90% of victims of war are civilians , lest we forget to move forward from bloodshed and work for peace. If as much money was put into this objective as there is nto killing and its misery it would benefit the whole world. Those who benefit the most financially are those with investments in the war machine and land/resource grabbing. Today I feel reinforces the ideal of patriotism and militarism, in stark contrast to the original ' Armistice day' when the nations of the world hoped to be united in peace. The horrors and misery of World War 1 still need remembering, but not in a way that reinforces an ugly military agenda. Today politicians stand praying for peace while preparing for war...their hypocrisy abounds. The grisly facts and horrors of war in all our histories is worth more than all the false red poppy illusions that are being seen today. Sadly the red poppy today has been hijacked by arms companies, look how last week Lockheed Martin, the World's biggest arms company sponsored the Poppy Rocks Ball., and Thales joined Boris Johnson in a Big Red poppy Billboard at Westminster. Today I remember all those sadly lost, in two World Wars but also those that everyday risk their lives to build peace and prevent conflict, and time turn to one another as friends, united in our goals working together, so that the future potential of conflict could be resolved to the extent that all the current spending on arms and the war machine was no longer necessary.
When we talk of Israels protective edge operation in Gaza, we should not forget over 2130 humans bombed to death, the over 500 children or the 89 families exterminated. We speak of the living, and this is their life. Tens of thousands of refugees will be finding shelter from the cold, wind and the rain,in bombed United Nations schools and the remains of their destroyed homes. And Gaza remains beseiged, the biggest ghetto in the world awaiting the next round of oppression, knowing that any form of resistance will be labelled terrorist. Boycott Israel.
'Behind every mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea..and ideas are bulletproof.'
-Alan Moore -'V for vendetta'
Solidarity with all those marching tonight, may you ignite the world with passion. Gorgeous moon tonight also, don't forget to look up as it lights the way. Together we can all dismantle the masters house
Still can't upload photos or video in libraries, but that is the least of our problems. At the moment in time we have a corrupt authoritarian government thrashing everything decent about this country, flogging of our public services, cutting our beloved welfare state- all of which we have paid for, killing 1000's through their cruel draconian policies, founded on social Darwinism and eugenics by stealth, and what are the nation and media babbling on about? How much Millibland gave a woman who was begging, and how he looked while doing it, the same as he usually does. Tories, labour, the bloody liberals, where is the difference. There whole damn country seems to be heading back to the workhouse times. A man immoral bunch that make me ashamed and angry to say the least Tens of thousands of desperate jobseekers will be forced to cancel Christmas too, due to benefit sanctions, job centres develop a scrooge like mentality at this time of the year, about 59,000 job seekers were sanctioned in December 2013. Gradually all are support and sustenance is being kicked away. Bah.
On October 30th, 2014 the UK Parliament will host a debate on the country's drug policy. To ensure your MP represents you at the debate and works to support evidence-based drug laws in the country. visit here:-
Blog unable to upload photos or videos at moment in time, I hope it's temporary, any suggestions please?Also missing a dear friend, but that's another story. Meanwhile between 13 and 26th October a joint police Operation called 'mos maiorum' takes place in nearly all European countries to identify, imprison and finally deport illegallised migrants. Thousands of people will be subject to so called ' racial profiles ' and will be harassed and criminalised upon those criteria.
The following site tries to document the actions that are part of 'mos maiorum' and to make these effects visible to everyone.
Please contribute to document public police checkpoints or identify checks throughout the European union.
Hundreds of police officers attack Occupy Democracy participants because they don't want them to sit on tarpaulins. This was after Occupy Democracy broke away from the TUC march on Saturday and headed to Parliament Square for an open Assembly, wardens had asked protestors to leave under an old by law, then sent the police in, and then their was a total overreaction, on behalf of the police and a standoff lasted till yesterday. What was witnessed was a scene that had reminiscences of Hong Kong, less freedom seen in Parliament Square. The protestors sound system was confiscated and tents and sleeping bags were not allowed into the camp. The massive overpolicing and attempshut down this democratic forum is truly shocking and outrageous. The protestors plan to occupy the square for the next week. Viva freedom.
George Orwell on the police ;-
" I have no love for the idealized 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois mind, but when I see an actual flesh and blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ak myself which side I'm on."
Tory welfare minister Lord Freud apparently thinks disabled people should be paid less than the minimum wage. And where is the opposition to these remarks, Millibland just keeps on shuffling and smiling, he needs to wake up... did he read any of his dads books for gods' sake... somewhere he must have some guts. Lord Freud the same heartless individual who said ' The poor should take more risks as they have the least to lose.' Lord Fraud every time he opens his gob, a shallowness emerges that says much about his character and very much about the nasty party that he represents. People holding these views should not be in government, they are reckless and damaging, but their they are pontificating about realities that they know nothing about. He has no previous experience of the welfare system Baron Fraud, but who asked him first to provide a review of these services, Mr Tony Bliar under New Labour. You couldn't make these things up. My mind boggles. Oh blundering Mr Fraud has since apologised, but he's done that before as well, over previous gaffes of his own making, time he got another job, same applies to the rest of his cohorts in government who are equally complicit in their appalling attitudes to the poor and disabled.
Charlie Chaplin's inspirational final speech in "The Great Dictator "
On 15 October 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany)
The physical resemblance between the Tramp and another famous man with a
little black mustache was not lost on Chaplin. In his first all-talking
picture, he plays both a Jewish barber and his double, Adenoid Hynkel,
the absolute ruler of Tomainia. As Hynkel and his henchmen Herring and
Garbitsch engineer the persecution of Jews and the invasion of
neighboring Osterlich, the amnesiac barber may be the only person
innocent enough to stop them. Throughout the anti-fascist film Chaplin powerfully
exploits the deflating power of parody, while in the finale he abandons
both character and comedy to deliver one of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history with an impassioned plea to the audience for human
tolerance, encouraging us in opposing all forms of oppression,Many years later, the world still needs to stand still and listen and stand against the forces of fascism.An earlier tribute of mine to this great man can be found here :-
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business.
I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone
if possible- jewish, Gentile, black men, white…
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want
to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We
don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room
for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate;
has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed
speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance
has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness,
hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery ,we need
humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The
aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very
nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out
for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world,
millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a
system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.”
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the
bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men
will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people
will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never
perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and
enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to
think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle,
use you as cannon fodder!
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with
machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not
cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You
don’t hate!
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of
God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In
you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines,
the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make
this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a
chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they
lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the
world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with
hate and intolerance!
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
