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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
Kindest regards

Cornilius

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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
Corneilius

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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

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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

A People's Complaint, on April 1st 2022

image by Cold War Steve

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. 
Kindest regards

Corneilius

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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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Letter : When will we workers cease our support for militarism? Wars are workers pointing guns at each other, as commanded by oligarchies.

It is clear that the vast majority of us 'ordinary' people, the workers, who live all across this Earth are decent, loving and vulnerable people, who have no interest in war, no desire to wage war, no sense of other ordinary people as a lethal enemy. This is not the case when it comes to States.

It's clear the war visited upon Ukraine by Russia is the Crime of Aggression, the supreme War Crime, and that Russia has no case whatsoever for this invasion. The Russian Military action is an abomination, it is disgusting, a horrific act of unrelenting cruelty and evil.

Indeed, there are no legal justifications for any invasion of any kind cross internationally agreed borders. All such invasions are War Crimes, barring a military action mandated by unanimous vote of the United Nations - and to date, no such mandate has ever been granted.

It is also clear that this horror is one more war in a series of similar wars. The ideal of peace in the 21st Century is fading, fast. It faded in 2002 with the invasion of Afghanistan, and then in 2003 the invasion of Iraq. In Ukraine, in the East, and in the West, as the country polarised along lines of irrational belief, it faded in 2014, and has been fading ever since. 

It is clear that the situation in Ukraine is beyond horrific, that it is, as I have already written,  an abomination. The death and destruction being visited upon Ukrainian civil infrastructure and the upon civilian population, and indeed upon their military is grim, a living hell for those that survive, those that manage to flee.

It is clear that all assistance must be extended by States and people to help prevent more violence and harm.

Why then is the EU not hosting the talks between Russia and Ukraine? The two sides talking on their own, without EU or UN oversight and support for a negotiated ceasefire at the very minimum, to protect the civilian populations is akin to a domestic abuse situation, where the neighbours and police, the social services and the families relatives leave it the warring couple to 'work our their differences' without any support, while the couple harm their children.

Why is the EU/NATO states supplying weapons to Ukraine? Why are they and the media glorifying and enabling the transit of men who want to fight? Why are European Jihadi's now totally acceptable? 

Do people not understand that war on either side is a criminal enterprise, and makes criminals of all who participate, as hatred drives engagement after the first fire fight and loss of comrades?

Refugees

And so we see a two way flow, in and out of war.  It is always the middle class who flee in cars, the poor are left to run out of harms way on their legs, carrying as much as they can. Their homes become battle staging grounds.

We see people running away from violence and a minority running towards the violence. The former are sensible, the latter lack all common sense, and are intent on escalation that will increase the flow of the former.

Refugees need help and they need peace to be able to return.

It is especially urgent is to provide all possible means of support and care for all who have fled, are fleeing and will flee the violence.  Further more, all efforts must be focused on enabling their earliest possible safe return to their homes, farms, villages, towns and cities with fullest possible support from the global community to repair, rebuild and reclaim peace in their homeland. The refugees have left under duress, and most will want to return, to pick up as best they can, and get on with their lives as communities. For that to happen the world's political focus must be upon ending the militarised violence on all sides.

The talk in certain news media of using sanctions to bring down Putin's regime does not mention that the companion to that is the destruction of Ukraine by protected violence, fuelled by flows of money and weapons and fighters into Ukraine. The ethics of competing powers are an unflushed toilet of disgrace, manipulation, greed and cruelty.

Peace talks, a ceasefire, not more War.

As Jeremy Corbyn has said "All wars end in peace talks. Why not skip the war, and go straight to the peace talks?" Those talks must be hosted by external parties dedicated to peace, to a situation that restores healthy governance to the people and states involved. 

It is clear to me that this war cannot be understood correctly as an isolated event, rather it must be seen as yet another lethal horrific war within a culture of war making. It is clear to me that we are living within a culture that accepts war making as a normal part of state activity. 

The Bully Cult.

Betty Williams, A northern Irish Peace Worker.
Out of 195 states, only a few eschew military capability.  

Andorra, Aruba, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica. Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, French Polynesia, Greenland, Grenada, Iceland, Kiribati, Kosovo, Lichtenstein, Macau (China S.A.R.), Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Montserrat, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Palau, Panama, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, Svalbard (unincorporated region of Norway), Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
Thirty Six. Thirty six countries that have decided not to waste resources on developing and maintaining a military capability.

It's heart breaking to live in 2022, the 21st Century, and to be witness to all these wars, year after year.

Each war has seen more video, more images, more live video feeds as mobile phones, the internet and live streaming services have expanded. We now have drone views of warfare within hours of the 'action'. Fight Club has gone digital.

What is it to be refugee?

The refugees are not members of the bully cult, they are it's victims. People, families, communities and entire nations victimised by the bully cult.

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to live through the actual realities of war on one's doorstep. Running from one's home, knowing all the neighbours who had cars left days ago. Fleeing at the last minute, possibly seeing neighbours or family members killed or maimed, and not being able to help them. Carrying what one can, carrying small children, assisting elderly relatives. The sudden loss of all of one's home comforts and memories, under extreme duress.

Leaving so much behind, with no certainty as to one's future. This is not a voluntary migration. The USUK language of migrants, illegal immigrants, illegal aliens has been used to deny the reality of refugees from wars the bully cult has had a hand in feeding.

We've seen images of farms, villages, towns and cities emptied of living, working and thriving populations, destroyed by street by street warfare, ghoulish ghettos of grey concrete.

It's too much to bear.
The sluggish response of UK and USA to the need of Ukrainian Refugees is ignoble. The hypocritical reporting of violent resistance to a state being attacked by another state that is revealed by the change in tone in news media approach to different wars.

The Palestinians must not engage violence, the Afghani, Yemeni or Syrians must not engage violence to defend their State, and the Ukrainians must, and are righteous in adopt a violent resistance!

The breathless, jingoist media led war cries of more weapons, more war, death to the invader, glory to the State, we fight for freedom! etc ignores the fact that in spite of the legal and moral right of self defence, we tend to ignore the immense human cost of self defence by violence. 

Our democratic leaderships reduce the chances for cessation of violence by cheering on a violent resistance from the side-lines, and promising weapons and money to continue that violent resistance. I get the basic sentiment, and I fear it will not bring relief, it will not hasten peace talks.

In Western culture, entertainment and general knowledge, violent resistance to invaders is romanticised, peaceful resistance is equated to 'capitulation' and it's proponents (conscientious objectors) are often dehumanised or caricatured (unpatriotic, yellow, Freedom Fries not French Fries!) and this has a profound political impact in that it obscures the realities of warfare. People who do not correctly undeestand what war is are more readily convinced on its merits.

Histories of Resistance.

It has to be said that, at first, the Iraqi people in 2003 avoided a violent insurgency. They waited for the USUK and 'coalition of the willing' to make good their promises about bringing democracy to Iraq, Iraqi's hoped for improvement and fulfilment of promises ,made, announced to the world by Blair and Bush. 

When these promises failed to manifest, Iraqi civil society protested, peaceably, robustly to no avail, and were banned from protest, and then violently suppressed when they persisted. And so by early 2004, elements of Iraqi society started to escalate violent resistance, leading to the US counter-insurgency operations that together, between 2004 and 2006, caused more many more violent deaths, maimings and destruction than occurred during the invasion itself in 2003.

Iraq suffered greatly, and suffers still today, 19 years later. Here's a report from last year.

"Arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings of demonstrators by Iraqi security forces in late 2019 and into 2020 led to government resignations and the nomination of a new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in May 2020. Despite an initial seeming willingness to address some of Iraq’s most serious human rights challenges, al-Kadhimi’s government failed to end abuses against protesters.
Iraq’s criminal justice system was riddled with the widespread use of torture and forced confessions and, despite serious due process violations, authorities carried out numerous judicial executions."

Source : Human Rights Watch Report 2021

War, Pestilence, Poverty and Climate.

That all of this is ongoing  and Ukraine is overflowing on our news feeds right now, whilst wars in Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Myanmar, and other wars are being prosecuted and fed with weapons, bodies and money, even as COVID continues to wreak havoc on billions of people, and as the very real concerns of Climate Change remain to be faced up to speaks to an urgent need for honesty, unrelenting honesty across all our countries political, cultural and economic domains.

This video presents a short review of the most recent report of the IPCC.

"Can we survive the coming decades? Given the state of global affairs today, that's probably a question many people are asking themselves right now. The IPCC has just published their answer, at least from a climate point of view. And they pull no punches. We're almost out of time, they say, and we need immediate global geopolitical cooperation to succeed. Oh dear!"

Oh dear, indeed. I made a video back in 2005, entitled T(ypo)Error suggesting the the most critical issue facing us was Global Warring, in that unless we cease war as a tool of foreign policy of the great powers, we will never be capable of the global co-operation necessary to meet the challenges of Climate Change.

I was not wrong then, I am not wrong now. We have work to do, our children's lives depend upon us doing this work, with all due diligence and as much energy and creativity as we can muster. The Militarists are screwing us all. 

Honestly...

So I wrote this letter, and sent it out to various news media in Ireland and the UK. I do not expect this one to be published, I may write a more muted version, to see if that might be published. I do feel I am swimming against the flow of the current Western news narratives, barely treading water.

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Dear Editor
When will we, the ordinary people who work, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, relatives and neighbours who pay taxes and who vote, and generally live decently and peaceably, finally vote to put an end to the practice of our States employing poor working class boys and girls, training them to point guns at other States poor working class boys and girls, to shoot to kill, to efficiently direct artillery fire upon 'enemy' taking cover in homes, offices and factory's of fled civilian populations?
When will we say "Enough, already!  No more war?"
When will the working class of Earth unite across borders, languages, faiths and flags and vote for a polity of collaboration and mutual aid instead of repeatedly voting for this atrocity generating competing militarised industrialised profiteering hegemony seeking  powers psychopathy?
There is no way that we will be in a position to handle climate change and it's attendant problems in ways to minimise harms to our peoples to a bare minimum until we rid ourselves of the military industrial psychosis, and that's blatantly obvious.
My heart is torn by each and every war, by every bomb and bullet and every purchase order for more weapons.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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