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.
Nurture is our bio-logical default, is key to any sustained and healthy human culture.
So what does it mean to be a man?
Or rather, what aspect of being male as in being a person in a male spectrum body, without referring to external value systems, is real and optimally healthy. In part this is a question for each of us, because the answers must come from our interior, the internal who we are part, the baby/person before conditioning started. The other part is ensuring the cultural space for 'male' is reflecting optimal human healthy behaviour, that integrates the diversity of our interiors, that holds space for all our variety.
For me revisioning what it is to be a healthy male on #InternationalMensDay suggests a need to confront the oppressive characteristics the culture tends towards as essentialist when laying out what a man is, and how a man 'should' or 'should not' behave to fit that image.
I sense a need for this task everywhere - I think we need to do it accurately, it must be evidence based and I think we need to approach it with good heart, determined to create cultural and social and material space for nurture mutual aid, rather than dominance competition as the core gender root.
My definition : we see and understand the violent hierarchy cult and we see it's inequity and we will, holding hands with one another, as men and women, work together to confront that inequity and correct it, thus bringing human culture into a healthy balance as we move forwards, and thus dismantling those obsolescent oppressive cultural conditionings.
We, as responsible adult men call up for this movement emerging from within the humane population, the ordinary, decent, kind community minded folk, to act together and to behave in ways that generate genuine equity and lasting justice because we know that peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is the presence of social material and cultural safety and equity for all, everywhere.
Here's a good place to start from - our beginnings
What Babies Want
#honesty #learning #natural
We are evolved to learn through playful co-operation void of judgement, reward or punishment.
my song about learning.
The Culture of Violent Hierarchy trickles down and afflicts us all, from conception onwards. Men and Women alike. It is not healthy and it certainly does not have to be the way it is, even if the task of confronting this looks immense the status quo is not inevitable.
I have had enough (of the bully cult).
What Climate Change, Air Pollution, Plastic Pollution and COVID19 tell us is this - they carry the same message - the only reliable way to protect our shared environment, all our people and our economies is to co-operate across all sectors, openly, honestly and transparently.
We must work with all the available reliably tested evidence before us to solve problems and develop healthier behaviours that repair the damage and prevent further harms.
The apparent short-term costs of taking corrective action fade into insignificance compared to the medium and long term costs of failing to do so, on every meaningful measure.
We must do what can be done, without fear or favour, for all our children's futures, and we must do it diligently, every day.
All industrial and political systems currently operating rely upon externalised costs at every stage from extraction of raw materials through production, consumption and on to end of life disposal, as the primary source of their profitability.
The top 20 Industrial sectors would be 'loss leaders' if they paid for the 'natural capital' they exploit.
Somebody else or some other organism or environmental system pays the price, often with a degraded quality of their lives, often with their lives, of the profits accrued.
All the harms we see are - water pollution, environmental degradation, air toxicity, climate change - are largely the accumulated externalised costs of the existing Industrial Political System.
Until we acknowledge this and then legislate to prevent externalised costs, and legislate to encourage regenerative practices, we are adding on more harm, and these problems will continue to grow.
We can resolve this situation, and we should.
It's not Rocket Science. It is Behavioural Science. It is Economic Science.
The short term costs of correcting the error are well below the long term costs of allowing the error to continue.
What Climate Change, Air Pollution, Plastic Pollution and COVID19 all tell us is this : they carry the same message - the only reliable way to protect the shared environment, the people and our economies is to co-operate across all sectors, openly, honestly, transparently and work with the available tested reliable evidence to solve problems and develop healthier behaviours.
Every moment of division, every moment of denial and every act of exploitation is lethal. No question.
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The difficulties for British live performers and their support crews touring the EU are now almost insurmountable.
Watch this segment and see Brexit unmasked with utter clarity, in one short sentence, by Phil Moorhouse.
The EU never determined internal political decision making in any member State. State's are totally free to run their own political affairs, internally.
The EU is a single market trading bloc, an organisational device with democratically agreed rules and standards in manufacturing, industry and trade that levelled the field for all countries operating within the bloc, thus giving all the ability to negotiate with external 'third countries' with the power and status of the larger entity, thus affording all countries within the single market a much better negotiation stance outside the EU and ease of trade within the EU.
Phil Moorhouse, of A Different Bias, explains it very clearly, in order to clarify the issues facing English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Musicians and Artists work issues working in Europe.
These four Nations are now outside the EU, and since the EU has no rules on Artists from third countries coming to work in the EU, Artists must now deal with each country in turn, separately.
Thus an English musician who wants to perform in France, Germany, Switzerland and Holland will need to do the separate paperwork for each country, and pay the separate fees accordingly. Separate vat requirements will apply. Separate insurance requirements will apply. Separate work permits will apply.
Why? Because the English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish Artist or crew member is no longer part of the EU and loses all working rights he or she would have had as an EU citizen working in the EU.
Thus the problem for UK Musicians is entirely a problem created by Brexit, and not by the EU.
Anyone with an Irish passport can travel and work freely across the EU. Because an Irish citizen is still an EU member.
Phil's 100% accurate, precise brief statement neatly exposes the central lies about Brexit, and underlines the reality that a significant proportion of the people who voted for Brexit did so on the basis of a Conspiracy Theory. A Lie.
The people who pushed the balance of the vote over the edge of a 50/50 split were a fringe group, targeted specifically because of their lack of precise knowledge and their emotional vulnerability - the same people whose behaviour was 'nudged' by the activities of Cambridge Analytica, Dominic Cummings and others deploying online industrial scale political grooming, using psychologically invasive tactics that amount to emotional exploitation and behavioural modification.
To re-iterate the facts : there never was any issue or problem regarding Political or Legislative Sovereignty for the UK when the UK was within the EU.
That entire story is a lie, a conspiracy theory, a cunning, devious grooming device.
There were developments within the EU to place restrictions on off shore tax evasion devices, and planning for collective action on climate change that would have an impact on every EU country trading in those areas - Brexit was a defence of the English interests in maintaining off-shore tax evasion facilities and English owned oil and mining assets across the Global South, the remnants of the British Empire. Nothing of Brexit was designed or intended to benefit the ordinary citizens of the 4 nations of the United Kingdom.
Still, at least we have free trade and travel within those four countries, which are now a shrunken trading bloc. At least.....
Phil's clarity and his articulation of the most truthful, honest reality about the EU and Brexit is a thing of beauty. His channel is doing the work of honest analysis in News Reporting, hence it is popular. Citizen journalism is thriving just as Oligarchy press is a loss leader.
The difficulties for British live performers and their support crews touring the EU are now almost insurmountable. The difficulties for UK Citizens within the UK are going to increase exponentially, and the vulnerable and poor will suffer the most, and none of this will be at the hands of the EU, it will all be by the hand of the English Establishment. That steel fist in a velvet glove is not a hand you want to shake in friendship, let alone in war.
Those who claim 'deterrent' argue based on belief (might is right, we need big bullies to protect us all), myopia (unwilling to look at egalitarian solutions), greed (lust for power is hungry for cash, your cash) and learned stupidity (propaganda regurgitated, wrapped in flags).
USA had them first, used them first. A demonstration.
Who then needed a 'deterrent'?
It was not USA or UK.
Has Nukes stopped either of these Imperial Powers from waging war these past 77 years...?
Is the US/UK waging a proxy war in Yemen, in Ukraine, in the China Sea, in Venezuela, in Sudan, Chad, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere?
Yes. they are. Liars and bullies.
Putin and all militarised states alike.
Liars and bullies, weak and immature adults, whose need to leverage power is an addiction that threatens all our lives, our shared environment.
A shadow burned on to a wall at Hiroshima? An unexpected instant intense flash of light as death over a wholly innocent, unprotected population
#NewNormal #Hiroshima
#Nagasaki #AcceptNewNormalAlwaysChanges
76 years ago, the political establishment of one country with Imperial ambitions dropped two Nuclear Bombs, weapons of mass destruction, upon masses of entirely innocent people, entire families and communities incinerated, cremated in an instant. That flash of scientific and imperial brilliance, brightest hell on earth, that short instant of annihilation was followed by many, many, many more agonising deaths from radiation, from burns, from gangrenous wounds, from lack of medical supplies and facilities, from lack of clean water in the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years that followed. Radiation and illness maimed and killed many more of those innocents, the after effects lingering for decades afterwards.
That was 14 years before I was born, and I grew up in the 'safety' of the shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Ireland, many thousands of miles distant. I had nightmares about nuclear war as a child, a teen and as a young adult.
Psychological dysfunction and structural cruelty.
In my view, as a psychologically sophisticated adult, as a survivor of chronic child abuse, as a global citizen and as a humane being with some degree of empathy still intact, I assert that Nuclear Weapons are a for-profit psychopathology - the Nuclear Weapon Industry is a waste of precious resources that is both institutionally cruel and socially insane, inhumane and irrational. The profits of doom.
The people who build and maintain the Nuclear Weapons Stance are cruel, callous nut jobs. I make no apologies for stating this. It is what it is. Crazy, insane, unbalanced, psychologically damaged and emotional empty. Abusive. They might well be charming, and kind to their own children. They may be pet lovers, and they could be donating to charitable causes and appear to be 'normal' - but they are not healthy, humane people. They are literally criminally insane.
There is absolutely no need whatsoever for these kinds of weapons or technologies. No need at all.
Every argument for them falls apart when we assess the externalised costs associated with them and suggest those costs be paid in full, or better still, prevented from ever being incurred in the first instance. Oops. there goes the profit margin! A flash of insight to prevent a flash of utter, criminal horror.
Those who insist otherwise are in deliberate denial, they are immature and they are stupidly, wilfully ignorant. Just sayin'.
Abolishing Nukes and Abolishing Poverty is a Win-Win Outcome.
England's population - that's you and I, and everyone else living in England, we need to get rid of the Trident system, and we need to put that cash to good use, for example by abolishing poverty in England. Fact.
I am talking real needs here, not a luxury wish-list.
Poverty kills people, poverty destroys lives and communities and poverty is a structure of capitalism, communism and all hierarchy of wealth and power cults. Poverty it is not a personal flaw to be whipped into shape by extremely wealthy bullies - I am talking about Austerity, prosperity Gospel and the full range of Calvinist ideologies.
The Global Mafiosa
76 years ago the Rulers of the United States Of America made a political decision to 'demonstrate' the power of their new weapon, as a way to bully the rest of the Earths nation states, and their peoples. They knew what they were doing. Empires always understand what they are doing, even if entire populations do not, or worse, pretend not to understand.
The Rulers of The United States of America deliberately destroyed two civilian cities, obliterating hundreds of thousands of wholly innocent people in an instant, leaving many more with devastating wounds and lifelong injuries. Some say they also wanted to 'test' the weapons on real city. They already knew what it would probably do, as they had already tested the weapon, and knew the detail of it's explosive power. This was not a trial run, by any means.
It was a political and very public demonstration.
"Nice city you got there. Be a pity if something like this was to happen to it!"
The post office savings bank in Hiroshima is bleached with nuclear shadows from the window frames made by the flash of the detonation.
"Meanwhile, because ground zero happened to be above a hospital, many of the city's doctors and nurses were killed or injured in the blast. The city was thrown into chaos as those still alive scrambled to create makeshift hospitals to aid the wounded.
Because the residents had been given an all-clear after the earlier air-raid warning, many were outside when the bomb detonated. More than 50 percent of the casualties died from burns while many others who did not succumb to the initial blast or the fires in the immediate Hiroshima aftermath later died of radiation exposure. Survivors recalled near-lifeless, scorched bodies wandering the streets for a few seconds before they fell to the ground and died.
As the weeks progressed, citizens began to feel the effects of radiation poisoning and a misinformed public believed this condition to be contagious. As a result, those who were suffering with radiation poisoning were ostracized from their communities.
The United States had little aid to offer. Scientists on the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bombs, claimed to know little about the biological effects of nuclear fallout.
Even the deputy medical director at one of the project's laborites admitted that, "The idea was to explode the damned thing... We weren't terribly concerned with the radiation."
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was 29 when he was blown to the ground by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Three days later, after making the agonising journey home to Nagasaki, and with bandages still clinging to his badly burned skin, Tsutomu felt the shattering boom of another atomic bomb.
He was one of a number of Survivors who have become international icons. His harrowing witness testimony, with others who lived through those horrors, make for sobering reading.
"Elizabeth Chappell, an oral historian at the Open University in the United Kingdom, encountered similar difficulties after setting out to catalog atomic bomb survivors’ testimony. “When you have a silenced group like that, they have a very internal culture,” she explains. “They’re very protective of their stories. I was told I wouldn’t get interviews.” Survivors’ reluctance to discuss their experiences stems in large part from the stigma surrounding Japan’s hibakusha community. Due to a limited understanding of radiation poisoning’s long-term effects, many Japanese avoided (or outright abused) those affected out of fear that their ailments were contagious.
This misconception, coupled with a widespread unwillingness to revisit the bombings and Japan’s subsequent surrender, led most hibakusha to keep their trauma to themselves. But in the past decade or so, documentary efforts like Sakaguchi’s 1945 Project and Chappell’s The Last Survivors of Hiroshima have become increasingly common—a testament to both survivors’ willingness to defy the long-standing culture of silence and the pressing need to preserve these stories as hibakusha’s numbers dwindle."
Silence is not truth, comedy is not satire.
The BBC created a controversy when it's flagship comedy quiz program did a segment in 2011 on Mr. Yamaguchi as 'the unluckiest men alive'. The BBC apologised after it ignited adverse commentary online and across Japan.
The episode triggered criticism in Japan. Toshiko Yamasaki, Yamaguchi's daughter, appeared on NHK's national evening news and said: "I cannot forgive the atomic bomb experience being laughed at in Britain, which has nuclear weapons of its own. I think this shows that the horror of atomic bomb is not well enough understood in the world. I feel sad rather than angry"
The Japanese Embassy, London, wrote to the BBC protesting that the programme insulted the deceased victims of the atomic bomb. It was reported that Piers Fletcher, a producer of the programme, responded to complaints with "we greatly regret it when we cause offence" and "it is apparent to me that I underestimated the potential sensitivity of this issue to Japanese viewers"
So it is that in England which has not suffered the impacts of invasion and multiple wars on it's own soil, even as it continues to export war, by way of materials, logistics and man-power, that a deliberate denial of the realities of nuclear weapons, persists at the public institutional level - the establishment dares not acknowledge what most ordinary folk know. Nuclear Weapons are a reliable marker of insanity amongst the Ruling class.
This England where in recent years Jeremy Corbyn, who totally opposes Nuclear Weapons, is slandered as an 'anti-Semite' when he correctly criticises Israeli State illegal occupation, settlement and militarised violence perpetrated against the Palestinian people as amoral and criminal, the systemic institutional denial and deliberately fostered ignorance is blatant. This England where 14 million people endure structural poverty, and millions rely upon food banks. This England ready to spaff tens of billions of pounds on these useless weapons, rather than abolish poverty.
Estimates of total deaths in Hiroshima range from 100,000 to 180,000, out of a population of 350,000. Casualties from Nagasaki are thought to be between 50,000 and 100,000. By 1950, over 340,000 people had died as a result and generations were poisoned by radiation. The bombing event was just the beginning.
Hierarchy of Violence is the basis of all Bully Cult logic.
"We have the Weapons of Mass Destruction, and we will protect you and your freedom, (from us. lol.). Sign up here, and sell your soul for democracy and freedom."
The political rulers made all arrangements needed to immediately censor news of what those two vaporised cities looked like, they screened out images and stories of the living dead, they deliberately masked the full import and scale of the human atrocity of what they did, because they knew ordinary people would be utterly disgusted, revolted, appalled and horrified if they knew the full story.
Ordinary people who would understand the nature of both the weapons, and their leaders had to prevent them from reaching that conclusion. Evil to the core.
Enemies of The People
"The results of this live test experiment must remain a secret, except for those who need to know, and those we want to frighten. But we must not frighten out own people. They must be frightened of our designated enemies."
That was a very well understood stance, understood by those other states whom the US and UK had already designated as 'Enemies'
It was the callous decision to murder two cities full of defenceless souls, men, women and children, as a bloody demonstration, a militaristic anti-science cock waving of monstrous proportions by the new top bullies, that drove those designated 'enemy' states who had been temporary allies just the day before the bombs were detonated over those cities, to seek to build their own nuclear weapons as a deterrent to the US/UK Hierarchy of Violence.
However in 1946 one writer and his publisher decided to break the taboo and tell it like it really was.
Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of the New Journalism, in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.
"The work was originally published in The New Yorker, which had planned to run it over four issues but instead dedicated the entire edition of August 31, 1946, to a single article. Less than two months later, the article was printed as a book by Alfred A. Knopf. Never out of print, it has sold more than three million copies.
"Its story became a part of our ceaseless thinking about world wars and nuclear holocaust," New Yorker essayist Roger Angell wrote in 1995"
We still need to think about this, to feel it's full meaning.
Stop Worrying, Love The Bomb?
So when the US/UK Governments and various deluded pundits cite 'deterrence' as a reason for their possession of these rain of death from the sky weapon systems, know that they are lying through their teeth, as they smile and carry off the pretence of 'protecting your freedoms'.
This video timeline of every nuclear detonation between 1945 and 1998 - all 'tests' or 'demonstrations' including Hiroshima and Nagasaki - is quite an eye opener. A significant waste of money, brains and time, sold to the citizens as a 'necessity' to 'preserve peace'? Gaslighting on a global scale.
A total waste of money, brains and time.
A global gaslighting operation, an industrial abuse complex and a defining characteristic of the Industrial Militarised Competing Powers Cult.
This defines the cult, it does NOT define Humanity. The Human species is largely decent, it is the culture that is the problem. Externalised Costs are a behavioural characteristic of the bully culture.
On a more entertaining tip, I humbly suggest folk watch that highly engaging 1964 movie, "Dr. Strangelove : How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb." It features Peter Sellers in a dual role as mad man and not so mad man, trying to cope with it all. It is a superb film, a satirical masterpiece. Here's the Wikiquotes page.
Then the greed of the nuclear industrialists took over and they corrupted Governments in order to pursue their for profit expansion under the veil of civilian nuclear power' siphoning trillions of dollars of people's cash for the profits of the bullies over many decades.
The decades of nuclear 'testing' that followed pour more money into the Nuclear cabals back pockets, and pollution into our shared environment.
Depleted Uranium?
Here's a song I wrote inspired by Brian Haw, whose reason for placing himself, in a tent, with signage and photographic imagery of some of the deformed babies of Iraq, outside the English Parliament starting in Spring 2000, until January 2011, when he was diagnosed with cancer, (from which he died in June that year) was because he understood the impacts upon the Iraqi people of the 10 years of use of Depleted Uranium Munitions during US and UK bombing missions over Iraq, since1991, during the Gulf War and throughout the Sanction and No-fly Zone period right up to the second invasion of Iraq in 2003, and beyond and in particular, the adverse impact upon their children, the suffering and trauma of the mothers of thousands of terribly deformed babies whose deformities were a direct effect of those depleted uranium munitions.
The Bully Cult
And last, but not least, here's a live take of my song about having had enough already of the justifications for the Bully Cult. It's titled "We Have Had Enough!"
All industrial production systems currently operating or envisaged rely upon externalised costs at every stage from extraction of raw materials through production, consumption and on to end of life disposal, as the primary source of their profitability. This means that toxic outputs from industrial processes are not mitigated, let alone prevented. They are accepted, normalised, hidden away until they impress upon us by presenting as problems, and they are integral to the profitability of the Industrial Competing Powers system.
Ordinary people, especially the low income workers, are the people who do the work that makes most of the real wealth in this system, largely through daily toil, and the wealth workers generate is extracted and accumulated, and withheld, often by force and structures of Power. We have direct evidence of this in recent times from an 1982 Cabinet Discussion Paper written post Falklands War, when the establishment was feeling particularly confident.
The poor are a permanent (deliberately so) externalised cost of Wealth Extraction. Poverty and homelessness are both externalised costs of the Wealth Extraction. Resources are deliberately withheld from those who genuinely need them, as part of driving people into low paid work (to maximise profit taking) and destitution is maintained as a cultural whip..
The destruction of indigenous pre-conquest culture was an externalised cost of conquest. Conquest is always a business proposition, in that it requires massive investment and a demand for returns greater than the investment, in blood and treasure.
Chronic stress of industrial extraction and business working practices - mining, deforestation, repetitive assembly work, boring work,low waged shop and hospitality staff, military service - is an externalised cost of the imposed work ethics that demand 'productivity'.
What does 'externalised' mean? It means that somebody else or some other organism outside the transactional economics of the extraction, manufacturing, production, sales, consumption and disposal dynamic pays the price, often with a degraded quality of their lives, or even often with their lives, in order that the maximal profits are generated, and hoarded.
All the harms we see are - pollution, environmental degradation, air toxicity, climate change, habitat loss, species extinction, poverty, war fare, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia, social and national divisions and hatreds - are the accumulated externalised costs of the existing Industrial Militarised Hierarchy of Competing Powers, a cult system and its behavioural dynamics.
It is a cult. It is a toxic delusion to call it 'civilised'.
It certainly does not have to be this way. This activity and this cult does not define the Human species. It is a cult, an aberration, an abomination. It is not natural, optimally healthy human species behaviour by any measure.
What ever your stance, unless you are willing to engage with this simple fact, and actively seek ways to resolve that problem, by understanding precisely what those externalised costs are, and how they impact us all, and what we must do to prevent those costs arising or at least pay for them to be resolved, in full, our work on these issues is futile.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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I was very ill with COVID March/April 2020, so I had good reason to study what was real and what was twaddle and what was propaganda.
It was abundantly clear by mid March that New Zealand, Vietnam, Australia's State Governments, Taiwan, Finland, Norway, China and all the other Governments and countries populations that chose the strategy of stopping the spread internally, eliminating community transmission within their jurisdictions, as well as quarantining borders to prevent importing the virus, (rather than trying to control a slow spread internally aka 'mitigation' and continuing more or less unrestricted international travel) were taking the optimal public health and economy supportive approach.
Events - actions taken and outcomes that followed - have proven that to be the case. On every measure of health, economic performance, civil liberties those countries that opted to stop the transmission of the virus in their communities have done much, much better than those that allowed the virus to spread, thinking they could somehow control the virus and protect their economies.
Anyone who denies this very simple fact is being either silly or toxic.
Denial can be silly or toxic - either way it amounts to an avoidable tragedy.
Citizen denial is just silly.
Government denial is toxic. News Media Denial is toxic.
Why not stop the spread of the virus, as a way to both prevent further fatality and disease and to avoid future lockdowns, now? People's welfare, mental health and general stress levels do much better under elimination strategy.
These are very difficult times, for everyone.
And leading into the spread of the virus, and the disease, there was a surge of chronic stress induced by a culture of acquisitive competitive 'meritocracy' grounded in free market fundamentalism exacerbated by 'Austerity' policies mandating vast cuts to social welfare, health and social care programs based on a series of outright lies about fiscal policy and fiscal possibility pre-existed the pandemic.
Allowing the virus to spread led to repeated lockdowns which added to the stress the more vulnerable among our population were dealing with. Stopping the spread, as Vietnam, New Zealand and a good number of other countries chose has demonstrably led to much better outcomes, on every available measure bar international tourism.
Why are the English Government and others wilfully ignoring the widespread evidence that is right before our eyes, the evidence that 1.8 billion people are being protected by elimination of community transmission strategy.
How could they all ignore something so blatantly real?
The UK governments, the UK Press News Media, the Labour Party front bench, The Churches, the Green Party , the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National Party and all broadcasters of TV and Radio refuse to bring that evidence up for detailed discussion.
What is that?
How could anyone let that slide?
This is to me where the government position is weakest.
They cannot argue all that evidence away without lying or making up stuff .
That is why they dismiss it out of hand, refuse to discuss it. They can’t handle it safely for their objective, because any acknowledgement of that evidence undermines their positions, and their policies.
Why do they dismiss Elimination of Community Transmission?
I think it is in part because doing so requires that the state resources and empowers local government to support all the people to stop the spread, to be helpful, to prioritise help for the local population to take best care of one another and that is too close to socialist practice for neoliberal free market fundamentalists to allow. That cat must remain in the bag.
How does the language of 'freedom' and 'restrictions' emerge to dominate the public discourse, that is to say the discourse published by official news media, mirrored by leading politicians and pundits. What does it seek to 'stimulate' in significant cohorts of the population?
Where the evidence leads is that stopping the spread of the virus in the community offers the best chances of freedom preserved, and allowing the virus to spread reduces all our freedoms, not least when the spread of infection runs out of control, impacting services visibly. For the English government that visibility is about optics, not people's welfare.
It's not a good look, denial.
In my view Sir Keir 'less with the evidence' Starmer is daily betraying the working class he purports to represent by not bringing that evidence up every time he sits opposite Johnson, every time he speaks to the press. He is also betraying everyone else.
Just one short sentence is all he needs to say "Elimination Strategy is working for 1.8 Billion people" and "You do know that spread is placing them at greater risk than their own governments are."
I even have a pithy slogan for him.
"Stopping the Spread is Spreading the Love!"
One breaths worth of words, at the start or end of every briefing, statement or public utterance. Such a small effort, for such a huge benefit.
Never in the field of population level health care has anyone avoided so small an effort in order to avoid so huge a benefit to so many whilst blatantly supporting a government that is causing immense deliberate harm whilst pretending to be a political opposition. Not quite as pithy as the Churchill original.
The dynamic of the slow spreader Governments, the English, Brazilian, Indian and other NeoLiberal Free Market Fundamentalist governments who for whatever reason have chosen to allow spread of the virus have literally made the virus more dangerous and the populations they govern more vulnerable on very front.
What drives that kind of policy decision making, most recently articulated by Savid Javid, the English Health Secretary, as not 'cowering before the virus'. The little bully.
"With income distribution at current levels, roughly half of the working population in both the US and the UK would be unable to survive without external help. Most people regard this as a sign that the system isn’t working properly, and they view providing the help as an intrinsic part of a civilized society.
To a market fundamentalist, though, these people are simply not worth what it costs to keep them alive. Their existence is not cost-effective, and being forced to sustain them is an unjustified burden.
Market forces, they say, are meritocratic – and the problem is that these people have too little merit.
Ira Sohn, Professor of Economics at Montclair State University, has pointed out that with technological advances, many of these people (i.e. people who have to work for a living) will no longer be needed at all:
The prospects for adopting labour-saving technologies in many of the labour-intensive sectors in the economy are improving annually: self-checkout at supermarkets, self-check-in and -out at hotels, self-ordering and bill settlement in restaurants, self-administered health diagnostic tests and so on all translate into a reduced need for workers per dollar of gross domestic product on the one hand, and fewer total workers along with higher levels of GDP on the other.
Horses were used extensively on the farm and in transport in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Europe, but once mechanization and electrification were implemented, and the railroad, automobiles and buses became commercially viable as transport alternatives, owning horses became a hobby of the rich, and the horse population declined quickly and dramatically.
The same can probably be said about humans in the 21st century: we just don’t need that many of them – and, in the rich countries, they are expensive to ‘produce’ (prenatal and postnatal care), ‘assemble’ (nurture and educate), and ‘maintain’ (from adolescence to death). As technology continues to become ever more capable and most humans, frankly, do not, there is less and less need for workers to produce the goods and services required by society.
It is a try out, as in it is a trial, as in a well-dodgy experiment based on a fallacious position - ignore known evidence and let's see what happens.
They are exacerbating matters on every front, deliberately. Worse they are taking a huge risk because we know that the virus's evolutionary pressure will find ways to escape vaccines precisely because it is allowed to spread.
And it is the spread among the vaccinated who have not yet met the virus where that evolutionary step will occur, not among the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated have already generated variants out of our various conditions. Proving that the virus can interact with different environments and make changes that increase it's ability to thrive.
Suggesting to the vaccinated that they should go out and risk contracting the infection in order to assure economic recovery is a nonsensical suggestion. The economy would be in much better shape adapted to a successful elimination of community spread strategy.
Tourism, for example, does not have to be international. There are plenty examples of tourism consumers and providers successfully adapting to the current situation, where people take their holidays more locally, putting cash back into their own economies.
All live events and hospitality industries do much, much better under elimination strategy.
Health care does much, much better under elimination strategy.
Everything that affects ordinary people's welfare, mental health and general stress levels does much better under elimination strategy.
Remember each of us is not safe until all of us are safe. This applies to this virus as it does to the matter of climate change, for example. Or poverty. Or air pollution.
Stopping the Spread is spreading the Love.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Grooming others vulnerabilities is as low as it gets, in terms of everyday abuse of power."
Johnson, and many of the people entrusted with the power to govern, are men who went to English Public Schools, all male boarding schools, where they learned early to behave in the way we are seeing them behave today. In such schools, the children are forced to learn to 'live with the un-natural situation' by denying their vulnerability. I know this from my own experience. 12 years of 'elite' Catholic Boarding Schools distorted my emotional and psychological being. It is not a normal, healthy environment for any child to grow up in.
This begs the question: are such men as they have become truly fit to Govern the shared commons for the entire population of the UK?
Boris Johnson, centre front, at Eton. Photograph: Richard Shymansky from News Syndication/Gillman & Soame UK Ltd / News Licensing
Richard Beard has written about that experience, because he too endured the English Boarding Public School system, and he has been writing about the psychological harms, all avoidable, caused in those schools and was instrumental in setting out the awareness of how this dynamic afflicts those who seek out the power to rule, and in turn how that afflicts us all.
Q: "Boris Johnson and David Cameron attended similar schools at a similar time. How do you think it shaped them?
A: (Beard) In so many ways. Almost every day I read the paper and think, yes, I recognise that. Recently, it’s the idea that you just have to live with stuff – with Covid, for example. Just as at school you just had to live with your parents leaving you behind, with the daily authoritarianism, with not going home for weeks at a time. This is a very private-school idea – you just have to live with social injustice."
The Bullingdon Club - Ruling Class Scions at Play?
In this video (see below) Prime Minister Johnson, of England publicly and brazenly implies that countries like New Zealand, Vietnam, China, Finland, Iceland and others were 'panicking' and taking 'medically irrational' action that would cause economic harm in the face of a global pandemic of the SARSCOV2 virus, and he rejects taking appropriate action. The outcome of his decision compares adversely with the outcomes in those other 'panicked' countries on every rational measure - in terms of public health, mental health, economics and civil liberties. The lack of empathy and concern for the vulnerability of the population, for whom he has taken responsibility, to this new virus is astonishing!
The evidence for this is incontrovertible. Johnsons brazen rejection of elimination of community transmission at that precise stage amounts to a deliberate, intentional conscious act of national, population level abuse. News Media has protected the Johnson misGovernment. Labour, under Starmer, has supported the Johnson misGovernment and ejected from Parliament the leading voices that might have voiced a more rational and honest opposition.
Are we learning to live with a culture of abuse. Habituation to distal power and powerlessness, poverty, war and corruption as 'part of the Human Condition', part of 'Human Nature'? Is this the 'new normal'?
Britain Is a Conquest Word.
Great always referred to the dominance of all of these Islands and their peoples by the English Ruling Oligarchy. Patriotism is an abomination, if there is poverty structured into the situation of that Nation. Patriots scream, they wail and cry' Freedom!' but they never, ever seek to abolish poverty within their territory.
The so-called United Kingdom was united by conquest, violence and guile, never by free choice of a free people. Unlike the EU. Which was chosen, by every country that joined, pretty much.
Thus it is logical the political inheritors of the conquerors, the asset owners who ruled the British Empire which conquered the Ottoman Empire during WWI and carved it up, badly, also supported the creation of the State of Israel, as a mother supports a child. Israel is a bastard child of the British Empire. Partition has long been a strategic policy imposed to impede others from making progress.
"There's horrible, horrible people floatin' about......"
Mhairi Black speaks about Westminster, the House of Commons, and the reality of what goes on in that building.
"People who you see, and ask how has no one evaluated you yet? - there's something seriously dark in that person's thinking."
Ayn Rand Fan Club?
People like Ayn Rand fan Sajid Javid who accuses people who care for others of 'cowering before the virus', people like Cyril Smith a known child molester, who remained unmolested by the Police throughout his odious reign oft terror, people like Tony Blair who lied and manipulated others to prosecute a number of lethal wars, people like George Osborne who used lies to push Austerity which caused deliberate harm to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people like Winston Churchill who ordered Greeks who collaborated with the German Nazi invaders to attack and murder other Greeks who had fought the Germans, who wanted a democratic Greece freed from Monarchy. Churchill even paid them to do this dirty, bloody job. People like that who cause harm to others in pursuit of personal power.
Venal, cruel, adept at grooming ordinary citizens into carrying out extraordinarily cruel behaviour and murderous action.
We citizens who live here in England are ruled by a culture of professional bullies who pose as democrats, who offered up a carefully engineered toxic mime of democracy to the people, the people who had no option other than to accept that offer or face violence (Peterloo, Orgreaves, Grenfell, COVID19) - violence can present in many ways, including deliberate negligence and harassment.
Perhaps in the midst of this deliberately mismanaged epidemic, more of the English people are seeing this, if only because the steel hand has shed the velvet glove at home and the most vulnerable are being thrown under various buses.
Freedom and Opinion
The Freedom Day, and the Freedom from Tyranny March where the attendees were encouraged to identity, locate and document Health Care Professionals who were compared to Nazi Medics indicted at Nuremburg, many who were hanged, the implication that HCPs should be executed. Incitement.
Exploiting emerging vulnerability
The English Government aka The English Ruling Class are adept at exploiting every emerging vulnerability within the population they Rule over, and they are so good at it, that they can enrol enough of the vulnerable into performing actions of collective self harm whilst believing the exact opposite, inciting the gullible to go further than what would be considered rational, to act in utter confusion and cause more damage to the welfare of the shared commons, and maintain the status quo.
Take for example the way they turned a peace oriented unemployed militant working class into foolhardy warriors who would die in their hundreds of thousands, by deft use of using propaganda, in just a few short months as The Great War loomed, is a fine example of this capability.
World War 1, as it has since been named, which was a European War, it was not really a 'World War' although the British drew in working class males from across the Empire to slog it out in the bloody, shit filled, gore dressed trenches.
Fighting for Freedom, inspired by the Rulers. Freedom Day!
Learning to live with all this.
"Learning to live with....." is a song of submission.
Learning to live with Misogyny.
Learning to live with Racism.
Learning to live with Poverty.
Learning to live with Warfare.
Learning to live with Pollution.
Learning to live with Conquest.
Learning to live with Bullying.
Learning to live with Occupation and Settlement.
Learning to live with 'The Virus'.
and why not
Learning to live without Misogyny.
Learning to live without Racism.
Learning to live without Poverty.
Learning to live without Warfare.
Learning to live without Pollution.
Learning to live without Conquest.
Learning to live without Bullying.
Learning to live without Occupation and Settlement.
Learning to live without 'The Virus'?
The shutting down of self empathy that being bullied all the time can induce reduces empathy for others. To merely survive by shutting down. Taking no preventative steps.
The habituation of survival of the fittest can lead to abandoning the more vulnerable as 'weaklings'. Open up, save 'the economy', save our 'mental health', give us back our 'Freedoms'?
The accommodation to Sexism leads to suppression of the true self which is more than the perception of one's sex, which is an accident of birth rather than something one chooses. One can choose gender, as gender is a cultural perception. Culture can and does change.
The acceptance that the poor will always be with us is submission to the unjust concentration of both Wealth and Power as 'normal' part of the human condition. It is no such thing.
And something within my being rejects all those submissions, all those accommodations even though I do understand that these are coping mechanisms, and they have some merit.
Even as I understand those useful forgetting's are the Emperors clothes that I wear, which I don to protect me from going crazy with despair and horror, something within bridles at every injustice, every act of exploitation and every selfish, immature, dehumanised action that undermines the shared commons, every piece of litter dropped that I see as I walk my local streets and parklands rankles yet still stimulates away at my humanity. I am not alone in this.
Learning to live with our national domestic abuser, learning to live with Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro, Hitler, Cromwell, Saddam, Netanyahu is not at all learning to live well.
Sajid Javid accused those who wish to protect the vulnerable and the economy at the same Time as 'cowering' from the Virus.
Mr. Javid, a banker, who has zero expertise in Health Care Systems, who is now the political controller of the English Health Care System, is a man who was among those who organised the fraudulent CDO scam, which crashed investment banks and others who had bought the dodgy CDOs.
He personally profited hugely from all of that and paid none of the costs, he got away with it, he then entered politics, in 2010, and has been an ardent supporter of Austerity (ideological abuse of vulnerable people based on a deliberate lie) and today he demands we all learn to cease 'cowering' from the virus, he says we must learn to live with the virus' in order that we also continue to live with his fraudulent culture.
I refuse to 'learn to live with' that.
I will have to endure it all, for I am impotent. I am a tiny, weak individual citizen. But I will not submit, go silent, turn away, ignore the injustice or flee to the safety of myth, theory and selfishness. At least not today I won't.
I say our species knows already how to live well on this Earth - and that means to live as nurturing partners with all living systems, co-operating with life rather than trying to dominate and exploit. I say the Dominator Culture is the thing that blocks all such effort and intention to live well.
Culture change does not need to be a revolution or an evolution, just an awakening, a remembering of who we truly are, followed by daily action, individuals working as part of a collective, autonomy and sovereignty intact. The Egalitarian way lies ahead of us. Elimination of community transmission is a co-operative task, and where countries have managed to limit the virus and even eliminate it with their communities that co-operation is realised through daily effort.
Here the spreaders are also splitters. The divisive, argumentative, opinionated argy bargy 'culture wars' are designed to undermine the population that is co-operating, keeping the virus at bay, even as they are told to reach out for 'freedom' : and they are mostly failing, people's willingness to care for one another remains stable, strong, constant, and even though the splitters and spreaders have the biggest marketing budgets, the caring is holding strong, quietly resisting.
The Johnson Government claims kudos from the success of the NHS Vaccine rollout, the European and English collegiate development of the Vaccine, and rejects responsibility for the harms associated with rejecting elimination strategy has caused, and most people in England see right through that.
Let us make an honest forum of this English Parliament - people's lives, welfare and businesses depend on this being done!
My previous blog touched on the use of 'apology' as a defence mechanism of the powerful, when they are caught out and asked to account for harms they have occasioned. Dawn Butler has done nothing to apologise for, when she called out some of Johnson's lies in Parliament, yesterday.
All of us living in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have witnessed Boris Johnson, the English Prime Minister, utter outright lies, time and time again. Johnson's reputation as an issuer of lies dates back to his first days in journalism in the early 1980s.
A journalist, Peter Stefeanovic, crafted a short video, laying out some of Johnson's lies, and providing the evidence that these were, indeed, outright lies, which Johnson uttered in Parliament. Peter made the video to put pressure on UK News Media to write about these lies, not least because those lies have enabled political behaviour that has caused hundreds of thousands of fatalities, millions of cases of chronic disease and immense economic harm by recklessly rejecting elimination strategy back in February 2020, and maintaining that 'epidemiologically stupid' policy ever since.
That video has now reached 27 million views. Here it is.
27 MILLION VIEWS! 27 MILLION!!!
Working TOGETHER we have sent a powerful message to UK News shows if they won’t hold this Prime Minister to account for his rampant lying in Parliament we will do it ourselves!
Dawn Butler, MP for Brent, in London stood up in Parliament, on July 22nd, and pointed out some of these lies, and called out Johnson as a liar. In so doing Dawn Butler has broken a rule of the English Parliament, which states that MPs must not use 'unparliamentary language' which includes calling another MP a Liar. There is no offence of lying to the seated, assembled House of Commons. The Speaker asked Ms. Butler, twice, to withdraw her comments. Ms. Butler refused to do so, and the Speaker then ordered Ms. Butler to leave the chamber, and be escorted off the Parliamentary property.
Dawn Butler has done every citizen within the United Kingdom a huge favour, a profound honour.
Here is that exchange.
Ms. Butler has done every citizen living in the UK a huge favour. She has started to break the taboo, to weaken the spell.
Here is Ms. Butlers statement to Bylinetimes TV.
Here it is, everyone. @DawnButlerBrent’s exclusive statement for Byline TV on today’s events in Parliament.
She called Boris Johnson a liar and was thrown out for it - but decided it had to be done to highlight the erosion of our democracy. pic.twitter.com/dqTBjutKSR
I want every MP, in every Party, who understands that Johnson's lies have caused avoidable deaths, his lies and the lies of this Government have led to avoidable chronic disease for millions of citizens, the lies of this Government have ruined businesses, to stand up, and to call the lies out, in defence of his or her constituents right to health, as a matter of duty of care - or lose their seat, never to return.
Johnson is not the only one, but we must start somewhere.
I would urge Conservative MPs to take the bully by the horns, I would suggest that it is much better to be fired by a liar Prime Minister, whose lies have caused so much avoidable harm, and be recorded in history as a genuinely honourable MP than remain seated in that situation, supporting such odious harm causation.
I think that would be a good advert for each and every MPs next election campaign.
Honest History is a political and social good.
So let's take a quick and honest look at the issue of lies uttered in the English Parliament, Commons and Lords, and understand why it has been an essential part of Empire, Oligarchy and the Ruling Class to lie to the people of England, and to our legislators.
1. The English Parliament has never been fundamentally honourable. Operating as a hierarchy of Wealth, Power and Violence, it cannot, by definition and intent, operate with honesty, transparency and probity. Some honourable MPs have sat within it. yes. The presence of honourable people within a dishonest forum does not make that forum honest, especially if they are prohibited from calling out those who are lying. by a rule that stipulates doing so as 'disorderly conduct' which avoids the issue of the actual lie being referred to.
2. Lying is normalised by the English State, and this has always been the case. The State must lie to protect State Secrets among other things.
3. Read Late Victorian Holocausts and examine Hansard during the Irish and Bengali Famines. There are many, many lies told as truth to mislead the parliamentarians and the public.
8. Dawn Butler is breaking the spell. Let's all do this together, all of us. Let us take every step to confront the Bullies and the Liars, and let us make Parliament and politics more honest, and thus safer for the people it is meant to serve, in terms of duty of care to a whole population.
9. I want each constituent across England to speak, write, tweet and text every MP, in every Party, who understands that Johnson's lies have caused death, chronic disease and ruined businesses, to demand your representative in Parliament must stand up, and call the lies out, or lose their seat, never to return. Johnson is not the only one, but we must start somewhere. Start here, start now.
#TruthSetsUsFree
10. Let us make it a criminal offence to lie in every deliberative governance setting, from the local Parish council to Parliament. If the lie is proven to be malicious, then make it a mandatory 10 year sentence, with no parole, as the most serious indictment.
There can be no excuse for anyone undermining the process of deliberative governance and law making by lying or by any other action with the intent to mislead, manipulate or groom the intended audience.
That is a total betrayal of the trust inherent in Democratic Governance.
#JohnsonsLiesKill
Let us make an honest forum of this English Parliament - people's lives, welfare and businesses depend on this being done!
Here are two more of my songs, about confronting the Bullies, because we the decent majority of human beings really need to confront this cultural adverse behaviour now, in order to generate the national and international legislative and practical co-operation needed to handle climate change, environment degradation, structural poverty, pollution, war fare and other pressing problems.
These problems that every single one of us are facing right now, right here, will not be resolved unless we all build social human solidarity. Honesty in our legislatures is the key.
I am 62, and it is probable that I will not live to see the problems worsen, I will not be around when my grandchildren are faced with extreme situations in terms of climate, environment, warfare, poverty etc., and I could claim none of this is going to be my problem, it will not affect me. I know that that is such a selfish, myopic stance that I would be utterly disgusted with myself if I was to assume that. How totally immature!
No, we adults, every single one of us, owe a debt forward to all successive generations to try our very best to clean up any mess we have been part of making. That is real adulthood.
