'Belief' is not the same as evidence.

Capitalism is a political and economic belief system that causes harm, and avoids holding itself accountable for the harms it causes. It denies, ignores the evidence that this is so. This is fundamentally unsafe.




'Belief' is not the same as evidence.


Anyone making policy on the basis of belief rather than the available evidence is unsafe.


I might believe that money is inherently evil. If I applied that to policy I would make really useless policy.


I might believe that Satan is a real force, when it is clear there is no material evidence whatsoever for the existence of Satan. If I made policy on the basis of my belief in and fear of Satan, I would make really unhealthy policy. 


One ought to make policy on the basis of whatever causes avoidable harm must always be avoided. Basic Health and Safety.


I might believe in God, but I cannot bring that belief to policy formulation - it is a belief, and without material evidence, it has no relevance to public policy, other than that it is a matter of freedom of belief - one can believe what ever one chooses. 


I can believe in golden faeries in my garden. 


But I cannot bring that to policy deliberations.


I understand that Climate Disruption is driven by excess CO2 poured into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, by deforestation, by agricultural practice that degrades the soil and by militarism's warfare. 


The evidence for all these is well documented.


Taking all these into consideration, with a view to avoiding avoidable harm,  I might make healthier policy.


Some people believe that misogyny is the natural order, that women are inferior to men, the 'weaker sex', etc and some believe that women should serve men, sexually and as submissive partners. 


Those people make really adverse policy that causes harm when it comes to human rights of women, education, wage equality, power equity, gender violence.


Acknowledging that belief as a false belief, and talking the evidence that men and women are persons, with brains and minds, fully capable of the kinds of thinking required to solve problems, we might make healthier policy.


"a problem incorrectly understood is insoluble, and problem correctly understood is half way towards a solution".


That is a fundamental axiom that anyone involved in public, elected civil governance really ought to be focussed on.


Equality and Equity are not the same thing.


Often 'being equal' is offered as a way of joining in the hierarchy - Women in Combat Teams for example, or Women as CEOs or line managers of environmentally destructive commercial operations.


It means being equal to the men who are causing harm.


It is a slight of hand, a mask.


Equitable inclusion has to lead to cessation of harm causation, reparations, accountability and forwards policy that eliminates the harm causation.... otherwise it is a set-up to maintain the harm causation.


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Online Stimulation of Hatred, a solution.

A Chara,


The horrific act of setting fire to a stairwell in an IPAS Center was likely stimulated. The various violent ‘protests’ outside IPAS centres likewise. 


IPAS Center in Drogheda, Ireland. Front door kicked in, fire set in main stairwell, with women, children living upstairs.


Video of man setting fire to the stairwell: hlsv4_master.m3u8 



News report on this incident on Ireland AM


This kind of action is not something ordinary people who are angry about something would come up with, let alone carry out.

Studying a person to understand their insecurities, fears, rages, biases and misunderstandings in order to create and deliver material designed to exacerbate their emotional reactivity, carried out over periods of time to eventually drive behavioural change that can be exploited for political purpose is understood as a ‘social media marketing’ phenomenon, that operates at scale.


This activity is fundamentally psychological abuse.


There are solid grounds for defining it as an inherently criminal action, and defining  legislation to criminalise it.

If such legislation was in place, platforms would no longer be able to generate revenue streams from such marketing campaigns.



Perhaps that would help us in dealing with online hatred stimulation.




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No Bells Going Off Imperialist Peace Prize?



Alfred Nobel

Wealth-as-Power.


Every population of every wealth-as-power cult(ure) is carefully conditioned and habituated to internalise the belief that the cult(ure) is both inevitable and the best.


Wealth-as-Power can only exist when a minority extract wealth, resources and assets from a population and the land in which that population lives.


Exploitation causes harm, and this generates dissent, and sometimes resistance.


Thus Wealth-as-Power controlling minorities have to deploy behaviour tools of control coercion and violence.


Egalitarians cultures do not.


Every colonial culture is a Wealth-as-Power cult.


No Bells Going Off Imperialist Gaslighting Peace Prize?

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to a woman Maria Corina Machado, who is an ardent Zionist, who has suggested a 're-conquista' to remove all Muslim people from Europe, privatisation of the State, hatred for 

Socialism...


Maria Corina Machado


There are others much more deserving of this award, if it had any real meaning - Greta Thungberg, Francesca Albanese, Jeremy Corbyn, Lowkey, Ilan Pappé, Bisan Owda, the hundreds of millions of people actively opposing Militarism..



Obama was awarded the prize and escalated America's global drone warfare. Henry Kissinger did pretty much the same. And so it goes...


This is who Maria Corina Machado really is:


She helped lead the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president, and signed the Carmona Decree that erased the Constitution and dissolved every public institution overnight.


She worked hand in hand with Washington to justify regime change, using her platform to demand foreign military intervention to “liberate” Venezuela through force.


She cheered on Donald Trump’s threats of invasion and his naval deployments in the Caribbean, a show of force that risks igniting regional war under the pretext of “combating narcotrafficking.”

While Trump sent warships and froze assets, Machado stood ready to serve as his local proxy, promising to deliver Venezuela’s sovereignty on a silver platter.


She pushed for the US sanctions that strangled the economy, knowing exactly who would pay the price: the poor, the sick, the working class.


Zionist, Colonialist, "Peace Maker"?



All of this is very well documented and this is not a smear on her character, it is an accurate assessment of her behaviour.

Nobel. Dynamite and TNT Ding Dong.


Alfred Nobel was deeply involved in the arms industry, both through his family's legacy and his own inventions and company acquisitions. He patented numerous weapons, including the forerunner to cordite, and bought the Bofors company, turning it into a major arms manufacturer. Despite his direct involvement in creating armaments, Nobel held complex views on war and expressed a hope that his powerful explosives could make war so horrific that it would end, a belief he shared with pacifist Bertha von Suttner. 


An absolutely ludicrous and delusional hope....


Like many who profited from great harm, he - Mr. Nobel - sought to 'balance the books'.


But it fails, every time.


Harm cannot be undone.


Harm cannot be undone, and great harm even moreso. The Genocides of Rwanda, Gaza, Royhunga, Armenia, Ireland, Australia, Angola, Maibia, Kenya, North and South Americas and so many others can not be undone. 


The only way to balance against those horrific events is for the perpetrators to hold themselves accountable, or be held accountable by todays populations, to strive to meet the un-met needs of the harmed, the survivors and to take robust action to prevent the same harm ever being perpetrated again


Western Militarism undermines any claims it has to be progressive. 


Because it refuses to hold itself accountable and it actively prevents the voting population from hold the legislators who fund militarism and wage war accountable.


I write of Western Militarism because as a western voter that is the area where I might have, and we certainly as a vast majority can have effective influence if we decide to deploy it, robustly.


The issue of Militarism in Russia, China, Africa, South America is for their populations to confront. 


I believe the Global South would move towards a demilitarised condition if the Western Militarism was held accountable for current and past transgressions by the Western voting populations. Including colonialism.


The Palestine issue will not be resolved until the perpetrators of the colonial project are all held accountable, in historical terms and in the present and into the future, in such manner that no further harm is caused.


Israel is a weapon.


Israel was intended and is, and will ever be,  a weapon of the British White Supremacist Empire.


To hold Israel accountable the British Ruling Class must be held accountable. To scapegoat Israel  and let the Western Supremacist Empire off the hook is to fail.


It may take a while (though it should not) for the majority of people to arrive at the most accurate historical understanding of the charge I laid out here.


Once we do, and it must be soon, then there is no viable future for any of us without holding the Western Colonial Powers accountable. None.



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Compost Wealth - Natural Intelligence

Here's an idea from natural biology.


feed the world


When a billionaire dies, his or her children and family each receive a few million, a few million goes to philanthropic endeavours, the rest goes back into public ownership, including the shareholdings and assets, to be composted to nurture the next few generations of the whole society.


Compost the hierarchy of wealth-as-power for the benefit of everyone, including the billionaires and their clans, who would end up living in a much safer world as a direct result. 


compost is natural intelligence


The way a fallen Sequoia or Oak or Mahogany tree will feed the roots of the trees around, as well as the myriad of living organisms that help break it down, that get eaten by other organisms all the way up the food chain and back down again.


If you oppose this then I think you oppose building a safer, kinder happier culture for humanity and I think you need counselling help.




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Stephen Wise speaks the truth at a conference in New York 1931

Those of us who read History from the perspective of the most vulnerable people and their lived experience in the shadow of the decision made by the most powerful class, the ruling class, see through the propaganda and romanticisation of Kings, Great Leaders, Nationalist Hagiographies and claims of progress and civilisation.

Jonathon Edwards: A Christian Zionist fixated upon Fire, Brimstone and Beauty. Beauty?


We know that Zionist was an English Calvinist ideology, born in 1580, in London, curated by the British Empire which emerged after the English Civil War and the Industrial Revolution funded by slavery, the Opium wars and colonial conquests. So much needless suffering so that yet another series of venal Wealth-as-Power Cults could call themselves progressive cultures.

The Protestant Plantations of Ireland under Cromwell became a model for future colonial 'best practice'.

"
Calvinist Christian Zionism 
originated from Puritanism in the 16th and 17th centuries, with figures like  Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr Vermigli who  forwarded a biblical exegesis which included an important role for the Jews, converted to Christianity, in the end times Jonathan Edwards believing Jewish return to Palestine was essential for Christ's Second Coming and the spread of the gospel

This theological concept of restorationism was later revived by British parliamentarians in the 19th century, such as Lord Shaftesbury, influencing policy toward a Jewish presence in Palestine for their own religious goals, which was a precursor to modern political Zionism. "



The Calvinists assumed a dark belief that to bring forth the return of The Messiah (Jesus 2.0) all Jews had to be returned to the lands of Judea, initiating a global war for Christianity, waged by God, Jesus and Christians, and that 1/3rd of all Jews would convert and be saved, the rest and all other peoples of any faith or none would perish, and thus a fully Christian Earth would emerge, fulfilling the Biblical order to hold dominion over the Earth.

Curated as a geopolitical weapon, anti-Jewish under its pallid skin, a skin torn from the Jewish Faith and Diaspora, and reshaped as a mask. They wanted to move all Jewish people from Europe to anywhere else, and Palestine was the final destination. 

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a leading Zionist wrote a letter to all Zionists in 1923, titled 'The Iron Wall' extolling the inherent morality of the Zionist Cause, and thus the correctness of the necessary violent conquest of the lands already long inhabited by Arab Jews, Christians, Muslims, Sufi, Zoarstrians, Bedouins and secularists.... This was well known by the British Empire Ruling Class, they read his letter amongst many other Zionist diatribes, and understood their implications perfectly well.

Stephen Samuel Wise inadvertently laid bare this piece of history at the Zionist Conference held in New York, in 1931, attended by Lloyd George and other luminaries of the Empire and of Zionism.

Anti-Jewish oppression was rampant, as it had been since the Middle Ages, and in European power circles it was a favourite after dinner topic amongst the wealth and powerful as they chugged of cigars and fine brandy, the men of means chatting shit about how great there were.




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