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SydWalker.Info is a personal website. I live in tropical Australia near Cairns. I oppose war, plutocracy, injustice, sectarian supremacism and apartheid. I support urgent action to achieve genuine sustainability and a fair and prosperous society for all. I rely upon - and support - free speech as defined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see below).

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"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers"

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Unless otherwise indicated, material on this website is written by Syd Walker.

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Sarko’s Ego Pricked in Euro-Summit Leak
Nov 10th, 2011 by Syd Walker

There’s nothing like a live mic at a summit to get the facts out!

In this case, Silvio whispers sweet somethings to Sarko the Sayan

Angela titters as Silvio "Bunga-Bunga" Berlusconi pricks the Eurozone's largest ego

Angela titters as Silvio "Bunga-Bunga" Berlusconi pricks the Eurozone's largest ego

Growl
Nov 9th, 2011 by Syd Walker

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed and corrupted, sleek with suborned reality,
dragging themselves through zionist halls of power hooked on illusory security
angelheaded hipsters who’ve grown into fat, visionless pimps divorced from ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo and earth
who cashed up and well-tailored and blood-shot eyed sat up snorting in the surreal smugness of luxury apartments floating across the tops of cities, slavering over greedy more
who bared their brains to Hell under the ADL and saw Mohammedan demons improbably collapse three skyscrapers illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating market-based solutions for all but banks and never mentioning perpetual wars for Israel
who were raised up by the academies for their conformist and grovelling odes to surreptitiously acknowledged plutocracy
who cowered in hotel rooms in underwear, burning their money in casinos and parroting the Terror on their flatscreens,
who got busted in their former indiscretions and turned? (closer into the fold of smug elite privilege)
who ate shit to follow illicit orders and scribbled lies for cryptocrats and prostituted their souls day after day
with cash, with ‘power’, with waking nightmares, alcohol and sleaze and endless balls-ups,
incomparable blind alleys of stultifying conformism and no excitement in the mind about a free and undivided world without contrived hatreds and wars
Youthful illuminations a mere memory, green visions now derided, lording it over the powerless with pisshead arrogant neon might-is-right, oblivious to the sun and moon and tree vibrations in a spring they now can only fake, ranting “no tin foil hats”; genuine intelligence long-departed from their minds…

A partial update of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, for the generation that came next…

Surreal Voyage
Aug 20th, 2011 by Syd Walker

Half Moon and Half Earth

Half moon and half earth

The view from Voyager when Jimmy Carter was President and John Lennon was making music

Long before Photoshop was invented there was a way of producing images like this.

Magritte

Magritte: La Reproduction Interdite

It involved sending a spacecraft with a camera a long way into space. As NASA explains:

This image of the Earth and moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded on Sept. 18, 1977, by Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft launched on July 20, 1975.

Voyager 1 is now outside the solar system and heading inexorably away – the most distant man-made artifact in the universe.

It carries a plaque with some very basic information about human beings and our earth, in case it’s ever encountered by intelligent life elsewhere.

If that ever happens, presumably it’ll be far in the future.

Voyager 1

Voyager 1: in 2011 we put more powerful computers in dish-washers

Will human beings have made a terminal hash of our global habitat by then?

If so, this little object may be just about the only remaining testimony to the existence, at one time, of half-intelligent life on planet earth.

I hope we do better, but maybe the cosmos is set up with this built-in constraint?

If an aspiring intelligent species can’t make a go of one very nice planet, it may be just as well if it’s ability to screw up the wider universe is limited to littering with a few tokens of space junk.

 

Where have all the peace activists gone?
Aug 15th, 2011 by Syd Walker

In wistful memory of many old friends I knew when this song was younger.

Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
And cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war,
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

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