Sacred to Humankind

UNICEF, French president urge protection for children of war

"Those who harm these children are harming what is most sacred to humankind," Hollande said. "Killing and brutalizing children is negating civilization." The conference is also pushing for tougher prosecution of abusers, and protection for hospitals and schools targeted in war zones, such as in Syrian government airstrikes on Aleppo recently.

I agree with this and it is time perpetrators were brought to accountability.

Read more in link:
 https://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/4982896-unicef-french-president-urge-protection-children-w.html#.1258-stage-hero1-2

Siege Watch

You can download this report from this link - it is alarming the way warfare is now to entrap civilians and deprive them of their basic human rights to food and water.  This is appalling in 2017 that man has not evolved to sit round peace tables and work out issues in harmony and to put KIND in manKIND.. Time we grew and stop making a world of man made Turmoil.... We all have the right to peace and harmony. we all have the right to Maslow's heirarchy of needs... and we all have the right to dignity and in this respect all live and creation on this planet..  

So many crimes against humanity to be brought to the International Criminal Court.... Time for accountability..... and not be skirting round situations.... it is appalling that any "leader" of any country can order this... it is appalling and treacherous that any military commander can order this and see this through... without any regard for civilians to Article 51 of the Geneva Convention..... 

 https://siegewatch.org/reports/

a joint initiative of PAX and The Syria Institute. The Siege Watch project aims to provide the international community with up-to-date information on Syria’s besieged communities, where trapped civilians suffer in inhumane circumstances with little help from the outside world. Data is collected on an ongoing basis from an extensive network of reporting contacts on the ground and disseminated through in-depth quarterly reports, 

Oh Lordy Lordy the Brexit ......!!

PM Theresa May sat in the House of Lords by the Throne to listen to the debate on Brexit....and the trigger of Article 50... The Lords find this difficult as many have invested interests in Europe....with property and business.... As indeed many Brits do find this overall move very unsettling.

You can read more and watch the debate on the Telegraph link 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/20/theresa-may-set-attend-house-lords-article-50-debate-person/

Cameron did a runner from his post once this Brexit result was confirmed.  lol I doubt if he is made a Lord Cameron will be allowed in the Lords Chamber rather be put outside in the stocks with manky grapes thrown at him from the Lords vineyards in France and Italy... hhh

What with Brexit and Trump ... and Despots like Putin and Assad... this world is most certainly in a Turmoil..... a man made turmoil...... 

Impressed with Kind Souls

As part of vaccination campaign which conducted by Ministry of Health in coordination with UNICEF Türkiye and World Health Organization (WHO) and IMPR Humanitarian.

We take for granted the health care of our children in stable communities but what happens with the World in Turmoil and people displaced.  Thank goodness for the care of kind souls that make sure that health care continues and childhood illness prevented.  Thank you to UNICEF IMPR and WHO 

Message tonight on Parliament

Say No to Trump 

This is ahead of tomorrow debate on the state visit that Mrs May informally invited him too ... over 1.8 million signed a petition to say no to a state visit given the policies he is instigating.... and this now to our constitution has to be debated tomorrow.  It is said it will cost £10 million with policing and such... This is shameful when we have people on foodbanks in poverty... so a very touchy subject.... 

Global Justice Now has put the projection up on the Parliament building.....and feels that Mrs May decision was ill thought out given his policies are not British values....So we will see what is said in Parliament tomorrow as they return from recess.... 

Looking on the Parliament business for the day page it is scheduled for 4.30 pm in Westminster Hall... not the chamber... 

http://calendar.parliament.uk/calendar/Commons/All/2017/2/20/Daily

NHS Prognosis

http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/this_is_why_the_prognosis_is_now_critical_for_our_nhs_1_4896132?platform=hootsuite

A very good article in The European on the critical state of our NHS.....The diagnosis based in my view of years of exposure to costly re-organisations. Re-organisations the result of being a political football with managers unable to long term plan because goal posts kept changing. Then cutbacks as you will see in the graph in the early 1990s and that is cutbacks on already underfunded budgets......... so putting extra money in simply only partially fills the hole.  A very complex situation on life expectations, demands made for treatments... the cost of drugs and therapies grossly inflated over the years.. yet reluctance to incorporate a more holistic way of caring.  Some wards and specialties have opened their wards and clinics to complementary practitioners and seen the value of reiki and aromatherapy and acupuncturist.. even as far back as the late 1980s therapeutic massage was seen as a value for cardiac patients.... There needs to be an investment of time for the patients with a more inter connected multi disciplinary approach...... this time will empower and help with well being and healing in many cases......

One thing for sure with my life being completely around the NHS from my father being a Charge Nurse and my career as a SEN RN RM BSc Nursing I have never ever seen the NHS so stress out.. There is no logic in cutbacks and closures of hospitals when the population is growing.  Each paying tax some how into the system.   Every person that puts a foot down on British soil starts to pay tax in VAT on goods and with all purchases and need for shelter and food and clothing.   The tax covers the cost of wages in the NHS and those wages are taxed so it all circulates back to the treasury and back out again -  so what is happening to all that money??? 

We do need to look at grossly inflated prices of goods and no matter how companies say "we put back into research" - one has to challenge when drugs are inflated to 300% real cost in some instances.  

We need more bed capacity and convalescence wards with improved community care...... to prevent the carousel patients coming round and round again with relapses simply because time was not invested in recovery and healing in the first place...

But my experience as a surgical patient with gross wound breakdown resulted in my readmission for septic shock ... and actually I did feel myself dying ... but as soon as I responded to the IV antiboitics the Grim reaper at the bottom of the bed turned into the Bed manager after my bed.. lol... 

I was discharged too early really but nursed myself at home with the help of the GP nurse down the road in the surgery and her weekend cover of a community nurse... A lovely old fashioned about to retire from nursing that said "if we cannot look after our own nurses where are we going with all this NHS....?!" 

She did a typical community nurse work planning on the Sunday morning of that week.. Knocked at my door to say go have a shower Marjorie and open your dressing pack ... I am off round to a patient in the next street then will be back to pack your wounds and do your dressing.... !

But I had most of the time to pack my own wounds and do my dressings... something that Mrs J Bloggs could not have done.  Even me the nurse laying in bed had to buck up courage to stand in front of the mirror and pack deep cavernous wounds... but when I opened the dressing pack the nurse in me would kick into play and I would sort my dressings out... then I had to go on Vac therapy to help stimulate granulation of new tissue to fill the cavernous wounds.... this was a good therapy but i was constantly reminded of the cost of it ....!! I had to remind the staff haggling over whose budget it should go on that over my years working I had paid in tax and NI contribution to cover the cost... and it was not right to have me laid with gaping wounds in pain and with the smell of necrotic tissue to be haggling over the £$£$£$£$ of my treatment.  A treatment that actually was cost effective and reduced the healing time... 

So complex is this subject of the NHS and cares.....I could go on an on... lol 

But readers if you can get a copy of Michael Wynne's WHO CARES play you will see more of Marjorie and her voice on the NHS. I was one of the interviewees that he used in his dialogue on the NHS of Who Cares... 

Eddie Izzard Article

Eddie Izzard has written a good thought provoking article in The New Europe - he has entitled it Hate is easy. beguiling and powerful ....but we can defeat it

My immediate reaction to this is yes with the stronger energy of Love which is easy and beguiling and much more powerful..... Love can be the remover barriers and with love there are no barriers..... it is only man that erects the walls and creates all this hate in the world..... Hate is from lack of understanding it is the Khali, the blood dripping skull wearing goddess seen in Hindusim.. representing the ugliness of man created hate evil and results in death and destruction.  In the festival of Navarati  the 9 day festival  there is a 3 day period of Khali to see the ignorance of man and the power of evil, then there are the 3 days for Saraswati the Goddess of knowledge that dispels the ignorance.. leading to the 3 days looking at Lakshmi the Goddess of wealth - often seen as many has Earth wealth of money but is the spiritual wealth that knowledge brings and brings you closer to Gods love energy and oneness with this power.  

So the topic has been questioned and explored through eons of time.. as we seem to make the same mistake over and over again... not disciplining ego that creates hate and the distorted deluded destructive power it brings with it. The energy it brings with it is heavy sticky tenacious toxic and destructive.... and is fear driven..... fear of oneself of self being lost to love of others thus eroding the delusion of self power over others, hate is driven by fear of others and paranoia. It is toxic to self as indeed others it affects... it can be the root not only of evil horrors but self illness... as holding on to hate erodes the owner of his or her very being.  So maybe not a beguiling as one would think... 

Hate does have a fascination to many as it is the dark side of oxytocin the 9 chain amino acid that is commonly the love hormone that gives us the feeling of well being and euphoric high..... Some can find this euphoria in hate and violence as a perceived delusion of a power over another.  

So it is complex.... 

But lets look more at Eddies article he opens with a stark warning... and something a real projection that if we do not stop and think we in our lust for power and hate and suspicion of one another we could lose the lot. We have the tools for the ultimate destruction of one another and this wonderful planet. Tools not to be played with in heated exchange when a calm peace table of discussion would be the better option!! 

I think we could be in our last century on Earth. Keep on the way we’re going and we’re going to wipe ourselves off the planet. We’ve had the tools to do it for a while. We invented dynamite in 1860, the hydrogen bomb in 1950, and who knows what the hell we’ve invented by now.

He challenges our present day hates from Brexit and Trump and all the division this is causing. But in this extract indicates that the US and Europe is the hope when in fact the people are simply wanting a safe conflict free place to be... Back in their homeland they want peace to be able to live their lives together. The US and Europe have not been the only place to escape too.. Some have traveled East and some South... anywhere where they have an open door and welcomed to safety.  The irony is Morocco has opened its doors since the beginning of the Syrian war.. as indeed they did for the Jews in WW2 yet we have seen many Moroccans riding on the backs of refugees in that trek across Europe fleeing poverty.  A poverty their King is trying to address...and opened up the parliament to be more democratic.  There have been some great initiatives such as mega investment in solar power.  

 Instead we listen to false facts, untruths and downright lies which make us pull away from our fellow human beings. We turn our backs to the desperate who once saw us as a shining example of hope and fairness. We build walls and issue travel bans to keep out the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

This extract below is very powerful challenging how we have become so hate driven.  There is a valid point of those that troll in the social media.  In fact I have been suggesting we have a psychology course on Trollogy as there is a very strange insight into someones thinking and inner perspective... A warped delusion of hate to another of needed to ruffle feathers were those feathers are peace driven and full of love.  There is yes almost a repetition over and over and over again of Christ on the Cross... the amazing example of love care compassion and healing yet we ego filled humans of the time ridiculed and tortured and hammered on a cross.... a cross that if you look at its from says cross out the I the ego the I-ism that creates pain and hate and evil in the world. But the love shone through and changed so many lives for the better. 

 How did we get here? Because hating is easier than loving. Hate is a weapon and in politics it seems more powerful than love. Hate is beguiling. You can hate on your own, like drinking on your own. You can sit at your laptop in your bedroom looking for someone to hate and you can find them and troll them and abuse them without even leaving your bedroom.

Some of this emotion has always been with us. Some of it started in 2008, when there was a financial crisis caused by very greedy people who made tons of money through the sub-prime market and they didn’t give a damn about anyone else. That collapse hurt the poorest people, the ones who are now being called ‘the forgotten’. The UK government decided they would try to fix it with austerity, and guess who lost out again? The poorest people, the forgotten.

This paragraph on the financial crisis a mega example of greed the lust for greed at the expense of another.  How this backfired on all and created the turmoil we are seeing....  We all need financial dignity in this world that barters in £$££$£$ not just free spirit of love and care and compassion.  Even care is wrapped in £$£$£$£ ...... our beloved NHS free at the point of delivery of care is the subject of arguments over £$££$£$£  

As I have traveled over this period of time in Morocco, Turkey and Greece and seen in our capital of London  We see people just desperate to live in dignity. Trying their best to earn a living be that in professional jobs and be able to meet the cost of living or the man pulling the donkey drawn cart full of fruit in his daily trek to the local souk (market). I have seen the deepening widening division of the rich and the poor.  A recipe for disaster and been seen time over time before as a recipe for revolution and pain... and still we have not learnt to have a more fair distribution of wealth and with that the financial dignity we all have the right to have.  It is so frustrating seeing traders with wonderful products but people not buying .  They want to buy but do not have the funds to buy... either dropping more and more into poverty with no money free to buy, or maxed out on the Goddess Visa illusionary money... and some do have money but are holding back at the turmoil now is so great with so much uncertainty in the world that they hold back on spending.   

The echos of the 1930s are being heard with all the growth in the far right attitudes that is so ego driven to be protectionist to their perceived values.. they blame others for the being and then wish to destroy or inhibit others... when the situation is more complex and needs us to STOP AND THINK 
we need a fairer way for one another, no poverty no wars and no conflicts. 

The one stabilizing factor put in place by wise politicians is the Welfare state to help those in need of an helping hand to improve life when times are hard.  It is a very foolish politician to destroy this welfare state till we find a more fairer distribution of wealth and learn to care for one another and share with one another as a Global Family 

To stop that happening we need to stop separating from the world and to start working together in the world. We need to stop going backwards and start looking forwards.

Yes this is so true of Eddie to say... so come on lets get it together....