The Trouble with the Whole World
   Michael St.Mark, April 2011

Television screenshot of an injured and captured mercenary from the Libyan town of Misrata. Part of a rebel army unit that had been shelling civilian areas and sniping from rooftops at anything that moved. Here pictured wounded ( & shot in the foot to prevent escape ) with a wad of Gaddafi’s blood money ironically now soaked with his own blood; he admits to piece work – paid per person he shot..

  ( “I have wife and hungry children to feed, what else could I do“? ).

The Work relates to the increasingly common mentality of ” I don’t care about anyone else just so long as I’m doing ok ”  and how it is inexorably destroying the social fabric of the entire world – this being a particularly archetypal example – along with the arms dealer, drug dealer, the abattoir worker, the rogue banker & multi corporation executive, the Tory health minister.. and now *CORONA UPDATE 2023 – our silent doctors and our bought-off cowardly media.

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*Update September 2024; Labour MPS voted through the winter fuel allowance cut for millions of pensioners, despite Labour’s own research showing that the cut would likely cost c. 4000 lives.

So In effect; 348 politicians were coerced by promise of career and job security, to vote ( abstentions effectively count as votes for )  the murder of 4000 older human beings.
* Refer to London Dada’s image of the Gaddafi sniper again – what, fundamentally, is the difference?
M St.M

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* 2020 onwards is witnessing a global power grab away from the world’s 99% by the 1% in the guise of protecting them from a bug that,  taking into account the average excess seasonal mortality average over the previous 5 years, was ( * 2022 update )  no more harmful than the seasonal flu.
Needless fear-mongering and outright lies as means of controlling the masses are rife by corrupt governments and global main media corporations.
The above “bottom line” image, now more than ever represents an accurate metaphor to describe most journalists, doctors, scientists and politicians, being directly or indirectly in the pay of the mega wealthy’s agenda of mass control.

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