Master or Slave

Sitting in a coffeehouse and watch the people go by. Next to me the newspaper and I just read again of so many negative things going on in the world. Well, I know the press loves to write more then ever about negative things, but I do wonder. 
Wonder about all the reasons why things happen the way they do. Seems the world again is going more down then up and more in dark times then sunny times. Is this actually logical?
Do we need the bad times again and again to remember us what we should change and what we do?
Why can't we go the easy way? Or is it the easy way we think and then remember that the negative way is the hardest step to take? 
Do we now pay for all the last years were we loved to ignore to make it right. I mean let's face it. History is written in our books over and over again and lies are on our way. To many lies and to many wrong faces. 
How come that we can't leave hate behind? How come that we still have man with fascist mind? How come that all the extreme religion organizations can still tell people what to think and do? 
We never really took the enemy for real after they have lost. To many did go on with their life without any harm to them or even punishment. 
So how come after all the terrible things that have happened that we still are on the same road?
Don't they always say that life does change after those things?

The truth is, no matter how many terrible things may happen it does not mean that people change or do the real change. But why? 
Yes most believe, truly believe the are going to but then the every day life comes to you and time passes by and suddenly you're so far away from what you wanted once and many forgot or have hide it somewhere back in their memories what had to be done. 
Is it the fear, is it the unknown of the new times? Or are we just to lazy or is it that mankind is very good in telling them self a lie and giving reason not to do it today but still telling their must be a change?

So yes, we pay for all the things we have never done and all the things our parents have never done and our grandmothers and - fathers. But now some of you may say it's not their fault it's the politics fault and the industry and the rich man and the banks and the minister who lied to you. 
And you, you did not do anything to make this happen? Well you did. Now some may say what can a man, a single man do against those big, big lobby?
You can stand up and have courage. 
Isn't it crazy in next to every miracle, in every child story, every movie or TV show you can see that it is possible to stand up. You've ben thought but why don't you follow, if you do follow all the wrong things easy? 
Is it really that easy? Or have the BIG once the power and drag you in in the way they want you to be? To be lonely, afraid, unknown of your own potential or have most of us just become victims of our self? 
Why do many think we are so helpless, if we are not. Why do we close our eyes, if it would be better to have them open and know where you sett your steps?
Is it because mankind has thought them self the fair into blood? Is it that mankind has learned to fight a war instead of building up a home for everyone. Has mankind learned to much to kill and to close the mind over the truth? 
What truth? The truth, that is it not the fault of an organization or a BIG thing, it is.... human being are doing it. In good and in worse. 
But the test of power, the devil power seems more worth for too many. To stay blind is also for too many a way they choose and say they are just a victim and can't change. 
It's a lie but we like the lie.
Most do, dont they?
That's why we have new man with fascist mind, new man who build the bombs, new man who likes to see children starve to dead, new man to keep and blind eye on things wish never should happen to anyone or anything els who lives. 

So sad and it is easy to get angry about the fact that people like to be stubborn and stupid. But it never helps to be angry, it never helps to kill, it never helps to fight with the same weapon the enemy has. It never did and never will. 

Well, we all now this but then we forgot. It's like the silence who is around you and like the dead. We know and then forgot. Forget it every time we've remembered. 
So we don't need to think about it but most of our acting has to do with it. We do our choices known or unknown we always do. It is actually impossible to not make a choice so no one can say it's the fault of another one but we can tell the truth of compromises we took and take. We can see what we do and mostly we know where this will lead us. 
So how do we get our self to leave the path of lies?
Because all the lies have lead to far to many wars, to religions who made people stay stupid and telling things which are in no way what the most religion books are telling and after all you have a responsibility no one can take away from you, not even the priest or the politic man or or or. 
And while we all should know that each of us is equal and should have the same rights, we far to often make it otherwise. Most even think we are better then animals, but far to many are worse then them. But am I telling you something new? No. 

But are we Master or Slave in this game of life?
Is it about that? No.
It is surly not to take a side. Even know it may feel like this sometimes.
So it is a choice between our dark side inside us or the other side. We have both side in us, which is naturally cos like we all know if there is sun, there is shadow but we have a choice how big the shadow will be and how we will live. 

Above all this there is the question how to reach those who are not awake? Or should I ask you can we reach them? For we know very well that blind people are not to reach, no matter what we do. An extremist will never listen to you. The politic never cares about you and the industry owner will only listen to money or something else then you. 

So that means we can't do anything about the war regions? Well, actually never in the way we used to.
Meaning? There is a chance for change but it will not only take time, we believe we don't have and will cost a lot of lifes. 
Yes, many will die and many will be harmed at the end many will leave our way and be hurt. Seems mankind need this pain to really say yes to change in real. 
Lots of victims have been on our ways to change things in all the time we know about. Since we know and get to know our past with archeology we know the offerings, the pain, the mistakes and the dark sides, but also many good success and beautiful things have come to us. With this knowledge we can say that in our future there is a positive change possible if we really try and start with our own life. 
Hope. Yes, there is hope after all but for many people help will come to late and in some areas in the world peace will be a strange word for the next years too. 
Its human who do all the bad things and humans who do all the good things. 

To get awake and start living a life which includes others in love and peace is maybe a hard and painful way but nevertheless more then ever what we need if we will have a future. Just now many people are good in forgetting to make a good future and protest against each other and have connections which I remember we had long ago too and were so wrong and are it today too. Just remember the communist where working together with the fascist in their beginning and now the muslim are working with the nazis and all seem to forget that in their hate against another group their hate each other as well and will kill if the time is right. 
A mother will wonder why her child did say yes to such cruel thing and the father can only answer that the kid is blind. 
This has by the way nothing to do with god, it is human kind who did and do. 
So which side are you on?
And again... This is not the question. It is what way will you give to yourself and others to live by? No one needs to judge another man, but we do and forget that we don't see the whole truth. Things have become very complicated although it is very easy in the same time. 
Actually it is just to decide. 
That's the challenge. Thats the hope. 
And that was a blog with not a special topic but with a topic to include many happenings inside. 
I had the feeling that this is needed as we read of hate crime, of nazis and blind people because religion made them blind and of hate because people have learned hate to long and forgot that there is indeed an other way to live a life. I felt that we should really try to focus on the positive things we can do and live up to. Then we have a chance. There is still good things in the world which are worth to fight for, to open your eyes for to open your mind for. You have the courage inside you. Everyone has it. Just remember. Remember what you know inside you. The time for the next change has long ago arrived and if mankind will come to a better future we have to stand up and focus on the good things and remember. Use the good part of your ego and stop feeding the bad part. Stop feeding people who have loved their ego to much and only listen to the power of their own ego which exclude everyone and is at any cost to survive. 
Remember they are only people. Just like we. They only have the power because of you. Fight against them now? No. Fight for what you want! Ignore them as possible. Concentrate yourself on things you can affect. Start with yourself. Love yourself and forgive yourself for the past and let it go. Yes we have to let the past go. No matter what, there is no reason to keep on with it. It's actually stupid to keep on with the past cos you can't change it, but you can change the future by thinking the right things now. Who has began is unimportant and everyone who says it is is wrong. It's the past. Yes we got hurt. Yes we lost. Well make it better now. Let the mistakes teach you to do it the other way. The way of love and peace and respect. Trying to find those who are responsible for all the things in the past and the situation now is like trying to tell your toe that it is his fault that you went the wrong way. Because it was you and only you who did and nothing is wrong but we do mistakes. So stop saying you can't do it because you can but maybe you won't. Yes I am sorry if someone is telling you that you in that case have no right to grumble about your situation, because it is your own fault. So seeking the fault at others is in that way hilarious. 
Again, there is hope. Just remember. You can do it. 

LOVE & LIGHT

World Press Freedom Day

Today again we celebrate the world press freedom day. Which I could say we celebrate it for real but the truth is far away from it. Press freedom is still something we have to talk about, think about and fight for. Only each 6. man on the world lives in a country with press freedom as it is written in law, more or lesson. That is the lowest number since we've started to have a free press. 
But what does this number say? Not much actually or? It says that most people can't have a free press around them. Though more and more people are able to read, the things they read are mostly censored and directed. A lot of propaganda is in the press and a lot lies and more or lesson lies. 
The owner of most newspaper still come from the politic and so they say what and how to write. Or they are from the industry. So even in ol' Europe the press is in that case very one-sided. 
That makes it so difficult to tell people what to believe, when you discuss a theme. Actually most people don't reflect what they read cos they never learned to question. The same is for TV. Yes TV lies more then you could have ever imagine. The stories, the pictures are made up like a movie. It is drama, it is short but also very clearly one-sided. 
Though we are lucky that many bad things come up which have been hidden from us- it is as lucky we can be just the top of the iceberg. 
But fortunately there are little newspaper and magazines who report against all odds. They risk a lot. Not only reputation, life and security. They also risk a lot of money, because they have to find a way to survive on it's own. This is a hard thing to do and heroic- you may believe but no, it is just a must. 
Some people want you to learn to see, to understand and to be more free, because we are far to easy going with our freedom of free press, speech and our own information.
Just this year, 166 online- activist are looked. Only this year have been already 16 Journalists and 9 online- activist murdered. And this is just the number we get official. 
In fact we have a big problem to get our true information. Many countries have sett out laws which makes it next to impossible to work as an journalist. many countries have put up rules for paying high for a visit for special places like detention - to see and write about it. They don't want you to know that the government is hiding refuges on such bad places that the human rights are killed. 
These are just some ideas for you to get a bit of the picture we have to deal with. 
Why is this so important? It is very simple actually. The freedom of press is a sign for your freedom to live. But as I mention far to many take their freedom for given. And just when I think about my own country and a man called Edward Snowden, I could wonder. Why my own government is not showing any sign of caring for the fact that they have to protect us? NSA is doing an absolutely disturbing thing and it is all against the right of our freedom of information etc.. I really don't have to go deeper into this! 
Espionage is against press freedom, is against your freedom of keeping your secrets and well just your own information to keep to yourself. Whatever you do, you should be the one to say what is allowed to known for others. And a press must be free to investigate without getting a hammer in the knees. Which is happening when you have things like NSA going in that scale! But even if it is not that, we buy with credit cards and go to Amazon, Facebook etc. We leave our information and more information we want them to have, but they don't ask us and they also try to avoid to get the press inside their companies, because if we could read a bout it, would we be so easy going with our information? If our journalist could tell us what they really do with our lives and in our lives, would we be that naive? 
I guess not. So this is another reason why we have a very low press freedom, if at all. Most of us are just unaware of these facts. Some choose to stay blind.
Although some may say the press is lying why reading then?! Oh yes, they did a good work to make us unsure, but without a press and even it is such with little truth, the common people would not have had any chance to know what is going on, because even in lies we can read true things and we know what the devil is doing. This is why we better question what we read, why it is better to ask ourself who has an interest that we read this and that just in that moment.
So keeping up the good work is important and as more and more things are coming up to remind us and to show us, it is very important to keep up the fight for a free press. 

How powerful press and online-activists are is easy to see with every revolution, with every cut a system does. Just take the new "big" thing Russia. Next to all I know who wrote critical about the countries politic or have a theme which concern them- so they think- has been banned or blocked. 
The blog community can see it as we can read where our followers comes from and even those who wrote little lost their readers from Russia in the last month. 
And this is just for this country!
There you see how important it is to keep open ways, to find ways to open new ways and to speak out for free press and to tell people to take a deeper look and to have a bit courage.

Love & Light

Press Freedom

Today I'm going to write about press freedom.

We all have read about it in many ways here and there, now and then... haven't we?

Every year in every country in Europe you can read about journalists who are sitting in prisons. A part has been for years, others just arrested. The biggest part is waiting for a court date, but usually has no chance without the help from outside.

Sometimes the press self speaks/ writes of fighting for the right of the freedom of speech.

In particular, our Western press complains about the abuse of press freedom in other countries. Rightly so?

Yes, it is one of the achievements of democracy, a free press to have and to grant them.

We read about the bad conditions in different countries. We read about how journalists live dangerously on foot, they want to write about certain things.

We all read about how important it is to inform people, to bring the truth to daylight. We read about the importance of diversity for democracy and freedom of its people.

And we see how difficult it is to free journalists. We read but not very often why it is so.

Why does it sometimes take decades to liberate a journalist? Why do we sometimes do not even know where he is caught? Often we do not even know why he was imprisoned. What has he worked with? What was he looking for? What has he found?

The truth is, we know less... We maybe got to know 20-30% of all the things in the world which are goin' on and about the truth or lies of things. How could this be...?

Well, guess one thing is, it's impossible to know everything and to get to know... and of curse the most of us don't want to know everything and then there are those who doesn't want us to know everything, every step...

Those who want us to get stupid, to not to know about using your own mind. People are more easy to handle if they just follow and believe what it is said and never ask about it. A fool is easier to dump, easier to sell and to direct. A fool needs a master, a leader someone to look up without asking. But a clever mind never does have the feel of a need for a master and Co. He will prefer a teacher, a friend, a representative.

So what does it means to the press freedom?

Do we have a press freedom here in Europe?

Nope.

Well, yes we can read a lot and there are a lot news to read and hear from other countries and our own and we get to know this and that but do we get to know the whole truth? Nope.

We just get a part of it and it depends on the theme how much you can get.

Let's take a look at the newspapers. Who is behind them? Who owns it? What is he? Right, left, liberal? This is critical as the newspaper is their opinion and influence the reader. The decision about how a critical journalist may express about certain things. So, that means the most critical texts are rarely out of the country's own.

But there is another problem of our time. We have the Internet. Millions of information and most are not verified or investigated whether its accuracy. We have already seen how supposedly correct information or with other words false information has been circulated as true.

The funny things is, I know false stories that have been declared by the author to be false and yet remain in power continue to be accurate, because they were deemed to be correct, although the cause was confirmed several times that this was wrong and is. Crazy world where wrong gets right.

Secondly, we live in a fast time. The attention span of customers has decreased.

This means everything must be given concisely as appetizers, so that the customer is on the ball. So-called stopper, sometimes even just headlines need to tickle the customer.

Take your time for information from the media? Who does that? Is that still? It works, but very few have managed to create such a customer base.

Who is to blame for that? The media self or just the computers, the Internet?

Well I guess it's both of them. The revolution of the Internet and the private media have lead to a speeding up of all information and of course to get more in shorter time.

But then, there is one more problem...

The journalists have hardly had time to investigate, prepare to question, to inquire.

In addition, the training of journalists is no longer what it once was. Nowadays there are more and more queer entry, which is also often a means of degenerate levels, as well as the conversations are not always correctly reproduced. The content is often unintentionally distorted.

So what happened is, that they get the news in short and then send it to everyone and delete what they think people should not know or they can't sell so well.

Another fact of the power of the press is when they write too much of the same thing... it's not only getting boring after a while, it can get you happy or depressed... especially when it comes to crime.

Much for often do we read about it, hear about it, see about it and you just get the feeling of everyone must be a cruel, a criminal, this world sucks.

And how often did we hear, the press "just" and "only" write or tells about it. The news on TV says only the truth. But fuck off, this is so not true. It's so often black and white and what is right then?

Mixing the facts? But honestly... Only if it's not just mixing, it should be more being about asking and then not so much about showing the blood.

Yesterday I saw Gaddafi and the different of the news... you know there were pics just as he was before he get shoot and some with blood on his face.... Why do we need them to see? Is it we don't trust the press anymore?

Well, two years ago, I saw a documentation about a town in England where the newspaper- the owners ventured an experiment. They wrote a whole year not on page one to three on Crime and showed only photos, if they really considered to be important. That is, they wrote only in small articles on the other side about it.

Guess what!? After one year, the police could find a decrease of 40% of violent crime and riots.

40%!!!!!!

That! IS MUCH! So, if we all are so afraid of crime and we all think we should do something, then why, why, why don't we start here!

Because the funny thing is, all the cameras, all the Supervisory doesn't help at all. Most crimes are prevented by people of courage.

So how do we get back the courage to the press for having a true free press here home at our own place?

I only remember one year with a free press, with freedom of speech without anger, without fear. That was in the year from 1989- '90, the year after the wall was broken and that was a good year after all.

So maybe let's start on our doorstep.

Stand up for a free press on your own place!

LOVE & LIGHT