READING TRUTH

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BLOGGER BARD

Have I ever lied about the books I’ve read? Well, apparently two thirds
of Brits have. Is that all? I doubt if there are many who haven’t –
occasionally. It seems oneupmanship still reigns – even in the literary
pursuit where wisdom is supposed to reside. Minds’t you, I think there
is a bigger problem of untruth in this subject. Namely lying to yourself
about what you’re going to read. Have you got that pile called ‘one
day’? And I will – I promise you ‘War and Peace’ – I will …

Eye On the World
Essays on everything from science to
religion, politics to crime

GREEN NEWS: UN tries to bully
big nations into further commitments.
Airline industry promise big emissions cuts by
– 2050. China pledges to cut emissions. US govt more
in tune with rest of world on green issues. Well, they all sound
good. So, is everything set for a real deal in Copenhagan in Dec? Well
you can guarantee they’ll agree to another meeting.

BRIT NEWS: Millions are seeing their retirement dreams in tatters,
expecting to have to work for up to 9 years after retirement
age. They believed the private pensions dream and
forgot dreams can become nightmares. In the
UK we have a State pension to which we
all pay. It was a contract between
governed and government.
Stop toadying to Big
Biz and honour it.

GREEN SCENE

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One Single Impression
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Friday Flash 55

DESCENT

Living in caves, technology low,
So much we want to know;
Living in cities, technology high,
So much we want to deny;
Living in heat, technology melts,
So much we could have felt;
Living in caves, technology gone,
So much we love Earth’s song

FLASH 55 – GREEN SOLUTIONS

Fiction: There was quite a fracas as they arrested Mr Bigbiz. His
ambition had gone too far – it was a specious plan anyway. Suspicion
began as the number of Greens began to decline. ‘Where have they
gone?’ people asked. Well, now we know. Mr Bigbiz was behind it –
and the new biofuels plant has been shut.

FIRST KISS
(Updated 2 Oct 09)

First kiss, feeling shy,
Tentative approach, almost sly,
They can do it, they will prevail,
Oh dear; disaster! Saliva trail,
Try again, eyes tight shut,
Ouch!! … headbutt,
But if you can survive this early strife,
Chances are you’re in love for life

© Anthony North, October 2009

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INSPIRATION

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GURU TONY

Inspiration creates change, but how does it work? There’s an amazing
psychology at work in those who create something inspired. Often,
through adversity, illness or alienation, they feel frustrated. This
causes them to descend into their inner mind. And it is here that
inspiration births.

But what process is at work
in the inner mind?

We observe the world – often without realizing it – and our view of
it can form unconsciously. When we consciously seek this inner
knowledge to create something new, we actually connect with the
observed frustrations of our wider society. Hence, inspiration is a
two-way affair, our society being fundamental to the personal
process of creativity. However, from this point onwards, inspiration
becomes personal, with the inspired person’s frustrations the primary
factor. This creates novelty, and his success in inspiring others
thrusts society onwards. But coloured by his own feelings, the way
it is expressed is usually extreme. This guarantees frustration will
continue to rise in society, guaranteeing that other inspired people
will go through the process. Inspiration through frustration seems to
be the engine of social change. But not all inspired people gain
acceptance from their society. I guess the difference between a
genius or a crank is the degree of social acceptance they gain. At
least, that’s how I see it.

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The ‘Y’ Files

GREEN NEWS: UK may have to
cut emissions by 90% by 2050 to make
way for aviation growth. Bio-fuels for cars and
planes seem top of the agenda. Excuse me, if that is
successful, where are we going to grow our food? We should
be investing massively in a new generation of greener aircraft, not
messing around with their fuel supply.

BRIT NEWS: Last week Gordon Brown apologised to Alan Turing, the
brilliant codebreaker and AI whizz who killed himself in the early
50s having been ordered to be chemically castrated after
convinction for a homosexual act. It is right that we
speak about this deplorable wrong, but it was
not Brown’s govt who did it, so why is HE
apologising? Does such sentiment
belittle the tragedy?

GREEN SCENE

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THE WAY

We’re told be green, this is the way,
Save the planet without delay;
Yes, this must be done – no doubt!
But we’re not the only sinners about;
Something else is going on,
Which seems to me a bit of a con,
Surely Big Biz should be doing the most,
But they’re very quiet, while we all roast

THE HOT WAR

Fiction: The letter sat before him. He wished he’d left it unopened –
guessed what it would contain. And next to it, the executive order
he’d so recently signed. He was a captain of industry – a CEO who
had risen high, and that flair for getting things done had been
inherited by his daughter. There’d been opposition to the plant in the
jungle – it would damage the local environment; add to climate
change; it was carcinogenic. He sneered at the latest report, propped
against a coffee mug on his desk. Why couldn’t people understand
that advancement has collateral damage?!! His daughter had been
there, gotten involved – in the protests (damn her!) – she got things
done, see. Became a … He read the letter again, written quickly –
painfully – from her death bed. Then he filed it away – with the order
to send the unit in.

MODERN LIVING

Sleep all day, conform to none,
Extend scofflaw, remedy gone,
She’s too hip, the multitude shout,
Life’s not worth pittance if limelight’s out,
Just a husk lost in clover,
A sugar plum fairy, confection all over

© Anthony North, September 2009

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LOOK NO HANDS

I’ve got no hands, can’t do much,
Just hang around, as such,
Having fun with what I do,
Often having a joke on you,
If I’d had hands you’d know your place,
Dolphin tech wouldn’t be a disgrace

GHOST SHIPS

Fiction: They didn’t normally sail this far from the island. They knew
the risks – after all, they were survivors. The ocean could be volatile
from time to time, but they had respect for the waters – their
mythologies made sure of that – and, of course, fear of the ghost
ships. They began fishing – not taking too much – only what was
needed. Balance was so important, since the … Well – you know.
Since the technology went mad and the waters rose. They were
about to call it a day when they saw it on the horizon. It grew,
quickly, to a tremendous size, and they knew immediately it was a
ghost ship. Indeed, it was hoped its power would be exhausted by
now. It was as it sailed by they noticed the name, USS Nimitz; a
potent reminder of their destructive past.

OCEAN SPEAKS

I’m the ocean, hear me speak,
I’m polluted – way past my peak,
Slimy residue of your life,
Is causing me so much strife,
But you really are silly fools,
Forgetting nature’s golden rule,
That what you put in … well, enough said;
Take shelter!!!
It’s raining down upon your head

© Anthony North, August 2009

A IS FOR ATMOSPHERE

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PAPPA RAZZI

Atmosphere is important to media. We bounce all kinds of signals
through it nowadays. But we forget how fragile the atmosphere is. It
is a balance of forces in a thin veil wrapping Earth in life. But it is left
to the media to define whether the atmosphere is changing due to
man’s insanity. I think the probability that we are is enough to stop it.
But maybe the people aren’t angry enough yet. Anger creates quite a
stormy atmosphere – and it is better to have the storm in our opinion
than in the atmosphere above our heads.

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The ‘Y’ Files

BRIT NEWS: IMF rebukes Britain
for state of govt borrowing. Prudent
Brown was always a sham. He symbolises
spend, spend, spend culture.

BRIT NEWS: Business guru Digby Jones tells Mail On Sunday,
place top Cabinet jobs with businessmen. Do this and govt
for the people is over!

MEDIA NEWS: BBC exec calls older presenters
’silverbacks’. Proof positive of ageism at
BBC – and indication of why it’s
losing commonsense.

WEAR WHERE?

Modern fashion I often dread,
It appears such a slender thread,
Where do they wear it? I haven’t a clue,
Maybe they really need two;
And even then you can go very pale,
Wondering if it fits on head or tail;
But it seems to me they really pay,
For items that let bits go astray

MY HERO, MY LIFE

Fiction: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life …
Copperfield would like those words, he knew. He sat back, satisfied.
It was the great question – the question his life’s work eventually
asked of so many, from Pip to Nickleby – even Ebenezer. As to
whether he WAS the hero of his own life, he summised that writers
always did, and always would, ask it – and not be sure of the answer
– for them, at least. But he was satisfied that he belonged to a craft
that inspired others to be theirs.

THE MONSTER

He creeps upon you mysteriously,
Somewhere else you want to be,
He’s in the world, doing bad,
Always making you very sad;
When he’s gone the world is kind,
He’s back inside your inner mind

© Anthony North, July 2009

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WHAT IS ECOLOGY?

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We are aware that we should be Green – that we are polluting
the environment and heating up the world – but many people
have little understanding of ecology and the science behind
many green issues.

Ecology is about holism. It isn’t so much interested in the parts of something, but the wholeness of the system. It looks for interactions that cannot be seen, measured or observed in an easily scientific way.
The best way to identify this concept is to take the words on this post. Any one word in isolation cannot give true meaning to the whole. It is when they are grouped together that meaning is had by reading. Yet that meaning cannot be measured in a physical way.
Ecology is also about balance. For a system to work, everything must operate together. Everything must be in order and undisturbed. If one thing goes wrong, it can upset the balance and the result is disaster. Nothing works.
Such concepts are esoteric, so look at the ‘ecology’ of a central heating system. The heat in your house is above any of its individual parts. And if those parts are not all in order, none of the system works.

First posted: dec 08

Inde-Pol

BRIT NEWS: Brown admits last weeks
have been worse in his political life. He could
walk away tomorrow, apparently. Don’t tease us.

BRIT NEWS: Police to investigate small number of MPs over
their expenses claims. About time. Some cases sure look
like fraud to me.

BRIT NEWS: Why is UK renewing its nuclear
deterrence the expensive way. If it has
to, go for the cheaper Cruise missiles
& delivery systems.

Unconscious Mutterings
Manic Monday

POP

Fiction: It was crazy, man. Everything just kept popping. It was all
so Xtreme! First, my ears popped, repeatedly. As I ran and ran I
thought my heart might be the next to pop, but it wasn’t. It was a
tree next to me. It just popped and was gone. And when the ground
popped, leaving all those holes, my eyes nearly popped as well. And
then I heard the gun pop – pop, pop, pop – and my mate popped in
kind. Finally, the silos popped and out popped the missiles, and the
planet popped. Of course, it had to come with all this
Politics Of Power.

INEVITABLE OUTCOME
(So can I write a story through free association?)

Divorce, no longer an option
Napkin for my tears
Camera told of her fears
Leather she’d worn when found out
Fractures in two places left no doubt
Flip out? She certainly did
Coroner – we did as he bid
Atomic, his minute investigation
Liz, the girl of the assignation
Leave? No longer an option

© Anthony North, June 2009

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TONY ON POOR DEVIL

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GURU TONY

Poor Devil

I often think the Devil gets a bad press. Known as a trickster,
his job is to make things bad for you. Without him, everything
would be sweetness and light. But a question: what makes us
advance as people? Overcoming the problems in life – problems
that used to be laid at the Devil’s door. So maybe we’d not
advance without him.

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Inde-Politics & Socio-Capitalism

BRIT NEWS: Survey says two thirds do
not want EU rules placed on us. Is it time to
leave Europe? Cooperate, not assimilate.

BRIT NEWS: Archbishop of Canterbury warns humiliation of MPs
a threat to democracy. No. MPs who’ve lost touch are the threat.

BRIT NEWS: Smart electric meters to let you monitor
power usage will soon be mandatory, but
will add £50 to bill. Very smart – for
the provider.

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ATMOSFEAR

Atmosphere, a marvellous shroud,
Look after it – feel proud,
That you’ve done your bit for the world we love,
Not just nature, but that above,
‘Cos if we don’t we’ll shed a tear,
It’s the one thing we should at mos(t) fear

NO TELLY
American Sandwich

Sci Fi: He stared at the TV but it was useless as nothing would
come on. It was all gone, taken as the power went and the air
boiled and died. Mad ways done, he was alone – stared at the
screen – ‘til his skeleton fell.

NAY SAY YOU

Roll up, want to buy?
Lots of things to fry the air
BIG BIZ MARCHES ON
Lots of things to buy the air
Roll up, want to fry?

TONY’S HAIKU CHAIN

Hell is a big wind
Under spin, politics’ lies
Rant, no green action

Revolting pollution
Industry churns the air fast
‘Cos Big Biz farts

Atmosphere does whirl
Neglect of weather brings death
Ever hurry Cain

© Anthony North, May 2009

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A story in 3 sentences of 17 syllables

TONY’S MUSE DIARY

Him Outside got to watch another of his Alfred Hitchcock collection
over the weekend. This time, Shadow of a Doubt – a great
psychological thriller from the early 1940s. It tapped many of the
classic storytelling devices, revolving around a serial killer hiding out
with his sister’s family. Known as Uncle Charlie, it immediately gives
him a sense of the innocuous, and as his niece slowly realises what
he is, the tension is excellent. A classic invasion of evil into normality,
there’s a great alchemy as opposing polarities clash. Old Alfred
certainly knew how to make them.

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PROF ISAAC GALISTEIN

To Observe

Quantum theory suggests that to observe something we directly
affect it. I think this is true of all life. By the act of observation we
become part of what is being observed, suggesting that we cannot
observe anything without causing a change in what we are observing.
Hence, it could be said that, rather than identifying the universe, all
observation validates what we want to believe.

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Inde-Politics & Socio-Capitalism

CRIME NEWS: UK Serious Organised Crime
Agency says world cocaine market in retreat.
O maybe there are none so blind as those who see.

BRIT NEWS: Jobless hit 2.2m, worst for 30 years. Well, actually it’s
worse. Since then the figures have been massaged to take millions
off the register.

BIZ NEWS: Centrica to buy dirt cheap stake in nuke
firm British Energy. A new super co coming,
and it will glow. Hope we don’t, too.

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ECO-TARDINESS

We go so slow, so much delay,
By going fast, such dismay,
Wanting the best in travel, to eat,
Always after the ultimate treat,
Yet eco-measures never catch up,
Never realising we still can sup,
Of everything we want to do,
If we used some sense and thought it through

FLASH 55 – COLLIDING ORBS

Sci Fi: The simple fact was the two planets were going to collide.
Their scientists tried everything to stop it, but it proved pointless.
Finally, a joint suicide pact was agreed, and at the appointed hour,
both planets let loose their missiles and wiped each other out –
which released just enough energy to push the planets apart.

WHAT A VIEW

It seems so droll, looking at it now,
So much beauty taken a bow,
But we had to decide to go this way,
Destroying the balance without delay,
Waters rising, living in camps
‘Cos everything’s so very damp

© Anthony North, May 2009

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TONY’S MUSE DIARY

Okay I’m writing this in a low voice as if a David Attenborough
wildlife documentary, the observer whispering as he approaches
something or other. The subjects are Him Outside and His Dearest.
They’ll be on best behaviour today; maybe an intimate moment –
which will be messy. They’re both still full of cold. I don’t usually
stay out of his mind, but today I won’t cause him any hassle.
After all, it is their 32nd wedding anniversary.

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Pre-Capitalism

There are many hidden histories, and one of them is the reality behind
the years before undiluted capitalism comes to a State. In the US, it
was the time of Mafia; Britain had it in the 18th century, with
industrialisation proper following the famed crimewave. And as in
these, and so many countries, capitalism blooms once organised crime
‘cleans itself up’ and disappears into Big Biz.

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Inde-Politics & Socio-Capitalism

BRIT NEWS: More trouble growing in Labour
as rebellion grows over Royal Mail. You see, now
Brown is boss, the dictats eventually fail. Remember
democracy?

TECH NEWS: Experts warn that use of internet is draining
the world’s power. So, is it as eco-friendly as we think? Can
anything be, really?

BIZ NEWS: As Fiat looks at Vauxhall & other elements of
General Motors, is a new super-company about to
emerge? Expect more of this as Recession
goes on.

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THE BIG STOVE

Let it cook okay
But it can be overdone
HAVE A PLANET ROAST
But it can be overdone
Let it cool okay

THE NEW RACE

Fiction: It was a new kind of race. Was it due to meddling? Was
it inevitable it would happen? Was the way we treated nature
somehow to blame? But ‘… racing just isn’t as fast as in the old
days, before we changed,’ said the horse. His rival agreed as he
mounted the human.

THE SOLUTION

Planetary Security here. Flash Alert! -
Go ahead -
Malign internal terrorist threat, Category One -
That’s serious -
Human race creating planetary techno ecosystem -
Has it reached threat level? -
Many species dying. Climate irregularities. Planetary Genocide imminent -
Flash message – Self-suicide required. Target: Man -

The primary species didn’t want to do it, but there was little choice.
And little did man realise that, as he swam with the dolphins, the
cryptic message was getting through. And as man’s chemical cocktails
increased, they monitored the declining sperm count.

© Anthony North, May 2009

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WHO ARE YOU

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GURU TONY

Who Are You?

Who are you? I may seem to know you, but do I really? Does anyone
really know anyone? We live in an image conscious world, and this is
born in the conflict of your mind. The true you is the one inside, and
the person people interact with is more a façade – a mask – crafted
for social interaction. Maybe we don’t know anyone at all.

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BRIT NEWS: Judge tells head-butted
burglar ‘it serves you right.’ At last an injured
burglar NOT seen as a victim. Commonsense returns?

GREEN NEWS: Sellafield nuke reprocessing plant could cost
£50bn to clean up over 100 yrs. Remember this as govt opts
for more nuclear.

ARTS NEWS: Author JG Ballard has died. From Sci Fi to Empire of the
Sun, a great novelist. He will be missed.

SCI NEWS: A solar superstorm could knock out all electric, internet,
etc. Is there one in 3 yrs, as some say? That’s 2012, folks.

BRIT NEWS: UK civil servants passed info on protesters
to power firm? Another hint of state/corporate merger,
AGAINST the people?

BRIT NEWS: Reports say UK economy to grow again
in 2010. Excuse me, what about the dampener of
the tax burden? A case of myopic thinking.

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BIG IS BAD

Small is beautiful, the mantra of green,
Forget the big, all you’ve seen,
Of corporate worlds and their buzz,
Leaving us with eco-fuzz,
Obliterating planet and our soul,
Big is Bad!!!
Please be told

DEADLY SOLUTION

Fiction: He had crash landed in the desert and the sun beat
down on him. Of course, it always happened to him, didn’t it?
He was pessimistic like that. And what was he to do now? The
obvious answer was to walk out. After all, it was only a hundred
miles. But then a thought struck him: All this sun is bound to
give me skin cancer, and I’ll be dead in 20 years. So he
sat down and fried.

POLLUTERS

The bad polluter
Throwing things here and there
THE PEOPLE STAND UP
Throwing him here and there
The bad polluter

GREEN CRIME

Mr Bigbiz is on the stand,
Facing the law for what’s in his hand,
Making us indulge in this hamburger crap!
I wonder if he’ll take the wrap;
Such deceit about the ingredients within,
And the cost to the environment a major sin;
Now he’s on oath, will the truth come out?
There can’t be room for reasonable doubt

© Anthony North, April 2009

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CRIME LOVE

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Crime Love

The thing about crime is that types of offence are pretty
constant through history. Yet so many periods express a
particular type of crime – the 19th century Victorian poisoner;
the 20th century serial killer. Why is this so? Maybe because
their media popularity says more about the problems of the
society at the time than the crime itself.

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BRIT NEWS: Landlady evicts tenants after
seeing pics on Facebook of state of place after
party. I guess some things should still stay private.

GREEN NEWS: Over 100 power plant protesters arrested
before protest. Police need to look seriously at themselves &
remember freedom.

BRIT NEWS: Brown writes letters of regret over recent
Tory ’smear’ emails by aide. Maybe it’s Labour
culture that thinks it’s ok to do it.

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M is for … MOTHER EARTH

All around, above, below,
From the soil to sky aglow,
Mother Earth takes care of all,
But so often we’re not enthralled;
We forgot when we thought we could lord,
That to her we have an umbilical cord;
We break this link at our peril,
When we become the eco-Devil

THE RECYCLER

Fiction: I’d been brought up to be eco-aware – save the planet
and all that. Little did I realise that the idea had greater power
than this – or that my urge to recycle would be my undoing. Yes,
I always recycled. That’s how I got caught – passing the
gun on like that.

FATAL ATTRACTION

Fashion comes
Anorexia stays
Technology hums
Auto-malaise
Living …

Advancing
Trampling
Torturing
Rotating …
Artificial living
Can’t go on
The planet suffers
It will ignore our song …
Only harmony will
Negate our fatal attraction

© Anthony North, April 2009

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