Bloody Murder

I'm overwhelmed with sadness and disgust that the peace loving Monks of Burma, who's whole philosophy and outlook on life is one of harming nothing, are being slaughtered ,while the pathetic cretins of the UN sit around discussing resolutions. "It's bad" as my eleven year old just said, "they're just protesting, so they should be allowed to do it" he went on to say, he followed up with, " they believe in reincarnation though, so they'll come back again". I guess that's all that keeps me from breaking down, they have a faith, it must help them. If you follow that through then the murdering bastards who killed them will at least be taken down a notch on their return. Shit munching bacteria I hope! Of course that's if you believe in all that, I sincerely hope the murderers do!

Starting in my back yard.

Well, with the first beautiful frost of the Autumn, and with the first warm glow from the wood burner this year, it seems that nature is again proving that time and tide wait for no man.

So I thought instead of waiting around for people to get involved with changing the world I'd just start in my own back yard. Over the weekend I met an old college friend who is now a permaculturalist. The idea being to convert my garden into an organic sustainable production site. One thing I'm really pleased about is the neat advice to get rid of my grass... That 'green cancer,' as he called it, now gone and in it's place ten fruit trees, another chicken tractor, a big vegetable plot and a new herb garden. Briliant, No more grass cutting! This set up will provide all my fruit and vegetable requirements and produce a surplus to barter with. I have joined a local farmers market and aim to get a stall there next year, another place that I can help to promote the Utopian message. If people can actually see how life could be then perhaps they would feel more inclined to join up. I feel really positive, not sure what the neighbours think they looked in horror as the flower beds got slashed down and replaced with straw covered vegetable plots. They were however very interested in why I was doing it and admitted that they had toyed with the idea twenty years ago! Ironically a local member of the conservative party came round doing a bit of canvassing. What a joke, he couldnt even give one decent argument against the Utopian ideal stating that, "that could only happen in a perfect world"! I said "you mean a world where everything is shared, War is banned, and Hunger eliminated"? He said " If you want change things you need to get involved in local politics"! I said OK and told him that I was going to start my own party just as an experiment to see what sought of world people actually wanted his or mine. He bid me farewell as he made a hasty retreat down my drive looking at me as if I was a lunatic. Tosser!

We had a bit a of a party though last night to celebrate and foolishly 'sampled' the products of this years cider endeavours a little too early, and a little too enthusiastically. Excellent Cider but not such an excellent top knot! Check out how to start a sustainable vegetable plot here

Waste of Energy?

What motivates people to protest? World hunger, How to cope with climate change, epidemics wiping out millions, Fake wars for fake reasons.. oh no... But if your Favourite Football team loses it's manager... Ye Gods... What a pathetic bunch of cretins they were, those who stood outside Stamford Bridge the home of Chelsea FC , with a placard begging Jose Mourinho to come back singing 'come back Mourinho' in their best pseudo Italian 'souwf London' opera voices, after he 'resigned' yesterday.

The brat clothes horse of the football mangers world threw his toys out of the cot and is now reported been given a twenty million pound settlement. Blood sucking Git.... Another perfect example of how money doesn't make you happy...He is most likely now to return to his home country of Portugal, you know, the place where leaking is an art form practiced best by the rozzers. Good riddance that's what i say?

When are we going to get real and spend a bit of time on what really matters?

There is another way.

Here is a collection of lessons about a sustainable way of life based upon common sense and cooperation by the founder of the permocultural system Bill Mollison. Visionary, utopian, call him what you like, but men like these need to be heard and their message spread. Starting from the absolute basic of just growing your own food to influencing local government right through to international co dependence it is possible to change the world from a Waring, famine and disease ridden place full of terror and hate, into, well lets just say a garden of peace and sustainability. My personal idea of heaven, but thats just me! But a place where mankind can cooperate for the betterment of all must be preferable to what's on offer.

The first clip will take youtube where this first video introduces five other that are in video menu at you tube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vUr4uPe9WBk&mode=related&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8X0H7V6dDi8&mode=related&search

This address takes you to the headquarters of permoculture in Oz.

http://www.permaculture.org.au/

Basically a place where you can see how to become involved.

Enjoy.

Does Mother Nature care about Man?

It would appear not.

Not if you look at the evolution of species. It is fair to say that no other creature has had more of a sudden impact upon the planet though time than man. But are we just a brilliant shooting star, here one moment and gone the next? Certainly if you look at the state of play in terms of how man is behaving towards himself and all other life forms, then it would be a brave man to bet upon him sticking around long enough to even make a small spike in the evolutionary graph of mother Earth. In fact the wise money would be on man being the species that died out quicker than all others throughout time.

And why should she?

I'm a firm believer in balance and generally speaking, physics favours equilibrium. So looking at the world at the moment with the Wars, the Hunger, the great chasm between the haves and have nots, then it would seem that Mother nature is bound to address the balance sooner rather than later. There are epidemics of diseases wiping out millions in Africa, the Wars are wiping out Millions elsewhere, the scales are tipping, and I would say, Man is engineering his own slide into the Abyss of History. And of course if you have ever been on a sledge in the snow on a steep hill, you'll know that it doesn't get slower as you go down.

Humans have their fate in their own hands, they can choose to end up as the next aeon's fossil fuels or they can jump off the sledge, claw at the snow for dear life and start back uphill digging the heels in as they go. Or they can let mother nature do what she has always done, allowing life forms to develop in the environment that is available. Because lets face it she'll never lose. She has ways of allowing life forms to survive. Just look at the Bacteria that hug the deep sea volcanic vents. Thousands of degrees in a chemical laden cocktail of poisons! Maybe we'll just end up as one of her less successful experiments.

I would recommend jumping off the sledge, as hitting the metaphorical Pine tree, will just result in the exudation of more turpentine and a ready supply of oil for the next species that learns to use tools.

If you would like to help the human race climb back up to the clear air, join the Utopians. Not mad, not weird, not religious, not wrong!

Calling all butterflies.

We've got a hurricane to rouse!

A metaphorical hurricane maybe but way past category 5 !

Change can happen fast. If you don't believe me ask the people of Phuket. Their whole way of life gone in an instant. But now they are rebuilding! So how are butterflies to change the world? It's simple, recognise that it needs changing, start to flap your wings in the direction of your keyboards and help create the vision of how it could be. In fact, in listening to those keys punching, let them represent the noise of the wings beating hard for change in your ears. Can you hear those wings, can you see them tapping/flapping, can you feel the cool waft of the tiny breeze?

Did you ever see an ant trying to carry a big dead beetle. He can't do it on his own, but after a few hours the beetle is moving with ease along a path to the colony, carried upon a wave of helpers.

How long are you going to be a caterpillar? Will you ever metamorphose? Are you ready to create the storm that brings the Tsunami of change. who knows? You could just keep on eating, waiting for the next blackbird or are you ready to pupate...Trouble is, butterflies have short lives, they are beautiful, harmless creatures that just go about feeding on sweet nectar and creating more beautiful harmless creatures, but changing the atmosphere, and creating storms with hardly any effort at all in the process, then dying... thats it!

Join in The Utopian movement, dont die without making a storm, See the link on the right! Waiting to hear the wings....

Monica

Grape Vine.

To all you fellow bloggers who feel the world is ripe for change, my advice to you is to help make it so. If you don't think it needs changing then you need to have a better look.

If you are just a whinger who complains about everything that's wrong with the world but does nothing about it, then please stop wasting you energy on whinging and do something about it. The Internet is a place that could potentially unite a whole world of like minded thinkers into a force for good.

Change doesn't have to be painful anymore. Most of the power bases in the world are run on a democratic basis. What is desperately needed is a change in the way that the world is organised. A change that can be sustained. A change that most ordinary people are really crying out for. Most people don't want war, hunger,terror, environmental damage. It's not rocket science,

it's just thinking and organising.

Like minded Bloggers are signing up to The World Utopian Movement. Change really can happen by the power of numbers. That is what we need to make the world a better place. Just numbers, it's so simple, if you really want to make a difference join up by following the link by the logo. Then place the logo on your blog and link up too. When we have enough numbers we can start the massive job of making this a reality. Tell all your friends to do the same. We are intelligent people who have decided enough is enough. We are not religious nutters or a freak 'Ology' cult. We are just normal folks wanting the world how it should and can be.

A world without conflict, a world without hunger, without pollution, without terror. A world organised for the world, not for one country, but for all of humanity. The Global communication network has made this possible. The ball has already started to roll, it's just that it is a very big ball and we need lots of hands on it to get it going round quicker. Come on join us... otherwise you'll just be another grumpy old person who knew how it should have been done....... but just turned into worm food .... don't do that, help us make it how it should be or at least make it how it should be for your children... but please don't do nothing, that is the worst thing of all.

How many times have you heard songs with words that say this over the years and agreed with an 'if only' sigh . How many films have you seen offering a United World.. how many books have been written proposing the same... most people really do want a better way of living. How many people would like to escape the rat race, and actually start living. The answer is:

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS WAY.

If you are one of us then please join in.

In the words Jackson, Ritchie and Jones

'We are the world, we are the children,

we are the ones to make a brighter day,

so lets start giving'.

Give us your support and keep in touch..