Friends, ICH today is full of talk about the imminent attack on Iran by…
Well, let’s not spoil this page by naming them. I don’t know about you but I get a feeling of dread when I hear their names, a feeling of disappointment, of real fear, and, all too often, anger.
The photo above shows another world, one far removed from war cabinets and grasping psychos and billionaires. It is a simple world where fishermen go out in canoes and people collect coconuts, simple people whose minds are free from thoughts of violence and greed.
They are people who live in simple huts with rooves fashioned from palm leaves, people who eat fruits and nuts and who wear flowers in their hair and shell necklaces, laughing people who have little in the way of possessions and are the richer for it.
These are people who know what community means, who know what sharing means, who know how important families are, who actually care for their children, who sing and dance by the firelight and tell stories handed down through generations, people who are in touch with nature, who respect it, who appreciate its generosity.
If only we could learn from these people. If only we could unlearn all the lies we have been told, clear them from our memories, realize how damaging they are.
If we could do that we would be reborn. We would adopt a whole new value system and reject the ugliness of materialism and greed and war.
Look carefully at the photograph again. Can you see yourself in that idyllic, peaceful setting?
It’s there, somewhere, just waiting for you.
Do you think that smaller communities overall are more successful than larger communities? The life you describe above must be a communty of a small number of people, where everyone knows everyone else. In my experience, living in a community of 25,000 is far superior to living in a community of even 100,000. At that level people divide into distinct groups with opposing values. When one person, or a handful of people try to make decisions that impact hundreds of millions of widely diverse people under widly diverse conditions, few are happy with the outcome, especially when the most vicious and misguided seem to be the ones who desire that level of power.
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Small is good, Steve. Humans are social animals and it’s hard to be sociable with 4 million people!
I live in a small country town and, when I visit the town centre, I’m struck by the way that people continually stop and talk to each other as if they are old friends.
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For years now I have followed the machinations of politicians. I have commented on it by discussion and by word of mouth. Generally with little succes and finishing usually with comments like: she’ll be right, why worry about it, what can we do about it or worse, that is the way it is.
Now that the issue with Iran gets hotter I realise how feeble we all are. Against common sense it will happen and more of our fellow man will perish.
Having had the dubious advantage of being bombed and living for five years in a country destroyed by war and its aftermath I experienced the real thing. Awfull!
Running for your life to stay alive.
People who have never experienced such a thing cannot understand. They talk about war almost as a sport in which they hope to come out victorious. Our ruling clique nonchalantly talks about the power at their disposal making certain that others do the dying for them. Elevating the miserable death of our young to hero worship.
Being an old man now, life will come to an end eventually and one gets resigned to it one way or the other. But when young and live has yet to be lived the thought of mortallity is not on once mind.
So here we are. Waiting for the inevitiable to happen. All I can say: Good Luck.
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It’s an awful situation: knowing what is coming but being powerless to stop it. People like us can see the madness of it all, the waste, the unnecessary pain and destruction but the warmongers (who are always a long way from the killing fields) are insatiable.
If the Japanese or the Germans had bombed half of America, the country wouldn’t be so filled with bloodlust (though the British, who got a real pasting from the Luftwaffe, still seem keen on war).
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The indigenous peoples of America,especially The Iroquois,had a system of self- governance gar superior to ours;and look what we did to them.
What is about to be done to Iran is going to mark the beginning of The End.
Make no mistake about it. This is the end result of allowing ourselves to be governed by psychopathic criminals for the last 250 years or so.
Here is what we have become,and how dumbed down we are: Italy is ruled by a gangster paedophile,and the ‘best’ our media can muster is to giggle at him,without stating the obvious truth. That is where we’re at in 2011.
And tomorrow we are going to be told that Iran has WMD’s that can destroy us all. Where have we heard THAT before?! Iraq was practice. Iran will be the real deal. May The Universe have mercy on us all. I despair.
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Don’t despair, Miki! That’s my job! All joking aside, this probable attack may end up bringing the U.S. and its evil child down.
Could you imagine it? The oceans no longer filled with Yanki warships and nuclear submarines. The skies no longer filled with their fighter jets and drones. The land no longer polluted with their military bases and depleted uranium explosives. And the war drums would stop their endless, incessant beating.
It sounds like heaven!
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Although the British lost all “winning” two world wars they have not learned. They were usurped by their hungry offspring son and now hang on his shirttail still harbouring illusions of the past.
I am sure that their people are not in alighnment with their present system but the “City” still rules with its tentacles solidly in Wall Street. And that is the rub why the British are still meddling strongly. France also still ambitious has learned to love England ever since they went into the Entente Cordial.
Sadly that is why this combination of power through money has been able to find willing helpers (Nato).
This abortion by the name of Nato has shown its true colours again in the destruction of Lybia while Uncle Sam looked on.
The European Quisling doing the job and doing it well.
Boy, how sick can it get!
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Rhubarb, part of the psyche of both the British and the Americans is a love of killing. The French are not far behind them.
I’m sure it is genetically driven and derives from our primitive past. I have traveled extensively throughout my life and have noticed distinct differences between different racial groups.
At the moment, we have an unfortunate situation where extreme greed and love of violence are intersecting. It can be fairly described as a madness!
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“It is in the shelter of each other that people live”
Thought that quote sat well with this thread, was on intro to Playing For Change musicians version of Gimme Shelter. Many of us grew up with parents playing this song and still it puts the tingles up me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y
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Great comment and link, UggOne! Thanks for dropping by and sharing them with us.
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