Happy New Year?

Goodbye 2014

This is the time of year when people sit back and reflect on the year gone by, but what actually happened and what they remember can be two different things. It is only human nature to just remember the pleasant things and brush over the serious things that have a real world impact. For example people will remember the legalisation of gay marriage with great fondness and forget about the remarks made by members of UKIP, that blamed this milestone event for the terrible flooding earlier in the year. People will remember the World Cup in Brazil this summer, but they will conveniently forget the protests and anger towards FiFa by the people living there.

 People may also remember the strikes by public workers, but what the mainstream media has done so well is, make them seem like the villains of the story and completely glosses over the main issue which is: Austerity doesn’t work all it does is transfer the wealth from the people to the top .1%, in actual fact the debt has increased, this is plain robbery!

To begin with the most urgent issue which is the flooding, people may recall the devastation caused by the floods but many people will still be reluctant in making any connection to climate change. For at least the last five years the summers have shortened while the winters have started to be more and more extreme and longer- this is what climate change is, and because it is happening sooner than expected we will have very little time to adapt, all you have to do is take a look at how this country responded to the events in January!

 And what is also rather terrifying is that this backwards thinking government has adopted the dirty and most environmentally damaging method of getting so called clean energy: FRACKING, which the U.S have had for about 10 years and it has proven to increased the rate of health risks and isn’t even worth it in economic sense. And all this talk about it bringing jobs and prosperity to the area is complete horse crap, what they don’t tell you is that they are short term jobs and they will most likely leave you with a hefty cleaning bill.

 I mean the very fact that politicians had to give “incentives” (which is just another word for bribery) should tell you how much this enterprise will benefit the ordinary people- Not that much! When the government is more interested in making a profit and helping corporation rather than the ordinary people, then it is time to worry, because the main objective for a corporation is only interested in get a large profit and boosting their share-price for the shareholders, they couldn’t give a damm about the people. And when that starts to happen, the people will be made to suffer.

Talking about the government caring more about corporate power than the people, earlier this year they tried to force Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO’s into the market. Does anyone see a pattern emerging? They tend to follow everything the States are doing, just 10 years later, and again it has been proven that gmo’s lead to long term health risks. But you see, a multinational doesn’t care about long term risks to your health as long as they make the quick profit before anyone notices and by then they’ll do everything they can to dismiss your claim that eating gmo’s caused it.

What can the people do when the people they elect are working against their interests?? Kick them out and make a new government. That’s what a democracy is all about, active participation by the people…. But then I forget.. This isn’t a democracy it’s closer to a Plutocracy/ Neo Feudalism/ Corporatism or just the one that no one wants to admit: Fascism.

The “ powers that be” have already limited our ability to get our voices heard and one of the ways they have done it is by criminalising any and all forms of protest and by limiting our ways of getting information by controlling the media and treating whistle-blowers like traitors, when in actual fact the government has betrayed all of us and they will either use intimidation tactics to try and scare the journalist like Glenn Greenwald or they will send them to prison like the staff from Al Jazeera, who have been in an Egyptian jail for 368 days and counting.

They have even gone as far as trying to control the internet and make it harder for the average Joe to get access to information. Is this the acts of a free and open society? 

I haven’t even gone into the failed economics by Reagan and Thatcher whose failed economic policies have led to the disaster of today and the taking away of power by trade unions- to protect the workforce and giving more power to the Banksters( to screw over the workforce!) by giving them free reign to gamble with our life savings and when the crash happens again they can just help themselves to our lifesavings in the form of Bail Ins or the slow annexation of Gaza by Israel and how thousands of lives were lost in the “conflict” in the summer, which was a hugely uneven fight, or the importance of the Scottish Referendum or the ever wise UKIP and their “ Are you here illegally?” campaign, but not to forget the “ homeless spikes” in London… oh how compassionate this country is (!) One positive thing amount this country is that we don’t shoot or choke our own ( mainly black) citizen, unlike the US, but give it time, the police will soon be allowed to use Tasers on the public and don’t forget the water cannons that Boris the clown wants to bring in!

One can always read some of my previous articles to remind yourself about what significant things happened in 2014.( Or you could put aside your prejudices and watch RT and of course the Keisar Report, Thom Hartman or Al Jazeera)

But I leave it in your capable minds to determine what was important in the 12 months gone by…..Here’s to (the imminent crash of) 2015!

Happy New Year?