Fake news? People journalism is rewriting the rules of media and is often the 'real deal.'

Standing Rock North Dakota -

a situation that was noticeably under reported by the big 6 USA media outlets?

The recent US elections encountered a new dynamic, that of 'People journalism.' Its been rumbling away quietly  in the background for decades.

People journalism is often written off by the mainstream media and governments as 'conspiracy theory,' a term I dislike. I prefer to call it 'reality' because it often is. If we take for instance the UFO subject, it has been variously talked down, ridiculed and laughed at in a concerted effort to rubbish the subject and anyone who dares utter or publish a word on it.

In my book, that's suppression and those that indulge in that get it coming back to bit them.

In late 2016, there was a situation in North Dakota, USA, where a company wanted to take an oil pipeline over American Indian territory lands of the Lakota, part of the Sioux nation. As a result, many from other tribes assembled to show their disapproval to support the Lakota people.

These were unarmed men, women and children who also attracted support from non-Indian peoples. They were faced and in some cases attacked by militarised Police staff. Yet, this did not make the national media for some time. Why were the big 6 media companies in America rather 'slow' to report this story?

Yet when this reached the greater audience of the world via the Internet, it was the sort of story to which the term 'fake news' may have been applied.

In the run up to the US election around the last quarter of 2016, a number of 'stories' came out through the alternative news network, from outlets such as Next News Network, Infowars and other independents, along with ordinary people's journalistic output.

With stories on the alleged goings on of individuals in government being very hot news, these stories which had some origins in WikiLeaks disclosures, in my view helped some people decide on hope they would vote.

Some of these news stories were on subjects of a very serious nature, you only have to look at the internet to see what these were, to realise that it was the forcing of stories to the surface by this underground journalism, that prompted the mainstream to eventually issue these as news items, but by this time they were often 'olds' by then.

However, the fact that these stories were often ran with in mainstream media outlets outside of the US, meant that the US had to eventually issue something on the subjects, rather than look foolish when they did go big and people wonder why no one had reported them?

Of course I am against false information being reported as fact and stories being warped away from the truth, as we should all be. People journalism is now bigger than the big media companies and they can no longer really control it.

Help American Indian peoples to rebuild and improve their lives

Many people who were non-Indian came to support the Indian peoples

In case you were not aware, the American Indian peoples need your support to just survive. It is not the case that they all have casino wealth on their reservations.

Many Lakota people have to live in trailers that are ill equipped for the cold of the winter

The Lakota Sioux nation people who live at Pine Ridge Reservation endure a life that is difficult. They have low incomes, few have jobs, economically they are poor and problems of drugs, alcohol, depression and suicide are high incidence possibilities that impact on their lives.

Homeless people are also an issue that must be resolved

along with drugs, alcohol, suicide and depression problems

Work is being done but financial aid is required along with outside expertise. The situation is that the Lakota people are wishing to preserve their heritage and culture but they also have a modern world outside of the reservation to contend with.

Donations of basics are always welcome

It is a question of how to reconcile these differing situations, it is essential that the Sioux people do not lose their rich heritage but on the other side of the coin, they should also not lose the opportunity to learn of modernity and to use that as part of their future too.

A new house being built by hand from ecologically sound materials

in line with the beliefs of the Lakota to use resources wisely

So how did the Lakota people end up like this? The situation is largely due to the loss of their lands when America was colonised. The Lakota like the other tribes before that moved around pieces of the country and there were defined areas for each tribe to inhabit.

A modern day Lakota man surveys the Buffalo - The Lakota people have a strong

heritage with the Buffalo and are known as 'Tatanka Oyate' - The Buffalo people.

With the colonisation of their nation from other countries, the Indian peoples were pushed into accepting areas of lands to live on called reservations. These pockets of land were far smaller than the territories that they previously enjoyed.

Whilst outside the reservations people prospered, inside the people largely did not. The Indian people lived a different lifestyle than the incomers, they did not need consumerism and new technology, their way of life and aims were different.

The Lakota people must not lose their cultural heritage or access to their history

The Lakota and the other tribal peoples were likely the first ecologists, they regarded the planet as something to be protected and to only take what resources were required. They did not share the same outlook as the incomers who were fired up by the new industrial revolution for progress and advancement.

Peter Catches offering Prayers and Sacred tobacco at the Oceti Wakan site

But there is hope amongst the bad news stories, one of the Medicine Men of the Lakota people at Pine Ridge, Peter V Catches is part of a project to help his fellow Lakota people by building a communal centre called 'Oceti Wakan' or Secret Fireplace in Lakota language.

Visit the site at:-

http://www.ocetiwakan.org/

Peter Catches the Lakota Medicine Man of the Spotted Eagle - 

Peter is a direct descendant of the famous Lakota Chief Crazy Horse

The centre looks to provide teaching of the Lakota culture and language, it also looks to provide places where Lakota people can engage and learn about their culture and to participate in events. Currently the centre is seeking donations to help this become a reality.

A large Ray Jack made Navajo Silver ring,

Ray is one of the great silversmiths of the Navajo people

It is not all bad news, the American Indians are resourceful people and some have managed to develop craft skills  into jobs that help them to prosper. Notable are the Navajo jewellers, other tribes such as the Zuni and Hopi also have silversmiths too and people from other tribes have also made some amazing pieces learning and being inspired by the original tribal designs, drawn from their heritage.

However, much still needs to be done to help these people and there are many non-Indian people who are coming to aid the Indians, I donate free economic and business advice to help create economic growth and jobs.

I think this is long overdue!

I came across the Lakota culture in depth a couple of years ago during research for a book project on humans and robotics and I am glad that I found out more about the Lakota heritage subject.

I have learned a lot in the last two years and it has changed my life and helped to make a lot of sense of some things. The wisdom of these people which is often many hundreds of years old is as relevant as it ever was.

We must not lose this important cultural part of America's heritage.

View of Pine Ridge from the air

Donald Trump must help the American Indian people

New President Donald Trump must help the American Indian people

Members of the Lakota Indian people from Pine Ridge

With a new President in power in the USA, intent on making America Great again, he should be aware that part of that mission is to help the American Indian people.

Most of the tribal members living on reservations are living at a standard that is unacceptable to anyone with a conscience of social compassion.

The reservations need improved living accommodation, jobs, economic viability, education for the children, healthcare and opportunities for the people to learn about their heritage and culture which cannot be lost.

We can learn much from the American Indian wisdom - we should

You may think that every reservation has a casino, that is not the case. Some reservations sit on natural resources, but it is not the way of the Indian to exploit those for wealth.

The American Indian has the answers to many of America's ills, the people do not embrace consumerism, that is a disease that makes us want things we don't really need and have to work harder to earn money to pay for them.

If you think that a life where no addiction, no consumerism, no prisons, no laws, no taxes, respect for elders and young alike, community living for the benefit of all, no drug or alcohol problems, gang warfare - and more are a hopelessly unachievable utopia, you'd be wrong.

A society had all this 500 years ago - the American Indian people.

A Lakota Indian family at Pine Ridge - it can reach -20 here in the winter

these people need our help to survive.

The sad thing is that the American Indian people have been largely forced to live on reservations, conditions on which are something that most Americans have no idea about. In a nation of 360 million people that uses 1/4 of the Planet's resources, a small part of that nation lives in conditions of poverty that should shame the people it shares the country with.

It is now no longer an option to do nothing, because these people have a heritage and culture that would amaze you if you started to learn about it. They are no sideshow or curiosity, they are the real deal and they have many of the answers people seek today.

If you are unfulfilled, addicted, not satisfied with your lot, then you need to delve into the culture of these people, you will see for yourself that you can learn much.

I have spent the last 2 years learning about these people, the Lakota people have been one tribe that I have researched and even helped with economic development advice, free of charge.

So we have a new broom, the reservations is one area Mr Trump can start sweeping.

Why America should be ashamed - The American Indian reservations disaster situation

The Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull - one of the greatest men to have ever lived

This quote is as relevant now as ever, we need to come together with the Indian peoples and take this advice for all of our futures

You are here

Have you heard of Pine Ridge? Standing Rock, maybe as that has been in the news recently and is nearby to the Ridge Reservation.

So what tribe is at this location? The Lakota, part of the Sioux nation.

What do you know about them? Anything? Ashamed?

This is the problem with most Americans, they have a view of the Red Man as someone on the back of a horse, shooting arrows off and issuing war cries on the hoof.

Maybe in Hollywood movies and if that is your understanding, you would do well to dig into the culture of the Red Man and to learn about their culture and heritage.

It seems General Ignorance is alive and well long after General Custer died.

When you know more, you will then come to appreciate a people you share your country with and also how important they are historically and to our future.

The Pine Ridge Reservation where Lakota people reside

This is Pine Ridge and if you are an American, you should be ashamed that this situation is going on in your country.

You may believe that Indian peoples have Casinos and other wealth, well that may be true for some, but many reservations are not so fortunate or have the wealth or life expectancy that those outside them have..

Pine Ridge has a low life expectancy  of around 53 years of age and levels of wealth are extremely low. The people are resilient and trying to survive. They need help. Ours.

Many Lakota people at Pine Ridge have to live like this,
in winter the cold can be minus 20c

Some parts of the reservation look much like the disaster areas you see in foreign countries, in these situations international aid is thrown at the problem by the bucket load. Yet Pine Ridge is but one area that needs help and now.

This may look idyllic from the air, but the reality on the ground is different

Change needs to happen at Pine Ridge. It needs to change a number of situations that impact on the lives and the futures of the Lakota people. Their future must be safeguarded.

I have been helping with free business development and economic advice, to generate wealth and to build some jobs with some of the Lakota people, but in line with the Lakota people's beliefs in safeguarding resources and only taking what you need.

The Oceti Wakan project groundwork

offering of tobacco and prayers

The Oceti Wakan project is a project which has a number of aims, to build the community, to ensure that the knowledge and culture of the Lakota Heritage is not lost and to provide assistance and guidance for the young.

The Ceremonial House floorplan

There is a plan to build a Ceremonial House centre that will allow events to take place under cover. Oceti Wakan means 'Sacred fireplace' in the Lakota language.

Peter V Catches the Medicine man, the last surviving member of the original founders responsible for the Oceti Wakan project

Peter V Catches has been instrumental in the Oceti Wakan project and he comes from a heritage of medicine men. He can trace his line directly back to the famous Indian known as Crazy Horse.

The plan is to build a wellness centre where the spiritual needs and future generations of the Lakota people can enjoy their cultural identity. Here are the Wellness Centre's aims -

• We have an elder who would love to start a drum group to teach our young boys the sacred songs of our people.
• We have elder women who want to use a quilting circle to mentor young Lakota girls.
• We have a program that we can set up right away call telehealth/telepsychiatry services if we had a place for counseling our young people.
• We want to have ongoing parenting classes.
• The tribe wants us to start up our prevention classes again for prevention of alcohol and drug abuse for youth.
• We have a need a place for support groups for grieving, addiction, and co-dependency.
• We will be setting up some of our ‘Lakota Language Learning Stations’ for those who want to work to learn the Lakota language.
• We will have a home for a lending library of books that we have been collecting for the young people to learn about themselves and the wisdom of the ages. (There is no public library in Pine Ridge.)

There is a website where you can learn from this project and to donate it is at:-

http://ocetiwakan.org/

I have donated to this cause in the last year and at Christmas 2016 and in 2017.

The Ceremonial costume of the Lakota people must be perpetuated and not lost

The White Buffalo - the most important symbol of the Lakota nation

from the legend of the 'White Buffalo Calf woman.'

'Tatanka Oyate' means 'Buffalo People' in Lakota language

So we go back to our beginnings of this post and ask what you know about the American Indians?

If I asked you if you would like to live in a world with no taxes, no greed, no crime, no prisons, no consumerism, where the young and old were all part of a community and cared for, where all were included?

You'd probably say that was some unattainable utopia. You would be wrong.

In fact, if you lived in America in 1500, as a Lakota, that would be normal.

The White Buffalo calf woman is said to have materialised from the Buffalo into the form of a woman who instructed the Lakota people.

As with many tribes, the Lakota people have contact with what they call 'Star People.' Theirs originate from the Pleiades, the constellation of Taurus the Bull, so perhaps no coincidence that the Buffalo should be such an important symbol on this planet for them.

As an aside, the Hopi refer to the extra terrestrials they called 'Ant Friends' that helped them many generations ago as 'Anu nnaki' -  when you consider that the Hopi have many words that are very similar to the Sumerian language from what is now Iraq, this must be more than mere coincidence. 

If you check out their wisdom and knowledge of the tribes, then you will understand just how incredible these people are.

This Eagle landed at Standing Rock recently at the situation

At the recent Standing Rock situation, an Eagle landed near some of the tribal people and stayed for an hour, this Eagle allowed the people there to touch it. This is more than just nature, an Eagle would never allow this normally, this is an example of a people who have not lost their connection to nature and their spirituality. This was beyond nature.

America has an opportunity to now do something about this situation the tribes endure. This situation must change. We are running out of time and planet, we need to reel back from the consumerism that we 'enjoy' or are slaves to.

Standing Rock, one lady with a feather faces 'militarised' Law enforcement

People like the Lakota cannot be allowed to fade out from our collective memory or history, we must help them to attain their rightful status and them have the recognition they deserve.

America has some collective guilt about slavery, yet I do not see the same sort of recognition for the treatment of the Indian Tribes and their peoples.

You would have thought that a 'black' President might have done more in his two terms for the tribal peoples? His reign is about over, it is a shame that we have not seen the great steps that should have been taken.

So, it is up to us ordinary people to come together and help the tribal peoples and shame the government into action.

A simple meaning of life? You could be a star seed and you haven't found it yet.

Earth - abandoned project or did it just evolve?

Planet Earth - what is the point of it? Its an anomaly, perhaps. Why have this inhabitable oasis in the galaxy and nothing else nearby?

Which surely begs the question, why are we here and what is our purpose?

To go back to the beginning, Earth exists for want of a deeper explanation. We are told that there are inhabitable planets 'out there' in the greater galaxy, yet they are so far away, they are almost as unobtainable to us as powered flight was to the cave man.

So, where is our missing link in all this? Was there ever one?

Interestingly enough, consider that most 'life' on this planet seems to have not evolved past its original brief. For instance, Dolphins, Horses, Dogs for example, intelligent in the animal world, yet have not evolved out to take over the planet. Not physically and not intellectually. 

Which kind of leaves the human species as an anomaly. We left the caves perhaps and developed to where we are now, so why in context did the animals not progress? Perhaps it has to do with our brain structure and the fact that we use language, which means we must have a brain that allows us to 'exist' in three separate states past, present and future.

That's how we plan our speech and indeed our actions, we are subliminally modelling all the time, outcomes and plans.

Humans are an intervention species, we have been modified by external means

So, what about this missing link? Is there one? The answer is we are the missing link. We were the product of an existing primate biped and the genetic material from visitors from off our planet.

Even Francis Crick who did much important work on human genetics believed that we were a species that had genetic material modified, that can only mean it was done by external visitors.

We need two things to give us purpose - productiveness and love

Is there a simple meaning of life? Yes. What drives humans and ensures survival are productiveness and love. By Productiveness, we do things of value, whether as necessity for providing food or shelter, for improving our lives through design, or for improving our spiritual enlightenment, things such as music or art.

Besides doing things that add value to our lives, we also need love, to reproduce ourselves and to allow ourselves to be who we are.

These may sound simple but without these we just die, of boredom or through lack of future generational continuity.

So, are you unfulfilled, have you no meaning or feel lost? There could be a reason.

Are you a Star Seed? You could well be, it could explain your situation

You would think these days, that human advancement has brought us to a place where we should be enjoying the position where we are the most technologically advanced we have ever been, we have so much more than previous generations, yet we are also 'lost' and unfulfilled, how can that be?

You might be a Star Seed.

Over 20 years ago, I came across a Star Seed quiz, a set of questions that asked things about what you liked or were attracted to amongst others. I hit 26 out of 30 100%, so I took that to be a sign that I could be different.

If you feel unfulfilled, alone, it could be that you have yet to understand why you are here. This goes back to the top of the page, why are we here? I was about 12 when I came to the conclusion that the Earth seems to have been started as a project and just abandoned.

When we are told about 'evolution,' then in some respects why has humanity not evolved further than at present?

As a star seed, you are on the planet to do something, yet it take many years for you to understand your function here. It may come to you by a series of situations pointing you to a place or situation that you feel makes sense.

This journey may take the form of unforeseen encounters or accidents of discovery.

The Indian tribes have a very rich culture and heritage -

far removed from the Hollywood movie portrayal

My own journey has been a puzzling one, to find out what I was here for. But it came, due to some research I was doing into human and robot history. Through that I came across the American Indian wisdom quotes and I started to look at their culture further.

It was through this that I could see that my purpose was as a conduit. My whole life has been about investigating, asking questions, learning and not for any professional purposes.

So, it became obvious that I could use my skills and experience to help the American Indian people in economic growth and job creation.

The reservation Indians have a tough life, they have a need to preserve their heritage and traditions but also to be able to exist in the world outside the reservations.

Perhaps my experience can help them to achieve this.

This will be a long job, perhaps I see that at my age, that I may never see this fulfilled, but perhaps I can supply the catalyst, the start, the way forward for them.

This brings us back to a meaning of life, a productive output and love, I think that my situation allows me to fulfil that.

Roswell, the 'New Age' and the American Indians - are all linked.

An artist's impression of the crashed Roswell craft, from July 1947

The 70th anniversary of the famous Roswell UFO Incident, in New Mexico, USA from July 1947 is almost upon us.

So, what links Roswell, the 'New Age' and the American Indian people? Good question. ET. is the common linking answer.

B29 Superfortresses over Mt Fuji, Japan in 1945

A mere two years after the atom bombs being dropped on Japan, the Roswell incident occurred. It was not the first UFO crash incident on record, there were others in North America in the 1940's in a similar timeframe. One  happened in 1945 in New Mexico, a pueblo's throw away in fact! There were also more than one crash in 1947.

 

But why was there such a proliferation of incidents in the area around this time? let us not forget the Aztec crash in New Mexico too from around this time, although slightly later.

The reason was nuclear, or more succinctly, the fact that humans had developed and used atomic weapons of their own. This was not the first time in Earth's history that atomic weapons had been used - a human like race existed before that used them, ultimately destroying it.

But it was the first time that we had developed and used these weapons ourselves. That is what piqued the interest of other species out there in space. 'Oh no, not that again!'

Lets consider the so-called 'New Age' movement, occurring about 20 years after Roswell, now is that not a coincidence?

Not really. As we have seen, emissaries have visited this planet to try and deal with the atomic situation in the 50's. They see this capability we have developed as about as dangerous as giving a kid a hunting rifle and ammunition.

Emissaries allegedly visited with the US President at Holloman air force base where they are said to have proposed a deal, desist with nuclear proliferation and they would gift us free energy. Sadly, that offer was not taken up and the proliferation proliferated.

The space emissaries were bound by a code of non-interference. That code had been broken long ago when 'we' were created as a species by the Anunnaki. So perhaps a 'soft' intervention was required when polite negotiation failed?

Around 1967, the Vietnam war was starting to become a heavy and bogged down affair. It was doomed to fail, just as the Korean War had, for the simple reason that the allied powers could not prevent supply of personnel and materiel from across the borders of neighbouring countries aiding the war effort. Much the same situation in the recent middle east conflicts of the present exists.

So, did the space emissaries start a program of seeding a generation that would change the 'thinking' of America as a back stop by the back door?

Think about that. America in the 50's when this generation grew up had been the major player in WW2 victory and also in the Korean war.

It had the most advanced toys in the military toy box.

It, partly for propaganda purposes became 'the' leading consumer society in the world. It was fresh, modern, clean, middle class, white picket fence suburban 'nuclear family' normal.

This gift could be thrown in the face of every citizen under Soviet communist rule, as a propaganda tool to cause them to overthrow the institutionally corrupt communist system. 

A US fighter pilot captured in the Korean War was being 'sold' the benefits of Communism by a Chinese interrogator, so the pilot asked, 'I have a house, car and swimming pool, what can communism offer?' It could not offer any of that level of liefstyle.

But, consumer America came at a cost, for all its modernity. Excessive consumption of resources and accidents in the emerging nuclear industry to illustrate the point.

So this new age movement looked to me be seeded from outside, otherwise, why was there this sudden 'anti-establishment' and 'anti the Vietnam war' movement? There was nothing like this in WW2 or at the time of the Korean war?

The 'New Age' borrowed a lot of features from the old American Indian lifestyle. The Indian system where people were equal, there were no taxes, no consumerism, care for resources, using only what was necessary, passing on things to the needy, care for young and old, inclusivity for those that did not fit the 'nuclear family' option - the gay, the transgender.

There was no crime as such, no need for prisons to be built. They had essentially, a simple but utopian society. It was low impact all round, the spiritual beliefs connected to nature, respect for the Earth and animals.

Think about it.

If you know about American Indian culture, most of the above is a direct lift by the New Age from that. The word Hopi, of the Hopi Indians means peace. Now is that a coincidence?

In the new age movement, there was not the worship of false idols in the shape of the Yankee Dollar, golf club membership or the like.

Essentially these new age tenets, along with respect for others and a non-aggressive attitude were the basis for the 'Haight-Ashbory' style of movement that culminated in Woodstock. These people also lived in 'Communes'.

No doubt, this alarmed white picket fence middle class America. It was the complete antithesis of their idea of suburban bliss and it almost mentioned the 'C' word of Communism. (Perhaps Marx looked at the American Indian pre-colonial model and borrowed the ideas that would form his 'communism'? - it says that to me)

But there were concerted efforts to make that  new age fail. The 'introduction' of 'free love,' alcohol and drugs into the movement, appealing to many young people were the undoing of it. These were certainly not tenets or beliefs of the American Indian people or their way of life.

The aggressive and panic shouting that came out through the media in the late 60's about the new age, turned the American public against the new age movement as a degenerate, anti-American situation that had to be tamed. Effectively to allow the consumer society to continue.

'They' effectively derailed a movement that had been started for the right reasons, to promote peace and prepare the population for the coming age of Aquarius, rather than the coming of armageddon.

Essentially, the New Age promoted an alternative lifestyle, but it only achieved fairly limited success because corporate politics sought to destroy it as 'un-American' and possibly 'Commie' leaning.

Had the world adopted the caring and responsible way forward, things would be different. But, oil makes the world go round, money must be spent, defence must be procured for perceived threats and so the dragon perpetuates, chasing its own tail and consuming itself. The consumer is in danger of consuming resources to the degree we run out.

The Hopi Indian people have prophecies regarding this coming time of change, this runs that the time will come when there will be a big sort out of the population.

So how are the Indian peoples connected? Well, they have their roots in Atlantis, they were taken to America by their 'star people' as they call them. They have a proclivity to being psychically aware and equipped, in tune with nature and regard themselves as guardians of the planet. Somewhat at odds with the consumer society.

What is interesting is that the Indians were given information on clay tablets, the Hopi and Cherokee have these. This was also a form of record keeping done by the ancient Sumerians in the time of the Anunnaki and also in Pharaoh era Egypt.

A Navajo made ring of a Zuni design, featuring a Hopi 'Katsina' figure

The Hopi people were visited and guided by a star race they called the Katsinas. Many Indian tribes refer to their extra terrestrial visitors as 'Star People.' The Katsina even today are celebrated by the Hopi, who make dolls in the shape and design of these visitors. These 'external' visitors also feature in the culture as spirits who guide the crops and nature.

And how this reinforces the connection to Roswell?

We have heard many times of the 'cover up' over the extra terrestrial entities involved in the crash at Roswell and also with other craft. The denial of aliens recovered, by use of threat in some cases is well documented.

Government is frantic to cover this up, because it reveals 'contact' with an off planet race, that they my possess literally 'out of this world' technology and the fact that something superior is out there, something that is more advanced than America, as self-proclaimed saviour of the free world, is it not?

Check out Ardy Sixkiller Clarke's book 'encounters with star people' it is a fascinating read about real ET contact with the American Indian people.

Hopefully, you can now see how the premise of Roswell, the New Age and the American Indians are all linked.

The 'New Age' is not dead. With a renewed interest in the culture of the ancient peoples of America, the truth is coming out and the dots are being joined to show the bigger picture how it is. People are waking up and this recent Presidential campaign is getting information out of the closet, the genie is out of the bottle, spin is dead.

The consumer society has a tenuous grip on power. That may be about to be relinquished.

We have seen in recent years how the power of 'people media' has discredited the pat media platitudes of the main players.

The truth is quite literally out there and we are able to read and create this information for others to see on a world wide web, thanks to the craft that crashed at Roswell, where we got the means to advance our technology so far.

Live long and prosper as Spock would say.

A flag for the American Indian people - the Thunderbird Nation flag

The late Russell Means, Indian activist

I came across this picture of Russell Means today and it fitted with something I had an idea for recently. That being a flag for the American Indians, their own.

Russell is a man I admire, he was looking to make change, change for all. His wisdom was another thing that I liked. He spoke a lot of sense.

My design was what I call the 'Thunderbird nation flag.'

I realised that those Indian people who crafted items had no 'brand' to say this is a genuine item made by a person with Indian heritage. So I designed this to perhaps be adopted as a recognised mark.

I love things that are made by people with that 'real' heritage going back generations and not something made half way across the world that is not authentic.

I also thought perhaps it was time that the Indian people had their own identifying flag, something that could combine elements of their heritage, be simple, recognisable and theirs.

So, I put together some ideas. I thought that a simple symbol would be best and the Thunderbird was what I thought worked best, initially using the 3 US flag colours in the design and then I adapted the design to use the Medicine Wheel colours.

Here are my ideas.

The basic, solid, Thunderbird symbol flag

The stars added version, 50 stars

The Medicine Wheel colours version

So that was my idea and I hope it is liked.

In my view as a non-Indian, I think that something like this reinforces the heritage of a great people that need greater recognition for their culture and heritage.

Return to Vagenda - because you've gone too far - 40 years of equality

Well, I think this says it all...

Just that as a man I would be criticised for saying it

So 40 years after the Equality act came into being, how have we fared? There is some debate that women are still under represented in some situations, less well paid than men in the same jobs and discrimination seems to still exist, sometimes.

But, as Barbara Ehrenreich has stated above, some women have just gone 'too far' and have become like men. The late American Indian activist of the Lakota people Russell Means stated something along the same lines as Barbara Ehrenreich, that women had just 'become like men.'

In the American Indian society there was always a reverence for the female, the Earth was described as Mother Earth. The Indians had a greater understanding through their spiritual based belief of the role of things. I think they had it right.

Organised religion belief systems have done much damage by their dogma, take those that deny the use of contraception, they not only condemn women to years of childbirth and child care, they create in often poor areas of the world more poverty by extra mouths to feed where this is completely unnecessary.

The American Indians did use natural family planning and as such maintained more viable communities which did not suffer because of lack of resources.

The American Indians had an appreciation of the man and woman relationship

This was how their society was able to function so well for all, for centuries

It served them well enough

You don't have to be anything that you are not

A mere 3 years after the Equality act, Britain got its first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher. She was the right person at the right time to sort out a country that had just about become beyond repair thanks to strikes and the previous government.

Mrs Thatcher was the person who showed the rest of the world that Britain was open for business and with the success of the Falklands campaign, that Britain could not be messed with. This was one opportunity where a woman could behave robustly because it was the right thing for the right occasion.

Margaret Thatcher may have made some unpopular decisions

but then again, Medicine doesn't always taste nice

I had a lot of respect for her in her heyday

Snowflake generation upstarts do just this, sadly...

They should stop hitting easy targets like Western men

and direct their efforts to furthering women's rights in the Middle East

It is now time for a re evaluation, the balance seems to have swung too far the other way. Do you know I was pushed out of a job recently because a female Director wanted 'an all girl office.' Well she got that and her sales dived back downwards I have heard.

She announced she was taking over Sales and Marketing of which she had no experience and which was quickly apparent, I had 20 years experience. So she engaged a female friend of hers to advise them on this area.

Feminism at work? Well if that's how it is, you can keep it. I have worked with women for over 30 years and have never had any experience like this in any other job, thankfully. This included service in the Police where I worked with women at Senior rank with no issues.

We are approaching a time where things in our world will have to change for the future if we are to survive as a species. This means we are also going to have to revise our way of operating as a species and as men and women and to re-evaluate where we are going.

One thing I have noted in mostly female offices is sometimes a woman saying 'I'll have to get a man to do that.'

So I guess until someone invents a vibrator that can also put up shelves, men still have some relevancy.