Wildlife Special (2)

The black-headed parrot (Pionites melanocephalus; sometimes incorrectly Pionites melanocephala) is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. Other colloquial names are black-crowned parrot, black-capped parrot, black-headed caique, and for subspecies P. m. pallidus, pallid caique. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Credit: Mavera Yordam.

 

FalsityAnd Reality Through Data

In the new age of informaton, some would say infotainment,
there is little clear difference between truth, and lies.
Both are deliverd with blatantly evasive advertising, 
so why bother to try to make the distinction?

Many of the lies will illicit truthful responses,
in which the public will be keen to take part,
including venting fits of pique and cynicism,
to work out the rules that make the lies work?

This search changes how we look for truth -
from individual ownership of it to comments
from the public moulded by digital corporations.
This is old news-look at the ownership of the press
and broacasting. What is new is how much less
the individual can own their truth when they it is
a contribution to another corporation's monoply. 

Corporate lies define success so well
we don't know, where or how to start
when we seek to extract some truth
that seems personal to us, from them.   

When Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

Finland has prepared for their Russian neighbours
renewing their agression at the border, by installing
1300 metres of 4 metres high fencing with barbed wire
in big coils along the top, movement sensors, microphones,
and cameras all along the length of the longest border
between the newest NATO country and the Russian Empire.

The Fins have installed one advance that was unxpected:
in this new ground level boundary - monitored animal gates
have been fitted along the fence for the many bears,
and furry quadropeds, who have no interest in passports,
or the nation state. So they may pass through boundaries
that they would otherwise not know how to navigate.

  

The Siren Call For Smaller Government

is an easy call for political leaders to make,
particularly the are leaders whose income
comes from scams that are supported
by lax laws, and broken regulations,
that the public find it hard to ask how to fix.

The leaders' wealth relies upon such informal deregulation.

But when citizens get interested in what size the state should be
and the list of public interests and regulations the state should support,
that are worth retaining to make the future sustainable.

Let the public pose the questions in open media,
and hold their leaders feet to the fire,
to find out what sort of clay those leaders feet are made of.  

The Terrorist President

The more I am led to youtube videos that report
on the latest battle Donold Trump has with the courts
the more I try to avoid them, less for the click bait
(which they are) and less and less because they are repeats
of repeats of the same narrative: hyper wealthy man,
incontinent on hos own wealth decided to by the presidency
because technically it is one thing that should not be up for sale. 

More because of how much Trump's view of the law
reminds me of the IRA's view of M. Thatcher:
you and your government can make us fail many times
but we have to be on target only once for your government
to be radically forced to change tack, whilst in office. 

That the bombs stopped and wiser quieter heads prevailed
was a tough gradual, slow, reform that I am glad of.
I see no such detant reducing Donald Trump's war on the law
or pursuit of infinite wealth at the expense of everyone around him.         

Respite Wanted

How does a wounded heart
escape further self wounding
from pride for turning inward
whilst it looks out, around it,
for where it shoiuld find respite? 

Watch This Vast Distance

A classic vintnage Iranian rug
as might ber available today
  if you live in the right country.  

  As Iran and the USA both threaten each other, and seek to avoid being the one to start open conflict in their statements, whilst each applies public pressure on the other. I can't help but think that the USA is going to look like the loser. However much both sides pressure their presumed allies to fall in line behind them in new trade arrangements it can only extend the present new world disorder, as it has evolved since the end of the cold war, which ended thirty five years ago with the end of the Soviet Union.

   Where any of this goes next is hard to say. But I am convinced that the USA is on a hiding to nothing as it makes its public statememts. Iran was part of an empire so many millenia before American independence it makes the USA seem like it is barely out of nappies and into short trousers by comparison. 

 Not that I admire the modern human rights record of Muslim Iran, which I see as in a continued stalled revolutionary state, like Communism in the USSR. In both if it was not for export it was not  going to going anywhere, not even internally, when the exports stopped.

All I will say is 'watch this space' as two empires with stalled values who are based in differnt continents confront each other at so great a distance with such different language that words from one leader to the other will take far longer to reach their target than any arms they have to lob.