and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society.
Heal that and we can heal everything.
Stephen Wise speaks the truth at a conference in New York 1931
Zionism, Indoctrination, Alice Miller's warnings and bigotry as a curated weapon of societal division
The Roots of Violence in child rearing : for your own good
Alice Miller in her book 'The Roots of Violence in child rearing : for your own good' laid out a clear warning that the kinds of misogynistic, racist, xenophobic politics we are seeing emerge would be inevitable, if society did not confront the way trauma impacts parenting.
What is it? (Alice Miller Interview)
Humiliations, blows, slaps, deception, sexual exploitation, mockery, neglect, etc. are forms of abuse because they harm a child’s integrity and dignity, even if the effects are not immediately visible. It is in adulthood that the child who was once abused will begin to suffer from it and make others suffer. This is not just a family problem, but a problem for all of society because the victims of this dynamic of violence, transformed into perpetrators, take revenge on entire nations, as shown by the increasingly frequent genocides under atrocious dictatorships like that of Hitler. Beaten children learn violence very early on, which they will use as adults while believing what they were told: that they deserved the punishments and were beaten “out of love.” They don’t know that, in reality, the only reason for the punishments they endured was due to the fact that their parents suffered and learned violence very early on without questioning it. In their turn, they hit their children without thinking they are doing them harm.
This is how society’s ignorance remains so strong and how parents, in good faith, continue to produce harm in each generation for millennia. Almost all children are hit when they start walking and touching objects that shouldn’t be touched. This happens exactly at the age when the human brain is structuring itself (between 0 and 3 years). At that point, the child should learn kindness and love from their role models, but never, under any circumstances, violence and lies (such as: “I hit you for your own good and out of love”). Fortunately, there are some abused children who receive love and protection from “caring witnesses” in their surroundings.
https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/alice_miller/roots_violence.html - Alice Miller review
"I describe pictures of people, use histories of them as mirrors. And then many come and say, `This is exactly what I felt all my life but couldn't say.' I don't want to be a guru. I don't want people to believe me. I only encourage them to take their own experience seriously."
Alice Miller's stories portray abused and silenced children who later become destructive to themselves and to others. Adolf Hitler, says Miller, was such a child. Constantly mistreated by his father, emotionally abandoned by his mother, he learned only cruelty; he learned to be obedient and to accept daily punishments with unquestioning compliance. After years, he took revenge. As an adult he once said, "It gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware people are of what is really happening to them."
Miller, famed throughout Europe, wrote of Hitler's childhood in For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and The Roots of Violence. In the same work she lets Christiane F. tell her own story: "I had trouble telling the letters H and Kapart One evening my mother was taking great pains to explain the difference to me. I could scarcely pay attention to what she was saying because I noticed my father getting more and more furious. I always knew what was going to happen. He went out and got the hand broom and gave me a trouncing. Now I was supposed to tell the difference between H, and K. Of course by that time I didn't know anything anymore, so I got another licking and was sent to bed." Christiane went into the street and became a drug addict.
"We do not need books about psychology in order to learn to respect our children," Miller says. "What we need is a total revision of the methods of child rearing and our traditional view about it.
The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our lives: with cruelty or with tenderness and protection. We often impose our most agonizing suffering upon ourselves and, later, on our children."
Indoctrination is a weapon
Zionism's secret weapon is indoctrination. The Christian Nationalist secret weapon (Jesus Camps) is indoctrination. The Colonial Project in North America and Canada were fuelled by Calvinist Ideological indoctrination, Manifest Destiny.. The Indian Residential Schools were designed to indoctrinate the young children of the Native population - 'kill the Indian to save the man'.
Cognitive Warfare carried out on-line through micro targeting emotional vulnerability is part of this, it is designed to weaponise targets. Cognitive Warfare includes forms of indoctrination that target people who present symptoms of emotional immaturity and insecurity.
These are all abusive practices.
Miller called this the instrumentalisation of children’s minds and bodies to become adult weapons of the systems of hierarchy and dominance. Traumatisation is inextricably entwined in this practice in that it always undermines meeting the emotional psychological and moral needs of the children for their healthy development.
Judith Herman in ’Trauma and Recovery’ wrote that ‘the study of psychological trauma is an inherently political enterprise because it calls attention to the experience of oppressed people.’
https://beyondthetemple.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/herman_trauma-and-recovery-1.pdf
In my analysis the Western Industrial Cult(ure) of Wealth-as-Power I have written about this arena of malign societal influence and I state here, once again, that Wealth-as-Power can only exist and persist if exploitation of entire populations is sustained.
Capitalism /Industrialism is a cult, a belief system that deliberately and consistently deploys layers of violence to maintain its dominance. The core belief is that some are entitled, due to innate superiority, to exploit others.
This is because exploitation is inherently unjust and causes harm. This generates distant and resistance. That resistance has to be controlled, by crushing it or dividing the population, and the curation of bigotry is a key method deployed.
Wealth-as-Power cult(ure)s present the same dynamic psychologies as an abusive family system.
In much the same way as a parent might punish a child with physical violence whilst asserting 'this is for your own good' they seem to believe that they are entitled to do so, that it is the best thing for all concerned.
As a pattern of behaviour such punishment is more about the adults unconscious need to vent their own unresolved rage at their own parents, directed ar the vulnerable child, as a scapegoat, a dynamic that they can never admit without losing their sense of power, because to admit to their vulnerability, their unmet needs is to drop their shield, it is to eschew that sense of entitled power.
Palestine Action are not Terrorists.
So too with the 'terrorism' charges laid at the people who actively oppose and protest the Genocide in Gaza. The Indian residential Schools of Canada and North America resonate with this dynamic, institutionalised.
Western liberals do not admit to this insight, and thus they never connect openly the curation of bigotry by the ruling class of Industrialism as a weapon system as a subject of critical analysis and honest discussion and therefore as something to actively counter.
Farage is not just a nasty man.
They speak of bigotry as primarily a personal flaw, a quality of 'nasty people' rather than a weapon deployed by known actors that must be collectively countered. And so they approve of affirmative action and DEI without getting to the root of the problem - its deliberately curation by Wealth-as-Power elites as a weapon of societal division. Farage is a 'nasty' person, not a weapon of the Industrialist Ruling Class.
The indoctrination of children, be it direct or indirect, be it by habituation or acculturation, is a core component of the systems of oppression.
The careful grooming of vulnerable adults is also part of this.
The manosphere of 'Traditional Male Values' are part of this. Andrew Tate targets insecure young boys. Jordan Peterson targets boomer demographic insecure adult men. Russel Brand targets Millenails. All are proven grifters.
Ideological grooming via cognitive warfare is part of this.
Indoctrination is fundamentally an act of psychological abuse, and should be understood as a criminal enterprise.
Zionism
The Palestinians are not radicalised - they are simply put, standing on their own ground, the land they have inhabited for hundreds of generations, thousands of years.
They know this is their home, that the water, soil and air of Palestine is their bodies. They know they have an inherent right to self determination. They knew this under the Ottomans, The Romans and every other Empire that stood upon them.
The European Colonial project of Zionism is the problem.
Sir Ronald Storrs said that the Zionist enclave was to be 'a loyal little Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism'.
His meaning was that as the new Empire dominating the region, having taken over from the hated Ottomans, the threat of Arab speaking peoples seeking self determination through political, social, economic and multi-cultural solidarity posed a threat to the commercial interests of the Empire, and that potential had to be dissolved, dissuaded, crushed and prevented from emerging.
The British and French drew new borders, to split populations across language groups and other affinities, they installed monarchies and dictatorships, who they armed and funded, often training their leadership in Oxford and Sandhurst, as allies or vassals, to keep political power and agency away from the general population.
They created the Plantation of Zionism in the exact same pattern as the Plantation of Ireland under Cromwell, whose calling card was 'to Connaught or to Hell' - the Irish native population and landowners were pushed westwards, or they'd be slaughtered. and slaughter them they did, with religious zeal, a zeal they passed to their children to sustain hundreds of years of colonial oppression and exploitation.
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Why I cannot vote for Labour as a party. Why I vote for Peace, never for War.
I cannot vote for a party directed by Keir Starmer, any more than I could vote for a Labour Party directed by Tony Blair after Sierre Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq 2003.
It is unacceptable that international war criminals are not held to account.
It is morbidly unjust that we live, badly ruled by international war criminals.
The situation.
The Labour Party Executive and the Labour Party Bureaucracy seeking Power in the UK in the next few days are collectively complicit in the following.
There is no legal doubt to this assertion. Starmer has form. Dating before he entered Parliament. Tzipi Livni
As Directer of Public Prosecutions, he blocked a warrant being served on a War Criminal, October 2011.
This is entirely illegal - the British Government was then, and remains today duty bound by ratified international treaty Law to serve and implement a warrant issued by the ICC if the person referred to in the warrant is on British land and such a warrant can be presented in person.
His comments and public statements, his positions and papers issued since October 7th, maintain that bias.
Protect Israeli officials from accountability, protect the Zionist project.
Self Defence!
The geen-ocyde in Gaza is fully operational at this point, as I type there are constant military assaults upon encampments, the remaining standing buildings, plus battles with Hamas Resistance Fighters.
Both armed entities are set amongst nearly two million utterly exhausted, starving, terrified, terrorised, traumatised, wounded, maimed, shell shocked men, women, children, babies, elders.
Medical services almost entirely degraded, in many places operations without anaesthesia, lack of medicines, there are no schools, no universities, its all gone.
In many places there is no sanitation, no running water, food is always dwindling.
And every day bullets, bombs, quad copter drones with machine guns, artillery and air strikes.
Multiple slaughters, frequent detentions, prison camps within Israel now hold 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children.
Estimates by external expert groups of deaths run into the hundreds of thousands, Gaza had 36 hospitals, which recorded deaths now there are less than a handful. Many thousands lie rotting under rubble, or bulldozed by the Israeli Military into the ground, covered up roughly.
Intolerable horrors, second by second, minute to minute, hour by hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, for 8 months, with no end in sight.
All of this operationalised as cruelly as possible. Every few days more living witness testimony from the detained and from within the Israeli system, as some detained are released.
The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, speaks to the press at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis after being released by the Israeli army following more than seven months of detention following a military operation at the hospital last November, on July 01, 2024.
What is this?
This is the same old Colonial Conquest, Occupation, Clearance of the native population, Settlement, extirpation of the native culture, polity, land tenure and habitation process, We know it. It must be stopped.
Self Defence?
So say Sir Keir Starmer, beloved of Tony Blair, Peace Envoy to The Middle East, another candidate for The Hague.
The problem.
Unless we reject every Labour candidate who supports Israel in this horrific atrocity and only allow proven pro-peace candidates, we are erring on the side of a lessor evil that is an illusion. It is not a lessor evil.
#dowhatyoulove
Nurture Culture.
I hope we can see the last generation to ever see, hear or sense warfare rampaging across their homes, and having to flee in terror, people murdered all around.
I hope as more people access each other and the vast library of what we know, what is reliably true and talk with each other about what they have found and what it implies, I think the decency of the vast majority will prevail.
It may well take a while, it will likely be a bumpy ride, though hopefully not too bumpy. It will not be easy, It can be done..
Do what you love.
The Trade Unions Congress have a series of practical healthy governance policy plans with regards Climate Disruption. :
https://www.cacctu.org.uk/sites/data/files/sites/data/files/Docs/climatejobs-2021-web_0.pdf
A million and more well paid jobs
A million and more well paid jobs in a Green Sustainability drive where all workers involved would be guaranteed permanent, well-paid, trade union protected jobs in work that reduces emissions, repairs land, protects communities.
It would also guarantee that workers in the old high-carbon sector are retrained with the new skills and knowledge that will be required. There's no need to make anyone unemployed, quite the opposite. We need all hands on deck!
We must not underestimate this challenge.
Peace is more than the absence of war.
The jobs are guaranteed, but ensuring the education and training programmes are in place for that huge workforce must be a significant part of the plan.
A further advantage would be that, just as the NHS provides socially useful work that many take pride being involved in, so will the National Climate Service.
It would provide socially useful work that we could take pride in as we decarbonise the economy, address the climate crisis and create a better, safer world for future generations.
Public ownership
Alongside the creation of a National Climate Service, it is clear that public ownership of key sectors of the economy is needed in order to make the rapid changes the crisis demands. The market has failed to deliver over many years. In sectors such as transport and renewable energy, which are key to cutting emissions, market failure results from corporations’ competition for investment and profit rather than co-ordinating and planning work that can have an impact on the climate.
In rail, for example, competition for lucrative franchises has undermined investment in the green infrastructure we need.
In the case of renewable energy, instead of investing in a publicly-owned renewable energy sector, government grants have ended up with private companies.
This had not led to the rapid scaling up of this sector or to an expansion of jobs. Direct government investment in a publicly-owned energy system could ensure that a renewable energy industry is established in the UK providing many jobs.
Public ownership is vital to transforming our
economy in response to the climate crisis. In this report, we have called for public ownership of the energy sector and the grid, of transport, of the plan to retrofit our homes and buildings and, within industry, public ownership of the steel industry and other key sectors.
Peace is more than the absence of war.
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The English Christian Ruling Class perfected Holy War as a Colonial process. Weaponising internalised identity.
The English Christian Ruling Class perfected Holy War as a colonial process.
Weaponising internalised identity.
Christians Roming (sic) and then anti-Roming all over the place.
An unforgivable pun, my dear reader. Please bear with me.
The British Empire perfected Wholy (sic) War as a tool of Colonisation. Another pun bites the dust.
The three 'C' propaganda - Christianity, Civilisation, Commerce. Whole War. Total War.
1159. The Norman regime Invades Ireland because they are Christian Heretics, to offer them conversion and Salvation or death. (permit to do so received from the Pope).
1600s Protestant Plantations in Ireland to remove the Catholics and building Protestant settlements to bolster English Dominance - deliberately foster internalised hatreds that become multigenerational and almost impossible to resolve peacefully.
1640s White Supremacy Racism as a legalised form of oppression, in the English American colonies. Superiority as an identity, passed from one generation to the other, an endless supply of weaponised hearts and minds.
When we as ordinary people internalise a religious identity and we are told that we are superior and that others are inferior, and that the Religion is under attack, we become weaponised objects of the Hierarchy that manipulates us.
Our internalised sense of identity enters into a permanent state of flight or flight, which we now know causes the emotional reactive parts of our brain to over ride the calming logical forebrain.
Tony Blair’s ‘clash of civilisations’ tactic. He knew exactly what he was doing. The racists and xenophobes took the bait. The bystanders did not understand what was being done, and remained as bystanders. Many protested. Their protests were acknowledged to some degree - freedom of speech, democracy etc., - and their demands for peace and justice repeatedly denied within the Legislature. Muslims were stereotyped as Jihadi's or Misogynists in this 'war of values'.
Middle class faux-Feminist pundits rallied to the cause, very likely well aware of how this issue was being manipulated.
Examine the history and see the patterns, and what I understand from my wide reading of the history and observation of what happens is that the Israeli colony was and remains an English Empire project built around the same principles .
They Empire expected it will last long enough to prevent the Arab world (which was always multi faith, multicultural, multi linguistic, and always occupied) from ever developing an independent economic policy.
It is not, as the Western conspiracy theorists assert that the Israeli State is influencing the British or the Americans, it is that all three are walking, hands joined, to maintain the process of de-populating lands for expansion, targeting already vulnerable and oppressed populations, who once had a thriving polity and socialist self determining aspirations.
Economic dominance was the objective. By force.
The English Diplomatic Corps worked to favour some groups and Arab polities, promising them a bright future, and oppressed others, by denying them that promised future, and that created the sectarian identarian tension that lasts generations, sustained by trauma that remains unresolved.
Gaza in 2023/24 is the direct result of all that. Naqba to Naqba.
Racism is a tool of the hierarchy.
Sectarianism is a tool of the hierarchy.
Misogyny is a tool of the hierarchy.
Bigotry is carefully curated.
Ant-Semitism is a European phenomenon, a curated hatred of a vulnerable population designed to deflect anger at the hierarchy and re-direct it at those most unable to protect themselves.
The Ableism of our times is part of that dynamic. When Government minister undermine supports for disabled people and then suggest too many are leaching off the tax payer and that the disabled should ‘do their duty’, bigotry against a vulnerable population is weaponised as a political tool.
Churchill's 'Dog in The Manger' speech is instructive.
I used to alter the tag line from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back - to 'Empower, it never strikes back.'
And every empowered people who are given the space, the resources and the tools of peaceful, democratic, equitable political, social and economic development to progress their general welfare will not strike back in violence. They have no need to. Until something happens to change that situation. Afghanistan prior to US Cold War interventions that brought down a nascent Socialist State.
Russia was asked by the beleaguered Afghani socialists for assistance and protection from the USUK inspired counter-revolutionaries.
Russia made the error, went in with combat brigades, and the USUK created the Taliban to wear them down.
All of this to prevent an independent non-aligned popular socialist state from emerging.
The resolution of the shituation in Palestine is in empowering both Arab and the Zionist colonialists to live together as humane beings, and that requires the dismantling of the Empire's interests in the region... in full.
There's more that we who live within the Empires polity and have democratic voting rights and political rights of free association can do to help this progress - we can and must hold our Ruling Class to account for the harms that they have caused and are enabling.
British support for Israel must be re-visioned by the British voters taking back control of their legislatures to legislate for peace and de-militarisation of foreign policy.
In essence the people who can best confront the British Establishment and its depravity are the people who live within the borders of the United Kingdom, by democratic political action that removes the war makers from our legislatures and places a majority of peace makers and justice advocates in that body to uphold International Humanitarian Law and the UN Charter.... after all it is the British people whose taxes are being deployed to support an ongoing Genocide.
Clearly, the English Establishment will not voluntarily stand down.
This is no easy task, and it is much much easier than living in Palestine or the West Bank.
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