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How on earth you find time to paint amidst all of your other obligations while always appearing the picture of perfect equanimity is yet another example of your superheroic status 😇

Thank you for reading my poem with every cell of your wondrous being, Tess, and for helping me share the message that Mistakes Were NOT Made with millions of people around the world and counting:

• “Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice (Video)” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-57a)

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I love your painting. Beautiful! The more I studied it the more I saw. It says so much. Love your story of then and now of pirate raiders. You are a true artist!

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I find Noah's ark and The Ancient Mariner in the painting and Isaiah's Parable of the Vineyard in the writing. We may not all be poets but we all of us should learn from the poets to handle language with the utmost reverence.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

What an awesome piece of writing - Thanks Tess

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Mar 22, 2023·edited Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Looove this post, thank you for writing this and sharing your perspective. I grew up in Hawaii, and am half white and part Hawaiian, which gives an interesting perspective on life. Many locals hate white people because of what Captain Cook did to the natives. Back in the early days of Covid, I couldn't help thinking this whole pandemic reeked of colonialism. White men using brute force to get their way and push other people into doing what they wanted them to do, trying to make them think it was somehow for their own good. Taking away power from the natives so they could get control and rule the area. These experimental injections also remind me of rape - injection by coercion or force. Sad tp see, what rich people in power have been able to get away with for thousands of years is still happening today.

PS Love the painting!!

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Tess, since your first video emerged, and I reached out on LinkedIn, I have witnessed your blooming and expanded knowledge of the true nature of our cage, your dogged determination to share truth, solutions and sound advice. A creative outlet is a wonderful way to keep grounded in these troubled times.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I love your art piece, Dr. Lawrie.

Keep at it.

You are a natural, real artist.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

This line Is a tell all...”They will not stop at owning our data, because it is the human spirit that has always been the pirates’ most prized bounty.”

So if money is key to their rogue behavior and we keep 😤 filling the pirate chest, we need to either steal it back and create laws with a system of transparent accountability with vigorous checks and balances and oversight or create another financial system of our own that they can never ever access. This would starve the scurvy scoundrels and force them to walk their own plank willingly.

Kristi Noem recently VETOED a bill and warned other states that these devils are trying to slip language into long-worded bills to try and implement the sole recognition of one cryptocurrency to create a centralized banking system. How would any sane legislature body sign a bill they never read? It’s like signing a blank check!!

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I loved this! Pirates don’t deserve our politeness. We must save that for one another.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Your masterpiece comment:

Nice blend of moving story telling colours....a Vincent VG influence....

The canvas looks aged as in a long lost find. Nice touch.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Great painting! I wouldn't want to be on that damned vessel.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Loved reading this article! Thanks for writing it.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

"I humbly suggest therefore, that by using this phrase we may be speaking ourselves into subservience, keeping us beholden to the unscrupulous forces exploiting us. Manners maketh man not, rather, manners maketh slaves."

Very perceptive, I cannot think of any reason that the pirates would not have used speech and manners as one of the weapons of subjugation.

I spent 39 Years in South Africa, the weather is nice.

I am growing to believe that most of the oppressors that we have in the world are still slaves without even considering it. Sure there may be some that guide and direct who are of the pirate class but why would massive chunks of society become irrational and mean if it was not profitable to some entity.

The politics of South Africa are simply one version of how to plunder, the pain and misery caused are externalised so the amount hardly matters to those directing.

Thank you for all that you do and all you have done, I am humbled and a bit emotional every time I watch your letter to that andrew person, how you remain composed is beyond me.

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Mar 22, 2023·edited Mar 23, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Language and its foundation is a passion of mine too.

Pardon me? Lol! WHO might have guessed at its subtle perfidy.

Thank you.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

A 5xgg and 4gg father of mine arrived in SA in 1820 with other settlers - so I like you, and probably thousands of others, are the unwitting progeny of pirates.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I love the painting. Those towering thick swirly engulfing waves depict the dreaded doom-laden dystopian propaganda and the sinking pirate ship could be called 'Treacherous Totalitarian Titanic' - floated on a bloated Pack of Lies.

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