The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
It's meaningless to talk
about Sovereignty when the UK has failed to arrest known war criminals,
given the evidence that is now widely available.
What Sovereignty?
Whose
Sovereignty?
Not the the Sovereignty people of the UK, but that of those who RULE over the people of the UK, in spite of it's public make-up and theatrical narrative of a Democracy.
YOU HAVE NO GENUINE SOVEREIGNTY within the UK as it stands right now.
You are choosing based on a false premise.
Likewise with regards to war, the UK has had active combat operations
for almost every year since WWII was declared 'officially ended'.
That
is war operations, and whatever the justification at the time or later on, it turns to utter
bullshit when subjected to a rational and detailed critical analysis of
the facts and outcomes in each case.
The ordinary people, the
workers, the tax payers have little say in what Government does, almost
as little as evidence based policies.
YOU ARE BEING PLAYED and unable to see it.
Sort out the lack of genuine democracy and the corporate corruption of
Governance, and THEN go to Europe with reforms in mind, leading by
example as a people.
Remember, remember the 5th of November, then Remembrance Sunday.
It ought to be grief, horror and outrage rather than Nationalism and Celebration of Sacrifice. Guy Fawkes was Terrorist, a Catholic Jihadist. Tony Blair is a Catholic Jihadist. Both liars and psychopaths.
Joe Glenton speaks of war from direct experience and reflection. Watch this and forget about my polemic. really.
The theme of violence and the State's appropriation of 'our violence is a patriotic and civilising violence' and therefore moral, whereas the violence of 'our enemies' is always barbaric, primitive, dysfunctional and amoral.
What history tells us is that when a movement emerges within any population that seeks to strike parity between the State and the Grass roots of society, the poor, the vulnerable, the working for a living, the State introduces and escalates violence on all sides.
Northern Ireland, a different perspective.
In Northern Ireland, the Civil Rights movement was less a Catholic or Independence phenomenon than it was a civil rights awareness phenomenon that emerged as a direct result of the Civil Rights movements in the US, from African Americans to Women and Children's rights.... a matter of common decency and humane respect.
The State perceived this as a threat, rather than the healing it was offering.
The UK State infiltrated violent militia on all sides, and it's agents escalated the violence, and this put the matter of Civil Rights to one side, and allowed the UK State to alter the discourse, to make it about Irish Nationalism vs Unionism.... that was a strategic tactic.
It was already in practice in Yemen, in Korea and Vietnam, in the Philippines and many South American countries, in Africa and Australia and Canada, in Russia and China, across the Middle East.
Remember, remember.
So remember, remember the realities - that State violence, in the competing powers perspective, is the primary source of warfare, of trauma, of inter-generational psychological and emotional dysfunction and the preservation of mass poverty (war impoverishes all but the makers of the tools of war).
The Monarchy and the State (Established Power) as we know it is altering the climate of human relationships in the most adverse ways, and has been doing so for thousands of years - that 'competition' is psychopathic, is a pathology, an illness, a self inflicted disease state and they continually make great efforts to indoctrinate their home populations into accepting war as part and parcel of human nature. It's not. It's a cultural distortion, born of hierarchies of violence.
Spot the difference?
I'd like to see THAT climate change addressed as part of the issue of 'Climate Change'. - I think that success in the former would help the latter, whereas failure in the former ensures the latter will not be dealt with.
Remember, remember. Think, question, analyse, reflect and grow. Or not.
Heroes
Heroes? The troops?
They would not call themselves heroes.
1. They are trained to be that way - to remain competent under fire, so they can better protect each other, and be willing and capable of killing the enemy. Iraq was not a matter of defence, it was a matter of offence.
2. Calling them heroic is part of how the conditioning, the acceptance
of military violence is maintained. It masks the reality of applied
organised violence. It papers over the reality of shredded limbs, displaced peoples, torture, rape, poison, mass destruction, industrialised killing, indoctrination and bullying, which is what war really is.
3. They never use the word themselves, and not out of humility - rather they know what violence is like, and that it is not heroic. Yes, there are times when courage is shown. Sometimes those who desert are the bravest.
Soldiers are human beings who have been conditioned, lied to, manipulated and placed in harms way. As soon as the violence starts, they have to take action. They have no choice if they wish to survive.
To truly support the troops, we do not need to wave flags as they depart, we need to prevent that departure and that entail breaking the spell The State/Established Power casts over the population, destroying the propaganda with logic, evidence, empathy, kindness and determination.
And that means honesty, truth, the evidence over opinion, ideology and spin.
Prevention
For
me, this is the issue : the matter of the prevention of the creation of
yet more veterans. It matters more now than ever, in as much as the
past few decades we have allowed the Government of the UK to initiate
and escalate wars and violence across the Middle East.
Whilst preciously little effort was put into prevention, or conflict resolution.
The logic of Powers competing for Hegemony and access to 'resources' still dominates politics.
This is insane, it is pathological and as we see, lethal.
How can it stand?
The
hypocrisy is rank, the stench of dying by violence is blanked out, and
we are opiated, sedated and disempowered intentionally so that the
supply of potential candidates for combat veteranship is maintained.
Wear
a Poppy. And if you mean it, then act to stop your Government from using
War as a policy enforcement tool. And stop private companies from
making profits from war.
Halloween
I don't celebrate Hallowe'en in such fashion as is current 'fashionable' : it is largely a post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version of much older shamanic practices, where the practice was to engage with and feel a part of and honour the ancestry, that long, long line of experience and living, a line of nurturing experience within which in the older egalitarian societies placed themselves in their present and looked to how they could nurture the futures ahead of them, as their ancestors did. To draw on that wisdom.
Fully conscious. Fully present. Fully mature.
The post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version revolves around the gargoyle, the fear of the dead, the fear of 'bad spirits' and bears no sense of one's responsibility to the future, nor does it carry forwards the example of the past as a role model.
It's shite, trite and painfully insulting to the ancestry and the future children....
The Celts were violent hierarchies, just as the Romans were, so the transition was all too easy an assimilation.
I have practiced the call to the ancestry, the call to the future, to place myself fully in the present, and have been practicing this for over 2 decades.
I am a bag of bacteria, an aboriginal humane being and I reject the culture of the bully in every aspect, and I embrace the culture of nurture because it is that culture that creates the very possibility of a life of great beauty without the need for 'additives' or luxuries, power or grandiose monuments.
Remembrance.
This is another reason I experience deep distaste, a disgust with the various War Dead Remembrance Ceremonies of the 'good and the great', the pomp and circumstance, and the political abuse of people's genuine concern for the dead, the maimed, the refugees, the sufferings of war.
For all we claim, we have done nothing to undermine the Governments willingness to use War as a policy enforcement tool. Successive Governments have piled more dead upon dead, created yet more refugees, maimed and traumatised countless innocent, beautiful human souls and destroyed the shared resources of many varied and functional living communities, rendering them un-inhabitable.
1. The Israeli Government has been at a state of war with Syria since the Golan Heights were taken by Israel, by Force, in the '6 day war' in 1967.
2. Syrian Government is recognised Internationally as a Sovereign State.
3. Saudi and US/UK inflitrated 'foreign fighters' into the pro-more-democracy movement protests (which were peaceful in intent and action). The violence started when they attacked Syrian Government police, then military. The groups attacking the Syrian Government are supported by Saudi, Qatar, Israel, UK, USA -- both covertly and overtly, Syrian was put into the 'axis of evil' by George Bush's US Government.
4. Once violence starts at that degree, the issues of democracy go out the window, The Syrian State fights to survive. It's fight is legtimate, given point 3.
5. ISIS started in Iraq, and was comprised of 'foreign fighters' and elements of the Death Squads set up by the US, through Colonel James Steele (ret) and Colonel James Coffman.
6. The pattern of Collusion or inflitrating violent militia was standard operational practice in Northern Ireland, and we know that they had agents active in stimulating violence in the IRA, the UVF and other militia. Same thing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya.
7. The long term solution is for US/UK and Saudi to be stopped 'intervening' in the affairs of Arab States. The first step is to arrest Tony Blair and George Bush and all who operated with them to launch these wars against Arab States, apart from, of course, Saudi, Oman, Qatar, UAE.
At the same time, the US and UK and Sauds MUST BE STOPPED from interfering, overtly or covertly.
8. Without the honest facing of what has been done, as above, there will be no peace - 'no justice, no peace.'
9. It is pure hypocrisy of the European States to NOT take in the refugees they are part of creating. It is also cruelty, Institutionalised cruelty, and our taxes are funding it.
