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on Ukraine
gone shopping, is alljust need a few things, back soonnothing important ~ CLP 28/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine
step by marching stepthree hundred thousand alertedold lines reappear ~ n.b. Who was it said, “Give peace a chance”? It was internal opposition to USA support for South Vietnam that contributed significantly to the end of that conflict. Will this only end when Russians turn on Putin? Meanwhile NATO calls its troops to “Attention!” on →
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on Ukraine
two helicopterschop, chop across the cityno longer pretence ~ n.b. Chinooks over Norwich? Where will the line be drawn? CLP 25/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine
daily more losttwo hundred dead, eight hundred maimedmedia lose interest ~ CLP 14/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine xxvi
there is only so long left of this public examination all is organised to this end our youth bent double drowning in academic gas interpreting Dulce et Decorum est while the RAF shake the building practising manoeuvres, virtue signalling overhead ~ CLP 08/06/2022 →
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on Ukraine xxv
escaping the Nazispeople of Russia scorched earthnow their soldiers harry Ukraineas William The Bastard did in the Northso Putin does to the southhistory teaches us nothingit is but a mirror ~ n.b. What is the point of this destruction and slaughter? Where is the glory? What kind of peace does this lead to? CLP 31/05/2022 →
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on silence
so, men with uniformsbadges and guns waitedfor other menwith uniforms, badges and gunsto come to the rescue? do you know the children’s rhyme of the old woman who swallowed a fly then swallowed a spider, a bird and a cat a dog and a goat, a cow and a horse after that? ~ CLP 28/05/2022 →
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on education
children of Texaslearn drills to escape shooterslaw-makers profit Mauripol childrenlearn Russian curriculumteaching at gunpoint ~ n.b. In the USA the elephant in the classroom carries a gun because of a constitutional change way back in 1791. Surely it is time for a review of that blood-stained document? https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/05/gun-rights-groups-set-new-lobbying-spending-record-in-2021/ In Ukraine the elephants are cancelling school →
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“America is killing itself”
Like Dunblane, the horrorLittle children trapped, shotWith their teachersA single man with all the hatred a heart can musterYou can’t buy a beer when you’re eighteen in TexasBut you can buy two gunsWalk into an elementaryAnd murder twenty-one ~ n.b. For the editorial that spawned the headline above, check out Le Monde, the Parisian daily →
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on Ukraine xxiv
children of Bilohorivkataught to shelter under deskswent to school as children doregistered as children musteach morning and for every classwere among those registered again todayin the rubble, broken glass and dust ~ n.b. Sixty people sheltering in a school in the neighbourhood of Luhansk were killed on 7th May. Today, 8th May is Freedom Day →
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