Day Three of official business in the NI Assembly and already our MLAs are addressing the issues that impact on our lives - the CPA. I initially figured that this referred to the appointment of some accounting body to oversee their expenditure as they would want to be seen to be frugal in these challenging times. But I was mistaken.
How do trips to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Barbados or Montserrat appeal to you? Nice holiday destinations?.....well then membership of the CPA is just what you need. The CPA is the The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and membership is open to the national, provincial, state and territorial Parliaments and Legislatures of the countries of the Commonwealth. MLAs passed a motion to re-apply for membership in light of the return of devolved government.
But of course its not about the possibility of exotic trips that Northern Ireland is joining. There are serious political reasons why membership would be advantageous. Alban Maginness stated that "it is important that parliamentarians mix together and learn from one another." Well if one thing Northern Ireland politicians need it is lessons in how to mix together. They have spent the last 4 or 5 years avoiding all efforts to do just that (while continuing to take their salaries of course). All the better if this can be done in Sydney rather than Belfast. In addition over the course of the peace process our politicians have had direct contact with politicians like Albert Reynolds, John Major, Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair, George Mitchell and Bill Clinton - but maybe they were not school days and they forget to learn anything from them.
Even more interesting was the contribution to the debate from Sean Neeson who argued that "it is time for the Government of the Republic of Ireland to consider joining the CPA in order that they can interact with the other major nations throughout the world"......and I thought that the Republic's membership of the EU and the United Nations already provided that opportunity....silly me.
Jim Wells did point out that any member Government that does not meet normal democratic standards is removed, with its membership suspended until democracy is restored. I wonder if the CPA might like to consider the fact that one of the first decisions of the NI Assembly was to exclude the Alliance Party from membership of the Review Committee, the committee charged with policing the actions of the devolved Government. By excluding any member from a party not already in Government they are not showing much of the democratic standards Mr. Wells aspires to.
At the outset of the debate Alban Maginness did argue that membership of the CPA should not be an exercise in junketing - well if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck I think its safe to assume its a duck.
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Want to know why Caliqula's reign as Roman Emporer was so short? For the same reason the Jews didn't remain in Egypt as slaves:::::It effectively motivated them to fix their problems and ascend.
Obedience is not the answer. This is the brain-less response and the easy way out.
You've done everything you have been told for years and it never bought you ANYTHING. Your parents did what they were told and it didn't buy them anything. Your grandparents did everything they were told and now they're dead, reincarnated as lesser life forms, perhaps even into America's deranged, violent ghettos.
People think they are not responsible when Artificial Intelligence tells them to do something. They offeed a clue with the Holocaust AND with Watergate:::Defy authority and do the right thing.
In earlier decades this obedience may have been out of fear, as so often in Germany, but that era is long over. To maximize damamge the Gods today sell them on "earning" and these people think they will profiteer from their evil.
They offer a clue on the Simpsons with Flanders and Skinner. So many ridicule both figures, a testiment to the state of our society.
Hatiian earthquake.
Jews never saw as much sucess ascending than during bondage. Of course, this is "God's chosen people".
Sexual purity and innocence is everything, but sexual decency may suffice among the favored. An example I like to use is masterbation:::Although the number of exceptions is growing, men are punished for this behavior while far fewer women are.
Didn't the Nazis prohibit sexual relations/reproduction? The Jews who fought this were the disfavored, just as the East Germans who tried to cross the Berlin Wall.
The Holocaust may have been an attempt to get as many of these favored people out before they were introduced to the "valley of steel".
Perhaps it is a benefit for Jewish sexual decency. Maybe because they treat their women well.
So many positives in their "equation of disfavor" combined with the state of mind resulting from their long history of suffering may have resulted in this mass exodus known as World War II's Holocaust.
And, like the Richard Nixon example, it offered a clue to the disfavored souls left behind.
And the Gods made middle-America anti-Semitic to not only send a clue about Christianity to the wise but to dump The Damned into this WorldWarII positioning.
I have been using Haiti as an example for years. I recall bringing Haiti up in regards to mom, for the running joke was that they will reincarnate her as a Haitian slave, slavery still being a problem in this Carribean country.
With her as the leader of the resistance, of course.
A couple of days before the earthquake we were talking about the possible reincarnation destinations for her.
This clue is a big one because this one is on the order of Iraq and ending the benefit wrought by Saddam Hussein.
People still don't understand or believe the reverse positioning dynamic at work here because it contradicts their long-held values, but the wretched conditions of Haiti was a benefit for those people. Just as we saw millions of European Jews pray en masse so should Haitian conditions motivate this country. Unfortuantaly, due to their increased disfavor the Gods have reserved priveledge, and just like "resistance" among mainstream blacks so are there tactics in Haiti which limits the effectiveness of this "back-handed" favor.
The earthquake represents the end. It's all "downhill" from here.
This is Obama's Iraq. Haiti will never be the same nor experience the same incentives to turn to the Gods.
And more of the people's "favor" slips away.
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