71st Lesson

In your corner of the world, all may seem quite normal. But in the another corner, one which you know of, but largely ignore, the picture may not not complete - or even damaged.

We are all connected in a symbiotic relationship. There may be thousands of miles between us, but we are connected in some way. A disease that begins on one part of the world can spread around the globe if it cannot be contained. Some of our products are manufactured in distant countries. Even some of our food is exported and travels across very long distances before it reaches us.

In an environment that encapsulates all of humanity, it is in our interests not just to consider our own needs, but also those who maintain this fragile infrastructure. And if one part of it fails, then we can all potentially be affected.

There are also times where we think that events in one part of the world do not affect us. In Yemen, Houthi rebels are fighting a civil war against their government. But it is not contained to just this country. In a show of unity and sympathy for the suffering being endured in Gaza, they are also now attacking ships connected to Israel and their allies at the Southern end of the Red Sea.

The Red Sea runs from the Bab-el-Mandeb straits off the coast of Yemen to the Suez Canal in northern Egypt. 12% of global trade comes via the Red Sea route to the Suez Canal. 30% of global container traffic also comes this way. Therefore, the financial impact of causing this traffic to find other routes is very significant.

Other conflicts are also causing a knock-on effect to numerous economies. The war in Ukraine is but one of them. In this respect, sanctions imposed upon Russia harms those who impose them more than their intended target. Other types of war are also fought, not with arms, but with money and by inflicting political alienation upon those countries which do not obey the rules laid down by the West.

Moving on ... we come to those who are paid low or 'starvation' wages to produce cheap goods for the West. They suffer because of the desires of those who only think of themselves. This is most commonly seen in South-East Asia, a place where popular consumer goods are produced very cheaply, and then exported to the West and sometimes at inflated costs. I recall a story of man who once told me that he once visited India and bought a pair of shoes at a very low price. But he found exactly the same shoes, he adds, in a well-known High Street retailer's store and retailing at a more exorbitant cost.

We live in an unjust, exploitative and unfair world. It is a crime for which their exists no justice, no punishment, and no accountability. And yet some of those in the West dare to call themselves civilised yet dare to see others as 'primitives' - only there to be exploited.

72nd Lesson

Something, or someone bugging you? It doesn't mean you have done something wrong. It may just mean the State is overly suspicious and paranoid.

Some States are more paranoid than others. They see enemies everywhere. They even give the impression they are suspicious and afraid of their own shadows. And yet those who are this way control major Government spying and police (secret or otherwise) agencies. These people think that we are not entitled to any privacy or respect for our independence. In America, citizens applying for jobs in various industries are having to put up with this intrusive and scandalous behaviour from potential employers:

"A growing number of employers and schools are demanding that job applicants, employees, and students hand over the passwords to their private social networking accounts." - ACLU.org.

But it's not just America that is allowing this attitude to be implemented on an increasing scale. Other countries have historically used devices to monitor their citizens. And while this was a way of for citizens of Eastern European countries, it is now slowly creeping into the West as well. Slowly but surely we are creeping towards a 'Big brother' mentality as described by George Orwell in this book, '1984'. OK, you may not yet feel the effect of the intrusion into your personal life, but it's coming. And if you think this will not happen, visit America to get a taste of what is to come for the most liberal of those countries which still respect some degree of privacy and freedom for the individual. Having said this, some governments still illegally spy on their citizens. Consider the following revelation from Amnesty International (Press Release dated May 25, 2021):

"In a landmark judgment, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) today ruled that the UK government’s bulk interception of communications powers “did not contain sufficient ‘end-to-end’ safeguards to provide adequate and effective guarantees against arbitrariness and the risk of abuse”, thus violating the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The case was brought by Amnesty International, Liberty, Privacy International and several other rights organizations, following whistleblower Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelation that the UK intelligence agency GCHQ was secretly intercepting and processing the private communications of millions of people on a daily basis."

If you think you are insignificant and nobody is interested in spying upon you, think again. 'Trigger words' used in everyday conversations can get the attention of a computer somewhere, and not just 'GCHQ'. For example: Menwith Hill

73rd Lesson

Addiction: the 'cancer' that will slowly destroy you. So what will drive you into it's evil clutches?

Too often people who become addicted to something is due to lack of self-esteem, lacking the willpower to overcome something in their life which has knocked them down. Sometimes a series of cascading events that inflict serious emotional trauma that solace is sought in some form of escapism. Of all addictions this is the worst, because the victim lacks the desire to get on top of it when it provides the temporary release for the some of the harsh realities of life. Usually, this involves illegal drugs. Pop a few pills, or inject some noxious substance. Either way, it gives user what he, or she wants.

But other forms of addiction can be almost as bad. Alcohol gives a similar effect but is not quite as addictive as drugs, which are the quick fix, as opposed to alcohol which is a slow descent into a delirious slumber. People will drink heavily for various reasons, and not just out of self-pity. Paradoxically, it may be that you are reacting to the adverse conditions that exist in your life, and alcohol can actually feel more liberated - albeit and only while you are conscious.

Other forms of addiction are driven by the desperation to escape from your environment and indulge in something that excites or gives you some form of pleasure, or even a feeling of misplaced empowerment. Your physical needs will drive you towards carnal encounters with other people. Gambling will be there to give you the feeling you may just get lucky, and win enough money to help you make the changes in your life - ones that you are so inept at achieving yourself by effort and endeavour.

Of other types of addiction, I would actually classify them as madness. I put greed into this category. But see Lesson 79 to read more about this, and similar other conditions that are driven by the desire to keep doing what you are doing, usually to the detriment of those who suffer because of the manic demands of an out-of-control personality.

Whatever the addiction, it has to be broken (unless of course it gives you some perverse pleasure and you accept it can eventually destroy you). Breaking addiction has to be done gradually. there is no 'emergency brake', you cannot just stop in an instant. You will also need support and someone, if possible, to monitor you. In this respect, entering a clinic that treats specific types of addiction may be your only solution. But in all situations, the mind has to be fixed before the body can try to heal itself. And while this is an obvious conclusion, it takes 'two to tango', as they sometime say. In other words, one half of a partnership to deal with your addiction if going to fail if the other half cannot keep their part of the contract.

So what happens if the addict cannot be cured, has no desire or stamina to last the course? Life is full of pitfalls, and when you drop into some deep dark hole, you need to find the desire to escape from it. But if that desire does not exist, or you give up trying, then you are lost forever. Perhaps it is a death wish and eventually you get what you want. I hope you never find yourself in this type of nightmare where the only escape is to end it all.

74th Lesson

'Clownworld': A relatively new phenomenon which exposes some of the dumbest, craziest people on the planet. Yes, they really do exist.

I regularly read of statements made by some which are devoid of the most basic grasp of reality. As an example, an American TV 'personality' recently suggested that a recent total eclipse is a possible sign of global warming. I still shake my head at this. Not because the statement is obviously stupid in the extreme, but that the person who made it was entrusted with airtime on a very popular TV programme. While this is a demonstration of the insanity that is present in our modern society, it is not uncommon to hear of others who also have been afforded the privilege handed to them by mainstream media to make similarly profound and idiotic remarks.

There is one website I visit daily. Never a week passes with reports of actions taken by some which defy reasonable and sane behaviour. 'Flavour of the Month' is Donald Trump. While I personally dislike some of the things he says and advocates, I am watching him being being set upon by his enemies like hyenas chasing after a wounded animal. They do this not because he is a threat to the 'Deep State' I spoke of before. His enemies will do anything; make outrageous claims about him, try to defame him by subjecting him to contrived show trials in court, anything that they can get away with as they are not yet answerable to any form of natural justice. But come November 5, 2024, this could become his enemies worst day of their lives. In 2016, he made bold claims about 'draining the swamp'. This never really happened as the malignant influences that were hiding in the dark corners of the American establishment were just biding their time.

But as this section is about 'Clownworld', I feel I need to say more about more of the madness that surrounds us. While America is a quite natural environment for crazy people, it is not just this country which is occasionally showing how (to put it more politely) eccentric they can be. In this respect, I refer you to the following links to the website I mentioned earlier: Modernity News and more specifically, Modernity News: Clownworld

At this point, I should add I have no connection to this website and I do not always agree with it's opinions. But it is a valuable source of information.

So then, we are faced with the reality that in some areas of our lives, the clowns are firmly in charge of the circus. We have to live with this situation as the new turned of 'woke' politics firmly takes hold and dictates how we should behave in everyday life. For those who are not completely aware of the meaning of woke, here is a description of the term from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary:

"Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” and identified as U.S. slang. It originated in African American English and gained more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. By the end of that same decade it was also being applied by some as a general pejorative for anyone who is or appears to be politically left-leaning."

So while being 'woke' can be a good thing, it has become a free-for-all excuse for everyone with dubious 'issues' to come crawling out of the woodwork and use it to promote agendas which go beyond common decency and right-minded thinking. 'Jumping on the Bandwagon', as I said in Lesson 10. And some of the most perverted and craziest of all are enjoying the ride, and the music.

75th Lesson

In some spheres of human existence, one wonders if evolution has failed us. We still justify, or tolerate, violence and mass murder as a way to settle our differences. And all purely for the sake of pride?

In the 60th, 61st and 62nd Lessons, I wrote about the situation in Ukraine. It is a prime example of how disputes can escalate in the absence of common sense. But what value reasonability when it is devalued to the point of being almost non-existent? In this case, it is obvious that it was never going to be considered because more important political agendas had to be given far more force. On a set of scales, the entrenched dogma of war is the only solution, and it weighs so heavily on one side that no even the greatest effort to rebalance said scales will have any effect. So it's war once again, regardless of the facts. Let's just have a good old-fashioned punch-up to settle a dispute.

Interestingly, I once briefly observed two drunkards in a town centre having an argument. One of them became quite aggressive to the other and said "do you want to fight" (or words to that effect). These two characters were intoxicated with alcohol, but in the political arena, it only takes one of the two sides of the political spectrum to start a fight for similar reasons. Drunk on booze, or drunk on power, there is no difference.

And so we have it, time after time after time. The politicians we foolishly entrust to govern us are, at times of war, no better than and behave like primitive cave-dwelling people. Some even look the part, especially some of those in the British Parliament (with one person in particular who most suitably fits the description).

How do we stop these brawlers? How do we fully police them when they are empowered to police themselves? What if, for example, police officers from two neighbouring forces decided they didn't like the way each other was doing their job? Watch as they then send large number of police officers to come together on a battle field somewhere and fight out their differences? This would be considered pure insanity, but in politics, it is perfectly normal behaviour. Hence, we are not just governed by mindless and genetically-retarded morons, we have to tolerate their actions without consulting the general public first.

They say that 'pride comes before a fall', and the politicians are such proud idiots, aren't they? The only change I would make to this adage is that (politicians) pride comes before millions of fallen, those who had to die to satisfy their vanity and stupidity. Colonel Blimp lives on, even today. Hoorah, and three cheers for the belligerent British buffoons (and their Western counterparts)!

"Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, ..." - Wikipedia

76th Lesson

The customer is always right. An old principle which has become much abused and misused.

I started my first job almost 55 years ago. I was a 15-year-old working at Burton's the Tailors. In these early years it was understood that customer was always right. It doesn't exactly mean this, but it implies more appropriately as 'what the customer wants, the customer gets'. It mattered not what the customer asked for, we sold it if it was available or could be obtained. How it looked upon the customer when they purchased it was not important. I guess you can say life was simpler back in those days, where both sides of sale knew this rule.

However, a customer is not always right. I learned this when going on at a later age to try and sell double-glazed windows and doors. You had to try and convince the customer they were right, but always leading them by the nose to one conclusion. That conclusion was that there was only one person who knew what was best, and that was the salesman. Not so much this is what we offer, like it or lump it, but why would you want to buy from anyone else because I am offering you one of the best products on the market! But in effect, yes, like it or lump it.

Today, the customer can still get what they want without much fuss. Maybe they are told a better product best suits their needs, but being too pushy is a no-no. The real challenge comes when you wish to change something or return it for a refund after you have had it in your possession for a day or two. It really depends upon those selling you your product, and what type it is.

There are trading laws, but interpretation depends upon the willingness of the retailer to oblige you if you change your mind. Larger companies will usually be accommodating and let you change or return something, but not smaller retailers. If you do not know your consumer rights, then you may well be denied any rightful duty by the retailer to honour your request. In this respect, and in the worst cases, the customer is never right.

Buying computers and peripherals, including software, is a nightmare. You can only return a product if it is faulty and beyond repair, or if you have simply broken the security seal on the box in which your product was packaged. 'Caveat Emptor' (let the buyer beware) is the famous expression.

Ultimately, it is all down to scale. The biggest customers will always have the sway of their money to influence their way through any retail minefield. But the smaller guy (or gal)? You may just have to fight for your rights - if you have any, that is.

Be careful out there. Always question your rights before purchasing anything. Get it in some form of writing, or if it is one a sign in the shop you buy your product from, take a photo of it as evidence. Trust me, save yourself a lot of time and hassle by protecting yourself, and your rights, in the first instance.

77th Lesson

One bad apple spoils the whole barrel ... so the saying goes. It's as true today as will ever be. Before we ever blame any organisation for any misfortune we may suffer, remember that it may be entirely down to the actions of a single person.

Our lives are influenced and controlled by various organisations. Our banks control our money, the government controls our taxes and benefits, our employers control our jobs. Whatever it is, we are subject to the manipulation of others in at least some aspects of our lives.

But those who work for such organisations who have this control are not the ones who decide what we can have, what we can do, and what we can say. The employees who work for these organisations have to obey the rules and conditions of their job. If they have to deliver you bad news, then they are not the ones to blame (unless, or course, they get some perverted satisfaction from making you suffer). It is the 'rule-makers' who are to blame. Sometimes such people are not fit for duty and the trust placed within them. They are the 'rotten apples'.

Take for example the ongoing Post Office scandal where innocent post office subpostmasters were accused of fraudulent behaviour, but solely based upon the faulty software they were obliged to use in the administration of their contractual obligations. The investigation into this scandal is better known as the 'Horizon IT Inquiry' ... something which led to "the suspension, termination of subpostmasters’ contracts, prosecution and conviction of subpostmasters."

Damned by faulty software and those who were empowered to use it and employ it as a weapon against those suspected of fraud. It turned into a witch hunt against the innocent and affected their lives in the most dramatic way possible.

"How much did the people running the Post Office get paid while the flawed Horizon system was in place? By looking through the company accounts for the Post Office and Royal Mail, the BBC has come up with a figure - £19.4m over 24 years. Before 2012, Royal Mail and the Post Office were part of the same organisation - and its three successive chief executives, John Roberts, Adam Crozier and Dame Moya Greene, made a total of £12.8m. All three of them are due to appear at Horizon Inquiry which resumes on 9 April. From 2012 onwards, the chief executives of the separated Post Office, Paula Vennells then Nick Read, have made a total of £6.5m." - Horizon Scandal

So A few got rich at the expense of the Post Office's victims. This is the British elitist system that protects those who are privileged against the best interests of those they use to enhance their personal fortunes.

Has anything ever changed? Not really. There are still those who think they are 'mightier than thou' and have the right to enrich themselves without concern for others. They are the lowest form of life, the parasites who feed off others, even when they know of the suffering it causes to their victims.

78th Lesson

Abortion: 'Licence to Kill' (and there is nothing '007' about this either). It's a strange world where we can put someone in prison for life for the cold-blooded murder of someone, but the deliberate and premeditated killing of an unborn child is acceptable? Is this what humanity has become?

Why is it so easy, regardless of the law, for some women to consider killing their own unborn baby? Medical reasons aside, how can it be morally justified to rid oneself of what is part of their own body merely for the sake of convenience? I sometimes wonder if I have slipped into some parallel existence where human life has lost all meaning. But no, I have had to grow-up and realise that the world in which I live has no respect for human life. It is a world that lost it's moral compass, one that should have guided it to a better understanding of the meaning of life and the value it has.

One of the elements of the post-apocalyptical 'New World Order' ("NWO")that will be imposed upon is a lack of respect for human life. Humans will merely be reduced to biological assets that can be disposed of as and when they no longer serve any useful purpose. And it's the hysterical banshees who scream it is their right to murder their own child will be the catalyst for this - it is one of the devices used to remove whatever little meaning and rights humanity still possesses. Consider the following two scenarios.

1. Woman goes to see a doctor. She says she suffers from an overwhelming desire to murder someone. The doctor refers her to a psychiatrist and she is locked away in an institution before she can harm anyone.

2. Woman gets pregnant and decides she does not want to give birth to her child. So she aborts said child. All perfectly legal and she gets on with her life. End of story.

The ability to kill others without thought or reproach will prove to be a useful asset to the NWO. They already have armed forces that can achieve the senseless killing of others, but to expand that to ordinary civilians? How useful would it be to turn all of us into mindless killers?

This is the hidden danger of abortion. Not to just mercilessly and without compassion murder a defenceless unborn child, but to remove the guilt associated with such a heinous act of cruelty. Where do we go next? Just seeing other people as being expendable because the the masters of the NWO and there obedient and whoring mainstream media slaves tell us that a supposed enemy is beyond being considered being human - that they are nothing but monsters to be slayed without a second thought?

Beware easy abortions. This practice is opening a door that should not be opened, because the next door will take you closer to Satan himself. And when the next door opens, maybe you will look back at the door behind you, the one that you will see has been slammed shut, and no longer an escape route back to where you came from.

79th Lesson

Greed. Not just for food, but for anything and everything. And the greedier the person, the more likely it is they will never know when to stop. It's a craving that cannot be satisified.

I have observed this few times in my life. For some, a sin. In a few cases, 'Magpie Syndrome'. But for others, a form of madness. It's a different reason for different people.

In the first instance, megalomania. Money is power. The sinful desire to be more influential, more privileged and the right to feel superior to others can motivate some to eagerly seek out their fortune at every opportunity. This is purely to being the master of your own destiny, one that money can at least partly afford you. They are you friends while you money lasts, and what you perceive as genuinely close friends will be few and far between.

'Magpie Syndrome' is a condition which we also know as 'kleptomania' (the urge to steal). Some do this not because of evil intentions, but to desire what someone else possesses. There are numerous reasons this behaviour can manifest itself. It's a betrayal when someone you trust steals from you, but you have to understand it is because of this condition and not because the the thief dislikes, envies or despises you. It is just something they cannot control.

Further understand that kleptomaniacs will steal from anyone - even their closest friends. And just like other forms of insanity, the kleptomaniac's world is focussed exclusively upon their own cravings. Can they be treated or cured? The simple answer is no. It is in their DNA to be like this. It does not have to be because of some childhood deprived of affection or financial hardship. It is purely because this is the way they are. So while suffering as a child may be a reason to accumulate wealth beyond reason, this can only serve to embolden the betrayal they inflict upon others.

The worst form of greed is due to lack of any respect for the victim. The hunger for more and more wealth is akin to the vampire who needs a regular supply of fresh blood to remain alive. For the thief, and just like the vampire, their hunger is endless. They will steal just for the sake of it as it is a hunger that ca never be satiated. Yes, it is a madness, and it makes the thief a mortal danger to all that encounter it and suffer from it's unbridled greed. The tragedy, if you can can call it that, is that some who keep acquiring money well beyond their needs, think they have some divine right to do this. All morality is lost, and the greediest of all think that while they may lose genuine friends, the only ones they will gain will be more servile and slavish.

80th Lesson

Rioting and rebellion. I previously wrote of the type of rebellion that can occur which is aided and abetted by 'outside influences', but sometimes sections of society just decide that enough is enough and take matters into their own hands. Pre-existing tensions are usually present when there is rioting, and it only takes one isolated incident, one spark, to ignite a tinderbox situation.

Even where the mainstream media is strictly controlled by the State, news of the events that occur in such places cannot be contained. And because large scale riots are very newsworthy, every media mogul will want their TV station or newspaper to bring you all the lurid details of what is occurring. There is never a year that goes by with some major disturbance making the news.

Rioting can become rebellion when it captures the imagination and the restrained frustrations of those who would not normally say boo to a goose. The timid, witnessing the popular reaction of the most volatile members of our society will think that maybe they do have the courage to join what is slowly becoming a movement to right a wrong in society. And the more people who join such a movement, the more that will want to join it.

However, rebellion resides at the end of a very long and winding road. The State, seeing how it can become a reality, will do all it can to circumvent such a threat to their authority. In some situations, the State will try to pacify the disenchanted. At the other end of the scale, they will resort to brute force. When one method fails, another will replace it. And when the State uses violence against it's own people, this is when things really do take off.

For those of us who are older, we have witnessed almost civil wars between two opposing forces. The UK miner's strike of 1984-1985 is but one example. The cause of it was the workers protesting against the Thatcherite ideologies of the time that was threatening their livelihoods. Sadly, it did not end well for the miners. The 'Iron Lady' was determined not to lose this battle, and used whatever means at her disposal to ensure this.

Many riots though are usually short-lived. They are no more than temporary explosions of anger that can last just days or weeks. The riots of August 2011, and after the police shooting of Mark Duggan, sparked mass riots across the country. Preceding this trouble, the 1981 Handsworth riots were also a demonstration of public anger against the perceived misuse of police powers - ones which the ethnic community said were discriminatory as black people were unfairly targetted.

But rebellion in the UK? Not likely, and if it did happen, on a more peaceful scale. But it will not happen while the ballot box remains a way to change things - if only temporarily. And the typical English Anglo-Saxon is not really known for violent regime-changing behaviour - certainly not since the English Civil Wars of the 17th Century.