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I have written several blogs on here referring to Diana Spencer, former Princess of Wales, and how she communicated via her voice-channel Andrew Russell-Davis. It is up to people whether they accept this or not, but they shouldn’t make a judgment till they’ve looked at the Diana Speaks site and listened to at least one or two of the podcasts. This is what convinced me it was indeed Diana communicating.

Things have now reached a crisis point, 13 years after Diana passed to Spirit in that crash in Paris on August 31st, 1997.

In all things people have free will. This is what makes it impossible for psychics or Spirit to accurately predict the future. So much depends on decisions and the free choice of individuals.

I have indicated, as have messages on the Diana Speaks site, that this thing was hoped to take off in a big way. Not just yet another psychic/Diana site, but one which would make news around the world.

Still alive, performing and recording, though his live shows are a very pale imitation of those from years ago. He now performs from a set-list which only varies slightly from show to show, and his stage act has all but disappeared. Sometimes he makes a half-hearted attempt at the end to stand and kick the piano stool back, or play a few notes standing up, but all the other trademarks have long gone.

The length of his live shows tend to be about 45 minutes on average, which is considered very short nowadays. In the 1950s and 1960s when there were lots of support acts and two shows a night, the main act would only do about 30 minutes. Now two hours is more the norm. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Jerry Lee included many of his Country hits and album tracks, also launching into Gospel, Blues, etc. as well as rock’n'roll his shows were often 90 minutes or so.

A friend stayed with me a few days last week, well he’s more than just a friend actually. We had a good time especially on Friday when we met up with another friend for some drinks and a Chinese meal, then I and the friend staying with me went on to a pub near me where a band was playing our favorite rock’n'roll music, and several other people we knew were there. We therefore missed the monthly meal/gang meet-up of The Woodies group which also took place this Friday.

Next day I traveled back to St Leonards (Hastings) with my friend, who now lives there, and together we visited a very old friend of me and my partner who’s now in a care home suffering from dementia, severe diabetes and various complications. I’d seen him last month, and a couple of months before that with another old friend, and on that first occasion we all laughed and joked about old times.

A more light-hearted blog today, after the long, ponderous ones on philosophy and politics. I have known many colorful characters in my life, and have invented more to amuse my partner when he was alive, and friends. Some of these fictional characters were loosely based on real ones.

Mrs Do-not-shout was one of these. A Polish lady who moved into an upstairs room or flat next door back in the 1950s when we lived in Bowes Park, Wood Green. She was probably the first foreigner/ethnic person to move into the street. Studying to be a doctor, the noise of my brother and me playing in the garden interrupted her studies, so she’d slowly lift the sash window, pop her head out and say in a sing-song Polish accent: ‘You must not shout’. My brother and I thought this hilarious, so deliberately screamed and shouted to make her do this.

I never know what to call myself nowadays. I was raised a Christian, became an atheist in my teens/twenties, briefly went back to Christianity, and am now – what?

Labels mean little to me because I realized back in my teens that one religion, much less one sect of a religion, can’t be right and all the others wrong. Ancient religious texts like The Bible may have some good parts, but they also contain a lot of very dangerous stuff. The Old Testament justifies rape, ethnic cleansing, genocide, slavery, subjugation of women, homophobia, stoning to death and all sorts of other horrors.

Even the New Testament is not blameless. Statements such as ‘nobody comes to the Father other than by me’ attributed to Jesus condemns those of other religions and none, and has led to terrible crimes against humanity – torture, wars, killing of many innocent people because they wouldn’t convert to Christianity or one particular brand of Christianity.

Primitive Socialism is my term for what existed in the Soviet Union and other Socialist states of the 20th Century.  An interim state between Capitalism and true Socialism which can hopefully be avoided in future now we are aware of it.

It wasn’t entirely Lenin’s fault that things turned out the way they did after the Great October Socialist Revolution (Russian Bolshevik Revolution). Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the theorists of Communism, but they never had to actually put these theories into practice or were put in a position where they made mistakes.

From the 19th Century writings of Marx and Engels sprang not only the Communist movement of the 20th Century, but also the Socialist and Social Democratic traditions. The old Constitution of the British Labour Party was solidly based on Marxist theories about the surplus value of labor and the necessity of taking the means of production, distribution and exchange into some kind of common ownership and democratic control.

The latest loony proposal by David Cameron, apparently supported by his Lib-Dem puppet deputy Nick Clegg but not by some other Lib-Dem government members, is that new council tenancies should be limited to 5 or 10 years at which time the occupants will be expected to move out into privately rented accommodation, obtain a mortgage to buy a property or get into a housing association property if they can.

This is not only a totally impractical policy, but I hope it will fail to gain a majority of votes in favor in the Houses of Parliament. I really can’t see most Lib-Dem MPs supporting it, nor Labour or most of the smaller parties in the House.

The reason for this proposal is the shortage of council housing and the many on the waiting lists, but what is the good of going on a waiting list and just obtaining a council tenancy for 5 or 10 years? No point whatsoever.

People can get carried away with these, especially the younger generation, but it also affects much older people. In our throw away/buy new society they are always encouraging us to discard perfectly good things in order to sell us something else.

Take the fad for MP3 players for example, which followed on from CDs, which took over from good old vinyl records and cassette audio tapes. Now these newer technologies are fine in their place, and great for new collectors who can download on to their MP3 players all the latest tunes. For older people like myself who have large collections of vinyl records and cassette tapes, is there any point in buying the software/hardware necessary and spending hours and hours transferring everything to MP3 or CDs?

I started transferring a lot of my VHS tape recordings to DVD, but got fed up with this seemingly never-ending task and haven’t done it for months.

I am applying for individual membership of the European Left (http://www.european-left.org/english/home/home/), an umbrella organization which links many member Left political parties and individuals within the EU for a common stance on many issues.

I have not been a member of any political party, since leaving the British Labour Party when it abandoned first unilateralism (giving up Britain’s so-called independent nuclear deterrent) and then Socialism in the form of the old Clause IV of the Party’s Constitution.

In general and local elections I have wavered between voting for the Greens, Liberal Democrats and only once Labour when it was for Ken Livingstone as London Mayor (I also voted for him when he stood and won as an independent candidate.) Now it has gone into coalition with the Tories, I’m not sure I can vote Liberal Democrat again. Obtaining a referendum on the Alternative Vote system is not sufficient – I at least expected a referendum on other voting systems such as full PR.

This is the question raging in America, but for me the answer is very simple. The two are NOT exclusive. In fact it is perfectly obvious to me that both intelligent design and evolution are responsible for the current state of life on Earth.

First of all, what is meant by the term ‘Intelligent Design’? Many would interpret this phrase as meaning the existence of God, but this is not necessarily so. Of course it depends on how you define ‘God’.

It really all boils down to the nature of Consciousness. If Consciousness originates outside of the living brain, then everything becomes much easier to understand.

Let’s first examine the two diametrically opposed traditional explanations for the existence of life on Earth. One is Darwinian-type Evolution coupled with Natural Selection. In its purest form, this theory sees no need for God or Intelligent Design of any kind.