The whole context of the US war against Iraq should be examined to separate facts from myth making and propaganda. Hyping up the beleaguered war weary Iraqi army does not change the fact that Iraq was probably stabbed in the back by a serpent like ally and many of the victories were based on possible broken agreements. Though any truth telling in relation to the 1st gulf war should be appreciated and that effort supported. As it is from one of the bravest,most passionate truth tellers in the field of independent journalism today.
It took two 'codes' to get 'permission' to write a comment , Scott...
I remember following Desert Storm on Canadian and American channels while living and raising my two children in rural Quebec. As a Canadian I believed in the founding IDEALS of these UNITED STATES... and like many other naive people I supported American leadership...Leadershp that promoted TRUE PEACE and HARMONY among all Peoples, that promoted BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS and DIGNITY for each and by each INDIVIDUAL. That kind of leadership was heard by the World on Sept.24, 1984 during President R.Reagan's powerful speech to the United Nation's Assembly... I heard that speech again recently on C-span...
There is no 'law' or 'principle' or 'idea' that PUBLIC nudity, masturbation, fornication, defecation, urination, self-mutilation or the murder, abuse and mutilation of others is a basic human right or
a JUSTIFIED FREEDOM. Tragicallly, that is what all WARS and US warmongers have been promoting... directly or indirectly, so have members of churches, councils, legislatures, "non-profits".
You have been doing a great service by exposing the TRUTH about warmongering America...to the point where you had to admit that you too have become addicted to wars; writing about them
and about related tragedies is, indeed, a form of therapy...
I have followed this since Shifting Sands, which was shown at Glebe's Valhalla Cinema in Sydney before the invasion. That's when I woke up to the lies we were told in the media. That should be a great read. Thanks Scott for your incredible energy and steadfastness.
War is sold on the false premise of being 'brave' to go to a foreign land, kill, rape & destroy. Generation after generation of colonial American & westernized young men buy-in to the lies, become brutalized in their own murder & maiming of innocents. Teen & Twenties Boys grow to men & live lives of regret, shame or just compartmentalize their own brutality into little addressed areas of the heart & mind with high rates of uncontrollable anger, rage, suicide & injury particularly to their loved ones at home.
In human Psychology, INTELLECTUAL-COWARDICE often has more pull, than physical-cowardice, hence soldiers would rather be killed in a senseless war, than be embarrassed to have revealed they’ve submitted & are living by our fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch system of dependence & lies. In our fake Oligarch system, the higher up one goes, the more dependent one is. Jeffrey Epstein as an Oligarch puppet, used sexual-compromise & reputation-fear to control $$ vulnerable Politicians, Bureaucrats & Business-people into Oligarch agenda. "I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness." Mohandas Gandhi in Harijan, 15-7-'39, p. 201
Hence most soldiers, who refuse to challenge Oligarchy $$ & politicians, intellectually, are cowards as are the greater part of the Mainstream war & inoculation compliant population. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated COUNCIL-PROCESS or Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues as a regular popular process among all, before the last 7000 years of Babylonian & Phoenician (Kingdom of Israel + City-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut) Empire brutality & genocide. Council-Process dialogues create communication for understanding, Constructive Agreements, articulation of Contracts & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Council Process whereby all had the opportunity to raise issues among friends, family, extended, family, community, work-place, government, institutions, commerce etc. with a circle of intimate witnesses is supported by WORLDWIDE INDIGENOUS HERITAGE OF PEACE & PROSPERITY. Eg. TURTLE-ISLAND (North America)'s ~110 nations joined into ~25 Confederacies held Council at all levels, in all domains in what’s referred to as the 'Kaianere'kowa from Haudenosaunee 5 Nation Confederacy meaning: 'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-of-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-of-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION' as a continental & hemispheric system of relations.
All indigenous humanity's worldwide Great-good-way Council Process as words, contracts & agreements Joins WORDS & ACTIONS, is described in the CIRCLE-of-LIFE, an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. Circle-of-Life describes essential self-organizing interactive fractal* or meme* components upon which human life & society are built. Indigenous societies have compassionately & carefully orchestrated this design around the world over millennia. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
WORLD-WIDE BOTTOM-UP LOVING HERITAGE is repeated on each continent worldwide. In Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi ‘indigenous’ aka ‘self-sufficiency’), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'. Indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices. example: Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation. The ~100 (50-150) person Multihome is a: loving, intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale Cultural 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') foundation for strength at in the tree-roots of society.
RELATIONAL ECONOMY The 'domestic' (mostly women) collective economy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are meant to be subset economies, supportive of the Domestic core. Here's an 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') model of software to regenerate community care & health. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy 70% of people today live in Multihomes within an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 (50-150) persons. The Domestic Economy is equal to the Industrial & Commercial Economies combined & plays an integral role. The voice of primarily women accounting-recognized, celebrated & empowered for their work. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year.
BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO HUMANITY's ECONOMIC-SOCIETY The human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
The whole context of the US war against Iraq should be examined to separate facts from myth making and propaganda. Hyping up the beleaguered war weary Iraqi army does not change the fact that Iraq was probably stabbed in the back by a serpent like ally and many of the victories were based on possible broken agreements. Though any truth telling in relation to the 1st gulf war should be appreciated and that effort supported. As it is from one of the bravest,most passionate truth tellers in the field of independent journalism today.
It took two 'codes' to get 'permission' to write a comment , Scott...
I remember following Desert Storm on Canadian and American channels while living and raising my two children in rural Quebec. As a Canadian I believed in the founding IDEALS of these UNITED STATES... and like many other naive people I supported American leadership...Leadershp that promoted TRUE PEACE and HARMONY among all Peoples, that promoted BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS and DIGNITY for each and by each INDIVIDUAL. That kind of leadership was heard by the World on Sept.24, 1984 during President R.Reagan's powerful speech to the United Nation's Assembly... I heard that speech again recently on C-span...
There is no 'law' or 'principle' or 'idea' that PUBLIC nudity, masturbation, fornication, defecation, urination, self-mutilation or the murder, abuse and mutilation of others is a basic human right or
a JUSTIFIED FREEDOM. Tragicallly, that is what all WARS and US warmongers have been promoting... directly or indirectly, so have members of churches, councils, legislatures, "non-profits".
You have been doing a great service by exposing the TRUTH about warmongering America...to the point where you had to admit that you too have become addicted to wars; writing about them
and about related tragedies is, indeed, a form of therapy...
Marianne Lisenko, x.com/listen2mary
P.S. Maybe you can help promote an OATH/PLEDGE of GOOD FAITH with a UNIVERSAL INJUNCTION?
I have followed this since Shifting Sands, which was shown at Glebe's Valhalla Cinema in Sydney before the invasion. That's when I woke up to the lies we were told in the media. That should be a great read. Thanks Scott for your incredible energy and steadfastness.
FAKE BRAVERY & GETTING DUPED OR WAKENING THE LOVING SPIRIT WITHIN
Scott & all, Let's re-frame the discussion so young boys don't get sucked into fake 'bravery' & create their lives & relationships based on their unique loving innate spirit. Real 'EDUCATION' (Latin 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') from all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' 10s of 1000s of years is based in the adolescent's Vision-Quest https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/8-vision-quest-education then Apprenticeship Mentoring, typically one-on-one by experts in a youth's chosen field, https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/4-apprenticeship-education
War is sold on the false premise of being 'brave' to go to a foreign land, kill, rape & destroy. Generation after generation of colonial American & westernized young men buy-in to the lies, become brutalized in their own murder & maiming of innocents. Teen & Twenties Boys grow to men & live lives of regret, shame or just compartmentalize their own brutality into little addressed areas of the heart & mind with high rates of uncontrollable anger, rage, suicide & injury particularly to their loved ones at home.
In human Psychology, INTELLECTUAL-COWARDICE often has more pull, than physical-cowardice, hence soldiers would rather be killed in a senseless war, than be embarrassed to have revealed they’ve submitted & are living by our fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch system of dependence & lies. In our fake Oligarch system, the higher up one goes, the more dependent one is. Jeffrey Epstein as an Oligarch puppet, used sexual-compromise & reputation-fear to control $$ vulnerable Politicians, Bureaucrats & Business-people into Oligarch agenda. "I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness." Mohandas Gandhi in Harijan, 15-7-'39, p. 201
Hence most soldiers, who refuse to challenge Oligarchy $$ & politicians, intellectually, are cowards as are the greater part of the Mainstream war & inoculation compliant population. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated COUNCIL-PROCESS or Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues as a regular popular process among all, before the last 7000 years of Babylonian & Phoenician (Kingdom of Israel + City-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut) Empire brutality & genocide. Council-Process dialogues create communication for understanding, Constructive Agreements, articulation of Contracts & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL MEDIA FROM MONO TO DIALOGUE https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-communication-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue-libya
Council Process whereby all had the opportunity to raise issues among friends, family, extended, family, community, work-place, government, institutions, commerce etc. with a circle of intimate witnesses is supported by WORLDWIDE INDIGENOUS HERITAGE OF PEACE & PROSPERITY. Eg. TURTLE-ISLAND (North America)'s ~110 nations joined into ~25 Confederacies held Council at all levels, in all domains in what’s referred to as the 'Kaianere'kowa from Haudenosaunee 5 Nation Confederacy meaning: 'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-of-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-of-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION' as a continental & hemispheric system of relations.
All indigenous humanity's worldwide Great-good-way Council Process as words, contracts & agreements Joins WORDS & ACTIONS, is described in the CIRCLE-of-LIFE, an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. Circle-of-Life describes essential self-organizing interactive fractal* or meme* components upon which human life & society are built. Indigenous societies have compassionately & carefully orchestrated this design around the world over millennia. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
WORLD-WIDE BOTTOM-UP LOVING HERITAGE is repeated on each continent worldwide. In Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi ‘indigenous’ aka ‘self-sufficiency’), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'. Indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices. example: Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation. The ~100 (50-150) person Multihome is a: loving, intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale Cultural 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') foundation for strength at in the tree-roots of society.
RELATIONAL ECONOMY The 'domestic' (mostly women) collective economy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are meant to be subset economies, supportive of the Domestic core. Here's an 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') model of software to regenerate community care & health. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy 70% of people today live in Multihomes within an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 (50-150) persons. The Domestic Economy is equal to the Industrial & Commercial Economies combined & plays an integral role. The voice of primarily women accounting-recognized, celebrated & empowered for their work. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year.
BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO HUMANITY's ECONOMIC-SOCIETY The human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory