Saturday 26 July 2014
The Real NATO Agenda
On 4-5th September NATO meets at the Celtic Manor in Newport South Wales. Supposedly meeting to strengthen partnerships and forge alliances around issues of national security and protection of vital resources, this video reveals for the first time the Real NATO Agenda.
Wales could see its biggest protests in a generation as world leaders meet planning their war on the world.
War is the enemy of the poor. At this years summit the US will be pressuring Western Powers to increase their already huge military budgets at a time when poverty and inequality are soaring. The worlds 85 richest people have as much as poorest 3.5 billion.
Money into war is money out of our communities. In the UK, 500,000 people had to resort to food banks last year.
None of the cuts would be necessary if the sums Britain spends on its military and armanents were invested in social need instead of the war machine.
This autumn the powerful will make their voices heard at the NATO summit. We must make sure that the voice of the millions around the world who need peace and justice is also heard.
Some useful links:-
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
http://www.cnduk.org/
http://www.no-to-nato.org/
http://www.nonatonewport.org/
The protests have already started. Yesterday there was a successful event in Cardiff, where protestors managed to disrupt army recruiters, managing to close down the "Career Centre" for 2 hours. Onwards to NATO.
The message on the banner translates as :-
' WHEN THE WEALTHY WAGE WAR, IT'S THE POOR WHO DIE.'
Friday 25 July 2014
Arhundati Roy (24/11/61) - 'Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars."
' Colourful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe."
Reprinted from :- Public Power in the Age of Consent.
Thursday 24 July 2014
The Tories can they sink any lower?
Yes they definitely can...first we have the news that the Tories pocketed £160,000 from a mate of Putins - and that over 400 Russian oligarchs have been given visas for a million squid a go. This after Camerons sanctimonious rant about sanctions over the Malaysian airline atrocity. It turns out that amongst the hundreds of fat defence contracts signed with Russia, was one for anti-aircraft components. We sold Putin anti-aircraft componements! ( Remember it was the tories who also flogged some camouflage gear to A CERTAIN S. Hussein just in time for the first Gulf War, which left our own soldiers short, forced to buy their own gear. But then I would expect nothing less than the Tories. To see the full extent of Cameron's hypocricy, as he mumbles and makes calls for sanctions, see how he still receives backhanders and his governments continuing complicity in Israels brutal assult on Gaza.
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Rage
Click on Pic to enlarge.
here are the 132 Children killed in Gaza by Israel's Operation Protective Edge.
More details here.:- http://bit.ly/1yYwLy9
Finding it increasingly hard to quell my rage. It is not healthy. Who will bury the children when their parents are already dead and there is nobody to bury them. Who will kill the sniper that kills those children of the parents that are already dead? Who is goin to mourn them? I will. Who will forgive? Not me. I have so much to say, but nobody seem to be listening. It is beginning to really is anybody listening. This pain is really starting to hurt.
I guess I need to take a deep, deep breath and then continue to keep pushing.
Tuesday 22 July 2014
All born equal?
Sunday 20 July 2014
Every walk to the woods is a religious right - John Burroughs ( 3/4/1837 - 29/3/1921)
" Every walk to the woods is a religious right, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and the wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Natures church, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends; in catacombs, in garbled texts; in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere."
- John Burroughs :- American naturalist, reprinted from essays in Naturalism 1920
You are a Prisoner of your own mind.
" The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free !
It is the freedom of a prison yard."
- Henry David Thoreau
(12/7/1817 - 5/5/1862)
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