The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
It's meaningless to talk
about Sovereignty when the UK has failed to arrest known war criminals,
given the evidence that is now widely available.
What Sovereignty?
Whose
Sovereignty?
Not the the Sovereignty people of the UK, but that of those who RULE over the people of the UK, in spite of it's public make-up and theatrical narrative of a Democracy.
YOU HAVE NO GENUINE SOVEREIGNTY within the UK as it stands right now.
You are choosing based on a false premise.
Likewise with regards to war, the UK has had active combat operations
for almost every year since WWII was declared 'officially ended'.
That
is war operations, and whatever the justification at the time or later on, it turns to utter
bullshit when subjected to a rational and detailed critical analysis of
the facts and outcomes in each case.
The ordinary people, the
workers, the tax payers have little say in what Government does, almost
as little as evidence based policies.
YOU ARE BEING PLAYED and unable to see it.
Sort out the lack of genuine democracy and the corporate corruption of
Governance, and THEN go to Europe with reforms in mind, leading by
example as a people.
For everything you were able to share, and for what you were unable to share, for bearing your own loss whilst still holding me, despite all the wounds you endured and the social power setting within which you and our shared mother line has borne so much oppression, for so long.
Thank you Motherhood.
Bless you mothers who do so much that is taken for granted, whilst being subjected to a stream of judgmental propaganda, whilst your situations are being deliberately made more stressful.
And this : The social power system has to change and meet the true needs of optimally healthy human parenting as a primary mission of de-pollution, of ecological recovery, of sustainable human development. Sooner or later. One way or another.
We need a MOTHERS movement! Everyone is involved!
That is our job.
The rest of us.Mothers Day....
Why only one a year? Why so mean?
I feel appalled when I observe the hypocrisy
of the institutional social systems behaviour towards healthy empathic
parenting and towards the children of the nation. From the Vatican to
Savile, from recruiting the youth of the poor for war to drugging
millions of children into a more compliant state, it is all an assault
on both mother and child, which are at the very heart of our human
biological and experiential realities that tears us all to pieces.
And what
is torn apart is in each case, so precious a life, so exquisite a
being, so vulnerable and alive and the tearing of that and the pain
caused is in every case an abomination, a negation of the womb, a
psychotic dead-end.
Mothers Day.
Syrian Mothers Day.
Palestinian Mothers Day.
Bullied Mothers Day.
Blame it all on the mothers day, every other day. It's somebody's
fault, rather than it's a systemic disease state that the power system
engenders, deliberately.
Natural Expectations, rather than cultural assumptions.
Empathy, compassion, vision, a long time
line, a desire to nurture and the wisdom to be able to do so in many
varied ways, as varied as language group or topography or climate
dynamics... these are the qualities I write about in my book, that I attempt to describe as being bio-logical - meaning in the logic the we see emerging from within dynamic living ecosystems of biologically optimally healthy organisms : "Natural Child, Natural Society : both are cause and effect."
And I describe how those qualities are undermined over time when unresolved trauma leads to intergenerational behaviour patterns associated with the need to control others in order to mask a loss of sense of security, and how these behaviour patterns become institutionalised throughout history, and their justifications then inhabit the core of the cultures permitted thinking and analysis as sacred fact.
Mothers Day.
A flower is an expectation of a bug, and of the day and night
sequence, and of creative potential in it's role in procreation and as a
food source.
A child is also an expression of a set of
biologically entrained expectations which if met, leads to the emergence
of a capable and competent adult who will hold the space and have the
experience for those expectations to be met, consciously, with intent.
So too with mothering, fathering, parenting and indeed relating in healthy, nurturant ways to each other and the world around us. Each are sets of biologically mandated behaviours that are markers of optimal human health.
Refugees. People fleeing for their lives, leaving everything they know and love and have built because states go to war and that war making has run through their homes, villages, towns and cities and destroyed everything in it's path.
"A bunch of Migrants!"
Underneath that thread is this : the supposition, the carefully indoctrinated story of, Western Values of Democracy and 'fighting a common enemy' for the good of all, exposed as a fiction, when those refugees are refused refuge; when the lobbies and electorates of the European states are unwilling to confront their own governments war making; when those European Governments and electorates accept the Corporatist lobbying which supports war and do not challenge it head on.
Apart from Pol Pot, Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain et al practically all the Governments we know of have gained power by consent of an electorate at some point.
Whatever their ideology, when they abuse that power, it is quite often ordinary folk suffer in the most horrific manner as a direct outcome. The Contra's of Nicaragua, Pinochet's death squads, Apartheid, Palestine, Congo and coltan, TTIP, Tax Havens of British Crown Dependencies, G4S Institutionalised abuse of children in 'care homes', Jimmy Savile, The Vatican's crisis management of proven child rape allegations.... are all part of the bullying culture. They are all in it together.
So for me the issue is about who holds power, the adverse affects of that power, and who challenges that. Arguing about Capitalism vs Socialism is irrelevant unless we deal with the issue of a bullying culture that taints our civilisation.
The helpers in Calais, and elsewhere, are largely drawn from people who challenge that careful image of power by their direct action of humanity. By kindness. They have stepped in to help. To comfort. To show humane solidarity with human beings in a degraded and degrading situation.
Cameron (and by extension, the entire British Government and power Establishment) dismisses them, alongside the refugees, in Parliament and when it is discussed, the matter of culpability of the UK Government since the invasion of Afghanistan, as the primary drivers of this war, which is WWIII, as far as the peoples of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria is avoided.
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Full quote:
Corbyn "Why is there one rule for big multinational companies and another for small businesses and self-employed workers?"
But gesturing to Mr Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, the PM ranted: "The idea that those two right honourable gentlemen could stand up to anyone in this regard is laughable.
"Look at the record over the last week. They met with the unions and they gave them flying pickets. They met with the Argentinians and gave them the Falkland islands.
"They met with a bunch of migrants in Calais and they said they could all come to Britain."
"The only people they never stand up for are the British people and hard working tax payers."
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Is that not so far from the situation of the German people under Hitler? A middle class who were mostly well off, comfortable, employed and enjoying a raised standard of living......... stand by whilst atrocities are committed by their Government, which is using their tax contributions to do this?
The 'vibe' David Cameron gives off - as the mask slips - is pure malice in that rant. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last. It is what it is.
And we are part of it. Whether we like it or not. It is there.
click on the image to expand it....
Our acclaimed 'civilisation' is found to be a veneer, rather than a strong spine.
G4S, bullies, power, wealth and children. Does it have to be this way?
I watched in growing anger, horror and despair, the BBC Panorama program on abuse within a Children's Prison, run by G4S, who have already been subject to a number of such investigations, who have 'investigated' themselves, fired the named abusers, and yet the pattern repeats....
The entire matter is utterly appalling. There should be widespread unrelenting, public anger and outrage at this abuse of the children, of our trust and our taxes.
There should be changes made, from top to bottom, and prison sentences handed down for all involved, with suspended sentences for those who turned a blind eye or who failed in their fiduciary duty to deal with the matter in the strongest terms.
"BBC Panorama goes undercover to expose harrowing evidence
of children and young people being hurt and threatened by custody
officers who are supposed to protect them.
Secret filming at a
privately run youth prison, paid more than £10m in 2015 by the
government to provide high-quality education and to rehabilitate some of
the most vulnerable youngsters in the prison system, reveals some
officers mistreating their charges and many more tolerating the
behaviour or even helping to cover it up."
1. People who are employed in these places should be professionals, with training in conflict resolution, NVC, psycho social studies, counselling and risk assessment, as well as being adept in de-escalating violence. This of course would demand that they pay staff well, ensure that a constant training process is in place, and that adequate oversight is maintained on what happens within these institutions.
2. The fact that G4S has been repeatedly exposed for abuse, and that nothing major has changed, suggests that their primary concern is with profitability above and beyond the needs of the children. That is 100% unacceptable.
3. The fact that staff who witness this abuse 'tolerate the
behaviour or even help to cover it up." suggests to me that there is a culture of abuse that is institutionalised, that is integrated, in much the same manner as the abuse of Christian clerics in Schools, Reformatories, Orphanages..... and that the hierarchy within G4S will behave as the Vatican has - to manage the crisis so that they remain in power, rather than address the culture openly, honestly in order to make changes that are obviously very much needed.
4. The matter feeds into my last post about bullying and our political power hierarchy.
5. There are alternatives.... and this short video outlines the kinds of trainings and expertise G4S and anyone who works with troubled children ought to be engaging with.
This is written as a spoken word piece, an angry poem about all of this..
G four S Gulags For Stash
G Four S
Employs bullies to save cash
Low paid, untrained in empathy, unrestrained,
Trained in restraining wounded children.
Violence upon violence, cruelty for profit,
Cover-ups and thieves in my Government.
Stealing my taxes, to concentrate power. "I can't breathe, I can't breathe, You're choking me!"
G four S
Gulags For Stash
G Four S
Employs bullies to save cash
Paul Cook is appalled, he is playing the ball,
Kicking this one into touch, "we will investigate ourselves."
He chose to employ bullies on the cheap,
To ensure the profits that G4S shareholders keep.
Stealing our taxes, to concentrate power.
"I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry, I love your football team!"
G four S
Gulags For Stash
G Four S
Employs bullies to save cash
The Military Chiefs deplore the claims of the abused,
and let a few troops bear the cost of their ruse,
Their crimes are recorded yet not addressed,
Because the Military is an instrument of State Oppression.
When will we learn the lesson?
They are stealing our taxes, to concentrate power.
"You ain't no helper Bruv! You're a bully!"
G four S
Gulags For Stash
G Four S
Employs bullies to save cash
The children need support, they need all the help they can get
yet in a prison complex they are hidden, so that society forgets
That the symptoms of oppression are everywhere to see,
let’s blame the children and the hierarchy is free.
to steal our taxes, to concentrate power.
G four S
Gulags For Stash
G Four S
Employs bullies to save cash
In Foster Homes, State Homes, Family Homes it happens
Bullies operate a system of abuse, and in offices and media,
In prisons and detention pens, and on remand too
the bullies are permitted to do what they do.
"You ain't no trainer, Bruv!"
Be a team member, do not blow the whistle,
Turn a blind eye, and maintain your income stream.
Turn a blind eye and even the family can seem to outsiders
to be a safe place, where traditional values reign…
That refusal to acknowledge the very real pain,
ensures that the cycles are repeated, again and again!
"David Cameron's opinion is that 'parents need to be taught how to discipline their children', rather than be helped to learn empathy, to heal themselves and their children and ultimately Society....."
It is code for the Rulers true concern!
G four S
Gulags For Stash
G Four S
Employs bullies to save cash
Fuck that shit!
"All hearts shrink before violence, all fists clench for their friends."
If one is to discuss politics, then one has to start with the subject of bullying.
The careful avoidance of that issue protects the system of institutionalised bullying that has emerged over time. Such discussions are futile.
Unless we talk about bullying as the core of Political and Economic Power as we know it today, and attempt to understand the dynamic of bullying and it's origins, and then examine how best to prevent such bullying, we are going nowhere.
Left, right, communism, neoliberalism, facism, green whatever......
Talk about those once the matter of bullying has been resolved, then we might be getting somewhere that is of real and lasting value.
These my thoughts on some of the political issues I believe to be critical in the next year and beyond.
There's much more detail out there than I can indicate here, and I am attempting to reveal a thread that I think is the backbone of the system of hierarchical violence, and thus crucial to it's continuation, and therefore a vulnerability to be leveraged.
Equality? Feminism?
The issue needs clarification.
'Equality' means what exactly?
How does it stand for a single mother on low income?
How does it stand for a young muslim teen, facing 'terrorism'?
How does it stand for a refugee?
How does it stand for a child? An elder? A disabled person?
How does it stand for a civilian caught in the cross fire of war?
As it stands, it seems that for official feminism, that it means 'behaving the same as the men doing the job, and getting the same pay'. And the argument is about the pay scale, rather than what the job itself is and what it's effects are.
Which is all about conformity, rather than diversity. The job is protected. It WILL get done.
Feminism, at root, is about the fact that any embodied wisdom and experience of being a woman in the current dominant cultural setting is set aside in matters of Governance, social organisation, spirituality, economics and power.
Implicit in that is access the embodied wisdom and experience of being a man in the current dominant cultural setting is also limited, controlled, determined by 'social mores' which are artifacts rather than biological absolutes.
Love is a biological absolute, for us humans and many other species.... Power is a operational absolute for those who Rule.
Good governance is another matter.
We need to understand the distinction.
Name the behaviour. Name the outcome.
Punishment, spanking and violence.
It's all about adult power, powerlessness and displaced anger.
The adults submit to a violent hierarchy and lose something of the soul, and this hurts, and hurt that remains unresolved often turns to anger, and in time to rage. It is not safe to vent that anger at authority, so it leaks out. Irritations that lead to outbursts of violence.
It has to be justified, or else the question arises : 'Why am I SO angry?' and that exposes the individual to his or her deep sense of loss, though they have to see through the rage first to get to that. So not an easy ask. That’s quite a lot of stress for many, many people.
As if in compensation millions of people read and consume the Daily Mail, The Guardian, watch the TV, vote for 'traditional democracy', get a mortgage and repeat what little they have been spun from all of that as 'news', but the sense of safety is tenuous.
There is a process whereby children are the recipients of parents neuroses, which is largely unwitting, inn intended, and this then is further complicated and obscured by the effects of sophisticated marketing and propaganda, which targets those unresolved emotions, enervating them, deliberately, and people wonder why some children experience difficulties? Or become adults with serious issues?
And factor in if a child grows up in a war zone, or a place of constant violence? What kind of future is that experience preparing the child for?
And that is what it comes down to with slapping and any violence by adults perpetrated against children. It has a purpose, an outcome that is valued by those Institutions which exercise power over populations, and which all to readily stoop to violence to maintain and project their power.
And it’s all 100% avoidable. There is nothing inevitable about the levels of violence we are seeing throughout the dominant culture.
There is hope because the sciences are clear on this.
Saudi Arabia and the UN Commission on Human Rights.
A State that is operating a lethal punitive code that is determined by Wahhabist Religious ideology, and which undermines all concepts of Human Rights Legislation and is unquestionably cruel and barbaric CANNOT participate as a leader in a Human Rights Forum without undermining the basis of that forum.
Obviously!
Likewise a state that is prosecuting a lethal war that is determined by Economic and political ideology, and which undermines all concepts of Human Rights Legislation and is unquestionably cruel and barbaric CANNOT participate as a leader in a Human Rights Forum without undermining the basis of that forum. Which excludes The UK, the USA and others…
Bullies and Liberation.
When confronting any bully the narrative is the harm they are causing and how to stop it, nothing else matters.
Once that is done, then the finer details can be worked on
What the bully wears, believes in or justifies is irrelevant.
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that those who 'traditionally ' hold power do all they can to retain, enhance and project that power and that they need our money to do that.
Good Question!
So we are taught that "love of money is the root of all evil."
I wondered why?
And this is what I came up with.
Because the money is all about the power - without the money, OUR MONEY, they could not do what they do.
Their pretensions to power would be impossible with the money.
Better that a vast majority of people believe in the greed as a motivator, than become aware of the kind of human psychology that seeks power above all else, and is willing to use extreme violence, that is grooming us for our compliance, which power needs.
The issue is power vs healthy relationships that nurture.
When one looks into modern endocrinology, for example, which can now describe the differences between a healthy functioning endocrine system and one that has suffered shock or is dysfunctional in some manner and plot a correlation with the health of the individual,we begin to see something else as well.
This evidence suggests that a healthy state of empathic, autonomous, connected extended family into community relationship is the base line of optimal human biological health.
That is when the hormonal cascading within the human being is working at its optimal state. The specific chemical interactions, messaging, outcomes of healthy functioning are known.
This basically happy state is the baseline of optimal human biological health, for another reason : it contains within that the ability to deal with sudden shocks, occasional illnesses, accidents and direct threats in productive, creative and healing ways. We live in a dynamic bio-space, the surface of Earth.We are elastic, we must flow with regard to those dynamics, or we make life more difficult and more complicated for ourselves.
Conditions are always, always, moving.
There has to be room for mood variation, for sadness and anger, rage and fear.
What we find is that space, that recovery ability is much reduced if stressors become chronic, unending, inevitable. Then we see the breakdown of endocrine system function, along with a host of other symptoms.
In other words we are already perfectly adapted for Peace, and like all organisms, we need a nurturant environment as Mothers, infants and children to develop those qualities through experience, into adulthood.
We are not adapted for chronic stress. I think that is made rather obvious by the massive size of the NHS and the relative health of our Society, both physically and psychologically.
Indeed there are no organisms that we know of that are adapted TO chronic stress.
Trolls in the Public Domain - a healthy approach to a common problem.
Be it muslim people, christians, jews, germans, disabled on benefits, unemployed, out of favour foreign leaders or attention seeking celebrities, facists, anti-facists, conspiracy theorists, covert agents, or mad, angry, frustrated, desperate people, when ad hominems are deployed in the media, it's a mirror of 19th Public School Boy behaviour, hazing, joshing with intent, pecking orders, corporal punishment for the mind, etc ......
And with actual military power in the hands of the Governing bullies, (political realism does not forget that aspect of power) that makes things a little more complicated.
For everybody. It's a bio-psyche-social issue.
When trolling infiltrates political and policy discussions,matters of ethics, war and corruption, everybody loses. We are all dehumanised by trolling it is nasty, agressive, disturbing behaviour and profoundly immature.
Nonetheless......
Trolling is a form of bullying, it is a tactic of intentional emotional abuse and it is ultimately a weakness.. one has to understands that, and utilise it.
When there is no viable substance to the ad hominems, no mention or rational discussion of the policies, the principles, the ethics or the corruption. Just the insult. That is all useless information. The only information contained in such assaults is that the writer is a bully. That's ALL it is.
And how best to deal with trolls? How do you undermine the bully?
This is my take on this. This is how I say 'No!'. and how I try to turn it onto a 'Yes!'.
I ignore the insult and treat it as a bit of information; depersonalise it. I do not let it get to me. It's all in the bullies head. All over his keyboard.
Then, I respond if I wish to engage, and use the incident by identifying the bullying as such, point out that it is a known and rather obvious tactic that to maintain a false narrative in the face of facts by disrupting a discussion and initiating or antagonising an aggressive argument to derail the discussion. I then dismiss that as immature behaviour, in polite terms, of course.
"It ain't working, Buddy! These fish are not biting on that bait!"
... and then I attempt to reframe the narrative, articulate the policy, the principle, the ethic in the context of all the evidence available, and bring it back on subject, and suggest the resolution of the matter.
And I ensure that I keep each expression as clear as I can, irrespective of the reaction.
It's never just the few who are writing, it's all those who also read, and observe the discourse.
Amongst the readers who read that will be some who are on the edge of understanding and who will learn from this. Others will find reassurance. Some will be enlightened.
That way I USE the troll to clarify the issue, in public, for the benefit of all. Call it performance art, call it a waste of time, call it what you will.
I do it without reacting to the insult, or being drained by it.
I learned the hard way, slowly.
I aspire to do it with an optimally functioning endocrine system, to do it with LOVE!
And it doesn't always work.
We must lead.
We have to lead.
We have to become the directors of Government, local and national, by doing both we become truly international.
I call for The Resolution.
Not a revolution, not a repetition of a cycle from a fixed point. A resolution of the problems that are resolvable, that are problems in human relationships, that are subject to choice, volition - these are all resolvable matters.
I pray for the healthy resolution of conflict, pollution, corruption, bullying. That is where I am headed. A healthy humane society. We have been there before and it was good. We have it in us.
And when I write the word 'we', I am thinking of many cultures, languages, accents, shades and this includes all the decent people, whatever our belief systems and experiences are, we are good people who can work across diversity to find the common humanity in all matters, and we must engage .... the genuine lovers of life must unite as a Governing force. It's a miracle that we still retain that immense humanity in the face of what we are born into, what we are presented with.
Let's use that miracle.
From the grassroots, from the bacterial populations within our guts that make our lives possible, from the deepest of our humanity, the bottom of what you might call my soul, as a biological species standing for itself.
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive.
However, the facts are that we are born into a Hierarchically Violent Power System that consistently disrupts this mandate. It suggest our mandate is to dominate, conquer and alter the living world to meet the needs of 'Civilisation', by which it means maintaining the distal social and material power over all.
Because the conditioning by the behaviour of Distal Power and the outcomes of
that behaviour are ubiquitous, everywhere we turn we face the adverse outcomes, the chronic stress induced upon parenting, fathering and mothering, is ever present.
The grooming of children and electorates by Power
Institutions is constant. The threat of destitution and war ever present. No child left behind. No tribe left untouched.
Thus the recent media led discussions about the 'Tax on Tampons as a Luxury' did not bring up this: that
women and men learn or are taught to hate menstruation, to relate to menstruation as something disgusting, a taboo subject. We are taught to dislike a key aspect of the way the human body functions, to distance from the embodied wisdom of our creative
response ability in nurturing life itself.
That men and women internalise
the 'rules' of the social and political systems into which we are born, in order to sit within them is obvious. And that reliance on external definitions of who we are and what is truly healthy is what generates an internal conflict, which in turn leads to a subtle self loathing and an undermining of the natural emergent self.
From flags to parades, from statist identity to religion the internalisation is obvious to me, and many of us. It happens easily as children assume the world they grow into is normality, naturally enough. If the social material constructs and the biological world are not congruent, then that can become a problem.
Nurturing life is our primary biological mandate.
Some people feel I go too far.
Obviously, I do not.
I
see and understand what is called 'rape culture' aka misogyny as part of the same overall cultural
power dynamic of hierarchy of resource and power that undermines natural parenting, fathering and mothering. I understand this as a dynamic that disrupts the evolved optimally healthy child bonding attachment processes mandated by our very biology
as the basis of long term psychological and physical health.
I understand that any system that treats
children as economic units to be conditioned, bodies to be trained and constrained for the work
place to serve the economy, and that launches war as a policy
enforcement tool is a toxic system.
I can defend my position with scientifically examined evidence, insight, compassion and clarity.... and I will every time.
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive.
“women are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the
world’s work, including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the
primary carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per cent of UK families the
primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of
austerity cuts have targeted women – that is, carers and those we
care for. While the 1 per cent more than doubled their income in the last 10
years, and the arms trade has grown by 22 per cent, one billion children
worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in the UK and 176,565 surviving on food
banks. Society cannot survive without caring, yet carers are undermined not
supported.” She is 100% correct. Nina devotes her time and energy into supporting women who have been abused, traumatised, harmed and maimed in seeking justice through the courts.
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive.
and Selma James, in an article the Guardian commissioned, yet did not publish.
"It is
women who have been the target of every attack on the welfare state.
It’s not news that jobs women have lost were often waged service and
caring work, and that women as unwaged carers have been deprived of the
services they need to do their job. What job? Why, reproducing the
human race. How did that get sidelined? Austerity attacks carers first
of all. In 90% of families the primary carer is a woman. Austerity is
sexist.
We have got used to measuring sexism by lack of female access to the
commanding heights of the economy and politics, that is, by the very few
women realising their personal ambition. Thus we may not recognise
pervasive and even life-threatening sexism when it hits us.
Yvette
Cooper, a contender for Labour’s leadership wants the party of labourers
to prioritise women’s capability for ‘the top jobs’. As Secretary of
State for Work and Pensions she brought in the Welfare Reform Act 2009
which abolished Income Support and extended Labour’s infamous Work
Capability Assessment for sick and disabled people.
The money that
recognised unwaged caring work, enabled single mothers to leave violent
men, and allowed disabled people to live independent lives, is largely
gone or under threat. No one knows how many disabled people have died
as a result: the government refuses to publish the figures.
Women have been the prime targets of all three austerity parties
since it is caring they’re attacking. Women are ‘workless’ according to
Tony Blair and his ‘Babes’ unless we do what men are supposed to do, go
out to work – not for the top jobs but the zero-hour contracts at the
bottom."
and
"Jeremy Corbyn offers women 50 per cent of his shadow cabinet, but
with anti-sexist policies, including not only free childcare but the
‘recognition and valuing’ of women’s unremunerated caring work. Women
coming in on a rising popular tide, could build on that for the rest of
us – we could call them to account on the basis of this programme.
We are told that if Corbyn wins, Labour won’t be electable.
Anti-austerity not calls for independence won the SNP its 56 MPs.
The
maiden speech of Mhairi Black made it clear that in following
anti-austerity she did not leave Labour; Labour left her. It is a kind
of political corruption that assumes that his popularity augurs badly
for electability."
Nurturing life is our primary biological directive. And it depends utterly upon healthy, honest, nurturing relationships at all levels of our Society.Any abuse of power is an intentional act, a corruption of our relationships that will pollute and diminish our lives, our entire social system.
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
women
are still the poorer sex, doing two-thirds of the world’s work,
including growing most of their families’ food. We remain the primary
carers everywhere: for children and for sick, disabled and elderly
people, within the family and outside, in war as in peace. In 90 per
cent of UK families the primary carer is a woman. Seventy-nine per cent of austerity cuts have targeted women – that
is, carers and those we care for. While the 1 per cent more than
doubled their income in the last 10 years, and the arms trade has grown
by 22 per cent, one billion children worldwide live in poverty, 3.7m in
the UK and 176,565 surviving on food banks. Society cannot survive
without caring, yet carers are undermined not supported. - See more at:
http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2015/11/why-dont-we-just-pay-a-living-wage-to-mothers-and-other-carers/15383#sthash.nrgkTnJm.dpuf
Do not "calm down, dear!"
This matter is way to central to our lives and the lives of our children's children, to whom we, the adult worlds, owes a profound and ultimately liberating, nourishing responsibility.
Remember, remember the 5th of November, then Remembrance Sunday.
It ought to be grief, horror and outrage rather than Nationalism and Celebration of Sacrifice. Guy Fawkes was Terrorist, a Catholic Jihadist. Tony Blair is a Catholic Jihadist. Both liars and psychopaths.
Joe Glenton speaks of war from direct experience and reflection. Watch this and forget about my polemic. really.
The theme of violence and the State's appropriation of 'our violence is a patriotic and civilising violence' and therefore moral, whereas the violence of 'our enemies' is always barbaric, primitive, dysfunctional and amoral.
What history tells us is that when a movement emerges within any population that seeks to strike parity between the State and the Grass roots of society, the poor, the vulnerable, the working for a living, the State introduces and escalates violence on all sides.
Northern Ireland, a different perspective.
In Northern Ireland, the Civil Rights movement was less a Catholic or Independence phenomenon than it was a civil rights awareness phenomenon that emerged as a direct result of the Civil Rights movements in the US, from African Americans to Women and Children's rights.... a matter of common decency and humane respect.
The State perceived this as a threat, rather than the healing it was offering.
The UK State infiltrated violent militia on all sides, and it's agents escalated the violence, and this put the matter of Civil Rights to one side, and allowed the UK State to alter the discourse, to make it about Irish Nationalism vs Unionism.... that was a strategic tactic.
It was already in practice in Yemen, in Korea and Vietnam, in the Philippines and many South American countries, in Africa and Australia and Canada, in Russia and China, across the Middle East.
Remember, remember.
So remember, remember the realities - that State violence, in the competing powers perspective, is the primary source of warfare, of trauma, of inter-generational psychological and emotional dysfunction and the preservation of mass poverty (war impoverishes all but the makers of the tools of war).
The Monarchy and the State (Established Power) as we know it is altering the climate of human relationships in the most adverse ways, and has been doing so for thousands of years - that 'competition' is psychopathic, is a pathology, an illness, a self inflicted disease state and they continually make great efforts to indoctrinate their home populations into accepting war as part and parcel of human nature. It's not. It's a cultural distortion, born of hierarchies of violence.
Spot the difference?
I'd like to see THAT climate change addressed as part of the issue of 'Climate Change'. - I think that success in the former would help the latter, whereas failure in the former ensures the latter will not be dealt with.
Remember, remember. Think, question, analyse, reflect and grow. Or not.
Heroes
Heroes? The troops?
They would not call themselves heroes.
1. They are trained to be that way - to remain competent under fire, so they can better protect each other, and be willing and capable of killing the enemy. Iraq was not a matter of defence, it was a matter of offence.
2. Calling them heroic is part of how the conditioning, the acceptance
of military violence is maintained. It masks the reality of applied
organised violence. It papers over the reality of shredded limbs, displaced peoples, torture, rape, poison, mass destruction, industrialised killing, indoctrination and bullying, which is what war really is.
3. They never use the word themselves, and not out of humility - rather they know what violence is like, and that it is not heroic. Yes, there are times when courage is shown. Sometimes those who desert are the bravest.
Soldiers are human beings who have been conditioned, lied to, manipulated and placed in harms way. As soon as the violence starts, they have to take action. They have no choice if they wish to survive.
To truly support the troops, we do not need to wave flags as they depart, we need to prevent that departure and that entail breaking the spell The State/Established Power casts over the population, destroying the propaganda with logic, evidence, empathy, kindness and determination.
And that means honesty, truth, the evidence over opinion, ideology and spin.
Prevention
For
me, this is the issue : the matter of the prevention of the creation of
yet more veterans. It matters more now than ever, in as much as the
past few decades we have allowed the Government of the UK to initiate
and escalate wars and violence across the Middle East.
Whilst preciously little effort was put into prevention, or conflict resolution.
The logic of Powers competing for Hegemony and access to 'resources' still dominates politics.
This is insane, it is pathological and as we see, lethal.
How can it stand?
The
hypocrisy is rank, the stench of dying by violence is blanked out, and
we are opiated, sedated and disempowered intentionally so that the
supply of potential candidates for combat veteranship is maintained.
Wear
a Poppy. And if you mean it, then act to stop your Government from using
War as a policy enforcement tool. And stop private companies from
making profits from war.
Halloween
I don't celebrate Hallowe'en in such fashion as is current 'fashionable' : it is largely a post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version of much older shamanic practices, where the practice was to engage with and feel a part of and honour the ancestry, that long, long line of experience and living, a line of nurturing experience within which in the older egalitarian societies placed themselves in their present and looked to how they could nurture the futures ahead of them, as their ancestors did. To draw on that wisdom.
Fully conscious. Fully present. Fully mature.
The post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version revolves around the gargoyle, the fear of the dead, the fear of 'bad spirits' and bears no sense of one's responsibility to the future, nor does it carry forwards the example of the past as a role model.
It's shite, trite and painfully insulting to the ancestry and the future children....
The Celts were violent hierarchies, just as the Romans were, so the transition was all too easy an assimilation.
I have practiced the call to the ancestry, the call to the future, to place myself fully in the present, and have been practicing this for over 2 decades.
I am a bag of bacteria, an aboriginal humane being and I reject the culture of the bully in every aspect, and I embrace the culture of nurture because it is that culture that creates the very possibility of a life of great beauty without the need for 'additives' or luxuries, power or grandiose monuments.
Remembrance.
This is another reason I experience deep distaste, a disgust with the various War Dead Remembrance Ceremonies of the 'good and the great', the pomp and circumstance, and the political abuse of people's genuine concern for the dead, the maimed, the refugees, the sufferings of war.
For all we claim, we have done nothing to undermine the Governments willingness to use War as a policy enforcement tool. Successive Governments have piled more dead upon dead, created yet more refugees, maimed and traumatised countless innocent, beautiful human souls and destroyed the shared resources of many varied and functional living communities, rendering them un-inhabitable.
There can be no peace, no equality without empathy. Empathy for the
children, the mothers, the fathers, the civilians who are forced to flee
for their lives.
Empathy for those children whose best option appears to them to be to
enlist in a State Military or a street gang, or a terrorist militia....
And empathy as a means to understanding the mind of that kind of power
that rules, the social conditioning of that power that rules rather than
governs. That too.
What I mean is that we must develop an accurate, evidence based understanding of those who bully, who abuse their power and we must understand their psychology and their techniques .
Know the mind of those who would call YOU
an enemy of the State because you desire and aspire towards a State that
nurtures peace, community, egalitarianism, justice and kindness.
The Poppy
The people who wear the Poppy and hold Power.... are not the same as
the people who wear poppies to commemorate and remember those who died of State induced Violence, out of sadness and regret, but are similar to those who celebrate the
'victory' of War, the 'sacrifice' of millions of people, the 'freedom won' .... because they
have been taught to think that the myth of being slaughtered 'for
freedom' is heroic, that it was a freely entered into choice of those
who were slaughtered.
It was not.
No civilian population ever chose war against other civilians. The majority of troops did not choose war. A majority were conscripts, in one way or another because it is always the leaders, the political power players who chose war. They chose but do not participate, do not venture near any danger, do not share the burden of blood, guts, tears.
We ordinary folk are and were subjected to intense social conditioning designed to serve
the needs of Power above all else, and so we bought and are buying the lies, we
fought and died, and we will will continue to do so, and it was and is all needless waste, 100% avoidable and it is all predatory abuse.
The troops followed orders that were and are insanely incompetent. The troops in Afghanistan followed orders that were insanely incompetent. There is ample evidence of this.
The Poppy as a symbol was first used to commemorate the lives lost, to accentuate the needlessness of such mass death by violence, to urge a move away from such massive slaughter of both troops and civilians.... but it has been co-opted.
Our political leaders are intent on grooming us, on manipulating information and situations so that they can pursue war as a policy tool. Bearing in mind that there is a massive industry that makes immense profits from that slaughter. A massive industry that funds many of our leading politicians, directly and indirectly.
They who are in power who wear the red poppy, who celebrate 'sacrifice', who lie and cheat and bully, are a danger to the grass roots of humanity.
