Who does she think she is – the next Doctor Dolittle![1]
Or, perhaps, John “Grizzly” Adams, reincarnated.
Only last year I wrote a post entitled, “”Heaven Preserve Us From Animal Lovers” about an image of a very stupid girl standing neck deep in water while kissing a crocodile/alligator. It was a smaller reptile than this latest four metre monster.
When will folk stop thinking they have some magical power over wild animals that the rest of us mere mortals don’t have? This girl is in an incredibly dangerous situation, one she thinks she can handle because she has some power, a “special relationship”, with the alligator. All it will take is for one instinctive notion to fire off in the creature’s reptilian brain and she’ll be its next meal.
I wonder if she’s ever heard of Dicko Toke…
…he was a keeper charged with caring for crocodiles at the sacred lake Yamassoukrou on the Ivory Coast.
Here’s an excerpt from the International Business Times dated September 2012:
Dicko Toke had been a crocodile keeper at the sacred lake Yamassoukrou, Ivory Coast, for 30 years when “The Captain” dragged him underwater to eat him.
The artificial lake had been built by Ivory Coast’s founding father Felix Houphouet-Boigny Le Vieux around his presidential palace in the early 1980s.
Houphouet-Boigny wanted the lake to be blessed by animists and filled with massive crocodiles as the animals were considered almost sacred by his ethnic group – the Baoule.
Toke was responsible for looking after the animals, who all had fancy names such as Capitain, Vice-president and Parliamentary speaker. He would call them by name to the shore and feed them live chickens to entertain tourists.
His pose for a group of Pakistani UN soldiers, however, proved fatal. Capitain grabbed his robe and did not relax his grip despite being stabbed twice with a machete by Toke.
Toke, who was close to retirement, was pulled into the middle of the lake and dragged underwater with the help of another crocodile – Chef de Cabinet.[2]
Dicko Toke lasted thirty years before his charges finally ate him alive. I wonder if the young lady from Texas in the image above will last that long.
Who are the Jews? They’re a religious group, a minority section of the world’s population, a bunch of folk consisting of good and bad, with most residing somewhere in the middle. In other words, they’re just like the rest of us. With one unique difference, they have a special homeland, should they choose to live there, bequeathed to them under the Balfour Declaration of 1917 by the eventual victors of the Great War, an act designed initially to bolster the support of British Jews in the war.
It takes a lot to rile me these days. Even the crazed antics of the latest American to think he knows what he’s doing while inhabiting the White House, don’t really conjure anger in my breast. After all, I’ve lived long enough to realise that those who think they’re the answer to the world’s prayers are generally the ones who couldn’t organise a successful piss-up, even if it were held in a brewery.
But, dammit, reading an article in the Guardian today really caused my aging red corpuscles to steam. For some years now the UK’s Labour Party has been beset by bad press amid allegations of antisemitism within its ranks. It’s long been an almost standard form of attack by Tory governments attempting to besmirch their socialist opponents, and this latest one resurfaced around 2012 after Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, defended a London mural by the L.A. political activist artist, Mear One (Kalen Ockerman), after accusations it was antisemitic.[1]
Ockerman denied it was rascist, stating that the mural was about class and privilege, and that the figures sitting around the table were both “Jewish and white Anglos”, but Lutfur Rahman, the then mayor of Tower Hamlets, where the mural was situated, saw an opportunity for making political capital and made a great show of describing it thus:
“…the images of the bankers perpetuate antisemitic propaganda about conspiratorial Jewish domination of financial and political institutions”. [2]
Tower Hamlets was an ideal area for Mear One’s work of art. Run down, poor, with Black, Asian, and other ethnic minorities outnumbering the white population 2-1, it’s one of the world’s most diverse zones, and one of England’s most deprived. A mural decrying class and privilege was certainly not out of place.
Luftur Rahman was later banned from holding political office, accused by two well-known UKTV documentaries of corruption, and, according to the Law Society Gazette:
Lutfur Rahman, the disgraced former mayor of London’s Tower Hamlets borough, was today struck off the roll of solicitors and handed an £86,400 costs order.
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found all allegations put forward by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to be proven, bringing an end to a case which dates back nearly three years.
Rahman, a family law specialist, was ordered to vacate his position of mayor in 2015 after an election court found him guilty of illegal and corrupt practices.
The SRA subsequently charged Rahman with failing to uphold the rule of law and administration of justice, failing to act with integrity and failing to behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in him and in the provision of legal services.
On the third day of a hearing, a three-person tribunal this morning found Rahman liable on all counts.[3]
We can really take the opinions of this guy seriously!
Frankly, I find this the biggest load of bollocks I’ve heard in a long time, notwithstanding the crap emanating from the mouth of the Trump. There was nothing anti-Jewish in this mural. It’s all about the corruption of Capitalism and the possibly emerging new world order. The artist stated categorically that the figures represent an ‘elite banker cartel of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and the Morgans, and that the pyramid symbolised Freemasonry.’
Of the wealthy banking families he identifies one is Jewish, one is Protestant, and the other was possibly Episcopalian. Why did no-one condemn this art work as anti-religious, or even anti-Freemason?
The Labour Party is under attack because the present UK government is corrupt, hanging onto power by a thread, used foul tactics to coerce the public into narrowly voting for Brexit, and made an unholy mess of it since. Accusations of ‘antisemitism’ are now the weapons being used to turn voters away from what the Tories fear is a political party well able to wrest power from them.
Sadly, so heavily is the germ of ‘antisemitism’ embedded in society that there are influential members of the Labour Party themselves screaming the word from the party headquarters and calling for Corbyn’s resignation. Disaffected young people, easily swayed, are taking up the banner and demonstrating against Corbyn’s leadership.
I’m sick to my toes of this ridiculous guilt-trip we’re all supposed to be riding because of what occurred nearly one hundred years ago under the Nazis. Jewish people living outside of Israel are a minority, just like other minorities in countries throughout the world. As such they deserve to be treated with an equal importance to all other citizens – but not more so.
We non-Jews today did not send them to the Nazi gas chambers, anymore than we were responsible for the dreadful suffering of African slaves, or the other atrocities of empire. I was equally riled by the then UK prime minister, Tony Blair, apologising in my name for what my ancestors apparently did to Africans. As yet no politician has tried to apologise on my behalf for the slaughters that took place in India under the Raj, Malaya, or many other so-called nations of the British Empire. I sincerely hope they never do.
I abhor violence, or incitement to violence, against any community whatever their race or creed, but this antisemitism fever is nothing more than a block on freedom of speech, and a go-ahead to successive Israeli governments to steal more land and inflict more suffering on the Palestinians they’ve evicted from their homeland.
I began this by asking: who are the Jews? I believe the vast majority are simply good, ordinary, folk getting on with their lives like the rest of us. Unfortunately, there are a few in powerful positions, with huge chips on their shoulders, who believe we still owe them something for what happened a long time ago.
The British government has finally sunk to its lowest level in the latest bid to force the European Union into giving in to its demands. Ever since the vote to leave the E.U. was engineered by a group of billionaires and high-ranking politicians hellbent on handing British interests over to American corporations, the U.K. government has demanded to both have its cake and eat it. It expects to leave the Union, yet keep all the good bits it enjoyed while a member.
The European Union was founded on four core principles: freedom of movement of people, goods, capital, and services throughout the member states. Britain is now leaving the Union as of 11pm UK time on Friday 29 March, 2019. To date, no agreement has been reached and the negotiations have become increasingly acrimonious. Everything the U.K. has demanded has been in contravention of one or more of the E.U.’s founding principles.
To aggravate matters further, Southern Ireland (Eire) is a full member of the European Union, but shares a border with Northern Ireland, part of the U.K.. Under the Good Friday Agreement signed into law on December 2nd 1999, said border must remain open and free from any customs regulations. The quandary is how goods moving from the E.U. (Eire) into a non-E.U.country (Northern Ireland) can be controlled when Northern Ireland will cease to be a member of the E.U. customs union.
The E.U. negotiators expect the U.K. to find a solution to this apparently unresolvable problem and so far the British government has failed miserably to solve the issue to the E.U.’s satisfaction. Now, the U.K. government is demanding the E.U. find an answer. Understandably, the E.U. is saying why should it? It’s Britain’s problem.
Why not simply move the border to the Northern Ireland coastline with the Irish Sea? Oh, no, state the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, they’re not prepared to accept that reasonable solution. They demand the border stay put.
Why can’t the DUP be over-ruled on the issue? They were the only political party on the island of Ireland to vote against the Good Friday Agreement. They also worked relentlessly to ensure the U.K. voted to leave the E.U., despite a strong majority of Northern Irish citizens (56%) voting to remain in the European Union. They’re also the minority party (only ten seats) in the British Parliament, but keeping Theresa May and her Tory hordes in power. Without them the government would collapse.
In desperation, this rabble of a U.K. government has now turned to blackmail. Dominic Raab…
…the government’s new ‘Brexit Secretary’ (the last one just resigned) has stated that the U.K. may refuse to pay the 39 billion pounds ($51 billion) it owes the E.U. if no trade deal is forthcoming from Europe
This from the ‘Irish Examiner’:
British Government threats to refuse to pay its £39bn divorce bill to the EU are “an empty threat” but “disappointing”, Dublin has said.
Speaking yesterday, the UK’s new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, a prominent Leaver, said the UK could refuse to pay its £39 billion divorce bill to Brussels if it does not get a trade deal.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph and also speaking on BBC television, Mr Raab said there has to be an element of conditionality to the exit deal and how the UK’s future relationship with the EU is determined.[1]
There are, of course, two obvious solutions to the whole unsavoury business: either move the Irish border to the Irish Sea and stuff the DUP, or hold a second referendum. After two bitter years of squabble and dirty tricks the British people have had their fill of Brexit. A second referendum would almost certainly result in a strong “remain” vote.
Neither will happen because moving the border would mean the DUP no longer supporting the government, which would then fall, and a vote to remain would also, undoubtedly, bring down the government.
Holding onto power at all costs is all that matters in today’s politics.
