I cannot vote for a party directed by Keir Starmer, any more than I could vote for a Labour Party directed by Tony Blair after Sierre Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq 2003.
It is unacceptable that international war criminals are not held to account.
It is morbidly unjust that we live, badly ruled by international war criminals.
The situation.
The Labour Party Executive and the Labour Party Bureaucracy seeking Power in the UK in the next few days are collectively complicit in the following.
There is no legal doubt to this assertion. Starmer has form. Dating before he entered Parliament. Tzipi Livni
As Directer of Public Prosecutions, he blocked a warrant being served on a War Criminal, October 2011.
This is entirely illegal - the British Government was then, and remains today duty bound by ratified international treaty Law to serve and implement a warrant issued by the ICC if the person referred to in the warrant is on British land and such a warrant can be presented in person.
His comments and public statements, his positions and papers issued since October 7th, maintain that bias.
Protect Israeli officials from accountability, protect the Zionist project.
Self Defence!
The geen-ocyde in Gaza is fully operational at this point, as I type there are constant military assaults upon encampments, the remaining standing buildings, plus battles with Hamas Resistance Fighters.
Both armed entities are set amongst nearly two million utterly exhausted, starving, terrified, terrorised, traumatised, wounded, maimed, shell shocked men, women, children, babies, elders.
Medical services almost entirely degraded, in many places operations without anaesthesia, lack of medicines, there are no schools, no universities, its all gone.
In many places there is no sanitation, no running water, food is always dwindling.
And every day bullets, bombs, quad copter drones with machine guns, artillery and air strikes.
Multiple slaughters, frequent detentions, prison camps within Israel now hold 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children.
Estimates by external expert groups of deaths run into the hundreds of thousands, Gaza had 36 hospitals, which recorded deaths now there are less than a handful. Many thousands lie rotting under rubble, or bulldozed by the Israeli Military into the ground, covered up roughly.
Intolerable horrors, second by second, minute to minute, hour by hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, for 8 months, with no end in sight.
All of this operationalised as cruelly as possible. Every few days more living witness testimony from the detained and from within the Israeli system, as some detained are released.
The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, speaks to the press at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis after being released by the Israeli army following more than seven months of detention following a military operation at the hospital last November, on July 01, 2024.
What is this?
This is the same old Colonial Conquest, Occupation, Clearance of the native population, Settlement, extirpation of the native culture, polity, land tenure and habitation process, We know it. It must be stopped.
Self Defence?
So say Sir Keir Starmer, beloved of Tony Blair, Peace Envoy to The Middle East, another candidate for The Hague.
The problem.
Unless we reject every Labour candidate who supports Israel in this horrific atrocity and only allow proven pro-peace candidates, we are erring on the side of a lessor evil that is an illusion. It is not a lessor evil.
#dowhatyoulove
Nurture Culture.
I hope we can see the last generation to ever see, hear or sense warfare rampaging across their homes, and having to flee in terror, people murdered all around.
I hope as more people access each other and the vast library of what we know, what is reliably true and talk with each other about what they have found and what it implies, I think the decency of the vast majority will prevail.
It may well take a while, it will likely be a bumpy ride, though hopefully not too bumpy. It will not be easy, It can be done..
Do what you love.
The Trade Unions Congress have a series of practical healthy governance policy plans with regards Climate Disruption. :
https://www.cacctu.org.uk/sites/data/files/sites/data/files/Docs/climatejobs-2021-web_0.pdf
A million and more well paid jobs
A million and more well paid jobs in a Green Sustainability drive where all workers involved would be guaranteed permanent, well-paid, trade union protected jobs in work that reduces emissions, repairs land, protects communities.
It would also guarantee that workers in the old high-carbon sector are retrained with the new skills and knowledge that will be required. There's no need to make anyone unemployed, quite the opposite. We need all hands on deck!
We must not underestimate this challenge.
Peace is more than the absence of war.
The jobs are guaranteed, but ensuring the education and training programmes are in place for that huge workforce must be a significant part of the plan.
A further advantage would be that, just as the NHS provides socially useful work that many take pride being involved in, so will the National Climate Service.
It would provide socially useful work that we could take pride in as we decarbonise the economy, address the climate crisis and create a better, safer world for future generations.
Public ownership
Alongside the creation of a National Climate Service, it is clear that public ownership of key sectors of the economy is needed in order to make the rapid changes the crisis demands. The market has failed to deliver over many years. In sectors such as transport and renewable energy, which are key to cutting emissions, market failure results from corporations’ competition for investment and profit rather than co-ordinating and planning work that can have an impact on the climate.
In rail, for example, competition for lucrative franchises has undermined investment in the green infrastructure we need.
In the case of renewable energy, instead of investing in a publicly-owned renewable energy sector, government grants have ended up with private companies.
This had not led to the rapid scaling up of this sector or to an expansion of jobs. Direct government investment in a publicly-owned energy system could ensure that a renewable energy industry is established in the UK providing many jobs.
Public ownership is vital to transforming our
economy in response to the climate crisis. In this report, we have called for public ownership of the energy sector and the grid, of transport, of the plan to retrofit our homes and buildings and, within industry, public ownership of the steel industry and other key sectors.
Peace is more than the absence of war.
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