Review: Lawrence Stone, ' The Causes of The Englush Revolution, 1529-1642''

This could be an account of today's circumstances

Many times reprinted.

Highly recommended.

One additional point: Henry VIII's Legalisation of Usury ('In Restraint of Usury' 1545, see Sir Harry Page's book of that title) made legal the lending of money in England *for the first time*.

My speculation is that this led to a speculative-perhaps, driven market in land: something that would have increased the amount of economic- and, thus, social- and religious-distress in the subsequent Century.

I wonder, therefore, if that was a factor, even a key, central factor, in the precipitation of the First English Revolution of which Lawrence Stone writes.

The Killer Stats

The killer stats.

According to a recent video by Vernon Coleman (on YouTube and archived at www.vernoncoleman.com), we now have proof that a) capitalism kills us, all, prematurely, (which we already know from the data given in 'The Spirit Level' book and via www.equalitytrust.org.uk), and, b) that the present virus doing the rounds (Covid 19, SARS2, what-ever its present name or mutation is) is *less* deadly than going to work  (aka going to *be* worked) was, last year in the US and UK.

Thus, it seems, the *aggregate* death rates, week-on-week, in *both* the US and UK, are *less*, week-on-week, for 2020 as compared to 2019.

When 'the working week' recommences, I'll endeavour to give links to the statistics.

For now, I rely on Vernon Coleman's observation.

Unless you can confirm or otherwise.

Good or Evil

The night before last, it occured to me that the contest is between me and Dominic Cummings.

As a prelude, I don't fight. I practice the Theory of Noncontested Spaces. So if the Zionist/Capitalists want to fight, I'll walk away.

Now, the cipher, here, for Dominic Cummings has been our friend Simon Hill, for whom I'll create the tag #sillysimon. I forebear to tag him as #idiotsimon, just about, since I pray that he will learn that being a 'leftist' (albeit one that voted Lib-Dem at the last, December 2019, General Election) *and* supporting the Zionist/Capitalist/Nazi/Evil is inconsistent.

Time will tell.

In the case of Dominic Cummings, poor man and family, I have to use the tag #evildominic, with great sadness, as a means of linking posts together.

Like #sillysimon, we can reasonably expect that #evildominic is a supporter of the Zionist/Capitalist/Nazi/Evil.

Unlike #sillysimon, who has only supported the former Coalition Partners, the Lib-Dems, of the Conservative/Capitalist/Zionist/Nazi/Evil, #evildominic is a full-blown participant in the murder of hundreds and thousands of entirely innocent people: mostly low-income, poor and disabled, often elderly imprisoned people, through his work for Austerity/Capitalism/etc.

And its #evilsibling, this pandemic/plandemic/flu/virus event.

Now, for a moment, let's ignore the Face-gang in front of #evildominic, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel et al, and wonder about who is funding and supporting this Conservative/Capitalist/Zionist/Nazi/Evil attack on the population of this Country?

Of which the mandatory face mask diktat is but a prelude of worse (mandatory injections, mandatory sterilisations, mandatory voluntary euthanesia, and, even more evil impositions).

Clearly the Capitalists and their supporters in this Country, from The Monarchy, The Aristocracy, The Establishment, Its Praetorian Guard networks, likely many/some/a few/perhaps in The City of London, but certainly all members of the Capitalist Employers' Round Table at Chatham House, The Royal Institute for International Affairs and its World Economic Forum networks, the Bilderbergers, The Trilateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations in New York and its equivalents in Canada, China perhaps, Russia perhaps, The Gulf States, India and Australasia, Saudi Arabia, and, of course, The Zionist/Capitalust Apartheit State of Israel.

But what about the people of the British Isles, your neighbours and families, your 'communities', Trades Unions, Co-operatives, Churches and local Councils?

Who do they support?

Zionism/Capitalism/Nazism/Fascism/Apartheit/Racism/Evil?

Or #truesocialism?

Ie True Co-operative Socialism #cohyphenoperativesocialism.

Support for Zionism/Capitalism/Evil can be active (like bullying at the Supermarket) or passive (Passing By On The Other Side).

Support for True Co-operative Socialism, however, can only be active.

Since, as remarked by others,

     'For Evil to triumph, all that need happen is for good people (the good in all people, that is, even in #sillysimon and, presently, #evildominic) do nothing.'

Yes?

My Dad's Murder (The Murder of .my Dad, that is)

My Dad, I consider, was murdered by Capitalism.

He succumbed to his third heart attack in September 1978, two weeks after I started my PhD in Chemistry at my beloved UCL.

He was fifty-six years old, or so I thought.

That had two consequences. First, because my Mum, who is still alive, at the age of ninety-four has had to endure forty-two years' widowhood on a reduced State Pension: because Dad 'died' early, he didn't have a full National Insurance record, so his wife, my Mum, had the double whammy of an early widowhood and a Reduced State Pension.

The same is true of one of her sisters, my Godmother, who, all being well will be one-hundred years' old this year.

So much, then for the 'Mixed Economy' and its 'Welfare State': the former a Tory idea, the second a Liberal plot.

Both foisted on The Labour Government of 1945-51.

The second, or at least, a second consequence of the murder of my Dad by Capitalism, was that his son, this son, spent *his* fifty-sixth year quietly, and irrationally, wondering if his fifty-sixth year would, also, be his last: my last.

It was not to be.

Firstly, I'm now sixty-nine, dreading the appearance, each morning, of each day.

Secondly, it turned out that my Dad didn't die at fifty-six years'of age.

He died at the age, my Mum told me later, of fifty-seven.

So much for my year of silent worry.

Which brings me to this mask thing.

Capitalism has gradually ratcheted-up the Iron Heel on our necks.

Now, The Party of Freedom (as if!), the Neoliberal Tories have reverted to their True Selves: the Nazi Party of NeoConservative Authoritarianism.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking: it lobbied for escape from The Iron Heel of The European Imposition, with which I agree, only to replace the tantalising prospect that I will be fined One-hundred Pounds Sterling (not Euros) if I go into a shop not wearing a mask (incidentally, I haven't got a mask, nor do I want one: my Quaker Testimony to Integrity in-forms me, that to wear one would be wrong).

So where next with thus agenda of Nazi NeoConservative Authoritarianism?

The Rack?

The Inquisition?

Movement Sensors as well as 'Smart Meters' in every home? The former was threatened to us at Coleridge House 'For Our Safety', the latter already exists in 'my' Housing .Associatiin flat here in Littlehampton, monitoring my every switch-on and switch-off.

If we were 'self-responsible' to adhere to the (anti-)social distancing during the height of the lock-in, why not now?

Oh yes, I get it: anti-socialism.

Nothing more, nothing less.

The Continuatiin Of Zionism/Capitalism/Nazi/Iron Heel Tyranny: Authoriatarian NeoConservatism.

Is that what my Dad's war-time service in the RAF To Defeat Nazism/Fascism was all about?

I doubt ir.

Creating Peace

A note on Misanthropy.

The data referenced in 'The Spirit Level' tells us that, as income inequality increases, so also does unhappiness increase.

At the same time, as income inequality increases, misanthrooy increases: misanthropy being the hatred of, distain for, fear of other people, regardless of gender (the two related words are, I think misogeny and misandry: hatred of all gendered women and hatred of all gendered men).

These are firms, I suggest, of psychological displacement: the unhappiness that income inequality creates (at a neurological, neurochemical basis, I also suggest) 'concretises' (turns from abstract feels and emotions, to practical, concrete objects and objectification) these neurochemical developments.

I recall, for example, a million kr so years ago, when I had a Summer-time job in a bottling line at Schweppes in Footscray, reaslising that I 'hated' the women workers opposite me: my hatred for the repetitive job, wrongly-projected onto them.

Likewise our responses to the lock-down and the lock-down on George Floyd's neck: taking the knee, as it were.

The solution, of course, is income equality, socially-determined.

As in the plan for Co-operative Socialism.

But you know that already . . .

Fourth First Day, June 2020

The Big Picture

A note to our friend, and beloved Friend, Mededith.

Our fridnd Simon Hill lives, as I understand it, in Brighton, West Sussex. Know colloquially as London-By-The-Sea.

The Brighton fascists (the Zionists) have a history of targetting our Friends (Quakers) Meeting House, there, as part of their anti-Democratic Nazism (you will recall that the Nazis burnt down the Brlin Reichstag for the same purpose and that our (their) Canadian NeoConservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper achieved the same anti-demicratic end by Proroguing Parliament in Ottawa.

His NeoCon Zionist colleague, Alexander dePfeffile Boris Johnson used the same stunt here in the UK.

Particularly since the UK Working Class voted Brexit, in order to get us out of the anti-democratic, Zionist EU.

He had no option.

His $-backers would have demanded so.

Now, the Zionist Nazis cannot attack Friends House in London (for fear, at present, of upsetting their North Lindon Liberal-not Élite, so they repeatedly attack Brighton Meeting House. (The same force is at play in regard to our Meeting Houses in Toronto and Ottawa: such an attack, the Nazi Zionists kniw, would provoke a hornets'-nest of well-odganised pacifists and Christians.)

The late-notice 'unavailability' due to 'a threat of public disorder' was used, most-recently, by targetting our Brighton Meeting House, last summer, when booked to allow my fellow democratic socialist comrade, Chris Williamson, a public platform.

Now, as to the Christian aspect to this.

Jesus was inordinately brave: knowing full well that Simon Hill's forebears in Jeruusalem had plotted to have him murdered by (attempted) crucifixion.

Their plot failed.

Likewuse, Simon's Nazi Zionist friends, Sibohan McDonagh, Peter Mandleson, etc, tried to politically-assassinate our friend and fellow democratic socialist, Jeremy Corbyn.

They failed, too.

Now little me.

Ditto.

(Odd that the three of us have JC initials. Pure alphabetical coincidence.)

Now, the Teachings and Parables of Jesus call us, as Quakers and Christians to act for love in the world*.

* I ran a workshop at CYM in er, um south of Ottawa by collectively and sequentially, reading three Parables:

The Parable of The Talents (Matthew)

The Parable of The Goid Samaritan

The Parable of The Minas (Luke)

All helpful.

Poor #sillysimon

Regarding Usury, Zionism and That Virus

Hurrah!

And thank-you, Simon Hill, for your offer to help!

Clearly my hope and prayers that you would turn from being a vexation, #obsessed, whingeing Zionist, into a helpful friend, have bourne fruit.

Hurrah!

So, in your rôle as an ardent Zionist and, presumably, equalky-ardent and practicing Religious Jew, you can help us all over the following matter.

You will be aware of the 'Deuteronomic Double Standard' in that an Observant Religious Jew may practice Usury (in other words, use money to get and accumulate money, through the charging of interest: any level of interest, however openly or sureptitiously disguised, Chevienses, etc).

But only against 'The Foreigner': like us, the non-Jew, The Goyim, us, The Goys. Isn't that your observant Jews' name for us, the underclass, the mensch?

But not against your fellow Jews, to whom, and this is my question that I hope you can answer for us, as below, that 'All Manner of Usury' is forbidden.

I've added photograhs of some books that, I'm sure, you must have already read.

So, isn't that the Double Standard that the earlier Rabbis, The Pharisees and Sadducees in your midst, declared as Holy.

Presumably at the encouragement of The Usurers who were, then as now, paying them to say so.

And the leaders of your leading families, the Mothers and Grandmothers, requested be done.

So, my contemporary question:

We know, from the Book of Nehimiah, that that that slippery character, The Devil, selfishness, wheedles away inside each Usurer and that the Usurers of Jerusalem, in Nehimiah's time, and doubtless also in Daniel's time, started to practice Usury Against Their Fellow Jews.

Is that what's going on now?

Are Observant Usurers lending money to their Fellow Observant Jews, interest-free?

So that those borrowers have a #CommercialAdvantage over their Goy Competitors?

Or are The Usurers being #ParasiticalUsurers upon their Fellow Jews as well as us, The #Untermensch?

Is that what led to the various expulsions of 'The Jews' in various places, at various times, and which finally-culminated in the inclusion of 'The Jews' into the Nazi Death Camps.

After the Socialists, Communists, Trade Unionists had been dealt with, but before the Homosexuals, Gypsies, Roma, and the 'Mentally Defective', 'Useless Eaters'* had been 'dealt with'.

*(From Wiktonary: Calque of German 'unnütze Esser:

  useless eater (plural useless eaters)

  (politics) In the ideology of Nazi Germany, a person with a serious medical problem or disability, seen as requiring help from society but giving nothing back.')

So, that brings me our current times.

Is it Usury that is at the root of the present #HolocaustOfThePoorAndFrail ?

I understand that the present global plandemic was the result of the January 2019 US Congress Bill, itself, initiated by the Rickerfeller Foundations' 2010 'Scenarios' Document, that #TheEugenisists wanted all along?

Now, as best we know it (and here again, your research could help) the US Rockerfeller owners of their banking (ususry) empire are not from within the global Jewish Community.

But they are, doubtless, Zionists.

So, there we have it.

We know that very few people self-describing as Jews are Zionists and, indeed a similarly-few are #ZionistUsurers.

Indeed, most #ZionistUsurers are not self-describing Jews: Tony Blair and Hillary Clinton seem to not be, while Peter Mandelson, and his mortgage-provider Geoffrey Robinson, and his political funder Lord Levy, doubtless are.

Donald Trump may not be.

So, again Simon Hill, thank-you for being such a #HelpfulFriend !

Oh, those books, attached.

And:

www.interestfreemoney.org

And

www.forum for stablecurrencies.org.uk

And

www.co-operativesocialism.org

And videos on Co-operative Socialism on YouTube.