Lawrence lost in the cloud, Palistine lost in a war with Zion

Have visited cloud hill cottage the home of the late hero T.E.Lawrence . Aka Lawrence of Arabia.
Took my 91 year old father there as a surprise while giving him a holiday in that area of Dorset.
At this late stage in my relationship with my dad I discover that we both have a strong admiration for this man and feel we have some common ground with him.

Part of it is the regimented simplicity of the life style he lived, both in his military career as well as the minimalist, yet  efficiency of his meticulous planning, organization and basic practicality of his use of the limited space in the small game keepers cottage that is Cloud hill. All of the work carried out by him self and all of the fittings made by him or the military workshops at Bovingtom camp.

My Father made the point in conversation with one of the guides at the cottage that he felt that "Lawrence had been let down by the British goverment who caved into the Jewish financial pressure coming from the United States at the end of the war "
After this comment there was a hushed silence of all the visitors in the cottage and a some what embarrassed look on the guides face. There seemed to be a general feeling of unease as if some one had mentioned the elephant in the room.

 Father went on to say "If  the offer he had been authorized to make to King Faisal by his generals  in the military had not been scuppered by the Zionist yanks then I doubt we would be in the mess with Islamic state and all the wars we have had to fight personally I blame the Americans for supporting the Jewish terrorists against us the British in what was one of our protectorates"

There was a further hushed silence   as father strode to a portrait of King Faisal and said "That's the young Faisal is it not"

"It is" the guide responded " he proposed that Palestine should be a protectorate of Jordan with Palestinians and Jews living together as Jordanians. That's what was agreed in return for them helping Britain defeat the Ottoman Turks."

"I have always felt sorry for the way the Arabs where treated in that. I am sure Lawrence felt the same way." said my father. " he was I believe a man of his word That is what we have lost today honor and decency."

"It is certainly true that his Arabs got treated very badly and that he felt that he had been forced to betray them" replied the guide. Another guide turned up to relive the one we had been talking to for  a  lunch break. came in saying it was blowing a gale and  that he had not seen any Labour election posters any where on his way in. I commented   that I had but they where down in Tolpuddle back along the road  we had seen them on the drive over , I would have been very disappointed if I had seen none there as the birthplace of trade unionism. the recently embarrassed hush of British conservatism returned like a blue haze.
As my father and I took in the rest of the cottage I found my self impressed that my father and I hold almost identical views on that period of British and world history and a great deal of admiration for the man who though a famous hero with wide public appeal and many fans was so let down by the goverment of the country he served.  We had it seems come to the  same conclusions about the matter without any real discussion between our selves Me from my reading on the man and the period and Father from  his experience of the actual events as they happened at the time he was born in 1923 so he was 12 years old when the man died after a glowing career that made him a national hero. The strange thing is that we had never really discussed the man till I said I wanted to visit cloud hill cottage and explain why to him.  

It left me wondering if the goverment could get away with such an about face and double cross today in the age of social media or would there have been a Nick Clegg I am so sorry you tube video moment ? Think I have answered my own question!  The truth is we know they the politicians the bankers the prime ministers and presidents, do it all the time we have been desensitized to corruption and false plays, we are being taught and brainwashed  to actually admire under handed and unscrupulous behavior by our so called betters. Even in some case's to admire it as good games man ship.

Its almost Ironic that what finally killed Lawrence was a his love of speed and ridding his motor bike. and what finally made the Arabs a force to be reckoned with on the world stage was the oil that fueled those bikes. An also turns the wheels of industry and global economics.

Think I may reread the seven pillars of wisdom, Lawrence`s real memories of the  battle against the
Turkish allies of Hitlers Nazi Germany. If the victors of that battle had won the true victory they where fighting for. Not the one the bankers and economists of the United States who bank rolled the war and then made the United kingdom pay for it actually got ! {Some allies they turned out to be}   The world would be a very different place to that which it is today.

Yet the scares of that betrayal still have inherit effect on the culture and dynamics of the situation in  the middle east today.  Without a common cultural understanding and honest acknowledgment of the  actions and decisions made then we have little hope of a lasting peace in that region. The people of the region need to know the history and we need to help them in understanding it between us the United Kingdom the  Germans and bother of our Allies  colony's and dominions we where  the foundation of the problems in the middle east by our meddling and exploiting of factions and divisions to suit our own agendas.
Still  today the many headed hydra we created is now threatening, our global cultural economic sociological and  political stability.
At a time when climatic  geological and potential cosmological catastrophic upheaval in the guise of sun spot and other yet to be discovered potential threats  from space are also threatening the survival of parts and potentially the whole human race.
It is possibly for this reasoner and this alone that we need to reassert in our dealings with each other individually and globally a sense of honor, trust, decency, and respect if we are ever to hope to achieve any sort of global peace and stability.
Lawrence him self lived a very simple very self sufficient environmentally friendly life style much of it learned from his time with the Arab Bedouin peoples of the middle east. That simple sustainable way of life is very much what comes over from a visit to the cottage even though the place is stuffed full of memorabilia from those politically tumultuous times from which we are still really recovering from  today .

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Solar electric generating pavements, wind turbines, solar panels on the roof of all new builds and turbines if the building can take them.
Wave power, hydro electric, if sustainable and suitable to the environment.
We should really have very little need for fossil fuels by now the technology is available to have left them behind .
Local micro generation of power and diversity of production should be where we are heading at a fast rate, so that there is no need for a national grid. This would prove  safer from sun spot and solar storm activity, tsunamis and geological upheaval.  Giving all the human race a better chance of survival from most Catastrophic changes to our planet> As well as  more independence from dictatorial goverment control.

Unfortunately  what is missing, is the will to do it, due to the greed of the people who have all ready invested in fossil fuels and dirty energy.
The control of goverment by big business and bankers, Coupled to the nature of governments and the people who seek to join them  to govern is to impose their will, rather than see them  selves  as the servants of the people which is the true role of the people given the privilege of joining any goverment. 
We the people are  being held to ransom by big business, the governments, the rich and greedy.
Every country has them in one form or another  and in every country it is the poor and under classes that  suffer at the hand of the rich and powerful.
Who destroy the world for their own gains. with sort sighted get rich quick agendas, often defended and protected  by religious leaders who pontificate myths and legends to  brainwashed populations to maintain the status of the leaders and blind the populaces to the wanton destruction of the environment and the purity of life . 

Sorting my old art work

THE BLUE MOUNTAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES FROM KATOOMBA JAN 1975  
Often wish I had painted and drawn more while in Oz. Definitely plan to if I get beck there

GALLEONS REACH NEWHAM EAST LONDON BEFORE REDEVELOPMENT BECKTON GAS WORKS IN BACKGROUND 1982 .
Another couple of old art works from back in the day often wish I had captured more of my home borough before it disappeared under redevelopment.

just a few of my old drawings from back in the 80`s  flairs and hair they look dated now and the guys who sat for them are  who knows where these days .

tyrants and democratgic tyrany

Yes that is about the long and the short of the human condition it will only change if every one becomes enlightened, free thinking, humble, cooperative beings with Altruism as the normal state of being human.

As opposed to greedy, self centered, twisted money grabbing bully's that our society ego and upbringing leads a great many of the human race to be.

Some thing that our ego, the divisions of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity have fostered and encouraged over the millennia of our existence.

In that we have been encouraged to strive to be better than the rest in ways that are not conducive to a free egalitarian, nurturing, loving, tolerant society's.

The birth if the Hippy generation and the peace movement signaled the beginning of a change and potential age of enlightenment. It has been to a large extent rubbished and corrupted and in many society's across the world it has never even got started its current manifestation in the Arab spring the protests in Hong Kong the traumas of Ukraine are being brutally suppressed by their own hierarchies and exploited by the others from out side and turned into the unending war on terrorism.

So there are doubts in my mind that as a race of beings and as society's we will ever be able to lift our selves out of the filth and squalor of the this condition .

I am in my 63rd year off life of the opinion that it is only the individual that can be truly spiritual and free and enlightened. That the idea if each individual having to be the change they want in the society they inhabit is the only way forward. Self change and enlightenment. We know its true for mental health , drug addiction and all those problems so it has to be true at a macro societal national cultural religious and ethnic level too. 

The need to save the environment in which we live may well be the catalyst that brings the human beings of this world to the point of individual enlightenment.. This is more likely to be  after a period of war and strife as vast numbers need to move away from areas that are no longer habitable to survive. Borders and boundary will break down but along with that the fabric of society will also be broken. Ebola and other sickness that knows no borders will also play a part.

The writings of revelations and the prophesy of the end times of the Abraham traditions are nothing other than the logical predictive  conclusion of the type of culture and society that laws of Sharia Judaism and Christianity layer down on the peoples it concurred and subjugated   a couple of thousand years ago that are now reaching the limit of their power and influence and burning them selves out in their own self prophesy  fulfillment.