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UK: Far-Right Votes for the Ideal “Dr Who”! (16.6.2024)

I do not particularly like the current incarnation of Dr Who – but this is because of the style of the writing – which seeks to make the non-human Doctor far more “human”. Why? The Doctor is NOT human – he is a Time Lord from the Planet Gallifrey. Theoretically, the Doctor could manifest as any being (I have often thought of a Chinese man or woman surnamed “Hu” [虎] – or “Tiger”) and does not have to appear in a body most humans find comfortable or familiar. Furthermore, some of the episodes have been very good – whilst others have not been so – in my opinion. I think every season of any programme is like this – as not everyone can be pleased all the time. I detest fascism, racism, bigotry, discrimination and prejudice in any form. YouTube, which pumps US anti-intellectualism into the brains of our British children – is a cesspit for fascist reaction – which follows a deliberate policy of punishing any Black or Asian opposition to the “White” dominant (and “straight”) viewpoints the platform encourages and allows (primarily through advertising). People with Disabilities do not stand a chance in such a hellish environment.

Holocaust Chronicle Entry [1933]: Homosexuality as Sexual Degeneracy in Nazi Germany! (11.6.2023)

During 1938, Trotsky fabricated what he referred to as the ‘Fourth International’ – through which he called upon his worldwide following to align itself with the Catholic Church and to support any international ‘Fascist’ attack upon the USSR! He also encouraged Soviet citizens to carryout ‘terrorist’ attacks upon the infrastructure of their own country so as to weaken it from the inside and assist this potential invasion! This was just as the USSR (and the International Working-Class) was moving toward its own defeat during the last years of the Spanish Civil War! Trotsky thought that the tide of history was on his side – but just wo-years later he would be ‘dead’ and the Trotskyite cause firmly disempowered! This happened because the capitalist West went to War with Nazi Germany and allied itself with the Soviet Union! After WWII, and the Soviet Union had lost 41 million men, women and children, the capitalist West reverted to its usual policy of demonising the USSR! From the late 1940s in the UK, the incumbent Labour Party requested that the arch-Trotskyite ‘George Orwell’ to compile a list of British intellectuals that he thought were sympathetic to ‘Communism’!

F’cking GG Allin Up the Arse – A Tribute! (26.4.2023)

My mind’s a machine gun, my body’s the bullets and the audience is the target. (GG Allin)

I’ve sold my records outta shopping carts on the street. (GG Allin)

When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I always wanted to be an artist, so I was this loner kid who just got drunk all the time. I only had one real friend. There was a girl I really liked, and she ended up taking really sleazy photographs with her boyfriend, and that really crushed me, I was just swimming in this pit of despair, jealousy and alcoholism. (GG Allin)

Yellow Submarine: How the Beatles Invented Pyrhonesque Cartoons! (9.4,2023)  

As for its surface structure – I think that with the ‘Yellow Submarine’ we are seeing the essence of how the Monty Python team presented their ideas to the world! As Monty Python sketches are available all over the internet and streaming services – most people are better acquainted with this form of communication than they are with that seen in the ‘Yellow Submarine’! This tends to give the inverted notion that the Monty Python methodology came before the ‘Yellow Submarine’ – but we all know that this is not true! Just a quick perusal will demonstrate to the average viewer that Terry Gillian must have been inspired and motivated by The Beatles output and philosophical intent (which seems ‘Anarchic’ at this point and definitely ‘Existential’). The working-class norms that all four Beatles were brought up within are there – but so is the ‘freedom’ from this conditioning – and that’s all the ‘Yellow Submarine’ represents! The problem was the difficulty of psychologically conveying this ‘freedom’ whilst still being physically ‘stuck’ in exactly the material conditions assumed to have been thrown-off due to some type of superior insight! This is the ‘idealism’ of The Beatles! It was their millions of pounds which gave them an enhanced sense of ‘choice’ whilst living within a capitalist society. Immense wealth and success constituted the foundry within which the superstructure of the ‘Yellow Submarine’ was hammered out – whilst the imbibing of LSD was the bottle of Champaign (or non-descript ‘infrastructure’) that was smashed against its side – and which launched it into the stream of human consciousness! Do with it as you will.

Philippines: Why the Vatican Ordered Attacks on The Beatles! (7.4.2023) 

In many ways this story of The Beatles exemplifies the era (and contradictions) inherent in the 1960s! There were definitely Revolutionary (dialectical) forces in operation not just in the West – but throughout the world! Paul McCartney would pen a song entitled ‘Back in the USSR’ (about a Cold War Soviet spy returning from service in the US – where he understood just how ‘bad’ life is for the average person living under capitalism) and John Lennon would write a song entitled ‘Revolution’ – and record at least 18 versions of it within which he ‘might’ or ‘might not’ support a violent ‘Revolution’ depending upon how he felt on the day!

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