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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!) "The Thieves with No Shame"

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.

Read Full Article Here

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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We, the people, need to take direct immediate action.

The Fruit of Western Democratic Corruption

Today, starvation as a weapon threatens 2 million Gazans.

I am Irish, so this does have some meaning for me. I am also humane.

GHF - Gaza Hunting Fields - bait the trap, lure the prey, kill the prey

Preamble

There is nothing original or novel in what I am presenting here.

So, you might not have noticed that the Western 'democracy' model is rooted in oppositional dynamics. A government and an opposition. This is purposeful. It generates a struggle, a power struggle and everything I and others who study the matter know about power psychologies says that power struggles corrupt everyone who participates.

Wealth-as-Power as a societal force absolutely and purposefully prevent mutual aid and honest co-operation emerging to challenge it, confront it and hold it accountable..

Imagine, if you will, a family in chaos between two warring parents, or between parents and grand parents, each set struggling for power. Will they ever meet the needs of their children whilst engaged in power plays? No. They cannot meet their own needs, let alone the needs of others who are more vulnerable. They are concerned with meeting the needs of power. The urge to power is always dysfunctional unless it is mediated by whole and healthy communities.

As a result their children of such a household will be forced by circumstance beyond their capacity to redress to try their best to survive with their many un-met needs by adopting coping strategies. They may not be consciously aware of the precise needs, they may be coping as a reaction rather than a thoughtful response. They will become habituated to that situation. In war time, the children living in war zones begin, soon enough, to experience life in a war zone as every day business.

That is because we learn so much by experience, wordlessly.

Christianity/Capitalism/Monarchies and Wealth-as-Power inheritance lineages deem the Nuclear Family as part of the 'natural order' precisely because a nuclear family is incapable of meeting the needs of its constituents - only a whole, healthy community can do that. A healthy community shares its resources. The nuclear serves the needs of inheritance, concentration of wealth, suppression of women and children so that they meet the needs of lineage.

Hierarchy structures extract resources, they amass wealth-as-power. They do that by leveraging violence and by exploitation. That is their basic operation dynamic. That is what they do. Extraction requires exploitation, exploitation causes harm, the harmed dissent and sometimes they rebel. Those rebellions must be crushed for the structure of power to continue.

So, as I an laying it out, we can see that most of us are coping with a living situation that is determined by people who engage in power struggles, at some distance to us in our day to day lives. Their main concern is preserving their power. Anything that weakens, undermines, dilutes or devolves that power is understood and experienced as a threat, and treated accordingly. Palestine Action is not a terrorist entity.

"Unconditional Love without Accountability is Submission."

"Democracy without Accountability is Subversion."

We have been appealing, demonstrating, writing, wailing and crying. We are not yet exhausted.

Most of us in Europe, England, America are sitting in quite privileged situations.

The Palestinians have been, and continue to suffer intolerably. Gaza is an Intentional Hell.

The Zionist Colonisers have always intended to do this.

The Western Political Ruling Class have always denied this, and they now show us who and what they are.

Aroused by their Power.

Aroused by impunity.

Aroused by Cruelty.

Deliberate, intentional cruelty at scale.

Who are we?

What are we?

What must we do?

Please understand this : those who exercise Power over others who cause harm experience their impunity as an arousal, a cascade of hormones and a sordid existential pleasure that floods their minds.

This is what the Epstein story is all about.

Their greatest fear is being held accountable and being rendered equal, normal, human, not special - it is an existential, irrational addiction fear and it lacks any empathy or resonance with any healthy adult humane being.
They who behave in this way are the greatest danger to Humanity. They must be held accountable and segregated from all society, as a matter of imminent health and safety for all of us, for all our children and their children to come.
We are the many, they are the few. They deploy bigotry to divide us.
Misogyny divides men and women. Racism divides working peoples. Poverty divides working people.
United, we can take the upper position in all our legislatures and we can then use the existing tools of our State and Taxes to hold those of the Ruling Class and Oligarchy that controls them accountable, to prevent further abuse of Power.
Only when we act in solidarity.
This has always been true.

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A Call for a General Strike - The Gaza Hunting Fields - What does it take to organise this via GHF?

Gaza Hunting Fields.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?

CEO quits, replaced with Evangelical Ideologue.

"GHF's founding CEO, Jake Wood, resigned last week, saying the foundation could not operate while maintaining the core humanitarian principles of independence, impartiality, and integrity.

On Tuesday, the foundation named his replacement, Rev. Johnnie Moore - a staunchly pro-Zionist evangelical pastor and former Donald Trump appointee to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom."

Detailed report from Al Jazeera on how the GHF system is operating.

“It was chaos - a real struggle. Men, women, children, all crammed together, pushing to grab whatever they could. No queues, no system - just hunger and disorder,” al-Assar added. From a distance, plumes of dust could be seen as people rushed to grab whatever they could. Israel has not allowed food into the Strip for nearly three months, adding to people's desperation.Shots were then heard as Palestinians ducked for cover. Israeli forces say they opened fire into the air to control the crowds, however, injuries sustained by Palestinians on the ground suggest gunshots were fired into the crowd."

In the one month of operations, at least 1 thousand have been shot and killed, many more maimed. Many shot in the back as they fled from the violence. The vast majority of people arriving to these sites leave empty handed. How desperate does one have to be to take this kind of risk, just to get a small portion of food for one's children?
A Siege, a medieval practice, in the 21st Century. Backed by almost every Western Government.
'Israel does have that right' according to Sir Keir Starmer.
So.

What does it take to plan design, resource, build and populate the Gaza Hunting Fields?

People crammed into feeder lanes to be allowed run to the platform tables where aid is stacked, to grab what they can. No organised system of handing food packs to people, no organised functional filtering of what goods people might need. A person might grab a box and find no food, only diapers and soaps. What is this?

Planning Meetings

Some people sat in a boardroom and discussed a problem, brain storming ideas, setting out objectives.

They assessed desired outcomes, undesired outcomes, unforeseen and foreseeable consequences, they spoke about and wrote about strategic planning and tactical operations.

Another team made detailed architectural plans based on land surveys. Quantity surveyors thought through the logistics of building supplies, someone planned the works, estimating how many workers would be required to get the project in on time and within budget.

Yeah, someone spent time on the budget for all of this.

Then the Military and Security Services sat in boardrooms and operations command posts and worked out their part of the scheme, fully aware of the intentional cruelty they were about to embark upon.

They and others in the PMC (private military contractor) industry discussed hiring mercenaries to work front line delivery, they looked at the support those hired helpers would need.

Someone discussed toilets, cooking and serving facilities for frontline staff, accomodation, communications, shift rotas, medical support, wages and management.

No cooked food would be provided, to be distributed, this is no food kitchen.

It is a trap laden with bait, packages of random aid, laid out for starving men from starving families who are forced to take immense risk just to grab a small pack of what they hope is food, for their watery eyed, translucent skinned wasting away slowly children, many already too skinny from siege-famine, already a war crime.

Crime upon crime upon crime, calculated layered depravity, amidst international participation and complicity, the bodies, more than 75k ( Professor Michael Spagat of Royal Holloway, University of London, June 2025) and likely up to 186k (Lancet June 2024) and more, as recently estimated by their respective teams of analysts.

The Gaza Health Ministry is unable to provide accurate numbers of deaths, and records only those it sees. Tens of thousands are missing, or buried under rubble, and so the harm to Gazans continues, unabated.

The maimed and traumatised, and the still able bodied try to live on in the Israeli USUK created hellscape that is Gaza today - where children are starving to death, their mothers are under total blockade, all faced daily bombings by Jets, shootings by soldiers and quad copters, shelling by tanks and artillery.

Grown men and women sat down and planned all of this.

Politicians worked through their publicity approach. They had to sell this to the people as a good thing.

Hundreds of millions of dollars/shekels/pounds/Deutsch Euros have been and are being deployed, most of it from State taxes, paid by workers and shoppers and corporations, and State borrowings, which future tax payers will pay off.

Irish Central Bank sells Israeli War Bonds. The buyers will want to ensure the Israeli State is protected, if only to insure their investment.

When will the Western populations of workers call a general strike to impede Western support for this abject behaviour?

A general Strike aimed at every element of Government and Industry that supports the Israeli Occupation State, every element that is refusing to uphold International Law at pace.

What are we waiting for?

The BBC, Kneecap, Genocide and the British Neo-Colonial Establishment

BBC cut the Kneecap Feed.
"we all know why."

Genocide is shameless. The British State is up to its sweaty neck in Genocide. It always has been. Most European Empires are similar, historically and currently. They don't end, they change their branding. They only people who can end their depravity are the home populations united in humane solidarity. You and me, and you neighbours. All of us.

All we are saying is uphold and enforce International Law.

BBC primary political task has ALWAYS been to protect the Ruling Class, the Aristocracy/Crown and the Neo-Imperial Oligarchy from being held accountable by the general population these three groups exploit....  from Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith, Care Homes, Child Sexual Abuse in various institutional care settings, from Hillsborough to Grenfell, from to Iraq to the Genocide of Palestine (which started in 1915), from the General Strike of 2026 the BBC has been, alongside the Judiciary, MI5 and the Police Force tasked with preserving the English Ruling Class as its core political task as a news media provider.

The core task of the British Military is to keep the colonial assets under British Oligarchy control. They were not sent to Iraq right free you and I. They are not engaged in operations over Gaza to liberate you and I.

The Ruling Class greatest fear has always been and remains an awakened 'woke' majority of the people forming a political solidarity movement at pace and assuming a dominant elected position within the Legislature... which tells us what is required for the solution to this problem - we must void the duopoly of lefter/right Government/Opposition, that sordid divisive, corrupt facade of democratic functionality, through unity and solidarity  at every level of democratic engagement - our cause has been clarified by the active participation in the Genocide of the Palestinian civilian population. 

Those of us who have long read history honestly are saddened it has taken the witnessing of a live genocide to arrive at this point. We have been warning people all our lives. 

The question for each and every adult now is when will you start this work?

We ordinary people would never spend our taxes on warfare, so neither should the democratically elected tax collecting Government.

The State could easily look after the disabled and eradicate poverty, enable free education to University level, develop long term social housing, transition away from fossil fuels, convert all industrial processes to cradle to cradle modalities, eradicating pollution and environmental degradation - all of which would be for the sake of our children and their children. All of them, everywhere.

All of this is eminently possible.

Two things impede it.

!. The grasp of Wealth-as-Power as a political dominator ideology.

2. The lack of evidence led empathy based humane Solidarity across the rest of Society.

The problems we face, outlined above, are not technically difficult to resolve.

No new information is required. We have it all right here.

Wealth-as-Power will not cede.

We MUST build the kind of grassroots Solidarity that takes Wealth-as-Power out of our legislatures..... they will still seek to control and deploy Wealth-as-Power, but without the State apparatus as their tool, they can be held accountable.

It is no longer sufficient for any of us to give up, to pretend the task is impossible and leave it at that. We are living witness to a clear as day genocide and all our Governments are fully participating - by refusing to uphold and ENFORE international law at pace and robustly they are breaking the law and are actively participating in the ongoing criminality.

A bit of DrumnBass. .. from djLookwood

Vocal Sample from "I never thought the leopards would eat my face.."

Superb Song by Franchesca Ramsey

Why I cannot vote for Labour as a party. Why I vote for Peace, never for War.

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.

from November 23, courtesy Al Jazeera, after his arrest and abduction by IOF

..... widespread institutionalised totally dehumanising and degrading treatment, some of it lethally cruel.
Industrialised cruelty. People, persons who go home to a home cooked meal, watch screen with kids, goes to sleep, gets up, goes out and does it all again next day, weathers hot, works is good - the workers, they are getting paid to do this to other captive victimised persons: perks of the job - uniforms, canteen, training, shift work, overtime, holidays, sick leave and bonuses - Job Description : to torment an ordinary human who is personally innocent, just born to that situation by however that happens.
This is insane.
And now the American President is Above The Law!

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.

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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.

Education and The Israeli War Against Palestinian Children, CTD.

The Israeli War Against Palestinian Children, CTD
Interview between Owen Jones in London and Unicef representative James Elder live in Gaza.

James Elder: "The world should be terrified of the long-term consequences. Because we know that the longer a war goes on, the more damage it does psychologically to children. UNICEF knows that from a Yemen or Afghanistan. We are in uncharted territory when it comes to the mental health of children here"
Please watch this interview, give 20 minutes of your time to this.
And share it, pass it on. I wonder if it could happen that billions of people watch this, in the next week or so, and we, the ordinary majority of Humanity watch and hear and understand what is being said, what it really means. And what it means for every war zone that is currently in motion. So many childandren, every single precious one of them is 100% innocent.
In the way I see feel life I think that every adult alive owes a responsibility to all the children, I think that this is non negotiable biological and empathic and moral and egalitarian humane evolutionary mandate, and it is not a burden, it is a gift. The gift is love, integrity and nurture. To be intentionally engaged in the way is a gift.
The technical catch all word for this Alloparenting, in every day language we would say it is shared parenting. In practice this was, for most of our evolution, the norm across any given population. Is is our oldest evolved behavioural characteristic that makes us behaviourally distinct from Primates, and every biologically healthy person would be happy to meet that duty, and succeed. It is how we thrived for most of our existence.
'All is born of woman, no harm shall come to the children.'

"if they are so hungry in the North, well they can just walk 20 minutes to the South and get the food aid." Israeli official comment a few days ago.

Education

Continuous Traumatic Distress - 24/7, minute by minute, second by agonising second.

In Gaza, there are no schools functioning, none left standing, there are no universities left standing. All intentionally and systematically targeted, bombed, destroyed. Erased. And all those students who would have been attending these schools and universities had younger brothers and sisters not yet in education.

The adverse changes that that unspeakable lived experience of constant state of warfare, imposed by a State bent on a genocidal campaign, the trauma it will inflict upon the babies, infants, toddlers, children, teens their mothers and fathers (who have no means to protect them) on their bodies and minds, on their endocrinology, lungs, heart, digestive system, lymph systems, sleeping patterns, eating patterns, resting patterns and their very essence is a grievous , grievous wound, invisible to the eye, until the symptoms present.

"some are hoping it will cease, and that somehow they will survive, some wish to be killed by war now, every second they are still alive, to end their suffering." from conversations with children in Gaza, this week, last week, six months ago, during Operation Cast Lead, every time the 'Gras was mowed'

The world's Psychology and Child Development research clinical practice Community and everyone in Education and Pediatric Health Care must speak up, in public, to Power.

We and they must form up a political lobby on behalf of all our children, a put a stop to this.

Continuous Traumatic Distress.

This short documentary from Al Jazeera, on the impacts of living with continuous traumatic distress 24/7, minute by minute, all the time... living with constant imminent threat, over decades. What it does to children, parents and families, what it does to their communities.

"proportionality, anyone?'

Education.

The university of witnessing a Genocidal war in real time is not part of the University of Life. It is the university of desolation, the college of death, maiming and survival. Nobody thrives in this place. Survivors are the only ones who graduate. The makers of the bombs, the designers, the testers, the production line managers graduated from American, British and Israeli Universities.

Part of what happening is that we the people, the civilian tax paying, voting populations of the allies of Israel, the citizens of USUK EU and others are being educated by witness testimony and reliable empirical evidence. And we are asking questions, learning more. What is this? Why is this? We are learning every day.

The object of such an unwilled for education must lead to the emergence of a motivation to confront the truth about our Ruling Class and to act on what we find to make it the harm causation is ceased.

Peace

'Peace is more than the absence of War' as Arundhuti Roy puts it.

She was and will always be correct in that axiom. We cry out on the face of injustice - "no justice, no peace!' and it is not a threat, it is not a call to riot - it is a statement for fact. Where injustice is done, peace is absent.

"There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance, there will be no justice," writes Arundhati Roy. We have a duty to respond to the unmet needs of all our children, to meet those needs, to prevent those needs from harm.

'All is born of woman, no harm shall come to the children.'

This is the oldest 'law' of the human species. Our basic biological mandate. Remember that? I mentioned it earlier. Alloparenting - it bears repeating. This Law is not a burden, this law the art of is living designed to set us free.

A blogger writes :

"Peace, in a world bent on war and intent on drawing the rest of us into it, is a precious commodity.

But not an easy one to achieve.

Do anything you can to avoid war–personal or public. Do everything you can to make peace real. But remember that peace can never come from either fear or threat. Both of those must be dispelled before the trust that is of the essence of peace can possibly break out.

Peace is not the acceptance of evil. On the contrary, real peace requires resistance to evil. But not in evil ways. This kind of peacemaking requires courage, not power, a kind of strength that uses love rather than force to change the world."

source : https://joanchittister.org/articles/peaceful-heart

That will take all of us ordinary people becoming politically active. Not as an ideology based lobby. As a humane evidence based lobby, the biggest, strongest political lobby on Earth. Love in action.

It is what we need.

The revolution is dependent upon an educational liberation, and some counselling along the way, and I think this is absolutely essential and that we must make it happen at pace.

Emotional Blindness.

I think the evidence is there to suggest that following is likely true

If a person as a witness to these two documentaries and their meanings cannot hold all of that evidence in place, and admit it, then there has to be some profound emotional blindness that is disrupting their capacity for analytical thinking, empathy, kindness - they have to be internalising a belief system that has changed the way their brains function, they way their minds behave, robbing them of the most important aspect of being a healthy human. Belief can do that. Blind ideology can do that. Unresolved trauma can do that. Indoctrination can do that.

Beyond that simple analysis, it is abundantly clear that the major crimes of State and non State militia must cease, and then they must be accounted for, all of them , and in full - no matter where that leads.