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As I sat in a restaurant yesterday evening awaiting my meal to arrive, I heard the news that Bunny Bread had made his tr...
23/10/2025

As I sat in a restaurant yesterday evening awaiting my meal to arrive, I heard the news that Bunny Bread had made his transition to the ancestors. By the time the food was presented, I had lost my appetite.

Bunny was one of the original West London graffers, part of that first generation of London graffiti artists that emerged after the documentary “Style Wars” and the book “Subway Art” by Henry Chalfont. When the documentary was screened on British television, the urban art form captured the imagination of the youth and had everyone trying their hand at it. I myself dabbled under the name Sly but after one or two pieces lost interest.

If you passed through Ladbroke Grove in the 1980s and travelled on the Hammersmith & City Line, you would have seen his works in the open air gallery along the railway tracks that stretched from Hammersmith to Edgware Road. He and his crew, ‘Nonstop’ which consisted of Bunny - who went by the graffiti name State of Art, which was often abbreviated SOA, Cane and Pedro, started tagging and grafitti in 1985 and were responsible for creating the two Hall’s of Fame in Ladbroke Grove - alongside other artists such as Foam, Demo, Rio2 and Rich, Rage and Insane from the ‘No Limits Crew’.

The original Hall of Fame, known as “The Pit” was located on Wornington Road, while “Hall of Fame 2” was at the base of Trelick Tower. These crews were amongst the most talented set of grafitti artists in the UK - with Bunny being acknowledged as the “real” artist amongst them as he also did assignments as a professional illustrator.

Bunny was a gifted, genuine, humble and pure spirited brother, who mind his own business, kept his head down and his shoulder to the wheel. His loss will no doubt be widely felt within the graffiti artist community and way beyond. He was the type of brother you thought would live forever - and in one form or another, he will!

This possibly explains why they won’t release the Epstein Files and have blocked public access. The more information tha...
22/10/2025

This possibly explains why they won’t release the Epstein Files and have blocked public access. The more information that comes out the more it casts suspicion surrounding the circumstances of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged su***de. His death is too much of a convenience for the rich and powerful.

I doubt the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, has been interviewed by the police even though the US government and FBI would have known about these allegations for years. They have closed the files saying there is no conspiracy and that there was no “sex trafficking”. Yet, Virginia Guiffre is only one of the alleged victims and she has already named Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz and Ehud Barak as three people to whom she claimed she was trafficked.

This is a story of power, privilege and untouchability. It pulls the curtain on the mirky criminal underworld of the rich and powerful. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes, Bankers, Academics, leaders of industry - and the debauched private playground where they could fulfil their most depraved fantasies.

No wonder they want to keep the lid on this story. It is one of the greatest political scandals in US history. It exposes criminality, paedophilia and the sexual abuse and exploitation of young women at the highest level of American politics and the corruption of the judicial system in protecting those responsible. It is a scandal that has International implications and the potential to bring down the government and the entire political Establishment with it. It has already claimed the scalps of four leading British figures, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson and Peter Mandelson - and this isn’t even a British scandal. If they are merely the road kill in this political scandal, then who are the big names that the American political establishment and the FBI are protecting?

As I have said time and time again, these honey traps involving the sexual exploitation of young girls and women are nothing new. You would have thought the British media would have connected the dots between the Profumo Scandal and the number of deaths and alleged su***des that occurred in its aftermath in order to protect the identity of the “Man in the Mask” and other powerful figures - but of course, they are just as complicit, so don’t expect them to dig up those skeletons any time soon. And while we are on the subject of skeletons, I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the young women who serviced Jeffrey Epstein’s friends and clients are now skeletons themselves. How far would the security and intelligence services go in order to protect the powerful?

It really makes me wonder if the hullabaloo surrounding Diddy was nothing but a smokescreen. A sacrifice in order to divert attention away from the big fish. You know, start a small fire to put out a bigger one!

WESTERN IMPERIALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR - ALWAYS CONNECT THE DOTS!When we look at the genocide ...
20/10/2025

WESTERN IMPERIALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR - ALWAYS CONNECT THE DOTS!

When we look at the genocide and deliberate destruction of Palestine, the sabotage of development and the Palestinian people’s simple aspiration for the recognition of their sovereignty and peace and prosperity, we should always consider the people of the Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Cuba… We should always reflect on the destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Syria… and what we were taught about these nations. How they were presented as aggressors, belligerents, threats to humanity and civilisation, terrorists or supporters of terrorism and how they threatened the Western way of life or US national security.

Think about the wars, the destruction, and the amount of bombs that were dropped on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s and 1970s… the death squads trained by the United States government in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras… of the 1980s. The overthrow or assassination of democratically elected governments from Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran in 1953, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo in 1961, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in 1966, Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973, to Mohammad Morsi of Egypt in 2013 and Jovenel Moïse of Haiti in 2021.

Think about the terms “regime change”, “collateral damage” and the invasion of Iraq, the ex*****on of Saddam Hussein and turning a nation that once boasted of being a cradle of civilisation, with one of the most highly educated populations and sophisticated societies in the Middle East into a basket case. The bombing of Libya back to the Stone Age and the sodomisation and murder of its leader Muammar Gaddafi, a nation which had the fastest growing GDP in Africa and provided its citizens with free healthcare, free electricity, subsidised social housing and unemployment benefit.

Think about the tens of millions of innocent non-white civilians that have been murdered over the years by Western imperialism and White Supremacy.

Palestine is not new and nor is it alone. It is simply the principle focus of the day - one of a long list of nations that have been brutalised as part of a land grab by White supremacists. From being savages to communists to terrorists - they have always found a way to control the narrative and language in order to dehumanise us, to criminalise our struggles and to legitimise their greed, tyranny and sense of entitlement. It is part of a pattern where non-compliant Black and Brown nations have been presented as threats and demonised by Western nations in order for lands to be colonised and resources plundered - all overseen and rubber stamped by the so-called “International Community” which is nothing more than a euphemism for the same old White Western boys club, supported by the IMF, World Bank and other institutions that they founded, legitimised by awards that they created and defended by NATO, their collective enforcers - a private militia that they brought together as an alliance to impose their will by sheer brute force - and which circumvents the authority of the United Nations.

The United States was founded on the slaughter of its native people after the European propaganda that they were fighting savages. Much of Africa suffered the same fate - as did the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and the indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand. Lest we forget the genocide perpetrated by the British against the people of Tasmania. They successfully slaughtered every Tasmanian to the point that there is not one surviving indigenous Tasmanian today.

Savages was what they called us back then, but today they call us terrorists. Any study of those words and the history of Western imperialism will expose who the real savages and terrorists are - facts of which are never presented or articulated by the Western mainstream media - who are collectively afflicted with selective amnesia.

The spell is broken and the game is up - the chickens are coming home to roost. Western imperialism and White Supremacy have a lot to answer for. They have every reason to be frantically attempting to consolídate their power - the clock is ticking and their days are numbered.

FREE PALESTINE!

Photo: Enslaved Indigenous people of Australia (1905)

I wonder if the Prime Minister and large sections of the British public would be so supportive of Muslim football fans w...
18/10/2025

I wonder if the Prime Minister and large sections of the British public would be so supportive of Muslim football fans who had run amok in a European city, attacking Jews, tearing down the Israeli flag and assaulting anyone who opposed them or looked Jewish?

After the police had made a professional assessment identifying possible violence and public safety issues as a result of Muslim football fans marauding through a high density Jewish area, would this spineless amoeba who is a pitiful excuse of a Prime Minister attempt to overturn such a ban and voice support for such thugs?

Well this is what Keir Starmer has just done by defending the fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C, and in the process inadvertently stoking the wrath of the Far Right and their Zionist financiers by throwing petrol on an already incendiary situation.

What this demonstrates is how far Zionist influence has infiltrated British politics, the media and every facet of British life. How those in the pockets of Zionism are willing to sacrifice everything in order to support the absurd and to please their masters.

On another note, the former football hooligan Stephen Yaxley who adopted the monicker Tommy Robinson in adulation and honour of a notorious Luton Town football hooligan, has had his trial for breaching counter terrorism laws deferred so that he can visit Israel where he was invited as a guest. How nice of the British judiciary to accomodate him and his invitation.

It would appear that the house of cards are collapsing in on themself, as the worn out threads that once held society together begin to fray and fall apart!

If they gave Palestinians as much airtime as they do Zionists and allowed them to comment on every attack against Jews a...
17/10/2025

If they gave Palestinians as much airtime as they do Zionists and allowed them to comment on every attack against Jews and justify every murder, with the support of powerful Western allies who prevent action from being taken against them, protect them from being held accountable, supply them with weapons, dehumanise the victims of their terror attacks, kidnap Israeli citizens and imprison them without trial and criminalise any protest that sought justice for Jewish people - then no doubt such propaganda and power would brainwash even fair and reasonable people to think they were supporting a good cause.

They have allowed every Zionist his best friend and their dog to comment daily on every major Western media news outlet, on every aspect of the genocide and slaughter of Palestinian people - while totally excluding the voices of the victims themselves.

How many Palestinians have you heard as commentators over the past two years? How many of them have you heard describe their trauma, their torment, their reality, their personal testimony? The majority of voices in the Western mainstream media that have lobbied on the behalf of Palestinians have been those of foreign medics, global charities and international activists.

The slaughter of Palestinians has not stopped, Israeli expansionist plans have not been thwarted, Marwan Barghouti is still being held hostage, Palestinians are still living in a concentration camp, they are still stateless and living under siege of the tyranny of a Zionist state and its racist powerful Western backers.

On a side note, has it ever occurred to anyone why deserving characters like Marwan Barghouti and Mordechai Vanunu have never been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize? Such is the depth, the corruption and reach of the tentacles of Western imperialism. They don’t just control the media, they control the entire narative of good vs evil, who will get the microphone and who will not, who will be rewarded and who will be punished, who will be celebrated and who will be hated!

Never before has there been such a crass and shameless public display of Western imperialism and White supremacy than at...
14/10/2025

Never before has there been such a crass and shameless public display of Western imperialism and White supremacy than at the phoney peace summit where all the conspirators in Palestine’s destruction sheepishly gathered around Trump’s feet. In attendance were a select list of the Emperors favourite concubines all competing for his affection and to demonstrate how low they are willing to prostrate themselves at his feet in front of the world’s cameras.

The highlight of the day was without doubt Keir Starmer trying to shoehorn himself into the proceedings and to steal some of Trump’s limelight. Trump knew Starmer was standing behind him and deliberately left him until last just to publicly humiliate him. Who would have thought that only a few weeks previously Trump had been feted by the British Prime Minister and Royal family at Windsor Castle with a parade that rivalled that of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Trump is a vindictive, calculating and vengeful foe to have. He doesn’t forget, no matter how much you kowtow or kiss his arse. He wants the world to know that he is the boss of bosses in this mafia family.

After praising all of the sycophants and bootlickers in attendance, he finally remembered Keir Starmer. “The United Kingdom, where are the United Kingdom?” Keir Starmer approached with his chest out, thinking the Emperor was going to acknowledge the “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP” and let him bask for a few moments in front of the world’s cameras. Instead, he was thanked for coming and then summarily dismissed like a servant of the royal household, “These people all came with only 20 minutes notice, and I think it’s fantastic!” Trump continued without missing a beat - leaving Keir Starmer staring at the back of his head and not knowing what to do except to shuffle back to his place with his head slightly bowed and without taking his eyes off the Emperor stood at the podium.

Only Trump could deliver such comedy gold. He seems to be getting his groove back on now that he has successfully buried the Epstein files. One thing is for sure, Trump is no peace broker and Keir Starmer is no Statesman!

LEST WE FORGET THE PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST NOR BE WOOED BY THIS PHONEY PEACE PLAN!While the Western world congratulates it...
13/10/2025

LEST WE FORGET THE PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST NOR BE WOOED BY THIS PHONEY PEACE PLAN!

While the Western world congratulates itself and celebrates the agreement of a phoney peace plan, Palestinians simply celebrate a pause in the slaughter.

It is obscene watching the architects and facilitators of this genocide flock to Egypt in order to wring each others bloody hands and to pat themselves on the back at what is being billed as an international peace summit. Where was this so-called peace summit and the urgency to stop the wholesale slaughter over the two-years that the people of the world watched powerless as the genocide was live streamed into their homes?

This is no peace plan, just like Camp David, the Oslo Accords and the scores of other so-called peace agreements before it. This is just another means to neuter Palestinian self-determination, to muffle the growing dissent across the world and to keep Palestine in a perpetual state of limbo - while Israel continues to expand its territory and war of attrition on the Palestinian people.

Western leaders and their media can spin this story as a victory as much as they like but the spell has already been broken. No amount of propaganda or contorting the facts will be able to present Donald Trump as a legitimate peace broker. He is complicit in the genocide and made his intentions clear from the beginning. He doesn’t see a free and independent Palestine - he sees a riviera, a Capitalist outpost of Western decadence, imperialism and White Supremacy. There will be no peace in Palestine and there will be no independent sovereign state, so long as European and Western leaders are sitting at the negotiating table.

As with every other country they have destroyed, they will use the reconstruction as a means to further colonise and control the land and its people. Who will get the contracts to rebuild? Who will pay for it? What rights or natural resources will Palestinians have to sign away? And fundamentally, what rights will an independent and sovereign Palestine have to bears arms and to protect itself from any future Israeli aggression?

If the answers to these questions are to be determined by the very Western powers that have facilitated and shielded this genocide, then you know that nothing has changed.

Will Benjamin Netanyahu, his cronies and the facilitators of his war crimes ever be brought to justice? The irony is, half of those responsible for the Palestinian genocide will be the ones holding centre court at this so-called peace summit!

Polls now show that half of Conservative Party members do not want Kemi Badenoch to lead them into the next general elec...
07/10/2025

Polls now show that half of Conservative Party members do not want Kemi Badenoch to lead them into the next general election.

I think that is quite evident by the deliberate mispelling of “Britain” on a signed chocolate bar bearing her name and distributed at the Conservative Party Conference.

I fail to believe that no one at any point, from conception, to design, to printing, to distribution on the day, failed to spot the typo on a bar of chocolate that contained only five words. This appears to be a conceived plot to embarass her and to undermine her leadership.

These are the type of Machiavellian shenanigans and sculduggery that hallmark the deceptive and malicious DNA of those who walk the dank corridors of Westminster. A pitiful reflection of the British political class of today - and the so-called representatives of the people of the United Kingdom.

If I were Kimberly Badenoch, I’d be looking for the individual who suggested the idea of signing my name to a bar of chocolate. The gaffe coupled with the overtones suggest something more calculated than sheer incompetence.

As I said from the begining, the Tory DEI hire was nothing more than a seat warmer!

WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?Italian dockworkers threatened to bring Europe to a standstill if Israel laid a finger on the flot...
02/10/2025

WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?

Italian dockworkers threatened to bring Europe to a standstill if Israel laid a finger on the flotilla. It is time to see if they are true to their word.

We have witnessed a full blown genocide unfold before our eyes with the complicity of US and European governments. We have been disgusted by the Arab States betrayal of Palestine. We have waited for the International Court of Justice to enforce it’s arrest warrants and to bring the genocide to an end. We have seen the impotence of the United Nations as Israel has murdered more aid workers, doctors, UN staff and journalists in any modern conflict, while deliberately targeting schools, hospitals, mosques and churches. We have observed the complicity of the global financial institutions that have refused to cut off Israel’s lifeline and access to the global markets. We have heard the announcement that the war criminal Tony Blair is to be shoehorned in as a future viceroy of the Palestinian territory, in a colonial carve up of the land by Trump and Netanyahu - without even so much as the decency to include representatives of the Palestinians themselves. We have seen precisely how Western Imperialism and White Supremacy works.

If the institutions that were created to stop genocides from taking place cannot protect the people of Palestine, then they certainly won’t be able to protect you and me.

Netanyahu has made it clear that there is nothing and no one who can stand in his way from ethnically cleansing Gaza and creating a greater Israel. He has exposed the Zionist hand and the control they have over Western governments and global institutions.

What will we do next? What is our next course of action? For how long will we continue to peacefully protest and sing Kumbaya and We Shall Overcome? It appears that the world will have to burn to the ground before the stooges and facilitators of Zionist Israel grasp the urgency for an end to this genocide and a recognition of the Palestinian State!

30/09/2025

Charlie Hill has asked me to put out this statement on his behalf.

He is the last surviving and longest serving US exile in Cuba. He was the man on the ground who facilitated Huey Newton and other Black Panthers who were exiled during the Black Power period.

He reaffirms his commitment to the Black liberation struggles and solidarity with the people of Palestine and other international liberation movements.

“There are a lot of people that knew about us exiles here in Cuba - but they didn’t think about us. Those of us who sacrificed our liberty and were left behind. There are no movies or books about us and we certainly don’t get the support that we need. We lost our families. I lost my mother, my father, my brother, I have lost friends. It has been difficult - but I refuse to be a turncoat Revolutionary. There are a lot of Revolutionaries who when things get bad and they face hardships, they start talking negatively about the struggles. No, I refuse to do that. I will never abandon the struggles, I will always be a Revolutionary.

As Revolutionaries we have to remember that we are always being hunted. They are always trying to delegitimise our struggle and to paint us as terrorists. I will give you an example. When I first arrived in Cuba in 1971 the US government described me as a radical Revolutionary. Now they call me a terrorist. I have never been a terrorist. I have never terrorised anyone. They have reframed us within our own struggle through their control of the language. No different to what they have done to the people of Palestine and other legitimate resistance movements who are opposed to being enslaved, their brothers and sisters annhilated and their lands exploited and colonised. This is simply how Capitalism and facism works.

It is not just Israel and Netanyahu that currently pose a threat to the world, it is the United States. We have to look at their tendencies and the tendancy to cosy up to facism. Facism is rising around the world and the United States now has a facist oligarchic government. We have to be extremely careful because it is spreading and they are doing all they can to silence free speech and dissent. We have to keep a very close eye on the United States and Europe.

You may live in the UK, you may live in Germany, or you may live in the United States and feel that you are far away from it - but I’ve got some news for you - they will be knocking on your door any day now. This is just the beginning. It starts with the dehumanisation process, the proscription of individuals and groups with dissenting views who oppose those in power. The rich are getting richer. If you look at Donald Trump’s inaugeration there were about fourteen multi-billionaires there. They don’t care about you. They don’t care about us. They care about themselves - and that is the only thing they care about!”

Charlie Hill

Seeing as Facebook saw it fit to delete my post, I’ll repeat it again but omit some of the offending details.Assata Shak...
27/09/2025

Seeing as Facebook saw it fit to delete my post, I’ll repeat it again but omit some of the offending details.

Assata Shakur who passed away on 25 September was a Revolutionary of the highest order. Very few of us are willing to make the sacrifice and to pay the price that she and others of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army made in confronting the racist power structure of America and facing down racist police officers who had a license to kill.

Exiled in Cuba alongside Nehanda Obiadun who died in 2019 and Charlie Hill, her death signifies the end of an era. Charlie Hill is now the last surviving Black Revolutionary exile of that period - having arrived in Cuba in 1971 after hijacking a TWA plane.

I doubt people can fathom the isolation, the depression and the sense of abandonment. They lived in relative poverty, struggling to make ends meet, forgotten and discarded by the people for whom they sacrificed so much.

It would move me to see the conditions in which Charlie and Nehanda lived - and I would often raise funds in order to alleviate some of the financial challenges they faced.

Looking at the world today, the excess, the extravagance, the narcisism and the greed - I often wonder if their sacrifice was worth it.

It pained me to see these Revolutionaries live out their last days in relative obscurity and struggling financially. While Assata will now no doubt be celebrated across social media and cannonised, we should bow our heads in shame. We talk a good fight - but there is rarely the will and the action to back it up.

As I would often have to remind Charlie and Nehanda - there is no pension in the Black struggles!

23/09/2025

My visit to London was short but sweet. I had the pleasure of being invited to Palestine House for breakfast. For those who are unfamiliar with the venue, it is a hub that shares the culture and heritage of Palestine. What an amazing experience. They are located in Holborn directly opposite Lawyers for Israel who have been lobbying for their closure.

Without doubt the highlight of my stay was the visit to my 83 year-old mother. She has Alzheimer’s. Each time I return I ask her if she remembers me. She has remembered me for the past few years since her diagnosis and we then laugh about it - but upon this visit when I asked her who I was, she was puzzled, looked confused and said she didn’t recognise me, who am I. I refused to tell her. Her gaze penetrated me while her face contorted as she struggled to remember. After a little pause and a squint of the head, she said I looked like Aunt Iris - who was my grandmother. Her face softened as it finally dawned on her who I was. She hugged me with a warmth that transported me back to my childhood. She continued hugging me tightly in a firm grasp - and then began reciting a hymn that I had never heard her sing before. She began repeating the recital over and over again. It was obviously something that she had recited often as a child.

I didn’t have a wonderful relationship with my mother. She was deeply into the church and believed I was in the streets murdering people and getting up to badness. It led to frictions and a very complicated relationship. But I was always loving and respectful of her - though I had abandoned the quest for her validation decades ago. She was a highly intelligent, caring and thoughtful woman, who worked as a senior nurse. She did the night shift and often did double shifts just to get a little more money to raise me and my other siblings. This meant that by the age of 12, I had the freedom to be on the streets at whatever hour I chose. Obviously, I got up to mischief and this probably led to a few other kids in the neighbourhood going astray as a result of my activities. My mother never quite forgave me for that - and thus began our problems, as I began to remind her more and more of my father.

Now that she has Alzheimer’s, for some reason we get on like a house on fire. I have always recognised her struggle and sacrifice and it is this acknowledgment that kept me grounded and respectful. This reunion that is anchored by her fleeting memory has been cathartic for both of us. It means that we have both found peace and forgiven each other before her memory finally fades!

(The recording is of my mother reciting the hymn)

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