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Governments are temporary, States are more or less permanent.

Governments are temporary, States are more or less permanent.

That said, every current Government is the entity responsible for present day State action and behaviour.

Therefore for every past behaviour that has caused avoidable harm by not avoiding causing that harm, when the State could have avoided it, it is the responsibility of the current Government to address and correct that shituation, including holding the State accountable, making reparations and changing behaviour in the present and into the future so that action causing harms are always avoided, prevented from being done again.

The same applies to every Institution that holds some power - News Papers, Corporations, Religions, Armies and so forth.

With this in mind...

Someone who represents or controls vast wealth should NEVER have private or semi-public lobbying meetings with Legislators, without the meeting being fully minuted, recorded and included in Legislative Records, where the electorate can read them.

Then fact that they can and do have this facility in private means that they have more influence upon elected officials than the people who elected them.

The straight up undermines very principle of Healthy Democratic Governance.

If the owners and representatives of Wealth want to advise Legislators it should be fully public, with its aims and objectives fully exposed to the electorate, with the electorate empowered to voice back on the suggestions of Wealth and to take a central role in the deliberations on policy.

It is not democracy to vote for an elected official and leave it at that.

That's a popularity contest, and one that is all too easily exploited and manipulated.

21st Century Governance has to dismantle the 18th Century systems still operating because it is those systems that have led us directly into Genocides and Climate Disruption as Business Models. We need a re-boot, informed by evidence and the unmet needs of the people.

Genocides and Climate Disruption are Business Models.

They are not merely bad behaviour by a few bad humans - they are an intrinsic part of the Wealth-as-Power Business Model.

Cults as a business model - Wealth-as-Power and The State.

This is true of almost every Western Democracy. This is true of almost every State. This is true of almost every current Power structure predicated on Wealth-as-Power.

The Cult of The Flag, the Cult of the Military, the Cult of the innate superiority of the Wealthy above the impoverished.

Wealth-as-Power, as a political force requires that a minority have the leverage to exploit a majority in ways that allow the minority to extract wealth from the majority and then deploy it as a weapon to maintain the systems of extraction, no matter the costs to the majority. It requires that that minority internalises a sense of entitlement to their dominating position. That is a cult belief operating system.

Wealth-as-Power is a cult.

A belief system rooted in a Power Disparity that enables the minority to exploit the majority.

Every person who waves the flag of National Identity, be it pride or rage, has internalised an identity crafted by external Power, to bind them to the State as a Power, and by inference, to the purpose of those who wield that Power, at an emotional and irrationally secure level within their psyche.

I was attending an anti-racism rally this weekend and one speaker cried out 'Yes to Race, no to Racism!'

Race does not exist in reality, it is a concept crafted in the British Colonies as a means to weaponise European Workers, freed and indentured, against non-European workers, freed and indentured.

The acceptance of Race as a reality is the very root of Racism.

The acceptance of National Identity is the very root of Xenophobia.

The acceptance of Genderism is the very root of Misogyny.

We are persons, first and foremost.

We are all persons within the Human species, and the visible differences in skin tone, height, body build, sex are merely the expression of our natural variations, none of which change the fact of personhood. Those visible differences are biologically irrelevant, precisely because our brains are persons, fluid persons that adapt to local conditions, as a fundamental evolutionary attribute that allows us to live anywhere, with creativity, intelligence, solidarity and success.

That I speak English and this other person might speak Farsi, and another Chinese does not change the fact of our shared personhood one iota.

Our livers, lungs, kidneys might be suitable for a transplant, and would not hold our national identity or our language, our gender or our height, as a barrier.

Egalitarian cultures understood the nature of healthy, autonomous connected personhood as the floor of a healthy family, community or society.

Hierarchy cultures always undermine the person, and elevate the instrumentalised body as the defining characteristic. Men have men roles, women have women roles, children should be obedient, and follow suit.

Wealth-as-Power from War Lords to Kings, Emperors to Popes, Great Leaders to Presidents are pretty much all we know because Wealth-as-Power has slaughtered almost every egalitarian society as it has expanded.

Solidarity is egalitarian at its best.

If we humans are to have a long term future, that solidarity is what we will need to build, within our psyches and as our societal infrastructure.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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'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.

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.

Kindest Regards

Corneilius Crowley

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.