Wow we are really passive!

I am totally surprised with our passiveness as a nation!  It blows me away that there are not riots happening in our streets and buildings burning.

Have we be put to sleep, are we on vacation, are we completely numb, and submissive to the bullshit going on with our government?

Now that thousands are laid off and without work, there is time, yet I guess it wasn’t the time I thought it was.  Gee I always thought the big guys and gals figured if we simply kept the economy going and people so busy having to work that no one would notice what they were doing with our money, with our souls…but I had it all wrong.

Then I thought well, between pharmecuticals and government they were controlling the large part of societies with drugs, thus keeping us all at bay and silent to whatever they were deciding to do…

Now I can not figure out all this bullshit and our passivity to it all.  Why are we willing to pay taxes?  Why are we willing to loose our homes, go hungry, go without health care and fear the future, and STILL PAY TAXES?

Still pay the government money to handle our money and hope that they give some back to us?  What a bunch of bullshit!  Its as though we are our governments slaves…willing to submit to any thing they wish to do.  This is absolutely wierd…isn’t it?  Does anyone out there think this is strange?

Forgetting about Death in The Congo

The above photo was taken in eastern Congo by my old photographer Walter Astrada: we worked together in Uganda for a couple of months, right before I left and the crisis in Congo escalated to out-of-control proportions — though it could be argued it has always been in out-of-control proportions.



Fighting has continued among various rebel armies, the Congolese army and U.N. forces. To make matters worse, the armies of neighboring South Sudan and Uganda are now involved. Rwandan-Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was captured in January by Rwandan forces, but his group is still active, and Ugandan troops are seeking out the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army, which is hiding in — while terrorizing and slaughtering villagers — eastern Congo. Amid all this chaos, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are being killed, abducted to be soldiers and chased from their homes — not to mention the mass rapes.

So far, at least five million people have died in this cycle of war that has gone on since 1998. Five million, and Congo maybe makes the news once or twice in a blue moon. Why is this acceptable?

See moving portraits from the Congo here.

Genocide in the Congo Part 1

What's up duck?

Last weekend was partially spent visiting London Wetland Centre in Barnes admiring beady eyed fowls as they stared back with avian suspicion/ curiosity. I heard a while back that there was a wetland centre in London, but  it did not prepare me for the fact that the centre was actually embedded within walking distance of London’s suburbia.

If you look very closely at the picture above you can almost spot the houses on the horizon. The effect was a little surreal as I wandered around rathr aimlessly gazing at birds that I could not tell apart even as I try.

“Moor hen you say, hem yes, yes can definitely see one”actually transtales in my head as “oh look, it’s another brown bird. Isn’t that the same brown bird as before, oh wait it’s a different species”

Pirochan if you are reading this, I would definitely drag you to see the centre if you ever come a visiting, being the bird fan that you are, but I am hoping whenever that is, the variety of birds will be a lot bigger than what I saw.

As for me, the past few weeks had been exhausting. I am not very good at coping with limbo and right now there are just too many things beyond my control that I would not be able to do anything about except wait. My flight is booked for next week to go back home and as much as I am looking forward to see my family and friends it dawned on me that I am actually starting to build a life in this country. In many ways I had been incredibly lucky in meeting the wonderful, gorgeous people I have made friends with over the past few months and that made the biggest difference. The thought of not being able to come back to the UK (touch wood), should anything happen to my application left me cold.

Ignasi Miquel Arsenals 16 Year Old 6ft3 Spanish Centre Back

Geoffrey Lin loses 'Does God Exist' debate

Geoffrey Lin (also known as Geoff Lin) representing the Christian Club at the University of Adelaide (ES Adelaide, short for Evangelical Students) and the Ahiest Club had a “battle” of words to see feat as to whether God was “dead” or not.

Obviously, the Athiest Club pulled no punches and made it clear that God could not be “dead” since he was never “alive”; however, even IF he was alive, he was now “dead” because the unneed of Him (God) in modern society.

Anyway, you can see the full clip (there are three) on YouTube; in which Geoff Lin (the Christian Worker) infamously loses to the Athiest teenager. However, as with much Anglican propoganda, Lin retains his smile and “smirks” at the video camera ending the session with a huge applause from the Christian group, despite his obviously flawed argument for the need of God.

Lin’s argument was based on the fact that people in the modern world face hurt, and that if there was no God, there was nobody to get the agent of hate back. Obviously, this argument clearly shows reason man MADE God (and God did not make man), however.

PS: Geoff Lin has a degree in Law, and is a pastor at Holy Trinity Adelaide (Anglican Church).

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZdDI6LENCk

Reel X - Orca - Influence Recordings - 1992