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The English Christian Ruling Class perfected Holy War as a Colonial process. Weaponising internalised identity.

The English Christian Ruling Class perfected Holy War as a colonial process.

Weaponising internalised identity.

Entirely innocent children, now scarred by Genodical assault upon their homes.

Christians Roming (sic) and then anti-Roming all over the place.

An unforgivable pun, my dear reader. Please bear with me.

The British Empire perfected Wholy (sic) War as a tool of Colonisation. Another pun bites the dust.

The three 'C' propaganda - Christianity, Civilisation, Commerce. Whole War. Total War.

1159. The Norman regime Invades Ireland because they are Christian Heretics, to offer them conversion and Salvation or death. (permit to do so received from the Pope).

1600s Protestant Plantations in Ireland to remove the Catholics and building Protestant settlements to bolster English Dominance - deliberately foster internalised hatreds that become multigenerational and almost impossible to resolve peacefully.

1640s White Supremacy Racism as a legalised form of oppression, in the English American colonies. Superiority as an identity, passed from one generation to the other, an endless supply of weaponised hearts and minds.

When we as ordinary people internalise a religious identity and we are told that we are superior and that others are inferior, and that the Religion is under attack, we become weaponised objects of the Hierarchy that manipulates us.

Our internalised sense of identity enters into a permanent state of flight or flight, which we now know causes the emotional reactive parts of our brain to over ride the calming logical forebrain.

Tony Blair’s ‘clash of civilisations’ tactic. He knew exactly what he was doing. The racists and xenophobes took the bait. The bystanders did not understand what was being done, and remained as bystanders. Many protested. Their protests were acknowledged to some degree - freedom of speech, democracy etc., - and their demands for peace and justice repeatedly denied within the Legislature. Muslims were stereotyped as Jihadi's or Misogynists in this 'war of values'.

Middle class faux-Feminist pundits rallied to the cause, very likely well aware of how this issue was being manipulated.

Examine the history and see the patterns, and what I understand from my wide reading of the history and observation of what happens is that the Israeli colony was and remains an English Empire project built around the same principles .

They Empire expected it will last long enough to prevent the Arab world (which was always multi faith, multicultural, multi linguistic, and always occupied) from ever developing an independent economic policy.

It is not, as the Western conspiracy theorists assert that the Israeli State is influencing the British or the Americans, it is that all three are walking, hands joined, to maintain the process of de-populating lands for expansion, targeting already vulnerable and oppressed populations, who once had a thriving polity and socialist self determining aspirations.

Economic dominance was the objective. By force.

The English Diplomatic Corps worked to favour some groups and Arab polities, promising them a bright future, and oppressed others, by denying them that promised future, and that created the sectarian identarian tension that lasts generations, sustained by trauma that remains unresolved.

Gaza in 2023/24 is the direct result of all that. Naqba to Naqba.

Racism is a tool of the hierarchy.

Sectarianism is a tool of the hierarchy.

Misogyny is a tool of the hierarchy.

Bigotry is carefully curated.

Ant-Semitism is a European phenomenon, a curated hatred of a vulnerable population designed to deflect anger at the hierarchy and re-direct it at those most unable to protect themselves.

The Ableism of our times is part of that dynamic. When Government minister undermine supports for disabled people and then suggest too many are leaching off the tax payer and that the disabled should ‘do their duty’, bigotry against a vulnerable population is weaponised as a political tool.

Churchill's 'Dog in The Manger' speech is instructive.

I used to alter the tag line from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back - to 'Empower, it never strikes back.'

And every empowered people who are given the space, the resources and the tools of peaceful, democratic, equitable political, social and economic development to progress their general welfare will not strike back in violence. They have no need to. Until something happens to change that situation. Afghanistan prior to US Cold War interventions that brought down a nascent Socialist State.

Russia was asked by the beleaguered Afghani socialists for assistance and protection from the USUK inspired counter-revolutionaries.

Russia made the error, went in with combat brigades, and the USUK created the Taliban to wear them down.

All of this to prevent an independent non-aligned popular socialist state from emerging.

The resolution of the shituation in Palestine is in empowering both Arab and the Zionist colonialists to live together as humane beings, and that requires the dismantling of the Empire's interests in the region... in full.

There's more that we who live within the Empires polity and have democratic voting rights and political rights of free association can do to help this progress - we can and must hold our Ruling Class to account for the harms that they have caused and are enabling.

British support for Israel must be re-visioned by the British voters taking back control of their legislatures to legislate for peace and de-militarisation of foreign policy.

In essence the people who can best confront the British Establishment and its depravity are the people who live within the borders of the United Kingdom, by democratic political action that removes the war makers from our legislatures and places a majority of peace makers and justice advocates in that body to uphold International Humanitarian Law and the UN Charter.... after all it is the British people whose taxes are being deployed to support an ongoing Genocide.

Clearly, the English Establishment will not voluntarily stand down.

This is no easy task, and it is much much easier than living in Palestine or the West Bank.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Strategy for confronting the UK War Makers in Parliament and elsewhere.

the facts of the matter

pro-war candidate undermines peace candidate with same Party

Back in 2007, Make Wars History ran a grass roots campaign to hold Blair and the Labour Party leadership, the Conservatives and others who enabled the invasion of Iraq, to account, by trying to get MPs on board with launching war crimes investigations.

The Labour Party rejected this appeal, apart from John mcDonnell and a few others...

The Labour voters rejected this approach because they wanted to 'keep the Tories out.'

If we in England had held Blair to account, if we had mobilised to send him to The Hague, which was possible under the International Criminal Court Act of 2001, we would have been the first Western nation to hold our own War Criminals to account and it is very likely that would have prevented the wars that flowed ever since.

Now here we are again.

A Labour Party leadership supporting a genocidal assault upon Palestinians, a Tory Party fully committed to supporting Israel no matter what crimes Israel commits.

An election looming, and nobody standing to hold our war criminals to account.

And every one of us are funding the British States war crimes.

We got some serious thinking and activism to get on with.

As regards Climate Disruption, what chance is there for global co-operation which is required to meet that challenge as long as we refuse to hold our war criminals to account?

Vote for peace makers, remove all war makers from our legislatures, local, nationally and internationally. Vote for peace makers. Vote for Peace Policy. Do not vote for Parties and Loyalty. We can do this, collectively.

We cannot stop the genocidal war against the Palestinian people and we will be forced to watch it's completion in utter impotent horror and fury.

Our pain is as nothing compared to what the Palestinians are enduring. Our pain is as nothing compared to what the Iraqis, Afghanis, Libyans, Syrians are still enduring.

We MUST adopt a long term strategic stance as tax payers to hold our war criminals to account, to cease future engagement in warfare, to build a legislature that commits to peace and justice and there is no single Party that can or will ever do that - not within an adversarial democratic set up of two party states.

Letter to my MP on the failure of UK Parliament to uphold International Humanitarian Law and the interests of Peace.

The facts laid out in a meme.

The Undemining of Peace, by a pro-War activist Lawyer (the persecutor of Julian Assange)

To Gareth Thomas, MP

Following the clearly adversarial approach of Labour and Conservatives this Wednesday last, in the UK Parliament in Westminster, London, an approach that disabled the SNP Opposition Day Motion calling for an 'immediate ceasefire in Gaza', and the 'ending of the collective punishment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli State', a reasonable motion by all standards, and then replaced it with a watered down, conditional motion that sought to avoid a 'rebellion' within the Labour Party back benches, a move that does not serve the interests of Peace, but instead protects the interests of Israeli Military State, and Keir Starmer’s clearly undemocratic leadership of the Labour Party, I write to you to, respectfully, to demand that the Labour Co-operative MPs who are genuinely active in seeking Peace and Justice step away from the Labour Party.

The same Labour Party that has repeatedly refused to hold Tony Blair et al to account for their War crimes, even when we had the evidence before us.

The country re-elected him in 2005. The country failed in it’s basic duty of care.

Since then both Labour and Conservatives have launched or supported a series of amoral Wars in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere and have ordered Military action beyond our borders, in contravention of the Laws of War.

This means, in real terms, that the Parties and Parliament are de facto War Criminal Entities that remain unindicted.

This failure has led directly to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, in that Russia used false claims similar to the way Blair et al have done, with the real politick understanding that in practice International Law does not apply to the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council.

The obvious hypocrisy of the different stances the UK Government has taken in relation to that War and all the other wars mentioned above is now clear, and presents a constant threat to world peace and co-operation.

It is worth noting that in a world that permits and enables warfare, the co-operation required to meet the challenges of Climate Disruption is not possible.

You must understand, as a member of a co-operative, that mutual aid is an essential component of developing healthy policy and that the adversarial dynamics of the current Govt. vs Opposition run counter to the meaning of healthy governance.

With that in mind, I am calling on you to uphold Humanitarian Law and International Law and the Laws prohibiting War.

Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 indicated that he would, if he gained the position of Prime Minister, order that War Crimes Investigations be initiated.

That was the primary (unspoken) reason for the Establishments vicious slanderous attack upon him, and upon the pro-peace policies he supported.

That was driving emotional reaction behind the internal Blairite Campaign within Labour to undermine his leadership.

That Campaign succeeded, because Labour MPs and Members refused to stand up for International Law.

Blair walks free, on a healthy state pension. He is amassing a large fortune as a direct result of all of this.

That failure is unacceptable, intolerable and utterly repugnant.

Please confirm that you will move to uphold International Law, distance yourself and your Party from these abject War criminals and stand with the peaceful people of Earth in your role as a politician, as a community leader and as an official whose wages we pay.

I advise you that my future, your future and all our children’s futures would be better served were you to align with the Green Party and all other genuine progressives and work to hold the war criminals to account, be they British, Russian, Syrian, Ukrainian or Israeli, or any other.

Failure to respond positively to this request will place you in a position that history will deem adverse the the interests of the people, and of peace.

What is Egalitarian Culture? What Do Babies Want? Alloparenting?

Four videos looking at elements of human cultural behaviour variations.... with information and wisdom to offer terms of nurturing ourselves, our families, our communities, our land.

The how to maintain a healthy sustainable culture problem is mostly a matter of human to human relationships than it is of a question of technology.

Power Hierarchy culture generates unhealthy behaviour at scale. This is well evidenced and incontrovertible. This is because Power becomes the means to maintain Power.

Those who occupy positions of Power will tend to internalise the positions root values which are power and maintenance of power. 'L'Etate, c'est Moi!' and so on. "I represent the institution, not myself, yet I have internalised the institution." That is a profoundly unhealthy psychological state to be in.

Over time, and with wealth the Ruling Hierarchy culture have extracted the ruling class have worked to institutionalise the population into instruments to promote and maintain those values, do the work, fight in the battles. All the time understanding fully that this is oppressive cruelty, that it generates resistance, naturally enough.

They understand the injustice. And so they live fearful of the majority population, and the maintenance of dominance becomes an endless end in itself, a way of life.

That is a behavioural and cultural problem.

We have brilliant minds and imaginations set to solve problems by understanding them correctly, these are innate critical thinking skills.

If those minds are deeply rooted in healthy relationships that nurture, then their efforts will produce nurturing resolutions, if that is materially possible, to avoid avoidable harms.

We're literally born with that in mind, in evolutionary terms. That is what our DNA and biochemistry is in : a default setting to learn behaviour that is healthy.

To cooperate and live mutual aid is optimally healthy for human species.

An egalitarian culture on a gathering mission, at play. In spite of being surrounded by extinction level threats.
~Two Videos :~1. What is Egalitarian Culture? The evidence. A talk, and a Q&A.
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2.
What Babies Want - Evolved for Nurturing Brain Development - a moving, inspiring documentary.

3Allan Schore: the study of neurobiology of brain development.
The carer brain to infant brain relationship and the biology of healthy brain and endocrine development.
No species is evolved for less than optimal biological health of each organism, and for the species.

In my mind, these three subjects intersect to inform a more radical understanding of human health presenting as nurturant behaviour as the biological optimally healthy state, psycho-socially and practically.
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In addition, Mothers and Others. Alloparenting and human behavioural evolution.What are the behavioural implications of evolving for alloparenting?

Alloparenting is when all the members of a group care for all the children, collectively.It is close correlated with Egalitarian culture.Healthy human relationships.Peace.

Corneilius

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Fake News, Aphorism Wisdom and a sense of humour.

hmmmmm.... what kind of culture generates this kind of politically manipulative content, and calls it free speech? It is incitement, and it undermines the meaning of Free Speech.
Free Speech is the political and legislative directive that the State must never seek to prevent honest political and cultural discourse amongst the people, or any of their associations.
It was not thought of as Freedom to Incite or Manipulate using relative beliefs to escalate bigotry.
Those freedoms already existed under Law as religious freedoms.
Set out your belief, set up a text, a church and register as a charity.... belief what you like, convince others to adopt same belief, get them to pay all your life expenses, and more. Manipulate and incite as much as you want, do not aim at the State.
That was the context in which modern Free Speech emerged.
--- Be honest ---
A short graphic video covering the progression of news presentation since the 1500s, right up to tomorrow and the foreseeable future. There's a fundamental design flaw in public service political and general news presentation.
~aphorism : "we are not our skin, we are the person within, skin deep is colour blinded."~
I think this graphic video is quite cool, clever, direct, unassuming.

Please enjoy!
Here's my take, my opinion if you will.

Opinion posing as prima facie evidence for public news content is fake news.
If we understand public news function as informing the reader, informing the population at large, with reliable accurate record and knowledge of matters that affect their lives, so that they might agitate for improvement of society, as the population are the majority. Seems like a reasonable concept. As such it remains so.
An opinion page is not news, nor is it information. Telling people what to think embedded within text content that is not reporting the event, that is instead forming an opinion for the reader to agree with based on known biases. Is not Public News.
Let people form their own opinions based on honest information. Lay out all the facts and evidence, record the witnesses testimony, say who did what, what it was , what the outcomes were and then listen to what response the population has to that accurate information - with a lean towards forming evidence based understandings being the normal, the cultural normative of transparent democratic governance. Context. The condition in which we are forced to live our lives.
I don't think it's a lot to ask, even though I know those who would reject that, and adopt a defensive stance are indeed mighty institutions populated by people who have internalised the cultural values of the institutions.
They will defend the institutions as if defending themselves, their sense of self informed by internalising system values.
What are those institutional values?
Prime among them are Wealth and Power, for without either one cannot do much, certainly one cannot wage war without both in ample supply. And so forth.
Those values if they become an end on and of themselves will always corrupt and distort human relations, and disrupt healthy relations between different parts of our human family, our species.
Fake news tries to mask that and spread choice making and behaviour rooted in emotionally charged reactive opinion as a democratic weaponisation of the voting system. Get loads of angry people to vote, based on different themes, set them against each other. Sell ads while doing that - it is the exact same industrial process.
It needs to stop.
Utter cruelty.
Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Continuous Traumatic Distress is a condition Palestinians live in, it is not a disorder. The violence of apartheid occupation is the disorder.

47% of the known fatalities caused by Israeli War against Palestinian Civilians are children.There are many more buried under the rubble.

Continuous Traumatic Distress is a condition Palestinians live in, it is not a disorder. The violence of apartheid occupation is the disorder.

Dear Representative,

I recently wrote to you urging you to support the South African application for an adjudication at the International Courts of Justice.

I present the following 25 minute interview with two psychologists working in the area of children and trauma in war zones, with particular reference to conditions in Gaza and The West Bank, and a representative of Save The Children.

In this interview, a new condition is described - Continuous Traumatic Distress, without the adjective 'disorder'. Imagine being deliberately and intentionally traumatised every day, 247, year after year. Where is the true 'disorder'

I respectfully suggest you view this important interview, so that you understand clearly the condition Palestinian Children are in, and have been in for decades.

Can you think about a child who grows up in a war zone who cannot even imagine peace or at the very least the cessation of violence because that is all they have ever known, because the child has internalised that state so deeply, he or she has no concept of anything else?

Millions of children are now utterly dependent upon the International Community to now take action to stop the violence of the Israeli State in Gaza, The West Bank, the occupation, the illegal settlements. As these interviewees state, as things stand, there is nothing the Humanitarian community can do to help those children right now, until the violence is stopped.

These children need safety from violence as the first step towards improved condition, as the only way to ensure all appropriate aid is provided to them, to meet their unmet needs.

I urge you once again, having viewed this interview, having understood the realities of life for these children, to at the very least demand our Governments take the action required to force Israel to cease this atrocious violence or be held accountable at the ICJ and the ICC.

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Letter to all elected members of Irish Dail and Seanad regarding South Africa's application the the ICJ

Who the hell votes against a ceasefire in a Genocide?

Mike Pence, former US Vice President, signing artillery shells in Southern Israel last week.

Dear representative,

The South African Government has made an application to the International Court of Justice, which rules on serious criminal offences between States, to initiate an indictment of the State of Israel for its current violent assault upon the people of Gaza, and the West Bank. They are asking that the courts rule on the situation, to charge it as an act of Genocide, to demand that all states party to the Genocide Convention take action to prevent this genocide from continuing, as International Law requires.

Ireland has ratified the Genocide Convention, as has South Africa and Israel, and most States around the world that form up the United Nations General Assembly.

It follows then, that the Irish Government, as a member of the UN, and in recognition of the long oppression of Irish people carried out by the English State and our in depth understanding of the history and adverse impacts of colonial conquest and genocidal actions designed to destroy the culture of the Irish, our language, our customs, culture, land tenure and polity by the English State, and later the British Empire, should support this application to the International Courts of Justice.

Can you please confirm that you will be taking the appropriate action to require the Irish State to uphold the Convention on Genocide, and other International Laws of War and the Humanitarian Law and join the South African application, to support it in full, without reservation?

Kindest regards

Corneilius Crowley (Irish Citizen)

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I think that Offensive Militarism is psychopathy institutionalised. It MUST be dismantled.

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Here follows a brief interview with International Human Rights Lawyer Francis Boyle, who has taken and won a number of adjudications at the International Court Of Justice, regarding Herzogovinia/Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

Genocide and Complicity.

When it comes to Genocide, it is being witnessed by all of us ordinary people across Earth. We know that in Gaza, in Palestine, whether we are looking at it or not, a Genocide it is being made to happen.

Even as I write it is being committed. I feel impotent. I cannot help in any immediate way.

Genocide is being broadcast as it happens. This genocide is being televised by citizen journalism.

Mobile phones and cameras and drones are recording and broadcasting the gory detail that shows what war really is - perhaps for the first time ever - to a mass global civilian population who every day are now seeing the immediate impacts of industrialised hi-tech total warfare waged against civilians. It is a horror of horrors.

Every war waged upon a civilian population has done the same, and we've never really seen it, we've only tales of survival, hagiography of the victors, governments call for more budget for 'defence'. So now we know. No going back from that. This cannot be un-seen.

Deliberate, being made to happen.

It is being made to happen, men and women are making decisions to ensure the slaughter and destruction and collective punishment does not stop, and it should not ever be happening. It MUST stop.

Men and women are deciding to commit war crimes. Ordinary people are being needlessly harmed beyond all tolerance.

The opinions of anyone of us are beside the point. The justifications being made by those who justify such atrocity are beside the point.

The legal, moral and humane intelligent empathy side of this matter is united.

It Must Stop.

Supporting those engaged in the dominant violent position is complicity, by degree. It just is. This is not a judgemental statement, it is a statement of fact. By degree means the further away from a position of power to influence matters, the less one's complicity is.

Now, there's little complicity of the average liberal democracy or theocracy or authoritarian tax payer compared to others in their respective states who hold high officer and wield political and civil power to support the violators of War and Humanitarian Law in this matter. And in all matters of a similar nature.

Us ordinary folk - you and I and our neighbours, the people's of urban dwellings all about us, are the ones who always pay the full cost of war.

We are, as individuals, impotent in the face of military violence and corrupt national and international diplomacy. The ruling class want us to internalise enough of the nation state to protect them from us, with them hiding behind the state.

They are happy when we accuse each other of complicity, even more so when we argue their opinions, and vote according to the public defined opinions, rather than the evidence.

Our individual complicity is minor. Throwing it at each other as an accusation is a futile cause, it does not serve us ordinary people.

Establishing a humane political and civil power base

Where we do have a reliable resource of political power is in each other, as a community of ordinary folk, understanding we are all accidents of birth, understanding our need and desire, born of healthy common sense, that we would be best served if we were to look out for one another, in mutual aid, and turn that to political association.

We have yet to establish this power, and when we do, we will do what we can to undo the warring states syndrome culture.

Turn away from the ruling class, turn to each other, and then take the kinds of action that a healthy population can take, and see where we lead into.

They did not lose their lives.

Nuttyahoo has a war, AI AI Booom!

It is not a matter of looking around to see where those lives were misplaced, forgotten, left behind, dropped behind the sofa, dropped by accident as we got out of the car, left behind in the supermarket.

Their lives were stolen and not by stealth.

Their lives were taken, openly, in full view, not in a secret act or by mistake - their bodies were ruined, destroyed, violently, cruelly, intentionally. Block by block. AI AI oh.

Limbs were ripped from bodies. Hands that will never caress a grandchild's forehead, legs that will never dance again, fingers that will never again play music or prepare food and share it lovingly.

Throats that will never laugh again, or sing lullabies, or pray, eyes that will not tear up in bliss or sadness.

Their internal organs were crushed by pressure waves from hi-tech explosive munitions designed to do exactly that, delivered from the most advanced jets that industry can build, by shells sent by tanks and howitzers, carefully aimed to cause the most destruction possible.

AI AI Oh!

Their hearts will not flutter in new love, their lungs will not fill nor will their throats and hearts sing at weddings, their eyes will not see the years of growth and maturation of their children, or their parents, they will not take selfies at sunset to share to their friends and family.

Their guts were spilled, splattered and spread across the walls that no longer stand to protect these families that they might sleep soundly and in love. Body bags of parts of bodies, the remains, what is left is unrecognisable as a person, as a human being.

They were blinded, they were broken in pieces, they were battered and brutalised and their surviving relatives had to bury them under an AI rain of hellfire, rockets and white phosphorus.

AI AI oh.

The survivors sleepless with trauma can see the stars, they can see the moon and they can see the flares through the spaces where ceilings once kept them safe from the rain and the sun.

They have no toilets, no fresh running water, they have no food. They have no medicines, they have no counselling. They comfort each other by being still in it together, sharing what is left, which is closer to nothing with each and every bombing raid. They have no cookers, they have no fridges and they live under plastic sheeting, they live crowded into the remaining homes, a family in each room, shivering in fear, in despair, in unbearable condition waiting for the bomb earmarked for that dwelling. They know the meaning of Genocide. The lived experience, short as it is, unbearable as it is is still far too long.

AI AI oh.

The Israeli State War diet is to the death of all the innocents, their sordid claim that peace is the aim of this growing pile of bones of Palestinian families is vulgar psychopathy institutionalised.

The USUK ruling class cheer them on. The USUK media dumb down their reporting. The USUK ruling class urge restraint in public, citing self defence, while they allow the Israeli State to continue. ‘Tone it down a bit’ they say, in public.

They send more weapons to Ukraine, they send more weapons to Israel, they send more weapons everywhere war is active, as their shares in warfare industries increase in value.

These are our Ruling Class. We vote for them and we pay them. And this is what we get. We are the lucky ones. They will not bomb us, will they?

We see this on our screens. We see this on our phones.

I have long known that every war does this. This is what war is. No war has ever been fought without harming the innocents, men, women, children and elders and their villages and towns, their cities. Horror movies are scary, war is disgusting, revolting, degrading.

There are no heroes, the myth of honour is a veil.

It takes real human courage, it takes immense effort, it tales great heart and kindness to make Peace the task. It will take all of us to make peace a reality.

Today the USUK population correctly protest, pointing to the innocence of these Palestinian families. We hate marching, the weathers is not great, and we fervently wish we had nothing to protest, that we could instead demonstrate love and make empathy our polity’s core - our marches are not hatred, even though the ruling class hate them. Striking nurses do not hate, they care.

We did not hold our War criminals to account in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and six and seven and eight and beyond, even as we had the evidence.

They all walk free, enriched, pensioned, protected and they have more than they need, whilst poverty is intentionally maintained in order to ensure the wealth extraction faction remains dominant.

We - you and I and our neighbours, we who live on every street - we cannot undo the harm done, and we must ask ourselves now - 'What can we do to prevent more harm?'

How do we live on with integrity, without relying on hope, faith or comfort to get us through and where will we find the shared determination to end the warfare that we are all paying for, so that peace has a chance?

The cost of murder crisis has many layers.

They did not lose their lives, they will not get them back, we know where they went, we still have ours.