I have seen the light. I confess to friends and family. I was wrong. Please forgive me.  I now do support our Government, NATO, and especially the warmongering unelected family that runs USA’s foreign policy.

Yes, I have sinned. I now bow to the wisdom of our latest PM Rishi Sunak, our loving European Mother, Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, the talented German politician who is president of the European Commission, and, finally, the leader of the free, caring and righteous democratic world, of which I am proud to be a member, Joseph Stalin … oops, Joseph Biden. 

Joseph – what a coincidence, just like St Joseph of Christmas fame. Joseph Biden is also Our Father in a very real political way. We are truly blessed to have such a global father-figure to look-up-to this Christmas. 

And, as a minority Welsh speaking native Brit, I especially admire Zelensky for standing up to the minority of Ukrainians who wanted to speak their own language, protect their own culture and take pride in their very different European heritage.  I had my doubts, but Adam Price of Plaid Cymru put me right, because he also supports the brave President Zelensky. The Tory’s in Westminster, Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru can’t all be wrong, can they? 

And, oh, I almost forgot!  I was wrong about NATO. It really is a peace-keeping, humanitarian organisation, protecting our interests in this cruel world. Its General Secretary, the Norwegian Jesus, oops, Jens Stoltenberg, is doing a good job running the UK’s foreign policy.  He’s my second Man of the YEAR for 2022.

But, back to the main man. Yes, the brave, righteous and peace-loving Zelensky, is also my hero of 2022. A much- needed saviour and dare I say it, Prince of Peace, this Christmas. After all, he is Jewish.

And I almost forgot. As well as being TIME magazine’s Man of the Year, Zelensky is also the UK’s FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Person of the Year’ 2022. Yes, the Ukrainian comic-actor, who is now worth millions and millions of pounds, has earned a place in human history for ‘his extraordinary display of leadership and fortitude.’ And the Financial Times does, after all, know a thing or two about money. 

By the way, I assume you know that Zelensky also made it to the front cover of the Bible of Western fashion and lifestyle, MORGUE, sorry, another oops, VOGUE magazine.  An OSCAR? Just wait and see in 2023.  

What a man to tell our children about in years to come: the man who saved democracy in 2022, the man who saved the West from evil, the man who makes us really proud to be Americans … oops, Europeans! The man who speaks to us, personally, every day on TV, like the caring Big-Brother that he is.

I include the link to an article below as an example of pure anti- USA/UK/NATO/EU conspiracy theory at its very best.  

All of it lies and damn lies at that. 

You couldn’t make it up, could you.

Ap Advent III 2022 

https://thealtworld.com/thierry_meyssan/volodymyr-zelensky-and-ethnopolitics

Good to see both lead actors again – Kevin and Diane, who started acting aged 14. Lesley Manville plays it well as the evil matriarch. ‘I liked Booboo Stewart’s hat – not a big part but played it well. It’s a US neo-western, Directed, written, and co-produced by Thomas Bezucha, and is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Larry Watson. The film follows a retired sheriff and his wife who try to rescue their grandson from a dangerous family living off-the-grid. The two women certainly steal the show. As Moscow born Sasha Luss does in Shattered. She certainly does! The two films undoubtedly made me think of ‘fingers and thumbs’! Rotten Tomatoes 25% audience score: disagree. I’d give it 75% and liked its Hithcockian flavour.

After lonely tech millionaire Chris (Cameron Monaghan, “Shameless”) encounters charming, sexy Sky (Lilly Krug), passion grows between them — and when he’s injured, she quickly steps in as his nurse … I won’t say anymore … enjoy. A bit part by John Malkovich (aka the New Pope – loved him ion that role) always a pleasure.

In The Wonder, the latest film by Sebastián Lelio (director of the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman), Florence Pugh plays Lib Wright, a 19th-century English nurse sent to the Irish Midlands by local authorities to observe Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old girl who claims she hasn’t eaten in four months and subsists solely on “manna from heaven.” According to Anna — and the mythology that quickly grows around her — she doesn’t even take bread or water; her faith-bound parents agree not to intercede with any nourishment for their daughter beyond what they collectively claim God is providing.

One review sums it up well: In simple terms, this movie is magnificent, whichever perspective of it one takes into consideration: the finest acting of Daisy Edgar-Jones and David Strathairn, in particular; script; camera; music; nature; or all of them taken together. Brilliant. Ann ap had read the book and enjoyed the film version as well. Daisy Jessica Edgar-Jones is an English actress. She began her career with the television series Cold Feet – I thought I recognized her from somewhere! Must admit I gave up on ‘Normal People’ after about 10 minutes. Not my thing, as we say.

It was a free view from my AMAZON subscription.

FROM 7 NOVEMBER THIS YEAR ‘Like winning the lottery!’ – Kíla Lord Cassidy on starring in The Wonder, the stunning film she’s too young to see https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/07/kila-lord-cassidy-elaine-wonder-film-rural-ireland?CMP=share_btn_tw

Silence (Georg Trakl)

Over the forests the moon

Gleams pale, makes us dream,

The willow by the dark pond

Weeps soundlessly in the night.

A heart extinguishes – and placidly

The fogs flood and rise –

Silence, silence!

Oak Tree House Llyn Dryw Bach aka the Pond.

Closing Chord (Georg Trakl)

The last, pale light went from the day,
The early passions have rustled down,
The holy wine of my joys spilled
Now my heart weeps in the night and listens

After the echo of its young celebrations,
Which trails off so placidly in the dark,
So shadowy, like wilted leaves falling
On an abandoned grave in autumn night.

From the Still Days (Georg Trakl)

So ghostly are these late days

Just like the look of sick people, sent here

In the light. However, the night shades the muted lament

Of their eyes, toward which they already turn.

They probably smile and recall their celebrations,

How one is moved after songs, half forgotten,

And searches words for a sad gesture,

Which already grows pale in silence unmeasured.

So the sun still plays around ill flowers

And lets them shiver in the thin, clear airs

With a death-cool delight.

The red forests whisper and darken,

And more death-nightly the woodpeckers’ hammering echoes

Just like a reverberation from airless crypts.

I saw many towns as if robbed by flame

And the times accumulated atrocity after atrocity,

And saw a lot of people putrefy to dust,

And everything float into oblivion.

I saw the gods fall to the night,

The holiest harps powerlessly smashed,

And kindled anew from putrefaction,

A new life swelling to the day.

Swelling to the day and again passing,

The eternally identical tragedy,

That thus we play without understanding,

And its insanity’s nightly torture

Wreathes the soft glory of beauty

Like a smiling universe of thorns.

(#3 From Georg Trakl’s Three Dreams )

I think, I dreamed of falling leaves,

Of wide forests and dark lakes,

Of sad words’ echo –

However, I could not understand their meaning.

I think, I dreamed of falling stars,

Of the weeping entreaty of pale eyes,

Of a smile’s echo –

However, I could not understand its meaning.

Like falling leaves, like falling stars,

So I saw myself eternally coming and going,

A dream’s immortal echo –

However, I could not understand its meaning. (Georg Trakl).

From my 7 January 2022 blog

This morning I came across this – YES,  On 1 April 2020, ‘HORIZON: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine’ carried an article about the mRNA vaccines – first developed to fight cancer in humans, by the way.

It stressed the fact that only now (less than two years ago) are these vaccines beginning to be tested in humans, and that there are a lot of fairly basic unknowns which can only be answered through human trials. The following professor of microbiology was quoted many times in the piece:

Professor Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding –

Chair of the IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiative) Scientific Committee

Head of Microbiology at Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen, Germany

Fields of expertise

§ Immunology of infection & host-pathogen interaction

§ Clinical microbiology and infectious disease

§ Pharmaceutical microbiology

§ Regulation of vaccines and biomedicines

In relation to our innate immune response system, as humans, to the mRNA vaccine, Prof Isabelle said, twenty-one months ago:

1

“There is still a lot of work to be done to understand this response, the length of the protection it could give and whether there are any downsides.”

II

“What is really the current challenge, I think, is to understand whether these vaccines will really be able to mount a sufficiently protective immune response in the human and to understand, for example, which quantities of mRNA will be needed to do this.”

Prof Isabelle also stated that the mRNA is ‘easier and faster to produce” (than traditional vaccines) and is a “very unique way of making a vaccine and, so far, no such vaccine has been licenced for infectious disease.”