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400th Anniversary...

of first publication of the King James Version of the Bible (1611).

bible

in the beginning

Noah's Ark

Parable

Religion

King James Version?

 

January

 

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EARTH-LIKE PLANET DISCOVERED

"Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet outside our Solar System, and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth.

Measurements of unprecedented precision have shown that the planet, Kepler 10b, has a diameter 1.4 times that of Earth, and a mass 4.6 times higher.

However, because it orbits its host star so closely, the planet could not harbour life."

(source: BBC, 10 Jan 2010)

a note for future astronauts

 

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SEVERE FLOODING IN AUSTRALIA, BRAZIL….

(mid Jan 2011)

More extreme weather events as climate chaos continues.

Read my 1978 prophecy!

"The weather forecast for today & doomsday"

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Martin Luther King Day

(17th January, 2011)

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." (MLK)

MLK's Birthday

MLK's death

He had a dream

 

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(25th January)

Tartan mania mounts amid scenes of increasing haggis-hysteria & bagpipe-blowing frenzy...

A wee dram for Rabbie

Scotland

February

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(Chinese Year of the Metal Rabbit begins 3rd February)

Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

Talking of  Rabbits...

Autobiographical note: I was born in the Year of the Metal Rabbit (1951).

My Chinese New Year's Resolution: to eat more CARROTS!

 

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It was 20 50 years ago today...

The Beatles played their first gig at The Cavern (9th Feb,1961).

 

Beatles

 

 

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(14th Feb 2011)

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for Love, Romance, Passion...

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(Feb. 2011)

Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran & Elsewhere.....

March

 

Get your St David's Day daffs here....

'a few daffodils'

(thanks to the miracle of modern micro-technology, we bring you a miniaturised version of Wordswords)

(1st March 2011)

 

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(photo by davy king)

 

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International Women's Day (8th March)

Ballroom Dancing for Militant Feminists

 

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RIP LSD cook

Owsley Stanley

(13th March 2011)

psychedelic

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Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, ....FUKUSHIMA

Reactor Detractor

Song of the Radio-isotopes

Plutonium-flavoured Crisps!

NuclearMix

Meltdown

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MASSIVE PROTESTS AGAINST CUTS (London, 26th March 2011)

Symbolic March from A to B easily brushed aside but Direct Action against Capitalism irks more.

"forget about bourgeois/ peace & quiet/ we're on the warpath/ there's gonna be riot

we'll burn the banks/ & their sacred money/ but better link arms/ they won't think it's funny"

Anthem

Politix Mix

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April

 

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30th Anniversary of BRIXTON RIOT

(11th April 1981)

 

I lived in Brixton. This is what I saw.

BLITZ ON BRIXTON

 

 

Déjà Vu: Royal Wedding, Version 2

Almost 30 years ago (29th June 1981), at a time of recession & high unemployment with a right wing government in power, loyal subjects were distracted by the spectacle of a ‘fairy tale’ wedding (Charles & Diana). Now, in similar circumstances, History repeats itself, with an updated, new, improved version (William & Kate) on 29th April 2011.

Three decades ago, I wrote & performed this protest Prothalamion for a Prince.

Plus ça change, it would seem.....

Isn’t it about time we got round to abolishing undemocratic, obsolete monarchy altogether?

Anti-monarchy

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Mugs for mugs

 

May

 

DRAW MOHAMMAD DAY

(20th May 2011)

Assert your freedom of expression artistically! Ignore repressive religious prohibition!

cartoon controversy

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DAY OF JUDGEMENT DUE

According to one Harold Camping, an American Christian Fundamentalist, the Rapture will take place on 21st May 2011.

Breath not bated.

END NIGH?

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June

 

85 not out

The Queen's OFFICIAL  Birthday is on 11th June 2011. (Her actual one was in April!)

Surely by now, like her, monarchy itself is passed it?

Why do the British still tolerate this expensive anachronism?

Anti-monarchy

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RIOTS IN ATHENS

As the Greek Parliament voted for more austerity & privatisation, riot police used tear gas & stun grenades against protesters in the streets….

(29th June 2011)

"the powers-that-be

behave like god

defending their faith

with the riot squad"

THERE'S GONNA BE A RIOT

 

July

 

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2011

2nd July - 24th July

98th annual bicycle race covering a total distance of 3,430.5 kilometres.

An excuse to recycle this ditty about cycling:

on yer bike...

cycling is prohibited video

 

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NELSON MANDELA'S  BIRTHDAY

Nelson Mandela celebrates his 93rd birthday on 18th July 2011. Here's wishing him a long & happy life.

This was my satirical take on South African Apartheid.

 

Aug

 

Water on Mars!

Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show possible evidence of flowing water on the Red Planet.

No little green men have yet been seen drinking it...

(5th August 2011)

 

NOTE TO FUTURE ASTRONAUTS

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This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water flowing on Mars. Image credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Univ. of Arizona

 

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Unhappy Anniversary

66 years ago, the USA dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima (6th August 1945) & another one 3 days later on Nagasaki.

Satirical History of the Bomb

 

 

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BURNIN' & A-LOOTING TONIGHT

On 4th August 2011, the police shot dead a 29-year-old man in North London. That was the spark that ignited the tinderbox, this long hot summer of simmering discontent. The flames haven't been merely metaphorical. Since Saturday (6th Aug 2011), there have been nights of rioting across London & other English cities, a contagion of conflagration, spreading like wildfire. Babylon burning indeed!

Martin Luther King (no relation!) put it well: "A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."

In the 80s (another period marked or marred by rioting & a rightwing government), this is what I said on the subject:

 

THERE'S GONNA BE A RIOT

 

up with the barricades

down with the law

what's there to lose

when you're one of the poor

                                                                   (full text here)

 

Sept

 

 

10 YEARS AFTER...

That damned Anniversary (September 11th, 2001) looms again.

It is worth remembering that fewer  people died in the Twin Tower Tragedy than have been killed by US foreign policy. Also, 18,000 children a day die of starvation. Must we not question a worldview that deems deaths in America more important than mortality elsewhere?

September 11th is also the date (in 1973) when the fascist Pinochet backed by the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected government of Chile in a coup d'état, subsequently killing or 'disappearing' many thousands of people.

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See: EMPYRE

Newsreal

 

 

 

 

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4 miners killed in South Wales pit disaster (16th Sept 2011).

 

Old King Coal claims yet more victims.

 

Here's what I wrote about coal mining in 1984

 

 

 

 

Oct

 

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It's now Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The more observant  may have noticed some fallen leaves lying around.....

 

LOOSE LEAF

 

 

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"BRITISH SUMMER TIME "

ends on Sunday 30th October 2011 at 2am. The clocks go back one hour...

 

Here's a Funny Thing about

Time zones

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HAPPY HALLOWE'EN

(or Celtic Samhain & Mexican Day of the Dead)

HORROR HUMOR for the hurrying consumer. Get spooked here:

"Halloween-theme night at the Cabaret Macabre"

"tricks & treats to make flesh creep"

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(photo & clumsy pumpkin carving by DK)

 

Nov

 

 

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST

 

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11/11/11

War & Peace

Remembrance Day

War & Piss (sic)

 

 

UNEMPLOYMENT RISING...

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Official figures released today (16th Nov 2011) reveal that unemployment in Britain has risen to 2.62 million (a 17 year high), including over a million (that's 21.9% of) young people. And this is probably an underestimate. Similar story in many other countries.

NEW HOPE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

Is Capitalism working? And, if so, for whom?

 

Dec

STILL NO ROOM AT THE INN...

"Homeless people in England die 30 years younger than the national average, research has suggested.

The report for the charity Crisis found an average homeless person has a life expectancy of 47, compared with 77 for the rest of the population."

(Source: BBC, 21st Dec 2011)

UNACCOMMODATED MAN

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