Cowardly Invasion of Gaza

The United Nations was supposed to have been created to stop this kind of outrage. It is day 10 of a ferocious unequal war, where the Palestinians are not allowed to defend themselves only to die in silence on the ground by the plutonium bombs unleashed by Israel and their chief ally : the U.S.A. who gives 5 billion dollars in military aid every year to Israel. The United Nations should hang its head in shame, as it has shown the world it is an innefectual organization, and for their inaction in defending the weak; they should all be made to resign and the United Nations as we know it, should be disbanded. The people in the U.N. should tender their resignations for the failures they have shown to be and replaced by another more equitative entity who has the political will to do the lifting of the siege and a ceasefire.

These are false supporters of human rights and their silence has shown them up for what they really are. It says a lot about the people who claim to care about the security of all people. The killing of the innocent women and children is a crime: something we should be asking these people about. For the past 10 days, we have seen the solidarity of the free citizens of the world. Their demonstrations in every major city in the world from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, to Washington and Israel shows there is a need to change this inefectual organization which should be called United Nothing, as it has done nothing to stop the siege or the carnage.

This is no way to start the New Year

Today, the terrible scenes I have seen in Gaza can only be described as hell on earth as the enormous black plummes of smoke willowed upwards, it was nothing less than 9/11 visiting us all over again, as countess of bodies, mostly children laid lifeless on the streets and innocent people panicked not knowing where to run whilst Israel plummeted bomb after bomb over their heads, buildings literally cut in half. I ask, in what kind of world we are living when this is alowed to happen ? Why our government and the United States have kept mute whilst all this is going on ? No condemnation from our leaders ? when there has been widespread condemnation from ordinary people who have taken to the streets to protest ? There have been demostrations in London including by Jewish organizations in front of the Israeli Embassy, in Jordan, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Spain, Australia, Jakarta etc. The Jordanian people have even asked their king to severe ties with Israel, such has been the outrage felt all around the world.

The Israli state has only been founded 60 years ago, in the heart of Palestine and over its few years of existance, it has only created brutal and deadly confrontations with its neighbours like a cancer in the Middle East. The whole experiment, it is a failed experiment that cannot ever lead to permanent peace in the area but just chaos, death, brutality, aggression and more violence.

Happy New Year!

Not everything is doom and gloom, whilst there are a lot of businesses failing and going bankrupt, there are others who are having an unexpected sales boom. One of these, is the owner of the Istambul shoe company who produced the famous shoes which served as a missile to the Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi who threw his shoes to President Bush. The shoe company who made his shoes, has been swamped with orders from across the world, so the owner of the company has had to hire 100 more workers to produce 300,000 extra shoe orders to meet the unexpected demand, model 271, which is four times more than their annual shoe sale. Orders have come mainly from the U.S. and Great Britain and from neighbouring Muslim countries. 120,000 pairs have been ordered from Iraq. A sharp rise in orders has been recorded in Syria, Egypt and Iran where the main shoe federation has offered to provide al-Zaidi and his family with a lifetime supply of shoes.Well, it is just a matter of time before someone produces a stilletto shoe, with a target seeking missile, to have the same sale phenomenom. Have a Happy New Year everyone !

Why do we eat turkey on the big day ?

Hi everyone, talking about quizzes and for a little bit of entertaining on these festive days, does anyone know why the turkey is eaten for Christmas ? When did the Christmas tree become popular ? Why is Christmas celebrated on the 25th of December ? Why are mince pies eaten at Christmas time ? Who is the real Father Christmas ? Any guesses anyone ?

To announce Douglas Baxter has joined the blog.

Hi Dougie ! Dear friend, it is great news to announce your coming to this blog. As the saying says... when one door shuts... 100 doors will open ! The way I have announced it, it is as though I am announcing the coming of the Messiah ! I am very happy to have you here and hear your unique points of view which are always vivid, funny and colourful. You were just too damn happy and carefree for that other unmentionable blasted site, where laughter was frawn upon and dissent was punishable with expulsion. Although in my particular case, it had to do with posting these flower pictures you see here. As soon as I got a compliment these, naturally had to go and quite suddenly afterwards Stephen Ryder announced that it would be Ripper related pictures even though as you quite rightly point out, there are non-Ripper related pictures before and after my flower pictures were deleted. Then I expressed the opinion that Ally had deleted them because she was jealous of the attention I was getting. Then Stephen Ryder wrote me a Private Message accusing me of liabelling his lover and told me he as closing my account for two weeks. I wrote him back a private message telling him where he could put his site and also his lover and it came as no surprise to me that shortly after that, my vanishment had been made permanent. Then I thought if I am in a stupid site where posting flowers at the behest of other is punishable with a two week expulsion, I really don't want to be there and open up a blog where I can publish all the pictures I want, plus talk about Art and life instead of murders the whole time. The reason why I stayed there was because from time to time they mention a distant relative of mine, Sir Bernard Spilsbury who was the precursor of Forensic Medicine. His discoveries about how you can tell the difference when a body found inside a swimming pool has been a drowning or whether the body had suffered an extrangulation its what makes the difference between a murder or an accident.

Cubism

Yes, indeed Cubism is considered the final liberation of painting from accepted traditional values. Its strange sense of space, which rejects any attempt to create an illusion of the real world and yes, several views of a single figure are combined in one image, that sort of thing. But I still fail to understand what you mean by " democratic " since art on the whole, is democratic in the sense that everyone can see it and appreciate it or hate it and unlike a book which needs to be translated if its written in Chinese, a painting has a direct message to the viewer.

Hi Robert, I have never seen Dr. Terrors House of Horrors. But all figurative paintings have an abstract element to them. In every painting you will discover either a circle, a rectangle, a cube, a pentagon or any other geometric figure to bring the picture together. That is called composition. For e.g. if you see here, as an experiment the first picture with half closed eyes, you will discover that I have use circles to depict the top of the trees, and are arranged in a triangle to bring the eyes, towards the middle of the picture. The mountains, in its simplest round shapes are also enclosing the sheep in the middle. Anyone who wants to attempt to do a painting, has to think in those basic abstract forms first, before anything else can be developed, it is, if you like, the skeleton of any painting.