.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk by name musk by nature. Rampaging through civilisation like a bull-elephant on heat. Let the book-burning commence, and no mercy until the United Nations building is another Saddam-style palace.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More fundamentally, the politics of hate are easy to promote because they exploit fast-release Fear-enzymes like Adrenalin and Testosterone. The politics of Hope require a prolonged period of cooperation and trust to generate its feel-good hormones. Hate is easier than Trust.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They’re ALL Nazis. The latest and most diseased incarnation of the cancer. This time more ’empowered by the lights of perverted science’ than ever. All kissing the arse of the latest psychopathic Fuhrer.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let the book-burning commence! ‘Woke’ science ends now. Goodbye Darwin, Hello Exxon.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let’s re-examine. Trump giving a green light to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is funny how?
Like stage tragedy, black humour may have outlived its time.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk hates free speech and thought. They deliver too many inconvenient truths for his Psychopathic mind to process. So Science must be outlawed, and the idea of evidence abolished. He perverted the Twitter algorhythms to reward blind Hate and to drag us back to the stone age.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk is fulfilling the prophesies of both Orwell and Marx.
In a nutshell: ‘Monopoly = Death.”
Adam Smith would agree.
To see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
7 Jan 2025 14:52
In response to pipini
‘Capitalist democracy’ will always be a contradiction in terms while Power can be bought by the highest bidder. Most people realise this fraud, but refuse to acknowledge it. To accept that the entire basis of their self-image was based on a lie is too much. So the only solution to hand is Denialism, and increasing anger at every item of unwelcome evidence delivered.
In a digital world, Truth is now the same kind of consumer commodity.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They are employing Psychopaths devoid of Human Empathy who can damage lives without remorse. This kind of animal thrives in and is nurtured by our sick culture.
A viscous circle which is just ONE cause of child abuse. Not that causes concern you. https://forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/…forbes.com
The Psychopathic CEO
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The investigations are concluded. The scandal is their non-implementation by a regime dependent on Musk’s hate-rewarding algorhythms. Everyone knows who did that. They were in power for 14 years.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There’s only 1 side who could have delayed implementation of the Jay recommendations. And only 1 with the motive to do so.
Jay’s demands for Social media regulation would cripple the tories and Musk. Which is why they both need to block action to prevent child abuse. Whatever the human cost.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Only trouble, Starmer did no such thing.
Next Strawman?
The ‘public’ deserve to know the CAUSE of child abuse. Why the reluctance to ask ‘Why?’
Because the answer is too uncomfortable.
We live in a Sick society which makes people sick.
And we won’t change it whatever the cost.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Mania’ is the apt term for Musk’s brand of infantile megalomania. He merely wants to stymie implementation of the Jay report indefinitely, because it recommended tough action against SM shit-pits like his.
Why can’t he be indicted for inciting a coup, and arrested next visit?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The rape gangs 14 years of Tory gangsterism did nothing about? In spite of repeated demands in the final report and by every lawyer involved, including Starmer..
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He now owns and controls most of the world’s information, so everything is his ‘business’.
The right sort of information (hate) makes him richer.
The wrong sort (cooperation) makes him poorer.
He designed the Twatter algorhythms to make money from hate.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Who said he’s ‘stupid’? Like 20% of CEOs, @elonmusk is a PSYCHOPATH.
A very different kind of ‘stupid’. But a quality essential for success in a PSYCHOPATHIC, anti-reality world.
January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
3 Jan 2025 14:51
In response to Deckard85
You forget Doublethink.
When Mump owns and controls all information, the past will be just another commodity, to be rebranded and updated in order to ensure the permanence of the digital Oligarchy.
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Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened
28 Jan 2025 13:29
What’s the problem?
All Misogynists and the rest of the hate-driven Trump-worshipping clan are psychopaths and therefore potential terrorists.
Until we realise that all terrorists and murderers are that way because of the psychopathic culture they are raised by, we will never understand crime, and society will continue on its spiral into chaos.
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Beware, Trump: the American spirit is indefatigable
21 Jan 2025 11:04
In response to DeeterThomsk
The US Democrats are now merely chronic apologists for the failed economic system which created Trumpist fascism in the first place. Like the rest of the global ‘liberal’ consensus.
Until Trump’s opponents abandon so-called ‘Identity Politics’, and focus on the only Identity that matters – Class identity – Trump and his fellow Pathocrats will always steal the audience and buy the Power.
Britain should know. Johnson & Co did their best to destroy Britain. Trump is determined to finish the job.
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Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’
15 Jan 2025 14:00
Corporate Global tyranny was best explained by Orwell (who else?)
‘Why does the lust for naked power become a major human motive exactly now, when the dominion of man over man is ceasing to be necessary?
As for the claim that ‘human nature’, or ‘inexorable laws’ of this and that, make Socialism impossible, it is simply a projection of the past into the future. In effect, Burnham argues that because a society of free and equal human beings has never existed, it never can exist.
By the same argument one could have demonstrated the impossibility of aeroplanes in 1900, or of motor cars in 1850.
The notion that the machine has altered human relationships, and that in consequence Machiavelli is out of date, is a very obvious one.‘
2nd Thoughts on James Burnham. 1946
Just substitute your favourite Cyber-Baron for ‘Burnham.’
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms
14 Jan 2025 15:42
‘This is a crisis. Liberal democracy will be picked apart unless..‘
.. some magical wizard can square the circle of capitalist ‘democracy’, where power is for sale to the highest bidder. And where the promotion of Hate is monetised, and is a commodity which is much easier to market than the values we need most, like cooperation and empathy..
View discussionTo see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
7 Jan 2025 14:52
In response to pipini
‘Capitalist democracy’ will always be a contradiction in terms while Power can be bought by the highest bidder. Most people realise this fraud, but refuse to acknowledge it. To accept that the entire basis of their self-image was based on a lie is too much. So the only solution to hand is Denialism, and increasing anger at every item of unwelcome evidence delivered.
In a digital world, Truth is now the same kind of consumer commodity.
View discussionJanuary 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
3 Jan 2025 14:51
In response to Deckard85
You forget Doublethink.
When Mump owns and controls all information, the past will be just another commodity, to be rebranded and updated in order to ensure the permanence of the digital Oligarchy.
View discussionGluttony, lust and the other ‘deadly sins’ are seen as immoral, but are we hardwired to commit them?
2 Dec 2024 16:38
We are ‘hard-wired’ with appropriate chemical ‘rewards’ which prompt different responses according to their chemical nature. All caused by environmental hurdles placed in our evolutionary path..
Andrenalin and Testosterone are stimulated by perceived threats. The politicians of Hate are able to exploit this instinct to great effect.
Endorphins and Dopamine are sparked by Human cooperation and general security.
The politicians of cooperation have much harder time because communities are far harder to create and maintain than to destroy.
That is the dilemma we face at a time when we need cooperation more than ever. The politicians of Hate are addicted to their enzyme-fix, and are willing to destroy the ecosystem to stay high.
View discussionBrexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU
29 Nov 2024 17:28
In response to NeitherYankNorBrit
Some hope.
Putin is installing Neo-Bolshevism permanently.
Again Orwell’s satire becomes reality. A dire warning used as a manual.
Sometimes I wish he’s never written the damn book.
View discussionTrump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion
21 Nov 2024 14:50
In response to WallyGnat
It’s increasingly likely that the global cooperation needed will be the child of emergency.
At some point the penny will drop.
But probably too late to make enough difference.
The question is what will this near-death experience teach humanity?
Or rather RE_TEACH.
View discussionTrump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion
21 Nov 2024 11:46
Science can never feed the endless maw of consumerism.
Its own Law of Thermodynamics prevents that. The King of all Natural Laws:
‘You can’t get a quart out of a pint pot.’
Only a Humanist reduction of consumption on a radical scale can reduce emissions and make renewable energy systems achievable.
As we are always told when we want to save a local library:
‘We Must Learn To Live Within Our Means.’ We must ‘know our place’ in the ecosystem.
Technology is increasingly merely a means of profiting from making itself obsolete. Especially the latest CO2-spewing fad, A so-called I.
View discussionBehind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis
18 Nov 2024 11:49
In response to briski71
Start, as with all crises, by exterminating waste and over-consumption of materials and energy.
Much of the environmental damage we cause is the result of useless junk we are addicted to. Eliminate it at the cost of a cleaner world and a happier healthier society. One more capable of making astute political decisions.
View discussionBehind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis
18 Nov 2024 11:41
No kidding??
Generations have insisted that Capitalist-democracy is a toxic contradiction in terms. An absurdity in which Political power can be bought, and with it, as we are now seeing, Truth and the global environment itself. The machine has never worked and is now only fit for recycling.
These voices have been systematically dismissed and demonised as ‘extremist’.
Unless a genuinely radical politics emerges, based on universal principles, the prospects for civilisation are not rosy.
View discussionTrump’s victory has fractured the western order – leaving Brexit Britain badly exposed
13 Nov 2024 12:26
It’s not complicated.
We are simply watching the inevitable and long-predicted disintegration of the ultimate contradiction in terms called ‘democratic capitalism’. A carbon-driven power-madness which has taken only a handful of generations to destroy the global environment.
It doesn’t take a 10,000 word monograph by Einstein to work out that a system in which power can be bought is inherently anti-democratic, or that concerns for trivial matters like the future of the planet don’t amount to a hill of beans in the crazy cut-throat world of perpetual profit-chasing.
View discussionRemember, remember, the fifth of November, when a bad guy tried to blow up a political system
5 Nov 2024 11:46
A Mega-Psychopath and his Trillionaire cronies may well be in control of America. And the more we know about these ghouls, the less we need to know. News that Polio clinics in Gaza are being bombed is already too disgusting to watch. News of Trump and Musk’s plans to destroy Truth and Science is no consolation.
A world carved up between techno-fascists like Trump, Putin and their Fossil-Fuel Axis, is the nightmare of every generation since 1945. A multiple disaster, but especially to any hopes of curbing global warming.
Whatever result we wake up to, Humanism and democracy remain in crisis. The backlash to a Harris win will be horrific. As will the barbaric mindless malice of a Trump regime. Those offering glib reassurances should consider that the clumsy dictatorships of the C20th did not have our modern means to kill Freedom permanently, and ensure perpetual war.
If Hate and Lies defeat Human values, everything worth caring about will be in danger. And self-isolated little Britain will be more vulnerable than most to the after-shocks.
The latest soundings are not optimistic. All that civilised people can do is prepare for the worst.
View discussionTrump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not
29 Oct 2024 11:47
In response to variation31
Your optimism is touching but totally unconvincing.
You totally underestimate the crisis unfolding of so-called ‘democratic-capitalism’. It was always a contradiction in terms.
Now it is fulfilling its manifest destiny as a botched model for society.
You also forget that since 2020, Trump & Co have succeeded in exterminating rational evidence-based discourse, and replacing it with commodified Hate, the easiest chemical high to manufacture and peddle.
View discussionTrump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not
29 Oct 2024 11:19
The backlash to a Harris victory may be even worse than a Trump win.
The responsible job now is to prepare for the worst of two evils.
Not that Britain is immune from fascism, as the Farage Hate-Week confirmed.
But it is not a new or crank phenomenon, it is deep in the trashier ends of ‘popular’ culture.
It’s no accident that Queen’s triumphalist anthem steals its chorus from a playground Bully-Chant.
‘No TIME for LO-SERS!’
‘Na-NA na Na-NA!’
View discussionJeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened
24 Oct 2024 11:44
There will have to be a massive Commonwealth Zero Carbon Fund soon anyway. The major donors naturally being those with the greatest historic carbon footprint as a result of their historic involvement in slavery.
Why not kill two birds with one stone and bundle it with reparations?
The money will have to be spent on the same green infrastructure whatever it’s called.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 15:54
In response to HarrytheHawk
The difference is scientifically simple.
Fascist hate mobs depend on Adrenalin. The conflict enzyme.
Peace and Progress depends on Endorphins. The ‘togetherness’ enzyme.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 13:44
In response to Treflesg
The difference is always clear between a protest for peace and one for war.
More so now than ever this century.
The only confusion is caused by the toxic lies of client media and their fellow-travellers.
The people there know the power of co-operation over conflict. Where Fundamentalist Jews can shake hands with Palestinian youths.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 13:35
In response to jamesoverseas
Fascist anger is not righteous, by definition. It is toxic and iniquitous.
Unless you agree with racism and misanthropy in general.
Anger against the denial or withdrawal of basic inclusive human rights and freedoms is both righteous and justifiable. And vital, as history has shown.
Fascist anger is always in opposition to basic human values. The kind you currently enjoy.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:32
Crowds are defined by their Cause.
Fascist crowds are unpleasant and hateful because racism and misogyny are inherently hateful.
Protests which demand justice and peace are righteous because the denial of justice and peace is a crime. Righteous anger is not hate, it is the engine of progress.
People don’t protest with any real expectation of success, but to feel again the natural human fellowship. A right which is denied them by the demands of career and consumption.
In this way, every mass protest is a radical challenge to the alienating status quo, whatever the cause. And worth documenting for 40 years.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:11
In response to theoverlay
‘Then you also say it’s possible for crowds to feel happy and community spirit even as they burn property and damage.’
Depends on whether you value people before property or not
Burning people inside a refugee hostel is much worse than burning the building.
The law says so.
View discussionElon Musk’s Twitter coup has harmed the right. They are now simply ‘too online’
25 Sep 2024 15:46
It might just still be possible that the nightmare age of Alt-Truth and Fake News is not the one-way street we feared. That the effect is wearing off, and Human Beings are starting to crave Truth as they do plain wholesome bread in their diet.
This creates an opening for the boring, unpopular but truthful Leader. The colourless technocrat who at least believes that 2+2=4.
One thing is certain, the eradication of Science by Carbonist maniacs like Vance cannot go unpunished by Nature.
View discussionRachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened
9 Sep 2024 15:41
In response to Tintenfische
What do we want?
Everything!
When do we want it?
Yesterday!
What we need now is grown up politics which acknowledges the fiscal realities of deathbed capitalism. Not more infantile demands born of Consumerist ‘choice’.
Socialism this is not.
View discussionAre studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?
17 Aug 2024 17:29
In response to seekyapus
You’re living in a world where Criticism is on its deathbed.
Trump’n’Putin’s delirious dystopia is exactly what happens when the critical faculties are allowed to atrophy. As they inevitable do in the Consumerist Nursery where everything and anything must appease the infantile customer, because the customer is always right.
View discussionSay it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end
13 Aug 2024 12:17
In response to R4LW198
What is ‘far left’?
Is it related to being ‘left’ behind? Or what my Grannie ‘left’ me in her will?
Or the thief that was crucified on Christ’s ‘left’ hand?
What do you mean?
It describes nothing.
So why use it to confuse yourself and everyone else?
View discussion‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute
27 Jul 2024 11:46
People are now so alienated and estranged from each other that they have lost the very concept of private or confidential space.
Nothing matters except the voices in their heads – which must never stop, ever, because silence means thinking. And that would be too painful.
‘Radio silence’ also means a lack of status, and therefore ‘respect’. So the louder the never-ending signal the better.
The result? Public spaces that sound and feel like Bedlam. And no wonder.
View discussionLittleRichardjohn
hectoranddina
Not ‘narcissists’, Psychopaths. The nature of the pathocracy is now quite clear. 20% of CEOs are card carrying psychopaths according to independent studies. Our toxic dog-eat-dog consumerist culture breeds sick people most likely to thrive in a sick society. The world is therefore split between active and potential psychopaths. The former composed of those already bullying their way to positions of power, and all perpetrators of violence. The latter, everyone else.
Gaza Time
October 8th 2023 >
News at the top – history at the bottom
Online comments during the expanding war. Links to all context.
Experts say this site has : too short a Meta Description. – no canonical tag. – no Google Analytics – no ‘Scheme Markup’. – an outdated website design, no compatibility for mobile devices.
So there.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Remember Afghanistan.. Which Trump sold down the river in exactly the same way he is about to sell Ukraine. By excluding the Afghan government from the talks he sowed the chaos which Biden was blamed for. Delivering millions into barbarism. He doesn’t care. Psychopaths never do.
Ah, here’s Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine – or rather, a plan to leave it in pieces
14 Feb 2025 17:08
Why indeed are they surprised?
He sold Afghanistan down the river in exactly the same way. Excluding the Afghan government from the talks and sowing the chaos which Biden was blamed for.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Show, don’t tell. Or stop lying. “More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year – Oxfam” Published: 30th September 2024. (More to come) https://oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict…
oxfam.org
More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Unless there is total Arab solidarity, Trump will sanction his way to Gazan genocide.
The Arab OPEC cartel still has it in its power to repeat the Oil Shock of 1973/74. And many would say that Trump’s insanity has given them even more reason than they had then.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Wait for the offer he can’t refuse..
“Nice country you’ve got here. Love those temples of yours. Shame if it was to get all broken.
See, my mate Lonny, he’s very clumsy, and he breaks things. Just sign our deal and we’ll see nothing gets broke.. OK??”
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Repeat the plan of Hadrian (God rot his bones).
“Severus besieged Jewish fortresses and held back food… The Romans plowed Jerusalem with a yoke of oxen. Jews were sold into slavery and transported to Egypt. Judean settlements were not rebuilt…”
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-bar-kokhba-revolt-132-135-ce…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Psychopathic doublethink. The Genocidal IDF ‘General’s Plan’ for Gaza is a perfect replica of Hadrian’s (God rot his bones) suppression of the Bar-Kokba revolt.
Starve, Destroy, Kill, and Expel. You never learn.
“Those to whom evil is done do evil in return”
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Zionism kills women and children fleeing its Blitz. Mows them down like animals. Then bombs the ‘safe’ area they are driven to.
Israel’s monstrous revenge complex will guarantee it is never secure. Permanent war. The nationalist Nirvana.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It was Israel that signed off this stage of the Ceasefire. They have killed civilians and blocked aid, breaching the agreement. Nutteryahoo’s Zionazis are taking revenge for the Holocaust on the nearest and easiest target.
‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return’ (Auden. ‘September 1939’)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What ‘nation’? Israel is not a ‘state’, but a permanent State of War. That’s what happens when you try to steal a land from those living on it for centuries. Perpetual misery.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How long does the United Nations have left before the barbarians destroy it?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why? What are the causes of increased natal hermaphroditism? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5017538/…
The Increasing Prevalence in Intersex Variation from Toxicological Dysregulation in Fetal Reprodu…From pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Ethnic cleansing is genocide by another name. Whenever and wherever it is used, countless people are killed.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
With psychos like you wandering the streets, who needs Trump to kill you all? In ten years you’ll be waging tribal wars to the death. With Trump cackling at you from his tower.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk by name musk by nature. Rampaging through civilisation like a bull-elephant on heat. Let the book-burning commence, and no mercy until the United Nations building is another Saddam-style palace.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More fundamentally, the politics of hate are easy to promote because they exploit fast-release Fear-enzymes like Adrenalin and Testosterone. The politics of Hope require a prolonged period of cooperation and trust to generate its feel-good hormones. Hate is easier than Trust.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They’re ALL Nazis. The latest and most diseased incarnation of the cancer. This time more ’empowered by the lights of perverted science’ than ever. All kissing the arse of the latest psychopathic Fuhrer.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let the book-burning commence! ‘Woke’ science ends now. Goodbye Darwin, Hello Exxon.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let’s re-examine. Trump giving a green light to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is funny how? Like stage tragedy, black humour may have outlived its time.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Ethnic cleansing is extermination. And it is a very efficient killer, both of bodies and minds. Hitler was exterminating Jews from Germany before he started killing them. At least he had a Madagascar Plan. Trump’s plan is permanent desert concentration camps for all Palestinians.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“Nice country you’ve got here. Beautiful golf courses. Shame if it was to get all broken. See, my mate Lonny, he’s very clumsy, and he breaks things. Just sign our deal and we’ll see nothing gets broke.. OK??”
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More Providentialist boxes from Isiah, Revelations and the Sybils ticked. The race to the Apocalypse is on. (before Climate Catastrophe does the job).
Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened
28 Jan 2025 13:29
What’s the problem?
All Misogynists and the rest of the hate-driven Trump-worshipping clan are psychopaths and therefore potential terrorists.
Until we realise that all terrorists and murderers are that way because of the psychopathic culture they are raised by, we will never understand crime, and society will continue on its spiral into chaos. View discussion
Beware, Trump: the American spirit is indefatigable
21 Jan 2025 11:04
In response to DeeterThomsk
The US Democrats are now merely chronic apologists for the failed economic system which created Trumpist fascism in the first place. Like the rest of the global ‘liberal’ consensus.
Until Trump’s opponents abandon so-called ‘Identity Politics’, and focus on the only Identity that matters – Class identity – Trump and his fellow Pathocrats will always steal the audience and buy the Power.
Britain should know. Johnson & Co did their best to destroy Britain. Trump is determined to finish the job.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
B-Gs Providentialism is not exclusive to Judaism, and always prevalent at times of extreme crisis, like the Black Death, or now, as we ruthlessly and KNOWINGLY destroy the atmosphere. Which is one reason why religious extremists deny climate science. It defuses their dogma.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Understandable expressions of relief, but everyone there knows that this is merely a holiday from hell – even those who want it to continue. Israel is broke, and needs to re-fill its war-chest.
@Biginabox
Thinking people WOKE up to the danger generations ago. It’s maths, not opinion. You’re the one trying to sleep through it. Hiding under your bed from the OOga-Boogas threatening your burgers and HUVs. And to save Humanity from children like you.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And now their international credit rating is plummeting. The only way to keep the (essential) war going is to get Trump to underwrite the war-debt. Trump will swallow their lies or adopt them as his own. Either way the war goes on.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Don’t forget to credit BBC DG ‘Robbie’ Gibb. 100% owner of JC, and the man in charge of how the Palestinian case is presented.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Trump made Hamas an offer they couldn’t refuse.
N’Yahoo has to consider it because Israel is broke. Plunging credit ratings on Moody’s etc. So keep haggling the small-print like a Trump lawyer.
Enter Trump to under-write the war-debt. The war-cycle goes on as planned.
Any flaws?
Labour’s AI plan could be good for British people – except the creatives it will throw under the bus
15 Jan 2025 11:19
Artificial Intelligence has no hands. It cannot craft an oil painting or vase or sculpture.
It is merely an ersatz process which cannot reward the creator, unlike the process of shaping Order through physical manipulation. The relationship between hand and the mind which was the key factor in enlarging the Human brain in the first place.
Now we want to shrink it.
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Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’
15 Jan 2025 14:07
In response to thegreatfatsby
Wrong.
The mistake was the shameless commodification of power. Selling it to the highest bidder. ‘Capitalist democracy’ is a toxic contradiction in terms.
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Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’
15 Jan 2025 14:03
In response to Egregore
Where were you in 1900?
Insisting that if God had meant us to fly He would have given us wings?
Or in 1864, insisting that Mr Darwin’s ancestors may be apes., but not yours? View discussion
Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ 15 Jan 2025 14:00
Corporate Global tyranny was best explained by Orwell (who else?)
‘Why does the lust for naked power become a major human motive exactly now, when the dominion of man over man is ceasing to be necessary? As for the claim that ‘human nature’, or ‘inexorable laws’ of this and that, make Socialism impossible, it is simply a projection of the past into the future. In effect, Burnham argues that because a society of free and equal human beings has never existed, it never can exist. By the same argument one could have demonstrated the impossibility of aeroplanes in 1900, or of motor cars in 1850.
The notion that the machine has altered human relationships, and that in consequence Machiavelli is out of date, is a very obvious one.’
2nd Thoughts on James Burnham. 1946
Just substitute your favourite Cyber-Baron for ‘Burnham.’
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms
14 Jan 2025 15:42
“This is a crisis. Liberal democracy will be picked apart unless…”
.. some magical wizard can square the circle of capitalist ‘democracy’, where power is for sale to the highest bidder. And where the promotion of Hate is monetised, a commodity much easier to market than the values we need most, like cooperation and empathy..
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What ‘anti-Trump bias at the BBC?’
As always, Robbie Gibb greased the path of the Rednecks. Financed the Zionist campaign of lies.
Issued Farage free rein. His tentacles are everywhere, strangling reality and promoting barbarism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
One requirement of class-mobility is to become inconspicuous among one’s new peers-group. To ‘fit in’. This meant losing native accents in favour of the ‘ambient’ pronunciation.
This is a natural process which works both ways.
‘Stop saying I crashed the economy,’ says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country?
9 Jan 2025 16:25
Bring it on.
This would set a precedent for barring NatC perverts from claiming that Gordon Brown crashed Wall Street.
And where would the NatCs be then?
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McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term
28 Dec 2024 15:37
In response to wyrcommunity
Anyone attempting to compare Musk’s billions to a few self-funded labour activists doing a favour in aid of a lost cause is undoubtedly a complete victim to Trumpist doublethink.
Toxic Equivocation gangster-Style.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Primarily, Syria is NOT Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. Furthermore, it has no significant oil reserves to squabble over. The return of the exiles provides the perfect cocktail for a dialogue which should lead to a new KIND of society, not merely one which apes our failures.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The widespread paranoia of the Renaissance Kings was well-founded. They could hear the advancing thunder of the mercantile classes which would blow away their divine rights forever. Henry was just another spoilt brat caught in the mangle of history.
The Observer view on Syria: we must reach out a hand of friendship to Damascus
15 Dec 2024 15:06
Why should Syria not be a new kind of society? Not merely another imitation of systems which have patently failed, like ours?
However impractical the resulting ideas may seem, it is vital that someone asks the question.
Clearly there are no working models at present which guarantee success.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What ‘communities’? The property market killed those off generations ago, leaving a sterile wasteland of atomised ‘nuclear’ households, oblivious to the life around them.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Nobody is asking the rational question: Why or how does anyone get pleasure from torturing the vulnerable?
Why is nobody asking? Because the answer challenges Psychopathic Consumerism, where kids are commodities and powerlessness is degrading.
‘Kicking the cat’ is a consolation.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Demonise it all you like, Social Housing is a vital social infrastructure. NOT a charity.
The fevered property fetish of the last 40 years is a key toxin on Britain’s cultural blood.
The killer of community spirit. And people.
Video is AI’s new frontier – and it is so persuasive, we should all be worried
10 Dec 2024 16:30
In response to GaryCross
As far as photography is concerned, you can stop worrying about anything with the word ‘art’ floating about it. All art has to be fake. The question is how the hell? Like Leonardo’s miraculous sfumato chiaroscuro.
The veracity of documentary images depends more than ever on the proven integrity of their creators and custodians.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Don’t waste your breath on tittle-waffle. The important business now is the word on the streets of Tehran. Who will be Carpe Deiming next?
The Mullahs are undoubtedly shitting their pantaloons.
Maryam Rajavi Hails the Overthrow of Bashar al-Assad as a Victory for the Region and a Prelude to… From irannewsupdate.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And yet Nobody is asking the simple Rational question: ‘What is the Cause?’ Probably because they don’t like the answer, which would threaten the entire Sick basis of our disgusting, toxic culture.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
We live in a culture which worships power, and which distributes it too narrowly. Being powerless is humiliating, so people will do anything to gain some & experience it. Result, abuse of the vulnerable. Rape is about power, not sex. Solution? A Radical increase in equality.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Standby for a barrage of Misanthropic hate of any Human attempts to throw off tyranny. A combination of apologism for barbarism and wishful thinking. If unity of purpose (Satyagraha) fails in Syria, it can fail everywhere. Keeping Mankind in chains.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Christians are marching alongside Sunni and Shia Syrians. Assad has been toppled by many groups, and they all know it, and that unity is the only route to power and peace. Syria is not Afghanistan. It will not endure another tyranny. The returning exiles will ensure that.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Be fair, it’s largely the fault of the language. ‘Left’ – ‘Right’ both meaningless and designed to confuse. The correct term for Putinism is ‘Neo-Bolshevism’. A regional variant of ‘Oligarchical collectivism’. See Orwell’s 1984 for full details. Putin’s digital Russia matches.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Reminder now. Syria is NOT Aghanistan and its goats. Or oil-sick fake-states like Iraq, Iran and Libya. Assad was not ousted by a superpower but kept in place by one – which Syrians now hate. Millions are returning with an unshakeable taste of freedom. Extremism is on a loser.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Politically illiterate garbage. Corbyn is primarily a traditional 1930’s British pacifist. All the rest flows from that position.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Shite. It was Corbyn who proposed the imposition of the Magnitsky protocols on Russian oligarchs in Britain. The ‘democratic’ tory regime blocked him.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There are thousands of Syrian Mothers now seeking children stolen by the barbarian Assad. This campaign can only succeed under a stable administration. Failure to meet this sacred duty will meet huge opposition from Syrian women. Women will Unite and Heal. Or else.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Syria is also now a country awaiting the return of MILLIONS of exiles, many are now used to a degree of freedom which they will never, ever surrender. The future for extremism in Syria is less rosy than the doom-mongers foretell. Syria is NOT Afghanistan.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Road to Damascus appears to have been a very diverse experience, with civilians of all groups joining the advance from all directions. This must have been a cathartic moment for many. The revelation that far more can be achieved by tolerance & unity than by hate & persecution
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Doom-mongers need reminding that Syria is NOT a goat-shit strewn desert like Afghanistan. Nor is it an oil-split fake-state like Libya or Iraq. After 50 years of brutal dictatorship, Syrians will not tolerate another.
Gluttony, lust and the other ‘deadly sins’ are seen as immoral, but are we hardwired to commit them?
2 Dec 2024 16:38 We are ‘hard-wired’ with appropriate chemical ‘rewards’ which prompt different responses according to their chemical nature. All caused by environmental hurdles placed in our evolutionary path..
Andrenalin and Testosterone are stimulated by perceived threats. The politicians of Hate are able to exploit this instinct to great effect.
Endorphins and Dopamine are sparked by Human cooperation and general security.
The politicians of cooperation have much harder time because communities are far harder to create and maintain than to destroy.
That is the dilemma we face at a time when we need cooperation more than ever. The politicians of Hate are addicted to their enzyme-fix, and are willing to destroy the ecosystem to stay high.
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Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
Palestinian lives are worth just as much as Israeli lives. Geddit? How many dead Palestinians will it take to slake Zionist bloodlust? Another 44,000? A million? Including all the guilty children of course.
Sick.
The assisted dying bill has passed. At last: a decent life can end in a decent death
29 Nov 2024 17:37
In response to Meerkat
If only all issues were as universal.
But of course they are, looking through the crystal clear optics of class politics, rather from within the perpetual squalid feuds between different sects of sterile managerialism.
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The assisted dying bill has passed. At last: a decent life can end in a decent death
29 Nov 2024 17:33
In response to Briar
That will be for MPs to consider, but now after having rediscovered abilities many of them had forgotten.
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Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU
29 Nov 2024 17:28
In response to NeitherYankNorBrit
Some hope.
Putin is installing Neo-Bolshevism permanently.
Again Orwell’s satire becomes reality. A dire warning used as a manual.
Sometimes I wish he’s never written the damn book.
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The assisted dying bill has passed. At last: a decent life can end in a decent death
29 Nov 2024 17:18
A side effect of this Commons debate must surely be the most abundant cross-party demonstration of sheer Human empathy for decades.
If the exercise of these long-underused muscles helps set the tone for the atmosphere in future, Labour will have achieved something valuable, whatever its inevitable failures.
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The assisted dying bill has passed. At last: a decent life can end in a decent death
29 Nov 2024 17:13
Furthermore, this bill will retrospectively validate the humane acts of generations of family G.P’s.
Such as ours, who ‘assisted’ two of my grandparents when they became dehumanised by suffering.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And responding to barbarism with even greater barbarism is the greatest barbarism of all.
Echoes of the way Hadrian (God rot his bones) crushed the Bar Kokba rebellion.
Or closer, of Sippenshaft & other scorched earth tactics used more recently.
Do you learn nothing from history?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You can’t even conceive of a space without Hate. Where it is not monetised. Where arguments can happen without being derailed by criminal personal smears lies and abuse. Where profitable racism is extinct. Sad sad old you.
Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion
21 Nov 2024 14:50
In response to WallyGnat
It’s increasingly likely that the global cooperation needed will be the child of emergency.
At some point the penny will drop.
But probably too late to make enough difference.
The question is what will this near-death experience teach humanity?
Or rather Re-teach..
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Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion
21 Nov 2024 11:46
Science can never feed the endless maw of consumerism.
Its own Law of Thermodynamics prevents that. The King of all Natural Laws: ‘You can’t get a quart out of a pint pot.’
Only a Humanist reduction of consumption on a radical scale can reduce emissions and make renewable energy systems achievable.
As we are always told when we want to save a local library:
‘We Must Learn To Live Within Our Means.’ We must ‘know our place’ in the ecosystem.
Technology is increasingly merely a means of profiting from making itself obsolete.
Especially the latest CO2-spewing fad, A so-called I.
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Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
18 Nov 2024 12:12
In response to Bortholomew
Because Hate is much easier to incite than Hope. Being fuelled by the Fear hormone Adrenalin. This is why Musk chose it to monetise rather than one of the feelgood hormones..
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Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
18 Nov 2024 12:08
In response to AntonymousBosch
An unfair image.
It isn’t just adolescents, or even pickled adolescents, it’s anyone sucked into the Adrenalin-fueled battle called Consumerism. Where everyone is your rival for resources position and respect. Everyone is IN YOUR BLOODY WAY!
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Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
18 Nov 2024 12:04
In response to MJuma2018
As the population increases and so-called ‘individuals’ increasingly impose n the lives of others, methods have to evolve to prevent conflict, and chaos.
If you don’t like society, return to the wilderness.
Which may be all there is if your techno-fascist De-regulation maniac buddies get their way, as they just did in the U.S.
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Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
18 Nov 2024 11:57
Why do people hate driving safely?
Because Adrenalin is King.
The Hit which keeps on giving.
What your Right foot is for. (and your Right fist).
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Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
18 Nov 2024 12:04
In response to MJuma2018
As the population increases and so-called ‘individuals’ increasingly impose n the lives of others, methods have to evolve to prevent conflict, and chaos.
If you don’t like society, return to the wilderness.
Which may be all there is if your techno-fascist De-regulation maniac buddies get their way, as they just did in the U.S.
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Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis
18 Nov 2024 11:49
In response to briski71
Start, as with all crises, by exterminating waste and over-consumption of materials and energy.
Much of the environmental damage we cause is the result of useless junk we are addicted to. Eliminate it at the cost of a cleaner world and a happier healthier society. One more capable of making astute political decisions.
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Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis
18 Nov 2024 11:41
No kidding??
Generations have insisted that Capitalist-democracy is a toxic contradiction in terms. An absurdity in which Political power can be bought, and with it, as we are now seeing, Truth and the global environment itself. The machine has never worked and is now only fit for recycling.
These voices have been systematically dismissed and demonised as ‘extremist’.
Unless a genuinely radical politics emerges, based on universal principles, the prospects for civilisation are not rosy.
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Homes left to rot and families left to rot in them: that’s social housing in Britain
16 Nov 2024 16:07
Correction.
‘That’s Social Housing riddled with the infestation of RTB Leaseholders.’
Infested with get-rich-quick amateur property moguls, using cowboy tradesmen, whose shoddy work repeatedly creates damage which local authorities are obliged to repair at taxpayer’s expense, and whose rapid turnover of subtenants does nothing to encourage a stable, working community.
Without the RTB stealing all the revenue from sales, councils would have more funds for maintenance and to build new stock.
Without the RTB. there would not be divisive and dangerous conflicts of interest between tenants and leaseholders concerned about service charges over the cost of regeneration projects such as cladding tower blocks.
The so-called ‘Right To Buy’ experiment has totally failed.
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Trump’s victory has fractured the western order – leaving Brexit Britain badly exposed
13 Nov 2024 12:26
It’s not complicated.
We are simply watching the inevitable and long-predicted disintegration of the ultimate contradiction in terms called ‘democratic capitalism’. A carbon-driven power-madness which has taken only a handful of generations to destroy the global environment.
It doesn’t take a 10,000 word monograph by Einstein to work out that a system in which power can be bought is inherently anti-democratic, or that concerns for trivial matters like the future of the planet don’t amount to a hill of beans in the crazy cut-throat world of perpetual profit-chasing.
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November, when a bad guy tried to blow up a political system
5 Nov 2024 11:46
LittleRichardjohn
Tomorrow, a Mega-Psychopath and his Trillionaire cronies may well be in control of America. And the more we know about these ghouls, the less we need to know. News that Polio clinics in Gaza are being bombed is already too disgusting to watch. News of Trump and Musk’s plans to destroy Truth and Science is no consolation.
A world carved up between techno-fascists like Trump, Putin and their Fossil-Fuel Axis, is the nightmare of every generation since 1945. A multiple disaster, but especially to any hopes of curbing global warming.
Whatever result we wake up to, Humanism and democracy remain in crisis. The backlash to a Harris win will be horrific. As will the barbaric mindless malice of a Trump regime.
Those offering glib reassurances should consider that the clumsy dictatorships of the C20th did not have our modern means to kill Freedom permanently, and ensure perpetual war. If Hate and Lies defeat Human values, everything worth caring about will be in danger. And self-isolated little Britain will be more vulnerable than most to the after-shocks.
The latest soundings are not optimistic. All that civilised people can do is prepare for the worst.
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Trump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not
29 Oct 2024 11:47
In response to variation31
Your optimism is touching but totally unconvincing.
You totally underestimate the crisis unfolding of so-called ‘democratic-capitalism’.
It was always a contradiction in terms. Now it is fulfilling its manifest destiny as a botched model for society.
You also forget that since 2020, Trump & Co have succeeded in exterminating rational evidence-based discourse, and replacing it with commodified Hate, the easiest chemical high to manufacture and peddle.
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Trump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not
29 Oct 2024 11:19
The backlash to a Harris victory may be even worse than a Trump win.
The responsible job now is to prepare for the worst of two evils.
Not that Britain is immune from fascism, as the Farage Hate-Week confirmed.
But it is not a new or crank phenomenon, it is deep in the trashier ends of ‘popular’ culture.
It’s no accident that Queen’s triumphalist anthem steals its chorus from a playground Bully-Chant.
‘NO TIME FOR LO-SERS!’
‘NA -NA NA NA-NA!’
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‘I didn’t really plan it’: what Ali told me when we rewatched The Rumble in the Jungle
28 Oct 2024 18:53
In response to Pizza911
And the shittest poet.
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‘I didn’t really plan it’: what Ali told me when we rewatched The Rumble in the Jungle
28 Oct 2024 18:52
In response to yobbotony
Ali gave far more to ‘his occupation’ than it gave to him.
It left him broke and brain-dead, and fooled more generations of boys that they could escape poverty by kow-towing to the same coven of meat-merchants.
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‘I didn’t really plan it’: what Ali told me when we rewatched The Rumble in the Jungle
28 Oct 2024 18:48
In response to MoaningOldMan
The object of Boxing is to inflict as much brain damage as possible on the opponent.
Everyone ‘meant it’.
They still do.
Or hadn’t you noticed that we live in a sick culture which still relishes the spectacle of two human beings inflicting maximum pain upon each other?
One day history will relegate this cult to the dustbin of sadistic pornography where it belongs.
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‘I didn’t really plan it’: what Ali told me when we rewatched The Rumble in the Jungle
28 Oct 2024 14:43
I can’t believe we still glorify the gory spectacle of this billion dollar killing-contest.
With the baying mob screaming :
” Ali! KILL HIM!
Ali! KILL HIM!”
Not civilisation’s finest hour.
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Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened
24 Oct 2024 15:41
In response to dianab
That all depends, given the dire circumstances, on how much we are all forced to pay to preserve some semblance of civilisation.
The question is whether the penny drops soon enough, and how many people don’t want it to, for whatever psychopathic reasons.
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Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened
24 Oct 2024 11:44
There will have to be a massive Commonwealth Zero Carbon Fund soon anyway. The major donors naturally being those with the greatest historic carbon footprint as a result of their historic involvement in slavery.
Why not kill two birds with one stone and bundle it with reparations?
The money will have to be spent on the same green infrastructure whatever it’s called.
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Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 15:54
In response to HarrytheHawk
The difference is scientifically simple.
Fascist hate mobs depend on Adrenalin. The conflict enzyme.
Peace and Progress depends on Endorphins. The ‘togetherness’ enzyme.
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Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 13:44
In response to Treflesg
The difference is always clear between a protest for peace and one for war.
More so now than ever this century.
The only confusion is caused by the toxic lies of client media and their fellow-travellers.
The people there know the power of co-operation over conflict. Where Fundamentalist Jews can shake hands with Palestinian youths.
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Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 13:35
In response to jamesoverseas
Fascist anger is not righteous, by definition. It is toxic and iniquitous.
Unless you agree with racism and misanthropy in general.
Anger against the denial or withdrawal of basic inclusive human rights and freedoms is both righteous and justifiable. And vital, as history has shown.
Fascist anger is always in opposition to basic human values. The kind you currently enjoy.
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Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:32
Crowds are defined by their Cause.
Fascist crowds are unpleasant and hateful because racism and misogyny are inherently hateful.
Protests which demand justice and peace are righteous because the denial of justice and peace is a crime. Righteous anger is not hate, it is the engine of progress.
People don’t protest with any real expectation of success, but to feel again the natural human fellowship. A right which is denied them by the demands of career and consumption.
In this way, every mass protest is a radical challenge to the alienating status quo, whatever the cause. And worth documenting for 40 years.
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Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:15
In response to biscoff
You don’t vote, then.
Or enjoy any of the other rights people protested to achieve.
Some people are just too beautiful for this world.
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Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:11
In response to theoverlay
“Then you also say it’s possible for crowds to feel happy and community spirit even as they burn property and damage. “
Depends on whether you value people before property or not
Burning people inside a refugee hostel is much worse than burning the building.
The law says so.
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Thomas Tuchel discusses anthem and pressure at England unveiling – as it happened
16 Oct 2024 14:55
In response to InswingingYorker
Johnny Speight was not just a great satirist but a great prophet.
The replays of ‘Stil Death’ and ‘In Sickness’ on ‘That’s TV’ are stunning depictions of current NatC brain-strangling by the Garnetts of today.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What name should we give to the national holiday celebrating this great day when ordinary people ended the racist madness?
‘Wonderful Wednesday’? Hardly close…
‘Freedom Day’? closer.
England riots live: thousands of counter-protesters take to the streets – as it happened
From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The double Storm-whammy has undoubtedly hampered voting in key Redneck states. Therefore it must be a fiendish commie plot by those commie scientists. A country which elevates Joe Biden to the status of a Weather God has been lobotomised back to the stone age Mayans.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Like all Babytalk back-chat, it’s just more Wish-Fulfillment. Reflecting the poverty of so-called ‘right-wing thought’. Which was always merely an irrational flight from a constantly accumulating barrage of uncomfortable truths. Leading to today’s Anti-Science lynch-mobs.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Any reactions to Israel’s declaration of war against the United Nations? What’s the excuse this time? Do you WANT the world to hate Israel?
UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on their bases deliberately
From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
As a fascist-supporting rag, the Express would have led the horoscope racket. As Orwell repeatedly points out, mysticism is a personal antidote to the concept of progress. (e.g. ‘W.B. Yeats’ and elsewhere)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Haggling about numbers does not respect the dead of the Holocaust.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“It’s mindblowing, I’ve never seen anything like this in any disaster.”
Correction: “It’s mind-blowing, I’ve never seen anything like this. It IS a disaster.”
USA reverts to the primitive mentality of the Incas and Egyptians.
Biden the Weather God.
‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He certainly shows no sign of grasping the nature of the toxic nationalism which will guarantee that Israel is never at peace. Like most artificial, manufactured ‘nations’ cobbled together in the wake of world wars, Israel was always doomed to be more a state of war than a state.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More time also means more time to fuel another Lebanese Civil War. Suit Nutteryahoo to the ground.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All criticism of Israel is racist. (‘Obvs’) Every teenager knows that. Your problem is that Michael is not attacking or degrading Jews or Judaism, merely indicating the bleedin’ obvious. People can be bastards. ANY people. Claiming immunity from the Human Condition is racist.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He is a ‘deeply flawed ‘ racist capable of acts which are consistent with the policy of A CERTAIN 1930’s STATE which also claimed to be acting in ‘self-defence’. Dahya doctrine = Sippenshaft. The truth is that “Those to whom Evil is done do Evil in return” Auden. 1939
Keir Starmer defends Chagos Islands deal after Boris Johnson accuses Labour of ‘sheer political correctness’ – as it happened
4 Oct 2024 14:55
In response to MartinBelam
I’ve just found out about the ‘American Party’, or the ‘Know Nothings’, a typical knuckle-dragging ‘nativist’ cult spawned by the implosion of the American Whig Party in the 1850’s. The Johnson/Farage axis to a tee.
It was a flash in the pan, even though its zombie still stalks the land baying for the blood of the living.
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Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures
4 Oct 2024 11:34
In response to Skate2020
How can your idea of Being Labour survive in the bleak global landscape of deathbed capitalism at war?
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Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures
4 Oct 2024 11:31n response to ToeNala
When did we ever do that?
When was any ‘free’ capitalist country ever self-sufficient in anything?
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Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures
4 Oct 2024 11:29
In response to nonanon1
What happens to your ‘firm convictions’ when Iran closes the Straits of Hormuz and Putin decides to divert more cut-price oil and gas sales to China.
After events do their thing, Starmer’s much-maligned No-Plan Manifesto 2024 may prove to be the most prescient in modern history.
Does Neo Coronavirus mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?
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Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures
4 Oct 2024 11:19
‘Approval ratings’?
I’ve never seen a minister of any kind with such a blatant disregard for public approval and fairytales. He is, deliberately or not, the hint of a welcome age of anti-charisma after wasted decades of posturing gesture politics. A development that might even be the antidote to Superpower anti-truth. ‘You can’t fool all the people all the time’, even now.
Not many have had Starmer’s majority to play with. He can be as unpopular as he likes.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’ll be lucky. But since when do facts and evidence matter? Much better to incite base instincts. Those that drive collective guilt. The Dahiya Doctrine in Dahiye. Or #Sippenshaft in occupied Europe. Or Search and Destroy in Vietnam.
https://imeu.org/article/the-dahiya-doctrine-and-israels-use-of-disproportionate-force…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Drivel. ‘Very shaky start my arse.’ Nothing that wasn’t declared within a reasonable period. No rules broken. All a tantrum in a pisspot by the Babytalk billionaire media. Who’s paying Badenoch’s bills? (take a line through Truss)
Maggie Smith was the grandest of grandes dames – and a true cinematic superstar
28 Sep 2024 13:38
The greatest actors possess a greatness of empathy, plus an almost superhuman intellectual power of seamlessly fusing the text with the human character and honestly expressing the result through their own emotional being on stage. An act of transubstantiation.
Maggie Smith had that magnificence. Which is hardly surprising given the dynamism of the generation she emerged from, which witnessed traumas beyond fiction.
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Elon Musk’s Twitter coup has harmed the right. They are now simply ‘too online’
25 Sep 2024 15:46
It might just still be possible that the nightmare age of Alt-Truth and Fake News is not the one-way street we feared. That the effect is wearing off, and Human Beings are starting to crave Truth as they do plain wholesome bread in their diet.
This creates an opening for the boring, unpopular but truthful Leader. The colourless technocrat who at least believes that 2+2=4.
One thing is certain, the eradication of Science by Carbonist maniacs like Vance cannot go unpunished by Nature.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Will you be gloating so much when the ‘collateral damage’ includes American tourists? In fact, any of these flights from Lebanon last Tuesday could have been blown out of the sky by Nutteryahoo. https://flightstats.com/v2/flight-tracker/departures/BEY/?year=2024&month=9&date=17&hour=12…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In fact it was. Any of those bombs could have killed a scheduled plane-full of innocent people. Allow madmen to weaponise domestic gadgets, and nobody is safe. Global paranoia with every slice of toast.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
This far into the Holocene we should be observably heading towards a new Ice Age. But the opposite is happening. We are reversing the Natural Cycle with CO2, just as we are sabotaging the Carbon Cycle. The ice refuses to form, and the levels continue to rise You ARE that stupid.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Fact. Zoonotic pathogens and domesticated animals are not a good mix. Factor in our deliberate devastation of the natural habitat, and Pandemics are as inevitable as Monkey Pox.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What happens when one of Nutteryahoos Pocket Bombs blows a hole in a scheduled flight into Istanbul? Or any of these flights out of Beirut on Tuesday.
https://flightstats.com/v2/flight-tracker/departures/BEY/?year=2024&month=9&date=17&hour=12…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
But innocent civilians travel with terrorists on the same scheduled 747s. Hundreds at a time. Many of them Americans and Israelis. Will you be gloating as much when one of them gets blown out of the sky by one of Nutteryahoos pocket-bombs?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Class is Credit-Rating and Credit-Rating is Class. And that’s an immutable LAW.
No security – no loan.
The only security the working classes can offer is their labour. Which depends on their health. No bank manager job will risk that bet. . If you want to know your ‘class’ ask a C.R. site.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why is everyone so scared of thinking about the CAUSES of child abuse? So that it may be rationally understood and thereby prevented. Is it because the answer unveils some uncomfortable truths about the kind of society we live in?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How is the Pocket Bombing anything but a major tactical victory? Not only by eliminating key actors, and causing societal chaos, but by forcing troops to break telecomm-cover in an attempt to get instructions from HQ. Mossad must be licking its lips.
@Biginabox
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know the penalty in Florida for trespassing on a golf course while exercising a sacred constitutional right? And then running away. 3 months community service?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
For as long as Gibb controls both the BBC and JC, the scandal will never end. This creep can never be trusted to preside over an Inquiry into BBC coverage of Gaza. He is Nutteryahoo’s British front-man.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If only the Jewish Chronicle would now decide who it’s owned by. And how he can preside over an inquiry into BBC coverage of Gaza.
Crunch time for Britain. Does it want a fundamentalist Zionist national broadcaster, or one still related to rational Truth?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Holodomor is a guarantee of Russian perpetual unpopularity in Ukraine. Putin is trying to rewrite history. Ignoring the fact that Ukraine existed before Russia, and was founded by Vikings, not Slavs. Its ancestry is European, via the Austro-Hungarian and Polish empires..
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I’m talking about the ‘model’ which is blatantly disintegrating before our eyes. The contradiction in terms known as ‘capitalist-democracy’. The model responsible for mass global extinction, climate crisis, war and zoonotic pathogens.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Any sensationalist absurdity to allow pursuit of perfection to distract from the appalling reality of capitalism on its deathbed. Any genuine socialist can see the bigger picture. And it is NOT comfortable.
Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened
9 Sep 2024 15:41
In response to Tintenfische
What do we want?
Everything!
When do we want it?
Yesterday!
What we need now is grown up politics which acknowledges the fiscal realities of deathbed capitalism.
Not more infantile demands born of Consumerist ‘choice’.
Socialism this is not.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Fact. The models of the last 50 years have consistently UNDERESTIMATED the effect of anthropogenic climate change. Every scientist is hunting for proof that ACC is a mistake.
But Nature says no. The Greenhouse Effect obeys the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The progress of Women’s Rugby should be monitored closely. Given that Women effectively play on a larger pitch than Men, there are fewer high energy impacts, and their game should be inherently safer. When proven, the logical conclusion will be to make the Men’s pitch bigger.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If the NatCs weren’t inflicting massive, obvious damage to the country, why were so many people so keen to get rid of them?
Boring Starmer never promised anyone a Land of Milk and Honey.
After 14 years of being treated like a child, Britain apparently needs to grow up fast.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Indus Delta invented classical science before Greece. And Pakistan preserves that tradition, as its contribution to modern science proves. Same thing for India, where there are Many, Many Muslims. With a Hindu government. Religion isn’t the problem, nationalism and GREED are.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Germany has had Muslims for generations, why no ‘Islamic State’ there? There have been no NEW Islamic states since the Industrial Revolution.
In fact, large areas of Europe, China&Russia were DE-‘Islamicised’ during the C19/20th.
Iran & Afghanistan both Islamic for 1000+ years.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Such Such Were the Joys’ provides a more personal source for the world of 1984 than anything academic or political.
The childhood Eric Blair’s guilt at hating ‘Mum’ almost perfectly mirrors Winston’s attempts to hide his hate for Big Brother.
Thoughtcrime rules in both worlds.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The seeds of 1984 are far deeper than a single meeting in 1944. Spain, the Nazi-Soviet pact, the growth of the mass media and industrialised culture, the mundane thought-crime of his SCHOOL, all unavoidable in all but his earliest work. CUFA is riddled with 1984 imagery.
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Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
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Harnessing infants to the career/property machine is not education, it is obscene. And a recipe for mass disillusionment and hate. As we have seen.
Schooling without socialisation = a generation of sociopaths.
The only true ‘quality of life’ comes from engaging with other human beings. It is genetic.
Thousands of people who took part in Wonderful Wednesday 7th August may never have a better day in their lives, (Marriages and births excepted). Al because for that time they were working with others for a purpose.
Buying your boss his next Ferarri is not purposeful.
Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
23 Aug 2024 15:01
In response to BooRadley1
Training up endless generation of Hamsters for the wheel is not education.
If there is no joy in the process, and it doesn’t induce fascination and curiosity which last, education is merely crowd control.
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Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
23 Aug 2024 14:57
In response to FrogmellaMousetrap
‘Best quality of life’
I know it’s nit-picking, but you are using the language of Samuel Smiles in the age of Alt-Truth and global Carbon Wars.
If education means anything today it is that the ‘best quality of life’ is entirely dependent on how soon we can tame to sustainable levels the gross consumption many feel entitled to.
Failure to do so will mean hardly any ‘quality if life’ for future generations.
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Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
23 Aug 2024 14:46
In response to Gumbo
Like IQ and the Olympic Pentathlon, exams originated as a selection process for the officer class. A purely military brief which sacrificed education to rigid training. Training for a sterile world of computation, competition and corruption. A Madrassar for the Ruthless Classes.
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Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
23 Aug 2024 14:44
In response to Gumbo
Like DNA and the Olympic Pentathlon, exams originated as a selection process for the officer class.
A purely military brief which sacrificed education to rigid training. Training for a sterile world of computation, competition and corruption.
A Madrassar for the Ruthless Classes.
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Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
23 Aug 2024 13:30
In response to TearlachOg
The only thing that exams ‘test’ is the ability to pass exams.
Exams are not real life, in spite of the desperate efforts of generations of technocrats to turn life into a sterile spreadsheet of achievement.
Exams and education are not compatible.
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Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn
23 Aug 2024 13:26
In response to gonesoon2
This is the most inverted, bizarre perversion of reality I’ve heard this week this side of the Atlantic.
An apology for privilege based on a defence of the mechanism which prolongs privilege.
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The new mpox variant may appear to be less deadly but it is spreading fast. Complacency would be a grave error
22 Aug 2024 16:33
In response to Freedomofspeecg
It answered your question.
‘Do you think we should just cut Africa off completely?’
Didn’t you like the answer?
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The new mpox variant may appear to be less deadly but it is spreading fast. Complacency would be a grave error
22 Aug 2024 14:39
In response to Freedomofspeecg
We should stop destroying Africa.
That’s what releases zoonotic pathogens.
Greed.
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The new mpox variant may appear to be less deadly but it is spreading fast. Complacency would be a grave error
22 Aug 2024 14:36
In response to FeriouslySlippant
We’ve learned nothing.
We keep vandalising and plundering the environment, exposing domestic livestock to the native virues and creating zoonotic pathogens to which we have no resistance.
Toxic consumerism is as rampant now as ever. The global threat from new variants was never a matter of If but When.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Classic 1st reaction to fatal diagnosis – denial.
People know that climate science is right, they just can’t accept it. And so they reject all rational methods, and science itself. Inventing sinister plots against their threatened identities.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Nuclear fairytale has run its course. Only last-gasp apologists for toxic consumerism now adhere to it – advocating unlimited proliferation in states still at war over water rights.
The false promise of nuclear power in an age of climate change
From thebulletin.org
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Nuclear power has never been more impractical and laughable – if it weren’t for the inevitability of nutter nuclear war, global pollution, and the normalisation of the police state as the prices of perpetuating toxic consumerism. Not to mention the $ price, which nobody wants to pay.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Liar. And why the assumption that all Jews are obliged to endorse the state of war that is Israel?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There is no such thing now as ‘an English Identity alone’. Maybe in a corner of northern Germany for a few hundred years in the C6th. But not since. The Angles interbred themselves out of existence long ago. Like Neanderthals.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Stalin a ‘born warrior’? Sez who? The strongest impression is of a brutalized delinquent. Churchill THOUGHT he was of warrior stock This delusion cost thousands of British lives
There is no such thing as a ‘born warrior’ Just brutalized maniacs. Like Tommy Cockles and his goats.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Too late, and far too dangerous and expensive. Your banker mates say no.
You just have to finally accept that the lifestyle your identity is invested in is consigned to the dustbin of history. IF there is to be any history. Or just the rusting hulk of a suicidal civilisation.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Nuclear baloney. That pipedream dissolved decades ago. A fantasy of megalomaniac Technocrat Dictators and teenage boys everywhere. Magic Powers – a guaranteed winner.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The HUGE prize is freedom from the tyranny of Oil Sheiks & Autocratic Carbonists like Putin & Trump. Until now, political power required control of fossil fuel reserves.
The invasion of Ukraine is a war to prolong the global addiction to Carbon indefinitely.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Not only pure bunkum, but dangerous fascistic bunkum. A cosmos determined by the Omniscient individual, which constantly revolves on on a cycle where There is ‘Nothing New Under the Sun’, and therefore no progress, freedom or peace. The tyrant’s wet-dream
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Is there a starker contradiction in terms than ‘Professional Sport’?
Except maybe ‘capitalist-democracy’.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Eleanor Roosevelts’ Four Freedoms mean Communism to many Americans. Even though they are part of the constitution.
Their OWN Constitution means Communism to many Americans.
America led the world in Doublethink. Long before the European dictators of the C20th.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Before the Imperialist Absurdity of ‘Israel’, all faiths coexisted in Palestine in harmony for centuries. Zionism is the twin sister of all fascist dogmas. Elitist, racist and anti-democratic by definition.
As predicted by Einstein and many others.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When you’ve got Power, who needs to be fair?
As they say in Latin, Finders Keepers.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It ‘starts’ with families being blown to pieces and land stolen and millions driven into a hostile desert..
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
For the squillionth time. 20% of CEOs are Psychopaths. ‘Such people “have a dangerous, yet effective mix of a lack of empathy, self-centeredness, deviousness and self-regard which can propel them to the top of the organizations,” the psychologist warned.’
Fact Check: 21 Percent Of CEOs In Corporate America Are Psychopaths
From moguldom.com
Are studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?
17 Aug 2024 17:29
In response to seekyapus
You’re living in a world where Criticism is on its deathbed.
Trump’n’Putin’s delirious dystopia is exactly what happens when the critical faculties are allowed to atrophy. As they inevitable do in the Consumerist Nursery where everything and anything must appease the infantile customer, because the customer is always right.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Who did they assault? What did they set fire to? What did they steal? Who did they harm?
Nobody, nothing, nothing and nobody.
If you want real inconvenience, just ignore the message as usual. See what happens.
Sane people would rather try to prevent catastrophe. You know better.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They PLANNED to tinker with a traffic light. They got 5 years.
How much do you think those trying to burn refugee children should get?
Vital question. Is Climate Science any less credible than every other science?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Psychopathic tendencies are essential to the REAL ‘money-making machine’, with corporate offices in Wall Street. We exist in a SICK society which spawns SICK people. Where’s the mystery? Murderers are Psychopaths. There is no such thing as ‘Evil’. The only rational explanation.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Medicine will never conquer the global pandemic of mental disease. Only the eradication of the toxic consumerist rat-race can do that.
MONEY is the ‘elephant in the room’. Power doth make Psychopaths of Us All.
And the lack of it.
Say it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end
13 Aug 2024 12:17
In response to R4LW198
What is ‘far left’?
Is it related to being ‘left’ behind? Or what my Grannie ‘left’ me in her will?
Or the thief that was crucified on Christ’s ‘left’ hand?
What do you mean?
It describes nothing.
So why use it to confuse yourself and everyone else?
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How can opposition to a state’s foreign policy be racist? Zionism is NOT Judaism. In fact the opposite. An anti-religious, sectarian Nationalism no different from any other sick identity-cult, including fascism, as predicted by eminent Jews throughout history.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Both. Against Racists and Thugs because they are the same animal. The Passive but Massive Dad’s-Army was resisting Fascist Lynch-Mobs. By royal Appointment, it turned out.
By sheer force of numbers it helped deter the fascists & protect lives.
Not least those of on-duty police.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“.Cowboy traders operating without a full survey or appropriate expertise.
An unregulated sector which allows rogue traders who installed substandard insulation to reinvent themselves as foam removal services and overcharge victims to extract it.”
The joys of capitalism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No different. The Labour landslide is the overlooked cause of the fascist backlash. It was inevitable since July 5th. They just HATE democracy.
Even the media-perverted imitation democracy we endure.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The entire country has been blathering on about nothing BUT ‘immigration’ (that is the Freedom of Labour) for decades. And only a few weeks ago it had its say in a general election fought over ‘immigration’. All parties fundamentally opposed to immigration lost. That’s democracy.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All of who will need even more medical aid and care than their grandparents. Therefore more health and care Workers. Where from? And why not eradicate the Force-Feeding of adulterated food by law? A RADICAL policy addressing the ROOT cause. Its been done before.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The only identity that counts is Class Identity. And the sooner it becomes the universal identity, the sooner radical policies can emerge.
Modern Backlash is an Identity Crisis. The inevitable result of Climate Science which denies the 1000 year Reich of Psycho-Consumerism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Who was trying to burn children alive? Who burnt the library? You’re denying these things happened. You’re deranged.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A GREAT opportunity not to be missed. Many barriers between community groups and the police were challenged last night. The effect on young officers present would be interesting.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A great example of community cooperation in a common cause. I expected to see images of police dancing with the Dad’s Army defenders. A positive, bonding experience for all, creating a golden opportunity not to be missed.
Stand Up To Racism
@AntiRacismDay ·Aug 7
This is what a mass movement against the far right looks like @wfsutr #StandUpToRacism
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Last night was the Triumph of ‘Woke’. The Many WOKE up to the fascist threat, and to the power of unity to deter it. Now everyone knows what it means. Humanism. That is what sticks in the craws of the gutter media and their fellow-travellers.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So the night before, when there were 38 planned lynchmobs and 38 turned up were fake too. Right. Nobody tried to burn any refugee children alive.
As a classic Consumerist Psychopath, what else do you deny?
How about climate science? That’s always a sure-fire indicator of infection.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Both. This is the fascists in total flight, clutching at any straws in the face of intolerable community action saying NO to their hate. A very memorable, bonding moment, almost unprecedented as an effective community action. I knew they’d blame Starmer. ‘Project Fear’ no doubt.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A lot of people were LIED to by Billionaire fake-news machines. Money buys Power. Which is why ‘capitalist-democracy’ is a contradiction in terms.
If you trust its output, you are too innocent for your own good.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They had to officially discourage Dad’s Army militias last night. For public safety, and to maintain political distance without which, the Gutter racist press would not be so stymied today. They would be accusing Starmer of ‘bias’. This is a great community opportunity. TAKE IT.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Just goes to show the utter uselessness of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ as accurate – or even honest – signposts to anything. Not only that, but ‘right’ of course is given a huge head start by culture and usage. See the Bible and every depiction of the last judgement (‘right’?)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I’m not a dirty Saxon. Naph off back to Germany where you belong. We were here thousands of years before you. Twll dun bob Saes. Thieves and landgrabbers all.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No. Today is the first of many days to rub your nose in the triumph of Human values last night, and the opportunity it represents for a decent future, minus your Psychopathic lynch-mobs baying for the blood of children.
Don’t hijack causes you don’t care about, like children.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You want a consumer society, you got it. And all the psychopaths that go with it. The respectable family man who decides one fine day to kill his family with a crossbow. Blair didn’t create the Capitalist rat-sack or the class system. Maybe last night can show the way out of both
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
We are many, You are Few. Barbarian lynchmobs. But still the losers of history. So take your fatal identity crisis back to your prehistoric cave and huddle in your pre-technological dark.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s up to you to make the point that the events of last night’s triumph of Human values represents an almost unprecedented opportunity for community cooperation, and to heal wounds between the people and business, police, even politicians. I’ve never seen anything like it. Help.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Pure fascism. A repeat of the attacks on Deptford Albany Empire and Moonshot club in 70’s London. Soon after, the New Cross Massacre happened. History never repeats, but it does echo. Farage is just a massacre waiting to happen.
blackhistorystudies.com The New Cross Fire – Black History Studies
The New Cross Massacre https://youtu.be/H_vP-ScHZ8I The New Cross Fire killed 13 young Black people during a birthday party in a house in New Cross, southeast London on Sunday January 18, 1981. The…
Has pop music got less melodic? I’ve immersed myself in 70 years of hits – this is what I’ve found
5 Aug 2024 11:49
In response to Wiretrip
And the permutations of those chords are potentially endless.
Add the hesitation on the fourth beat, and you have the vast improvisational panorama of jazz.
So when did imagination die?
Some of the blame must lie with the end of standard 4×4 ‘railway time’ in real life, and replacement in music with less versatile computer pulses.
The ambient rhythms of the times have to be considered in any discussion of popular music.
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Has pop music got less melodic? I’ve immersed myself in 70 years of hits – this is what I’ve found
5 Aug 2024 11:43
‘If those trends keep up, our descendants will presumably get down to monotonal dirges.‘
That’s Consumerism!
An anaesthetic trance for a homogenised culture sleepwalking to global extinction.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Wrong. TERRIFYING is the word. The aim of this fascist Hate Week is to tell all black people ‘You Are Not Safe Here.’
I call that Terrorism. Not mere ‘thuggery’.
Charities report rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia at schools in England From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The clock is ticking. Every minute Farage doesn’t denounce this hate brings a fatal confrontation days nearer. The more police are unable to divide fascist mobs from the community, the more certain a death. And if this madness persists, some lone psychopath will go over the edge
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
For planning to tinker with a traffic signal @ExtinctionR get 5 years.
Add on the violence and Hate Crimes, and the fascist lynchmobs could be looking at 10.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The fascists graduated officially from mere thugs to a fascist lynch-mob today. If Frogface Farage doesn’t condemn this UNEQUIVOCALLY today, he will have blood on his hands.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In Rotherham, the #fascistthugs promoted themselves to #fascistlynchmobs
A massacre was only prevented after police were injured. The hotel is still under siege At some point, one of these hate-frenzies will succeed, and people will be killed.
What will Frogface Farage say then?
Rob Kenyon
@@biginabox.
‘Not ‘far-right’. A PSYCHOPATH. (please use words which mean something)
This sick society cannot do without the sickness it creates. It runs on it.
It’s a cancerous symbiotic relationship. A rare thing in nature, but not in capitalism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Every minute Farage and his Goats refuse to condemn this fascist madness brings its first death a day nearer. The lynch-mobs are already targeting mosques. How long before they succeed? Shades of Mississippi Burning.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They’re no more intelligent than football hooligans. But after 25 years of tory education and indoctrination, that may even make them the majority.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There was nothing political about 2011. All big demonstrations in Britain are invariably issue-based, not markedly ideological, and certainly don’t intend to drag Britain back to the C19th. The Faragistas use the nazi propaganda manual. Keep it stupid & make people afraid.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
14 years of NatC shit hitting the fan. Redneck Britain exposed. The real depth of the problem made clear No more whining denials possible. Deporting Human Beings because of their colour IS racist But these fascists want to LYNCH them. Psychopaths created by a Psychopathic society
Rob Kenyon
@@biginabox
What is the percentage of paedophobes in the population, and why is it so high? The one thing we know is that they are incredibly good at hiding their actions. Billionaire-friendly libel laws protected most high-profile psychopaths. And their anti-state CHARIDEE work? Tory catnip
Buying sweets with a handful of coppers was a joy of my childhood. Is it goodbye to 1ps and 2ps?
31 Jul 2024 12:17
In response to Helloagain
Like sheep, it seems.
Result?
Nobody has any sentimental attachment to any units of currency anymore. One more aspect of everyday life sanitised and stripped of all character. Like a new prisoner being deloused and uniformed for his time behind bars.
What a wonderful world.
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Buying sweets with a handful of coppers was a joy of my childhood. Is it goodbye to 1ps and 2ps?
31 Jul 2024 12:13
In response to LostInTransit
Orwell recounts that : “in countries where the metric system is in force a few of the old measurements tend to linger on for everyday purposes, although officially discouraged.”
They were simply more Humanist. More than that, they were embedded in the culture and language. And therefore helped to define and enrich the mental world of the public. Introducing a little poetry to the soulless grind of buying and selling, much to the terror of the ruling technocrat class.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“What sort of society do we live in when a highlight of the summer holidays ..turns into what witnesses likened to “a scene from a horror movie”?”
A SICK society, which can only create SICK people.
Another day, another psychopath goes pop!
Southport stabbing latest: victims named as Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva…
From theguardian.com
Buying sweets with a handful of coppers was a joy of my childhood. Is it goodbye to 1ps and 2ps?
30 Jul 2024 14:51
In response to IndyJames
The mad stampede for the post-school sugar-fix from Freddie Tripp’s little sweetshop next to our village school would get calls for the ASB squad today.
Adorable 8-year old madames fighting their way to the front with Lovehearts burning in their eyes. Then squatting ferally by the stone wall, to watchfully cram them in a mouth half-hidden by golden curls.
Anyone remember their first flavoured crisp?
A taste sensation.
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Buying sweets with a handful of coppers was a joy of my childhood. Is it goodbye to 1ps and 2ps?
30 Jul 2024 14:41
‘Pennies’ and ‘tuppences’ if you please.
Decimalisation had no licence to obliterate culture, however convenient for enumerates like me.
PEEEESE are a bizarre, ugly, inexplicable abomination. A word with no origin except the price tag on potatoes. An abbreviated word for an abbreviated culture, devoid of any associations or history.
Perfect Newspeak, in fact.
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‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute
27 Jul 2024 11:46
People are now so alienated and estranged from each other that they have lost the very concept of private or confidential space.
Nothing matters except the voices in their heads – which must never stop, ever, because silence means thinking. And that would be too painful.
‘Radio silence’ also means a lack of status, and therefore ‘respect’. So the louder the never-ending signal the better.
The result? Public spaces that sound and feel like Bedlam. And no wonder.
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Australia’s men face ultimate rugby sevens test in semi-final against Fiji
27 Jul 2024 11:33
Given the unsustainable attrition-rate of the 15-man game, 7s is probably the rugby of the future (which of the two would you advise your child to consider as a profession?).
So why does it never get the coverage it deserves?
The Blazers in Twickers may sneer at it, but the People are crazy about it. Maybe you don’t get to be a millionaire (yet) but you play rugby to the full, globe-trot the world, and still get to keep your memories.
So why the under-exposure?
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Russia is lying about its economic strength: sanctions are working – and we need more
24 Jul 2024 16:09
The Carbonist Autocratic Axis of Russia, China, India – and soon the USA – have a solid political foundation in the tried and tested technology of transforming dead trees into political power. An alliance made even more stable by the mutual self-interest of its members and the lack of any dependence on rational evidence or science. The idea of relinquishing fossil power is a laughable liberal extravagance to them, Climate Crisis or no climate crisis.
Their long view of ‘capitalist democracy’ is that it will die a natural death, with a little help from them.
The insipid response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine only encourages this perception.
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LittleRichardjohn
BojoHaram
Age-related decay is not the issue. It is not a mental illness.
Unlike the psychopathic state of Trump’s mind.
By any rational test he would be denied a gun, let alone a nuclear bomb.
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Never doubt the instincts of Donald Trump, who just appointed ‘never Trump guy’ as his running mate
16 Jul 2024 16:05
In response to PaulGButler
What version of ‘democracy’ in particular?
I can remember lots of elections, and most were scandalously manipulated by unaccountable, un-elected, tax-dodging, phone-tapping, election-fixing, warmongering, profit-crazed corporations
Money buys Power.
‘Capitalist‘ democracy?
A contradiction in terms obviously. A huge Con.
And the source of the betrayal which spawned Trump.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Strange to repeatedly expose yourself to a 2nd sniper when you don’t know how many there are.
Not so strange if you do.
Still haven’t heard the expression about ‘reaping the whirlwind’ yet.
Too soon? Who can explain the actions of 2 obvious psychopaths?
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Again no evidence, just more lies. Go away and get some therapy for your identity crisis. You know your entire fake version of yourself is radically threatened by the facts. And so facts must be denied. 1st stage after any fatal diagnosis
https://apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/mental-health-climate.pdf…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No evidence as usual. The geological record proves you WRONG again. ‘Evidence from the geological record is consistent with the physics that shows that adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere warms the world’ https://geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/policy/Statements/Climate%20Change%20Statement%20final%20%20%20new%20format.pdf…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All drivel, no science. As usual. There desperately needs to be an SM law that no posts on Climate permitted without links to context and contestable evidence.
Causes of Climate Change | US EPA
From epa.gov
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There may be no option other than to make jokes about the future we are about to face. In order to stay sane. Neo-Absurdism is here.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Like what? Creationism? Scientists are DESPERATE to prove the Greenhouse Effect wrong. There’s a fortune in it and a Nobel Prize. But it never comes. Because the environment is obeying immutable FUNDAMENTAL laws. Nomatter how inconvenient for your holidays. Go ban gravity.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If you can’t imagine a MAGA-maniac trying to seal the deal with a gun, then you haven’t been keeping up with them over the last 8 years.
Psychopaths don’t just wield AK47’s, they are created by them.
Action at a Distance has always been the fantasy of tyrants. The ultimate power.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Unregistered Psychopath, more like. One of the epidemic spawning in the U.S. political swamp.
Led by Trump, Psychopath in Chief.
A disturbing number of bosses are psychopaths
From independent.co.uk
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So – new? We live in a SICK society. It creates sick people, and then exploits them. Dog-eat-dog consumerism actually REWARDS Psychopaths who should be in a secure home. The point is, Nobody is immune.
Like the Perfect family man who decides to kill his family. One step too far.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He’s your God, how dare any mere mortal dare hold Him to account for his actions.
Gods are above the laws of Man. Or even you.
Who will protect you when you become the sinner?
Who will you have to betray to avoid Divine Displeasure?
All revolutions devour their children first.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All tyrants turn into gods after failed assassinations.
The existing nightmare just got even blacker.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Here’s a real question.
How much will we have to reduce our average energy consumption to meet the achievable renewable capacity of 5 years time?
All calculations at present assume current absurd levels of consumption, or even GROWTH.
Use years in the past as units (1960/62/etc)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Prepare to go underground after yesterday. “The Philistines be upon Thee Samson”
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
OR. We could create a society NOT addicted to the overconsumption of energy like junkie pigs at a heroin trough. Something within our means. The levels of the late 1950’s would probably be enough to cater for our NEEDS. As opposed to our bloated expectations.
The arrogant, reckless Tory government left behind a mountain of mess. In one week, we’ve begun to clear it
12 Jul 2024 19:08
OK.
But don’t forget, when England lose 2-0 tomorrow you will get the blame.
Sunak gaveth, Southgate taketh away.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It seems to have escaped general attention that the invasion of Ukraine was the declaration of a Carbonist War. The global struggle over the right to pollute the atmosphere beyond repair.
The contradictory attitudes of the two blocs towards Climate Science is not a an accident
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s all sticking plasters. Until there is a serious debate about WHY people commit crime, we’ll always fail. Treating the effects never addresses the causes.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Don’t abuse a noble word. These people are the opposite of radicals, they are fanatics. The rational nature of radicalism is in the word. Addressing problems at the root.
NatC tribalism is anti-rational. Depending entirely on myths & fear.
It was always the rotten core of toryism.
LittleRichardjohn
MartinBelam
Are ‘Live Logs’ like this a sign of News overload? Of the lack of journalistic muscle-power to process each new unit of history as it emerges? Is there simply too much history to handle? None of it is going away. And we are creating and acquiring it at an exponential rate. Fairly soon there will be hardly anything else but History.
Autocrats exploit this confusing glut by reducing everything to the lowest common denominator. Infantile information dealing in the infant preoccupations of fear and hunger. The ideal propaganda formula which ‘reduces the intellectual content as much as possible in order to appeal to the lowest level of intelligence.’ (A***f H****r.)
When there is too much information, some psychopath will always claim to know the secret code to understanding it. Usually it means identifying scapegoats to be persecuted and glorifying god-figures to be worshipped. The scientific kick-starts of Galileo, Darwin and Plank didn’t really ‘coincide’ with eras of chaos. They helped initiate them.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Denialists of the history of toxic food are out in force. The entire Industrial revolution and British Empire were founded on commodities guaranteed to impoverish the diet of working people. Sugar, Tea, Tobacco. With bread made from chalk and milk ‘sweetened’ with Borax.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You don’t have the right to make ‘choices’ which harm others. Sugar kills. If you’re that addicted, add a spoonful to juice. Why are you averse to preventing industrialised diseases? The adulteration of food is a constant threat, and an early battle against mass degradation.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How many times in history has an election truly demonstrated the untampered ‘will of the people’? Most I can remember were scandalously manipulated by unaccountable, un-elected, tax-dodging, phone-tapping, election-fixing, warmongering, profit-crazed corporations Money buys Power
Why is Modi sucking up to Putin? It’s simple and cynical: China and oil
10 Jul 2024 16:57
Ukraine has been a Carbonist war from the start.
A battle for the perpetuation of pollution at all costs.
Putin’s power lies in his mineral reserves. Weakening him by making them obsolete merely to save the global ecosystem is just silly.. Not fair.
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Britain has been invaded by parakeets – and it’s got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix
10 Jul 2024 11:54
In response to wallabypoo
Farmers chased all the foxes and squirrels into towns too.
Good thing or bad thing for urban ecology?
Kettling parrots in towns will only make them even more dominant in the system.
Wait until they start tearing up car windshields and roof-flashings. Then there might be some action.
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The ‘wood wide web’ theory charmed us all – but now it’s the subject of a bitter fight among scientists
9 Jul 2024 14:20
In response to Quercus1967
In a nutshell:
‘The Climes they are ‘Changin.’
Where are the Dylans of yesteryear?
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Nandy wasn’t supposed to head up culture, but could her level-headed approach be just the ticket?
9 Jul 2024 13:42
As a thankless cabinet brief, isn’t ‘Culture’ now the ‘Northern Ireland’ of 1969?
Best of luck in an age of crumbling schools and hospitals.
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Travelling round Britain, I found it at a crossroads between fury and hope. Which way will Labour take us?
7 Jul 2024 17:17
In response to PinchySnips
This is the Redneck Britain which has been concealed for too long.
Possibly the worst thing I came across was one of those smug Baptist ministers in a quaint Welsh village privately instructing the lovable grannies in his congregation that “Enoch was right”, and that “all those dirty blackies should be sent back to the jungle”.
Not Johnny Speight. Not 60 years ago. Here and now.
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Travelling round Britain, I found it at a crossroads between fury and hope. Which way will Labour take us?
7 Jul 2024 17:10
‘Hope’?
There doesn’t seem to be a word in English for a deep anticipation of extreme disappointment.
The experience of the next year is likely to add one to the dictionary.
Any suggestions?
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Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale
5 Jul 2024 15:11
Regurge Ltd just mathematically proved that the tory party always was a nest of racist bigots and untriggered fascists waiting for their Day. Now they have found a home and the party formally known as ‘Conservative’ has been both unmasked and castrated.
By draining the pus from the tory body, they may have done it a favour. But since that poison was core of the party, removing it paralysed the patient.
Their only hope is to come to their senses and realise that the economic dogma which defines their identities is not only festeringly obsolete, but is systematically destroying the ecosystem our civilisation depends on.
If there are any journalists left, can one of them ask Nigel Farage which scientists advised the Regurge Manifesto?
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UK general election: Rishi Sunak says he believes he will win despite poll projections – as it happened
30 Jun 2024 11:57
Beware Murdochs when bearing gifts.
Starmer can do without his kiss of death.
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An era of tragedy, cruelty and slapstick: what it has been like cartooning these 14 Tory years
29 Jun 2024 12:46
As the future horrors pile up, there seems to be less to say about them.
The implacable dedication to death of the new era of fascism seems immune to any form of reason. Which is hardly surprising given its Psychopathic origin.
In the near future it is probable that most literate attempts at resistance to the new barbarism will have shrivelled away to an underground. Either by persecution or despair or both. A zombified population sleepwalking to environmental catastrophe.
Unless, I suppose, the US democratic Party decides to act in the planet’s interest and act now, and imaginatively. But miracles don’t happen.
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Nigel Farage takes part in Question Time election special – as it happened
28 Jun 2024 13:17
Only the deluded would now deny that ‘capitalist-democracy’ is a contradiction in terms.
It always ends in fascism of one sort or another. Especially when civilisations and long-held personal identities are threatened with global extinction – as they are now.
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‘My studio costs half my income’: can British art survive soaring rents and property developers?
24 Jun 2024 19:59
In response to honeytree
Artists have always created colonies.
But very few have become hermits.
You have to go back to the more tyrannical dynasties of China for that.
Anchorism and art are entirely incompatible.
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‘My studio costs half my income’: can British art survive soaring rents and property developers?
24 Jun 2024 16:44
In response to epeeist
Artists cannot function in isolation.
Art has always depended on the open exchange of ideas and criticisms between artists.
There is no ‘Ivory Tower’.
Dispersing artists to the nearest affordable corner of Britain, away from their peers, like asylum-seekers, is a sure-fire method of destroying art in Britain.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Anti-capitalism is Heresy. When the key beliefs and Identity of religious fundamentalists are overturned, history shows that Denial & Backlash are the only refuge of the indoctrinated And The Church of Profit has never been more overturned than it has been now by Climate Science
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It was the NatCs who voted down Corbyn’s proposals for eradicating Kremlin gold from British politics. “resisting Labour’s amendments … that could introduce the so-called Magnitsky powers.”
It sent more donor Oligarchs to the Lords instead.
Hansard 2018.
Salisbury Incident – Hansard – UK Parliament
From hansard.parliament.uk
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Another legacy of the co-opted Caste system, used to enforce British rule on the ‘lesser breeds without the law” in Africa by clerical-caste Indians..
The servile ‘Nobhi’ caste. As in ‘Nobby’ Clerk.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Re-act are all those things. Especially Anti-Science. It represents the rational world they cannot counter. Denial is their only refuge from the realities of the real world – the one being sabotaged by their dehumanised Profit-Mania. Which scientists agree with Professor Farage?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Reform Ltd represents the average tory politics of the 1930’s golden age. The myth of ‘caring conservatism’ has been debunked. Now you know why, as far Aneurin Bevan was concerned: “they are lower than vermin.” Many people now see that & agree. Toryism is just fascism in waiting.
A D-day disaster, dodgy leaflets and policies from thin air. Tory activists must avenge this debacle
17 Jun 2024 11:34
Wot ‘tory activists’?
Most able to walk unassisted are tory councillors. The ones who were decimated in May.
Another tribute to the brilliance of Sunak’s snap election decision.
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Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs? Our panel’s verdict
13 Jun 2024 19:44
In response to ganderew
‘Why this emphasis on sacrifices to reduce carbon emissions?‘
Because the quest for the Elixir of Eternal Growth means environmental death.
Consumerism is the killer, not the doctor.
Until Starmer realises the aburdity of his assumptions, and the general public are frankly confronted with the essential elimination of toxic useless JUNK from the marketplace, all the major green projects are futile.
Merely chasing an ever-receding horizon of energy demand.
Sustainabililty means providing for Human needs, not those of shareholders and crooks.
Other crooks.
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Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs? Our panel’s verdict
13 Jun 2024 16:35
Obviously nothing to scare the horses.
No indication of the inevitable sacrifices involved in averting climate crisis.
And nothing to scare the incurable Brexiteers, who can never be convinced by reason. To win the support of these people via the realities of Brexit means highlighting their gullibility. Which ultimately therefore translates into the campaign slogan:
‘You’re stupid – vote for me.’
Which explains Labour’s hot-potato phobia. It takes more than fabulous poll-ratings to cure a poisoned culture.
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Cut Rishi Sunak some slack – his D-day blunder is hardly the worst thing he’s done
10 Jun 2024 16:40
Agreed.
The calculated and proven £2k Labour Tax Lie is easily the more serious offence.
In normal times one which would result in serious consequences – at least.
But Sunak is protected by an Alt-Truth culture which is able to deny forensic reality, however self-evident and rational.
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BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened
7 Jun 2024 11:16
In response to patimac54
Winning seats doesn’t matter.
The poison of hate spread during the campaign certainly does.
It festers long after the election is over.
That’s what it’s for.
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BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened
7 Jun 2024 11:12
Conformation (as if it were needed) that the NatC party is now the total poodle of the media. Not the servant of the people.
It cares more about perpetuating its Doublethink culture than making society work.
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General elections are a travesty of democracy – let’s give the people a real voice
6 Jun 2024 15:40
More significantly, ‘capitalist democracy ‘ is a contradictions in terms.
At least for as long as money buys power and votes.
More than a contradiction, when it decays, as it is now doing, capitalism drags any vestige of democracy into the grave of ultra-nationalism with it.
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Compared with the dark saga of Donald Trump, British politics looks like Beatrix Potter
6 Jun 2024 15:31
In response to hflashman
Don’t worry.
As the official Worst Businessman on Record, he will soon bleep it up the wall.
As he did with his Old Man’s millions.
I read that he would have made more by opening an account at the Bradford & Bingley.
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Compared with the dark saga of Donald Trump, British politics looks like Beatrix Potter
6 Jun 2024 15:28
We’re just Trumpism with a British face.
The Tufton Street Thinktank Wonks are weaponising Truth in the same MAGA fashion, according to Stalin (or Churchill’s) dictum that:
‘”In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’
Any amount of lies about Labour’s budget is fine as long as it conceals the truth of tory plans to sabotage society and human values even further.
The trouble is that the NatCs have now become do acclimatised to their fairytale world world, they actually believe in it.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
None of which changes the facts. He was done for crimes many ordinary people have committed. If he is free to commit them, so is everyone. Lots of lovely Anarchy in a Psychopathic gun-ridden self-assembly society based on genocide. Not looking good for the USA.
Labour dismisses no confidence vote in Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething as Tory ‘stunt’ – as it happened
5 Jun 2024 12:14
In response to irreverentnurse
And yet…
I was watching the Bargain Hunt D-Day Special the other day, and nobody knew what a clicker was in the Mystery Object competition.
This means none of them have ever watched ‘The Longest Day’, probably the seminal D-Day movie, endlessly repeated every bank holiday on mainstream TV.
Maybe we’re not as interested in our history as we like to think.
Did John Wayne die in vain?
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‘I plumbed in our bath – and it works!’ The DIY diehards who built 36 affordable homes from scratch
5 Jun 2024 11:37
It can be done.
In the mid-1970’s, a group of concerned local people organised to completely renovate a decrepit GLC block in danger of demolition.
A building group cooperative were formed, and 50 years later, 75 flats for public housing are still occupied.
Juniper House Origin Story
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Starmer v Sunak: who came out top in the first leaders’ debate? Our panel’s verdict
5 Jun 2024 11:28
Winning liar – Sunak.
Major revelation. The new side-of-a-bus Big Lie is Tax.
But can Sunak carry off a big lie? Johnson he ain’t.
Will he dare use it again at the next head-to-head?
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The watershed was when guilt-by-association replaced evidence-based analysis.
About the time the tabloid Ministry of Truth declared Corbyn a racist, with no factual basis.
Guilt-by-Association has now killed 35,000 Gazan civilians.
Nutteryahoo has normalised it on a global basis.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
We now all swim in the same cyber cess-pond of Guilt-by-Association.
Any criticism of Israel is racism.
Anyone endorsing criticism of Israel is racist.
Starmer cannot be seen as endorsing any criticism of Israel.
Gaza has fulfilled all its promise of global chaos.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I can [define it.[
Christ said on the Mount:
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”. (Matthew 6:21)
i.e. ‘MONEY MAKES MORALS’.
That’s why it’s OK for Bishops to bless battleships.
Pure Marxism from 2,000 years ago.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A long time to go yet. The Mega-Smear Election has just begun. Expect insanity from the redtops.
These inhumane attacks on Rafah are no accident. They’re central to the IDF’s brutal, losing strategy
28 May 2024 17:51
Nutteryahoo’s strategy is based on a world run by Trump, Putin, Xi and him – with his posse of Armageddonist cranks.
Everything he does is designed to lose Biden the election, eradicate international law, and even fatally undermine the United Nations itself.
All of which means that any concerted effort to constrain global warming is a pipedream.
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A humiliating election speech, with little to offer. Sunak’s USP was competence – what of that now?
22 May 2024 20:37
In response to jae426
And absolutely no room for a crew of nineteen 19-year old Event Organisers lugging LP cases of ‘Yoof’ music to every platform.
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A humiliating election speech, with little to offer. Sunak’s USP was competence – what of that now?
22 May 2024 20:31
In response to Rizidubawi46
It is incredible. To dive in to certain defeat.
Unless Sunak knows something only he and Rupert Murdoch knows.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
War (by definition) destroys surplus production. The central dilemma of capitalism is over-production. War is essential in denying the easily available fruits of technology to Humanity..
Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – the past isn’t a foreign place
21 May 2024 13:24
In response to eamonmcc
When nostalgia turns into mythology it is only a short step to the toxic chauvinism of nationalism and the negation of life.
A reverence for positive values and experiences is essential to building a positive future. But that can only be built on decisions taken in full appreciation of the critical influence of each moment in time in the rational process of history.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I fear history will take the same view it does of the way Hadrian (rot his bones) ended the Bar-Kokba revolt.
Israel is reversing all its founding myths. Becoming the Goliath and Pharoah of the story.
‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.’
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There is no evidence. It was all a homicidal stunt to distract from the I.C.J. genocide ruling. The irony.
But that never stopped a single Zionazi with only hate for a backbone.
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Musk’s dedication to a techno-fascist world-state begins with his slavish defence of the homicidal fake-state known as Israel.
Accusing fascists of cowardice and hate is now ‘hateful conduct.’
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Did the Lords hear a shred of evidence which a British court would consider for a second? Israel hasn’t presented any. Neither has it obeyed the ICJ injunction to present plans for the safety of civilians. The world has gone crazy.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
That always depends on the views. Obviously. Olde Tyme professional political bonhomie was always a public-school facade. Another benefit of privilege.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Where is that game played? Never heard of it. The only game in town is ANTIZIONISM, not antisemitism. Which is not only true but inexorable.
Eventually all but a few Messianic Armageddonists will wake up. Hopefully before Nutteryahoo traumatises another generation into more war
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When Israel starts treating Palestinians like human beings, Hama will die. Likewise Hezbollah, Daesh and all the other cowboy death-cults, including the Messianic Armageddonism in the Zionist regime.
The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think
10 May 2024 16:51
In response to QiMouse
When did Junkies ever campaign for higher Heroin prices?
You are confusing an intellectual decision with what has become a visceral dependency for many people. Both psychologically and chemically in many cases.
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The climate crisis is no laughing matter, no matter what those on Radio 4’s Today programme think
10 May 2024 16:43
No mystery.
We’re in the classic first stage of a terminal diagnosis – Denial.
Everything’s fine. The science is hysteria. We’ve seen it all before. It’s all just a commie plot.
Nothing will convince the Media-manipulated masses that the dogma they have ingested since birth is destroying the global ecosystem.
The scientific window of opportunity to halt catastrophe is small and shrinking. But the even smaller, nearer window is the psychological one of Despair, at which people give up caring. And civilisation goes down the drain in a gurgle of hedonism.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
But where is the confirmed EVIDENCE of Racism? (Not Anti-Zionism, which is the duty of all intelligent people.)
Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 16:32
In response to justamentalpatient
Sorry that politics isn’t another Consumerist Aladdin’s Cave, a Mix’n’Match serve-yourself all-you-can-eat buffet.
That’s not the grown-up world.
Do you want to get rid of the tories or not?
Copping out is not a ‘principle’, merely an act of cowardice.
And don’t self-medicate yourself with the narcotic that ‘They’re All The Same.’
That is the ultimate con. And you fell for it.
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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 16:22
In response to labourgooner
The 1st Rule of Socialism is gain power. That is what the Labour brand does in a country which doesn’t indulge in violent coups.
Other brands of socialism are available, with political parties. The trouble is that their defections are far more fractious than one MP realising that she served a are bunch of bungling amateurs. City slickers on a dude ranch, riding the economy backwards.
Socialism will come when the culture changes. The culture will never change under NatC rule.
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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 16:14
In response to edougall
How long is this sulk going to last?
Long enough to gloat over a new NatC regime?
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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 16:12
In response to 3granville
Name 2 voters so repulsed they would prefer another 5 years of NatC rule.
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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 16:10
In response to PhilatHighfield
Self-flagellating garbage in the finest middle-class masochistic Labour tradition.
Another open goal and you squabble with the ref about a foul YOU committed.
Unbelievable.
The right to change your mind must be held to be self-evident.
It’s why God gave us two buttocks.
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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 16:04
In response to MeandYou
More crippling whataboutery.
I don’t remember this fuss when 3p Lee defected from Labour to NatC after vigorously campaigning for Corbyn.
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Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs
9 May 2024 15:59
Starmer just gave permission for a large number of tory voters to change. Smart.
What the shrinking violets don’t take into account is that all the howling Alf Garnetts of the last ten years are merely lost souls in a political landscape which has changed out of recognition.
The sooner they recognise this hunger for credible change the sooner Starmer can deliver it, with a working majority and productive 2nd term.
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The Guardian view on hope and despair in Gaza: attacking Rafah will compound this disaster
7 May 2024 21:40
In response to DallasWilliams
When Israel starts to treat Palestinians like Human beings, Hamas will die.
Likewise Hezbollah, Daesh and all the other cowboy death-cults, including the Messianic Armageddonists in the Zionist regime.
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The Guardian view on hope and despair in Gaza: attacking Rafah will compound this disaster
7 May 2024 21:35
The longer Nutteryahoo can prolong the war, the longer he can stay out of prison.
The longer the war goes on, the more likely Trump will win the US election.
A win-win for war-war.
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I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties
7 May 2024 17:43
In response to Solent123
Wales abolished the RTB in 2018.
The sky still hasn’t fallen in.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Jewish story also includes the truth of Auden’s words on Versailles. “Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.” The Jewish Story is also NOT the Zionist story, which is one of nationalist evil & now revenge for the Holocaust. As predicted by Einstein, another antisemite.
I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties
7 May 2024 10:08
In response to DaveFromDaveland
And sabotage communities wherever possible by creating massive conflicts of interest between tenants and leaseholders, especially in mixed local authority stock.
The cost to councils for repeat repairs to council flats due to flooding from cowboy landlords above must run into billions, and most of it invisible.
End this curse now.
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I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties
7 May 2024 09:57
In response to Inspissatedman
Home ‘ownership’ is largely a delusion anyway. A classic trick to con the lower orders into fancying that they are better than their neighbours. Lace curtains on the windows no sheets on the bed.
Life itself is a merely tenancy, and much more fun than existing under the crippling terms of a mortgage on eternity.
See Danny Baker’s Autobiography for traditional working class attitude to ownership and credit. Especially that of Baker Senior.
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I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties
7 May 2024 09:46
The Right to Buy is a curse upon the land.
The root cause of endless misery, including such wholesale disasters as Grenfell through its baleful influence on costing decisions. And not forgetting its role in destroying community solidarity, and any resulting activism.
A tactic which might have been designed to ruin any society.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Peace deal on a knife-edge. Nutteryahoo in a right pickle… I’m not saying this would be an ideal time for the IDF to launch another ‘defensive’ attack on a terrorist target in an Iranian embassy, anywhere – but…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In fact started by Major. But based on constant dialogue throughout. You and Nutteryahoo are too deranged with hate to worry about the genocide you propose. (Cabinet ministers threatening to Nuke Gaza is genocidal)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Even if he was, you still have to choose the lesser of 2 evils Perfection is for babies The only adult choice if you have a rational hatred of the NatC regime is the one most likely to get rid of it Your vote is a weapon to defend your family. You’re a pacifist refusing to use it
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If it mentions the Right to Buy larceny, I’ll buy it – or at least get it from my local library. Why do you never talk about the RTB? It’s just as responsible for ‘breaking Britain’ as anything else. It might even ‘Out-Brexit’ Brexit. The damaging legacy of right to buy
From neweconomics.org
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Anyone who has ever been on a demonstration understands that the Plod were trying to prevent a riot – one which NatCs like Braverman would relish. When did ‘freedom of speech’ become ‘freedom of movement’? If allowed to the massed Zionists 2 weeks ago there would have been chaos
MPs send Rwanda bill back to Lords after SNP criticises measure as ‘state-sponsored people trafficking’ – UK politics live
22 Apr 2024 18:24 In response to langeoreth
If any of the tory taradiddle is only half-true, the Daily Lie headlines should read.
RWANDA DECLARES OPEN HOUSE!
ALL WELCOME!
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MPs send Rwanda bill back to Lords after SNP criticises measure as ‘state-sponsored people trafficking’ – UK politics live
22 Apr 2024 18:19
‘” people not granted asylum in Rwanda will “instead be granted permanent residence so that they are able to stay and integrate into Rwandan society”.‘
Insanity upon insanity.
The Doublethink Bill is no less than a fatwha on common sense.
The political patient is flatlining.
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MPs send Rwanda bill back to Lords after SNP criticises measure as ‘state-sponsored people trafficking’ – UK politics live
22 Apr 2024 17:58
In response to WiffWaff
We already say we are Welsh. Makes a difference.
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Really?
Good-ol’-Boyo racism is as virulent in Wales as anywhere.
And Good-Ol’-Granny racism too.
In some cuddly cases, even to the point of what can only be described as clinical chromo-phobia.
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‘A radical politics rooted in nature’ would be honest about the price of sustainability, something non-radical, irrational politics never can be, chained as it is to the toxic throw-away profit cycle. Not only can capitalism not be trusted with ‘solving’ the climate-crisis, its basic formula of Money = Power makes a nonsense of democracy wherever its tentacles reach. The Class Structure itself is obsolete confronted with the body of Climate Science. By definition, ‘radical’ politics literally tackle the ‘root’ cause of problems. As in ‘Cause and Effect’, the basic tenet of Rationalism. This is the essence of the word, in spite of all pernicious attempts to conflate ‘radical’ with ‘terrorist’, as in the use of ‘radicalisation’ to refer to those in fact ‘fanaticised’ by real traumas. Killing perfect strangers without agency is not the rational act of a radical, but the fanatical act of a psychopath, one of the many bred and nurtured by our dog-eat-dog economy.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Please. Don’t abuse a noble (and useful) word. You mean she was FANATISED. Like all psychopaths who like to hurt people to bolster their paranoias. Radicals literally seek to address rational ‘root’-cause of problems. Fanatics only see the symptoms. Rational Vs Irrational.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The fact is that capitalism is just as blood-soaked now as when OJ was 18. In fact more so. So why should he change his mind about it now? That would be crazy. As crazy as capitalism, the cancer that eats itself while destroying its host.
Monopoly: the Movie? Pop culture has become a series of lukewarm adverts – and it’s all so very dull
20 Apr 2024 13:04
To get a handle on the unique Hopelessness of pre-Climate Crisis culture, there is no better documentary than Ken Clarke’s Personal View of Civilisation, repeating tomorrow on iPlayer.
‘Cap-it-alism’ no longer inspires confidence in the future – for obvious and scientifically proven reasons. Without confidence to build the future, civilisation collapses.
The spew of baby-culture now masquerading as art is an obvious symptom of this particular disease.
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Monopoly: the Movie? Pop culture has become a series of lukewarm adverts – and it’s all so very dull
20 Apr 2024 12:54
Capitalism ran out of ideas decades ago.
It is now merely a bloated cancer eating itself. The rotting remains of the project which eradicated the Divine Right of Kings.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
We are born Human. And Human success is down to our innate instinct to cooperate. For a brief period before industrialisation, ‘Non-Human’ war and slavery were useful. But not in a period of huge oversupply. Like now. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0162309599800026…
Further delay to Rwanda bill’s passage as Lords vote through amendments – as it happened
17 Apr 2024 16:17
In response to Spartanwhite
On the other hand..
I’m not saying Angela Rayner deserves everything she gets for being a Right To Buy traitor in the first place, but…
The curse of the RTB persists in many ways. This one a warning to all aspiring politicians..
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Further delay to Rwanda bill’s passage as Lords vote through amendments – as it happened
17 Apr 2024 16:09
In response to jessthecrip
You can have peace, or dishwashers, but not both.
That is essentially the global climate conflict in action.
Consumerism lives on conflict and war.
No wars, no Junk.
Bread and Roses.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox Machine-gunning hungry people queuing for food is MURDER. Mortaring and droning aid convoys is MURDER.
Look the word up in any respectable dictionary.
Eventually, the wheels of international justice will catch up with Israel’s Miloseviches and Mladiches.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You talk as if Humans had no gift of thought. Money and Power make wars. And Capitalism thrives on conflict, so the wars must go on. Even at the expense of all human civilisation and a devastated global ecosystem. Hostility is not ‘Human Nature’. Cooperation is. Look it up.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Bosch like to be in America.
OK by he in America.
Everything new in America.
Promised Land too in Amer-ica!
@Biginabox
I see it the other way round. Nutteryahoo’s Zionists are taking ‘proportionate’ revenge for the Holocaust, but not on the perpetrators but on the nearest and most vulnerable target available.
11:35 AM · Apr 7, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The IDF is obviously not responsible to bear arms. It has killed more Israeli hostages than Hamas. when it stops the genocide, it may earn the right to call itself an army again. Until then it is merely a barbaric biblical extermination. Like Hadrian’s (rot his bones) in 136AD.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The great expulsion of the Jews in 136AD was by Romans. They never really went back in numbers until 1948, when they stole the land of the inhabitants. Those in Judea lived peacefully under Ottoman rule for centuries. They were afterwards persecuted mainly by ‘Christians’.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What they have lacked is a shred of stability to sustain a civilisation. The land they based their former culture on was stolen from them by imperial powers and offered in reparation for the Nazi horror. Palestinians paid the price for German crimes. Remember?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The hundreds of thousands of Israelis camped out since Saturday call it dictatorship. They have done for years. The reason the genocide goes on is to keep Nutteryahoo in power.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Nutteryahoo is the fascist Einstein predicted 70 years ago – which makes Einstein antisemitic according to today’s Zionist blackshirts. Don’t talk about the irony..
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Einstein predicted that Nutteryahoo’s Zionist thugs would drag Israel into fascism, and he was right. He waved a swastika in warning 70 years ago.
Pay attention or pay a terrible price.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis agree with Einstein. All ‘antisemites’, obviously.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No grasp of basic political arithmetic.
Ultra-Nationalism + Available Living Room = fascism.
It has never been more essential to remind Israel and the wider diaspora of the logical consequences of its current dogma. The swastika on saturday was a warning they should welcome.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And yet, on balance, we should probably be grateful that the Christian world-view finally overturned pagan ancestor-worship. Where would we be now if…?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You mean ANY protest. Most of the PRO-PEACE marches avoided Trafalgar Square, often coming over Vauxhall Bridge to the US Embassy.. There were no ‘Hamas’ marches. The only art you seem to care about is the art of deception.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why? Because Johnny Speight wasn’t a cartoonist, he was a Prophet. Look at Brexit and tell me I’m lying. The Alfs are everywhere.
‘What bloody use is a painting of a chair? You can’t sit on it. £10million for that!
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
Name one of these ‘anti-semites’ & quote their antisemitism. Preferably enough to ‘lay waste’ to Labour. If they existed, you’d think they would be infamous.
In 4 years of asking for evidence, I’ve never had a response. Just accusations of racism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The people who followed the glaciers north came from all points east and South, landing everywhere from Hull to Pembroke Dock.. There was never a ‘Brythonic people’. Just different boat peoples on the move.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There must be Conferences of Shrinks flocking to share their analysis of Trump’s deranged psyche. Let Biden challenge him to a profiling test, one used to detect psychopaths. As for a care-worker.
Look at streets and open spaces: where are all the children? Blame the war on play
26 Mar 2024 12:01
We live in possibly the most paedophobic society in the world.
Our culture literally hates childhood.
It commercialises and sells the fetish of childhood for profit and display.
Then loads young lives on the one way cattle truck of capitalist servitude, stopping only at marriage, mortgage and mortuary.
‘Play’ is merely a rehearsal for the world of Darwinist Managerialism ahead. A way of eradicating childhood, not enhancing it.
Of creating obedient little apparatchiks, not fully rounded human beings, able to socialise and empathise.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Capitalism has reached the end of its natural lifespan. (It obviously out-lived its usefulness decades ago) It is dying and with it so-called ‘liberal-democracy’ – a contradiction in terms while money buys power. Cooperation must replace competition as the dynamo of civilisation.
Councils now sell off more houses than they build. Thatcher’s legacy, right to buy, is a failure
26 Mar 2024 11:24
On the contrary, the Right to Buy has been a raging success.
It has impoverished and crippled rebellious democratically-elected local authorities.
It has radically undermined inconvenient social cohesion and interaction by creating a conflict of interest between Tenants and Leaseholders in the same community. Vital repair contracts incur punitive, unexpected service charges. The result being an exodus of long-standing, valued members of the community. Generally being replaced by irregular temporary sub-lets.
The RTB has brainwashed decent people into becoming avaricious opportunists via the myth that a home is worth more than the price of another home. And by concealing the reality that most ‘owners’ are merely managers who pay for the privilege – that there is no ‘property ladder’, just a property prison.
It has made billionaires out of millionaires, and paralysed political awareness.
Job done.
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Neglected, derided and exploited more than ever: why won’t the UK protect those who rent a home?
24 Mar 2024 16:20
As an elected officer of a front-line social-housing tenants and residents group for over 40 years, my only conclusion is that the Right To Buy legislation might have been designed to destroy any chance of community interaction, and to cripple local authorities with endless futile repair costs. The conflict of interests in social housing communities between tenants and leaseholders is almost irreconcilable.
It is no great coincidence that lives are lost due to the choices of the cheapest (but not safest) material options by Management Organisations understandably distracted by the prospect of unaffordable service charges for essential work.
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If the Tories really cared about mental health, they’d stop trying to score cheap points
22 Mar 2024 11:20
In response to Tintenfische
It’s not just the politicians, it’s the Anti-Human economic doctrine they promote to the death.
‘Mental illness’ is a very broad spectrum. From homicidal psychopaths to self-hating suicide. In fact, psychopathic traits are very useful in the Managerial Darwinism of competitive capitalism. In one sense, mental disease keeps the wheels of industry turning. The Human cost is terrible. But hey-ho, omelettes.. eggs..
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If the Tories really cared about mental health, they’d stop trying to score cheap points
22 Mar 2024 11:12
If anyone cared about the global mental-health pandemic they would make some basic enquiries into its causes, as in ‘Cause and Effect’.
Given that nobody believes in demonic possession, the primary suspect has to be the prevailing socio-economic climate. The cesspit we all swim in. Consumerism is a sick system which makes us sick.
The absurd futility of expecting the NHS, schools, lawyers and tinkering politicians to ‘solve’ the problem will become clear – to those who still retain some capacity for rational thought.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The defining dogma of our era is that of infinite ‘choice’. That toxic credo has infested political thought while also undermining any institution dedicated to collective solidarity & social purpose.
Result: a generation demanding bespoke politics. ‘The customer is always right.’
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Above all you have the LAW. Which the state machine is dutybound to administer. Especially when the criminal is the government under its 2nd unelected leader. As in the case of the NatC regime.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
To get anything done, only one ‘identity’ matters: Class identity. Achieve true economic equality & all other rights follow.
But successive generations have modelled their politics on the all-you-can-eat consumerist smorgasbord. No virgin olives – no vote. The death of solidarity.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Along with some of the most toxic members of the cabinet, Badenoch is another damaged product of the British colonial caste system transplanted to Whitehall. Racist rule come home to roost.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Opposing capitalism has been Heresy for decades. Now it’s official.
Just when the absurdity of ‘capitalist democracy’ is being exposed and has been tested to destruction.
Money and democracy are contradictory concepts.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Nationalists don’t have ‘lives’, they have obsessions. Rigid dogmas which give their existence a mask of purpose, and must therefore never be contradicted, even by facts.
It’s why they deny climate change.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza.
“The analysis by Data Desk…suggests the major oil companies facilitating the fuel supplies include BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies.”
Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza
From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Can you show a shred of evidence of anti-semitism by Dianne Abbott?
Until you can, stop lying.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Today, Michael Gove more or less defined democracy by how capitalist it is. In fact, the two concepts are contradictory, for as long as money buys power.
Point that out fact, and you will get sacked from teaching, or your community organisation will be defunded.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“In the case of a word like democracy, … there no agreed definition, .. attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is … felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy”
(Orwell. ‘Politics and the English Language’)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Black people are furious at governmental racism.
One more death in custody and Britain could be looking at another 2011.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Only he would still have voted Labour at an election to keep the VERMIN out.
He would have exploded with rage at current Splitter Identity games.
Only one ‘identity’ counts. CLASS identity.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’re not still trying to claim the words reported weren’t both racist and an incitement to violence. Surely? There is no smart-alec, fake academic exit from this hole. Even Sunak finally admits that.
Finally.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What isn’t?
If M’sier will order from the menu, the government of your choice will be delivered by JustPolitics.
Specifically suited to your personal taste.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
But a Supermarket Generation wants supermarket politics.
‘The Customer is Always Right.’
‘There is no such thing as the lesser of two evils. …’
The triumph of fragmented adolescent vanity over pragmatism.
And victory for the forces of reversal.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They can never put a date on this Capitalist Utopia. And no wonder. There isn’t a year in its recorded history without either famine, war, mass unemployment, plague, or genocide. All under the benign rule of the Marketplace. Attempting to deny progress never works.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Because IDF and Nutteryahoo are psychopathic, paranoid liars. With a proven track record.
The entire world can see the fascist genocide unfolding. Why can’t YOU?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In your desperate rush to defend genocide you destroy truth. The only strategy left to rabid neo-fascists the world over stuck in the dead end of their sick dogma of hate and greed. Nutteryahoo has normalised collective punishment. Something not even the Nazis managed to do.
Little Englanders by Alwyn Turner review – portrait of a poignant interlude in British history
12 Mar 2024 16:03
In response to eamonmcc
The big spook for the entire Bloomsbury group was the rising proximity and falling deference of the smelly working classes.
The pre-war riots and worker occupations in Wales and elsewhere surely deserve some mention in this Edwardian idyll.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The ‘vulgar abuse’ defence won’t cut it. He’s admitted his ability to hate all black women because of one – which isn’t excused by his immediate mealy mouthed denial. And that she SHOULD be shot. A definite proposal, not a bit of fun. Lock him up.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
This is more evidence that the psychopaths were in the woodpile all along. As more than one study shows (see also Babiak and Hare), we are being run by gangsters. Racist, sexist gangsters. Not surprising in a sick society. A disturbing number of bosses are psychopaths
From independent.co.uk
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And now Nutteryahoo’s normalisation of collective punishment has undone 3 generations of unquestioned global sympathy almost overnight. From David to Goliath. His blind vengeance has endangered the diaspora, and is a threat to democracy everywhere. (See chaos in Westminster)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“Research conducted by forensic psychologist Nathan Brooks from Bond University found 21 per cent of 261 corporated professionals had clinically significant psychopathic traits. ..such as an inability to empathise, superficiality ..” And Racism and Sexism.
A disturbing number of bosses are psychopaths
From independent.co.uk
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
As ‘petty bourgeois’ as a window cleaner. His only collateral was his equipment. his skill and his health. Like any collier.
“No credit for you Mr Starmer Snr. Try a pawnshop, not my bank.”
Classic working class.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He did no such thing. Get off the case. You’re a liability.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You wanted cheap sausages and chik’n nuggets. You gott’em.
The Agro-giants destroyed the countryside. Not victims of torture fleeing persecution after wars we started in fake countries we invented.
‘What sort of candidate…?”
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The sort of candidates who would dismiss scientific research like this as ‘woke’. Time they ALL ‘woke’ up to reality.
sciencedaily.com
Air pollution linked to more signs of Alzheimer’s in brain
People with higher exposure to traffic-related air pollution were more likely to have high amounts of amyloid plaques in their brains associated with Alzheimer’s disease after death, according to a…
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What’s your evidence for crimes after the age of consent? Except being raped by Daesh. Paedophobes like you are the cancer eating British society,
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When she left is not the point. She was ‘joined’ when she was under-age, and raped. You blame the victim, and give a green light to child rape. What incentive could you possibly have for apologising for DAESH rapists? I wonder.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let’s get this straight. You claim that a 10 year old can give consent to sex and is criminally responsible. Making their child-rapist innocent. Sounds like you’re looking for a loophole in the law.
Have you been DBS checked lately?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Because, after 75 years of persecution, what was there left to lose? Ask why Israel did not pass a respectful mourning period before its biblical revenge strategy? And losing massive global sympathy. Nutteryahoo’s normalisation of collective punishment is now a global curse.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s Sayle-True.
This is not news. Einstein predicted this mass psychosis 75 years ago.
Israel is not so much a state as a permanent state of war. That demands a certain collective mentality, which is not a nurturing environment.
‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return’
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Just fat billionaires devoted to peddling poison. Unaccountable, un-elected, tax-dodging, phone-tapping, price-fixing, profit-crazed corporations. Have a nice time in your dictatorship. Where money decides fact. And History is dead.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What did she do after being groomed trafficked and raped except have children? You are a barbarian who would execute children. A barbarian who refuses to believe the testimony of abused children. Like the catholic Church and the Rochdale police.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The photographer recorded the total impossibility of help or hope. That is the point. The obscenity of famine and hunger is our fault. Not the messenger. The child needed trained medical help. Not amateur first aid which would probably kill.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All the grown-up parties have adopted the same definition. Only the NatCs can’t, because to do so would fatally split a Tory Party already riddled with the disease of racism. Sunak has enacted it by dumping 30pLee, so he must now also dump Hate-Monger Braverman, who is even worse
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why not? A common definition of ‘antisemitism’ protects Israel from comparisons with Nazi Germany. Which is intolerable. Einstein predicted Likud would be fascists. And he was right.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
She is in a concentration camp surrounded by desert. All around her are DAESH infiltrators enforcing docility. You are a disturbed apologist for CHILD TRAFFICKERS AND RAPISTS.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
She was a British CHILD when she was trafficked and raped. But she was gold to the gutter press in its Hate-Campaign against humanity, and children in particular.
Britain is a deeply sick, #PAEDOPHOBIC society.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Except YOU, of course.
Nutteryahoo’s Curse is now eating away at the foundations of democracy, as intended.
Soon, with your help, Trump, Putrid and Nutteryahoo will rule the world.
Then kiss goodbye civilisation.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Facts my arse. Get a dictionary. Racism is always easier to tackle if the racists are named & their racism displayed for all to see. Why are you protecting racists by breaking the long-held British precedent of ‘No Evidence – No charge’? Because you have no evidence.
You never do.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“Jack Renshaw, 23, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, bought a 19in gladius machete to kill Labour MP Rosie Cooper last summer. he planned to take hostages to lure a police officer, DC Victoria Henderson, to the scene so he could kill her too, jurors heard.”
Alleged neo-Nazi admits plotting murder of MP Rosie Cooper
From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’
US air force member dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy
From theguardian.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sunak is now forced to finally adopt the definition of Islamophobia everyone else does, because he just implemented it.
But that will finally split the NatC party.
PMQ number 1 please.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.’
September 1. 1939. W.H. Auden
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Zionism is INHERENTLY genocidal. Like all other ultra-nationalist death-cults. The fact its High Priests deny global warming is the key indicator. It doesn’t get more genocidal than exterminating the entire species.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Total delusion. Just because your Landgrab claim is being challenged by the ancestral inhabitants, you do not have the right to slaughter them all. This is not C1300BC. You are NOT Joshua.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Quote one single example of ‘Jew Hate’ by @OwenJones84 . Or stop LYING. I won’t hold my breath. In my experience requests for credible evidence from hatemongers is futile.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All tripe. Begum was a child. Just like the victims of the Rochdale abusers. Under the law they could not be complicit. But the police said they WERE. Figure that out.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Britain is now dealing with the Curse of Nutteryahoo infesting the entire world. Fascists inciting race war. Making Brexit look like a Flower Show. The psychopathic Trump, Truss and Putin and Co. All determined to poison civilisation to death by CO2. All enemies of democracy.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel isn’t a ‘state’ at all, it’s a state of war, like most post-imperial fake nations In the hands of neo-fascists, Israel is writing its death warrant in the blood of Gazan children. This slow-motion Hiroshima will not be forgotten. And the Holocaust is tragically dishonoured.
The Commons needed to focus on the horror in Gaza. Instead this was a grubby game of political chess
22 Feb 2024 15:28
In response to mwhite
Labour’s amendment meant it was possible to get it through.
Tory sources have since admitted that their intervention was doomed to fail. They never had the numbers.
The SNP is crying sour grapes, which plumbs the depths of its concern for Gaza, and the NatCs are predictably willing to add more heat to the divisions already caused by Nutteryahoos Last Stand.
In spite of government blocking, the House officially passed a Labour motion calling for a Ceasefire. What else did Labour do wrong? Except look like a party in office. Willing to make compromises.
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The Commons needed to focus on the horror in Gaza. Instead this was a grubby game of political chess
22 Feb 2024 15:19
In response to nonanon1
The Labour version was the only one remotely likely to get past the house and call for a ceasefire.
The sloppy and showoff SNP language alone made it unworkable and borderline legal in a house dominated by NatCs. It was doomed to be another futile gesture.
If you give a monkey’s about Gaza or British democracy ou should be furious that the government is about to defy the democratic will of parliament.
Are you?
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The Commons needed to focus on the horror in Gaza. Instead this was a grubby game of political chess
22 Feb 2024 15:11
In response to VacuousSapience
garbage.
Their amendment meant the Ceasefire proposal might be passed by the house, and not be just a gesture.
Labour succeeded in passing the Ceasefire the SNP said it wanted..
The rest is sour grapes. And gutter weaponisation by the NatcCs, who are again defying the will of Parliament, while Labour looks increasingly like it’s in charge.
How does the government get away with defying a clear Commons majority? What will they reject next?
Is there any point in any MP proposing any motion for consideration by the house when the government can apparently just reject it out of hand?
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A PM with no credo and a paltry record, a party with no plan or direction. That’s the Tories now
19 Feb 2024 14:56
What possible future role can there be for the committed party of the past? One dedicated to a scientifically-discredited competitive Capitalist dogma which cannot be allowed to survive if Humanity enjoys civilisation.
In real terms, the Party of the Status Quo means a headlong gallop to Consumerist global suicide, and they know it, hence the complete Identity Crisis driving global authoritarianism, and the widespread delusion that Consumerism can be sustainable. Both desperate attempts to cling on to the past.
The aptly rebranded NatC party can’t face up to the politics of survival. And therefore cannot build policies which meet the needs of the future.
So what is it for?
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Want to come up with a winning election ad campaign? Go with the evidence, not your gut
18 Feb 2024 12:30
The problem with political honesty at this stage of Capitalism is the truth.
Being honest would mean telling people that the luxuries they are addicted to are gone. The only way to achieve any kind of sustainable future is to become reconciled to a degree of relative Austerity they cannot accept. The fantasy world of Consumerism must never end.
‘The Lights must never go out,
the music must always play’
Apparently, most people would prefer to see their addictions destroy civilisation than be free of them. ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’.
The mentality of the Nero Decrees. Why would such a neurosis welcome honest truth? It has been summoning all its power to Deny reality since the irrefutable science became all too clear. Why should it be influenced by politicians, however honest?
The junkie does not pay any attention to honest politicians telling the truth about Heroin.
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Want to come up with a winning election ad campaign? Go with the evidence, not your gut
18 Feb 2024 11:53
All this week, Biden has been furious. At the Redneck Putin moles in Congress, and at the deranged antics of Nutteryahoo. And totally coherent. He should stay angry. Righteous anger is his natural voice.
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Barry John, rugby legend and ‘the King’ of Welsh fly-halves, dies aged 79
6 Feb 2024 20:19
In response to TheKThree
It’s as well to remember that the generation we revere was fed and nurtured by the post-war welfare state, unlike their parents and grandparents. Especially in the working class rugby environment of the young Barry John and the rest.
This new breed of fitter faster player was in perfect harmony with the size of the pitch, possibly for the only time in history. Players were the Goldilocks size, speed and agility. They still mostly looked like humans. Even some of the forwards. Scrums took roughly 20 seconds. And anyone in the crowd could identify with at least one player on the pitch because of the human scale of the game. Which totally altered the motivation of the players – which in turn influenced the nature of the drama.
Experts like to sneer by statistics, but they are comparing a burger with a rose. Rugby was more free, like many aspects of society during the same social contract.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
2008 was a minor modern battlefield land-grab not relevant to the new global war over Carbon control. The UN itself drew the battle lines when it defined its radical requirements for Zero CO2. Those in favour on one side, barbarians against. Look at Putin’s Anti-Science allies
4:32 PM · Jan 26, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They have lost their minds in the face of overwhelming evidence. Their entire cultural & psychological identity is contradicted by science & the obvious radical economics & politics needed to avert catastrophic de-civilisation. Denial is the first response to fatal diagnosis.
1:07 PM · Jan 26, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The World War has started & Ukraine is its Manchuria. The stark division is between ‘Carbonist’ autocracies determined to burn every ounce of fossil fuel in pursuit of political and military power & the relatively sane world. The future is scientifically apocalyptic. Terrifying
12:56 PM · Jan 26, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A bit embarrassing to ‘celebrate’ while Israel is committing its own genocide. And by doing so, pouring a century of historic global sympathy down the drain.
12:50 PM · Jan 26, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sentencing all murderers to a zombie life in an institution would be a real deterrent. The definitions of mental illness have to be radically expanded. All murder is psychopathic. The causes are obvious and systemic. Conflict and alienation are the lifeblood of the economy.
12:18 PM · Jan 26, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I get the picture. There are no babies in Gaza, and those there are carry AK47s. You’re a textbook case of Sippenshaft fascism. My-Lai mentality. God help you.
4:22 PM · Jan 24, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘What is it’ with all Psychopaths? Time to spit it out, the man is nuts, and his direct appeal proves the number of psychopaths in the psychopathic US. They don’t just ‘happen’, they are caused.
3:48 PM · Jan 24, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Gaza is like watching Hiroshima in slow motion. Will it still not be genocide when all Gazans have been exterminated? Or ‘only’ 90%? The genocidal intention of Nutteryahoo’s cabinet is clear, either by forced deportation or death, The Congo Project is the Nazi Madagascar Project
1:46 PM · Jan 23, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Zionists have conveniently forgotten the origin story of their state, and its moral. Just as they have forgotten its end after the Barkokba rebellion. So much so that they are now re-enacting it, but this time with Israel in the role of Hadrian, exterminating his enemies.
1:40 PM · Jan 23, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s an old fascist trick to hijack the genuine ideals of others and corrupt them. And so criticism of Nutteryahoo’s racist ethnic cleansing and genocide becomes anti-semitic. Antiracism and Zionism are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
1:29 PM · Jan 23, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Northern Ireland, Iraq, (twice) Libya, Afghanistan – every prediction of disaster vindicated. When were YOU ‘on the right side’? Everyone on the 7 Peace Marches, over a million people, have all been ahead of the rest of the world in demanding peace. History will be kind to them
12:30 PM · Jan 15, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Interesting political choice of the word ‘hate’ instead of ‘anger’.
Personally, I would have used the word ‘FEAR’. I am more afraid of Israel’s determination to drag the world into an endless war to secure its exclusive water rights than allowing native Palestinians a home.
12:20 PM · Jan 15, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israelis not a ‘state’, it is a State of War.
As many of its citizens and the wider diaspora are rapidly beginning to realise.
12:14 PM · Jan 15, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If you’re more angry at the murder of 1500 people than the murder of 23,000 you simply can’t count.
You are watching Hiroshima in slow motion.
If you were Human, how would that make you feel?
If you had feelings.
12:12 PM · Jan 15, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Shama certainly needs a schoolboy primer on Nationalism.
‘Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also –..unshakeably certain of being in the right’
orwellfoundation.com
Notes on Nationalism | The Orwell Foundation
“By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently…
12:09 PM · Jan 15, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No it was a LIE. As anyone who ever witnessed any of the Peace marches will testify. There was no hate, just anger at genocide. By many Jews.
GAZA ARMISTICE MARCH
From flickr.com
11:57 AM · Jan 15, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The mystery is why Israel is determined to destroy itself by pouring all the global sympathy of the last 70 years down the drain.
12:37 PM · Jan 14, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What hate? The 7 Peace Marches have been just that. The only hate on display was from the Bovver-Boy Bruvvers Of Zionism when they desecrated the Armistice Service after Braverman’s green light. Anger at genocide YES. And by many Jews who know what genocide looks like.
12:35 PM · Jan 14, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The less Zionism the better, and all other toxic nationalisms. Every civilised person would agree.
Only a few pampered intellectuals and columnists can sit back and watch while the world is strangled by capitalist hate.
12:29 PM · Jan 14, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Looks like he needs it, badly. He is totally blind to the political congruency of 1930’s German ultra-nationalism and modern Israeli ultra-nationalism.
I don’t know why he makes this schoolboy error, he just does.
12:27 PM · Jan 14, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
An ultra- nationalism characterised by a fundamentalist and exclusive racial claim to territories occupied by other communities for centuries. Landgrabbing and ethnic cleansing mirroring its political sibling, nazism, as predicted by Einstein.
12:23 PM · Jan 14, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘De-Zionise’ means erasing toxic nationalisms of all kinds. Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, or Christian. Politics has no place in religion and vice-versa.
‘ZIONISM IS GODLESS AND MERCILESS’
@NetureiKarta
12:17 PM · Jan 14, 2024 © 2023 JAKI WILFORD
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The sad fact is that the strikes WILL cause more death and suffering. Not to mention tensions within the shrinking pro-Israel ‘alliance’. Only equitable treatment for displaced Palestinians will end the killing. Just as it did in Northern Ireland. But Zionism wants it ALL.
1:49 PM · Jan 12, 2024
Who would you rather see in the Lords, Post Office scandal hero Alan Bates or Michelle Mone?
12 Jan 2024 16:08
In response to MisterBeaky
The general apathy could be due to the triumph of drama over journalism, but it is also partly due to the innate suspicion of minor officials handling lots of money.
Especially when, as during the last 30 years, many of them are a different colour and culture to the suspicious natives.
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War gave us the Red Cross. Now climate disaster means we need a Green Cross too
9 Jan 2024 11:56
In response to Reason4
On balance, and compared with the Carbonist world, even Britain is still a basically scientific culture.
Naturally , those states most in hoc to consumerist dogma are conflicted. But they will have to choose between Consumerism and Cooperation soon, or end up as part of the coalition of science-denying death.
The war will be won when the cost of renewable energy undercuts that of fossil fuels. That will require the same radical measures needed to win any worthwhile war.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Hamas only exists because of Zionist ethnic cleansing and the Apartheid system of Israel. End those crimes and Hamas withers on the vine.
12:38 PM · Jan 9, 2024
War gave us the Red Cross. Now climate disaster means we need a Green Cross too
9 Jan 2024 11:16
But we can’t always get what we want, or need.
What we’ve got instead is a de facto world war between Carbonist and ZeroC02 coalitions. Between authoritarian oligarchies clinging to carbon energy to the death, and the tattered remains of the democratic world clinging to science and the hope of a sustainable future..
And the sooner we realise it the better.
The Pessimist case is that the radical policies needed to achieve Zero CO2 are driving people into the arms to dictators. In the same way, a blindfolded man will always fall down stairs.
Just let him see and he will always choose the politics of life before those of death.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s quite simple. Is every Gazan guilty of the crimes of Hamas or not?
As for global 7/10 sympathy, there wasn’t much time for it before Israel unleashed its bloodthirsty vengeance. If they’d observed a decent mourning space, things might be very different.
8:15 PM · Jan 8, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Humour is and always has been quintessentially egalitarian. Debunking authority & privilege with every custard pie.
The policeman & toff getting the pie in the face is funny.
Them humiliating the orphan isn’t – except to sickoes like Trump
‘Every joke is a tiny revolution’ Orwell
3:00 PM · Jan 6, 2024
Yes, tiredness is ravaging the Ukrainian soldiers I meet. But they never think of giving up
15 Dec 2023 15:49
The doom-mongers forget that Ukraine has held its ground without any credible air-support. An essential arm of any territorial campaign.
When this arrives – as promised – there will be a much more level battlefield.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More like Pre-Apocalyptic Panic Playbook. And not without scientific, rational good reason. If we don’t get a wriggle on, before long, before the lights go out or anything, people will just stop caring, and stop believing in a future. History shows what happens next.
9:36 PM · Dec 9, 2023
Of course the Tories will do anything to stop migrants. You know the ones: students, carers, nurses …
8 Dec 2023 11:04
He seems prepared to throw any concept of Truth on the sacrificial alter of xenophobia.
But why would a NatC regime like his be prepared to deliver the awesome power of the 1984 Act into the hands of a labour administration, as it will next year?
Starmer should be licking his lips at the prospect, and giving his MPs a free vote to ensure the bill’s passage. This degree of power is a great liberator for a political leader. Shakes the shackles off.
Then beware gutter media, your end is nigh.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The 1984 Act does much more. It subverts any practical interpretation of truth. An Absolute Rule by the Divine Right of Ministers. Not only the worst policy in history, but the most sinister. And if it keeps the NatCs in power, possibly the last, as we understand politics.
10:56 AM · Dec 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When Labour inherit Sunak’s 1984 Act next year, what should be the first thing they use it for? How about sorting out the media that are so keen now to promote this death-sentence of Truth? Leveson 2? No arguments.
10:49 AM · Dec 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Perfectly ordinary and predictable from the High Priest of a bankrupt dogma.
The Rwanda Plan and its 1984 Act are the most sinister edicts ever issued by a British Government since the expulsion of the Jews by Edward I.
A licence to invent reality.
10:44 AM · Dec 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sorry I was too cryptic. But you still monumentally miss the point. Why would the NatCs hand over such magisterial power to a regime they profess to hate? As they will when they lose the election next year. Or do they think they can use the 1984 Act to cling to power forever?
12:27 AM · Dec 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When Labour inherit this awesome power next year, what they will they use it for first? Does Quentin Rees-Smogg and his goats really want to hand over Absolute Rule to the communist Starmer?
9:00 PM · Dec 7, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sunak just announced 1984, where the Party Knows Best.
Another level of insanity.
11:08 AM · Dec 7, 2023
UK politics live: Robert Jenrick resigns over immigration policy – as it happened
6 Dec 2023 12:35
Johnson implied that his dog-eat-dog management culture was a sign of vitality. ‘Just human nature’.
He needs to be reminded that his Neo-Darwinist teambuilding technique is identical to the creed of chaos which defined the power-structure of the 3rd Reich.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More evasion. Your victim-blaming is a slippery slope to a very bad place. You know where I mean. The people of Gaza are not to blame for the crimes of Hamas, and definitely not deserving of IDF Old-Testament revenge.
2:51 PM · Jan 6, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Examples of ‘regret’ from who? Will ‘sympathy’ do? Because the streets of London were crammed with 7/10 sympathisers every weekend. It just so happened they also sympathised with the 20,000 Gazan dead. They have been proven to be on the right side of history.
8:26 PM · Jan 4, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
3 wars, if I remember. And an Oil Crisis which indirectly brought down the Berlin Wall. If you mean why haven’t neighbouring states colluded with Israel’s stated policy of ethnic cleansing – no Palestinian wants them to. For obvious reasons.
8:11 PM · Jan 4, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza.
Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza
From theguardian.com
3:16 PM · Jan 3, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’d better look that up. Nazism despised Christianity. The closest it got to religion was the ancient Norse myths and Indian cyclical perpetualism..
5:11 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
This is what happens when nationalist scum hijack human values, pervert them out of existence and hide behind them like terrorists in a hospital. The ‘Humanist Shield’ which allows Putin to brand any critic of his genocide a ‘Russophobe’.
5:07 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox Israel is an explicitly racist state. It has pursued racist policies throughout its existence, and is now in its final crisis of pillage, mass ethnic cleansing and genocide. Unless it rediscovers Humane values it is doomed to never have peace.
5:03 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When will you learn that you do not have the global or historic copyright on suffering, and therefore do not have the licence to dispense it in all directions without reservation or conscience?
4:52 PM · Jan 2, 2024
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How many MORE times? Let Israel sponsor a Resolution.
When the Time Machine is invented, the UN can undo October 7. Until then it has to try and stop the Zionist Genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
5:00 PM · Dec 23, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Empty Gaza, and never let them back. Total ETHNIC CLEANSING is the plan. The FINAL SOLUTION. Gazans don’t want to surrender their land to Zionist landgrabbers. And no Arab country will collude with Zionism.
4:48 PM · Dec 23, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Absolutely. But criminalise and castrate trade unions, abolish free further education, and this is the result. A NatC Cabinet crammed with old Etonians has no right to lecture anyone on elitism.
5:45 PM · Dec 22, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The Zionists’ ‘Humanist Shield’ has given the green light to every dictatorship on Earth.
Criticise Putin, and you’re now a ‘Russo-phobe’.
Perverting the meaning of racism is a cancer on rational thought itself.
Which is why they do it.
11:38 AM · Dec 22, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Carry on. In a few years you will have dissolved 75 years of global sympathy with the acid of your nationalistic hate. The Shoah will have been in vain. People will forget. The ‘state’ of Israel will be even more of a state of war than ever.
11:34 AM · Dec 22, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘inadvertent’ my arse. Netanyahu has been waiting for this chance for decades. Now he’s taken the bait, and will pour the entire stock of historic sympathy for the Sons of Isaac down the drain, if his crazed nationalist crusade continues.
11:23 AM · Dec 22, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A NO-State solution would work, IF the contending religions are sincere in their beliefs.
A World Heritage Centre of unique spiritual significance, administered by a dedicated branch of the UN. Didn’t Eleanor Roosevelt or someone suggest something similar?
1:07 PM · Dec 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More facile 6th form debating society sophistry.
And to correct the record – again, ‘From the River to the Sea’ is a ZIONIST slogan.
“between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” (Likud 1977)
That DID mean the total domination of the Zionist state.
1:02 PM · Dec 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Stop quibbling and admit what you know. Israel is not so much a state as a state of war. It will never be at peace with its neighbours or itself until it recognises the innate rights of the inhabitants regardless of the Masada, or Hadrian’s final solution to the Bar Kokhba revolt
12:48 PM · Dec 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Tell that to the hundreds of displaced Palestinians on the West Bank whose homes have been stolen or torched since the ‘ceasefire’. Tell it to the parents of the kidnapped children.
4:35 PM · Dec 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Gaza is like watching Hiroshima in slow motion. Or a queue of 2 Million shuffling into extermination before the eyes of the world. Anyone still prepared to haggle and nitpick over the semantics of genocide in the face of this & Netanyahu’s declared objectives is less than human.
4:33 PM · Dec 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
My BBC4 knowledge of Jewish history can’t help but see a direct echo of Hadrian’s final solution of the Bar Kohkba revolution of 135AD, and Netanyahu’s solution for Gaza. It’s that shameful.
4:17 PM · Dec 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What would you like Labour to use the 1984 Act for first? When they inherit it next year. Something to clean up the gutter media would be in everyone’s interest, except the billionaires and their political poodles.
3:19 PM · Dec 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If the terrorist who killed Yitzak Rabin hadn’t been ignored by Sin Bet, Israel would now be probably a safe place to live, with hopes of a future.
Instead of the living nightmare it is.
1:41 AM · Dec 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How much more slaughter do you need? You’ve seen the pictures of dead Gazan children. When they look like the walking skeletons of Ethiopia or Belsen, will you acquire some humanity then?
1:31 AM · Dec 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“Populist” is just a polite term for OPPORTUNIST. For SPIV. For HATEMONGER. When you’ve purged Britain of all its foreigners, will you be applying to work in a carehome?
9:44 PM · Dec 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Interesting that Sunak’s 1984 Law does the same job as Netanyahu’s attempt to crush the Israeli courts. The same job as Hitler’s ‘Enabling Act’ of 1933.
9:39 PM · Dec 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More like Pre-Apocalyptic Panic Playbook. And not without scientific, rational good reason. If we don’t get a wriggle on, before long, before the lights go out or anything, people will just stop caring, and stop believing in a future. History shows what happens next.
9:36 PM · Dec 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sunak should be shitting his pants at what Labour could use the 1984 Act for when they take power next year. Unimpeded, it can hardly ignore the Media Crimes of the last 10 years. Hard measures to destroy the tyranny of money over the media are essential, please. Leveson 3.
11:26 AM · Dec 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The 1984 Act does much more. It subverts any practical interpretation of truth. An Absolute Rule by the Divine Right of Ministers. Not only the worst policy in history, but the most sinister. And if it keeps the NatCs in power, possibly the last, as we understand politics.
10:56 AM · Dec 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Who shoots a 9 year old boy in the back? The brave IDF.
WHO BOMBS THEIR OWN HOSTAGES? The IDF.
Who is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing? The IDF.
Zionism is killing Israel.
5:19 PM · Nov 30, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There would be no Welfare State without multiculturalism.
There is no such thing as ‘monoculturalism’ anywhere.
It was tried in Germany for a decade and failed.
Never in Britain.
3:36 PM · Nov 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There have been no threats to public order on any of the Peace Marches. Whereas whenever the EDL fascists turn up, there’s hate and clashes. Highly stoked and incited by the criminal actions of the NatC party. Cruella could do 6 months under the 1986 Public Order Act.
3:34 PM · Nov 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What Dr King REALLY thought about Israel. (Not the fake letters being peddled by Zionist apologists.)
What MLK Actually Thought About Israel and Palestine
From jacobin.com
3:23 PM · Nov 27, 2023
The climate emergency really is a new type of crisis – consider the ‘triple inequality’ at the heart of it
23 Nov 2023 17:40
Until climate science enlightened us, we were no more unaware of our mortality as a species than a dog or horse or rat is.
Unlike previous rumours of Armageddon, this one was foretold by the un-miraculous methods we take for granted, and can no more be denied than the existence of TV.
Result – a global identity crisis heralding a wave of neo-fascist dictators and the ritual bonfire of rational thought..
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Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
What ‘antisemitism’? The only hate is that which you incited. Your fascist poodles were banned by the organisers yesterday. Now they’re as ‘BIASED’ as the police. How can you defend the one and attack the other? Neither is on your side.
Zionism is NOT Judaism
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’ve logically painted yourself in the same corner as Cruella. By apologising for Zionist atrocities, you end up apologising for fascists – who were obviously intimidating to the Jewish community yesterday, and who were rightly defused by the police at their request. Job done.
3:07 PM · Nov 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No evidence that anyone on any of the Peace Marches called for Jihad. 500,000 each week called for peace. Wearing poppies. To prevent genocide. The largest collective peace demonstration in British history.
flickr.com
Gaza Armistice March
With poppy.
3:00 PM · Nov 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What ‘anti-semitic march’? There was an Anti-Racist march for peace on Saturday, and an Anti-anti-semitism march yesterday. Why couldn’t they have come on Saturday?
Plenty did on each weekend. All Racisms are equal.
2:57 PM · Nov 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Tricky for Cruella. The people she accuses the police of being ‘biased’ against are banned by the Jewish community she is exploiting to gain power. Coming after her pet fascists pissed on the carpet 2 weeks ago, how does she explain Jewish ‘bias’ away?
2:52 PM · Nov 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The only way to avert even more hostility to Israel is PEACE. Ever child tortured in Israeli custody breeds ten more fanatics. You will see far more Anti-Zionism as history unearths Israel’s war-crimes.
‘Anti-semitism’ is a different animal. Don’t abuse it as a ‘Humanist Shield’
8:10 PM · Nov 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Every civilised person has said the same thing. STOP SLAUGHTERING CHILDREN. ‘Simple’ enough for you? Zionism is Racism. To deny this is to deny reality.
How many today were demanding the end to torture of children in Zionist jails?
Israel: Palestinian children still being tortured in Israeli prisons
From omct.org
7:52 PM · Nov 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Throughout its grisly, squalid, blood-soaked history, Ultra-nationalism never relied on evidence, just fear ignorance and hate. Zionism is the cancer of the ‘Promised Land’.
4:01 PM · Nov 23, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Some people’ include the UN, and several other independent organisations. The word of the IDF is the word of a police state in crisis. Discovered any tunnels in Gaza you didn’t build yourselves yet?
3:59 PM · Nov 23, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Name one of these ‘experts’? Are they from the same school of ‘experts’ that denies global warming?
The stated agenda of Netanyahu’s cabinet is fascist, as predicted by Einstein – a real expert.
The ethnic cleansing and massacres are not a matter of debate but record.
3:57 PM · Nov 23, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Unity’ with what agenda? Do you mean Israel or the Jewish people? Not the same thing at all. Don’t abuse a religion with Land-grab politics. That’s a Shonda. As millions of Jews know.
Britain’s addiction to cars is built on a financial house of cards
22 Nov 2023 15:55
A car is not merely a means of transport.
In our sick culture it is also a security-blanket, a status-symbol and a weapon.
An entitlement-machine which imbues the addict with super-powers, feeding the craving for superiority.
Whether electric or fossil-fuelled, they are not a vision of the future.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 17:27
In response to Mousey
The fact is that the richest are the most to blame., and the toxic quasi-religious suicidal profit-cult they impose on the world,
Not opinion, just counting.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 17:23
In response to Ilikespoons
More precisely, how much are you worth investing in.
Whether you can turn a profit.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 17:20
In response to sciencemattersmore
If you want to know your socio-economic class, there are dozens of online credit-rating sites which have got everything down to a fine art.
Your class is defined by how much credit your bank manager will give you, and at what rate of interest.
It’s the simplest thing in the world. And one of the oldest.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 17:17
In response to gallerymouse
Two tealights will comfortably heat an average room (with curtains) for a night.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 17:15
In response to Imtryingdamnit
I’ve no idea which words of mine you’re reading.
I don’t regard environmentalism as an elite issue. But much of the working class has been persuaded to so so.
Otherwise there would be no need for articles in the Guardian calling for activism which doesn’t inconvenience the working classes.
Naturally they will be hit hardest by climate change as they are by all radical changes. That doesn’t mean they are allowed to see them coming.
In fact, they are promised Utopia if they ignore the science.
If the working classes en-masse knew they were being exploited – had achieved CLASS-CONSCIOUSNESS – they would have done something definitive about it.
They still don’t feel they are being robbed, and so we are still trapped in the Consumerist pigsty, treated like cattle.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 14:40
In response to Imtryingdamnit
Does not compute.
If the working classes always acted in their own interest, the world would be a totally different place.
It is essential that they don’t, and everything is done to guarantee they never will. The Westminster shitshow of the last 5 years should have taught you better.
You’re denying that Ignorance still ‘stalks the land’.
The ultimate denial.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 12:27
In response to Imtryingdamnit
Only if you deny the reality of class division.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 12:26
In response to Monica1066
Of course it’s tribalist.
But it’s also true.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 11:00
In response to trevor44
A you say, the ignorant masses do not have the time to worry their little heads about such things.
Virtually all human progress has been based on the ability of a leisured minority to think and innovate.
From the first grain sown in hope.
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Of course working-class people care about the climate crisis: they emit the least, but will suffer most
21 Nov 2023 10:56
Student issues have never been popular with the working classes.
It’s another case of Dylan versus Heavy Metal.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There is still no evidence that Al Shifa was part of any sinister network. There SHOULD be evidence by now since the IDF has had access to thousands of building which would have been part of such a thing. But still nothing conclusive. Nothing to justify a massacre.
5:39 PM · Nov 20, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
As a bigot willing to judge an event you did not experience, you are in no position to judge the BBC. In fact the Peace Marches were overwhelmingly legal and good-natured, given the provocation. Nobody threw fireworks at anyone. Whereas your fascist mob..
flickr.com
GAZA ARMISTICE MARCH
Two minutes silence.
5:36 PM · Nov 20, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A society which calls itself a ‘democracy’ has a responsibility to act like one. And not like an Iron-Age tyranny, starving and bombarding an innocent population into bloody extinction. As on the hill of Betar.
en.wikipedia.org
Bar Kokhba revolt – Wikipedia
2:57 PM · Nov 20, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Everyone is a terrorist according to Israel. It has declared Total War and is following those rules. Why else would it massacre babies? It should know better.
2:45 PM · Nov 20, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If there was a ‘network’ which included Al Shifa, the IDF would have discovered it under the first few buildings they occupied. There will turn out to be tunnels. But the lie that medics are terrorists is tantamount to a Blood Libel.
11:05 AM · Nov 20, 2023
The Gaza crisis has brought Israel closer to the west, but further away from the rest of the world
17 Nov 2023 12:25
Israel’s Solution to the Gaza Problem is an opportunist attempt to divide the world even more at a time when it needs unity more than ever. It aids Putin’s effort to do the same and gives him the chance to seize the moral high ground. Its logical conclusion is unthinkable, and the worst outcome for the future of the state of Israel imaginable.
Like Sunak’s 1984 Bill, it is completely unsustainable
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘What if no flights to Rwanda did take off before the election? Simples. We’d just pass a new law saying that the flights that hadn’t taken off had taken off after all. Then no one would be able to say the government had broken its promise.’
James Cleverly lines up with post-truth brigade on Rwanda shambles | John Crace
From theguardian.com
11:13 PM · Nov 16, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.’ – O’Brien to Winston ‘1984’.
‘I will introduce emergency legislation which will enable parliament to confirm that Rwanda is safe.’ – Rishi Sunak to Parliament 2023.
5:30 PM · Nov 16, 2023
No 10 says it will produce ‘emergency’ bill to show Rwanda safe country ‘in coming weeks’ – as it happened
16 Nov 2023 15:17
‘Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.’
O’Brien to Winston ‘1984’
‘I will introduce emergency legislation which will enable parliament to confirm that Rwanda is safe.’
Rishi Sunak to Parliament 2023.
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No 10 says it will produce ‘emergency’ bill to show Rwanda safe country ‘in coming weeks’ – as it happened
16 Nov 2023 12:01
Sorry, but this is not about poxy Rwanda anymore. Or any particular policy.
Yesterday, Sunak promised to give the House of Commons the power to define truth.
That threatens all our rights and freedoms.
When is the first Mega-Demonstration against this 1984 police state? Which will make last Saturday’s march look like a Boy Scout ramble.
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Jess Phillips quits Labour frontbench as Keir Starmer suffers major rebellion over Gaza ceasefire – UK politics as it happened
15 Nov 2023 16:51
Did Sunak just announce a police state where he gets to decide which countries are safe, and which way is up?
Did I just wake up from an Orwellian nightmare?
Or just enter one?
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Jess Phillips quits Labour frontbench as Keir Starmer suffers major rebellion over Gaza ceasefire – UK politics as it happened
15 Nov 2023 16:44
In response to Hurling
All due thingy, but where you bin?
November 2016 The Mail branded judges ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
For making another British government obey British law.
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Jess Phillips quits Labour frontbench as Keir Starmer suffers major rebellion over Gaza ceasefire – UK politics as it happened
15 Nov 2023 16:39
In response to kalioon
And up is down.
And white is black.
And 2+2=5
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Jess Phillips quits Labour frontbench as Keir Starmer suffers major rebellion over Gaza ceasefire – UK politics as it happened
15 Nov 2023 16:19
The good-old Good Friday Agreement requires Britain’s membership of the UCHR. No?
If Sunak tears up one treaty to appease his NatC wolfpack, he tears up both, and revives an ancient cycle of horrors.
When things go wrong with deathbed capitalism, boy do they go wrong.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No pack of scurvy politicians can turn black to white or up to down.
Rwanda is a toxic dictatorship which kills and tortures political opponents and refugees, and peddles refugees back to their former torturers and executioners..
No vote in parliament can change the facts.
6:42 PM · Nov 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He wants the power to say up is down. 2+2=5. The works. The Lords will block it. And the good old Good Friday Agreement means we have to be in the UCHR, no? A whole new old nightmare. Hasn’t thought this one through.
6:31 PM · Nov 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sunak just announced a police state. He gets to decide where’s safe and what 2+2 equals.
Did he tell the boys in Stormont?
We are in so much shit.
4:48 PM · Nov 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The good-old Good Friday Agreement requires Britain’s membership of the UCHR. No?
If Sunak tears up one treaty to appease his NatC wolfpack, he tears up both, and revives an ancient cycle of horrors.
When things go wrong with deathbed capitalism, boy do they go wrong.
4:45 PM · Nov 15, 2023
Jess Phillips quits Labour frontbench as Keir Starmer suffers major rebellion over Gaza ceasefire – UK politics as it happened
15 Nov 2023 12:58
It begins.
30p Lee is already waving the NatC anarchist flag.
Torch all Laws Ideas and Conventions.
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Jess Phillips quits Labour frontbench as Keir Starmer suffers major rebellion over Gaza ceasefire – UK politics as it happened
15 Nov 2023 11:38
‘COME FOR SUELLA AND YOU COME FOR US ALL!’
Frothed the Mail before the Doberman chaining.
Now they will come for the lawyers, and even the law itself.
In true deluded Banana Republic style, Sunak is already claiming this as a victory – if only there were any civilised countries willing to collude in Britain’s People-Trafficking Scam.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Not a ‘significant’ at all. In fact, a microscopic mini-splinter. And what did Corbyn say on Saturday anyway? This was typical of the day.
GAZA ARMISTICE MARCH
From flickr.com
12:03 AM · Nov 15, 2023
Whether sacked or not, Suella Braverman could stir up a new Tory civil war
12 Nov 2023 16:39
In response to SilentCycling
When those who support them take to the streets they are not ‘protestors’, they are lynch-mobs.
As the typical cases of cowardly evening attacks last night reaffirmed.
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Whether sacked or not, Suella Braverman could stir up a new Tory civil war
12 Nov 2023 16:21
Sunak’s false equivalence of the desecration of the cenotaph ceremony and random racial violence by roaming packs of NatC thugs with a handful of people daring to wear the colour green or use the word ‘freedom’ was one of the most disgusting instances a political equivocation since Trump’s defence of the NatC murderers at Charlottesville.
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Whether sacked or not, Suella Braverman could stir up a new Tory civil war
12 Nov 2023 16:12
If yesterday’s march had been banned somehow, it would only have been reincarnated as a much bigger and wider protest against the suppression of ancient, sacrosanct freedoms.
Because of the breadth of this new movement, it would naturally include Pro-Palestinian groups, and so would also have to be banned.
Banning demonstrations calling for an armistice on Armistice Day is a slippery slope to banning all protest. Including the right to protest.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They are people protesting for an armistice on Armistice Day, and who understandably didn’t want Braverman, or any of your vigilante thugs, to see their faces.
Police hunt for four men over ‘racially aggravated altercation’
From dailymail.co.uk
11:00 PM · Nov 12, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How about Einstein? He warned that Netanyahu’s brand of Zionism would lead to fascism.
Was Einstein racist too?
11:42 AM · Nov 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Garbage. Nobody ‘incited’ for anything on any of the pro-peace marches, except a ceasefire.
The hatemonger in chief was Braverman, who should be prosecuted by @GoodLawProject for incitement to civil unrest.
6:57 PM · Nov 11, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How do babies on incubators and cancer patients ethnically cleanse themselves to safety? Especially when even the relatively fit get bombed on the roads?
10:35 AM · Nov 11, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The BBC gets round that with Shakespeare…
‘Get thee glass eyes; And like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.’
Wil on Braverman.
9:38 AM · Nov 11, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You and Mad Netanyahu may relish your Final Solution. But as history shows, they never work for anyone. If Netanyahu and his crazed crew get their way, Israel’s future is one of permanent war.
11:31 AM · Nov 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is holding 2.2 Million people hostage. And committing the monstrous global blunder of normalising collective punishment.
An act of insanity which will keep MI6 and the CIA overworked for generations.
11:26 AM · Nov 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Poppy Sellers may not be at risk, but the entire Remembrance tradition is.
For years it has been hijacked by Blimps to glorify war and recruit another generation of gullible unemployed to lay down their lives defending the privileges of their paymasters.
11:11 AM · Nov 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sacked for refusing to be completely silenced and censored on all platforms. Not for anything in her show. Shame on the BBC.
Carol Vorderman leaves BBC radio show over social media guidelines
From independent.co.uk
4:43 PM · Nov 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox @carolvorders
REFUSING TO BE CENSORED.
“I’m not prepared to lose my voice on social media, change who I am, or lose the ability to express the strong beliefs I hold about the political turmoil this country finds itself in”.
More guts than all the hacks at the Scum put together.
4:33 PM · Nov 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If the Pro-Peace Marches are banned, the Pro-Freedom of Speech marches which will follow will be ten times the size, and will be justifiably angry.
You are lying yourself into a straight-jacket.
2:48 PM · Nov 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Einstein predicted that Netanyahu’s brand of Zionism would end up turning into fascism. Now tell me that Einstein was racist.
8:02 PM · Nov 7, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’re obviously blind to the obvious parallel. Whether wilfully or no is your problem. But either way, you’re in denial of the fascist collective punishment being delivered on innocent Human Beings. The only motivation of your creed is Hate. It is therefore is doomed to fail.
8:01 PM · Nov 7, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“The attacks are clearly indiscriminate, disproportionate and violate the principle of precaution. One cannot bomb hospitals hosting hundreds of patients and sheltering thousands of refugees. ..This is criminal.”
Israel’s attempt to destroy Hamas will breed more radicalisation, UN expert says
From theguardian.com
11:46 AM · Nov 7, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Come along and find out what you’re dealing with for once.
Ask these people if they feel ‘comfortable’ with Braverman’s Hate-War..
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel is holding 2.3 million civilians hostage. While threatening them with nuclear extermination. There is no escape anywhere.
Israel will be brought to justice for its genocidal ethnic cleansing.
Israeli minister says dropping nuclear bomb on Gaza ‘an option’, Netanyahu reacts
From indiatoday.in
4:25 PM · Nov 6, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How DARE you ask for an end to war on Armistice Day!!!
11:37 AM · Nov 6, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The first effect of overwhelming obscenity is crippling incoherence.
Words are simply not enough to deal with this 24/7 sewer society.
11:26 PM · Nov 2, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It comes from Netanyahu’s blatant and explicit NORMALISATION of Collective Punishment.
If it’s bad enough for Gazans, it’s bad enough for anyone.
8:20 PM · Nov 1, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So called ‘right-wing’ thought has always opposed liberty – except the freedom to pillage and exploit at will.
The equality implicit in Liberty contradicts its entire superstition-base.
8:41 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They’re more insidious than that. The objective is to so pervert language that free thought becomes impossible. Especially thoughts about freedom.
7:27 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There is only one form of racism. That’s the point.
Nobody gets to claim they have priority over any other group.
‘Anti-semitism’ is now merely a ‘Humanist Shield’ for neo-fascist politicians to hide behind.
An attempt to undermine Anti-Racism, not an assertion of equality.
12:57 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
One person shouting. Anything else?
How does that compare to thousands of children killed in a few weeks?
2.3 Million people imprisoned and besieged for generations?
Hiding your head in the sand won’t save Israel.
12:53 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Perhaps you should wake up to the history of the last 70 years before trying to sound clever.
Netanyahu has normalised collective punishment on a global scale, and is attempting to mobilise the diaspora and divide the world.
The most dangerous man on earth.
12:44 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They are trying to pervert language to their purposes.
A universal call for freedom becomes Heresy – depending on who uses the words, making FREE thought impossible.
Do the words: ‘From Sea to Shining Sea Black people will be Free!’ mean the extermination of white people?
12:36 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You know nothing of what happened. Your lies don’t match up to the facts. The only ‘HATE’ having any effect is your hate for human life and freedom. Netanyahu’s normalisation of nazi collective punishment is a green light to psychopaths everywhere.
© 2023 JAKI WILFORD. 28/10/2023
12:32 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In the face of the obscene, disproportionate collective-punishment being inflicted on Gazan civilians, this is classic, pure Virtue Signalling.
The cynical militarisation of a tragedy. Proof you couldn’t care less about the victims of Hamas.
12:28 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Those seeking freedom only ‘hate’ their guards.
Braverman is seeking to destroy freedom of expression.
Don’t come crying when she criminalises you.
12:23 PM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You may be unconscious, but the world WOKE up to your barbarism years ago.
Your troglodyte death-cult is fleeing in terror from Science.
Especially CLIMATE SCIENCE.
11:52 AM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What if even ultra-orthodox Jews oppose Israel’s vengeance policy?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
No ideology based on fear and ignorance can be rational.
Therefore the concept of ‘right-wing thought’ is a fallacy.
An insult to logic.
11:38 AM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The unification of the warring tribes of England took another century. And was not ‘nationalism’, just the colonial expansion of feudal England. True ‘nationhood’ had to wait until the consummation of ‘Great Britain’, when the money-classes won. Henry V’s legacy was a civil war.
11:36 AM · Oct 31, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel is not ‘defending itself’, it is wreaking primitive collective punishment on a desperate people. And by normalising these neo-fascist tactics, gives a green light to psychopaths of all varieties.
The result will be the permanent state of war Zionism needs to thrive.
4:20 PM · Oct 30, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How about this line of poetry.
‘From Sea to Shining Sea
Black People will be Free.’
Who does that seek to exterminate?
Why do you want to deny Palestinians access to the River Jordan and the Mediterranean?
That is a historical first.
4:14 PM · Oct 30, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Here we go again. Johnson didn’t INTEND to lie. Trump didn’t INTEND to incite a coup. Bombs speak louder than words. And clearer.
What was Krystallnacht other than collective punishment for an assassination?
You’d think history would penetrate more.
4:04 PM · Oct 30, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Only last night I stumbled across the Lidice atrocity in occupied Czechoslovakia.
The definition of Collective Punishment. (Sippenhaftung).
Lidice: The Annihilation of a Czech Town
From encyclopedia.ushmm.org
12:33 PM · Oct 30, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The most devout Jews seem to believe that the ‘nation state’ is just a modern vanity, and the enemy of faith. Like cars to the Amish.
Given the blood-stained record of nationalism in the last 100 years, who can argue?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You talk of ‘invading Gaza and dismantling Hamas’ as if it were replacing a dud battery in your remote-control. Boy are you in for a shock.
If you have your way, in 2 weeks you will be cowering in shame at the obscene death-toll you are sanctioning now. Remember Vietnam. Iraq.
7:20 PM · Oct 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How very comfortable. How many more thousand innocent lives are you prepared to waste in your futile nationalistic purification?
6:14 PM · Oct 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘FR0M SEA TO SHINING SEA – BLACK PEOPLE SHALL BE FREE!’
Where’s the implication of ‘extermination’ there?
‘From the River to the Sea’ is merely geography and history at the service of poetry.
The Middle East war was always about WATER RIGHTS. It’s the reason Jerusalem exists
6:11 PM · Oct 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What would you prefer they chant?
‘From the military check-point to military check-point,
Palestinians Shall be Free!’ ?
‘Freedom From Fence to Fence!’ ?
Israel is never going to achieve its stated objectives. It will only make more enemies by them.
6:06 PM · Oct 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
That’s what it was MEANT to come to. A Mega-Brexit Splitter issue. Just when we need global unity to act in SELF DEFENCE.
Simon, you fell in the nationalist trap & it took your lit-crit faculties with you.
The land between the river & the sea was home to millions. It was stolen.
6:01 PM · Oct 27, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They are all psychopathic rages.
What hacks like Hitchins won’t address are the CAUSES of the epidemic of psychopathic behaviour, because they know they totally undermines their lifelong commitment to the only suspect in town, all-conquering consumerism.
5:32 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’re insane. That’s your context.
No literate person since the C18th has judged any action in isolation. That’s what being RATIONAL means. Cause & Effect in that order. And why the word EVIL is just a medieval theological relic.
Psychopaths are made by their lives, not Satan.
5:26 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israelis hate neo-fascist worshipping Netanyahu.
Why Benjamin Netanyahu Loves the European Far-Right
From foreignpolicy.com
5:20 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Garbage. There is only one form of racism. All lives are equally valuable. Netanyahu has normalised racist collective punishment by his gross actions against innocent Gazans. Blame him for your fear. His objective is to split world opinion and save his squalid political hide.
5:14 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel has been holding 2.2 million people hostage since 2017.
Since 1967 really. How does that ‘factor-in’? What would that do to generations of young minds?
Gaza has been called the biggest prison. It is also the biggest petri-dish.
An experiment to test the Human breaking-point
5:08 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Shown sorrow for their dead for a respectable time before issuing red-mist threats of genocide and ethnic cleansing. That’s what.
As much as anything it would have given time for the horrors to sink in before they were swamped by the Gazan bodycount.
5:03 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When did you do a headcount? Who told you that the global diaspora was in favour of ethnic cleansing?
Neturei Karta (NK) And Masar Badil In Ottawa: “Free, Free Palestine From The River To The Sea”|…
From countercurrents.org
4:59 PM · Oct 26, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You mean TRUE. Israel is using one genocide to justify another. It is assuming the role of Hadrian in the Bar Khokba revolt. It is holding 2.2 million people hostage.
4:16 PM · Oct 25, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Name 3. There isn’t an atrocity in history that wouldn’t have gained more sympathy had the victims shown sorrow for a while, rather than sworn immediate bloodthirsty revenge.
4:13 PM · Oct 25, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
NatC Euthanasia policy.. “deputy mayor: Best thing for disabled children is the guillotine”
mirror.co.uk
Tory deputy mayor: Best thing for disabled children is the guillotine
The retired GP made his sick suggestion to fellow councillors as they discussed sending the youngsters to a £3,000-a-week care home
3:58 PM · Oct 25, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How about taking a tip from these guys and suggest a NO-State solution. A Site of Unique Spiritual and Historic Significance, administered and very generously funded by the UN.
Naturei Kharta
From flickr.com
1:18 PM · Oct 24, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How do you ‘ensure Hamas is destroyed’? It’s a Red Mist Fantasy. Israel is merely endangering everyone – on whatever side and none – by its NORMALISATION of COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT. A giant historic mistake – again.
1:06 PM · Oct 24, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
This WAR is the result of 70 years of fascist oppression. Don’t try and say it surprised you. Decades of ethnic cleansing. And now Netanyahu’s Final Solution.
Infographic: The Growth Of Israeli Settlements
From statista.com
3:54 PM · Oct 21, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
70 years of Zionist ethnic cleansing, and a promised genocidal Final Solution of the Gaza Problem is the ongoing atrocity of deathbed Capitalism.
Einstein was right. Netanyahu’s brand of Zionism is fascist.
10:28 AM · Oct 21, 202
Rishi Sunak, decorated hero of the war on motorists, is no match for a real-world conflict
20 Oct 2023 13:21
I am half expecting a Conservative to blame the results on Putin’s invasion of motoring, or woke boats.
NatC blame-targets:
1) BBC.
2) Lawyers.
3) Civil Service.
4) International Law.
5) Bank of England.
6) Un-consummated Brexit.
7) The Parents.
8) The Kids.
9) The Welfare State.
10) Generations of wall-to wall socialist propaganda.
11) Vegetarians.
11) Foreigners.
The list is endless.
View discussion
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wife
Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wife
From theguardian.com
6:06 PM · Oct 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How SHOULD they resist? By letting Israel occupy their lands, and be content to clean their pools & toilets?
‘Hunt down’ who? 1500 Gazan children butchered by Israel in a week?
The millions evicted into a parched wasteland for over 70 years?
Einstein was right. Zionism = Fascism.
4:09 PM · Oct 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Whoever hit it, at over 1000 uncoordinated strikes per day, it was only a matter of time before the IDF did hit it. As it has hit every ‘safe’ place in Gaza.
They’ll probably hit it again.
4:04 PM · Oct 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Evil’ is such an obsolete, theological term.
‘Psychopath’ is the rational way to explain the effects of mass brutalisation.
3:50 PM · Oct 19, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Not the point. They are the only source. So they have to be quoted. When Israel makes a claim, it is served up plain, with the disclaimer: “according to Israeli sources.”
In fact, on balance, Israel’s version is challenged least.
Partly because it’s often breathtakingly absurd.
3:59 PM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Garbage. What you mean is that the BBC has been driven more by the Human story, than by your land-grabbing colonialism.
Netanyahu’s genocidal Final Solution to the Gaza problem has wasted global sympathy, and normalised Sippenhaftung attacks on Jews everywhere.
3:55 PM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Netanyahu endangered everyone a week ago when he normalised Collective Punishment in pursuit of his Final Solution.
The S.S. had a word for it: ‘Sippenhaftung’.
Look it up.
1:07 PM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Meanwhile, the McCarthyism machine revs up.
US CEOs urge Harvard to name students in groups behind letter blaming Israel for Hamas attacks
From theguardian.com
12:59 PM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Since you give the IDF benefit of the doubt, and apparently accept their claims of 100% accuracy, how is it possible for all Gazan casualties to be the work of Hamas? Whether by false-flag or accident. The Israeli pronouncements get weirder by the day.
12:55 PM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Nothing ‘hypothetical’ about the 1,000 attacks per day. Far too many to individually authorise. Or about the 1000 children killed so far. What do they say about IDF ‘accuracy’? Or the contradictory IDF excuse of ‘collateral damage’
Which is it? Or are the children HAMAS agents?
12:51 PM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel HAS already bombed hospitals, schools, and refugee convoys with ‘Extreme ‘Perfidy’.
Until last night the big story was the deaths caused by Israeli bombing refugees in Rafah.
Since they claim 100% accuracy, the attacks must have been deliberate.
11:58 AM · Oct 18, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Evidence? Thought not. Sippenhaft or #Sippenhaftung was the Nazi term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment across the Reich.
That’s Israel in Gaza, that is.
8:03 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’re not still in a prison. Along with all your ancestors since 1948. You haven’t spent decades under an apartheid regime.
You would have approved of the Czarist pogroms of casual Jewish settlements on Russian soil. Next sick fake question.
6:52 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How many million did this psychopath threaten to kill?
Netanyahu is about to kill 2.2 million, one way or another. He has made his Final Solution clear. More Lebensraum in a Greater Israel – whatever the cost. He is the supreme terrorist and war-criminal.
Or #EndTimer loony.
6:45 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
She’s itching to declare Martial Law.
Like the British Governor would have done in the Old Country, if the natives had got stroppy..
6:10 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
1. Nowhere is it written that atrocities have to be planned.
2. It doesn’t matter anyway. Murder is the universal defining act of the psychopath. And there are many psychopaths involved in this conflict, and in power everywhere.
You should be asking WHY?
6:08 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Your rabid normalisation of collective punishment has endangered millions of Jewish and Muslim lives all over the world. Israel has set the standard for genocidal ethnic-cleansing & medieval siege tactics.
Its Final Solution will enflame extremism everywhere.
I hope you’re happy.
6:04 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
NO evidence? You crazy. Only first-hand evidence from every responsible, humane organisation on Earth. Your brain is fried by squalid nationalism. The poison of the world.
You’ll be denying Global warming next. You’re all the same disease.
1:18 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How many tory MPs reacted PROPORTIONATELY to Israel’s Final Solution? To its genocidal mass ethnic cleansing? None of them give a damn. The triumph of rabid nationalism over democracy – and Humanity.
1:13 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There is only one form of racism. There is no Hierarchy.
If you can prove Corbyn is racist, feel free.
Nobody has so far.
1:03 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
Biginabox
The global future will be determined by how much we want to survive as a species and how much we’re prepared to cooperate rather than fight.
As for The Holy Land, it has to be a UN site of unique spiritual significance, and taken away from grubby politicians.
Water for all
12:59 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Maybe now people will start taking these people seriously.
@NetureiKarta
Their answer seems to be a NO State solution, based on the mutual sanctity of the Holy Land to all Abramic faiths. Who could argue with that?
Naturei Kharta
From flickr.com
12:21 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The ‘nation state’ is basically a vulgar C19th invention anyway. One which has a proven record of total catastrophe. Not a divine creation.
Naturei Khurta. Jews against Zionism
From flickr.com
12:25 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It amounts to collective Psychopathic behaviour, like Netanyahu’s biblical obsession, Putin’s megalomania, and Johnson & Trump’s Gangsterism. Bi-products of competitive consumerism, the ultimate war-machine and scientifically proven destroyer of worlds.
1 in 5 business leaders may have psychopathic tendencies—here’s why, according to a psychology…
From cnbc.com
12:14 PM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
As usual you ‘understand’ nothing in your mad rush to crush every freedom you see. You ‘understand’ selling children to tinpot dictatorships as a ‘humane’ act.
Your British Empire Re-enactment Society brutality is a disgusting attempt to imitate your colonial masters in Africa.
11:42 AM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What else is a Psychopath but a powerless individual pushed too far? And what better system for spawning them than the Utopia we live in?
11:33 AM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They’re all Psychopaths. Universally, they are the result of ‘resentments boiling over’. Resentments directly caused by the toxic dog-eat-dog Utopia we’re told we enjoy. Which sparks Water Wars – as in Palestine for millennia. Global Warming won’t help.
1 in 5 business leaders may have psychopathic tendencies—here’s why, according to a psychology…
From cnbc.com
11:31 AM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If Israel had not seen the red mist, and shown its archaic biblical ethos, the gates of every city in the world would have been blue and white. But Netanyahu had to have his pound of flesh. Which has directly endangered every Jew and Muslim on earth.
11:22 AM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
@shahidkamal
‘To my dismay, I see hatred and demonisation of all Muslims from the highest levels, from media figures, politicians and even entertainers. My wife is threatened on the streets by strangers. The double standards on display are an outrage. We don’t feel safe here.’
11:12 AM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Netanyahu’s Normalisation of collective punishment at work. The Zionist agenda is to create a wedge issue to make Brexit look like a pub tug-of-war, and fuel the fantasies of the EndTimers, who will be all over this like Truffaut on Hitchcock. This has ALWAYS been about WATER.
11:09 AM · Oct 17, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Policy’? What influence do you think Westminster has on the way the world does business, and that your ‘agency’ counts. You’re assuming that the politics is at the reins of the carriage. It is merely the horse. If not, anti-CO2 economics would have been implemeted 30 years ago.
4:08 PM · Oct 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
How much ‘agency’ do you have? In anything except a vote every 5 years, if lucky. When did you last have to make an instant, do or die decision which could mean life or death for your family? How many generations of it have been denied basic human rights and freedoms?
3:56 PM · Oct 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The whole world shares the same fossil-based addiction to power. And everyone knows the prognosis for that, and so they retreat into anti-rational nationalism. Like any patient after a terminal diagnosis. So there is no solution in ‘nations’. They are all a fabrication
3:28 PM · Oct 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If we dared to look, we would see that the crimes are essential to the way we live. The same one which has always caused wars and which is now also torching the environment. So we have to stay blind – or abandon our consumerist identity. Like asking the addict to go cold turkey.
3:22 PM · Oct 15, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why should they have accepted it? And how does that in any way justify Netanyahu’s Final Solution, with its normalisation of genocidal ethnic cleansing and collective punishment? Don’t you realise what that means?
1:40 PM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Declare Martial Law in Britain. That’s what happens when collective punishment is normalised.
Netanyahu is mad.
1:10 PM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They go back to square one and behave like human beings, not imperial colonists.
But it may be too late after today.
11:37 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
None of those countries announced an intention to commit genocidal mass ethnic-cleansing on a biblical scale. Netanyahu has. Much to the despair of many Jews who see the terrible danger in normalising collective punishment.
11:34 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Garbage. By normalising collective punishment in Gaza, Zionism has endangered every Jew on Earth. An entire new generation of psychopaths is bred by a criminal Prime Minister.
11:27 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
It’s all become a lot less complicated now that Netanyahu has normalised (and globalised) collective punishment. But not for the better. Einstein’s predictions have been proven true. Israel has become the thing that created it.
11:09 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Treating Palestinians with RESPECT.
That would help make Israel more secure.
11:05 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Because its Final Solution in Gaza is not only illegal but suicidal. By normalising collective punishment, he has given a green light to every psychopath looking for a target. After today, the voices in many heads will be urging revenge.
10:19 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
All a bit parish-pump now that Netanyahu has normalised collective punishment. He obviously doesn’t realise what that means, and neither do his arse-kissers in the British media.
10:15 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A crazed normalisation of collective punishment on a biblical scale.
Netanyahu has created a terrible precedent, and put the lives of thousands of Jews everywhere at great risk.
10:07 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If the game is ‘An Eye for an Eye, a Baby for a Baby’, Netanyahu has far more choice. But he needn’t bother. Disease and starvation will kill more than bombs. He just needs to sit and wait for his final solution to deliver his Greater Israel, like Hadrian outside Bethar.
9:57 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Netanyahu has set the precedent. Collective punishment is now the norm. Doesn’t he realise what that means for the global Jewish population?
Today’s barbaric extermination edict is ‘historic’.
9:51 AM · Oct 13, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I get the feeling I just heard the giant jaws of a silent trap slam shut on Israel’s future.
This time they have gone too far.
They have fulfilled Einstein’s prediction, and become the thing they professed to hate most.
10:34 PM · Oct 12, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Netanyahu is managing to make enemies for Israel by himself. He doesn’t need any help. With friends like him, who needs enemies?
He should know from the seige of Bethar in 135AD that Final Solutions are always the worst.
His genocidal policy of ethnic cleansing won’t work either
10:28 PM · Oct 12, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Which ‘someones’ are these?
Fact. Hamas is holding 150 hostages. Netanyahu is holding 2.2 MILLION. And threatening biblical vengeance in the style of Emperor Hadrian.
‘Shrug your shoulders’ at that.
11:35 AM · Oct 12, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Better jaw-jaw than war-war’ Who said that?
Ian Paisley talked to Gerry Adams. The result is a peace which the NatCs now want to destroy.
Just as Braverman is itching to declare Martial Law.
War is their natural habitat.
11:27 AM · Oct 12, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Like Lt Calley, you mean?
Don’t start an atrocity-battle you can’t possibly win.
@elhaaretz
blames the ‘government of annexation and dispossession’ with ‘a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians’
Editorial | Netanyahu bears responsibility
From haaretz.com
12:18 PM · Oct 11, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Biq questions? You want big questions? And water?
Israel is a project to dominate regional water rights.
Since Joshua conquered Jericho.
climate-diplomacy.org
Israel-Palestine: Water Sharing Conflict
Water sharing issues form an important part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 1990s in particular witnessed extensive efforts to reach a peace agreement and to cooperate on water sharing…
12:10 PM · Oct 11, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So your golden age was the great depression. Breeding ground of international fascism. With no healthcare and mass rickets. Is that on your election manifesto?
1:42 PM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Extremism does not discredit diversity. In fact, the latter moderates the former. Only extremists provoke extreme reactions. You and your NatCs are the only extremists with political power. Used to peddle hate and glorify war.
And you’ve got what you wanted. A world at war.
1:39 PM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
In Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf, he attributes to H in the bunker the saying:
‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end.’
And its power in certain circumstances.
After 70 years of war, Palestinians obviously also feel they have nothing left to lose. https://panarchy.org/orwell/meinkampf.html…
12:02 PM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You don’t seriously expect Israel to cease fire if that happened. It is now playing the part of Hadrian in the The Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 AD). From David to Goliath in 3000 years.
Einstein warned of an Israel run by Ultra-nationalists. Exactly the same ones now in control.
11:51 AM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The most obvious way to guarantee Netanyahu’s genocidal programme of ethnic cleansing would be for Hamas to surrender its only bargaining chips. Israel has shown its hand and fallen into the trap. There is no going back now. Palestinians have nothing more to lose. See Vietnam.
11:42 AM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If you had a brain not a microchip, you would have absorbed some history of the last 70 years
The unjustifiable record of the Zionist blitzkrieg on the Palestinian untermensch to seize more lebensraum. Now it plans genocide and ethnic cleansing, and NatC thugs like you applaud it
9:44 AM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Yesterday’s assertion was that the Gaza action was unjustifiable. Fair enough. By the same reasoning, what justifies the 70 year history of Israeli occupation?
9:34 AM · Oct 10, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Collective punishment it is. I don’t remember the German for it, but in effect, Natanhayu’s total siege and total bombardment amount to a massive war-crime on a biblical scale. A repetition of Bar Kokhba (135 CE), in fact. Only then, the Judeans were the victims.
6:22 PM · Oct 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Since when did Labour represent your favourite brand of socialism? The unions would never let them. Labour is the party of reassuring managerialism. That’s how it wins elections. Not by promising to abolish money – or by prioritising micro-identities before Class Identity.
6:16 PM · Oct 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israeli announces total genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza to provide more ‘Living Room’
As if not enough Palestinians had been killed.
Infographic: The Human Cost Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
From statista.com
6:05 PM · Oct 9, 2023
In the midst of war, Benjamin Netanyahu is a liability who can only make things worse. He must go
9 Oct 2023 15:57
In response to Trevor48
Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing would finally win the argument, true.
But not the one it has been making for 70 years.
It may make some progress in its own interest when it finally realises that not only has it been at war its entire existence, but is itself a state of war, by design and implementation, founded on division and mistrust, like all synthetic nationalisms.
View discussion
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Since when is the Hamas ‘charter’ the Quran? You’ll be claiming the Spanish Inquisition was ‘Christian’ next.
Hamas are ultra-nationalists. Direct relatives of Zionists, UKIP and the NatCs now in the British Cabinet.
11:26 AM · Oct 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel has violated 28 resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (which are legally binding on member-nations U.N.. And condemned by UNHCR scores of times. Any arrests?
Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is apartheid – UN human rights expert
From ohchr.org
11:15 AM · Oct 9, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Guilotining disabled children to save money would ‘work’. But only a NatC tory barbarian would ever dream of doing it.
Same principle with selling children to tinpot dictatorships who shoot protesting refugees.
Tory deputy mayor: Best thing for disabled children is the guillotine.
From mirror.co.uk
8:03 PM · Oct 8, 2023
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel will never be secure until it realises it is not only at war, but is itself a state of war, against the Palestinian people since 1948.
Since Israel is invulnerable to countless UN resolutions, what else do the Palestinians have to lose? The world has abandoned them.
7:56 PM · Oct 8, 2023
Pepys Estate Deptford 1981
Images and context.
Eddystone House. Albany Empire Summer Playscheme. August 1981.
Key Deptford background dates.
August 1977. ‘Battle of Lewisham’.
Anti-fascist demonstration at New Cross. First mainland appearance of riot shields.
December 1977. Moonshot Club Firebombing.
After prolonged fascist threats. The Moonshot was the first purpose-built community centre for black people in the UK.
July 1978. Albany Empire arson by National Front.
After hosting more than 15 ‘Rock Against Racism’ benefits, a three-day ‘All Together Now’ festival, at least one ‘Scrap the SUS laws’ gig, and an anti-racist theatre show, ‘Restless Natives‘. A note left at the site said: “Got you.” Greenwich Police refused to accept it as evidence.
January 1981. ‘New Cross Massacre’.
The suspicious fire where 13 young people died.
April 1981. Brixton Riots.
Deptford at the time was therefore a turbulent place. The widespread racist application of the ‘SUS’ laws, and the excesses of the ‘Special Patrol Group’ fuelled a range of self-defence groups.
It was also an age of ‘hard to let’ cheap GLC housing which was rapidly filled by artists and activists of all kinds. Deloraine House on Tanners Hill was one – home to Dire Straits – plus much of the Crossfields Estate.
The shot above was taken at Eddystone House on the Pepys Estate.
I was the photographer for the Albany Touring Summer Playscheme of 1981. The programme at each site was to enable the local group to produce their own shows, including designing and building sets and costumes from anything available, in the best Adventure Playground tradition.
The tour included Grove Park, Brownhills School, Clockhouse, Plumstead Common and Lewisham Women’s Refuge. Pepys was our last stop. We had just finished our two days on site, helping with ‘The Funky Riot’, a musical on roller skates (after a swift re-write when Lewisham council heard about the word ‘riot’ in title).
We were packing the van when I noticed our prima-ballerina trying to go upstairs on her skates.
I managed to expose some frames before she faced reality, turned, clicker-clacked back down, and was off in an embarrassed flurry of mauve and white petticoats.
Without the Albany, and the efforts of people like co-ordinator Jenny Harris, this image would not exist. Neither would the plethora of Adventure Playgrounds in Deptford and New Cross. With Sybil Phoenix OBE, founder of the Moonshot Club, Jenny was at the heart of Deptford’s cultural self-defence scene in the 1970’s and 80’s. With John Turner, she was largely responsible for the old Albany Empire on Creek Road, and for raising the New Albany out of the ashes of the old. The activism and energy of all the community groups it helped organise embodied life and fun in the middle of a hard time. Deptford would have been a much grimmer place without the work of so many selfless ordinary people.
If this shot manages to grab one moment which helps illustrate the precarious relationship between the Deptford environment and its residents, it will have worked for me.
At London College of Printing in 1985, I showed it to John Benton-Harris, who I had just heard of, and whose lecture I gate-crashed.
“Ah. You’ve got a wide-angle lens. Good. Anything else to show me?”
I might have asked him if he had any images of Deptford, but didn’t think of it until it was too late.
Other Albany Summer Playscheme venues. August 1981
Lewisham Womens’ Refuge
Lewisham Womens’ Refuge
Downham Park
Brownhills
Black People’ Day of Action. March 2nd 1981.
Black People’ Day of Action. March 2nd 1981.
Black People’ Day of Action. March 2nd 1981.
Er Cof ‘Benny’. Phil Bennett R.I.P.
It’s probably my only claim to fame that we shared the Felinfoel County Primary School playground for 2 years. Even then he was just ‘Benny’. No other names needed. And everyone knew he was destined for greatness. We were his first fans. And we never looked back.
When he took to the cramped, steeply sloping Boys playground, everyone stood back and watched. He seemed to be everywhere. A completely different kind of animal.
When he played cricket in the Summer, our teachers would queue up to bowl to him, some using underhand methods like the Headmaster’s famous ‘rissole’, a hard ball as round and smooth as a fragment of brick forged by the waves and tides of centuries. All methods failed. One famous shot felled his best friend Kenny (AKA ‘Tiger’), raising an enormous black bruise on his thigh, and forcing the Duty Master, Mr John Williams, to carry the sobbing ten year-old ‘Tiger’ into the school for treatment (Arnica and a milk biscuit.)
I did find myself seated next to him and Kenny for one afternoon. I was completely overawed, but to my surprise, he took an interest in what I was doing, and put me at ease. He was two years older than me, but still only ten or eleven, yet with the innate social skills of a mature adult.
All too often it seems that god-given talent instills a sense of entitlement and superiority. In Benny’s case it did the opposite.
That seems to have been his personality. What other player in history has tried to persuade the ref NOT to send off an opponent? That’s a sportsman. And even more important, he was one of the generation which confirmed that sport can be an Artform. In his own quiet way he did for rugby what the Beatles did for pop music. A genius of his Time.
Match after match I would sit in my favourite seat – at the back of the South terrace, sitting on the wall overlooking the cricket pitch, on halfway. This was the best place to follow all Benny’s magic, which could happen on any square of the chessboard pitch. It was also from where I saw Delme Thomas break through midfield like a shirehorse and canter almost to the line, dragging a pack of defenders with him like snapping dogs. It was where the best view was of steaming floodlight lineouts and scrums, with the terrifying Gale Brothers steaming in unison. At night, this viewpoint also offered the magnificent background of the steelworks, reminding everyone of their roots.
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ActionFutureWorkPlan People 1993
Ian Duncan Smith’s American welfare reforms will certainly mean that more unemployed are created than “experience the workplace environment” as the Department for Work and Pensions puts it. So there will be many more to chain to the work-gang, and more pressure on workers to surrender to management demands, whatever they might be.
Sometime in the early 90’s I was unemployed for over six months, along with millions of others. The government of the time benevolently decided to help us by delivering us into the hands of ActionFutureWorkPlan, a right bunch of contractors paid a lot of taxpayers money to make the unemployed go away. I wrote this at the time. I’ve corrected most of the spelling.
DAY 1
“Right” said Annette, our Actionfutureworkplan leader. “What are your hobbies? What do you really like to do?” It was 10 o’clock on the first morning of the Actionfutureworkplanweek and already we knew our names. Now we were going to find out what we enjoyed. At this rate we’d all be brain surgeons by Thursday. This week wasn’t going to be quite as strenuous as I’d feared. Nobody resented the question, they merely resented being there. “Let’s get one thing clear,” Annette had said earlier, “you’re all here voluntarily. Yes? You all had a choice.” …“Yeah, Hobson’s Choice” someone said. The truth was that we’d all been told ‘Be there or lose your benefit.’ Annette passed round a form. It told her our skills, where we used them, and any experience which would help us get work. We talked about the ‘Hurdles and Barriers’ to getting work. We talked about the pluses and minuses of being out of work and in work. All of us had been out of work for more than a year, most for longer, some much longer. In the middle of a fractured discussion about age discrimination, we discovered that the average age of the group was about 35. Two people were under 30. There were 12 men and 3 women.
The discussion rambled from one point to another. As a chairperson, Annette was not a great success. After 20 minutes talking about motivation and how to hold the attention of a potential employer she was losing our attention and we were more discouraged than ever. Conversations were breaking out on every table corner. While she was stressing the importance of training I realised that she had no training in how to run a group discussion. It was obvious to everyone. In the tea break, the large handsome Jamaican said “I’ve got a terrific idea. Instead of looking for work again, let’s never look for work again.” After one morning of the Actionfutureworkplan we all knew what he meant.
DAY 2
This, according to Annette, was our ‘Digdeepday.’ There was a silent groan, something I had never come across before. We started to examine our hopes and aspirations. Among the group were an ex-lorry driver, an ex-forestry worker who couldn’t speak English and had to be informed what an aspiration was, an ex-secretary, an ex-shelf-filler, and an ex-labourer. All 35 or over, and all of whom had taken twenty minutes to fill in a simple form. This was therefore the most depressing part of the week. Asking someone in that situation about their ‘aspirations’ became tantamount to saying ‘Your life is absolutely meaningless and pathetic.’ Some simply didn’t know what they wanted to do, and were being forced to say so in open court. They just wanted a job. In fact, they didn’t want anything, they just didn’t want to be un-employed. The double negative at the heart of capitalism.
It was not a pretty sight. And when the ex-businessman (greatest fault “too trusting”) made his contribution: “Some people just want to sit on their arses in front of the telly. They don’t deserve help” it took a swift change of tack to avoid real trouble. Maybe we’d dug a little too deep. Annette decided we could take an early lunch.
Babylon Sandwich
Lunch, promptly dubbed the ‘Babylon Sandwich’, was never the highlight of the day. It wasn’t Spam, but ten years ago it would have been. Processed White and cheese or soggy lettuce or ‘seafood’ which tasted like
Margate beach only pink. Afterwards we roamed the lovely streets of North-Nunhead for an hour and a half and smoked. So this was what work was like. We could get used to this. In fact we were used to this. It was no different to being unemployed for a year – and all in one week. The afternoon brought us Ron from the Quick Hands Agency, who organise ‘training courses designed to provide skills tailored to the demands of today’s high-tech marketplace.’
These turned out to be: a two day first aid course, two weeks of Child Care and Baby Maintenance, and How to be a Security Guard. So we could learn how to change nappies and wear a shiny hat with confidence. There was general disgust and outrage. Our faith in the Actionfutureworkplan was completely dead. Every day after lunch, Annette’s sidekick Beverly would take over. If anything, she was even less accomplished than Annette. In fact, after the farce of Tuesday afternoon, the ‘course’ had run out of steam. “What do you want to do tomorrow?” Beverly had asked. Out of the embarrassed silence came the noise: “Mumble mumble. Interviews? Mumble.” So interviews it was.
Day 3
Beverly entered with a video cassette. “Anyone know how to work this thing?”. The woman did not know how to operate a VHS. Two people simply got up and left the room. The Smart Alec Troublemaker confronted her with the inconsistency of her not being able to show us a training video because she wasn’t trained to operate a VHS. “Not me. It’s not my job. No way.” Mere disillusionment was rapidly turning to mass incredulity.
With professional supervision and direction, and a lot of editing, the video could probably have been of some use. But there was none. We drifted in and out, discussed hot lottery numbers, and made cups of institutional tea. One or two did ‘heads on desks’, which brought back memories.
Hobson’ Choice
Things got more bizarre. Nimbly evading the pros and cons of successful interview technique, someone suggested we “Do a building society. HO-HO.” We plotted the heist in some detail for the next half hour, with Beverly leading the discussion. “But what about the security cameras? Aren’t they connected to the police station?” got pitying looks from around the room. This woman obviously knew nothing. It finally dawned on her that this particular small business idea was not exactly within her brief, and she ended the heist plan and the day with her favourite line: “What do you want to do tomorrow?” The trouble was, someone had an idea. “I’ve got a video.” he said. “It’s sort of about how to set up in business….. It’s a movie…. By the guy that did ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’….’Hobson’s Choice’.” The joke was completely lost on Beverly, but not on the group, who laughed like drains. But it wasn’t a joke. We watched it the next day, complete with Charles Laughton, John Mills and “Ee by gum!” – without any guidance, preamble or review, naturally – but at least it was a recognisable way of passing the time. In fact, it did prompt a detailed discussion about ‘capital’, and there was some pun fun on the virtues of boot sales. It was a start, but it had come too late. During one of these supervision-free afternoons we speculated about the future.
“We’re surrounded by supermarkets. In six months we’ll all be stacking shelves. And not for pay – for benefit.” This was frightening to hear, even if it was bollocks.
“Nah, how they going to do that? They can’t make you.”
“They made you come here didn’t they?”
“No-one takes away my money. They do that they gonna have big trouble. We torch that Job Centre to ashes. They can put me inside. When I come out I’ll be a hero.”
That may have been bollocks too, but it was bollocks born out of bitter resentment and frustration. This was someone with nothing to lose: for whom prison was no deterrent because liberty was no better. At least it was someone who had discovered what they’d ‘really like to do’.
DAY 4
And so the farcical week dragged on. Running the gamut from insulting to bizarre. To be fair, some did benefit from the week. Dave the lorry driver got a job driving a van. Marcos the ex-plasterer was last seen grimly swapping notes about his driving licence points in preparation for an interview for driving a bus. But these were the result of the fabled ‘one-to-one’ sessions with Annette, and could have been provided six months earlier by the Job Centre. During my ‘one-to-one’ it became obvious that no-one in the building had the first idea about operating a computer, and I offered my help with the basics. “Thanks, but no thanks.” said Annette, touching my knee. What did she mean? I escaped flattered but confused.
I returned un-helped to the main room, into the middle of a discussion about prospects. Someone was loudly stressing the importance of “not seeing the world through rose-coloured scepticals.” It seemed the perfect strategy to me.
This was a story from the Major administration. Spiteful and stupid though they were, they never stooped to the depths of Cameron and Clegg. And so escaped major collective punishment – more by luck and sleaze than any humanity. The Condem Alliance has learned neither honesty nor humanity. What hope for them when the British people get teachy?
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