I posted a video imploring people to put pressure on their MPs to lift the inhumane sanctions imposed upon the Syrian people.
I've since had many people ask me the same question, which is this:
"What is the point in writing to an MP? They did not listen when a million of us told them not to invade Iraq. They're still not listening to 17 million of us who want to cut our ties to the insidiously corrupt EU institutions. They won't ever listen. We're heading for world war three and there's nothing we can do to stop them, so what's the point?".
I must admit, I have a healthy supply of cynicism myself on any given day. Along with a pinch of closet optimism and a tiny dash of 'oh fuck it anyway'.
Cynicism keeps me sane at times. It staves off all out despair. It also frightens 'complete fucking meltdown' back into my 'save for later' draw.
I understand that time's running out. I understand that our leaders are hurtling toward nuclear war and it all looks hopeless. But what if I told you that something you said, something you shared, something you thought could influence world events. If your thought patterns, merging with thousands of unified voices repeating and repeating the same thoughts and wishes could create even a tiny blip - a hiccup - a blink - and a re-think? A little 'pause for lunch' from the lemmings' day out on the clifftop that is our current foreign policy?
If you really think you can't change the direction in which this world is heading, I'd urge you to curl up and listen to the following story.
Once upon a time, there was an intrepid warrior queen called Vanessa. Vanessa was fighting in 'The Great War of the Words', and was usually based in a cyber village known as '21Wire'.
Vanessa had heard about a false paradigm centering around the exploits of a group of heroic rescuers who travelled the land of Syria rescuing its people. These men were known far and wide as The White Helmets. They rescued many many millions and millions of people. A lot of the people they rescued were children, who were pulled out from probably more than a million tons of rubble which lies all over the land of Syria.
Vanessa travelled to the land of Syria. She began to notice that these White Helmets were never found rescuing children in any parts of King Sad's territory. They were always doing their valiant and saintly rescuing in the same one part of Syria, known as the 'Naughty Steps to Dark State'. She also noticed something vey strange indeed. When they lifted a dusty child out of the millions of tons of rubble that had been on top of him, they placed the child in an ambulance that had never been used before, and was not at all dusty, and sat the child onto a very clean chair. They did not tend his wounds, apply a saline dehydration drip, put on a neck or back splint, check his vital signs or comfort him. Instead they decided to gather round the dusty child and take lots and lots of photographs with their Iphone 6 and deliver them into the cyber town of 'Twitter' and the unknowable city of 'CNN'.
These White Helmets were said to be so saintly that heavenly choirs broke into song when they walked down the streets with their cameras, they were in fact a little bit like the brothers of little baby Jesus. Vanessa noticed that they were never short of food, and always had plenty of water, and weapons, and trucks and vans and internet connections, unlike everyone else in the land of Syria where the wicked witch of sanction was gobbling up all of their supplies...
OK... well, that was just my little parody of the White Helmet story. I hope it does not offend. I am not making light of ANYBODY's suffering here. Quite the reverse is true. There is a lot of evidence these recuse stories are either partly or completely fake; whilst rebels are injuring, maiming and wholesale slaughtering innocents who receive absolutely no tears of sympathy, and no news coverage at all. Couragious independent journalist Vanessa Beeley in particular has been investigating all of this for many months. Vanessa has been calling bullshit on this vile organisation calling itself 'The Wite helmets' and "the Syria Civil Defence', for quite some time.
Vanessa has written article after article, on her own page, 'The Wall Will Fall' and at the excellent '21st Century Wire' web site, (down for maintenance now, so link following soon), which go into details about The White Helmets; their history, their funding, the fact that they call themselves the 'Syrian Civil Defence', thus confusing people, and stealing this name away from the real Syrian Civil Defence Forces which have been a member of the ICDO since 1972 and are recognised by the UN.
The WH, with the help of their massive western million dollar funding, seem to be working in league with Al Qaeda and Al Nusra Front and several other hordes of Muslim Brotherhood savages and mercenaries. These terrorists are rampaging around Syria causing misery and carnage. They are aiding the overthrowing of President Assad which Israel and America so desperately want. It seems as though The White Helmets are a PR and psyop tool in America's and Mossad's latest proxy war, masquerading as a humanitarian organisation.
I urge anyone who has not yet read Vanessa's reporting on the White Helmets to do so at the link above. It was these hard hitting articles and Vanessa's resolute, inspirational interviews on 'UK Column' and '21st Century Wire', that motivated an army of foot soldiers (including myself) to go to war on the side of truth and justice.
Anyway, back to the story. What happened next was rather extraordinary.
In the three weeks leading up to the Nobel Prize announcements, thousands of us took to the comment boxes of all the major newspapers, TV channels, shared facebook messages, videos messages, bombarded related web pages and articles about the White Helmets, called their MPs, wrote to their MPs, wrote on their MP's facebook pages, wrote to Boris Johnson, bombarded Theresa May, tweeted and retweeted thousands of tweets and made sure there was a visible and overwhelming majority consensus of no confidence in their choice of nominee (and hotly tipped favourite to win) for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Vanessa had even called the Nobel Office in Oslo to protest at the nomination. I think Cathy Newman (Channel Four News) received over three thousand anti-White Helmet rants on her facebook page, and so it went on for a few weeks.
So.
Despite a documentary film that tugged on every emotional receptor in the brain to cynically manipulate world opinion and brand the White Helmets on the biggest film outlet in the world (Netflix)...
Despite one of the most insidious and disgusting high end propaganda campaigns we have ever seen - featuring rising stars 'Dusty Boy', 'Rag Doll girl', and 'Beach Boy', brought to you courtesy of practically every single news outlet in the world; and quite obviously co-ordinated by a major PR company probably based in UK, Qatar or Dubai (we can but speculate)...
Despite Boris Johnson having mawkishly sung the praises of the WH to the heavens and donated thirty two million pounds of tax payers' money into their account; and USA the UN donating around a further thirty milllion dollars...
Despite Brangelina as was, the Clooney Loonies, every "A" list celebrity who can actually speak (I said speak, not think), and every twonky talking head on every TV station in the world branding them 'heroes of the hour and saints-in -waiting'...
Despite all of this, and despite it looking like a done deal that they would win, the big day finally arrived. The announcement was made. And... guess what? We all got to find out that The White Helmets would ...
...NOT, in fact, be receiving a Nobel Peace Prize! Nor would they be receiving the million pounds that would have gone with that.
Apparently someone on the inside has intimated that just two days before the announcement was to be made, the panel apparently backed off, and changed their decision about who would receive the prize. It would appear they might have been unwilling to attract the backlash of negative publicity, given the strength of recent public opinion and general outrage that might follow, at this bogus nomination.
So our 'all-singing, all-dancing, all round angels of mercy super heroes with wings and specially polished camera-ready halos terrorist outfit' suddenly looked for all the world, and in front of the whole world, like the bunch of cry-baby gold-digging 'helmets' they really are.
Now this outcome might not have had anything at all to do with any efforts people made to get the word out. But there's a chance that it had everything to do with getting the word out, and changing people's perception.
Do you still think it's a waste of time to try to change this world around with words? Clearly our MPs and ambassadors, paid to represent us, think so. Our governments have broken off diplomatic links with Syria and Russia - therefore closing avenues of diplomacy and possibilities for non hostile solutions. I don't think these decisions should be theirs to make. I think it is deeply disgusting that they arrogantly refuse to talk to the legitimate UN representative of President Bashir Al Assad.
Our leaders have proven to be miserable failures at representing us, if it has come to this stage of impasse, where military intervention is almost inevitable.
The level of deception being used by our governments upon their own people is not only shocking, it is terrifying. I would say criminal but, as the late Michael Hastings was once warning us on Buzzfeed back in 2013, Obama changed what they refer to as "the law" to make sure it is in fact now legal to propagandise in the homeland of America against their own people. Nice job.
So. Stay in your safe place? Or give it a shot - just in case we really can change the world with words, one brain at a time?
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