Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees

As we are told as children usually, when asking for more.

“Money doesn’t grow on trees” they said.

And they are right, it doesn’t. Or so we thought. It can’t have escaped many people’s attention that money is literally flowing like water at the moment. More than you could ever imagine being ‘spaffed up the wall’ as they would put it (‘they’ being the elected charlatans at the helm). Amounts we can hardly fathom, I’ll list a few for you for context of some items they just wrote off / spent in just the last two years.

NHS debt wiped as at April 2020 = £13.4 billion they say.

PPE that wasn’t used/up to standard = £9bn

Coronavirus support fraud = £4.3bn

Bounce back Loans they don’t expect to be paid back = £17.5bn

Eye-watering figures, aren’t they? And only a handful that I could recall seeing from the last two years, although this type of thing goes back further and covers far more than I could ever be aware of. The NHS debt being wiped is the interesting one for me (the others were completely set up in an instant to be an instant withdrawal system, as if they turned the government into an ATM for themselves and friends). Years ago, with the introduction of PFI in 1997 (Private Finance Initiatives), we changed the way the NHS operated. People purchased buildings and then rented them back to the NHS, ensuring a constant flow of money into someone else’s pockets. Turns out some notable people purchased some, using off shore accounts so that they didn’t have to pay tax on any of that rental income, and could very slowly bleed the service dry with high rents and terms – because when the public are paying for it and don’t get to check where they money ends up, it seems anything goes.

After years of being told to tighten the purse strings, austerity, cut back, recessions, higher cost of living, low wages etc. You would think there would be a limit? A final amount they are working towards or that the people could take. Nope. Just more debt, printing more ‘money’ and adding zeros to their own salaries and contracts while adding a bigger minus to your life, monetary and otherwise. I do not know the entire financial system and how it works, only a very small part of it, but within that part I deal with income and expenditure, budgeting and forecasting and overview. So, it’s not hard for me to see how we got here, and how we now have more greedy fingers in the pot than ever before with no end in sight. It was never going to be sustainable; they just used that pretence to keep it all going. They were never looking for a solution, so I stick with one of my previous sayings “The system isn’t broken, it’s exactly as they mean it to be”. And once you realise that, it does make you rather despondent towards wanting to be able to change it. It’s a different ballgame knowing you are up against a level of corruption one can only just fathom, and it’s not about systems and procedures and the good of society at all, it’s about them being in control. Of your finances, emotions, thoughts, direction in life and goals. They want us all reading from the same script, because make no mistake, they will still try to achieve what they want, but with less fuss and hassle. Because I believe that’s all they see us as, a bit of a thorn in their side.

Let’s take sheep and cattle. To minimise the hassle with cattle when taking from them what you want, there is a process of restricting them, holding them in place and making them compliant. They don’t just do it because they want to. With sheep, they use sheep dogs to round them up, and then mostly they do as they told. So, these animals fall in line because that is what they are being ‘encouraged’ to do, by way of fear, threat of or actual violence, isolation, and any other tactic we seem to employ to get what we want as humans. Even doing all the above to other humans. But for what purpose? It seems as though they want us all in a small box, consuming until we burst, spending money in their virtual world, not having person to person contact and being medicated to the max. Maybe I have missed something or I am too cynical, but in all of their plans and visions of the future, they seemed to have failed to factor in actually being human. It’s disturbing. They seem to want to change us from human being, to human doing. Augmented soldiers, becoming part of a meta verse, making normality a taboo subject. And guess what, we are paying for it, penny by penny, pound by pound. We pay for our own enslavement and to be in debt, quite ironic really. Or not really, there is no free ride, as my grandpa used to say. So in one way or another, you pay, either with actual money, or time, or emotions. They take something from you in order to then give it back. But what do you do when there is little or no return for what you put in, or you no longer require what they offer in exchange for your time and money? Well, here we are, so now we need to really think about it and decide.

What do we actually want for the future? Do we want to see our old system crumble as they have intended and be morphed into a sterile, monitored, points-based validation system? Where nothing is personal and you are not allowed to be an individual, only group mentality will be authorised. I will cover that in a bit more depth on another article in progress called The Hive, but we need a complete overhaul of our ways and systems, that much is obvious. But not by those who are currently ‘in charge’, as they are the ones who led us here in the first place and clearly cannot be trusted with our safety, security, wellbeing or future.

(c) K Wicks

World Book Day 2022

If you find yourself in need of a book for world book day…

Most of my books are detailed below and there are more in the pipeline.

The Willing Observer – Fictional autobiography of a stalker/psychopath breaking down their methodology

A Parallel Abyss – A paranormal horror thriller

The Unknown – Horror/sci-fi story of a virus that changes the world (that one might not be an escape as such, but isn’t along the same lines as what is going on).

Under the Apple Tree and other short stories – Six short creepy stories, each with a twist – two of these are available to read on here if interested. Clocking Off and Doctors Visit.

Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere – A non-fiction book discussing the differences between Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia.

Rhyme and Reason – Poetry inspired by life.

Rhyming Reason – Volume II – Observational poetry of society and of the unfolding drama around us currently.

All the links for these can be found here on my book page

(c) K Wicks

Sometimes life… (poetry)

Sometimes life

Can seem quite hard

A need to be constantly

On your guard

Against yourself

And the world you see

When all you wanted

Was to simply be

But it got tough

And really quite gritty

Blow after blow

Made it real shitty

And for a time

It all seemed bleak

A search for some calm

While trying to speak

Shouting out loudly

Not saying a word

Everyone’s listening

Yet nothing gets heard

So day after day

One can but try

To make the best of it

And to apply

A new perspective

An alternative thought

For something different

Don’t sell yourself short

~

You’re worth more than that

(c) K Wicks

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Not Like Us

Once you see the line-up of films, you might see where this is going. I have seen much speculation about people being a bit off, or different after recent events. And it made me think of a number of films that fit the bill.

Invasion of the body snatchers (1955 and 1978) – I haven’t seen either but the plot sounds great and I wished I had. It’s as it sounds, but how they snatch you is the interesting part. The human is put to sleep, and a replica of them grows in a pod nearby. Once the pod is fully formed, the human turns to dust and the replica is now in its place. Human looking, but void of emotions.

V (original series 1983) – only seen a few episodes of this, but it was enough. They look like us, round up our doctors and scientists who speak like us, then take us over.

Dark City (1998) – this one pops up a lot because it’s got it all. But for this theme it’s the reveal to the confused main character about what they are. The picture and quote are from this film. “We use your dead as vessels”.

They Live (1988) – A classic and of course would be in this list. Human looking beings infiltrating society and hiding a nefarious plan.

Village of the Damned (1960) – Same theme, but with children, so extra creepy.

Alien (1978) – Only because there is a time period after exposure with the characters act like normal humans. Making the difference undetected to their fellow normal humans. That seems to be the important bit in all these films, that we just can’t tell. Or if we can, we don’t know why.

The Thing (1982) – This one a shape-shifter and appearing just like the person you know. This film I suspect terrified more people than I care to imagine.

Again, there are countless others that will be about possession, infection, abduction, being altered in some way by some alternative species. So that you look like you, but you aren’t you. And infiltrating, conquering/massacring and controlling humanity seems to be running theme in all of them. Is it because it’s just an idea? A natural fear we collectively have? Or is it because deep down we know something isn’t quite right?

From Dark City (1997)

(c) K Wicks

A reading of this article too, if you would like to hear it…