fidélité

Camille Redon, par Odilon Redon

C'est la fidélité qui transforme le flirt en amour. L'attraction initiale n'est jamais innocente. Elle est toujours motivée. La fidélité sauve l'attraction, elle lui donne l'innocence qu'elle n'a jamais eue. Ce n'est pas une innocence vierge, d'avant le péché. C'est une innocence inventée, nouvelle, qui n'a jamais existé auparavant. Donc vierge finalement, mais pas au sens "comme avant", mais au sens "comme jamais auparavant". Inouïe. Toute fraîche. Un couple se sauve l'un l'autre. La fidélité sauve le monde en le re-créant.

Citizens action against neutron bombs

https://johnhelmer.net/new-evidence-that-israel-is-using-a-new-uranium-weapon-make-that-the-neutron-bomb/

The Pommer Inquiry

Dr. Heinz Pommer has conducted the most impressive and comprehensive inquiry into the physics of the terrorist attacks of 11th September 2001 in New York.

His research is of interest to citizen-architects and citizen-engineers who are concerned with preserving the ethics of their profession.

A remarquable aspect of Dr. Pommer's work, in addition to the depth and breadth of his own research, is his unique effort to reconcile his own findings with those of other researchers like the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and several others. 

We can without a doubt call this entire body of work (Pommer and many others)"the public inquiry on 9/11", because unlike the NIST in the US or various government-produced, so-called "declassified intelligence reports" they disclose all their data, sources and references, enabling anyone willing, to verify whatever point they are interested in, all by themselves, and therefore also to add or correct any omission or error that may have entered, like it does into any human work. So this huge and humble effort, like the magnificent work done by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth since 2008, is a scientific, educational, and ethical effort all at the same time, and can only produce the best possible results.

This collaborative effort goes into the direction that science, education and ethics must take, if it want to thrive in the human culture.

The other aspects (administrative, political, financial, health, aviation...) of the public inquiry are treated very seriously elsewhere by other authors, in different formats (reports, books, articles, films...) and they are far too many to be listed here.

But as far as physics is concerned, you can read:

The Pommer Inquiry

http://www.911history.de/aaannxyz_ch01_en.html

"son of a bitch" attitude

 

recommendations on the immediate use of nuclear weapons

History article by Suvrat Raju

Another article by Suvrat Raju:

https://thewire.in/government/indias-lockdown-has-failed-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

Nature saved us from ourselves (Once more!)

It is becoming increasingly clear that the response to the covid virus has done the vast majority of the damage, and that at least ten times as many people have already died from lockdowns and incorrect medical treatment – including vaccines – than directly from the virus.

It is also becoming increasingly clear that not only was the virus designed as an unstoppable biological weapon (as explained in detail in the famous 2015 paper by Menachery, Baric et al.) but that most governments were informed by their own secret services or by foreign secret services that the virus was a very dangerous weapon. This may explain why government reactions were so extreme and unprecedented, and associated with a stubborn denial of the military nature of the virus. For if governments could continue to give their trust to the people who built the virus and who now offered a series of miracle cures - the vaccine being the icing on the cake - it was doubtful that the public would have been ready for such a bold gamble: Trusting the poisoner for offering a cure...

Ignoring the rational explanations of the most renowned scientists, such as for example Luc Montagnier, governments have therefore actively put forward all kinds of "influential" people, provided their theories could reinforce an alternative story about the virus.

One of these alternative theories was the idea that man had so destroyed the natural equilibrium of the planet that more and more dangerous viruses were now going to "escape" (as if nature was a "reservoir" as per the term employed by these people, of dangerous germs), and attack the human species, out of a sort of revenge maybe. An extreme case of this thesis was even put forward: That humans should from now on limit their personal interactions with "wildlife", so as not to "disturb" it in any way. The "personal" aspect and the notion of "wild" were crucial: First of all, it was not a question of stopping the production of pesticides or nuclear waste, nor the electric cars, mobile phones and mines necessary for the production of batteries. This nature was not "dangerous" because it was not "wild" or "virgin", but "humanized" and "domesticated" in a way. The danger came from the "wild" nature or from what is left of it, and which it was advisable not to approach, because it could, who knows, have the desire to "revenge" itself, for example of the collective sins of our species. That the "wild" areas of the planet have not changed for 12,000 years did not matter. It was more a modern dream, a nostalgia, than a scientific notion.

British filmmaker David Attenborough even made a video on this theme, a contemporary adaptation of the old “angry god” theme, funded by the British government channel BBC.

Another theme was that of sacrifice and obedience. Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and Narendra Modi were popular champions of this theme of the leader who punishes his people harshly because he loves them deeply. The Pope joined them, declaring, somewhat awkwardly, after a private visit from Albert Bourla, that getting vaccinated was "an act of love". A little awkward because love being in Christianity traditionally associated with sacrifice, it was a bit too visible suggestion that the vaccine could perhaps have ambiguous effects.

A variation on the theme of obedience was the respect for experts. It was a bit rich because top experts were actively ignored, and the government narrative was carried only by third-rate scientists, beginners, civil servants, students, unknown people from associated disciplines, journalists, and figures in the arts, sports, and entertainment. Obviously that was a lot of people, but solid scientists, those who had published a lot or made discoveries, were curiously missing.

A particularly divided profession was the medical profession. So many doctors and nurses were fired in France because they refused the vaccine or the administration of dangerous treatments, that Emmanuel Macron had to replace them with Lebanese doctors, attracted by a higher salary, with the condition that they obey and get vaccinated. There were no more doctors in the hospitals in Lebanon. This anecdote shows that the medical profession should not be collectively suspected of misbehaving. A large number of caregivers had the discernment and also had the courage to defend their Hippocratic oath even at the cost of their careers.

Now that the passions are subsiding, the dust is settling and we are beginning to realize the incredible extent of the damage, we can ask ourselves the question: Can this tragedy of covid shed light on our relationship with nature?

The virus was designed as a weapon. Top scientists and engineers, backed by immense funds, have been working on this weapon for decades. And then, probably during the world military games in Wuhan at the end of October 2019, the virus was released into the public. After that, it is not yet known who knew and who did not know that the vaccines were even worse than the virus. The United States Army has been fully vaccinated. It is hard to imagine that those who gave this order really knew the consequences, especially cardiac ones. No military leader, for example, would want the pilot of a fighter plane to have a heart attack when landing on an aircraft carrier. So it's likely that those who gave this type of order really thought that vaccines protected soldiers instead of disabling them.

But what is most interesting is that, even setting aside the catastrophic effects of lockdown on public health, even ignoring that many people have been routinely declared dead of covid even when the cause was not covid (like a car accident) simply because the RT-PCR test (which we now know is essentially incorrect) reported the presence of the virus, most people who died of covid died in hospital, following treatments that are now known to be often fatal. For example, 97% of people put on a ventilator died.

So the bioweapon didn't work that well. The government "response" did most of the killing.

More remarkably, its "efficacy" (a term used by Menachery et al. in the 2015 paper) deteriorated very quickly and its virulence decreased very rapidly, with each successive variant, to the point of becoming almost unnoticeable. As it spread more and more, the virus made people less and less sick.

To give a comparison, it is as if scientists had worked tirelessly, for decades, with a wealth of means and extreme confidentiality and security precautions (entire laboratories were built for this purpose, funding mechanisms were put in place to preserve confidentiality, international barriers were put in place to isolate political risks) to make the biological equivalent of the atomic bomb, a virus that is 90% lethal and without cure, and that the bomb, dropped on its victims, decides to transform on its own and becomes harmless.

Worse still for its inventors, the antidote designed in parallel, the mRNA injection, turns out to be much worse than the virus, and unlike it, shows little sign of improving over time.

It looks like a sort of repeat of the chemical weapons debacle on European battlefields in World War I, when we realized that the wind was unpredictable and could turn the weapon against those who deployed it.

The lesson of covid for ecology:

Nature saved us from ourselves. Nature is not a heritage that comes to us from the past, it is very much alive and evolving very quickly. And we are part of it. If only we want to.

Ce que le covid m'a appris sur l'écologie.

Il devient de plus en plus clair que la réaction au virus du covid a fait l'immense majorité des dégâts, et qu'au moins dix fois plus de gens sont déjà morts à cause du confinement et des traitements médicaux incorrects -y compris les vaccins- que directement à cause du virus.

Il devient aussi de plus en plus clair que non seulement le virus a été conçu comme une arme biologique imparable (comme expliqué en détails dans le célèbre papier de 2015 par Menachery, Baric et al.) mais que la plupart des gouvernements ont été informés par leurs propres services secrets ou par des services secrets étrangers, que le virus était une arme très dangereuse. Cela peut expliquer pourquoi les réactions gouvernementales furent si extrêmes et inusitées, et associées avec un déni têtu de la nature militaire du virus. Car si les gouvernements pouvaient continuer à donner leur confiance aux gens qui ont construit le virus et qui maintenant proposaient une série de remèdes miracles - le vaccin étant le cerise sur le gâteau - il était douteux que le public eut été prêt à un pari aussi audacieux.

Ignorant les explications rationnelles des scientifiques les plus renommés, comme par exemple Luc Montagnier, les gouvernements ont donc activement mis en avant toutes sortes de gens "influents", à partir du moment où leurs thèses pouvaient renforcer un récit différent sur la nature du virus.

Une de ces thèses alternatives a été l'idée que l'homme avait tellement détruit les équilibres naturels que des virus de plus en plus dangereux allaient maintenant s'en échapper, et attaquer l'espèce humaine, par vengeance si l'on ose dire. Un cas extrême de cette thèse fut même avancé: Que les humains devraient à partir de maintenant, limiter leurs interactions personnelles avec la nature "sauvage", pour ne pas "la déranger" en quelque sorte. L'aspect "personnel" et la notion de "sauvage" étaient cruciaux: Il ne s'agissait surtout pas d'arrêter la production de pesticides ou de déchets nucléaires, ni les voitures électriques, téléphones portables et les mines nécessaires à la production de batteries. Cette nature-là n'était pas "dangereuse" car elle n'était pas "sauvage", pas "vierge", déjà "humanisée" et "domestiquée" en quelque sorte. Le danger venait de la nature "sauvage" ou de ce qu'il en reste, et dont il convenait de ne pas s'approcher, car elle pouvait, qui sait, avoir le désir de se "venger", par exemple des péchés collectifs de notre espèce. Que les zones "sauvages" de la planète n'aient pas changé depuis 12 mille ans importait peu. C'était plus un rêve moderne, une nostalgie, qu'une réalité scientifique.

Le cinéaste Britannique David Attenborough a même fait une vidéo sur ce thème, une adaptation contemporaine du vieux thème du "dieu en colère", financée par la chaine gouvernementale Britannique BBC.

Un autre thème fut celui du sacrifice et de l'obéissance. Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi et Jacinda Ardern furent des champions populaires de ce thème du chef qui punit durement car il aime sincèrement. Le Pape les a rejoint, en déclarant, un peu maladroitement, après une visite privée d'Albert Bourla, que se faire vacciner était "un acte d'amour". Un peu maladroit tout de même car l'amour étant dans le Christianisme traditionnellement associé au sacrifice, c'était suggérer de manière trop visible que le vaccin pouvait peut-être avoir des effets ambigus.

Une variation du thème de l'obéissance fut celui du respect des experts. C'était assez culoté car les plus grands experts étaient activement ignorés, et le récit gouvernemental n'était porté que par des scientifiques de troisième rang, des débutants, des fonctionnaires, des étudiants, des inconnus de disciplines associées, des journalistes, et des personnalités des arts, des sports et du spectacle. Evidemment cela faisait beaucoup de monde, mais les scientifiques solides, ceux qui avaient beaucoup publié ou fait des découvertes, manquaient curieusement à l'appel.

Une profession particulièrement divisée fut la profession médicale. Tellement de docteurs et d'infirmiers ont été virés parce qu'ils refusaient le vaccin ou l'administration de traitements dangereux, que Emmanuel Macron a dû les remplacer par des docteurs Libanais, attirés par un salaire supérieur, avec la condition qu'ils obéissent et se fassent vacciner. On ne trouvait plus de docteurs dans les hôpitaux au Liban. Cette anecdote montre que la profession médicale ne doit pas être collectivement suspectée de s'être mal comportée. Un grand nombre de soignants ont eu du discernement et ont aussi eu le courage de défendre leur serment d'Hippocrate même au prix de leur carrière.

Maintenant que les passions s'apaisent, la poussière retombent et que l'on commence à réaliser l'ampleur inouïe des dégâts, on peut se poser la question: Est-ce que cette tragédie du covid peut nous éclairer sur notre relation à la nature ?

Le virus a été conçu comme une arme. Des scientifiques et ingénieurs de haut niveau, soutenus par des fonds immenses, ont travaillé durant des décennies sur cette arme. Et puis, probablement durant les jeux militaires mondiaux à Wuhan fin octobre 2019, le virus a été lâché dans le public. Ensuite, on ne sait pas encore qui savait et qui ne savait pas que les vaccins étaient encore pire que le virus. L'armée des Etats-Unis a été entièrement vaccinée. On peut difficilement imaginer que ceux qui ont donné cet ordre savaient vraiment les conséquences, notamment cardiaques. Aucun militaire ne souhaite, par exemple, que le pilote d'un avion de chasse ait un arrêt du cœur au moment d'atterrir sur un porte-avion. Donc il est probable que ceux qui ont donné cet ordre pensaient vraiment que les vaccins protégeaient les soldats au lieu de les rendre invalides.

Mais le plus intéressant c'est que, même en mettant de coté les effets catastrophiques du confinement sur la santé publique, même en ignorant que de nombreuses personnes ont été systématiquement déclarées mortes du covid même lorsque la cause n'était pas le covid (comme un accident de voiture) simplement parce que le test RT-PCR (dont on sait aujourd'hui qu'il est essentiellement incorrect) signalait la présence du virus, la plupart des gens morts du covid sont morts à l'hôpital, suite à des traitements dont on sait maintenant qu'ils étaient souvent mortels. Par exemple, 97% des gens mis sous ventilateur sont morts.

Donc l'arme biologique ne fonctionnait pas si bien que ça.

Plus remarquable encore, son "efficacité" (Terme employé par Menachery et al. dans le papier de 2015) s'est très vite dégradée et sa virulence a diminué très rapidement, avec chaque variante successive, au point de devenir presque invisible. En se répandant de plus en plus, le virus rendait les gens de moins en moins malades.

Pour donner une comparaison, c'est un peu comme si des scientifiques avaient travaillé d'arrache-pied, durant des décennies, avec un luxe de moyens et des précautions de confidentialité et de sécurité extrêmes (des laboratoires entiers furent construits dans ce but, des mécanismes de financement ont été mis en place pour préserver la confidentialité, des barrières internationales furent misent en place pour confiner les risques politiques) à faire l'équivalent biologique de la bombe atomique, un virus létal a 90% et sans remède, et que la bombe, lâchée sur ses victimes, décide de se transformer toute seule et devient inoffensive.

Pire encore pour ses inventeurs, l'antidote conçu en parallèle, l'injection mRNA, se révèle être bien pire que le virus, et contrairement à lui, ne donne guère de signes de s'améliorer avec le temps.

Cela ressemble à une sorte de répétition de la débâcle des armes chimiques sur les champs de bataille européens de la première guerre mondiale, lorsqu'on a réalisé que le vent était imprévisible et pouvait retourner l'arme contre ceux qui la déployaient.

La leçon du covid pour l'écologie:

La nature nous a sauvés de nous-mêmes. La nature n'est pas un patrimoine qui nous vient du passé, elle est bien vivante et évolue très rapidement. Et nous en faisons intégralement partie.

Trans

Je vais me mêler de ce qui ne me regarde pas...

Plusieurs femmes que je trouvais vraiment belles, et intelligentes ce qui ne gâche rien, sont devenues "trans".

Et je trouve ça tellement triste. C'est bien sûr entièrement personnel, je peut seulement espérer que leurs amoureux/amoureuses ont une opinion différente, mais je n'arrive absolument pas à les trouver aussi belles "transformées" en faux homme, avec leurs barbichettes, traits durcis et regard triste, qu'avant.

Nous ne sommes pas nés avec un genre, puisque le genre est une construction, mais avec un sexe, qui n'est pas une construction. L'organe de la reproduction est différent de tous les autres: C'est le seul qui n'existe pas chez une personne individuelle, mais, durant des moments plutôt courts et relativement rares (par rapport à la respiration ou la digestion) uniquement durant le bien-nommé "acte sexuel" entre un homme et une femme. C'est donc un organe partagé, éphémère, et de plus, pas indispensable à la vie de la personne, car l'organe sexuel ne peut exister que pendant une certaine période de la vie (entre la puberté et la ménopause/andropause), et pas forcément pour tout le monde. En dehors de ces courts moments proprement sexuels, l'organe sexuel n'existe pas, et ses deux parties séparées, chez l'homme et la femme, sont des organes incomplets, sans fonction, mais avec une existence quand même, qui mérite le respect.

La confusion entre "acte sexuel" et la formation de l'organe de la reproduction ne doit pas camoufler que la soi-disant "transition" est en fait une mutilation. C'est une ablation du "demi-organe sexuel", ablation qui interdit la formation potentielle, future, de "l'organe sexuel" proprement dit.

Il est devenu un lieu commun depuis le succès des idées de Freud de dire que "tout est sexuel", même les désirs des enfants, même la séduction (ou l'humiliation) sur les lieux de travail, même l'achat de marchandises symboliques, même nos rêves... Mais ces théories trouvent avec la soi-disant "transition" chimique et chirurgicale, leur test de vérité: Un homme "transitionné" n'est peut-être plus "vraiment" un homme, mais n'est pas devenu une femme non plus. Tout au plus, c'est un homme mutilé. Partiellement mutilé. Il continue d'avoir des maladies d'homme. Il peut toujours avoir un cancer de la prostate, mais pas un cancer du sein. Pareil pour une femme "transitionnée". Freud s'il était vivant nous dirait-il que "changer de sexe est aussi un acte sexuel" ? (mais Freud aurait-il pu être Freud à notre époque, avec ses idées et ses désirs tellement conditionnés par Freud ?)

Il semble raisonnable de supposer que même Freud n'aurait pas dit cela ! "Changer de sexe" est mal-nommé, c'est un changement de genre, et une mutilation sexuelle. Ce n'est pas un acte sexuel, c'est un acte anti-sexuel, c'est la destruction du sexe. Seul un "Freudisme" extrême, pour qui tout est "sexuel" sans exception, peut nous faire confondre la destruction du sexe avec un acte "sexuel".

Les soulèvements de la terre !

Les soulèvements de la terre !

https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/nous-sommes-les-soulevements-de-la-terre

https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/blog/nous-sommes-les-soulevements-de-la-terre

https://reporterre.net/Megabassines-la-semaine-ou-tout-a-bascule

Covid, Chat GPT and The Consultant

The on-going covid-19 crisis is sowing confusion in our minds, and it is understandable. In the last 3 years, the overwhelming majority of authorities of all sorts (military, political, medical, scientific, educational, religious) and almost every media and all the large business corporations in the entire world and all governments baring in Africa and in Sweden, have acted in a way that looks coordinated. It is also becoming clearer every day how all these authorities and entities of power have acted in the last 3 years in a way that is harmful to humanity in every possible sense: Health, Economy, Children's rights, Worker's rights, Science, and Education.

Yet it is difficult to imagine a centralised leadership that would have ordered all these people to act the way they did. Some of them are declared enemies, yet they behaved the same way. Multi-party or one-party-regimes, military rulers or kingdoms, right-wing or left-wing governments, NATO block or regional powers, all were in unison.

Can we start asking, "Does The Devil exist"?

We are all excited by AI and Chat GPT, as adults would be in front of a baby who would have started speaking in an intelligible language immediately after birth.

We are asking Chat GPT all sorts of questions and publish the answers in newspapers! What is the news item here? The answers by Chat GPT? The fact that people ask questions and publish the answers? The questions that people ask?

To realise the gravity of what we are doing, maybe we can read (or read again) The Master and Margarita, by the Ukrainian author Mikhail Bulgakov.

A "Consultant", suave and elegant, spreads chaos and destruction targeting the most sophisticated and powerful people, in a way that nothing can be traced outside of these very people, attacking and destroying each-other and everything they claim to stand for, and the characters in the novel, and even the reader of the novel, all are looking for proofs of the physical reality of this "Consultant", and are left confused.

Chat GPT is funded by Bill Gates. Who said "of course"? But even if it wasn't him, he has so many candidates to step in his role! And we don't find much information about who controls it. Whatever "control" mean in this context. It is time to think again about this notion. What is control exactly, and does it exist?

We don't know what Chat GPT has access to. We are assured that Chat GPT is barred from politics and hate speech. Whatever that means. Just like the Gain-of-Function "research", it was never "intended" to create any harm, but on the opposite, to create "new vaccines" for the welfare of humanity. The utter confusion and self-destructive behaviour of authorities in our covid times mirror the behaviour of the society's elite, nudged by "The Consultant" in Bulgakov's novel.

It is time to keep our eyes wide open and think, as long as we have the luxury to do it. What does "intent" mean? What does "control" mean? Who wants What, actually?

Daniele Ganser

A very important lecture.

In German. Will translate here when I have time.

But a youtube-translate will give you a sufficiently clear idea.

Because Ganser is so simple and direct.

Ganser 27-10-2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3aq3lRHUc

The word that you are, the language that we become

Love can never be requited. Asymmetry is its nature.

And love is always reciprocal, always authorised, and a dialogue. As sure as respiration proves the existence of air.

Love is always true and real. It is not necessary to add, as we love to do, that our love is true or genuine, because love is always absolutely true and as real as the earth supporting our feet.

The only thing that doesn't exist, not really, completely, or not yet, is the language of love. It is not at all necessary to add, "our love is so unique that there is no language yet that can give it a body", because this is true of every love and this incompetence of words is the most ordinary thing, it could even be a definition of love.

It is for this reason that love is supremely intelligent, it understands everything at once, but also always looks stupid. Love can never look intelligent. This is the core of erotism, and of modesty that needs to be respected, this nakedness of intelligence without a language, without a body. We understand it, and we pretend to not see that it is naked. This respect of modesty is love of love, and is true erotism.

To give a body to love, to find its language, is the lifework of everyone of us. This language is what we are, every one of us a unique word, every one of us entirely individual and completely related to everyone else, by the grace of the gods.

The miracle of the dialogue between humans and the gods, is that even when this language that we are doesn't yet exist, - and by far! Even when we suffer in our babbling and stuttering, love is still allowed to exist, it is granted to us, like a promise that the path is open, that we will find its language. Because God is modest. He gives us clothes.

The theft of land in Ukraine

If there is war where you live, there can be only 3 reasons:

1. You live on oil or minerals

2. You live on a trade route or on a frontier

3. You live on agricultural land

Other explanations seek to make you join the war.

https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/war-theft-takeover-ukraine-agricultural-land

la promesse que nous trouverons le langage de l'amour

L'amour n'est jamais "payé en retour", toujours asymétrique, sinon ça ne serait pas de l'amour, mais aussi toujours réciproque, aussi sûr que la respiration n'existe que lorsqu'il y a de l'air.

L'amour est toujours vrai et toujours réel. Donc ce n'est pas la peine de préciser ou de le qualifier, comme on aime le faire, de "vrai" ou de "véritable", car il est toujours absolument vrai et aussi réel que la terre qui porte nos pas.

La seule chose qui n'existe pas vraiment, pas complètement ou pas encore, c'est le langage de l'amour. Ce n'est même pas la peine de préciser "notre amour est tellement extraordinaire que le langage pour lui donner corps n'existe pas encore", car à la vérité cela est vrai de tous les amours et cette incompétence des mots est la chose la plus ordinaire, cela pourrait même être une des définitions possibles de l'amour.

C'est pour cela que l'amour est suprêmement intelligent, il comprend tout d'avance, et en même temps a toujours l'air bête. Un amour qui aurait l'air intelligent est impossible. C'est cela le coeur de l'érotisme, et de la modestie qui a besoin d'être respectée, cette nudité de l'intelligence sans langage, sans corps. On la devine, on sait qu'elle est nue, et on fait semblant de ne pas la remarquer. Ce respect de la modestie est l'amour de l'amour, et c'est le vrai érotisme. 

Donner corps à l'amour, lui trouver son langage, est l'œuvre de la vie de chacun de nous. Ce langage est ce que nous sommes, chacun de nous, entièrement individuel et entièrement relié aux autres hommes, grâce aux dieux.

Le miracle du dialogue entre les hommes et les dieux, c'est que même lorsque ce langage n'existe pas encore, et de loin ! Que nous souffrons dans les balbutiements et le bégaiement, l'amour a le droit d'exister tout de même, il nous est accordé, comme une promesse que le chemin est ouvert, que nous parviendrons à trouver son langage. Car Dieu est modeste. Il nous habille.

Speech of Roger Waters at the United Nations, 8 February 2023

Speech of Roger Waters at the United Nations, 8 February 2023

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/02/roger-waters-full-speech-at-the-un-security-council/

 

https://worldbeyondwar.org/fr/vidéo-roger-waters-discours-des-nations-unies/

 

 

Roger Waters, co-founder of  Pink Floyd, addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting today, Wednesday 8, 2023 in New York.

 

Madame/Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen.

 

I feel profoundly honoured to be afforded this singular opportunity to brief your excellencies today. With your forbearance, I shall endeavour to express what I believe to be the feelings of countless of our brothers and sisters all over the world, both here in NY and across the seas. I shall invite them into these hallowed halls to have their say.

 

We are here to consider possibilities for peace in war-torn Ukraine, especially in light of the increasing volume of weapons arriving in that unhappy country. Every morning when I sit down at my laptop, I think of our brothers and sisters, in Ukraine and elsewhere, who, through no fault of their own find themselves in dire and often deadly circumstances. Over there, in Ukraine they may be soldiers facing another deadly day at the front, or they may be mothers or fathers facing the awful question how can I feed my child today, or they may be civilians knowing that today the lights will go out, for sure, as they always do in war zones, knowing that there is no fresh water, that there is no fuel for the stove, no blanket, just barbed wire and watch towers and walls and enmity. Or, they may be over here, in a big rich city like NY, here brothers and sisters can still find themselves in dire straights. Maybe, somehow, however hard they worked all their lives, they lost their footing on the slippery tilting deck of the neo-liberal capitalist ship we call life in the city and fell overboard to end up drowning.. Maybe they got sick, or maybe they took out a student loan, maybe they missed a payment, the margins are slim, who knows, but now they live on the street in a pile of cardboard, maybe even within sight of this United Nations building. Anyway, wherever they are, all over the world, war zone or not, together they make up a majority, a voiceless majority. Today I shall endeavor to speak for them.

 

We the people wish to live. We wish to live in peace in conditions of parity that give us the real opportunity to look after ourselves and our loved ones. We are hard workers and we are ready to work hard. All we need is a fair crack of the whip. Maybe that’s an unfortunate choice of idiom, after five hundred years of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery.

 

Anyway Please help us.

 

To help us you may have to consider our predicament, and to do so you may have to take your eye off the ball for a moment, to put your own goals momentarily to one side. What are your goals by the way? And here maybe I direct my inquiries more to the five permanent members of this Council. What are your goals? What is in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Bigger profits for war industries? More power globally? A bigger share of the global cake? Is mother earth a cake to be gobbled up? Does not a bigger share of the cake mean less for everyone else? What if today, in this place of safety, we were to look in another direction, to look at our capacity for empathy for instance, to put ourselves in other’s shoes, like, right now, for instance, the shoes of that chap on the other side of this room, or even the shoes of the voiceless majority, if they have any shoes that is.

 

The Voiceless Majority is concerned that your wars, yes your wars, for these perpetual wars are not of our choosing, that your wars will destroy the planet that is our home, and along with every other living thing we will be sacrificed on the altar of two things, profits from the war to line the pockets of the very, very, few and the hegemonic march of some empire or other towards unipolar world domination. Please reassure us that that is not your vision for there is no good outcome down that road. That road leads only to disaster, everyone on that road has a red button in their briefcase and the further we go down that road the closer the itchy fingers get to that red button and the closer we all get to Armageddon. Look across the room, at this level we’re all wearing the same shoes.

 

So back to Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine by The Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. Also, The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not “unprovoked”, so I also condemn the provokateurs in the strongest possible terms. There, that’s got that out of the way.

 

When I wrote this speech yesterday, I included an observation that the power of veto in this council only lay in the hands of its permanent members, I was concerned that that was was undemocratic and rendered This Council toothless…. This morning I had a revelation……..TOOTHLESS! maybe toothless is in some ways a good thing……..If this is a toothless chamber……..I can open my big mouth on behalf of the voiceless without getting my head bitten off……. How cool is that. I read in the paper this morning, some anonymous diplomat quoted as saying, “Roger Waters! To address the Security Council? Whatever next?….. Mr Bean! Hwah! Hwah! Hwah! For those of you who don’t know, Mr Bean is an ineffectual character in an English comedy show on TV. So it’s a penny to a pound the anonymous diplomat is an Englishman, Hwah! hwah! hwah! To you too Sir! Ok, I think it’s time to introduce my mother, Mary Duncan Waters, she was a big influence on me, she was a school teacher, I say was, she’s been dead for fifteen years. My father, Eric Fletcher Waters, was a big influence on me too, he too is dead, he was killed on the 18th of February 1944 at Aprilia near The Anzio Bridgehead in Italy, when I was only five months old, so I know something about war and loss. Anyway back to my Mum. When I was about thirteen I was struggling with some knotty adolescent problem or other trying to decide what to do, it doesn’t matter what it was, I can’t remember anyway, but my mum sat me down and said, “Listen, you’re going to be faced with many knotty problems during your life and when you are here’s my advice, read, read, read find out everything you can about whatever it is, look at it from all sides, all angles, listen to all opinions, especially ones you don’t agree with, research it thoroughly, when you’ve done that you will have done all the heavy lifting and the next bit is easy, “Is it? Ok mum what’s the easy bit?”…….”Oh, the easy bit is, you just do the right thing.“ Hmm!

 

So speaking of doing the right thing brings me to human rights.

 

We the people, want universal human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or nationality. To be clear, that would include but would not be limited to the right to life and property under the law for, for instance, Ukrainians, and for instance Palestinians. Yup, let that sink in. And obviously for all the rest of us. One of the problems with wars is that in a war zone or anywhere where the people live under military occupation, there is no recourse to the law, there are no human rights.

 

Today our brief is the possibility of peace in the Ukraine, with special reference to the arming of the Kiev regime by third parties.

 

I’m running out of time so,

 

What do the Voiceless millions have to say?

 

They say

Thank you for hearing us today

We are the many who do not share in the profits of the war industry.

We do not willingly raise our sons or daughters

To provide fodder for your cannons.

In our opinion

The only sensible course of action today

Is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

No ifs, no buts, no ands.

Not one more Ukrainian or Russian life is to be spent.

Not one.

They are all precious in our eyes.

 

So, the time has come to speak truth to power. You all remember the story of the Emperor’s new clothes? Of course you do. Well the leaders of your respective Empires stand, in one degree or another, naked before us. We have a message for them. It is a message from all the refugees in all the camps, a message from all the slums and favelas, a message from all the homeless, on all the cold streets, from all the earthquakes and floods, on earth. It is also a message from all the people, not quite starving but wondering how on earth to make the pittance they earn, meet the cost of a roof over their head and food for their families. My mother country England is, thank god, an Empire no more, but in that country now, there is a new catch phrase “Eat or Heat?” you can’t do both. It’s a cry echoing round the whole of Europe.

 

Apparently, the only thing the Powers that Be think we can all afford is perpetual war. How crazy is that?

 

So, from the four billion or so brothers and sisters in this Voiceless Majority who together with the millions in the international anti-war movement represent a huge constituency, enough is enough! We demand change.

 

President Biden, President Putin, President Zelenski,

USA, NATO, RUSSIA, THE EU, ALL OF YOU.

PLEASE CHANGE COURSE NOW,

AGREE TO A CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE TODAY.

 

That, of course, will only be the starting point. But everything extrapolates from that starting point. Imagine the collective global sigh of relief. The outpouring of joy. The international joining of voices in harmony singing an anthem to peace! John Lennon pumping the air with his fist from the grave. We have finally been heard in the corridors of power. The bullies in the schoolyard have agreed to stop playing nuclear chicken. We’re not all going to die in a nuclear holocaust after all. At least not today. The powers that be have been persuaded to drop the arms race and perpetual war as their accepted modus operandum. We can stop squandering all our precious resources on war. We can feed our children, we can keep them warm. We may even learn to cooperate with all our brothers and sisters and even save our beautiful planet home from destruction. Wouldn’t that be nice?

 

Your Excellencies,

 

I thank you for your forbearance.

 

Roger Waters

The speed of science

In the face of the wave of misinformation and emotionally charged arguments that have overwhelmed Western societies and their followers in various parts of the world, it was difficult to find a rational response, and one was tempted to restrict their opinions and advices to themselves.

However, when the decision was taken worldwide to vaccinate children, at the end of 2021, this self-centered attitude was not viable anymore. Children are different.

I was, literally speaking, the only person in my children's entire environment, who was opposed to their covid vaccination. The other elders in our family, in their extended family, their teachers, their classmates, all were already vaccinated and asking my children what they were waiting for, with an air of responsibility and moral superiority.

My authority and credibility as a father was reduced to zero. Just speaking was useless.

When I realised, because she was still in bed late in the morning, that one of my daughter had taken the day before one shot of covaxin at a vaccination camp organised in her school - exceptionally open for vaccination, even as it was still closed for teaching - and furthermore, when I realised that I was the only person whom she kept in the dark, my world collapsed. I decided to to do what I should have done much before: 

Follow the scientific method.

As my daughter was in bed for 3 days, too weak to get up, I asked her, on the 3rd day when she was better, to collect covid, vaccination and population data from 3 government websites:

1) Cowin Portal:

https://www.cowin.gov.in/

2) State-Wise Covid Status:

https://www.mygov.in/corona-data/covid19-statewise-status/

3) Census of India:

https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/

She took screenshots of each state number of vaccinations (1 and 2 doses) from the Cowin dashboard, and wrote down the figures in an excel sheet. She then wrote the number of covid cases and covid deaths of each state, in a different column, as per the State-wise Covid Status. In the next column she wrote the population of each state, as per the Census.

Then, dividing the number of vaccinations and number of cases and deaths by the population of each state, she obtained the numbers per capita.

She then sorted the columns by number of 1st dose per capita, and put the result in an x-y graph.

The result is below:

I then asked my daughter if she could see in this graph any relation between the number of vaccinations and the number of deaths. She was hesitant. It was not very clear, she said. There were very high variations between states. But there was a slight correlation: Higher the number of doses, higher the number of deaths. I then asked her, is it clear from the government data that vaccinations reduce the number of deaths? She said, "No. It is rather the opposite".

By the time she reached this conclusion, after 4 hours of tedious work, her  younger brother and elder sister had joined us and were also observing the data.

She decided to not go to school for the second dose. She would return to school only when the classes would restart. Her brother and sister also decided to not go to school get their shot. Their main worry was what to tell to their friends and to their teachers. But they felt confident they would be able to say something and to face them.

I am not sure what had the more influence, my daughter experiencing bad side effects (for more than a week) or assembling and studying government data. But to this day, my kids are the only ones in their entire school to not have been vaccinated.

It took 4 hours of boring, tedious clerical job: making screenshots, saving them in folders, writing the values in the excel sheet. 

4 hours. The speed of science?

Links to my daughter's files:

spreadsheet

screenshots