War Porn, Entertainment and the demand that we take sides in these atrocious wars.

There's so much more video from this latest warmongering nastiness perpetrated by Russia, Ukraine, USUK and the EU, than ever before. On line entertainment.

Let me make it clear from the onset that I know that Putin and his staff are War Criminals. As are Blair, Bush, Cameron, May and Johnson. Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen are all War Crime scenes. All horrific, disgusting War Crimes. Ukriane's war against Donbas is no exception. The UN has recorded many war crimes in that war too.

I stand for Peace, not War. I say that no War is justifiable. Not in the 21st Century.  We do not build Peace through warfare. Putin and Blair, and all others who have prosecuted wars since the 1991 invasion of Iraq deserve to be brought to the Hague to face War Crimes tribunals.

USA poses as a global police man, Where is the global Peace man?

Corbyn could have stood as such, but was brought down by the low betrayal of the Labour Party hierarchy and the Oligarchy media, and voters myopia.

source : Die Welt

Western Europeans , Americans freshly and others are gorging on a diet of freshly filmed war porn, not least because it is closer to home and involves Caucasians on both sides, with 'our' side egging Ukraine on. The media pose this particular war as an existential threat to all of us - they neglect to say the same for USUK wars.

And the truth is all these wars pose a threat to all of us, in that they make it impossible to generate the global co-operation required to meet the challenges of Climate Change. And it is true too that for the unfortunate, traumatised Ukrainian civilians, Climate Change is a distal threat by comparison.

Interest piqued.

The mask of Civilisation has slipped, yet again. This one matters because it is closer to home.  The Sun and others publish videos of strikes on Russian military daily, more or less glorifying those murderous events, celebrating the death of those inside and the maiming of those nearby. 
"All lives matter!" they crowed in opposition to the Black Lives Matter Movement. Except those of Yemeni, Iraqi, Afghani and Congolese children.

Imagine similar videos from the wars in Yemen, Palestine, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, with such a tone.

Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran!

NATO strikes good, Libyan strikes bad! They are all bad. There is no such thing as 'good' warfare. Both Russian and USUK Media celebrate their respective murders of workers - yes, all soldiers are workers too.

What is war? War is workers trained and equipped to murder other workers, commanded by Oligarchs waving Flags, so that Oligarchs can continue to extract wealth from workers - be they the Military Industrial Complex or shareholders of those companies.
“War porn,” n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. Such media are often presented and circulated without context, though they may be used as evidence of war crimes.

Videos of military strikes on either side are legion. The whoops, cries and chants of "Glory!" that celebrate violence, murder, destruction. The cool sound tracks of EDM, with thumping bass and crescendos timed to the explosion. The cool 'Babes in Uniform', ugly anti-feminism posing as feminism, applies make up, thrusting hips, the swaggering strides, the coy smiles of pride.

And yes,  it is understandable that the men and women directly involved in warfare will celebrate their 'victories'.  We know the dehumanising effect of war is immediate and ubiquitous. War crimes committed by enraged combatants are an old, old story - no army in combat is free of such incidents. 

The media do us all a disservice to pretend that the Rules of War (a criminal enterprise) matter much in the heat of battle, or indeed during the aftermath of a firefight, when revenge draws back it's bloody boot to kick the vanquished. Every war. 
Every war. Same old, same old.

The red mist, the blood lust, the hatred and the revenge are all harnessed by the War Mongers - they know this drives the battle on the ground, in hand to hand combat, in street by street urban warfare, in the rage and anger of civilians caught in the crossfire which demands an eye for any eye, and more and they demand that we accept that their side of any war is 'justified', that that tank full of workers deserved to be destroyed, it's occupants immolated. "We will stop this war by waging more effective total war than the other side" they say.
"Pick a side!" they say. "Neutrality is abject cowardice" they claim. "You are either with us, or against us!" Bush spoke, the world trembled. And the peace activists are called all manner of names, painted as naive at best, weak, cowardly and stupid at worst.

The peace activists are among the bravest among us. They call out the Militarism for what it is, in spite of the tide of Militarism's proponents.

Putin's ludicrous claims to be liberating Southern Ukraine are as risible and false as the USUK and NATO claims justifying war in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Kosovo. 
Viewers of War Porn are encouraged to see these as acts of 'good violence'. Video commentary by citizens at a safe distance to war, praising one side or the other abound. Name calling, dehumanisation and angry, lurid calls for more violence percolate all our media platforms. Orcs and Towel Heads. Taighs and Gooks. The Romans called the Celts Barbarians. The Christian conquerors called the indigenous Savage Heathens. So it goes.

Peace?
Peace activists are almost entirely silenced by the ubiquity of  this barrage of celebratory violence to be found on video on demand, by the braying of sabre rattling politicians up to their eyes in grift, ands by the mind numbing cowardice of what purports to be The Free Press.

It is like the ring of a fist fight, with the audience baying for more blood, screaming for their champion - indeed this is how many people seem to get their thrills, making their bets on the outcome, lusting for victory and profit and the gambling  monsters happily rake in the cash.  The Press are the ring side commentators, cheering on their chosen heroes, extoling their fighting skills and resilience.

Fight Club
The first rule in Fight Club is never mention that Fight Club is stupid, inhumane and wasteful.
The first rule in War Club is never mention that War Club is stupid, inhumane and wasteful.
Where will one find footage of good people marching in protest, decrying all war, proposing negotiated solutions, demanding that power be shared as a socio-political measure of equity to be exercised for the interests of the health and welfare of everyone involved and beyond?

There are many, and the Oligarchy Press mute their voices.
One can spend hours watching short videos of this militarised violence, on most platforms, produced as propaganda, disseminating a celebratory attitude to the murder of workers -  yes, it is true : all infantry and mechanised soldiers are workers, trained to murder other workers, commanded by Oligarchs waving Flags, so that Oligarchs can continue to extract wealth from workers. That is what war has always been. Conquest, Booty, Loot, Dominance.

Oligarchs rake in profits as munitions are expended and more and more people are murdered, maimed, traumatised and displaced. That said wars are often followed by a building boom. Nice work, if you can get it.
We have all been long fed a diet of movie 'entertainment' extolling good vs bad violence, cleverly designed to get the viewer to identify with the hero. The murderer who gets the girl. The intimacy of sex in the midst of a war. The singular  Hero who saves a family, a village, a city, the World. From unrestrained violence to unrestrained sex, with all the best camera angles, the groans of death and climax juxtaposed, with tears and sighs and superb make up. 

So emotionally  moving. Sentimental and so touching, such wonderful acting. Awe, shucks, ooh, ahhh. Bullshit.
All the makeup to mask the ugliness of industrialised violence. Realism, they claim. It's not - it is war porn. It targets unresolved rages and wounds, dark emotions within populations, kindled for profit.
Weapons systems and munitions are the ultimate profit stream consumer item, with a very short life span, and an increasing demand for more, more, more munitions. They are all paid for in taxes of one form or another. More wealth extracted.
All wars end in negotiations. Corbyn has made the point, suggesting there's wisdom in take steps to skip the war fighting, and go straight to negotiations. He has a point. 
The UN has called many times for negotiated ceasefires, not only in regard to this most recent war upon Ukraine. 
In 2020 and 2021 the UN called for global ceasefires to make work on dealing with the Pandemic easier. 
USUK rejected those calls. Their wars in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere must continue. The governments involved in warfare throughout history have frequently rejected such calls, and have continued to pursue their aims through industrialised violence, at the expense of hundreds, if not thousands of millions of lives.

A history steeped in gore.
Today in Germany, on a US Military base, a meeting of 40 countries assembled to draw up plans for the defence of Ukraine. We all know of the arms sent to Syria, Yemen and Libya by the USUK and EU, Qatar, Saudi, Israel and others - a flow of the tools of extremist violence that has ruined those countries and destroyed the civilians peace and health and welfare for decades to come.
To my mind no single war exists as a stand alone event - these wars are connected by competing interests, an active culture of militarism, conquest, victory that denies the reality of the meaning of such slaughter. 
Refugees crossing the English channel in small, dangerous dinghies are the enemy, Ukrainian women folk and their children are exploited by Government and by people offering them sanctuary in their homes, as long as they can pay their way, bolstered by a promise of £350 a month promised by this odious misGovernment.
Meanwhile the citizens in the war zones suffer unmentionable abuses. Those citizens are entirely innocent. 

When will the onlooking worker-citizens so fortunately at a distance to these horrific wars among Earths States and the Oligarchies that dominate them reject militarism in their hearts and minds and, more importantly, at the ballot boxes and push hard to elect peacemakers to replace the war makers?

It cannot happen too soon.
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Today is Earth Day. Happy Earth Day everyone. The Earth is not happy, is it?

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Today is Earth Day.
Happy Earth Day everyone.

The Earth is not happy, is it?

Everything I mention below by way of a nurturing behavioural dynamic becoming implemented as our global cultural dynamic is within the realms of possibility, and therefore there is both a practical and feasible path towards a happy Earth.

It is important to remember you and I were born into a culture that was a bully cult and that you and I did not create it.

It was truly scuppered before you I was born. It was scuppered long before any of us alive were born. And it's also true that some people are continuing to cause a lot of harm, and things are getting worse as a result. 

The core behavioural dynamic is externalising costs. That is evading the costs, impacts and harms of an activity engaged in, - Fossil Fuel Use, for example - by masking those costs, by ignoring those costs in Risk Assessments, by bribing policy makers to ignore those costs, by placing corporate employees into Government, by the costs do not exist, by denying the costs are linked to the activity - in essence the adverse impacts are kept external to the money transaction, the profit efficiency is maximised at every stage, from extraction of the Oil and Gas, to it's distribution, sale and consumption and it's waste products at every stage. Part of the activity is to gaslight anyone who becomes aware of these costs and starts to ask questions.

Did you know that the concept of a personal carbon footprint was popularised by BP in a 2004/5 marketing campaign that cost close to $1000,000,0000?

"The oil giant British Petroleum (BP) actually hired PR professionals to invent a concept designed to blame individuals, not fossil fuel companies, for climate change. And it was BP that revealed the phrase "carbon footprint", along with a "carbon footprint calculator", in 2004."

source : https://interestingengineering.com/carbon-footprint-coined-by-big-oil-to-blame-you-for-climate-change

As I wrote above, the system was already toxic before either you or I was born. The costs of slavery were externalised. The costs of every Monarchs Wealth have always been always externalised. The costs of every war is externalised. People and environment endure those costs, both suffer and die from those costs, and the costs are neither prevented nor are they paid for by the profiteers.

Climate Disruption is an externalised cost of the Fossil Fuel Industry. Environmental Degradation is an externalised cost of Industrial Farming and Industrial Fishing practice. Particulate Pollution is an externalised costs of the combustion engine industry. PTSD is an externalised cost of Invasion and Warfare.

The question is this - would you like to help clean all this up? Is that what you'd like your children to inherit? The results of your best efforts to make the changes needed so that polluters pay the full costs and to prevent the problems they are causing. Think of your children and their contemporaries. Even if you don't have children, you do have a shared human adult responsibility to all the children.

Problems.
Climate Disruption is happening.
Pollution is continuing.
Environmental Degradation is a  constant.
Militarism is rampant, and wasteful.
Wealth Extraction and Concentration is the dominant economic and political dynamic, held in place by coercion.
Climate Disruption is more accurate than Climate Change. The climate has been disrupted. Industrial activity in pursuit of extremes of profit  has caused the disruption.

What to do?
We can draw down and cease the current activity that is causing the most disruption, and and we can hope that the climate somehow balances itself. 
We know biological world can recover and adapt. Volcanoes teach us that. Life returns to the barren surface, seeded from the surrounding biota.
It will mean a fossil free system. It will mean regenerative farming. It will mean better insulation in British homes. It will mean the redesign of all industrial processes - and that ought to reduce pollution as well as reduce environmental degradation.
It will mean making adaptations to our culture to protect the vulnerable, everywhere. It will mean intentional adaptation to new conditions, which might fluctuate. We must remain  responsive rather than knee-jerk reactive.
Militarism must be ceased. Immediately. Really. It is barbarism. Nothing more. This will take some time, and it must be started as soon as possible. Demilitarisation is critical to our shared futures.
Wealth Extraction and concentration as a Power base must be ceased. Wealth must be shared equitably. No question. vast wealth must be subject to legislative regulation that reduces those concentrations and limits their political and economic power to influence Governance.
These are all possible goals, albeit improbable whilst those who maintain Wealth Extraction and Concentration by coercion and manipulation, corruption and warfare remain in Power.
Wealth must be disenfranchised as a political movement. No question.
Egalitarian principles are already very well understood in human social philosophy and practice. There is nothing new in egalitarian social practice. This is not a matter of inventing something new, from the unknown.
The Earth is unhappy.

It doesn't have to be this way. It is not idealistic to think so, it is practical, humane and also obvious. That it is this way is clear, this is the way it is. And it doesn't have to be this way.
It is a very difficult time for everyone, as I know from my own direct lived experience right now, and from the multitudinous stories of the lived experience of billions of humans.
It has been this way for a while now, some 12,000 years. A friend recounted how he was travelling the Peruvian Hippie Trail, and he met and sat with some native folk, sharing a pot of tea and they were chatting, making amiable conversation, sharing stories and the conversation came round to the subject of 'end times'. My friend was worried about the 'end times' and very concerned, and he spoke of Hopi prophecies and other similar narratives.

The locals told him to not worry. "It's already happened! Our ancestors had seen the end of the world." History recounts that the end of their world had been brought to them through European colonisation, a violent conquest which commodified people and habitat alike to extract vast, vast wealth for Kings, Queens and their Oligarchs.

Which in turn led to rampant industrial raw material extraction with cheap hard labour the lot of the majority those who survived. Empires were built on the backs of enslaved peoples. European industrial power still stalks South America, as it does elsewhere. A lethal stalker. The history is well understood.

The Bully Cult.

That said, it is also true that the Bully Cultist cannot relax.

Every Bully Cult lives on edge, knowing that sooner or later the majority will respond, and it wont' be kind.
We will be kind. That is who we are. And we will be robust - we must. We have no other rational choice. Our children's future Earth days in time will be a celebration of having achieved these goals listed above.
Happy Earth Day. Let's get to work.

My version of Katie Goodman's song "I did not Fuck It Up!"
"There has never been a time..There has never been a time...there has never been a time -As fucked up as this!
I did not fuck it up, You?You probably did not fuck it up!They whoever they are, they really fucked it up,Now we're all fucked.
I cannot unfuck all this up!You, you probably can't unfuck all this up!And if we're waiting for them, whoever they are to unfuck this up, then We're all fucked!
Would I pick one thing to do, to help unfuck it up?Would you pick one thing to do, to help un-fuck it up?Let's all pick on thing to do, to help un-fuck it up - Let's get to work.
Chorus - everybody sings along, with gusto and delight!
I want to be a un-fucker!I want to be a un-fucker!I want to be a un-fucker!Un-fuck it up!"
Sarah Goodman
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Kindness is political IV : “Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not."

"Our compassion may be miniscule, but our capacity to help ourselves to taxation revenue to palm off on crony contracts to our mates is a constant thrill!"

Kindness is political. The choice to be kind, considerate and compassionate in the deliberation, design and implementation of policy is a political choice, The choice to be callous, indifferent or cruel is also a political choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees#Rights_and_responsibilities_of_parties 
The 1951 Convention Relating to the Rights of Refugees, is an international treaty which was ratified by the Government of the UK, which was a choice to protect people, as an act of legal, political, economic and community kindness. It states the rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers and the responsibilities of receiving countries.

https://www.unhcr.org/uk/asylum-in-the-uk.html - a brief report on Asylum in the United Kingdom.

The thread behind this latest scam is that this is yet another way to pass taxpayer cash to corporate cronies, signing opaque contracts with entities that are responsible for terrible provision of what ever 'service' is being provided,(Test & Trace, PPE is one current example of this kind of behaviour) effectively farming vulnerable people for profits, without no evidence that this action will have the effect of improving their lives, securing their safety and welfare.

In effect, this Government are taking over the business of trafficking vulnerable people. Competition in the 'free market'. And as it happens, this plan will not stop the illegal trafficking from France across the English Channel.

Trafficking preys upon vulnerable people.

As it happens the  UK's international ambassador for human rights Rita French in July 2021 expressed “regret” that Rwanda was not conducting “transparent, credible and independent investigations into allegations of human rights violations including deaths in custody and torture”. The claim that Rwanda is a safe place to send vulnerable people is baseless.

This misGovernment knows this. 

The Kafkaesque difficulty of Ukrainian Refugees seeking refuge in Britain.

Listening to the radio this morning, I heard one caller tell of a story of a heavily pregnant Ukrainian mother who was trying to make her way to the UK. She was told when applying for her visa to enter the UK from Poland, a slow and unfriendly process (hostile environment, a coalition policy) where she was now a refugee, was told that if her baby was born before she entered the UK, the baby would need his or her own visa as well, or not be allowed to enter the UK. 
The unfortunate woman was so distressed by the delays and obstruction she faced  that she decided to return to Ukraine. To a country being invaded and destroyed by a cruel and vile Russian Military commanded to do so by Mr. Vlad 'The Invader' Putin. A Russian Oligarch.

This pregnant mother-to-be decided the lack of compassion - the political choice - of the English Government was a worse option than returning home to a war torn country in the midst of a horrific, disgusting war which appears to be escalating.

This is just one story, among many, many thousands of heart-wrenching and traumatic cases. UK is the only country demanding visas for Ukrainian Refugees as a condition of entry. Every other state is allowing entry, with visa application to be made once the refugees are safe. 

Boris Johnson spoke to day, and this is what he said : “We cannot sustain a parallel illegal system. Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not."
Infinite Capacity to help people?

When it comes to 'sustaining a parallel illegal system', it is the precisely the deliberate closure of previously available safe and official routes for Asylum Seekers and Refugees to reach the UK that created the fertile ground for the 'parallel illegal system'.

When it comes to helping people the blatant corruption of the Governments Crony Contracts for PPE, Test and Trace, and other policy choices that minted thousands on new millionaires shows exactly where this Governments priorities really lie.
He, and Priti Patel are such promiscuous and unapologetic liars, they are bullies, they are wholly inadequate to the social responsibilities of the High Office they occupy, sponsored by Oligarchs whose interest the represent.

A Government of Wealth Extraction, sponsored by Oligarchs, imposing policy generated in think tanks funded by Oligarchs, cannot represent the democratic electorate of England. 
They do not represent us at all.

They do not represent the people of England, the vast majority of whom are decent, kind law abiding persons, who do, as it happens, appear to host an almost infinite compassion if one looks ate the totality of the community voluntary sector and support for charities helping the most vulnerable people of our communities.
Infinite Compassion?
"Let the bodies pile high!"
Eternal Peace after a horrific and terrifying death.
"1000 deaths a week is a valid cost benefit analysis!"
More like infinite greed.
Johnson was having an adulterous affair another woman, whilst his wife was enduring Cancer Treatment, betraying her and their children, behind her back while she was suffering.
Compassion? More like infinite, selfishness and grim lust.
"Some people say, that maybe, we should let it tip, let the people take it on the chin!"
Compassion? 
More like infinite disdain for the population.
COVID case reporting in the UK
Government figures on new cases Wednesday 13 April 35,926
ZOE symptom tracker new cases Wednesday 13 April 275,993
Deaths this past week : 651, and for the past week : 1,951
List of the dates of parties we know about, the dates of the lies Johnson uttered  and the deaths on those dark, dark days. People were being harmed by Government policy, and the policy makers partied! Compassion?
The Tory Government Party Season!
#torydeathparties
May 15 2020 – Cheese & Wine Garden Party – 421 deaths that day
May 20 2020 - "BYOB" party in No 10 garden – 353 deaths that day
May 23 2020 – Cummings Barnard Castle story breaks – 284 deaths that day
June 18 2020 – Cabinet Office leaving event – 90 deaths that day
June 19 – Johnson’s birthday party – 88 deaths that day
Nov 13 2020 – No 10 flat party – 450 deaths that day
Nov 25 2020 - Treasury drinks party – 499 deaths that day
Nov 27 2020 - Johnson speaks at Watson’s leaving party – 460 deaths that day
Dec 10 – Gavin Williamson’s D of E party – 496 deaths that day
Dec 11 2020 – the No 10 ‘wine fridge’ party – 491 deaths that day
Dec 14 2020 – Conservative HQ drinks party – 506 deaths that day Dec 15 2020 – Johnson’s quiz party – 507 deaths that day
Dec 16 2020 – Grant Shapps party – 484 deaths that day
Dec 17  2020 – Cabinet Office party – 567 deaths that day
Dec 18 2020 – Downing Street Party – 586 deaths that day
Jan 14 2021 – No 10 prosecco leaving party – 1338 deaths that day!
April 16 2021 (day before Prince Phillip’s funeral) – two boozy parties at No 10  - 32 deaths that day
June 26 2021 – Hancock forced to resign after kissing aide – 17 deaths that day
Dec 1 2021 – Johnson lies to Parliament about all advice being followed – 136 deaths that day
Dec 7 2021 – Johnson lies to Parliament about rules being observed – 129 deaths that day
Dec 8 2021 – Johnson lies that rules have not been broken – 128 deaths that day
Dec 13 2021 – Johnson lies that he broke no rules – 110 deaths that day
Dec 20 2021 – Johnson lies that photos of party were ‘people at work’ – 133 deaths that day
Jan 10 2022 – Johnson refuses to answer if he was at parties – 235 deaths that day
Jan 12 2022 – Johnson still argues that ‘technically’ he broke no rules – 236 deaths that day
Jan 31 2022 – Sue Gray’s report only partially published, Johnson finally says sorry for ‘things they didn’t get right’ – 198 deaths that day
April 13 2022 - Johnson says he paid the fine, and and he said: 'humbly accepts I made a mistake'. There are more fines to be issued to Johnson. - 658 deaths that day
A total of 171,000 deaths attributed to COVID since March 2020, with many more excess deaths due to lack of treatment, as the NHS struggled with repeated and entirely avoidable waves of Infection, illness and death.
Compassion?



It is quite clearly callous cruelty, reckless endangerment.

Fight for the Right to Party - a Satire Song about Johnson

Rwanda, as a destination venue for the vulnerable seeking refuge and safety?

This new 'policy' regarding Refugees, Asylum Seekers and others choosing the desperate  and dangerous path towards the UK and safety, seeking freedom from brutality, oppression and war, via small dinghies slowly chugging across the English Channel is a disgusting dog whistle policy designed to take attention away from the immediate issue of the Tory Death Parties.
If Parliament passes this legislation, then it is complicit in the cruelty of this atrocity engendering 'policy'. 

This issue and any, many others are all linked together in that they form part of a totality of deliberate, calculated, misGovernment that rejects the path of avoiding avoidable harms.
Yet another example of the flaws of English Democracy highlighted in The Power Inquiry, 2006. An executive political  power that despises the people, exploits bigotry and bias and does so to enrich the Oligarchy that sponsors this Government.
When will the English people take the only action that can counter this horrendous, Machiavellian monstrous misGovernment?
A general strike, a refusal to pay mortgages, rents and utility bills until parliament is dissolved and a general election is held to put into place a Government by the people.

Kindest regards
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Letter to my MP regarding the fines imposed upon the PM, The Chancer and 50 Officials, regarding Parties, Lies and Misconduct In Public Office

Letter to my MP regarding the fines imposed upon the PM, The Chancer and 50 Officials, regarding Parties, Lies and Misconduct In Public Office

My Dear MP.
Today we learn that the Prime Minister, The Chancellor of the Exchequer and 50 other Officials have been issued fines by The London Metropolitan Police for breach of CoronaVirus Laws governing gatherings. The highest Officials in the land have broken the Laws their own government drafted and imposed upon the population of England and the United Kingdom causing much difficulty and distress to citizens willing to make huge sacrifices to protect each other.

The culture of arrogance and impunity within the Cabinet Office and the offices of 10 and 11 Downing Street and elsewhere in Whitehall is implicated.

Compounding the case are the repeated lies uttered by the Prime Minister, even within The House of Commons, from the Front Bench, and the lies of others with regards to these parties. Such behaviour is yet again evidence of Misconduct in Public Office.
In https://www.peoplescovidinquiry.com Micheal Mansfield writes about Misconduct In Public Office.
“This People’s COVID Inquiry report is unequivocal – dismal failure in the face of manifestly obvious risks…This Inquiry performed a much-needed and urgent public service when the nation was hit by a catastrophic pandemic coincident with an unprecedented period of democratic deficiency.

It afforded an opportunity for the beleaguered citizen to be heard; for the victims to be addressed; for the frontline workers to be recognised; and for independent experts to be respected. When it mattered most and when lives could have been saved, the various postures adopted by government could not sustain scrutiny.”

“It was plain to Keep Our NHS Public (the organisers of the People’s COVID Inquiry) that Government words were bloated hot air, hoping to delay and obfuscate.

Within this narrative lies a theme of behaviour amounting to gross negligence by the Government, whether examined singularly or collectively. There were lives lost and lives devastated, which was foreseeable and preventable. From lack of preparation and coherent policy, unconscionable delay, through to preferred and wasteful procurement, to ministers themselves breaking the rules, the misconduct is earth-shattering.”
Dr Tony O’Sullivan, Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public and retired Consultant Paediatrician spoke at the public presentation of The People's Inquiry :
"We are shocked at the avoidable loss of tens of thousands of lives through the neglect of pandemic planning, the run down of the NHS, and the intense inequality in this country. We heard the pride of NHS, care and other frontline staff and we heard about their pain, exhaustion and moral injury. The level of government cronyism and resultant profiteering has been blatant and in plain sight. Our overall conclusion is that there has been misconduct in public office. This has to be addressed. If we ignore it, the country cannot learn the lessons from today to face the challenge of tomorrow.”
I agree with both of these experts on their analysis, which itself is based upon voluminous evidence presented to The People's COVID Inquiry.

We have all endured the COVID epidemic and it's terrible consequences, adverse consequences which are largely attributable to the blatant corruption, grift, misinformation, lies and gaslighting that is associated with this Governments deliberate mismanagement (*through not following 'The Science') of the COVID epidemic in England, which continues through to today and appears to be set to continue into the foreseeable future.

*Independent SAGE drew up a timeline of Scientific Advice offered to the Government and the Government's actions and failures to adhere to that advice.

I think it appropriate that you view this material, and understand the facts as they are.
That the highest Officials in the Land behaved as they did, as outlined above, and with regards to the Downing Street Parties, demonstrates that is abundantly clear that the threshold for indictments for Misconduct in Public Office has been met.
I write to you, as a sincere Constituent, a regular voter, a democrat and citizen to ask that you a) read the full report of The People's COVID Inquiry, and b) put a question to the House of Commons asking "When will the Prime Minister and other Officials, identified in the People's COVID Inquiry and those found to have broken the Law and who were fined for participating in The Illegal Downing Street Parties, be indicted for Misconduct in Public Office', prefacing the question with the quotes provided above, referring to the extensive materials gathered by The People's COVID Inquiry.

I look forward to your reply and to watching you put my question to the House of Commons. May justice, sanity and compassion reign therein!

It might be appropriate that in advance of my question being put to the house to suggest to you a thorough reading of the Legislation on Misconduct in Public Office and the stance of the Crown Prosecution Service in that regard.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/misconduct-public-office
Yours sincerely

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Pamphlet : A People's Complaint, on April 1st 2022

A People's Complaint, on April 1st 2022

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The English Ruling Class Oligarchy deliberately maintain Poverty as a means to drive people into low paid work so as to Extract Wealth, and they laugh about it. We have plenty reliable evidence for this assertion.

John Lilburne (c. 1614 – 29 August 1657), also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after the English Civil Wars 1642–1650. He coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights with which every human being is born, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or human law.^[1] In his early life he was a Puritan, though towards the end of his life he became a Quaker. His works have been cited in opinions by the United States Supreme Court

 A Pamphlet : A People's Complaint.

To Whom it may concern.
Under the current set of circumstances, on April 1st 2022, in light of the blatant criminality of the British Government (Corruption, Eugenics, Treason) under the Rule of the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Johnson Regime, and under the malign influence of the British News Press Media owned by non-domiciled Oligarchs (misinformation, lies and disinformation), we wish to make a formal complaint, under the UN Charter of Human Rights, The Human Rights Act and other statutes, and Tort Law, citing our personal and collective Right to Health, our Right to an honest, uncorrupted, honest and transparent democratic government, our Right to reject unjust and evil legislation, our  Right to clean food, clean air, clean rivers and clean seas, our right to a pollution free environment, our Right to not find particles of plastic or exhaust particulates of fossil fuels in our blood and in  the blood of our children, even in utero,  and in light of many other sundry rights established by Law, Custom and natural expectation.
Our complaint is that this corrupted English Government has caused multiple avoidable harms, amounting to tyranny, including hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of cases of chronic disease,  myriad economic harms and has exacerbated poverty for millions of decent folk living across the UK, in ways that amount to wilful manslaughter and reckless endangerment in its deliberate mismanagement of the SARSCOV2 Pandemic.
Our complaint is that this corrupted English Government has caused avoidable harms, including deaths, chronic disease, psychological and economic harms and this odious English Government has deliberately maintained and intensified poverty across the nations in ways that amount to wilful manslaughter, especially in the case of Disabled and Vulnerable people, through its deliberate policies of Austerity, policies that were justified by lying about the political and economic realities of the time to the public.

Our complaint is that News Media and the general Education system has not helped to dissuade the general public of these lies.
Our complaint is that  this English Government, the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Opposition Party, Labour,  are both undeniably corrupted by private funding and donations from Oligarchs and their various organisations from America, Australia, Russia and elsewhere, whose interest is being served above the interests of the democratic voters, the citizens, their families and children across the UK and that this funding amounts to interference in our  democracy by foreign and alien entities. 
Our complaint is that this interference amounts to Treason by the English Government and the Labour Party.
Our complaint is the the English Government has not discharged its legal and moral responsibility to indict and arrest proven War Criminals from within its ranks.
Our complaint is that this English Government and the Opposition are, since 2003, guilty of multiple counts of War Crimes, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.

Our complaint is that these failures make it impossible and inconceivable to hold Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel, Iran and other States and actors to account for War Crimes those Governments have committed and are committing. This failure imperils us all, exposes us to the increased likelihood of Nuclear War and thus diminishes hope and the aspirations of Peace for the entire human race.
Our complaint is that Brexit has been proven, beyond any doubt, to have been a political grooming operation that manipulated millions of vulnerable  members of the UK electorate, exacerbating those vulnerabilities in order to exploit the reactions of the targets, and that this amounts to the largest incidence of grooming as an act of mass psychological warfare directed against a population in the 21st Century, and is a criminal action that must be confronted.
Our complaint is that Brexit was and remains a continuous act of Treason, in which an English Government acted on behalf of foreign and alien entities against the best interests of the English people, the English democratic polity.
Our complaint is that energy costs are being raised on the back of speculation, an entirely fabricated measure, in a manner that is wholly intolerable and unacceptable not least because these are essential provisions for the welfare of the population and that these price hikes amount to another part of a long standing and wholly unjust Rentier Wealth Extraction under duress.

As an aside its worth noting that Norway and the UK started to produce Gas in the North Sea at the same time, in the 1960ws. Norway collects in taxation c. £21 per barrel equivalent, UK collects £1.27 per barrel equivalent, and worse the UK gives tax breaks to the gas producers that mean they are net receivers of tax payers cash. Norway holds a Sovereign Fund of £1 trillion. Good management for the Norwegian people has a history. Corrupt management for the English people has a history, still being written in death, disease, debt and ruling class disdain for our welfare.

Our complaint has historical resonance.

Our complaint is that this Conservative and Unionist Government has enabled Water Companies to collect monies from us, the people, specifically to handle our faeces, and has at the same time allowed those Water Companies to flood our waterways with untreated sewage, 375,000 times in the last 12 months, a release which pollutes those same water ways and our beaches, in order to assist those private enterprises maximise their profits. This renders enjoyment of our water ways and beaches as a health risk. A double insult, with the potential to cause injury.

Our complaint is the this English Government is exporting weapons to States engaged in War Crimes. It follows that any Military personnel associated with these exports, in any capacity, is engaged in conduct ancillary to the commission of a War Crime. 
A War Crime must be always be confronted , no matter whom or what entity is responsible. Militarism in the face of climate change is criminal negligence.
Our complaint is that, as things stand, there is no remedy to these extremely serious and in many cases, life threatening complaints.
Until such time as our complaints are  resolved to our satisfaction, we must refuse to pay any energy bills, any rents, any mortgages, any water rates, any  taxes or engage in any non-essential work. In essence a General Strike is our only real power to move Government and others to take remedial action to protect the population from avoidable harm.
Until such time as these wholly rational and justified complaints are heard, and resolved, in full, by a National Unity Government tasked with that resolution we must call for a general strike on all non-essential commercial activity.
It is now time for the workers and citizens of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to find common cause, to eschew the many abject divisions engineered by widely published and promoted falsehoods and bigotries and to form a citizens Union, based on evidence and justice.

All ordinary soldiers are workers too. Soldiers must strike, and demonstrate that their true solidarity is to the people, to the people's freedom from oppression and abuse, above and beyond the Government, to protect the people of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from a Government that is causing so much harm.

It is time for the decent, uncorrupted people of this United Kingdom, North, South, East and West, to build a social material solidarity that will confront the criminality of the current English Government, her Majesty's Opposition and their various foreign sponsors and set us in a much better stance to meet the challenges of Climate Change, Poverty, Pollution, Warfare, Racism, Misogyny and the Venal Avarice of The Global Wealth Extraction Class.
The time is now, the task is ours, this English Government will not help us, so we must help each other. 
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Opposing War - Marina Ovsyannikova - what she needs us all to do. War, Climate Change, Poverty, Racism and Misogyny are soluble problems.

Opposing War - Marina Ovsyannikova - what she needs us all to do. 
A problem that is well understood is half way towards being solved. A problem that is incorrectly understood is insoluble.

This is evident with regards war, climate change, Racism and Misogyny. 

War, Climate Change, Poverty, Racism and Misogyny are soluble problems.

Some people who ought to know better are paid to pretend they do not know what the problem is. Sometimes one of these people has an epiphany, and they take a public stand.
Why is one Russian TV producer braver than anyone within the entirety of the BBC during the last 70 years?
What is that?
What do we do with our 'freedom'?
What ought we be doing with our 'freedom'?

Russia state television employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who ran on to the set of a live Main News Bulletin on Russian State TV Channel during a live broadcast shouting: ‘Stop the war. No to war’, presenting a large white banner to Russia's News audience, also made a pre-recorded video statement.

She's quite explicit. The War is a War Crime. She acknowledged culpability for enabling propaganda since 2014. Truly speaking truth to power and taking a serious personal risk. Unlike BBC workers in 2003. Or ever since.

Without a well organised political movement we remain a people reduced to begging, to repetitive protest, we walk about as supplicants, pleading with these monsters, gaining risible concessions from faux-politicians, corporate placemen in hock to the Wealth Extraction Class, whose fundamental policy will be to maintain their political, economic and cultural dominance at our expense.

This was intolerable in 2003. It is no less intolerable in 2022.

We need to become a sigifincant movement that could call and sustain a general strike so effective that hospitals, social services, energy and water and other essentials would run, and everything else, including civilians supplying the military, would stop. Full stop. No mortgage payments, no rent payments, no one in the office. A people united in solidarity, not under a flag, a crown or any other symbol of a State. Humane Solidarity. Mutual Aid.
A motivated, humane political movement 

A well organised political movement would include some of these characteristics
A: 100% evidence, peer reviewed, measured, accurate best state of knowledge based
B: Be oriented to gaining a majority of seats in democratic assemblies of every level, from Parish to Cabinet.
C:  Demand a situation where ordinary folk, us the workers, the tax payers engage politically and exercise our duty to deliberate seriously upon issues, examine and weigh the evidence, and understanding the core needs of the whole population, co-operating with expert support, write policies to resolve problems. Peoples policies that nurture the people and maintain all Human Rights, and protect the populations health. Every legitimate business can surely operate under that metric?
Such a movement is required to draft the legislation we need including
D:  legislation to eliminate the practice of 'Externalised Costs', 
E: legislation to extract reparations for harms caused by toxic industrial practices, 
F: legislation to abolish structural poverty and and cease all institutional/nation state war making at the same time. Sharing resources, Saving lives. Convert the military assets to healthy function - for a start, we certainly need a global, regional and local environmental remediation and resilience building corps.
G: legislation to take democratic control of education, information sharing, and importantly public news media so that honesty and transparency become the practiced ethics, in the real.
H: We must push for all of this - assuming  the power and responsibility of ordinary people, workers and students, working in solidarity as a collective legislature.

J: We can do so knowing that solutions to most  known problems - war, pollution, poverty, racism, misogyny - are already available, and that the will to do this will not emerge from the Ruling Class, the Wealth Extraction Class who currently dominate democratic power structures.
I:  If we do not push for all of this, then we will always be begging, pleading, making risible concessions to the Wealth Extraction Culture.
There is only us.
And some suggested strategic action: 
We ought to be thinking about what is needed to sustain building an eclectic  electorate, non-aligned, well informed, well supported and willing to vote for policy, not party, not personality, not personal self-interest nor ideology, evidence based policy to stop further harm, and deepen supportive resilience.
Make the success of that process of harm reduction and restoration, the 'reason d'etre' for the Economy. Revision profit as the totality outcome for all of us, locally, regionally and globally.
Active guerrilla education   
If there are 500,000 people in England up for that, who have the knowledge, and are willing to learn how to canvass people, build more bridges of understanding and empathy, in order to foster humane practical solidarity rather allow the negativity, division the Oligarchs are inciting among us to continue to undermine our communities - then perhaps we can find ways to reach the other 39 million adults, and build the bridges of understanding.
We must remove all private funding from political parties, and elections. We must ensure those who rock up for duty to serve the people are honest, transparent and paid by us - then we call the tune. 
We must never accept any contender who takes money from private donors.

Donor Kebabs - Reassuringly Expensive

To start, to get the ball rolling never, ever vote for anyone, at any level of elected office, from Parish Council to The Prime Minister and the Cabinet who has accepted large private donations - 
When parties and people who put themselves forward to work on our behalf, are truly funded by us: the workers, the students, the carers, the cleaners, the gardeners, the labourers, the tradesmen, the shop keepers, the shop assistants, the office workers, the drivers then we call the tune.
That is real democracy.

People power, legislative power that protects citizens and brings balance and equity to governance.
Here's a suggested metric for healthy governance into the 21st Century.
https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-metric-for-governance-uk-election-2017.html




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Vlad. The Invader. Putin in the ICCS? Such sorrow for the Ukrainian people, all lovely decent folk, innocent and now being victimised by bullies.

Putin in the ICCs!?

There's more room at the Inn. 'Ternational Criminal Court, Vlad.

There's no doubt on this, the Military Invasion by Russia into Ukraine is a criminal venture. It is the Crime of Aggression, the supreme War Crime. It is known as the supreme war crime, in that it generates the basis of all the subsequent criminal events associated with that act of aggression. The entire command structure prosecuting this war are war criminals. Putin is not the only one.
What must we citizens do? How do we support Russian citizens who, understanding this, wish to stop this war from within Russia and indict Mr. Putin and his colleagues? 

Russia state television employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who ran on to the set of a live broadcast shouting: ‘Stop the war. No to war’, which millions of Russians will have seen. Such incredible courage in the work place. No one in the BBC, ITV, C4, CNN, FOX NEWS, etc has ever dared to do such a thing.

But to do it in Russia? This video is the recorded statement of Marina to her fellow Russians and to the world.


Some polish workers are blockading freight routes from Poland into Belarus and Russia.

A an article circulating on line :  Polish Protest Blocks traffic into Belarus and Russia.

Polish demonstrators have blocked the path of lorries with Russian and Belarusian number plates trying to cross into Belarus, according to a report by broadcaster TVN24.

The action led to a traffic jam stretching 10km at the Koroszczyn border crossing.

Many of the protesters waved Ukrainian flags, indicating their support for that country which came under Russian attack on February 24.

Some of the attacking troops started the assault from Belarusian territory.

The truckers caught in the action protested that the war had nothing to do with them.

Meanwhile, on the way out, opposite direction, and under extreme duress, a flow of refugees:



Refugees, seeking refuge from extreme violence:  people driving away, fleeing in buses, walking on their feet, carrying whatever they had time to grab, frightened, in shock, sad, grieving, exhausted, and holding it together, with courage and grace and strength and kindness, and so much pain, such vast harm, unbelievable and real.

It's so sad, such sorrow, for any individual being put through all of this, and in this situation, today, multiplied by tens of millions. So many people, 40 million, so profoundly harmed.

Entire families, streets, villages, towns, farms in shattered, shocked, grief stricken, angered, outraged, in pain, confused, bereft, made penniless by a useless war, broken and still, even still holding it together, caring for children and elders.

War is a beast, most decent humans are beauty and they ought never meet. Ever. Better they be strangers, than acquaintances. But this culture makes frequent such associations. 
Invasion is a horrible act.
Putin, and the entire government co-operating to prosecute this war are War Criminals, no question. 
There is a chain of command, there is a bureaucracy, a wide network of individuals and agencies all doing their bit to make it work. They have names, titles, official responsibilities, areas of culpable liability-all answerable to the people they harm, and to their own, of course.
Ordinary citizens unjustly trapped by accident of birth in the line of a military advance, totally innocent, people who would never dream of causing harm to anyone, ordinary citizens…harmed by leaders, lies and a hierarchy ugly enough to do this to ordinary people.
It’s disgusting, and Mr. Putin and the Russian state must be held accountable as War Criminals, before the Ukrainians, the people they have harmed so gruesome, as they trampled over such tender communities as people ever lived, and laid waste the life of a people.

For any readers looking to learn more about the Laws prohibiting War, here's a blog piece I wrote in 2008. 


And a song to go with this:

To the tune of 'Sitting on the dock of the bay"

Sitting in the dock at The Hague,Putin should be siting there in dread,Watching the judges walk in.Watching them walk back out again.He sent the orders from Moscow,

That’s when he should have stopped,

His order was evil and sour,

Cruelty at pace, unlocked

Sitting in the dock at The Hague,Putin should be siting there in shame,Hearing the judgement clear,

Looking at his cell wall for years.

Which would be getting off *Lightly, we'd say

Getting off *Lightly, his lucky day

Getting off *Lightly, judged clear

Clearly guilty of War Crimes.

Sitting in the dock at The Hague,They should be siting there in chains,Hearing the judgement clear,Looking at clean cell wall,

For their remaining years.

*To be allowed to live at all is 'getting off lightly'.

By comparison to the harm caused. 

There is no punishment that meets that criminality.
Incarceration is part of prevention. A warning that civilian populations will incarcerate any political leaders who initiate war, who commit war crimes.

People must hold warlords to account. There is no alternative resolution to this problem.




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