tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64204172024-03-07T04:05:25.878+00:00ReflectionsReflections on life, politics, science, philosophy and morespeakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-79829643347512728752016-05-25T02:58:00.001+01:002016-05-25T02:58:04.947+01:00The Press Is Complicit In Covering Up Bad News In EU Referendum<div style="text-align: justify;">
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speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-21010764221763152162016-04-11T14:08:00.000+01:002016-04-12T01:05:37.873+01:00Actions Of EU Really Do Speak For ThemselvesWhichever way one looks at it and whatever the truth or otherwise of various arguments and contentious claims made by campaigners on both sides of the EU Referendum debate, it is the actions of the EU elite that speak loudest and most truthfully. Whatever anyone says, the introduction of a supra-government has been carried out largely by stealth in a step by step process with each new treaty reinforcing the authority of EU institutions over sovereign states. This is undeniable.<br />
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Seldom mentioned is the fact that the Cold War ended decades ago. The European landscape is now quite different to what it was post WWII. There is no longer a war of ideologies between capitalism and communism. It is also a fact that Russia is a geographical part of the European continent and its interests are not served by war but by trade and co-operation with Europe. This is just plain common sense.<br />
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However, the political ambitions of the federalists can only be furthered, if they maintain the pretence that Russia remains the major threat to European and indeed world peace. Hence the constant demonisation of Putin and Russia, continues unabated in the western media and political chambers of Europe and particularly in the U.S. for whom Russia is the "arch" threat to its own hegemony. The Wolfowitz Doctrine makes this very clear.<br />
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It is also a fact that Political Union has never been, is not, nor ever will be, a pre-requisite for trade, co-operation on any level, including security, free movement, marriage, sex, happiness or anything else.<br />
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It is however a pre-requisite for the centralisation of power in ever fewer hands and the eventual and inevitable dissolution of nation states. The question is who does this benefit the most, the European people or those whose ambition it is, to exert their control over the political, institutional and corporate levers of power?<br />
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The "doctrine" of "ever closer political union" is just that, a doctrine. It really has nothing to do with economics. That is the illusionary bait, the pretext that facilitates the political agenda. It is principally about power and too much power in anyone's hands is never in the interests of people, in Europe or anywhere else.<br />
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This project is about geo-political dominance not of or by Europe but by the United States of America, using Europe as its frontline pawn, to keep any emerging powers that might threaten its world dominance in check. The destabilising actions of the USA and its proxy allies, in the Middle East, Ukraine, Africa and China Seas are designed to undermine emerging powers and Russia in particular. This is the bigger game in play.<br />
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We the people of Europe are the sacrificial lambs in this deadly geopolitical game. What we have to decide is whether we are going to submit to this lunacy or start a much better game and exercise our own power and pursue the values that really matter to us; peace, co-operation and friendship built on trust and mutual interest and not just the self interest of the money changers and their compliant political elites.<br />
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So let us make our voices loudly, clearly, unequivocally heard and let us say, no more. Enough is enough. We are no one's sacrificial lamb. We see through the fog of hypocrisy and the smoke and mirrors and we definitively reject these false self serving political philosophies that have brought the world to the abyss. We demand something much better and far more intelligent.<br />
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Earlier today we posted a <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/03/viktor-orban-the-time-has-come-for-opposition-and-resistance/" style="border: 0px; color: #473624; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">video with a subtitled excerpt</a> of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech on March 15. Below is the full translated text of his speech (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fWYwsuEgw" style="border: 0px; color: #473624; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">video of the full speech</a>; <a href="http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-speeches/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-on-15-march" style="border: 0px; color: #473624; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">original source for the text</a>):</div>
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“Salutations to you, Hungarian freedom, on this the day you are born!”</div>
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Compatriots, Hungarians around the World,</div>
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With a cockade sewn by Júlia Szendrey pinned to his chest, a volume of poems in his pocket, and the still thrilling experience of the Revolution in his head, these are the words with which the poet Sándor Petőfi welcomed the fifteenth of March in his journal. Salutations to you, Hungarian freedom, on this the day you are born! And today also, one hundred and sixty-eight years later, it is with unfettered joy, the optimism of early spring, high hopes and an elevated spirit that across the Carpathian Basin we celebrate — from Beregszász to Szabadka, from Rimaszombat to Kézdivásárhely: every Hungarian with one heart, one soul and one will.</div>
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Just as then in the decisive battles of the Freedom Fight, now also Hungarian hearts are cheered by the fact that we have with us a Polish legion. I welcome the spirited successors of General Bem: we welcome the sons of the Polish nation. As always throughout our shared thousand-year history, now, too, we are standing by you in the battle you are fighting for your country’s freedom and independence. We are with you, and we send this message to Brussels: more respect to the Polish people, more respect to Poland! Greetings to you. It is a sign of the shared fate of Poland and Hungary that another glorious revolution of ours — that of 1956 — was born between the Bem Statue and Kossuth tér in Budapest. It rose up with the unstoppable force of our glorious ancestors, and by the evening it had dragged the Soviet generalissimo out of his boots.</div>
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By nature, Hungarians stand up for what is right when the need arises. What is more, they fight for it if needs be, but do not seek out trouble for its own sake. They know that they can often achieve more through patience than through sabre-rattling. This is why those like us are rarely given to revolutions. We have only gone down that path twice in one hundred and seventy years. When we did follow that path, we had reason to do so: we felt that our lungs would burst if we could not breathe in freedom. We threw ourselves into it, and once we had started a revolution, we did so in style. Modern European history has preserved both Hungarian revolutions among the glorious memories of the world: two blazing stars, two national uprisings bursting forth in 1848 and 1956 from Hungarian aspirations and Hungarian interests. Glory to the heroes, honour to the brave. Chroniclers have also recorded the revolution of 1918-19, but the memories of that period are not preserved on the pages of glory; indeed, not only are those memories written on different pages, but they appear in a different volume altogether. The 1918-19 revolution can be found in the volume devoted to Bolshevik anti-Hungarian subversions launched in the service of foreign interests and foreign ambitions; it features under the heading “appalling examples of intellectual and political degeneracy”. Yes, we Hungarians have two revolutionary traditions: one leads from 1848, through 1956 and the fall of communism, all the way to the Fundamental Law and the current constitutional order; the bloodline of the other tradition leads from Jacobin European ancestors, through 1919, to communism after World War II and the Soviet era in Hungary. Life in Hungary today is a creation of the spiritual heirs and offspring of the ‘48 and ‘56 revolutions. Today, as then, the heartbeat of this revolutionary tradition moves and guides the nation’s political, economic and spiritual life: equality before the law, responsible government, a national bank, the sharing of burdens, respect for human dignity and the unification of the nation. Today, as then, the ideals of ‘48 and ‘56 are the pulse driving the life force of the nation, and the intellectual and spiritual blood flow of the Hungarian people. Let us give thanks that this may be so, let us give thanks that finally the Lord of History has led us onto this path. Soli Deo gloria!</div>
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Not even the uplifting mood of a celebration day can let us forget that the tradition of 1919, too, is still with us — though fortunately its pulse is just a faint flicker. Yet at times it can make quite a noise. But without a host animal, its days are numbered. It is in need of another delivery of aid from abroad in the form of a major intellectual and political infusion; unless it receives this, then after its leaves and branches have withered, its roots will also dry up in the Hungarian motherland’s soil, which is hostile to internationalism. And this is all well and good.</div>
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A decent person who raises his children and works hard to build the course of his life does not usually end up as a revolutionary. The right-thinking person who stands on his own two feet and has control over his future knows that upheavals and the sudden upending of the ordinary course of life rarely ends well. The person of goodwill who seeks a life of serene and peaceful progress knows that trying to take two steps at once leads to your tripping over your own legs, and instead of moving forward, you will land flat on your face. And yet these right-thinking people of goodwill, these upstanding citizens of Pest instantly rallied to the call of our revolutions, marching at the front, right behind the university students. They formed the backbone of the revolutions and freedom fights, and they were to pay with their own blood for the honour of the Hungarian people. Every revolution is like the people who make it. On the committee which oversaw order during the 15 March revolution, in the shadow of the colossal figures of Petőfi and Vasvári, we find the furrier Máté Gyurkovics, and the button-maker György Molnár. Our revolutions were led by respectable citizens, military officers, lawyers, writers, doctors, engineers, honest tradespeople, farmers and workers with a sense of national duty: Hungarians who embodied the nation’s best aspects, our homeland’s very best. Hungarian revolutionaries are not warriors for hare-brained ideologies, deranged utopias or demented, unsolicited plans for world happiness; in Pest you find no traces of the illusory visions of quack philosophers or the raging resentment of failed intellectuals. The revolutionaries of 1848 did not want to salvage stones from the ruins of absolutist oppression in order to build a temple to yet another tyranny; therefore the Hungarian revolution’s songs were not written in honour of the steel blade of the guillotine or the rope of the gallows. Our songs are not sung by lynch mobs or execution-thirsty crowds; the Pest revolution is not a hymn to chaos, revenge, or butchery. The 1848 Revolution is a solemn and dignified moment in our history, when the wounds of the glorious Hungarian nation opened once again. Springing from constitutional roots, it demanded the granting and return of the rights seized from and denied to the nation. It is exhilarating, but sober; ecstatic but practical; glorious, but temperate. It is Hungarian to the core.</div>
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Three weeks before his death in battle, in his last letter to János Arany, Sándor Petőfi asked the following question: “So what are you going to do?” When we, his modern descendants, read this, it is as if he is asking us the same question. So what are you going to do? How will you make use of your inheritance? Are the Hungarian people still worthy of their ancestors’ reputation? Do you know the law of the Hungarians of old — that whatever you do should not only be measured by its utility, but also by universal standards? This is because your deeds must pass the test not only here, but also in eternity.</div>
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We have our inheritance, the Hungarian people still exist, Buda still stands, we are who we were, and we shall be who we are. Our reputation travels far and wide; clever people and intelligent peoples acknowledge the Hungarians. We adhere to the ancient law, and also measure our deeds by universal standards. We teach our children that their horizon should be eternity. Whether we shall succeed, whether finally we see the building of a homeland which is free, independent, worthy and respected the world over — one which was raised high by our forebears from 1848, and for which they sacrificed their lives — we cannot yet know. We do know, however, that the current European constellation is an unstable one, and so we have some testing times ahead. The times in which we live press us with this question, which is like a hussar’s sabre held to our chest: “Shall we live in slavery or in freedom?” The destiny of the Hungarians has become intertwined with that of Europe’s nations and has grown to be so much a part of the union that today not a single people — including the Hungarian people — can be free if Europe is not free. And today Europe is as fragile, weak and sickly as “a flower being eaten away by a hidden worm.” Today, 168 years after the great Wars of Independence of the European peoples, Europe, our common home is not free! </div>
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Europe is not free. Because freedom begins with speaking the truth. Today in Europe it is forbidden to speak the truth. Even if it is made of silk, a muzzle is a muzzle. It is forbidden to say that those arriving are not refugees, but that Europe is threatened by migration. It is forbidden to say that tens of millions are ready to set out in our direction. It is forbidden to say that immigration brings crime and terror to our countries. It is forbidden to point out that the masses arriving from other civilizations endanger our way of life, our culture, our customs and our Christian traditions. It is forbidden to point out that those who arrived earlier have have already built up their own new, separate world for themselves, with its own laws and ideals, which is forcing apart the thousand-year-old structure of Europe. It is forbidden to point out that this is not an accidental and unintentional chain of consequences, but a preplanned and orchestrated operation; a mass of people directed towards us. It is forbidden to say that in Brussels they are concocting schemes to transport foreigners here as quickly as possible and to settle them here among us. It is forbidden to point out that the purpose of settling people here is to reshape the religious and cultural landscape of Europe, and to reengineer its ethnic foundations. — thereby eliminating the last barrier to internationalism: the nation-states. It is forbidden to say that Brussels is now stealthily devouring more and more slices of our national sovereignty, and that in Brussels many are now making a plan for a United States of Europe — for which no one has ever given authorisation.</div>
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Today’s enemies of freedom are cut from a different cloth than the royal and imperial rulers of old, or those who ran the Soviet system; they use a different set of tools to force us into submission. Today they do not imprison us, they do not transport us to concentration camps, and they do not send in tanks to occupy countries loyal to freedom. Today the international media’s artillery bombardments, denunciations, threats and blackmail are enough — or rather, have been enough so far. The peoples of Europe are slowly awakening, they are regrouping, and will soon regain ground. Europe’s beams that rest on the suppression of truth are creaking and cracking. The peoples of Europe may have finally understood that their future is at stake: Now not only are their prosperity, cosy lives, jobs at stake, but our very security and the peaceful order of our lives are menaced as well. At last, the peoples of Europe, who have been slumbering in abundance and prosperity, have understood that the principles of life that Europe has been built on are in mortal danger. Europe is the community of Christian, free, and independent nations; equality of men and women; fair competition and solidarity; pride and humility; justice and mercy.</div>
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This time the danger is not attacking us the way wars and natural disasters do, suddenly pulling the rug from under our feet. Mass migration is a slow stream of water persistently eroding the shores. It is masquerading as a humanitarian cause, but its true nature is the occupation of territory. And what is gaining territory for them is losing territory for us. Flocks of obsessed human rights defenders feel the overwhelming urge to reprimand us and to make allegations against us. Allegedly we are hostile xenophobes, but the truth is that the history of our nation is also one of inclusion. and the history of intertwining of cultures. Those who have sought to come here as new family members, as allies, or as displaced persons fearing for their lives have been let in to make a new home for themselves. But those who have come here with the intention of changing our country, shaping our nation in their own image, those who have come with violence and against our will, — have always been met with resistance. </div>
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At first, they talk about only a few hundred, a thousand or two thousand relocated people. But not a single responsible European leader would dare to swear under oath that this couple of thousand will not eventually increase to tens or hundreds of thousands. If we want to halt this mass migration, first we must curb Brussels. The main danger to Europe’s future does not come from those who want to come here, but from Brussels’ fanatical internationalism. We should not allow Brussels to place itself above the law. We shall not allow it to force upon us the bitter fruit of its cosmopolitan immigration policy. We shall not import to Hungary crime, terrorism, homophobia and synagogue-burning anti-Semitism. There shall be no urban districts beyond the reach of the law, there shall be no mass disorder, No immigrant riots here, and there shall be no gangs hunting down our women and daughters. We shall not allow others to tell us whom we can let into our home and country, whom we will live alongside, and with whom we will share our country. We know how these things go. First we allow them to tell us whom we must take in, then they force us to serve foreigners in our own country. In the end we find ourselves being told to pack up and leave our own land. Therefore we reject the forced resettlement scheme, and we shall tolerate neither blackmail, nor threats.</div>
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The time has come to ring the warning bell. The time has come for opposition and resistance. The time has come to gather allies to us. The time has come to raise the flag of proud nations. The time has come to prevent the destruction of Europe, and to save the future of Europe. To this end, regardless of party affiliation, we call on every citizen of Hungary to unite, and we call on every European nation to unite. The leaders and citizens of Europe must no longer live in two separate worlds. We must restore the unity of Europe. We the peoples of Europe cannot be free individually if we are not free together. If we unite our forces, we shall succeed; if we pull in different directions, we shall fail. Together we are strength, disunited we are weakness. Either together, or not at all — today this is the law.</div>
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In 1848 it was written in the book of fate that nothing could be done against the Habsburg Empire. If we had then resigned ourselves to that outcome, our fate would have been sealed, and the German sea would have swallowed up the Hungarians. In 1956 it was written in the book of fate that we were to remain an occupied and sovietised country, until patriotism was extinguished in the very last Hungarian. If then we had resigned ourselves to that outcome, our fate would have been sealed, and the Soviet sea would have swallowed up the Hungarians. Today it is written in the book of fate that hidden, faceless world powers will eliminate everything that is unique, autonomous, age-old and national. They will blend cultures, religions and populations, until our many-faceted and proud Europe will finally become bloodless and docile. And if we resign ourselves to this outcome, our fate will be sealed, and we will be swallowed up in the enormous belly of the United States of Europe. The task which awaits the Hungarian people, the nations of Central Europe and the other European nations which have not yet lost all common sense is to defeat, rewrite and transform the fate intended for us. We Hungarians and Poles know how to do this. We have been taught that one can only look danger in the face if one is brave enough. We must therefore drag the ancient virtue of courage out from under the silt of oblivion. First of all we must put steel in our spines, and we must answer clearly, with a voice loud enough to be heard far and wide, the foremost, the single most important question determining our fate: The question upon which the future of Europe stands or falls is this: “Shall we be slaves or men set free — That is the question, answer me!”</div>
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speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-32196050089036943622015-11-28T01:46:00.001+00:002015-12-02T14:20:49.048+00:00Why UK Parliament Must Vote Against Airstrikes in SyriaI am firmly against any involvement with US in Syria for the simple reason that it is the U.S. with compliant allies that fermented these wars in the Middle East for their own geopolitical purpose. This has been confirmed publically by General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO on CNN and other media outlets as well as other senior military figures. This information is publically available to anyone on the Internet if they care to search for it.<br />
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The U.S. wilfully stood by whilst its allies in the Middle East, principally Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others including countries in the G20 funded, armed, trained, supplied, aided and abetted ISIS. The question is why? The answer is that the U.S. and it's Middle Eastern allies with the complicity of Turkey, UK and France believed that ISIS would compliment U.S. backed militias in their main objective to illegally overthrow the Assad regime. This was and is an unholy alliance that has no regard for humanity.<br />
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This was made apparent by President Obama himself when he affirmed that the U.S. strategy was to contain ISIS rather than annihilate them as President Putin is now doing.<br />
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Over a period of 16 months according to a CFR source the U.S. launched over 8000 attacks on ISIS killing it says 20,000 "suspected terrorists" which if you do the maths is 2.5 terrorists per attack, an utterly ridiculous return on resources! And anyway who counted them and how?<br />
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Furthermore during that first 16 months it never once launched an air strike on a single fleet of oil tankers transporting oil from captured fields to Turkey a NATO ally, despite the fact that according to President Putin, from a height of 4-5000 feet these convoys stretched into the horizon and resembled an oil pipeline. Nor did the U.S. and it's allies carry out any strikes against ISIS oil fields/depots! This is clear evidence that the U.S. and its allies had no interest in destroying ISIS. This makes them complicit in the crimes that ISIS committed and are committing against humanity<br />
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There is much more information available that substantiates Western duplicity in regard to the mayhem and murder that now affects Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. You will also note that neither the Gulf states nor Israel have been affected by ISIS. It is clear that the West led by the U.S. has made a pact with the Devil to serve its own immoral, illegal, disingenuous and abhorrent interests.<br />
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The UK under David Cameron is compliant in this disgusting pact which has allowed ISIS to expand throughout the 16 months that the U.S. and its allies were apparently carrying out airstrikes. It thus makes the UK government complicit in the unspeakable atrocities committed by ISIS during this time. At the very least we should seriously question Mr. Cameron's motives which must be considered dubious, if not devious, knowing what we know. We should not tolerate such reprehensible policies by any government, let alone our own. We must not blindly follow old alliances without scrutiny and we must never tolerate the intolerable. Britain must be a force for good, a catalyst for unity and not division and it must stand for right over wrong.<br />
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The people of the United Kingdom must lead the way in bringing an end to the atrocious political doctrine of divide and rule. We ended slavery. Now let's end war which is the most barbaric and least intelligent way of resolving differences. It's time for a different kind of world and a new dawn.<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/f7NsXFnzJGw" target="_blank">Speech by General Wesley Clark Former Supreme Commander of NATO</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/VbZDyr2LkdI" target="_blank">Putin - Who Created ISIS</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/UCzEFNC9PUA" target="_blank">Syria, Putin, ISIS Exposé</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/0carlQ_DPko" target="_blank">Truth About ISIS</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/pX2niLwNjX4" target="_blank">U.S. General On Turkey's Shooting Down Of Russian Bomber</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Py_XwwMokHg" target="_blank">John Pilger IInterview On Role of U.S. Coalition And ISIS Connections</a><br />
<br />speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-58414139257661227202015-08-22T02:13:00.000+01:002017-03-06T00:42:30.359+00:00Like Lemmings to Kissinger's Abyss<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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The world is moving ever faster and inexorably towards the "abyss" referred to by Kissinger in a rather creepy interview on UK television. According to him it will not come to an end until we stare into the abyss and comprehend the horror for ourselves. It is at this point we shall presumably come to our senses and beg for order to be restored by the same authorities responsible for the chaos to begin with. At which point, the much vaunted one world government, will take the reigns of power. </div>
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In presenting this apocalyptic nightmare, Kissinger wittingly or unwittingly reveals himself and the workings of his mind. In so doing, he equally reveals the nature of his thoughts which it is reasonable to suppose, he must have discussed at length at the highest levels of government with officials from the Council For Foreign Relations, several past and present Presidents, intelligence agency and military chiefs and other influential and shadowy neocons hiding in the shadows of the deep state. </div>
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The mayhem around the world today reflects almost exactly this nightmare vision. One cannot help but feel that this is not merely coincidence or far sighted modern day prophecy. Far from it. It is not a council of the wise. If it were, the powers that be, would have done far more to prevent such a catastrophic scenario unfolding in the first place. </div>
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In truth, the shadowy elite that pull the strings behind the scenes have done their best to stoke the fires of discontent and division. This has been made clear by leaks from numerous sources including a televised interview with the former NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley-Clark, as well as current serving high ranking military officers.</div>
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According to General Wesley-Clark, plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein, were already at an advanced stage at the time 9/11 unfolded. The plan was launched within days of the destruction and collapse of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Tower 7 (untouched by any aircraft) on the 11th September 2001. The decision to go to war with Iraq, irrespective of the presence or otherwise of weapons of mass destruction or any Al Qaeda terrorists, was taken within days of those events on 9/11. </div>
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It is equally self-evident that plans for any pre-emptive strike must have been many months or even years in the planning prior to such an invasion. This was just the beginning. A larger plan had been hatched to take control of 6 other countries within five years including Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia and Iran. This is exactly what is happening. This is no coincidence. This is geopolitics driven by a doctrine of divide and rule and control and domination. This philosophy sees any other world powers as a risk to U.S. strength, as an enemy rather than a potential friend or partner. This is the Wolfowitz Doctrine in action.</div>
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This is and has always been the weak intellectual link in America's foreign policy strategy. Kissinger and his band of co-conspirators have been engaged in a deadly game of geopolitical chess for decades with the aim of bringing their New World Order to fruition. Many references have been made to this "new world order" by the likes of Kissinger himself as well as G. H. W. Bush, G.W. Bush, the Clintons, Obama and John Kerry to name but a few. </div>
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Frustrated in Syria by the Russian intervention, the neocons responded by stirring the pot in Ukraine (reference the Nuland/Pyatt leaked phone transcript) in an attempt to undermine Putin who was becoming a thorn in their sides by jeapordising their Stone Age stratagem to divide and rule the Middle East. </div>
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Putin compounded their embarrassment in Syria by moving unexpectedly into Crimea to further thwart U.S. plans to engineer regime change in Moscow by destabilising Russia's neighbour. Then came ISIS, created according to retired Supreme NATO Commander Genreral Wesley- Clark, by "our friends and allies" in the region to fight the Iranian backed Hezbollah group. Other high profile US military commanders have said that the Obama administration willfully allowed the rise of ISIS which is much the same thing. It is impossible to conceive that a well funded, highly trained army with a clear military strategy could rise unnoticed by tthe vast intelligence networks of the U.S. military industrial complex.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span> </div>
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If this is not bewildering enough the Saudis are engaged in Yemen against Iranian backed Houthi rebels. Turkey, a NATO ally, has been allowing ISIS to come and go across it's borders more or less at will, seeing the Syrian Kurds as a major threat to it's own stability and thus undermining the fight against ISIS. </div>
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What is clear is that this unspeakable horror show is and has been deliberately manipulated by insane sociopaths in Washington for their own megalomaniacal geo-political ends. It is only the Russians and now Chinese that stand in their way. Hence the need to discredit and if possible engineer the overthrow of Putin who although far from saintly is looking more saintly everyday, by comparison to his American counterparts. </div>
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We the "sheeple" have no power, no Industrial Military Complex, no intelligence gathering agencies, no private armies, no access to unlimited funds, no control over corporate media, etc., with which to control or manipulate world economic, social, or political events. Furthermore, we have no meaningful access to an unlistening, largely uncaring and remote political and corporate elite. </div>
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speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-56957422601584824482015-05-09T19:40:00.000+01:002015-05-09T19:41:17.842+01:00UK Election 2015<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I just hope Cameron is smart enough to realize that this election was not an Endorsement of everything the Tories have done in the last 5years, but more of a damning vote on politics in general. The clean out of senior figures in British politics by an electorate who had no choice but to put the Tories back in to power, tells the true story of this election. From Miliband to Balls to Farage to senior Lib Dems, they all got sent packing. The same would have happened to the Tories if the country could afford it...</span>speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-28407957687591165622015-01-15T01:54:00.000+00:002015-01-15T01:54:26.426+00:00Thoughts on consciousnessWe are part nature part consciousness which allows us to detetmine our destiny despite the laws that govern the material world.<br />
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Laws of nature serve their purpose in a material context but there is a seperate dimension from which we observe everything.<br />
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We observe ourselves in a material dimension. Thus we observe our life as we observe our death from some other placce.<br />
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Our consciousness is probably not contained by the brain which merely processesses information in relation to a temporary material state of being.<br />
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<br />speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-56662861781581695782015-01-14T19:42:00.001+00:002015-08-22T00:49:51.239+01:00Wisdom of Einstein<b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.</b><br />
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speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-11229091402743338722014-02-09T18:18:00.002+00:002014-06-26T17:46:47.725+01:00NDEs and eternal nature of energyI know of two studies that were and are being carried out, one in Holland and one in NHS hospitals in England. I am sure there are others. I will try to find these again and add the links. I remember that the one in England concluded that there was no scientific explanation (given current scientific knowledge) to explain the observations. I am fairly sure this was also the case in the Dutch study.<br />
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In the UK study researchers concluded a new quantum science would need to be invented or words to that effect to explain it. One of the mysteries was the fact that not everybody they studied had an NDE. According to their hypothesis, if NDE's were the result of a biological mechanism that occured as the body closed down, then everyone would have the same experience. <br />
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I have also read numerous articles by so called experts claiming that since similar effects can be duplicated on a living person by closing down certain parts of the brain in living subjects that this indicated that NDEs were a fallacy. However, might not this prove the opposite? Might it not indicate that the conscious/subconscious is capable of observing the body from a different dimension i.e. from outside itself. By closing off a part of the brain temporarily they may have unwittingly triggered the body into believing it is no longer a biological entity thus releasing it's energy/soul into another level of consciousness. Those carrying out these experiments do not appear to have considered this possibility at all. <br />
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Scientists like all experts in any field have a tendancy to try to box their findings into the confines of their discipline and training. They observe, measure and conclude within the parameters of their understanding. <br />
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I saw a documentary recently on BBC on the Seven Ages of Stars. In it they explained the formatiom (birth) evolution and death of a star. Its born, ages and dies. This is certainly what appears to happen but it is only part of the process. They did not ask themselves where the star came from or where it went when it died. The story is not nearly as clear cut as the program makers would have us believe. There are an infinite number of ages to stars. What is a star? It is simply energy in motion. When the star collapses and disappears from sight, the energy that momentarily appeared as a star came from a previous state of energy before transforming into yet another state of energy after its collapse. It did not suddenly appear from nowhere nor does it suddenly vanish into nothing. It remains part of the energy that makes up the totality of the universe from which new stars or energy forms are generated.<br />
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Science is obsessed with a beginning and end scenario to everything. Thus in the eyes of science everything that is born also dies but in reality there is no beginning nor end to anything. All there is, is energy in some quantum form and it must be eternal and indestructible. How do we know that? Its simple logic. Since nothing can emerge from a state of nothing and since something (universe) exists, a state of nothingness cannot exist. The only thing that seperates everything from nothing must therefore be eternal energy in manifest forms from which everything that is, emerges and evolves.<br />
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Thus, following this simple logic, the true nature of everything is really nothing more or less than varying infinite states of energy resonating at infinite levels of frequency. As stars evolve the energy resonates at varying frequencies. The same must therefore be true of the energy which gives rise to us. The frequency at which we resonate at any given time in our lives transforms us from what we were to what we are and what we will become. We change but like the stars we are a manifestation of energy in transformative motion, without beginning and without end. speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-43052534192930134192014-01-26T14:13:00.000+00:002014-01-26T14:12:59.995+00:00No Matter!“There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” – Max Planck, quantum theorist<br />
speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-36863337001718648852014-01-26T14:07:00.001+00:002014-01-26T14:07:45.422+00:00Unified Field Of Consciousness“And what we’ve discovered at the core basis of the universe, the foundation of the universe, is a single unified field of intelligence; a field that unites gravity with electromagnetism, light with radioactivity, with the nuclear force. So that all the forces of nature and all the so-called particles of nature – quarks, leptons, protons, neutrons – are now understood to be one. They’re all just different ripples on a single ocean of existence that is the unified field… And that field is a non-material field. It is ultimately a field of consciousness and everything in the universe is nothing but that. Planets, trees, people, animals – we’re all just waves of vibration of this underlying, unified, superstring field…” –John Hagelin, particle physicist<br />
speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-35132549835322112162013-11-21T01:36:00.000+00:002013-11-21T01:37:21.735+00:00I'm alright Jack!<br />
Oilmen - "The American Beauty Rose can only be coaxed to that degree of splendor and fragrance that enchants us by sacrificing the other buds growing around it. In the business world, the same operation is the result not of an unhealthy trend, but simply of a law of nature and of God." ~ John D. Rockefeller, Jr.<br />
speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-65526354524940079902013-10-29T23:51:00.000+00:002013-11-03T01:43:23.496+00:00The President is not in controlGiven the recent scandal with regard to massive worldwide surveillance by US intelligence agencies, notably the NSA and UK's GCHQ including the monitoring of the phone conversations of 35 world leaders particularly German Chancellor Merkel, the reader will find the following short YouTube video very revealing. <br />
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Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer asserts that the White House has lost control of huge swathes of strategic government sectors. To some this might come as a shocking revelation. To others this will be seen as just another ridiculous conspiracy theory. Others will have known this for a long time.<br />
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<a href="http://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=x7e58x5#/watch?v=obOIy96IPeg">Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer on UFOs, US Government, the industrial military complex, free energy</a><br />
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However, the conspiracy theorists have strong evidence on their side. We have a clear warning of the dangers of an over-powerful industrial military complex from one of America's most respected Presidents, notably <a href="http://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=x7e58x5#/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY">General Eisenhower</a> and the revelation of a "monolitic and ruthless conspiracy" from another great <a href="http://www.thepowerhour.com/news3/jfk_speech_transcript.htm">President, John F Kenney.</a><br />
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Those who believe that the massive US surveillance scandal is principally about spying are being deceived. It is not. It is about an inexcusable abuse of power, unwarranted secrecy and non-compliance with the law. It is not just about gathering information on potential terrorist threats. It is far more about gathering any and all information on everybody and everything and having a monopoly over its control. The President, by his own admission was not informed that Chancellor Merkel's phone was being monitored even though he has had several one to one meetings with her! If he is being kept out of the loop on such basic matters as spying on world leaders, what else is he not being told?<br />
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Despite all this intelligence gathering, the security services were not able to prevent the Boston bombing or the Nairobi Westgate terror atrack to mention but two. Probably too busy listening to Merkel's telephone calls! There is much more that can be said about these particular attacks but that is not what this article is about. It is about the inevitable abuses of power that always occurs and always will occur when power is cloaked in secrecy and let no one convince you otherwise. The nature of secret operations means it is far more difficult to monitor and hold to account those agents and activities that are hidden from view. It equally negates transparency.<br />
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This is really what the Snowden revelations are about. It is about abuse of power and our right to decide what our governments do or dont do in our name. Before Snowden we really did not know the extent of these nefarious activities. That right to know had been withdrawn arbitrarily and without our knowledge and far less, our consent. That is what this hoopla is really all about and its of vital importance we do not lose sight of it as it impinges on our democratic rights, our freedoms, our privacy and above all our right to hold our representatives to account!<br />
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Unwittingly, Snowdens's revelations have also highlighted a more disturbing question! Who is running America? How much does the President really know? Who is pulling the strings?speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-14609186387446417142013-10-22T01:51:00.000+01:002013-12-06T01:21:53.420+00:00Democracy no longer fit for purpose - Club of RomeClub of Rome, The First Global Revolution - <br />
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"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today's problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time".<br />
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This is the biggest red herring since herrings came into being! Parliamentary democracy is and has always been about defining the moral and social parameters within which technocrats must operate. Just because one does not know how a computer is engineered or the nuts and bolts of supersonic flight, atom bombs, robotics, astro- physics or neurology does not mean one is unfit to make decisions or pass laws apertaining to them. <br />
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The role of leadership is to seek expert advice and obtain recommendations, analyse the pros and cons and make decisions. No one person can possibly be an expert in everything anymore than an engineer, a scientist, brain surgeon or a wine taster can. Was John F Kennedy an astronaut or a rocket engineer? No, but that did not stop him sending a man to the moon! <br />
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It would be an absolute disaster to allow a bunch of technocrats with their own agendas and prejudices to form policies without reference to a democraticaly elected body! Technocrats are no less prone to the temptations of power and dictatorship than anyone else. The Club of Rome is amongst them and has its own agenda to take over the world and the arrogance to believe they should.speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-61009907024970509172013-10-22T01:45:00.000+01:002013-10-22T01:45:00.842+01:00Childbearing should be punishable crime - David BrowerDavid Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club - <br />
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"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing".speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-24604139289921546352013-10-22T01:38:00.000+01:002013-10-22T01:38:12.159+01:00People must be cut out like cancer - Professor Paul EhrlichProf. Paul Ehrlich, <br />
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"The Population Bomb - "A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells, the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions".speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-69124745131073318612013-10-21T22:45:00.000+01:002013-10-21T22:45:24.131+01:00If the American people knew what G.H.W. Bush had done!George H. W. Bush - <br />
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"If the American people knew the damage we had done to their country, they would hang us from the nearest lamp posts". (From an interview with White House correspondent Sarah McClendon - 1992)speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-85189522275014268302013-10-21T22:36:00.001+01:002013-10-21T22:36:49.933+01:00Global warming - dont mention doubts!Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports - <br />
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"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest".speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-88331044277519101512013-10-18T17:12:00.000+01:002013-10-18T17:12:20.020+01:00Letter to New York Post re 9/11Sir/Madam,<br />
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After many hours, days and months of research with regard to the events of 9/11, it is my absolute conviction that the events as reported by the US government and by the 9/11 Commission do not represent the truth and that the mainstream media has failed in its duty to investigate these matters properly. <br />
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To the journalists at the New York Post, I humbly remind you that you owe it to yourselves, your families and all who believe in freedom and democracy to ensure that governments are held accountable or risk the emergence of an authoritarian, corrupt and evil tyranny. The truth is our protection against the excesses of those who accord themselves absolute power by the few over the many.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Adrian Archer<br />
speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-74471132570862187462013-09-26T14:13:00.000+01:002013-09-26T16:07:15.576+01:00Message to LibDems on EuropeI received an email from MEP Graham Watson trying to garner support for remaining in the EU that contained a survey loaded to produce the result he wanted in that questions presented no alternative to EU solutions.<br />
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Herewith my comments to him:<br />
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The LibDem claims that they and they alone are responsible for anything good done by the coalition government and were it not for them, the nasty conservatives would have ruined the country, are frankly laughable. The LibDems have demonstrated immaturity to the point of purility by making such outrageous claims. A Party, especially one as junior as the LibDems, that feels the need to belittle their partners in Coalition is not fit for govenment.<br />
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The Conservatives have their faults but they have generally resisted the temptation to reciprocate.<br />
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With regard to Europe, the majority of people in this country, remain vehemently opposed to becoming a county of an undemocratic political entity that has endevoured to build an EU superstate by stealth and deceit. The EU vision of the world is jurassic. It is built on the old principles of power politics which have led the world to the precipice on which it now stands. <br />
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Britain should be the country that breaks this mould. We do not need to be nor should we be contstrained by the flawed vision of these European pen pushers. Trade should be free, not contstrained by political unions and trading blocks based on misconceived ideologies and erroneous political perceptions of self interest that ultimately conflict with the equally misconceived perceptions of self interest of other political unions and trading blocks. At best it is weak thinking and at worst its plain insane.<br />
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The world must look to the common interests of all nations. Only then can we gurantee our own interests. Britain must open up to the entire world and not just a part of it. We must promote free trade with all nations based on level playing fields. We must be willing partners with all who are willing to be partners with us. <br />
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This country is in a unique position with our ties to the Commonwealth and we must build on that. India, Australia, Canada as well as many emerging, South American, African and Asian economies are every bit as important, if not more so than the EU alone. Let us free ourselves from the shackles of divisive political unions and instead build partnerships based on free trade and real mutual interest. <br />
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That is a vision of progressive freedom based on common interest, not self interest. That is a vision of the future worth fighting for and one which would excite the people of this country. <br />
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That is the alternative to the mundane and outdated solution proposed by the Eurocrats. Where does it say in the manual of all wisdom that trade or jobs are dependent on political union? Its a fallacy. Jobs and wealth are dependent on trade not politics and trade builds sustainable partnerships and co-operation based on mutual interest which is in the self interest of all concerned.<br />
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Its time the political classes grew up and that very much includes the LibDems. The world needs radical new ideas in the 21st century to replace the old restrictive and divisive political philosophies that have served us so poorly in the past.speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-48761112891622772322013-09-21T22:16:00.001+01:002013-09-21T22:16:40.573+01:00The nature of NatureThe universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.<br />
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Marcus Aureliusspeakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-83267431203645341492013-09-02T23:38:00.000+01:002013-09-02T23:43:01.856+01:00The virtue of knowledge"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders." <br />
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- Samuel Adams<br />
speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-71738237198120810482013-08-29T14:17:00.001+01:002014-07-29T22:37:19.910+01:00Syria - the great test of true leadershipWhen politicians constantly muddy the waters of truth with incessant spin to make themselves look better or to deceive the public into thinking things are better than they really are, we the public, no longer know what to believe. The public naturally becomes highly sceptical. Worse it loses respect for the political classes and authority in general. This is a searing condemnation of those we elected to represent us.<br />
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We find they are undeserving of our trust and thus our respect. Thus we are unable to believe a word they say. They show us by their actions how indifferent they are to the truth and the general public. They take us for fools and thus make fools of themselves, something they appear not to comprehend at all or if they do, they dont care. That is the saddest indictment of their lack of integrity and wisdom and it is truly staggering.<br />
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Hence when Cameron and Obama stand up and tells us that the Assad regime is guilty of using chemical weapons against its own people and they are preparing to strike, despite conflicting evidence, despite the fact that a UN inspection team is on the ground gathering evidence which has not yet been presented, we are naturally dumbfounded and extremely sceptical.<br />
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Why would Assad risk losing his only remaining allies, Russia, China and Iran? Its sheer stupidity. It does not make sense. That is not to say that his regime is not capable of such idiocy but it is as yet far from proven. That Obama, Cameron and their supposed allies were prepared to strike without having all the facts being gathered by UN inspectors to hand, smacks of political impropriety at the very least. At worst it smacks of much more sinster motives including deception and lack of regard for truth.<br />
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We must never again allow ourselves to be used as cannon fodder by the elite for their lust for power and control over the world's financial, mineral and agricultural resources. We are sick of these antiquated dinosaurs and their twisted perception of the politics of power and domination that have led the world down a path of mutual destruction and insanity for millenia. <br />
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We the people are no longer prepared to be sacrificial lambs in this monstrous game of self agrandisment of the few at the expense of the many. We are not pawns. We are people. We demand peace for everyone, food on the table for all, free universal education and the right to bring our children up in tranquilty wherever we live in the world.<br />
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We demand that those we elect to represent us stop investing in war and switch resources towards investment in peace. That is the only hope of creating a peaceful world. We elect politicians not to make the world worse but better. That is how we ensure our survival. There is no other. Love begets love and hate begets hate. Its that simple.<br />
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Cameron's and Obama's legacy, unlike those who have gone before will be decided by their ability to steer the world away from war not to take it to war for which history will forever condemn them.<br />
<br />speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-55290407156749405522013-08-23T19:49:00.000+01:002013-08-23T19:49:02.942+01:00Risks of Genetically modified food - evidenceCommunication from War On Want<br />
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The Environment Minister Owen Paterson is backing genetically modified food - neglecting evidence provided in the longest independent study on genetically modified (GM) corn feed to date. The ground-breaking 2012 study links GM and the use of pesticide Roundup to organ damage and increased risk of tumours. Previous studies have been carried out by companies such as Monsanto who themselves produce GM crops.<br />
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War on Want has helped organise a speaker tour, giving you the opportunity to hear from the leading scientist who has provided independent evidence on the risks of GM food. We will have a series of events in Scotland, Wales and England during the GM Health Risk Week (2-8 September) where you'll hear a different perspective to what the media and the UK government are saying.<br />
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The GM Health Risk Week: an event near you!<br />
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David Cameron pledged £395 million from the UK Aid budget during the G8 forum to support private initiatives involved in spreading GM crops in Africa. This investment, under the guise of aid, will in fact lock small-scale farmers into dependency on corporate providers of seeds and chemical fertilisers, undermining any chance of defeating hunger. Farmers and civil society organisations across Africa oppose it.<br />
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The UK government should suspend its funding for research into GM crops. Instead it should support agricultural research focused on sustainable, organic and traditional seed propagation developed by small-scale farmers around the world.<br />
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The risks of GM food and crops to the food system and human health have been downplayed by the UK government and the media.<br />
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Join us to learn more about risks that GM poses to our food system.<br />
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I look forward to seeing you,<br />
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Graciela Romero<br />
International Programmes Director<br />
speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-48735523571317432552013-08-22T14:21:00.000+01:002013-08-22T14:21:57.397+01:00Knowledge without wisdomThe state of the world is definitive proof that the direction we have been pursuing is misguided. The world of materialism is the path to self destruction and yet it is almost impossible to escape this web into which we are born and in which 99.9% of us are entrapped. Without a great awakening we cannot escape the strands of this web. Knowledge is useless, even dangerous when seperated from wisdom. Those that control the levers of the world are sadly blinded by their ego, greed and lust for earthly power.<br />
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Each one of us must work as hard as we can to awaken their spirit. We must come together to show them the terrible error of their ways. We must demand change and we can best do that perhaps by changing ourselves and refusing to follow their road map to destruction.<br />
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To all who work so hard to show us the light of truth, bless you.speakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.com0