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Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men....

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 6:24 pm

https://www.dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/08/mi5-chief-uk-facing-growing-threat-from-islamic-state-russia-and-iran

MI5 chief: UK facing growing threat from Islamic State, Russia and Iran

Ken McCallum says agency facing ‘one hell of a job’ to counter efforts to stage assassinations and terror attacks

Stop him if you think you've heard this one before......

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Fekking knew it....

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 6:35 pm, in reply to "Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men...."

Those Russkies and those bloody Iranians at it again...I suppose China will be poking their nose in too, sooner than later!
Time we taught them a damn good lesson....

...oh wait!

There are Russians in my woods...

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 7:10 pm, in reply to "Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men...."

hiding near the broom
I hear their Slavic murmerings
Behind the red mushrooms.

Maybe they will hex the cows
Till their udders wither
Or blight our good gold barley fields
with them Novichok drones hither?

Jealous of our spuds likely
and the fat sheep kale
-They should all be rounded up
We should build new NATO Jails.

There are Russians in my woods
I see them dance round Putin:
They've come to do a mischief here
-Some thieving and looting.

There are Russians in our woods
-Even the Domovoy know
-They hide just behind the woodpile
Where the mushrooms grow.

Nice one, your composition? (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 5:51 pm, in reply to "There are Russians in my woods..."

Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously
http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/

Re: Nice one, your composition? (nm)

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 8:32 pm, in reply to "Nice one, your composition? (nm)"

Yea, cheers. extempore...inspired by MI5 above.

Their promotion of fear reminded me of the control freakery of the clergy of old: enhancing their own powebase by promoting the idea of an "enemy within" ..." Building a world of danger where we are surrounded by "hidden forces" lurking just around every corner: wild men, evil spirits, goblins...witches...Russians!

-And of course we need a strong MI5-clergy to keep us safe from them...

Re: Nice one, your composition? (nm)

Posted by Ian M <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ian+M' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 10:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Nice one, your composition? (nm)"

Cool, thanks for sharing

Shades of Bob Dylan too:

Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously
http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/

Re: Nice one, your composition?

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 11, 2024, 6:42 am, in reply to "Re: Nice one, your composition? (nm)"

That's very impressive. I spent a while searching for it online and then concluded you'd written it. That can go in the Lifeboat News book of poems and prose (à la The Useful Idiots album of songs).

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Re: Nice one, your composition?

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 13, 2024, 12:32 am, in reply to "Re: Nice one, your composition? "

Thanks Rask. Maybe I should have said it was written in the ten minutes after reading the previous post...the post button stopped me from agonising over every pause and full stop.

On confessing authorship ...reminds me when I was fourteen the school asked people to submit short stories and poems for a school magazine. I did so, but they never published it for at last another two years.

So...at age sixteen I suddenly found myself called out in front of my English teacher and the whole class whilst he held open the magazine and openly accused me of plaguarism because " I don't believe you you wrote these."
I asked him where his evidence was...he declared he had been searching that weekend and not found any: but he would.

-I confess to one of the rare moments in my life when I really truly wanted to punch someone's lights out.

Re: Nice one, your composition?

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 13, 2024, 11:54 am, in reply to "Re: Nice one, your composition? "

I should add I was searching before you posted you'd written it, not because I doubted it.

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Re: Nice one, your composition?

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 13, 2024, 1:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Nice one, your composition? "

Cheers!

And dont mention wide open links btwn far right riots and Israel lobby. nm

Posted by marknadim <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=marknadim' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 8, 2024, 8:26 pm, in reply to "Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men...."

Re: Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men....

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 9:16 am, in reply to "Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men...."

Re: Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men....

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 12:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men...."

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Goering.

Re: Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men....

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 9, 2024, 10:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Be afraid....whoooooooo.....be very afraid...woooooo....bogey men...."

MI5 pressing the levers of the state. Goering's quote is appropriate, of course. Personally, I don't think it dangerous since the former British Empire just ain't there. Chihuahua as Martyanov refers to our impotent downsized military. Barking for the hegemon .. sigh. What do they hope to achieve .. apart from WW3? .. no idea.

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