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Working for the common cause is never easy. To begin, you are constantly challenged by those who have no comprehension and who remain hostile to anything beyond their own confines.

The common cause is what most people reach out for and towards when all else is snatched from them. In such circumstances and beyond the bottle and other similar perspective wrecking distractions, thoughtful contemplation and meditation will lead to the awareness of the common cause. Meditation is the art of relaxation.

Sanctification and protection of the common cause is what enables people to go about their daily lives without having to immerse themselves in fighting for that common cause. How many of us give deliberate thought to the solidity of the foundations of the homes in which we live until something occurs to make us focus on those foundations?

The questions then become numerous. Who designed those foundations, who worked upon and put them in place? What, if any, is our own role in the presence of those foundations?

By default, those who work for radio, television and the newspaper industries are in the front line of promoting and standing up for the common cause. How they acknowledge and comply with their respective positions depends much more upon professional training than on personal volition. The danger preceding failure is in wearing an outward cloak of respectability whilst failing to meet the demands. Feeding the populace pap might fatten personal bank accounts but that is in reality all it will achieve.

Those who watch the news reports currently emanating from western journalists in the Middle East should listen carefully to and analyse the perspective of those reports.

We might not all be in a position to work for the common cause as actively as others might. Yet pause a moment to ponder that but not for the common cause, none of us would have the education nor the time nor the freedom to even ponder in such fashion.

It might also be valid to ponder the worth of the individual within the common cause and whether any common cause could ever exist where the intrinsic worth of any individual is devalued.

Israel / Gaza
Israel’s leadership has apparently learned nothing from the atrocities it has suffered as a race over time. The world, along with Israel, abhors the attacks by Hamas on innocent civilians.

However, Israel’s merciless bombing of Gaza’s civilian population and infrastructure cannot by justified in any manner by Israel or anyone else.

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Ukraine
Vladimir Putin
Threatening our unborn children is the worst mistake you have and will ever make.
If you - and the likes of you - cannot reach out in true friendship and co-operation with the rest of the world, know this.
This world will destroy you and your likes with no hesitation.

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Vladimir Putin
You invade a peaceful sovereign country with an army, shell, bomb and use illegal weaponry on cities. You have declared war, no-one else.

You feed ridiculous lies to the Russian people through your state-owned propaganda machine.

You are the propagandist.

You accuse Western nations of 'banditry' and then state that those countries imposing sanctions against Russia have 'declared war' on Russia.

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Vladimir Putin - YOU are the bandit, the criminal, the warmonger, a murderer.

You threaten people with 15 years in jail for spreading 'fake' news of the war - anything, that is, that is outside of your myopic vision.

Vladimir Putin - you are now the 2022 Hitler of Russia.

To the people of Russia - you now have an opportunity through your public rejection of Russia's barbaric war in Ukraine to oust your dictatorial leaders and their minions who have held the Russian people in bondage for decades.

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Julian Assange and the war against freedom
There is and never was anything illegal in the case of Julian Assange other than the continued and deplorable actions of dark elements within the US administration - actions which in any other instance would have seen the case thrown out - thrown out due to actions by these dark elements which themselves are outside of and shun both US and international law.
  Should the UK grant the US the Assange extradition request, then the UK administration and justice system will themselves become accomplices of those dark elements.
  One of the underlying tenets, or principles of modern journalism is to examine and report to the public any underhand, illegal or dubious activities of the powerful, including those in government.
  The current US witch hunt against Assange is the greatest threat to and assault upon journalism and the reporting of the truth in history.

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Covid-19 and the future
Social and domestic life in most of the developed and sheltered countries of our world has been torn apart by the covid-19 disease and the lock down measures taken by governments.
The wealth of a nation depends on the health and well being of its people and not on their enslavement by capitalism and its goals.
The coronavirus tragedy unfolding in the US, which does not have a free national health service, will bear sad testimony to that.
The same scenario is also unfolding in the UK, which once had one of the best free national health services in the world but which has been drastically under resourced by successive governments over the past decade and more.
In the less developed and less sheltered countries the suffering caused in the main by other people continues unabated - except those suffering must now also face a pandemic.
Humanity is truly at a crisis crossroads with few, if any, avenues of escape.
We are not a pleasant species to ourselves when we find ourselves feeling backed into a corner, as human history undeniably shows.
The only way out of the mess is for us all to work together as a cohesive species and try to forge a true global balance between nature and the survival of civilisation.
At this present time such a reality appears further away than the ship smoke disappearing below the far horizon.
Can we pull the ship closer?

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Julian Assange — a warning
The illegal seizure and arrest of Julian Assange should serve as a warning of just how corrupt the involved governments and their minions have become.
One of the first tricks of dirty governing when faced with any embarrassing exposure of underhand activity is to attempt to discredit and assasinate the character of those releasing the information. History bears testimony to such acts.
One of the accusations amongst many used to justify the seizure and arrest of Assange was that he used Wikileaks to “meddle” in the internal affairs of states.
Given that such is exactly what the United States and United Kingdom has persistently done over the past 100 years, such an accusation can only be described as blatant, unashamed hypocrisy. History will reveal such human dregs for the garbage they truly are.
Dark days indeed lie ahead.

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