A Day Out of Time for Peace ?

Today is the Day Out of Time on the 13Moon calendar. It's the day between the old year and the new year, which begins tomorrow, on 26th July on the Gregorian calendar, bringing in the year's energy of Red Solar Moon. We are hopefully entering a time of healing of emotions and planetary water (much needed in light of it being radiated by the Fukushima disaster) as long as we go with the flow and purify our thoughts and feelings and probably our bodies too (always helps).

But today - Yellow Galactic Star - will be celebrated by followers of the calendar in over 90 countries around the world, including most of Central and South America, France, Holland and even Israel, with feasting, dancing, making art and activating universal love and forgiveness for all that has past this last year. People will also be doing the rainbow bridge meditation to link in telepathy together for peace.

At these events you will see the Banner of Peace, which I've written about before, but here's a recap as it's clearly about time it was remembered in many parts of the world - especially in the Middle East warzones and in light of yesterday's news of the holy Tomb of Jonah the prophet being destroyed in Iraq (allegedly by ISIS, whoever they may be really, although you'd have thought this sacred site was one of their own). Anyway...

The Banner of Peace symbol and the Roerich Pact were created by Russian artist and humanitarian Nicolas Roerich, as a response to the destruction of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. In 1935, in Washington DC, 22 nations signed this international treaty declaring peace through culture and protecting cultural and artistic heritage. Countries included India, the Baltic States and the US. The Pact states that 'educational, artistic and scientific institutions shall be protected and respected by the belligerents... without any discrimination as to the state allegiance of any particular institution or mission.' 

So, just as the Red Cross protects hospitals, this symbol and signed international law is there to protect culture. It is still international law today. 

On this symbol of human unity, the three red circles represent the arts, science and spirituality within the one greater circle of culture and the cyclic nature of time. Red to represent the one blood we all share as the one human family that we are. This symbol can be seem in many cultures and philosophical systems around the world, such as on old Ethiopian and Coptic antiquities, stone age amulets, Buddhist banners and more. It's the perfect symbol to bring all people together in peace. 

For more information on the Banner of Peace and the Roerich Pact and how it's still very much in need today, have a read of this great document explaining it all: http://www.lawoftime.org/pdfs/UNIFY_PEACE.pdf

For more details on the 13Moon calendar and the new year beginning tomorrow with the Magnetic Moon, the first of 13 months all of 28 days long, check out the Law of Time's resources and one of the best teachers of the whole new calendar system Eden Sky's website. 

For the whole of this next 28 days ask the question: 'What is my purpose?' and see where it leads you.

Time is Art (not money)! 

#LightTheNight4Gaza

We have created a new event in solidarity with the horrific struggles of the Palestinian People. While we hope the current attacks have stopped long before the event on Aug 2nd, we understand that Israeli persecution of the Palestinian people is not likely to end anytime soon.  

https://www.facebook.com/events/547108902081660/

On the 2nd Aug 2014 @10pm we are inviting Palestinian supporters across the country (or globe if you like), to light a candle or set off a Lantern to visually show their support for the people of Gaza. We ask that people across the UK join us for a mass meditation and pray for peace and justice for the Palestinian people. We will be livestreaming across the UK with guest speakers and to lead you in meditation if u wish. BUT WE NEED YOU TO GET INVOLVED!!!

We need everyone taking part to spread this, contact your local newspapers/Radio, newsgroups, walls, Mosques. We need as many taking part as possible, we want to send a clear visual message about the numbers of supporters the Palestinians have. Why not make your own event organize a town gathering or have friends round, get lanterns in and make a night of it. Reach out to your local community!

We need speakers, if your interested in getting involved please email waveofactionuk@gmail.com

We need you to tweet and use social networking to share you night if your taking part, please use and follow #LightTheNight4Gaza

Mainly we need you to help show the world that its never ok to behave this way and to help send our love and hope that the people of Palestine will get the peace they all deserve.

https://www.facebook.com/events/547108902081660/

Kellie Cottam - Forced Adoption Exposed @ ITV reference Exposure - Don't...

November 2013 I spoke with Sarah from Blakeway's Production reference my own story of two of my children being unlawfully removed by social services and county council. Having given the names of many others, and connecting I was told this programme would be out end of Feb mid March. 


Many months later and only touching on the tip of the iceberg of the problem finally on the 15th July 2014 ITV aired a programme called Exposure - Don't take my child. 

As a Mother it is amazing that finally more truth is coming out, but it's been in and out for generations but never had this matter ever been resolved, Or if it is, its for new cases and the old are left dead and buried.

But the question is... How is this going to help so many families who are still not with their children. Children who have been adopted unlawfully, children due to be adopted, and families who have suffered at the hands of the great issue. 

Now they have requested that if anyone is affected by this issue to contact them. The thing is. How are they going to help, or is this just good TV and high viewings?

There is War Going On (but We Are All Equal)

Hey folks! Enjoy the World Cup? No, me neither. And meanwhile, there’s a war going on. Proper. Definitely globally with the status quo forces bombing and fighting. All sides are being moved in on, from the West (Bank), from the East, in Iraq and Syria (suddenly ISIS are on the march, but who really are these guys and who trained them?) and now Russian plane shot down in Ukraine, starting what on that front, I wonder? We shall see where this is heading eh? And all in time for the Anniversary of the First World War, started by tit-for-tat similar shit. It’s scary. There is an agenda and it’s well dark. But it IS coming to light. (And about time too!)

Not forgetting, in other areas not as directly at war, racial aggravation, separation stoked up by the State pushing Ukips’s popularity instead of the rise of the Greens, on the biased mainstream news. Then there's the war on Mother Earth: poisonous, mercenary, distructive fracking industry on the rampage, last grabs of resources and holding on to money. These are volatile, desperate times.

But more people are standing up for what’s right, marching much more this summer and doing things with more kindness, meditating, connecting in unity to each other, Source, the Universe. And with all that extra light, comes all the extra dark? Yin and Yang? Is that how it has to be? Or is there a chance for things to get better? More love in the world?

I believe there is – things have already got better if you go back over history. Slavery is abolished, and where it isn’t we need to work harder to combat it. And get out of our mental/debt slavery lifestyles too. As hard as it is, we now know about all the wars, and hear the brutality of various regimes around the world. This was all happening before TV but we just didn’t know about it. The first was to be broadcast into people’s living rooms - The Vietnam War - was the first to be so widely opposed in the '60s. Seeing the brutality endlessly may desensitise some, but many it’s making more compassionate? Anyone who feels deeply, with their heart, knows it’s not right to kill and maim in the name of war, by orders of the State. For what kind of justice? What did Harry Patch say, the last Tommy from the First World War? War is just legalised murder (and he refused to shake Tony Bliar’s). Good on yer Harry. 

So, slowly, maybe things are getting better. And where they’re not, the truth is coming to light to be looked at, as awful as it is. The cracks are appearing in the establishment – big time (didn’t I say they would?). The child abusing entertainers, allowed to get away with horrible abuses of children FFS!,  leading to the bigger name politicians that many of us have heard already that they’ve been up to despicable things.

At last, the establishment is being shown up for what it is: proper dark and nasty. The war-mongerers are being shown up for what they are. Do you trust who ISIS are? Never heard of them until now. America/NATO/UK/NWO stoking up the threat from them, entirely to go to war again, and now sanctioning Israel’s war on Palestine, complicit in their silence. Headlines from Gaza are getting worse, very quickly, as long as you don’t want the BBC. From http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/thousands-flee-gaza-israel-bombing

To the kids killed on the beach playing football today. NO MORE WAR!

Earlier this week this in the Ukraine:

 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/13/ukrainian-shell-russian-border-town-donetsk

 Today a plane is supposedly shot down, on the border… What’s the real story?

You could almost believe it’s an offensive on all fronts from the US and UK, in terms of who made and sold the weapons, who’s armies are in there, who trained the armies – a final crusade seemingly on all Muslims. WTF?! Really?

Let’s face it, isn’t Al Qaeda is made up by the CIA to seem as if there is an enemy? Or actual enemies trained up by the USA? It all plays into their hands cos they make money out of war. Arms deals, arms fairs, they’re not hidden events. My other half had the pleasure of going to one as a techie, and his jaw was on the floor most of the time overhearing the billion dollar deals being done in the name of killing people. SO WRONG.

Did 9/11 really happen the way we've been told, for example? Not according to a total of 2,214 architects and engineers, plus 19,285 other people who are questioning it. That's a lot who are suspicious of the whole thing, its motives, what it has led to, who benefits. War in Iraq, Afganistan. Bush and Blair = war criminals! We’re not stupid. We now see Blair, Cheney, the old war hawks pushing for fights again as they did with Iraq. Which was horrific. And did not work. And we who oppose all war did not stop seeing it for what it is – monetised murder. We are not fooled.

But, argh, they’re doing it anyway. How do we pull the bastards down?

How to pull away from that and make the change? Taking a long time this being the change, as lovely as it is. Or have we reached tipping point, and now the house of cards is all going to come tumbling down? I fucking hope so.

Signs are pointing that way: http://collectivelyconscious.net/articles/5-big-signs-the-global-engine-of-deceit-lies-and-control-are-coming-to-end/

I love that the child abuse scandal is coming out, albeit far too slowly if you’ve know about it for ages because you read alternative media. Can it topple the heineous power structure?

  

The the tip of the ice-burg of the child abuse scandal erupting to show the world just HOW corrupt and EVIL many in the GOVERNMENTS (plural) are. Hopefully, this is the start of the earthquake to create the seismic shift in our cultural views about the way we live, seeing the unfairness, corruption and hate, and making something different out of the ashes.

It’s not just a matter of hoping and wishing for a better world. People ARE on the streets. The 10,000 marching against more war in Gaza on Friday. More to come this Saturday. Another 10,000 union members and sympathisers marched on Thursday 12^th July at the biggest general strike since the 1970s. Before that, 50,000 people marching against the government at The People's Assembly, all against this ideology of austerity, which is just about keeping the poor man down and grabbing the last of the dosh for themselves. (With the BBC not reporting the marches, we're seeing the organisation to be, at least in its news agenda, the mouthpiece of the State and at the moment, showing us a very biased view of what’s going on in this country, let alone around the world. Is there a propaganda agenda?)

Ultimately, history has pushed us to a point where many of us have had enough. We want to see  compassion. Well, not all of us, some people don’t give a shit about others, are ruthless, bigoted, unkind, twisted (what a shame they’ve been the ones ruling us for so long). Surely, even the racists just want to be loved! Isn’t there some amazing way we can love bomb them?

People on the street generally just want to be treated fairly, they want peace, and simply to get along with each other, around the world. We are all one humanity, do we want to be violent, torturous, murderous or take a different path? War is about making money in a very dark way. It is orchestrated most of the time by those who deal the arms. Our governments are behind it all. With our taxes. And money from selling weapons to regimes ready for a fight. It’s all so so, very very wrong, and needs to stop. 

Do everything you can. 

Sign the Avaaz petition to write to the banks, pension funds and other investors saying: 

To the CEOs of ABP, HP, Veolia, Barclays, Caterpillar, and G4S:

In the wake of the terrible war unfolding in Israel-Palestine, we, citizens from around the world, are deeply concerned about your companies’ continued investment in Israeli companies and projects that are complicit in the occupation and repression of the Palestinian people. Over a dozen EU countries recently issued warnings to their citizens against doing business or investing in illegal Israeli settlements. Given those legal considerations, you now have the opportunity to withdraw investments and abide by international law. This is a chance to be on the right side of history.

Publicise and try to get to the Stop The War march this Saturday, in London and around the UK. 

Put the pressure on to stop this war, on all fronts, once and for all! 

Food Banks - Killing us softly with their love?

The other night I couldn't sleep, I decided to try watching some telly. After flicking through, I got bored and stopped, on a re-run of Channel 4's The Worlds Best Diet. This goes through 50 world diets from worse to best, at number 50 - The Marshall Islands. 

The Marshall Islands look like Paradise. So you expect to find a diet of local natural food and spices, but local food is too costly and poverty levels are high. These people are forced to rely on cheap imports. I personally would have put the USA in last position, as the majority of countries near the top 50 are there because of crappy American imports and junk food.

People in the Marshall Islands are some of the most obese throughout the planet and have the world's highest death rates and huge amounts of amputations from diabetes. You can find out more about their diet and diabetes here http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072508p24.shtml

The Marsall Islands diet looks like this 

Now I know you might be thinking: what's this got to do with food banks? Well, the thing that first struck me when they ran through the diet, bit by bit, was that this was the same diet for poor people worldwide. The typical Marshall Island diet is tinned veg, tinned meat, white rice and cheap cuts of meat (Turkey Tails - wonder how long till we get them). This was exactly what you get at food banks, minus the delicious turkey arses and any fresh meat (though food banks tend to give pasta out as well). Food banks may fend off starvation, short-term, but long-term they are killing us? 

 "Some of the world’s lowest rates of diabetes occur in areas where white rice is a staple food. In populations where white rice is consumed with vegetables, tofu, and/or beans and the intake of processed foods is minimized, diabetes rates are remarkably low. On the other hand, where white rice is consumed with canned or fatty meat, salty snacks, sweet beverages, and other heavily processed foods, diabetes rates are consistently high."

                                                                                                    http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072508p24.shtml

I can't be the only one who finds it mind-boggling that it is cheaper to pluck food from the ground, drive it around for miles, process it into some crap, vaguely resembling food, package it in something poisonous, and then drive and/or fly it some more to a shop to sit on a shelf, compared to just harvesting it and driving it to a store or local market.

I know food banks are lifelines, and they are ran by caring individuals, but we really need to take a look inside a food banks bags and see what we can do to change the contents for the better. How can we get fresh perishable items to the needy and often sick? I fully understand why they can't collect these items for distribution before they go off, so what practical steps can we take to get fresh foods to food bank users plates?

I've had to rely on food banks. I am vegetarian and to be 100% honest, it is full of stuff I'd never feed my family if there was a choice, but there wasn't. We were desperate, and I am very keen to point out that food banks have saved numerous people from starvation, since the callous Tory cuts came in. There are strict rules about what they can and cannot put in the food bags, but I did notice they have a table for items they are not allowed to put in the bags, for you to take if you want. These items tend to be toiletries, pet food, out of date items. We should try and get as much fresh fruit and vegetables on that table as possible.

• Do you donate to foodbanks? Why not find out when yours is open and drop of fresh produce to the free-to-collect table?
• Do you grow your own? Again, why not drop some off on days it's open.
• Do you have time to create a community farm? Can you get a small group together and try and locate some land and help supply the needy in your area? The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens offers advice on all aspects of community-managed city farming and community gardening  https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/farms-gardens/getting-involved/starting-a-new-group
• Are you a gardener? Could you teach people how to grow their own, maybe you could print some leaflets and ask your local food bank to hand them out or hold classes.
• Buy seasonal heritage seeds for the table or cuttings to encourage home growing.
• When donating food consider honey, seeds, nuts, beans, pulses, etc that have excellent nutritionally value as well as long shelf lives.
• Get involved help out at your local foodbanks and try to tackle these nutritional issues.

Grow Your Own - while you still can!

How is it that growing your own food is almost a subversive act?

I recently read this great quote on Sutton Community Farm facebook page, taken from This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin Folks:

"The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard."

Yet I’ve recently read a few articles about people in the US growing food on their front lawns, for example, and having it bulldozered by State officials. Here are a just a couple of ‘gone too far now’ stories from www.collective-evolution.com:

• In Oak Park, Michigan, officials have charged a woman with growing a “vegetable garden in front yard space.” If convicted, she could spend up to 93 days in jail. 
•  For 17 years, a couple used their front yard to grow food for their own personal consumption. But in May 2013, Miami Shores Village, Florida amended its ordinance to make clear that front yard vegetable gardens were prohibited. 
•  Earlier this year, city inspectors bulldozed more than 100 types of plants, including garlic, chives, strawberry and apple mint, being grown by Denise Morrison in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The inspectors said her plants were too tall, but city code allows for plants over 12 inches if they’re meant for human consumption, which hers were. The woman is now suing the city for violating her civil rights.

Even more shocking, is the intimidation by State troopers at this alternative eco-community in Texas. Here, the community's very lifestyle is a threat to the State as they're living self-sufficiently and growing an abundance of food to share with many more people that live there.

When it’s practically illegal to grow your own food, in your own garden or community, then something really has gone wrong with society. How dare anyone stop others growing their own food. We should all be doing it, in window boxes, back yards and allotments all over the world, Then, at least some of our food hasn’t come from the supermarket shelves, but has been picked fresh from the garden minutes before eating – what energy and vitality everyone would be getting then, and so easily. We will all be healthier this way.

SIGN UP NOW to the brilliant-looking Grow Your Own Food Summit, running from 7th-14th July, full of expert interviews, advice and guidance on growing your own food. 

It’s not so hard to grow a few crops in an old recycling box on your front steps, even something as small scale as that could supplement your salads through the rest of the summer. This kind of veg growing box scheme is something the Transition Town Movement do to start people growing something small at home and seeing where it leads. Many Transition Towns also have their own community allotments or orchards, tended to by local volunteers. 

While researching more for this blog, I came across Worthing Garden Share, a great idea to share unused or under-used gardens, or bits of gardens, with keen would-be growers without anywhere to grow. The benefits are more than just having plenty of food to share with both grower and garden owner, suddenly new friendships are formed; those on their own, such as the elderly or ill have company; and yet more of the population becomes more self-sufficent. It’s the way forward.

As it says on their website:

'In World War Two, the nation was able to achieve yields of 40 tons per hectare from allotment and back garden vegetable production. If Worthing achieved this productivity again, it could keep its population of 100,000 in organic fruit and vegetables year round from only 456 hectares of the available 980 hectares of gardens! With a bit of sharing of land, skills, surplus produce, we could build resilience and food security, whatever happens to oil supplies and commercially-grown food prices. We would eat better than we do now, reconnect with the soil and seasons and get to know people in our neighbourhood. 

You don't even need compost and allotment space, you could just try this ingenious idea of growing some edible ground cover in your lawn! 

Seed swapping days, such as this one earlier in the year, are another regular event, which could also become more subversive if the EU plan to prevent people from exchanging seeds and growing heirloom varieties without being licensed, ever goes ahead. Thankfully there’s a big fight to stop it, sign the petition here, but keep following updates as we’re not out of the woods yet. And why not help plan your own seed swapping even next Spring, saving the seeds from your summer crops to swap with others and grow a more diverse selection of produce. 

And if you want to take your gardening to another level of militancy, check out the next blog on the Wave for Guerilla Gardening tips, coming very soon...