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.
Sometime tomorrow, being that I live in London (adjust according to your current location, situation) I may well be hit by a red bus.
Between now and that possible moment, I am assuredly iving, my experience, my life on my terms alone. I am a responsible humane being.
So go fuck yerselves if you want to tell me what to think........
The expletive, if you'll excuse, and the directive being directed towards those who seek to dissuade myself or any others, at any stage of their life, of the core power and authority, and of a rightfull awareness of their ones feelings, insights and wisdom.
That way I can look at behaviour and results, and discern that proverbial by-product of bovine digestion, ye shite of the great bull!
And act accordingly.
At least I know it's unlikely I'll get hit by a routemaster! Small Victories.
A really revealing study of the history of compulsory state education, it's roots and founding intent, an intent that has been disguised to most people, hidden in plain view is John Taylor Gattos "An underground History of American State Education"".
it is accessible on-line.
full of well researched and referenced information on the historical links between business and politics with education as the fundamental agent of state control, in a steeply heirarchical structure of power.
Explores the psychology of schooling, and demonstrates the innate immutability and thus the toxicity of the 'system' in the light what we know of how children really learn.
Proposes ways to build education that helps children develop self reliance, interdependence, a healthy sense of self in what they are most interested in.
I am getting ready for the summer festival season, have a new tent, new boots, old hats and a delight in the weather whatever she throws at us.
The 'news' is replete with crises, war and taxation ... and no solutions in sight.
One thing is sure - all those who have a mortgage, or debts to bankers, who pay taxes and vote have been hoodwinked........and are deeply complicit, even if in denial. Voting only encourages the bastards!
So here's a fantastic article which I came across that pretty much removes wool from eyes, so to speak.
Check it out, you will learn much. Or you could ignore it, though if you're on my list, that's unlikely!
The food crisis is manufactured, that much is certain, as is the war against terror (know as TWAT!).....
Over the next year or two please we all need to learn as much as we can about growing food, what weeds are good to eat and how to live with simplicity...
Those that know this kind of stuff will be of use to those that do not......
Looking around me I see nature surging with growth, and lots of it is edible.... for example, did you know that if you chew grasses, and spit the mush out (cellulose is hard to digest - cows have 4 stomachs for to digest it) you get all the sugars and proteins and other goodies.....
though best to avoid land that has been sprayed or fertilised with agrochemicals!
As I read through it I found myself makings these following comments - they are in italics.
This is what I think.
What do you think? Lets be honest here.
Human rights 'apply to UK troops'
(bbc headline!)
Human rights laws can be applied to British troops even in combat, a High Court judge has ruled . Duh!
The landmark judgement came in a test case relating to the death of Scottish soldier Pte Jason Smith in Iraq.
Mr Justice Collins said sending soldiers into action without proper kit could breach human rights. Ministers are appealing against the ruling.
What about the human rights of those caught in the crossfire?
What kind of kit would the court estimate would be 'poper' for a woman with three children, and two grandparents caught in the crossfire?
Whose responsibility is it to provide that kit?
The court also ruled families of those killed in conflict should get legal aid and access to military documents.
Ditto…
The judgement came during a request for military inquest guidelines in the case of Pte Smith, 32, from Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, who died of heatstroke in Iraq in 2003.
Legal defeat
Moral Victory?
Phyrric Victory!
Lawyers for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had argued it was impossible to give soldiers in combat situations the benefits of the Human Rights Act.
But Mr Justice Collins said that although a duty of care could not be expected in combat, troops did not lose all protection.
So give them proper kit? Still getting shot at! And shooting back! Still murder! Still illegal!
It's an illegal war of aggression!
m8!
For example, sending a soldier out on patrol with defective equipment might be a breach of Article 2 of the Human Rights Act - the right to life, which in the event of death requires an independent inquiry.
Many believe the judgement will make it easier for the families of those injured or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to claim for compensation.
Is it really that hard?
The decision was a legal defeat for Defence Secretary Des Browne who also had his attempt to ban coroners from using critical phrases such as "serious failure" rejected.
It is! You would sell your mothers soul for whateva!
Jocelyn Cockburn, the solicitor for Pte Smith's family, said the ruling meant British soldiers sent abroad would "have the same human rights as any other British citizens and must be properly equipped when sent into battle".
Hmmmmmmmm …. aren't human rights applicable to ALL nationalities, equally and without favour?
Duh!
Hello?
Catherine Smith, Pte Smith's mother, welcomed the decision and said she hoped other families would now not have to struggle in the same way she did to find out how their loved ones died.
"It was questions upon questions that we couldn't get - we couldn't get any information at all. And I think that's wrong. We should've had disclosure."
She's right, of course. And braver , so much more committed to just cause than many in parliament, in that she seeks to face down the Government and the MOD! She is their equal in every way. Each of us is.
'Common sense'
Diane Dernie, the mother of L/Bombadier Ben Parkinson, from Yorkshire, who was injured in an explosion in Afghanistan last year, told the BBC the decision was "absolute common sense".
Soldiers Human Rights -Tragic Oxymoron!
Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti said it was now clear it was "not just the military covenant that protects our forces all over the world".
"Their fundamental right to dignity and fair treatment must be safeguarded as well."
As well as what, might I ask?
Their right to murder people?
Their right to follow illegal orders?
Their right to NOT follow illegal orders?
... or is that a duty, under the Law?
But shadow(y) defence(sive) secretary Liam Fox said it should not have taken a court decision for ministers to realise they had "a responsibility and a moral obligation" to ensure troops were the "best trained and best equipped in the world".
Human Rights? 'Best' trained killers? 'Best' weapons of mass destruction? This is insane!
Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Nick Harvey described the ruling as a "shattering ruling for Des Browne" and said he hoped it would "wake the government up" to equipment shortages. HAVE YOUR SAY
I must be at the wrong meeting!
The government has a moral obligation to equip those it sends into battle on our behalf properly Matt Hennessy, London Send us your comments
Those in government, being of able body, and unmarried have a moral obligation to equip themselves appropriately and go fight the fuckin' wars themselves.
However, Mr Browne told the BBC his department had come "a long way" in response to "the changing environment both in Iraq and Afghanistan" regarding equipment.
So That's all right then! You guys are on it! Yay! LMAO!
"So this is criticism which is dated criticism from a different time. It is not applicable to the troops that are presently deployed."
Well that's nice to hear! Although ithe courts decision is a precedent! Well, OK then, possibly….
He confirmed the MoD would be appealing against the ruling that sending British soldiers into battle with defective equipment could breach human rights.
You What? Appeal? Didn't you hear the man? You really want to send young men to me maimed, traumatised, even to their deaths, men you have asked to do your dirty work for you?
You Absolute Tosser! And all who like you see fit to use legal instruments applied to mitigate murder, as opposed to banning it outright. Ist that it?
On the judge's rejection of the government's bid to stop coroners using critical language, the MoD said it had never attempted to prevent coroners from "undertaking independent investigations and making their findings public".
You quibble over wording when peoples lives are destroyed by decision that you make and their consequences.
Damn! I got taken in again, for a moment I had lost the sight of all the civilians who are the majority of casualties, across all three spectra - psychological trauma, maiming, death not to mention the collapse of society, for a moment I was really only concerned about the soldiers human rights.
Just stop the bloody war and start to make reparations, dude! It's our money. We WANT YOU TO DO THIS!
Stop the war.
....and... geuss what?
Brownie Boy
....... is NOT
..... really
..... listening!
So hit him, and all the civilian and corporate war makers where it hurts - in the pocket, to do this we need to build communities everywhere, that is talk to each other and break the spell of the denial- we all need to learn to grow food, and start to withold our taxes that we who do pay taxes, pay to central government.....and this is legaly sound and cannot be prosecuted under any law because it is merely upholding the Law, both National and International..it is do-able..... and if done....... then very soon after it will bring the wars to a close.
Then it won't matter if they don't listen. They will stand trial.
People must be mature ebough to accept the responsibility of taking any and all possible legal action that leads to stopping thes wars dead in their tracks.
The Olympic protests are great! They show the hypocrisy of all current model of Governance for what it is! Well done those who disrupt the flames progress around the globe!
Many in the Wests Media are currently pointing the finger at the Chinese Government, and many 'pundits' are commenting on China's suppression of Tibet, asking questions about China's readiness to 'enter the fold' of Democracies. They also ask questions about the apparent inability of various police forces to suppress the protesters and make comments on the 'disruption' and 'bad publicity' that the organisers, the IOC, are having to 'deal' with.
Yet few of them are realising that there are three other fingers pointing right back at themselves, and that to those who have the eyes to see, it is blindingly obvious (a neat oxymoron, if ever there was one) that those who on one hand engage in Wars of Aggression, those who export pollution to other countries to maintain the illusion of clean technologies in their own countries, those who exercise power over people rather than power for the people as standard behaviour are in no place to criticise others whose practices they supposedly abhor.
Finger One : There is the cogent fact that the West has exported almost all of it's toxic polluting manufacturing processes to China, where child labour and near as damnit indentured labour exist as standard fare for the majority, in particular those who come from the countryside...
On this our pundits remain silent. In fact most of the products they are wearing, using and consuming are made in China.
Finger Two : Furthermore, our own Governments are engaged in illegal wars of aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and possibly in other places under covert operations..... and this is something they have always done, it is nothing new. It is our history.
Another aspect of the Olympics, though hardly worth a finger (other than in the proverbial) is the drug taking that is rife! Both amongst the athletes (performance enhancing) and those who design and build the facades, the edifices of greed, the modern day coliseums. I am sure it takes a lot of cocaine to set up the great big deals and make the 'cool' designs (most of which are truly dreadful - the London Logo being but one example!) - hubris and greed, as ever bedmates!
The survival of the fittest is a meme that Empire spreads in order to provide manure for it's agenda, and it is proven to be so far wide of the mark that it is purely by virtue of the conditioning process we have all been subjected to that it is ever discussed in an serious terms.
Bio-diversity Science tells us what the ancients knew well, because they lived on the land, with the land and saw themselves as being of the land - they knew that all nature is a life-giving co-operative, a vast altruistic interaction that provides everything within it what it needs to grow to full potential.
Finger Three : Compare that with Western Civilisation, which chews up everything it meets, spits out what is of no use either to itself or any other life form, and continues to grow, to expand, to dominate all other ways of living. Western Civilisation, being the civilisation of city states, eats up the natural resources and converts them into toxins. For what?
For profit, for greed and for power over others. All the symptoms of a profound, abysmal loss of identity, a deep sense of inadequacy and thus a fatal misunderstanding of the nature and great gift of life.
Here's my video fro my song "The Olympics are Here"
Enjoy is hardly the word, but if you have a car with a good sound system, put the song on yer player and open the windows, drive slowly and play it LOUD!
