Being the change or being the same…

Being the change or being the same…

(The art of creativity or of subordination)

It would appear would it not, to even the untrained eye, that the people who claim to be responsible for the way this country is run and organised, have no intention of changing anything for the good of the people they apparently serve, the nation?

Add to that the Monarchy, (the Queen and her brood) and we have a clear picture of the wealth of this country being used not for anything to help the masses, but to actually deny them any real consolation for being loyal subjects.

Does governing for change and actually delivering initiatives that have negative impacts on the working classes constitute an active delivery of services and reform that the government say they wish to restore?

If you are looking for insight and understanding, please read on, I have much to offer by way of simple and reasoned arguments. I aim specifically to lay bare the hypocrisy that comes from the mouths of those officials and ministers whom have no genuine defence for their blatant disregard of humanity.

BUT A WARNING..!

If you are not ready to wake up and see the reality then please click back, and go back to the illusions you are being bombarded with on all of the media services, even the one I use to share this information with you. If you are keen to become awake however to the truth before our very eyes, then try to remain open minded, even about what I myself am saying. I am no enlightened being and have no greater capacity than anyone else to see the lies, yet I am writing this to try to share the ideas that many enlightened souls have already shared with us.

Define change:-

Collins on-line dictionary says:

change (tʃeɪndʒ  ) 

Definitions

verb

1. to make or become different; alter
2. (transitive) to replace with or exchange for another   ⇒  ■ to change one's name
3. sometimes foll by to or into to transform or convert or be transformed or converted

An illustration:

We are in a small house and the furniture in the living room is old fashioned and designed for a time gone by, when rooms were much more spacious. Add to this our family has grown and the seating is not sufficient to seat everyone comfortably in the evenings when the family are together.

If we are unhappy and or marginalised by these facts what could we do to restore happiness and or a sense of balance?

We need change!

Or we continue as we are and the suffering goes on too!

What could be done?

We could move house. We could remove all of the furniture and replace with bean bags. We could lower the amount of people sharing the space. We could schedule a rota for using the space equitably. We could knock the wall out into the adjacent room and make the space feel larger.

As you can clearly see, all of the above solutions require an alteration of some elements of the scenario.

CHANGE!

Effective change therefore, means that elements have to be altered significantly for the balance of peace and contentment to return. If not, then the same problems will arise again and again until something is done about them. And often the changes have to be so large that the initial feelings may be, of being overwhelmed by fear of that restoration. And here lies the real difficulty. Human beings are simultaneously afraid of change and constantly experiencing it.

But not everyone wants change.

There are certain people whom require things to stay as they are, but the appearance of change to be promulgated to appease the masses and their’ need to feel they are receiving some element of reward for their continued obedience. Those people are so devious that they openly say that they want to make things better for everyone whilst actually really only serving the wants and desires of themselves, which is ultimately at the expense and suffering of the rest of the population, and not a true delivery of the promises that their empty words express. You all know who they are, we all see them constantly proclaiming their servitude to you and I, but in secret (and often not so secret) they act without regard or respect to the people they claim to serve. Yes you’ve guessed it, politicians. Leaders of industry and enforcement agencies, protection services and health care. At many levels the abuse is rife and continues to reward only the obscenely greedy. In this those whom carry on this activity are copying the governmental leaders and maintaining the effects of this selfishness, not eliminating it.

We’ve all heard about the expenses scandals of the ‘house of commons’ and the ‘house of Lords’. We see corporations paying nothing or very little into the pot that they take so much from. We see the Monarchy offering a bare minimum of effort to entertain the idea of democracy whilst taking vast sums of taxpayers’ money to live the extravagant lifestyles they continue. And we have to listen to them bleating on about ‘living with our means’, as if they really understand what that actually means at all….

You may hear in my tone a sense of scathing disrespect, but I assure you that it is in fact nothing more than righteous indignation at the inequality and injustice of this situation. As human beings I have total respect for these people, but not their hypocritical activities. As in fact I would expect to suffer the accusatory eye, if I did not myself try to live a more decent and honourable life.  But my friends, this is the way that our country and our world operates, gross inadequacies and blatant disrespect for all human dignity, promoted and instigated largely by the highest earners and the most senior figures of established organisations and government.

Please do your own research there is plenty of information available if you care to look for it. In fact there is an abundance of it under reported on a daily basis by the established media and the only way you’ll probably find out the real truth is if someone like me shares it with you.

What has the government promised:-

To stop corporations evading their due taxes and duties.

To find and bring to justice the people who caused our economic collapse.

To find and bring to justice the leaders of terrorist groups and promoters of terrorist acts.

To seek peaceful means to resolve conflict.

To uphold human rights and punish violators of them.

To bring prosperity to all the subjects of our country.

To maintain justice as a foundation of our democracy.

To deliver effective care for the poor and needy.

To deliver affordable homes and services to the people of our country.

To make trade a fair and interactive consideration.

The list could go on for days…

What have they delivered/honoured:-

Made no attempts to ask the corporations to pay their dues or leave our country. Put nothing in place to force them to do so. Made no attempts to embargo the operations of these companies within our territories. Had no inquiry into these corporations activities in the U.K.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/06/cadburys-owner-paid-no-uk-tax-last-year

They have made no arrests of the heads of these banks or their risk taking managers. Made little inquiry into the freedoms that these individuals had in their roles. Allowed the Bank of England, a privately owned company to operate a mafia style control over our finances and dictate who gets what and when.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/dec/28/markets-credit-crunch-banking-2008

Have made a big song and dance about the ‘Terrorists’ and their organisations and gone after them in a style unprecedented in previous generations, by desolating country after country, murdering tens of thousands of innocent people and leaving millions more to fend for themselves in a vacuum of instability. Spent an unfathomable amount of taxpayers money to do so, WITHOUT our agreement. Ignored human rights in this pursuance, and fed arms companies with trade and replenishment of our arsenals. And the biggest of all of the disrespectful statements and actions they have done is to totally disregard the dictionaries definition of what terrorist means. Our government are not acting legally, by mandate of the people, and are by definition TERRORISTS themselves. And people who have been known to have been involved in these activities have not been brought to any kind of justice or accountability.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/25/tony-blair-sorry-iraq-war-mistakes-admits-conflict-role-in-rise-of-isis

terrorist (ˈtɛrərɪst  ) 

Definitions

noun

1. 1. a person who employs terror or terrorism, esp as a political weapon

terror (ˈtɛrə  ) 

Definitions

noun

1. great fear, panic, or dread
2. a person or thing that inspires great dread
3. (informal) a troublesome person or thing, esp a child
4. terrorism

terrorism (ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm  ) 

Definitions

noun

1. systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal
2. the act of terrorizing
3. the state of being terrorized

The government are well known to have avoided any peaceful means of conflict resolution in favour of military action ahead of any reasonable debates, fed the nation lies as facts to somehow support their interventions, and disregarded clear evidence to the contrary that, military intervention would indeed stop any war. Many campaign groups and individuals who have tirelessly worked to reveal evidence and display the real reasons for war have been disregarded, verbally abused and even interfered with in the pursuance of our government conducting illegal and immoral warfare. Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Stop the War, C.N.D and many others.
Stop the war   Campaign for Nuclear Dissarmament   Julian Assange

Bradley/Chelsea Manning    Edward Snowden

Our government continues to support regimes that are the worst offenders of human rights violations and have done nothing of any significance to bring any violators to the forum for justice. The U.S.A. and Guantanamo Bay. Saudi Arabia. Even our own intelligence services as a few examples.

The austerity measures enforced upon us have not created significant expansions of the jobs markets, created fair trade, brought prosperity and any heightened levels of success to the millions of people out of work, those seeking a hope for their survival. The wealth of the nation has not been more reasonable shared, nor used to create any activities that would ease the ongoing suffering of millions of people, desperately seeking food and shelter and a chance to live without fear of shortage. They have neither invested the countries money into any schemes that are observably sharing wealth or well-being with anyone but the rich. The wealth of the top 1% of earners has been seen to have doubled over the past decade, despite everyone else having austerity enforced upon them.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/26/recession-rich-britains-wealthiest-double-net-worth-since-crisis

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/13/half-world-wealth-in-hands-population-inequality-report

The justice system of this country once an avid upholder of justice, has seen expensive trials paid for by the taxpayers, bring no-one to account for the deaths of many innocent people, Diana Spencer and Dodi Fayed the most obvious to note. A large number of serving politicians, accused of child sex offences, are being allowed to go unquestioned to this very day about these allegations.  The expenses scandals are quickly swept under the carpet as few politicians are brought to trial for the crimes of deception that they sometimes knowingly commit.

The governments of this country have for decades been undoing the effectiveness of the services provided, claiming that there is not enough money to deliver decent health care, or social care or amenities on the budgets they have, whilst selling the national responsibility to private companies who run solely for profit above service. And they continue to spend vast sums of money on the armed forces and foreign wars instead of tackling the lack of funding for what the people of this country really need. Better health care, education and public services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

The governments’ current policies on affordable homes is insufficient and way behind target. The houses being built are substandard and have not been designed with sustainability, the environment or the needs of modern families in mind. They are neither really affordable for working people, who now spend almost half if not more of their income on their accommodational needs. Few working couples/people can actually afford the repayments for these houses, even if they can get the deposits and move in. The amount of repossessions of properties is clear evidence of this fact.

In the pursuance of making trade fair the government are pushing through the TTIP, TPP which are secretly negotiated trade deals benefitting hugs corporations across the globe, whom will then act with only self interest to their shares and profits, and even sue countries who seek to challenge their dominance and control of the trade markets. All of this in secret with no comeback by ordinary people, thus making both democracy and human rights a thing of the past.
TTIP

To balance out this somewhat scathing inference that our leaders and Monarchy care little about you and I, let’s look at what they actually do for us, to demonstrate their servitude to us, or their role of our spiritual heads of religion or social justice.

Oh there are none…

Unless you consider the mismanagement of every national service that were once the pride of the modern world. Rail and bus services, health and social care services. Broadcasting and journalism, trade and utility services…..

We’re totally buggered to be fair. The only freedom you currently have is breathing, and even that is being affected by the dropping of harmful chemicals into the skies above us. Our water and food intakes are being irrevocably interfered with, again for corporate needs to be met rather than our actual need being met. Every movement of our day is monitored by forces unseen but powerfully aware of where we are and what we are doing. We are forced to work longer hours for less pay and with fewer benefits and services to compensate, to keep a system alive that is at the end of its days. The capitalist system has collapsed and the reality has just not hit home yet. The lie that it will ever reward all those willing to invest in it is crumbling before our very eyes, only the completely ignorant do not see or believe this. The overwhelming evidence that a resource based economy cannot outlive a finite based resource world is beyond question. And yet the illusion is upheld as they squirrel away more and more supplies for the collapse that they know is being understood and will be witnessed very soon.

Be aware, your government do not have your best interests at heart nor do they serve you. If they did you would feel it and see it in evidence, and there would be no need for anyone to suffer needlessly, now would there?

There are still people who are aiming to help reorganise this structure and uphold decency and justice, but they are few and far between it would seem, and have little access to the spaces where real change could be implemented on a large scale. Caroline Lucas and a handful of other politicians are the small vestiges of hope left in that arena.

I’m not a ‘huge’ fan of Russell Brand for many reasons, but on occasion he does make quite resounding if not comical sense of the establishment and its’ hypocrisies, for there are many. Please follow the link here:

It is in my humble opinion worth a few minutes of your day.

Please take some time to review what I am saying, the reasons for my saying it, and the choices you may make as a result of these considerations. It is within your hands to make the changes you wish to see in the world. If you are happy as things are and don’t want to do anything about it, then that’s also your freedom of choice, so don’t be disappointed if others make your choices for you without your consent.

And most importantly, have a great day in the full knowledge that your destiny is in your hands. It’s not what you think that matters, it is what you do…..

Have you the courage to be Daring?

Then Click this link…

Love and Peace.

The times are changing but we don't change....

The times are changing but we don't change....

I had once thought that human beings were moving towards a point of great enlightenment. That social justice would become a 'norm' and not have to be fought for. And then I find myself flabbergasted at the results of the elections in Britain all over again. Ordinary people took to the streets in their millions to vote back in the same party that have systematically, been removing all the blocks to getting away with murder, and devastating the planet and the hope of continued life here on it. Now of course the Tories are not the only ones who have failed to deal adequately with, really important and imminent global issues that threaten to depopulate the planet of human beings en-mass. In some places we haven't even conceded that we are to blame for the climate changes and global green house gas emissions, that are wrecking the air supply and heating up the polar ice caps at such a rate that we may all be drowned in a few decades.

It seems to me to be ludicrous that few people, were prepared to end the greed and corruption of the past centuries and bring about wholesome changes, that could benefit the entire global community, not just the few. Like you I no doubt seem shocked that the evidence has yet again been ignored, and that we have accelerated away from the responsibility to do something quickly and avert the disaster we are causing with our greedy politics and solely financial based economies. Many people in our history warned us of the effects of this corruption if we did not stop it. Sadly we do not appear to heed anything, and my observations still tell me that we are past the point of getting it back on track with any haste. A big part of me feels overwhelmed at our collective stupidity and lack of wisdom. The main part of me feels ineffective against an obvious enemy for change, that has crushed many of us in the wake of its tireless abandon for world domination and human extinction. 

Don't we get it that if we don't react quickly we are outa here, no future for the children of the world or their children?

If I were wrong (and I sincerely wish I were) then why doesn't the evidence show this is not the case? 

Some part of me, a very tiny yet equally powerful part, still believes in miracles, and that we could stop this madness if we wanted. I don't see the majority of people recognising this and it makes me feel quite helpless and dejected, and this bothers me. We don't have the want of ending the possibility our own extinction. So what good has all of this technology, education and money done for us, if we learn nothing?

I'm standing on a road, crossing to the safety of the meadow by the woods and suddenly a large truck is heading down the road and my legs become rooted to the spot. The driver sees me and accelerates towards me but I can't move, so powerless do I feel in the fear I have been indoctrinated with, to challenge the way things are. Fate is a sick joke and I know I ought not believe in this lie, but it rings in my ears as the truck thunders closer with each passing second. Suddenly I spy a small child crossing alongside me and they too become frightened in to not moving out of the way of the Juggernaut. I sense the wrongness of the death of this child, ahead of my own demise, but still cannot move. Time slows down and I realise we are both going to be smashed to pieces under the sheer weight of the oncoming truck. Then somehow I look to my left and begin to see so many others all stood helplessly stranded and shaking with fear. I hear thudding in my ears and the sound of the lorry becomes deafening, closing in. There is nothing right or good or even fair about this, and I am more frightened than I have ever been in my entire life. This, beyond anything I have ever known scares me more, my failure to respond to certain destruction and an end to all that I hold dear. Closing my eyes will not stop this oppression, nor will it avert the fate I am told will come, but close them I do in the certain knowledge that life is over and that nothing can change this.

Then a thought occurs and I immediately feel hopeful. If I chose a new reality I will not have to suffer the eventuality that will take my life away. Love fills me. Love of others ahead of myself and a chance to show how change can be good for us. My legs begin to move and before I realise it I am running towards the truck bearing down on us, with renewed faith in the power of love. I run with all the strength that is within me, and throw myself high into the air as I reach impact point with the truck and its crazed driver. In his eyes I suddenly see fear, fear that my doing something other than what he expected me to do fills him with shock and surprise. He realises I am not afraid, and that he cannot hurt me now in my sacrifice, but that I can hurt him as I come in through the windscreen. In a swift movement he swerves away and crashes his vehicle into the grasses at the kerbside as I fall softly back to the ground and smile.

I run over to the truck to help the driver despite the hatred I had witnessed in his actions only moments ago. He looks small, stunned and himself helpless as I offer a hand to help him from the wreckage. He clearly doesn't know what to say as those that he would also have killed come along to offer him kindness. The child that was by my side, is now carrying a flower and places this softly in the hands of the driver and says to be more careful in future. Smiling the child moves away to find their family, singing and skipping full of innocence and joy.

Nothing can deter the power of love, for when the power of love overcomes the love of power we all will know peace.

Holding grudges is part of the problem with why we are fighting in the first place. Being greedy and selfish is a misguided response to a lack of what we believe we are missing out on. We deserve what we give to others. If this is violence then we beget more violence. If we mistrust and base our actions on this, then we are to be mistrusted. The cycle is continued whilst we continue with it. If we let it go, it could eventually be gone. Challenge the world by all means, but do it with love and not fear, and watch the love come back. The world we have helped to create is exactly the way it is because of us and our expectations. Those that thought that they have a right to more than anyone else, have created the scenario where greed can exist. If we shared what is here, what was here long before we came about, then the argument about more or less would be pointless. Abundance can only exist if we create the place to have abundance for all. Otherwise it is not abundance at all but greed. 

The Native Americans knew that the earth does not belong to us, that we belong to it. 

So people, please, let's stop squabbling over land and possessions and be the kind of people who care for others and who can share what is given to us for free. Life should not be a debt we have to pay for, but a right that we can all enjoy. I'm done now, so you can make your own minds up, and guess what? 

I'll still believe that Love is stronger than any other gift.

Much Love and Peace....

Getting to grips with the ‘W’ word.

Getting to grips with the ‘W’ word.

Isn’t it politically that the elephant in the room always seems to be the why word?

If like me you are always bereft as to the reasons for things not working out as you had hoped/believe they would or had been told they would, then isn’t it just the most sensible option to ask the question that could lead to an understanding of the issues before you?

If we are not courageous enough to ask, then will we ever know the reality of how valuable truth and clarity is?

As the election looms upon us and many party leaders vie for a spotlight to deliver their rhetoric on how things could be better, I would urge each and every one of us to ask with un-faultering voice and in one accord, why things are not already working as we were promised on numerous occasions of the past.

Whilst we are listening now to all of the conversations about policy and what the problems are, we would do well to investigate the reasons behind the fact that, we are actually having to deal with many of these topics in the first place.  We are now in the twenty first century and have a wealth of catalogued history and record keeping at our disposal to review and evaluate strategies, what has and hasn’t worked socially and economically throughout all that time. It would seem that since the live debate last week that almost none of the party leaders can stand to discuss the real issues we as a nation and civilization on the planet face, whilst they first have to get the economy and its ramifications out into the open and say what they will do to get it back on track. What about Climate change? Haven’t they understood that without a planet, air to breath and water to drink, we as a species are on our way out along with the Black Rhinoceros, that I recently heard has now joined the myriads of others this past century. There will be no economy without a place for that or resources to trade with one another, or people.

I find it sad that nearly all of them except Natalie Bennet, made it abundantly clear that we (the collective ‘we’ that is now responsible for the devastating  effects from the problems caused predominantly by the one percent) don't have to pay back our debts before any real changes can happen and we can tackle the daily issues that most of the population of our once great nation have to face. Incidentally the people that have caused the financial state of our country are also the same one percent, whom never appear to be paying any of their profits back into the system that they have helped to break, and restore the balance of fairness and trade. Well why should they, justice and the law is not able to make them do this?

If the economy were so important then why does the debt seem so great that if we worked for a hundred years we could never ever pay it back? Surely the maths doesn’t add up, and George Osbournes figures have not been transparent enough to show these truths to his voting public. Please look a little harder and you will see the truth. The Fiat money fractional reserve system is set up to never be paid off. Debt is the only way it can, and has worked so far. The growth that these leaders are always talking about, is the way they cover the lie that productivity can continue the way it is forever, when clearly the facts show that in a finite resource commodity market, eventually things will run out. And this includes the food service and air and water reserves we have and need to continue living here on mother earth. They are abundant but currently being harvested as if they will last forever, yet they are in fact depleting at an alarming rate globally.

So if these arguments come even close to the reasonableness that I believe they do, couldn’t we discover the reasons why we have not learned anything from our combined and collective review of history and the lack of wisdom we had already shown many times before?

Why do we not look at what we have done and discuss seriously and openly the lessons we should have learned and what we will subsequently do to alter the outcomes we have faced?

Let me share with you something that I have looked at, and have subsequently taken a dedicated stand towards based on its wise council.

There is something, the knowing of which would change everything.

What is that something?

What about, if we do what we have always done, we’ll get what we always got.

In these two phrases I see the wisdom of not continuing with policies, actions, or even patterns of behaviour that are not working for the good of all people, given that all politicians say this is their most important mission in taking the stands that they do. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realise that if you harm others, indirectly you are also hurting yourself. That if you are greedy and selfish and don’t pay any care to the needs of others, then they will suffer and subsequently so will you too. The ripples of the pond go out and often we cannot know where they cause an effect. How we treat others will inevitably come back to reflect upon us, both for the good and the negative. I hate to sound like a preacher, but I do think that somewhere deep within each of us, we need some guidance on how to see what is before our eyes and how to interpret that information and make it beneficial for everyone. Look within yourselves and feel the connectivity that has been the only way we have ever been great on this planet.

It may be that when we ask why, we find that certain aspect of our behaviour come out to sully our reputations and make us look selfish. It may be that we are saddened by the answers and what this says about us as a race, a species and as a dominant inhabitant on the earth. We may even see how hypocritical we really are. But most importantly we may see that we are in fact not doing anything close to what we say we are, or could do for the benefit of the inhabitants of the earth as a whole.

In terms of the political debate in this current arena of transparency when we ask why there are people suffering, why there are wars and why treatments are not available to those without financial resource, that we see how poor we really are in achieving such noble goals. Is it not because we make money the driver of all we do, that we achieve only limited success? May it not be that if we put people ahead of profiteering that the standard of living and the access to security and wellbeing would automatically increase ten fold?

Ok, so maybe what I am asking you to consider is way too utopian and simplistic. But is it not beholden upon each and every one of us to at least strive to understand the answers to questions that never seem to have been answered by politicians clearly and effectively. Have a quick look at the debates in the houses of commons on television and decide if it doesn’t remind you of a school ground and not the seat of democratic representation. The ceremonies take so long that the debates get a few minutes of consideration per vote, and so what really matters is demeaned to a level not fit for the welfare of people of our nation.

To end I would like to ask just one more brace of questions that will fit in with the title of this article. I hope that you will go away and let this all sink in before you come back with a recourse and more searching questions.

WHY do we as a nation spend far more money, give far more of our attention to warfare and strategies that devastate and end lives of humans and animals than those initiatives to save lives and help people live in security and abundance?

And WHY do we not make love the law and hate the enemy of the state?

Thank you for reading and I hope that we can enter into an open and balanced discussion about your findings of these and many  questions that I hope it has raised in you.

To ask why, is not a crime. It is almost the first thing we repeatedly asked our parents as children, for our enquiring minds needed those answers. And maybe they still do….

Look for the Green in your soul.

Love and Peace.

Peaceful Warrior.