On Rain and Raging.

Today was quite a wake up call. After all those months of almost totally warm, dry, sunny weather, today was a classic the day went glooming down in wet and weariness sort of a day. Cool, heavy cloud cover, breezy, and persistent mist and drizzle. I could have just said that it was dull and dreary, but I like quoting the odd few lines of Tennyson I know.

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The news this week has been full of the usual stuff which makes me rage at the powerful people doing their level best to bring the human condition down into the sewers. Usual suspects – Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, the large corporations, and a few lesser players. I suppose it’s fortunate that I had little time or opportunity to rage on the blog because I was becoming tired of the process.

I was, however, surprised to learn last night that after bringing in the National Guard to make DC beautiful again, Trump has now militarised no less than nineteen states out of the fifty in his ‘war’ against immigration. I suspect that he’s suffering a Julius Caesar complex in attempting to turn the American Republic into one ruled by an imperial system. And that suspicion was further encouraged by what I thought to be the most blatant move to date: Emperor Trump now grants himself the right to ban the Palestinian delegation from a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly just because the UN building is in New York.

And that reminds me of a video I saw on YouTube recently. The commentary claimed that America’s unwavering support for the hard line Israeli government, irrespective of how many children they murder and maim, is rooted in the indoctrination of the American people into the principle of Christian Zionism. She made the point very convincingly. Whatever next?