Yelling 'Black is White' as Israel does, does not make it so. It's a lie. 

Our local newspaper will print the same nonsense about Gaza that Netanyahu continues to spout but won’t print dissenting views based on truth rather than propaganda. 

“The war in Gaza – not a war but an ongoing slaughter - didn’t start with a Hamas attack on October 7th 2023. For decades Israel has held up a mirage of a possible two State solution and, holding all the power over the Palestinians, has done nothing to fulfil that promise. On the contrary, their settlers continue to steal land in the West Bank and are backed up by the State while the Gaza Strip is destroyed, the people starving, dead or maimed and this has been happening since the inception of the Zionist State of Israel. 

The brutality of Hamas is far outweighed by the actions of Israel both now and in the past.”

Meanwhile our craven leaders wring their hands, cry sorrow and bow to Israel with their actions.

Again and meanwhile, disasters continue everywhere and although things may look o.k. on the surface here in Australia  they’re not. We have ‘tofu construction’ in the building industry as does China – and how sorry I am that the Chinese people have been so robbed by their government that their society is collapsing just as their buildings do. It’s tragic. 

This is the culture that gave the world ‘The book of Changes, the I Ching,’ a cauldron of wisdom and common sense which has been open to guide the soul of China from ‘time immemorial.’ 

It recognises the Divine and is not used by the Communist Party of China.

The real Universe does not include Earth as the center of all creation 

Is there a graveyard for ancient gods? The Gods of ancient times have come and gone – the gods of Rome, Greece, Babylon do not reveal themselves - if they ever did. Something did - entities exist but their existence doesn't make them gods.

My beliefs affect my life, have some impact on those around me but that’s about the extent of it. Born into a Roman Catholic family it takes a lifetime to sort truth from lies and in the process my beliefs are revealed to be just that – belief and not born of experience.

Christ was as revolutionary in his time as he is now. I don’t need a virgin birth nor a resurrection, no heaven nor hell to focus my mind on the difference between right or wrong and if in fact the kingdom of God lies within and ‘love your neighbour and do unto others…’ is the foundation of character and ‘know oneself’ is a necessary directive then that’s sufficient for me and whether I go to the worms or to some other plane of existence upon my death is almost irrelevant. 

Along the way, the twists and turns of life, my sense of what an almighty God may be - never very clear- became crystalised as that consciousness which permeates the Universe and all of existence and whose motivation is love – not very satisfactory but sufficient for me and a far cry from the ancient gods of Earth. Perhaps they were real entities perhaps not but either way their common characteristic was that they needed to be appeased … or else!

The vile behaviour of Israel can’t be understood without examination of their claim that the territory that they occupy is given to them by God.

The Universe uses synchronicity to get my attention and so I’ve been reading about the introduction of Christianity to Britain, hundreds of years before Augustine arrived with his Papal doctrines and met with opposition by the long established British church.

I quote from Wilson and Blackett and have checked their references to biblical verses. They’re correct. The land that Israel claims was given to them by ‘God’ was not an empty land devoid of people.

“The destruction of Canaan”
“When Moses told the Hebrews that God had decided to give them the lands of Canaan to be their own, he also ordered them to carry out a complete genocide of total inhumanity. The instructions were that every city and village was to be captured and every human being: the old, the mature, the young, and the infants, of both sexes, had to be murdered.

Not only this, but also all the animals that belonged to these massacred people were also to be destroyed and all their property had to be burned. This was the holocaust in Canaan and no trace whatsoever of the previous rightful owners of these lands was to remain.

( Numbers 33: 50-56, Deuteronomy 20: 10-20, 25: 17-19, Joshua 24: 8-13.)

As recorded in the Christian Bible, some of the Hebrew tribes failed to carry out these evil instructions and they spared the lives of many of these condemned communities.

This is plainly recorded and they then used these conquered people whose lives were spared as second or third class persons and as non citizen slaves. These almost merciful actions were subsequently heavily criticised and condemned by the brutal priests of the god Yahweh.

If Yahweh is real and if this ‘god’ ordered his followers to carry out these disgusting massacres then one has to question why anyone would worship Yahweh-Jehovah. “

Quite so and no difference between these ancient gods and the equally ancient Yahweh-Jehovah.

In light of this then the inhumane actions of Israel today are understood for what they are – a continuation from ancient times and nothing to do with THE divine entity.

As for ‘ancient times’ – they’re not. A few thousand years is not ancient and in light of the tens of thousands of years of Aboriginal occupation of the land in which I’ve been a guest they’re minimal.

I’m not a materialist – a spiritual being having a human experience is my understanding.

 

there was once a garden where ruins lie 

Can there be such a thing as a quiet uproar? Unrelenting propaganda shouts with desperate double standards apparent – my child’s life is worth more than yours. This is Israel’s stance in a measured slaughter that they try to dignify by calling it a war. 

Zionism, a political ideology closer to Nazism than is comfortable for most to recognise, is separate to Judaism as the Torah Jews in the short video below make clear.

As for Chosen people and the burden it places upon believers in this idea – it doesn’t mean you’re special, able to do whatever you want, destined to rule the world – human nature hasn’t been changed by virtue of this idea while birth and death come to all, special or not.

These are not issues fresh to my mind, a mind which has been occupied territory for decades. The truth is a fierce creature. Make any tribe a chosen people or a master race and the dehumanisation of others naturally follows and so it has been in recorded history and continues to be.

Anyway – both short videos below are very clear statements by those intimately involved in these matters.

I add my small voice and make way for them.

 

 

how craven our leaders are 

even a voice such as mine, tiny in influence, doesn't escape notice as an email arrives, vaguely threatening no doubt because I will speak out about the glaring deceits we're fed - in this case the horrors of Gaza, not a war, how can it be?

I don't know how long Chris Hedges' reports will continue to be seen. This is, as usual, a timely piece.

meanwhile there is a wider Universe 

Grief may well be close to universal within the human family but humanity is not. Witness the difference in views on Israel and the Palestinians. As to who has the power – it is Israel which controls and now cuts off water, food and electricity to the Gaza Strip. Starve the Palestinians if they don’t die of thirst first. “Failure of intelligence” doesn’t begin to describe the situation.

Who wrote Shakespeare …. Edward de Vere if the evidence is looked at but a thriving tourist trade exists around the man from Stratford. It’s a Disneyland version of reality just as is the treatment of the Welsh genealogies wherein the two King Arthurs lie. There are other issues where the truth is covered or voices silenced. 

The smoking gun of Building 7 on the day of 9/11, Britain’s hidden history and why it is so, and while climate change is real in the emotional and mental state of all our societies, CO2 is not the issue and never has been. 

NATO  had no reason to exist after the collapse of the Soviet Union but continues because other agendas work in which Ukraine is cannon fodder in a proxy war between the U.S.A. and Russia .… all these issues have lies covering truth.

Here in Australia the referendum regarding an advisory body designed to give Aboriginal Australians a voice is framed as something sinister. I don’t see the problem and voted yes. 

Difficult times, trials and tribulations. Nothing particularly new nor occurring by accident.

 

the remarkable Bradshaw paintings 

I came across mention of this rock art years ago - quite different to other rock art in Australia. The video below is old but new to me. Reminds of the New Zealand documentary ‘Skeletons in the cupboard’ which opened my eyes to a history of that country not much mentioned. 

remembering 9/11 

Architects, Engineers for ‘9/11 Truth.’ 

Who cares and what particular ‘truth.’ If there’s nothing to question about the official story then why do these thousands of professionals continue to present evidence to a generally uncaring world as if it really matters.

It does matter. It’s the defining event of this century, millions dead, societies destroyed, the world changed in its course and the whole event manipulated to arouse ‘shock and awe’ in the American population who, up until that day, had no interest in the foreign wars so desired by the hawks within the U.S. administration.

The Project for a New American Century lays out what events were needed in order for American to retain its pre-eminent position in the world.

Evil men in positions of power … not evil in their own minds perhaps but … ‘by their fruits you shall know them.’

Following the evidence IS the scientific method. It’s unpalatable but there it is ………….‘Lest we forget……..’

'YES' to the Voice 

Apart from suspicion that it may not work or that Treaty and Truth Telling have greater importance it's hard to see quite why there's opposition to a YES vote in the upcoming referendum here in Australia.

For Australians.

I can do better than this – I can be better than this. When I arrived in this land over fifty years ago it was as an immigrant. If this isn’t part of your family story then you’re Aboriginal, the Original people, the ones our ancestors pretended didn’t count for anything. 

“In 1962 the Australian Parliament passed a landmark Act to give all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the option to enrol and vote in federal elections. But it was not until 1984 that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were finally treated like other voters and required to enrol and vote in elections.”

In 1975 I had the rare opportunity to work and live, 24 hours a day for about three months, with two groups of tribal men who were brought together by the Arts Council of N.S.W. with the aim and purpose of bringing some sense of Aboriginal culture to Primary schools across N.S.W. It was a profound and somewhat heart breaking experience.

“Culture? Where are their cathedrals?” – this echoes my dad’s understanding of Aboriginal culture – if you can’t see it in the material world then it doesn’t exist. He saw a broken people without having any understanding of what actions by our ancestors led to the situation now existing. Strange indeed as the substance in his ceremonies isn’t visible either.

They’re not a broken people but trauma with all its attending aspects can’t be denied and it’s inter-generational. This is something that many of us know and endure.

The last twenty years or so of my working life was within the Disability field in which I was a key worker – I advocated for my clients and did so with an intimate understanding of their needs and wants.

Who better to advocate for Aboriginal people than an advisory body made up of Aboriginal people with that same intimate knowledge of needs and wants. 

Do they speak with one voice? No more than any other group of human beings but that shouldn’t be reason to deny that voice the chance to exist and speak.

We can do better than that.