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The obscenity of obscenities! A Kanye West dispute. Wouldn’t it be nice if status was not a desired IDOL? Following yesterday’s article on The Idols of the Rich, there in my Sunday paper was a headline of ‘Now, call me a billionaire: Kanye West wins Forbes row’. Mr West, the mercurial rapper and fashion mogul, has officially gained the status of ‘billionaire’ following a long and acrimonious dispute with Forbes magazine.   Apparently, the feud began after the August 19 publication did not list him in the list of billionaires. Mr West was unhappy and accused Forbes of ‘snubbing’ him and being ‘disrespectful’. Then in April 20 Forbes produced the list of USA billionaires and again Mr West was absent.   His sister in law Kate Jenner was.   This really angered Mr West, and he sent a text to Forbes as follows: You know what you are doing. You’re toying with me, and I am not going to lye down and take it anymore, In Jesus name. Finally, after month...

The Idols of the Rich Wouldn’t it be nice if we truly valued the important things in Life, rather than the Idols we seem to have adopted? So, what are the passions of the 4T (4 Territories - North America, Europe, China and Japan)? SPORTS IDOLS In the UK we have Harry Kane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Lewis Hamilton, to name but a few. We have elevated these individuals absolute GOD status. We award them multi million packages (Forbes 2019)   Harry Kane is a relative pauper on just £15m p.a./£300k p.w. Lionel Messi tops the list with £110m p.a./£2m p.w. They ‘earn’ this because we pay them indirectly with sports subscriptions averaging £100 per month, and by buying tickets to watch them, where including extras we can pay a further £100 p.m. It what’s we, as a society, have collectively chosen to do. CELEBRITIES People famous for being famous. Not for what they have achieved.   Not for done.   Not for what they have given. But we...

How close did we come to losing the Earth? It is frightening to think that we had a close call, but the Earth appears to have been warning us for some time that it could not cope with our madness any longer. Prince Charles has written an article, published today in many newspapers, in which he pleads the case for The Earth.  He asks that we carefully consider how we reset post COVID.  Furthermore, he chose a wonderful analogy of The Earth being in Intensive Care. With the world stopping, and pollution drastically reducing, he notes that there were hopeful signs of the Earth breathing again. To take that body analogy one step further, if we say that the atmosphere is the skin, the oceans and rivers the blood, the land the bones, and the people the muscles, we could comment as follows: - 1.  The Atmosphere. Now that the air-transport industry has ground largely to a halt, it would appear as though the ozone layers are starting to repair.  But are w...

Who wants to be a billionaire ? A short story today, but one of the most shocking that I have ever seen.   2 lists and 2 paragraphs say it all. According to Forbes there were 2,153 $ billionaires in 2019, and their colossal fortune amounted to $8,700,000,000,000.   Or in words $8,700 billion. The wealth of these billionaires exceeds the wealth of the poorest 118 countries of the world. Over 80% of the world’s wealth in held in 4 territories being USA, China, Europe and Japan.   So, the remaining 20% is held by the other 160 countries. The richest individuals are as follows :-                                Forbes wealth $bn        Country                   1.  Jeff Bezos                ...

What is great about Work, Wealth and Profit? I would suggest that all of these actions are worthy, and indeed essential for the common good of people and society. For from work, we obtain wages, and we are able to provide food and shelter. Usually, in the rich countries our wages can also provide us with comparative luxuries such as fashion clothes, cars and holidays. With our wealth, we can enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, and luxury blessings beyond the vast majority of the world’s comprehension. And with profit, as in what remains from sales after all the costs and taxes, we can pay ourselves ‘dividends’ or invest in the growth of our enterprise. Wages However, when the world goes wrong, we can see examples of CEOs earning multiples of 100x or higher than the lowest paid staff member.   We also see examples of bonus incentives that result in multi-million pound pay-outs. How can this be right where workers on minimum wage do not get to share in the success of...

Beware of the UK Media - The truth behind who’s interest they represent. I guess, if the media was owned by the socialist FAR LEFT, we would be up in arms about their motives.   But in our free speech capitalist society we have arrived at the following ownerships:-   Paper            Ownership    Largest shareholder      Forbes estimated wealth    1.    The Times    News Corp    Sir Rupert Murdoch                             £14bn      2.   The Sun        ditto    3.    The Telegraph Press Holdings-Sir Dave & Sir Freddy Barclay            £4bn NB Press Holdings are a Jersey based company and do not pa...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we lived in a paradise described by John Lennon in his wonderful song ‘Imagine’ ? There is another more modern song ‘Beauty for Brokenness’ by Graham Kendrick, that for me encapsulates exactly the same sentiment, and also include words from a faith perspective.   I apologise to anyone offended by this as this would never be my intention.    For those that know me well, they will know that I have a huge distaste for Religion, and there also plenty of references in The Bible that call out its worthlessness.   Indeed, Jesus was crucified by the Religious. I have printed out below, as it can read as a poem. The link to hear it ( including text and video) is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPvioAt5fq4&list=RDpPvioAt5fq4&index=1 Please CONTROL and CLICK BEAUTY FOR BROKENNESS   Graham Kendrick Beauty for Brokenness, Hope For Despair Lord in our suffering, This is our prayer Bread for the children, Justice, Joy, P...