A Story of War with a NAME

Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

The Death of BS? - Ecademy

During after dinner coversation at a [friends] house last night the discussion turned to television. It appears, unfortunately, that TV even when not being watched can still claim the focus of attention, at least from my point of view.
My friend, no names no pack drills, my friend insisted that 14 million people in the UK watched 'strictly', the common short form of the BBC TV show Strictly Come Dancing, 'the country's most popular dance programme', please let me know of the others it is competing against.
Without dragging you into the *minutiae of the conversation, actually now I think of it there was nothing but intellectual minutiae in this strand of l'après-déjeuner banter. As the discussion on the validity of this number was about to get over heated... the host for indeed my friend was the host and as with hosts from the dawn of time he felt that this position gave him the right to BS is guests as a matter of due course, foolishly as it turns out, turned to his 15 year old for back up and support, as he was clearly losing the argument with the adults at the table. Without hesitation, deviation or allowing time for interruption the young man whipped out his shining internet enabled PDA/Phone/MP3 player/BS annihilator and 'googled' the audience figures for 'strictly'!

Although nearly captured by the Google distraction effect and being lured into a tempting siding of 'few Strictly Come Dancing viewers would have guessed Felicity Kendal, 64, and Ann Widdecombe, 63, were born just a year apart, shortly after the Second World War.' we managed to stay focused and learn... [strictly] Audience figures peaked when Miss Widdecombe took to the dance floor on Saturday evening, with 10.1 million viewers and 45.9 per cent of the entire audience share.

So although mine hosts underlying argument that strictly was horrendously popular was in fact correct, his BS audience figure was shattered by the ready and speedy access to real time data that the majority of us can now have, if not in our pockets, surely within very easy reach.

Another and perhaps more important example is the case of the 'Bargain' Vauxhall Vectra. For reasons of my own which are no real concern of yours I was looking to upgrade my car to a 1.9 diesel Vauxhall vectra. Now now gentle reader this is an example of the death of BS and your opinions on my transport choices are not relevant at this moment thank you. As I was saying, in the process of negotiation the jolly car salesman assured me he was doing me a massive favour by offering me a 56 plate 112,000 mile very nice condition vehicle of the aforementioned genus for only £4000 great british pounds. Lulled and seduced by his not inconsiderable charm, which included taking the vehicle home overnight 'to get a feel for the quality' I did indeed drive home feeling like the cat who ate the cream etc.
However not only did the salesman's charm fade quickly as I considered where the £4000 was going to come from, I also felt a growing and easily fulfilled need to search on 'Parkers' car price web site for the current figures on cars of this particular make and model... and so within seconds the salesman BS disapeared like a bachelor ninja being chased by Ms Widdecome for a french kiss, as I discovered the market price for the 100's of Vectras for sale on line was around £3,300 and most of them of that age with lower mileage.

So, now that so many facts are so easily checked and double checked, are we living in the age that saw the end of BS as we know it?

What do you think?

and
Do you have any other examples of the Intenet killing BS in your experience?

PS
Minutiae (singular. minutia) are, in everyday English, minor or incidental details
PPS
If you tell me you don't know what BS stands for... that's most probably BS


We live in amazing times with the speed and variety and reach of communication continuing to gather speed and with no sign of slowing down. In this modern context is...
Speaking in Public...
Still the No1 fear or...
In the 21st Century is it the No1 THRILL???
Vote here to help measure what's going on...
Where do you think public speaking comes in the general populations list of Greatest Fears?
Where does public speaking come in the list of your Greatest Fears?

The Death of BS? - Ecademy

Choose your reality

If everything changes... what then of truth?

There is no PRIZE... Out there!

If you don't find your true passion, someone else's passion will find you!!!
Call of Duty is someone else's Passion and they've got you paying time and money to play their game and fulfil there dream.  Time is your biggest asset, how are you investing it, in your dream in your studies or in someone else's dream, someone else's plan?  you know you can't get any of it back, this time thing, you do know that don't you?

There is no prize... out there. The prize is inside of you and if you haven't found your prize and your passion yet... inside is the only place you can find it. Kevin Spacey tells it beautifully... as always ;-).

https://youtu.be/2VIdg3sYRws

21st Century Business Club - November '10

21st Century Business Club - November

21 CBC October

One of the best business networking events around, and probably the most cost-effective way to turn your business ideas into reality.

Networking  events can be run badly or they can be done well.

The 21st Century Business club is Networking at its best.

You won't be standing around, making awkward small talk.   I will ensure it is inspiring, fun and useful and make sure everyone remembers that the main purpose of networking is to attract opportunities and do better business.

If rather than spending all your time, money and effort chasing opportunities, you want to get into the position where people come to you with interesting opportunities, attending the 21st Century Business Club will give you three ways to do this:

1 it will raise your profile

2 it will Create positive relationships

  and

3 It will Keep you in touch with the latest business news and events.

Oh and there are great speakers who present at each meeting.

Call 07788 717 444 to register
or
On line @ http://bit.ly/djC9jg

Knowledge is Action

Only when you act on what you have learned of something can you truly say you know that thing.

The Power of Gratitude

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.. 

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words 
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?" 


The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." 
I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it." 
Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
Source Rudi Metha

Forer's Unrecognised Genius Test

Does this fit You?

• You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.
• You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
• You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.
• While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
• Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you.
• Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.
• At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
• You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
• You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others” statements without satisfactory proof.
• You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others.
• At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.
• Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic.
• Security is one of your major goals in life.

If it is you are not accessing your Genius Potential!

Contact me urgently to discover how you can release your true potential...

We Are All One Consciousness

Haiti: The devastation began in 1492

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Haiti: The devastation began in 1492

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Mike Forrester Official High Court Statment in Manchester 2010

African diaspora and travels (Paul Obinna's 'TIMELINE' DVD trailer)

This is what you do...

When you are in a terrible place

      and the illusion of fear seems too bright to bear

             and the false aprehension of disaster
                                            is twisting at you inside

 
 
This is what you do...
 
Keep breathing! Keep breathing! 
Keep looking and listening! 
Deal with things as they really are... not with how bad they could be! 
Never stop yourself... let the situation or the problem stop you... it rarely will! 
Know that there absolutely is a solution... probably more than one...
                                                Some of them really easy...
                                                                    keep seeking for it/them! 
When you get over/past/through it...
                            as you almost certainly will..
                                           You will be stronger, wiser and
                                                                     more able than before!
 

When you get over/past/through it...
                                 remember these words...
                                                    ...for the next time...

and in the meantime...
                                     share them!

Colin Powell speaks about leadership

Chushingura

Loyalty is faithfulness to commitments to obligations, it is fealty, devotion, constancy, allegiance, fidelity, an unwavering sense of duty and devotion to a person or principle. 

Loyalty is the emotion and the feeling of devotion that one holds for one's country, creed, family and friends.  And by extension, one's obligation to support that group, cause or individual.

"Some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They're buffeted by this wind or that and never really know where they're going. That is largely the fate of the commoner - those who have no choice over their destiny. For those of us born as Samurai, life is something else. We know the path of duty and we follow it without question." - Oishi Kuranosuke
"I have lived my entire life for this moment. One's life weighs lightly against duty." - Oishi Chikara's

'natural born leader' ?

"I think all leadership starts with self leadership", so in that respect we are all natural born leaders. In most areas hard categories can be confusing and rarely as useful as those who like to put people in boxes like to suggest.

Truly great/inspirational leaders rarely fit any particular model of "the leader" and often start out as the most unlikely candidate... check out recent history, where more people feared for Barracks life than how hard it would be to maintain his positive opinion rating. also check out -attributes-of-inspirational-leaders

Rehab - The Jolly Boys

True to your Art

The foundations of the strongest buildings are sure because they can move, within limits!

The strongest tree bends in the storm to become the oldest tree it can be, it's roots do not move!

The effective person changes his path on the journey to remain true to the destination, one destination!

Perfect balance is perfect and never ending movement, around one point!

Your [He]art is your source of peace in the midst of the chaos that is life, be true to your [He]art!

Primary Purpose

Many years ago, there was a lighthouse keeper who was given sufficient fuel to keep the light going for a month until further supplies would be delivered.

On the first night of his watch, a mother with young children asked if could he spare her some fuel as her family were frozen and they had no money until her husband came back from sea. He helped her out with a small ration of fuel.

One week later he had a similar request from another family.

The same thing happened with a different family the following week and each time the lighthouse keeper helped with a small donation of fuel.

At the end of the third week he ran out of fuel for the light.

The following night there was a storm and in the darkness a ship ran aground killing all of the twenty crew on board - including the husbands and fathers of the families he had helped.

At his trial the well intentioned lighthouse keeper was found guilty of manslaughter.

He'd made the mistake of taking his eye of his primary objective, with tragic consequences that caused devastating harm to the very people he'd tried to help.

White Supremacy A Short History

White Supremacy A Short History

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Tim Wise-The Pathology of White Privilege Part 1/6

Dr. Clarke: Christianity Before Christ

Yes We Can

Justin Bieber - Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith

Adebayo Ogunlesi, owner of Gatwick Airport

Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners, said he is going "to make Gatwick a truly first class experience".
However he cautioned it would take "somewhere between 12 and 18 months" before passengers started noticing a difference at the airport.
GIP agreed a £1.51bn deal with Gatwick's current operator BAA last week, which represented a "good price", Mr Ogunlesi said.

Rene Carayol on the New Entrepreneur

Speak softly

It's not the destination that is important, nor the path we take, it is not even the journey that matters, it is the conversation we share with those we meet on the way that gives meaning to our lives.

"My Friend speak softly for your words are footsteps and you are walking on my heart" Anon

Scintillating on the home stretch

The Haberdashers’ Adams’ Federation

Adams’ Grammar School

A Member of the Family of Haberdashers’ Schools
Newport, Shropshire
Founded 1656

Headmaster’s News
Summer Term Issue 2
14 May 2010

Athletics
Our Year 11 athletes competed in the
Telford and Schools District Athletics meets
at Oakengates, pitting their skills against the
best in the area across the range of activities. The event
was kicked off in style with the boys 800m, which saw Ned
Rutty storm to victory, leaving at least 20 metres of
daylight between him and his nearest rival. Following this
initial success Michael Walsh lined up for the 80m hurdles
and put in a good performance, managing second place.
Despite a slow start Duncan Morrison came close to
winning the 200m but was just beaten into second on the
line. Despite being three places back in the 400m William
Wallace kept up the good work with a blistering last 100m,
winning in style before Aquile Smith stuttered out the
blocks but once again came in a credible second in the
flagship sprint event, the 100m. Ryan Cattle prefers even
longer distances but, despite trailing three others going into
the final lap in the 1500m, he glided round the course and
was bearing down on the leader as he crossed the line in
second.

In the field events Adams' were no less successful, with
Morrison claiming 2nd in the Long jump, Smith was also
2nd, but in the javelin. Walsh came in 2nd in the discus
and also 3rd in the high jump, with Josh Webster 2nd in
the shot and Cameron Roberts 2nd in the triple jump. The
final event of the evening was the 4x100m. Roberts lead
the way, passing the baton onto Morrison, who stormed up
the back straight. A slight stutter as Webster took over on
the bend, before passing onto Smith, who was scintillating
on the home stretch, cruising in a mere 20m ahead of the
nearest rivals. The results meant that we were certainly in
the top two. Depending on how Thomas Telford did in
certain events when the points come out, it could quite
possibly be a victory. The boys were great and the effort
they put in all evening was superb. Well done Adams'.
Mr Armstrong

Adults! Time to Say No!

"Rather than being paralysed by the scale of the problem, we need to think about what time and skills we could use to make a difference." ...

Trained to maim at age 7 

The alarming rise of Britain's 'baby' gangsters

CARVE-UP: Crafty young gangsters use broken CDs instead of knives to slash victims

By Lucy Panton, Crime Editor, 09/05/2010

KIDS as young as SEVEN are slashing their way up the gangland ladder - using shards of broken CDs as vicious weapons.

Young hoodlums use the sharpened plastic to fool cops and avoid being jailed for having a knife, we can reveal.
And by aiming blows at victims' arms they can argue they were acting in self-defence.
The alarming new evidence is outlined in a chilling book by Patrick Regan, who has spent almost two decades trying to rescue youngsters from a life of crime. It also reveals how:

• GANG members, including a new group of under-sevens called Babies, are taught how to stab rivals in the BACKSIDE so they need a colostomy bag;
• NEW recruits are ordered to RAPE as part of their initiation;
• THOSE who fear reprisal attacks even wear BULLETPROOF vests beneath school uniform.

Horror

Official estimates which suggest there are 20,000 gang members across the UK hugely under-estimate the problem, says Regan.
He was stunned to be told by one community worker in Birmingham: "A gun is easier to get than a mobile phone." The revelations in his book are sure to alarm the new Home Secretary.
Horrifyingly, Regan quotes the chairman of a police advisory body who said: "We'd have had a lot more deaths on our streets if it wasn't for the fact that the youngsters firing the guns are such poor shots."
While shootings remain comparatively rare, police report a 500 PER CENT increase in youngsters taking some form of weapon to school.


One former gang member, rescued by Regan's ground- breaking campaign group XLP which operates across London, explained how his mum gave him this tip: "She recommended I stab the person in the arm in defence and not the stomach, as it's less likely to cause major harm."
John Poyton, director of charity Redthread which works with young crime victims, added: "It appears to be the current trend for people to stab someone in the butt.
"They're not trying to kill their victim but leave them needing a colostomy bag so they have to suffer the degradation of the attack for life."
The report also highlights a worrying increase in girls involved in gangs, as casual sexual partners and "honey traps", drug and weapon handlers.
"The boys would treat us as their bitches, phone whoever they felt like f***ing, order them over, and most girls would drop everything and do whatever was wanted," said one girl ex-gangster.
Regan reveals how a girl will be phoned by a gang member and asked for sex. If she agrees she will then be asked if their "brethren" can join in.
"This they refer to as a line-up, where one girl performs sexual acts on a group of men in turn," he explains.
"Their justification is that if the girl doesn't respect herself why would they respect her?" He adds: "In some cases initiation into a gang involves raping someone first."
Family breakdown has exacerbated the problem. And so-called "Tinies", kids of seven and eight, are increasingly used because they're less likely to be stopped by cops.
"There are now even younger children getting involved known as Babies," says Regan. "Police know of gangs led by a 14-year-old boy."
In London, doubts have been raised over the widespread use of stop and search powers by police. One study showed that, despite 9,437 searches in six months in Southwark, knife crime rose by 8.6%. And last year FOURTEEN youngsters were stabbed to death in the capital.
This week's murder of Nick Pearton, 16, stabbed repeatedly in a playground brawl, brings this year's toll so far to TEN.
Regan's book, published by Hodder & Stoughton next month, tells how in North London police found boys of 13 or 14 who had been stabbed up to FIVE times.
One 15-year-old admitted wearing a bulletproof vest beneath his school uniform. The researcher told Regan: "We found him a mentor but six weeks later he was stabbed when leaving school."
Despite the grim picture he paints, Regan believes the situation is reversible.
In a passionate plea, he concludes: "Rather than being paralysed by the scale of the problem, we need to think about what time and skills we could use to make a difference."

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Nina Simone Feelings

Abbey Lincoln: Where Are The African Gods?

Max Roach Quintet w/ Abbey Lincoln - Driva-Man [1964]

Billie Holiday-Strange Fruit (Live)

Logos, Pathos, Ethos and

POWER Leadership is the ability to develop a PURPOSEFUL relationship of influence where you inspire people to take action in accordance with YOUR vision. - e.g. The Corporate Leader [Logos]
Power leadership has nothing to do with morality or empathy. This leader persuades people to follow him by any means necessary. Napoleon led the French to catastrophe, and they followed him almost to the end.  Marlborough and Wellington were masters of Power Leadership, unfortunately for the world so was Hitler. Al Capone was a Power Leader in a criminal context.


SERVANT leadership is the ability to develop a LASTING relationship of influence where you inspire people to take action in accordance with THEIR vision. - e.g. The Political Leader
[Pathos] 
The archetypal Servant Leader was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who while wielding tremendous personal and political power practised and advocated non-violence and truth, even in the most extreme situations. A student of Hindu philosophy, he lived simply, organising an ashram that was self-sufficient in its needs. Making his own clothes—the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl woven with a charkha—he lived on a simple vegetarian diet. He used rigorous fasts, for long periods, for both self-purification and protest.  Nelson Mandela was born and raised to be a Power Leader as a tribal chief, his 'long walk to freedom' sees him arrive in power as the first President of a united South Africa and the most significant Servant Leader of the modern era.  Dusé Mohamed Ali an influential Pan-Africanist, a supporter of Islam.  He traveled widely throughout the African Diaspora. He founded the African Times and Orient Review in 1911, which spread the call for African nationalism, and later founded The Comet in Lagos, Nigeria.


GREAT leadership is the ability to develop a LASTING relationship of influence where you inspire people to take action in accordance with A SHARED vision. - e.g. The Spiritual Leader 
[Ethos]
Servant Leader Martin Luther King moved into the Category of Great Leader when he crystallised a nation's [and perhaps the World's] vision with a speech that captured the 'Dream' shared by all races, creeds and colours.  Julius Kambarage Nyerere was one of Africa's leading independence heroes (and a leading light behind the creation of the Organization of African Unity), the architect of ujamaa (an African socialist philosophy which revolutionized Tanzania's agricultural system), the prime minister of an independent Tanganyika, and the first president of Tanzania.  Kwame Nkrumah was the motivating force behind the movement for liberation of Ghana, and its first president when it regained independence in 1957. His numerous writings address Africa's political destiny. In 1999 BBC world service listeners in Africa voted Kwame Nkrumah, "Man of the Millennium".




Typically Power Leadership is short lived and the power leader is dethroned by a rival or disillusioned followers.  The nature of the Power Leader is such that they will continually strive to return to power


The Servant leader will normally step down once the task is completed and be reluctant to return.  Servant Leaders who serve for extended periods can evolve into great leaders... if they survive the twin threats of the corrupting effects of power and the correcting actions of the men in shadows!

Game Changer

Bright young thing - Technology - ArabianBusiness.com
Meet Suhas Gopinath; the 23-year-old CEO of technology company Globals Inc turning over $25m a year.

The world's youngest CEO is not what you'd expect. A diffident, slight 23-year-old, who stutters lightly when he talks, Suhas Gopinath has none of the brash front you'd expect from someone who hit the pinnacle of corporate job titles when barely into his teens.

He is, in fact, about as far from a Richard Branson-style teen tycoon as you could imagine. So what, at age fourteen, spurred him to set up his own technology firm?

As it turns out, basic materialism.

"I wanted my own PC," Bangalore-born Gopinath admits in his lightly accented English. "The internet shop across the road charged $4 an hour, which was very expensive for me. I thought I could monetise my skills and buy my own computer to use at home."

Strictly speaking, then, his first deal was with the owner of the internet store, whom he persuaded to let him watch the shop in exchange for free surfing hours. Fast-forward six months, and Gopinath had taught himself how to build websites and was pitching cut-price portals to bricks-and-mortar firms in the US.

But business contacts, recoiling at the cockiness of this fourteen-year-old web whizz, didn't respond well.

"There was a lot of frustration and humiliation. Firms would say; ‘I see you're still in high school,' and ‘so, no moustache yet?'" Gopinath recalls. He later confesses he spent years trying to coax a moustache along, in the hope of cultivating an air of gravitas. "The rejections really were the spark for me to start my own company - I knew I needed to formalise my set-up."

At fourteen, however, Gopinath was four years short of being legally able to establish a firm in his native India. So he did what any other tech geek would do and turned to the net, in search of a US partner who was old enough - and willing - to put his name to an unknown dotcom start-up.

His search turned up a Silicon Valley resident who offered his home address as a base and, on August 1, 2000, Globals Inc was born, courtesy of a few hundred dollars saved from Gopinath's freelance web work.

As corporate launches go, it sounds unfeasibly simple. He really launched a firm with someone he had never met?

"Of course," he says, frowning slightly. "There are matrimonial sites that organise arranged marriages without either party even seeing the other person. Why can't I start a company with someone I haven't met?"

Now, at 23, Gopinath's gnat-sized start-up has morphed into a $25m-a-year technology firm, with a 250-strong staff and offices in India, the US and Germany - and all without a modicum of venture capital. It's enough to make even Bill Gates, legendary founder of Microsoft Inc, sit up and take notice. Gopinath met him while mingling with the top brass at a recent World Economic Forum in Davos.

"The first thing he said was, ‘I should be afraid of you. When I started Microsoft, I was already at university. I was eighteen. You started at fourteen - I should be worried,'" he grins. Gates is his self-confessed hero. "He is amazing, so modest."

We are talking on the sidelines of an entrepreneurship conference in Dubai where Gopinath, with all the confidence of nine years of CEO-dom, is about to preach the virtues of going it alone to Emirati high school students. Flanked by property moguls, biotechnology bosses and financiers he is, by some two decades, the most junior member of the panel.

In the course of the day, a trio of Emirati girls will scoop $25,000 in prize money after winning a nationwide hunt for the best student entrepreneurs. Afterwards, they talk of the need for seed money and venture capital to turn their invention into a reality. The contrast with Gopinath - who ran his business out of his family home, without borrowing any money - is sharp. His parents, I say, must have been very proud.

He looks faintly embarrassed. "Actually, I didn't tell them."

This is incredible. He started a firm in secret? He rushes to explain. "I come from a very orthodox, non-business family. My dad is a scientist. The feeling is, if you don't have a nine-to-five job and a monthly salary, you're not settled in life and you can't get married. To them, entrepreneurship is a sin.

He pauses. "So I just didn't tell them. I lied and said I was working as a freelancer for an American firm. Which I was - it was just my own company. I'd go to school during the day, and then work on the business in the evening. The time difference helped - in my evening, US firms opened for business."

Gopinath kept the deception up for four years, until he was eighteen. At which point Globals Inc was employing some 40 staff in the US and generating $1m a year in revenue.

He must be the only CEO on record who, when his firm turned over its first $500,000, was still getting pocket money from his dad: the princely sum of $0.50 a month.

Global Inc's success is testimony to the game-changing power of the internet, which allows any go-getter with a smart idea to hit the ground running.

The Hau de no sau nee

The people of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois Confederacy, call themselves the Hau de no sau nee (ho dee noe sho nee) meaning People Building a Long House. Located in the northeastern region of North America, originally the Six Nations was five and included the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. The sixth nation, the Tuscaroras, migrated into Iroquois country in the early eighteenth century. Together these peoples comprise the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. Their story, and governance truly based on the consent of the governed, contains a great deal of life-promoting intelligence for those of us not familiar with this area of American history. The original United States representative democracy, fashioned by such central authors as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, drew much inspiration from this confederacy of nations. 





"...The European penetration affected every facet of the Native Way of Life from the very moment of contact. The natural economies, cultures, politics, and military affairs became totally altered. Nations learned that to be without firearms meant physical annihilation. To be without access to beaver pelts mean no means to buy firearms. . . . 

"European churches, especially in colonial practice, take on their feudal roles as economic institutions. Among natural world people, they are the most dangerous agents of destruction. They invariably seek to destroy the spiritual/economic bonds of the people to the forests, land and animals. They spread both ideologies and technologies which make people slaves to the extractive system which defines colonialism. . . . "

"By pretending that the Hau de no sau nee government no longer exists, both the U.S. and Britain illegally took Hau de no sau nee territories by simply saying the territories belong to them. To this day, Canada, the former colony of England, has never made a treaty for the lands in the St. Lawrence River Valley..."

"The Hau de no sau nee territories are not and have never been part of the U.S. or Canada. The citizens of the Hau de no sau nee are a separate people, distinct from either Canada or the United States. Because of this, the Hau de no sau nee refuses to recognize a border drawn by a foreign people through our lands"

The Storm Is Over Now

R. Kelly The Storm Is Over Now (c) (C) 2000 Zomba Recording LLC

Look beyond the Glory

Success is like breaking through wood with your bare hands...
If you look at the wood you may break your hand...
If you focus far beyond the target you will break through every time...

Go The Distance!

At the barricades

Don’t wish things were easier, use your challenges to grow stronger!

Self-interest

Self-interest hides in many ways, hides under every stone and every act -- hides in prayer, in worship, in having a successful profession, great knowledge, a special reputation, like the speaker. When there is a guru who says, `I know all about it. I will tell you all about it' - is there not self-interest there? This seed of self-interest has been with us for a million years. Our brain is conditioned to self-interest. If one is aware of that, just aware of it, not saying, `I am not self-interested' or `How can one live without self-interest?' but just be aware, then how far can one go, how far can one investigate into oneself to find out for ourselves, each one of us, how in action, in daily activity, in our behaviour, how deeply one can live without a sense of self-interest?

So, if we will, we will examine all that. Self-interest divides, self-interest is the greatest corruption (the word corruption means to break things apart) and where there is self-interest there is fragmentation - your interest as opposed to my interest, my desire opposed to your desire, my urgency to climb the ladder of success opposed to yours. Just observe this; you can't do anything about it -- you understand? - but just observe it, stay with it and see what is taking place.

-- Krishnamurti, Last Talks At Saanen, 1985, pp. 84-85.

A HAUSA TALE - If you do not know, let us consider other things.

Life and Death

There were two old men who journeyed together.
The name of one was Life, and the other was called Death.
They came to a place where a spring flowed, and the man who owned the spring greeted them. They asked him for permission to drink.
He said: "Yes, drink. But let the elder drink first, because that is the custom."

Life said, "I, indeed, am the elder."

Death said, "No, I am the elder."

Life answered: "How can that be? Life came first. Without living things to die, Death does not exist."

Death said: "On the contrary, before Life was born everything was Death. Living things come out of Death, go on a while and then return to Death."

Life replied: "Surely that is not the way it is. Before Life there was no Death, merely that which is not seen.
The Creator made this world out of the unseen substances. When the first person died, that was the beginning of Death. Therefore you. Death, are the younger."

Death argued: "Death is merely what we do not know. When the Creator created, he molded everything out of what we do not know. Therefore Death is like a father to Life."

They disputed this way, standing beside the spring.

And at last they asked the owner of the water to judge the dispute.

He said: "How can one speak of Death without Life, from which it proceeds? And how can one speak of Life without Death, to which all living things go?

Both of you have spoken eloquently.
Your words are true.
Neither can exist without the other.
Neither of you is senior.
Neither of you is junior.
Life and Death are merely two faces [masks] of the Creator.
Therefore you are of equal age
Here is a gourd of water.
Drink from it together."
They received the gourd of water. They drank. And after that they continued their journey.

What say you of these two travellers?
They go from one place to another in each other's company.
Can one be the elder and the other the younger?

If you do not know, let us consider other things.

Dangers of the Super Religious State

John Henrik Clarke speak on Farrakhan

Send in the Clowns

 According to Malcolm, Martin Luther King was a Clown, wonder what he would have made of Barrack?

"It was the grass roots out there in the street. It scared the white man to death, scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C., to death; I was there. When they found out that this black steamroller was going to come down on the capital, they called in Wilkins, they called in Randolph, they called in these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them, "Call it off." Kennedy said, .Look, you all are letting this thing go too far." And Old Tom said, "Boss, I can't stop it, because I didn't start ~ I'm telling you what they said. They said, "I'm not even in it, much less at the head of it." They said, "These Negroes are doing things on their own. They're running ahead of us." And that old shrewd fox, he said, "If you all aren't in it, I'll put you in it. I'll put you at the head of it. I'll endorse it. I'll welcome it. I'll help it. I'll join it."

A matter of hours went by. They had a meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. The Carlyle Hotel is owned by the Kennedy family; that's the hotel Kennedy spent the night at, two nights ago; it belongs to his family. philanthropic society headed by a white man named Stephen Currier called all the top civil-rights leaders together at the Carlyle Hotel. And he told them, "By you fighting each other, you are destroying the civil-rights movement. And since you're fighting over money from the liberals, let us set up what is known as the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership. Let's form this council and all the civil-rights organizations will belong to it, and we'll use it for fund-raising purposes." Let me show you how tricky the white man is. As soon as they got formed, they elected Whitney Young as its chairman, and who do you think became the co-chairman? Stephen Currier, the white man, a millionaire. Powell was talking bout it down at Cobo Hall today. This is what he was talking about. Powell knows it happened. Randolph knows happened. Wilkins knows it happened. King knows it happened. Every one of that Big Six they know happened.

Once they formed it, with the white man over it, he promised them and gave them $800,000 to split up among the Big Six; and told them that after the march was over they'd give them $700,000 more. A million and a half dollars split up between leaders that you have been following, going to jail for, crying crocodile tears for. And they're nothing but Frank James and Jesse James and the what-do-you-call-'em brothers.

As soon as they got the setup organized, the white man made available to them top public-relations experts, opened the news media across the country at their disposal, which then began to project these Big Six as the leaders of the march. Originally they weren't even in the march. You were talking this march talk on

Hastings Street

, you were talking march talk on

Lenox Avenue

, and on

Fillmore Street

, and on

Central Avenue

, and

32nd Street

and

63rd Street

. That's where the march talk was being talked. But the white man put the Big Six at the head of it; made them the march. They became the march. They took it over. And the first move they made after they took it over, they invited Walter Reuther, a white man; they invited a priest, a rabbi, and an old white preacher, yes, an old white preacher. The same white element that put Kennedy into power labor, the Catholics, the Jews, and liberal Protestants; the same clique that put Kennedy in power, joined the march on Washington

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didn't integrate it, they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. It ceased to be angry, it ceased to be hot, it ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. You had one right here in Detroit saw it on television with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don't like what I'm saying, but I'm going to tell you anyway. Because I can prove what I'm saying. If you think I'm telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three, and see if they'll deny it over a microphone.


No, it was a sell-out. It was a takeover. When James Baldwin came in from Paris, they wouldn't let him talk, because they couldn't make him go by the script. Burt Lancaster read the speech that Baldwin was supposed to make; they wouldn't let Baldwin get up there, because they know Baldwin is liable to say anything. They controlled it so tight, they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what they couldn't make; and then told them to get out of town by sundown. And every one of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don't like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, Performance of the year. Reuther and those other three should get an Academy Award for the best actors because they acted like they really loved Negroes and a whole lot of Negroes. And the six Negro leaders should get an award too, for the best supporting cast."  Malcolm X 

Yes We Can

Richard Bandler told me "study and seek for the original form... there is very little new in the world of human thinking"

Tannika

Tannika A Nice Naughty Intelligent Kinda Angel
At first when I saw her I was just another Stranger
Nothing I said made turn her head, look at me
Nothing I did whatever however what could it be
I was'nt scared not upset, made myself a bet
Kindness is deep soon she'd have to speak
And learn that I'm strong enough to appear weak

Bless that License fee

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