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What I find fascinating with what is happening in United States is just how the core of the Senate and House of Representatives are starting to speak out against Mr Trump.

Especially now they are likening him to Stalin, Hitler and Fascist Dictators even within his own party are calling him racist and disowning him.

I know Mr Trump is waking up people, especially in United States, what Neo-Liberalism and Austerity actually means in so much it benefits the few at the cost of the many and it encourages the growth of right-wing governments who embrace isolationism of nationalism and patriotism.

In the end the likes of Mr Trump, more so Mrs May and her Ministers here in the United Kingdom, will effectively start to wake people up to the fact that major Western governments and societies have become very corrupt and immoral to the core. It may even stir them into action finally.

As a final comment this corruption and immorality is not exclusive just to the right-wing but also runs deep in all politics and politicians regardless of their political leanings, that is both in the centre and the left!

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I think it is time to blow the myths about Revolutions the ones perpetuated by right-wing that is all revolutions are bloody affairs in which they kill people and smash the system.

Of cause they perpetuate this myth because it is to discourage people from standing up against them.

But as I said it is a myth not Revolutions are bloody ones as those people who had been paying attention in recent decades would of noticed the collapse of the then USSR in a series of peaceful revolutions where people took back control not by use of the gun but by use of peaceful demonstrations.

Though sadly especially in former Yugoslavia afterwards the old tensions between the countries and people there erupted in a bloody war but the start was still largely peaceful.

Plus some revolutions can take place quietly in the background with no fanfare just with a slow change in way people think and act until things change naturally without people getting upset about it. One example being here we now all recycle rubbish something we thought we never do and made a lot of noise about doing it when the idea was first mooted. We now do it without thinking because of a quiet revolution in the way we think.

Yes, some Revolutions were and will still be bloody but they do not have to be is what I am saying. The only people who say they are bad or bloody are those who will be directly effected by a Revolution and say that in the hope it will put people off such action.

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Sick and Tired of the Drones!

Posted: 17 February, 2017 in Comment, Life, politics

I am getting sick and tired form the constant right-wing barrage from the government, media and those people around me who try to justify their position with empty statements of the right-wing which actually say nothing.

They are starting to sound like broken records who can only repeat the same right-wing propaganda again and again without even thinking or understanding what they are saying.

In the end they are not our future but shadows of the past who are too dam lazy to think for themselves but happy to be drones of a system which abuses them!

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Give the People a Good Kicking!

Posted: 28 December, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

It is coming to the end of a disastrous year for the world in 2016 with Brexit and Trump as President but I start to wonder in 2017 if the people both in the United Kingdom and United States actually wake up to what is happening in their respective countries and beyond?

I doubt it sadly and we have another rock road ahead in 2017 unless someone can literally kick the people until they wake up and take notice!

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Just Remember!

Posted: 14 December, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

An article this week I read reminded those of us who are living through these terrible times in the world with the rise of the extreme right wing and authoritarian governments who represent a rich elite should not feel downhearted.

As the article remind us that we have lived through such events in our history before and each time such forces have been defeated and replaced by more liberal times after them.

The art of living in such times is remembering such facts and remaining both strong and full of hope!

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Time to Call a Spade a Spade!

Posted: 22 November, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

An article in one of the more progressive newspaper here in the United Kingdom made a very good point about the extreme right wing which making an reappearance around the world especially in Europe and the United Kingdom.

It basically said it is time to stop calling the various groups of nationalists, White Supremacist, extreme right wing and the such in West but call them by their proper name used now some 60 years ago that is Nazis.

As that word best describes their bigoted, xenophobic and fear based politics. It is high time we used that word again to describe them and their politics.

Add to this all the groups are basically the same that is they have the same aims to promote their twisted form of nationalism and patriotism, allow a small elite to prosper and to blame all their ills on one group which in the modern world is the Muslims rather than take responsibility for them themselves. All this much as in 1930s Germany and Europe though then the targets were Jews and Slovaks.

As I have said it is time to call a spade a spade and call these people what they truly are which is Nazis and not shy way from that word any more!

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Trump: The Right’s Failure!

Posted: 14 November, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

Looks like in the end Mr Trump will be like the Brexit Supporters in our government in so much he will run away from his responsibilities when things get hot for him.

Welcome to the modern right-wing incapable of doing anything other than blaming everyone else for their own failings

Personally I feel sorry for all those Brexit and Trump voters who expected so much from their leaders to be let down by them as in the end they were like their campaigns full of empty promises of an empty future.

Though I am also angry with them for being so stupid to fall for their lies at the same time as some of them actually claim they are intelligent and rational which by their actions is now very questionable indeed!

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Change is the Better Option!

Posted: 15 September, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

What is coming clearer and clearer to myself things need to change in this country in very fundamental ways on all levels.

Our society, culture and work places need to change as currently they are heading for the biggest meltdown this country has ever seen and it will not be pleasant for all involved.

My view is it is better to change now in a peaceful and control fashion than do nothing but bury our heads in the sand!

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Power Is But An Illusion!

Posted: 13 August, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

I think this is worth saying again that governments and corporations only have power over the people as long as the people give them the power.

We all have the choice to give them power of not as after all governments and corporations need people to exist without people they are simply nothing but pointless organisations.

But it does take a brave person to realise this and do something about it.

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Getting Lost In Red!

Posted: 11 August, 2016 in Comment, Life, politics

Those of you out there cannot of helped but not notice that my politics has become more red in recent months especially after the EU Referendum here in the United Kingdom, that is more socialist and less liberal.

Though to be fair my politics always had some socialist elements to it but over recent months because of what is happening here in the United Kingdom I have found myself becoming more and more anti-right wing especially Conservative because of their anti-European stance and the erosion economically, socially, morally and in my basic human rights all in the name of making the United Kingdom a safer, more prosperous and richer country.

The effect from where I stand is to make the United Kingdom into a country run by rich few at the expense of majority where moral, human rights even freedom of speech are sacrificed by a government not for the greater good but for an all ready super rich to make even more money at the expense of everyone else.

So in this background and the fact for the second time in my life time I have had to live through a Conservative Government which follows Neoliberalism policies at the expense of the people and the country itself which always leaves the country worse off than it started or results in a false boom which is always followed by deeper recession. Each time the country does not move on but goes backwards in so many ways and loses the respect of the world.

The first time being that of Mrs Thatcher’s Conservative Government of the 1990s which has many parallels of the current Conservative government of Mrs May and the previous one under Mr Cameron.

I want hope and I want things to be different not the some old government policies who help few and are leading the country into disaster all because of a defunct and now discredited political ideology called Neoliberalism which from my own observations has never worked and never work just how hard you try.

In this background I have finally got fed up of the Conservatives, Liberals and with the advent of Mr Corbyn who has shown by his actions and sheer belief in himself has given me a new hope and belief that the politics of the United Kingdom does not have to follow the path of the Conservatives and their now defunct Neoliberalism policies.

There is an alternative envisioned by Mr Corbyn and his supporters which returns back to a more modernised socialism which embraces the ideas of a fair, inclusive, community and a progressive United Kingdom which reflects a more modern world rather than old world and archaic of our the current United Kingdom under the Conservatives.

We need to reset the balance of this country back towards its socialist roots which created the NHS and encouraged people to get more involved in politics and the community. If we do not there is no real hope for this country as currently it is heading towards a big fall it will never recover from.

So as I grow older and more frustrated with the world around me my politics and views have become more and more socialist to a point I actually joined the Labour Party. I have become more sure that the hope and dreams of a better future here in this country lies in a future which involves more socialist views here not in conservative views.

In the end I am getting lost in the red of socialism!

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Over the years I have spent on various Social Networks the one thing I have learnt to my cost is to keep those people with Right Wing, especially extreme Right Wingers, at arms length as they have always had an extremely negative effect on my time on various Social Networks.

I now routinely block them on all the Social Networks as I cannot be bothered to get into discussions with them any more as they always end up the same way. That is, especially with the more extreme Right Wingers who have a Christian bent, always ends up with verbal abuse even threats from the people in question. They always end up saying the same thing and accusing you of the same thing the most common one being you are an evil lefty or godless heathen.

In the end I got really bored with the same old circular arguments from these people sometimes it as if they all read from the same script and they seam incapable of deviating from this script. It got so frustrating in the end it aggravated by depression to a point I had to leave one Social Network for a period to recover and re-marshal my thoughts again.

So now I keep them at arms length as it is really pointless to argue with someone who is not going to listen to anyone especially those who dare to disagree with them. Add to this these people are not above using intimidation and threats against anyone who dares to stand up to them.

Though I now watch those who watch the Right Wingers and still comment on the actions of the Right Wingers especially when their actions insight hate and bigotry. But I am not prepared to talk to these people any more as I find them as people a total waste of skin and my time!

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In his strange way Donald Trump has highlighted the absurdity of fascism and what it really means to those who had forgotten or thought it would never happen again in our modern world. It is one of these cases when someone is caught in their own delusions voices them to world around them brings people back to earth and they realise what they were thinking is wrong on so many levels.

This once again is a told you so moment my end as did point out in my journals here again and again what this unfounded hate of Muslims would lead to in the Western World, Donald Trump twice currently voiced the direction this hate of Muslims would lead that is his suggestions that all Muslims in United States to ware badges in public and the banning of Muslims entering the United States.

I find this very sad as people world wide have walked into this situation with their eyes closed especially in the United States and not do something early about the rise of the extreme right wing regardless if they had paid attention to modern history it would lead to innocent people being discriminated against even killed.

All the warning messages where very evident both in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe that the extreme right wing was on the rise using the perceived terrorist threat of Daesh to build a power based on the hated of Muslims claiming that all Muslims were terrorist and a threat to the West. But people chose to close their eyes thinking that such groups could not get into power again.

But Donald Trump has shown just how close to real power some of these extreme Right Wing groups have got in the Western World to a point where they can now publicly and openly spread their message of hate targeted currently at Muslims. He has also shown the absurdity of fascism in so much it is not real politics but a litany of pure hate against someone whose only crime was to believe in the wrong religion, colour or skin or is different to their twisted views of normal.

The Western World should take Donald Trump rise as a warning and step back from the path it has chosen towards a hatred of a people who are innocent and also suffering greatly at the hands of same Muslim terrorists. These being the Muslims who have suffered more at the hand of these Terrorists than the West ever has after all why would the Syrians leave their homeland to a world which is full of people who hate them as that is better than them staying in Syria.

What needs to come out of the whole sad Donald Trump affair is people to stop and think about the direction the West is going as we do not Donald Trump will be the first of many such people in public life who will spread this litany of hate which will not stop with Muslims but will grow to include homosexuals, Non-Christians, Socialists and anyone who dares to be different.

Time I think that people in the West need to wake up to the direction our societies are going before it is too late as ypu really do not want people like me telling you I told you so again!

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Here in the United Kingdom because of the possibility of the European Membership Referendum, still not a forgone conclusion now, and the referee problems of Europe but to the Wars in the Middle East the ugly head of the Extreme Right Wings has reared it’s ugly head again in our politics.

They much as their predecessors in Europe and even here in United Kingdom work on the fears of those people by taking the full advantage of those weak willed and plainly stupid people who believe everything has gone wrong with this country is because of foreigners. In modern world this being Muslims and the European Community who are both a threat to the independence and Christian nature of this country.

As always they do not back their political views with well thought out arguments or let alone real facts or truth but a mixture of intimidation, threats, propaganda, lies and even physical violence to those who dare stand up to them.

Well after all much like their predecessors if they allowed anyone to actually analyse their political beliefs even manifestos it would be found they are simple litany of hate and fear from some of the most intellectually changed people in society who simply no better.

They only exist in our society when times are hard for all of us and always on exist because we have a section of society who do not have the balls to work out of the issues and find it easier to blame people than actually do anything!

So as always the right wing will never change spots much like a leopard most of the time and I for one will not be a sheep but my own man regardless of their intimidation and threats!

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It Only Takes One Voice!

Posted: 13 May, 2015 in Comment, Life, politics

I was talking to someone in Second Life about the way people could change the world or have the power to change the world and what came out of the conversion was they thought that no one person could could change the world!

The upshot of which they were convinced there was nothing anyone could do to change the world and we should accept the world the way it is. On top of which no one individual could start a change the way things regardless the known fact that certain individuals within certain aspects of the world have changed the whole course of history which include likes of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and even Professor Hawkins.

All this made even more sadder that the person in question was a Parisian in so much they live in a city and country in which the people themselves have changed the whole direction of their country by exerting so called people power to remove an oppressive establishment and replace it with an establishment which is far more responsive to the people.

Add to this our recent world history which is littered with the results of people power though some of which I will admit have not always resulted in desirable results for the everyone. But have all shown that people really have the power to stand up against governments and corporations and change things. The most memorable for us in Europe being the ending of the Walsall Pact in Eastern Europe which was lead by the people themselves and not done with military force or back room deals by shady politicians and the such.

But the one thing all these things have in common they had to start somewhere with someone having the idea in the first place or actually saying to someone else things do not have to be this way do they?

All these events should remind us that it only takes one voice to say something to change the world and this voice to be listened to by another person and so on.

Plus I think people need reminding that the only reason things are the way they are in the Western World with Governments and Corporations is because we the people allow them to be that way and do not question things.

We all need to be reminded that without us both Governments, Establishments and Corporations are nothing without us as they need us more than we need them in the end as after all they are all constructs of our society and not of the natural world!

In conclusion we all have the power to change the world or at least our own world around us and we have always had the power and choice to do so. Do not listen to those who say we don’t have such power as they have not woken up to what we all are.

It only takes one voice and one person to listen to change the world!

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