The Early Signs of Fascim - A List

This list comes from a poster from the Holocaust Museum, titled "The Early Signs of Fascism":

• Powerful and continuing nationalism
• Disdain for human rights
• Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
• Supremacy of the military
• Rampant sexism
• Controlled mass media
• Obsession with national security
• Religion and government intertwined
• Corporate power protected
• Labor [sic] power suppressed
• Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
• Obsession with crime & punishment
• Rampant cronyism & corruption
• Fraudulent elections

Does that remind you of anyone? .......

Have a good day, and don't have nightmares!

Here's a joke about Corbyn

One day, Corbyn decides he has had enough of people decrying his capabilities, so he decides to demonstrate his powers to the world.

He organises a press conference, and in front of everyone, gets to the podium, clears his throat and announces that the next day, he will walk on water, across the Thames.

The media goes nuts, the Mail and the Express call him blasphemous, the Sun would too, only they don't know how to spell it so instead they just scoff at him, the Guardian says the LibDems would do it better given the chance, the Guardian thinks that Blair should be the one to do it, the Tories openly sneer but are secretly worried. Corbyn ignores them all, and just repeats that yes, he will indeed walk on water.

The next day, Corbyn arrives by the Thames, goes down to water level, removes his shoes, rolls his socks inside the shoes, rolls up his trouser legs, steps forward to the water, and calmly steps on the water, and crosses the Thames, in front of the astonished crowds and the rest of the world.

The next day, the Daily Mail's front page screams: "EXCLUSIVE!!! Corbyn can't even swim!!!"

Losing our Humanity

Losing our humanity for the sake of a few pounds.
This is 2017, this isn't the way it was supposed to go.
The future, age of enlightenment, lives improved, maybe even global peace.
That was what I dreamt of as a child.

But today, in 2017 Britain, things have suddenly got much darker.

Imagine this: If you were raped and got pregnant as a result, and this would be your 3rd child, as of today, you will have to prove you were raped, you will have to fill in forms detailing the rape, then an assessor will decide whether you were in fact raped or not. If you didn't want your child to know he was the result of rape, tough, he will find out soon enough; other parents will find out; his classmates will find out. What should have been the most strictly private matter of all will be scrutinised by officialdom. If you were trying to get over the trauma of being raped, it's not going to happen: submit yourself to the administrative humiliation, or forsake the financial assistance you need to bring up that child.

Of all the cuts which are going to hammer the most vulnerable today, and the gods know that there are many, and they are savage ones, of all the despicable things this cruel government are imposing on us from today, from the 50p a week Housing Benefit to the -90% cut in bereavement benefits, but the most savage, the most despicable, has to be the one where a woman must prove she was raped in order to provide for the child who was the product of that rape.

Losing our humanity for the sake of a few pounds.