What Did You Say Last Night

I’ve just completed the words to my latest song, and hopefully I’ll get a chance to perform this at the Republican Convention coming up soon in Tampa.  I haven’t recorded it yet, but I will soon and get this on youtube.  The music for this is the same chords and style as the Nirvana Unplugged version of Ledbetter’s ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’.  I hope I don’t get sued, but hey…  Kurt would have thought this was cool, and I’ve got no money to take.

 

Oh Mitt oh Mitt don’t lie to me

Tell me what did you say last night

In your eyes, in your eyes, I’m looking there

And I don’t believe you have a soul

 

Oh Mitt oh Mitt don’t lie to me

Tell me what did you say last night

Did you say what you mean, or mean what you said

Nobody ever can tell

 

Oh Seamus was a good looking dog

Til’ they put him on top of their car

He said to me when they returned to town

That he wished he’d been left at the pound

 

Oh Mitt oh Mitt don’t lie to me

Tell me what did you say last night

What you said, what you say are two different things

And you switch it up every damn day

 

Oh Mitt oh Mitt don’t lie to me

Tell me what did you say last night

In your eyes, your soul, I see, the hole

There’s nothing       but coal


The great news for our future!

This is the text of the speech I just recorded and posted on youtube.  It takes 23 minutes for me to say it.  Maybe you can read it faster…

Hello, my name is David James Francis.  Recently, I’ve become aware of some great news, which I believe is important to share.  It’s important that people are educated on the subjects I’m about to cover, and it’s for that purpose that I’m making this video.  There is a distinct lack of truth in the media, in our public discourse, so I’m about to lay a massive dose of truth on you.  Much of what I’m about to say will be hard to hear.  It will be hard to believe, not that my words won’t ring true, but rather because it is going to be hard to wrap your head around how you and everyone else have been so thoroughly and completely deceived all this time.

So, why should you listen to anything I’ve got to say?  Why shouldn’t you dismiss all this as the ramblings of an insane nutcase?  I can assure you, I am completely rational, and I believe it makes sense for me to first explain my qualifications and my history, so you’ll understand how I came to possess the information I’m about to share.  I guess to start at the beginning, I started off my life pretty lucky.  My parents were well off, and I’ve got an IQ of over 140.  I’m not saying I’m the world’s greatest genius, but I am saying that I’m no slouch in the mental capacity department, and I’m pretty good at problem solving.  I also have an excellent and well-rounded education.  My above average brain got me into the University of Washington and I studied there, and a bit at University of Oregon, for seven years.  Why did it take me seven years to graduate?  Well, it was because I didn’t really follow any one track toward getting my degree.  I started off toward business school, taking things like macro and micro economics, political science, and the like, but then started taking classes in other things which interested me, such as history, philosophy, physics, psychology, astronomy, and archaeology. 

It was when I was at the UW when one day I had an epiphany.  I knew, looking at all the long-term trends which I could see us moving toward, that something had to be done to change direction.  Every road seemed to lead us to disaster.  From perspectives of the environment, economics, and the hegemony of the US and our worldwide perception as an evil empire, I wanted to light a fire under what I saw as the apathy of my generation X, and show people just how vitally important it was to get involved and be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.  My idea was to write a book, to outline the dangers ahead and inspire people into action.  So, I wrote Philosophy for the Third Millennia.  Really it was more of a progressive manifesto than a full length book, but I intentionally left it short to make it so my lazy generation would bother to read it.  There was no fluff in it.  It was meant to be powerful and inspirational, and that’s exactly how it came out. 

I wrote Philosophy for the Third Millennia in 1996, and after it was finished, I made about thirty copies of it and sent them out to publishing companies across the country.  I wanted everyone to read it, and I was very excited about its prospects.   Then one night I had an encounter with a man who told me, at gunpoint, that I was never going to live to publish that book.  He stated that there was nowhere I could run to, no way that it was going to happen.  The lives of not just myself, but the lives of my family and anyone I ever cared about were jeopardized by this book, and he explicitly stated that I could live a long and happy life if I simply got out of the business of trying to change people’s minds and simply remained quiet.  He asked me if I understood and agreed to his terms, to which I replied I did and would do as he asked.  Then he simply left.

Well as you might imagine that experience left me somewhat paranoid.  I kept going to school, but around that time I stopped spending time with friends.  I became quite a recluse, and around that time got a part time job working for the psychic friends network, which I could do from home, and I learned to read tarot cards which I read to people on the phone.  My paranoia led me to really want to leave Seattle, and I jumped at the opportunity to visit family in Orlando for the summer of 97.  Then I went back to school, but my wanting to be out of Seattle led me to move to the University of Oregon and that’s where I finished my last credits for my degree in June of 1999.  After that I moved to Orlando.  I kept my head down, didn’t stir the pot, I got married and had a family, but I did stay informed.  I’ve always known that you don’t get the real story from the mainstream media.  I’ve always gotten my information from alternate sources.  Some of them are credible, some not.  It takes a certain amount of intelligence, research, and intuition to determine which are which.  I do believe I can.

I started dipping my toe into getting involved again around 2006, when I volunteered for a political campaign.  Since then I’ve steadily become bolder, braver, and less concerned about what happened with The Man in 1996.  I started my own blog, www.Davidjamesfrancis.com, on which I posted Philosophy for the Third Millennia for anyone to read.  I’ve written songs like Torches and Pitchforks, Zombie Revolution, and Pussification of America, and posted videos of me performing them on Youtube.  And I spoke at and performed those and other songs at the Occupy Orlando protest.  I”ve joined the active resistance movement.  I no longer let fear dictate my actions, and I haven’t for some time. 

So now that I’ve introduced myself, and you know where I’m coming from, I’ll begin to get to the heart of the matter.  I said earlier that I had heard some great news that I want to share.  That’s true.  But before we can get to what that is, I’ll need to set the stage.  I’ll be dealing with a lot of information, and condensing it into this short video.  As such, I’m not going to spend a lot of time on explaining in great detail a lot of complicated concepts.  I could do so, but others would likely do better at that, and have done so.  I’ve done the research, digested it, and am here trying to provide simply an overview.   Please know, whether you choose to believe it or not is irrelevant to the accuracy of my statements.  What I’m about to say is scientifically provable, is based on the best information available, and if you would like to do further research on what I’m about to say, I’ll point you in the right direction.  If you find yourself disbelieving me, I’ll invite you to do the research yourself and see if you can find where I’m wrong.  Please though, don’t listen to this with a mind toward finding fault with my words.  Open your mind, and just listen for a few minutes. 

Our country, and a good chunk of our world, is controlled either directly or indirectly by an evil conspiracy called the Illuminati.  This group grew out of the masonic traditions several hundred years ago, and has an ultimate goal of controlling all of the world’s resources and enslaving its people.  A greatly reduced number of people, because they intend to reduce the population to a more manageable level of maybe a half a billion through wars and other despicable means.  They control the mainstream media, they control the corporations, and they are the owners of the Federal Reserve.  These people stay in the shadows, protecting their anonymity, but they are extremely powerful and they are in fact very real.  This group is truly guided by a psychotic worldview, and a great many people are controlled by them if not by that shared worldview, then the means of greed and fear.

It is this group’s control that has led the US to do some very uncool things over the last couple of decades.  The wars in Iraq were really about controlling the oil.  The ongoing war in Afghanistan is and always has been about controlling and maximizing the poppy harvest.  And they created the 9/11 tragedy to justify it.  Those three buildings were imploded.  Two planes did not knock down three buildings, and there are thousands of other architects and engineers who agree with me.  When Osama Bin Laden died of kidney failure in early 2002, which was reported in the newspapers in places like Yemen, Bahrain, and the U.A.E., they found a look-alike to carry on putting out messages, to be the great evil boogeyman and justify continued war.  Bin Laden was himself a Saudi Arabian, and there are a great many ties between the Bushes and the Saudis.  They’ve destroyed our electoral process in this country.  First, by ensuring that our votes are counted on unreliable, hackable, programmable voting machines, whose source code is by law the proprietary information only of the voting machine companies.  Then, to ensure that nobody notices that fraud, they passed Citizens United which allows for unlimited corporate and foreign money to be spent on our elections.  Who is going to question any election where someone widely known to be a crook gets elected, when that person or their representatives outspend their opponent by a factor of 10-1?  The US has suspended the provisions of our constitution which prohibit indefinite detention of American citizens without charges, through the passage of the recent National Defense Authorization Act.  And it is this group that intends to start World War 3 by attacking Iran, which incidentally has nowhere near gained the capability of producing a nuclear weapon, despite what you hear over and over in the media and from the Illuminati controlled Israeli government.  These people really are psychotic, and really do intend to murder off over 90% of the world’s population in their quest to ultimately win the game.  Greed alone cannot explain how we’ve got to this point.  The Illuminati and their conspiracy are very real.

So, given that information you might think that we’re in a pretty terrible situation.  It’s so terrible you likely won’t want to believe things are that bad, that corruption has become so completely endemic, but those things are all absolutely true.  Pretty much everything you hear from the media is some form of disinformation or lie, which has most people living in a state which is really detached from reality.  These are things I’ve known for a long time, as I do follow current events very closely, and not through the mainstream media, but rather from sources where I can find accurate information.  It is this group that I’ve been actively working at resisting.  But, I had resigned myself to our inevitable destruction, as these forces seemed to me simply insurmountable.  Clearly the Occupy movement has been ineffective at creating any meaningful change, thanks to being completely dismissed or ignored by the media, and the brutal police crackdowns, which has amounted to them getting away with completely ignoring the rage of thousands of people about all of this evil seemingly taking over our world. 

I did say earlier that I’d recently heard some great news, and it’s given me reason to be optimistic about our future.  It all started for me when I read about a lawsuit filed in US District Court, case #1:11-cv-08500-JFK filed on 11/23/2011.  This lawsuit is very real, I have the PDF of it, and is a fascinating read.  But even more fascinating was an article I read by David Wilcock on DivineCosmos.com which explained it and put it all in perspective.  To summarize, there is an entity called the Dragon Family or also referred to as the White Dragon Society, which really is comprised of an alliance of Asian royal families.  For the last thousand years or more, China produced things like silk, spices, ceramics and other things which became highly prized and valued in Europe.  Over the centuries a very large amount of gold ended up in China, as that gold was what they took as payment for these products.  In fact, it ended up being about 80% of all the gold in the world.  When Japan invaded China back in the 1930’s, getting at that gold was one of their priorities.  In order to ensure that gold’s safety, a good lot of it was sent to the United States, in return for bonds, which were issued by the Federal Reserve.  It was decided that the US would use that gold to back what would amount to the world’s reserve currency, as the dollar remains to this day.  Basically this lawsuit alleges that a lot of entities have interests in never allowing the Dragon Family to cash in these bonds, and have broken the law to prevent it.  These bonds have been under Dragon Family control all this time, as this all happened well before China became the modern communist People’s Republic of China.  These bonds are literally in the thousands of trillions of dollars, the lawsuit only covers the theft of about a trillion dollars’ worth.  The other amazing thing is that they didn’t send all the gold to the US.  They still have massive stores of gold, amounting to somewhere on the order of 5 times more than is believed to exist on the planet.  This gold isn’t in circulation, its existence is secret, and that’s one reason why gold prices are so high.  It isn’t a secret to everyone though.

So what’s so great about that you might ask…  Well, I’ll get to that.  It just began with that article for me.  I found that article by David Wilcock so amazing, that I ordered his recent book, Source Field Investigations.  I didn’t know really what to expect.  Now, before I go on, let me refer back to that book I wrote back in 1996, Philosophy for the Third Millennia.  In that I wrote a chapter entitled Dimensions.  In that I laid out my theory that time travel is theoretically possible, and that it indeed is happening.  Einstein understood that when you change the speed in a physics equation, you change the time.  My theory was that UFO’s, commonly referred to as aliens, are really not alien at all.  They’re actually from our future.  I added this chapter in because it fit with the overall theme, which was aimed at getting people concerned enough to want to do something about it.  Certainly messing up our environment with enough radiation to cause humankind to evolve into these creatures would be something which ought to be avoided.  I always believed it was this chapter that led to my getting the visit from The Man that night.  Well, recently this theory has been confirmed as accurate.

I don’t say that it’s confirmed because I found another crazy person who agrees with me.  No, I’ve recently come to understand the science behind it.  And I can say for certain, it is science, not science fiction.  That, combined by consistent reliable information from multiple credible witnesses has given me a new insight into this new way of looking at things.  This science has been proven by repeatable experiments and observations using the scientific method.   Our conception of reality is truly flawed in a lot of ways.  Modern physics has problems with dark matter, and many other questions.  This unifies it all.  We humans just don’t tend to see beyond our own experiences.  We see the world around us, and think that what we can observe is everything there is.  This new way of looking at things explains all of the things which modern science can’t explain, and then goes beyond that to explain the nature of the soul, how people can have ESP, premonitions, or do other incredible things with their minds, and the power of prayer and meditation.  This theory, which really explains everything, and is certainly the way the universe actually operates, and which has been systematically suppressed by powerful interests for a very long time, can be referred to as the Source Field.  It is an energy, a wave, that permeates the universe.  And while we live in a world of three dimensional space and one dimensional time, often referred to as space-time, there exists parallel another dimension of three dimensional time and one dimensional space, which can be referred to as time-space.  These two dimensions are in constant interaction with each other.  And it is possible to cross into time-space, where moving forward or backward in direction will move you forward or backward in time.  Humans can access this Source Field using the pineal glands in our brains.  I could go on and explain in further detail but this is extremely complicated and hard to explain to people who’ve never been exposed to the concept, and I really want to get to the good news.

There have been several crashes of time-travel craft over the past 60 years or so.  One famous one happened in Roswell, but there were others as well.  The government has reverse-engineered that technology and now possesses many time travelling spacecraft.  Further, the government had a program called Project Looking Glass.  This contraption which you’d probably recognize from the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, was a way to see into the future.  They saw different possibilities, and with giant supercomputers computed various probabilities that a certain futures would happen, and they saw that really there are two basic timelines, though each one had a great many variations, they began to refer to them as timeline one and timeline two.  In timeline one, we as a people get awakened to this new way of looking at our world and the Source Field, use these and other previously forbidden technologies to better ourselves and our planet, and ascend as a species into a golden age.  The other timeline, timeline two, is a world destroyed by war, where the Illuminati have succeeded in their evil psychotic plans to ruin our planet and gain ultimate power over an enslaved and desperate populace.  The interesting thing is though, that they found these two timelines converged on one date.  December 21, 2012.  Meaning that on that day, by that day, we will have decided which path will be the one we take.  This corresponds with our planet moving into an area with a higher concentration of this source field.  Obviously I’m pulling for timeline one.  Well, here’s the good news.  I’m not the only one.

While it is certain that the illuminati have gained what appears to be nearly omnipotent influence over our country, corporations, and society, there does exist an opposition.  I didn’t know anything about the Dragon Family until they made themselves known when they filed that lawsuit.  But they have a massive, almost incomprehensible wealth, and actively want to help humanity.  Former Forbes Magazine Asian Bureau Chief Benjamin Fulford has been acting as a mouthpiece for them of late.  There are also a great number of well-meaning people, who I’ll refer to as ‘White Hats’, who may have gone along with Illuminati plans out of greed or fear, to attain their positions of power and influence, but ultimately will resist them when it comes to destroying the planet.  I’ve heard it explained that it’s as though there are two master chess players sitting across from each other.  Both players are looking at the board, and both can see that the checkmate is coming in seven moves.  At this point each move has already been determined, and the outcome is decided, barring a mistake.  Well, the white player has taken precautions to avoid any such mistake.   But the black player still hasn’t given up.  My point is that there is hope.  Where before I thought our situation hopeless, today I believe we’ll win.  I’m not saying that now is a time for complacency.  Far from it.  We can’t just assume someone else will do the fighting for us.  Those are the stakes, and those are the opposing sides.  And again, this is not science fiction, paranoid delusion, or my least favorite pejorative, a conspiracy theory.  These are the facts.  This is the truth that has been hidden from you.  This is what you need to get your head around now, because by the end of this year, all of this will be common knowledge.  I can advise if you’d like further information on the Source Field theory to pick up David Wilcock’s amazing, insightful, and thoroughly referenced book ‘Source Field Investigations’.  There are a couple of really great articles on his website as well, Divinecosmos.com.  You can also visit Project Camelot for more information.  All this information is out there, but it is so much information, and such a complex story, and really you won’t find it unless you look for it.  I haven’t seen yet anywhere that put all the bullet points together to explain what is going on, in simple terms and a relatively concise format.  That’s why I am creating this video.  I hope that this video gets shared far and wide, and informs a lot of people.  I hope this news has made you as happy and as hopeful as it made me to learn about it.  And by all means, if you disagree with anything I’ve said, check your assumptions and look at the facts again.  Do the research and I guarantee you’ll find that every word I’ve said is absolutely true.  The date is set, like they always used to say on the X-files.  So let’s make sure it’s a good day.  While victory is within our grasp, the game isn’t over yet.  So, maybe it’s time you realized what team you’re playing for, and get in the game.  It’s time to get beyond the wrong-headed influence of bigotry and intolerance, and realized that we really are all in this together.  Don’t let the Illuminati divide us against each other.  United we stand, divided we fall.  Thanks for listening.


Welcome to the Age of Aquarius

I’ve been recently spending a lot of time expanding my knowledge on a few subjects.  Right now I’m midway through a great book by David Wilcock called ‘The Source Field Investigations’.  I highly recommend it to anyone seeking expansion of their minds or otherwise in need of enlightenment.  It was this that led to the idea for my latest song.  I wrote this today.  I’m planning on using my new music software to complete the recording as soon as I can.

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius                              Verse 1

The Golden Age is breaking dawn

As predicted long ago

This whole world will soon be gone

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius

Time has come to kiss your ass goodbye

Before we can live ascended

First will come a blackened sky

Magic pyramids, and ESP                                                  Chorus

Ancient high technology

Open up and you will see

Past your own reality

There are things beyond perception

Tapping into the Source Field

We will find a new dimension

Where our souls can all be healed

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius                              Verse 2

Now’s the time to make amends

Clean up all your old bad karma

Only then will you ascend

Welcome to the Age of Aquarius

Nothing real is as it seems

Use your pinecone and you’ll see

These are all just lucid dreams

As we see this world unwind                                      Bridge

Find that we’re no longer blind

Open up, expand your mind

Embrace the future of mankind

                                                                                                Chorus


We Are the Ninety-Nine

This is my latest creation.  Still pending the music part, but these are the lyrics…

 

Countless people realizing that they simply aren’t fine                       

Richest all got theirs and somehow then they didn’t get to mine

The madness has been growing and its time we stop and draw the line

Echo now the growing voices of the angry ninety-nine

 

Lies of all the puppet masters now have begun to unwind

Now it’s clear that they are evil aren’t even human kind

Masses now are all arising speaking with a common mind

Drunken on elixir of the power of the ninety-nine

 

 We will be victorious we’re the ninety-nine percent

Go ahead arrest me I’ll just spend the night outside my tent

We will fire politicians and we’ll get the banksters bent

We will stop the thieving bastards now, not another goddamned cent

 

Taking to the streets to vent my anger with my homemade sign

Living in this tent I fixed up with a bit of tape and twine

Motivated to directly acting not to simply bitch and whine

Ensuring that they heed the massive movement of the ninety-nine

 

We will be victorious we’re the ninety-nine percent

Go ahead arrest me I’ll just spend the night outside my tent

We will fire politicians and we’ll get the banksters bent

We will stop the thieving bastards now, not another goddamned cent


No!

This is my latest song, inspired by recent protests.  I stand with you, brothers and sisters!   I’m thinking maybe a reggae feel?  The music is yet to be determined but here’s the lyrics.

No!  No!  No!

I won’t give you my approval      (verse 1)

I won’t be cowed so I agree

I will stand in opposition

Silence is consent tacitly

I will stand up with my brothers

Defiant to our klepto state

Every day our ranks are growing

And becoming more irate

It makes me smile to see that now

The Arab Spring has reached our shores

Maybe now we’ll rid our land

Of all the corporate lackey whores

I can hear their voices now

Wall Street has been beckoning

Much like I can hear the cry

To ensure the banksters’ reckoning

 

You know that we know, you know    (chorus)

We know that you know that we know

And now that you know that we know what you did

You’re trying like mad at maintaining the lid

But now it’s too late cuz the anger is boiling

You’re frightened and scared and you’re shorts you’re a soiling

Now you can see that the tide is a turning

The battle is lost and your palace is burning

The corporate lackeys and all of the shills

Make for the exits and head for the hills

The masses arisen, the power it kills

Like a bottle of Jack and a handful of pills

We know, you know, you know that it’s so

That all of your hookers and mountains of blow

And all of your excesses all got to go

The ninety-nine answered and told your ass NO

 

No!  No!  No!

The one percent will leave us nothing    (verse 2)

And thus unite the ninety-nine

Drag the banksters from the shadows

Shine the spotlight on their crime

We’re the ones that you can’t sucker

We’re the ones who are not blind

Growing daily are the numbers

Of the class of ninety-nine

All your plans will come to nothing

Because we won’t go quietly

In the end you’ll be undone

Because we’ll stand defiantly

Either with a massive perp walk

Or if vigilante style

There will be a time and soon

That lady justice finally smiles

 

(chorus)

 

No!  No!  No!

You will not escape our justice    (verse 3)

All your lies will all come out

You will get what’s surely coming

Of that there is no more doubt

We know all that you’ve been hiding

The evidence exists in large amount

Know that there’ll be no escaping

You shall be held to account

We can see you in the shadows

Hiding from the creeping light

All your efforts will be fruitless

You will not stay out of sight

We can see you and we’ll squeeze you

We really wouldn’t want to be you

Now it’s clear we really scare you

Try and stop us now we dare you

 

(chorus)


When I was in England I

…saw Mel’s dad David and stepmother Margo, went to Bury St. Edmunds and saw the market, the Abbey Gate, Abbey Ruins, Abbey Gardens, the St. Edmunds Cathedral and St. Mary’s, the Angel Hotel, The Nutshell, the Old Cannon Brewery, toured the Greene King brewery and tasted all of their various delicious ales, saw the great eyesore (Debenhams), saw Mel’s sister Lynn and her husband Ted, saw Mel’s childhood home, her former family estate Red Castle, Pakenham Windmill, Pakenham Water Mill, Wyken Vinyards (la-dee-dah-bucks), saw Mel’s uncle John and his wife Hilda, saw a topiary maker which made me want a giant spider for our yard, spent an amazing hour amongst the megaliths at Stonehenge, went to Bath and saw the Royal Crescent, The Circus, the Pultney Bridge, the Roman Baths, Priory Park, almost got lost on the way to Poole where we met Mel’s cousin Hazel and her daughters Laura and Natalie, walked through Poole Park on our way to The Quay, went to Brownsea Island and saw red squirrels (got an amazing picture of one), peacocks, and chicks, had a picnic in Poole Park by the fountain, saw Kingston Lacy, went to the New Forest and saw wild horses, saw Natalie’s horse Twister, went to Burley, went to the Norfolk Broads with Mel’s friends Julie and Darren and their kids Toby and Chloe and their dog Sam on their boat Magnum, met a very wise man who is a great champion of truth, went to Cambridge and saw Syd Barrett’s childhood home, the art school where the guys in Pink Floyd went on Saturdays as kids, Roger Waters’ childhood home on Rock Road (Fleetwood), the school he went to where his mom worked as a teacher, the home Syd Barrett lived in for the last several decades of his life, Grantchester Meadows (the childhood home, street, and neighborhood of David Gilmour), King’s college, The Anchor pub, Lord Archer’s house, The Tripoli, the Ali Pali (The Alexandra Palace, site of the 14 hour Technicolor Dream), the house that the members of Pink Floyd lived in when they formed in London, the Rainbow Theatre, Joe Meek’s pad, a Banksy original with the Queen riding a motorcycle, Regent Street Polytechnic, Brittania Row Studios, Parliament and Big Ben, Lords Cricket Grounds, Paul McCartney’s house, got video of me moonwalking across the street in front of Abbey Road Studios, got video of Mel walking across that same street with three identically dressed gentlemen, saw the former offices of IT (International Times), the studio Bob Marley recorded at, the place Robbie Williams used to live, the studio where the film “Let’s All Make Love Tonight in London” and definitive version of Interstellar Overdrive was recorded, the house where Jimi Hendrix died, the place where Freddie Mercury died, David Gilmour’s house, Simon Cowell’s house, Paul Allen’s house, Jimmy Page’s house, Earl’s Court, the place where Syd Barrett lived in London after getting booted from Pink Floyd (where he painted the stripes on the floor which was pictured on the album The Madcap Laughs), the place where Malcom McLaren had his Sex shop (where his wife Vivian Westwood sold her wares and the Sex Pistols began), Eric Clapton’s house, the Pig’s Ear pub, Battersea Power Station (where the Animals album cover was shot), the MI6 building, Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant, Ian McClellan’s pub, The Mayflower pub (on the Thames River where The Mayflower left for the new world on September 6, 1620, the Australian Embassy (used in Harry Potter films as Gringott’s Bank), King’s Cross Station (where Harry Potter’s platform 9 ¾ can be found), the London Eye, rode the tube and minded the gap, rode the train on the Docklands Light Railway, saw the O2 Arena and the Brittish Music Experience, saw the Tower of London, rode the clipper on the Thames, saw Leicester Square and didn’t see a cuckoo clock, saw Covent Garden and a man juggling knives and eating an apple while riding an 8 foot high unicycle, saw the Maritime Museum, the Grenwich Royal Observatory and world’s prime meridian, went to Framlingham Castle, Stonham Barns, Needham Market (and ate at the Limes Hotel), Alder Care Farm, saw Lavenham (which I nicknamed “Wonkyland”), saw Mel’s mother Patricia and her husband Ron, saw Mel’s sister Theresa and her kids Kieron, Heather, Patrick, and Euan, met Mel’s aunt Shirley and her husband Les, went to Rye (in 1066 country where new buildings are 500 years old), met Mel’s cousin Stewart and his fiancée Lisa, saw Sissinghurst Castle, went to but didn’t go in the Hops Farm, went to Yalding, got stuck in traffic on the M25, saw Mel’s friends Tony and Angela, their daughters Charlie and Billie and Hannah (Tony’s niece), saw Mel’s friends Bill and Jeanette and their son Harvey, saw Tracey’s brother Robert and Mel’s former colleague Sue Bush unexpectedly at dinner, saw Mel’s uncle Fred and his wife Pauline, went to St. Ives, had a drink at The Dolphin on the River Ouse (pronounced OOZE), met Mel’s cousin Sarah and her husband Joel and their daughter Yasmin at their lovely home amazingly converted from an old pumping station, met Mel’s cousin Anna and her boyfriend John, saw Ted’s band (No Excuse) play at the Onley Arms pub in Sisted near Braintree, saw John Major’s house, saw Tracey and Andy and their kids Paige and Charlie, went punting on the Cam river around Cambridge University, had a Cornish Pasty, met Mel’s friend Stuart and his wife Sarah and their son Lewis, went to West Stow (ancient Anglo-Saxon village), went to West Row and saw where Mel’s grandmother’s house and school are, saw Livermere (Mel’s dad’s school), met Mel’s cousin Adrian and his son Paul, and met Dave Bullet at their house by chance, attended Margo’s 75th birthday party at The Beehive where Mel tried Thai food for the first time in her life (and loved it), had two jars of jam from Adrian’s farm confiscated by airport authorities, and at some point became comfortable driving on the left, realizing it is actually a preferable system, and resolved that I shall do so from now on.  Whenever reasonably possible that is…


Yesterday in London

I met a kind man who gave me a book.  Sadly, the companions I was with at the time and our tight schedule prevented me from really having a chance to speak in depth with this gentleman.  I had a chance to look at the book on the train, and I found it to be indeed wonderful, and now wish I’d had made the time.  On the slight chance that man should read this, I would ask he please accept my apologies for my brevity.


We Want The Truth!

For the ten year anniversary of September 11th 2001, I thought it appropriate to mark the occasion by writing a song for the thousands of people who still haven’t found justice for their murder that day.  Here’s the lyrics.  The tune has just been recorded and posted on youtube and other places…

It’s hard to wrap your head around the blackest kind of evil

That brought the towers down and murdered thousands of our people

The needed justice for the dead has been delayed for far too long

If they’re watching from above they’re singing along with this song

Listen to the architects and hear the words of engineers

They’ve been speaking truth to lies, been doing so for many years

I don’t know who is to blame but this will summarize it all

It wasn’t just two planes that day that made three towers fall

We want the truth – We won’t accept the lies

Our people still seek reckoning for the reasons that they died

Thousands of people perished and millions of people cried

Justice after all this time somehow has been still denied

We know that implosion was more than just perhaps

The impetus and method that caused their sad collapse

They know, they know, but they’ll never tell

The real reasons why they made those towers fell

Neptune has drowned and Atlas just sighed

Truth has been smothered by all of the lies

This cognitive dissonance cannot be relieved

The evil we’re facing just can’t be believed

Do not join the madness, do not be their tool

Do not let them get away and play you for a fool

You know what makes all this just so damned insane?

It’s less about who is, than who is not to blame

The question ain’t so much why they’re such evil fuckers

Question is just how we let them play us all for suckers

Let’s stick Cheney with a dose of sodium pentothal

That’s the place to start at getting to the bottom of it all

Just wake up and cease to be intellectually lazy

Seeking truth is easy and it doesn’t make you crazy

How you react doesn’t matter – you can even taze me

All their lies and subterfuge, none of it will phase me.


I Am Bradley Manning

I’m almost ready to record this one.  Video to come shortly…

 

I outed their official lies

I’m caged as that’s what truth now buys

Lady liberty sits and cries

Helpless under darkened skies

 

You can take me, and you might rape me

When I fall asleep is when you wake me

You can hate me, but you can’t make me

You will not shake me, intimidate me

You will never never ever break me

This I guarantee

I am Bradley, I am Bradley

I am Bradley Manning

 

I can see right through your game

You’re the ones with all the shame

You can’t make me go insane

You’re as irrelevant as pain

 

I am trapped here in a cell

But they’re the ones who’ll be in hell

Though my captors scream and yell

They’re the ones to blame for why our country fell.

 

You can take me, and you might rape me

When I fall asleep is when you wake me

You can hate me, but you can’t make me

You will not shake me, intimidate me

You will never never ever break me

This I guarantee

I am Bradley, I am Bradley

I am Bradley Manning

 

You can throw me in a hole

You can stick me in a hole

You can leave me here in this hole

But you’ll never take away my soul


An open letter to our politicians:

Will it be worth it in the end?

When your children question the role that you played

Will you be able to look in their eyes

And state from your heart that you did the right thing?

What did they promise you, what did it take for you

To join the insanity, to betray humanity

It didn’t take much to acquire your soul

Some power and money turned your heart to coal

Should you decide that your greed is enough

To justify all of the things that you’ve done

Should you conclude that you’ve been really lucky

Glad to have been given the opportunity

To make your own personal deal with the devil

What makes you think that you’ll get what was promised?

What makes you think that he’ll keep his word?

You think you are certain to get the reward?

Will you find safety behind massive stone walls

When due to your betrayal the rest of the world falls?

Will you find solace behind gilded gates

While down to your greed the world disintegrates?

I give you my personal damn guarantee

That you’ll come to see it eventually

It’s more than just certain, there’s less than no doubt

Your Faustian deals will never work out.


Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.