By Stanley Collymore
It’s the most natural thing in the world to feel passionate and positive about people, places and things that matter a great deal to you, however when others who aren’t connected to those same people, places and things as you are also develop a similar liking and immense appreciation for the aforementioned, it’s a profoundly rewarding experience I can assure you.
The article reproduced below; initially entitled “Staying alive in Barbados” can be found online at Bootsnall, was written by Ramona Flume and says it all!
“Barbadians, or Bajans, don’t just look young for their age; they stay young, for a long, long time. The tiny Caribbean island (only 21 x 14 miles) has the second largest population of centenarians in the world after Japan. Every week local newspapers announce a few more 100-year-old birthday celebrations. Women in their eighties get away with dressing like they’re in their twenties. How do Bajans do it? How does everyone sustain such a happy longevity way out here in the middle of the ocean? I still don’t know if there’s a scientifically quantifiable answer to that question, but Bajan living is definitely a very healthy thing.
Maybe Bajans owe their lengthy life spans to their vigorous hobbies. I visited the Whist & Hearts Club during my stay in Barbados, where I learned how to play the Bajan version of dominoes. It’s a high-speed game of strategy, in which players slap down bones like thunderclaps and wits flick with lightning speed, sharply anticipating the storm clouds that lie a few turns ahead. I sit by in silence for a few games; astounded by the mental dexterity of my teachers, both in their mid-sixties. They might as well have been performing a series of back flips right in front of me.
Other sports like cricket, surfing and polo keep Bajans looking fit no matter what their age. I really took to polo during my visit and was lucky enough to take a lesson from Jeffrey Evelyn of the Barbados Polo Club. While the sport is quite dangerous (only second to car racing in annual injuries), it’s exceptionally accessible. There is no gender gap or professional limitations (amateurs are allowed to compete in pro matches) and many Bajans learn how to ride before they can walk. Also, newer water sports like stand-up paddleboarding have gained popularity in recent years. There is a half-mile race every Sunday, which anyone can participate in, as well as a challenging annual race around the entire island.
It could be the rum punch, or, more appropriately, the happiness that goes along with the rum punch lifeforbidden, that keeps everyone in Barbados ticking along so nicely. There are more than 35,000 rum shops on the island and everyone indulges—even the church crowd. Every church, which closely rival in number, is located within walking distance of a rum shop. Also, Mount Gay, “the oldest rum in the world”, has been distilling the national spirit since 1703. But that’s not to say the island is running wild with drunks. Bajans have a high tolerance to the national cocktail and the drink owes most of its popularity to the relaxing past time of sipping a punch at the neighborhood shop, shooting the breeze with friends and family.
Or it could be the fresh air. Barbados is the easternmost island in the Lesser Antilles and the east coast faces a virtually empty expanse of Atlantic Ocean. The nearest land mass is West Africa, 3,000 miles away, so the sea breezes rolling into the east coast are untouched by human intervention and pollution. Bajans take pride in their salubrious weather and many make daily sojourns to eastern facing points on the island to enjoy a few deep breaths.
A short walk in Barbados, however, can be closer to a cardio workout than a leisurely stroll. Unlike most other Caribbean islands, Barbados is terraced, not volcanic, so sloping hills and mountains pervade the landscape. The Scotland District, a sparsely populated rural region in the northeast, is especially mountainous. Locals here boast some of the best property and views in Barbados, but they’ve got to work for it. A city block’s walk to get to church, the bus stop or even the neighbours is an invariably steep climb.
Or maybe the food keeps Bajans alive and well. There are limited natural resources on this tiny island, but there’s never a shortage of fresh fish. Bajans keep up an extremely healthy diet– and have fun doing it. Every Friday night there is a raucous fish fry/live music/street festival in Oistins, a small fishing village located in the Christ Church parish. Hundreds of locals and tourists alike dine alfresco on the freshest catches of the day and unwind after a long week of work in paradise. Music and dancing is another important feature of life in Barbados that visitors can observe during these weekly street festivals, especially “wukking up”, a Bajan tradition of sensual gyrations. While chicken is consumed heartily on the island, there is little red meat in a Bajan’s daily diet. Interestingly enough, Barbados is one of the few places in the world where McDonalds didn’t thrive—or even survive. The local chain went bankrupt and was forced to pack up and leave the island after a few years of bad business. Bajans are pleasantly content without the golden arches though, and as a visitor, I was too.
On my last day in Barbados, I took a tour of the island with famed local photographer, Ronnie Carrington to find a few last-minute photo-op locations of the island. Ronnie’s family has lived on the island for generations and he has spent most of his life here. At one point, I ask him what he thinks about this mysterious fountain of youth that so many of his countrymen have seemed to discover. He says he doesn’t really know exactly what to think, but says he wants to show me a picture of his mother, who is in her mid-nineties. He pulls out a portrait photograph of the mother and son taken two years ago and—I swear on my life—the woman looked no older than 50 years old.
“I can’t believe it,” I tell him. “I can’t either,” he says, “but she can.”
By Stanley Collymore
On the 25th November 2014 the Metro newspaper of London, England emblazoned on its front-page the striking headline: “A nation of snoopers to fight terror.” Well, how relevant is that intentionally chilling statement to the lives of well-informed, compos mentis and objective Brits who can and do think for themselves, as apart from the uniformally gullible, intrinsically obsequious to their inbred supposed betters in class-ridden Britain; ferally disposed, and therefore easily manipulated kind that don’t, or are otherwise basically unable to? And how genuine, if at all, is this purported terror threat to the lives of the average Brit anyway?
Furthermore, should any country, and particularly one like Britain, that sanctimoniously and rather haughtily prides itself on freely adhering to all the well-known and cherished tenets of democracy, as it claims it does, be really obliged in the 21st Century to resort to the nefarious and utterly destructive Nazi and fascist policies universally practised throughout mainland Europe in the 1930s and 40s and moreover, well aware of what happened then, attendant with their deadly consequences? Progression not retrogression should be the byword of how a purported civilized nation actually, as distinct from delusively and self-delusionally, behaves; I think.
So here’s my take on the matter; since I’m neither impressed by government relentless spin nor the media’s abject spinelessness!
Germany, France, the other Baltic and Balkan states – most notably Croatia – in actual fact every other western European country and many other countries in Eastern Europe as well – infamously Poland and Ukraine – and even elements within the populations of the United Kingdom and also the Republic of Ireland, all had their own fascist, Nazi SS type and other individually state sanctioned at the very highest levels informers with all the attendant calamitous consequences that followed, as is perfectly well known to everyone who is neither totally brain-dead nor otherwise critically afflicted with convenient amnesia, of providing the human fodder as well as the hapless victims for Germany and indeed the rest of Europe’s iniquitous and rather alarmingly widespread density of World War II Konzentrationslager and death camps inmates; enthusiastic tasks which both in the lead up to World War II and furthermore throughout it as well, they mutually did their tasked work exceptionally well, and that’s principally why Europe’s holocaust was such a resounding success; death-wise anyway!
So Theresa May’s proposed snoopers’ charter is essentially neither unique nor innovative! Besides, she like the Prime Minister, David Cameron, their Cabinet colleagues and the Westminster club of MPs and peers who comprise the exceptionally wealthy, highly influential, markedly powerful and, as a result, the characteristically untouchable - most certainly so especially where our country’s law and order enforcement agencies are concerned - privileged toffs are in reality obviously no different in mindset from their erstwhile aristocratic and royal figures of the 1930s and 40s.
The likes, for example, of Edward Duke of Windsor and very much our present Queen’s biological uncle, who was given the unembellished ultimatum by Winston Churchill of either unconditionally accepting forthwith the governorship of the Atlantic British colony of Bermuda and thus getting the hell out of Europe where he was an especially close bosom pal of Adolf Hitler and the hierarchy of the German Nazi party – it must also not be forgotten that Edward always considered himself more German than British and said as much - or else find himself impeached for treason; namely plotting with the said Adolf Hitler and his inner circle of Nazis, of which Edward and his wife, the American Wallis Simpson, were unquestionably staunch and unswerving supporters, to recapture his erstwhile kingship by deposing, with Germany’s full backing, his brother George who’d replaced him as king after his evidently enforced abdication, and basically through appeasement on Edward’s part because of this deal with the Germans turn the UK and its empire into submissive vassal entities of the Third Reich.
Then there were Prince Philip’s sisters who were themselves very close buddies of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich’s upper hierarchal members while in addition married to senior ranking SS officers; acutely embarrassing situations that effectively debarred them from attending their brother, Philip’s marriage to the then Princess Elizabeth, the heiress to the British throne and ever since the death of her father George VI in 1952 our country’s monarch.
Princess Michael of Kent’s father was also a prominent SS officer, perceptibly imbuing her from all the available evidence to hand, with many of the unsavoury characteristics that she clearly portrays and which he evidently attached great importance to. And how can we ever forget Oswald Mosely: as aristocratic as one can possibly get; leader of the British Union of Fascists replete with his army of dedicated but utterly deluded thuggish Blackshirts; husband of Diana Mitford a committed Nazi and fascist herself and whose sister Unity, the aristocratic English socialite, was a devotee of Adolf Hitler who she met on several occasions and was also on very friendly terms with. So much then for the completely disingenuous notion, sanctimoniously propagated even to this day by this lying gang of British elites, that Britain and significantly themselves, as were their evil progenitors, morally and physically above the entrenched barbarities: notions as well as activities, of the mores of Nazism and fascism. Believe that if you’re stupid enough to do so, since nothing could be further from the truth!
So it wouldn’t in the least surprise me if Theresa May, with the avid support of the plethora of very likeminded Nazi legislators in both houses of the British parliament, successfully manages to get her snoopers’ charter on to our nation’s statute book.
For in that specific regard I honestly believe she will be pushing on an open door, very much attendant with the fact that the entrenched Nazi/fascist political DNA characteristic of herself, her political party, the Conservative Party’s coalition partners the Lib-Dems, the Labour Party’s recalcitrant Blairites, Ed Miliband’s coterie of endemically populist and opportunistic MPs constantly keen to say and do anything however unprincipled, lying or deeply immoral which would get them elected, and a significantly dumbed-down, intellectually challenged, and hugely apathetic public and electorate with a noticeably short US-type attention span, blissfully ignorant not only of contemporary European but also world affairs; additionally too either unknowingly or unthinkingly, individually and collectively unaware of the real source of them being cruelly conned, submissively find themselves manipulatively scared out of their wits by the completely tiresome but all the same recurrent profusion of fabricated stories about terrorist threats and plots deceitfully and copiously given the enlivening oxygen of publicity by the likes of Theresa May herself, the Prime Minister, the multifaceted state players like MI5, MI6 and others - all of them with their own personal agendas and vested interests uppermost in mind – and quite noticeably working dysfunctionally for most of the time with a perversely misleading and invariably outright lying media consisting of effectively brain-dead, jobsworth stenographers passing themselves off as journalists.
What’s more, given the haunting backdrop of Europe’s infamous track record in promoting and executing its self-centred, avariciously motivated and well established agenda of global chaos and terrorism to achieve its iniquitous ends, it very much looks that in realistic terms in relation to actually achieving her utterly dishonest objectives, Theresa May and her ilk are on to an implausible winner. I’ve explanatorily thoughtfully and rather deliberately used the term dishonest relative to Theresa May’s actions as well as her proposed plans. And here’s just one example of this.
Theresa May cites Boko Haram as a looming and imminent threat to Britain’s domestic security. That to be absolutely forthright is a bloody lie! For anyone who knows anything either sensible or relevant about the arbitrary creation by Britain of the disparate entity now called Nigeria would likewise be well aware of the origins of Boko Haram and its predecessor groups, and why it is that Boko Haram principally exists. And I can unchallengeably say that Boko Haram’s raison d’être has bugger all to do with threatening or assisting domestic terror in Britain of all places; and the contradictory assertion by Theresa May is effectively a premeditated and concerted lie for a start.
The perceived threat to Britain by Boko Haram, if one can logically or sensibly call it that, other than being fixated in the heads of Theresa May and her ilk is that the United Kingdom along with the rest of Europe, notably the EU countries and of course the United States, Canada and Australia, evidently desire once more to reactivate within the 21st Century the previous partitioning of Africa between the supposedly white Caucasian and principally European master race as they previously did - excluding then the US, Canada and of course Australia, as they were much too busy determinedly preoccupied with eradicating the indigenous peoples they found in the countries they brutally and savagely stole and to this day without any remorse or apology for their utterly loathsome actions still retain - at the Berlin Conference of 1884.
For once more the continent of Africa is not only perceived as but in reality is undoubtedly the richest one on Planet Earth and most particularly so in terms of its multiplicity of valuable natural resources that the infernally white west greedily wants again to have absolute control of Nigeria therefore is one of those African countries which is abundantly rich in oil and other valuable natural resources but regrettably like so many other African countries these aren’t shared equally, if at all, among its plainly diverse population; and the north of Nigeria, where Boko Haram originated and whose indigenous peoples are, as has always been the case ever since the creation of Nigeria by the British, been intentionally put upon by successive Nigerian regimes principally and historically controlled, with the complicit backing of Britain, by those in the south of the country, predominantly Christian as distinct from those in the north who were and are Muslim. And what has consistently been the case is the recurrent surfacing in Nigeria of a succession of corrupt and dictatorial regimes that have paid little or no regard to the genuine interests of their own population, and most especially those people living in the north of Nigeria.
Remarkably good news for successive British regimes and multinational corporations that between them and together with the objectionably, for the local Nigerian people, sycophantic compliance of the nauseating House Niggers that run the Nigeria and also overseer its peoples’ plight; a situation which effectively means that the entirely avaricious and ongoing financial interests of the City of London, the multinational corporations and the British elites can be catered for. And quite evidently British regimes, Cabinet ministers and the likes of Theresa May don’t want the status quo which is quite beneficial to these specific sectors in addition to their own personal financial empowerment by virtue of premeditated acts both on their part and that of others through public-service malfeasance, to be in any way endangered. And that’s essentially the real “threat” –one of the damaging exposure of these crooked, corrupt, criminal and feral specimens of humanity that run our country and that is the last thing they would want to see made public or desire for the British public to generally become aware of - that Boko Haram really poses to these absolutely venal bastards and their propagandistic bullhorns like Theresa May; but she’s not in any way going to regale you with the true facts of the matter, is she?
Therefore unless someone who knows the facts imparts this information to you or else you research it for yourselves you’ll continue to live in idyllic ignorance of what the real situation is while buying into the fabricated and vile narrative, which is precisely what they want you to do, that Theresa May and her loathsome gang of liars are readily supplying you with.
How many of you, for instance, know of the perfidious role that Vince Cable: a prominent member of the current Con-Dem British regime, has had and still continues to play in regards of Royal Dutch Shell? Not much, if anything at all, I would imagine? In which case, because it’s such an imperative matter, I suggest that you research this information online; there are a plethora of reputable sites that will not only amply provide you with Vince Cable’s role but also the way in which this multinational company has been methodically exploiting, as well as quite arrogantly and criminally behaving since the beginning of its drilling operations in Nigeria, towards the Nigerian people generally and those in the northern areas of Nigeria in particular where most of Royal Dutch Shell’s oil has been and is still extracted with all the deliberately uncaring and unapologetically innumerably inflicted problems of pollution and soil contamination by Royal Dutch Shell on the local landscape in addition to the daily destruction caused to the livelihoods and centuries-old traditional ways of going about their lives and everyday business by the wilfully marginalized indigenous peoples of these regions, and whose very existence Royal Dutch Shell has severely blighted, if not completely destroyed forever!
Therefore it’s in the overall interests of Theresa May, Vince Cable et al to see to it that the narrative which is spun out of 10 Downing Street is not only a fraudulent one but also one that will effectively paint Boko Harem in as dreadful a light as is possible; for were that not to happen and all Nigerians, exclusive, of course, of those corrupt House Niggers wholeheartedly sycophantic to the interests of the west, to essentially benefit from genuine societal empowerment that was derived from their own natural resources, that naturally wouldn’t go down at all well with the tremendously privileged white ruling elites: politicians as well as those who run their paymaster multinational corporations in the west.
So as is the norm with whites when they wish to dispose of or justify their crude antipathy towards those whom they conspiratorially regard as Uppity Niggers that must be passionately vilified or else destroyed - regardless of how moral and legitimate the victims’ cause is – it all starts with character assassination, whether it’s Michael Brown, Mark Duggan or Boko Haram. And that’s precisely why Theresa May has quite bizarrely thrown Boko Haram into her UK domestic, terrorist in-tray. While in reality if one were to give this distinctly vicious woman a noticeably unmarked map of the globe with no references to any place on it and ask her to point out exactly where Nigeria was, this stupid bitch quite simply wouldn’t have a clue! Which prompts the obvious and rather pertinent question. How can anyone be your mortal enemy as you stridently and unconvincingly assert when in reality you really know fuck all about them?
Makes no goddam sense to me, I must confess. But who ever said that fucking ignoramuses among British government ministers of any political colour were ever rational? And why should they bother in the least to even pretend that they are when they clearly have brain-dead cunts like you to believe their every dishonest, fabricated and lying word?
One Brit that clearly doesn’t belong to this category of cretins however is Chris Irvine, a councillor in Rochester Kent who, in response to Theresa May’s ludicrous shenanigans, had this to say: “I grew up in Northern Ireland during the worst of the Troubles and never witnessed anything [so] remotely resembling this level of scaremongering. We have to take the terror threat seriously but I don’t see how striking the fear of God into everyone helps.” Incidentally, have you actually noticed like I have that even enlightened white individuals like this councillor from Kent still can’t bring themselves to even admit let alone openly and honestly say that what went on in Northen Ireland, and is still doing so to this day, is a bloody civil war; anywhere else, for example in the so-called developing world or countries that Britain and the rest of the west don’t like, it would instantaneously be characterized as such.
Anyway to what councillor Chris Irvine has said I shall bluntly add this - Britain and its complement of criminal cohorts should get the fuck out of other peoples’ countries and stop causing mayhem and murder there for their own selfish, self-centred and venal interests! In short, leave these people alone and in peace to live their lives as they choose to and not as the west dictates, bearing in mind it’s the same west that quite hypocritically, and with no shortage of double standards to boost that, arrogates to itself the fundamental right to do the same in respect of how it conducts its international and most especially so its domestic affairs. Can’t say fairer than that! Besides, it’s not rocket science that if the west carries on gratuitously killing people in their own countries as it habitually does that blowback will be the inevitable result from those who survived those onslaughts, as well as their own kith and kin in acts of justifiable revenge wherever they may be in the world, and that includes the countries that are perpetrating these grotesque evils.
And if white run and stolen Australia, not in the least threatened by anyone, can wilfully wage wars, in of all places the Middle East, on the purposeful behalf only of its white kith and kin in Britain, the US and elsewhere, why the hell then shouldn’t others adopt the same attitude in reverse towards our distinctly white barbarian hordes?
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