Cassetteboy vs Jeremy Hunt

Another Labor of love from Cassetteboy.  Jeremy Hunt should stop telling us how reckless and dangerous the Junior Doctors' strikes are, because trained medical  professionals  clearly feel his policies are far more reckless and dangerous.
Jeremy Hunt can keep saying that it is in the best interests of the NHS, but the actions of him and his government speak far louder than his lies. Time for him to drop the ego and listen to the heart of the NHS - the doctors.
Luckily the junior doctors are standing together, taking part in the first all-out strike in the history of the NHS,  it's up to us to support them, as they continue to defend and save a publicly funded , publicly owned, our beloved  N.H.S. 

Parasites ( poem dedicated to Sir Phillip Green, David Cameron among others)

Scoffing cucumber sandwiches on gilded lawns,
Like ravenous vultures they feed on the helpless,
Mock the poor, ignore our pain,
While washing down champagne,
Reeking of greed, taking all that we need,
Lying and cheating is their game,
Exploiters of people for profit,
The world is their oyster,
See how they scoff it,
Fed by a relentless drive for more,
Appropriated from the labor of others,
After pushing and grabbing for far to long,
In the end will have to make amends,
Having been found proven,
To have been in the wrong,
But may pay no heed,
The greed remains,
Too entangled,
Trapped inside,
Too deeply hidden,
To be removed.

79 Years ago - The Bombing of Guernica.

                         Guernica- Pablo Picasso

During the afternoon and early evening of Monday, April 26th, 1937,  the German and Italian fascist air forces destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica in a raid lasting three hours. The war crime was ordered by the Spanish nationalist military leadership and carried out by the Congor Legion of the German luftwaffe and the Italian Aviazone Legionairre. Designed to kill  or main as many civilians as possible, Operation Rugen was deliberately chosen for a Monday afternoon when the weekly town market would be at its most crowded. Guernica, in the Basque  country where revolutionary sentiment among workers was deep, was defenceless from the bombers, which could fly as low as 600 feet.
The airplanes made repeated raids, refuelling and returning to drop more bombs. Waves of explosive, fragmentary, and incendiary devices were dumped in the town. In total, 31 tons of munitions were dropped between 4.30 in the afternoon and 7.30 in the evening. In the aftermath of the raid, survivors spoke of the air filled with the screams of those in their death throes and the hundreds injured. Civilians fleeing the carnage in the fields surrounding the town were strafed by fighter planes. Human and animal  body parts littered the market place and town center, a horror soon immortalised by Pablo Picasso's Guernica.
Guernica was effectively wiped of the map. From a population of 5,000 some 1,700 residents were killed and a further 800 injured. Three quarters of the buildings were raised to the ground. Farms four miles away were flattened.

The savage and barbarous attack was a deliberate attempt to terrorise and intimidate the workers of Republican Spain. Spanish nationalist general Emilio Mola had spoken of destroying the industry of Barcelona and Bilbao in order to cleanse the country. In other words, the Nationalists would endeavour to destroy the industrial proletariat. As the historian Paul Preston has recently written in Spanish Holocaust, the Nationalist forces had launched a scorched earth policy during their rapid advance through Spain, most notably in Badajoz, where many hundreds of revolutionary workers were machine gunned to death in the city's bullring.
The fascist government of Berlin and Rome were only to glad to assist Franco in his 'cleansing' of the Spanish population, as both a geo-political necessity and as a test for their military command, new military technology and fighting forces. At his trial for war crimes at Nuremberg, the leading Nazi Hermann Goering would tell the tribunal that he had urged Hitler to send German forces to stem socialism in the Iberian theatre and to test out the Luftwaffe.
We should never forget.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/04/twih-a23.html
The destruction of Guernica was part of Franco's wider, brutal campaign against the existence of the Spanish Republic. This campaign led not just to widespread destruction of property, but thousands of civilian casualties too, as well as widespread displacement. Many sought refuge abroad, as many as 3,800 Basque children were evacuated to England and Wales for the duration of the war. The British Government at the time callously refused to be responsible for the children, but  throughout the summer children were dispersed to camps throughout Britain. Eight of these colonies were here in Wales. They were received with a mixture of hostility and kindness, but they had all managed to escape the grips of Franco's fascist Spain.
Picasso's picture still resonates with clarity, capturing the full terror and horror of this terrible moment in history.

Guernica: The history and art of:-

Guernica - Paul Eluard - P Picasso  - Victory at Guernica
Music: Richard  Wagner and Herbert Von Karajan

extract from poem written by Paul Eluard, a surrealist poet and friend of Picasso, in August, 1937.

Lovely world of cottages
Of the night and fields
Faces good in firelight good in frost
Reusing the night the wound and blows

Faces good for everything
Now the void fixes you
Your death will serve as a warning

Death the heart turned over

They made you pay your bread
Sky earth water sleep
And the misery of your life.

Finally : Justice for Hillsbourough 96.

                               Hillsborough 96 victims.

Finally after 27 long years of struggle and anguish, the bereaved families of Liverpool fans who lost their lives in Hillsborough in1989 have been delivered some kind of justice as a jury has ruled  that  96 Liverpool fans who died  had been unlawfully killed and that fans behaviour did not contribute to their deaths. Police response and planning at fault.
But why has this agony taken so long for this jury to vindicate the families long fight for justice, hindered  perhaps by  the approach over the years by South Yorkshire Police to hide away adverse findings. Evidence that they did not want us to see. What the families have had to endure for the last 27 years is truly horrifying and shocking,  cover ups by the police , the state, and successive Tory and Labour governments.
From  the onset survivors of Hillsborough have spoken of how they were intimidated and threatened by  police and left feeling traumatised, accused of wasting police time because they did not like their evidence, because it did not fit into their versions of the event, led about by the police, the scum newspaper, vilified and labelled, the dead were demonised, the falsefying of statements,  but by group efforts and the support of individuals justice has come, late, but better than never. Thank goodness to all those who never gave up.
Shame still hangs however over the lying police, lying press government and FA as people still lying covering up on top, but a scrap of  justice is finally offered 27 years overdue.No lie lasts forever.
Those responsible  should pay the price.

PS

Don't ever buy this racist, sexist, lying, homophobic, anti-working class pile of ****

Dennis gets stuck into Hunt

Dennis Skinner tells health secretary Jeremy hunt 

To  "wipe that smile of  his face,  he.s almost giving the impression he is revelling in standing up too the junior doctors."
Here we go nursery level rhyming time Dennis Skinner a complete winner, Jeremy Hunt a complete ****.
Enough said but will add that  I support the junior doctors 100 % .Their fight is our fight we should not be held to ransom.
We will hear a lot of non-trutha about junior doctors in next few days in parts of the media in an attempt to discredit them  but the Tory's are losing the argument, the junior doctors are fighting for all of us, the heart and soul of the NHS, that's why we have to and must continue to support them.

April Bursting

( inspired by Garden for the bees this weekend  initiative by 38 degrees
https://www.facebook.com/peoplepowerchange  )


Flowers are blooming again
Leaves are popping
Insects are buzzing,
The afternoon delivers sun, fresh air,
To blow away morning's face.

I have a favourite place
Somewhere I go to hide away,
Where fragrance floats and mingles
I stand awakening, moving shadows,
Bouncing over primroses and bluebells
Today sowing seeds over earth
Offering some food for the bees.

The flower's weeds will ripen
And wild winds will scatter,
Sending shoots and roots,
From this present time,
Far into the future,
Release an abiding, shining hope
That lights a way through the dark.

As greenery blossoms
Soft rays of warm light, 
Clear pathways of soul and heart
React to understanding, 
Drift in fine feeling
Creating  glorious scenes,
Surveying all
I will sit and dream .
.

Prince ( 7/6/56- 21/4/21) - Sign of the Times, R.I.P

On the airwaves, sent out rap, house, funk, psychedelia, one man soul train, strutting sexy stuff, musical textures of freedom, Hendrix, Sly Stone, James Brown, an eclectic musical virtuoso, his brain an inner studio, of deep funk devotion, innovator of musical  genius, an ego that electrified,with duality of free expression,  today's  forecast  cloudy with a chance of purple rain, as another uncompromised voice is lost, cadences of difference will keep on singing, eliminate gender, point another way, doves will cry for all, eyes will close, as third eyes open. Meteors will blaze a fiery trial. Indelible footprints will continue to reveal.

Prince Roger Nelson, 
Rest in Power.

"  Dearly beloved,
we are gathered,
here today,
to get through,
this thing called life.

Electric word life,
It means forever, 
and that's a mighty long time,
But I'm here to tell you,
There's something else,
The afterworld.

A world of  never ending happiness,
You can always see the sun , day or night,
Let's go crazy, Let's go nuts,
Look for the Purple banana,
Til they put us in the trunk,
Let's go!

We're all excited,
But we don't know why,
Maybe it's because,
We're all gonna die.

Let's go crazy, Let's go nuts. "

from; Prince - Let's go crazy ; 1984.