Global Strike to prevent the Occupation of Gaza. Oppose Palestine Inaction, everywhere

The claims of the Western Powers regards the justifications and meanings of WWII are void. They were void then and it has taken 80 years of global brutality to burst that sordid bubble of propaganda. We Western citizens and tax payers have worked for and funded the wars our countries have waged ever since. This must be stopped and we are the only ones who can. This falls on us that it may not fall on our children The time is now.

Israel is invading Gaza with full military onslaught against a civilian population right now.

I oppose the inaction of Western Governments who are refusing to uphold International Law.

I have long called for General Strikes to force Governments to uphold and enforce International Law. The first time I did so was in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. The Foreign Office most senior legal advisors had already confirmed, in writing, that the invasion was illegal. Senior advisors resigned from long careers. Their letters were published and censored.

We have failed to hold Blair to account. Now we are being forced to reap what he and others have sown. But what we reap is as nothing compared to what the Iraqi and Afghan, the Libyan and Syrian, the Congolese and Sudanese, the Palestinians have been forced to endure.

We, as citizens and tax payers, had the legal right and the moral duty then and there, as we still do, to take every possible action to stop the British Government from committing the crime of a War of Aggression.

We might have stopped Blair had we gone to general strike.

USA may well have proceeded any way. General Strikes across the 'Coalition of The Willing' might have deterred others from participating. we will never know...

Zionism is not Judaism. The conflation of the two is the most devious scam of the Zionists, In Israel and across Europe and America and elsewhere. Honest Jewish people who saw through that were labelled as 'self hating Jews' by the Zionists and Anti-Semtic by their allies.

A general strike may well bring the British Government down, and it will not stop the current military operation in Gaza, immediately. We could stop all the material support going to Israel and that would be a good start to holding the State of Israel and it's depraved leaders and it's rabid population that supports the genocide accountable.

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Bono, Wealth-as-Power, Gaza (Give to the Rich to Help the Poor!)

Give to the Rich to Help the Poor!

As an introduction to this item, a short TikTok on the courage of the Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, recently slaughtered in his tent, trying to catch up on some sleep, among with four of his colleagues.

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This blog essay refers back to piece of polemic about Bono and his 'charidee' efforts which was written in 2009... and I decided to update it after U2 released statements on The genocide that fell far short of being honest and viable.

Bono and Label Red, a 'well meaning' scam?

Back in 2009 I had been doing a lot of reading on the American Express and Bono founded Label Red campaign.

Label red was founded in 2006. The idea was that 1% of sales of goods using the Label Red marker would go to AIDS charities working in Africa. Young people were exercised on the issue of African impoverishment. Companies were seeking young people as evolving consumers....

In 2008 American Express joined the campaign, issuing new car scheme targeting younger consumers. The business objective of their campaign was to enrol a million new young customers, hopefully as life long users of the service.

What I found as I read more and more was quite disturbing, yet not at all surprising. More about that below.

Celebrity is a weapon of Wealth-as-Power.

Seeing pop stars who are incredibly wealthy stand next to political leaders who cause great harm makes sense.

Celebrities are not really real people - they are performance theatre, actors performing for the purpose of extracting wealth, and when they join the Wealth-as-Power Class they enter the class war, because they stay silent on the causes of impoverishment, warfare, racism, misogyny that emanate from the process of Wealth-as-Power extraction of wealth from exploited populations.

Update to 2025...

Bono and the Band U2 release public statements on The Genocide, having supported Israel and America all the way these past two years and more... their statements protect Israel, lay all the blame on Netanyahu and Hamas, evade confronting USUK and EU Governments directly, they silence the voices of Palestinians by exclusion of any mention of their voices and they amplify the bands public hand wringing escapism. Bono accepted a medal from Biden, in the midst of the Genocide - he should have rejected it publicly, if he really was going to support the Palestinian people as a public voice.

Here is just one example of the kind of false, bland, unexamined narrative Bono deploys in his 'opinion piece'. clearly he has made no effort any all to understand the details of the complexity and see what is it that complicates the Western response - what complicates the Western response is that Israel is a British Empire Weapon, since 1915 and the first insertion of European Jewish refugees...

Bono is an Honoury Knight Commander of the British Empire. Bono's words ring hollow, masked propaganda most of his fans ought to see right through.

"Yahya Sinwar didn’t mind if he lost the battle or even the war if he could destroy Israel as a moral as well as an economic force. Over the next months as Israel’s revenge for the Hamas attack appeared more and more disproportionate and disinterested in the equally innocent civilian lives in Gaza… I felt as nauseous as everyone, but reminded myself Hamas had deliberately positioned themselves under civilian targets, having tunneled their way from school to mosque to hospital."

1. Bono has no idea what Yahya Sinwar 'minded'. Furthermore Sinwar was a representative of a larger body of people than himself, and was quite clearly not driven by self interests of any kind. His last moments demonstrated the courage that the 1916 Rising fighters, including who were executed by British Military order in 1916. Yahya Sinwar's writings and public utterances, which no doubt Bono has not pored over with any great interest, and his actions throughout his life, all of which are quite well documented, support that contention. A philosophy of courage, resistance and service to his people. Bono's sentence implies Sinwar was casual about all of this. As if he could't care less. Bono's self serving attitude leaks out.

2. The 'disproportionate' quality of the Israeli response was obvious within the first month of the Military assault. Israeli leaders had already publicly committed to a genocidal war, with leading politicians in the cabinet declaring their intent and espousing their view of Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) as 'human animals'. A registry of comments by leading Israeli legislators that are quite blatantly genocidal exists and can be verified. This is not a compilation of anti-Israel propaganda. It is the self incriminations of the Israeli political leadership supported by 90% of the Israeli population.

3. "I felt as nauseous as everyone" awe, didums... Bono remained silent, as we who protested immediately, aware of what was being done, were turning sleepless nights, nursing broken hearts, trying to calm our outraged minds, witnessing horrors on our media streams we did not know were possible. Our hopes dashed repeatedly as the West refused to act according to international law. And what we were experiencing was a luxury compared to what the people of Gaza and West Bank and the Palestinian diaspora were living through. Bono's claim that the complexity of the situation barred him from public commentary is banal, effete and ludicrous. His claim to being emotional afflicted is gaslighting.

There was no sign of nausea as he accepted an award from Biden, who was participating in the Genocide.

4. There is no reliable evidence anywhere what Hamas military wing deliberately placed themselves behind, within or under civilian infrastructure. Bono was not reminding himself of anything other than his acceptance at face value of Israeli lies, as if they were the honest truth, so cross my heart... Yes, there were tunnels, no there is not one shred of evidence of them linking civilian or religious infrastructure to evade Israeli surveillance and its bunker busting bombs, or of using civilians as shields.

I could go on. If I am wrong here, please point it out in the comments.

Here's a link to their full statements on their own website - readers can read. Make up your own minds. I'm clear on where I stand.

Here follows the rest of the original blog posting...

Marina Hyde, writing in the Guardian 'comment is free' web pages outlines a fantastic new philantrophic concept designed by elites themselves, the super-duper rich.

"Give to the rich to help the poor? An idea worthy of Bono."

Satire? No - a genius really has concocted a tax proposal to put our aid budget in the hands of the super-rich"

"On Tuesday night, 100 billionaires will gather at London's sumptuous Dorchester hotel, to watch Mr Ted Turner in conversation with Ms Carol Vorderman. Ms Joss Stone will sing, and some model or other will be in attendance. Can you guess the aim of this evening, which I trust you would cross continents to avoid in the infinitely unlikely event that you had been invited? No? Then allow me to assist. The aim is to make the government give tax breaks to the super-rich, in order to tempt them to give the same percentage of income to charity as the poorest 20% of people in this country already do.

Feel free to be taken unwell.

Initially I assumed the Fortune Forum, for so it is named, was an elaborate living satire, designed to highlight practically everything that is wrong with contemporary life. Alas, The Fortune Forum is all too real. It was dreamt up by an heiress called Renu Mehta, as a kind of vaguely benevolent mini-Davos."

Marina continues to explore this fantastic fantasy escapist world ... I think she doesn't go far enough. Like George Monbiot, she holds back the full fury of common-sense empathy and outrage.

Nonetheless, 'It' has to be said. And both are saying it with some subtlety.

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The hubris of these immensely rich people, often from long lines of generations of wealth, has become, for the majority of people, an almost pathological issue, in that it is an attitude that informs many of the practices which we know are harming rather than assisting life, geared towards gathering and hoarding 'resources' and wealth, and often with great violence, and these super rich people know this, and they continue nonetheless, sitting on charitable boards, with all that is going on around the world, driven by their pride in their immense wealth and paranoia about their 'strategic interests'.

I have re-written the song 'streets with no name' as 'thieves with no shame', as a parody. I don't sing the song, as I find the melody irksome. I do sing 'I don't like geldof' and parody of 'I don't like Mondays'..... Goldloaf at least wrote some catchy tunes...

Both have done more harm than good.

http://www.corneilius.net/songpages/theives.htm Thieves With No Shame, a re-write of 'Streets With No Name' by Corneilius

The song - 'I don't like Geldof' by Corneilius

There's also background info on Geldof and Bono business dealings and investments, and an analysis of Label Red, sponsored by Bono, American Express and the large pharmaceutical companies who control aids medicine patents.

Article on Label Red - Bono and Africa, and the clever little scam. The information on AIDS assistance is horrifying.

I have sent this out before, it's not my own research, so blessings to all the various people and ways that info flows.

And it's worth repeating, it's worth all the effort to expose these fools to their own folly, and show them how they can help, if they seriously want to help, if it is to do with their experience of their common humanity, common soul, common nature and common sense!

We'll show them how by doing it ourselves, as many are already doing. Ask Jane Goddall....

Ask the lovley people, voluteers all, who facilitated The Spike community centre evicted by Southwark Council from their home in Peckham! A home the Council are selling to property developers, handing it over to the private sector for profit.... wealth is transferred, from poor to rich yet again, another drop in the constant flow.

One the one hand the rich have charidees, and on the other hand their ideology keeps shutting these grass roots initiatives down.....!

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Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Ronald Storrs, Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, David Lammy and the Continuity of British Colonial Asset Management

2025 "The Palestinians, being drowned in a sea of violently hostile Zionism."

In Palestine in 1915 Palestinian Arab Jews, Palestinian Arab, Palestinian Arab Christians, Palestinian Arab Muslims, Palestinian Arab Sufi, Palestinian Arab Orthodox, Palestinian Arab Christians and Palestinian Arab Secular people lived side by side, at ease with each other for centuries, they intermingled, intermarried, they lived and worked together. The British Empire intent on breaking the Ottoman Empire during WWI and assuming the rule over those areas, seeking to encourage internal warfare against the Ottomans, had promised Arab Warlords and Zionists land that was not theirs to promise.

The Palestine Mandate and the Sykes-Picot Agreement carved up the region into compliant monarchies and dictatorships, to prevent the emergence of independent pan-Arab political and economic solidarity assuming its right to control the resources and assets of their own lands. The British armed the monarchies, trained their leaders in English Universities, their military commanders at Sandhurst.

The Black and Tans were sent to Palestine after the Irish War of Independence. There was 'work to be done' in suppressing the Arab peoples, and in arming and training the Zionist colonists. Long before the atrocity of the Nazi Holocaust.

1920s Colonial Office files CO/733/12 and /58 contain detailed discussions by British officials as to the purpose of these policies, a long term strategic plan.

In 1937 Sir Ronald Storrs, a Governor of The Palestine Mandate describes the Zionist enclave as a 'loyal little Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism', hostile to being ruled over by another European Colonial Power. Arabism meant Arab political and economic independence, and did not refer to Islam.

Ulster was a 400 year old plantation at this time, and had recently been partitioned from the rest of Ireland, an act that caused a civil war and later one gave rise the 'The Troubles'. Peace as achieved in 1999.

Continuity

The continuity of British Wealth as Power Empire Asset Management is the subject of Adam Curtis' documentary 'The Mayfair Set'.

The Mayfair Set Episode 1

'The Mayfair Set' which how British Oligarchs deployed private warfare (to mask British State sponsorship) to undermine African and Eastern Mediterranean countries seeking to gain independent democratic political control of the resources of their own lands which had been under the control of the British Colonial Office and it's oligarchy sponsors.

That continuity remains intact, and is why Sir Keir Starmer is a committed Zionist.

Israel is a weapon of the British Wealth-as-Power grouping, the anglophone oligarchy formerly known as The British Empire - America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand et al, and of course the European powers of France and Germany and their vassal states

Their participation in the genocide underway is well beyond complicity, they are the driving energy behind it, hiding behind Israel and various anti-Semitic tropes so that they own peoples believe Israel is the driver.

Tell me it is not a famine again?

In the 1840s, whilst food was being exported from Ireland to England to fill its markets, British troops guarded the shipments of livestock, cheese, butter, grains and other food stuff, as Irish Catholics were starving to death, their 'famine' induced by potato blight, also known as late blight, which was caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. This organism thrived in the damp, cool conditions of Irelands climate and it spread through the air and water, infecting potato plants and causing decay in both foliage and tubers. Potatoes were the staple food crop of Catholic Irish peasants, most of whom were impoverished tenants of Protestant English landlords, tenants whose work was providing the labour for the English Landlords farms and industries.

In 2025 hundreds of thousands of tons of food, medicine and other goods deemed necessary for the basic needs of the people of Gaza are blockaded, by Israeli civilians and by Israeli Occupation Forces.

This is not famine, this is the deliberate intentional starvation of a population by withholding readily available food guarded by a well organised, well armed, motivated military machine operating a colonial strategy.

The continuity of the willingness of British Wealth-as-Power to inflict mass harm upon targeted populations is largely obscured to British students in British schools, purposefully.

That must end in order to build the peoples political solidarity which is necessary to bring about accountability and justice. Education is always political.

continuity

this particular continuity must be broken, and at pace.