Thursday 31 March 2016

Trailer - FIREFIGHTERS, ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS Expose 9/11 Myths


Even the sheeple know it!
Buildings don't fall straight
down unless it's demolition.




After viewing the trailer you might want to look for:
Firefighters, Architects and Engineers Expose 9/11 Myths (2015). Playing time: appx. 1hr 36 mins. 

911 sparked two major wars, and as one engineer said pointedly, the controlled demolition of US civil rights. 






Wednesday 30 March 2016

Do you believe in miracles?


clock constantly running-up
the cost of arming the world

Either Osama Bin Laden hiding in a cave in Afghanistan managed to devise a miraculous way to defy Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion and bring down three buildings in free fall time with two planes or the 9/11 Twin Towers and the nearby Building 7 (owned by the same person) were preset for demolition.

You can have the one or the other. The choice is yours. It is, it seems, as simple as that.

For the sake of future generations we must all address the miracle or non-miracle without flinching from the truth.

Our post 9/11 lives are characterized by lies and fear and mass migration from war zones. We are traumatized by never-ending wars against unseen enemies.

"What you had with 9/11 was an investigation that ignored all observable facts." 
William Binney - former Technical Director, US National Security Agency

"The 9/11 put-options must be the most extraordinary coincidence in the history of mankind."
Bloomberg

"The Vice-President requested that we not investigate."
Senator Tom Daschle

"The media is not there for you. It is there to manipulate you."
New York Firefighter

"The young man asked: 'Does the order still stand?' "
Norman Mineta

 "We have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the official account of 9/11 is false." 
Lt. Col. R. Bowman, US Air Force

"We need the truth, because without the truth it is impossible to improve . . . the 9/11 attacks were a global state terror operation permitted by the administration of the USA which had foreknowledge of the operation yet remained intentionally unresponsive in order to make war . . . " 
Ferdinando Imposimato (Honorary President of the Italian Supreme Court)

It might pay you to set aside 2 hours. Search for: Incontrovertible new 9/11 documentary by Tony Rooke. A documentary by policemen, firefighters and soldiers for policemen, firefighters and soldiers.

"The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself . . . the secret government must be asked as to who made the attacks."
Osama bin Laden 9.28.2001

"George Bush, come out with your hands up!"
Prof. Emeritus Morgan O. Reynolds



Tuesday 29 March 2016

Postcards from Europe



Palm tree in winter


Two palm trees in winter


Dear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(append name of friend or relative here)

Good news! We are now safely arrived in Europe. As you can see it's just like home. Journeying westward we begin to sense how the American pioneers of yesteryear must have felt. The Land of Merkel, our Promised Land, is also to the west, somewhere beyond the far horizon. We are living in a temporary camp, as it's called. It's behind barbed wire. Tomorrow, equipped with rain jackets and new shoes from the Red Cross, we resume our march. Like American pioneers of old we will one day apply for our half an acre and a cow, that is to say a council flat and a Dieselgate car.   

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
space for signature, or thumbprint


"Lugner for President"



My vote goes to Richard Lugner! Unfortunately, I don't have a vote. But if I did Mr. Lugner is the man for me. And what a first lady!

Dear Herr Lugner and First Lady Cathy,
Good luck with your campaign! When you are elected may I suggest you invite Prince Harry to become an Austrian symbolic monarch. His Welsh Cavalry (motto: Nothing in front but the enemy!") still march to the music of Radetzky today, and still fly the double-eagle standard above their castle in Wales. Austria must join the international multi-language club of nations, which includes countries such as the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, and my own little country of Wales. Something must be done at once about the obnoxious "Halt die Klappe Alpenrepublik!" attitude of big brother Germany. (Claus Pandi - today's Kronen Zeitung). Adopting English as a second official language, and maybe Italian as a third, would signal to the Germans that Austria is an independent and forward thinking country. Austria needs to find a positive new way for the next generation.

Like ex-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger here is another Austrian prepared to "clean house!"

Vote for Richard Lugner!






Monday 28 March 2016

Reflection and Movement in Venice


Street scene in Venice

strings 
of bright lights 
caught 
in a window

vis-a-vis 
with another
an alley 
with people

walking
straight through
the window 
displays

with
echoing strides
approach
-ing and dying

for the camera
unseen
in the light
of reflection 





Saturday 26 March 2016

Imagine


Imagine
Joseph the Wealthy
Friend of Jesus
And well-in with Pilate
Conducted
The following scenario
And Pilate played along

The washing of hands
Maybe the order
From someone
Somewhere -
make it look good
But don't kill him
And when it's all over
withdraw the guard
from the tomb

Then others came
and took him away
And healed him with ointments
And herbs
And they sailed away
In an organized convoy
Led by Joseph the Wealthy
After Thomas had placed his hands
In the wounds

And imagine they arrived
In the land where the word for heaven
Is GLAS
As in Glastonbury

And imagine the 500
Who made their way there
Speaking to the people
Curious to know from whence they had come
And why they had travelled so far

And imagine the story of the son
Of the house of David
The grail himself
INRI
The carrier of the royal blood
Who was crucified
To rise from the dead
Who was now standing before them

Imagine that Blake
Had it right
And a new Jerusalem became a reality
In the land of GLAS
where Welsh was spoken
In those days

And ask yourself why
The holiest man
In the country's history
The patron saint
The inspiration for Padraig
and others
Should bear the name David
Even unto today.



Thursday 24 March 2016

John Collier's Lilith



"I am looking forward to a time when ethics will have taken the place of religion . . . the benefits can be attained by other means which are less conducive to strife and which put less strain upon the reasoning faculties." Sir John Collier (1850-1934)* 

According to Wikipedia the above painting can be seen in the Southport Gallery.


*My emphasis.


Wednesday 23 March 2016

The Garden of Lilith 1

The Garden of Lilith 2


Bookmark

The Harvest (detail)

Liberation and Peace for Palestine (detail)

The artist is Bruna Doria. Her work is to be seen until 3rd April 2016 at Museo Civico dell Laguna Sud in Chioggia (admission free) or in the short video above.


Monday 21 March 2016

Bardic Chair



Awarded to 'Weaver of Grass' for today's post about rubbish.


Vote for me!


Scariness

With all the answers.

  An old familiar - bullshit.


Not since the years of Hitler's Bierkellerpropaganda have we experienced such scary electioneering in a major western democracy.

In Deutschland the result was the fall of the Weimar Republic and the passing of emergency powers to clear the way for the Führer, a megalomaniac bent on forging dangerous pacts and understandings with his 'friends';  Mussolini,  Franco,  Stalin,  . . .

Who saw it coming? Not Britain's PM Neville Chamberlain returning from Berlin all smiles and hailing "Peace in our time . . ."


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Sunday 20 March 2016

Catherine Wheel



St. Catherine's Church in Chioggia, near Venice, Italy, is a place for Catherine Wheel aficionados.

There are two wheels on the facade, although the one next to the figure above the door is not easy to make out.

There is a third wheel with the spikes (or flames) clearly visible, built into the stone floor of the courtyard (below).

Inside the building there are more wheels. There is a golden coloured Catherine Wheel fixed to the ceiling directly above the centre of the aisle and another featured together with a spear on the side of pulpit. There may even be others.

As a youngster in Wales the brightly spinning Catherine Wheel was my favourite firework. On Guy Fawkes Night, the 5th November, I was allowed to pin the mysterious wheel to the coal shed door and set alight the magical blue touch paper.

First the red glow and then the small shoot of golden flame. Quickly it rocked back and forth and then as I held my breath it set off spinning on its mad journey; it was a glorious sight to young eyes; spitting out its silver and golden sparks, making those hypnotic fiery rings, until all too soon its power was spent and it idled almost suddenly into the darkness of lost light.


This post linked to Inspired Sundays.


Saturday 12 March 2016

Orange Unpeeled / Apples are not the only Fruit.


Unsheathed

The blade
to the peel

The skin which

Peeled off
in one

Complete strip

An orange

  Skinned
snake

Her smile was

Appealing
and
generous

Half
the blood orange

Shared

With her

Other half

  But

Who got the pip?

And never mind

Why?

Later
They reared
The fruit
Of their loins.


Wednesday 9 March 2016

Alexander Pushkin


Today, for some strange reason, perhaps it was browsing in banana box poetry book bargains, who knows how these things work, I thought of Alexander Pushkin. It was a Russian ship. A cruise liner sailing out of Canada. And because I'd come across a drunken sailor and assisted him back to his vessel I was invited aboard and thanked with vodka. I remember only that the vodka was brown, the colour of whisky. This is the real stuff, someone assured me.

And so to the poet of the same name as the ship. What other poet has an ocean going cruise liner named after him, I wonder. Perhaps there is a case for naming the next Cunard liner after William Shakespeare or Samuel Beckett or Byron or D H Lawrence but I doubt it will ever happen. The Brits, as ever, can't seem to see beyond the royal family. I'll wager the next Cunard will be named Prince George. Any takers?  To reign or to rain, that is the question. Now shuffle those cards.

Epigraph to The Queen of Spades

In rainy weather
they gathered together
to play.

To double - redouble -
a stake was no trouble,
they say.

They did not find it hard
to entrust to a card
their pay,

So no day of rain
ever slipped by in vain,
 they say.

-----
Alexander Pushkin
1799-1837




Saturday 5 March 2016

Votiv Church, Vienna




The building was erected to thank God for saving the life of Kaiser Franz Josef, then aged 23, who was stabbed in the neck by a would-be assassin;  fortunately the wound was relatively slight due to the sharp reflexes of the monarch's companion.

The photo was taken from Sigmund Freud Park which is opposite the main entrance. Freud's old surgery, now a museum, is only a couple of blocks away and the good doctor would have passed the twin spires on his daily amble to his favourite coffee house.

I've been inside this imposing edifice on a couple of occasions; first time it was to listen to a concert of gospel music, and the second time it was to visit an exhibition of contemporary art.

The church was in the news a year or two ago when a group of asylum seekers occupied the building for several weeks as a protest against overcrowding at an asylum centre in the province of Lower Austria. The protest gained much media attention.

The advert you can see on the hoarding is for a popular brand of milk chocolate from Switzerland.

This post linked to Inspired Sundays

Thursday 3 March 2016

Fairy Tales


A Russian man has been charged with upsetting Russian Orthodox Christians  by saying that their God does not exist and that it's all a collection of Jewish fairy tales.

If convicted, punishment could be up to one year in jail. Source: BBC News.

I'd recommend the defendant produce a copy of The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silbermann at the hearing. Many passages will corroborate his viewpoint.

Subtitled Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts the book lends much weight to the fairy tale hypothesis and supports the idea of free speech and open discourse.


Visual Verse Poetry Challenge


Visual Verse is a magical and challenging poetry website. 

Poets and other writers are allowed a maximum of sixty minutes to produce a bardic gem. 

I discovered the site in February and being tempted I tossed into the in-tray an unpolished stone. 

Each succeeding month participants are summoned (an email reminder) to take up the challenge. February's subject of interest was Grant Wood's iconic masterpiece American Gothic.



There is much to explore in the website's archives. There you will find poetic jewels. Enough quality and variety for all tastes. 

My February poem In God We Trust appears on page 129 of Volume 3 Chapter 4. 

For March, the editors at Visual Verse are looking for contributions of an unusual nature. 

Take a look. And don't be afraid of having a try. 

With a little time pressure the old grey matter may be radically stimulated . . .  

Good luck! 



Tuesday 1 March 2016

Bright Ideas No. 99


Haiku Collage


Dedicated to the memory of the many millions of innocents killed and maimed between the end of World War II and today by weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass propaganda. 

My special thanks to the lady at the Vienna Künstlerhaus for the postcards. 

Film Reel Collage made using cut-outs from 
 Votiv Kino programme dated February 2016