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

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

 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

Kate Chung Has A Message

 Message from Kate Chung

Why can’t I find any accessible housing in Toronto?
I am doing everything I can to keep myself and my 88-year-old husband safe, writes advocate for Accessible Housing Network.
By Kate Chung

Kate Chung is co-chair of the Accessible Housing Network advocacy group and is an outspoken advocate for older adults seeking to find suitable housing to age in place.

A widening gulf between the cost of rent or mortgage payments and the paycheques of Ontario residents is putting shelter out of reach for many. This housing crisis has hit individuals already disadvantaged much harder. To mark National Housing Day on Nov. 22, Shelter from the Storm, a Metroland news series, explores deepening cracks in the foundation and amplifies the voices of those often left out of the conversation.

I‘m 83 years old. I cannot find any accessible housing in Toronto. Why?

I am doing everything I can to keep myself and my 88-year-old husband safe. What if one of us falls and breaks a hip? Will that spell doom for us? I am terrified of being forced into a long-term “care” jail.
Only seniors, people with disabilities and criminals are locked up in Canada.

StatsCan reports that 27 per cent of Canadians age 15 to 65 have disabilities (28 per cent in Ontario). This does not include older adults.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) reports it costs the same to build a new apartment whether it’s accessible or not.

It’s renovations to existing housing which are expensive.

With all the housing being built now, if even half is accessible it will make a tremendous difference to thousands of people. I’m afraid we are missing a unique opportunity to meet the need. If this new housing is not built using universal design, current and future generations will be doomed to suffer in non-accessible housing or be will institutionalized against their will.

Builders lament that they can’t sell the condos they have built. However, clearly they’re not building what people need. Older adults are trapped in inaccessible homes because there are no accessible or adaptable apartments available.

I want the right to choose where I live — staying in my current home or a small co-operative home in my neighbourhood. If I need cleaning help, nourishing food, Personal Support Workers, this must be simple to arrange.

The problem is lack of political will. Politicians argue among themselves, passing the buck from one level of government to another. The federal government has actually said that housing is not in their jurisdiction! The provinces say the National Building Code must change first. Municipalities say the provincial Building Code must change before they can take action. This huge roadblock is due to politicians’ lack of empathy.

All new housing of any kind in Canada should be Universal Design (accessible to people of all ages and abilities.)

This is now the law in Australia and Finland. Canada can do it too.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Human Rights Act, the provincial Human Rights Codes, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol all prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities. But this is ignored by every level of government.

Ironically, the benefits of having adaptable universal design housing would save every level of government millions of dollars every year.

Fewer falls

Fewer ambulance calls

Fewer ER visits

Fewer hospitalizations

Reduced need for in-home household and PSW support help

Reduced caregiver burnout

Reduced costs for long-term care facilities. (Many people able to remain in their accessible homes.)

Protection of seniors and persons with disabilities from catastrophes like those in long-term care during the pandemic

Improved mental and physical health Increased employment of people with disabilities
Prevention of costly future renovations. It’s 2025, folks!

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Introducing Rupert Raj's poem Homo Sapiens

Homo unsapiens unsapiens

Doubly unwise, our supposedly superior human species

callously mistreats our beleaguered Earthly planet,

cavierlearly disrespecting our endangered environment

and desecrating our precious natural home.

Why are so many people so eco-unconscientous?

Lording it over all the other diverse species--

millions of animals and thousands of plants,

each of which are intelligent in their own unique way

we humans are collectively guilty of "human supremacy"

Why are most people so anthropocentric?

Of our three evolutionary brains

reptilian, mammalian and human

our devolving species still reacts like reptiles or "lower" mammals

unthinkingly activated by primitive instinct alone.

Why are so many people so uncritical and uncaring?

Driven by excessive greed and selfishness,

and a compulsion to commodify and consume all living organisms--

each of which are sentient beings to differing degrees.

we humans collectively deplete or destroy our natural resources.

Why are most people so materialistic?

Tainted by superstition or extremist religious beliefs

rather than applying objectivity and logical reasoning

and insightful intelligence--secular or intuitive wisdom

a number of our species are exceptionally ignorant and arrogant.

Why are so many people so lacking in vision and humility?

Still evolving as a species for as long as we're on this earth

lets try to stimulate our grey cells to some semblance of wisdom--

instead of short-sighted, mindless "mush for brains",

before we all mutate into robotic androids and cyborgs

programmed by computer generated artificial intelligence!

I am using blogger.com.  Rupert Raj is a writer and thinker. He is a scientist studying life in many of its forms. 

What is a Rapist?

Is it a person who believes ... to be real
he has to act without permission?

to not miss an opportunity?

taking time to think it through
mean he is weak giving his masculinity
his strength his courage
giving it all up to think
think like a prime minister
a priest a rabbi a psychoanalist?
Is he stressed more by uncertainty
than courage more by appearing to be
unsure?

Let me comfort you
trust you are doing the best
you know how
and all those years growing up
really in need of protection
denied while bullies ganged up on you
in the playground
exploring who they were?

No means more than no!
It means we humans have evolved.
Yet haven't created degrees
on masculinity
ways of encouraging the mind
to find peace in empathy
but medicine takes years
to learn at university.

Do I think too much?
Or are humans still trying to be free
knowing that having an answer
to that question would be dangerous
to girls coming into their
adult body.

Is the unwritten ritual
(ganging up on smaller
animals and beating
the shit out of them)
making him a man
or docile support
for patriarchy?