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Let’s start at the top. We now have, in 2013, an American President, who appeared, as an African- American, to be a symbol of hope for many people. It appears  he sanctioned the listening-in to the German Chancellor, knew it, and lies about it. Of course it is denied. If he really didn’t know -which no one credits – it’s even more serious. In that case the President is deliberately kept in the the dark about serious breaches of the law.

Using unmanned aircraft ‘drones’, people in other countries are shot down, murdered without any form of due process. The fact that many innocent bystanders are killed in the process doesn’t keep anybody awake. We have an expression; collateral damage. As long as we have a word for it, everything is all right.

Who and what can we still believe? Do we have to assume that the President of the United States is a pawn, a man of straw, and that powers behind him are manipulating him and ensuring he cannot make good on his promises. What remains of honesty and trust? Do we have to keep looking over  our shoulder and fear that we are listened in to, spied on and being made fools of. Is Society corrupt and rotten to the core? Who can we trust?

What do we see happening? People from Africa rush to Europe in unseaworthy craft. They climb walls and high fences. Our legislature has no answer, because technically they are covered by outdated regulations regarding asylum and agreements regarding refugees. Meanwhile, having paid vast sums to people traffickers, they hurry towards Europe, without papers of course. In this Europe there is nothing for them, except subsidies and benefit payments. We have to assist in rebuilding essentially mineral-rich Africa for the Africans and stop “development” aid which does more harm than good.

European children arrive at school without having had breakfast. Children walk to school because parents can’t afford a bicycle for them. Children live in poverty and cannot take part in social activities. Children have to bring up themselves and each other, because both parents are at work, due to the high cost of living. Prisoners in ordinary jails cost 220 euros per day, or 6600 per month. This may be compared with the amount received by a single parent. The State would prefer the parent to go out to work, since bringing up children is not a job.

Conditions in jail are so humane that the prisoner is in fact the jailer of the prison guards, who are bound by stacks of regulations regarding treatment, supervised by exacting boards. There is no interest in the whole prison culture. Convicted offenders who have to be recalled to jail (15,000 at the last count) are not being actively sought. If a convicted murderer wants to become a vegan, the chef is sent on a course. The normal reaction should be; You are a murderer, eat what’s put in front of you, or not, who cares?

We are destroying the earth. We are cutting down rain forests, to sell the wood and plant soya beans. The earth has brought forth the forests, so they should stay. If they have been removed, they should be replanted, at the expense of the entire world. Removing the forests is the death knell for regulating the earth’s climate.

We are ruining the economy. Corporations only concern themselves with shareholder value. The object of a corporation should not just be to make money for shareholders, but to provide goods and services of benefit to the consumer. Considering the corporation as a source of useful employment is no longer fashionable. We have no problem with putting thousands out of work at a stroke. These are people with families, children and mortgages. The general tendency is a reduction in   employment of people, to be replaced by machines. At the same time, more and more people are being conceived, and kept alive as long as possible.

The world population is increasing by 100 million people per annum, and has been for many years. Here lies a macabre dichotomy, which apparently no one seems to worry about, but one that must lead to inevitable catastrophe. There should be employment for these people somewhere, but managers and accountants are pondering the question 24/7; how to get rid of as many people as possible without damaging the organisation. Companies are moving their administration to the Far East and throw people in their own country out of work. People obtain their self esteem and well being from the work that they do and this is how they are recognised by their peers.

International corporations deposit their profits in tax-havens, but show their expenses in well-regulated nations. Billions received in taxation are wasted on stupid investments or military hardware which is no longer relevant. People claim to be resident in several locations and also claim benefit more than once. People from Romania travel to the Netherlands by bus and receive benefits which are doled out without a murmur. The State pays out first and asks questions later, if at all. Some MPs seem angry and upset but do nothing.

The financial world is in chaos. Banks  loan out money they haven’t got, at high interest rates, to countries who cannot pay back the debt. The out-of-control privacy legislation is doing particular damage. Europe has become a weak and defenceless society, comparable to latter-day ancient Rome, whilst elsewhere in the world people are working hard, being inspired and motivated.

The political situation, with what we are pleased to call democracy is a total pretence. In the Netherlands, population 17 million, around 300,000 people are members of a political party. That is just under 2%. This is where the people come from who occupy the positions where the big decisions are made. They play along for a number of years and then assume leading positions in Industry with salaries well in excess of what they themselves set as the norm;.

The situation is not hopeless. We have to make a new start. First of all, we must show consideration and respect for this Earth, which has produced us after millions of years. Everything in nature is there for a reason.

Next, we have to rid ourselves of those organised and institutionalised religions who preach against the existing legislation. The churches all claim a monopoly on their particular version of a belief in a Supreme Being. We may well take into consideration that a Supreme Being may exist, but the Bible and the Koran are at odds with elementary logic, and have over the centuries led to murder and mayhem. People may believe what they wish, but the State and the Law are the highest authority and all religious factions and churches and their leaders are subject to this.

Due to Bible- inspired thinking, Man has got above himself. He regarded himself as having been created with an immortal soul, destined for everlasting happiness in paradise. The unfortunate could console himself with the thought of happiness ever after; the rich person was not to be envied, as he was most unlikely to ever get to Paradise. The Biblically inspired thought process leads to a faulty appreciation of humankind, strongly anti-female, and this had become the basis for the Anything Goes society. The perpetrators of a crime have to be returned to society as quickly as possible, whilst the victims mustn’t complain; they have eternal happiness to look forward to.

Another almost fatal by-product of the above was the idea that Man as a creation, as an individual was considered to be unassailable. Rather let ten people escape their just deserts than convict one person unjustly was the mantra. This restrictive attitude has led to cases being dismissed because a particular protocol had been breached. A well –known example; a lawyer is overheard. The subject of conversation was not important. The simple fact that the conversation was overheard made the process less credible and against normal legal procedure.

Can things be different?  It can be totally different. Starting with respect tor the Earth, Mankind, and particularly peace, security, and absolute protection for women and children, we can create a new, safe and healthy world, where women do not have to live in fear and children can make their own way to school and play in the streets.

We have to separate legislation into worldwide and regional. The worldwide section is concerned with peace and security, down to the level of the individual, protection of the environment, main rules regarding the economy, perfect maintenance and defence of  the air, oceans, seas and rivers.
These rules apply always and everywhere and are issued and maintained by a World Government.
Regional legislation is what people of a nation or an area agree in a democratic or tribal method amongst themselves.

Since 1789, there has been talk of the Rights of Man, in the sense of the individual human being. We have to learn to think and act about Human Rights in  terms of “member of a group”. Man can only prosper as a member of a large group and he has to respect the group, and the members. If he offends against them in a serious and irredeemable manner, he has to be removed from the group.
Not so much to punish him, but because the group cannot allow itself to tolerate people who rape, torture, kill, incarcerate, sell or exploit other people. That is the duty of the group towards its members.

It will never change. How things could be done otherwise, you can read about in

THE RIGHTS OF THE EARTH

In brief, the tablets flatly contradict a good deal of the Old Testament. Moses was not Jewish, but an Egyptian prince, the son of Rameses II and one of his concubines. Moses rose to become a general in the Egyptian army and very well regarded by the Pharaoh.
There was no Exodus as such, but because Moses was a claimant to the throne, his life was constantly in danger and he sought refuge amongst the Jewish tribes, who appointed him their leader. Clearly this is political dynamite, because it undermines the Promised Land scenario.

Van Cleve does not trust de Winter. He fears that the journalist will try to smuggle the tablets out of Egypt, so he contacts an old friend, the lawyer Brian Snowden. Snowden has close connections with Israel and feels that the tablets present a considerable threat to Israel. He contacts his friend Hunter, who is based at the Israeli consulate in Cairo. Hunter loses no time in setting up wiretaps by the Israeli Secret Service, the Mossad. The information they receive is that this source of information, once validated would be very damaging to Israeli interest. The Mossad wants the tablets and translations to disappear, to prevent their Arab neighbours from using them for political purposes.

When de Winter informs Sir Charles Mills of his discovery, the later immediately realises the financial implications. He wants de Winter to smuggle the tablets to England, to cash in on a world-wide scoop. Professor van Cleve, on the other hand, wants to translate the tablets, and then hand them over to the Egyptian Government. The Egyptians would make political capital out of the fact that Moses was an Egyptian, and the Mossad does not want that to happen either.

Jennifer O’Hara, Professor Van Cleve’s assistant does not want the tablets to be made public either, because the information clashes with her religious beliefs. She breaks into the professor’s house and steals the tablets. She hides them amongst the vast quantity of uncatalogued artefacts in the Cairo Museum of Archaeology. De Winter, in his turn, breaks into the professor’s house and discovers the tablets are missing. He is committed to going on to the Sudan, but is pursued by Mossad agents, who assume that he has the tablets with him. During the ensuing car chase his car crashes into a ravine and he is killed. The secret service agents feel that the job has been done, because the tablets have been destroyed. The professor accidentally causes a fire to break out in his house and dies a few days later. Jennifer has a nervous breakdown and cannot assist anyone with their enquiries. However, years later, she recalls the events and then has to decide whether to go public. The world is waiting…