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Even if I strike the nose of a believer with this, my sword Zulfi'qar, for hating me he will not hate me, and even if I pile all the wealth of the world before a hypocrite (Muslim) for loving me he will not love me. This is because it is a verdict pronounced by the tongue of the revered Prophet, may Allah bless him and his descendants, as he said:
O `Ali, a believer will never hate you arid a hypocrite (Muslim) will never love you.
Hadith n. 45 - Imam 'Âlî Ibn Abû Talîb (ع)
A notice found at Walcot Hall, Lydbury North, Shropshire. I could think of a few politicians we could have sent too. Come to think of it we did and we've still got some: Cameron, his donkey Osborne, the Quisling Clegg. the hypocrite Corbyn to mention just four. Now I bet that's stirred up a wasps nest.
Here's the real problem - we haven't any colonies now. Still I suppose we could always send them to South Georgia.
Und wenn ihr betet, sollt ihr nicht sein wie die Heuchler, die gern in den Synagogen und an den Straßenecken stehen und beten, damit sie von den Leuten gesehen werden. Wahrlich, ich sage euch: Sie haben ihren Lohn schon gehabt. 6 Wenn du aber betest, so geh in dein Kämmerlein und schließ die Tür zu und bete zu deinem Vater, der im Verborgenen ist; und dein Vater, der in das Verborgene sieht, wird dir's vergelten.
(Luther-Bibel 1984 Matthäus 6, 5-8
Ist ein Gebet auf einem stillen Friedhof ein öffentliches oder ein privates?
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
(King James Bibel, Matthew 6:5-8)
Is praying in a silent cemetery an open or an private prayer?
Your Verdict Please (Exhibit 3 of 4)
On the political front, woman of 1910, were no slouches. Sufferage was the big issue of the day. This is an anti-sufferage picture with the caption, "The genii of intolerance A dangerous ally for the cause of women suffrage." Dated: 1915. It suggest sufferagettes were hypocrites, individuals who wanted more personal freedom while at the same time telling others how to live their lives. Does this seem sentimental to you?
Feb. 28, '26: I pray for Iran and for all Iranians, a beautiful country filled with beautiful people, victimized since the advent of the mass production of motor vehicles because they live above such a great wealth of natural resources in oil and gas. They're in the same club as the Iraqis, the Libyans, the Congolese and the Venezuelans (despite the wall to wall media propaganda re Israeli security concerns, etc., etc.), but they have the ingenuity and strength of will to fight back when they have to, and now they have to. (I might be a hypocrite to pray for anything seeing as I'm not religious, but I don't care.)
I wrote the following a year or two ago.:
I traveled on a tight budget of @ $10,000.00 for 11 1/2 (almost 12) mos. from Manchester to central and SE Iran, all overland (except for the train through the Chunnel under the English Channel), stayed in the cheapest accommodation to be found most often and ate in unassuming places generally, with rare exceptions. In Iran I lived on @ $ 8.00 a day w/o skimping on film, tourist attractions, postcards, and books (great quality and the cheapest anywhere. But if I'd had more $ [much more] I would've eaten much more kebab.) I could travel long distance for a day by bus there for @ $1.00 (!!) whereas I hitched across Turkey. I tried hitching in Iran for the 1st few days, but it was tough, at least on the main routes. I realized why when I learned how incredibly cheap long-distance bus travel was. I would find cheap moserferkhanes (sp? pron. moh-zer-fer-haw-nays, budget inns) for @ $5.00 per night, some not bad (a real nice one in Tabriz), and some real dives! (I stayed in a room in Shiraz that I don't think had been washed in ... ? Black walls and ceiling, was I in a hostel in a condemned bldg. run by squatters? I slept in my sleeping bag on a groundsheet on the bed.)
- I preferred the food in Turkey generally (incredible), but preferred the desserts in Iran, like gaz and pistachio-brittle, which is saying something as Turkish desserts are world-famous. My favourite, and a tax on my budget, were the bags of little cream puffs filled with real cream. One thing that I did eat often in Tehran (ONLY b/c it was so cheap), was a 'spaghetti sandwich', spaghetti in a hot-dog bun, starch on starch, something I've never seen anywhere else.
- Iranians are outgoing, extroverted, and would readily invite me to stay at their homes, but most often I declined. I was focused on my tourism (I tried to see and take in as much as I could almost every day that trip), and I planned to head home for Xmas so my list of sites and sights left to be seen was more finite every day. But Iranians are 'party people' and would often have a get-together with friends late in the evening when they'd host me, and I'd be too exhausted by 10 p.m. or so to stay up. At one memorable house party in Kermanshah no-one spoke English and one old man was trying to be comical and engaging, but I was just wiped and my host wasn't reading my body language at all. It was a cultural thing. But of course he was being most kind and generous inviting me to his home, having a party, feeding me and housing me, a stranger, for a night for free. I hope I thanked him enough. Now I wish I hadn't been so polite and just accepted the hospitality but asked first if I could hit the hay early. Why not?
- Excerpts re my travels in Iran from an email sent to someone less than a month after I returned home.:
"Iran ... [is] a fascinating place. It doesn't have an old feel to much of it as so many little towns do in Germany and thereabouts, which is due to the nature of mud-brick, and possibly the Persian appreciation for novelty, that much of what you'll see of general interest in the older towns is turn-of-the-last-century. (One particularly energetic Qajar shah at the end of the 19th cent. renovated so many of the world's oldest cities.) With a few exceptions like Yazd, and some very few small towns like Abiyaneh near Kashan, your tourism involves looking for the older buildings, the inevitable mosques, gonbads (tomb-towers), and imamzadehs (shrines/tombs of descendants of Mohammed or of mystics and imams). And of course there are the rambling bazaars. Most of the major towns do have well-preserved ancient complexes. The people are wonderful in many ways and easy to like, but could be trying as well on rare occasions. In fact they're the most friendly people I've ever met, and the most extroverted outside or including Africa. But I didn't always feel safe in some small centres alone with a large backpack. Young men can swagger up en masse with oleaginous smiles and an interest in your pockets. [That only happened the once I think, in Firuzabad.] One of the biggest differences is in the kids at archaeological ruins (mounds) who flock around and want your attention, and who'll throw small rocks from behind your back when you're not looking. [That happened 3 x. Friendly Iranians might perceive that a tourist is being a bit rude or even weird if he says hello but then prefers to explore and focus on the ruins, which is what likely inspired kids to throw small rocks in my direction when I had my back to them at Hasanlu, Susa, and Tappe Sialk, although one gave me some great Elamite-era pottery sherds at the latter beforehand.] There's something utterly foreign in what almost seems to be a complete lack of hierarchy between the generations (at least compared to what we're used to). The young kids aren't spoiled but if they're being brats don't expect an adult to intervene and tell them to leave the foreigner alone. [Persians aren't disciplinarians, but their kids grow up to be hard-working and conscientious. They might be onto something.] ... Iranians aren't fashion plates but their clothes are spotless at all times. As their rivers have been running dry recently you see long stretches of trash and filth running under and away from their bridges, and the gutters are choked, but not a stain on anyone anywhere. ... The sites are fascinating for anyone with an interest in history. In fact I plan to go back soon (in the scheme of things, 'soon' is relative to my future travels elsewhere). ..."
- From another email I sent to the same person a couple of years later. He was considering traveling to Iran.:
"If you CAN go for an extended period, you'll find a huge piece of the ancient world waiting for you, relatively ignored by tourists with a few real exceptions (Esfahan, Shiraz with nearby Achaemenid ruins ... and Yazd were replete with foreign tourists, esp. Yazd it seemed [It was in Yazd, in the famous Jameh mosque there, that I learned from a western tourist that Pierre Trudeau had passed 2 - 3 weeks earlier], and otherwise I only saw one (from a distance) at Ghara Kelise near Maku (a famous Armenian church and pilgrimage site), one in Hamadan (the fabled city [of Ecbatana] with a glorious history under the Medes and the Achaemenids), I don't recall seeing any in Tabriz (?), a handful on a tour at Susa (which could be one of the most historic cities on earth by my estimate) and a couple at nearby Chogha Zanbil (the most intact ziggurat in the Middle East). ... It's amazing that the first high domes on a square base (with pioneering use of the squinch), in the Sassanian palace of Ardeshir Babakan near Firuzabad, had no mention in my LP guide. ... And the LP is clueless re: the significance of Takht-i-Suleiman in southern E. Azerbayjan province as well. One of the most important volcanoes to the course of Iranian and world history at the site is described as a hill if I remember. The LP people even say the view from the top of the hill is impressive, but of course they couldn't have seen that view and not known it was a hollow volcano. There were no foreign tourists at that site when I was there except for an expat living in the US and his family (I visited the site twice), and which could have been the source of certain fundamental aspects of Zoroastrianism which in turn had such a profound influence on Judaism and in turn Christianity and Islam. ... It's all the more fascinating the further you get off the beaten track from urban centres (and even in those). ... "
We spotted our glorious London Mayor, Boris Johnson, by a side entrance at the back of the building posing for chummy photos with his Conservative sycophants and fund-raisers, but as soon as he saw us he dashed inside.
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammersmith Town Hall, London 27.02.2011
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
There's sort of a reflection of me in the pot behind the lobster. This turned out to be a tasty dinner but it was sort of sad to plunge them in the pot. I think I'll stick to lobster pounds from now on and leave the plunging to someone else. I realize this is hypocritical, and probably ultimately an unstable position. I end up preferring crab to lobster, anyway.
The Awareness Muscle Training en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness_Muscle#Awareness_Muscle_(Blackwood_Gallery_Toronto)
Old Sammy shows liberals which finger of his they can bite. Still can't believe a crazy liberal bit off the finger of a geriatric, freedom-loving American citizen.
Anna Nalick ~ Breathe (2AM) ~
2 am and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize
Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason!
'Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe
Woah breathe, just breathe
May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just a day, he sat down to the flask in his fist
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it
'Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, boys
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe
Woah breathe, just breathe
There's a light at each end of this tunnel
You shout 'cause you're just as far in
As you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around
2 am and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper
It's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to
'Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, now
Sing it if you understand
And breathe, just breathe
Woah breathe, just breathe
Oh breathe, just breathe...
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
I took this on International Blvd near the 2100 block if I recall. It was about 2012. Loom at the communist undertone. It says so much about Oakland.
Typical for Oakland. During the Occupy protests there was a large contingent of people promoting communism and wealth redistribution. They were on their laptops and expensive iPhones posting about how awful capitalism is (hypocritical?). Personally I'm glad this country gives us the opportunity to create our own wealth through hard work instead of being lazy and expecting a handout.
song:
dirty overture - catsturffer (via newgrounds)
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pic info:
i thought it had been a while since i took the custom nendoroid pachirisu out for a walk...so it went on a walk outside...with a pachirisu :D
oh! the grass really isn't thaaaaaaaat long xD they're just sitting down...ish :3
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today:
- FRKN HISTORY EXAM DONE! now i think i'll never EVER say the words 'assimilation, protectionism' and 'land rights and native title' all in one paragraph EVER.EVER.EVER.AGAIN.
- the people in my textiles class are total hypocrites!
last year me and my friends were listening to Ministry of Sound (clubbers guide i think) and they told us to turn it off so they can listen to their pop music garbage...AND NOW GUESS WHAT THEY'RE LISTENING TO! MINISTRY OF FRKN SOUND!
gawsh i know that putting more popular songs on the ministry of sound albums is an attempt to attract more people to buy/listen to their albums...but gawsh. they're going to lose some fans of the albums like 'clubbers guide' or 'the annual' or 'sessions _', who actually listened, followed and bought the compilations for the sake of escaping the trends and mainstream songs and listening to something totally unknown to the top 20 charts...they're loosing me that's for sure!
*still have a tiny bit of hope for them to stop trying to become a horrible compilation of pop garbage*
- I HATE HOW MY SCIENCE TEACHER FEELS OBLIGED TO GIVE US A HORRIBLE SCIENCE QUIZ TOMORROW! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE! NO TIME TO DO ANYTHING FUN ANYMORE DARNIT!
- i'm sick of everything to do with assignments and exams and classes -_-
i wish something random and utterly awesome would just happen...something that doesn't involve a whole class with people i'm not really friends with...or anything related to school and assignments...i just want something awesome to happen
- i wish to tell this person they cannot do something in front of the whole entire school because they'd look like a total i****..but i can't because that'd be crushing their dreams ><
- was reading Black Butler this afternoon...AND OMG THE ARC OF THE KILLINGS IN THE PHANTOMHIVE HOUSE WAS SO WHOA! i didn't realise that Sebastian was the priest! xD OH GAWSH I FEEL SILLY! but i like how they used something from Romeo and Juliet! IT WAS SO UNEXPECTED! and also the snake and how it manipulated people into thinking vampires, blood and stuff...SO MIND BENDING!
HAHA! and i KNEW that Earl Grey (the Queen's bitc...i mean butler!) KILLED SEBASTIAN AND THE GERMAN DRUNK!
lol in the next arc, Ronald Knox of the Shinigami Dispatch Association SERIOUSLY looks like America fro Hetalia!
~
Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
Poverty and Homelessness worsen, and governments keep making promises, forming committees and task forces, accompanied by photo-op funding announcements.
...and it only gets worse.
__________________
"Despite all the fatuous rhetoric and all the pious pronouncements, despite all the House of Commons committees and Senate reports, despite all the warnings from anti-poverty organizations and from the growing number of food banks across the country, despite the inquiries and commissions and all the published studies, the situation is even worse than it was thirty years ago and much worse today than it was twenty years ago.”
“Through selfishness, greed, indifference, and cruelty, we have forced millions of men, women, and children to struggle through lives of misery, despair, and suffering.” “There is no excuse for the high levels of poverty in Canada. None. None whatsoever.”
(Mel Hurtig - Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids)
__________________
If everybody truly cared about poverty and homelessness, like they claim, then poverty and homelessness wouldn't exist.
Blow for EU citizens' civil liberties as hypocritical MEPs green light controversial EU-US PNR deal
A majority of MEPs voted today to reverse the European Parliament's long-standing role in defence of EU citizens' civil liberties and to endorse intrusive big brother style surveillance.
The positive vote on the EU-US PNR deal, which came in spite of the fact that fundamental concerns previously outlined by the EP and European courts have not been addressed, will mean US authorities will be able to continue to retain private information about EU airline passengers.
Before the vote, Greens/EFA MEPs and MEPs from the GUE/NGL group staged an action outside the hemicycle to try and convince other groups to reject the agreement.
In the end however, they were outnumbered by the decision of the Conservatives and Social Democrats to vote in favour.
Unable to amend the final text, Greens voted to reject the deal and hit out at the outcome
Read more about the outcome here (EN / DE / FR): www.greens-efa.eu/pnr-data-protection-6920.html
“Sunrise painted horizon”
Texts-Design-Photos: Udon Thani, Thailand 2019 / Aunt Fanny_Newberry 1888 Clifton Park, New York © Neuage (28 April 2020)
#SunrisePaintedHorizon #CliftonParkNew York #Love’sHopelessHypocriticalDecay
#Neuage #ThoughtsInIsolation #TextualImagery #TerrellAdsit
A stunning place in the North of France. Shame about all the tourists, I say hypocritically. Taken while on holiday, summer 2010.
Whilst I was photographing this Pablo Delgado I was suddenly swamped by what seemed like a Street Art tour. And then they followed me like a bad smell around the Redchurch St area.
Ok given that I did 4 tours of Banksy's street work in 2006 might make my reaction seem hypocritical, but that was 6 years ago and unique at the time, and it was all for free (and giving free POW stuff & my hand produced B&W photos out), and it was also not just ploughing the same tired streets over and over again like these people, and most 'street art' photographers, seem to..
rant over. I've just fallen off my soapbox and I looked like a right twat.
"Just fake it, if you're of directions, fake it, if you don't belong,
yeah, fake it, if you feel like infection, whoa,
you're such a fuckin' hypocrite"
Fake it - Seether
Long time no seen!
In a little delay but I just wanted to say Merry Chrismas and HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
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Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人
Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Let's begin with the Tories arriving...
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
I know I'm being hypocritical by saying this'cause I'm always complaining about celebrity obsessed tweenies, but c'mon. He can do so much better...ugh
London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London
Let's begin with the Tories arriving...
Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.
Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.
The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.
This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.
The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.
The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.
For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com
London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011
She was daughter of senior civil servant Mian Riazuddin Ahmed and crusaded against President Zia's hypocritical measures with a resultant lowering of women in our society.
Response to Article:
"Village that towers above China" by
Jonathan Watts
November 14, 2011
www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4623-Village...
Comment by Philip McMaster:
People favourably respond to Change
Generally speaking, people don't change for the better when criticized. But they do respond favourably to praise.
Huaxi Cun is not the worst place in China, and it has been following and sometimes leading the objectives and trends of the government and Chinese people - first it was to get rich - and clean up the mess later. We did this in the West on our own schedule, some Chinese are doing it now under the generally hypocritical pressure of the global community.
人们对改变的有利反应
总体上，当人们受到批评的时候，不会变得更好。但他们受到表扬的时候，总是积极反应。华西村不是中国最差 的地方，它跟从着-有时也领导着中国政府与人民的目标与潮流。这个目标首先是变富，然后再处理垃圾。西方按照自己的日程表也这样做过。现在有些中国人也这 么做，就面临虚伪的国际压力。
An aspirational monument - if you choose to see it that way..
When I was invited to Huaxi Cun for the inauguration of the “Village in the Sky”, (www.tudou.com/programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ ) I spoke of the new tower as a beacon for all to see, not in terms of opulence and excess, but as a towering 3 element "Symbol of Sustainability" - an aspirational symbol rising above all else - including the cookie-cutter villas, the grubby factories, the money focus and the faux world landmarks - to shock and awe viewers into realizing that all monuments have a message – and this one should inspire people to make the connection between Heaven, Earth and the People (Tian, Di, Ren 天地人) and that to achieve Wu Renbao’s “Heaven on Earth”… the Triple-Bottom-Line balance between Society, Environment and Economy （社会,环境,经济）must become Huaxi’s new ethic.
一个振奋人心的里程碑——如果你从另一个角度解读
我应邀了参加华西村“空中新农村大楼”授牌仪式(www.tudou.com /programs/view/05XpJXkiNwI/ )，当时我谈到这栋大楼并不是炫富和挥霍，而是华西村的一个新地标。比起那些千篇一律的别墅，脏乱差的工厂，一切向钱看的态度和人造世界景观，这栋摩天大 楼是一个振奋人心 里程碑，它作为可持续发展的标志建筑让人感到震撼和心生敬畏，它能让人们感到天地人和谐发展的信息，体现了吴仁宝“人间天堂”的理念。以社会，环境和经济 作为三条支柱，寻求三者的平衡发展是华西村的新理念。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
"Now that Huaxi village is rich, what's next?"
Following my presentation, the new building’s architect Ma Xusheng, in turn praised my interpretation of his building’s design, saying that no one had thought of it before, but that “with your new ‘Society, Environment, Economy ‘meaning attached, our building is even richer”.
At a private dinner with village leaders the evening before, I had shamelessly asked: “Now that Huaxi village is rich, what’s next?” – hoping to encourage them to expound on how they were going to share Huaxi’s wealth and expertise with other communities and to build sustainable enterprises based on a model ecological civilisation… however the response was understandable, as a bit more thinking is required; and considering most people’s focus was still on showing off and celebrating what they have achieved so far, the answer was a simple “Gambei!”
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
“现在华西村富了，接下来呢？”
我的演讲结束后，这栋新大楼的建筑师马旭升（音）反过来称赞了我对他的建筑设计的诠释，说以前从未有人想到这个方面，“加上您说的‘社会、环境、经济’意义后，我们的摩天大楼更加富裕了”。
前一天晚上和华西村领导的聚餐上，我厚着脸皮问了一句：“现在华西村富裕了，接下来呢？”我当时希望他们能够详细阐述下怎样和其他地区分享华西村的 财富和技术，以及在生态文明模型的基础上建立起可持续发展的企业。但是，他们的回答很简单，就是：“干杯！”当然，这是可以理解的，因为回答这个问题需要 一些思考，而且当时大多数人的注意力仍然在炫耀和庆祝他们至今已取得的成就上。
菲利普•麦克马斯特
麦克马斯特商务可持续发展研究所首席研究员，世界可持续发展组织创始人。
...Huaxi must have liked 3 Fingers - we're invited back_\!/
Our “Peace Plus One -World Sustainability Project” (www.SustainabilitySymbol.com ) and the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol is about promoting LOHHAS – a Lifestyle Of Health, Happiness And Sustainability, first for the 1/5th of the world in China, then to be exported as a sustainable philosophy for the entire planet. The Leaders of Huaxi must have liked something about our discussions, as they wholeheartedly embraced the3 Finger Sustainability Symbol and invited us back to share more_\!/
Philip McMaster,
Principal Researcher, McMaster Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce
Founder, World Sustainability Organization
...华西村一定喜欢“三指禅” —— 我们又被邀请了_\!/
我们的“和平 + 1 - 世界可持续发展项目” （www.SustainabilitySymbol.com）和“三指禅”可持续发展符号旨在促进“乐活”——一种健康、快乐、可持续的生活方式。起初 是为了中国占世界五分之一的人口而提出，后来作为一个可持续发展的理念被推广到全世界。华西村的领导们肯定是欣赏我们的一些讨论成果，因为他们热烈欢迎了 我们的“三根手指可持续发展符号”并且再次邀请我们去分享更多信息。
Philip McMaster（大龙），
商务可持续发展麦克马斯特学院，首席研究员
世界可持续发展组织创始人