Interview + The What - Biggie Feat. Method Man

Katie Hopkins - Russell Brand Trews

"Isn't it a bit mad, to see human litter strewn about. This is the kind of images that Katie Hopkins doesn't care about... She's just the puss emerging from the pimple that is our policy." 

"Until there's a shift in the lens of the way we see the world, of like "oh right we're meant to be here helping each other", until you make that shift, that you can only make really as an individual and hope that it emanates on a familial, social, communal, national, international level, unless we start making those individual transitions, that's why again what Katie Hopkins says is important, because we can't afford to allow that to be our prevailing mentality in our conversations in our chats in bars, cafes and workplaces, far less allow it to become policy. For us to live under the politics of cruelty, a kind of incremental holocaust. If compassion is not a component, then there's no humanity left to save. Once we kill the compassion within ourselves then we are all then cockroaches, waiting for the apocalypse, and it can't come quick enough."

"I suppose what you can do, is find your own humanity, look for the humanity and connection that you feel to other people and be kind. "

MP cover up's - Russell Brand Trews

Doesn't it make your blood BOIL!

INSPIRATION Raghava KK at TEDxGateway

Beautiful mind and perspective:

Tips on speaking - Julian Treasure

Speak only

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

D. H. Lawrence

Gary Cooper with his wife Rocky, 1930s.

Neil Gaiman - What a guy!

"So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom... and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would... and now go, and make interesting mistakes. Make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Make the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art."

David Icke - Mind Control & The New World Order

Interesting and disturbing:

"People said - in very large numbers in the early 1990's - that I was crazy, insane, having a midlife crisis, I'm sure some people still feel the same, but I tell you what - If I'm seen as sane by a world this crazy, I'm disappointed."

“Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.” Albert Pike

Consciousness | Dada Gunamuktananda | TED

Absorb this:

Immigration revisited

Image source: Independent 

With all the media attention on the Calais hold up crisis currently happening, the discussion/debate/argument about immigration is wide open again. An interesting article a friend of mine just shared via Huffington Post, well worth a read. It's good to get some actual facts about immigration because a lot of what we're led to believe by the media is completely exaggerated and tailored to create a more shocking news story. It is completely reasonable for people to be concerned by migration if they or their family are being effected by seemingly exhausted public services, or unable to find good quality work that pays a living wage. People feel at threat by what they see as a severe immigration crisis in their home country, well truthfully there is a severe migration crisis, but it's not just here in the UK - it's global, and it isn't a straightforward situation, there is a large background to why this is even happening. 

I don't know what the answer is, all I know is that as a nation we have to take some responsibility for what is happening in these countries and the cause for why people are so desperate to leave. We should not get angry, we should widen our knowledge on the situation and focus our efforts on influencing global change to restore war torn and impoverished countries. As a starting point, we're better to learn the facts at least and as always, not regard what we read in the newspaper as gospel. 

I enjoyed Robin Lustig's final note on his Huffington Post article:

"Do I have the answer to the global migration crisis? No, but here are some suggestions that might help: set up proper, EU-run processing centres at the main entry points: southern Italy, Greece, Hungary. Genuine refugees should be offered asylum according to an agreed quota calculated according to population and GDP. Those deemed non-eligible for asylum would be offered a choice: wait in a camp until your number comes up, and then go where you're sent -- or go home.

The tragedy is that so many people are so desperate that they're prepared to die in an attempt to find a safe place to live. And our response is so blinkered that all we can think of is building higher fences." 

Image source: Guardian

There seems to be no easy, humane solution whereby all parties are satisfied. Let's see what our leaders come up with.