The future

It becomes more difficult every day not to become anti Muslim, yet this is the time that  European values have to remain strong and steadfast, immovable in our belief in the rights of others to practice their religion, our belief in diversity and multi culturalism. We have to believe that tarring a race, religion, sexuality or even gender with the same brush is harmful and against our values. If we begin a purge, or to punish whole religions and races for the crimes of the few, then we are truly losing the war, we are giving them what they want.
Yet, we do need to protect the innocent people from the violence that is growing. We have to ask some very tough questions about why France continues to be targeted and how it is being targeted. It is safe to assume that their intelligence agencies are not up to the job, at this time European security agencies need to come together, possibly even a Europe wide security agency. Yes, mosques must be closely monitored and Islamic schools strictly limited.
Yes, Western values, European values must be followed and insisted upon. No restrictions on dress, on food, Sharia Law must be stamped out if found in Europe, FGM must be stopped, and travel to radical countries possibly stopped completely, and of course and sadly the state must be allowed to electronically spy on its citizens, at least for those under any suspicion of radicalism or terrorism.
We all must lose some freedoms, as is the case during any war, we must win, we must keep our values. All of the above also applies to right wing nationalist groups, all hate speech, all radicalism must be fought. The difficulty is to not blame Muslims, the same as we don't blame Christians for attacks against abortion clinics or Christians for the policies of countries such as Venezuela that force the victims of rape to give birth. 
We have to accept a hardening of our attitude towards intolerance from all sides by being tolerant of all views...that do not impede upon our own laws and culture.
Europe is a beacon for the world, a beacon for democracy (it's not the USA!). When we reintroduce the death penalty, shoot innocent people because of the colour of their skin, racially profile sections of our nations and restrict the right to pray to whatever imaginary god they want, and forget that we are all innocent until proven guilty, and have vigilante governments(the Philippines), the list goes on. We must stand for our right to be a free, fair and just continent.

In Honduras, if a woman has a miscarriage she is investigated, in one US State they only outlawed marrying an 11 year old...this week!!!

Women in Northern Ireland still have to travel to the UK mainland for an abortion!

I hear;British Muslims must stand up to  these attacks;
They are powerless to control Isis from their nice houses in Birmingham as we cannot stop the fuckwits that patrol Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam for little kids. We are hated in  countries(Asian ones especially) for our compatriots' behaviour. The Muslims in Birmingham are as far removed from Isis as we are to Gary Glitter of the youth that destroy whole areas of Spain. The whole of the US is not responsible for those that rape in Okinawa. It is up to governments to stop this shit, not Mr Patel at number 57.

We grew up with Muslims that would drink and eat bacon,as we were they not religious, like the Indonesians who by the way if we declare war on Islam will become so radicalised that we will have a never ever ending war. If we wage war against Islam, the war will move East and intensify. We must only wage war against Isis and other radicals with the emphasis that they are not really muslim. What Isis and Boko Haram do is against everything the Koran teaches and must be exposed for what it is....evil, pure evil.

You know I believe in a full ground war and occupation and if you had read what I sent earlier a restriction on mosques, Islamic schools and zero tolerance of Sharia Law.  Protect the innocent Muslims whilst weeding out the radicals. More must be done, but a war against Islam is not the answer and unworkable, would make Vietnam look like a garden party.

2525

The year is 2525, colossal spaceships have been arranged to take human beings to Alpha Centuri and a very hospitable planet as the Sun is about to unleash a cataclysmic firestorm on the Earth, Mercury and Venus have already been destroyed. The British have lived in isolation for 400 years and are prone to throwing spears at passing aircraft as they have had no working electrical tools for 400 years, only Trident has kept Johnny foreigner off their shores. Eventually the World Council forces their way into London and find everyone speaking Cockney rhyming slang mixed with 2010s slang innit! After some time they persuade the British that they need to board the colossal ships, but at the last minute they refuse as they don't want to share the ship with any Polish, Romanians, or Arabs, little realising that such distinctions had ceased to have any meaning about 350 years ago. Mankind leaves, the British have a debate..

If we leave. #brexit # remain

Here's what will happen with a Brexit; The UK economy will go into free fall on June 24th, it already has started to show signs. Every major financial institution will move to Paris within 6 months. We will continue on our fall. Every major corporation will move within a year, they need to be in the EU, not rocket science really. After 2 years the expats and the British  unemployed in Europe will begin to return as the Europeans leave the UK unless they earn more than £30 k per year as rules state NOW for non EU nationals. 3 years, there will be a severe shortage of plumbers and nurses, good luck getting your sink or colon unplugged. Europe will laugh at us.
The US, China and India will make us bend over backwards to do any kind of trade, we are the scum at the bottom of the pan for them, we have to beg them for anything, our credit line has been cut....we owe SO SO SO much the debtors begin knocking on the door.
Scotland and Wales will leave and join a union with Ireland, get off the Titanic really.
The number of illegal immigrants has increased 5 fold as The French have taken away their control of Calais ( this is a given) we are still controlled by UNHCR rules and so our hands are still tied. Luckily things get so bad by 2020 the refugees have long gone, who would want to stay in such a shit hole?  Riots begin again on British cities, streets burn as they have before,  but never like this. The French laugh.

Forever England, Britain, Europe

#remain

#Brexit?

Myth 1. Exiting Europe will solve the refugee crisis. How? Since when has less cooperation helped anything? Britain takes hardly any to begin with, what may happen is that France and others may decide to let migrants cross their borders and let UK border patrol deal with them, with constant cuts to the UK border patrol, good luck with that!
Myth 2. Too many Europeans are a drag on the welfare system. EU migrants pay far far far more in tax than they get in welfare, wait until the 5m Brits living in Europe are forced to return home, then see a drag on welfare!
Myth 3. The UK pays £350m per week to Europe and this could be used to fund the NHS. That figure has been proven again and again to be absolutely false, it is £120m per week. Yes, that sounds a lot, but once you take away the farming subsidy and the EU grants for low income communities such as Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool and others it gets much lower. Also, do we want another Yugoslavia or Albania on our doorstep? European aid is used to help poorer areas, so that they don't become areas of despair and nationalism, this is done to protect us as well as help them. This aid will not stop whatever the outcome.  The Tories and the UKIP leader want to privatise the NHS, Farage has said this many times publicly, he is an ex city stockbroker after all!
Myth 4. Hitler invented the EU and our fallen soldiers will be turning in their graves. The EU was formed as the dust of 2 world wars settled as a way for Europeans to work together instead of fighting, which has worked absolutely, no EU member has ever fought another EU member. Both world wars were fought for the peace of the continent, the soldiers who gave their precious lives would have rested easy as we worked together peacefully for the last 40 years.
Myth 5. Britain will be economically better off. This is the biggest myth, the US and China and India have already stated that they will put the UK to the back of any trade deals a little like how Tesco deals with small suppliers, agree to our terms or sell elsewhere. The WTO deals were made with the EU as a block not with little England. The UK will need to renegotiate with Europe too and they will drive a hard bargain, why wouldn't they? Think Eurovision then you will have an idea how 27 Euro countries will treat any trade deals. The IMF, WTO, World Bank, The London School of Economics, The Economist, even The Bank Of England have strongly advised against the UK leaving, but Farage apparently knows better, doesn't  that worry you?
Good luck, you are gonna need it!

Worldxit

Jacob at 2

LANTAU WEDDING

Reply

Dear Jack Loreno,
You are my little boy, my little king, you always have been you always will be. I am sorry we are so far away from each other. I told you 2 years ago that I may not see you for a very long time, that doesn't make it right or any easier. I am 7,000 miles away Jack and as with many people money is very very short. I post photos of you,Joseph and me everyday. I never forget, not even for a second. You do have 2 younger brothers now Jack and I hope hope that one day you can meet them and be their big brother, they will love you so much, as I do. Your Grandma and Grandad have tried to visit you and have you visit them so many times but they are not allowed. I am not sure it is you writing these words or that you will get my reply, I hope you do. I love you my son more than you can ever know, you have been kept from me for so long and I hope that changes, but as I told you the last time we were together that is not up to me. If I have to wait until you are 18 I will wait, and then I will find you. I love you, I love you.

Someone published my mini travel journal!

http://www.pressenza.com/2016/04/postcard-from-philippines/

Brexit or not?

I have walked the streets of almost every European country, daytime and nighttime. From Sweden to Spain and Ireland to Turkey, France to Hungary and all in between and hitched through and travelled through all. The ONLY country I never feel safe in is England. I always hoped that the European way would rub off on us, but it does appear I am wrong. British people want to have their god given right to to not be able to walk the streets because  of violent gangs of children of teenagers who wear the flags of their tribes ruling the streets. We encourage our youth to wear our flag as they make our cities No Go areas for families at the weekend. Yes, proud to be British, but not today. The right wing take us down a path to disaster and xenophobia. It took the Harold Wilsons decades to make sure we came into Europe as a powerful nation in the centre of everything. We as a nation need to embrace Europe and learn from the way they treat their own people. At midnight on a Saturday night in Barcelona or Athens families play with their children, they don't hide inside their homes, in Berlin they have beer festivals where generations drink together, in France they set up artificial beaches in the middle of their capital without problems.  Where I come from the local pub turns into a full scale riot when the sun comes out and women can never ever be out after dark.
We need them,we need them to teach us how to become civilised, how to drink without killing each other. A darkness is settling over our world and we can only fight it together.
United we stand, divided we fall.

Liverpool, 1984. Torn by riots caused by The Tories was cast adrift by every Tory government, they never put money in as they knew they had no votes there. Europe did. The amount of signs that cropped up around Liverpool "A European Union Project".
Today the Tories are about to take over the board of the BBC, the first time in its history a serving government will choose the management  of our beloved BBC. We leave Europe, there will be nothing to stop the Tories from cutting another £30 from disabled people,nothing to stop them from introducing charges for primary schools.Nothing to stop them giving banks more bonuses and powers!  Europe  is our only defense , our only defense. Cameron is running a quasi campaign, but inside he is waiting to become our overlord, changing election rules, changing human rights rules, right to protest laws, everything. We are walking into the biggest trap laid in history, a trap that will chain our children for generations to come. Wake the Fuck up and see what is in front of you!

How many times has the European Court of Human Rights overruled a Tory govt on how much a person needs to live, or how a person is given access to free and impartial legal representation? We only hear about terrorists, but European conventions have protected many more normal British people being shafted by the British government.
Only this week we see that 500,000 British disabled people are being fucked by the govt. People with limbs missing, blind people are having their equipment,  the equipment necessary for them to live a life being taken away. The govt is bold now, they feel that by the time these cases come to court, we will no longer be in Europe, so who gives a Fuck?  Not the British people that's for sure! The British people are only concerned about migrants now, and today advised that old people could begin picking the fruit and vegetables once Johnny foreigner has gone!
The Bullingdon Club have won, they want, they have planned this. David Cameron will accept defeat and congratulate Boris, it's no coincidence that Cameron said he will not run again. He will hand over the reins to Boris. By that time, they will have changed the rules for voting and the boundaries so much that a Conservative government will be guaranteed for the next 50 years! The same people that burnt £50 notes in front of beggars' faces will have a free hand, unhindered by Europe.
The idea behind The European Union was to prevent us ever falling into war again. To prevent the U.S. having to implement The Marshall Plan where billions of American dollars were used to stabilise Europe and prevent mass starvation  after The War. To do that it was agreed that certain nations would need a leg up and the others would need to give that leg up, otherwise our southern neighbours would quite easily have gone the way of Yugoslavia, much much earlier, which the statesman at that time knew would mean refugees and eventual military action. Through the European Union we avoided that, but we ignored our bordering neighbours. Syria is a direct result of our inaction, and exactly what we were trying to avoid.
Ignore the rest of the world at your peril. In the EU or not, the refugees will come.
Once we leave, the European Union itself could disintegrate, we cannot expect them to hold the fort. Greece will leave first, then Portugal,  then Spain, then Italy. Right wing governments will prevail, nationalism will win, and we will have started it. A Europe full of right wing governments with high unemployment.....wait, haven't I heard this before?!
Barack Obama has an absolute right to his view about Europe as his country does not want to fight another war in Europe, or AGAIN pay billions and billions of dollars to rebuild a failed continent as his country did after World War 2.

Babies

❤

Evil Tory

The Tories this week cut disabled benefits by £30 per week, they voted against cutting the tampon tax, they are in a fight to the death with trainee doctors, they have cut legal aid so that vulnerable  women are in danger of real violence, they seem to be proud of how many food banks and soup kitchens the UK now has.

They cut a deal with banks and Facebook and Google and Starbucks so they can pay as little tax as possible, they continue to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.
These people are your enemies, they only care about themselves and are lining their own and their families pockets.
They are the scum of the earth, and they spit in your face and know you won't do anything. Britain 2016.
They also know they can fool you into blaming the unemployed,the disenfranchised, they know that racism is in their interest, they can put up a good show, they know exactly what they are doing. Education gets worse, that suits them, makes the people easier to control. What The Fuck?

When a government punishes those unable to defend themselves....in particular the disabled and no one bats an eyelid that country has passed a line,a line that a civilised country should never pass. Never mind immigrants, never mind Europe, the British government has just put thousands of 'British' disabled people in danger..and no one gives a Fuck!  Smoke and mirrors.

We remain the 5th richest country on this planet, in the universe as far as we know, yet we have just punished the weakest among us, diversity, equality, paralympics...all have no meaning to these evil fuckers. Let the weak pay for the mistakes of the powerful. "The path of the righteous man  is beset on all sides with the inequities and the tyranny of evil men and Blessed is he who through the power of goodwill.......
he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
The British people are essentially self centred, narcissistic,  and can only think about their own fucking gardens! Today I feel ashamed that I am British, a country that voted in such an evil government. A government that in the name of austerity has given tax cuts to the richest, a government that has allowed the banks that caused the crisis to go free and actively stopped any punitive measures against those banks.
A government that today cut £30 a week from disabled people.
£30 per week.
Some of us know how that could feel.
When you have no way of making up that money, it begins to mount up. Charles Dickens wrote about the misery of a great proportion of the British people. These people have no way to adapt to this cut. This could be the single most evil move by a British government ever. We all know there are 'fakers' the statistics say 0.3 of them are faking. 0.3. That means 97.7 are real. Some of these people literally cannot speak, they have no voice, some cannot walk.
Are these the people to punish for the mistakes of the rich? They had no say, they had no role. The rest of us can fight and are close to fighting, many people are hungry. Yet to choose the disabled to punish and hope we won't  notice! I know, I hope, our ideals , our beliefs have not sunken so low that we as a society will allow the weakest to be punished in this way.

Come Whoam To Thy Childer an' Me

Come Whoam To Thy Childer an' Me
Edwin Waugh

Aw've just mended th' fire wi' a cob;
Owd Swaddle has brought thi new shoon;
There's some nice bacon-collops o'th hob
An' a quart o' ale posset i'th oon;
Aw've brought thi top-cwot, doesto know
For th'rain's comin' deawn very dree;
An th' har'stone's as white as new snow;—
Come whoam to thi childer an' me

When aw put little Sally to bed,
Hoo cried. 'cose her feyther weren't theer,
So aw kiss'd th' little thing, an aw said
Thae'd bring her a ribbon fro' th' fair;
An' aw gave her a doll, an some rags
An' a nice little white cotton-bo';
An' aw kiss'd her again; but hoo said
'At hoo wanted to kiss thee an' o'

An' Dick, too, aw'd sich wark wi' him,
Afore aw could get him up stairs;
Thae towd him thae'd bring him a drum,
he said, when he're sayin his prayers
Then he looked i' my face, an' he said,
"Has th' boggarts taen houd o' my dad?"
An' he cried till his e'en were quite red;—
He likes thee some weel, does yon lad!

At th' lung-length, aw geet 'em laid still;
An' aw hearken't folks' feet 'at went by;
So aw iron't o' my clooas reet well,
An' aw hanged 'em o'th maiden to dry;
When aw'd mended thi stockin's an' shirts,
Aw sit deawn to knit i' my cheer,
An' aw rayley did feel rayther hurt,—
Mon, aw'm one-ly when theaw arrn't theer.

"Aw've a drum an' a trumpet for Dick;
Aw've a yard o' blue ribbon for Sal;
Aw've a book full o' babs, an' a stick
An' some 'bacco an' pipes for mysel';
Aw've brought thee some coffee an' tay,—
Iv thae'll feel i' my pocket, tha'll see;
An' aw've bought tho a new cap to-day,—
But Aw al'ays brings summat for thee!

"God bless tho', my lass; aw'll go whoam,
An' aw'll kiss the an' th' childer o' round;
Thae knows, that wherever aw roam,
Aw'm fain to get back to th' owd ground;
Aw can do wi' a crack o'er a glass;
Aw can do wi' a bit of a spree;
But aw've no gradely comfort, my lass,
excepy wi' yon childer and thee"

The 1%

The divide gets bigger. In the UK they are established, no need to lie anymore, they will spend the next 5 years cementing their grip. In Hong Kong they already have, and the people are too passive to do anything. You allow it. You struggle everyday but never ask why. You swallow the Tories brainwashing that everyone needs to raise themselves up, that scroungers are the reason the country is in debt, yet long term unemployment benefit is less than 1% of the welfare bill. The govts continue to allow monopolies to charge you exorbitant prices,
electricity, gas, food. A block of cheese that cost $20 here in Hong Kong 7 years ago now costs $80, for no concrete reason except only 2 companies sell it. The smokescreen of migrants is just that, a smokescreen Germany has problems, but between 30 EU countries the effect would be negligible. The controlling forces use their power and influence to split the working classes, the lower classes, because that's what you are, what we all are. They continue to argue about a living wage, as they allow big business to pay no tax, and as for banks....not a single banker is behind bars after costing every country billions and billions in losses. The elite protect the elite, history will look at this time as a time of mass deception, a mass redistribution of wealth to those 1%, a time when wars were started to propagate the deceit. You are living at a time when the 1% are fucking the whole of humanity, your support of the status quo will be the death of your children, your grandchildren. Open your eyes, see what is front of you.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0UW007?utm_source=Facebook

7 years ago

On the beach

https://youtu.be/41-4hzJKrik

My four sons.

2016 Oscar winners

The 9 main nominations and the winners according to me;

BEST PICTURE

The Big Short 
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant 
Room 
Spotlight

WINNER The Revenant 2nd Brooklyn

BEST DIRECTOR

Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Adam McKay, The Big Short 
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson, Room

WINNER THE REVENANT
BEST ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant 
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl 
Matt Damon, The Martian 
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs 
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo

WINNER. LEONARDO
BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room 
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

WINNER SAOIRSE RONAN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christian Bale, The Big Short
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Tom Hardy, The Revenant Mark Ruffalo,Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

WINNER TOM HARDY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Rooney Mara, Carol
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl 
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight

WINNER JENNIFER JASON LEIGH 2ND ALICIA VIKANDER

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer,Spotlight
Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies 
Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus,Straight Outta Compton
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley, Inside Out
Alex Garland, Ex Machina

WINNER INSIDE OUT

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Drew Goddard, The Martian
Nick Hornby, Brooklyn
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short
Phyllis Nagy, Carol
Emma Donahue, Room

WINNER BROOKLYN

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
Edward Lachman, Carol
Roger Deakins, Sicario
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road 
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight

WINNER THE REVENANT.

New Year 2016