MERRY CHRISTMAS

It has been a turbulent year and one that also, at times, seemed to never end. For me, personally, it was perhaps the most surreal year of my entire life and I feel extremely lucky to still be in one piece and owe many people a great deal of thanks for all their help and support, especially in Switzerland and Ireland.

But Christmas has come around again, and the time has come to reflect on the bigger picture and also on the (pretty widely held) belief that our minds, hearts and spirits are joined to a greater force beyond us.

Looking around the world in December 2010, it looks like there hardly a corner of the globe left enjoying any real peace. Wars, hunger, economic collapse, poverty, suffering and degradation are everywhere.

Even Ireland has fallen under the control of the IMF/EU: its people face new deprivation as their wealth is confiscated by a financial elite if a correction is not made.

However, 2010 has also seen a tremendous awakening among the people of the world as many commentators have observed. There is a greater understanding that ever before of nature of the political and economic systems that are contributing to so much misery.

Few leadership figures today are as natually noble as say Prince William and Harry, and we, the people, clearly have to pitch in much, much more to ensure a basic minimum of justice and dignity for our fellow human beings.

If someone sees a car driving straight into a crowd of people, that person has a duty to stop that car,  the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer  said.

The Globalists are driving a car mindlessly into humanity – and it is up to us to stop that car.

The suffering of so many people has reached a shocking level: so much needless despair and suffering has become an affront to every single person with any shred of decency left.

 Today, it was reported that a TV techinican in Rumania wearing a T shirt with the words „You have killed our future“ plunged several metres from a balcony into the main hall of parliament, thereby endangering his life, just to protest the corruption of Prime Minister Emil Boc.

„This is for you, Boc. You have stolen the money from  children,“ he said, before jumping off the balcony, breaking several bones.

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article11800438/Mann-stuerzt-sich-vom-Balkon-in-den-Parlamentssaal.html

 He was clearly gripped by the feeling that so many of us increasingly share that the obscene greed and corruption of a political and financial elite is an outrage and cannot be allowed to continue without us all being sucked into a moral quagmire of guilt and shame as we watch children scavenge for food in rubbish bins in Europe and worse.

The ancient Greeks recognised that we cannot separate our fate from the fate of the state. A just state is the foundation for people to lead the kind of dignified, happy, creative lives that we are all meant to lead. At the same, time each of us is individually responsible for being true to our higher self: fair, truthful, courageous and disciplined.

Looking forward to 2011, we can only hope thatthe transition to better economic systems and a rejuvenation of our democracies can be accomplished quickly and peacefully.

Then we can get on with the business of really living the kind of lives we wish to, knowing that other people, all around the world in every corner of it, can also look forward to futures that are free, safe and happy.

Right now, as we head into 2011, all decent people have to be ready — like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Claus von Stauffenberg — to make even the ultimate sacrifice to stop the Globalist car destroying humanity.

Many of the elite have already ruined their own characters, but we should not allow them to undo our characters by sitting back as they wreck havoc on the lives of millions of innocent people.

Stauffenberg said that his own restless conscience was what made him attempt to overthrow the Nazi regime. At the end of the day, it is our conscience that counts. It is the spirit within us joined to a higher force that counts.

But for now, a rest up! Merry Christmas! Peace and every luck!