Keep on playing those mind games together
Raising the spirit of peace and love
I want you to make love, not war
I know you’ve heard it before…

We’ve heard these words before. The late, great John Lennon singing for peace, love and understanding. He wrote a stack of songs on that very subject: All You Need Is Love, Give Peace A Chance, Imagine, Mind Games (quoted above)… well you get my point! Those of you old enough may even remember the “Bed-In” for peace in Montreal in 1969. John and Yoko sat in bed for a week using their media power, their celebrity, to help advance the peace movement…

Let’s face it though… the voyeur, even in the 60’s, wanted to see them get it on. Alas, it never happened. That is, until now.

Veteran anti-war demonstrators Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell are hoping that a Global Orgasm for Peace can finally bring an end to conflict in the Middle East. Yes, that right… a Global Orgasm for Peace! All for peace you understand! The idea for the ultimate Make Love Not War action is for people around the globe to have an orgasm on December 22 and to focus their moments of pleasure on world peace.

Accoring to The Age, Reffell is quoted as saying that “The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it, your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.” Really! The event is timed to coincide with the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and with the holiday season’s traditions of Peace on Earth.

The group’s website, is already attracting more than 26,000 hits and explains that the goal is to “effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy, a Synchronised Global Orgasm”. For those who doubt the effectiveness of such tactics, Sheehan explains that “the combination of high-energy orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention may have a much greater effect than previous mass meditations and prayers.”

Okay… so the next time that you come, remember it’s for peace on earth! Saving the planet without getting out of bed. If only it was that easy, or that much fun! Guess the G20 guys should have had a different focus… although if we link Oz’s last post with this one… can anybody say “Wet T-Shirt Contest”!

I found something pretty appalling this week.

Do you remember the Cronulla riots? They were an embarrassment to this country and more specifically to Sydney. In general, Australia has a pretty good record for welcoming migrants from all over the world, who usually come here either for the opportunities or to escape oppression.

In most cases, people have found this country to be a haven, but unfortunately the swing towards Right-Wing thinking in world politics, led largely by the US, has created a nationalistic paranoia in Western countries. All the hype around terrorism, the Middle East and Islam has given uneducated nationalist yobbos an outlet for the dissatisfaction they feel with their own lives. “Lets blame the Arabs”.

Cronulla was just the result of years of tensions. Both “sides” have plenty to answer for, but it wouldn’t have happened without all the hype. This week I read that a board game has been released called Cronulla Monopoly where players play to “win back Australia”.

It was also this week that I read about a drunken football team who bashed a Jewish guy in Caulfield after yelling racial abuse at him and his kids out of the window of their bus.

Where is this all heading? It’s a serious question. I don’t understand what’s happening.

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Almost every blog I read has posted this, so I feel a little obliged to do the same. I won’t bore you with my own mash up of it, so if you really want to know what some people (a lot more intelligent then I) had to say about it, follow the links.

Charlene Li @ Forrester Research.

Mark Cuban in his earlier post

Mark Cuban in a later post

The word is Google will not tamper with the YouTube model, but I kinda like the YouGoog tag. Generally, the transaction has had good interest from the Blog world but there is still staunch opposition.

Now, how do we get US$1.65B (in stock) for beezhouse?