Decline and Fall of the American Empire and the Coming of Age?

Decline and Fall of the American Empire and the Coming of Age?

In the soon to be published Angel of Redemption, next volume in The Freedom Cycle, the inevitable alienation of a degenerate, fast fading empire is faced with a grim reality – extinction or the move to something akin to adulthood, sanity and true participation into a determined exploration into real humanity and positive evolution.

These stark realities and basic truths are presently witnessed by a dumbstruck world as being a far off, almost intangible possibility. As the serpentine, psychopathic hydra that is the Deep State and global cabal manipulates and manages America’s destruction, many  having rarely done any homework cannot and consistently refuse to acknowledge the direction and road presently traveled or herded along. If Darwin could voice an opinion he would, I am sure, agree this to be an exemplary example of  survival demanded, not so much by the fittest but of the intelligently informed. As few as these critical thinkers  presently represent, in spite of  global connectivity and suitable educative materials available, it is through absolute necessity this more individually intelligent and critically aware group must muster the exponential growth needed to affect everyone’s future for the better. us-marine-corp-saddam-hussein-fallsScenes of Saddam Hussein’s statue toppling, during the deception that was the Iraq War of 2003 raises its egregious head again in 2017 as Americans in Durham, North Carolina pull down a statue to the Confederate cause. Although most likely utterly ignorant of the causes, outcomes and why with all of that First American Civil War, these actions merely serve to show how one event, the Charlottesville engagement,  inevitably inflames and becomes a useful trigger to set off similar reactions around the country, like falling dominoes.

The Civil War and many of the supposed reasons for its occurrence have, like so much in US history, never properly been resolved, understood let alone learned from. Today many feel herd group activation by way of violent means is acceptable. Those that drive this imperative utilize this thought form to their own advantage. Irrational ill directed anger and vengeance is the mark of an authoritarian driven following. Its outcomes inevitably lead to greater and greater division, disorder and beg for the need to control through brutish force and repression. For those tweaking these outcomes – job done!

The decline of an empire always runs parallel with mob violence, mostly incomprehensibly stoked by those whose purpose is to ferment such chaos. Today unlike any time in our human history the achievement to distribute global chaos has never been easier nor more purposeful. Whether this will lead to an inevitable annihilation of the species or just a major readjustment will depend largely on those seeing through the curtain of deception. Tragically the time frame is almost meaningless for these things to transpire with positive outcomes.

The idea of America, or as it likes to refer to itself as the United States of America, coming to its senses is indeed a long shot at best. 3- Visions- George- WashingtonWay back as General George Washington sat in his command tent during the War of Independence, he was presented a vision and visitation by three ephemeral beings. Each of them laid out a future outcome. The first showed him the outcome of his present struggle. The second presented him with the future events we now recognize as the American Civil War. Insight into its resolution was presented. The third offered a future time when the decline and fall of an American empire presented itself confronted by the rest of the world standing up and declaring itself sick and intolerant of any more hegemony, psychopathic belligerence and infantile, despotic desires conquering the world.

Today it looks like we are presently living out this third vision presented over two centuries ago. Its outcome is in all of our hands.

That is why the Angel of Redemption then as now watches on to see where and how we might negotiate our own redemption. It was always going to be a close call and it is pretty obvious to most of us we have not gifted ourselves with much of a buffer.

For the sake of all our lives and earthly experience, I wish personally it turns out that the Angel, whose sword of truth can as easily swing in either direction, sweeps down and and helps us all cut away arrogance, denial, intolerance and angry stupidity so that we hasten growth and impetus towards evolution into what we laughingly so far have believed to have already created – a civilized society.

Hope springs eternal!

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Read the first volume of The Freedom Cycle –  Dreams and Realities
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Originally published on Toto’s Outsiders Blog

A Stink Far Greater than Sewage

A Stink Far Greater than Sewage

Terror is the weapon of all tyrants, all empires and all wishing to keep hold on their iron fist rule. If sanity, critical thinking and seeing through the veil of deception becomes too prevalent then it has always been common practice to tighten the screws.

Today’s screws are the very implement that has been created in order to personify and exemplify the real and present danger – Terrorism. Within its acts and very nature are all the ingredients that serve such draconian purposes of those in power and those wishing to maintain their hegemony.

In the UK it has been obvious the people, in spite of their myopic incredulous election choices of the past, are fundamentally more intelligent and clear thinking than most, especially their cousins in the USA. Thus the perpetration of so called “terror threats” has been carefully and emotionally charged to work on a somewhat deeper level than normal delivery, if any of this can be described as normal.

Thus the 7/7 attacks in 2005 to foster an ongoing reason for continued illegal and terror inflicted take down of even more democratically elected governments around the world, alongside belligerent Unites States of America’s Neocon plan of a World Order on their terms, played into the psyche of a British people robbing innocent blood and treasure. Any thoughts and concern for the blood and treasure of those states we participated and continue to participate in virulently ransacking, destroying and firebombing for our military industrial corporate pleasure and financial emolument is so often rubbed out instantly diverted through the xenophobic use of home kills. When home terrorism is not used then propagandised lies and misinformation is thrown like raw sewage in our faces.

Division, bigotry and the soft target of the Islamic world was sufficient to get the chattering, blood lusting revenge classes up in arms – pun intended. Demonisation of all those intent on bringing peace and stability is flouted then crucified on the cross of self righteousness Western allies cower behind, in pathetic attempts to justify illegal and unconscionable action .

This tool has been so often used to instill rank fear in the populace that even the 2012 Olympics made to illustrate a show of strength of how “we were doing all in our power to prevent such tragedies” was observed to be mere grandstanding in the face of the real truth of the situation.

Talking big and acting like warriors for right and justice were merely the stuff of TV and Newsprint drama with the concomitant assistance of billionaire mainstream media moguls to blast and bullhorn the message into battered and enfeebled heads whose emotional balance was so off centre. Anything easily associated with terror was enough to keep most of the population compliant.

What never fails to work on the popular psyche are actual blood, devastation and guts on the streets at home.

Because there have always been enough of us seeing through the emperor’s new clothes, calling him and his couturiers out with a loud cry of foul, means the need to cultivate means to staunch these truths become an imperative.

The last bastion of freedom to speak and truth aired has been the Internet, the main and last battleground. Control of that terrain has become the red line for the Powers That Be. The trouble is weapons of lock-down, censorship and denial are seen as  draconian and way beyond the pale. This has the effect of alerting even the less informed.

Cyber war although a legitimate threat is easily trolled out as weapon of choice, for purposes not only of criminal-like intrusion but also as a useful finger pointer to the obviously incriminated distraction criminals. Its fingerprints are easily forged, as we know from recent disclosures of CIA files by Wikileaks, to look like the usual suspects the elite always roll out. Of course Russia, Iran, North Korea and China to choose just some, become easy and physical targets for such plans and distraction during inconvenient elections, politics of tyranny and any reason substantiating offensive acts and behaviour.

Whether the goal is sport, tourism,invasion and encircling of independent democratic spaces – they are all fair game. As ludicrous as most of these claims turn out to be, lies told often enough become truth for an illiterate and ill initiated population.

However even these techniques are cracked open from even superficial scrutiny. Maintaining a ‘Russia did it’  theme throughout everything, it’s apparent the slightly more enlightened British electorate would not fall for that tripe. Thus Plan B is called for.

It’s obvious when the Conservatives felt they had an almost coronation- like procedure to enact winning a swiftly called snap election, running into their game plan with such hubris, arrogance and assumption as typified years of rule things could and would go most probably awry. Not helped by the rise, twice attempting to thwart his leadership, of a man and his true partners in opposition, of integrity, peace seeking and people caring and oriented. Simple care for each other, support for the distressed, needy, abused and forgotten hit the British nerve, always alive yet so often dormant recently. Awakened and compared with the spiv-like lack of empathy displayed by the sitting government greater problems began blossoming.

People started to see through the fog of cant, deception and downright lies. Lies and obfuscation began eroding images of strong and stable to look like weak and feeble. As more and more people rose to the truth facing them the regime’s weapon of ultimate choice was to nuke the minds of these renegades with terror: Terror from within their midst.

The ogre of 7/7 re-enacted in 2017 was called up and thrown willy nilly into first the Westminster terror effort, then Manchester and now the London Bridge attack. Alongside that the call for respect, remembrance, and muted silence for the dead and injured was essential for the overall dumbfounding of the people. Any vestige of sincerity towards these atrocities may rightly have been felt by the people but little other than superficial gratuity would be paid by those who feel they benefit from such atrocity. Divergence from this approach is always blasted as condoning violence and supporting terrorism.

Black and white.

With us or against us!

A slam dunk to shut up and put up.

As terrible as home grown deaths are and as tragic and heart wrenching, where for God’s sake is the same response and heart wringing sorrow been afforded the tens of thousands of families, children, men and innocent women slaughtered through the actions of the UK Governments, the Allied illegal warmongering perpetrated and the stigmatization and blanket blame insinuated, forced and projected onto the 1.5 billion people not of the faith so pliantly professed by their perpetrators?

Where is the freedom and democracy in all that?

Where is the reporting of all this foreign field butchery traduced day after day, month after month, year after year under cover of aid, support and bringing that so called democracy?

Where are the human rights of all those innocents slaughtered in Yemen by bombs made and exported to so called friendly dictator kingdom states whose records on human rights has yet to leave the Stone Age?

Where is the conscience of the nation when the naive belief of what they read and digest from press and television is so distorted and skewed towards the elite party line as to scream BS from a thousand metres?

It maybe fact that these travesties created in the UK at this time are offered conveniently to confuse, distract and divert attention from greater awareness. It would also seem most strange when polls showing a wake up inconvenient to the cause of the ruling elite runs parallel with triggering of what to all intents and purposes look more and more like false flag attempts maintaining the status quo.

Horror of horrors, our government and rulers would NEVER do this to its people!’ the cry goes up.
Conspiracy theory, if ever there was!’ others immediately judge.

Well, for the ill informed what we are seeing on our streets today is yet one more manifestation of the sort of control that has been perpetrated down centuries and more especially down the last two, to keep a lid on the status quo.

Blatant perpetration of our linked terrors in the UK over the past few months ought be viewed through the lens of desperation an exposed power structure tries vainly to control. Even if, at best, its fingerprints are not directly on the weapons and perpetrators, the paper trail inevitably leads back to the casus belli of initial invasions and subjugation of innocent peoples around the world through the perpetration by parties now openly accepted to not be extremist Muslims. War in whatever form leads to that no matter how we wish to sugar coat it. War of Terror, yes of not on, is the most specious, pernicious and abhorrent to any society considering itself civilised to any degree!

The last we need, as a nation, is to be forced into and controlled, diminished and staunched out of our right to voice and express ourselves. To suspend our right to vote out these puppet pariahs against freedom, traducing the very goal of peace – merely feeds the very ends expected not only from terrorist patsies used for these purposes but their masters intent on survival and rule at all costs.

Bottom line the terror inflicted in the Middle East, in Africa, in the Far East, Pacific and mainland Europe, Asia and the US are all down to the planning, creation and manipulation of forces under the control of those wishing to keep populations subservient, compliant and quiet.

The best we in the UK can do now is vote for the voices of peace, the voices wishing to uncover this cabal of criminality perpetrated by the Few. It demands the Many rise up in sufficient numbers to halt this cancer, cut it out and defy it once and for all.

It is time we stood up pen in hand and voted more sanity, integrity and all hope for future peace.

The alternative will surely make George Orwell’s vision seem like a picnic beside the Thames, assisted and instigated by a fabrication on that oldest of bridges in the capital, London Bridge,  to make it happen

#VoteLabour  #OnlyLabour  #WipeOutTerrorElites #WipeoutTerror

The Heavy Hand of Empire – The Dull Bell of Deceit!

The Heavy Hand of Empire – The Dull Bell of Deceit!

Every cheer of “Hail The Emperor“, every flag waived for victory of Regime/Party/Government, shouts of “Long Live [enter country]“, “Our Right is Might” “Hurrah for the King/Queen/President/Dictator/Puppet” is the sound of a dulled, duped and despised populace by a psychotic Elite, impressed on nothing other than their own power, vanity and enrichment.

We all know power corrupts!

To create a surge of popular support all manner of travesties need implementing. The first to be proffered is THE VOTE. This is then followed by heavy insistence on the existing principle of FREE AND FAIR. Once this has been consumed the placatory dessert of TRUTH AND FREEDOM is a mandatory offering. All these essential First Responders are followed in quick succession by a barrage of appeasement by way of promises of the easy to the wildly impossible.

The target in all this play has ever been – the mind of the recipient. Control that mind and you have full control. In days of old methods used and handled were brute force, belligerence and bellicose behaviour. Today progressing into so called civilised states these methods remain at the very centre of the psychopathic despots’ tool kit, yet neatly wrapped in wool of accepted flannel, namely propaganda, lies, deceit and distraction.

undercoshIn days gone by it was easier to crush a population to the will of the Elite through force brutal oppresionalone. Limited and exclusive access to education enabled fear through harassment by praetorian guard, special forces, militarised police, army units or religious leaders to maintain a quiescent people under control and under the cosh.

Today the Internet offers an arm for the freedom fighter while at the same time creating a tantalizing divisive tool of deception for the powers that be. An overkill of information does not procure an education for those participating in its availability. On the contrary social media becomes a drug of addiction and an impression of invincibility to speak loud and vocally to a world perceived to be listening. Most of the time these resonate as the echo of a hollow box, when used without thought or planning, negating the impact most messages and communication could achieve.

The Viral Weapon is a much hyped and poignant methodology. Its counter use by those most fearing its potency, comes through flamboyant distracting fluff thrown out by media and control, like cake from a royal carriage. It ends up splattered over mindless attention spans of sycophants, bottom feeders and the fully ponerized. When used strategically it carries a wholly more relevant and effective message. A message of truth, moving under the radar and mortally wounding any elite messaging. Truth, reality behind manipulated circumstance and the awareness of being played like a fiddle usurps the chintz of celebrity, here today gone tomorrow ‘Awesome Wow’ exciting and stimulating craving of a shallow and superficial emotionally divided population. The repetitive, toxic and embedded nature of memed mind games sidelines real messages from its widest audience, yet when exposed propaganda crumbles into dust with the effect of the reciprocal torch of focus shining back on the true manipulators.

For many the constant barrage of deceit throws down a challenge too far, subduing weak minds. It leads to surrender, quiescence and ultimate collusion through silence becoming the berth of choice.

It would be both fatal and foolish to believe we have to  “Abandon hope all who enter here“. Social media communications may be described as “a hollow echo chamber” by those very well aware of its dangerously challenging nature  but it is never enough to slaughter the effect it can have, used tactically and through the power of the many, to redefine the greater picture.

Their message to slag off its relevance while denying its potency, to all who use their critical faculties, further accentuates the desperation of action to ban, sideline, diminish or demonize it. These are the tactics of a frightened elite, fearsome media losing its audience against the rise of the popular voice. I could have used the term ‘Populist’ however the Powers That Be (PTB) manipulate this word, as with so many others, in a very pejorative way. It is the same with their description of the other side of the story told being described as ‘Alt media’ and Fake News – intimating their legitimacy as dubious at best. The whole campaign of Fake News turns on this deceit. Whenever fake news (propaganda) is disseminated by the mainstream, so as to avoid the lens focusing on their fake, dissembling pieces, they lash out and blame those challenging and telling the other side, the greater truth. These tactics are as old as the hills. Trouble is today they are becoming more and more transparent, so as to awaken those previously somnolent into an alert, awakened state.

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Not one of us can afford to lay back on our laurels at times like these. We often hear the cry: ‘What can I do to effect change in the world?‘ – this question is either a search for action or more likely the response rosa-parks---legacyof an overwhelmed and conditioned mind constantly told how powerless one person is towards making a difference. This is the greatest lie. A ripple always starts with seemingly minuscule action, able to turn into a tsunami of change far greater than believed. Rosa Parks, with her steadfast challenge to racial segregation comes to mind – one of many thousands.

Everyone has at least another to share with, one to challenge and persuade of a more compassionate, empathic and caring path. Where there are two there is even greater reach and so on and so forth. All within our present connectivity and environment. Only if we truly support and believe what we feel, if only we put those beliefs into action for others to experience, witness and observe will change be at least stimulated. The rest is out of our hands!

We can never change anyone.

What we can do is through example, considerate manner, listening and offering alternative viewpoints, feed others enabling development towards their own change. If that necessitates releasing a personal goal for the collective betterment then selfless service is precisely what changes the world!

Empires fall when critical mass of such actions takes place.

We are at a point today when that is not only demanded but is within our reach.

Never let anyone refute that truth. Turn the dull bell of deceit into a celebratory ringing in of cooperative collective consideration where the many are served, not the few!

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Read more of the research and the story of uncovering the mechanisms of global control in Dreams and Realities
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What We Feed You is How We Play You

What We Feed You is How We Play You

“D’ya see that great movie the other night. Wasn’t it awesome?”

“So emotional!”

“My favourite soap is so real to life, isn’t it?”

“Love the blood and guts. Wanna go and blow those rag heads to Hell”

“Aw, coulda cried my eyes out. So sad she lost her man”

“We’ll show ‘em exceptional!”

“I so want to be that guy/girl.”

“Make Believe sure, but I’d love to just get lost in that fantasy world right now!”

It has been the dream of every despot, control freak and tyrannical power entity to be able religion-fakenewsto control, mind meld and subject their every citizen to the will of the ruling elite. Bloody oppression on a local scale was the recipe of choice in ages gone by. Religious edict has always been the ‘causus controlata’ down the ages, irrespective of original intention by instigators of whatever belief system. Today these control freaks have been blessed with an overarching and wet dreamed answer to their prayers in the the form of successful penetration through technological advancement. Far from setting us free it has been purloined and used as the main successful tool for our own self selected imprisonment and/or demise.

For those never having experienced life without the pernicious, invasive creep of things technological, these statements may seem irrational fear mongering nonsense and fuddy duddy rubbish. Oh, ye ignorant masses!

With the innovation of moving images at the end of the 19th century, advancing rapidly towards today’s steroid punched ‘entertainment industry’, a vast all encompassing art form has been corralled into the mind controlling, fear inducing desires of the Empire.

No, not the cinema chain, the ruling elite!

propaganda-globalHollywood right from its outset was created and made then and today in its horrific mode, to capture, steer and inculcate hearts and minds. Our emotions, especially unrefined, raw emotions, untrained to be under intelligent control, become rich fields for exploitation and messing with.

Nah! Harmless fun, distraction and entertainment, you say.

Fun it can be, harmless definitively and absolutely not, distraction certainly and entertainment – well that depends on who is really being entertained.

Some may feel I am harsh in my appraisal. Others will consider me a party pooper on theirpropagandamediaentertainment choices’. So be it – however until we use our mind, our critical thinking as to what ends and for why this whole industry is so full of glitz, glamour, money, sex and manipulation – well I feel even in those few words many might spark a chink of ‘aha light’. But let us assume that is not the case. Let us just follow the money. By the way the best way to track down dirt, deceit and malevolent intent is by doing precisely that – follow the money!

The entertainment industry – be it music, film, art, television, newspapers (MSM is truly that nowadays) online distractions – has several goals. A main one, for all creaming the most profit, is to serve agendas of masters/owners/Deep State that utilise their inherent expertise for propaganda, mind control and desensitisation of the masses . While so many believe, blissfully ignorant or uncaring of endgames, the very powers instigating these modalities are occupied in, they drink in the lie that truth tellers are mere tinfoil and conspiracy. This creates distraction, division and opposite camps infighting. An abject, intended outcome from the start. However to focus on what we are universally being served is the object of this article.

I need to clarify my interest – I come from a lifetime spent in the ‘industry of illusion’. You could say I served the propaganda masters fully and for selfish intent. Well you would be right.

I saw the advertising and film industry as a marvellous channel for my creativity and rosedreams-cover-600-400 to be a significant master of the arts. What I failed to take on board and recognise was the full feature, the main attraction behind the main attraction, if you will. Experience and years have helped open my eyes and see the real hidden pernicious creature behind the curtain. The Wizard was truly non existent – read my book Dreams and Realities to navigate that underbelly, a con with feet of clay, supported only by the belief in the Yellow Brick Road to dreams offered temptingly but never allowed to realise in the true potential those denying it allow themselves. You are never allowed to join the club unless you live by their rules.

There are so many examples to cite along the rocky road to propagandised perfection, however I will merely take a couple I came across today that inspired me to write this.

Because we are being hit tsunami-like with the well proven and successful operation called entertainment , we have become so distracted, so divided among each other and so unclear and incapable in recognising truth from lies. Where to start becomes a minefield. Most take the position in comfortable ignorance, easy compliance and self satisfied stupidification. So easy to avoid uncomfortable and disrupting truths. Best slag off those awake to such things while remaining dead asleep.

I turned to watch a trailer for the film Arrival – a film I admit I very much wish to watch, as the underlying story is interesting. This of course is what makes any of us watch, gain interest. Nothing wrong with that, absolutely. Where the entrance of discrimination against intent (with the creators’ money) and objectives are concerned – it is vital to hold clear thinking, intelligence and reasoning on why such things, outside of pure hollywoodciaentertainment is concerned, are set before us.

The film deals with aliens first contact, comprehending and communicating between two parties. It also deals with misinterpretation, the usual blast’ em to Hell arrogance of the military mind against a sage and considered empathic approach. So many films of ‘aliens, otherworld, zombie’ subject based movies ‘entertain’ through the fear factor. the unknown. Whereas masters such as Hitchcock used the fear element as a dramatic tool and brilliantly correctly, fear utilised today is far more bent on drilling that fear deep into our core system,keeping it alerted awaiting a trigger through use of key word triggers (NLP) in daily life.

Easily identifiable ones come to mind triggering gut reaction or feeding a false sense of comfort on a daily basis: some are conspiracy theory, tin foil, collateral damage, boots on the ground, shock and awe, extraordinary rendition, Islamist, terrorists and on and on. On the political stage we get a real load of terms to control and persuade. Death with dignity (for suicide), austerity measures, quantitive easing, vertically challenged for short. Recently deplorables is a current derogatory term for those thinking differently and of course post-truth – as if there is something after truth!

Euphemisms are a propagandistic tool of misdirection. They ill serve a free people. But advocates won’t stop manipulating us until we insist that they “call a spade a spade” – Wesley J. Smith

The process of dumbing down through the rise of ‘dumb’ films is certainly one way of condoning and retaining ignorance levels and supporting lack of intellect to be a positive quality and hip to be lauded. Making heroes out of the Idiocracy is not only a cheap gag but also satiates those who exist on that level in their blissful state of ignorance.

Another film I ‘trailered’ was IT in which the excellent Pierce Brosnan seems to have put his name against, in order to settle some outstanding tax liabilities perhaps. The story line can be summed up in showing the audience that anyone, especially the CIA, though not portraying this film’s antagonist, can get into your life completely in our technological age of uber infestation. Whether the film has merits is for me irrelevant as the cash cow was always to implant even greater fear in Joanna Public. Mission – constantly ramp up the fear we are never safe from terror. That the terror is incoming and from the inside is an unspoken truth never ending investigation. They who set up, order and perpetrate these things have zero interest in any of us maintaining our sentient, individual beings with pertinent choice. Ah, choice that’s another great euphemism for freedom, democracy and the ‘Mercan way, itself a euphemism for the right to invade over 70 countries world wide in its relatively short existence.

Black Hawk Down, The White Helmets, Designated Survivor, World War Z, American Sniper, Argo and a host of others hidden in many other subject areas, are doing an excellent job conditioning the feeble minds of compliant sheep.americansniper

In the vein of mind control and softening up a population for current and future lock down, dehumanisation and denial of empathic life the movie industry, as sponsored and run by Hollywood and the Mainstream media, has been outrightly successful in pretty much all areas of its objectives. Yet alongside the proliferation of their fake news, these organs are awakening even the most somnolent with their more and more implausible BS. It is unsurprising the worm is turning. The battle now is for our minds, as the visionary Sir George Trevelyan once so rightly stated. The real battlefield and war zones are in our heads, in the way we perceive, think and make choices.

Since getting the best from these activities requires a serious dose of self education, it is incumbent on each of us to develop critical thinking, our capacity to filter truth from lies and a desire for far deeper research than is offered by way of the institutionalised news, entertainment and information outlets. By refusing to take up these arms we consign ourselves to the fate and mercy of tyrannical rule, dressed, cross dressed and displayed by way of celebrity icon, sexualised music totems and BS spread as our daily ration. The deep oozing, putrid and fast decomposing cesspit of gargantuan lies offer illimitable distraction and fascination to the pliant. Until we are able to disengage from the overt control pushed through entertainment and newspeak we will all fast forward down into the oceans of swill and sure death.

It is absolutely fine and proper we entertain ourselves but let us do so on a level so far removed from the base plate offered as the choice of tyrants, psychopaths and abject loonies. We feed the beast with our coin. We buy into their scripts and digest their dirt. Withdrawing our support may mean short term loss, yet supporting alternative funding for films of depth and insight is one step in the right direction. Crowdfunding such efforts, promoting the few films the music that matters and the art that is revolutionary is so far into our grasp as to leave no room for excuses.  red-carpetdr-1400x1866

Can you imagine a world created through the highest good, the profoundest intention and with the benefit of present technology? Then if you can you will know what a golden gift we have all denied ourselves and been denied. We may not be able to heal the past and our lost way, yet collectively through whatever means we each have at our disposal we can assure our future and our children’ future will not have to carry  a trace of the present contamination and toxicity.

Now that is a show I will pay the top dollar for!

When Fear and Darkness surround You – Remember!

When Fear and Darkness surround You – Remember!

When times are tough, the way not clear or fear comes far too close for comfort, remind yourself with this poem my father left for me so many years ago.

It brings things back to centre, avoids the smallness of things least helpful and reminds us all of who is the boss, who carries the key and who ultimately will walk free.

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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

~William Ernest Henley