Humility, a concept....

....That is lost to the English/ Anglo Saxons, they believe they must be better then everyone else but they don't see what all this selfishness has done to to this " Great Britain". Everyone is in such denial that they can't even see that this country is worse than the third world. Instead of focusing on national infrastructure, schools, hospitals and the future of the entire population, they focused on making themselves obscenely rich while everyone else in left to live in the gutter. The true mark of greatness is having the ability to recognize you've made mistakes and doing what you can to to make sure you don't repeat them.

Maybe instead of pissing away all the profits from the North Sea Oil on making the rich even richer so the rest of the world think we're a prosperous little island, maybe they should have though about what all this spending on frivolous "projects" would do in the long term. We've had at least 3 financial crashes from 1980- the present day, and this current one doesn't seem to be slowing down, how can it slow down when people don't even accept that they made a mistake.

From early childhood I learnt that it's okay to make mistakes as  you first acknowledge it was wrong and that you learn from it. It sure seems that politicians and bankers have never been taught that lesson since they continue to commit massive amounts of fraud and come up with these ponzi scheme like " help to buy", which is just creating another bubble!

Nothing in this country is built to endure the test of time- just take a look at the new builds! They don't believe in getting the small things right like being able to feed or house the population, all they want is the quick result, they don't care at all that this fast track to "prosperity" is built on shaky foundations. The simple explanation and maybe the most obvious is that they long to be like the US. Now what person in their right mind would want to be like that? Most of the population is incarcerated, living in poverty, homeless, illiterate and without any form of health care.

Why not be more like the Scandinavian counties where there is a higher quality of living for all and better infrastructure and a greater respect and appreciation for the environment.
  I am fully aware that they pay higher taxes but they only get taxed once and it's called income tax, we have got income tax, VAT and the cost of tickets( which is basically a tax on the poor) which keep rising each year even though the service is way below standards. There is absolutely nothing worthwhile for the average person that our tax is paying for, the past months have shown us just how poor the infrastructure is- for God's sake they haven't updated it since the Victorian Ages!!!

Continually saying your the best doesn't necessarily mean your the best- just look at the English football team, everyone else has adapted to the different playing style but you refuse to evolve from your brutish ways.

Maybe that's why they haven't won anything significant since 1966? Maybe they should re think their approach and go for a slower, slightly smaller approach to growth. After all size isn't everything!

Totalitarian Britain?

Another case has come out, this time it was Jesselyn Radack a member of a Human Rights advocate group

and former lawyer to NSA contractor Edward Snowden. She was detained and questioned at Heathrow Airport in an obvious attempt to intimidate her. Questions were asked  about where she was going and if she knew Edward Snowden or Bradley/ Chelsea Manning. This is an disturbing trend for the British Government as in August 2013 Davis Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald was also held at Heathrow. All this just has me asking the question; why must Britain break laws for the US and also how are we free if we can't even voice our dissent.

Ms Radack is merely an advocate for whistleblowers and Human Rights and Britain seems to be doing everything to eliminate those rights, so I ask again; how are we free? Especially when it seems that they are bring in more " laws" to limit our voices. Jesselyn was put on a list, the Inhibited persons list which was only just invented in March 2012  and grants the TSA agents to refuse the person a boarding pass or allow them into the next area. This list which also comprises of her lawyer that represented Snowden: Jennifer Robinson, so it seems that is you chose to help a person who dares to tell the people how much criminal activities the Government is doing, you'll be subjected to theses intrusive "checks" wherever you go.

As I've said many times before there can be no functional democracy without free speech, which includes the freedom to disagree with the actions of your Government. No wonder no one in this country knows anything when the Government goes around closing every avenue to the truthseekers.

The growing crisis...

....That is being overlooked.

Moronic media!

I may be the only one to notice just how simple the mainstream news has become, it's as if they're worried if they use to many big words they will lose the audience. And that's another sad thing, the fact that people have become so " simple" that they would be lost if the news tried to explain things using adult language!

For a long time I've noticed this " simplification" of the population, the media has a huge chunk of responsibility, by choosing to care more about profits and audience shares they have become less focused on the actual news and instead provide us with " soundbites".

Recently all the local news channels have been focusing on the floods that have ravaged the UK. This is a

newsworthy story there's no denying that but some of the questions that come out of the "reporters" mouth are just so ridiculous. On the BBC they had on a scientist to talk about the climate and they asked him what made him think the extreme weather was due to the jet stream? And  the guest was obviously frustrated by the news team and there lack of knowledge. For over 30 years climate scientist were shouting from the hill tops about climate change and you've only decided to focus on it know because it's arrived at your backyard. Believe me I share his frustration, there has been no seasons for years now, that must have tipped of someone and told them that something was wrong!!

The news media has a responsibility to inform people not distract them, which it has done with great success. But you can't ignore it when your home is under water!! Tell me Mr Cameron, how has this hurt the economy?!! And another very serious issue: why did we have to bring pumps from Holland? why didn't the " great British engineers"have them ready?? Oh yeah that's right, we don't have any left because you keep pushing everyone into finance, like that's worth anything, I guess if we run out of sandbag, we can always use some bankers!!

The media can help by focusing less on celebrity gossip and focusing on things that have real value and can actual make a positive impact on the world.