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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IF I were ...</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-291232</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/10/if-i-were</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;still 18 years old ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;I&amp;#39;d be able to send my own&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/8/penny-on---be-someone#comment_449836" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/8/penny-on---be-someone#comment_449836" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;20 words to save the world&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/7KY9LaxVkDM"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7KY9LaxVkDM" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7KY9LaxVkDM" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;A Child's Appeal to the UN&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_146173" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;In the context of the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/a-short-history-of-the-future" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;reall&lt;/u&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/9/what-is-wrong-with-social-democracy#comment_444773" target="_blank"&gt;BIG PICTURE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;WHAT would your 20 words BE ?&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.considerus.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=5&amp;amp;Itemid=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;Consider US&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6377039/Copenhagen-Summit-Children-get-a-say-on-climate-change.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;Don&amp;#39;t go messing with our world !&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/8/penny-on---be-someone#comment_449836" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ConsiderUS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; and&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6377039/Copenhagen-Summit-Children-get-a-say-on-climate-change.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;Don&amp;#39;t go messing with our world !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_291232" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>THE CARING REVOLUTION ...</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-273806</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:27:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/6/the-caring-revolution</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;A &lt;a href="http://www.rianeeisler.com/rwon.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Economics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; That Works &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;for Business, Families ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;and the Planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;A prescription for an economic system that is both equitable and sustainable. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; It should be &lt;a href="http://www.rianeeisler.com/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;read and used&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/a&gt;by everyone who wants a better world!&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.rianeeisler.com/reviews.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Deepak Chopra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;The most important human creations are our cultures.&lt;/strong&gt; The cultures we create largely determine whether &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;we kill one another&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/a_short_history_of_the_future" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;destroy nature&amp;rsquo;s life-support systems&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or live in a humane and sustainable world. And &lt;strong&gt;economic systems are a &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;key element of &lt;u&gt;ALL&lt;/u&gt; cultures&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have in this book argued that we need &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a caring economics &lt;/strong&gt;more congruent with&lt;strong&gt; the direction in evolution toward greater consciousness, creativity and caring&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. I realize that speaking of direction in evolution is today &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/6/all_science_and_all_scientists#comment_401896" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a kind of scientific heresy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. At best, it&amp;rsquo;s acceptable to say there is evolutionary movement toward greater complexity and variability. But as &lt;strong&gt;Darwin himself noted&lt;/strong&gt;,  &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_mobius-strip-like" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;movement in evolution&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; goes beyond greater complexity and variability to the emergence of needs, capacities, motivations, and possibilities of a different order than those present in earlier life &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;forms.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This does not mean that &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/individuals_-_families_of_individuals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;our species&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as one of the last to emerge, is the apex of evolution, and thus entitled to lord it over other life forms. Nor does it mean there is a divine plan or intelligent design. We don&amp;rsquo;t have any way of knowing what ultimately lies behind evolution, and this is so whether we think evolution is directionless or not. &lt;br /&gt;But it does mean that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;as life evolved on our Earth, it developed an ever greater capacity for consciousness, creativity, planning, and choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. And while these capacities are not unique to us, they are most highly developed in our species.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whether these human capacities are expressed, however, largely depends on the kinds of social and economic systems we create&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;This makes us, quite &lt;em&gt;literally,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;co-creators of our evolution&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We certainly can&amp;rsquo;t determine everything about our future. But we can join together to create the social and economic conditions that nurture, drive, and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;promote the expression of our positive rather than negative genetic capacities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Indeed, having unprecedented biological capacities means that it&amp;rsquo;s &lt;strong&gt;our evolutionary&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/action_of_assuming_responsibility" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;responsibility&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;use these gifts in &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/the_forces_of_nature_v_homosapiens" target="_blank"&gt;positive rather than negative ways&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL LIFE FORMS &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;ndash; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/is_it_not" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;from the smallest to the largest,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from amoeba and plankton to elephants and whales &amp;ndash; have to some extent altered our planet. Some have done so by simply appearing on the evolutionary scene. Others have built new structures: birds make nests and beavers construct dams. But no species has come close to what we humans have done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/flaT57T38zQ"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/flaT57T38zQ" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/flaT57T38zQ" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Riane Eisler on her book "The Real Wealth of Nations"&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;We have used &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;our imagination and our capacity for turning&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/7/vision" target="_blank"&gt; visions into realities&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;to create a whole new human-made world. Some of what we created is extraordinary: buildings as tall as mountains, airplanes that fly higher than birds, and technologies that reveal subatomic structures, explore outer space, and probe the mysteries of the brain. Some of it is exquisite: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://hellodarling.gaia.com/blog/2009/5/where-or-what-would-you-like-to-finally-surrender" target="_blank"&gt;beautiful music&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://jensiper.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/so_be_it" target="_blank"&gt;poetry&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/integral_art" target="_blank"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. But some of it is horrendous: gas chambers, torture chambers, nuclear bombs, and invisible biological weapons for instant mass annihilation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/staring_into_the_abyss" target="_blank"&gt;WE stand&lt;/a&gt; at an &lt;em&gt;evolutionary crossroads&lt;/em&gt; in our human adventure on this Earth&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;We can continue with &amp;ldquo;business as usual&amp;rdquo; &amp;ndash; even though both science and our native intelligence tell us that the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination and conquest may take us to an evolutionary end. Or we can use the great gifts we were given by evolution to &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/yes_we_can" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;create a new economic story and reality &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;ndash; &lt;strong&gt;a caring economics that supports both human survival and human development and actualisation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is in our power to imagine the world we want for ourselves and our children.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For most of us, this is a world where our basic needs for food, shelter, and safety, &lt;br /&gt;as well as our yearning for nurturing and love, for justice and peace, and for a sense &lt;br /&gt;that what we do has meaning and helps others as well as ourselves, are fulfilled. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above all, it is a world where our children survive and thrive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is up to us to help create the conditions that support this vision&lt;/strong&gt;. We have been &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;endowed by nature with &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/make_the_right_connections" target="_blank"&gt;an amazing brain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/make_the_right_connections" target="_blank"&gt;,&lt;/a&gt; an enormous &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/xx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;capacity for love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/have_you_heard" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;remarkable creativity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/you_are_imperfect" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a unique ability to learn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, change, grow and plan ahead. &lt;br /&gt;If we act now, we can use these &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/every_single_thing" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;capacities to co-create&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the economic and social systems that support the great gifts we were granted by evolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We can&amp;rsquo;t wait for our national and international leaders to act. Every one of us can be &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/lead_by_the_example_of" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;a leader&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by using our imagination and initiative to change consciousness, practices, and policies&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/5/at-this-most-critical-juncture#comment_415699" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riane Eisler&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_273806" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>At this MOST CRITICAL juncture</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-271377</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;... in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the evolution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL LIFE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;on earth, when ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AT &lt;/strong&gt;the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/9/time_to_think" target="_blank"&gt;TIME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;China&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;backing&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;allowed the&lt;strong&gt; Sri Lanken president to ignore Western protests and perpetrate the final assault on the Tamil Tigers by surrounding &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6324678.ece" target="_blank"&gt;50,000 civilians&lt;/a&gt; inside a tiny enclave.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Peter Foster &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5324065/Chinese-leader-condemns-Tiananmen-massacre-from-beyond-the-grave.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;reports from&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Beijing&lt;/strong&gt; that &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zhao Ziyang, the former Communist Party leader, has spoken from beyond the grave to break two decades of official silence on the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 with a wide-ranging attack on the Chinese political system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zhao Ziyang is quoted to have said in &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5325047/Extract-Prisoner-of-the-State-The-secret-Journal-of-Zhao-Ziyang.html" target="_blank"&gt;Prisoner of the State: The secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;; published today that&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;It is the Western parliamentary democratic system that has demonstrated the most vitality. If we don&amp;#39;t move toward this goal, it will be impossible to resolve the abnormal conditions in China&amp;#39;s market economy.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;3. The &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5348027/Speaker-Martin-Still-the-man-in-the-midden.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;man in the midin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;Speaker &lt;/strong&gt;of the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;u&gt;Mother&lt;/u&gt;&amp;quot; of the Western parliamentary &lt;u&gt;democratic&lt;/u&gt; system&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/iain_martin/blog/2009/05/19/mps_expenses_speaker_to_go_its_a_great_day" target="_blank"&gt;RESIGNS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the first for over 300 years&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) because of&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/on_this_anniversary#comment_413461" target="_blank"&gt;his inability&lt;/a&gt; to control &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5325809/MPs-expenses-The-Speaker-should-have-put-a-stop-to-this-not-indulged-in-it.html" target="_blank"&gt;the shambolic state of affairs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;which has been revealed to the&lt;strong&gt; British PEOPLE, &lt;/strong&gt;by the&lt;strong&gt; Daily Telegraph &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/" target="_blank"&gt;in the last 12 days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &amp;quot;We are being &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;afflicted by a new disease&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in years to come - namely &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1153/is_5_125/ai_91808044/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;. &lt;strong&gt;This means &lt;em&gt;unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;-&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" target="_blank"&gt;John Maynard Keynes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; the efforts of Barack Obama to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;defuse&lt;/u&gt; the problems&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/5/key_discussions_at_current_world_economic_forum_mideast" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Middle East&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and to &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5349041/Barack-Obama-Iran-must-meet-nuclear-deadline.html" target="_blank"&gt;open the minds&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;of those that control the lives of the&lt;/em&gt; PEOPLE&lt;/strong&gt;, seemingly are &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5346415/Netanyahu-stands-firm-against-demands-from-Obama.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;falling on deaf ears&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;AND &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/the_forces_of_nature_v_homosapiens" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;NATURE&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/the_forces_of_nature_v_homosapiens" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;proves that &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/5350643/Swine-flu-global-total-nears-10000.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT IS &lt;em&gt;IN CONTROL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of Homo Sapiens &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Homo Sapiens &lt;em&gt;in control &lt;/em&gt;of Nature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am reminded of :-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ads/kinsey/fkinsey_3.html" target="_blank"&gt;Dr. Ralph Linton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#39;s statement that - &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;The tremendous and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/telecommunications_infrastructure_developments" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;still accelerating&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; development of science and technology&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;It is safe to predict that such &lt;em&gt;social inventions as modern-type capitalism, fascism and communism&lt;/em&gt; will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson&amp;#39;s 2007 epic &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jun/24/politics" target="_blank"&gt;FANTASY ISLAND&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;u&gt;WAKING UP&lt;/u&gt; to &lt;em&gt;the incredible&lt;/em&gt; economic, political and social &lt;u&gt;ILLUSIONS&lt;/u&gt; of the Blair Legacy&amp;quot;; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and am considering that&lt;strong&gt; Blair&amp;#39;s Legacy &lt;u&gt;IS&lt;/u&gt; &lt;em&gt;it self&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; NOT an &amp;quot;island legacy&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;but a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;collective &amp;quot;top-down&amp;quot; legacy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the&lt;strong&gt; Thatcher/Blair/Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush &amp;quot;eras&amp;quot;;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and remorselessly coming to the conclusion&lt;strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;in the context of my own &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/7/vision" target="_blank"&gt;long standing commitment&lt;/a&gt; to the concept that no man is an island ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it is imperative that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;each and everyone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PEOPLE &lt;/strong&gt;of our planet &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;awaken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;from the &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;fantasy island&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3932487043163636261" target="_blank"&gt;mentality of denial&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/WnK5mBCFTMg"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WnK5mBCFTMg" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WnK5mBCFTMg" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;NEW!!!  2009 - THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT ORIENTATION PRESENTATION&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_129027" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;lest IT &lt;strong&gt;BECOME&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;global&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fantasy island&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;MIND-SET &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of APATHY &amp;amp; DESPAIR&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_271377" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Message to MICHAEL ...</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-269428</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 06:48:59 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:420px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/4AslYAjbbms"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4AslYAjbbms" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4AslYAjbbms" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Dionne Warwick Singing Message To Michael&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_126111" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AslYAjbbms" target="_blank"&gt;OUR THOUGHTS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/xx" target="_blank"&gt;LOVE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;R&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and will ever continue 2B with &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://communitybuilder.gaia.com/blog/2009/5/tiny_pieces" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; U BOTH&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;ONE &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;peace&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; LIFE&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/is_it_not" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;intricate jigsaw&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://communitybuilder.gaia.com/blog/2009/5/tiny_pieces" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/soul-mates_from_the_outset" target="_blank"&gt;mickelinnie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_269428" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Have YOU heard ...</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-261267</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:26:54 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=865" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;THE&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strong&gt;JOKE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about the man who was &lt;em&gt;laughing his &lt;strong&gt;head off &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ha Ha - BONK!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha Ha - the sound of laughter, an &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/photos/view/156633" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;expression of triumph&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on discovering something&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;as our planet moves to the colder climes of its solar orbit and the inexorable increase in its surface temperature is further modified by &lt;a href="http://druidcircle.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/reality_-_kahlil_gibran#comment_397182" target="_blank"&gt;global dimming&lt;/a&gt;, the vast oceans twixt the land absorb the predominance of that extra heat as potential precipitation, which is then shed upon both land and sea; the consequences of which are BEING daily experienced by ALL LIFE on EARTH as the sea levels &lt;u&gt;continue&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4975053/We-should-be-alarmed-about-rising-sea-levels.html" target="_blank"&gt;to rise&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha" target="_blank"&gt;Ha Ha&lt;/a&gt; - a ditch or vertical drop &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1972/3/hand_with_reflecting_globe" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;forming a &lt;u&gt;barrier&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; without interrupting the view&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;... &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;as&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/awake_and_smell_the" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;stewards&lt;/u&gt; of ALL LIFE on EARTH &lt;/a&gt;it&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; the responsibility of our species, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;individuall&lt;/u&gt;y &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;collectivel&lt;/u&gt;y&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, to seek &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/photos?page=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;authenticity of ACTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, and recognise that the transcendance of EGO is analagous to the concept of the ha ha. Once acknowledged, the EGO is accepted as&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;forming a &lt;u&gt;barrier&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; without interrupting the view&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;of the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/every_single_thing" target="_blank"&gt;purpose&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ALL LIFE on EARTH and throughout the multiverse of parallel universes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst the&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; wars of fundamentalist religious &amp;amp; non-religious motivation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; continue to &lt;br /&gt;rage around the planet and a &lt;a href="http://climatecongress.ku.dk/newsroom/rising_sealevels/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;supplementary climate change conference&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;br /&gt;convened in Copenhagen, the &lt;em&gt;concluding statements&lt;/em&gt; of the first part of this week&amp;#39;s &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Financial Times&lt;/strong&gt; series &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/on_this_anniversary#comment_397489" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Future of Capitalism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; written by Martin Wolf &amp;amp; entitled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;u&gt;Seeds of its own destruction&lt;/u&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;absolutely place into context&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;the &lt;strong&gt;predominately &lt;a href="http://groups.gaia.com/wie/discussions/view/47990#54369" target="_blank"&gt;patriarchal &lt;/a&gt;political mind-set&lt;/strong&gt; of our &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; who are presently engaged, as ever, in &lt;em&gt;confrontational discussions&lt;/em&gt; as to the &lt;em&gt;agenda and its agreed underlying values &amp;amp; principles&lt;/em&gt; of their &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/4969584/G20-Ben-Bernanke-calls-on-leaders-for-co-operation.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;last chance saloon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;economic catastrophe event, &lt;/em&gt;due to take place in London on the 2nd April.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;On June 19 2007, I concluded an article on the &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;new capitalism&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; with the observation that it remained &amp;ldquo;untested&amp;rdquo;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4965408/Warren-Buffett-says-financial-crisis-is-economic-Pearl-Harbor.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;The test has come: it failed&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/4605022/Bit-by-bit-Gordon-Browns-fantasy-is-being-pulled-apart-by-the-facts.html" target="_blank"&gt;The era of financial liberalisation has ended.&lt;/a&gt; Yet, unlike in the 1930s, no credible alternative to the market economy exists and the habits of international co-operation are deep.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;&lt;em&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve a feeling we&amp;rsquo;re not in Kansas any more&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;#39; said Dorothy after a tornado dropped her, her house and dog in the land of Oz. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;The world of the past three decades has gone. Where we end up, after this financial tornado, is for &lt;u&gt;US to seek to determine&lt;/u&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6c5bd36-0c0c-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=ae1104cc-f82e-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin Wolf&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:221px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:201px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;img src="http://bbg-aura.gaia.com/photos/49/486510/medium/BARRIER.jpg" height="104" width="201" /&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;BARRIER&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;There will be a &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/edmundconway/4975097/This-is-how-depression-looked-in-the-1930s.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pre-cursor meeting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to discuss the 2nd April EVENT this week-end in West Sussex, England to discuss an &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/4977407/G20-needs-to-urgently-tackle-the-drop-in-global-trade.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;outline&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the agenda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; but apart from the major &lt;strong&gt;EAST / WEST division of savers &amp;amp; spenders&lt;/strong&gt; amongst the 20 participants, there IS already a &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4975093/G20-summit-in-London-must-tackle-causes-not-symptoms.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;major rift &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;within the WEST as to whether &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regulation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;underlying causes&lt;/em&gt; of this &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;catastrophe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; should be included, as well as adopting the &lt;em&gt;spend, spend, spend mentality&lt;/em&gt; of both the US &amp;amp; UK administrations at the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;expense of the long-suffering, taxpaying and saving communities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/peace_on_earth" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;absolute exemplification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;strong&gt;WE KNOW BEST - &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/4981013/G20-tensions-high-as-summit-approaches.html" target="_blank"&gt;THEM and US&lt;/a&gt; - MIND-SET&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WILL this meeting of minds of our &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new masters of the globe &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;- in the face of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;common-sense&lt;/em&gt; ACTIONS&lt;/strong&gt; of the people - IN FACT be &lt;em&gt;destined to become&lt;/em&gt; the beginning of the &lt;strong&gt;FINAL&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Swan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Event of our species? ... or WILL &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/the_sanctity_of_marriage" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; IN FACT have the &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/if_capitalism_is" target="_blank"&gt;last laugh&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; over their &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new masters of the globe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;                                                                                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:420px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/S4sCvwoctTU"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S4sCvwoctTU" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S4sCvwoctTU" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;The Authentic Self and The Ego&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_118103" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT would seem that the ONLY HOPE of a &amp;quot;global &lt;u&gt;common-sense outcome&lt;/u&gt;&amp;quot; to the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/" target="_blank"&gt;G20 summit in London&lt;/a&gt; lies with one of the 20 participants, the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/on_this_anniversary#comment_397489" target="_blank"&gt;president of Brazil.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LET US HOPE and PRAY that his own values and principles concerning&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4623a78e-0ce2-11de-a555-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=ae1104cc-f82e-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.html" target="_blank"&gt;The future of human beings &lt;u&gt;IS&lt;/u&gt; what matters&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; can INDEED prevail ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN OUR PURSUIT &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of &lt;u&gt;THE&lt;/u&gt; &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;ACTION&lt;/u&gt; of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://terrill.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/how_do_we_nurture_creativity" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;creativity&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://terrill.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/how_do_we_nurture_creativity" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greatful thanks to Wikipedia for the &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Humpty Dumpty Hedgerow&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; picture, atop the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/11/remember_remember_the_fifth_of_november" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barrier &amp;quot;twixt&amp;quot; the people and their masters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and its supportive cross-section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  .&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_261267" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>THE sanctity of marriage &#8230;</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:15:33 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;as also the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/to_all" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt; of GOD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;very much a &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/national_marriage_week" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;symbol&lt;/em&gt; of UNITY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE equitable unity of man and woman&lt;/strong&gt; at the &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;core&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;THE&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;most important community&lt;/em&gt; in LIFE, which &lt;strong&gt;IS FAMILY&lt;/strong&gt;. But &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;em&gt;unity of man in control of woman&lt;/em&gt; as is so often the case with ALL of those religions of the world and their political cohorts which have evolved exclusively in accordance with the patriarchal mind-set. A mind-set&amp;nbsp; that &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;genetically rooted&lt;/em&gt; in the animalistic survival of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight" target="_blank"&gt;confrontation &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/all_conflicts_in_time_space_and_culture" target="_blank"&gt;conflict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;and one that unfortunately, &lt;em&gt;as our species as a whole has &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/opening_the_chinese_puzzle_box" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;evolved it&amp;rsquo;s collective consciousness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, remains locked into &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/the_forces_of_nature_v_homosapiens" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the tribal male&lt;/em&gt; dominated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;ists&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;isms&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; &amp;amp; &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;itys&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; of &lt;u&gt;basic&lt;/u&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/4934431/Its-the-Europhiles-versus-reality-and-reality-is-going-to-win.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DO WHAT I SAY NOT WHAT I DO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; fundamental&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ist &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot; The truth is that Europe has never had so dire a crisis since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;SAUVE QUI PEUT&lt;/u&gt; is &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4888286.ece" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;the watchword&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; President Sarkozy has entered a familiarly Gaullist phase, ignoring EU competition policy and pushing through a &amp;euro;6 billion support for the French car industry; other manufacturers, notably in eastern Europe, have protested to no avail. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                                                                                                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/5mvOnHDFcPQ"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5mvOnHDFcPQ" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5mvOnHDFcPQ" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Ballet Coppelia - Sauve qui peut&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mr Sarkozy&amp;#39;s assertion that he is not a protectionist is purely rhetorical. When a German minister says that &amp;quot;now is not the time&amp;quot; to let workers from the EU&amp;#39;s former eastern bloc countries have full immigration rights in Germany, he is saying the same thing. Gordon Brown may not be able to ensure British jobs for British workers, but the Germans are determined to keep their jobs for German ones.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This bending of the rules &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;[of the OLD ORDER MODEL]&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &amp;ndash; or rather this wholesale disregard of them &amp;ndash; is the surest sign of a currency, and &lt;/em&gt;quite possibly an EMPIRE&lt;em&gt;, in &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/a_short_history_of_the_future" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;terminal decline&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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Simon Heffer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/4934808/Gordon-Brown-increasingly-isolated-over-refusal-to-apologise-for-recession.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mind-set &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;that has brought us to the &lt;a href="http://www.carbonwar.co.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;brink of the abyss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A chasm of mis-understanding of the peoples of this planet, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;spiritual and non-spiritual alike&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, who as ever are subject to the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;backward thinking&lt;/strong&gt; varigries&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;strong&gt; leadership skills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of our &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/as_long_as_our" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a &lt;strong&gt;TIME&lt;/strong&gt; during the &lt;em&gt;early manifestation of our species&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;a href="http://aim.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/the_venus_of_willendorfa" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;respect for the feminine of our species was beyond approach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;THIS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_mobius-strip-like" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;time &lt;u&gt;around&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;,&lt;/u&gt; however, our new masters of the globe have &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;engineered&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; an explosion of debt in the west at the expense of the hard labours and savings of the peoples of the East, and established a global infrastructure of banking, commerce and trade which has served the &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;immoralit&lt;/u&gt;y&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;ldquo; of their &lt;em&gt;self-sophisticated arrogance and greed&lt;/em&gt;; whilst running out of oil far sooner than we think, burning what&amp;rsquo;s left such that our planet is being &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;warmed to a &lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126973.100-editorial-the-time-has-come-to-reengineer-the-planet.html" target="_blank"&gt;catastrophic level&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126973.100-editorial-the-time-has-come-to-reengineer-the-planet.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and BEING in complete denial of the fact that the &lt;em&gt;species survival on earth&lt;/em&gt; could &lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16697-tunguskasized-space-rock-buzzes-earth.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; subject&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;to any number of &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/the_dynamism_of_chaos#comment_322355" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;black swan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/9/time_to_think" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TIME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to take a &lt;em&gt;rain check&lt;/em&gt; on that &lt;strong&gt;MODEL&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/3_years_at_zaadz_and_gaia" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;collectively decide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; upon the &lt;em&gt;constitution&lt;/em&gt; of a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/national_marriage_week" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;g&lt;u&gt;lobal model &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;of &amp;quot;equitable thinking&amp;quot; communities, &lt;em&gt;of the people, for the people and by the people&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7209353.stm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;So what does all this mean for our &lt;em&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to &lt;strong&gt;Helen Fisher&lt;/strong&gt;, speaking at the &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/1/davos08_world_leaders_consider_power_of_collaborative_innovation" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WEF Forum 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in Davos ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Combine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;long-term thinking of women&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; with the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;short-term focus of men&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;And bear in mind that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;different thinking also results in very &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/the_new_womens_liberation#comment_380856" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;different behaviour&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;Men think more in terms of status and rank. Women prefer flat hierarchies.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;Men can have tunnel vision, women may fail to get to the point. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;Women find it difficult to counter aggression. When men push back, it earns them the respect of other men.  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;When women apologise, they are not really sorry. For men it&amp;#39;s a serious affair, a perceived weakening of their status. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;Ms Fisher&amp;#39;s list goes on and on, but her message is clear. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;Managers, says Ms Fisher, have to realise that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;men and women act differently, and that they complement each other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;Having only men or women on your team would be like hopping on one foot instead of walking. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As the status of women is on the rise again, says Ms Fisher, we &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;move &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;forward&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; to a lifestyle we had a million years ago&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:420px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_WrAt1QFak"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_WrAt1QFak" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0_WrAt1QFak" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;What is the Purpose of Life? Andrew Cohen&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_117165" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ROLL ON the &amp;quot;sanctity of marriage&amp;quot;, &lt;em&gt;twixt the &lt;u&gt;masculine and feminine&lt;/u&gt; of our species&lt;/em&gt;, in &lt;u&gt;EVERY&lt;/u&gt; aspect of LIFE such that &lt;em&gt;the very survival &lt;/em&gt;of ALL LIFE on EARTH, &lt;em&gt;and probably throughout the multiverse of &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;parallel universes&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; becomes a &lt;em&gt;symbol &lt;/em&gt;of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;complementary&amp;quot; UNITY and the &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/3_years_at_zaadz_and_gaia" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Power of Collaborative Innovation&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;h1&gt;LET us &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://littledove.gaia.com/blog/2009/3/dance_the_dream_of_grace" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dance the dream of grace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_259841" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>National Marriage Week</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:21:23 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As we celebrate &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4604986/Value-of-marriage-in-times-of-trouble.html" target="_blank"&gt;National Marriage Week&lt;/a&gt;, IT IS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;time to    &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/reflexions_of_where_we_have" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;reflect&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;u&gt;incalculable value&lt;/u&gt; of &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;social institution&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE &lt;em&gt;contribution&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;that marriage makes to social life does not end with the intensive period of raising a young family. &lt;strong&gt;When &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/soul-mates_from_the_outset" target="_blank"&gt;a couple marry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, they are not simply legalising their sexual relationship &amp;ndash; a step which few couples might think necessary given the relaxed mores of contemporary society. &lt;strong&gt;They are making a public declaration of their commitment to one another which j&lt;u&gt;oins their two families&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;IT IS the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/make_the_right_connections" target="_blank"&gt;interconnecting network&lt;/a&gt; of all those conjoined families that &lt;u&gt;constitutes a community&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Marriage is not simply a testament to the present feelings of a man and a woman but to their &lt;strong&gt;readiness to &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/action_of_assuming_responsibility" target="_blank"&gt;accept responsibility&lt;/a&gt; for the future&lt;/strong&gt;. So the stability of a long-standing marriage can offer &lt;strong&gt;emotional security not only to the first generation of children it produces, but to grandchildren, extended family and friends&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/9YkrojbbwiA"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9YkrojbbwiA" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9YkrojbbwiA" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Elusive Giant Panda&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;Twenty years or more ago when &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;m&lt;/u&gt;y soulmate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Linnie, made this &lt;strong&gt;Panda Birthday Cake&lt;/strong&gt;, on the occassion of one of our three children&amp;#39;s birthdays, the &lt;strong&gt;Giant Panda &lt;em&gt;was already an &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/endangered_species_list/giant_panda/" target="_blank"&gt;endangered species&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. My middle daughter Alison became a vegetarian at that time, following her child-hood researches into LIFE on EARTH and subscribing, &lt;em&gt;out of her own pocket money&lt;/em&gt;, to Junior Membership of the World Wildlife Fund as well as becoming one of its fund-raisers. It was a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;family tradition&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;for each of the children to choose what KIND of cake they wanted for their birthdays, and Linnie baked &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the cake of their dreams&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for the 18th of January, 12th of February and 18th of February, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;EVERY&lt;/u&gt; year&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;em&gt;several years&lt;/em&gt;. A &lt;em&gt;diverse multiplicity&lt;/em&gt; of cakes, from bird&amp;#39;s nests and OWLs to volcanoes and fireworks, including of course one of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/integral_art" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;her masterpieces&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as pictured above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MOST&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;diverse multiplicity &lt;/em&gt;of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;confrontations, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/all_conflicts_in_time_space_and_culture" target="_blank"&gt;conflicts and consequences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/individuals_-_families_of_individuals" target="_blank"&gt;peoples of this planet &lt;/a&gt;endure&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, on a day to day basis, fall into the category of &lt;strong&gt;mis-understanding&lt;/strong&gt;, as has long-since been demonstrated between &lt;strong&gt;The Peoples Republic of China &lt;/strong&gt;and&lt;strong&gt; Taiwan.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, following &lt;strong&gt;The Peoples Republic&amp;#39;s &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;threats &lt;/u&gt;of war&lt;/em&gt; with&lt;strong&gt; Taiwan &lt;/strong&gt;and the building of the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;secret&amp;quot; submarine base&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;on Hainan Island&lt;strong&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;it was&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Peoples Republic &lt;/strong&gt;which&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;offered an &lt;a href="http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/ten_reasons_why_china_matters_to_you" target="_blank"&gt;olive branch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;to &lt;strong&gt;Taiwan &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; in the form of  &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/23/china-taiwan-pandas" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a pair&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;of &lt;strong&gt;Giant&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Pandas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;despite the &lt;em&gt;devastating consequences&lt;/em&gt; of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;earthquake in China&lt;/strong&gt; last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although Jeff Randall has suggested in &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/4605022/Bit-by-bit-Gordon-Browns-fantasy-is-being-pulled-apart-by-the-facts.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;his article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; today that - &lt;strong&gt;Bit by Bit Brown&amp;#39;s fantasy is being pulled apart by the&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/if_capitalism_is" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;u&gt;FACTS&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/strong&gt;and that&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;-&lt;strong&gt; IF this were China we&amp;#39;d shoot the banker&amp;#39;s &lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;em&gt;a reaction, no doubt, that a substantial proportion of the peoples of&amp;nbsp; America&amp;nbsp; would subscribe to, following this week&amp;#39;s congressional hearings of those who have had their &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/peace_on_earth" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fingers in the &amp;quot;honey pot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/peace_on_earth" target="_blank"&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;strong&gt;IT &lt;em&gt;would appear&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that Barack Obama IS facing not unsimilar problems, in building a team of experts to support him in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;his own &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/an_open_letter_to" target="_blank"&gt;position of integrity&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following ALL that has happened this week, &lt;em&gt;across the planet&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;THE FACT &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOW&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;to be considered &lt;strong&gt;IS THAT ALL t&lt;em&gt;he break-downs of mis-understanding;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;at the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;core&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;of&lt;strong&gt; EVERY problem, issue, crisis&lt;/strong&gt; that the peoples of the planet face; &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; that &lt;strong&gt;ALL &lt;em&gt;the models&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on which we &lt;strong&gt;ALL &lt;em&gt;depend, for politics &amp;amp; democracy, bankers &amp;amp; economics, religion &amp;amp; spiritual behavious, science &amp;amp; the research and development of technology&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are based on a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;u&gt;redominatel&lt;/u&gt;y &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;patriarchal &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mind-set.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A mind-set which even permeates the concept of ALL &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/every_single_thing" target="_blank"&gt;THINGS&lt;/a&gt; integral &amp;amp; spiritual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNLESS &lt;/strong&gt;the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/yes_we_can" target="_blank"&gt;NEW model/s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;IS/are&lt;strong&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;seen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;to&lt;strong&gt; tear up &lt;/strong&gt;the&lt;strong&gt; &amp;quot;OLD Model Rule Books&amp;quot; &lt;/strong&gt;of &lt;br /&gt;the last several millenia of evolutionary development of our species; as a result of&lt;strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/opening_the_door" target="_blank"&gt;opening the door&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; to the &lt;em&gt;establishment &lt;/em&gt;of&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;NEW Model&lt;/a&gt; Rule Books&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;which are based on an &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/9/time_to_think" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;internetwork of networks of equitable thinking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we shall ALL experience &lt;em&gt;the re-building of a mechanism&lt;/em&gt; which will take &lt;strong&gt;ALL LIFE on EARTH &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;INTO&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/staring_into_the_abyss" target="_blank"&gt;THE ABYSS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_256437" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>PEACE on EARTH</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:11:36 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANYONE&lt;/strong&gt; who had read&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;George Orwell&amp;#39;s &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm" target="_blank"&gt;ANIMAL FARM&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; were watching the bankers saying &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;sorry&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; yesterday and scrabbling for &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;words of excuse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; today, before the &lt;strong&gt;House of Commons Treasury Select Committee;&lt;/strong&gt; would naturally have come to the conclusion that we were witnessing a &lt;em&gt;multi-episode&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;spectacle of &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;four legs&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; challenging &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;four legs&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; at the expense of &lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;two legs&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; that were expected to fund &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/02/why_crosby_resigned.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the charade&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksnwIUyspps"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksnwIUyspps" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksnwIUyspps" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Animal Farm Trailer&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;George Orwell wrote his &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;epic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a critique of &lt;strong&gt;Stalin&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;version&lt;/u&gt; of communism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but yesterday&amp;rsquo;s charade, &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt;, was a &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;critique&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;immorality of a system&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/2/if_capitalism_is" target="_blank"&gt;capitalism&lt;/a&gt; has been allowed to adopt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; since the &lt;strong&gt;de-regulation&lt;/strong&gt; of President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;de-regulation of morality&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; NOT a de-regulation of either banking, commerce or trade&lt;/strong&gt;, to which the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/as_long_as_our" target="_blank"&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;subscribe, whilst depending for their support on the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;corruption &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;of those in politics, religion and science who are willing to approach &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/4583707/Jacqui-Smith-is-a-symptom-of-our-consensus-of-cowardice.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the pig&amp;rsquo;s trough&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;. As Simon Heffer has written in his &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Jacqui Smith is a symptom of our consensus of cowardice&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; article - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;We could work out that    Parliament must never again be reduced by an over-powerful but mediocre    government to the role of an ornament. This requires no change in our    constitution; it requires MPs to enforce the existing constitution properly.    &lt;strong&gt;The &lt;u&gt;elective dictatorshi&lt;/u&gt;p of which Lord Hailsham warned over 40 years ago    &lt;u&gt;has arrived,&lt;/u&gt; with the full support of the political class, and &lt;u&gt;with itself    as its own main interest.&lt;/u&gt; The catastrophe we see around us is its result,    and the continuance in office of people like the present Home Secretary one    of its many, grievous, symptoms.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOW&lt;/strong&gt; can &lt;strong&gt;ANY &lt;em&gt;one individual&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;who subscribes to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the concept of a&lt;/em&gt; GOD&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;whatever that concept might&lt;/em&gt; BE, or indeed any one individual that follows &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the common-sense reality of his/her own set of moral values&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; deem &lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;THIS&lt;/strong&gt; as anything other than &lt;strong&gt;ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE&lt;/strong&gt; ???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of yesterday 79% of the peoples of the USA were giving their support to the &lt;strong&gt;NEW &lt;em&gt;perspective&lt;/em&gt; of morality&lt;/strong&gt; which Barack Obama has subscribed to in all his writings and throughout his Presidential Election Campaign; &lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;Albert&lt;/strong&gt; has increasingly challenged &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/an_open_letter_to#comment_384691" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;elsewhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where IS the Barack Obama of Europe ?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... to which I would concur and further ask &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where ARE the Barack Obamas of the suppressed &lt;br /&gt;and oppressed peoples of the &lt;u&gt;entire&lt;/u&gt; globe ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/OTd0B0grBXg"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OTd0B0grBXg" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OTd0B0grBXg" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Setting up the 1929 crash - Zeitgeist clip&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;The last time an economic crisis as bad as THIS &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;happened&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; it was most certainly &lt;strong&gt;NOT &lt;/strong&gt;the economic crisis&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2009/02/protectionism_wasnt_the_proble.html" target="_blank"&gt;which led to its global&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2009/02/protectionism_wasnt_the_proble.html" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;reprocussions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; but it did happen as a result of &lt;em&gt;the selfish sophistication, arrogance and greed &lt;/em&gt;of those that &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;got their money out at the expense of the small people&amp;rsquo;s investments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; before the crash and who then left the people&amp;rsquo;s of the then capitalist world to pick up the pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS&lt;/strong&gt; time around our &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;have &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;engineered&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;explosion of debt &lt;/em&gt;in the West&lt;/strong&gt; at the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;expense&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;hard labours and savings&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;of the&lt;strong&gt; peoples of the East&lt;/strong&gt;, whilst establishing a global infrastructure of banking, commerce and trade which again served the &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;immorality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; of their self sophisticated, arrogance and greed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS WAS&lt;/strong&gt; by &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;the design&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; of a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;premoinately patriarchal&lt;/em&gt; MIND-SET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was it not President Adams&amp;rsquo; wife who said on entering the Capitol &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;Half-fed slaves building our nation&amp;rsquo;s Capitol, HOW &lt;em&gt;can any good&lt;/em&gt; come from this place?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; - &lt;em&gt;no doubt in the context of her husband&amp;rsquo;s earlier statement&lt;/em&gt; - &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;SO much for the &lt;em&gt;overthrow of the tyrannies&lt;/em&gt; of Europe&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXs"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXs" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXs" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Gove&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/9/time_to_think" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TIME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to take a rain-check on ALL of this and the broken &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/to_all" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Humpty Dumpty MODEL of economics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; ... &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;start&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; asking&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/an_open_letter_to#comment_384691" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Albert&amp;rsquo;s questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and ... &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;collectively decide upon &lt;u&gt;the constitution&lt;/u&gt; of a global model of&amp;nbsp; ALL the people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, for the entirely mutual benefit of ALL the people, by ALL the people who are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;absolutely &lt;u&gt;committed&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/em&gt;to appropriate responsible ACTION&lt;/strong&gt; in adherence to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE GLOBAL SET&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;of moral values&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;When I hear &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5050574/MEP-Dan-Hannans-Brezhnev-apparatchik-attack-on-Gordon-Brown-is-a-YouTube-hit.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;criticism as elegant as this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I wonder why everyone thinks &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/rendezous_with_destiny" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is such a good speaker. 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      <title>IF capitalism IS </title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;survive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE BASIS&lt;/strong&gt; of a &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/yes_we_can" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW Humpty Dumpty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;model of global significance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the peoples of the world have to awaken to the &lt;strong&gt;FACTS&lt;/strong&gt;; and &lt;em&gt;collectively address&lt;/em&gt; the underlying problems of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/2/crisis_-_crisis_-_crisis" target="_blank"&gt;CRISES&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;of politics, religion and science&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACT 1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;strong&gt;Monetary Wealth&lt;/strong&gt; can ONLY be generated as a result of the labours of the people; unless of course, money itself becomes a commodity as it has done since Reagan &amp;amp; Thatcher&amp;rsquo;s DE-regulation, and having done so, has led to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; most severe&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;economic crisis&lt;/u&gt; that the totality of our species has thus far experienced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT 2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;strong&gt;Bankers&lt;/strong&gt; have forever tapped into that wealth at the expense of those labours of the people and always &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;utilised it to their own selfish ends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, counting on &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;fact &lt;/strong&gt;that the capitalist model accepted &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;fact&lt;/strong&gt; that banking was too large/important to fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACT 3&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/4450380/Camerons-moral-capitalism-is-no-better-than-socialism.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capitalism is about the link between effort and reward&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;It is about the creation of wealth according to the quality of one&amp;#39;s enterprise. Without wealth creation there is no scope for the taxation that enables the functions society deems moral: &lt;strong&gt;a welfare state, the defence of the realm, the maintenance of law and order&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACT 4&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;strong&gt;40% of global GDP&lt;/strong&gt; has been &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiped out&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as a result of the &lt;strong&gt;actions of bankers, &lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926754.200-the-blunders-that-led-to-the-banking-crisis.html?full=true" target="_blank"&gt;quants&lt;/a&gt;, politicians and their &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/bernard-madoff/4516983/Madoff-whistleblower-hits-at-regulator.html" target="_blank"&gt;regulatory&lt;/a&gt; framework colleagues&lt;/strong&gt;, following the &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;massive expansion of the money supply in western economies and in the developing ones too, whether China, India or Brazil. This expansion, which was the fault of governments because it is they who control the money supply, put trillions of dollars of cheap money at the disposal of bankers and other institutions who make a living by buying cheap &amp;ndash; in this case buying money cheap &amp;ndash; and selling dear.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND NOW&lt;/strong&gt; the peoples of the globe have been left to &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pick up the pieces&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;of the &lt;strong&gt;OLD Humpty Dumpty &lt;em&gt;system of economics&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/eyDfk8ZbLC4"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eyDfk8ZbLC4" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eyDfk8ZbLC4" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Ego&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;From the outset of our species&amp;rsquo; &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_mobius-strip-like" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;journey of life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; on this planet it has been &lt;strong&gt;the power&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;MEN&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;physical and &lt;a href="http://quanta-fire.gaia.com/blog/2007/8/living_a_duality" target="_blank"&gt;egotistic nature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that has driven his instinctive and intuitive understanding of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;spiritual component&lt;/em&gt; of LIFE&lt;/strong&gt;, to the point that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;HIS&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/disconnecting_the_mechanism_of" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;interpretations&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;ALL&lt;/u&gt; &lt;em&gt;aspects&lt;/em&gt; of LIFE&lt;/strong&gt; have been &lt;em&gt;merged into an &lt;strong&gt;indelible pattern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;individual responsibility, as custodian, for the collective good of his &lt;em&gt;closest&lt;/em&gt; group of the species&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the early phases of this development the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;strongest &lt;u&gt;took control&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt; &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;and the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;spiritual was delegated to a.n.other as a partner &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;in the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; process of control&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;feminine and devine feminine&lt;/u&gt; perspectives of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIFE&lt;/strong&gt;. The dual, &lt;em&gt;parallel forces&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;politics and religion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; were established side by side, sometimes in conflict, sometimes in unison, until such time as the advent of the concepts of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;church and state as one&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;church as state&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; were embodied.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As our species spread over the earth &lt;em&gt;an adherence to this &lt;u&gt;tribal&lt;/u&gt; pattern&lt;/em&gt; led to animalistic territorial confrontation, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/all_conflicts_in_time_space_and_culture" target="_blank"&gt;conflicts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight" target="_blank"&gt;wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, often at the behest of &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;religious advice&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;, and the consequent pillaging of goods and subsequent trade of those goods, for the ever increasing collective good. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A collective good, however, which became to be controlled by a corrupt partnership of&amp;nbsp; state and religion, supported by the new politics of Machiavelli.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bankers and banking appeared on the scene, primarily to fund these conflicts and wars as the catalyst to the &lt;em&gt;process of an ever increasing &lt;strong&gt;accumulation of material wealth&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;power over the people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, amply supported by the observations of scientific experiment and the development of ever more appropriate technological solutions; and along came &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;protestant reformation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(England)" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;commonwealth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;industrial revolution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/11/remember_remember_the_fifth_of_november" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the &amp;ldquo;seeds&amp;rdquo; of democracy through revolution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;capitalism&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capitalism &lt;/strong&gt;can best be described as a system in which private capital or wealth is used in the production or distribution of goods, for the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mutual benefit of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; stakeholders, in support of the very &lt;u&gt;best values of democratic societ&lt;/u&gt;y&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Capitalism has provided the mechanism by which the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p&lt;u&gt;otential benefits&lt;/u&gt; of global free trade&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; could be made available to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;ALL&lt;/u&gt; 6.5 billion souls on our planet&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Democracy&lt;/strong&gt; as a form of government in which the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;supreme power is vested in the people collectively&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and is administered by them or by officers appointed by them, IS best manifested as a state of society characterised by &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/7/the_american_revolution" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;recognition of equality of rights and priviledges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT IS the breakdown of the, &lt;em&gt;inherently &lt;strong&gt;required&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;responsibility to adhere to the&amp;nbsp; ethical standards&lt;/strong&gt; first incorporated into the capitalist model, by the likes of Josiah Wedgewood and Henry Ford, in combination with the predominately patriarchal mind-set of our new masters of the globe, which has now resulted in the latest global recession/depression and has brought US ALL to the &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;abyss&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;, which we are &lt;strong&gt;NOW &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/staring_into_the_abyss" target="_blank"&gt;staring into&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coItaKim-vQ&amp;amp;feature=related" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The OLD MODEL of an &lt;em&gt;economic system&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;generates and gives power to the self-sophisticated, arrogant and greedy nature of capitalists, bankers, and politicians&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;em&gt;which has led to the dominance of the private owners of capital and of production of profit &lt;strong&gt;for the few rather than the mutual benefit of the many&lt;/strong&gt; and the subsequent destruction of 40% of global gross domestic product &lt;/em&gt;-&amp;nbsp; HAS been found wanting and collapsed into a multitude of diverse pieces, as a result of their &lt;em&gt;collective inability to manage, let alone administer &lt;/em&gt;the system for the benefit of the people and now they come to us &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cap in hand to ask for more.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;particular &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OLD WORLD interpretation&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/4527496/ECB-delays-on-interest-rates-despite-German-industrial-slump.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;European version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of that &lt;strong&gt;OLD ORDER MODEL&lt;/strong&gt; of an economic system has EVEN developed hand-in-hand with the creation of a &lt;strong&gt;European Government &lt;em&gt;led by a small unelected exclusive group of&lt;/em&gt; MEN &lt;em&gt;who have the supreme power of the&lt;/em&gt; EU &lt;em&gt;in their hands&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anti-democratic oligarchy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;IN FACT&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An oligarchy&lt;/strong&gt; which at present, as the spokesman of the 25 nations of the EU, is preaching to the foremost democracy on earth about its proposed BUY AMERICAN policy - &lt;em&gt;whilst being &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4448598/Spains-downward-spiral-spooks-bond-investors.html" target="_blank"&gt;locked into a system&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4278642/Monetary-union-has-left-half-of-Europe-trapped-in-depression.html" target="_blank"&gt;monetary &lt;u&gt;union&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which was never designed to cope with the inevitable global boom and bust which we are now experiencing&lt;/em&gt; -&amp;nbsp; as one of its NON-EMU member states is &amp;ldquo;Lording&amp;rdquo; its special relationship with that self same democracy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS IT NOT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;somewhat ironical&lt;/em&gt; that the buy &lt;strong&gt;American commitment IS &lt;em&gt;of the people, by the people, for the people&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the face of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;predominately elitist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;DO what I say NOT what I DO control&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; of the peoples of Europe and the rest of the so called civilised world by that small, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;unelected, exclusive group&lt;/em&gt; of MEN&lt;/strong&gt;. The leaders of the EU, UK, Russia and China &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;spring to mind&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IF &lt;em&gt;every individual one of the peoples of the globe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, now decided to lodge their earnings and/or savings into a mutual building society, savings and loan, credit union or for that matter under the mattress, the banking industry would be starved of funds and as Nobel Prize winning economist and former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, &lt;strong&gt;Professor Stiglitz &lt;/strong&gt;has&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4424418/Let-banks-fail-says-Nobel-economist-Joseph-Stiglitz.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;recently suggested&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;perhaps it would be best to allow ALL the banks to default on their own debts as a result of being made bankrupt&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; &amp;ndash; but ONLY, I would suggest, on the basis that the banks should become an extinct species, such that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;capitalism as well as democracy should become a function of the people, for the people, by the people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A commitment to establishing a social networking site of global significance,&amp;nbsp; based on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the concept&lt;/em&gt; of conscious capitalism&lt;/strong&gt; was, I truly believe, the driving force behind Brian&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;zaadz&amp;rdquo; initiative and its incorporation into the community of GAIA.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT IS THE collective mind-set of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;responsible and appropriate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;ACTION&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;zaadsters_et_al@gaia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which MUST NOW PREVAIL, IF we are indeed to &lt;br /&gt;address the underlying problems of the CRISES of politics, religion and science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_254865" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>An open letter to ...</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:11:15 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barrack Obama. on this his 1Oth day of office as &lt;br /&gt;the 44th President of the United States of America.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;em&gt;There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle than to &lt;u&gt;initiate&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/yes_we_can" target="_blank"&gt;new order of things&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This quality of lukewarmness arises partly from a fear of adversaries, who have the law on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Machiavelli - The Prince - 1513 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May we &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the peoples of the world&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; support you in your quest to re-establish the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/a_place_of_symbolism" target="_blank"&gt;symbolism&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/as_the_peoples_of_the_earth_contemplate" target="_blank"&gt;democracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, in accordance with &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/the_forces_of_nature_v_homosapiens" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the &lt;u&gt;common-sense&lt;/u&gt; collective values&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the peoples of&amp;nbsp; the USA; such that The White House IT SELF should become synonymous with the concept of&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/merchants_of_love" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merchants of LOVE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; not &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merchants of DEATH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Information&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/information_is_the_light" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIGHT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of knowledge.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instinctive, intuitive, insightful, innovative, initiative taking &lt;/strong&gt;are &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;tacitly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; and &lt;br /&gt;collectively the &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;K&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;eep &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;t&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;imple &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;ustainable &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; to the attainment of an&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/6/understanding" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;understanding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wisdom of knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE &lt;em&gt;wisdom of knowledge of understanding&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; can only be manifested as a result&lt;br /&gt;of &lt;strong&gt;THE INTEGRITY&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;appropriate&amp;nbsp; responsible&lt;/em&gt; ACTION&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just imagine&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/opening_the_door" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opening the door&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;common-sense&lt;/em&gt; MODEL&lt;/u&gt; of global politics&lt;/strong&gt;, based on the collective mindset of the peoples of the USA &amp;lsquo;&lt;em&gt;waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;; such that you will &lt;u&gt;forever&lt;/u&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;find it possible, in talking to these men and woman, to understand their motives, and to recognize in them&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;values&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt; which &lt;strong&gt;WE &lt;em&gt;SHALL&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;ALL SHARE&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A bottom-up, top-down &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;model of equitable thinking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, based on ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;em&gt;solving problems rather than winning arguments&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A model based on integrity, responsibility and accountability, which &lt;br /&gt;demonstrates an &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;absolute commitment&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ethical standards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A model which &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;acknowledges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;USA&amp;#39;s &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;onerous&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; responsibility&lt;/strong&gt;, in the&lt;br /&gt;process of providing a &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;fit for purpose&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;global solution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, equal to its &lt;em&gt;public&lt;br /&gt;obligations to humanity&lt;/em&gt;, in line with retired US Supreme Court Justice,&lt;br /&gt;Sandra Day O&amp;#39;Connor&amp;#39;s statement that ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Professionalism requires adherence to the highest ethical standards &lt;br /&gt;of conduct and a willingness to subordinate narrow self-interest in pursuit &lt;br /&gt;of the more fundamental goal of public service.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A model fit for setting &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;THE&lt;/u&gt; moral standard&lt;/strong&gt; for ALL &lt;em&gt;the peoples of the planet&lt;/em&gt; such that &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;whatever you do for the least of my bothers you do for me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As WE ALL find ourselves &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/staring_into_the_abyss" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;staring into the abyss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and our leaders &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/4371043/WEF-2009-Government-hyper-activism-risks-making-crisis-worse.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;continue to&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; espouse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;em&gt;confrontational rather than common-sense collective solutions&lt;/em&gt; to the problems of our age - &lt;em&gt;and &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;then&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. in the context of your conversation with George Bush in 2004, that&lt;/em&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you had both got better than you deserved&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WE APPLAUD your first step&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in acknowledging the urgent need to address &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the equal rights of women&lt;/strong&gt;, not just&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;&lt;u&gt;their&lt;/u&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/as_long_as_our" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;long expected &lt;em&gt;responsibilities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/tqfvUA2vRAM"&gt; 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      <title>IS IT NOT &#8230;</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-250564</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/is-it-not</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE FACT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; that &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/every_single_thing" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIVING THING&lt;/strong&gt; is a &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;product of&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;DNA&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;each and every one&lt;/strong&gt; of the &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;strands&lt;/em&gt; of DNA&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/2/dr_clare_w_graves" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;individually and collectively&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, have &lt;strong&gt;a &lt;em&gt;propensity&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/be_part_of_something_better" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;BE&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; WHAT IS ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moment by moment&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;WHAT IS&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sure ain&amp;rsquo;t&lt;/em&gt; NO ISER&lt;/strong&gt; - BUT LIFE evolves because of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/truth_beauty_and_goodness_as_the_one" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;power&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of LOVE&lt;/strong&gt;, inherently built into every DNA strand, which drives &lt;strong&gt;THE&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;propensity&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/photos/view/140490#comment_199577" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;u&gt;BE&lt;/u&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;WHAT IS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, such that Pirsig&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://books.gaia.com/928/zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_maintenance/by_robert_m_pirsig" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Metaphysics of Quality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pertains and &lt;strong&gt;LIFE is &lt;em&gt;continually striving&lt;/em&gt; for its &lt;em&gt;collective, qualitative enhancement&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT IS THAT &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;dual&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; process&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;u&gt;ACTING &lt;/u&gt;as &lt;strong&gt;ONE&lt;/strong&gt; which constitutes &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://pods.gaia.com/power/discussions/view/92643#187551" target="_blank"&gt;THE BIG PICTURE PROCESS&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;consciousness supreme&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which IS exemplified by the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/the_dynamism_of_chaos" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dynamism of chaos within the serenity of order&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; LIFE has thus far evolved to the point that LIFE IT SELF IS becoming AWARE of IT SELF as a result of the latest developments of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;collective consciousness &lt;/strong&gt;of our species on this planet&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/W_19VdTakY4"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/W_19VdTakY4" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W_19VdTakY4" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Spiritual Flute: The Beauty of Nature&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT &lt;u&gt;IT IS&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/individuals_-_families_of_individuals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the individuals of our species&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which must evolve as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;THE&lt;/u&gt; DRIVING FORCE&lt;/strong&gt; of the BIG PICTURE and custodian to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold"&gt;ALL &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;sentient beings&lt;/span&gt; and LIFE throughout &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-weight: bold"&gt;the multiverse of parallel universes&lt;/em&gt;, which I have often referred to as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/photos/view/154108" target="_blank"&gt;galactica.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; the &amp;quot;collective consciousness&amp;quot; of our &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/as_long_as_our" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;custodians&lt;/u&gt; of the collective consciousness of the peoples of the globe&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The propensity for &lt;strong&gt;the British people&lt;/strong&gt; to adopt an open-minded attitude, during the last 10,000 years of manifestation of ALL of THIS, has of course been in juxtoposition to those whom have aspired TO BE &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;THE&lt;/u&gt; BRITISH PEOPLE&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;control&lt;/u&gt; of the rest&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karl Marx, when writing Das Capital, well understood this in essence, BUT misunderstood, &lt;em&gt;from the perspective that &lt;strong&gt;the british people would not rise against their &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BRITISH PEOPLE MASTERS&lt;/strong&gt;, that revolution according to his &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;communist blueprint&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; would NOT take place in Britain unless there was a &lt;em&gt;collective common-sense reason&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;u&gt;DO&lt;/u&gt; SO. Witness Oliver Cromwell, the CommonWealth, the be-heading of King Charles I, poll tax et al.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THAT IS &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/speech_by_tony_blair_to_american_council_on_foreign_relations#comment_377377" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the way of THE BRITISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I SEE&lt;/strong&gt; Barack Obama&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;inauguration&lt;/em&gt;, this coming Tuesday, as &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/rendezous_with_destiny" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the dawn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the NEW ENVIRONMENT and Barack Obama himself as one who potentially has &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the wisdom of knowledge of understanding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;THIS&lt;/strong&gt; and as such has the potential of &lt;em&gt;leading the peoples of the world&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://princesamwise.gaia.com/photos/view/472540" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;towards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;GLOBAL &lt;em&gt;MIND-SET of &lt;/em&gt;&lt;u&gt;RESPONSIBLE ACTION&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; From the &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/7/vision" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VISION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/7/galactica_net" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REALITY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; via a &lt;em&gt;moment by moment&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VOYAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/reflexions_of_where_we_have" target="_blank"&gt;DISCOVERY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://richmallard.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/matter_s_x_3" target="_blank"&gt;NOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &amp;quot;&lt;u&gt;fusion motor&lt;/u&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;dreamcatcher &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;[to the extreme right of the picture above], which spins in our kitchen at home, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/a_place_of_symbolism" target="_blank"&gt;IS symbolic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;of the&lt;strong&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;dual&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;bottom-up, top-down&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;processes&lt;/em&gt; of the&lt;strong&gt; BIG PICTURE, &lt;em&gt;acting in &lt;/em&gt;&lt;u&gt;unison as ONE&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/tags/love" target="_blank"&gt;ONE LOVE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/11/remember_remember_the_fifth_of_november"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;V&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_250564" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>EVERY SINGLE THING &#8230;</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2009:Gaia-248352</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:58:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/every-single-thing</link>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;that&amp;nbsp; has&amp;nbsp; been and will be &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/opening_the_door" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REVEALED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the individual mind for the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/tags/peace?page=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;ultimate benefit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;collective consciousness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of our &lt;u&gt;own&lt;/u&gt; species ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;the&lt;/u&gt; very beginning&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href="http://bluewater.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/the_wait_of_the_world_the_great_wave" target="_blank"&gt;TIME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;; as a result of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1988/2/playing_to_the_beat_of_the_drum" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;scientific observation &amp;amp; experiment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/it_was_his_experience_of_the_mountains" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;spiritual experience&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/passing_the_torch" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;passing the torch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; within the &lt;strong&gt;DNA of ONE&lt;/strong&gt;; has been DONE SO at THE &lt;em&gt;absolutely most appropriate moment&lt;/em&gt; of the evolutionary cycle; in order that the &lt;em&gt;pieces of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/as_long_as_our" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the jigsaw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; might be correctly identified and assembled into the final manifestation of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/prior_to_the_dawn" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO THING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EVERY SINGLE THING&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;collection of things&lt;/em&gt; IS JUST a.n.other &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cog in the wheel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;independent of interdependence exemplar&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;the &amp;quot;musical&amp;quot; of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/collective_independence_of" target="_blank"&gt;LIFE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No better single embodiment of which BEING &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1990/1/bhagwan_shree_rajneesh" target="_blank"&gt;OSHO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rsquo;s statement that &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ONLY &lt;u&gt;ONCE&lt;/u&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;whole history of human consciousness&lt;/em&gt; has a THING like ZEN come into BEING.&amp;nbsp; IT IS VERY RARE.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My own &amp;ldquo;personal take&amp;rdquo; on ALL of OSHO&amp;rsquo;s words IS that &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZEN&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;TAO&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;NOT ZEN&lt;/strong&gt; without &lt;strong&gt;TAO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZEN&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;BUDDHA&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;NOT ZEN&lt;/strong&gt; without &lt;strong&gt;BUDDHA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TAO&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;BUDDHA&lt;/strong&gt; are independent &amp;amp; of &lt;strong&gt;ZEN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZEN&lt;/strong&gt; is dependent on &lt;strong&gt;TAO &amp;amp; BUDDHA&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;a href="http://photizo.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/flow_and_a_a_zen_mind_video" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ONE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot; The &lt;strong&gt;LIFE &lt;/strong&gt;of &lt;strong&gt;ANY &lt;u&gt;THING&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;whatsoever that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;takes nourishment&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;continually dies&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;and&lt;strong&gt; IS &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;constantly renewed; &lt;/em&gt;because &lt;a href="http://bluewater.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/what_would_you_whisper_as_a_wish_for_the_dawning_year#comment_371171" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nourishment &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;can only enter in those places where the preceeding nourishment is exhausted, and if it is exhausted it no longer has LIFE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pir_H7kf_JU"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pir_H7kf_JU" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt; 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But &lt;em&gt;if you restore as much as is destroyed day by day&lt;/em&gt;, then as much of the LIFE is renewed as is consumed; &lt;strong&gt;Just &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;as the&lt;/em&gt; LIGHT&lt;/u&gt; of the candle is formed by the nourishment given to it by the liquid of this candle which LIGHT continually renews by swift succour from beneath as much as it consumes in dying above; and &lt;em&gt;in dying changes from &lt;strong&gt;brilliant light into murky &lt;u&gt;smoke&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;; and &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this death&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strong&gt;IS &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;continuous &lt;/em&gt;as long as the nourishment continues; and the smoke continues as long as the nourishment continues; and in the same instant &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the &lt;u&gt;whole&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; LIGHT IS DEAD&lt;/strong&gt; when it ceases.&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/thomas_barnett_at_ted_about_pentagons_new_map_for_war_and_peace#comment_374438" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonardo &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/thomas_barnett_at_ted_about_pentagons_new_map_for_war_and_peace#comment_374438" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;d[n]a&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/thomas_barnett_at_ted_about_pentagons_new_map_for_war_and_peace#comment_374438" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Vinci&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://siona.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_year_in_review_friday_five" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Siona&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has recently ASKED of me &amp;hellip; Do you write poetry? &lt;br /&gt;Or, more to the point, have you had any published?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so I would HERE declare that &lt;strong&gt;many have DONE SO but few have been answered&lt;/strong&gt;, SO for the benefit of ALL@gaia &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JUST&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://enlightenmentandmeditation.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/spiritual_commune" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Healin&lt;/u&gt;g&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, wellness, light and love! &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/xx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INDEED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/if_only_it_was#comment_359608" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Listenin&lt;/u&gt;g&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to ALL@twitter, as others have done before, do and will continue to do, as opposed to the 6 months of watching zaadz before I decided that &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/tags/zaadz" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the seed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; was worth &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/just_add_water" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nurturing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/9/time_to_think" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Thinkin&lt;/u&gt;g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about ALL those &lt;a href="http://siona.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_year_in_review_friday_five#comment_367876" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/thomas_barnett_at_ted_about_pentagons_new_map_for_war_and_peace#comment_373353" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peace in the MidEast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the need for some &lt;a href="http://pods.gaia.com/peoplepotential/discussions/view/379273" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;balance and harmony&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/surrender_to_the_uncertainty" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Waitin&lt;/u&gt;g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as the 20th of January &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/join_the_davos_debates#comment_366211" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;approacheth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;hoping&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a confluence of global collective understanding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; will emerge as Jung&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1961/6/dr_carl_gustav_jung" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;collective unconscious&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; begins its &lt;em&gt;transformation&lt;/em&gt; into &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;u&gt;collective consciousness&lt;/u&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;entirety&lt;/em&gt; of our own species&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/reflexions_of_where_we_have" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Wavin&lt;/u&gt;g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/reflexions_of_where_we_have" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;at ALL who &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;realise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;strong&gt;THE TIME &lt;u&gt;IS&lt;/u&gt; NOW ...&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://bluewater.gaia.com/blog/2009/1/the_prayer#comment_374862" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;4 MIND&amp;rdquo;SWITCH&amp;rdquo; ACTION&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4218210/The-bond-bubble-has-long-since-burst-investors-ignore-this-at-you-peril.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;BEWARE&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;of&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;those&lt;/u&gt; in whom we place&lt;/em&gt; OUR TRUST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_248352" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 ... </title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:30:49 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:420px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Zd8ekEIWlc"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Zd8ekEIWlc" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8Zd8ekEIWlc" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Happy New Year 2009&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_109018" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;to Shashi and Family&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/12/as_the_peoples_of_the_earth_contemplate" target="_blank"&gt;ALL@gaia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL hail&lt;/strong&gt; to&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/"&gt;voyager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://authenticsoul.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;authenticsoul&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;for this&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/a_heartfelt_letter_from_a_palestinean_woman#comment_369463" target="_blank"&gt;first dialogue of 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_246100" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>As long as our &#8230;</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-242825</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:03:54 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/to_all" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;continue with their, predominately patriarchal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;OLD ORDER MIND-SET&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4225258/Alistair-Darling-refuses-to-apologise-for-state-of-British-economy.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;attempts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to re-establish the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;serenity of order&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;throughout the &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;now broken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026872.700-news-review-2008-how-rocket-science-failed-the-banks.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;global financial system&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;strong&gt;WITHOUT &lt;em&gt;due consideration&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/the_dynamism_of_chaos" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dynamism of chaos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which has been let loose because of their &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;selfish sophistication, arrogance and greed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;consequences of the subsequent financial meltdown&lt;/em&gt; will become ever more analogous to the &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/awake_and_smell_the" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Siberian Traps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; event, which resulted in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;almost total extinction&lt;/em&gt; of ALL LIFE on EARTH&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colin Mason&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_peoples_of_the_usa" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHORT HISTORY TO THE FUTURE &lt;em&gt;and his&lt;/em&gt; 2 axioms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; come to mind.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 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the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;total lack&lt;/u&gt; of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/6/understanding" target="_blank"&gt;understanding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of what &lt;br /&gt;has &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;actually happened&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and an acceptance that &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;all the pieces cannot be put back together again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;, particularly in the context of &lt;em&gt;addressing the issues of access to world resources such as &lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16225-failing-water-scheme-leaves-beijing-high-and-dry.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;water&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://weorganic.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/permaculture" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;food&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16310-energy-policy-expert-to-be-tapped-for-us-science-adviser.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;energy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The OLD ORDER MIND-SET continues to &lt;em&gt;clean-off the bricks&lt;/em&gt; retrieved from the demolished building and cement them together, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/if_only_it_was#comment_358206" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;one by one&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in accordance with a &lt;em&gt;hastily cobbled together &lt;u&gt;revision&lt;/u&gt; of the original building plans&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When what IS really needed is a &lt;strong&gt;FULLY INTEGRATED, NEW ORDER MIND-SET, GLOBAL VISION&lt;/strong&gt; of the &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;picture&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; on the front of the box, which contains the pieces of the &lt;strong&gt;NEW&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/simple_is" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;solution design&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; jig-saw puzzle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; then, when the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/coming_to_terms_with" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jigsaw cutting pattern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had been decided upon, by the component parts which had been gathered together to solve the &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2007/12/enlightened_fundamentalism_or_racism_of_anti-racists" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHOLE PROBLEM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, would everyone of our species &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_mobius-strip-like" target="_blank"&gt;BEGIN&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;to &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/join_the_davos_debates" target="_blank"&gt;put the jig-saw puzzle together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEWARE&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;however&lt;/em&gt;, the ramifications of &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;THE &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;straight-jacket-border&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; which &lt;u&gt;restricts&lt;/u&gt; the &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;equally significant&lt;/em&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/opening_the_door" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;feminine influence&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;The children&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/having_listened_to_the_children" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;input&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/the_love_of_nature" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;jigsaw cutting pattern&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dotsey.com/jigsawgallery/domestic-diva/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Domestic Diva&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; copyright Eureka Lake Studio&lt;br /&gt;Licensed by Rosenthal Represents &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ravensburger Puzzle&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;thanks to ... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;font face="arial" size="-1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kate Thaker and Kim Minichello for the hours of pleasure &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face="arial" size="-1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this fun collage has provided to our family. It comes from the combined talents of them both, who actually live one thousand miles apart, but through their life long friendship formed the Eureka Lake Studio.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_242825" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>To ALL ...</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-242052</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;intents &lt;/em&gt;and purposes ...&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_question_of_the" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;existence&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;GOD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;purely symbolic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/a_place_of_symbolism" target="_blank"&gt;Symbolic&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;the p&lt;u&gt;ower of &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;u&gt;LOVE&lt;/u&gt;, which &lt;em&gt;glues&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/the_perfect_union_of_emptiness_and_form" target="_blank"&gt;EVERY THING &lt;em&gt;together&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/prior_to_the_dawn" target="_blank"&gt;NO THING&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The power of conscious thought, meditation, deduction and appropriate responsible ACTION has evolved, within our own species, to the point where an ever increasing sub-set of the peoples of the globe, IS beginning to &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/awake_and_smell_the" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AWAKEN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the FACT that our &lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;sole&lt;/u&gt; responsibility&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; is &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/coming_to_terms_with" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the survival&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;LIFE on EARTH as &lt;u&gt;ONE SOUL&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The present economic crisis did not start this year, last year or any other year for the last 100 years. IT started with the demise of the LAST GLOBAL EMPIRE of the OLD ORDER and the &amp;ldquo;&lt;u&gt;birth&lt;/u&gt;&amp;rdquo; of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/2/the_advent_of_brave_new_worlds" target="_blank"&gt;a potential &lt;/a&gt;NEW WORLD ENVIRONMENT, as the First World War &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight" target="_blank"&gt;came and went&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The crises born of that world war and those of the 1930&amp;rsquo;s happened as a result of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;self-sophistication, arrogance and greed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, of the &lt;em&gt;new masters of the globe&lt;/em&gt;, and the new masters&amp;#39; NEW DEAL which was cobbled together out of the pieces of the fractured old world model.&amp;nbsp; This OLD ORDER MIND-SET took the world through &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1945/2/yalta_conference" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the disaster that the 2nd world war became&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and subsequent events in Indo China and the Middle East. Through the savings and loan crisis and its racially discriminate underpinnings, through the Japanese housing-bubble-deflation and now, more recently, through that which will likely evolve into &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the total collapse&lt;/em&gt; of the OLD ORDER global economic system.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: left; width:420px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:left"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/8k5Xr7RXMu8"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8k5Xr7RXMu8" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8k5Xr7RXMu8" height="329" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Humpty Dumpty&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br id="ze_clear_107537" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Humpty Dumpty &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;IS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;well and truly broken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and cannot be re-assembled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A NEW HUMPTY DUMPTY has to be considered, designed and sustainably implemented to remove &lt;strong&gt;ALL &lt;em&gt;vestiges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;em&gt;the self-sophistication, arrogance and greed, which &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/staring_into_the_abyss" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;brought us here in the first place&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;Albert &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/like_european_leaders_obama_is_both_outsider_and_insider" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;has drawn to our attention&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, throughout his time@zaadz, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The West generally is at its best &amp;hellip; when it&amp;#39;s a meritocracy and people rise from all walks of life. That&amp;#39;s something that America has always taken great pride in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is the essence of what we call the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/7/the_american_revolution" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;American Dream&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT in the context of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parallel development of an understanding of the workings of the universe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;by &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2007/12/enlightened_fundamentalism_or_racism_of_anti-racists#comment_183650" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;our scientific community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, in combination with the development of the facility which not only allows ALL scientists to share in and partake of that understanding, Time Berners Lee&amp;rsquo;s gift of the &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;orld&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;ide&lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;eb now provides access to that understanding, &lt;strong&gt;TO ALL &lt;em&gt;peoples of the globe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ever growing &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/make_the_right_connections" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interconnectedness of the global brain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; presages the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/opening_the_chinese_puzzle_box" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW ORDER ENVIRONMENT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which will allow open discussion of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the existence of god from a logical and rational stand-point&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in the context of the spiritual independence of each and every one of the individuals on earth, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/9/quintessential_change" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AWAKENING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the need for bottom-up / top-down &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/collective_independence_of" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COLLECTIVE ACTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_242052" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-240965</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:12:58 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;existence&lt;/em&gt; of GOD ...&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS NOT &lt;/strong&gt;for others to explain, or cajole, or preach, or pontificate, or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;indeed&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight" target="_blank"&gt;FIGHT FOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The question&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;of&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;u&gt;the  existence of GOD&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/3/to_sense_worth_from_within" target="_blank"&gt;IS&lt;/a&gt; for each and every one of us, &lt;em&gt;as individuals&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;to&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/it_was_his_experience_of_the_mountains" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;decide for ourselves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;during&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/the_mobius-strip-like" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;the  mobius-strip-like journey of &lt;/em&gt;LIFE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sannyas.org/wiki/index.php?title=Osho_Bibliography_-_No_Water%2C_No_Moon" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Life is not a riddle to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived. &lt;br /&gt;It is a deep mystery, to trust and allow yourself to enter it.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/thanks_be_to_god" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;THANK GOD&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that we can &lt;em&gt;listen&lt;/em&gt; to a number of souls, &lt;em&gt;albeit relatively small&lt;/em&gt;, who can &lt;em&gt;communicate their own understanding&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;existence of GOD, in ways that are non-prescriptive, non-partisan and non-threatening.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;before&lt;/u&gt; I continue&lt;/em&gt; with this particular &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/if_only_it_was#comment_357190" target="_blank"&gt;post card&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; I would explain that it&lt;br /&gt;has become necessary to bring to GAIA&amp;#39;s attention &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;the error of its ways&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I WOULD therefore NOW &lt;em&gt;openly publish&lt;/em&gt; a letter to &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;zaadsters_et_al@gaia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which I have sent to &lt;a href="http://siona.gaia.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Siona&lt;/a&gt; this morning, for her&amp;#39;s and GAIA&amp;#39;s response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hello Siona&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;p&gt;with &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/6/bravo" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;LOVE &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;and within&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/9/dont_kill_the_messenger" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;that message&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;lies &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/awake_and_smell_the" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;strong&gt;what IS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;You may have seen the latest Microsoft TV advertising campaign where everyone is declaring &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;I&amp;#39;m a PC&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo; &amp;hellip;. well what is no doubt NOT understood by &lt;em&gt;any of those people&lt;/em&gt; is that the &lt;strong&gt;HUMAN INTERFACE GUIDELINES &lt;/strong&gt;which Apple Computers &amp;ldquo;borrowed&amp;rdquo; from Xerox Parc are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;at the heart of &lt;/em&gt;even the good ole PC&lt;/strong&gt; now, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/10/freedom_to_associate" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;as well as Macs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and they were put in place to &lt;strong&gt;enhance the communicative experience&lt;/strong&gt; of ALL individuals on earth as a result of their &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/11/32_000_potential_external_interconnections_and_counting" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interconnection with eachother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; over the inter-network of networks, bequeathed to us as the &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;orld &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;ide &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;eb, FREE of CHARGE, by Tom Berner&amp;#39;s Lee. He did this to enable individuals to &lt;strong&gt;ENHANCE &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; UNDERSTANDING&lt;/strong&gt; of ALL THINGS UNIVERSAL as a result of the NEED established @CERN underpinned by years of &lt;strong&gt;H&lt;/strong&gt;uman &lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;achine &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;nterface evaluation, which I was proud to have supported during my time as an &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/the_yellow_peril" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Air Traffic Contoller &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and &lt;em&gt;my establishment of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1983/1/the_bbc_computer_literacy_project" target="_blank"&gt;the world&amp;#39;s first interactive videodisc system &lt;/a&gt;for the purposes of education of ALL children across the globe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole reason that I watched zaadz for the first 6 months, from afar, and then joined in June 2006 was because of its potentially ever expanding nature, based on an &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ever expanding tool-set&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, geared to a &lt;strong&gt;TRANSFORMATION&lt;/strong&gt; of the CONCEPT of &lt;strong&gt;CHANGE to a NEW ORDER&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of mutual benefit to ALL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Others that weren&amp;#39;t so open would and have proved to be &amp;ldquo;crippled&amp;rdquo; in this regard. Not many understand this yet but &lt;strong&gt;IT HAS to BE&lt;/strong&gt; IF any of it is to happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THIS cannot be done by CLOSING DOWN on the ability of &lt;strong&gt;links &lt;em&gt;within a comment post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;to OPEN a NEW WINDOW such that the user can open as many windows as is necessary to provide &lt;strong&gt;points of perspectiv&lt;/strong&gt;e which &lt;em&gt;will guide the reader to the position of being able&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;make up their own mind as to what they have read&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;hellip; as apposed to the &lt;strong&gt;PRESCRIPTIVE &lt;em&gt;perspective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; forced on the reader by &amp;ldquo;a rabbit hole&amp;rdquo; which can only be returned back through by the &amp;ldquo;BLOODY BACK BUTTON&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU may not understand the ramifications of much of this but please ask FOR WHY your human interface communications &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;experts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; have decided to do this ? &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;because if it is allowed to go on the future development of GAIA as a social network communication tool will be forever &amp;ldquo;crippled&amp;rdquo; unless of course the real answer to my question is that &lt;strong&gt;again&lt;/strong&gt; we are ALL going to have to PAY MORE for this facility!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These systems ONLY work because of the CONTENT &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; the structure and as you know there were more than enough &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;really good guys&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who were SO pissed off by Brian selling to GAIA, that they jumped ship and that DOES NO THING for the enhancement of communication to which I AM STILL convinced &lt;strong&gt;GAIA IS&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ldquo;nailed to the mast&amp;rdquo;, so to speak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you are well aware &lt;strong&gt;I LOVE&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;American pragmatism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, BUT I AM English, Tim Berners Lee IS English and both of us remain forever divided from the USA as ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1942/7/two_nations_divided_by_the_same_language" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TWO nations &lt;em&gt;divided by the same language&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with all its &lt;em&gt;multitudinous variations of interpretations&lt;/em&gt; of&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/4/an_alphaindex_of_stories" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sets of words&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU WOULD ALL be VERY wise, however, to consider very very seriously the consequences of THIS particular &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;set of words&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My very very very kindest regards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;div class="menu"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div id="right_box" class="column"&gt;  &lt;div id="right_box_ad"&gt; &lt;!--JavaScript Tag // Tag for network 5183: Lime.com // Website: GaiaComm // Page: Default // Placement: GaiaComm_300x250 (453435) // created at: Nov 24, 2008 12:42:01 PM--&gt;  &lt;!-- if (window.adgroupid == undefined) {    window.adgroupid = Math.round(Math.random() * 1000); 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      <title>AWAKE and SMELL the &#8230;</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Lavendar, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;smell the lavendar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;and &lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/join_the_davos_debates#comment_366211" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;AWAKEN &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to THE TRUTH&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;of our species&amp;#39; existence as&amp;nbsp;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;LIFE on EARTH&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;custodian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h1&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As LIFE on EARTH moves &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/8/a_short_history_of_the_future" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ever closer to&lt;/em&gt; THE TIME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; when homo sapiens, &lt;em&gt;as a collective&lt;/em&gt;, has to face-up to the issues which a relatively small number of individuals of the species have created; &lt;em&gt;the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Icelandic_financial_crisis" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Icelandics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have now taken to describing their own immediate problems as having been caused as a result of &lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;6 people going to the party and 10,000 &lt;a href="http://www.jameslovelock.org/page10.html" target="_blank"&gt;getting the hangover&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;; it seems &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/6/all_science_and_all_scientists" target="_blank"&gt;that scientists&lt;/a&gt; move &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ever closer to a consensus of the TRUTH, as a scientific community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;, whilst the politicians move &lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ambrose_evans-pritchard/blog/2008/12/10/greek_fighting_the_eurozones_weakest_link_starts_to_crack" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ever further&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3690121/Pakistan-ready-for-war-with-India-after-Mumbai.html" target="_blank"&gt;further&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;away from it, since &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Britain floated to a First World War victory on a sea of oil&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeff Randall has stated, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;significantly and most eloquently&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in his &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/3551530/Telling-the-truth-is-lambasted-in-politically-correct-Britain.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;recent article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE DAILY TELEGRAPH&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a society, we have not just stopped expecting veracity from elected representatives, but &lt;strong&gt;we have also been &lt;u&gt;brainwashed&lt;/u&gt; into believing that harsh realities are to be avoided lest they damage confidence, disturb sensibilities or upset the g&lt;u&gt;rowing number of delicate flowers&lt;/u&gt; who protect themselves from legitimate criticism with the prophylactic of grievance.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is as though there has been a &lt;strong&gt;conspiracy between disingenuous politicians, campaigners for political correctness and a malleable electorate&lt;/strong&gt; to accept deliberate omissions and distortions as valid currencies of exchange for public discourse, while &lt;strong&gt;banning the g&lt;u&gt;old standard&lt;/u&gt; of FACT.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretending that a problem doesn&amp;#39;t exist is not the same as &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/if_only_it_was" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;addressing it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you&amp;#39;re in any doubt, have a look at &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7764048.stm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miss Harman&amp;#39;s obfuscation on the BBC website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issues, however, are NOT just financial and economical but &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7771429.stm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;those&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also raised by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kyoto protocol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.rightsandhumanity.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rights &amp;amp; Humanity&amp;rsquo;s Principles of Responsibility&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and any thought of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/why_we_fight#comment_209746" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sustainable fulfilment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/8/penny_on_-_be_someone" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UN Millenium Goals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Despite the so called projection of the face of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;global social responsibility&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, on the part of BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil, backed by &amp;ldquo;the science of profit&amp;rdquo;, their collective image &amp;amp; action bears no relation to the need for mankind to ask the question &amp;hellip; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;CAN we really have our CAKE and EAT IT?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;scientific understanding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat01.html#Q02" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;evolution of life on earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; since the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cambrian Explosion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, however, has itself exploded in the last 100 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has resulted from the multitudinous investigations of both the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burgess Shale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;rosetta stone&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; evidence and the events of the Permian Triassic divide, which then grew to an almost feverish pitch during the last 50 years&amp;rsquo; analysis of the Northern-Pangean &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Siberian Traps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;flood basalt&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; event and its consequent effect on the almost total extinction and ongoing evolution of LIFE on EARTH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These &lt;em&gt;various scientific conclusions&lt;/em&gt;, as to how all &lt;em&gt;the different &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/the_first_hundred_piece_jigsaw" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pieces of the jigsaw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fit together,&lt;/em&gt; have established an &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;increasingly sophisticated &lt;u&gt;resonance&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; with homo sapiens&amp;rsquo; ancient beliefs about its &lt;em&gt;interconnection with nature&lt;/em&gt; AND &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;proved&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; that &lt;em&gt;our species is intimately connected to, and effected by its environment &lt;/em&gt;&amp;hellip; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;witness climbing levels of &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7766656.stm" target="_blank"&gt;asthma&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.allergyclinic.co.uk/epidemic.htm" target="_blank"&gt;allergic disease epidemic&lt;/a&gt;, at a global level&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As has been &lt;em&gt;brilliantly communicated&lt;/em&gt; by the History Channel TV Series, &lt;strong&gt;EVOLVE&lt;/strong&gt;; over thirteen episodes including the coverage of eyes, guts, jaws, communication, skin, flight, sex, size, speed and venom; the &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/the_human_cycle" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;cycle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; LIFE&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; has evolved, in an ever spiral-ratchet manner, to exemplify &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/photos/view/26977" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the qualitative development&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the transformation of life on earth, which has historically been well understood by many of our species, along the way so to speak, as the independent interdependence of nature, culminating with James Lovelock&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/gaia1.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/what_is_Gaia.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GAIA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: none; "&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:400px;float:none"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="329" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/YM2YcVsYETQ"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YM2YcVsYETQ" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="329" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="400" /&gt; 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&lt;em&gt;towards economic development&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in the vain of Mao Tse-tung&amp;rsquo;s edict that &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/the_forces_of_nature_v_homosapiens" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man MUST CONQUER NATURE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; and their own communistic support for the view that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;financial innovation equals benefit for ALL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when in FACT &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;global financial engineering generates NO THING&lt;/strong&gt; other than sustained profits for the few&lt;/em&gt;, in line with their own edict that &lt;em&gt;the climate change agenda can&amp;rsquo;t be addressed without economic growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thoughts of the lemmings &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;myth&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island" target="_blank"&gt;Easter Island&lt;/a&gt; come to MIND !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Chinese &amp;quot;attachment&amp;quot; to the concept of longevity is of course due too their long-held belief that the crane has been around since the beginning of the times that they the Chinese can remember and &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; therefore &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/a_place_of_symbolism" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;equally symbolic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the survival of&lt;/em&gt; LIFE on EARTH. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout their lives &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;making as many origami cranes as they can&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; represents the ever growing commitment of the Chinese individual to the survival of LIFE on EARTH, which should act as a motivation to us ALL to acknowledge that &lt;strong&gt;IT IS the people who should be &lt;em&gt;leading their leaders by appropriately responsible&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;ACTION&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pitty the Chinese leadership isn&amp;#39;t listening enough to the &lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;need for mankind&amp;rsquo;s harmonious coexistence with nature&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russell Targ&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/7/the_american_revolution#comment_360926" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;statement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; provides the basis of &lt;br /&gt;an appropriate mind-set for consideration &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;for any event that happens, there is a complex series of previous events that cause it to turn out the way it does. So because we live in this continuity of cause and effect, we have a lot less free will than we often think. &lt;strong&gt;However, to the extent that you can step out of this stream of causation through psychic practices or meditation, for example, and gain an objective view on it, you can access information that gives you more choices than you might otherwise have&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until &lt;em&gt;everybody can determine the value of a newly born child&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The TRUTH of the fact IS &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/tags/truth" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_240428" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>The mobius-strip-like &#8230;</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;journey&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/9/zero_to_zero_to_zero_to_zero_to_10_000_zeros" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIFE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for every &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/individuals_-_families_of_individuals" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;individual member of our species&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, begins the moment we leave our &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/3/the_mother_that_bore" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mother&amp;rsquo;s womb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and continues until we leave this &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_coil" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mortal coil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The coil is, of course, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/1952/10/tea_rationing_to_end" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;spiral shaped&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as IS the case with ALL the processes of LIFE and that stage of the journey has now arrived when, as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://voyager.gaia.com/blog/2008/12/leadership_crisis_management_perspectives_in_germany_and_europe" target="_blank"&gt;Albert &lt;em&gt;has put into context&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;and stated &lt;em&gt;elsewhere&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/if_only_it_was#comment_358267" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT IS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;necessary to proclaim a &lt;/em&gt;NEW AXIS AGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;old order solution design&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; responsible for the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_peoples_of_the_usa" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;in-balance and dis-harmony of our&lt;/em&gt; Eco-System&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will continue to perpetuate, until such time that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the simple majority&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of surviving members of our species on earth have &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/1/the_perfect_union_of_emptiness_and_form" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;transcended the &lt;/em&gt;MIND-SET&lt;em&gt; switch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; and opened their eyes to the &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other side perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; of our mobius-strip-like &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/3/the_human_cycle" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;journey of&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;existence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/dO8QO5Rp68c"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dO8QO5Rp68c" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dO8QO5Rp68c" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Integral with the Planet&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;In order that Homo Sapiens should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j12/wilber.asp?ifr=hp-edt" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;transform&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; rather than continue to translate their old order solution design experiences&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, those that have already &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;transcended the switch&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; and already opened their eyes to the &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;other side perspective&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo;, must cooperate and collaborate on the &lt;strong&gt;new order balanced eco-system solution design&lt;/strong&gt; for a &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;new order environment&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/u&gt;which will ensure &lt;a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j19/majaya.asp?ifr=hp-edt" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the survival&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;LIFE on EARTH&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In no different way than &lt;strong&gt;zaadzsters_et_al@gaia&lt;/strong&gt; have ... &lt;br /&gt;already &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;demonstrated &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;their potential&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;2 DO SO&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/the_other_information_revolution" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other information revolution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; now established as a result of an infrastructure which has become &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the machine which IS US and using US&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; to potentially establish the &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most appropriate&lt;/strong&gt; new order environment&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;em&gt;, based as it is on &lt;strong&gt;the gift of the world wide web to the people&lt;/strong&gt;, to provide a diverse multiplicity of stories of experience of cooperation and collaboration of the people, for &lt;strong&gt;the mutual benefit of the peoples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As has always happened throughout history, however, those that control the infrastructure of our inter-network of networks want to make more profits from that infrastructure as a result of &lt;em&gt;implementing their own translation of the old order model&lt;/em&gt; based on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infranet" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;infranet initiative&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;So be it&lt;/strong&gt;. BUT this time around the very people who are about to start funding those increased profits, have the opportunity to establish from the outset, &lt;em&gt;a promise from their masters that &lt;strong&gt;a proportion of the profits be directed to the new order environmentally sustainable future of their children and their children&amp;rsquo;s children&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; NOT just in line with the TAX SLAVE STATUS which the old order model requires of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although Hillary Clinton &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5268377.ece" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;has said&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;America &lt;u&gt;cannot solve&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/2/crisis_-_crisis_-_crisis" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the world&amp;rsquo;s crises&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and that the world cannot solve its crises &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/3566829/US-job-losses-worst-since-1970s.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;without America&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, WE the people must provide &lt;em&gt;collective leadership&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;BY the people&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;OF the people&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; FOR the people&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;as&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://pods.gaia.com/z_network/discussions/view/366466#372749" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;an example to &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ALL of the LEADERS&lt;/strong&gt;, which we now look upon to&lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;facilitate the solution designs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; of a NEW AXIS AGE.&lt;/strong&gt; Arianna Huffington&amp;#39;s &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;fourth instinct&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;rdquo; which she calls &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;the desire for transcendence&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;rdquo; that has driven political and social change throughout history ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;em&gt;manifestation of the desire&lt;/em&gt; on the part of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;2 DO SO&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huffington calls for &lt;a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/unbound/media.asp?id=245&amp;amp;ifr=hp-ftr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a new form of political leadership that doesn&amp;rsquo;t &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/unbound/media.asp?id=245&amp;amp;ifr=hp-ftr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;play on fear and greed but appeals to what Abraham Lincoln called&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/unbound/media.asp?id=245&amp;amp;ifr=hp-ftr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;u&gt;the better angels of our nature&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo; 	 	&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/opening_the_door" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;process by which this will happen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; must initiate &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/3/on_the_occassion_of_this_vernal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;the transformation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from a predominantly patriarchal OLD ORDER MIND-SET to a NEW ORDER MIND-SET which will establish the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;NEW ORDER ENVIRONMENT&lt;/a&gt; of mutual benefit to ALL souls on earth, which could truly exemplify a NEW AXIS AGE.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_239105" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>IF ONLY IT WAS &#8230;</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-237309</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:15:15 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;as EASY as &lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2208366873/" target="_blank"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to truly understand &lt;a href="http://bluewater.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/what_was_the_best_news_you_heard_recently#comment_356210" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;the significance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2005/8/the_parallel_worlds" target="_blank"&gt;TIME&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Labour M.P. stood up in the Houses of Parliament yesterday and started to preach to the conservative Tory benches opposite, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;politically&lt;/strong&gt; pontificating&lt;/em&gt; about how the problems of the financial&amp;nbsp; market were far more complex than the Tories understood and how THEY the Tories should understand that the ever evolving nature of the economic problems could best be described by &amp;ldquo;chaos theory&amp;rdquo;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The member of parliament in question then went on to state that Labour had &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;better&lt;/u&gt; g&lt;u&gt;ras&lt;/u&gt;p &lt;u&gt;of what to do&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; than the Tory opposition. &lt;u&gt;ONLY&lt;/u&gt; &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; will tell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                        &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/yDMJHYKrHNA"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yDMJHYKrHNA" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yDMJHYKrHNA" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;Tony Blair sings "Things Can Only Get Better"&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;Most of those people who voted Mr. Blair into power, &lt;em&gt;as leader of the party of &lt;strong&gt;NEW&lt;/strong&gt; LABOUR and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the middle way&lt;/strong&gt;, to the tune of &lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;things can only get better&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, truly believed that a NEW ORDER ENVIRONMENT would &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/the_dynamism_of_chaos" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fully acknowledge the existence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;chaos theory&amp;rdquo; in the running of the economy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alas the man in charge of the purse strings spent the last 11 years preparing to fully implement the &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/3522250/Debts-up-taxes-up-unemployment-up-welcome-back-Old-Labour.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OLD LABOUR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; policies which the electorate &lt;strong&gt;didn&amp;rsquo;t vote for !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the context of those who &lt;strong&gt;WILL have &lt;em&gt;to pay&lt;/em&gt; for ALL of THIS&lt;/strong&gt;, our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;children and their children&amp;rsquo;s children&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/3/to_sense_worth_from_within" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the children within ALL of US adults&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, what better way for us all to be introduced to the concept of philosophy than by &lt;a href="http://www.kamera.co.uk/books/philosophy_goes_to_the_movies.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Falzon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="http://www.film-philosophy.com/2007v11n3/bolton.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Philosophy GOES TO THE MOVIES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. We could then appreciate fully what &lt;a href="http://books.gaia.com/108062/celluloid_heroes_and_mechanical_dragons/by_john_david_ebert" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Elbert&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has long told us about the workings of the mind, in preparation for &lt;em&gt;an appropriately applicable understanding&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;how important the &lt;strong&gt;acknowledgement of the concepts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiraldynamics.net/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spiral Dynamics Integral&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are, to the survival of LIFE on EARTH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/2/dr_clare_w_graves#comment_356718" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clare Graves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; who said in 1974 &amp;hellip; that a version of George Orwell&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt;, embodied in tyrannical, manipulative government with glossed over communitarian overtones, was a distinct possibility as a result of the playing out of the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Humpty Dumpty effect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the fact that ALL Governments since Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher have &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/3525234/Encouraged-by-a-wicked-wizard-Greenspan-Bernanke-toils-at-his-printing-press.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;completely neglected their responsibilities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in regard to oversight and regulation of the financial services industry, the financial chaos which ALL taxpayers now face &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;less to do with scientific analogies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; than a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;common sense understanding of the financial chaos which has ensued as a result of self-sophistication, arrogance and greed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It would seem that &lt;em&gt;this common sense of the people in cutting back everywhere possible&lt;/em&gt; is not being mirrored by &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the majority&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the political establishment or banking elite. As I have posted &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/7/the_american_revolution" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;elsewhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION&lt;/strong&gt; was NOT a social but a political one. The one that the British have endured for the last decade or more, was in the same vain more political than social, perhaps &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;the times are a changing&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, such that the NEW OBAMA administration will at least establish a &lt;a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/unbound/media.asp?id=245&amp;amp;ifr=hp-ftr" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BALANCE betwixt the political and the social,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en-route to a revived version of democracy when the politicians will truly &lt;strong&gt;BE &lt;em&gt;at the&lt;/em&gt; BEHEST&lt;/strong&gt; of the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The film &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2208366873/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D&amp;Eacute;J&amp;Agrave; VU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was dedicated to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the strength and enduring spirit of the people of New Orleans&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Let us ALL &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluewater.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/what_makes_something_worthwhile" target="_blank"&gt;awake&lt;/a&gt; and smell the lavender&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;smell the lavender and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/aa" target="_blank"&gt;awaken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to the strength and enduring spirit of &lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; the people of the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/6/thanks_be_to_god" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="arial black,avant garde" size="6"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;HAPPY THANKSGIVING&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_237309" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>YES WE CAN &#8230;</title>
      <author>http://my-head.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-234415</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:50:03 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;BUILD a NEW &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Humpty Dumpty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by way of a model which underpins the capability of ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kosmosjournal.org/kjo/backissue/f2008/evolutionary-entrepreneurship.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;appropriate and opportunistic&lt;/em&gt; ACTION&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/zaadzsters_et_alatgaia_unite" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;scaleable, ever expanding, model&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which reflects our &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;experience of expectations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;and &lt;em&gt;facilitates our understanding&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/collective_independence_of" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;independence of interdependence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href="http://yeshe.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/why_the_next_buddha_will_be_a_collective" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Helen Titchen Beeth &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;has so eloquently stated ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;If we want to be evolutionary entrepreneurs who survive the acid test of natural selection&amp;mdash;if we want our undertakings to take root in the world and thrive, to truly make the world a better place&amp;mdash;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;then we need to understand what game we are playing, and the environment we are playing it in&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entrepreneurship is about &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &amp;lsquo;Will&amp;rsquo; is a word that doesn&amp;rsquo;t exist in science. Science sees our actions, but not what fuels them. Will is a phenomenon that we typically associate with the invisible interior of individuals and collectives. We cannot see it&amp;mdash;only the outcomes of the actions driven by it. We could even see entrepreneurship as a driving force of evolution now that humanity is awakening into fuller consciousness of its own evolution.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At first sight, entrepreneurship is all about individuals. It is the individual will with a vision of change that starts the ball rolling. But&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;the change can only happen if the will of the collective is engaged&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href="http://pods.gaia.com/barackobama/discussions/view/359263#364888" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we maximise our chance of making that happen?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://pods.gaia.com/barackobama/discussions/view/359263#364888" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the dawn of time LIFE on EARTH has maintained its &lt;em&gt;independence of interdependence&lt;/em&gt; as &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the nature of LOVE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and it wasn&amp;rsquo;t until HOMO SAPIENS appeared on the scene that the &lt;em&gt;experience of expectations&lt;/em&gt; was manifested as the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/10/the_love_of_nature"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LOVE of nature&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT HAS forever been &lt;em&gt;a lifeforce of our species to make patterns of everything&lt;/em&gt;, to explain the nature of love and use those patterns to experience the expectation of the love of nature. &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately those patterns have not always reflected the reality of the natural process.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaders throughout history have led the people of ASSYRIA, the people of GREECE and the people of &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2006/11/all_roads" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ROME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, through a demonstration of the fully integrated combination of the people&amp;rsquo;s experience of the the expectation of independence of interdependence, as exemplified by the example of the particular leader of the time; which has ever since become the basis of the celebrity status of our old order leaders, working to an evolving tried and tested &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;old order pattern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, from Trajan to Hitler through Napolean and in more recent times the rebellious leaders of the NEW WORLD whose raison d&amp;rsquo;etre was to &lt;em&gt;reject the old order model&lt;/em&gt; but in reality continue to adhere to the &lt;em&gt;old order pattern&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                &lt;div class="asset_container" style="float: right; width:320px"&gt;          &lt;div class="asset_holding" style="width:300px;float:right"&gt;            &lt;object class_id="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6, 0, 40, 0" id="obj" name ="eobj" height="247" width="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/7rZbvi6Tj6E"&gt;              &lt;param name ="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7rZbvi6Tj6E" /&gt;&lt;param name ="height" value="247" /&gt;&lt;param name ="width" value="300" /&gt;              &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7rZbvi6Tj6E" height="247" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;            &lt;/object&gt;            &lt;div class="asset_caption"&gt;talking about a revolution (tracy chapman)&lt;/div&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;With the advent of increasingly powerful communications technologies the role of President of the USA has been presented in ever more &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trajan-like&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;manner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as a fait acompli of what the executive has done and is doing to rectify the mistakes which have been done, without ANY apparent concern for the long term consequences for the people, who have been&amp;nbsp; encouraged to be involved in what has been done, invariably in the name of the people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the first time in the history of our species on earth, &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/2/rendezous_with_destiny" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the leader elect of our global society &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;has established his celebrity status NOT ... as a result of his own personal experience, propped up by the experts and others in power who would seek to promote their own self-interested policies; &lt;a href="http://pods.gaia.com/barackobama/discussions/view/359263#364888" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;... as a result of the voice of the people on the basis of what HAS to be DONE, in accordance with &lt;em&gt;the voice of &lt;strong&gt;common sense independence of interdependence of the people for the&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_peoples_of_the_usa" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mutual sustainable benefit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of ALL the people of the USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can NOW only &lt;a href="http://www.kosmosjournal.org/kjo/backissue/f2008/index.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOPE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2007/5/what_is_your_favorite_part_of_waking_up_every_morning" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that the &lt;a href="http://peggyjoycestarr.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_elephant_in_the_room_a_sufi_story" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;responsible&lt;/em&gt; &lt;u&gt;ACTIONS&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;all the peoples of the world&lt;/strong&gt; in support of this new order pattern will result in a &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/the_chicken_or_the_egg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW ORDER GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;for the mutual benefit of ALL that IS the NATURE of LOVE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FINALLY&lt;/strong&gt; the tables &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;u&gt;are&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://my-head.gaia.com/blog/2009/6/the-caring-revolution" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;starting to turn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br id="ze_clear_asset_234415" class="ze_clear" style="clear:both"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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