Happy Hanukah

 

Wishing all of us, happier times of love, support, flowers and birds, and of course trees. So many things we take for granted yet cover with tinsel and wine.

A very strong statement

 

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Tara Palmer is a strong advocate for good journalism, honesty and journalism with integrity.

USA is being destroyed intentionally I believe. Tara is strong unlflinching and beautiful. Please listen to this broadcast.

Why would anyone want to destroy a journalist?

Why is such a powerful nation trying so hard to keep truth out of media. Why investing in such big lies?

One Old Lady

 Dear Humanity

Please come back to earth.

We know you have done a lot of damage to the world to say you are intelligent and good, but now we need to get back to the serious business of survival.

Our world is in danger of forgetting who we are and where we came from.

The rulers who are given power believe now only power counts. As long as those with the most money run this world, we shall be safe.

I think that has already proven to be not so. First is the acceptance that intelligence is bestowed on humans as long as they are white and male but the recent politics of America whom we admired for centuries have indicated a weakness. 

There are different kinds of intelligence I believe. Medicine, Science, Manufacture, Discipline.

In all fairness we are complicated by what we know and what we think we know. To make politics understandable. We have focused our intelligence on power because power is so watchable and so influential. Easy to believer that power is a public commodity. 

For centuries we created countries and leaders who claimed plots of land and followed our claims with displays which show our power, through wealth and war.

The power each country had was shown through conquest and wealth.

However there is another part to leadership which is empathy and ability to lead people. But it's not just power which can be shown by wealth and war and now we need to communicate with others even if we don't speak the same language.

Power hungry people don't always have the patience to learn about our cousins and neighbours and organize their world to keep out those they don't like or create societies that take away the power of those who threaten the rulers. Democracy was created  to deal with this tension. Civilization was built for the success of society.

Come my children my friends my teachers - my grieving family and friends

 

This is not your fault. This is the design of power for power's sake. The design for the exploitation of humanity turning itself into bullets. Or money or power or the next religion.

The issue is the ego.

How we believe we are the good this planet needs.

Along with your granny and the wise teachers, you are searching for truth. Or truths to help us feel at home.

Now we know that the white man can be corrupted as the poison in some plants. It's not a matter of cramming all the news that's broadcast.

Or having the money to buy the most recent inventions, or the man with the highest IQ. Or some next best thing.

Not even the angel floating on the cloud waiting for us to pay attention.

There are no solutions but there are things that can help us.

Get rid of our vanities. Be our humble selves. There has never been WHITE SUPREMACY. There was white vanity looking for the people who helped America survive. The slaves with a different colour skin. We've just about hung them all from trees, put them in jail, poisoned or overworked them. White people have killed them, not all but most.

America was great but it thought killing was the way to win. Britain was great until satanic mills drained them up.

Throughout human civilization we have risen and fallen to some scheme, some proof of superiority. That's where our downfall begins and ends. Trying to prove our superiority. 

Superior is a lake in Ontario. A gold watch. A new car. That's it. Compassion for our species might help come to terms with the idea we are born, we die, then our relatives are born. Maybe we will find new challenges to win but if we don't we should choke on our vulnerability.

Whatever colour your skin may be, whatever the texture of your hair, the clarity of your eyes, your vocabulary, your religion -- you are not obliged to win. Kindness is more than enough. It may reach the lonely souls trying to prove a superiority they cannot possess.

It's okay. We don't have to be superior. Just kind.

Thank You Tyee

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 I have a feeling that we could fix this world. Particularly if we are not employed by a capitalist company.

This is not because I think capitalism is evil. Or that humanity is to blame even though we cannot blame the bears or birds.

We live in a time when we are "controlled" by habits and have written "reasons" to justify our present condition.

For sure some have more power than others and it's the rich who dictate our policies. Who is to blame? I am. Being one of those who blamed those who have the most power.  While this is not healthy at least I can tell myself it's not my fault.

But this is the beginning of our problem.

Finding someone to blame means I can carry on with my comforting habits. You see I don't know where to start even though I have three children and seven grandchildren. Also I don't have to admit the reason for my lethargy is just finding who is to blame.

Blame is a big commodity. Established business might not spend time trying to find out but they will side with whatever makes them most comfortable.

Disturbing the comfortable is not a sustainable business. So we have found reasons to blame the masses that are furthest from our own habits.

However I am stumped. My youngest daughter pointed out my preaching habits. I know how preachiness can put me off any theory. And theory is not enough. Not sure what the magic key is.

OIL sands and man

 https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/12/01/New-Oilsands-Pipeline/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=011225

US LED GLOBAL HEGEMONY

" This October, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth dominated the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, while pressuring Europeans to assume an even heavier share of the defense burden. Referring to his peers as “ministers of war,” Hegseth demanded that member states purchase additional U.S. arms for Ukraine. “All countries need to translate goals into guns,” he hammered home. “That’s all that matters: hard power.”

Truthout: US Led Global Hegemony