St George looks ahead in dismay

I wonder what Saint George would make of today’s typical native Englishmen? We have swung from my teenage memories of 1950s, for the most part, self respect in dress and manners to the 2010 slob-like indifference so often displayed today. The universal uniform of today is the shrunken and wrinkled tee-shirt, scruffy jeans, and grubby trainers worn by young and not so young alike. The same dreary uniform is often worn for work and also for special occasions. Enthusiasm is limited to a media-boosted hysterical frenzy at all aspects of football or of televised celebrity culture and of youngsters seeking instant TV stardom. Indifference and cynicism is the rule of the day and seems to be rife throughout society. Many are no longer feeling intensely shocked and disgusted at the vile actions of fellow citizens. What has happened to us all, don’t we care about anything any more?

My sympathies go out to the suffering of the folks in Haiti, but oh I do get tired of the endless laid-on guilt trips inflicted upon we the British public by the Media every time there is a disaster somewhere on the planet. Millionaires, billionaires, multi-billionaires galore arrogantly swan about the world (how on Earth does one man become a multi-billionaire whilst another man barely survives in grinding poverty?), apparently there is so much available money swilling about the world when governments require military might to be updated and to fight wars, until of course banks need to be rescued by tax-payers from the banks' self-inflicted, bonus-enhanced plights. Third World countries can have their national debts cancelled out at the stroke of a pen by the World Bank but the great British public whether they've prudently avoided living on credit or not are expected to foot the bill each and every time. We all know we live or exist on a planet consisting of a ball of very hot molten magma covered by a relatively thin layer of cracked congealed buckling rock, so why when the powerful elite remorselessly work towards globalisation isn't there a global emergency fund poised and always ready to completely cover the costs of disaster rescue and rebuilding work as and when needed any where in the world? Instead the disaster victims always have to feel they are the recipients of charity, assuming they ever receive any of the donations that we are always urged to dig deep into our pockets to provide?
David Brittain

What a mess

WHAT A MESS
At run up to election time we all listen to the slanging matches between the political parties. We hear the same old promises re-hashed, and oh yes it’s all going to be different this time, but somehow I doubt that things will change for the better no matter which party wins. There are so many sour aspects of the current political situation that fuels reluctant voters’ doubts, for example:

The MP who probably does an excellent job aiding and advising his or her local constituents obediently blends in herd-like with following the party line when the party whips demand it, even though this often means voting completely opposite to the local constituents’ wishes. This is not democracy in action it is rule dictated by the leadership. Laws are passed virtually unread and unopposed by MPs, and often passed late at night when only a handful of members are present. Is the elected-by-the-voters MPs' role in Parliament to simply be ‘yes-men’ to the party leaders and their cabinets?

Thanks to Tony Blair and Co the UK got dragged into America's corporate empire building wars of which, despite the arrival of Saint Obama, there is no sign of them ending, and yet none of the UK election spiels currently drenching every available moment of the media have mentioned ending the ongoing wars or even mentioned the wars at all.

Swindles have abounded and more swindles come to light each day. The ongoing, well publicised, MPs’ expenses scandal, and the vast toxic debt created with their seniors’ approval by Porsche-driving, obscenely bonus-enhanced precious young bank employees lending far too much to borrowers (who in turn should have known their personal borrowing limits) and then selling on to other banks the same bad debts as derivatives. With very few exceptions no one in parliament or the banking worlds have been punished or prosecuted. The government makes sure that it is the taxpaying public that rescues the banks, and the banks consolidate their positions. Meanwhile no matter whether taxpayers have lived dangerously on credit or have carefully lived within their means, we all have become brainwashed victims of carefully laid-on guilt with the idea boosted from all political parties and bankers that we the public have to repay the bank-created gigantic toxic bad debts. On top of this we all are expected to continue paying for going to war for reasons that leave most of us baffled and suspecting that the reasons are more to do with protecting oil pipelines rather than fighting terrorism.

Everything, gas, electricity, telephone, railways etc previously owned by the British public, including most council housing, have been privatized or sold off. UK Manufacturers have eagerly shunted manufacturing jobs abroad to cheaper work forces so that now we are mostly a nation of unemployed service providers competing with an unbroken flow immigrants for the few available jobs. What have we left to conserve?

David Brittain
22 Thorns Way
Walton on the Naze
Essex CO14 8SB

A helpful booklet

HINTS FOR ALL SPECIAL GRAND DAUGHTERS

A booklet to help parents cope with that dreaded Generation Gap

It is often difficult for caring, loving parents to give good and sensible advice that will be accepted by their beloved teenaged daughters. In parallel often there is a different, more relaxed type of bond of affection and trust between grand parents and their grand children. I am a grand father and so with this special bond in mind I have written a reader-friendly booklet for the benefit of all special grand daughters no matter where they live in the world, and they all are special even though they are often led to believe that they are not special. Below for your interest I have listed the chapters and the flavour that each chapter contains. Obviously advice verbally given face to face could have the negative confrontational effect, even from grand parents. The same advice offered from a booklet read in the privacy of the princess’s bedroom could gently widen a daughter’s outlook on life. The books and magazine shops are crammed with advice for teenagers about cosmetics, fashion, and the latest gadgets. Advice about sex, looking sexy, and the physical body is there in abundance. This booklet helps teenaged girls to value, protect, and cherish their individual uniqueness.

Summary of 'Hints for all special granddaughters'

Page 03 Chapter One: There’s no fool like an old fool.
In chapter one I describe the misunderstandings caused by the generation gap.

Page 07 Chapter Two: Quality versus quantity.
In chapter two I urge teenagers to develop their imagination and sense of curiosity.

Page 14 Chapter Three: Modern questions with ancient answers.
In chapter three I encourage teenagers to enjoy reading and to question what they are taught.

Page 17 Chapter Four: Flexibility of mind.
In chapter four I encourage teenagers to understand their selves and to look deeper than the surface appearances of others.

Page 21 Chapter Five: A brief list of tips.
In chapter five: a brief list of tips helps young ladies to understand how
young men think and quite often don't think.

Page 26 Chapter Six: You, living with you.
In chapter six: You living with you gently explain the parental viewpoint to teenagers and also what is required of them while living at home or expected from them by others while living elsewhere.

Page 35 Chapter Seven: The price of drug addiction.
In chapter seven: The price of drug addiction, takes the form of a short,
grim story entitled, the fatal trap, in which the main character is the
young reader.

Page 40 Chapter Eight: Illusions.
In chapter eight: Illusions, explains how public thinking is manipulated by blurring the line between needs and desires.

Page 44 Chapter Nine: Protecting your uniqueness and your pocket.
In chapter nine: The illusion named fashion explores mass-produced garments bearing top designers' names.

Page 54 Chapter Ten: Hints in a nutshell for the young adult lady.
In chapter ten, I offer the teenager eight helpful general hints.

Page 58 Chapter Eleven: A mystery, why do we exist?
In this last chapter briefly we explore the confusion caused by conflicting
belief systems, and methods of seeking truth.

Page 69 Booklist, and, About the Authors

Hints for all special grand daughters is a printable 70 A4 sides booklet downloadable from our website www.ascensionsupportteam.com
Price £2.oo via our PayPal link

ships that pass each other in the night

Ships that pass each other in the night

This is about YOU. Not just as YOU where you are now, but YOU as an intelligent human being with the future ahead of YOU a future that YOU can guide and control.

Everyone exists during a moment we all think of as NOW. Our future is blurred and unknown, and memories of our past quickly become hazy. This is like everyone in the world walking alone through a thick mist. This means that we have to learn the lessons of life as we move through time, or as time flows passed us. The world is filled with people who we will never meet or know, but who, just like we do, exist in the ‘Now’ moment, and who never know what the next moment will bring. Will it bring something awful or something wonderful?

Each of us has a path that we must follow as we journey through life. Sometimes the path runs alongside the paths of other people, friends, relations or workmates, for a short or long period of time and then those paths diverge leaving each of us alone to follow our own paths. I have explained this to you so that you may choose to become flexible enough in your outlook to be able to accept and expect changes during your life, but never to fear those changes. The same people that surround you now will at some time in the future go their own ways leaving you to continue along your own path. From this you will understand that no relationship with other people in your future life is rigid, permanent, or fixed, hence the old saying, “Ships that pass each other in the night”

The choice for you is whether you choose to be one of those ships feeling their ways uncertainly through the darkness and fog, or for you to be a lighthouse that radiates safety and light to those passing ships. To be able to become a lighthouse requires you to completely trust yourself and to trust in the future.

When you learn to trust in the future and what it may bring you cease to worry about yourself because you become confident that whatever the uncertain future brings you will cope with it, as you have done in the past. Knowing this you are then able to live completely and fully in the moment we think of as ‘Now’. Many people fail to live in the ‘Now’ moment because they fear what the future may bring or they long for past happiness and so their thoughts are always focused in the future or the past, never in the ‘Now’. The past is fixed and the future is unformed, so the only moment when any of us can control or change anything is during the ‘Now’ moment. Keep in mind that YOU are in charge of YOU, and what YOU decide is for YOU in the ‘Now’ moment shapes your future.
Love and Laughter from David and Yvonne

ASCENSION SUPPORT TEAM

DAVID & YVONNE BRITTAIN

Website: http://www.ascensionsupportteam.com

A Tool named Ridicule

As we all know, conspiracy theories abound on the Internet, and to dare use the title ‘New World Order’ is to invite ridicule as being the unreal products of fevered imaginations. Obviously the whole point of a conspiracy is to strictly limit knowledge of it to the conspirators who dreamed up the conspiracy in the first place. As such it is difficult if not impossible for ordinary members of the public to know for certain if a conspiracy to introduce a N.W.O. exists or not. At this point it may be helpful to define what we mean by the word conspiracy, and also what we mean by New World Order. The Collins concise dictionary defines the word conspiracy as, 1. A secret plan, to carry out an illegal or harmful act, especially with political motivations; plot. 2. The act of making such plans in secret.

Next let us examine the title ‘New World Order’. We the authors are deeply into New Age thought and we welcome any improvement or innovation that would make this a more enlightened better and fairer world in which for without exception, everyone to live. If N.W.O. is meant to achieve a better and fairer world for all we are all for it, unfortunately hard experience gained during nearly seven decades of closely observing modern history being made makes us suspicious of the word ‘Order’ included in that title. During that long observing period we have witnessed throughout the world the introduction or rather imposition of many harsh versions of the word ‘Order’ by leaders upon the people they are privileged to lead. No matter what flavour of ‘ism’ the politics that the current leaders follow, always unfailingly the same type of people come out on top to enjoy riches and power, and always the same type of people remain on the bottom, seemingly powerless and dependent on those at the top, so if N.W.O. means a more powerful and autocratic version of the same we really don’t need it, life is hard enough already.

What makes our lives so hard? The fact that thinly disguised powerful autocracy has already ruled mankind for many generations and has become the normal, accepted way of life, and here is where the word ‘conspiracy’ enters the scene. It surely cannot be legal to plan and create the circumstances that will certainly cause the disempowered majority of mankind to suffer ever-tightening restrictions on the freedom of all individuals to enjoy a fulfilling life, and yet that is what is happening. The same Collins dictionary defines the word Autocracy as (1) Government by an individual with unrestricted authority. (2) A country, society, etc., ruled by an autocrat.

So far every type of political ‘ism’ has been tried somewhere in the world but always it ends up with all the power invested into one man or woman at the top of this or that government. The government may be the result of a military coupe or it may have been democratically elected but always decision making comes down to the top man and his selection of non-elected specialist advisors, and then loyalty to the political party demands that all of the elected government members have to go along with what has been decided in their names. Any member that doesn’t go along with the decision is ostracized. Of course in a democracy the top man can be voted out of office or impeached to then be replaced by another top man or woman but the situation as described remains unchanged. World-shaking decisions are made when this international selection of a few top men and women meet and these decisions seldom if ever reflect the wishes of the world population.

Whose wishes do these decisions made by leaders of governments reflect? Unfortunately they mostly reflect the wishes and demands of powerful international private interests, huge investors, banks, and industrialists with the power and influence to make or break the economies of nations. Money is the method by which mankind has chosen to exchange energy, and so those who create and control the flow of money internationally have enormously powerful influence over the decisions made by national leaders. Looked at in this light the whole idea of democratic government is a confidence trick played on the voters. It is very easy to work such a deception because most people are not politically minded or politically conversant. The very lifestyle of the working people ensures that their entire focus of attention is fixed upon surviving in a deliberately manipulated competitive society where ever-rising prices for essentials have become the accepted norm. To protest and to suggest that deliberate manipulation is involved at best invites being publicly ridiculed or being completely and arrogantly ignored by the very media that offers itself as ‘Defenders of the peoples’ rights’ and of at worst being persecuted and hounded by the ‘lawful authorities.

The protester is then faced by a system of justice created and run by people who individually have had to devote many, many years to learning the intricacies and laws of a justice system based in many centuries of precedent. Despite the required years of study devoted by these people they then blandly inform the protester that ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse. What chance does anyone have when faced with such an illogical system?

What are the wishes of the world population? The world is filled with a melange of different types of people, different colour skins, different religions and spiritual beliefs, different languages, and different lifestyles, but mostly they all share the same wishes in common. Wherever they live in the world they want to live in peace with their neighbours. They want to earn a decent and honest living to enable them to enjoy the love and warmth of their families, and to enjoy a modest share of the generous bounty and beauty offered by planet Earth. They want to be able to trust their leaders to get on with the job of leading the people to prosperity. Mostly the last thing they want is to conquer other nations or to impose their will, religious or political, upon others. Really this is not much to ask from life, but how many of us ever get these simple wishes granted? Instead our leaders offer us all a continuous, indigestible diet of fear served up in many different forms. Fear is used to manipulate our emotions, and self-doubts by both political and religious leaders, and by those hidden powerful interests that control the media and pull the puppet strings of the leaders. If this isn’t a conspiracy, what is?

To divide and conquer sums up the motives that lay behind this forced diet of fear. For example, if you can be made to feel that others from elsewhere in the world are intent upon harming you and your loved ones you have no way of knowing whether this is true or not, but you wish to believe that the leader via the media is telling you the truth. Quite naturally without thought or protest you would allow your trusted leader to adopt greater powers that also would restrict yours and everyone else’s freedom, all supposedly in the cause of protecting you and your loved ones. You would allow your local friendly police force to be transformed into masked, armoured regiments of humanoids complete with Zulu-type, baton-beating plastic shields backed by tear gas and water cannons to invoke terror into those, branded as disloyal traitors that dare to protest at such infringements upon personal freedom.

You would proudly send your sons and daughters abroad to fight those that you have been led to believe threaten your nation. Lastly you would wait in vain for your leader to relinquish those adopted greater powers and to bring your sons and daughters back home to you. You would wait in vain because the whole idea was to gain those greater powers in the first place, and so always reasons will be found to justify retaining those powers for as long as possible. At no stage during the working of this confidence trick are you allowed by the media to regard those others from elsewhere in the world as human beings very little different to yourself. Thus to one man a freedom fighter is to another man a terrorist, depending on the differing points of view emphasised.

The powers-that-be works a similar confidence trick on young people whose loyalty to their nations leads them to enlist in the armed forces. Swiftly and smoothly they are encouraged by their seniors to regard their selves as members of an elite brotherhood, separate from those in civilian life, and to regard the leader of their nation as their commander-in-chief. Before the hideous reality of their situation dawns on these young impressionable people they are expected to swear an oath, which in fact transfers all matters of his or her conscience and application of personal freewill firmly into the hands of his or her senior officers. This sounds like an unlikely exaggeration until in times of armed conflict the conscience of the young person compels him or her to disobey orders. Then mercilessly, from top to bottom, the brotherhood unites against this misguided individual. Much of the working of this confidence trick relies on an ongoing need of individuals to belong and be accepted by a group. To belong to and be accepted by a group requires the individual to replace clear thought with blind obedience to orders from above, and in this way, via the military hierarchy the civilian leader of a nation is willingly given a powerful, obedient weapon with which to bargain when leaders of nations meet.

We have already mentioned the hidden pressures from powerful international interests that are exerted upon leaders of nations. The existence of these pressures brings into question the real rather than the publicised reasons and motives for taking a nation to war. For everyone but the ordinary tax-paying citizen wars and weapons research and manufacture are very profitable ventures for those who never reveal themselves to public scrutiny. This means that the interests of the military and the international arms manufacturers are closely aligned. Thus each nation, made up of people who don’t want war, is compelled to spend countless billions of taxpayers’ money on the increasingly foul weapons of war.

No matter how highly principled the leader of a nation we never seem to get to the point where honesty is allowed to enter the scene during international negotiations with leaders of other nations. The western nations have an appalling modern history of arrogant exploitation of the resources of third world countries and near, middle, and far eastern nations that has produced ongoing, intense resentment and hatred, but never does the national pride of our leaders allow them to ask how they could make amends for all of that past wrong doing. This leads us to believe that an international conspiracy does exist that cruelly use any tool to foment discord and distrust between nations of peace-loving people.

If as we believe the imposition of some type of malevolent N.W.O. is waiting in the wings we only have ourselves to blame. Each of us is gifted with intelligence and is capable of using intelligence to ask searching questions of our leaders and of demanding honest answers. The time for blind unquestioning trust and acceptance has gone having revealed as a result continuous betrayal of our trust. When enough people change their individual outlook from that of followers of leaders of governments and religions to that of ‘leader of self’ we all will revalue ourselves, our opinions and our thoughts regardless of those of others. Then that indigestible diet of fear will be replaced by the clear thinking of each individual, and then the light of truth will illuminate the dark corners where furtive plotters lurk. To clear thinking people it is a ridiculous and pointless target to plot to dominate mankind. Hopefully one day this ridiculousness will also dawn on the plotters their selves. If you want your wishes to be granted speak up! Clearly and loudly say what those wishes are. Don’t wait for others to speak for you. That is how we got into this ridiculous mess in the first place.
David and Yvonne Brittain 30-03-09

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