July 12 2017

I am having a few days off, due to that ailment referred to as 'manflu'. I watched some telly, and the last part of LOTR - Return of the King, and thought it was such a fine send off. Quite emotional, really.... The battles, the heroes, the baddies, etc. And then I was wondering... There is, in the film, a massive invasion of all of the lands, with the all-too-real threat to everyone's life and society. It was all going to change, and none of it for the better, unless that Ring was destroyed. This news article caught my eye... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-leader-reported-dead-latest-updates-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-syrian-observatory-for-human-rights-a7836066.html At the same time that I will admit I do not like the idea of anyone dying, I thought - well, if anyone deserves it, this MF does! Which brings me back to LOTR. They have a full-scale invasion, they have 'leaders' (and I use the term very loosely...) who simply deny the invasion. They must have this 'multi-culture' mentality... and it brought home to me what is going on around the world, right now! Since the lunacy of open doors has been foisted upon us, we have seen a large part of Europe descend into tribal ghettos, we have seen violence on the street, we have seen the rise of far-right groups who object to this 'change' - and seriously, can you blame them? We are seeing the seeds of open civil war rising up in most of Europe, and yet those in office are still with their heads stuck in the clouds (or the sand - you pick). We have seen the last 8 years of Obama make the situation at least 10 times worse than it was before he came into office. Although the man is clearly a brilliant public speaker, he has more 'agendas' than I can count! He has followed Chancellor Merkel in opening his country's doors to an unknown number of aliens - and they keep coming! Trump has, at least, decided which side of the bed he wants to lie in, and I can only agree that common sense must prevail, or we are all lost. Talking of lost...Sweden. This does not look good, no matter how you may phrase it or look at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Sweden Really? What took you so frikkin' long! http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/768733/Sweden-migrants-latest-refugee-policy-demos-report This just reads like a CNN (FakeNews!) report: http://www.government.se/articles/2017/02/facts-about-migration-and-crime-in-sweden/ How can you take most of this at face value? This was known, nearly a year ago! Did anything change? DIF...:( https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/how-sweden-became-an-example-of-how-not-to-handle-immigration/ http://drsircus.com/world-news/the-end-of-a-nation-losing-sweden-forever/ One major point here is - do not accept, at face value, ANYTHING that appears in the news, and least of all on the Internet. It may well be someone's idea of sarcasm, but which you may interpret as 'truth' (and that is a negotiable feast...) Cross-check it all. If you don't check them, then you are just forwarding on a link that started out as fiction, and then grew so big that people had to start believing it... Yeah, it's not original... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4396224/Sweden-never-mass-immigration-PM-says.html