Dr. Gabrielle Krone-Schmalz, a German intellectual and former journalist outlines how the war in Ukraine came about, the role of Western media in shaping the narrative, helping stifle criticism and truth. Finally, how dangerous this is for us as individuals and our society where we are 90 seconds away on the Doomsaday Clock from armageddon. It will take only 72 minutes to annhilate over five billion human beings and end everything.

German with English Interpreter

Courtesy: Neutrality Studies / YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZKTbgftHQ&t=642s

We have had a general election. A new government is now in power. What have we learnt? That our electoral system is not fit for purpose. That a government with a landslide in terms of MP's elected had a lower share of votes when it had far fewer and was deemed to have failed. A government that, despite its perceived mandate, will continue largely with the failed policies of the last gopvernment that was so unceremoniously kicked out of office. What does this mean for us as the British people, and our country? The future both for geopoilitical reasons and the internal failings does not look bright. We need to look at a system that is both more representative, more focused on the needs of our people and nation, and more independent in its world view. Otherwise, we will end up a small, grey island on the outskirts of Europe locked into an ever increasing spiral of decline.

We are living at a time of great change and signs of degradation and collapse in our countries. One of the main reasons is the lack of leaders with vision, integrity and a desire to work for the greater good. Ironically, while all this is going on, we are constantly being assailed by the word 'Leader' being applied to all and sundry people in senior position regardless of their incompetence as if using this word somehow makes you a leader. Besides, who needs leaders that are basically technocrats or bureaucrats. It's a contraction in terms.

We are being led by liars, chancers, opportunists, fake, paid-for hacks, in all aspects of our lives. Unless we change that, we as a nation, and we, the collective West, are heading for a collapse.

We need leaders, in a new system, with integrity and honour whose main motivation is not self-interest and greed. It is the only way to a better future.

We are living in a dystopian, dysfunctional world. Reason for that is simple. The American financialisation model where everything in society is seen as a profot centre and all values are related to money alone, civic and moral values go out of the window. In their place come, corruption and degradation of all things that amke a scoiety worth living in.

That is happening in front of our eyes where ten year old boys are watching porn which is then formulating their views unhealthy and unpleasant views of girls.

It is just one aspect of how things are getting worse.

We discuss how this symbolises all that is going wrong in our society and why.

We have seen over our lifetime, Britain lose shape as a nation and dissolve slowly into a grey morass of confusion without a sense of itself, what it believes in, what it stands for, and who it works for.

This is because Britain today is a vassal state of America. The imposition of the uncivic American values is the cause of our decline as a society and a nation.

We belive our proud boast that, 'Britons Never, Never, Never, Shall Be Slaves' needs to be heard now when our nation is facing an existential threat to it.

We need to stop this before we become a sad, little nation on the outskirts of Europe, with an ever decreasing circle of paths which lead our people into ever increasing poverty and loss of optimism and pride in what we are and what they feel they are.

We are an old nation. London was a city one thousand years ago. But it’s something we seem to have forgotten in Britain.

Time to remember is here, now.

Britain and America are not the same country. As the old truism goes, ‘We’re two nations divided by a common language.’

Despite the elites of our two nations, Britain, and America, being in lockstep and the UK being a vassal state of the USA, we are not one nation, and the UK is not the fifty-first state, with shared societal values and a fabric cut from the same cloth.

Nothing illustartes this better than the two greatest outlaw figures in the history of each country - Robin Hood and Jesse James. We show how each ilustrates the differences between each country in their persona. And why this matters.

Today. Tomorrow. And the Day After for us Brits, our children, and our children's children and all those who will come after.

#Lost #Nothing Makes Sense #Loss #Jonah and the Whale

Why are we all increasingly confused by the world around us? Why do all the previous understanding we had no longer seem to reflect what is going on? Why are the values that we thought we upheld and adhered to are being exposed merely as a facade for less civic actions? Is there a way out of this enveloping nightmare we find ourselves. Join us as we travel through our current space and time and share whether there is indeed a light at the end of this tunnel.

American Myths Are Unique But Not In a Good Way

To understand America (the country it is and the world we live in) is to look understand its myths and how they differ from those of other nations and cultures because that reveals so much of the mindset that created them and the country.

America is not unique in creating its myths. All nations and cultures create and maintain their own myths, but they come from within a social framework and events over a period of time and reflect a sense of shared identity. Without that, they cannot exist because only a few would understand them, and therefore, they would be meaningless. That is why often the stories they tell are contradictory reflecting all the paradoxes that are part of human and societal experience of different elements of society. Equally importantly, in other societies, they are not constantly referenced as integral to current elite actions and lives. They are a backstory of a people.

While the original myth about King Arthur (a very human figure who suffers a great deal in his personal life as he aims to build a better, more just world), it is believed, arose from Celtic traditions rooted in loss of their lands to the invading Angles and Saxons, it eventually evolved to represent all Britain including the descendants of those same Angles and Saxons who now shared their identity with a greater whole.

Arthur of the Britons became Arthur of Britain to unify all.

The mythical, Indian epic, Mahabharata, ostensibly tells the story of an extended royal family, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, in Northern India, who are clearly Indo-Aryans because they are described as tall and fair in contrast to Krishna who is short and dark thus from the Indian heartland but also a cousin of the Pandavas, (there is even a character called Karan whose description is of someone with blonde hair, blue eyes and illegitimate, thus the ultimate outsider but eventually accepted). They, living outside Hindu precepts, bloodily fall out in a fight for the throne. The aim is to skewer them for their selfish hedonism. Yet in fact, it ends up inadvertently showing a nobility to their social conventions and emotions that makes them both modern and appealing. (Duryodhana, the main antagonist). At the same time, Krishna, deified as a Hindu god, comes over as a destructive force whose motivations, never completely clear but often voiced in ethical and metaphysical constructs, lead to the complete annihilation of the world and the death of nearly everyone, including ultimately himself. Yet paradoxically, it is a Hindu epic because of its philosophical framework. But India is more than a Hindu country and culture so the poem reflects a more complicated and richer mixture of people and issues so all Indians can identify with it. (Going to watch The Ramayana with thousands of others in the dark.)

The Shahnameh (Book of Kings) has for centuries helped define Iran and the Iranian people, as well as ensuring the importance of the Persian language.

China has a huge range of myths covering how the world was created to stories of lost love with people at its centre.

Many Russian mythological creatures come from the influence of the Slavic pagan religions of Eastern Europe. Frequently, Christianity altered these tales and turned deities into demons and heroes into saints. Many of the creatures are humanoids or creatures representing humans, so people remain central to the stories.

So, why and how were American myths created? And what purpose did they, and do, still serve?

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