Our border collie is a little long in the tooth and surely, she doesn't have much time left.
She is so considerate, and so sweet, her passing will be a blow to our family. We love her immeasurably. She controls us completely - and we don't mind a bit.
When she was a pup, we introduced her to "the dot" - a laser pointer. Since that time, she has been hunting the dot - up stairs, down stairs, in containers - everywhere. When we're too lazy to walk her, we have her scampering up and down the stairs, pursuing the elusive red light that she can never capture or control.
Even in her arthritic old age, she cracks us up with her devotion to nailing the dot.
Aren't collies lovely? I will miss her when she goes.
My PC has been acting up for months and it has finally keeled over. No power - nothing. No, it's not the power supply - it's the motherboard. The mobo has been killing peripherals for quite a time - probably shorting them. So it's fitting that the bastard is now dead.
I'm one for firing off emails to my MP to get the b@stard to support or reject bills whose fine print might have escaped his attention while he was commuting from London to his constituency on a weekday when we're all working to pay the f*cking government.
Hey, I'm doing his job for him.
But!
My MP has stopped replying.
Why?
Because he's standing down at the GE.
So, who represents me now? NOBODY!
Is that what we call democacy?
We need the power of recall whereby we can cancel our acceptance of what was once thought of as legitimate. Hey, people, it won't happen without public participation. Are you with me?
Tax strike! You have nothing to lose but everything to gain. Don't buy, don't comply, don't support the corporations. Buy from your local shops, not from corporations. Ship your money from global corporations to local building societies. Kill the monster corporations that are killing your freedom by withdrawing your custom.
"UK Music calls for easier digital licensing, less red tape on smaller music venues, and wants a cabinet-level committee to coordinate policy."
Therefore, they would get to influence government directly, at a time when our votes barely count.
The intellectual copyright bunch were responsible for giving us the secret ACTA treaty, which spawned the egregious Digital Economy Bill, which allows Mandelson's buddies to curtail your internet connection on the suspicion that you're up to no good.
Now's the time to put worry beads on your MP's forehead. Don't wait until the deal is done. Once the lobbyists have a toe in the door, it's a devil of a job to get rid of them!
Britain's clocks could be changed to give an extra hour of evening daylight all year.
Labour and the Conservatives are believed to be in favour of moving clocks permanently forward by an hour, bringing the country in line with much of the rest of Europe.
Why would they want to do that? Could it be ...
The change would bring the UK in line with France, Germany and other countries that follow Central European Time.
What's the bet this is another EU-originated directive, they're attempting to sell to us as being "good for the children"? That both Labour and the Conservatives are backing it makes me very suspicious indeed.
A quarter of children aged between eight and 12 have signed up to social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo - despite regulations that state users must be at least 13.
The websites claim to impose minimum age restrictions to prevent young children logging on, but figures from Ofcom show how easily the rules can be bypassed.
According to Ofcom's research, among the parents of the 8-12 year olds who did have online profiles, almost a fifth were completely unaware of what their children were doing.
Nine out of ten parents admitted they did not check what their children were doing online.
Are they prepping us for more draconian legislation, or the imposition of online ID, or the registering with the government before being allowed to use the Internet?
Watch this space.
What children do should be the responsibility of their parents. I always knew what my kids were doing because I put checks in place. It's not hard to do.
While it's laudable that Pat Condell lays into the cover-ups of the Catholic church of child abuse in its ministries, the Hollie Greig cover-up continues.
Andrew Marr even covered the Catholic cover-up on his show - but no mention of Hollie Greig and the Scottish Mafia. (Apologies to ordinary Scottish folk - this cover-up saves the bacon of the corruption at the heart of government).
Let's not give up on justice for Hollie Greig. Keep it in the news.
Can it work here? Do we have the spunk of the Alaskans?
This is a long video (11 parts) but it's well worth watching.
If you could find a way to end corruption in government and give the power back to the People, without violence, or spending much money, or lobbying for new laws, or electing any candidates, then you might want to listen to Shaeffer Cox. Shaeffer was a star at the Contental Congress 2009 and I believe he's onto something.
A US poll shows that the majority of Americans want nothing to do with Obama's wretched, commie bill and a number of states are suing the Feds over it because it is unconstitutional.
Little wonder, then, that Fidel Castro thinks it's tops. Could there be a clearer indication that the bill is a power grab, and nothing to do with health?
The bill makes the microchiping of humans mandatory - supposedly to control who is and who is not entitled to medical attention in the US. Yeah, right. Why are they allowing unfettered immigration, then?
“The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and ‘‘(B) is a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”
Problem, reaction, solution. Very Hegelian.
Oh, and RFID chips have caused cancer in lab animals.
You know. Just in case they grab all the energy and stuff. Anyone else get the impression we're being buttered up nicely for something in years to come?
Well, it's been five long years, and pretty soon, you're going to tick a box. Once.
And in another five years, you're going to tick a box again.
And that's it. That's as much democracy as you are allowed.
Now we know from both the Conservative and Labour Manisfestos that they lie and will not be held to them and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. So shut the fuck up and take it.
We also know that Labour rule us all with a rod of iron when only 9 million voted for them last time around. The majority who didn't get one chance every five years to change it. And vote for a different colour of liar who will tell them to shut up for five years whilst happily ignoring what they said they'd do in favour of what will make them personally rich (whilst passing 26,000 new laws you never asked for).
Take just five minutes and think of all the times you've shouted at the radio, thrown housebricks at the tellybox (twice in my household) and slammed the house door on your way to work after listening to John Humphries allow some oily Party shite to wriggle his way out of a simple question on the Today programme.
How many times do you sit and watch Question Time or Prime Ministers Questions and shake your head in disbelief?
How many laws have you watched a few hundred agenda driven people introduce without your consent?
How many times a day are those laws affecting everything you do, say, earn, spend, think?
A few hundred people are controlling every single aspect of your life. Day in, day out. For the next five years. If they pass a law requiring you to put both feet in a bucket of water before you leave the house, tough, Mr Squelchy feet, get moving, you'll be late. And before you laugh, millions of us are forced to stand in the rain outside a pub, in one of the coldest winters ever, because a few hundred people who don't smoke said we have to. And we do it. And if we don't, we go to prison. No, really.
I've long been a fan of Swiss Democracy. Apart from the fact they are the healthiest, richest, happiest, most educated and democratic people in Europe, a few hundred people in Parliament could not tell them that they had to accept minarets in their towns and cities. They decided they liked cuckoo clocks and chocolate, thank you very much. So cuckoo clocks and chocolate it is then. Not the vested interests of a few politicians who for whatever reason thought they could sell the whole of Switzerland in return for a few votes. And they can do that because they have to hold referendums on serious shit. They HAVE TO. It is not up to a few elected, vested interest droids. It's up to the people. The people who have to live with it.
No wonder they want fuck all to do with the EU.
Five years is a long time. Think carefully. Sign on the dotted line and they can do whatever they please. In your name.
I want my voice heard every day, hence this blog. Now I want YOUR voice heard. Hence me running for Parliament.
Direct Democracy. Your voice, in your parliament, in your country. About bastard time. Stop imagining. Take control of your life every day, not just once every five years. You owe it to your parents and to your children.
If you don't, Margaret Moran will happily run your life for you.
I was vacuuming just now and when I turned on ‘super-suck’ it struck me that this is what it means to be a libertarian - walking around life trying to suck up the badness hiding in the dark corners of our existence.
And as we all know it doesn’t matter how much you vacuum, sweep, and mop because there’s always another dust pile and another left-over bit of moldy candy. You could wrap your house in plastic, eliminate all furniture and never enter and still dust would form. Cleaning is really an endless Sisyphus task.
The same it is to fight for truth, liberty and justice – this fight never ends.
Actually we can probably never win. There will always be special interests, banksters, unions, and lobbyists fighting for their piece of the cake. And in opposite to us libertarians, socialists know they can “win”. It is easier, much easier, to convince people that they can get free stuff rather than to say they need to work for it.
Socialism, statism, collectivism whatever you want to call it, has several big advantages. They never need to explain anything, all they need to do is to promise a pink shimmering existence and sell that notion with ‘feelings’. Even easier it is for them to thrash any opposition to their ideas because anyone that don’t want the poor, elderly, young and handicapped to get free stuff is per automatic ‘evil’.
People in general are either too stupid or don’t have the time (lazy) to find out the truth so when lefties comes along with an all out solution; let the government think and make choices for you, most tend to listen.
But our uphill struggle is even worse than that. Have you ever consider what the libertarian promise to any voter is? We’re really only saying that if you work hard enough you might get rich, and in our world people would be free to explore their own potential and have free choices. That’s pretty much it.
We don’t promise them happiness, money, food, jobs, love or honor. We’re telling people that if they want those things they need to get it for themselves, work for it, sweat, and really put the effort in.
The leftie says he/she will fix it for us.
How can we compete with that? The sad truth is that we can’t.
So we cannot win, but that’s not why we fight.
This world is a cesspool filled with selfish greedy beasts, and in it we live, we eat, we shit and then we die. It will always be filled with corruption, murders, rapes and dictator wannabees, this no matter what we do.
So why do we fight?
I see the libertarian quest as that of a watchdog. We try to make sure they don’t take it too far.
Occasionally we convince enough people and make a slim difference. Sometimes we manage to wake people up, maybe not convert them fully, but at least make them see the man behind the curtain.
But the truth of the matter is that nothing works so hard for libertarian ideas as the socialists do. Every time they “win” and set up Gulag camps, creates holocausts, start wars and make people suffer for being foolish enough to vote and root for leftie ideas, they show what their ideology is really about. Hopefully, maybe, someday down the road enough people will see this and ponder on what the alternative is.
So we don’t fight to win or to gain enough votes, we fight so people, countries and the world can go in the right direction. We fight because it is the right thing to do. Just as with cleaning. We know we cannot win against dirt and dust, but we still do it because we don’t want to live in filth and sometimes you can avoid getting a disease if you live in a cleaner surrounding.
Is there a way, a road not taken, which would create a win? No.
But there is a small hope. If our technology advance far enough we can sooner or later start colonizing space. That is still a century or more into the future, so I will never live to see it. And it is possible we’ve destroyed ourselves along with this planet before we get a chance to, but if we were to collect all of the hundred thousand or so individuals on this planet that use their brain and go to a new place, start over, then maybe, just maybe we can call that a win…
Unified law across the European Union is taking another step forward with the news that the EU’s commissioner for justice and fundamental rights has set her sights on re-working Contract Law, which could form the basis of a European Civil Code: a long-standing objective of supporters of deeper EU integration.
National civil codes encompass property, contracts, tort and general obligations at the core of civic life, which stem directly from the traditions of each country. They also govern family or employment relations, areas in which the EU’s competences are strictly limited.
A European Civil Code would represent a substantial step forward for the EU’s internal market, allowing companies and consumers to operate more easily in another country without having to face different laws. But it is likely to face strong resistance in countries like Britain, as it would make the EU appear more of a ’superstate’ than a loose confederation of nations.
The Electronic Journal of Comparitive Law (EJCL) held lectures on the European Civil Code in 2000 and has further info on Ius Commune.
'History shows that major communities have generally adopted standard codes of civil law.' The document then mentions the continental European legal systems as examples and the United Kingdom as a notable exception. It continues: 'However, it is safe to say that a position of economic supremacy can only be attained if there is a certain degree of "legal rationality".
It's perfectly reasonable and not surprising; criminal law is already being 'harmonised' and now England's Common Law looks set to be 'rationalised' too. "It is likely to face strong resistance in...Britain": I doubt it.
If you're thinking of watching the Dispatches investigation this evening Ollie at the Red Rag will be hosting a live chat at 8pm.
UPDATE: Speechless really. By rights Hoon should be finished. Byers didn't fare much better, Moran is a guilty-as-charged waste of space and Hewitt was very careful in her choice of words. Hubris, arrogance, bravado, inflated ego, self-promotion ... The Dispatches link should have a re-run of the programme tomorrow if you've missed it. There comes a point when you just get beyond anger. Sir John Butterfill (the only Conservative) and Baroness Morgan also showed the seamy side of their characters. What a shameful bunch of scrotes.
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So far as I can tell, and I have to admit I'm not an expert, the only difference is one is smoked and the other is chewed; one is illegal, the other is not.
Why is it legal to grow a greenhouse full of Khat but not Cannabis? (Actually, if AGW were real, I wouldn't even need a greenhouse; I could buy a field in Kent and cover it in polytunnels for khat-growing.)
I can see demand for Khat soaring as the government has plans to criminalise Mephedrone and other legal highs of Spice, GBL & BZP. The beauty of my plan lies in its simplicity: the government will never criminalise Khat because it's used primarily by Muslims from the Yemen, Somalia, Saudi Arabia... ... I think I've just found a financial cushion for my old age.
I know it's just a small niggle in the greater scheme of the mess facing Britain at the moment but I'm heartily hacked off at all these 'celebrity' advisers the government insists on hiring (taxpayer-funded, of course).
The latest to be recruited is that well-known fount of wisdom, Ruby Wax, she of the towering intellect. She's been providing senior civil servants with workshops in leadership and communication, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship management and audience management.
"Her workshops include clips of interviews with Madonna and practical exercises to highlight the difference between talking at someone rather than with someone. Participants learn to be more aware of their colleagues, clients and partners and how to present a more human face using humour, empathy and honesty."
If these senior civil servants aren't up to doing their jobs without resorting to all this touchy-feely garbage perhaps their time would be better spent polishing up their CVs. Mind you, in this day and age the more workshops you've attended the better your CV looks.
Many of the poor dears are also stressed out because they're bored at work so we're paying for stress-relieving advice for them too. "Breathe in and out heavily a few times and imagine yourself being successful,” it advises workers. It absolutely beggars belief and they all need a good sound kicking up the derriere at the GE.
Sorry, it's a bit early in the morning for me (mmm, coffee!) but you know what I'm getting at: we elect MPs to represent us, they find it impossible to make decisions so they outsource to committees and quangos and take on celebrity advisers (Sugar, Winston, Vorderman, Hartley-Brewer et al). Whether it's because they're afraid to take responsibility for their own decisions or they're just incompetent I wouldn't like to say.
There are just too many intervening layers of costly bureaucracy involved in the deliberation and decision-making process. At a time when state spending has risen to 52% of GDP for the first time, ever, I would have thought these self-indulgent facilitation exercises would be first in line for the chop.
And all that's even before I get started on local authorities, their quangos and advisors, the Regional Development Agencies, and the EU. Happy days!
Btw questions will be asked in the House later about Cash for Influence that blew up over the weekend. No time has yet been given but it could fall under Urgent Questions at 3.30pm. Here's a link to Live Parliament if you're interested. Calling England
Old Holborn was recently asking for ideas to fight back at the broken machine we call government.
He (and you, dear reader) may be delighted to learn that I have stumbled across 198 methods of non-violent protest and persuasion.
Tip of the beret to a poster on the FMOTL forum and the website embedded in my title*.
*(Which I am secretly pleased with).
Some of these methods are quite groovy. There's something to suit all tastes!
Look:
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION FORMAL STATEMENTS 1. Public speeches 2. Letters of opposition or support 3. Declarations by organizations and institutions 4. Signed public declarations 5. Declarations of indictment and intention 6. Group or mass petitions
COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE 7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols 8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications 9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books 10. Newspapers and journals 11. Records, radio, and television 12. Skywriting and earthwriting
GROUP REPRESENTATIONS 13. Deputations 14. Mock awards 15. Group lobbying 16. Picketing 17. Mock elections
SYMBOLIC PUBLIC ACTS 18. Displays of flags and symbolic colours 19. Wearing of symbols 20. Prayer and worship 21. Delivering symbolic objects 22. Protest disrobings 23. Destruction of own property 24. Symbolic lights 25. Displays of portraits 26. Paint as protest 27. New signs and names 28. Symbolic sounds 29. Symbolic reclamations 30. Rude gestures
HONOURING THE DEAD 43. Political mourning 44. Mock funerals 45. Demonstrative funerals 46. Homage at burial places
PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES 47. Assemblies of protest or support 48. Protest meetings 49. Camouflaged meetings of protest 50. Teach-ins
WITHDRAWAL AND RENUNCIATION 51. Walk-outs 52. Silence 53. Renouncing honours 54. Turning one's back
THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
OSTRACISM OF PERSONS 55. Social boycott 56. Selective social boycott 57. Lysistratic nonaction 58. Excommunication 59. Interdict
NONCOOPERATION WITH SOCIAL EVENTS, CUSTOMS, AND INSTITUTIONS 60. Suspension of social and sports activities 61. Boycott of social affairs 62. Student strike 63. Social disobedience 64. Withdrawal from social institutions
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SOCIAL SYSTEM 65. Stay-at-home 66. Total personal noncooperation 67. "Flight" of workers 68. Sanctuary 69. Collective disappearance 70. Protest emigration (hijrat)
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS
ACTION BY CONSUMERS 71. Consumers' boycott 72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods 73. Policy of austerity 74. Rent withholding 75. Refusal to rent 76. National consumers' boycott 77. International consumers' boycott
ACTION BY WORKERS AND PRODUCERS 78. Workers' boycott 79. Producers' boycott
ACTION BY MIDDLEMEN 80. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott
ACTION BY OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT 81. Traders' boycott 82. Refusal to let or sell property 83. Lockout 84. Refusal of industrial assistance 85. Merchants' "general strike"
ACTION BY HOLDERS OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES 86. Withdrawal of bank deposits 87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments 88. Refusal to pay debts or interest 89. Severance of funds and credit 90. Revenue refusal 91. Refusal of a government's money
ACTION BY GOVERNMENTS 92. Domestic embargo 93. Blacklisting of traders 94. International sellers' embargo 95. International buyers' embargo 96. International trade embargo
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOOPERATION: THE STRIKE
MULTI-INDUSTRY STRIKES 116. Generalised strike 117. General strike
COMBINATION OF STRIKES AND ECONOMIC CLOSURES 118. Hartal 119. Economic shutdown
THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION
REJECTION OF AUTHORITY 120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance 121. Refusal of public support 122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance
CITIZENS' NONCOOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT 123. Boycott of legislative bodies 124. Boycott of elections 125. Boycott of government employment and positions 126. Boycott of government departments, agencies, and other bodies 127. Withdrawal from governmental educational institutions 128. Boycott of government-supported institutions 129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents 130. Removal of own signs and placemarks 131. Refusal to accept appointed officials 132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions
CITIZENS' ALTERNATIVES TO OBEDIENCE 133. Reluctant and slow compliance 134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision 135. Popular nonobedience 136. Disguised disobedience 137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse 138. Sitdown 139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation 140. Hiding, escape, and false identities 141. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws
ACTION BY GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL 142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides 143. Blocking of lines of command and information 144. Stalling and obstruction 145. General administrative noncooperation 146. Judicial noncooperation 147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents 148. Mutiny
DOMESTIC GOVERNMENTAL ACTION 149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays 150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units
INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ACTION 151. Changes in diplomatic and other representation 152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events 153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition 154. Severance of diplomatic relations 155. Withdrawal from international organisations 156. Refusal of membership in international bodies 157. Expulsion from international organisations
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION 158. Self-exposure to the elements 159. The fast a) Fast of moral pressure b) Hunger strike c) Satyagrahic fast 160. Reverse trial 161. Nonviolent harassment
SOCIAL INTERVENTION 174. Establishing new social patterns 175. Overloading of facilities 176. Stall-in 177. Speak-in 178. Guerrilla theatre 179. Alternative social institutions 180. Alternative communication system
ECONOMIC INTERVENTION 181. Reverse strike 182. Stay-in strike 183. Nonviolent land seizure 184. Defiance of blockades 185. Politically motivated counterfeiting 186. Preclusive purchasing 187. Seizure of assets 188. Dumping 189. Selective patronage 190. Alternative markets 191. Alternative transportation systems 192. Alternative economic institutions POLITICAL INTERVENTION 193. Overloading of administrative systems 194. Disclosing identities of secret agents 195. Seeking imprisonment 196. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws 197. Work-on without collaboration 198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government
Pick one and get on with it. I am using at least 30 of the methods listed above. Yes, it surprised me too.
And remember to have some fun while you're at it. Nowhere does it state that you have to be miserable when engaging in non-violent action.
At first glance the government's proposal for a 'paperless society' seems good: quicker, streamlined, tree-saving and cheaper with no more trips to the local job centre, doctor's surgery or finding you've just run out of stamps. For time-pressed people who have no trouble getting around on the internet it seems too good to be true - imagine being able to book an appointment at your doctor's surgery at two in the morning.
Reality check:
"Tens of thousands of public sector jobs will go". Go where? To the dole queue? Another created public sector job?
"Jobcentres, tax offices, DVLA local centres, passport offices and housing benefit offices will be phased out." Will the money raised go back into the public purse and be spent on projects that actually benefit British people and lift living standards?
The government's track record on IT projects is questionable to say the least; they're way overdue and vastly more expensive than original projections. Has one of them ever come in on time and on cost?
Restricted access: not everyone has broadband or even a computer.
Privacy issues - not only from data theft but the government itself.
Consider this:
"A unique identifier will allow citizens to apply for a place for their child at school, book a doctor’s appointment, claim benefits, get a new passport, pay council tax or register a car from their computer at home...the secure site will be expanded to allow people to interact with their children’s teachers or ask medical advice from their doctor through a government version of Facebook."
A unique identifier, your ISP logged, every movement between government departments tracked and collated. In theory some government jobsworth in a windowless office in Whitehall could have a red alert when you sneeze.
Tim Berners-Lee, Martha Lane-Fox and the Conservatives are on board.
The Alan Watt interview starts about 3 minutes in, with a preamble from Alex Jones. It lasts for two hours and starts slowly in the first video - but stick with it - Watt has done extensive research, is well read and manages to join some dots which escapes many of us. It makes you think outside of the box.
My only criticism of this interview is that Alex Jones constantly interrupts with manic rants. Irritating. He needs a lesson or two in self control! Alex is knowledgable, well read, dedicated and passionate, but he poisons his own well, to some degree, with his interviewing technique - if it can be called that!
But do listen to Watt.
Video 2 kicks off into the really interesting stuff, covering the origins of the Fabian Matrix-like construction which governs almost every area of our lives.
Watt goes on to predict where this Matrix is headed.
The Internet introduced to draw people into the 'Matrix'
I know many will regard this as tin-hattery. Maybe some of it is. But does the 'mainstream' media offer reality? Or truth? Or unbiased news? Did they report on the Lisbon Treaty? No. They either blacked it out or supported it - dissenters being ridiculed. It was only after the treaty was ratified that the MSM began reporting on it. Fat lot of use that was. Update: Similarly, the MSM pushed swine flu for all it was worth (billions, apparently) - and it turned out to be a massive, money-making hoax. The alternative media researched it, realised it was a hoax, and published accordingly.
The alternative media frequently breaks stories from whistleblowers - i.e., the information "they" don't want you to know. Their writers are frequently journalists disenchanted with the lack of investigative journalism in the MSM and tend to hail from academia. Sometimes, they are themselves whistleblowers.
My message is, read both alternative and 'mainstream'. Then decide for yourself. Think for yourself. Don't just accept what the establishment tells you. And likewise, don't just accept what the alternative media tells you. Do your own research. Then decide.
If you don't break out of the mould the 'elites' want you to be in, they control your thoughts and therefore, your life.
Then you cease to be an individual and might just as well sign up to the Borg Matrix and be done with it.
We cannot fight the power maniacs, the control freaks and the blood-sucking corporations if we play by their rules. They made the rules, so if you play by them, you lose. They weren't designed to be fair to you; they were designed to advantage the 'elites'.
Know yourself. Be your own person. Think for yourself. Take care of yourself - don't expect anyone to do it for you; that's just asking to be controlled.
The blogosphere and meeting places have been alight with anger, outrage, frustration. And questions about how to defeat our tyrannical 'masters' that make our lives a living hell.
Gandhi found non-compliance to be an effective tool to defeat his masters. And he was just one man.
Imagine what we could achieve, if we made a concerted effort, for a given number of days.
The fact is, the corporations want our money. The government needs our money. The 'mainstream' media are the mouthpieces of these monsters. And all of them are the cause of our misery.
If we starve them of it for a spell, how would that affect them?
We've lost the ability to think for ourselves because we've been programmed not to. If we cease to tune into their propaganda and instead, explore the alternative media, we see a different picture from the one they want us to see. We think for ourselves and join up the dots.
We have been little short of terrorised by their scare stories, their unwarranted use of and threat of force, their fines, their toxic products, their lies - to do their dirty bidding. They enrich themselves at our expense. Every time.
The Greeks and the Icelanders have woken up and taken action. The tyranny we face is on a par with theirs, if not greater, and yet we do bugger all about it. Our MPs don't give a jot - they're not listening to us. They're listening to their party whips, as they eye that juicy job within their grasp if they ignore us. So they do.
So let's learn from the Greeks, the Icelanders, Gandhi - and make our 'strike' international. After all, the entire civilised world is facing tyranny simultaneously.
And as Old Holborn says, we outnumber them. They cannot afford non-compliance on such a massive scale. Success frequently starts from small beginnings, as American patriots will tell you. As Gandhi demonstrated.
There comes a time when we have to say ENOUGH! NO MORE! Just like that lonesome chap did in Tiananmen Square (around 3:45 minutes into this video):
You have to wonder why our police are becoming militarised - all over the world - why the UN frequently deploys its 'peace-keeping' troops. Yes, troops - against civilians. Foreign troops who care nothing for those civilians - they're "just following orders". A government should never do that to its people. That is tyranny, as the Chinese knew only too well. They were expendable. Mere ants to be crushed underfoot.
Gandhi didn't set out to be a leader; he set out to make a point. He was earnest and determined and he got attention. People chose to follow his lead because he led from the front.
That is what our 'masters' fear. That is why they discourage us from congregating. That is why they attempt to set us against each other.
So we must do the opposite of what they want. Civilly. Lawfully. United.
What am I suggesting, then?
Karen Quinn-Tostado* has a plan - and I hope we can gather enough support around the world to follow her lead and act simultaneously. She has the answer. We send them all her aptly put message (somewhat Anglicised and embellished, here):
We show them that they can't control us for four days. We're going to do what we want, we're going to think what we want and we're going to think about what's really important.
We've forgotten that all we need is clean air, clean water, healthy food, self-sufficient communities - and integrity. We don't need the government for those things.
"We the people", are not responsible for repayment of speculative banking scams. We will not allow our children to be used as collateral for foreign debt.
Our constitution is ignored, our rights are violated, we are taxed without representation. As long as we go about our lives as usual, they win and we pay.
We the people say NO MORE.
Here's what we do from 15th April to 18th April:
1) No work, no school. Our future depends on restoring our rights. Plan ahead, ask for time off, use holiday days or whatever it takes. Get school assignments for your children, who will then be able to learn about our rights. If you feel you must go to work, then go! Participate in the other steps. Do what you can! Learn about our true rights.
It's a money game - they want ours. Time to change the rules.
2) No shopping - don't buy. Buy nothing from large corporations, fast food places, online stores, etc. Again, plan ahead for medications, petrol/diesel and food. If you have to shop, then go to local grocers and small family shops! If everyone keeps his money for 4 consecutive days, global bankers will notice.
3) Don't comply, take your £££s and savings out of large, corporate banks, leaving only what you need to cover monthly bills. Work at getting off the grid and forming co-ops within communities. We need each other and it will be our networking energy, as one, which will ensure success.
4) Ask Why. This is essential. Why are we allowing our constitution to be ignored? Why do our children have to sacrifice for banking scams? Why are we supporting policies that don't support us?
Then call your MPs and let them know you're participating in this strike and ask questions you feel are important. Then they will notice.
Imagine if citizens around the world joined Karen Quinn-Tostado's strike. Every one of us can dream that big when we remember that we've all been scammed and lied to by a criminal, dominant minority, who set us against each other, in war, in setting communities, races and sexes against each other, in neighbourhood spying, in so many ways.
We citizens should not be at war with each other. We should be at war with the corporate plunderers, the despots who believe they lead us, and the craven media who hide the truth from us and brainwash us with their lies. They are the enemy of the people.
We must empower ourselves, not ask for someone to save us.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed.
The part which is wrong will be discontented,
in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet
under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the
forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what
country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from
time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right
as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.
What signify a few lives lost in a century
or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed
from time to time, with the blood of patriots and
tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Thomas Jefferson
Our masters want a one world government. Let's give them a one world - but of citizens, united, proud, with a shared vision of liberty.
When I despair, I remember that all through history
the ways of truth and love have always won. There have
been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem
invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -always.
Prepare a text to send to top bloggers and alternative media sites around the world, who you know would be sympathetic to our cause. Copy text from this blog, if you like - I don't mind at all.
Visit a few top blogs, and copy their blogrolls. If you then paste those blogrolls into Word, Word will retain the hyperlinks, for you to use.
Most of these top blogs will have a means of contacting them - either an email address or an on-site contact form.
Paste your message text into the contact form, or click the email link and paste your message text.
Vary the message slightly, to suit your audience, if necessary.
If each of us sends just 5 such emails, to top sites, we might be in with a chance.
I sent 120 yesterday and it didn't take long. What price freedom? Isn't it worth the effort?
I've been on a health kick lately. Well, not quite true. I've always been on a health kick but over the last few months, it has occupied my mind and my time considerably.
So if my regular readers will indulge me, I'd like to share with you what I've learned from this fantastic herb (maca root) - and you might benefit from it too!
The info below was gleaned from a multitude of sources and obviously, I've not tested all of its benefits - for instance, the claim that it helps to cure cancer. But it's pretty amazing stuff, anyway!
Maca (Lepidium peruvianum Chacon) has an enormous number of benefits:
Promotes deeper sleep
Helps adapt to stress
Balances moods
Promotes mental clarity – enhances memory and brain function
Improves physical and emotional well-being
Increases energy levels, stamina & endurance (good for Chronic Fatigue)
Nourishes glandular system
Balances hormones
Slows the aging process
Prevents osteoporosis, (high calcium and vegetable protein)
Gives menopausal relief (like HRT) - in women
Improves libido and fertility
Restoring strength and increasing the libido: The Incan warriors took maca before going to battle to keep their bodies strong and ready for rigorous physical activity. However, they realised that the herb also increased their libido, so taking it after battle was forbidden, to protect the women from their sexual impulses. Word of maca’s power to restore strength and libido travelled to Europe, the United States and Japan, resulting in increased production and popularity. In Peru, the native Indians use Maca in most foods. E.g., the Peruvian marketplace has all types of Maca cookies, drinks, deserts etc.
Regulating the Endocrine system: Maca is a potent herb that regulates the endocrine system (glands that produce hormones necessary for essential body functions). Maca increases energy levels, encourages cell growth and stimulates metabolic functions. Its nutrients fuel the system and encourage natural hormone production.
Supporting the adrenal glands: Maca is an adaptogen and so helps maintain whole body health. Its calcium, fatty acids and vitamins B1, B2, B12 content aids digestion while its phosphorus and vitamins B12 and B1 work on the nervous system. Also, its alkaloid content helps the body assimilate all the nutrients it needs.
Helping to fight cancer: Maca contains glucosinolate and fibres that help prevent some forms of cancer. Its fatty acids help improve the immune system. It also lessens the the chance of getting rickets, osteomalacia and other bone diseases.
Relieving pain: Maca contains terpenoids and saponins which relieve pain and act as expectorant, sedative and analgesic. Its analgesic effect works not just on specific organs but on the whole body.
How to take it:
Take it all at once, or twice a day. Whatever suits you best.
Dosage:
Start with 2-4 teasponfuls a day. You'll feel a noticeable difference within a day or two. Increase or decrease the dose at will. Whatever suits you best.
People with major system imbalances, might want to gradually increase the dose by a teaspoonful a day until they feel a difference. You can decrease the dose by a teasponful a day until symptoms reappear to monitor what works best – but that’s entirely up to you.
The beneficial effects of Maca accumulate over time, although the amount required for optimal effect decreases over time for most people. E.g., a man starting on 6 teasponfuls a day might find that after 3-4 weeks he needs only 2-3 teasponfuls to achieve the same results. So, it’s best to take it for a period, cease for a period and so on, to maximise the body's response to it. E.g., on 12 weeks and off 1-4 weeks. If you like it too much to be without it for that long (!), take it 10-12 days on and 1-2 days off.
This allows the body to adjust to an improved level of functioning on its own.
Maca is an adaptogen. Russian Dr. Nicole Laserev discovered adaptogens during his study of a variety of plants that helped increase the body's natural resistance to environmental stresses - and named them “adaptogens”.
Adaptogens are easily absorbed, non-toxic, totally harmless, maintain whole-body function (balance) – they normalise it, regardless of physical, emotional or mental stresses.
Drugs usually have side effects, while adaptogens are of benefit and have no ill-effects.
General:
Maca is a wonderful dietary supplement. It doesn't replace hormones, but nourishes the hormonal system. You can start or stop taking it at any time.
Sportsmen take large doses (about 6-8 teasponfuls, 4-5 times a week) to increase stamina and performance naturally.
Should you prefer to buy it in powder form, rather in capsule form, there are plenty of recipes which benefit from the sort of honey/nut flavour it has.
You could sprinkle it on your muesli, mix it with fruit juices or green tea (although maca is more nutritious when unheated).
When the Irish were told to vote again, they were also told that they voted No the first time because they didn't understand the Lisbon Treaty, so the politicians would have to explain it to them. Pass the sick bag. That's a politician's usual mantra when wanting to ride roughshod over public opinion.
Why didn't they understand the Lisbon Treaty? Because it was deliberately made unreadable by the EUdeceivers , as Amato, quite clearly, said so himself. The Irish paid no heed.
Accountancy Age reveals that the Irish are now furious that they have been deceived over the EU's tax plans:
Plans for a flat rate of corporation tax across Europe have been panned [Ed: not "panned", not "planned"] by Ireland.
EU taxation commissioner Algirdas Semeta floated a plan last week to bring in a common consolidated corporate tax base which would make taxes on businesses the same across Europe.
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See, Ireland? They lied.
Detractors say this has come just months after EU mandarins promised there would be no fiscal changes in the pipeline which would affect Ireland.
Dana Rosemary Scallan, a No campaigner against the Lisbon Treaty told the Sunday Mirror: "A common tax rate was always the intention of the EU. Unfortunately, the eurocrats lie and they lied to us about that tax guarantee.
"Anyone who raised concerns about this was branded a scaremongerer. I hate to keep saying 'I told you so', but I've been warning this was coming since 1999. We've been deceived by Europe."
Yes, we told you so, too.
How will Ireland recovery now? Will it face being run by the EU, like Greece?
Perhaps, Ireland, you should have listened to Nigel Farage and UKIP- the few honest politicians we have.
Politicians are wordsmiths, most deriving from journalism, law and PR. Their craft is words. Those who believe what they say are fools. Judge them by what they do, not by what they say.
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." -- Winston Churchill
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK, John F Kennedy, 35th US President.
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