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January 11,
2011
"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this
world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten
thousand."
By William Finnerty
Great,
REALLY GREAT, but ...
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While I (as
always) feel extremely grateful to all those who take to
the streets in peaceful and lawful ways, to protest
against major outbreaks of government and corporate
wrongdoing, my fear is that such protests will never (by
themselves) be enough to remedy the basic set of
problems involved: having due regard for the kind of
people who are doing -- and the many who in one way or
another are helping and supporting!! -- the wrongdoing
in this particular case, and in many others like it all
around the world.
I can very easily understand
the viewpoint that "weak governance" is playing a major
role.
However, there is also the alternative
perception which, from the viewpoint of the wrongdoers,
would claim that it is "strong governance" (albeit of
the completely wrong kind as far as I am concerned)
which is, on an ongoing basis, winning all (or almost
all) the important battles for the tyrannous
despots, plutocrats, and kleptocrats
(etcetera) who are indulging themselves with
impunity in the
extremely serious and cunningly well-hidden criminal
activities concerned.
Unless the "starting place"
of the centuries old power-source which is at the
present time driving, sustaining, and strengthening such
"strong governance" can be honestly sought out, and
honestly faced up to -- by sufficiently large numbers of
honest people -- and successfully tackled by the open
and honest use of the FULL range of all peaceful and
lawful means available to them, I have great difficulty
in seeing how there can ever be a happy ending for
humanity generally (i.e. humanity as a
whole)?
Then, and to add to the already large set
of reasonably obvious difficulties involved, somewhere
in the highly complex chemistry of the human brain there
also lurks (in the overwhelming majority of them it
appears) the subtle and seemingly much more difficult to
deal with hurdle which Shakespeare's Hamlet pointed out
well over 400 years ago:
"Ay, sir; to be honest,
as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten
thousand."
Previous to being censored, there was
a very closely related comment on such matters at the
following Indymedia (Ireland) location: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98585#comment276652 <
which can still be viewed from the BACKUP
COPY >
The above text is very
largely based on a second related comment posted at the
following Indymedia (Ireland) www
location (which was later censored as well): http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98599#comment276707 <
but which can still be viewed from the BACKUP
COPY
>
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Dishonesty:
The Achilles' Heel of Humanity?
An
Achilles' heel is a deadly
weakness which exists in the presence of
great overall strength, and it can potentially lead to
complete downfall; or, often in tense, troublesome, and
worrying ways, right to the very edge of complete
downfall.
"One in ten thousand" suggests that as
little as 0.01% of humanity is honest, and that 99.99%
is dishonest?
If true -- and in many everyday
situations relating to social, political, legal,
medical, religious, educational, and financial issues
(for example), I suspect this statistic of Hamlet's
really might be reasonably accurate? -- then it is
little wonder perhaps that civilization still struggles
with so many major conflicts (and closely related
problems)?
Are we all (or almost all of us, i.e.
99.99% of us), with varying degrees of success, and at
enormous expense to ourselves overall (i.e. as a
species), spending most of our time trying (in one way
or another) to deceive each other regarding such major
problems; and, for some of the time at least, deceiving
ourselves in very significant ways as well
perhaps?
And, why is it that the rest of the
animal world -- apart from the cuckoo family group
perhaps -- appears to be much less afflicted by such
dishonest tendencies?
Are we somehow, because of
certain deep-seated fears (or whatever) which we are
largely unaware of possibly, misusing our additional
brain-power? And, avoidably maybe, through the repeated
use of poor-quality personal choices which we make each
day as individuals, foolishly using (or wasting) far too
much of our extra brain capacity for the purpose of
supporting corruption-ridden, greed-ridden,
crime-ridden, and power-mad people (and their socially
malicious pursuits)? And which, consequentially, may be
producing much in the way of completely avoidable pain
and suffering, injury, illness, and
death?
"Ah how shameless - the way these
mortals blame the gods. From us alone, they say, come
all their miseries, yes, But they themselves, with
their own reckless ways, Compound their pains beyond
their proper
measure."
Homer (Circa 9th century BC,
Odyssey - Book I, lines 37 to 40).
The 3,000 or
so year old observation just above also seems to suggest
that we human beings may be very "slow learners" as far
as seeing the hidden dangers in certain core-issue
social matters are concerned: such as, for example, with
regard to the present
red-rotten-with-corruption-and-crime SOURCE of our "money
supply": which, as an UNELECTED and
completely out-of-control group as far as genuine
democracy is concerned, now appears to be
virtually all-powerful in terms of controlling and
bullying all (or almost all) of the governments of the
whole
world?
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January
13th 2011 Updates ...
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Mention
was made yesterday (i.e. January 12th 2011) of this
particular Diary Entry in an e-mail sent to UK
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne MP,
and the recipient list included a few dozen or so
of his UK parliamentary colleagues.
For
further information relating to the e-mail used please
click on the following www address: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UK/Parliament/Group1/12January2010/Email.htm#GeorgeOsborneMP
Allowing
for the enormous and growing amount of crime,
corruption, and cover-ups -- as in "criminal
dishonesty" -- which is believed to form a major
part of the seemingly (so far) impossible to resolve
IMPUNITY problem
referred to above, and as can be seen at the www address
just above, the recipient list also included a number of
senior police
officers.
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THE
HISTORY OF MONEY
"It is fascinating and almost
magical how money appeared on our planet."
Part
1: http://www.xat.org/xat/moneyhistory.html
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New
Book Titled "Treasure Islands" (By Nicholas
Shaxson)
"At last, a readable – indeed
gripping – book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax
havens. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism
that financial capital has been using to stay in charge:
capturing government policy-making around the world,
shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of
law (PARTICULARLY CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW!!), and making sure that suckers
like you and me pay for its operators’ opulent
lifestyles."
From: http://treasureislands.org/praise-for-the-book/
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January
14th 2011 Updates ...
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On
January 14th 2011 a copy of the above information was
sent by e-mail to (among others) a multinational
selection of senior politicians, lawyers,
and economists which included USA President
Barack Obama. A copy of the e-mail used can viewed
at the following www location: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/JusticeNicholasKearns/14January2011/Email.htm
The above information was
also sent by e-mail (on January 14th 2011) to a group of
40 or so UK parliamentarians, which included the
UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP. A
copy of the e-mail used can be viewed at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UK/Parliament/Group2/14January2011/Email.htm
In
addition, the above information was also sent by e-mail
(on January 14th 2011) to the Republic of Ireland
Prime Minister Brian Cowan TD and to 70 or so
of his Dáil Éireann parliamentary colleagues. A
copy of the e-mail used can be viewed at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DailEireannGroup1/14January2011/Email.htm
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January
15th 2011 Updates ...
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The
above information was sent by e-mail to a
multinational group of MEPs (Members of the
European Parliament), and to "Presidential Hopefuls"
Michael D Higgins TD and Fergus Finlay. A
copy of the e-mail used can be viewed at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/MichaelHigginsTD/15January2011/Email.htm
The
above information was sent by e-mail to London
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul
Stephenson, and to a number of other senior
police officers, and to some senior
politicians. A copy of the e-mail used can be viewed
at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/LondonMetropolitanPolice/15January2011/Email.htm
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The
above text has been copied from the Open News
"Diary Entry" location: http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Ay-sir-to-be-honest-as-by-William-Finnerty-110111-898.html
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Rights Ireland http://www.humanrightsireland.com
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