Increasingly, it’s not only government that treats people with contempt but business as well. This is a sure sign of corruption at least at a psychological level, given that the priorities of business are increasingly purely profit motivated rather than service motivated with the expectation of reasonable profit in mind. That means they have the cart well before the horse. News organizations, telcos, power companies, fuel companies and game companies and even food companies are treating the average consumer as if they don’t matter.

No doubt we all experience these things and it can be difficult to gauge exactly how widespread the problem is but the frequency of our own experience can tell us a lot so I’ll give you a brief rundown on my own recent experiences.

My Telstra mobile stopped working last week and I soon found that my neighbour’s had stopped working too. After a day or so out, I did their search for outages in my area and according to that, there were none. I couldn’t call them so I was left with the online option, which is a chatbot that can lead to a real person but it wasn’t easy to find or use. After at least an hour of fiddling around I got onto a real person and they told me there were no outages in my area. After at least an hour on the chat, I convinced them that it wasn’t a problem with my phone. Another three hours later, after numerous reports back from me about what was happening on my end, they got it working. Yes, there was a fault with the Adaminaby tower. So, I expressed my disappointment that their own lack of knowledge about the state of their own equipment had cost me five hours of my time and at least several days without service. They offered me a $30 recharge, which I refused. I made a complaint and after more time on the phone this lovely foreign lady, to the music of her cock crowing in the background no doubt somewhere in the Philippines, refused to give me 6 months of recharge worth $150.

I went to the Telecommunications Ombudsman website and spent half an hour filing a complaint only to have it lost due to a system error. Yes, always draft your text in a word file that you copy into the form! Two days later they wanted more information when they already had said information and would close the case if I did not respond.

So yes, Telstra wants us to do their work for them at a rate of around $5 per hour with no compensation for the actual unplanned outage.

News organizations next. I won’t say anything about the pretentious woke service the ABC offer now, wasting their listeners’ time with their self-promoting ads and outright lies about vaccines and the like. I won’t talk about their ignorance of the really interesting news, their virtual illiteracy and the frequent technical glitches and time off air. The real news of the moment is that Fox News allegedly sacked Tucker Carlson because Pfizer didn’t like what he was saying. Need I say more? We’re having our news controlled by pharmaceutical companies some of whom have lied to the public over the safety of vaccines and deleted people from clinical trials if they had any bad reactions to them?

While misinformation is being spread by our traditional news outlets, the government is pouring a couple of million a year into funding their online anti-misinformation and disinformation office but you can be sure they won’t be policing the legacy media.

With all the problems hanging around our necks, it’s no wonder that some of us want to chill out a bit and get into a bit of game playing online. Personally, I push back the cloud by motor racing online in multiplayer mode. For years there was only really Gran Tourismo, which had some really strange handling characteristics and still does but then along came things like Forza and Grid, which had much improved handling dynamics or physics.

Grid was a great — a revolution in simulated driving but then Electronic Arts bought out Code Masters who made Grid and the new game was so buggy and annoying that it was barely playable. They deleted the race leader boards so no one knew who the top dogs were anymore, they introduced a totally stupid penalty system and a system of upgrading the power on the cars that took weeks to go through. Then, even when you had upgrades, if the pathetic servers dumped you out of the race, which they very often did, you came back in with a car that was no longer upgraded so that you had no chance at all of winning! Also, the game often lies to people about what happens on the racetrack, crashing you into someone on their screen when nothing like that happened on yours. It looks like these people are deliberately trying to annoy the people who play their games and promotes distrust between people, if not drive them crazy. Trouble is, there’s no other racing game with decent handling dynamics so despite all that, the enthusiast wants to keep playing it.

On top of that, the much vaunted long awaited Playstation 5 had hardly any new games to take advantage of the supposedly revolutionary new technology and it was unreliable. The controller batteries were weak and the directional controls prone to sudden stalls or errors, at least with Grid. The main unit seemed reliable but then after a couple of years, the blue ray drive failed on mine and reputedly they’re integral with the mother board and can’t be replaced! Who would do that? Apparently this is a common problem and Sony realizes they’ve tripped up on this because it’s said that the new Pro version will have a plug in external blue ray drive. But really, were they thinking of the consumer when they built a machine with a critical component that couldn’t practically be replaced?

The list goes on, as you all know, and what I’ve talked about today are probably the least of our worries but I just wanted to point out the worrying trend that industry, business and even small businesses like restaurants and cafes seem to be forgetting they owe their existence and wealth to their customers. They need to relearn the old adage that ‘the customer is always right’.

Just to finish on, when I was living on the south coast, someone bought the local pizza shop, which had been good, and soon the pizzas deteriorated. The cheese didn’t taste right and if there’s one thing you need to get right on pizza’s it’s the cheese. I talked to the owner and they admitted that they were using a mozzarella cheddar blend. I asked them to go back to pure mozzarella and they got really shirty. They told me that they knew what people liked and would not change. They didn’t and within three months, they had gone broke.

Similar thing happened recently with a local Thai restaurant and a Vietnamese cafe who were clearly not interested in the opinion or the health of their customers. They might not go broke but they certainly have lost business. It’s all usually pretty obvious but somehow people get hung up on their own take on things.

AUSSIE BUDGET 2023
I’ve just had a look through the federal government’s second budget and I’ve got to say that I don’t like what I see. It’s designed to look like a responsible budget but it does less to help people than it projects and it’s terribly lacking in imagination.

I mean, I can’t read through the whole thing but I did look carefully through the full budget document — not just the summary — all the bits that looked interesting to me.

This is not leadership. It’s more like a process of assisted dying — eking out a slow death and you can see the dead hand of bureaucracy in it everywhere.

With their energy solutions, it seems like they’re giving low interest loans out to people to improve their energy efficiency in their homes but who is really going to take on more debt at this time, even if it is low interest or no interest?

With the NDIS, that bloated carcass of bureaucrats, the NDIA, get $732.9 million or so more over four years when they’re already doing a terrible job — mostly just trying to find any excuse they can not to allow recipients to spend the money they have been allocated. Labor’s always saying that the Liberals just say no all the time but Labor seems to be rewarding an organization that loves to say no to the people they’re supposed to be there to help. Seems Labor’s also found $13 million to police the NDIS system to ensure the public isn’t being ripped off but it’s not the public who are being ripped off. It’s the recipients, who even when no services are available to them and they make reasonable requests for equipment as an alternative to services, these reasonable requests are refused time and time again.

With electric cars, they’re taking away the fringe benefits tax exemption for plug-in hybrids, which seems like a counter-productive move given their stated priorities.

Around $150 million to improve life for Aboriginal people in central Australia looks good on the face of it but the $365 million required for a referendum on giving them this Voice in Parliament is a huge waste. If ordinary non-Aboriginal men and women really had any sort of voice in our parliament then it might be of use but if we’re not consulted about things like increasing the pension age and whether we go to war or fund wars, or not, how could anyone think that this Voice for Aboriginals will really do them any good? Damn but it’s really just more big government.

The energy price relief plan looks good for eligible households but the government has not made it clear if this maximum $500 a year is in addition to rebates welfare recipients receive already or if it includes what they get already. Also, I’d like to know why the Australian Energy Regulator gets over $3 million a year to monitor coal and gas markets? I mean, isn’t that part of their job anyway? Even if it wasn’t, surely it wouldn’t take more than one bureaucrat to keep a daily tab of what prices were for coal and gas on one simple lap top costing no more than $1000? It would probably take him or her a couple of hours a day at best! Just how do these bureaucrats do things?

Funding to cap electricity coal at $125 per tonne could help to keep power prices down but I can’t really see why the funding amount should be kept secret. They cite commercial sensitivities but really the only people who don’t know what’s going on here are the public.

I applaud the $326.7 million going to support front line services for vulnerable women’s safety and the $194 million going to Aboriginal women’s safety. Thank god our government does, to some extent, have a heart.

As for the near $190 million we are giving Ukraine to help it fight its war, plus quite a bit more for Defence Force deployment, this is an absurd and atrocious waste of our resources. Many commentators are now recognizing that Russia could not tolerate Ukraine being part of NATO. It would have been like Mexico welcoming in military assistance and bases from China on the US border. The US would not have tolerated that. Moreover, the US had Ukraine littered with questionable bio-weapons labs. What responsible leader would not have done all it could to counter such an appalling risk? Meanwhile, as the war labours on, thousands more soldiers on both sides are killed. Why should we help to perpetuate it? Again, Albo, if you wanted to help Ukraine, you should have at least run a substantial poll of what Australians thought.

The same goes for the nuclear subs. It’s a huge outlay — reputedly up to $368 billion over 25 years or more than 10 billion a year for half a dozen or so subs that will be the first to be blown out of the water in any true conflict situation. Just toys for the Navy boys. A fleet of 368 high powered, missile armed patrol boats would serve the protection of our huge coastline far more effectively and would probably come in at a lot less than $368 billion. It would provide a lot more employment for sailors, also.

The long-term dental funding reform package seems to be just a stop-gap after decades of irresponsibility that is simply not cost effective. It’s well documented that bad teeth lead to other illnesses including heart conditions that cost the community far more than a decent dental package would cost.

With the Arts, the policy is truly just servicing the dead. All that Labour is doing is providing a few dollars to keep the jewellery polished (sustainability payments) but there’s nothing for creators of new work. There’s no recognition of the deep funk our people are in after their abuse by government during the pandemic. Nor is there any recognition of the value of the creative genius of this nation that could lift them out of it. Yes, there is $199 million for the creation of four new administrative bodies in the Arts. Great, more bureaucrats for the arts.

It seems that our Labour government can allocate nearly $8 million ($2 million a year over 4 years) in a vain attempt to combat misinformation online while giving nothing to the creative paragons whose life’s work it is to generate positive and valuable information. Just who do they think they are? The arbiters of what is true or not? When government thinks it’s the best one to do that, you’ve got real trouble — Big Government with a Big Daddy complex. It is not the role of government to be the arbiters of what is acceptable information. That is the job of each and every one of us — the job of the individual to decide for himself or herself what is true or right or not.

Parenting payment being extended to single mothers of children under the age of 14 (up from 8) is a good idea. These children only have one parent and they need them around.

A national autism strategy is also a good idea but can they really achieve anything with less than $7 million a year?

Overall, piss poor but, dammit, I can’t imagine the other side of our Bolshevik Uniparty system would have done any better.

The Essentially Bolshevik Nature of Our Current System of Politics

People speak with great freedom today through social media and many talented creators express their voice with an increasingly complex and sophisticated array of technical tools but the fact is, few of these people are actually heard. The tools are there, the avenues are there and the willingness to contribute is there but many of the avenues are blocked, either openly or shadow blocked in a way that hides the speaker’s voice from any potential audience.

How could this be except if the political system was corrupt? Well, in fact the political system in western societies — particularly English speaking western societies is corrupt. Not just a little bit — not just through handing out a bit of bribe money now and then but deeply horribly corrupt right down to the core. Many people acknowledge this but continue along blithely with their ordinary lives just accepting the rotten deal handed out to them, like the proverbial frog in the cooking pot.

You might think this was acceptable if you had no children and felt you were alone in the world without family or friends. Yes, make a martyr of yourself and let the system walk all over you. But no! You are not alone. The fact is, you are either a part of life or a part of death and the mere fact of having no children does not put you into the latter camp.

Supporting the current corrupt ‘uniparty’ political system either through action or through ready compliance, is an act of barbarism that places you squarely in the camp of death because that system of politics is actually very close to the gross and appalling evil of Bolshevik Communism.

Why do I say that? How can ostensibly right wing parties like the Liberal Party in Australia, the Tory Party in Britain and the Republican Party in the USA be Bolsheviks? Certainly the ostensibly left wing ones like the Democrats in the USA are Bolshevik as well but the point is that this whole right wing left wing thing in modern Western style political systems is a sham. The major parties really are all just as bad as each other. Look to it little frog because before you know it they will be chomping away on your leg.

Until I read Robin Bruce Lockhart’s astonishing book, ‘Reilly Ace of Spies’, and became interested in Russian history and culture, I had little idea about how terrible Bolshevism was or even what the word meant. It was just some obscure Russian word that indicated some sort of extremist communism but the truth is in fact far more interesting and pertinent to our modern day life.

The term came about because of Vladimir Lenin’s involvement in the Russian Communist Party and because of his extreme and negative beliefs about political action and the rights of people.

According to Wikipedia, Vladimir as a child was inclined to enjoy bossing his younger sister Olga around and could be quite destructive around the house. Later, as a key member of the Russian communist party RSDLP, he advocated that ordinary party members should not be allowed to express themselves independent of the leadership. In other words, while driving people to fight a bloody, terrible war that was supposedly for the liberation of the people, he did not believe in allowing the people a voice, which made him not only a bloody mass murderer but a hypocrite as well.

In this he was opposed by Martov, who advocated the opposite, that party members should be allowed to express themselves. The majority of these revolutionaries supported Lenin and the name Bolshevik was coined because it meant the majority. Martov’s group were called Menshiviks because they were in the minority and that name meant the minority.

The above draws on material in my book ‘A Return to Empire’, written under the pen name Martel the Hammer, if your appetite has been whetted on this subject.

So much for the majority vote or opinion being of any worth. So often the majority rules, not because of reason or justice or fairness but because hidden power mongers rule the roost unfairly and unjustly.

So, do you think it’s any different now? Think on how many millions were compelled against any accepted charter or standard of human rights to be jabbed with the dangerous and poorly tested Covid vaccine. Think of how many of them suffered injuries and or death from that vaccine. Think of how our food is adulterated completely unnecessarily with thousands of dangerous pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, seed oils, emulsifiers, flavourings, colourings, fillers and stabilisers. Think of how our education system has been subverted to create a subservient slave race. Think about how our grandparents could pay off a home in five years when many of us now will not pay off our homes in a lifetime. Think about how we never get to vote on whether or not our country goes to war.

I could raise many more issues but it seems just at this time to point out that this western political system was recently involved in trying to force Dutch farmers off their land to satisfy some sort of useless environmental protocol when the food they produce is amongst the best and least adulterated food in the world. Why would the (previous) Dutch government undermine such a meritorious industry? Is it possible that the Globalist Cabal decided the food was just too good and made producers in other countries look bad? When so much of the western farming has been taken over by the mega rich and by multi-national corporations and its practises are GMO and chemical heavy, maybe it is plausible that the Dutch farmers were a tempting target. It’s truly disgusting but thank god, the Dutch farmers did not just sit back and take it. They formed a new political party and against all odds won the election. Now they are in the process of taking power.

These challenges to good, productive, responsible people happen because our political systems are in fact run by uniparties that, like Vladimir Lenin, do not wish the individual to have a voice. In that respect and in many others, they are in fact Bolsheviks.

Even the individuals elected to represent you rarely get to have a voice in our political system. Most of the sitting members of these parties never say a word in parliament or ask a question unless it is approved by the party. I don’t know about other countries but in Australia we have parliamentary officers called ‘Whips’, whose job it is to keep the members in line and ensure that they perform as required. The very name is disrespectful to individuality.

 

According to Wikipedia:

 

A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party, rather than according to their own individual ideology or the will of their donors or constituents. Whips are the party's "enforcers". They try to ensure that their fellow political party legislators attend voting sessions and vote according to their party's official policy. Members who vote against party policy may "lose the whip", being effectively expelled from the party.

 

So, inarguably, given the policies political parties have pushed on the public in recent times and given the blatant disregard they have for individuality, free speech and personal honour and integrity, they are Bolshevik. Yes, our political system if not already Bolshevik was always ripe and ready for takeover by Bolshevik elements. Well, now it has been and you, my friend, are the frog in the pot just waiting to be served up on a platter or thrown out in the garbage as your political and industrial masters see fit. Please don’t let that happen. Your voice is important. Even if you do not have children or other family, you have brothers and sisters all around you. You are in fact a miracle of creation and together, our voices can create a genuinely free world, largely free of disease, starvation, pollution and degradation.

I recently read a great article by Joseph Mercola on the comedian Jimmy Dore, who had suffered terrible side effects from the Covid vaccine and found that Jimmy’s take on the uniparty system of politics was very much to the point. I’ve quoted just a little here:

 

“What’s happening is we’re run by psychopathic criminals and … people don’t realize that our government is not ‘regular’ corrupt ... But the corruption we’re now starting to see is far worse and more widespread than that. It’s been integrated into every part of the government, and every system used to run it.

“The whole thing is corrupt. The whole COVID policy was corrupt. The whole vaccine rollout 100 percent corrupt. Everything that happens in Congress happens because of grease from the oil of corruption. And if there isn’t corruption in there to grease the wheels, the mechanisms of government don’t run.

“That’s why we can send $100 billion to Ukraine because that’s $100 billion in corruption, while we don’t send $100 billion to the United States to end homelessness. $100 billion dollars could end homelessness three times in the United States, and they won’t send it to our own country because there’s nobody there to make a profit off it … Our legislators make a big profit off war.

“So, we have an endless death economy, and that’s all we can do. We will not invest in our own country. This is called an end of an empire. This is how all empires end, and we’re ending right now …”

 

Well, that’s Jimmy Dore’s take but even now, I’m not sure I’m being heard. Subscribe Star allows me on their platform but the figures aren’t good on that site. For a long time, Substack wouldn’t even let me create a publication. Every time I logged onto my page and tried to write, a red message came up saying that I had too many publications. I didn’t even have one. Funny huh?

From Substack: 
(Edited) from Substack Trust and Safety here. I'm sorry to hear you're having difficulty. It looks like one of our platform safety mechanisms has temporarily blocked your ability to create a publication. 

Since then, after a couple of months of emails and negotiations, they have made a page for me and things seem to be going okay. Let’s wait and see!

 

Btw, my book links:

 

Scfi Fantasy 12 Part series  ‘The Dragon Wars’

 

In the Darkest Hour:                    https://books2read.com/u/4jgpl5

 

Dawn of the Shadow Circles:      https://books2read.com/u/m0EjqA

 

Thor’s Bane:                                 https://books2read.com/u/bzV0rn

 

At the Rising of the Star:              https://books2read.com/u/badPgP

 

Dragon Lore:                                 https://books2read.com/u/bQNx66

 

Fire in the Sky:                              https://books2read.com/u/4X0ZOv

 

Rise of the Luminari:                     https://books2read.com/u/bzKd1q

 

Valour in Arms:                             https://books2read.com/u/4NoxnY

 

Voyage of Dominion:                    https://books2read.com/u/bPNyWl

 

Centari Honour:                             https://books2read.com/u/47VYQj

 

Stellar Regia:                                  https://books2read.com/u/m0qv8P

 

Odin’s Genesis:                              https://books2read.com/u/mqeXZd

 

 

 

The Little River Rebellion  (six part scifi series)

 

 

The Wolf Pack:                              https://books2read.com/u/b6VVzZ

 

Valhalla Covenant:                        https://books2read.com/u/bW0J67

 

Sirens of the Dark:                         https://books2read.com/u/m0qX7M

 

Dark Revelations:                           https://books2read.com/u/m0qyqJ

 

The Profane Dominion:                 https://books2read.com/u/bpy58J

 

Phoenix Fire:                                  https://books2read.com/u/b6V1L6

 

 

Non-Fiction

 

Kill the Bull in Individual Identity                               https://books2read.com/u/4ENoz0

 

Kill the Bull in Social Identity                                      https://books2read.com/u/3JoXeX

 

Kill the Bull in Religion and Politics:                           https://books2read.com/u/mBVZZZ

 

Stealth Invasion. Vaccination: Mark of the Beast?       https://books2read.com/u/m2QZGk

 

A Return to Empire:                                                      https://books2read.com/u/bPNxP7

Martel the Hammer

I write here in SubscribeStar because however little it might be, I know that we all need to do something to keep the bastards at bay but my true passion for a long time now has been writing books. I do that under the pen name Martel the Hammer and publish with Draft2Digital. Whatever you think of my political views as expressed in these internet pieces, I hope you will buy and read my books.

Yes, Martel the Hammer is an unusual name — someone who led the better part of Europe over a thousand years ago and defeated a Moslem invasion that threatened to swamp Europe — and I am proud to bring it forth into the public eye again today.

Today, we have new and even greater threats than Europe faced a millennium ago. They may be subtle and less well defined but they are in fact even more dangerous — for almost everyone.

I'm only a very small part of the rising movement against communist globalisation and the persistent erosion of individual rights but I do firmly believe that writing, both fiction and non-fiction, play a huge part in the mobilization of human effort towards any worthy goal.

My writing reflects the need for that and to that end seeks to reveal the fundamental need to blend passion with effort.

Like everyone, I have my passions but perhaps unlike many I’ve had to learn the hard way how to reveal and express them.

On my mother’s side, my influences were relatively normal and unrepressed, although she had lost her father, who had served at Gallipoli and The Somme, at the age of ten and her mother went through a long period of mourning.

On my father’s side, perhaps because of his family’s deep involvement in the Masonic Lodge, there was a lot more repression and he was reared to operate under the misguided principle that emotions were better off avoided.

I’m talking about this because I have come to believe that emotions are far more important than most of us realize. I believe my writing has matured and lit up over the considerable time during which this realization progressed from idea to integrated emotion-intellect reality.

While I was emotionally repressed as a young man, as most of my contemporaries would testify to, I was appreciative of the things that should have lit up my emotions and wanted to understand them better. This led me into a life of logic and profound intellectual exploration and this in turn led me to finding out how to switch my emotions back on.

I was lucky to grow up and live in Australia. I believe it gave me a head start in this return to something like wholeness. It’s a big country in more ways than one. It offers a lot in terms of sensual engagement with nature. Temperate weather perhaps allows more in the way of outdoors activity but it’s more than that. Despite a lot of clearing and degradation, there’s still vast tracts of untouched country begging to be explored and while much of it is flat, nondescript and dreary, it hides many small places and sometimes quite large places of incredible beauty.

More than most, I did explore, especially as a young man, and felt a powerful draw from the land. If the wind was up on a cold night, I’d be out for a walk to stimulate the senses rather than hugging the fire. Wind, sky, waves moon, stars, waterfalls, cliffs. All of these things had a strong draw for me — largely perhaps because I was emotionally repressed. Maybe that’s why many men have explored and stronger harder men than me have explored further.

One of the ways that I engaged with nature as I became older and more experienced was to volunteer with the ocean rescue service in New South Wales. Over a seven year period, I took part in ocean rescue missions both day and night in all sorts of conditions. Wales, dolphins, vast schools of tuna, seals and birds. Storms and calms. Happy people and dead people.

It was challenging but gave me a sense of belonging that I had somehow missed before. Then a dispute with the woeful MRNSW hierarchy left me on the rocks and I was suddenly forced to face the gaping hole in my emotions that my stoic upbringing and other circumstances had given me.

It was a lengthy process of anger and suffering but in the end I found healing through learning the value of facing emotions instead of repressing them and through understanding their vital importance in life.

Logic and discipline enabled me to turn around pain into real emotion. The challenge of dealing with this corrupt and blindingly inefficient branch of the Australian bureaucracy, as a whole now such a big part of what is holding this country back, the death of my father and how poorly he was treated by a number of aspects of society in his very old age and the mad strategies of our politicians to deal with the spurious pandemic all shed light on what was missing in me until eventually much became clear.

When I read over my existing work, I became certain about one thing. Emotional expression was almost completely missing and it felt sterile — almost meaningless on that level. It became clearer and clearer to me that both intellect and emotion have a place and that they have to work together cooperatively to light up more and more of the bulbs of consciousness. They can and should work together, in essence to become a turbocharger for conscious awareness.

I had been hostage to the very common misconception that these two vital aspects of our consciousness compete with each other — that they are in a sense at war with each other. The more there was of one, the less there would be of the other. And of course, intellect had to win out because if you were too emotional, you were irrational, directionless and perhaps even dangerous.

The fact is, the less you can express yourself emotionally, the less depth of understanding you will generate with your intellect. And the less discipline you use with your intellect, the less you will perceive and understand your emotions. They’re not in competition at all — at least not in a healthy mind.

For me at this point, music — piano in this case — played a large part in my release, amongst a number of other things. I learned piano as a boy and perhaps reflecting where I was emotionally, only ever played from musical scores. I couldn’t remember music to play it without a score in front of me and I couldn’t improvise. Over the years, especially after I treated myself a quality new instrument, I began to improvise a little but it tended to be repetitive and not very melodic. My technical ability increased a lot but I still couldn’t improvise or in essence I suppose, compose. 

After the crisis I had with Marine Rescue, my father’s prolonged, difficult death and the difficult resolution of his estate, I felt I was on the edge of a precipice but I had also come to know the proper relationship between intellect and emotions and with every choice I was making, despite the pressure of all that was happening around me, I was slowly but surely digging myself free. Every challenge dealt with brought a sense of freedom and everything I felt and expressed became clearer. I was also beginning to improvise more and better on the piano.

I had inherited my father’s beloved old Bechstein grand, built in the 1840’s when Liszt or Chopin might have played it. Sometimes as a teenager I had under the influence of strong emotion improvised on it and now that it was mine, it inspired me to do the same again. It sits back to back now with my William Knabe grand, and between them they take up most of the space in my living room.

One piano is a round 170 years old and the other is nine and they have very different characters but this somehow seems to suit improvisation and I often move from one to the other spontaneously. As my emotions become more free and open, what I improvise on the pianos improves. When I write and edit, the right words seem to fall into place and the hidden meaning becomes clearer.

I know now that when people read books, they are at least as interested in what the characters feel as in what they think or do. Why? Because they wish to be inspired emotionally — because they want to be free to feel as much as they can of the astonishing array of human emotions that are possible.

Many people also need release and healing. This a good instinct — a positive drive but unfortunately, modern culture panders to it without the proper consideration by placing too much emphasis on emotions without any revealing intellectual understanding. It’s all out of balance.

Sure, we need to tune into our emotions more effectively and properly understand them but that’s not going to happen except on the most temporary basis when we watch shallow movies, listen to the low level pop-music of today and read the tawdry crap that the international corporate publishing industry produces.

The fact is, industry trades on our emotional repression and injuries. They feed on them like vampires and we have learned to go and watch a movie designed to pluck on our heartstrings for an hour or two at best when we’re feeling down.

There’s a lot more to the state of social control as I’ve discovered but no doubt you get the idea.

So, yes, I have got something to say and I hope that it will serve you when or if you read some of my published work. Preferably all of it, of course, LOL, but what else can you expect me to say?

 

To that end, you will find a list of book links below.

 (Narrow 0 is the number zero. Wide O is the letter.)

 

 

In the Darkest Hour:                    https://books2read.com/u/4jgpl5

 

Dawn of the Shadow Circles:      https://books2read.com/u/m0EjqA

 

Thor’s Bane:                                 https://books2read.com/u/bzV0rn

 

At the Rising of the Star:              https://books2read.com/u/badPgP

 

Dragon Lore:                                 https://books2read.com/u/bQNx66

 

Fire in the Sky:                              https://books2read.com/u/4X0ZOv

 

Rise of the Luminari:                     https://books2read.com/u/bzKd1q

 

Valour in Arms:                             https://books2read.com/u/4NoxnY

 

Voyage of Dominion:                    https://books2read.com/u/bPNyWl

 

Centari Honour:                             https://books2read.com/u/47VYQj

 

Stellar Regia:                                  https://books2read.com/u/m0qv8P

 

Odin’s Genesis:                              https://books2read.com/u/mqeXZd

 

 

The Wolf Pack:                              https://books2read.com/u/b6VVzZ

 

Valhalla Covenant:                        https://books2read.com/u/bW0J67

 

Sirens of the Dark:                         https://books2read.com/u/m0qX7M

 

Dark Revelations:                           https://books2read.com/u/m0qyqJ

 

The Profane Dominion:                 https://books2read.com/u/bpy58J

 

Phoenix Fire:                                  https://books2read.com/u/b6V1L6

 

 

 

Kill the Bull in Individual Identity                               https://books2read.com/u/4ENoz0

 

Kill the Bull in Social Identity                                      https://books2read.com/u/3JoXeX

 

Kill the Bull in Religion and Politics:                           https://books2read.com/u/mBVZZZ

 

Stealth Invasion. Vaccination: Mark of the Beast?       https://books2read.com/u/m2QZGk

 

A Return to Empire:                                                      https://books2read.com/u/bPNxP7

 

Has Our Society Even Corrupted Masculinity?

 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, our society is horribly corrupted — not because we’re bad people but because bad people have been trying to destroy us. They’ve tried everything they can to undermine western, particularly English speaking nations and it may surprise you to know that one of their key aims is to subvert our conception of what our own masculinity is.

There is a character archetype of the action villain in the nineties that it serves well to look at because it tells us a lot about the essence of male-female relationships. There is a degree of contrast in modern movies between heroes and villains and how they deal with male-female relationships. The villains’ embodiment of cool, capable masculinity, especially back when Hollywood made great action movies, is frequently better than that of the main protagonist. It is often compelling. Even so, the villainous archetype of masculinity is so often missing a vital piece — an element that is all too easy to miss if we’re not actively on the lookout for it.

What is typically missing in the villains’ conduct is the natural progression of sympathetic circumstance and mindful conduct that would exemplify an excellent hero’s approach to love. Sadly, all too often, this is missing in the hero’s conduct nowadays as well.

Maybe this is deliberate, maybe it is not but I feel like Hollywood probably understands this principle very well and has inverted the principle to make the hero a villain — or at least less admirable. I mean we’ve all seen how Hollywood’s villains are usually strong capable men with a sort of integrity —with an almost holy quest mentality in how they approach their missions. Main players in many modern movies, by contrast, tend to be led around by the nose by women in trying to win their affection. It should really be the other way around as it mostly was in the past. In James Bond, which pretty much has the masculine thing worked out, the women often pursued him and voluntarily provided him with help to complete his missions.

So, the challenge is to come up with a pure distillation of the principal of a true hero. It is a universally accepted truth that being cool is attractive, especially in men. Conversely, being confused about what masculinity is can be very unattractive on the outside and hard to overcome on the inside without mental discipline. So, the key to understanding this hero character archetype is to work at understanding what actually makes a man capable and clear.

In one Japanese version of the villain archetype, the mental discipline dynamic is clearer than in most of Hollywood’s tripe. With Albert Wesker there is a lot of information in the backstory that hints at a set of traits that would be of great importance in rounding out a positive main character.

The trait is in essence to encompass contemplation — perhaps through the focus of being a writer, a scientist or a thinker. Yet one of those character examples could detract from the others and that is being a scientist. Scientists are often uncritical about their own body of knowledge perhaps because they are usually so specialized. 

 have a great fondness for Resident Evil because Albert Wesker defies this tendency and becomes a true thinker. The kind of science Wesker does as a biologist limits his thinking and eventually he begins to understand that. It is a tunnel like vision where he can only see the problems in front of him but in the end he abandons his path as a scientist to seek higher truths and answer the questions that scientists do not always consider.

So, Albert searches for the hidden truth and writes about that. He then contemplates on what he has seen and discoverers a truth that few see — the truth that big pharma is insidiously corrupt and dangerous.

Even in an occupation so counter-intuitive to contemplation as it is in spying, the simple act of writing can turn a fierce man of action and servant of authority into an independent thinker. A good example of this is the author of the James Bond books, Ian Fleming. He was a spy during the second world war but in his writing about his hero, Bond, he demonstrates a real flair for philosophical thinking and development of positive main character attributes.

 

If you want another example, Julius Caesar also wrote his experiences down and became famous from that. Part of the reason for his success is because it is actually very difficult to face either your failings or really, even your victories but a real man is honest with both himself and the world around him. Writing consistently and editing that work over time is the only effective way for man to have any chance of being honest with himself. It’s a true mirror that takes ego out of the equation. The ego can make us ignore our losses and magnify our victories in our mind. I know this well for as a writer I can look at my work that I once was conceited enough to be Impressed by and wonder how I ever was.

There is an action movie from the nineties, Screamers, that provides further insight as well. The hero in that movie listens to classical music. He is completely calm and in a meditative state when he does. A principal unto himself.

We see many different types in this movie. Some are humans and some are advanced AI. All have varying degrees of non-masculine traits. The elite soldier that the hero saves watches bad movies. The other soldier is constantly worried and shows it. The AI that is definitely a machine is neither seduced by the images of woman on a VR device or fearful of the unknown. However, he does have a fatally flawed trait, being far too controlled by his anger. The machine tries to be masculine but is really just emulating righteous anger in a futile way.

The classic blockbuster epic, Interstellar, is an excellent example of a modern movie with an essentially and strangely un-masculine hero. Cooper is heroic in combat and times of immediate danger but is feminine in the way he thinks. 

Cooper accepts Doyle’s assessment that water and organics can’t be passed up and provides them with a plausible plan to retrieve Miller and her data from her planet in 15 minutes, which will take 2 years of Earth time. He does not stop to think that any single small mistake could ruin all their chances at this point. Nor does he stop to consider whether or not it would be wise to set up a colony on a world so close to a black hole. The underlying idea is that that they are all deeply persuaded with the idea that they must rescue Miller if nothing else but none of them even think to try to contact Miller by radio as soon as they enter that world’s gravitational well. If they had and had at least been forewarned that she was not alive, they would have thought more carefully about going all the way in and landing and wasting decades.

 Later, after this huge disaster, they debate whether to go to Mann’s planet, the closer, or to Edmond’s. When Amelia Brand uses logic in this crucial debate about which planet they should explore first, he resorts to emotional manipulation to try to demonstrate that she is wrong in choosing the most distant planet because she has feelings for the scientist sent to it. Cooper thinks that Mann is the safe bet despite Brand’s argument that both Miller’s and Mann’s are too close to the black hole to allow for the proper development of a sufficiently complex ecosystem.

Cooper thinks it is feminine and unreliable to listen to your feelings for someone but is swayed by the general opinion held by others that Mann is the best of them rather looking at the logical evidence given to him and making a decision using that. He never seems to read or contemplate and perhaps because of this may not be capable of forming his own well-considered view.

This is all done by the directors in a classic case of Deus ex Machina to achieve his greater goal — a goal that is never really properly articulated at any point in the movie until shortly before it happens. 

There are two major goals for Cooper. One is completing the mission and the other is getting back home to his son and daughter. When the mission turns bad on Mann’s planet, he decides to go back to his family, which is in essence an emotional decision. That he is emotional about Murph, at least, is obvious because whenever she shows her displeasure with him, he becomes deeply distraught. This is a great weakness in him to be so emotionally dependent on her.

With respect to completing the mission, going inside the black hole is hinted at as a possibility in the movie often but never planned for. It feels as if it were the goal all along but Cooper would never intentionally choose an option that would keep him from his daughter. A series of bad decisions lead to this outcome being forced on Cooper. Mission success can only be attributed to a process of Deus Ex Machina and all the pseudo-science black hole nonsense.

So, that’s it — Cooper is certainly not a character who is the embodiment of cool, capable masculinity. Any such character must read first then learn to write so that he may know himself. He must then contemplate on this to further his understanding. He must understand that he needs to have principles and be true to them to truly express masculinity.

As an extension of this idea, it would be fair to say that a truly masculine character will understand that relationships should come about through sympathetic circumstances and good conduct rather than through manipulation or active persuasion. Some Hollywood characters in the past demonstrated that sort of behaviour but very few do now and we are left with an increasingly degraded idea of what it is to be masculine. Do movies still influence us? I hope not but cannot help thinking that they do. The fact is, we all really need to work at knowing ourselves to avoid corruption and if we’re going to do that, we need to boycott the modern corporate movie industry.

 

Article co-authored  by Alex Mason and Matt Mason

 

MRNA Vaccines in Livestock!

 

I recently read an article from the USA posing the problems involved with MRNA vaccines in livestock and after a little research discovered that the old NSW government was planning to introduce MRNA vaccines in meat for foot and mouth disease and lumpy skin disease, neither of which exist in our country. I believe that many people would have been dismayed about this revelation.

Given this distressing news, I wrote to the new NSW minister for agriculture, Tara Moriarty, on April 11 asking for an assurance that the Labor government would not proceed with this dubious and risky program, and after a full week have received no reply or even an acknowledgment of the email.

As I wrote to the minister, I understand that these measures are intended to protect a $28 billion annually industry but I am also very aware that there is a huge reaction around the world to this sort of meddling with the food industry. It is also true that these diseases do not exist here, and with due care can be prevented from taking a foothold, as we have done for decades already.

 The fact is, Australia could find itself on the outer in markets around the world in the future if it does introduce these toxic and dangerous elements into our hitherto well-regarded meats. Reaction against these practises has been very strong in the USA with some large producers guaranteeing that they will not use these risky MRNA vaccines in their cattle.

Increasing numbers of people around the world are getting wise to the dehumanizing practises of the left wing globalist cabal that works almost constantly to undermine the principle of individual freedom and responsibility. MRNA vaccines in any shape or form have proven to be both inefficient and dangerous with growing numbers of deaths and injuries reported from the covid19 vaccines.

Any use of this technology must be seen as associated with the Globalist, Bolshevik agenda of undermining human health and welfare and making us more and more dependent on multi-national big pharma products.

Sure, if you really want to take these suspect vaccines then go for it but to have them slipped to us on the sly through our meat and our milk? My god, what is this world coming to? Can you really support that? Can you even tolerate it without doing something?

By the way, it has already been proven that the active proteins given to cows in these vaccines have been found in mice that were fed with the milk from these cows. Directly receiving the MRNA proteins through eating the meat after it has been cooked (no more yummy rare steaks, my friends) is not so certain but respected health commentators like Joseph Mercola have expressed doubts that there may be serious hidden side-effects even in well cooked meat.

Please email NSW agriculture minister Tara Moriarty to ask her about this enormously important issue and seek her assurance that MRNA vaccines in livestock will not happen in NSW under their watch.

#meatlovers #suddenlydead #governmentcorruption #health #healthandwellness #agriculture #pharma

 

Below is the original Liberal Government press release.

 

 

 

 

NSW fast tracks mRNA FMD and Lumpy Skin Disease vaccines

Published: 28 Sep 2022

Released by: Deputy Premier, Minister for Agriculture

The NSW Government has taken another step towards fast tracking the world first mRNA vaccines for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Lumpy Skin Disease, inking a deal with US biotechnology company Tiba Biotech.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW Paul Toole said today marks an important milestone towards securing the vaccine technology that will protect Australia’s $28.7 billion livestock industry.

“The NSW Nationals in Government are taking the threat of FMD and Lumpy Skin Disease extremely seriously, and this milestone is another step forward in preparing for a potential outbreak,” Mr Toole said.

“I have now written to vaccine manufacturers to take up my challenge to develop both vaccines ready for use and manufacture in NSW by August 1 next year.

“COVID-19 demonstrated to us that all possible avenues in developing vaccines must be explored and we will leave no stone unturned.”

Minister for Agriculture Dugald Saunders said the agreement with Tiba Biotech gives NSW another path towards developing mRNA vaccines for FMD and Lumpy Skin Disease.

“It is critical that we develop mRNA vaccines for FMD and Lumpy Skin as quickly as possible to protect our State’s livestock sector,” Mr Saunders said.

“The threat of FMD is ongoing and there are concerns Lumpy Skin Disease could enter northern Australia this coming wet season, so it’s critical we continue to do what we can as quickly as we can.

“Current FMD vaccines use the virus itself, and there is yet to be an approved vaccine for use in Australia for Lumpy Skin Disease, so creating mRNA vaccines to combat either disease would be a game-changer for the industry.

“mRNA vaccines are cheaper and quicker to produce, highly effective and very safe.

“Because they are fully synthetic and do not require any animal or microbial products, they do not carry with them the same risks as traditionally derived vaccines.” 

Tiba co-founder Peter McGrath said the company was pleased to be working in partnership with government, industry and researchers to protect Australia’s vital livestock industry and food security.

“Our next generation RNA technology is able to safely and efficiently deliver vaccines for both human and animal health needs and has demonstrated more practical storage requirements than existing RNA technologies,” Mr McGrath said.

Meat and Livestock Australia managing director Jason Strong said mRNA vaccines had additional benefits for the livestock sector.

“This type of vaccine technology may not require the longer testing and approval processes required for conventional vaccine development and importation as it does not use animal products,” Mr Strong said.

“That means we can use it to provide faster responses to outbreaks, enable eradication and return to freedom status – and market access – sooner.”

The pilot program is part of a $65 million investment from the NSW Government to prepare for and prevent exotic animal diseases, which brings the total investment in biosecurity this year alone to $229 million – the biggest biosecurity investment by a single jurisdiction on exotic pest and disease control.