“PHONETICALLY SPEAKING” To reflect the fast pace of world news, my blog is probably best served as a stream-of-consciousness text. Fast and unadulterated. With this approach, and on first encounter, text might not seem to scan. This is because I am dyslexic. Instead of keeping the proof-readers busy, I would rather let my blog updates of my visual work stand as a record of my experience of dyslexia, which I am keen that you now get to enjoy too. Unlike some news outlets, I hereby excuse myself the need for a ‘corrections’ section! The excitement of a new language is something I’m quite familiar with, and it is with this ‘joie de vivre’ that I am delighted to guide you through my thought and work processes, more phonetically (than fanatically) speaking.
Coors and Effet
“Jihadi Junior” a British boy being used as a last resort as a propaganda tool. A direct response to British illegal involvement in Syria under PM David Cameron.
Haras Rafiq, of counter-extremism think-tank the Quilliam Foundation, was interviewed by Good Morning Britain and he said: “It’s important that we as parents and experts get hold of these children as quickly as possible to deprogram them because they’re suffering. This is a form of abuse, as far as I’m concerned.” (The Quilliam Foundation is a threat to the political and financial racket on both sides, just waiting for a smear campaign on them, probably coming from the Guardian and British government funded charities)
The man in the video next to the little boy who is probably Swedish converted to the extreme religious position after the realization of illegal Western involvement in the Middle East. Currently we have no safety net in catching disillusioned citizens of the West to travelling to join the radical groups.
When British children are getting caught up, we have a responsibility as a nation so this cannot happen. But at the same time the state cannot have power to physically stop it, as unfortunately the power which they would need is unprecedented and it would be more dangerous to democracy than the situation we find ourselves in now.
So, I propose the battle lines are education not regulation.
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