2017

My Albums of the year 2017 are:

1) Arcade Fire - Everything Now
2) Godflesh - Post Self
3) OHHMS- The Fool
4) All Them Witches - Sleeping through the war
5) Mogwai - Every Countrys Sun
6) London Grammar - Truth is a beautiful Thing
7) Converge - The Dusk in us
8) Enslaved - E
9) Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
10) Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

Every one of those, amazing. Arcade fire especially, I found very addictive. Loved it. Godflesh was a surprise release but loved it, blew me away. and I believe that Ohhms is probably the best UK live act around at the moment. Superb. There were more good records though, Honorable Mentions are:

The Obsessed Official - Sacred
Myrkur - Mararidt
Amenra - Mass IV
Pallbearer - Heartless
Roger Waters - Is this the life we really want?
OXBOW - the thin black duke

And some poor ones. Disappointments -

SÓLSTAFIR - Berdreyminn
Anathema - The Optimist
Zeal & Ardor - Devil is fine

I thought that the Solstafir record was really dull, like a repeat of the last album but without any class or style. and I thought that the optimist by Anathema was the worst thing theyve ever released. Bored me to tears. Like an album full of filler tracks and crap instrumentals. Zeal & Ardor, lots of filler, not enough killer.

2017 was a bloody good year for Music though!

Trump

While we collectively lose our shit over Trump, we need to actually consider the positives here and reasons why this occurred. There are several points to think about:

1. The centre of politics is now officially dead, Unelectable. Your Clintons, Blairs, Camerons of the world, the "Establishment" Have officially lost control of the situation. Its bad because it opens the door for the far right. Its good because it also opens the door for the far left, if can they stop arguing amongst themselves to get their shit together that is. Neo-liberalism is dying on its fat, disgusting poverty increasing arse and we will be all the better for it.

2. The electoral system is exposed. Electoral fraud, First past the post, Electoral college, all these things about our voting systems are disgustingly exposed and ripe for change. here we have MPs working together to work towards changing to Proportional representation because our current government was voted in by only 24% of us. In America, Hillary actually WON the popular vote but lost on Electoral college (senate voting) which means their voting system is broken too. Maybe the more we realise this, the better.

3. The young didnt vote for him. 18-25 year olds did not vote for Trump. Which means a generational gap, and means that the positive change badly needed WILL come, but not until the generations change hand.....Its going to get worse before it gets better, but it WILL get better.

4. TTIP dead. Trump against it. Says he'd tear it up. Bad trade deal the left campaigned against strongly across the world, now dead in the water. Good news.

5. Media trust gone. in america, 250+ publications backed Hillary. 20 backed Trump. 59 million people voted for Trump. Total collapse in the trust in the media. Trump himself says he will increase libel laws against slander in the media. This is nothing but a good thing. for too long the media has had an absolute strangehold on people. clearly not anymore. Polls also wrong, proven bullshit. Also good. Media massively exposed as out of touch. Can only help bring about a more representative media.

6. The election of Donald Trump, with his nasty rhetoric and his isolationist policies will wake people up in America and across the world. More and more people will become politically active because of it. We MUST listen to why people voted for this man and the reasons why they rejected the system. VERY few people are racists, people heard him talk about broken systems, about increasing infrastructure and about increasing jobs. They didnt listen to the headlines, they listened to the other bits. Average people voted for this man because he represented change, even if he had horrible views. Do we not realise the desperation some of these people must feel? Do we not hear their pleas for change? Ive seen videos of Trump supporters, plenty of assholes of course, but MANY say they dont like his views but heard what he was saying about JOBS and more such issues like it. We cannot be ignorant to the desperation people are feeling.

7. I strongly believe this is the start of the end of the Right wing side of politics. They are losing the argument and having their last strong push in the world. gay rights, abortion, womens rights, all these issues that have progressed so far cannot be turned back. The small mindedness that comes with right wing ideas will have no place in our future. Trump and his extreme rhetoric will be rejected and he will have no luck if he tries to progress with some of his more backward policies.

8. Technology is advancing quicker than we can do anything about it. Automation will take millions of jobs. Basic Income will replace all welfare. Energy will become renewable the world over and free. The Internet of things will increase our abilities and make our lives easier. With all of these things comes the complete collapse of the global economy and capitalism as we know it. And There will be no other way to solve these issues than to look to more....left field ideas. The right simply is ill equipped for this future, and Trumps extremism is going to shine a light on it more glaringly than ever.

So yes. He may be mental. He may be awful. But he will show us all a path to the light, by being the darkness we must all fight.

Peace.

Week 1 - Climate Change course

Started this course today,

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-change-challenges-and-solutions

I learnt a few things I didnt know.

That Ice and Snow Reflects more from the Sun/Radiation than Deserts.

That that reflection is called an Albedo

Took a quote here about the feedbacks: 

The 3 feedbacks are water vapour, ice albedo and radiation (planck feedback). 
The key feedbacks to help the climate self regulate are the Atmosphere, hydrosphere (water, lakes, rivers) biosphere (plants) cryosphere (ice caps, sea ice, mountain glaciers) and the lithosphere (surface of the earths crust). All these components act together and are linked. 

I learnt That Climate is basically long term effects, 30 years plus, it was summed up in a good quote by this person: 

Mark Tyler

Climate is the long term data obtained from patterns and trends, this can be compared and measured to show change that may be occurring. Weather is the day to day component of the climate which provides measurable elements such as temperature, wind speed and rainfall levels.

And I took another quote below because that one worked for me too.

Juan Gabriel Correa Perez

The human activities are accelerating the climate change due to increase of the gases of the greenhouse effect that turn on the positive feedbacks such as the rise of temperature, acceleration of hydrology cycle and the radiation emitted. So, we need to think how are the natural negative feedbacks able to keep the energy balance and offset the effect anthropogenic

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/docs/WGI_AR5_2013_Poster.pdf

Some useful things, Liked it.

Archiac Invigoration

Old Wounds Festering open
Boundaries of taste broken
Archiac Invigoration
A Species confused by anger


Let the evil build its force
Push too far to change the course
Archiac Invigoration
A species doomed to failure


Learn or fail from the start
Return to ways of the heart
Archiac Invigoration
A Species lost in the mire


Journeys end is sure to come
Breathing space, Gaia become
Archiac Invigoration
Species will rise higher


Feel the power of unity now
Feel the need, the way, the how
Archiac Invigoration
Species, Lift, Adapt, Inspire

Future

Searching For Meaning



Searching for Meaning

Damned by Design

Searching for feeling

Contradictions align



Severed link, old ways die

Case aside your chains

New ethos to live by



Searching for Meaning

Damned by Design

Searching for feelings

Contradictions align



Damaged goods

Lay fallow by grace

Not out of the woods

No Earth to replace





Anthropocene



All hail species of Man

Epoch of the damned

Hasten the end my friend

Extinction, we demand



Bring forth the flames

Poison the terrain

Hasten the end my friend

Rain on earths parade



Devotion to unseen lie

Glory, without fear, they die

Hasten the end my friend

Hatred, Forgotten, Goodbye



Devastation, scale beyond

Unaware, blind & wronged

Hasten the end my friend

Can we avoid this path were on?















Ocean of Humanity



Ocean of humanity

Tide of the last kind

Wave of lost of souls

Nature needs rewind



Ocean of humanity

Bright lights shine

Gracious in death

Autonomy enshrined



Ocean of humanity

Swathes of pain

Fleeing from war

Peace to obtain



Ocean of humanity

Mired in their filth

Change to come

Freedom to kill



Ocean of humanity, Lost beyond words, Ocean of humanity, Future reversed



Not in my name



Feeding the need for blood

Pressure on freedom

Security at price of love

Pressure on freedom



Feeling of being lost

System of Martydom

Counting up the cost

System of Martydom



Freedom,Love, Paying the price

Death, War, Powers device

Peace, unity, Pay the price

Money, God, Powers device



Profit over life and purity

No more war Game

Given over to complicity

No more war game



Death from above

Not in my name

No Peace, no love

Not in my name

Ggs coming up

EP is out on December 5th, on  bandcamp

https://woundedcross.bandcamp.com/album/bonecrusher

And various other places.

Postmortem of Britain - In Lyrics

Burdened

Succumbed to False
Burdened by fear
Indulged in Hate
Justice disappear

Allow the Madness
Grant them Grace
Allow the Evil
Put them in Place

Repentance coming
Punishment due
What to do now
All suffer for few

Only one option
Cards have been dealt
Only one option
The people Revolt.


War is coming

Batton down the hatches
Be ready for the assault
Batton down the hatches
Fear led to the fault

War is coming, Must prepare
Peoples army, do we dare?
Stand your ground,dont let down
Stand your ground, take back crown

Batton down the hatches
Keep your loved ones near
Batton down the hatches
No Saviour to appear

War is coming, Must unite
War is coming, ready the fight
Protect the innocent from the rich
Rally together, thats the pitch

Use your anger, use it well
Use that fury,Mass Rebel
Must unite to weather the storm
Must unite to reverse the norm

Change is coming, comes from within
Change is coming, its Happening


Cast The Fracture

Slither in by word of mouth
Face the Foulness head on
Bile spew, jaded now
Staring face of oppression

Boot of Power, Violent will
Resist purge & Fight on
Corrupt,misleading voices
Combat nature No long

Sick, unjust, but unaware
Right in name but wrong
Change the mind, hard task
All we want is to belong

Follow, follow, lead by death
Follow by proxy, fool prolong
Fall in line, listen to fear
Masters say you Belong

Who owns you? but you alone
Cant change mind, Hope gone
Make new system, old behind
Cast the Fracture, cruelty begone